An interesting twist in last week's arrest of four Muslim men charged with plotting to bomb New York synagogues was reported Monday: the younger brother of one had a deadly liver disease that Medicaid wouldn't cover.
Makes you wonder if this revelation will be used by media to advance President Obama's universal healthcare plans.
Consider the following opening paragraphs of a New York Daily News article published Monday entitled "Terror Plotter David Williams Did it For Me, says Sick Brother Lord McWilliams":
"My insurance wasn't good enough," said Lord McWilliams, 20, who has a deadly liver disease.
His brother, David Williams, wanted money "to speed up the process," McWilliams said. "Medicaid only goes so far."
He dismissed as "crazy" federal accusations that Williams was a Jew-hater who wanted to wage jihad.
McWilliams said the FBI informant who lured his brother and three other hapless petty criminals into a plot to blow up synagogues and shoot down a plane promised enough money to take care of his transplant.
"[My brother] told me, 'Don't worry, when you go to the doctor, tell them you got money,'" McWilliams said.
McWilliams, who has already had his spleen removed, said his brother told him he would have $20,000 for the operation.
Tugs at the heartstrings, doesn't it?
Making matters worse, there is some question as to what role the FBI informant involved actually played in this case. As WCBSTV.com reported Monday:
Williams' mother says her son didn't have the cash for the dummy bombs the feds say he bought.
She says Williams was driven by money, and that he never talked about wanting to commit jihad or a holy war against Jews.
"He said, 'I met a real Muslim brother who's going to help me with Lord," Elizabeth McWilliams says.
The girlfriend of terror suspect James Cromitie tells the same story.
Kathleen Baynes says that not only did the informant give Cromitie tons of literature – including an Osama Bin Laden book and prayer rugs – but he also paid their rent and got them cell phones.
She even saved the informant's phone number on her phone.
"He was stalking them, he basically pimped them," Baynes says.
The Associated Press logged a similar report Sunday:
According to informant Shahed Hussain, who also helped the FBI in 2004 by posing as an arms dealer, he met the men arrested last week at a local mosque. [...]
Hussain drove the men to scout targets and supplied them with weapons and explosive devices that, unbeknownst to the accused, were fake.
"Where he goes conspiracies blossom," said attorney Terence L. Kindlon, who represents one of two men sentenced to 15 years in prison based on Hussain's help in a 2004 case involving money laundering charges for a fictitious terror plot.
Put it all together, and this could easily be framed by universal healthcare loving media members as a poor ex-convict with a deathly ill brother possessing no health insurance becoming a domestic terrorist in order to get the money for a medical procedure the family can't afford.
You can even see the headline: "Universal Healthcare Needed to Prevent Rise in Domestic Terrorism."
Or am I just being too darned cynical for my own good?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Great, just great. Now
May 25, 2009 - 20:29 ET by BlazerGreat, just great. Now we get to look forward to the impending wave of healthcare terrorists. Hopefully more information will come out in the coming weeks,but judging by what I just read, the prosecutuion is gonna have more holes in it's case than a wharehouse full of Swiss Cheese.
Of course the terrorism aspect aside, this doesn't explain away the fact the perps met in prison and were basically career criminals to begin with.
Plenty of folks have had a tragedy inflict a family member and chose to have fundraiser's and go to the church and community for help in raising money for loved ones who had a health crisis, that insurance wouldn't cover.
This of course will be lost on The MSM who will spin this into a class warfare/racial, have and have nots issue.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Obamacare
May 25, 2009 - 20:27 ET by sevenObama care will swell the ranks of people that think they have coverage and do not. It will create a lot of jobs for ACORN members that will work in central planning. If Obama cares nothing by voting against babies born alive infant protection act, what in any ones imagination allows us to believe he will provid adequate care? Look what stunt he tried with the Veterans.
→ Medicare Muslims
May 25, 2009 - 20:39 ET by Cool ArrowI'd say "you can't make this stuff up" but this one sounds a lot like "Dog Day Afternoon"
Medicare
May 25, 2009 - 20:42 ET by BlazerMedicare Muslims
Hez..., I mean Healthbollah
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Deadly liver disease? Why hell, that excuses everything!
May 25, 2009 - 21:27 ET by R D HelmWhat a load.
I bet the ACLU will be surrounding the place by 9am tomorrow, assuming they aren't camped out already.
This is going to be an MSM three-ring circus.
-Dave
Well you just know the
May 25, 2009 - 21:05 ET by MidAmericaWell you just know the FBI can be very arrogant when opperating in the minority community. Look at the picture above that accompanies this posting by Noel and you see the agent wears a jacket with a big FU on the back.
Look at the picture above
May 25, 2009 - 21:09 ET by BlazerLook at the picture above that accompanies this posting by Noel and you see the agent wears a jacket with a big FU on the back.
Good one. Well played.
Now if you'll excuse me for a moment I need to retrieve some Bounty to wipe off this here monitor.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
MA
May 25, 2009 - 21:11 ET by Noel SheppardMA,
Don't get excited. It stands for Felix Unger! :-) ns
LMAO.
May 25, 2009 - 21:23 ET by R D Helm-Dave
You mean it doesn't
May 25, 2009 - 21:27 ET by BlazerYou mean it doesn't stand for The Friedman Unit ?
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
The MSM is really diving
May 25, 2009 - 21:24 ET by ThisnThatThe MSM is really diving into this, aren't they, with their investigation and fact-finding? They're conducting interviews; looking into backgrounds; prying into medical conditions; the works. AND, they are trying their darndest to provide links and rationale and explanations. Wow! Really, really thorough.
Too bad they didn't show 1/100th as much interest into the background of Obama -- his links to Ayers, his birth certificate, his college transcripts, what Rev Wright's church really stood for, the actual results of his community service work/funding, the number of times Obama attended certain sermons, etc. Might have made a difference, doncha think?
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Liberals constantly demand that we accept a glaring falsehood as truth; Obama's elimination of the word "terror" will make terrorist acts less terrifying
Dear Lord (McWilliams),
May 25, 2009 - 22:19 ET by svh83Karma's a bitch.
"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY
Frankly, I'm surprised he
May 25, 2009 - 22:20 ET by ConservativeRexFrankly, I'm surprised he didn't have a disease know to be spread a certain way in our prisons. But then again, what do I know, I only pay to keep them in prison, so I don't count.
"Put it all together, and
May 25, 2009 - 22:37 ET by ckc1227"Put it all together, and this could easily be framed by universal healthcare loving media members as a poor ex-convict with a deathly ill brother possessing no health insurance becoming a domestic terrorist in order to get the money for a medical procedure the family can't afford."
It can also be framed as a reason why universal healthcare sucks. He had medicaid, right, which is basically universal healthcare for the poor? And they wouldn't cover his illness. Sums up perfectly what will happen when they roll this out nationwide.
You beat me to it. I just
May 26, 2009 - 03:20 ET by racYou beat me to it. I just stated the same thing down below.
I only scanned the posts.
Medicaid??
May 26, 2009 - 03:18 ET by racI don't know much about Medicaid, but isn't that the type of insurance bHo wants to force onto everyone, Big Government Insurance? And if they are denying his claim is that not what we would all have to look forword to under ObambiCare?
Seems to me this would be a case against ObambiCare or any Socialist Health Care System.
The profit of doom?
May 26, 2009 - 10:07 ET by CobraManPerhaps Lord McWilliams or his Mother can explain to us all how having his brother blow up synagogues was supposed to get them all this money? I would REALLY like to know how David Williams expected to PROFIT from blowing up things? The only way I could imagine someone profiting from blowing something up is if they blew up a bank vault and took the cash inside. Blowing up a synagogues? There isn't any profit in that at all.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
BTW, wasn't Hillary's
May 26, 2009 - 12:24 ET by AgnosticBTW, wasn't Hillary's campaign office broken into by someone who just needed healthcare? It seems the stories never change.
Money may come from allah or whoever is spreading the money around for terrorist now that Sadaam is no longer with us.
A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections
Still the victims, I see
May 26, 2009 - 10:14 ET by CobraManI just love this little gem from the WCBSTV.com site: "Four black men – he ruined their lives, and also ours," Baynes says." Ahh, excuse me, hunny, but those men ruined their own lives the moment they AGREED to blow things up! Don't play the innocent victim excuses here, that dead bird ain't going to fly no matter how many times you toss it up! Those men made their choices, now they will have to live up to the choices they, and they alone, made.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
→ Ruined lives
May 26, 2009 - 10:19 ET by Cool ArrowWeren't all four of these losers prison buddies when they laid the egg?
Give them the same respect you'd give Timothy McVeigh.
If WCBSTV wishes to sympathize with these hatemongers, maybe it's because they believe in the eradication of the targets these rectal discharge units chose.
Now ya see, we here in
May 26, 2009 - 10:30 ET by mandrakeNow ya see, we here in Canada don't have that problem. Noone is going around trying to blow up synagogues. However, whenever someone has a serious illness, our doctors tell them they're covered and then just wait till they die..problem solved. <sarc off>
Power-saw to the people - Dexter
→ Thanks mandrake
May 26, 2009 - 10:37 ET by Cool ArrowThat's what Obama calls "hope" also.
Can't wait until we we're all fully vested with full socialist rights. <sarc>