Goodbye. Hello. Goodbye.

Jeff Emanuel bans a commenter not just once, but twice in one day:

First, in comments to a post by Mr. Strieff, Mr. Emanuel grows exasperated by the refusal of a commenter called "Valley" to obey orders:

Are they terrorists? Do you by Valley

Are they terrorists? Do you have proof? Or is this another ghost train with the WMDs? Where are the weapons? Or is a WMD just like God? I just have to believe and they'll be there?

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All right, pal. by Jeff Emanuel

You're gone. Buh-bye

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A short while later, Mr. Emanuel dismisses "euni84", with the accusation that this is Valley under a new account name:

War is not the answer by euni84

While I do believe in a timeline for eventual withdrawal to bring some order to this war, I also think that it would be foolish to pull out of Iraq without thinking about the repercussions and alternatives for this war. I think that for Iraq to escape turmoil, insitutions and funding need to be in place to address and prevent further poverty.

If the original principle of why we are fighting this war is as important as Bush claims, the $340 billion already spent and the further $100+ billion to be spent should be redirected toward plans to fight poverty and develop the country to prevent another Afghanistan. According to the Borgen Project, just $19 billion annually can end starvation and $15 billion provides water and sanitation all over the world. If ending terror is the goal, programs such as the Millennium Development Goals to end poverty is the way to to go for our leaders. Poverty is at the root of many of the world's problmens today; ignoring it is a mistake.

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Welcome back, Valley by Jeff Emanuel

Go away and stay away this time.

-The Mgmt

You Agree With Me? I'm OUTRAGED!!

Jeff Emanuel fires up the Redstate Outrage Beacon (am I supposed to insert teh funny TM superscript here, guys?). What is it that has Mr. Emanuel's Fruit-of-the-Looms in a tangle?

Are you wondering what the heck I'm talking about? I mean, seriously - what in the world does the US have to do with this anyway, and why in the world would we owe reparations to a country for an action that we had no part of?

That's a question for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and his eight compatriots, all of whom have co-sponsored a bill that would require that America pay reparations to the people of Guam for - get this - the actions of the Japanese in World War II.

It seems Mr. Emanuel is upset at Mr. Hoyer, et. al., over HR.1595, the "Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act. The Act provides monetary compensation for citizens of Guam who suffered at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII.

This, says Mr. Emanuel, is more evidence of Democratic perfidy:

Way to go, Democrats. Your "blame America first" (even for things we have nothing to do with), anti-US soldier attitudes, actions, and mindsets have just been taken to a new level.

Mr. Emanuel urges his readers to stop what they're doing to take part in democracy by pestering their elected officials about this. And, of course, he makes use of the flashing Outrage Beacon.

Mr. Emanuel doesn't tell the whole story, though.

• He mentions Mr. Hoyer and his eight co-sponsors. In fact, there are many more than eight, including those dastardly Democrats Mr. Sensenbrenner and Mr. Burton.


• He forgets to mention that the bill merely rubber stamps the recommendations of the Guam War Claims Review Commission, established by the Republican congress in 2002 and its members appointed by Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton.


• He neglects to mention that the people of Guam were imprisoned, tortured, and even beheaded for protecting U.S. soldiers during the war.

So the wicked Mr. Hoyer has apparently committed the grave sin of agreeing with the Republican leadership that put this plan in motion to begin with!

What's truly strange, though, is that Mr. Emanuel keeps referring to "the people of Guam" as if they are an undeserving foreign nation.

Dude, they're Americans!

UPDATE: Erick posts not once, but twice, urging the hounds to bay into the phones. Result? H.R. 1595 passes. It passes overwhelmingly with 66 Republicans voting in favor.

Good work, lads!

MORE!: Michelle Malkin joins the chase and quotes one of Erick's posts:

If the right side of the blogosphere cannot defeat the bill to give reparations to Guam, then we are toast. I've listed every casualty of war who fought to free Guam from Imperial Japan...
...These are the heros of Guam. The men of the United States military who rescued Guam from the Imperial Japanese. These men shed their blood that Guam might be free.

And yet, the House Majority Leader thinks this is not enough. Steny Hoyer thinks we should also have to pay Guam reparations for what Imperial Japan did to Guam.

You can stop this madness. You can call your Congressman and tell him to vote against this bill. Call right now and tell your Congressman to oppose H.R. 1595. Call 202-224-3121. Fight this resolution.

But gosh! When you click Malkin's link back to the original post, that thing about toast isn't there.

I wonder how that happened?