"Anti-Shariah bill advances in Kansas"Associated Press, May 12, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. - A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims.
See how it applies to Jews. That is the real test.
The Senate approved the bill Friday on a 33-to-3 vote. The House had approved it, 120 to 0, earlier in the week. The measure goes next to Republican Governor Sam Brownback, who hasn’t said whether he will sign the measure.
The measure does not specifically mention Shariah law,
which broadly refers to codes within the Islamic legal system. Instead,
it says that courts, administrative agencies, or state tribunals can’t
base rulings on any foreign law or legal system that would not grant the
parties the same cannot guaranteed by state and US constitutions.
But several supporters specifically cited the potential use of Shariah law in Kansas as their concern. Though there are no known cases in which a Kansas judge has based a ruling on Islamic law, supporters of the bill cited a pending case in Sedgwick County in which a man seeking to divorce his wife has asked for property to be divided under a prenuptial agreement in line with Shariah law.
Imagine what would have happened had it attacked Jews.
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This next item sure does stink:
"Man held in Kan. bomb probe
TOPEKA, Kan. - Several homemade bombs were found yesterday in a pickup truck parked near the Kansas State House that had specialty license plates issued only to US military paratroopers, and police said they arrested the owner inside an underground tunnel connecting the Capitol to an office building.
Capitol Police spokesman Patrick Saleh said the incident was not connected to another arrest yesterday of a man who allegedly phoned in a threat to Governor Sam Brownback’s office from a Topeka motel.
“Neither one of them was armed, and neither of them offered any resistance,’’ Saleh said.
Saleh said officers went to investigate the pickup after receiving a call from a state employee about it being parked in a restricted lot outside the Kansas Judicial Center, south of the State House, without the normal state worker tag. An officer saw suspicious objects inside, including an empty gun holster, and authorities called in the Topeka Police Department’s bomb squad.
Saleh said the homemade explosives were made with household materials and designed to spray shrapnel once they were detonated. He did not have further details, but called them “actual explosives.’’
But, he added, “Everybody in the building was safe.’’
Officers arrested the pickup’s owner inside a tunnel used by legislators, state officials, lobbyists, and others to go between the State House and a state office building. Saleh said the man claimed to have an appointment in the building, but none was verified. Saleh did not have information about the man’s identity.
WTF?!?!!!!! He doesn't bring the bombs in and they don't know who he is?
The man was being questioned by agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Saleh said.
The discovery of the pickup truck led authorities to temporarily block traffic and access to the parking lot. The black Ford, with no hood and a beat-up front grill, remained in the Judicial Center parking lot yesterday afternoon, set off by a police car and orange cones.
The truck had a specialty Florida license plate issued only to qualified paratroopers. It also had a Special Forces sticker on its bumper and stickers on its back window saying, “Welcome to America. Now speak English’’ and “Does my American flag offend you? Call 1 800 LEAVE THE USA.’’
Ahhh, if you can't love the tyranny because of the Muslim threat(?), maybe the right-wing straw man set up by government will do the trick!!
The Associated Press attempted to check the license plate number with the Florida Highway Patrol, but officials declined to provide information about the vehicle’s owner.
“We would not be able to release that because of an ongoing investigation they’ve got going on out there,’’ Lieutenant Jeff Frost said.
Since when?
This is the kind of thing government says when it is hiding something.
Just another PSYOP on the Amurkn people, huh?
The pickup incident and the phoned-in threat to Brownback’s office came the same day a Kansas House committee opened three days of hearings on several bills designed to crack down on illegal immigration, backed by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a former law professor who helped draft tough laws in Alabama and Arizona.
But Saleh said neither arrest was connected to a coinciding rally at the State House that was protesting policies pursued by Brownback, Kobach, and other Republican officials.
Yes, this incident is getting stranger by the sentence. CUI BONO?
The other man was arrested at a Motel 6 in Topeka within minutes of making calls to Brownback’s office yesterday morning and is being held in the local jail on suspicion of harassment by telephone, Saleh said. He is 37 and has no permanent address, but his last known home was Columbia, Mo.
Saleh said the man told officers he was planning to move to Salina, about 100 miles west of Topeka, but authorities could not find an address for him there. Saleh said the governor’s office pinpointed his location through caller ID.
He described the man as “ranting’’ but said his comments were threatening enough for Brownback’s staff to call authorities. The governor’s office referred calls about the incident to the Kansas Highway Patrol, which oversees the Capitol Police.
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Never saw another word about it in my Globe, and I look at one every day.
Also see: Convicted murderer captured after Kansas jailbreak
"Plane crash kills recent graduates" Associated Press, May 13, 2012
