Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha, the guitarist and vocalist respectively for Rage Against The Machine, could learn a lot from these guys. Unfortunately, here in America its trendy to be a communist, when you can sing about the so called glories of communism while living in a free country devoid of the oppression of communism.

The following is the trailer to an upcoming movie about the underground music scene in Cuba called, �Cuba Rebeli�N! In the video Gorki Agula, the singer of the band Porna para Ricardo, who was jailed by the Castro regime for his song lyrics, talks about how he should have the right to play music critical of the communist regime.

The band, Porno para Ricardo, is not left-wing, nor are they right-wing they are not members of any political party or endorse any political movement. They just know that communism is an unjust system and they want the right to be able to express that freely.

I bet if Gorki Agula were a jailed musician from a pro-Bush government somewhere in the world, their would probably be a benefit concert for him headlined by Rage Against The Machine and the like.

Hat Tip to: Hip Hop Republican

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I saw the above video first posted by Patrick at Born Again Redneck and then again by Dee at Conservatism With Heart.

The more and more I see of Fred Thompson, the more and more I truly believe that out of all the people currently in the race to become the next POTUS, he is clearly the best of the bunch.

Out of all the top tier GOP candidates, he is the truest Conservative and I’m not talking in the George W. Bush mold of Conservatism — embracing big government and using it to try to push certain conservative agendas.

Fred Thompson is a Conservative of the Barry Goldwater kind — and is exactly what the GOP, which has been creeping ever so closely to a full return to power of the Rockefeller wing of Republican politics, which was supposed to have been defeated by the Reagan Revolution — which was sparked by Barry Goldwater himself.

I give you a quote from, what is in my opinion the definitive sourcebook for Modern Conservatism in America, Barry Goldwater’s “Conscious of a Conservative.”

In a country where it is now generally understood and proclaimed that the people’s welfare depends on individual self reliance rather than on state paternalism, Congress annually deliberates over whether the increase in government welfarism should be small or large.

In a country where it is now generally understood and proclaimed that the federal government spends too much, Congress annually deliberates over whether to raise the federal budget by a few billion dollars or by many billion.

In a country where it is now generally understood and proclaimed that individual liberty depends on decentralized government, Congress annually deliberates over whether vigorous or halting steps should be taken to bring state government into line with federal policy.

In a country where it is now generally understood and proclaimed that Communism is an enemy bound to destroy us, Congress annually deliberates over means of “co-existing” with the Soviet Union.

And so the question arises: Why have American people been unable to translate their views into appropriate political action? Why should the nation’s underlying allegiance to Conservative principles have failed to produce corresponding deeds in Washington?

… I do not blame my brethren in government, all of whom work hard and conscientiously at their jobs. I blame Conservatives–ourselves–myself.

Replace the word “Communism” with “Islamofascism” and the above quote is eerily as accurate today as it was decades ago when penned by Goldwater. The answer to the question posed by Sen. Goldwater — why Conservative principles failed to produce corresponding deeds in Washington? — is because we have allowed ourselves to be duped by people claiming to be Conservative, but showing no actual signs of being one when the time comes.

We are inching dangerously closer to letting a McGovernite turned 9/11 Neo-Con, in Rudy Giuliani, become the GOP candidate — thus fully destroying the Conservative movement that swept the party and returning it to the liberal Rockeffeler version of Republicanism. We can’t let that happen, not when we have a true principled pro federalism Conservative Candidate in Fred Thompson.

More Reading:
Debunking the Anti-Freds: II. Conservatism
Conservatism is a Tower of Babel

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Imagine this, you are a young college student and are entering your Sophomore year, having had just decided upon a double major in Journalism and Political Science. You are proceeding to take your core requirement classes, the ones that you need to get out of the way before you get into the more advanced classes. You register for History of Mass Communication, and show up on your first day ready to learn.

At your first day in class, the Professor introduces himself and goes over the class syllabus, talking about how you should be on time, how assignments will be graded, what topics will be discussed, and then the discussion goes to extra credit points and how you can receive them. One of the methods discussed for receiving extra credit — burning the American Flag or the U.S. Constitution and getting arrested “defending free speech.”

Outrageous you say? Well in a just world it would be outrageous, but unfortunately that is the state of academia in our country. Only being a few years removed myself from having graduated College, I can recall similar incidents. While I was lucky enough never to have a Professor go to the extreme such as this case, I’ve had plenty of occasion to sit in classes where the professor to get their liberal points of view in — even in classes that had nothing to do with politics, history and the such.

The above scenario was completely true, it happened not too long ago to Rebekah McDade in Paul Grosswiler’s History of Mass Communication class at the University of Maine.

From the Bangor Daily News:

ORONO, Maine – A University of Maine student alleges her former professor offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or were arrested defending free speech.

On the first day of class, associate professor Paul Grosswiler offered the credit to members of his History of Mass Communications class, according to sophomore Rebekah McDade. Disturbed by the comment, McDade dropped the class and intends to take the course again next semester with a different professor.

“I was offended,” McDade said Friday. “I come from a family of military men and women, and the flag and Constitution are really important symbols to me because of my family background.”

In an e-mail responding to a request for comment from the Bangor Daily News on Friday, Grosswiler said he thought McDade misunderstood the class discussion, which was intended to elicit thought about the First Amendment. He said he has held this same discussion for years without incident.

How much do you bet that burning a foreign countries flag on campus would get you suspended or expelled?

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American Sovereignty is well on its way to complete eradication, if the globalist assholes who dream of a “one world government” have their way and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is ratified by the United States Congress.

For those unfamiliar with what UNCLOS is, it is more commonly called the Law of the Sea Treaty, and is an international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which took place from 1973 through 1982.

The treaty defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. That doesn’t sound really all that harmful does it? Wrong.

It is one of the worst things that could happen to America and the traitors that support it are on par with the idiots that backed the shamnesty plan earlier this year. Ronald Reagan was vehemently against this treaty, which should be reason enough to oppose it.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 to back the accord, sending it to the full Senate where it needs a two-thirds vote to win final approval. Ratification of this treaty by the US Congress and the signing of it into law, which for George W. Bush is mind-bogglingly in favor of would:

• – Establish a new global U.N. controlled bureaucracy with taxation power over all resources in the sea and beneath the seabed. Which would mean American taxpayers would be subject to more taxes and the United States government or its people would have no say in how it would be used, the U.N. would.
• – Would force the United States to hand over its sovereignty over seabed claims, and a myriad of other maritime issues, to a newly created U.N. organization. We all know historically how the United Abominations treats America.

By giving up American sovereignty to a U.N. tribunal, and allowing for Americans to be subject to a global tax, ratification of this Treaty by the US would be a giant step forward to the end of America as we know it and the beginning of a one world government.

Call, fax, email, and write your State Senators and don’t let up until this Treaty is defeated. Let them know that you will not see American sovereignty diluted in favor global rule.

Also blogging on this:
Insight On Freedom
No Compromise When it Comes to Being Right!

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Lets all play a game of who said this. I’ll give four options and then a quote and you all try to guess which one of the four options said that.

Let’s start, here our your four options:

1. A Catholic Priest
2. A Jewish Rabbi
3. A Buddhist Spiritual Leader
4. A Muslim Imam

“The hour of judgment shall not happen until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims shall kill the Jews to the point that the Jew shall hide behind a big rock or a tree and the rock or tree shall call on the Muslim saying: hey, O Muslim there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him, except the Gharqad tree which will not say, for it is the tree of Jews. Agreed upon.”

All right then now that we have our four options and have read the quote, lets see how we did, shall we?

If You guessed any of options 1-3, you are an idiot — or a misguided liberal. If you guessed option 4, congratulations you know how to spot Islamofascism when you see it. The quote above can be attributed to a radical Imam, particularly Ahmed Alzaree who at the time of making that quote during a sermon was the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Omaha.

My hometown bird cage liner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has a hard time figuring out however, why Alzaree has decided to resign as spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland before he even starts.

From David Briggs of the Plain Dealer:

Imam Ahmed Alzaree announced Monday, three days before he was to start work as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, that he was resigning.

Alzaree said allegations by bloggers that he was anti-Semitic and was associated with individuals suspected of having terrorist ties so poisoned the atmosphere in Northeast Ohio that he and his wife, Marwa, decided to look elsewhere.

“Cleveland now is a nightmare for her,” Alzaree said. “It will never be a good start for me and the Jewish community.

The mosque has accepted Alzaree’s resignation, Zahid Siddiqi, general secretary of the mosque’s executive committee, said Monday afternoon.

“We certainly don’t want to impose on him and his family,” Siddiqi said.

Alzaree is the former spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Omaha.

Let’s see now maybe if the Plain Dealer was an actual honest to goodness bastion of journalistic integrity, and not the agenda driven hack of a news rag that they are — this reporter might have you know, done his job and researched both sides of this story instead of just hacking it up to “allegations” by bloggers. Then they would know exactly why Alzaree is leaving Cleveland with his tail between his legs, before he even had a chance to unzip his suitcases.

As I had already mentioned above, the above quote was given in a sermon by Alzaree in March of 2003. A transcript of it was then put online by the Islamic Center of Omaha, but was subsequently taken down. However thanks to the wonders of the Wayback Machine, the transcript has been preserved forever in the Internet Archives. It was discovered by one of those “bloggers,” Tom of BizzyBlog, who have driven out Alzaree with their “allegations.” Click here to see the archived transcript. Click here for even more detailed information about this radical Imam by Pat at Ohioans Against Terrorism.

Good job Plain Dealer, way to investigate a story. With journalistic integrity and reporting like that, the only bright spot you’ll have left is that the cost of your paper is still cheaper then the bird cage liners they sell in pet stores.

To those two Ohio bloggers who did the Main Stream Medias job and reported what they should have been reporting to the public, thank you for exposing another radical Islamist Imam and keeping that scum bag out of my hometown.

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On June 21, 1989 the Supreme Court came to a decision on a case that had been brought before them on March 21, of that same year. 491 U.S. 397, better known as Texas vs. Johnson, was the first case in which the Supreme Court looked at the issue of flag burning head on.

The case involved Gregory Lee Johnson, who was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, which itself was the youth wing of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Johnson, outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, burned an American flag while others protesting in his group chanted “America, the red, white, and blue, we spit on you”.

Johnson was convicted of desecrating a venerated object in violation of a Texas statute and was sentenced in the Dallas County Criminal Court to one year in prison and a fine of $2,000. The intermediate Texas appellate court affirmed the conviction, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the final court of appeals for criminal cases in Texas) reversed the conviction. The court held that the First Amendment prevented the state from punishing Johnson for burning the flag in those circumstances. The court found that Johnson’s burning of the flag was expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.

In his opinion, Justice William J. Brennan wrote:

If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

Today, just over 18 years since the SCOTUS gave the green light to scumbags and hippies everywhere to desecrate the American Flag , 46-year old David Bohmfalk is in a legal mess with the city of San Antonio, TX for exercising his First Amendment rights and burning a flag — albeit the Mexican flag.

It caused some controversy, but it was supposed to. Now, one man is headed to municipal court for burning a Mexican flag in protest in front of the Alamo.

The city is charging 46-year old David Bohmfalk with burning without a permit, even though no one gives permits to burn a flag.

“I was raised to respect my country,” Bohmfalk said.

All the rallies and talk of amnesty for undocumented immigrants in May 2006 lit the fires of patriotism for Bohmfalk, he said.

“I just got angry,” he said. “I decided I had to do something, make my statement, and that’s what I did.”

Bohmfalk had his own protest in front of a building known for revolution, where Davy Crockett and James Bowie made a stand. So did Bohmfalk but he used a lighter instead of gunfighter. Park police cited Bohmfalk for illegal burning of rubbish, even it was a Mexican flag he set ablaze.

“Because of what it’s made out of, it took a little while to burn it. It took me two minutes, but I got it lit,” Bohmfalk

Authorities say his actions left some of the Mexican nationals in the Alamo crowd feeling burned. However, Bohmfalk’s attorney, Jason Jakob, says, freedom of speech is Bohmfalk’s constitutional right.

“My client felt so strongly, and exercised protest, by burning that flag,” Jakob said.

Bohmfalk says while he was detained by police, he was harassed, his life was threatened, and he was even assaulted by some tourists who spit on him. Ironically, all these offenses are punishable by law. Jakob says flag burning is not.

“In America, every day we see people burning the American flag and it’s become desensitized,” Jakob said. “If we can allow that, we can certainly say that the Mexican flag can be burned.”

As a former Texas police chief and military veteran, Bohmfalk says he knows his rights, and is fighting for them.

“Why should a foreign flag get any better protection than the American flag?” he said.

The city has not returned calls for comment. As for Bohmfalk’s right to a speedy trial, that’s been delayed as well. His trial has been reset three times.

I guess the ACLU is too busy to step in and actually do what they are supposed to do, you know — help fight for the civil liberties of Americans.

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Liberals like to refer to it as just another right-wing propaganda spewing bumper-sticker slogan, but once again the saying; ‘If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns,’ rings true. A recent article in the Times, shows that despite the fact that Britain has some of the most restrictive anti-gun laws in the world, the use of guns in crimes has nearly doubled over the past decade.

The Civil Liberties of decent law-abiding people are taken away with restrictions on gun ownership, while criminals will continue to own guns anyway — because well, they are criminals.

Now this is an interesting story, in late July, Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate a railroad line. According to the company’s spokeswoman Jeanette Rosado, damage to the railroads tracks caused by a 2005 hurricane forced the pullout. In addition to that, she also said that rail workers had been assaulted, and that train-hopping migrants delayed operations and cost the company money.

The closure of the railroad has stranded thousands of illegal immigrants near the southern border forcing the government to deport them all this Wednesday.

Some camped along rail lines waiting for trains that will never come. Others tried to walk hundreds of miles to the next working rail line and some turned themselves in to authorities.

The government sent hundreds of federal police and soldiers Tuesday to clear out the migrants, who for decades have hopped freight cars on the railway.

Finally, it’s about damn time that somebody took a serious stance against the illegal immigration that is destroying the foundation of the country, the military has been sent down to secure the border to make sure that the sovereignty of the country and her borders are not violated.

Kudos to President Felipe Calderon — that’s right not President George Bush, because unfortunately it is not at America’s southern border where the right thing is being done, it’s at Mexico’s. They understand the importance of protecting their southern border with Guatemala, while printing out comic books to help their citizens illegal cross our southern border.

Our good buddy the Hitler of Iran is at it again, he was in Kabul Afghanistan recently visiting with Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai. While he was in Kabul, Ahmadinejad gave a speech in which he called for Islamic rule over the entire world, as it is the only way for salvation amongst humankind.

“There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind,” said Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Afghan Sunni and Shiite ulama at Iranian Embassy in Kabul.

President Ahmadinejad said nations are today distancing themselves from culture of materialism and selfishness and look for a new way for their prosperity, that is the path of Islam.

He said that the world is on verge of a great upheaval and ulama at this juncture shoulder a heavy responsibility that is introducing genuine Islam as it is.

“Nations today have no haven but religion,” the Iranian president announced, cautioning Muslim nations against enemies’ divisive plots.

He said, “All of us have the duty to resist the enemy by closing our ranks.”

You know I think I’d rather be a crazy pagan hippie that dances around trees during the equinox, then become a piece of shit muslim. As far as I’m concerned, U.S. troops are in Afghanistan — I’m upset that President Bush didn’t give the order to have this douche bag assassinated while there, or at least captured by a special forces team and brought to the U.S. to stand trial for his role in the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Instead of being pinned with an accommodation for doing a job well done, yet another one of our brave border patrolmen is being charged with murder.

Agent Nicholas Corbett was charged in April with four counts of homicide in the January 12 shooting of Francisco Dominguez Rivera shortly after he crossed the border illegally on a stretch of desert between Douglas and Naco.

Cochise County Justice of the Peace David Morales ruled the evidence supported lesser charges of second-degree murder, but threw out charges of first-degree murder, which supposes premeditation.

The ruling followed a preliminary hearing that heard evidence from three illegal immigrants present at the shooting, a pathologist, county sheriff’s detectives and two Border Patrol supervisors.

No date was set for Corbett’s arraignment.

Following the killing, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry complained of “disproportionate violence” and instructed the Mexican Embassy in Washington to investigate the circumstances.

Last year, border police captured 1.1 million undocumented immigrants crossing over the border from Mexico and recorded a soaring number of attacks on agents.

Lawyers for Corbett argue he shot Dominguez Rivera in self-defense after he was threatened with a rock.

You just have to love the headline that Reuters gave the article, ‘US border cop charged with shooting Mexican’. It conveniently emphasized the national origin of the deceased, without mentioning the fact that he was illegally entering the country. They’ll do that, yet when two young Muslim men are arrested in South Carolina with Pipe Bombs, the headline fails to mention their national and religious origin of course.

Ehsan Jami, a 22 year-old municipal council member in Leidschendam-Voorburg for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), will be given a security detail followed an attack by a group of angry Muslims.

The national anti-terrorism coordinator’s office, the public prosecution department and the police decided during a meeting on Monday that “additional measures” are necessary for the protection of the 22-year-old Labour PvdA council member in Leidschendam-Voorburg.

A spokesperson for the office of the national anti-terrorism coordinator (NCTb) reported this on Monday when asked. The extra measures are being implemented because Jami was attacked and beaten in Voorburg last weekend. No further details about the extra security measures are being released.

Jamil was born in Iran to a moderate Muslim father and moved with his family to the Netherlands, because his father’s political views were not much cared for by the government. Eventually Jamil would receive Dutch citizenship and after graduating from college became politically active.

Following the events of 9/11, he began to rethink his faith and ultimately decided that he could no longer respect Islam because of its role in terrorism, the oppression of women, and the oppression of citizens under tyrannical regimes

Alongside, Loubna Berrada, a member of the Conservative (VVD) Party he formed the Central Committee for ex-Muslims. Jamil, who was quoted once as saying that Mohammed was “a terrible man,” started the organization to address what it calls the greatest taboo in Islam — deciding to no longer be Muslim, while addressing the domestic violence and human rights problems that plague societies under strict Islamic rule.

I for one applaud the young man for having the courage to stand up the most intolerant of theologies. It is a very brave thing for someone to not only denounce his own Islamic faith, but to set up an organization that helps others who seek to do the same.

After all if you are to believe the Muslim holy book al-Bukhari’s Authentic Sources, which is considered by many Muslims all across the world to be the second most important book next to the Koran — it is a Muslim’s duty to kill anybody who denounces their Islamic faith.

‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'” (Bukhari 9.84.57)

Unfortunately seeing how Jamil was attacked for his views, while living in a more tolerant western society it doesn’t seem that we will be hearing any brave voices from apostates such as he from within a Middle-Eastern country where voices such as his are much more needed.

Arsenio Winston, the 18 year old drug dealer who made headlines around the world when Cleveland City Councilman Mike Polensek wrote him a nasty, but truthful letter — now has an arrest warrant issued out for him as the dumb-ass, thug criminal lowlife has failed to show up today for his scheduled court hearing.

What really bugs me is that this lowlife crack dealing scumbag — I emphasize scumbag because the loser sells crack cocaine and not something less harmful like marijuana — was only given a $5,000 bond, even though it was not his first offense selling crack, he had previously been arrested as a juvenile. So four days after being arrested and a payment of five hundred bucks later, the piece of garbage is back on the street so he can presumably “hustle” some money and “make his cash,” by selling more crack into the community.

Now, Arsenio T. Winston of 648 East 102 St. in Cleveland, who is a known crack dealer is out on the street with a warrant out for his arrest. He is wanted for two counts of drug trafficking, two counts of drug possession, one count of possession of criminal tools and now one count of failure to appear in court.

Move over homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals there is a new sexual orientation type out there that is sure to gain ground amongst crazy liberal types. Apparently, Annie Potts, not to be confused with the Designing Women actress, who is the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, has come up with a new term — vegansexual.

It seems that there is a new fad in New Zealand — and I’m sure other places all across the world where weirdos roam — taking the whole ’you are what you eat’ idea to the ultimate extreme. These “vegansexuals,” in addition to not eating any meat or anything that came from animals are people who have chosen not to have sexual relations with people who do not lead a vegan lifestyle.

“It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,” said Potts.

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: “I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually.”

Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.

“I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,” she said.

Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.

She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.

She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.

“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.

I really love the one quote about how the respondent said that she doesn’t want to be intimate with somebody whose body is made up of the “bodies of others who have died for their sustenance.” Well I sort of agree with that, as I would not want to have sex with a cannibal either.

I know, however, that this crazy vegan chick was not referring to cannibals she was referring to people who eat meat and with her statement was equating animals to be on the same level as humans. That is why most vegans are completely bat shit insane weirdos.

I consider myself an animal lover too, but until cows, chickens and such start wearing clothes, driving cars, building up human like societies and rise up against us normal humans who eat them — I’ll continue being the way nature intended us to be, an omnivore.

A piece in the opinion section of yesterday’s LA Times calls for the clemency of John Walker Lindh, otherwise known as the American Taliban. According to the piece, Lindh broke the law, but was not a “terrorist” and thus deserves to be granted clemency.

I’m sorry but while he may have not have exactly committed what some would call “terrorist acts,” John Walker Lindh was in fact a terrorist. In the summer of 2001, three months before the 9/11 attacks, he met with Osama bin Laden several times while at an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. While at this training camp, where he was trained to use explosives and various other weapons, he learned that Osama bin Laden had sent people to the United States to carry out suicide missions.

As much as the traitorous pieces of shit at the LA Times would like to deny it, John Walker Lindh who while fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against U.S. troops went by the name Sulayman al-Faris, not only is not deserving of clemency — he got off way too easy with a measly 20 year sentence.

As a matter of fact the sentence that he was facing before his trial ended, which was up to three life terms and 90 additional years in prison, would have still been too easy for him. He was, still is and always will be a traitorous piece of shit. To refer to John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, as anything less then a traitor — is borderline treasonous itself.

It seems that the Politburo of the People’s Republic of San Fransicko’s plan to hand out syringes to drug dealers hasn’t exactly been working out as planned. Apparently on any given day between 100 and 200 used needles, which were handed out to the drug addicts who need them using tax money, can be found scattered around Golden Gate Park.

Although Health Department officials say 2 million needles were returned, the fact is they don’t count them and can only estimate how many are coming back.

And from the looks of things, a lot of them aren’t.

Mary Howe, director of the Homeless Youth Alliance, which operates a needle exchange program near the park with the help of city money, said her group gets back only about 70 percent of the needles it distributes.

“People lose them or the police take them,” Howe said.

And it’s not just the city handing out needles.

Under legislation passed in 2005 by the same Board of Supervisors whose members now decry the needle problem, anyone over 18 can walk into a Walgreens or Rite Aid and buy as many as 10 needles — no questions asked.

When The Chronicle’s C.W. Nevius visited some of the park’s homeless encampments the other day, he found plenty of new and used needles. It’s a problem that’s been building for a while: Recreation and Park Department spokeswoman Rose Dennis estimated that “on any day we pull between 100 and 200 needles out of the park . . . because that’s where people use them.”

The logic behind making needles easy to obtain is that the more people share syringes, the more likely they are to contract HIV and other blood-borne diseases.

The problem is getting back the needles from users once they take off to cloud nine.

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who has picked up needles in the park and who co-authored the bill allowing them to be sold over the counter, said it’s up to the city to keep the parks syringe-free — either through more cleanups or tighter controls to make sure needles are returned.

“We need to come up with a better system,” Mirkarimi said.

I got a better idea, instead of enabling the scum of the earth, how about you know — putting them behind bars?