Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C. His experiences there only reinforced his reasons for jumping into politics.
“What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society,” he said. “There was a profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives.”
It’s too bad the white self-loathing former Black Panther, Terry Bisson can’t make THAT claim…but I’m sure he wishes he could:
It’s not fair. The Panthers are not America’s only political prisoners; there are scores of American Indians, MOVE militants, Puerto Rican Independentistas and white radicals serving draconian sentences for what can only be deemed “political” crimes.
What a stupid sweeping generalization! Leonard Peltier is in jail for the murders of Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.
Not satisfied with the terrible injuries they had inflicted, Peltier and two other men walked down the hill toward the ambushed officers. Three shots were heard. Williams, kneeling and apparently surrendering, was shot in the face directly through his outstretched, shielding hand. He died instantly. Coler, still unconscious,was shot twice in the head at close range. He died instantly after the second shot. Before leaving the murder scene, Peltier and his criminal associates stole the two dead agents’ handguns and the .308 rifle Coler was going after when shot.
The crime scene examination testified to the brutality of the ambush. Coler and Williams had little chance to defend themselves. They had fired only five shots. In contrast, over 125 bullet holes were found in their two cars.
“Political” and ‘draconian’- my ass. But we can rely on guys like Ramsey Clark to defend lowlifes like Leonard Peltier and prop them as heroes…just as he defended Saddam Hussein. Rest assured Terry Bisson sides with Clark on the definition of ‘criminal’…and unfortunately for them, we still live in a society that condemns cop killers and genocidal dictators. Mumia, another person that the likes of Farrakhan and Bisson support, is in jail for murdering Danny Faulkner in the same ruthless cold-blooded manner. Of course, they characterize Mumia as being a ‘political prisoner victim’, too.
Danny’s wife wrote a book about her husband’s murder, it can be ordered here.
Also, see the website “Justice for Danny Faulkner”.
On December 9, 1981, at approximately 3:55 a.m., Officer Danny Faulkner, a five year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, made a traffic stop at Locust Street near Twelfth Street. The car stopped by Officer Faulkner was being driven by William Cook. After making the stop, Danny called for assistance on his police radio and requested a police wagon to transport a prisoner. Unbeknownst to him, William Cook’s brother, Wesley (aka Mumia Abu-Jamal) was across the street. As Danny attempted to handcuff William Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal ran from across the street and shot the officer in the back. Danny turned and was able to fire one shot that struck Abu-Jamal in the chest; the wounded officer then fell to the pavement. Mumia Abu-Jamal stood over the downed officer and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Mumia Abu-Jamal was found still at the scene of the shooting by officers who arrived there within seconds. The murderer was slumped against the curb in front of his brother’s car. In his possession was a .38 caliber revolver that records showed Mumia had purchased months earlier. The chamber of the gun had five spent cartridges. A cab driver, as well as other pedestrians, had witnessed the brutal slaying and identified Mumia Abu-Jamal as the killer both at the scene and during his trial. On July 2, 1982, after being tried before a jury of ten whites and two blacks, Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Officer Danny Faulkner. The next day, the jury sentenced him to death after deliberating for two hours. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania heard the defendant’s appeals and upheld the conviction on March 6, 1989.
It was an open and shut case…and the only people politicizing Mumia’s incarceration are socialist moonbats who think that someone who shoots a white cop to death–first by shooting him in the back, and then by shooting him in the face while he lies on the ground defenseless–deserves to be freed. Mumia deserves the death penalty.
It’s no wonder that Bisson’s lookalike at thinkingmeat.net is so blindly defending Obama…they are ideologically cut from the same radical cloth. Up until recently, Obama’s campaign website showed the “New Black Panthers” as a supporting organization..and Mumia, in fact, helped form the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party.
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The duty roster is going to be reinstated shortly. We will still have the After Action briefing on Sunday. Please send me your preference of day and time to post here at TWA and I will put you in. am postings should be done by 9:00 CST and pm postings by 3:00 CST. You can pre-set the ‘publication’ so that it posts when you’re away from the computer. Easy as pie.
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Dr. Wafa Sultan’s recent al-Jazeera interview included a debate with Egyptian Islamist, Tal’at Rheim on the republication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Subsequent to the March 4th Al-Jazeera interview, Egyptian Islamist Sheik al-Qaradawi issued a Fatwa against her. Sultan and her family have gone into hiding.
See more here.
Using Holland’s Geert Wilder as the example of why the American government should protect Sultan is a stretch. Sultan isn’t a Senator or a member of Congress. I’m not certain if asking for government protection is necessarily the answer. Our government did little to stop 9/11, the FBI has proven to be little more than a clean up crew after horrific events. They do nothing to stop protestors from reaking havoc, people have been physically assaulted in the streets and the police turn a blind eye while the media touts them as “peace protesters” and casts them in a favorable light.
If we are to be vigilant about our rights and personal safety, we must take proactive measures on our own to protect ourselves; or else we are sheep simply waiting for the slaughter.
There is a good letter at Brigitte’s website, that good citizens can send to the Qatar embassy. Qatar hosts the 24/7 Al Jazeera TV satellite channel.
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Almost four years ago, Maupin was captured by terrorists. I have seen his picture on many websites - posted by people who wanted to keep his memory alive as his family awaited some kind of word as to his fate.
At least now they know for sure now, although this is grim news.
Keep the Maupin family in your prayers.
Maupin was a 20-year-old specialist driving a supply truck when he was captured on April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy was ambushed west of Baghdad.
Michelle Malkin has a nice post up (with video), encouraging people to visit the Maupin family website, and their Yellow Ribbon Support Center.
In Iraq, the troops used a West African proverb “love never loses its way home” to describe the search for Maupin, and his family used it, too, in the hope that he would one day come home.
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“Bad Voodoo’s War,” a film filmed by the soldiers about their deployment to Iraq, is the second of this type of work that I’m aware of. The first one was “The War Tapes,” also a project by Debra Scranton.
I have been privileged enough to be one to see the sneak preview of “The War Tapes,” and meet the soldiers who were the subject of that movie, I later met Debra and her team of “The War Tapes” at the 2006 MilBlogging Conference. Add to the fact that JP Borda, a blogger and creator of the MilBlogging.com” website, is the soldier leading the way for this movie, I suspect this will be a significant piece of history, with a view that is most often avoided by the MSM.
To get a feel for her vision, and insight, watch a talk by her in 2007. She’s on to something “telling the story from the inside out.” It’s 17:48 minutes of your time worth taking, (I just did), not just for the philosophy she has, but also for the end with a powerful challenge to the “I support the troops, but not the war” people.
Set your Tivos/DVRs up for the broadcast on 4/1/2008 on PBS, or be ready to sit down and enjoy it as it’s broadcast.
Press Release:
press release
FRONTLINE presents
BAD VOODOO’S WAR
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS“Here we are. It’s about 2:30 in the morning on the 2nd of October. We have been on the road for a while. … Wasn’t too excited to get this change of mission. The stretch of road between Anaconda and Speicher, known as IED Alley, it’s probably one of the worst stretches of road in theater.”
-Sfc. Toby Nunn, during his second Iraq deployment, to his personal mini-DV cameraFRONTLINE goes to war in Iraq with a band of California-based National Guard soldiers who call themselves the “Bad Voodoo Platoon” to tell their very personal story in Bad Voodoo’s War, airing Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET (check local listings). To record their war, from private reflections to real-time footage of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks on the ground, director Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) creates a “virtual embed,” supplying cameras to the soldiers of the Bad Voodoo Platoon and working with them to shape an intimate portrait that reveals the hard grind of their war. Says Scranton: “What compels me is telling a story from the inside out, to crawl inside their world with them to see what it looks like, feels like and smells like. It’s really important to give soldiers the chance to press their own record button on this war.”
Through their daily experiences, acting platoon leader Sgt. 1st Class Toby Nunn, originally from British Columbia and the father of three, and Spc. Jason Shaw, a 23-year-old from Texas, give us a firsthand look at the impact of the U.S. military’s policy of multiple deployments to Iraq and how the Army’s role has changed on the ground.
Spc. Shaw is on his third deployment to Iraq. After the invasion in 2003, he was awarded the Silver Star for valor during the battle for the Baghdad airport. Shaw volunteered for his third tour in Iraq, but is haunted by the loss of so many comrades during his earlier deployments. “I’ve had six of my good friends die,” he explains. “When I lost all of my buddies, I just kind of lost hope. I used to be religious. My last deployment totally made me think otherwise. You know, you pray all the time to keep everybody safe, and then something happens.”
Sfc. Nunn, responsible for the safety of the 30 men in his platoon, worries endlessly about their welfare. “I’m worried about my guys,” he confides to the camera one night. “Right now I’m out here talking to you while they’re inside sleeping because I can’t sleep. Can’t rest, you know.”
Many of his men, highly trained veteran combat infantrymen, are deeply frustrated by their primary mission: providing security for convoys transporting supplies throughout Iraq to fuel President Bush’s surge. “A lot of our guys don’t like this mission,” says Nunn. “We’re used to kicking in doors, taking the fight to the enemy. Now you’re driving on the road for hours and hours and hours and days, waiting to get blown up and not allowed to fight back.”
The platoon is also struggling with a new relationship with the Iraqi security forces, whom the Americans depend on for their own safety. Nunn reflects: “I told myself last time I wanted to train the Iraqis the best I possibly could, because it was my ticket home. … But here I am, three years later, saying, ‘Will the Iraqi security forces enforce anything out there?’ Every time I talk to these guys, you know, my trust meter isn’t reading in the green all the time.” This constant second-guessing, combined with the relentless monotony of the desert highway, the fear of deadly IEDs and the memories of lost friends, keep the soldiers in an unending state of anxiety. This is Bad Voodoo’s war.
Bad Voodoo’s War is a Clover & A Bee Films production for FRONTLINE and Independent Television Service (ITVS). The writer, producer and director is Deborah Scranton. FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park Foundation. ITVS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. FRONTLINE is closed-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and described for people who are blind or visually impaired by the Media Access Group at WGBH. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. The executive producer for ITVS is Sally Jo Fifer. The FRONTLINE executive producer for special projects is Michael Sullivan. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is David Fanning.
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The Vets for Freedom National Heroes Tour will be attending a Prayer Service at USS LST Ship Memorial this sunday at 3:00PM. The event will be held at the USS LST 325 840 LST Drive , Evansville, IN 47713, and is open to the public.
To view where the Tour is headed next click here..
To see what the media is saying about the National Heroes Tour click here.
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There are many things that are hypocritical about this…considering what Wright says about ‘rich white people’..but also what scriptures say about the poor, and the meek inheriting the earth.
Although Obama also lives in a rich white neighborhood…I wonder if Wright’s mansion is near Louis Farrakhan’s palatial mansion?
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A man who claims that he was molested by Bigfoot as a child was ordered to serve 20 years in prison yesterday for his own molestation-related activities.
Gene R. Morrill, 57, of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, had previously pleaded guilty in Stafford Circuit Court to 20 charges stemming from his efforts to solicit 13-year-old boys over the Internet.
The Bigfoot molestation claim is difficult to understand; except that when caught, they find any possible reason to justify their behavior; including ‘being abused as a child’, their ‘environment’, etc. The molester inevitably becomes a ‘victim’ when caught.
Morrill was convicted of five counts of attempting to take indecent liberties with a child, five counts of using electronic equipment to solicit a juvenile and 10 counts of reproducing child pornography.
Child porn is a huge industry…even here in the United States. In addition to destroying the family with ‘no fault divorce’ which has insured that divorce rates skyrocket, abortion which has put forth the perception that children are garbage, men like this view children - as objects to be exploited.
And the fact that they’re running loose and the ACLU is trying to enable them the ‘right’ to live near playgrounds furthers the notion that the ACLU is fighting for the Civil Liberties of criminals; to help them find another innocent victim. Their claim is that ordinances meant to protect children, restricting sex offending pedophiles from getting near places where children are, like playgrounds, are ineffective.
What’s ineffective are judges that allow these people to run free, and laws requiring them to register as sex offenders so they can run around in our neighborhoods.
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Heh!
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Hoping that this will officiate the notion that you are in the inside of the white establishing.
The brains behind the New Black Panther Party members are the same as the brains behind the old Black Panther Party…
Another genius from the New Black Panther Party
I wonder if Meatbrain has become an honorary member…
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Since its inception fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has been at war with the people of this planet. Millions of people have been literally butchered with the sword of Islam.
Some may argue that all religions at one point in time have committed crimes against humanity. That may be so, but none of the existing world religions’ foundation has been based upon shedding the blood of its innocent victims. Islam lives, breaths and grows on blood. Once we take away this red element from Islam, Islam will vanish completely. Islam cannot possibly live in the hearts and minds of its believers. Islam needs to shed the blood of the infidels, meaning all non-Muslims. Islam is about world domination. It is utterly part of being Muslim.
Read the rest. By my friend, Amil Imani.
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Crossposted from STACLU
Yes, even after the ACLU cost them over $900,000 in city tax dollars in their attack on the Mt. Soledad cross, the San Diego City Council voted yesterday to pass a resolution “commending the American Civil Liberties Union of the San Diego and Imperial Counties for its continuous advocacy for the rights and freedoms of all San Diego” and proclaiming an “American Civil Liberties Union Day” in the City of San Diego. Give me a freaking break!
Two speakers opposed the recognition, including Heather Cameron, a representative of the law firm of Charles LiMandri.
LiMandri also serves as the West Coast director for the Thomas More Law Center, which along with other organizations, including the American Center for Law and Justice, donated thousands of hours of time to fight the ACLU’s demand that San Diego remove a historic cross from the Mt. Soledad Veterans’ Memorial. The case continued even after the federal government took over the site and San Diego no longer had control over it.
Cameron told the council members “one of the great myths” is that the ACLU started out as a pro-civil rights organization.
ACLU founder Roger Baldwin said, “Communism is the goal,” she told the council.
Cameron said Baldwin asserted that only a “small group of highly educated intellectuals” should dictate what everyone else believes.
In San Diego, the ACLU cost the city’s taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by raising the fight over the Mt. Soledad cross and continued the battle even after 76 percent of the voters supported maintaining the cross where it was built.
James Hartline, a Christian activist in San Diego, also spoke. He said the proposal to honor the ACLU was “one of the most repugnant acts” ever accomplished by the council and blamed the ACLU for a “long-term campaign of hate and religious bias against Christians.”
He cited a previous case brought against the city by the ACLU in which the organization collected $900,000 from city taxpayers.
“We do not want our names to be used to honor the American Civil Liberties Union,” Hartline said. “You are doing so in our name.”
A bipartisan team of council members, Tony Young and Brian Maienschein, opposed the resolution, and Jim Madaffer did not vote. The other five members – Kavin Faulconer, Atkins, Donne Frye, Ben Hueso and Scott Peters – went along.
Hmmm…maybe everyone will dress in orange jumpsuits and waterboard one another in the streets to commemorate the day.
Rick Roberts rants so I don’t have to:
Hey, San Diego! How will YOU celebrate ACLU Day? What, you haven’t prepared? Well, our local government sure did!
The City of San Diego took nearly one million dollars of your tax dollars to officially tell the ACLU, ‘as a city, we love you.’
What kind of representation is this???
OUR San Diego City Council voted IN FAVOR of an ACLU ‘Day of Honor’ just yesterday.
Kavin Faulconer, Toni Atkins, Donne Frye, Ben Hueso and Scott Peters all believe that we as a community should embrace 75 years of the American Criminal Liberties Union.
Is this accurate representation of OUR community?!
I think not. We’re not San Francisco. At least not yet. I would even go so far as to say that the City of San Diego isn’t exactly into defending illegal aliens, terrorists, and Fred Phelps…
Absolutely outrageous that a city counsil would vote for a day like this after the ACLU sucked them dry. Talk about representatives taking no account for the opinion of citizens they are supposed to represent. I mean, if they put it up for the people to vote they know it would never pass. Sickening. The San Diego city council should have their phones ringing off the hook.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin!
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Lifted blatantly from Doug Ross @ Journal:
8. You refine heroin for a living; but you have a moral objection to beer.
7. You own a $500 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher; but can’t afford decent shoes.
6. You have more wives than teeth.
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
4. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
3. You consider television dangerous; but routinely carry ammunition in your robe.
2. You’ve never been asked, ‘Does this burka make my ass look big?’
1. A common compliment is, ‘I love what you’ve done with your cave.’
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Easter, a day of resurrection and renewal. The Church has grown when threatened with persecution thousands of years ago, and, as it turns out, it is still. From the Joshua Fund Blog::
THE BIG (UNTOLD) STORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Muslims converting to faith in Jesus Christ in record numbers — 2008 Update
“I will build my church,” Jesus said, “and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18)Despite unprecedented press coverage of Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Middle East since September 11, 2001, one big story is not being told by the mainstream media. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are converting to evangelical Christianity and will be celebrating their first Easter this year, even amidst widespread persecution and the very real threat of death.
I first began reporting this story in 2005 after interviewing some three dozen Arab and Iranian pastors and evangelical Christian leaders in the U.S. and the Middle East. Over the last three years, however, I have had the privilege of traveling to Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, the West Bank, Turkey, and Morocco. What’s more, I have had the honor of meeting with and interviewing more than 200 Arab, Iranian, Kurdish, Sudanese and other pastors and Christian leaders. With more data, the trend lines are becoming even more clear and the story is even more exciting.
The God of the Bible is moving powerfully in the Middle East to draw men, women and children to His heart and adopt them into His family in record numbers. More Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ over the last thirty years — and specifically over the last seven to ten years — than at any other time in human history. There is a revival going on among the ancient Catholic, Coptic, and Chaldean churches. Today, the Church is being truly resurrected in the lands of its birth.
Consider the latest evidence:
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And then the article goes on to list specifics from Afghanisatn to Iraq, to Sudan and other countries in the Islamic sphere.
And then the leading Saudi cleric had this to say:
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In December 2001, Sheikh Ahmad al Qataani, a leading Saudi cleric, appeared on a live interview on Aljazeera satellite television to confirm that, sure enough, Muslims were turning to Jesus in alarming numbers. “In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity,” Al Qataani warned. “Every day, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.” Stunned, the interviewer interrupted the cleric. “Hold on! Let me clarify. Do we have six million converting from Islam to Christianity?” Al Qataani repeated his assertion. “Every year,” the cleric confirmed, adding, “a tragedy has happened.”
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Analysis: That means 1.3B minus 36M…and counting.
Pray for the converts they will need all the support they can get.
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Maybe we should change “moral equivalence,” as it is being used to “moral completely out of balance” comparisons.
Finally, someone who lived it speaks up and tells who really has had a hand in keeping the “Palestinians” poor and in a transient state all these years:
An editorial by Nonie Darwish:
“Gaza conditions at ‘40-year low’” the BBC headlined last week. Rarely a week goes by without a politician or organization deploring the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. But I do not hear anyone describe its root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at maintaining Palestinians as stateless refugees in order to pressure Israel.
I lived in Gaza as a child in the 1950s when Egypt conducted guerrilla-style operations against Israel from Gaza, then under Egyptian control. My father commanded these operations, carried out by “fedayeen,” (which means, “self sacrifice”). This became the frontline of Arab Jihad against Israel. My father was killed by Israel in a targeted assassination in 1956.
Today the Gaza Strip, now under the control of Hamas, has become the Gaza prison camp for 1.5 million Palestinians and continues to serve as the launching pad for attacks against Israeli citizens.
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Forcing the Palestinian identity on them is designed to perpetuate the Palestinian refugee status. Palestinians have been used and abused by Arab nations, and by Palestinian terrorists, for the purpose of destroying Israel.
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Interesting. The misery of the Palestinians has been contrived, considered “collateral damage” in the effort to eliminate the nation of Israel. Nice. And “we” want to sit down with Arab leaders and ask them how to “solve” the Arab-Israeli “problem?” Good luck.
As many have noted over the years, there is but one solution in the eyes of the Arab leaders, and several presidents have pandered to them, as is our State Department right now.
Given those same rulers, by lack of action to stop the violence, and usually giving a wink and a nod to those who would kill in the market place, have also agreed, behind close doors, to let their own suffer and die horrible deaths for a larger geo-political goal, which, quite frankly, is genocidal at it’s core desire.
So, yes, BhO (”h” to deemphasize the middle name, to avoid anyone feeling bad), let’s plan to have a “summit,” on their home field, and ask for their plan and “time line” for the withdrawal of all Israelis from Israel. Grand idea.
And when history comes calling, BhO will most properly be labeled as one who could have stopped the genocide and chaos that resulted, but actively granted the killers the freedom to carry out their murderous desires. On the other hand, I’m sure by him standing aside, he could cling to “but the World liked AmeriKKKa better because we didn’t interfere in their affairs!” in his next book.
Harsh? No. Realistic, based on what BhO has said about his plans for his Presidency. It would be better for him to figure out how to free the Palestinians from their Arab slave masters, and that, most certainly, would make him stand in history with Abraham Lincoln. Choices, choices….
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