Democrats Calling for CHANGE

A good place to start.

Why Iran Needs Nukes

Raw Footage of Iranian and U.S. Navy

I suppose it is a matter of who do you believe.
Seems to me for the U.S. this incident is a nuisance detracting from President Bush's visit to Israel.
Also it looks like Iran is sending a message, reminding everybody of their presence in these narrow straights.

Iran Revolutionary Guard Playing Tag With U.S. Warships

So what is the purpose of threatening U.S. Warships?

U.S.-Iran naval confrontation in Gulf raises tensions

Washington - Five Iranian fast boats confronted a small flotilla of US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf in a "careless, reckless and potentially hostile" incident Sunday, Pentagon officials said.
The incident, which ended after the Iranian boats turned away with no shots fired, occurred as President Bush prepared to visit the Middle East for talks this week.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0108/p02s01-usfp.html

Did they think they can repeat thier taking of British Sailors ?

They should know that after the bombing of the U.S.S Cole. there is no way the U.S. would allow potential threats near our navy vessels.

Maybe on some larger scale of international relations it makes sense, but I still don't get it.

DEBKAfile: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ harassment of US warships in Strait of Hormuz carried 5 tough messages for Bush

DEBKAfile’s military and Iranian sources stress that the near-shooting incident Sunday, Jan. 6, in which 5 IRGC speedboats made threatening passes against three US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, was timed precisely by Tehran for the eve of President George W. Bush’s Middle East tour.

1. It was an “in your face” gesture by the IRGC to show the US president they were not scared by being declared a global terrorist organization, a step Bush took last year.
The elite Iranian corps was also intent on proving that Iran was the boss of the Strait of Hormuz, the crude oil outlet for Persian Gulf producers – not the US Navy.

2. A reminder that Iran is able to block the strait at will and throw the world’s oil traffic in disarray.

3. It is important for the Islamic Republic to show its neighbors on the US president’s itinerary that Iran is the region’s leading power, not the US, and that no deals or issues can be finalized without Tehran’s say-so.

4. The Iranian speedboats were also a warning to the nations hosting Bush not to risk signing any military pacts that may be directed against Iran.

5. Tehran has been all ears to pick up every nuance from the White House ahead of the Bush tour. In an interview aired by Israeli television Sunday, Bush said that Iran “was a threat and is a threat” and the US has never given up its military option.

Israeli officials have also leaked a plan to show the visiting president intelligence data to refute the US National Intelligence Estimate’s claim that Iran gave up its nuclear arms program in 2003.

Over the weekend, supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s senior adviser Ali Larijani went from Cairo to Damascus to discuss the Lebanese crisis. This was meant as a signal to Washington that the problem was susceptible to diplomatic engagement. But when the Iranians heard the Bush interview, they decided to show muscle instead and launched the naval incident in the Strait of Hormuz.

6. While possibly a coincidence, the naval provocation occurred at the same time as al Qaeda’s American spokesman called on the region’s Muslim to greet the visiting US president with bombs. The two events have combined to add fuel to the climate in the region preparing to welcome President Bush.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4916

Another good analysis from Bloomberg

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Raw Video: Iranian Boats 'harass' U.S. Navy Associated Press - (APTN) Jan. 08, 2008. 05:17 PM EST Video and audio recordings clearly show Iranian boats confronting U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf, and a voice speaking in heavily-accented English can be heard threatening that the American vessels. (Jan 8)

Blogger to be Arrested?

Britain Against Free Speech:
Blogger Threatened With Prison

BRITISH blogger Lionheart has been accused of inciting racial hatred. Do you believe in free speech? If you do, you should be angry.

Lionheart has fallen foul of the thought police.
He writes on his blog:
“I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

This charge if found guilty carries a lengthy prison sentence, more than what most paedophiles and rapists receive, and all for writing words of truth about the barbarity that is living in the midst of our children, which threatens the very future of our Country.

The cultural weapon in the hands of the modern Jihad within Great Britain, silencing the opposition using our own laws against us - The Dumb Filthy Kaffir’s as the Moslem would say to his children behind closed doors.

What has become of my homeland, the land my forefathers fought and died for on the battlefields of the world when one of their children is forced into the position of facing years in prison for standing up for what is right and just within British society.

At least my words of truth have obviously now reached people’s eyes and ears, with the powers that be now intent on silencing me - Third World Tyranny in a supposed 21st Century democracy!

Is it right that people should be arrested for writing things and thinking things that the powers that be do not approve of? Is the UK now like Saudi Arabia?

Anorak

Since when does a blog represent such danger the writer must face arrest?
Far as I know this guy represents no danger to public safety.
The use of police powers to silence one person and his blog is something I would expect to see in a place with a third world dictatorship, not Great Britain.

Lion Heart spesks for himself:

Lionheart