Everybody has heard about the Discount-Mats.com matter. I’ll never buy from them. Oh wait, I never heard of them before this, so I would have never brought from them anyway .
Well Heidi over at Euphoric Reality has been doing some deep inve…

In fairness to hotair I think the Jamil story has taught them not to just post rumors.

I think that story scared them into being more cautious than they need to be. My source was Snopes, which is pretty damned reliable. I’ve hardly ever seen them have to post a correction.

Fox News covered it like a blanket.

I say just shun those who do not support OUR troops. They have their freedoms, so do we, just practice freedom of choice and choose to do business else where.

Zorro on January 23, 2007 at 6:52 PM

Exactly! – The best of both worlds – support free market capitalism and free speech as well as the troops!

Take your pill. They don’t issue them jammies either. Since when has ANY government supplied its employees all the tools they need? ANY government at ALL. Name ONE. Just ONE.

As if Sgt. Hess has the authority to pull out on the advice of some peacenik who obviously does not realize that we are at war!…

Which hasn’t stopped the military and/or gov’t before, but…

And SF may handle all the APO mail to points west, but I was talking about clerks in a little local branch near her house!

I also do not think it was an employee. The response was his.

We reserve the right to hound him until he shuts down his business if he wishes to pop off to the very armed forces that afford his luxury to have the freedom of a business.

Go back to pakistan!

I’d like to read, but the link seems to be broken. I get:

Oops – There’s Nothing Here
It looks like Kit’s not as good at this site design thing as she thinks!
:-)

lan astaslem on January 23, 2007 at 4:12 PM

FYI….Redheaded Infidel at Euphoric Reality just got their post back. After she started doing this investigating, she got an email warning her that these Mooslim asshats were very tech-savvy, and to be careful about going too far in digging into their background.

Soon thereafter, their post (and ONLY this post) was broken (did I mention it was only THIS particular post? the rest of Euphoric Reality was still viable). They’ve salvaged the whole post, but lost all their trackbacks and comments. But the most important part is their investigative work is now back up. Check out the post… let’s go a-huntin!

Here’s a brief piece from their post:

HAHAH!! WE’VE BEEN HACKED.
WE’RE BEING SLAMMED BY PROXIES OUT OF CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE. APPARENTLY, THE MUSLIMS DON’T LIKE THIS ARTICLE AND DELETED IT COMPLETELY.
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
WE’RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

I think the girls are onto something. I’ve seen whole sites crash, but never single posts just go *poof*…. VERY strange.

For this they must pay by being exposed and in the bright light of day public opinion may or may not result in this guy’s business going under. There are lessons to be learned here and I’m sure that some people are more than willing to teach them.

I say just shun those who do not support OUR troops. They have their freedoms, so do we, just practice freedom of choice and choose to do business else where.

I support free speech unconditionally.

The call of the unbridled socialist. JaHerer, the Constitution doesn’t even support free speech unconditionally, and that is a foolish position to take, especially backed by considering the “yelling fire in a theatre” concept as being acceptable speech.

LegendHasIt had this one right all along. A business owner may do business as he chooses. But when a business owner makes his personal or political biases known to be the basis for his decisions, it is also fair game to be biased against his business for those same positions. If (very unlikely) I had a reason to seek a product his business provides, you can be sure that now he has no chance of getting my money. I can imagine even writing him an email to tell him why. But that should be the limit of it.

Anybody who sent him correspondence laced with hatred or threats went too far.

When mailing to an APO/FPO, be cautious about trying to use the trick of NOT stating the address as being an APO/FPO. If it is letter mail or something you can be CERTAIN will go by US Postal Service, then no problem, it will get wherever they are as long as the correct ZIP+4 is used. But if UPS/FEDEX/DHL/etc is used to ship an item to that zip, it will be returned.

MamaAJ, the San Francisco post office does by far more APO/FPO volume than any post office in the world. It is quite possible that the counter employee was completely aware that AFB referred to a military location, and I’ll bet it’s policy to require the APO document, with good reason. Someone you know and love is stationed at Andrews, and you mail them a package. The same day you drop that box at the PO, your trooper is yanked onto a plane and sent to Seoul. If your package isn’t documented for APO shipment, it goes to Andrews and gets delivered to the home unit, who then either lets it sit until he gets back, or returns it to the base PO with forwarding instructions. If it has the APO markings, the base PO, or even the regional USPS office will be able to forward it to Korea directly.

I just look at it and shake my head. This business (there’s been some question at Euphoric Reality if there really is a business or if this is something more weird and odd but the post isn’t up anymore. It was actually very deep in the rabbit hole …

Remember, I don’t oppose the act of protesting, I just personally don’t do them.

Errr … I don’t want to say what I have on my mind regarding that statement. Maybe some of our current soldiers would have a thought on those who prefer to let others do the fighting.

One of many reasons not to live in SF or NY, I suppose.

And which city is next? Is that the answer? Just move? Eventually, you may run out of places to move.

Shouldn’t we give the SCOTUS an opportunity to sort this out?

Huh? An opportunity? They already passed on that opportunity. It’s history. Done. It’s law and in NY’s case … it’s been law for a long time.

They are in my state.

Err … NOT! Not if you live in Texas. For example … Houston is home to a police chief who publicly refuses to enforce immigration laws, even after one of his officers was murdered by an illegal.

Texas also happens to be home of El Presidente Bush, so I’m puzzled how you can claim your state enforces immigration law.

I looked and can’t find an estimate. Either way, it’s a well-known march that has been going for for over 30 years. Even it hasn’t stopped abortion.

Not too well known if you can’t find the info. And like I said. It’s not going to be effective if there aren’t 100,000 or more involved. One other problem. Almost all polls show the majority of Americans are against over-turning Woe vs Wade, so we’re talking about apples and oranges here.

Not only was the race closer than it should have been but my guys also won, all of them I believe.

And have all the illegals suddenly been deported since the election in Texas? Did Bush get the message sent in his own state? Did he give up on amnesty? Is the border secure?

Not the slightest bit of impact.

And again, you’re not exactly talking about a method that has been proven as being able to save anything.

I totally disagree. The ONLY method which has repeatedly been effective in changing government policy is MASS PROTEST. That’s been the case throughout history and it’s no different now.

And what would we protest? What single issue do conservatives rally behind?

Border security. Amnesty. Illegal immigration.
85% of Americans are on the same page.

In that same letter, Khetani also threatened Kirkland with unleashing the wrath of “major muslim organizations” on her for her “insults”. He closed by telling Kirkland, “you can be sure that there are million of muslim activists as well that will do something about your foul statements…. your statements against Muslims and your direct insults will not go unheard, I assure you.”

There you have it. It’s all her fault and now he’s threatening an American with Islamic retaliation. How pathetically typical. There is hope though. A google new check this morning showed only 6 stories. It’s now 111 and growing.

When Khetani made his threat he lost all options. Protest, yes! Boycott? Hell yes, it’s a now brainer. Second to deportation. End of story.

Gregor – My problem with general boycots (such as a day of not working/shopping/etc) are that the damage they do is quite dispersed. If everyone boycots and my aunt’s dog grooming store takes a hit …

JadeNYU on January 23, 2007 at 4:43 PM

I agree Jade. It wasn’t me who suggested we boycott small businesses. That was someone else. My suggestion was a million people marching down center of town, holding up traffic, forcing our voices to be heard.

Now, with that said. There are certain times when I support massive boycotts of specific businesses, such as in this case with the Pakistani Muslim. Other examples would be the Miller Brewing boycott and Wendy’s when they were busted hiring illegals.

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Once, a family member shipped a package from San Francisco to me when we lived on Andrews Air Force Base. Like, ya know, the one in MARYLAND. The Post Office employee in SF made her fill out the APO form!! Saw “AFB” and didn’t know the difference between an Air Force Base and an APO address. Not a lot of care packages going out of SF, I guess.