Sunday, July 21, 2013

State of Our Society Medley

I will be away from the computer for a short while, so I thought that the best thing to do would be to leave a few snippets, along with the respective links, to chew on in the meantime:

Never concerned with her credibility, Melissa Harris-Perry claims that what started the problems in Detroit was a lack of sufficient government staffing and resources. I have heard the claim that the first thing that all societies need is a government (Which as usual ignores all historical evidence), but this one was a doozy.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/19/melissa-harris-perrys-delusional-analysis-of-bankrupt-detroit/


Utah Air National Guard Technical Sergeant Layne Wilson's reprimand (A disciplinary action) will not be rescinded. His offense?

-He expressed his disapproval at the celebrations of fake marriages in the West Point Cadet Chapel*.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/christians-need-not-apply/

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/military-will-not-rescind-reprimand-for-airman-opposed-to-gay-marriage.html

*http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/12/west-point-cadet-chapel-hosts-same-sex.html

In France, the land of Liberté, égalité, and fraternité, journalists have been blacklisted for daring to question the New Order that has been forced upon the Fifth Republic and its People. One individual was charged criminally for noting that a poster that depicted only people that appear to be Muslims with the headline "We Are the Nation" was not an accurate portrayal of France.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3851/france-totalitarianism

Here's a tidbit on the Marxist Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky. Read their playbook and you will understand why it is they do as they do.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314

Two newer Bengahzi links:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/19/rep-wolf-says-benghazi-survivors-were-forced-to-sign-non-disclosure-agreements/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/19/pentagon-makes-key-benghazi-witness-available-to-congress-after-administrative-error-kept-him-hidden-for-months/


I'll be back in soon.












Saturday, July 20, 2013

Taxis are Rape-Wagons for Indigenous British Females

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3854/uk-taxi-rapes

The never-ending pogrom of rapes committed against British females by Muslim men has reached the point where a sub-genre label must be attached.

We can go with Taxi-Rape, Livery-Rape, or any other appropriate term.

The native (Or indigenous- That term automatically implying that the person has Natural Rights) female or Western Europe is the subject of what hunting parlance would refer to as "Open Season", except that this season has no end, unless the people of Western Europe grow weary of being targeted and take action.

In the UK, rape-gangs (euphemistically called sex grooming gangs) have long made the British female, particularly the quite young ones, fair (No pun intended) game for rape, gang-rape, and torture. Presumably so we may think that the attacks are being committed by Koreans or Cambodians, they are often referred to as "Asians" by the press, which means that the offender is a Pakistani or a Muslim from another Asian country. As the Middle East is part of Asia, that's a lot of people that are being labeled  as Asians.

Even an employee of the BBC, which was Left-wing long before MSNBC came to be, had the temerity to ask for a taxi operated by a non-Asian to transport her 14 year-old daughter. The result of this request was that her employer came to be aware of her action and she was fired for committing a racist act:

The list of rapes very long - 

Taxi rapes are rarely reported; apparently because the politically incorrect crimes are not deemed to be newsworthy. BBC radio host Sam Mason, a single mother, was fired after she called a taxi company and requested a "non-Asian" driver to take her 14-year-old daughter to her grandparents' home; preferably a female driver. The operator refused, and said, "We would class that as being racist." Mason responded, "It's not your 14-year-old girl." A BBC spokesman said, "[Mason's] comments were completely unacceptable…she will no longer be working for the BBC."

Great Britain is in the throes of a rape and pedophilia epidemic unlike anything the country has experienced in living memory.

Many of the sex crimes are being perpetrated by Muslim child grooming gangs responsible for drugging, raping and torturing hundreds and possibly thousands of British girls."

While the Queen play- acts the provision to create gay marriages, a judge is making it clear that the Monarch is not performing her most basic of duties - keeping order in her own kingdom.

"But another wave of sex crimes involves predatory Muslim taxi drivers who are raping female passengers. The number of so-called taxi rapes is snowballing to such an extent that a British judge has issued a warning that no woman can expect to be safe while traveling in a cab..............

In nearby Windsor, Anshul Sharma, 23, was charged with raping a 19-year-old woman who mistook his car for a legitimate taxi. She had been searching for a cab in the early hours of the morning when she was approached by Sharma, who claimed he was driving a licensed taxi. After she was in the car, he drove her to a remote location where he raped her.

In Blackburn on July 9, Talib Hussain, 62, was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, a passenger in his taxi. In Blackpool on July 8, Turkish-born Fatih Top, 38, was charged with raping an 18-year-old woman who was a passenger in his cab.

In Shrewsbury on July 6, Ahmet Baser, 34, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for raping an underage girl in his taxi. The victim and her friend were picked up by Baser's taxi outside a downtown night spot. After dropping off her friend, Baser went on to drive his victim into the remote countryside, where he raped her before taking her home.

In Nottingham on June 12, police said they were looking for an "Asian" taxi driver who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old passenger in his cab.

In Berkshire on May 21, Arshad Arif, 28, appeared at the Reading Crown Court on charges of driving a 17-year-old passenger in his cab to a remote park some 25 miles from her home and raping her twice. Arif was identified after it emerged he had earlier allowed the schoolgirl to use his phone, with her father noting down the number.........."

The gut-wrenching list goes on and on in the link at top.







Friday, July 19, 2013

Obama Back to Race-Baiting

The Race-Baiter-(Along with general nation-wrecking)- in-Chief has done again. Rather that come clean and note that the facts turned out to be quite different compared to back when he, the media, and many others decided what they were immediately following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Obama made full use of his time - telling us that the main problem is that whites are just too afraid of American Blacks. Note that this was not the normal, off-the-cuff type of statement that has helped to make the US a joke; Obama had almost a full week to make this statement.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/19/president-obama-remarks-on-death-trayvon-martin/


"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a -- and a history that -- that doesn't go away. There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.

"There are probably very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African-Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.

"And, you know, I -- I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws, everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.


Of course, Obama must pay the obligatory lip-service to the enormous problem of violence in the American Black community, but even thus must be treated as a result of the wrongful events of the past. By his measuring stick, all peoples that have been subjected to institutionalized abuse and discrimination should be expected to commit far more violent crimes than other groups. This explains why Ireland is chock-full of violent criminals and why the Christians of the Near and Middle East engage in similar criminal activity. Let's not forget the Jews - when I see a group of Hasidim, I run.

"Now, this isn't to say that the African-American community is naive about the fact that African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system, that they're disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It's not to make excuses for that fact.

"Although, black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. They understand that, some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country. And that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.

"And so, the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of Africa-American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuses given, ``Well, there are these statistics out there that show that African-American boys are more violent,'' using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain......."

At no point does Obama state that, although he wishes that George Zimmerman had never attempted to actually see where Trayvon Martin was heading (If we have to find a fault with Zimmerman's actions), the picture is now clear - Zimmerman was getting beaten up pretty badly when he shot Martin. He also does not apologize for opening his yap when it was time for the cops to do their investigation

Obama desperately wants to continue cultivating the victim mentality of American Blacks. It is a crucial part of his agenda. As the writer in Gates of Vienna noted, his ultimate goal is to move towards a real redistribution of wealth. If he doesn't have a class of victims that believe that they need redistribution, then he would have no reason to take away for some to hand out to others.

His words on the radio interviewer in 2008 are terrifying, mostly because of the lack of any response from the people. He claimed that the problem is the fact  that we have not been able to get past the restrictions placed in us by our Founders:

http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/07/why-is-obama-trying-to-start-a-race-war/

“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court.I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as Icould pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution…”

This is what he was referring to when he stated that the Constitution is "fundamentally flawed".

Video is also here:

Thursday, July 18, 2013

French Woman Viciously Attacked - No Help From Cops

While our press models Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an object of affection for our young women and portrays him as a victim of the family and system that both "failed" him*, another report comes our of Western Europe, where multiculturalism has been so successful that even the cops have stepped out of the morass and left the people to fend for themselves

The video (With text underneath) in the following link must be viewed only after steeling oneself. It contains gruesome and stomach-turning details.  A female store owner was subjected to continual harassment and a horrific gang rape, the description of which is hard to read. The cops essentially ignored her positive identification of the attackers and accepted the weak alibis that were offered to prove that they were innocent.

The people of Western Europe have been betrayed by their own elected officials. Multiculturalism is not a failure, it is a great success. It is achieving everything that the Left wanted. The electorate votes solidly for Leftist candidates, the people are helpless against the routine abuse and criminal activities of those who enrich the culture, and the police are at best impotent, apathetic, and afraid to act.

http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/07/i-was-treated-like-a-stray-dog/

It is time to sing the Marseillaises with some meaning.


*Our society has devolved into a pit of dysfunction that glorifies bad people while ignoring their victims:

*http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594205/rolling-stone-defends-cover-featuring-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Article V Conventions Proposed - Some Real Hope

http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/07/11/mark-levin-constitution-article-v-and-the-liberty-amendments/

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/radio_host_mark_levin_suggests_the_states_call_an_article_five_amendment_convention.html

Author, attorney, Constitutional scholar, and radio show host Mark Levin has voiced his support for an amendment process that gas been glossed over by most. Many Conservatives are understandably reluctant to support a Constitutional Convention as what occurs in such a forum could well turn out disastrously, with Leftist delegates running amok and creating a what would amount to a national government that is more unrecognizable than what we have before our eyes today. (For example, a unicameral legislature, an Executive who is elected by a parliamentary system, and the excising of equal representation of all states such as what we have in the Senate) Mr. Levin, however, after careful consideration of the provisions of Article V, states that it is time to have the individual states take upon themselves the power delegated to them under that article.

Our contributor Cincinnatus, for the record, beat Mr. Levin to the punch by at least four months in a conversation with me last winter - I will swear to it.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/article-v.html

"Article V

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."



Mr. Levin rightfully notes that, two-thirds of the states make this move, and the proposed amendment(s) are passed by three quarters of the states, then Congress, The Supreme Court, and and President would literally be powerless to prevent them from being added to our Constitution and by extension becoming the Law of of the land.

In the Western Free Press link, Levin speaks in an embedded video. He stresses that George Mason, (Note that Mason was by no means a supporter of the Constitution when it was a new and unratified document as he feared its potential for abuse), was indeed a strong supporter of this alternative means by which the states could work together to restrain or correct a national government (Ours is only Federal in name - credit Tocqueville for that observation) and take steps to put the nation back on the right path.

Levin, being a person with a large following and all the influence that goes along  with that, is a good candidate to become a spark for such a movement. He noted in the video that Madison and Hamilton both mentioned the same process in the below-linked Federalist Papers links. I will have to read them myself tomorrow. The link for Levin's  new book, in which he details his arguments in support of this movement, is also linked at the bottom.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Amid More Violence, Some Really Good kids

Main story is below short updates-

Dana Loesch went straight for the throat - calling out those who make hay out of a person who was killed while beating up another while Blacks are being killed by Blacks in Chicago on a regular basis:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/16/dana-loesch-eviscerates-zimmerman-protesters-who-have-said-nothing-for-victims-in-utopian-dream-of-chicago/

“Youth are the biggest target in Chicago. Black youth,” she pointed out. “In 2012, Chicago had 100 more murders than New York City, 215 more than Los Angeles, and according to the Chicago Reporter and other statistics, from 2008 to 2012 half of Chicago’s nearly 2,500 homicide victims were killed before they reached their 25th birthdays.”

“So where are the riots? Where are the protests?” Loesch asked. “I mean yes, apparently they are just killing black teenagers out there – but who is ‘they’? According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, anywhere from 8,000 to 9,000 black Americans are killed every year…93% of these murders are committed by other black Americans.”

She continued, her speech growing increasingly impassioned:
Now if all of these people out there protesting for Trayvon are so concerned about the death of a youth, then where have they been these past ten years?......"

As an aside, former liberal Ms. Loesch also, while explain in part her abandonment of that opiate, made a call to arms to men to step up and be men: (Video on link)


".....She credits faith in God and herself and a man who stepped up, her now-husband, Chris Loesch.

[Starting at around 11:45 min. in video] “Men: do not allow yourselves to be emasculated,” Loesch remarked. “To let an entire generation die away because you didn’t feel it was your place to step up and speak out…Fight back! Your sons need you, your daughters need you, your wives and your girlfriends need you.”......"
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Amid reports of more retaliatory violence -

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/16/group-of-black-youths-reportedly-beat-hispanic-man-while-yelling-this-is-for-trayvon/  (I have not found enough reports to assert that this one is accurate)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/16/video-surfaces-of-journalist-being-attacked-during-on-camera-interview-at-zimmerman-protests/

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/215610861.html


-Some genuinely good kids, with one of particular note  who thwarted a kidnapper from getting away with his five year-old victim:

When he became aware that a search was being conducted by police for a missing girl, Temar Boggs and his friends stepped up - and located the animal's car with the victim still inside:

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/872026_Lancaster-teen-Temar-Boggs-hailed-as-a-hero-in-5-year-old-s-abduction.html

"........That's when, Boggs said, "I had the gut feeling that I was going to find the little girl."

A friend asked Boggs to hold his bike. Boggs figured the bike would help him search for the girl.

So he and another friend, Chris Garcia, rode on area streets — Michelle Drive, St. Phillips Drive, Gable Park Road — looking for her.

That's when a maroon car caught his eye. (He had gotten a bit ahead of Garcia.)

The car was on Gable Park and turned around when it got near the top of a hill toward Millersville Pike, where Boggs said several police officers were gathered with the kind of cart used to carry an injured football player off the field.

The driver, an older white man, then began quickly turning onto and out of side streets connecting to Gable Park, Boggs said.

The neighborhood is something of a maze; many of its streets are cul-de-sacs."

This kid has some serious guts. I know of a lot of adults who would not act in this manner.

"Boggs got close enough to the car to see a little girl inside. Garcia was nearby.

The driver looked at Boggs and Garcia, then stopped the car at Gable Park and Betz Farm Road and pushed the girl out of the car. The driver then drove off, Boggs said.


Boggs said he didn't see where the car went.

"She runs to my arms and said, 'I need to see my mommy,' " Boggs said.

Boggs scooped the girl onto his shoulders and began riding the bike toward home, but then decided that wasn't safe, so he carried her and walked back while Garcia pedaled along, guiding the bike Boggs had been using.

Back at Lancaster Arms, when Boggs and Garcia arrived with the girl, someone summoned a firefighter or law enforcement officer............"

I hope that this kid changes his mind on career options. He appears to be born to be a cop, firefighter  or other Emergency Services employee. He should also consider becoming a commissioned officer in the military  He even made it clear that he recognized that being able to help someone is a gift from God.

"It was a blessing for me to make that happen," he said.

His mother, Tamika Boggs, said she's proud of her son.

"You just hope you raise your child the right way. ... He's learning what I tell him, to help others," she said...."


Temar Boggs has put me in what has become something quite rare - a good mood.

Two reports of Post-Trial Attcks

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/07/15/jogger-claims-he-was-attacked-wake-zimmerman-verdict?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoxNewsInsider+(Fox+News+Insider)

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trayvon-martin-protest-violence-sweeps-through-oakland-waiter-hurt-20130716,0,296050.story?sdfsdggffggfsdf

The first account has been reported by only a few sources, so I can't say with certainty that it is accurate.

The second one, though, looks to be almost beyond doubt a serious retaliatory attack.

Monday, July 15, 2013

First Post-Trial Assault - Sonderkommandos in Action

So far, only one person was reportedly assaulted:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/14/watch-live-pro-trayvon-martin-protesters-clash-with-police-in-nyc-l-a/

"UPDATE: KTVU reports for the second night in a row covering pro-Trayvon Martin protests in Oakland, Calif., one of the station’s cameramen has been attacked by masked protesters."


An armed suspect was shot and killed following a police chase in Arkansas. Crowds, reveling in their assumption that the suspect must have been innocent, gathered to protest: 


"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (TheBlaze/AP) — A crowd has gathered in “protest” at the scene of the shooting of a suspect by Little Rock police.

The shooting happened at about 11:30 a.m. after a man fled on foot after being pulled over in an allegedly stolen SUV. Little Rock police say a physical altercation developed when an officer caught up to the suspect and the officer killed the man with at least one gunshot......

“Several people in the crowd referenced the Trayvon Martin incident, in which the 17-year-old boy was shot following an altercation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman last year. Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder on Saturday,” The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports....."

The New Black Panthers declared that the verdict is effectively a declaration of war:

http://www.amren.com/news/2013/07/new-black-panthers-zimmerman-verdict-means-war/

"The George Zimmerman verdict is a declaration of war that only the devil can applaud, according to the Twitter feed for the New Black Panther Party.

The Twitter account, managed by the group’s national chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz, further urged followers to “take to the streets [and] stay there.”

“Were at war,” Shabbazz Tweeted. “Its (sic) silly and immoral to call for peace when war has been declared.”

The NBPP slammed what it called the “white mans (sic) justice system,” claiming the courts base their law on “the white is right theory.”.........."

And, of course, the Sonderkommandos have made their mark:


The link has a video of a white female who has jumped on the "blame whitey" bandwagon and utters meaningless claims that whites are born to privilege in the US. She must mean getting shut out of colleges,  missing out on jobs due to "diversity" requirements, losing promotions as a result of lawsuits against Civil Service examinations, being ineligible for dozens of grants and scholarships due to one's birth, subjection to harassment and lose of one's occupation for uttering a racial slur decades ago while "cracker" is kosher, being treated like a criminal for defending oneself - you get the picture:

"If you are white, not only should you feel guilty about any acts of racism committed by others, you should be “checking your [white] privilege every single day” — at least according to one protester who spoke at a pro-Trayvon Martin rally in Portland, Ore., on Sunday.

“I want to say something to you white people. It is not enough to feel bad, it’s not enough to not be a bigot,” she said. “Because if you are not actively dismantling white supremacy and checking your privilege every single day and thinking about racism the way that our young black men in our community have to think about it, you are not doing it right.”

She went on to urge her audience to give money to “anti-racist, youth-led movements.”...."


There are two completely different countries in the US. On one side is a loose and informal coalition of whites not overwhelmed by "white guilt",  Blacks who do not accept the lot allotted to them by the Left, Christians and Jews who have not abandoned the faith of their Fathers, non-religious Americans who nevertheless recognize the contributions of faith to our nation, those who are fed up with working to pay for the livelihood of multiple generations of others, those who watch with dismay the culture of abortion, hooking up, and the destruction of the family and marriage, and those who want the schools to teach people to be able to read, etc.

One the other side is everyone else. I say that we should let them have their half.







Sunday, July 14, 2013

Left Wants People Helpless and Afraid to Act

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/14/george-zimmerman-acquitted-murder-in-trayvon-martin-shooting-death/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/14/here-are-some-of-the-most-disturbing-tweets-following-zimmermans-not-guilty-verdict/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/14/oakland-demonstrators-burn-flags-smash-cop-car-after-zimmerman-verdict-photos/

It's a shame when we have to be happy that "small" fires, smashed police cars and windows, burned American flags, and some graffiti is all that we have seen.

As the opinion piece in the link below notes, this case should in no way have gone to trial. The "Stand your ground" law clearly had nothing to do with the shooting. When someone is being held down or otherwise being made unable to to leave , he or she is not drawing a line in the sand. The Left detests laws that recognize one's inherent right to engage in acts of self-preservation. While most (But by no means all) will grudgingly admit that force may be used when it can later be demonstrated that the victim was faced with an immediate threat and left with no other option, they will insist the the victim must be able to provide an overwhelming amount of proof that this was the case - no mean feat if the event was not recorded on camera.

At any rate, that is one of the main reasons why they labored with such passion to conflate the confrontation and shooting with Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law (The other being sensationalizing white-on-black violence and covering up the converse). They want these laws gone, and they will scrape the bottom of the barrel to find instances to cite in support of overturning or repealing of laws that give people some hope that, if they take steps to protect themselves, they at least have a chance of employing an affirmative defense*.

Leftists would certainly prefer that our laws are more in line with those of nations that were not founded by free peoples. About ten years ago, I read an article about two criminal trials (One may have been a pre-trial hearing) in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) that were going on at the same time but in different courtrooms. One was for a man who was being charged with attempted rape. The other trial or hearing was for the victim; she was being charged for biting off a piece of her assailant's ear (Thus successfully ending the assault) during the attack. Mind you, the average American or Western European would applaud that woman for fighting back with such determination and ferocity. In our culture (Particularly in US laws), rape is considered a crime for which Deadly Force can be utilized to prevent or stop the crime from being perpetrated. Biting off a piece of an ear, although it may be argued by some to be less than "serious bodily harm", will hardly result in death unless the one who is bitten developed a major infection from the wound, yet here the victim was, in court-

-For (In the eyes of the Korean prosecutors), using more force than was necessary to prevent the assailant from raping her.

As far as I am concerned that woman was, to use and old US phrase (Sorry ladies for the unintentional  property-like connotations), "marriage material". She is the kind of woman I would want to raise my daughter. In Korea, though, one is legally required (Never got the outcome of the trial and the laws may have changed since then) to use only a minimal amount of force to stop a (probably heavier, stronger, and more aggressive) man from raping her.

The Left wants people to be fearful of anyone who approaches in a manner that sends up "red flags" or actually assaults them, and of possible prosecution in the event that they do in fact  take decisive action.

From the outset, it was readily apparent that the prosecution had no case. That picture never changed during the rest of the trial.

We have a catastrophic societal problem on our hands; an Attorney General's Office that does the bidding of the media and the mob, a mob (Consisting of all ethnic groups) that will never admit that Zimmerman did not murder Martin despite being privy to more information than even the jurors received, and a President who, not content with having made viciously accusatory remarks following the actual shooting, tells people to "honor" a young man who, by all accounts, was beating someone up in the moments before he was shot and killed (And also falsely referring to Zimmerman's act as one of "gun violence"):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/14/obama-george-zimmerman_n_3595631.html

".......We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin."


The Chief of Police of the City of Sanford was fired for refusing to be bullied into charging Zimmerman. I hope that he sues for damages, reinstatement, and back pay.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/14/never-should-have-witnessed-zimmerman-trial/

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Post-Trial Fallout

I dread what I believe will happen during the next few weeks or more.

We live in nation in which far too many people could have witnessed the confrontation and shooting themselves and would still insist that George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin. The evidence and the verdict mean nothing to people who live in a world of hate and lies and cling to a pathetic culture of victimization.

My prayers are for the protection of all innocents.




Friday, July 12, 2013

Zimmerman Trial - Journalists Going All-out


Immediately following the death of Trayvon Martin, the media went straight into fifth gear. The enormous problem of black-on-white crime in the US? (Or even  black-on-black) - Forget all of that because the media gets no mileage out of reports that do not attack the "White Establishment" or problems of violence in black communities. What they look for are accounts of a black being killed by a white person. The particulars of the case are of no concern to them. Like the old commercial in which the hokey transmission mechanic is holding a large hammer and says to the customer "Don't worry, we'll make it fit", they will do their all to make the black person the victim each time.

Remember when James Byrd was dragged to death by whites behind a truck? The account still brings up feelings of rage for me. That man was treated savagely and I wished (Still do) that I could get my hands on the pigs that committed the murder. The media reported on this for months, and it is still is treated as some sort of crime that is common in our society.

Now, does anyone remember the Wichita Horror? I'll bet that most do not, and for one reason -

It was utterly ignored by the media, and what little coverage it got consisted of assuring all of us that race had nothing to do with it. Race is never a factor when whites are attacked by blacks:

http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22370


When the media found out the name of the shooter of Trayvon Martin, they were jubilant. The media had a perfect white guy, George Zimmeran. The German last name was a perfect fit for a sensationalized story to incite emotional and violent reactions in American blacks, but something quickly became known that threatened to ruin the media party:

Mr. Zimmerman was half-Hispanic, and he looked a hell of a lot more like an Hispanic than a guy in a photo of Wehrmacht troops.

They quickly and with a coordination of military precision reformed and came up with a new designation - "white Hispanic". This was a new development as the media had never employed any such term previously.

When whites were subsequently attacked with accompanying shouts of "This is for Trayvon", the media ignored or explained away these accounts as unreliable. Several links to these attacks can be found in the link below:

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2013/07/florida-police-preparing-for-fallout-of.html

The Media instead ran with stories on "hoodies", skittles and iced tea, gated communities, profiling, and flooded the news reports with photos of a twelve year-old kid with an innocent smile. Trayvon Martin was 17 when he was killed, and the press left out any information about what kind of person he was five years after the youth football photo. No less than two news outlets ran maliciously edited versions of Zimmerman's calls to police dispatchers in order that the public would hear what sounded like a guy following a kid simply because he was black.

Now that the testimony and other evidence has been presented, we have little reason to believe that the cops were wrong in initially refraining from charging Zimmerman. The media, though, is not only steadfastly refusing to back down on the version that they shamefully fed us last year, they are now pointing fingers at the cops for preparing for possible violence that was enthusiastically fueled by the media in the first place. This is despite the fact that calls for violence have been explicitly made on social media and other venues:

http://ideas.time.com/2013/07/11/preparing-for-riots-after-zimmerman-verdict-is-racial-fear-mongering/?iid=tsmodule

".....Given the way law enforcement delayed over Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting—it was 46 days before George Zimmerman was arrested—there is cause for concern. It was a groundswell of protest from the black community that brought the shooting to the nation’s attention—remember the One Million Hoodie March? This case has sparked a movement—in defense of young black men and in opposition to Stand Your Ground law. But the pre-emptive call for calm runs counter to recent history, and may be akin to racial fear mongering......"
The media is the enemy of the people. Failing to convince us with their lies, they now turn to blaming others for preparing to deal with any possible violence. Of course the cops would also be blamed by the same media if they didn't prepare and violence did ensue.

We can also be certain that the media does not care what happens in cases in which police preparation will not help individuals from being attacked.

-From a previous post:

"...A well-planned and coordinated police response may well be sufficient to quell large-scale rioting, but it will do nothing to prevent innocents from being attacked by proxy. The facts no longer matter in our society - Trayvon Martin has been deemed to never have done anything wrong in his tragic encounter with George Zimmerman and that is enough. Cops, expert witnesses, and eyewitnesses could have been lined up for miles, but innocents will become victims of beatings and quite possibly rape and murder if the jury finds that the Prosecution did not prove that the accused is guilty. Older citizens, females, and young men who find themselves outnumbered will be fair game. With the knowledge of how Zimmerman was declared guilty by many immediately after the shooting, many innocent victims will be too fearful to defend themselves....."





Thursday, July 11, 2013

Modern Anti-Zionism/Semitism Came From the USSR

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/09/ex-soviet-bloc-spy-chief-explains-hidden-origin-todays-jihad/?intcmp=obinsite

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/lt.-gen.-ion-mihai-pacepa

This is one of those things that I knew in my heart for years, but I had no real evidence to support my claims.

Article in Fox News by the author of the book linked above: 

".......As one who spent decades at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence world – until, by God’s grace, I defected in 1978 – I can tell you that the absolutely worst, and often irreparable, damage done to the Free World has been caused by disinformation.

In the late 1960s, KGB head Yuri Andropov, with whom I worked at one time, tasked the Soviet bloc's disinformation machinery with turning the rest of the world against the U.S. by reviving anti-Semitism. Andropov knew that the U.S. would stand with Israel and that he could convince the European leftists and the Islamic world that America was dominated by Jews.......

Andropov's disinformation came to light in 1969, when Palestinian terrorists – secretly trained at the KGB’s Balashikha special-operations school east of Moscow – hijacked an El Al plane and landed it in Algeria. There its 32 Jewish passengers were held hostage for five weeks, during which time Andropov's disinformation machinery portrayed Israel and the U.S. as the main dangers to world peace........
By 1972, Andropov's disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that the U.S. intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom. He wanted us to convince Muslims that the U.S. Congress was a "Council of the Elders of Zion" which conspired to have the Jews take over the world.
If we whipped up Muslim anti-Semitism, then terrorism and violence against Israel and America would naturally follow.

Thus, the Romanian DIE (counterpart of KGB foreign intelligence), which I headed, in 1972 received from the KGB an Arabic translation of the old Russian forgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” We also received "documentary" material in Arabic produced by the Soviet disinformation "proving" America was a Zionist country whose aim was to transform the Islamic world into a Jewish fief.

My DIE was ordered to disseminate these documents within its targeted Islamic countries. During my later years in Romania, the DIE disseminated thousands of copies of “The Protocols” and similar “documents” each month........."


If you are blaming the State of Israel for the violence being perpetrated by Muslims, you are are acting just as the Left wishes.

Antisemitism is very much alive in the West. It most common manifestation is that of anti-Zionism. When we hear Leftists and Leftist-inspired  people in the West use the word Jew as a pejorative, the motivations for such cruel taunts will almost always be the existence of the Jewish State.

Many European "intellectuals", both the indigenous types and Jews, embraced Socialism as the way of the future. Those who did so did not reflect the attitudes of their coreligionists or fellow citizens in any way, but the label stuck with the Jews. Just as some in our society equate the global banking interests solely with the Jewish Rothschilds, too many in the West do the same with Marxism. I have read numerous articles and posts from individuals who are rightly concerned with the advance of the Western variant of Socialism that place the blame for this tragic phenomena squarely at the feet of the Jewish people and particularly with Israel.

The problem with this supposition is simple - The Left has long had an utter revulsion at the very thought of a Jewish State and seeks to destroy it, both from without and within; therefore, if one seeks to stop the Left, he had better stop blaming Israel or the Jews.

The survival of the State of Israel has been a thorn in the side of the Left from the beginning. Many early Zionists were Socialist, but they did not create a Socialist state. Once the Left realized what had actually occurred - the creation of a modern state that with the purpose of having an ethnically, religiously, and culturally identifiable people, they dropped any support for the new nation like a hot potato. Israel quickly found herself on her own - Czechoslovakia was one of the few nations that provided any real support to the fledgling nation as it fought to avoid being killed in utero .

A step back is necessary to change one's opinion. Marxism, like Islam, is pan-national in nature. It allows for no peoples, groups, or nations to remain separate from the International Communist or Socialist world order. Any Socialist party that employs the name of the nation in which it operates is only doing so to mask its intentions - Socialists (Excepting a precious few like George Orwell) want sovereign nations gone in toto. As is patently apparent in their relentless campaigns to force multiple generations into lives of functional illiteracy, denigrate all admirable aspects of a Western and Jewish history and culture (And grossly magnify the faults), deny any evidence of ethnic ancestry of peoples (In Europe, you have to look really hard to find an honest assessment of genetic data for that region), liquidate the family as a concept, and push any belief in Judaism or Christianity into the shadows, the Left wants any sense of identity excised completely.

Now that we have taken that back-step, let's look at the question:

If the Left wants to erase all national borders, destroy the family, and eliminate all senses of historical,  religious, cultural and ethnic identity, why would Israel want any part of that? Virtually everything for which the Left stands exists in compete contrast with the very reason for the State of Israel. If the Left wins out - there will be no Israel.

All of the followings posts describe the campaign of the Left against Israel

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/03/israel-one-staters-tell-them-to-be.html

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/04/denial-of-history-in-israel.html

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/04/israel-is-finished-says-british.html

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2013/05/scientists-academia-play-jackal-on.html


In short, if you are against Leftist ideology, then you would do quite well for yourself, your faith, your country, and your civilization if you stopped conflating that system with Israel or the Jews. 







Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Copts Attacked by Pro-Morsi Thugs

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/egypt-muslim-mob-attacks-christian-homes-and-shops-while-chanting-there-is-no-god-but-allah-and-the-.html

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/10/egyptian-christians-face-horror-at-islamists-hands-in-the-wake-of-morsis-ouster/

The Coptic Patriarch, Pope Tawadros II, has encouraged the faithful of Egypt to change direction and get involved in the political process. The previous Pope, Shenouda, had a policy that essentially recommended a strategy of lying low to avoid drawing the ire of Egyptian Muslims. I can't blame the current Pope for making this risky move; staying in the sidelines was perceived as an act of weakness. Kidnappings, rapes, torched homes and businesses, and murders were commonplace in Egypt even before Mubarak was forced out of office, and things got worse once the Muslim Brotherhood started stretching their political legs.

Now, Copts are still being attacked, but the brave souls are standing up for themselves:

"CAIRO — With a mob of Muslim extremists on his tail, the Christian businessman and his nephew climbed up on the roof and ran for their lives, jumping from building to building in their southern Egyptian village. Finally they ran out of rooftops.

Forced back onto the street, they were overwhelmed by several dozen men. The attackers hacked them with axes and beat them with clubs and tree limbs, killing Emile Naseem, 41. The nephew survived with wounds to his shoulders and head and recounted the chase to The Associated Press.

The mob's rampage through the village of Nagaa Hassan, burning dozens of Christian houses and stabbing to death three other Christians as well, came two days after the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi from power. It was no coincidence the attackers focused on Naseem and his family: He was the village's most prominent campaigner calling for Morsi's removal.
Some Christians are paying the price for their activism against Morsi and his Islamist allies in a backlash over his ouster last week...............

Egypt's Christian minority, about 10 percent of the population, long shunned politics for fear of reprisals, relying on their church to make their case to those in power. That changed in the revolutionary fervor when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011, as Christians started to demand a say in the country's direction.

But they took it to a new level during Morsi's year in office and the empowerment of his Islamist allies. The new Coptic Christian pope, Tawadros II, enthroned in November, openly criticized the president. He told Christians they were free to actively participate in politics and that the church will not discourage them.

"The Christians have emerged from under the robes of the clergy and will never go back," said Ezzat Ibrahim, an activist from Minya, a southern province with a large Christian community.

It was a risky gamble for a minority that has long felt vulnerable, with its most concentrated communities often living in the same rural areas where the most vehement and vocal Islamists hold sway.


During Morsi's year in office, some of his hard-line allies increasingly spoke of Christians as enemies of Islam and warned them to remember they are a minority. When the wave of protests against Morsi began on June 30, Brotherhood media depicted it as dominated by Christians — and to hard-liners, it smacked of Christians rising up against a Muslim ruler........

This is how Christians live their lives in Muslim-majority countries and regions. Either way, they know that the mob may attack for any given reason, real or imagined

Congress moved to hold up funding for the stepped-up support that the Obama administration plans to give to the Syrian rebels. They cited the fact that our weapons and money will no doubt go to Al-Qaeda types. I don't know if that is truly why they made this move or if it is because they know what the same rebels are doing to Christians; they may simply be manufacturing an excuse to avoid any mention of the unpleasant reality. The press would have a field day if US Representatives expressed any concern with how Christians are being  treated in the Near and Middle East and few are willing to take a stand.

Obama, always says that he "can't wait for Congress to act". He is showing the same attitude now. Basically, he just does what he wants:


".....White House press secretary Jay Carney did not discuss the reasons behind the congressional delays over the aid on Tuesday, but said it was coming nonetheless.

“In keeping with the president’s announcement of our stepped-up assistance to the [Syrian opposition’s] Supreme Military Council, we are going to consult with Congress on these matters, and we intend to provide that stepped-up assistance,” Carney said at Tuesday’s White House briefing. “We were not bluffing. The president was very serious, as I think he made clear.' "


Our Republic cannot be said to exist in anything but name - a mere legal fiction.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Florida Police Preparing for Fallout of a Zimmeran Not Guilty Verdict

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/09/florida-law-enforcement-officials-mull-response-plan-ahead-zimmerman-verdict/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/9/florida-sheriffs-plot-riot-plan-not-guilty-verdict/

Our society has come to the point that police need to prepare to deal with the response of the mob in the event that some don't get the verdict that they want.

We have devolved into a third world country.

From the Washington Times:

"Sheriffs in several Florida counties have joined forces to plot a course of action in case George Zimmerman’s murder trial wraps [up] with a not-guilty verdict and outraged members of the public start to riot.

The Broward County sheriff's office released a video asking the public not to riot, but also explaining that they’ve reached out to other law enforcement agencies for contingency plans in case violence ensues. 

“[We are] working closely with the Sanford Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies [to coordinate] a response plan in anticipation of the verdict,” the sheriff's office said in a statement reported by Breitbart........

Our law enforcement official feel the need to ask "community organizers" and such to convince their followers from rioting and attacking whites and non-black Hispanics.*

One sheriff said it’s not a given that riots will be the result of a not-guilty finding. But the department is keeping lines of communication open with “community leaders, civic activists, members of the clergy, as well as local, state and federal agencies.”

The trial in Seminole County has grabbed the attention of the nation, and activists in support of the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot and killed in the February 2012 incident, have rallied outside the courthouse.

*http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-anti-white-hatred-exposed-by.html


A well-planned and coordinated police response may well be sufficient to quell large-scale rioting, but it will do nothing to prevent innocents from being attacked by proxy. The facts no longer matter in our society - Trayvon Martin has been deemed to never have done anything wrong in his tragic encounter with George Zimmerman and that is enough. Cops, expert witnesses, and eyewitnesses could have been lined up for miles, but innocents will become victims of beatings and quite possibly rape and murder if the jury finds that the Prosecution did not prove that the accused is guilty. Older citizens, females, and young men who find themselves outnumbered will be fair game. With the knowledge of how Zimmerman was declared guilty by many immediately after the shooting, many innocent victims will be too fearful to defend themselves

It happened following the shooting; just think about what will occur if Zimmerman walks free. 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/24/after-brutal-string-of-black-on-white-violence-in-the-name-of-justice-for-trayvon-beck-asks-where-al-sharpton-is/

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126003/Trayvon-Martin-case-6-youths-beat-man-78-twisted-racial-revenge-attack.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135549/Trayvon-Martin-case-Black-teenager-admits-beating-white-man-revenge-Martins-death.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26/suspect-attacked-white-teen-because-am-angry-about-trayvon/

The above list also could have gone on for miles, but I had to stop somewhere.

The media worked overtime to provoke the 'Trayvon was murdered no matter what the facts are" crowd before, and I have no doubt that they will do the same. The mainstream media also did all that they could to either ignore the reports of attacks, empathize with the mood or "feelings" of the criminals, or dismiss them outright.

http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/05/media-pushing-us-towards-chaos.html

I hope that the people wake up.



Monday, July 8, 2013

Palestinian Girls Sing of Jew-Hatred in Video

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/08/girls-on-palestinian-tv-call-jews-barbaric-monkeys-and-wretched-pigs/

More tolerance-

What should we expect from people who dress their little kids as suicide bombers and have them sings songs about blowing themselves up?

"The official, government-run television channel of the Palestinian Authority aired a program that showed two little girls reciting a poem calling Jews “barbaric monkeys,” “wretched pigs” and the “most evil among creations.”.........

'Oh, you who murdered Allah’s pious prophets (i.e., Jews in Islamic tradition)
Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood
You have been condemned to humiliation and hardship.
Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations
Oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs'

The second little girl extolls the notion that Jerusalem belongs to the Muslims, not to Israel for which it is its capital city. She says to Jews and Israel:

'Jerusalem is not your den
Jerusalem opposes your throngs
Jerusalem vomits from within it your impurity
Because Jerusalem, you impure ones, is pious, immaculate
And Jerusalem, you who are filth, is clean and pure.'..........."



Jew-hatred is nothing new to Islam; the Koran and Haddiths both have plenty of vicious references to Jews. I grew up with the story about the Koran referring to Jews as the "People of the Book". Then I actually read the Koran and noticed that each and every time that phrase is used, it is to demean the Jews and blame them for failing to accept Mohammed as a prophet or a Medieval-type accusation of  group guilt for doing violence to Old Testament prophets. Note that Emmett Scott, in Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited, make incredibly strong augments that Jew-hatred in Medieval Europe was a direct result of the Jew-hatred that was commonplace in Islam and that this  filtered into the West from increasing contacts with Muslim states such as those in Spain and Portugal.

Muslim have for a long time made every effort to co-opt all of the Old Testament prophets, patriarchs, and kings (Boy they have some doozies of stories about Solomon). One of their favorite targets are places and buildings or sites that are associated with Hebrew/Jewish history. Islam seems to create such a deep hatred of Jews that many Muslims feel the need to make every patriarchal/Hebrew/Jewish tomb, archaeological find, or extant building into a Muslim work. That is why the Israeli government has actually kept major finds secret; making them known to the public will result in cries of protest from Muslims that "their" sites are being taken away from them.

It's a classic case of projection - blame the other side for what you do on a regular basis.

Even the claim for Jerusalem being a sacred place for Islam was a later addition to Muslim lore (No mention in the Koran*), but that has not stopped Muslims from expressing feigned outrage on important digs such as that if the foundation of the Temple built under Herod's reign. Muslims built the Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock Mosques where they did to take that location away from Jews and to create a false sense of legitimacy, and it's the Jews that get blamed for wanting to research their past. The probability mob violence in response to an announcement of an important find  is so great that Israelis don't even know what to do when they have one on their hands:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/20/find-from-era-king-david-confirm-old-testament/

*http://www.danielpipes.org/84/the-muslim-claim-to-jerusalem

Muslims make every argument possible to cancel the Jews out of the Israel/Jerusalem picture. We get told that all the ancient Hebrews and patriarchs were Arabs or at least Muslims, that the Jews strayed from the truth and thus are to be ruled by the descendants of the conquering Muslims, and old Yasser Arafat came up with a new one - that the Palestinians are actually the descendants of the Canaanites. By this claim, the Palestinians are no longer Arabs but the people that got kicked out of what was to become Israel by the Hebrews.

The last one leaves us with all kinds of problems. What were left of Canaanites most likely eventually wound up with the Phoenicians or Syrians (Not Arabs) or were just absorbed by the (Two thousand years later) Arab invasions after the death of Mohammed. Yasser wanted Palestinians to be Arabs unless it was of more use to be something other than Arabs. This also flies in the face of self-loathing Leftist Israeli Academics who labor without pause to feed Israelis a whole new opiate - that the Hebrews never came out of Egypt in the fist place.
http://thehotgates480bc.blogspot.com/2012/04/denial-of-history-in-israel.html

The above is a good read for those interested in the other enemy of Israel - her own Leftist professors.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Israel May End Orthodox Exemptions

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/07/israel-ministers-okay-draft-law-on-ultra-orthodox/

"The Israeli government on Sunday approved a draft law which will spell the end of a system which has seen tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox exempt from military service.

The draft bill, which passed in the cabinet and later in the day in the ministerial committee for legislation, still faces a series of votes in parliament before becoming law.

It stipulates that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must either join the army or perform civilian service, and if passed it will be implemented over the next four years.

The new law seeks to amend the current situation in which ultra-Orthodox men receive exemptions if they are studying in religious seminaries......."


I hope that this bill does become a law.

-From a previous post:



".......The second [ Point] is that the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community did not sacrifice their lives and fortunes when the Jewish state and later the State of Israel were proclaimed and fought for. By that fact, then, they do not posses the moral position to throw their collective weight around by forcing their restrictions on others.

Modern Israel was designed to be a nation that was primarily secular. Citizens were expected to be normal contributing members of the community, including serving in the Israeli Defense Forces. It was never intended to be a state that required all sorts of strict religious restrictions and practices. It is a frightening specter to see a significant body of people in Israel trying to do much of what we in the West would protest if Muslims were doing the same thing in their own countries, let alone our own.

Modern Israel, while being a homeland for Jewish people, was not founded on strict religious principles. Actually many of the most prominent Zionists were irreligious and many adhered to political positions that were certainly Left of center. I can recall publications of interviews with Sephardic Jews who were children at the time and were aghast that they would be required to do school-assigned homework on the Sabbath...

...Researching the Israeli wars of Liberation and those that followed reveals a history of struggle, deprivation, and ultimate sacrifice utterly devoid of Ultra-Orthodox members of the Haganah, Palmach, Irgun, etc.


Israeli society has made all sorts of concessions to these people including provisions that allow their young men to essentially study the Torah full time while receiving financial aid.......

Ultra-Orthodox do not celebrate the anniversary of Israeli independence and treat that day as an ordinary day of business......"






Saturday, July 6, 2013

Syrian Christian Girl Gang-Raped For Weeks


(Spanish)
http://infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=17854

(English)
http://www.fides.org/en/news/33906-ASIA_SYRIA_Rape_and_atrocities_on_a_young_Christian_in_Qusair#.UdjdoTuTjSj

We send money and arms to these people and demand that Assad be deposed-

"2013-07-02
ASIA/SYRIA - Rape and atrocities on a young Christian in Qusair"

"Qusair (Agenzia Fides) - Mariam was a 15-year-old Christian from Qusair, a city of the governorate in Homs, 35 km south of the capital. The city, which had become a stronghold of the Syrian rebels, was reconquered by the troops of the regular army at the beginning of June. Mariam’s story - sent to Fides thanks to the report of two Catholic priests - is a sign of the brutality of the conflict and the extreme vulnerability of religious minorities. Mariam's family was in town when militants linked to the jihadist group "Jabhat al-Nusra" conquered and occupied it. 

While her family was able to escape, Mariam was taken and forced into an Islamic marriage.
Fides sources point out that, through social networks, the fatwa was widespread in Syria produced by Yasir al-Ajlawni - A Salafi sheikh of Jordanian origin, resident in Damascus - who declared lawful, for opponents of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, rape committed against "any non-Sunni Syrian woman." According to the fatwa to capture and rape Alawi or Christian women is not contrary to the precepts of Islam.

The commander of the battalion "Jabhat al-Nusra" in Qusair took Mariam, married and raped her. Then he repudiated her. The next day the young woman was forced to marry another Islamic militant. He also raped her and then repudiated her. The same trend was repeated for 15 days, and Mariam was raped by 15 different men. This psychologically destabilized her and made her insane. Mariam, became mentally unstable and was eventually killed.
"These atrocities are not told by any International Commission" say to Fides two Greek-Catholic priests, Fr. Issam and Fr. Elias who have just returned to town. The two are collecting the cry's and complaints of many families. "Who will do something to protect civilians, the most vulnerable?" they ask. As reported to Fides, the two have just celebrated a Mass to consecrate again the Catholic church of St. Elias in Qusair.
The church was ransacked and desecrated by the guerrillas, and had become a logistic and residential base for rebel groups. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 02/07/2013)"

I am torn between boiling over in rage and despairing that too few will speak out to put a stop to what is happening to Christians in the Near and Middle East. Christian and Alawite (Druze and Shiite) girls live in in a state of effective imprisonment in their own country. The latter (Now apparently also including Christians) specifically have been subjected to a fatwa, one which I noted in a previous post*, that makes non-Muslim women and girls fair game for the rapist thugs that are the recipients of US military aid.

I am having a hard time findings words - we live our lives in a state of mind-boggling apathy. A slaughter of innocent children in Connecticut rightly causes anguish. In response, we ignore the immense logistical obstacles involved with outlawing and confiscating the millions of magazine fed firearms and call for the civil arm to make laws that would ensure that "this will never happen again". We have convinced ourselves that we enjoy some type of birthright to be completely free of horrifically violent acts.

In Syria, 23 dead or raped non-Sunni Muslim innocents is business as usual, yet we sit on our hands and do nothing; not a call to our congressmen, not a rally in protest, not even an electronic petition has made it to my email - all this while the money that we contribute to the government coffers gets used to help the animals, who murder, rape, and kidnap Christians and other non-Sunnis. I don't even hear or read any reports that UNESCO is decrying the destruction of Christian churches in Syria. 

Part of my salary goes to supporting those who gang-rape innocents in Syria. 

I am sick to my stomach. If anyone knows how to start a good online petition, I will give my all to distribute it far and wide. Our government needs to be told that the US must stop giving any aid whatsoever to the Syrian rebels. We need to be done with trying to find "nice" rebels - the pigs always gain ascendancy in these vacuums of power and push out the "moderates". We also need to stop pretending to believe that Assad has to go - non-Sunnis were immeasurably safer and better-off before when his regime was in control of the entire country. The whole idea of toppling these autocrats was a bold-faced lie from the start.