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Almost Paris-“tine”…and Headed Our Way

Tags: Barack Obama, Charlie Hebdo, Francois Hollande, Hillary Clinton, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Paris attacks, secularism, Terrorism

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Published on: November 15, 2015

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The only surprise is…that anyone would be surprised.

A current Islamic objective is for Muslims to dwell throughout the world. The goal of Islam, from its founding, is Muslim supremacy wherever any follower of Mohammed may dwell. And quite a few Muslims dwell in France.

In 1967, France’s Muslim population reached 1,000,000 people. By 1994, the number had increased 200%, to 3 million, with accompanying assimilation “issues”. By 2010, that number had increased, by more than half, to 4.7 million, about 7.5% of France’s population; in Paris, Muslims were 15% of the city’s residents. This SHOULD not be a problem. Usually, it WOULD not be a problem. But Islam is most unusual.

By 2011, Muslims had established 751 “no-go zones” in France, that the French, especially women, were wise to avoid. The government knew of their existence, locations, and boundaries, yet would not alter its “diversity” policies to make those areas safe for all of France’s people. By 2013, other clashes between France’s secularism and Muslim tradition were apparent.

While France’s multiculturalism worked for Muslims, it became disastrous for France’s Jews. Though less than one percent of the French population, Jews were targets in 40% of French race crimes; in 2013, France led the world in the number of anti-Semitic attacks, with a number that had increased seven-fold since the 1990’s. The children of Israel got the message: by the time of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Jews were getting out of France.

Nevertheless, in September, French President Francois Hollande, acting in concert with Germany, proposed a “permanent and compulsory home mechanism in Europe” for Syrian refugees. Apparently, one of those for whom Hollande proposed a new home helped kill the more than 120 who already called France home. By the way, the Islamic State claims responsibility for the November 13 carnage. Between taking out Russian aircraft and attacking major cities, it seems Obama’s JV squad has broken “containment”.

Victims lay on the pavement outside a Paris restaurant, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Police officials in France on Friday report multiple terror incidents, leaving many dead. It was unclear at this stage if the events are linked. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Perhaps now is a good time for some reminders about this “religion of peace”.

Unlike the other major monotheistic world faiths, Islam has a thirst for conquest. While it is now unpopular to recall, the fact remains that the Christian Crusades were not preemptive attacks upon Islam, but rather responses to more than four centuries of Muslim violence against Christianity and Judaism in North Africa and Europe. Spain’s history with Islam is likely part of why it is not a preferred destination for today’s Syrian Muslim refugees, even as other Western European nations opened their arms.

Despite ancient military successes, Muslims did not fare well in modern conventional military operations against infidels. Israel mopped them up in 1948, 1967, and 1973 despite being outnumbered.

Israel Rolls Tanks in 1973 Arab-Israeli War.

More recently, they have been soundly defeated by Western forces, led by the United States, so long as America’s political leaders maintained their resolve. The Islamic State’s current apparent military prowess is less due to their ability and more to the unwillingness of Western powers, who are much stronger, to kill them.

Iraqi Soldiers Surrender to U.S.-led Coalition Forces

Nevertheless, and likely in response to the lack of military success, Islam – which has in no way renounced its goal – developed an alternative attack plan, one that requires no conventional armies, but is no less lethal and humiliating to Islam’s enemies. The attack comes in stages:

Stage 1: Infiltration

– Muslims move to non-Muslim countries in large numbers, and initiate visible, though often subtle, cultural conflicts

• Stage 2: Consolidation of Power – Muslims (immigrants & host country converts) demand employment, educational, social services, and legal accommodations

• Stage 3: Open War with Host Culture – Employ violence to impose Sharia law, reject the host government, subjugate other religions and customs

• Stage 4: Totalitarian Islamic Theocracy – Islam assumes role as the sole religious-political-judicial-cultural ideology

Muslim conquest of France now seems well into Stage 3, with other Western European nations being just an explosion and/or shooting away from a similar circumstance. As for the United States, the current presidential administration seems intent on accelerating Islam’s attack stages in America. In parts of Michigan, only a lawsuit has kept cities like Dearborn from Stage 3.

Interestingly, the secularism that France has championed since 1905 is the very reason they now respond ineffectively to attacks upon its capital city twice this calendar year; it renders French society unable to defend itself, even more than other Western European nations. God’s removal from France removed the will to defend their sovereignty; instead of being a country of French people who welcome others to their culture, they are a people Muslims believe will bend to Islam.

Simply put, when a society has no God, even those whose beliefs are radical and wrong can infiltrate, overwhelm, and defeat them. Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Joann Sfar, in his reaction to the worldwide outpouring of prayers in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Paris, gives insight into how close France may be to total defeat:

It can be no more clear. There is no small number of French people who see no need for God at this, or any other, time. Faith has turned away from the immortal and eternal, and to things that can defend neither their lives nor their values against a determined adversary.

Therefore, the terrorist violence in France is likely not over. What is more, without God, the “merciless” response, promised by the French president, can only coarsen the French people, even as it emboldens their Islamic attackers.

…and, keep in mind, prominent “leaders”, whether in or seeking the Oval office, wish to remove American reliance upon God, even as they welcome, to this country, the same people who wreak havoc throughout Europe and elsewhere.

France is already at Stage 3. How long Americans will wait until they transform the fight, against their government, to worship God into a fight, against a sworn enemy, that they can only win with God.

Re-trial Goes Much Like the First Trial, But Sadder

by Black Man Thinkin'

Categories: ... 'bout Politics

Tags: alicia stanley, angela corey indicted, Barack Obama, dxm, george zimmerman, Hilary Shelton, lean, naacp, nan, national action network, Sean Hannity, sybrina fulton, trayvon 100-citiy marches, trayvon martin, trayvon trademarks

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Published on: July 26, 2013

The basic details are not difficult:

A man saw someone he considered suspicious, called police and followed him. Eventually, he came into contact with the subject. Words were exchanged, an altercation ensued, during which the man sustained injuries. He drew a weapon and fired once. Police arrived to find the man, George Zimmerman, aged 28, bloodied and shaken, and the shooting victim, Trayvon Martin, aged 17, dead.

Police questioned Zimmerman that night, gave him a lie detector test the next day (he passed), and determined there was not probable cause for an arrest.

In the 16 months that followed: the FBI concluded race played no role in the shooting; and Florida’s governor appointed a special prosecutor who bypassed a grand jury to charge Zimmerman with 2nd-degree murder. That decision was criticized by a legal expert as potentially criminal, and special prosecutor Angela Corey was indeed later criminally indicted for falsifying the arrest warrant and complaint against Zimmerman.

At trial, prosecution witnesses supported Zimmerman’s self-defense assertions, including a black legal professor, who explained, under cross-examination, that injuries are not required before a person might legally act in self-defense.

Despite all this, people were shocked, SHOCKED, at George Zimmerman’s acquittal on July 13th.

So, those who insisted Zimmerman be tried in a court of law, despite a weak case, changed venues: the court of public opinion, bound neither by the rules of evidence, nor any need to speak truthfully. So, how is that coming along?

The day after the verdict, there were demonstrations from New York City to Los Angeles, Chicago to Oakland, Milwaukee to Miami, and elsewhere protesting Zimmerman’s acquittal.

Also on the day after the verdict, the NAACP and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) called for the Department of Justice to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman. Attorney General Holder told NAN, “If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action, and at every step, the facts and law will guide us forward.” One can only wonder if those facts will include the 2012 FBI report which found no evidence of racism, a hate crime, or any civil rights violation by George Zimmerman. One prosecutor is already criminally indicted for corruption in the charging of Zimmerman; could an overzealous Attorney General Eric Holder become the second?

Perhaps sensing the initiative slipping away, the NAACP’s Hilary Shelton appeared on Sean Hannity’s TV show (July 18th) to assert that Zimmerman “stalked, assaulted, and” shot Trayvon Martin to death, and to criticize Stand Your Ground laws. However:

stalked

verdict imply Martin assaulted Zimmerman

Stand Your Ground was not part of Zimmerman’ defense

President Obama’s post-verdict statement gave way to a July 19th race speech in which he said, “Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago.” Whether Obama sought to unite the nation or curry favor with the black Americans he normally ignores is hard to say. However, this is not: 2 days after the speech, a national poll showed Obama’s disapproval rating higher than George Zimmermans’s.

Then, there were the July 20th 100-City Trayvon rallies, with turnout far less than expected, though that was hard to glean from most news coverage.

Even the Congressional Black Caucus chimed in, with members expressing support for an economic boycott of Florida to protest Stand Your Ground laws, and looking to revisit gun control in the wake of Martin’s shooting. However, Congress generally cannot revise state laws, and the good ship gun control already sailed away…empty.

So, the public “re-trial” is going much the way the state trial did, and for the same reason: those arrayed against George Zimmerman have more passion than proof. However, regarding Martin, more proof emerges that may generate a different passion.

First, the Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea…actually Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail. Those are 2 of the 3 ingredients needed to make “lean“, a street drug, which requires the codeine in prescription cough syrup, or Dextromethorphan (DXM), available in over-the counter cough syrup like Robitussin. Martin’s Facebook page showed him seeking codeine to make more lean, before being told Robitussin’s DXM would also work. When abused, DXM can cause aggression and paranoia. Of course, all this is circumstantial until Martin’s autopsy report revealed liver anomalies, consistent with DXM abuse.

Then there is Alicia Stanley, Martin’s former stepmother who gave an interview to CNN at the beginning of the trial. She said she did it so people would know, “I exist…”

Why would that matter? Because it is she, not Sybrina Fulton, with whom Trayvon Martin lived, from age 3 until 2010. During that time, there is no evidence of the truancy, drug use, theft and other issues that prosecutors fought to keep from a jury.

To the point; it is less a matter of what Martin’s improper behavior was than when it started and, perhaps, with whom.

However, Alicia Stanley, the woman who raised Trayvon Martin, became an inconvenience: told to “get in where you fit in” at his funeral, and waited more than a year after Martin’s death before seeking the recognition some would say she has earned. By contrast, Sybrina Fulton waited less than a month before seeking to profit from trademarking “I AM TRAYVON” and “Justice for Trayvon”.

Sadly, a young black man died, shot in self-defense by a “soft” man with “a hero complex.” Unfortunately, that is not all that is sad. Trayvon Martin’s innocence began to fade in 2010, through events over which he had no control. By February 26, 2012, Martin was a troubled kid, by any measure: doing poorly in school, committing petty crimes, and a drug user who had already sustained internal organ damage and was at a 7-Eleven, procuring the ingredients for his drug of choice, jones’in’ for another high. Viewing the store security video in that light is heartbreaking:

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No matter why Martin was out that night, this tragedy might still have occurred. However, no one’s child should be out at night like that…ever. Somehow, we came to focus on Zimmerman, and lost the bubble on that.

An Impassioned Plea…Or a Misleading Performance?

by Black Man Thinkin'

Categories: ... 'bout Politics

Tags: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama DNC speech, misleading

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Published on: September 6, 2012

Michelle Obama addresses the DNC

Michelle Obama gave a powerful speech at the Democrat National Convention on Tuesday, making her case to delegates and the nation for her husband to get a second presidential term. She was emotional, enthusiastic, fully engaged. It moved many to tears, not just in the auditorium in Charlotte, NC, but in living rooms across the country. It will be one of the most memorable speeches given by any candidate’s wife at any nominating convention. However, now that the cheering has stopped, there is a chance to look more closely at Mrs. Obama words and be less moved by her impressive delivery.

To begin, the speech’s tone was that of one begging a parole board for their loved one’s release. Mrs. Obama did her best to convince those who do not know her man to see the good in him, to understand the man she knows, and to let her vision sway their decision. The trouble is, while an actual parole board may know little of those whose fate they decide, the American electorate is hardly ignorant of Barack Obama.

After four years, most voters know what they think of the president, and whether they support him. Further, the undecided are not likely to make up their minds based on his wife’s appeal. With $16 Trillion of national debt (more than a third of it added since Obama’s inauguration), 23 – 25 million Americans un- or under-employed, uncertainty regarding tax rates, and unhappiness with the president’s signature legislation, there are simply weightier issues for the electorate than whether Michelle Obama supports her husband’s re-election.

Moreover, what president remains a mystery four years in? After all the speeches, interviews, press conferences, and, of course, legislative and political battles since January 2009, what insight can the First Lady provide that can outweigh the impact, good and bad, of the president’s policies in the minds of voters?

Consequently, Michelle Obama’s Tuesday magnificence was, quoting Shakespeare’s Macbeth:

[A] poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more…full of sound and fury –
Signifying nothing.

However, that is not the real issue. Mrs. Obama painted a picture of the “struggling” Obamas. According to her speech, the president drove her around car with rust holes that allowed her to see the pavement, his best pair of shoes were a half size too small, and his proudest possession was a coffee table rescued from a dumpster. That is an interesting account.

The Obamas met in 1989, at the prestigious Sidley & Austine law firm in Chicago. He was a summer intern, following his first year at Harvard Law School; she was one of the firm’s associate attorneys and his mentor at the firm. By the time they met, Barack Obama had graduated from Columbia University, worked for a year each at the Business International Corporation and the New York Public Interest Research Group in New York City, worked 3 years as director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, traveled to Europe for 3 weeks, and to Kenya for another 5 weeks.

That does not sound like someone whose finances dictated trash bin furniture shopping.

Mrs. Obama also made the point that neither she nor her husband came from families that had much in the way of money or possessions. However, Mrs. Obama’s humble beginnings story was blown up by the British press during the last campaign. The report indicates the president’s father-in-law earned nearly $43,000/year, before overtime, as an engineer at Chicago’s water plant. Forty-three thousand dollars in 1975 equals about $186,000 today.

Michelle Obama’s characterization of her upbringing being modest financially seems a bit of a stretch.

So, why would Michelle Obama misrepresent her background to give herself a poorer childhood? Perhaps it relates to concerns about the president’s “blackness”, raised in the last election cycle and again in this one. Obama already has a family background and experience to which most blacks do not relate. Giving him less money as a child is a way to get more votes by making him appear more in touch.

The next obvious question is, if she’s dishonest about this, did she say anything else about the president that requires a fact-check? How about his compassion? Some may recall Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) open questioning of Obama’s concern for unemployed blacks during the president’s summer jobs tour last year:

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Michelle Obama is an intelligent woman. Too intelligent not to know someone would poke holes in her speech, especially since her “humble beginnings” assertions had already been exposed. Yet she wove those debunked claims into a masterful speech, delivered with emotional power and seeming sincerity. One can only wonder why.

Perhaps she’s right about her background and all the investigative reporters are wrong. Unfortunately, that is unlikely. Perhaps she so loves her husband that, in her mind, she should be allowed a recycled falsehood or two in supporting him. That is possible. Or, perhaps she wants to guard against what Rep. Waters indicated could occur: black political leaders hearing that they can start holding the president accountable on issues that concern them. That seems more plausible.

Michelle Obama is a smart woman who knows that if black elected officials abandon her husband, then he is done. Therefore, Michelle Obama is ready to keep her husband in the Oval Office…by any means necessary. Enter Tuesday’s masterful presentation at the Democrat National Convention.

After all, there are more vegetables to grow, more dresses to wear, and more vacations to take. And Air Force Two is only hers as long as her husband remains president of the United States.

So, was it an impassioned plea, or a misleading performance? Perhaps a bit of both, but I very much dislike being misled, especially by someone who looks me in the eye to do so.

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