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A “counter-narrative”?

Leave it to Eric Holder to explain how we’re going to fight Islamic terrorists.  From This Week with George Stephanopolis on Sunday:

“STEPHANOPOULOS: The French prime minister said yesterday that France is at war with radical Islam.

Is the U.S. At war with radical Islam?

HOLDER: Well, I certainly think that we are at war with those who would commit terrorist attacks and who would corrupt the Islamic faith in the way that they do, to try to justify their terrorist actions.

So that’s who we are at — at war with. And we are determined to take the fight to them to prevent them from engaging in these kinds of activities.

Our president has indicated that we will be calling, on February the 18th, a summit, so that we deal with better ways in which we can counter violent extremism and really get at the core, come up with ways in which we prevent people from adhering to, being attracted to this terrorist ideology.

We certainly have to work, I think, in a dual way. We need to confront people who engage in these acts, hold them accountable. But we also have to somehow come up with a counter-narrative that too many people, especially young men, find attractive.

And, as I said, February the 18th, the White House will host a summit that I announced at the meeting here today in Paris.”

There you’ve got it, they’re not Islamic and we’re not at war with them, really, and in case you missed it, we need to hold terrorists accountable as the Obama administration continues to release the most dangerous GITMO Islamic terrorists.  ” But we also have to somehow come up with a counter-narrative that too many people, especially young men, find attractive”.  Yes, of course, “a counter-narrative” will dissuade bloodthirsty barbarians…..

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Journalists and Jihadis at The American Thinker

Muslim sensitivities everywhere are now more important than truth or justice anywhere.  Alas, France and many other naïve Europeans have surrendered pride and identity to Brussels and in turn volunteered to be colonized by a 5th column of A….

Read more of G. Murphy Donovan’s excellent article!

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A memorial?

Last month,  I came across reports in several conservative blogs, quoting a CNN story about Mike Brown, of #Ferguson fame, residing in an unmarked grave.   The timeline speaks of priorities.  Mike Brown died August 9, 2014.  He was buried August 25, 2014.  His mother, Lesley McSpadden and a group of thugs, allegedly attacked Mike Brown’s grandmother and a group of friends and family selling “Justice for Mike Brown”  T-shirts on October 18, 2014.  McSpadden and her group allegedly stole $1500 worth of merchandise, $400 cash and one person went to the hospital for injuries sustained in the attack.

This grieving mother could  gather a gang to fight over who should profit from her son’s death, while her son lies in an unmarked grave.  The MSM and black grievance industry have been carting McSpadden and her drug dealer husband, Louis Head around to drum up anti-police sentiment and fuel racial tensions, yet she hasn’t even had a headstone or marker put on her son’s grave.  Likewise, the family of Staten Island police victim, Eric Garner,has been in a media whirl too.  Garner was buried in July 2014 in a cemetery in Linden, NJ and surprisingly his grave also sits untended and unmarked.

Now, to complete this bizarre tale of memorializing the dead, along comes this story today of a Ferguson police officer, Timothy Zoll,  being put on administrative leave for referring to a makeshift pile of mementos in the middle of the street, euphemistically dubbed a “Mike Brown Memorial”, as a pile of trash.  Someone drove through the memorial in the middle of the street and idiots, yes, I said idiots posted photos of the carnage wrought and also if you scroll down there’s a photo of the memorial restored.

Is this really what memorializing the dead has come to in America – a pile of stuffed animals, dead flowers and assorted cheap bric-a-brac placed in the middle of a street?  Where’s the outrage that all of these people profiting from Mike Brown’s death, to include his mother, can fight over T-shirt revenues before even caring for his grave?   The silence is deafening.  Yet, the Washington Post wants to sensationalize the police officer speaking the truth – it’s a pile of trash in the middle of the street.

Perhaps, at some of these protests, the black grievance leaders can take up a collection for decent headstones for the black men, whose names they’ve cheaply commercialized, with catchy, “hands up” and ” I can’t breathe” advertising gimmicks,  to further their political aims.

If that months old, moldering pile of trash in the middle of the street is a memorial to a young life lost in America, the devaluation of human life plummeted far lower than most of us could ever have imagined.

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Life in Post-Truth America | FrontPage Magazine

Life in Post-Truth America | FrontPage Magazine.

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“Pyongyang Accepts Hollywood’s Surrender” by G. Murphy Donovan

There is more to the Sony hacking and movie distribution cancelling than meets the eye.  Over the years regime change projects have taken some bizarre twists and turns. The cast of characters working for Washington in the Obama era is often some….   Read more at The American Thinker.

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Another lone wolf homegrown terrorist?

Some quick links with information on the assassin,Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley , who murdered two NYC police officers yesterday.  Guess the PC MSM doesn’t want to follow clues or uncover unpleasant facts.

Patrick Poole, superb intelligence reporter for PJ Media offers:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/20/did-cop-killer-ishmael-brinsley-visit-terror-tied-brooklyn-mosque/

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/12/20/nypd-cop-killer-ishmael-brinsley-started-fight-with-atlanta-panhandler-discovered-he-was-muslim-too/

 

Thomas Lifson, reporter extraordinaire at The American Thinker adds:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/cop_killer_brinsley_may_have_been_a_jihadist.html

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Civil order first

“TexasRanger

Justice For Jessica Chambers Murder Claims,

Sundance at http://theconservativetreehouse.com/ recently stated the following misleading information about Jessica Chambers;

“I know Jessica was not out of the Leah House as mom and dad claim. That was a lie, or misspeak, dunno. But Jess was only out since end of Nov. So maybe only a week.”

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/18/da-john-champion-on-gangs-in-panola-county-mississippi-well-we-might-have-a-little-problem/comment-page-1/

Sundance is obliviously a harbinger that will state a lie as fact to add creditability to his speculative theories and self importance.

The fact is Jessica Chambers had been out of Leah’s House since October, because she started her new job working for Goody’s (Batesville) sometime in October.

Jessica Chambers’ mother said her daughter “Jessica came home Friday night after ending her shift at Goody’s Department Store in Batesville, where she had recently started working“.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/12/10/authorities-jessica-chambers-last-hours/20196555/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Listen carefully to phone interview with Bria Lundy Goody’s Director of PR at 00:59 in the video at the link below.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/12/10/jessica-chambersslaying-sends-shock-hometown/20226105/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

The claims Sundance at http://theconservativetreehouse.com/ makes should always be checked and rechecked for truth and accuracy!

#justiceforjessica #jessicachambers”

I began responding to TexasRanger’s comment, but then ran on so long that making it a post seemed better.  So here goes, I’m climbing on my soapbox as I type. Grab a cup of coffee, because I ran lonnng here:-)

Your point about checking and rechecking for truth and accuracy should be emblazoned on a banner in every newsroom in America.

This case caught my attention, because of its similarities to the Deandre Joshua murder in Ferguson. I’ve sensed a racial bias, meaning it’s easier to look for the best in one race’s behavior than another, in many of the comments at the Conservative Treehouse. This same bias happens after all these big black and white crimes that catch national media attention. The polling on everything from Rodney King, OJ, on to the present Michael Brown, and Eric Garner cases, shows this clearly. Racial hatred, where racial bias festers into something very ugly and dark, on the other hand, exists on both sides and in a place like MS, it’s frequently out in the open.

From what I have seen at the CTH, in this case, they’ve allowed themselves to form an emotional attachment to the victim, and initially approached this crime as “an innocent white girl, minding her own business, was set upon by a black gang”. The post where they photoshopped Jesssica’s head onto an angel’s body, clearly makes my point. They’ve invested a lot of time into understanding and rationalizing the motives for her bad choices, when evidence-gathering should be a setting down of facts – as emotionally detached as possible.  I still believe that sundance works hard to uncover facts and if he realizes he posted an incorrect fact, he’ll correct it.  With the volume of comments at his blog and people sending him information, it’s easy to make a mistake.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling horror and demanding justice but in America, lady justice wears a blindfold for a reason. It’s not just the Jessica Chambers case that the mainstream press walked away from. They walked away from the Deandre Joshua murder too, preferring to cling to the Michael Brown mythological victim story.  If  you look at the photo of Jessica and her first gangster boyfriend, Bryan Rudd, both of them, look so young and innocent and while it’s easy to cast him as a gangster, both of these kids got involved with a gang, got into drugs and police records that came to light, thus far, show Jessica had two arrests for assault and Rudd has a quickly expanding criminal record.  Further digging might uncover more crimes committed by both, but the point is – here is America’s future, decimated by crime and drugs.  Look at the  picture of Deandre Joshua, drug dealer, whose family hoped for so much more for him.

The Chambers and Joshua cases struck me as being similar – gang-related, possibly the victims being perceived as snitches. That’s what caught my attention.  I am not an investigator, I’m a mom, a grandma and I work in an ordinary blue-collar job at a store.  In recent years I’ve talked to so many Jessicas, Deandres and Bryans  at work and lamented the waste of human potential from America’s poor communities.    I also have experience with a child who got into drugs in college and know that heartbreak and anguish first-hand.  I realized that Deandre, just like Jessica, had gotten involved with drugs and a gang.

Even Michael Brown, with his sorry mother and her drug-dealer boyfriend/husband, should shout that we need to save our kids, if America is to have a future. In America – we’ve got a serious gang problem, a serious drug problem and a lingering race problem and instead of fixating on “racism”, we need to deal with the crime and drugs robbing our kids of a future.  We must preserve civil order first!   While some of us who served in the military have sworn an oath to defend and protect  The Constitution, we’ve got hard work ahead to teach our young people, that screaming about your civil rights is secondary to following the rule of law and carrying out your duties as good citizens.  We’ve all got to respect the rule of law and each other, or our Republic will collapse.

“United we stand, divided we Fall”

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#BLUELIVESMATTER!!!

Thanks to President Obama, Al Sharpton and a sad parade of race agitators, it’s now open season on police officers with one off-duty police officer in St. Louis being shot Friday and two police officers being shot in New York City yesterday – murdered in cold blood, just because of the color of their uniform.

Last year saw the rise of random attacks on white passers-by, with out-of-control black youths brutally knocking out their victims, yet the President and Eric Holder aren’t howling in outrage demanding these hate crimes will not be tolerated.  No, they encourage black gang violence by finding excuses and rationalizing black anger.  In the wake of the #Ferguson grand jury decision, a string of victims, murdered by being burned alive in their vehicles, occurred.  These crimes appear to be the work of black gangs too, yet the President can’t find time to comment.

The President can find time to interject himself into local and state law enforcement issues to promote his political activism for the race grievance industry in America, but as the chief law enforcement officer in the land, his silence on speaking out for police officers places him on the side of criminals, who use race as an excuse and cover.  It’s time to publicly shame these disgraceful mountebanks fomenting lawlessness by black gangs, hangers-on and any who wish to use race as an excuse for committing these heinous crimes. It’s time for Americans to rebuild the American team and scream, loud and clear, #BLUELIVESMATTER!!!

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Obama Names ‘Task Force’ to Recommend ’21st Century Policing’ Practices

Obama Names ‘Task Force’ to Recommend ’21st Century Policing’ Practices.

Bridget Johnson at PJ Media provides the names for the President’s newly formed task force to investigate ways to improve police and community relations………. another executive order.  I wonder how much they get paid for this?  In fact, I wonder how much, we the taxpayers, pay for all these commissions, task forces, “experts” to investigate, write lengthy reports offering “suggestions”?  I can hear Rodney King’s immortal words echoing, “Can’t we all get along.”.

Lest you forget, Rodney King received almost 4 millions  dollars from a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. He continued on the path of skirmishes with the law, continued his drug and alcohol abuse and ended up drowning in his swimming pool – under the influence of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and PCP  in 2012.

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Please, just let it go Barack and Michelle

The President and First Lady continued the black grievance campaign in a People piece, “The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences”, recounting their many encounters with white racists, oh the horror to be mistaken for a waiter or lowly store employee. Their arrogance knows no bounds and the smallness of their characters smacks you in the face, as they wine and dine tax-evading, race pimps, like Al Sharpton, on the taxpayers’ dime.  Quite the divider, this wolf in sheep’s clothing turned out to be, as he foments racial animosity and escalates racial tensions in America.

To lump the recent high-profile cases of police shooting/killing black males into one basket as “racism” masks a glaring problem among young black males that the President and the black grievance industry prefer to ignore – gang and escalating criminal activity. This statement from a sitting US President, highlights why he continues to fuel divisiveness and racial distrust in America:

“Obama said. “It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.””

Well, lets, be clear the problem is,  young black men aren’t finding inspiration in the first black president’s Mom jeans or career path, instead the “way teenagers dress” emulates gangsters (CRIMINALSand the hip-hop gang-banging behavior.  Of course, Hillary jumped on the bandwagon offering her usual pathetic, political pandering, she declared, “yes, black lives matter,” parroting the slogans from recent demonstrators around the country protesting the Ferguson grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri and the death of Eric Garner during an arrest in New York City.”

If you truly believe “black lives matter”, well, how about instead of marches and “national dialogue, or blaming policing methods, you take a hard look at what young black men , in increasing numbers, value.  So, instead of dealing with the violent gang culture, the myriad problems caused by young black men, cycling through the criminal justice system, it’s easier for politicians to promote “white guilt” and support angry protests and attempts to hobble police efforts to cope with gang-bangers and other criminals.

Here’s a home truth – Michael Brown was a suspect in a CRIME, not a poor, misunderstood black child.  A few months ago, his heartbroken  mother was involved in attacking his grandmother for selling MB t-shirts  without her permission, lest someone else profit from his death.  While Al Sharpton and the black grievance posse can dress her up and parade her around the country as a poor, aggrieved mother, the truth is her boyfriend incited a riot after the grand jury decision was released and he’s a twice convicted drug dealer.  Michael Brown was living, not with his devoted mother, but with his grandmother, when she hooked up with this drug dealer, whom the press flocked to for interviews.

Certainly, opinions differ on the Eric Garner case, because video, bandied about the MSM with furor, shows a situation where fair minds might decide too much force was used.  No problem, it’s good to look at situations objectively.  Lying and willfully blaming everyone except yourself for your choices is epidemic in American culture, across the board.   Personal bad choices become victimization by some malevolent larger social construct that supposedly holds you down, obviating the need to man-up to failures and take responsibility for yourself.

Blame, blame, blame, but when the police need to consult a team of precinct lawyers before responding to calls and civil order falls to the hounds of street warfare, drug-dealers, thugs and hordes of foreign criminals (many this President allowed to stay here) preying on our weakness, the collapse from within can only widen and spread.  Yet, our President will still sit in the Oval Office whimpering about some racist white woman on an elevator clutching her purse…..  Really, that is how pathetic and lame he really is – still whining about perceived racism, even though he rode the Affirmative Action train all the way to the White House.

I hear the Frozen song in the background……… Let it go, Mr. President, just let it go!!!

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