Hot Air clues us in to this statement from Liveleak, the original Internet host of "Fitna," which pulled the film under threats of violence last week. Having retooled its security, Liveleak is back up and running with Fitna and for freedom of speech. Here's the company statement:

On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules. We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it b ...

In watching Western analysts argue over who "won" the recent round of fighting between forces seemingly directed by Moqtada al-Sadr, and forces sort of loyal to Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, I notice the kind-of cease-fire negotiations were what you might call "facilitated" by Iran.  According to one Sunni lawmaker involved in mediation efforts (some substance of which appear to have taken place in Qom, Iran, just BTW), they were actually overseen by the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds brigade. That's the US-designated terror group that answers directly to the Iranian leadership and that the US  specifically

The excellent Rep. Duncan Hunter (would that he were the Republican prez nominee) details the dangerous and destructive practice by our government of buying America's miitary hardware from foreign countries, due to a fanatical attachment to bottom-line free trade, I suppose. But sometimes free trade is not "free."

Hunter writes:

As we become increasingly dependent on other countries for military resources and innovative technologies, we are becoming less capable of meeting our own critical defense needs.

In fact, when I was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and American troops began taking casualties from roadside bombs on the streets of Iraq, I sent out my team to locate more steel to armor and better protect their tactical vehicles. They found only one company left in the United States ...

...did Pre-Emptive Rage, well, pre-empt post-release Fitna Rage?

Reuters reports :  The Netherlands breathed a sigh of relief on Friday after Dutch Muslims reacted with restraint to the release of a film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.

You mean they acted like normal people who just wrinkle their noses (maybe) when they don't like a movie? Let's give them the Order of William, the Netherlands highest military honor (I looked it up). 

But 21-gun salutes for "Muslims r ...

...in their rage at Geert Wilders.

That's the subject of today's column, written in anticipation of the film's release and in reflection on the run-up to the film's release. In the  long sequence  of Islamic "rages"--Satanic Verses Rage, Koran Rage, Cartoon Rage, Pope Rages, even Teddy Bear Rage--the rage over a film no one had seen until yesterday was something new: Pre-Emptive Rage.

Watch it here.

Two thumbs up, five stars, and an instant classic.

Shameful, shocking revelations from the Thomas More Law Center (via American Thinker) about what more and more appears to be a miscarriage of justice.

New Revelations in Haditha Case - Sec. of Def. Rumsfeld Set up Shadow Body to Oversee Investigations
March 26, 2008

ANN ARBOR, MI – Revelations by top Marine Generals, that former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, set up a shadow “body” composed of high-ranking administration officials to oversee the Haditha investigations, could prove to be the most damning evidence of the political motivations and influence over the ongoing prosecutions of Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Chessani, USMC [photo above], and other combat Marin ...

“It is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.”

--John McCain

In The Death of the Grown-Up, I make the argument that the infantilized condition of Western culture dangerously and tragically makes the West  particularly susceptible to the self-abnegating, supplicating trappings of dhimmitude (monumentally chronicled by Bat Ye'or), which may be viewed as the ultimate phase of infantilization.

Not that one has much reason to expect Switzerland to Stand Tall, but this recent display by the Swiss foreign minister (the grinning gal ogling   Ahmadinejad) offers an illustration of what dhimmitude looks like as free nations grovel for gas before genocidal jihadists at war with Western civilization.