One of the most consistent elements of the identity politics practiced by the left is its selectivity. Whether in politics or higher education, the outrage that comes from allegedly racist or insensitive comments is confined to targets on the right. A case in point is the deafening silence after a diatribe by Rep. Jasmine Crockett D-Texas, during which she accused Hispanic voters of having a “slave mentality” and said that they “can barely vote.” There was no vaporous segment on The View or condemnations on the floor from members.
Crockett has been celebrated in left-wing publications such as Vanity Fair for schooling her colleagues, which she describes as “old as sh*t.” She offered Vanity Fair her “distilled summary of what happens within the Latino community.” Not surprisingly, it is identity politics with a race edge:
“I’ve not run into that with the Asian community. I’ve not run into that with the African community. I’ve not run into that with the Caribbean community. I’ve only run into it with Hispanics. When they think of ‘illegals,’ they think of, you know, maybe people that came out of the cartels and that kind of, like, the criminal-type book or whatever. It’s insane.”
“It almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they would talk about kind of like ‘slave mentality’ and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves. It’s almost like a slave mentality that they have. It is wild to me when I hear how anti-immigrant they are as immigrants, many of them. I’m talking about people that literally just got here and can barely vote that are having this kind of attitude.”
The attack on Hispanic voters as including people who “literally just got here and can barely vote” did not even generate objections from many Democratic Hispanic groups. Imagine if Trump or a conservative commentator made this comment.
Ironically, just before the election, I wrote how recent immigrants seemed to have a particularly strong connection to our defining and collective values. That does not appear a view shared by the congresswoman.
Crockett was, if anything, inclusive in her attacks based on gender and race. She also attacked black men and women for voting for Trump. She just dismissed black men as hating women: “I’m going to chalk up to misogyny.” What is unimaginable is that any woman or person of color could vote on the merits against the Democrats.
Notably, after her loss, Hillary Clinton offered the same attacks on women as voting against her only because they are weak and self-loathing. She claimed that Kamala, who notoriously avoided interviews and could not think of “a thing she would do differently” from Biden, “ran a flawless campaign.” The problem is again self-hating women and minorities, adding, “I don’t trust White women. I said, I’m just telling you, and I think you need to have conversations with your sisters, because they are the group that failed Hillary Clinton.”
The claim that Hispanics “can barely vote” would not be tolerated from someone on the right. It is reminiscent of the controversy involving Democratic lawyer and former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias over what some called inherently racist comments about Georgia voters. Elias argued that Georgia voters could not be expected to be able to read their driver’s licenses correctly — a statement that seemed to refer to minority voters who would be disproportionately impacted by such a requirement.
What is striking about the Vanity Fair article is that Democrats continued to rely on identity politics despite every indication that it was not working. Now, after losing both houses and the White House, they are doubling down on identity politics.
If you’re worried about the social media monopolies censoring speech, just be happy they can’t put you in prison.
Federal prosecutors are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville, Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally — isn’t this the “paper” anniversary? — by indicting James Fields for “hate.” Fields has already been charged with murder in state court. (I would think that “hate” would be subsumed by a murder charge.) But the federal “hate crimes”statute allows the feds to skirt the Constitution’s ban on double jeopardy — at least for certain kinds of “hate.”
— The stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum by assailants yelling “Get the Jew!”: NOT a federal hate crime.
— The brutal kidnapping and murder of a young white couple in Knoxville, Tennessee, by black youths: NOT a federal hate crime.
— The torture of a mentally disabled kid in Chicago, by assailants saying “F— white people!” and “F— Trump!”: NOT a federal hate crime. (Curiously, none of the attackers was Sarah Jeong.)
— A white man killing a white woman by driving into a crowd of left-wing protesters: THAT’S a federal hate crime.
To make their case, prosecutors did a deep dive into Fields’ social media postings to prove that, yes, while he might have killed a white woman in this particular case, he’s still a racist.
The second paragraph of the indictment states:
“Prior to August 12, 2017, Defendant JAMES ALEX FIELDS JR. obtained multiple social media accounts, which he used to express his beliefs regarding race, national origin, religion and other topics. On these accounts, FIELDS expressed and promoted his belief that white people are superior to other races and peoples; expressed support of the social and racial policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, including the Holocaust; and espoused violence against African Americans, Jewish people and members of other racial, ethnic and religious groups he perceived to be non-white. FIELDS also expressed these views directly in interactions with individuals known to him.”
GUILTY!
Wait — what? Again, Fields is a white man charged with murdering a white woman.
This is a prosecution of Fields for Bad Thought, utterly oblivious to not only the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause, but the free speech clause and also simple common sense. It’s like a parody of what serious people feared about criminalizing “hate.”
Contrary to common belief on college campuses, there is no “hate speech”exception to the First Amendment. Pimply teenaged boys writing snotty remarks about blacks and Jews is every bit as constitutionally protected as an Asian girl on The New York Times’ editorial board writing snotty things about white men, although the latter pays better.
It turns out that hating the wrong people is a far graver crime than murder. (And hating the right people gets you a job at the Times!)
During his commission of one of the worst mass shootings in our history at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Omar Mateen made damn sure that no one would think he was a racist, explaining, “I don’t have a problem with black people,”adding, “You guys suffered enough.” Mass murderer? Yes, fine, he was that. But no one was going to call Omar Mateen a “racist.”
Similarly, the federal prosecutor in Fields’ case has charged the defendant with being something worse than a murderer — they say he’s a racist. What if he’s found not guilty of murder?
The state murder case seems pretty straightforward. There’s video of Fields’ car plowing into a crowd on the street in front of him, resulting in the death of Heather Heyer. The only question is whether he has a defense, such as that he has a medical condition, it was an accident, or he feared for his life. (For example, if someone was yelling, “There he is! Get the Jew!”)
Fields hit the gas pedal during an officially declared “State of Emergency,” with armed Antifa protesters swarming the streets. Footage online shows his car being surrounded and smashed with baseball bats seconds after the crash. Unless his defense lawyer is planning on intentionally throwing the case for the greater good, Fields seems to have a pretty decent argument that he was in fear for his life. History has shown that it’s a big mistake to stop your car for protesters. Sooner or later, you get pulled out and beaten to death or nearly so.
>> During the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, a group of teens surrounded a car 14 miles away, being driven by Zemir Begic, who was accompanied by his fiancee and a friend. Begic got out of the car and was immediately set upon by hammer-wielding teens. He died in the hospital a few hours later.
>> Reginald Denny stopped his truck in the middle of the L.A. riots — a justified “rebellion,” according to Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters — whereupon he was yanked from the cab and savagely beaten. As Denny’s body lay lifeless on the pavement, Damian Williams — Rep. Waters’ friend — dropped a huge slab of concrete directly on his head. Denny survived only thanks to Good Samaritan Bobby Green, but suffered permanent brain damage.
>> In 2013, bikers swarmed a banker, Alexian Lien, on New York City’s Henry Hudson Parkway as he was driving with his wife and 2-year-old daughter in their SUV. The bikers became angry after Lien’s wife threw a plum at them and repeatedly slowed down in front of him, forcing him to stop. Each time, Lien escaped by intentionally driving through the swarm of bikers, injuring many and paralyzing one for life. Lien wasn’t even prosecuted.
>> Days after the 2016 election, David Wilcox was driving in Chicago when a black sedan scraped the side of his car. He got out and was viciously beaten by youths, yelling at him for being a “Trump voter,” evidently because he was white. One of the disappointed Hillary voters got control of Wilcox’s car and dragged him through traffic at speeds of up to 70 mph. Wilcox freed himself by rolling into oncoming traffic. Miraculously, he survived.
Of course, what James Fields’ state of mind was right before he hit the gas pedal is of no consequence compared to his state of mind years earlier, when he was furiously typing hateful posts alone in his bedroom. He could be guilty of “hate.”
President Trump on Tuesday said there is “blame on both sides”for the violent protests over the weekend in Charlottesville, remarks that are sure to inflame his critics and reignite debate over his hesitance to condemn white nationalists and racists.
Trump conducted an impromptu press conference at Trump Tower that was meant to focus on infrastructure, but he faced a barrage of questions from reporters about why he did not immediately condemn racist protesters and the KKK by name.
In his initial remarks this weekend, Trump condemned violence “on many sides,”provoking furious blowback from Democrats, the media and some conservatives.
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On Tuesday, Trump doubled down, saying there is “blame on both sides.”
“What about the alt-left that came charging at the — as you say, the alt-right?”Trump asked. “Do they have any semblance of guilt? What about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I am concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.”
One woman died and at least 19 people were injured after a driver with alleged ties to white supremacists rammed his car into counterprotesters in Charlottesville.
“I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it,” Trump said. “And you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
“And nobody wants to say that. But I’ll say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.”
In remarks on Monday, Trump specifically called out neo-Nazis and the KKK and condemned racism, but his critics have said he should have done so immediately and that he held off because he didn’t want to alienate extremist elements of his base.
On Tuesday, Trump said that not all of those attending the white nationalist “Unite the Right”protest were racists. Some, Trump said, were only there to protest the taking down of a Confederate statue.
“I have condemned neo-Nazis. I have condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,”Trump said.
“Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest taking down of a statue Robert E. Lee.”
Video of Alexander Bonds, 34, walking out of a store in New York’s Fordham Heights neighborhood – at 12:30 AM on Wednesday – show him B-lining it to Officer Miosotis Familia’s mobile command unit and firing a single shot to her head.
Dressed in all black from head to toe, Bonds then made a run for it.
The officer’s partner called for backup.
“Shots fired!”you can ear the officer scream on an audio recording. “I need a f—ing bus! 10-85 10-85! My partner’s shot! My partner’s shot! My partner’s shot! Hurry up central!”
Two cops responding to the call caught up with Bonds and shot him dead after he pulled a revolver on them.
He was killed when the two cops fired back, with an innocent bystander wounded in the crossfire.
The suspect’s silver revolver was recovered at the scene. The unidentified victim was standing next to Bonds, but had no connection to the killer, sources said. It was unclear if he was shot by the suspect or police.
Familia, a 12 year veteran of the NYPD, was pronounced dead at the hospital a few hours later.
After seeing Officer Miosotis Familia sitting in her police cruiser, Bonds walked up to her without cause and fired a single shot into her face, killing her.
His actions are not against his character. Bonds has an extensive rap sheet, of which one offense is assaulting a cop with brass knuckles back in 2001. His social media is also flooded with anti-police comments.
In another post seemingly about police, in October, he wrote, “Its because they feel the above what they should which is the law but they are not the law SMFH.”
In September 2016, he posted a video titled “Mad as Hill,” in which he talked about police and his time in prison.
A transcript of the video:
“Police man. Those that been up north know man, that police is f*ggots,” he said. “Don’t think every brother, cousin, uncle you got that get killed in jail is because of a blood or crip or Latin King killing them. Nah, police be killing them and saying that an inmate killed them.”
Also in the video, Bonds says, “I’m not playing, Mr. officer. I don’t care about 100 police watching this. … I got broken ribs for a reason, son, we gonna shake. We gonna do something. We can’t be dying for free, getting raped for free, just for them to give you hush money. Is you stupid? I don’t want the money. I want justice. … I’m not hesitating. It ain’t happening. I wasn’t a bitch in jail and I’m not going to be a bitch in these streets.”
His activity on Facebook continues to show his disdain for cops.
He also shared a video of a police officer in Merced, California, stopping a teen on a bicycle that was posted by Media Takeout with the title, “Tiny Offcer Tries To BRUTALIZE Teen . . . And FAILS!!”
He wrote, “She don’t even know u fuxk u mean,” as the caption.
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In January, Bonds “liked” a Facebook page titled “Return Judy Clark to Our Community,” a group that supports the release of Judith Clark, a member of the Weather Underground convicted of felony murder in the 1981 Brink’s armored car robbery that left a security guard and two Nyack, New York, police officers dead. Governor Andrew Cuomo granted Clark clemency in December, moving her parole date up.
It also seems like he was a Hillary supporter.
In November, just before Election Day, he shared a conspiracy videofrom Occupy Democrats that claimed voting machines were changing Hillary Clinton votes to Trump.
“Watch out also go vote our voices matter believe that if I could I kno u would,” he wrote.
Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were targeted by a gunman who had posted anti-police messages on his social media feeds in the days before the shooting, officials said.
How is this going to fit in with that ‘BOTH sides need to dial it back’ narrative?
Why did he kill the Republicans?
The problem isn’t the rhetoric… exactly. The gunman CHOSE to kill Republicans. He alone is responsible for that choice.
But this level of sustained hate is not something we have seen recently in America.
What is driving it?
In any part of the world, there is a step that has to happen BETWEEN being civilized and being violent.
The ‘enemy’ (whoever it may be) must be de-humanized.
They aren’t merely a person who disagrees with you. Not someone who holds ideas that must be opposed. They are — personally — an enemy to be hated.
The obvious example is Hitler, blaming the Jews for Germany’s problems, and feeding hatred toward them.
Lenin stirred hatred of the ruling class. And led a bloody revolution.
France stirred hatred of the Church and the Aristocracy … and we saw the Reign Of Terror.
Islam stirred hatred of ‘infidels’ who can — among other things — be lawfully captured and sold as slaves.
Liberal intersectional politics fails without a villain.
It’s the white person. Or the man. Or the heterosexual. Or the Christian. Or the Constitutionalist. Or the Republican.
These things coalesce into a very specific hatred. The kind that turns a HUGE percentage of ordinary Americans into the Devil personified.
That personalized hatred is why we see incidents like the Shooting at theFamily Research Council. The shooter gave the reason he chose FRC:
In the 2012 shooting at FRC that injured a security guard, convicted domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II said he targeted the group because the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) identified them as a “hate group”due to their traditional marriage views. — ReadMore
And surprise, surprise… the Alexandria shooter had thesame influences.
1) “Michele (Bachmann), slit your wrist. Go ahead… or, do us all a better thing [sic]. Move that knife up about two feet. Start right at the collarbone.” — Montel Williams
2) “F*ck that dude. I’ll smack that f*cker’s comb-over right off his f*cking scalp. Like, for real, if I met Donald Trump, I’d punch him in his f*cking face. And that’s not a joke. Even if he did become president — watch out, Donald Trump, because I will punch you in your f*cking face if I ever meet you. Secret Service had better just f*cking be on it. Don’t let me anywhere within a block.”–Rapper Everlast on Donald Trump
3) “I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow….I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”— Bill Maher
4) “I know how the ‘tea party’ people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their “Obama Plan White Slavery” signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.”— The Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy
5) “F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead.”— Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.
6) “Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Well, we’ve been watching intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an intifada in this country? Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are, watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream… giving us a window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington, from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco: Chevron, Bechtel, [Carlyle?] Group, Halliburton; every one of those lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country and we’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know every – They’re gonna say some Palestinian being too radical — well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet.”U.C. Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian fires up the crowd at an anti-war rally by calling for an American intifada
7) “That Scott down there that’s running for governor of Florida. Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he’s running for governor of Florida. He’s a millionaire and a billionaire. He’s no hero. He’s a damn crook. It’s just we don’t prosecute big crooks.”— Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa
8) “..And then there’s Rumsfeld who said of Iraq ‘We have our good days and our bad days.’ We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say ‘This is one of our bad days’ and pull the trigger. Do you want to salvage our country? Be a savior of our country? Then vote for John Kerry and get rid of the whole Bush Bunch.”— From a fund raising ad put out by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club
9) “Republicans don’t believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don’t give a hoot about human beings, either can’t or won’t. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.”— The Village Voice’s Michael Feingold, in a theater review of all places
10) “But the victim is also inaccurately being eulogized as a kind and loving religious man. Make no mistake, as disgusting and deservedly dead as the hate-filled fanatical Muslim killers were, Thalasinos was also a hate-filled bigot. Death can’t change that. But in the U.S., we don’t die for speaking our minds. Or we’re not supposed to anyway. Thalasinos was an anti-government, anti-Islam, pro-NRA, rabidly anti-Planned Parenthood kinda guy, who posted that it would be “Freaking Awesome” if hateful Ann Coulter was named head of Homeland Security.”— Linda Stasi, New York Daily News, on a victim murdered in the San Bernardino terrorist attack
(This is only the first half of a list of 20…the other halfincludes such gems as Ryan being raped to death by a rino, or beating ‘every republican and independent I see’ with a bat, wishing harm on children, and yet another loathsome Dan Savage quote)
Reflecting upon the current state of social discourse, I have come to believe that the greatest battle of our age is not, as one might suppose, the “war on terror,” meaning terrorists. I believe it is an invisible war inside human souls that carries its own element of terror.
This invisible war, as I am coming to see it, can be understood in the writings of Pascal (the Pensées), who describes the character of a person who has who set himself up as his own god: “He [or she] devotes all his attention to hiding his faults both from others and from himself. He conceives a mortal enmity against that truth which reproves him. He would annihilate it, but, unable to destroy it in its essence, he destroys it in so far as possible.”
This captures the essence of what is going off the boil in today’s public discourse generally, and particularly, as it shows itself by “progressives”on the Left and their repulsion of Donald J. Trump’s presidency. The shocking and exceedingly troubling incitement to violence and the raging intolerance is hardly progressive; it is rather quite regressive and, in some instances, barbaric.
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There is no way to engage such disgorgement on intellectual or even logical grounds. These battles cannot be won on social media, nor arbitrated on late-night talk shows or (especially) cable news programs. In the best of all worlds, the battle might be met by each person, on all sides of the political spectrum, remembering God in a world that has forgotten him or deposed him.
The cynic responds: Good luck with that. Nevertheless, those of us who believe in God are not beholden to the cynics. We know God to be good, kind, generous, mysterious and — most vexing of all His attributes, unable to be fooled.
We live in a universe of players who live by cravings to be like God. “Each degree of good fortune that raises [them] in the world,”Pascal continues, “removes them farther from the truth, because they are afraid of wounding those whose affection is most useful and whose dislike is most dangerous.” The person or community that assumes the prerogatives of God or thinks to fool God encapsulates the greatest challenge of these times. This is especially true for those trying to navigate these difficult days as people of faith.
God does not wag His finger, contrary to the popular belief of some — and we, as His emissaries, are wrong to wag ours. He is good at exhibiting patience and practicing persistence, organizing His movements in perfect synchrony that open us to act freely and at the same time draw us irresistibly away from self-deception.
When I ask myself, What is the “truth” of our times that we, as God-bearers, are called to communicate — I come to see that the answer is quite simple: We must, like God, be good at exhibiting patience and practicing persistence. Beyond that, we (meaning humans) are well-served to remember that we are not God and it is best to leave His prerogatives to Him. (This includes determining who is or is not able to be used by God.) It is liberating if one can truly apprehend it.
I draw consolation from the words of Saint Francis of Assisi: “Since you speak of peace, all the more so must you have it in your hearts. Let none be provoked to anger or scandal by you, but rather may they be drawn to peace and good will, to benignity and concord through your gentleness. We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”
Ultimately, the challenge of our time is to impart this truth in a way that appropriately echoes God’s loving, aching heart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Wendy Murray served as regional correspondent for TIME magazine in Honduras in the early 1990s, and later as associate editor and senior writer at Christianity Today. She is the author of 10 nonfiction books and a novel.
“Micro-aggression,” “Politically Correct,” charges of racism, flat-earthers, Islamophobes; all of these are leftist’s efforts to censor righteous, intelligent thought.
A “micro-aggression” is anything you say with which a leftist disagrees. These people have not been educated, but indoctrinatedinto believing whatever lies advance the cause of socialism to establish their tyranny. If you disagree by exercising critical thought to disprove their beliefs then you are satanic in their minds because leftist ideology is their religion. These are the people who infiltrated Catholicism to establish the Inquisition.
Here are examples of looney leftists verbally assaulting people. Let’s see if you can count how many “micro-aggressions” this woman inflicts on a fellow passenger of this plane because he supports Trump.
Every sentence she speaks is an attack. There are thirteen written and she is then recorded making six egregious verbal “micro-aggressions” to the passenger. She then defies the authority who tells her to vacate the plane and goes into defensive mode when she realizes she’s being kicked off. This is pinnacle of looney liberal stupidity believing she has the right to accost this man without consequence.
“That man doesn’t ‘believe’ in climate change. Do you believe in gravity?”
That is the kind of moral equivalence that ignorant liberals make. They said the same thing about Reagan in 1980 and he won the Cold War without firing a shot! Leftists’ equating the Democrat’s global warming political scam with actual science is farcical. If you don’t believe in their religion of man-made climate change then you don’t believe in science and should be burned at the stake. It is liberals who are ignorant of science when they fall for the fraud being perpetrated by the likes of Al Gore.
“Who is the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?”
After Trump’s inauguration, Hollywood elites followed in the footsteps of Meryl Streep who used her lifetime achievement award speech to spit on the little people who so stupidly voted for Trump! Other elitist fools spent their day at a women’s rally disparaging Trump as a woman-hating misogynist, rapist, and all around cretin. This is another case of liberals escalating their micro-aggressions to outright assaults and lies on all men.
LDS – Liberal Derangement Syndrome is a real illness. It is caused by an airborne pathogen known as verbal stupidity and there is only one cure – education in morality by intelligent people like myself. Hopefully, you will have learned something from these examples of how not to think and behave. You’re welcome.
Though there may not be much hope for those like Bill Maher and those who believe a comedian is an intelligent source of moral truth:
Maher’s intelligence is marred by his lack of a moral compass, but he makes funny jokes. To a liberal, mocking what is right is a valid debunking of righteousness and truth. To Maher’s claim; is it that people who became drug addicts got stupid and voted Republican, or that people who saw Democrats becoming drug dependent fools relying on government to run their lives wised up? Like all liberal comedians he lacks the understanding that “we mock what we do not understand.”
Under the banner of what is dishonestly called a gay pride or gay “rights” flag, hate, fascism, and intolerance has festered for years, specifically against Christians and conservatives. Under the auspices of a “rights and equality” symbol, Leftists have been on a rampage to take way the rights of others through bullying, lies, and online terrorism. The list of misdeeds and victims resulting from an increasingly emboldened Big Gay Hate Machinecontinues to grow.
and Christianity is regularly smeared as hate speech.
If individuals wish to fly this symbol of hate, oppression and bigotry on their own property, that is their choice in a free country. It is unconscionable, however, that this symbol of intolerance is allowed to fly above government-owned buildings. The symbol of bigots who seek to strip others of their First Amendment right to practice their religion has no place on government grounds.
P.S. I’m also in favor of removing the Rebel Flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. Equivalence is not the issue here. Hate and intolerance is.
Supporters of Michael Brown in Ferguson are still calling for action against Officer Darren Wilson before a full investigation is even completed. On Tuesday, they held a rally in front of the Ferguson Police Department during which they found themselves confronted with facts in the case that many want to simply ignore.
TheGateway Punditbroke the exclusive story from reporter Adam Sharpe. Leading the rally was Brown family attorney Anthony Gray. The transcript of their exchange is below the video. (article continues below)
From the video:
Brown attorney: You cannot look the other way when the culprit is someone in your own police department or your own back yard. Any questions?
Reporter Adam Sharp: Is it true that Officer Wilson suffered facial fractures?
Attorney: That’s nothing that I’ve heard. I haven’t seen anything on it.
Reporter Sharp: There are numerous reports saying this…. Are you saying there were no facial injuries on Officer Wilson? Mr. Gray, you’re the attorney, do you know?
Attorney Anthony Gray: I tell you what. This is the way I’d answer that. Look at the video, moments after the shooting. You tell me if that’s somebody walking around, looking at Mike Brown Jr.’s body, if that person looked like he had any sort of facial injuries.
Reporter Sharp: So you’re saying there were no facial injuries to the officer?
Gray: I’ll tell you the video speaks louder than what I can tell you right now, sir. All you have to do is look at the tape. (applause) He’s standing there not one time does he touch his face.
So, facts don’t matter to this attorney. The hospital visit and diagnosis following the alleged physical altercation prior to the shooting, which is reported to have left Wilson with severe injuries, do not matter. According to Gray, the officer wasn’t holding his face. Therefore, he discounts any serious injuries.
Does anyone know what law school this guy attended?
When you hear the “Drive-By” Leftist media report anything about anyone connected with Islam, expect that what you hear will be very biased toward the Islam people. Always expect that any reporting about Israel will be derogatory. These images are not just children playing war. These are indoctrination pictures. It represents Islam’s determination to keep the hatred going in every generation. These children do NOT have a chance to grow up and be anything else. Their indoctrination is set in stone.
Roger Simon is one of the stars at Politico. If there was ever any doubt in your mind about media bias or where Simon – and more importantly, Politico, are on the political spectrum, just keep reading.
On Monday, because the Obama administration has refused – for six years – to secure the southern US border Governor Perry called up 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to work with the Border Patrol. He noted, in his announcement, that the troops would be there primarily for administrative duties to free up Border Patrol officers to work on securing the border.
“America, you better be listening to videos like this. This young UK woman returns to the community she grew up in to find it taken over by extreme, hate filled Islamist. Listen carefully to her conversation with these people the Leftist of America want you to believe that are PEACEFUL PEOPLE SEEKING PEACE.” JB
Written on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 by David Risselada
Never before in the history of our nation has the population been so divided along economic lines. Wealth envy and class warfare are tearing a nation that once believed in hard work, sacrifice and personal responsibility, into one where wealth redistribution is not only promised, but demanded by those who have learned to play the system. Leading from behind on this issue is President Obama. He has gone to great lengths to convince millions of gullible Americans that the nation only works for rich people and that the rich are systematically oppressing the poor. Never from President Obama do you hear about the success stories that made this nation the most prosperous on earth, nor do you ever hear important messages concerning the issue of taking responsibility for yourself. Instead he fans the flames of the so called “have not’s” in order to keep a support base which demands he implement “social change” in the name of total equality. One would not be too far off arguing that he is truly putting the infamous “Cloward and Piven” plan in motion.
While the president continues to play the class warfare game, little attention is paid to the fact that he is among the rich that he convinces his loyal followers to hate. The president’s net worth is estimated to be 11.8 million dollars. Its claimed that the president amassed this wealth through the sales of his two books, “Dreams of my Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.” Perhaps, though they really are not that good and have since been discredited as it appears weather underground terrorist Bill Ayers wrote at least one of them. Personally, I don’t have a problem with Obama’s net worth, not until he starts playing his class envy, identity politics games anyway. (Though, it should be noted that democrats that typically push class envy are among the richest in government.) The fact is that the president’s annual salary is $400,000.00, which means as president, Obama has made roughly two million. It would be interesting to see how the president is earning the rest of that money.
Given the net worth of the Obama family and the fact that they are constantly fanning the flames of financial discontent, is it any wonder the nation finds itself outraged by Michelle Obama’s latest, lavish Chinese vacation? Flying on a government aircraft with her two daughters and mother, Mrs. Obama is spending tax payer money to flatter the Chinese with her presence, while her husband continues to call everyday Americans who are struggling to make a living, greedy and selfish for not wanting their taxes raised, or, for opposing obamacare. (Lowercase o on purpose) This blatant hypocrisy will be the true legacy of the Obama presidency as everything the man has involved himself in has been nothing but smooth double talk from a master of Chicago style hard ball politics. The real slap in the face comes with the knowledge that Queen Michelle will not only spend someone else’s money on her illustrious vacations, but she has the audacity to tell the press they can’t interview her while doing so. Just who do these people think they are?
“Refuse to finance the occupation – Boycott Israel” – a Swedish poster calls for a boycott of Israel
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a global campaign[1] which uses economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement: The end of Israeli occupation and colonization of Arab land, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees.[1]
There is considerable debate about the scope, efficacy, and morality of the BDS movement. Critics argue that the BDS movement promotes the Delegitimization of Israel.[4][5][6] BDS supporters argue that both the movement (and criticism of the movement) are similar to the earlier boycotts of South Africa.[7][8][9]
My Two Cents;
Please remember that the Arab-Palestinians are SQUATERS.
After England ran Israel off, the Arab-Palestinians moved in. They have NEVER been an indigenous people, nor have they ever been a nation. They were run out of Saudi Arabia from trying to execute the royal family. Along with their original leader, Yasser Arafat, They were, are, and always will be terrorist.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is a sanctimonious elitist and a plagiaristbesides. Yet he still has a worldwide audience via Global Public Square. And so his rantings do merit comment from time to time, especially when they spread rabid anti-conservative propaganda to the far corners of the globe that do not have anything like the Fox News Channel to provide a mildly alternative perspective on U.S. affairs for an international audience.
Zakaria contended on Sunday’s program that the Tea Party is an extremist group, akin to “radicals, anarchists, Black Panthers or other revolutionary movements.” He claimed that the Tea Party used “extreme rhetoric” (without providing proof) and that conservatives in general had talked about “decay, despair, and decline” for decades. (The opposite is true: conservatives tend to be more optimistic than liberals, who prefer metaphors like the “two Americas” or the Dickensian “99%,” only taking pride in the country when taking power.)
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Predictably, Zakaria arrived at his point–copied, unsurprisingly, from the rest of the mainstream media: conservatives are racists, bitter clingers who cannot deal with a diverse modern society, “misty-eyed in their devotion to a distant republic…passionate in their dislike of the messy, multiracial…democracy,” etc.
Zakaria ended with an admonition to conservatives: “[Y]ou cannot love America in theory, and hate it in fact.” What an amazing accusation, even from Zakaria.
The idea that political opposition is a form of sedition has left the fever swamps of the far-left and has infested MSNBC and now CNN–and through CNN, the world. Gone are the days when dissent was patriotic. Now it is evidence of hatred, treason, thoughtcrime.
Speaking of hating America “in fact,” Zakaria is among the many on the left who evince a strong dislike for the Constitution and wish to change it fundamentally. Yet the Tea Party–whose guiding principles are that the government must adhere to the Constitution and spend within its means–are somehow the racists who hate America. The fact that Ted Cruz, public enemy #1, is a foreign-born Hispanic is somehow discounted.
Zakaria’s rantings are what pass for thought in much of the liberal intelligentsia. Typically, he is not really expressing his own original thoughts but repeating much of what is echoing in elite media circles.
Say what you will about Cruz’s tactics, but the fact that he is loathed by such people is the clearest evidence that he is doing something right. They hate the Constitution and fear the diverse, dynamic movement that defends it.
Chelsea Schilling is a commentary editor and staff writer for WND, an editor of Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert and a proud U.S. Army veteran. She has also worked as a news producer at USA Radio Network and as a news reporter for the Sacramento Union.
A public school district in San Diego, Calif., has voted unanimously to initiate “Trayvon Martin dialogues” among middle and high-school students so they can “speak honestly about their identification with Trayvon Martin’s story, including feelings of fear, anger and skepticism that they will live in a just society as they prepare for their future.”
On July 30, the San Diego Unified School District board voted 4-0 to “allow students to speak honestly about the worldview that prompted George Zimmerman to confront Trayvon Martin, and help students develop perspectives and strategies to channel their feelings about Trayvon Martin into positive work for themselves and the larger community.”
School-board member Richard Barrera, who the district describes as having “a background as a community organizer, working to revitalize low-income neighborhoods,” presented the resolution by explaining, “The Trayvon Martin case is something that is having a huge impact across the country and here in the San Diego community. And I know that it’s also an issue that’s particularly having an impact on young people.
“The feelings of young people that I’ve spoken to that have made their voice heard throughout our community are feelings of anger, of frustration, of a sense that is the society that young people grow up in and enter into, is it gonna be fair? And if people kinda play by the rules, do what they’re supposed to do, work hard, study hard with the intention of creating a decent future for themselves, is that future going to be realized in this society?”
In his statement, Barrera didn’t clarify whether he believed Trayvon Martin, too, had chosen to “play by the rules … work hard, study hard.”
As WND has reported, Twitter, Facebook, and toxicology tests established Trayvon’s long and enthusiastic acquaintance with marijuana and codeine. Also, the London Daily Mail ran a story about Trayvon’s suspensions from school three times for fighting, drug abuse and vandalism. The Miami Herald reported that Trayvon was found with women’s jewelry, including silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds. Trayvon was shot while on suspension from high school.
Barrera added, “[P]articularly young men of color [are] trying to get their heads around what happened in this situation. I think it’s important for us to open up the opportunity for young people to have dialogue with each other, but under the facilitation of professional educators.”
Another school board member, Marne Foster, declared, “Trayvon Martin could have been any one of my three sons as an unarmed, young African-American male traveling home.”
Foster said the resolution presents an “opportunity to have a real and a candid and an honest conversation about the state of America and what the world looks like for our young people and then having a vehicle to drive change.”
She said, “This … gives them a voice and the tools to constructively and safely engage the world around them, and more importantly to become that change agent that we so desperately need them to be,” adding “especially given in 2013, they are still living in a time reminiscent of Emmett Till.”
Till was a 14-year-old boy who was brutally beaten and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman. Foster’s statement was reminiscent of Oprah Winfrey’s public comparison of Martin and Till. The TV talk host claimed the two cases are “the same thing.”
But TV host Glenn Beck called the comparison “unbelievably wrong.”
“These are two cases that … have nothing in common,” Beck said, explaining that George Zimmerman’s killing of Martin was ruled as self-defense, and Till was viciously murdered by racists.
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.”
“Only a devil would applaud that verdict. Only natural born devil. By applauding that verdict you in fact admit that you are a devil,” wrote Shabbazz.
“The major problem with whites is they see white as exalted over others,” the Twitter feed added.
Shabbazz Tweeted that “As a lawyer, I am deeply dissapointed & embarassed (sic) at a judicial system that can’t deliver jail time for clear killer.”
Of whites, Shabbazz charged, “You all are born to kill and murder the darker peoples as Jesus says in John 8th chapter 44 verse. ‘A liar and a murderer from beginning.’”
Continued Shabbazz: “Everywhere the white man has gone since released from the caves and hills of europe the white man has killed & murdered the dark peoples :(”
The NBPP is a controversial black extremist party whose leaders are notorious for their racist statements and for leading anti-white activism.
The NBPP’s official platform states, “White man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind,” refers to the “white racist government of America,” demands black people be exempt from military service and uses the word “Jew” repeatedly in quotation marks.
Shabazz has led racially divisive protests and conferences, such as the 1998 Million Youth March, in which a few thousand Harlem youths reportedly were called upon to scuffle with police officers and speakers demanded the extermination of whites in South Africa.
The NBPP chairman was quoted at a May 2007 protest against the 400-year celebration of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., stating, “When the white man came here, you should have left him to die.”
He claimed Jews engaged in an “African holocaust,” and he has promoted the anti-Semitic urban legend that 4,000 Israelis fled the World Trade Center just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When Shabazz was denied entry to Canada in May 2008 while trying to speak at a black action event, he blamed Jewish groups and claimed Canada “is run from Israel.”
Canadian officials justified the action stating he has an “anti-Semitic” and “anti-police” record, but some reports blamed what was termed a minor criminal history for the decision to deny him entry.
As I watch the coverage these last couple of days of the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and the son of mega-church pastor Rick Warren I am truly in awe of the depravity of those who seemingly have nothing better to do than dance on their graves. No, it’s more than that…it’s the complete lack of human compassion for another. It would be the same disorder we would pronounce on a serial killer who kills without remorse, without reason and without feeling. Those dancing in the streets of London today proclaiming “the witch is dead” are dancing on the grave of a woman who has not been in power for over 20 years. What exactly did she do to them to warrant this behavior? Rick Warren’s son probably never once interacted with one of these haters on the internet in a fashion that would warrant such vitriol, yet here we are with such comments as, “it’s obvious God doesn’t listen to Rick Warren” I mean seriously…who does that? In a 2001 Newsweek article by George Will, In Jedwabne, attempts are made to explain an aspect of human nature which may coincide with what is going on in our current culture.
July 10, 1941, half the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half. Of 1600 Jews about a dozen survived. The atrocities that occurred in this town was not the result of years of propaganda by the Nazis, in fact, the Germans had only occupied the town for two weeks before the mayor and his officials met with the German officials and coordinated the massacre. Everyone participated in some fashion and even peasants arrived at the town as though they were traveling to a fair. As men, women and children were stabbed, beheaded and stoned some fled to a pond and drowned their babies and then themselves to escape the tortuous deaths awaiting those who remained.
Prior to the Germans arriving the Jews and Poles co-existed. The town was under Russian control, thus, immune to years of German propaganda blaming the Jews for economic depression and medieval myths about ritual murders of children by Jews, or by lust for plunder. There is no social conditioning theory which could offer an explanation to account for their behavior.
Prof. Jan Gross’ book, Neighbors, attempts to address the behavior of this particular community. Gross refers to Eric Voegelin’s thoughts about the “simple man, who is a decent man as long as the society as a whole is in order, but who then goes wild, without knowing what he is doing, when disorder arises somewhere and the society is no longer holding together”. Gross concludes, why in Jedwabne did neighbors murder their neighbors? Because it was permitted. Because they could.
Those dancing in the streets or gleefully blogging and tweeting over the death and suffering of others should take note of the lessons in Jedwabne, and possibly take an honest look at themselves. The allowances made for anonymous hateful remarks on the internet and demonstrations celebrating the death of individuals who never committed mass murder, child rape, or genocide should raise serious concerns for the rest of us. If anyone ever asks me why I so vigilantly support the 2nd amendment, I need look no further than human history (if you honestly think the Holocaust was the last example of such human depravity you haven’t been paying attention). I for one won’t be running to any pond.
William Bigelow of Breitbart.com is reporting that there have been two targeted attacks of young girls in the past two months by homosexual activists who were upset by the girls’ stance in favor of traditional marriage. The first victim, 11 year-old Grace Evans, received some “rather colorful comments” from activists upset with her bold testimony before the Minnesota House Committee on Civil Law in February.
“Since every child needs a mom and a dad to be born, I don’t think we can change that children need a mom and a dad. I believe God made it that way,” Evans said during her testimony. “I know some disagree, but I want to ask you this question: Which parent do I not need – my mom or my dad?”
She paused, waiting for one of the members of the Committee to answer. When no one did, she asked the question again.
Evans then said, “I’ll ask again, which parent do I not need – my mom or my dad?” She paused again, only to be met by silent stares from the lawmakers.
Evans concluded, saying, “I hope that you can see that every child needs a mom and a dad. Please don’t change your law on marriage to say otherwise.”
Unfortunately, the House eventually voted for the same-sex marriage law they were deliberating at the time and allowed it to move to the full House.
The attacks came almost at once, with people referring to her as an “11 year-old bigot.”
“We haven’t had any physical threats, but we’ve had some rather colorful comments about my 11-year-old,” said Grace’s father, Jeff Evans. “I’ve been monitoring it to keep my family safe and have a heads up on it. It’s really shameful the things that people will say, hiding behind an Internet alias. We see it as more representative of where political discourse is in our country, where you can’t take a position without receiving a great deal of flak, which is unfortunate.”
Sarah Crank, 14, had it even worse. She actually received death threats after testifying before the Maryland state senate during their contentious deliberations over a same-sex marriage bill in January.
“I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. Even though some kids think it’s fine, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on. . . . People have the choice to be gay, but I don’t want to be affected by their choice. People say that they were born that way, but I’ve met really nice adults who did change. So please vote ‘no’ on gay marriage. Thank you.”
A YouTube video of Sarah’s speech went viral on homosexual websites where she received threats such as “If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That’s a promise.” Another said her parents “should be exterminated” while someone else said that to “kill this child and his [sic] parent, for my 11 birthday would be a wonderful gift, thanks.”
This morning a homosexual activist walked into a Christian Lobbyist office and began shooting. If not for the security man, the gunman would have killed or injured untold others. As it is, only the security man gave his life to save the others by was shot in the arm and then disarmed the gunman. The gunman is quoted as asking the security man not to kill him because the reason for his being there and shooting up the place was not “about you. It’s about what these people stand for.”
I told you that the Professional Pot Stirrers were keeping the pot of hate so stirred that this kind of thing would happen. It is only the beginning. It will happen much more as the hateful rhetoric of the Political Left gets more shrill, more hateful, more distorted and more demonized. They want this kind of violence so they can blame it on the Right, especially those that disagree with their stands. The Political Party that proclaims it is the “Tolerant Party”, practices INTOLERANCEwith anyone that does not share their point of view. Chick-fil-A anyone?
How sad that we have allowed our Society to fall so far that we have these circumstances. Express your God endowed, Constitutional Right, opinion in a public setting and you are labeled a HATER or some other label the Left has determined fits anyone expressing differing convictions. Hate breeds hate. Add to that dynamic the Professional Pot Stirrers efforts at bring the pot to boiling over, and riots and violence is the result.
Let us work harder that ever in history to get the truth out there and get every America Loving Patriot the get off their apathy and vote to rid ourselves of these Collectivist, Socialist, Extreme Left Wing cancers.
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York’s Fordham Heights neighborhood – at 12:30 AM on Wednesday – show him B-lining it to Officer Miosotis Familia’s mobile command unit and firing a single shot to her head.
f*ggots,” he said. “Don’t think every brother, cousin, uncle you got that get killed in jail is because of a blood or crip or Latin King killing them. Nah, police be killing them and saying that an inmate killed them.”
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