I said it at the Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth -- and yet there are so few heroes.
That is indeed the case, and it means that Chris Gaubatz is something much greater than a hero. In our day when cowardice positively defines our political and media elites, Chris Gaubatz put his life on the line for the defense of free people and free societies against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism. As detailed in the breathtaking book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, Chris assumed the identity of a convert to Islam. He secured a position as an intern in the Washington, DC, office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Hamas-linked pressure group that uses legal intimidation and a marionette mainstream media to dominate the discourse about Islam in the U.S., manipulate clueless government and law enforcement officials, obfuscate the role of Islamic doctrine in recruiting and motivating jihad terrorists, and resist anti-terror efforts.
Chris was in extreme danger. If he had been caught, there is no telling what might have happened -- and as the book detailed, he had some extremely close calls, such as when CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper, "Honest Ibe" himself, told him to watch out for...Chris Gaubatz!
Muslim Mafia shows the fruits of Chris's risky labors. He was able to secure a large number of internal CAIR documents, showing the group's unsavory associations, connections to corrupt politicians (see the list of top recipients of Muslim cash on page 195), and more. This made CAIR so nervous that the group went to court to get the documents back -- only to have them impounded by the FBI, which is finally investigating CAIR after years of working with the organization and ignoring its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Buttressed with never-before-seen documentation, Muslim Mafia lays out the whole truth about the thugs and Islamic supremacists of CAIR, detailing how it has obstructed anti-terror efforts under the rubric of cooperating with authorities, co-opted Congressmen with cash, enabled the infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood operatives into high levels of government, and much more. It should be essential reading for every FBI agent and anti-terror analyst in the United States -- and the fact that it isn't only shows again how successful CAIR and its ilk have been in blunting the force of our defense against the global jihad.
Free citizens owe Chris Gaubatz an immense debt of gratitude. If we get through all this, he will stand as one of the heroes of the age -- and as much more than a hero.
No, he doesn't read books. Remember how you could always ask Bush or Clinton what they're reading lately? They were voracious readers. Obama is incurious.
I wait anxiously for the big investigation into CAIR to go nowhere as Holder quashes all fruitful inquiry into CAIR. He is not a patriot.
Yes. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Dave Gaubatz has every right to be very proud of his son.
Although we don't have anything as obvious as CAIR in Britain, we do have many of the same problems of Muslim infiltration, subversion and sedition carried out in a rather more decentralised way: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/muslim-subversion-sedition-and-social.html
... we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth.
As you certainly can attest, it's not the discovering or the telling but the listening. Nobody listens any more, or almost nobody.
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They won't listen cuz it dissonates when they do. It's uncomfortable and the harsher truths are even verboten to the point where it's social and career suicide to listen, think, and speak freely. We live in an emerging age of Opinion Programming, ushered in by electronic media. The intellectual, ethical, and moral corruption that come with it are byproducts to the larger product: expertly programmed opinion sets implemented by our elites, who instead of being better and smarter than us are ignorant dumbasses, and extremely dangerous ones at that.
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From Walter Cronkite to Dan Rather to Tim Russert to Bill O'Reilly to Kieth Olbermann. We're going down...
replied to comment from winoceros | February 23, 2010 6:28 AM | Reply "I wait anxiously for the big investigation into CAIR to go nowhere as Holder quashes all fruitful inquiry into CAIR. He is not a patriot."
I despise Eric Holder as much as I despise any other dangerous Fascist.
Yes Darcy, the Black Panthers can stand at a polling place with a nightstick and it is NO problem according to Holder.
"Muslim MAFIA"
I love the title of Chris's book ...says it all, doesn't it? The title alone will stir things up.
"Chris Gaubatz put his life on the line for the defense of free people and free societies against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism."
The fact that his life has been threatened over telling the truth is another telling example of the vile and EVIL nature behind islam and its followers.
Godspeed, Chris! ...and godspeed to all truth and freedom fighters, too.
"he will stand as one of the heroes of the age"
Yes, as will Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Nonie Darwish, Mark Steyn, Oriana Fallaci, Brigitte Gabriel, and many others in that illustrious company.
Hmmm...Wonder if our Muslim president will read "Muslim Mafia?"