{"id":143,"date":"2009-10-16T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-10-16T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T10:45:00","slug":"gop-hate-speech-brings-a-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/gop-hate-speech-brings-a-death-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hate Speech Brings a Death Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just goes on and on.&#160; Recently Congressional Republicans have signed onto a conspiracy theory that Muslims are trying to take over Congress by becoming Interns.&#160; Rachael Maddow had the story:<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33336726#33336726\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"339\"><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; font-size: 11px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; width: 425px; color: #999; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">World News<\/a>, and <a style=\"font-weight: normal! important; color: #5799db! important; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; text-decoration: none! important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more information about the creator of this hogwash, David Gaubatz.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/GOPHateSpeechBringsaDeathThreat_34E8\/davegaubatz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dave-gaubatz\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"dave-gaubatz\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/GOPHateSpeechBringsaDeathThreat_34E8\/davegaubatz_thumb.jpg\" width=\"158\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the co-author of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That&#8217;s Conspiring to Islamize America<\/span>, just out from WND Books, and now at #16 among <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Muslim-Mafia-Underworld-Conspiring-Islamize\/dp\/1935071106\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255638470&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#000000\">all books<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#000000\"> on Amazon.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">That would be David Gaubatz, a former Air Force investigator and Arabic speaker, who dispatched his son Chris to grow a beard and go undercover as a Muslim to obtain an internship at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Gaubatz, who has long warned about the threat of Islamism in the United States, has claimed that he found Saddam&#8217;s long-lost WMDs while in Iraq and has labeled Obama &quot;Muslim&quot; and a &quot;self-admitted &#8216;crack head.&#8217;&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">The documents Chris took from CAIR are the basis for the new book, which has been seized on by four House Republicans to call for a probe into whether the group planted Muslim &quot;intern spies&quot; on key national security committees.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><strong><font color=\"#000000\">Keep in mind that Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) actually<\/font> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/obspapertrail.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/myrick-muslim-mafia-infiltrating-us.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>wrote<\/strong><\/a><strong> <font color=\"#000000\">the foreward for the book, warning that &quot;We Americans must wake up before it is too late!&quot;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">Here&#8217;s the lowdown on Gaubatz:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">He <\/font><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dgaubatz.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/protect-our-friend-and-ally-israel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">referred<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">to &quot;<strong>our Muslim leader&quot; Barack Obama<\/strong> on his blog last year.<\/font><\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">He has<\/font> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/essays\/29092\/i-found-saddams-wmd-bunkers.thtml\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">claimed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">that he personally found sites with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction when he was an agent with the Air Force&#8217;s Office of Special Investigations in 2003. But the Syrians beat us to the punch on excavating the sites, Gaubatz claims, and the U.S. government suppressed the information to avoid the &quot;explosive revelation of their own lethal incompetence.&quot;<\/font><\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">Just yesterday he<\/font> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dgaubatz.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/help-raise-25000-in-5-days-to-legally.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">wondered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">about Congress&#8217; two Muslim representatives, &quot;How much information do we have on Carson and Congressman Keith Ellison?&quot;<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: #003366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2007\/04\/21\/wmd_conspiracy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: #003366; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">According<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> to Glenn Greenwald, <strong>Gaubatz in 2007 was focusing his time on creating &quot;a comprehensive map of every mosque and Islamic school in the U.S&quot;<\/strong> in order to determine which ones were preaching &quot;Islamic law.&quot; The Web site that explained that project has since been made private.<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">He said in September 2008 on a now scrubbed<\/font> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/documents\/2009\/10\/dave-gaubatz-calls-obama-self-admitted-crack-head-september-2008.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">at<\/font> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadishere.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">www.jihadishere.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">that: &quot;We are now on the verge of allowing a self admitted &#8216;crack-head&#8217; to have his finger on every nuclear weapon in America.&quot;<\/font><\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">He apparently has a<\/font> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/video1.washingtontimes.com\/beliefblog\/2008\/03\/mapping_sharia.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"> <font color=\"#000000\">of faking conversions to Islam as part of his investigations.<\/font><\/span><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0in; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;\"><font color=\"#000000\">Media Matters has a comprehensive roundup<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200910150015\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <font color=\"#000000\">and Greenwald has more<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/10\/15\/investigation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><font color=\"#000000\">\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/man_behind_intern_spy_wars_muslim_mafia_author_david_gaubatz.php\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t think I\u2019m equating ALL Republicans to David Gaubatz.&#160; This guy is lunatic fringe for sure.&#160; Nobody in their right mind would take him seriously.&#160; But I have to ask the question.&#160; Why did a Republican Congresswoman, Sue Myrick, write the forward to his book?&#160; Why are Republicans in Congress presenting his views on the floor of Congress.&#160; GOP hate speech is going to cause more deaths.&#160; Why haven\u2019t GOP leaders come out and condemned this?&#160; I can only come to one conclusion.&#160; The leadership of the GOP, not Republican people, do not care how many die.&#160; They care only about grabbing power, no mater what they have to do, who they have to harm, or who gets killed in the process.&#160; <strong>Until that changes, every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just goes on and on.&#160; Recently Congressional Republicans have signed onto a conspiracy theory that Muslims are trying to take over Congress by becoming Interns.&#160; Rachael Maddow had the story: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Here\u2019s more information about the creator of this hogwash, David Gaubatz. Let&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/gop-hate-speech-brings-a-death-threat\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}