This site warned: Do not pay heed to the ‘lover’s spat’ between fellow ideologues. The anti-American POTUS and Russia’s strongman are deeply in sync, despite their differences over divvying up the Mid East. In addition, the kerfuffle over Snowden is just a sideshow. In the scheme of what they are both after – the knock down of America from its super power status – their bumps in the road are chump change. And, don’t be fooled by Obama’s & Putin’s public scowls, or reportedly this or that schism. They are sideshows to their dangerous plans already afoot!
At a time when President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin appear to be clashing over the extradition of Edward Snowden, it’s hard to imagine signing an agreement that allows Russian troops to provide security at events on US soil… but that’s exactly what the Obama Administration did recently.
According to an agreement signed in Washington, DC last week between FEMA and the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Russian troops can now be deployed to provide security at so-called “National Special Security Events,” such as the Super Bowl and G8 summits.
This is a perfect example of the smoke and mirrors tactic that the Obama Administration has been using throughout his presidency. Their motto is: ”Never let a crisis go to waste.”
In this case, they’re simply using the NSA crisis to distract Americans as they adopt disastrous measures to weaken American sovereignty.
How can this possibly be anything but a blatant effort to erode US sovereignty and move the nation further down the road toward global government?
Concerns about foreign troops being used on US soil have lingered ever since the release of State Department Publication 7277, which is a blueprint for the harmonization of US and Russian forces under a framework of United Nations-led global government.
Under the terms of the new deal, Russian troops could be deployed at ”National Special Security Events,” as determined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Events that have been awarded this status in the past include the Super Bowl, international summits such as the G8 and presidential inaugurations.
Back in 2008 it was reported that US and Canadian authorities had signed an agreement that would pave the way to using each other’s militaries on both sides of the border “during an emergency”.
So, while everyone is concentrating on the melodrama between the two leaders, both carry on with their deeper than deep red infiltration. It was a phased plan, designed decades ago, but finally cemented into action; all ‘credit’ to the cooperative Red/Islamist-in-Chief via the ‘Bringing Down of America’!
Nevertheless, despite the Islamist-in-Chief’s most assiduous efforts, the chink in his armor comes from his actual roots; the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mind you, when it comes to Islamists and their inter-tribal squabbles, it is not as if one can just walk away and stay intact, hell no. Yet, when it comes to the POTUS they understand that disparate ‘delicate messaging’ will have to be executed to bring him in line. Works on this end…whatever it takes.
Similarly, the Saudis (as well as the Brotherhood) are at odds with Iran’s mullahs and their supporters for hegemony, but this other side of the inter-Muslim tussle involves the Shia side of Islamist warfare, so, let’s not digress (and risk getting a headache in the process). It is enough for us to meander to the heart of the matter, one which may very well end the Islamist-in-Chief’s reign and which has the possibility of 8 billion reasons to land him in jail… plus, so much more….Hint: Benghazigate’s fires…and perhaps the Blind terror Sheikh too.
U.S. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.NEW YORK – The son of a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is claiming his father has evidence that will land President Obama in prison.
The claim came as the Obama administration, with the assistance of Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and the open involvement of the No. 2 man at the U.S. State Department, made a concerted effort to see Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt released.
In an interview with the News Agency Anatolia in Turkey, Saad Al-Shater, the son of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater, said his father “had in his hand” evidence that will put Obama in prison.
In a thinly veiled threat, Saad Al-Shater said a U.S. delegation was sent to Cairo by Obama to press for the release of the imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including his father to prevent the release of explosive information.
Arabic-speaking former PLO member Walid Shoebat has translated the report by the Turkish News Agency Anatolia as follows:
In an interview with the Anatolia News Agency, Saad Al-Shater, the son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, the detained Khairat Al-Shater, said that his father had in his hand evidence that will land the head of United States of America, President Obama, in prison. He stressed that the senior U.S. delegation currently visiting Egypt, knows full well that the fate, future, interests and reputation of their country is in the hands of his father, and they know that he owns the information, documents and recordings that incriminate and would condemn their country. Such documents, he says, were placed in the hands of people who were entrusted inside and outside Egypt, and that the release of his father is the only way for them to prevent a great catastrophe. He stated that a warning was sent threatening to show how the U.S. administration was directly connected. The evidence was sent through intermediaries which caused them to change their attitude and corrected their position, and that they have taken serious steps to prove good faith. Saad also said that his father’s safety is more important to the Americans than is the safety of Mohamed Morsi.
Writing in his blog, Shoebat noted that six different Arabic sources confirmed the interview with Saad Al-Shater and the report of Al-Shater’s claims.
Shoebat said the interview with Saad Al-Shater was Aug. 7, making it likely the reference to the “senior U.S. delegation currently visiting Egypt” was about the trip by McCain, Graham and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns.
On Aug. 6, with interim Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, the former general director of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, McCain and Graham called Khairat Al-Shater and other jailed Muslim Brotherhood leaders “political prisoners.” They told reporters in Cairo that failing to release Muslim Brotherhood prisoners would be “a huge mistake.”
Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, rebuffed the U.S. delegation’s request, telling reporters in Cairo that it constituted an “unacceptable interference in internal politics.”
On Aug. 6, the Associated Press reported the Egyptian government planned to prosecute Khairat Al-Shater and the other imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders on charges of inciting violence last December when Muslim Brotherhood members attacked sit-in protestors outside then-President Mohamed Morsi’s office, resulting in the deaths of 10 people.
In an Aug. 6 interview with CNN in Egypt, McCain mentioned jailed Khairat Al-Shater, an openly acknowledged Muslim Brotherhood leader, when asked about individuals who could successfully negotiate a future Egyptian government.
The senators created controversy at a press conference in Cairo broadcast by Al Jazeera when McCain called the July 3 ouster of Morsi a “coup,” a word the Obama administration has resisted.
Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, legal representative for Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson, claimed this week that intelligence officers with knowledge of the attack on the Benghazi consulate believe it was was tied to 400 surface-to-air missiles intended for Syrian rebels that U.S. officials feared could be used to shoot down an airliner or attack a U.S. embassy.
Two weeks after the Benghazi attack, WND was the first to report sources claiming the Benghazi compound was an intelligence and planning center the CIA used to recruit and arm Islamic rebels to fight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It may very well come to pass that the bane of America’s patriots, the free world in toto – the wayward, anti-American Commander-in-Chief, plus his whole entourage of enablers – will be brought down by his ‘Brothers’. Now, far be it for this blogger to gloat (just a little…this blog earned it !), or to cheer the Muslim Mafia on, but hoisted on his/their own petard may very well do him/them in…a purging from the top down.
Most assuredly, trampling on the Constitution is no small matter, even if one attempts to hide behind the ‘living breathing’ nonsensical mantra, as Obama (a so called Constitutional lawyer…oh please…talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel) and surrogates regularly intone its ‘merits’. And there are so many examples of the administration’s malfeasance it is hard to know where to commence the indictment. Yet, even a few will suffice, starting with their obsessive quest to eviscerate the First Amendment, a hallmark of any free society. Specifically, what more proof is needed than to internalize that the highest law enforcement official in the land, AG Eric Holder, is initiating ‘legal’ actions against Americans who criticize Islam? Are you thinking this blogger has lost it? Think again. Contained within the above link are more than enough exhibits to place Holder, and his boss, in the dock for high crimes and misdemeanors!
Along comes Professor Paul Eidelberg – a more than qualified Constitutional scholar and patriot – to America’s rescue, as he gives ‘We the People’ all the Constitutional muster needed to indict the criminals ruling Washington. Get busy. Start your petitions!
‘Needed: An Independent Counsel to Investigate the Obama Administration’
Paul Eidelberg (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
The failure of Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the United States, to protect American citizens abroad indicates that he may have violated Article Two, Section One, Clause Eight, of the U.S. Constitution which sets forth the presidential oath of office in these words:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Accordingly:
Whereas the present writer, a native-born American citizen who served as a Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, and who conducted seminars during the Korean War to inform American soldiers about the totalitarian nature of America’s arch enemy, the Soviet Union;
And whereas this author has written books on the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, as well as a book entitled “Beyond Détente: Toward an American Foreign Policy,” a book based on Washington’s “Farewell Address”;
And whereas the principles elaborated in the latter book obliged the present writer to urge President Ronald Reagan to transcend the futile policy of détente with the Soviet Union—indeed, to promote the disintegration of that “Evil Empire”;
And whereas the same author sees that the Barack Administration is pursuing the discredited policy of détente vis-à-vis Islam, an imperialistic ideology which, like that of Communist Russia, does not recognize any international borders or the nation-state system;
And whereas this American, for the previous reasons, is more keenly aware of the perilous course of the United States, as well as more profoundly concerned about the well-being of Americans serving in American embassies and consulates abroad;
Indeed, whereas some of these Americans have perished because of the détente or ideologically neutral mentality of the Obama Administration and its possibly criminal negligence:
I therefore urge Americans to petition the Congress of the United States to reconstitute, in accordance with its Special Prosecutor Act of 1978, an Independent Counsel to investigate and prosecute designated high-ranking Executive Branch officials, including President Barack Obama, who are suspected of possible malfeasance in high office.
IF the master Prof gives the heads up, citing the Constitutional underpinnings for said Independent Counsel, then take it to the bank. To heart. And this blog stands shoulder to shoulder with the recommendations herein. No additional ‘proofs’ required (nor footdragging or pussyfooting), other than a basic understanding of High Crimes & Misdemeanors.
There are certain issues in life worth going to the mat for and most are associated with protecting ones immediate family (some ‘mama bears’ can be quite fearsome, especially when provoked, even those of us who are petite and average height) and their sense of well being. But it is also the case that liberty is right atop the list. The costs to retrieve, once taken away, become too onerous to bear. So, it only makes sense to fight on the front end and to give it all you got. But this doesn’t mean that one size fits all. However, it does imply, whatever assets/talents one can bring to the table you gotta be willing to pay the price. The alternatives are simply unthinkable. Unfathomable.
That being said, there are more than a few poohbahs who are distressed (poor babies) by those of us who continue to question the bonafides of ‘The One’. Fine. That’s their prerogative. Let them pout, who gives a damn, there are bigger fish to fry. Yet this blogger is equally disturbed, but from the polar opposite direction. Therefore, who died and made Barack HUSSEIN Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, king or master of the universe? Not on this end. And since when are his surrogates the arbiters of what constitutes the rights of the people? Again, not at this address.
So the quest, herein, is certainly not hyperbole, nor for nothing. It is tangible, reality-based and full of so many proofs that a truckload isn’t beyond the realm of description. Part of the material is within and piggybacked at ‘Birthers’ reaching critical mass.
11 July 2013: With each passing day, it becomes more evident that the United States is a “captured operation,” and has been taken over from within. At the epicenter of the tyrannical takeover is none other than Barack Hussein Obama, a man also known as Barry Soetoro. The terrifying yet largely unreported fact is that after two elections and nearly five years, we still do not know with certainty the legal name, true legal identity or status of the man holding the highest office in America. Equally disturbing, and something that should concern everyone, is that anyone who continues to raise questions about Obama’s eligibility status or the authenticity of his long form birth certificate is either subjected to public ridicule or worse, threats to their safety.
This issue was again brought to the forefront last month when Mike Zullo, lead investigator for the Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff’s Cold Case Posse tasked with looking into the Obama eligibility matter, held a public update regarding the status of their investigation. Mr. Zullo publicly confirmed the facts contained in an exclusive report published on August 4, 2009 by me and Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod, when we jointly disclosed that a national talk show host stated that he was threatened with his career, “or worse,” should he talk about the issue of Barack Hussein Obama’s birth records to a national audience.
About three minutes into his public investigative update, Mr. Zullo stated: “I have been in contact with prominent media people, I cannot and will not disclose their identities that was the commitment I made.They fear for their jobs and some fear for their safety. There were threats made.There were people threatened with their occupations, losing their occupation if they continue this.”
According to Mr. Zullo, the corporate media is intentionally refusing to address this matter, which also includes the issue of a demonstrably fraudulent federal document, Barack Hussein Obama’s long form birth certificate, being published on the official White House website. Mr. Zullo stated that his interim report of investigation is currently about 325 pages long with another 80 pages to be added shortly. He expects the final investigative report to be somewhere about 700-800 pages long, and will also include matters pertaining to Obama’s selective service registration and social security number controversies.
Regarding the authenticity of the long form birth certificate posted on the White House website, detective Zullo described the document as “fatally flawed” and not a valid document at all. He stated that the identifying document purported by the White House to be a true copy of the original long form birth certificate is a manual creation by someone with planning and intent and contains proof of “human manipulation.” He also stated that the document “could not survive judicial scrutiny on any level,” adding that the creation or manipulation of a legal document is a felony.
The image posted on the White House website of Obama’s purported long form birth certificate was also examined by Reed Hayes, a highly credentialed certified document examiner. Mr. Hayes concluded: “In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated.”
Threats and intimidation continue
It’s been nearly four years since we were the first to report that high profile media personalities were threatened with their careers as well as their “safety” should they persist in talking about the legal identity and eligibility of the man known as Barack Hussein Obama. We provided the documentation to Detective Zullo and the Cold Case Posse immediately upon its formation. We are aware that the threats continue even today to those in positions to expose the greatest hoax and gravest threat ever perpetrated on America.
Who is it that holds the most powerful position in America? What is the true, legal identity of the man who has “fundamentally changed” this country so much in such a short period of time, and is capable of changing it even more? Who is behind the face of power, and just who is setting the course of our country? These questions have yet to be satisfactorily answered. Soon, merely asking them will be made into a criminal act as our freedoms are continually eroded by a man whose identity remains in question.
As the silence and the media blackout of this matter continues, all three branches of our government appear to have been captured by an enemy from within. The corporate media is complicit in keeping the American public in the dark about the truth behind the identity of the most powerful man in the world.
It is clear that our elected officials have been compromised into silence, as well as our judiciary. We, however, will not be silenced, for it is the fate of our nation that is at stake. We must stand behind the investigative efforts of the Cold Case Posse, and continue to push for answers to the most troubling questions that have ever faced a nation.
We have never been, nor will we now be intimidated into silence.
And into the mix comes another ! piece of strangeness, to say the least…maybe he just gets bad haircuts…
He has been plagued with questions and doubts concerning his background throughout his first term as President.
Questions like – is Barack Obama actually American? Is he a Muslim? Is he actually an alien from another planet? – have frequently been asked.
The next question circulating on the internet – has President Obama had brain surgery?
President Obama meeting comedian George Lopez as the First Lady looks on. Some observers believe this image shows a distinctive scar which looks like those left after brain surgery. However, there could simply be another explanation such as a bad haircut or birth mark
This enhanced image purports to show the scar running from the top of the President’s head to behind his right ear
Internet blog sites, conspiracy theorists and forums are awash with rumours as to what those mystery scars on the president’s head are from.
In pictures, Obama appears to have a long scar which goes up the side of his head and over his crown.
Some conspiracy theorists claim they are scars that you would see on someone who has had brain surgery.
But without medical records (along with his school records and birth certificate) no one seems to be able to provide an answer as to the cause of the mystery scars.
Ben Hart, a blogger for Escape The Tyranny a website which presents itself as a Social Network & Forum For Conservatives, said: ‘Obama’s almost done with his first term, and we still know almost nothing about the background of the President of the United States.
‘Whatever happened to create that scar, it was clearly something serious. Was it a brain operation? Has it affected his thinking?
‘No one is allowed to see his birth certificate. He is just one big mystery man, which adds intrigue to what that huge scar is all about.’
The ‘scar’ seen from another angle. One blogger says the surgery might explain why the President has, on occasion, got lost speaking without a teleprompter
Rumours: The Escape The Tyranny website strongly questions Obama’s head scars as well as why no one has seen his birth certificate
He also said that surgery might explain why the President gets lost speaking without a teleprompter, and posted a video of Obama struggling through a speech, repeating his words and getting lost mid-sentence.
In this regard, while a preponderance of this blog’s contacts operate in the field of investigative reporting, and others are highly placed geo-political analysts, there exists a smattering of top level medical professionals to reach out to (as evidenced within this link – “I contacted several highly connected medical professionals from the NYC area, people who knew how to put me in touch with the “highest authorities”, in the area of substance abuse, in the NYC metro area. To put it more bluntly, I called in some favors.”), if necessary. Therefore, knowing nothing about head ‘scars’, it behooved a ‘shout out’ to one such expert in the field of neurosurgery. This top professional (the Chairman in his dept.), who shall remain nameless, suggested that the above pictorials are in sync with brain surgery, however, there is no definitive way to know, sans his medical records! Bear in mind, they too have never been released and are kept under lock and key, as if vaulted at Fort Knox. Hmm.
Now, color such inquiring minds ‘conspiracy theorists’, but some of said questioners – in this arena, at least – are looking more and more rational, as opposed to those who accept the non-disclosures as ‘normal’.
Better yet, dare this blog posit: There is nothing more dangerous than NOT knowing – to a 100% certainty – who is leading the free world! And whether or not he likes vanilla or chocolate; which animals he prefers as pets; what his golf or basketball averages are, or any such distracting balderdash, the same cannot be said for: What is the POTUS hiding that he spends a fortune stonewalling court cases and refuses to open up ANY records, even to the point of THREATENING ‘this one and that one’?
Thus, is it still preposterous to ask: Who is this man-child? Not at all. In point of fact, the opposite, the failure to question, is not only ludicrous, but downright ominous!
One recognizes, or at least they should, when smoke is blown in their face. The stinging eyes, the actual smoke swirling overhead, as well as the possible labored breathing are all clear signs. But just as there is actual smoke, so too is their rhetorical huffing and puffing. Such is the case with Congress’s ‘reforms/promises’ to implement stringent beefed up border security in tandem with ‘legalizing’ illegals. Not sure about others, but placing ‘lipstick on a pig’ is a generous description of said ‘grand bargain’. This is the Senate’s vow – “Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Senate gave final approval Thursday to a roughly 1,200-page bill that promises to overhaul immigration laws for the first time since 1986, creating a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented residents while ratcheting up security along the Mexican border.”
But even if one is naive enough to believe this gangster-like regime’s rhetoric – with RINO’s providing despicable cover – how precisely will this be accomplished, being that it is ILLEGAL to ‘profile’ those crossing the border? In other words, how many average Joe’s or Jane’s are busy attempting to evade border control agents? Aren’t most of them – let’s be bold and honest here – of Hispanic and Mid East persuasion, with a few of Asian descent mixed in? Come on….
So, what’s a patriot to do when their leadership is caught ‘dead to rights’?
A truckload of young Hispanic men is spotted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent rumbling down a dusty road a mile north of the Mexican border toward El Paso, Texas.
How should the agent respond?
Under the immigration-reform bill currently under consideration by Congress, Border Patrol agents or any other law-enforcement officer who stops such a vehicle to demand identification might be found in violation of the law.
The legislation bars all federal law-enforcement officers, including border agents, from using race or ethnicity “to any degree” while making routine or spontaneous law-enforcement decisions, a WND review of the legislation has found.
The bill further calls for the Homeland Security Department to collect data on immigration enforcement activities to determine the existence of racial profiling.
The data would be utilized to issue future guidelines to officers regarding the use of race or ethnicity during routine enforcement.
The bill states that “in making routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops, Federal law enforcement officers may not use race or ethnicity to any degree, except that officers may rely on race and ethnicity if a specific suspect description exists.”
The bill defines federal law-enforcement officers as any “officer, agent, or employee of the United States authorized by law or by a Government agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of Federal law.”
The definition includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
It is clear that immigration enforcement officials are singled out by the new directives.
The legislation refers specifically to border-security agents with another clause that states “in enforcing laws protecting the integrity of the Nation’s borders, Federal law enforcement officers may not consider race or ethnicity except to the extent permitted by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
If the legislation is enacted, the bill calls for the DHS secretary to begin within 180 days the collection of data regarding the “individualized immigration enforcement activities of covered Department officers.”
The data is to be utilized immediately to possibly issue new guidelines.
The act states that within 180 days of the data collection, the DHS secretary “shall complete a study analyzing the data.”
Ninety days after the study is complete, the bill dictates the secretary, in consultation with the attorney general, “shall issue regulations regarding the use of race, ethnicity, and any other suspect classifications the Secretary deems appropriate by covered Department officers.”
The bill allows for some exceptions to the racial profiling restriction.
It states federal law-enforcement officers may consider race and ethnicity “only to the extent that there is trustworthy information, relevant to the locality or time frame that links persons of a particular race or ethnicity to an identified criminal incident, scheme, or organization.”
Most ominously, when one juxtaposes said toothless provision, essentially daring authorities to ‘catch the illegals if you can’ – as lawbreakers (terrorists as well) pour across the border, but border agents are prohibited from ‘profiling’ to thwart them -the promises by Congress to secure the borders amounts to dangerous, bold-faced lies. Yet, one has to place this legislative subterfuge alongside the actual MILITARIZATION of local police forces, but in relation to American citizens!
Let’s place the following squarely on the table: A healthy respect is evinced at this site for the sacrifices made by law enforcement, particularly in the U.S. and Israel. Few can rationally argue, sans a capable police force the ‘rule of law’ would be unenforceable.
That being said, not unlike all necessary tools, it depends upon who is wielding the ultimate power, whether or not abuses ensue. Now, it is certainly true that ‘military style’ policing has been around, even before the Radical-in-Chief soiled the People’s House, but at slower incremental levels. And particularly since 9/11/01, as well as whenever Demsters find an opening to insert their totalitarian muscle, the ante has been upped. But no one should dare suggest (at least at this site) that the so called ‘war on terror’ (one cannot be at war against a tactic, but never mind…stating that the west is at war against Islam is a non-starter) requires military style policing adaptations. Hogwash.
Consider, just under the (mis)reign of Obama Inc., how terrorizing policing has become to the average citizen:
But to clarify the dangers of militaristic policing becoming the American ‘norm’, just piece together DHS’s actions – lovingly guided by ‘mama Janet’ and continued under her successor – since the Radical-in-Chief took over.
So, whereas your neighborhood police officer may still look the same, the undercurrents, the ‘marching orders’ given from the Feds to local police forces, are undeniably shocking. Dangerous too – to the average, law abiding citizen!
A key distinction between the U.S. and other nations, even relatively free nations, long has been American restrictions on domestic use of the military, for police actions, law enforcement and keeping things under control.
However, when the local police officer or sheriff’s deputy is equipped with night vision goggles, laser-scope rifles, electronic eavesdropping equipment and body armor and comes up a citizen’s driveway in a military-type personnel carrier with shielded windows and oversize wheels, the prohibitions seem to lose some of their teeth.
It’s an issue on which WND has reported for more than a decade, and others now are taking note.
Since 1878, with the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act, it has long been an established legal principle that the federal government is not allowed to use the military to enforce federal or state laws.
In recent years, the law has been modified to allow the president to deploy federal troops to enforce the law. Two of the most notable cases are President Dwight Eisenhower’s decision to send federal troops into Little Rock, Ark., to enforce desegregation and the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
However, while American armed forces may be limited in their ability to enforce the law, the act is essentially being circumvented by militarizing local enforcement, equipping it with some of the same equipment, training and tactics used in war zones.
Radley Balko raised the issue recently a Wall Street Journal article, “Rise of the Warrior Cop.” He says the trend is to erase the line between military and law enforcement.
“Since the 1960s, in response to a range of perceived threats, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” Balko wrote. “Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment – from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers – American police forces have often adopted a mindset previously reserved for the battlefield.”
Balko said the “war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop – armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”
The number of local jurisdictions with SWAT teams has increased dramatically in recent years, employed now by the majority of police departments in small and medium-sized cities.
Balko cites surveys by criminologist Peter Kraska of Eastern Kentucky University, who noted that in 1983 just 13 percent of towns between 25,000 and 50,000 people had a SWAT team. However, by 2005 the figure was up to 80 percent.
With the increase in the number of SWAT teams, local police have increasingly used the new technology and training even in cases in which their use is questionable.
The article noted that along with the increase in the number of SWAT teams has come a corresponding increase in raids by the military-style trained officers. In the 1970s there were just a few hundred raids per year, however, in the 1980s the number of raids jumped to 3,000 per year. In 2005, the number is a stratospheric 50,000.
Balko highlighted the case of Matthew Stewart, a U.S. military veteran. Police got a tip he was growing marijuana in his basement. Stewart was awakened when the battering ram knocked down the door and. Thinking he was being attacked by criminals, he picked up a firearm and began shooting before being killed by officers.
After the shooting, police found 16 marijuana plants, and although the plants were illegal, there was no evidence he was selling the drug. Stewart’s father said his son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may possibly have used the marijuana to self-medicate.
While many Americans are concerned about the increased firepower possessed by local law enforcement, Balko said the problem is more pervasive than just local police departments, noting that many federal departments now have their own personal SWAT department.
Among the government agencies with their own SWAT teams are the Department of the Interior, NASA and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Even the Department of Education has its own “special forces” team.
Balko noted the federal department has sent SWAT team members to raid the home of a woman who authorities said was suspected of defrauding the federal student loan program. The raid raised eyebrows because it was it was the first time the public was aware the Education Department possessed such a unit.
Whenever the issue is brought up, officials claim the increased armament and hardware is needed because of threats faced by law enforcement that were not present decades ago. In the 1980s the rationale was the war on drugs, while in recent years it has been preventing domestic terrorist attacks.
However, the data does not back up such claims. The Colorado-based Independence Institute noted in a 1991 study that less than one-eighth of 1 percent of U.S. homicides were committed with military-style weapons. In the years since the 1991 report, additional studies have all reached similar conclusions including one by the Clinton Justice Department in 1995 and the National Institute for Justice in 2004.
While police departments have engaged in military tactics and training for their SWAT teams, they have been frequently limited by law and by finances. However, after the Muslim terrorist attacks on 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security began to offer federal grants to allow local police departments to upgrade their arsenal.
The Center for Investigative Reporting has said that since its inception in 2002, DHS has doled out $35 billion in grants to help militarize police forces with items such as grenade launchers and even armored personnel carriers.
In 1999, WND reported a proposed change in a federal regulation would be going into effect that would allow federal agencies to donate “surplus” firearms to state and local law enforcement entities.
The previous regulation permitted federal agencies to donate or sell trucks, boats, aircraft and even space vehicles to state and local agencies and to individuals. But the federal property management regulations drew a line in the sand when it came to agencies like the Forest Service or FBI transferring actual weapons either by gift or sale.
But under the new regulations, used handguns, rifles, shotguns, individual light automatic weapons up to 50 caliber, and rifle and shoulder-fired grenade launchers up to 75 mm could be transferred to state agencies for donation to state and local public agencies.
In 2011, the Pentagon gave away $500 million in military equipment to help bolster the armories of local law-enforcement.
Earlier this year the American Civil Liberties Union became concerned about the issue, saying in March it was filing a series of open records requests in 25 states and National Guard offices in an attempt to discover the extent to which federal funding have helped local police departments become more militarized.
“Federal funding in the billions of dollars has allowed state and local police departments to gain access to weapons and tactics created for overseas combat theaters – and yet very little is known about exactly how many police departments have military weapons and training, how militarized the police have become, and how extensively federal money is incentivizing this trend,” the ACLU said on its website.
While the issue is now beginning to generate concern over perceived threats to constitutional liberties by the Obama administration in light of the IRS and NSA scandals, WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah began reporting the trend to militarize the police in 1998.
In a column headlined “The cops are out of control,” Farah lamented that while in years past seeing a police officer gave him a sense of security, it was no longer the case because of recent actions by SWAT teams.
“The recent incidents in Oklahoma, where police shot an unarmed mother holding her child in her home, in Virginia, where a SWAT team killed a watchman guarding a dice game at an after-hours club and in California, where a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on a gun shop resulted in the death of the shopkeeper, provide some hard evidence that police in America may be getting out of control,” Farah warned at the time.
He went on to note the danger of police agencies acquiring military gear even back then.
“The biggest danger we face is the federalization and militarization of all law enforcement. Interagency task forces, bringing together local and state police with federal agents are now the rule of the day,” Farah noted. “Federal agencies bribe local cops with funding, equipment and training programs.”
The challenged to the Fourth Amendment generated by the use of SWAT teams and no-knock warrants is likely to continue as a result of a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court in 2011.
In a 3-2 ruling, the court ruled that there is no right for a private citizen to resist illegal entry by a police officer. The court stated in its ruling “that there is no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”
The case involved Richard Barnes, who faced misdemeanor charges for resisting a police officer who had entered his home without a warrant. According to the ruling, the case began when Barnes got into an argument with his wife, Mary. During the argument Barnes threw a phone against a wall, prompting his wife to call 911. She told the dispatcher that Barnes was throwing things but did not strike her. The call went out as “domestic violence in progress.”
Officer Lenny Reed arrived at the scene and met Richard Barnes outside as he was leaving with luggage. Barnes told the officer he was leaving and raised his voice. Mary Barnes then came out, threw a bag at her husband and told him to get the rest of his stuff.
The couple returned to the apartment and Richard Barnes blocked the officers from entering. Reed attempted to enter the apartment and was thrown against the wall by Barnes. Officers Jason Henry and Reed used a choke hold and Taser to subdue Barnes.
After being found guilty of battery on a police officer, resisting law-enforcement and disorderly conduct, Richard Barnes appealed the ruling. His basis was that the jury had not been given instructions regarding the right of a citizen to reasonably resist entry into his home.
The Indiana Supreme Court, in a stunning conclusion, stated: “This court is faced for the first time with the question of whether Indiana should recognize the common-law right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”
“We conclude that public policy disfavors any such right.”
A WND columnist excoriated the ruling, saying, “Our founders, whatever the differences among them, would be enraged” at the notion that private citizens secure in their homes have no right to resist entry by officers without a warrant.
The growing militarization of U.S. law enforcement agencies does not necessarily protect Americans and their homeland. Increasingly, the proliferation of heavily armed, uniformed police officers, who abuse their power and even kill many innocent citizens, is becoming a major cause for concern. ACD Senior Fellow William B. Scott explores the ramifications of a sharp increase in the use of SWAT teams.
Starve the Beast
By William B. Scott*
In an excellent July 19, 2013, Wall Street Journal essay entitled “Rise of the Warrior Cop,” author-journalist Radley Balko described the alarming militarization of police forces across America. He cited myriad cases of innocent citizens being killed by over-zealous police officers, particularly Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams serving warrants for alleged, often petty, offenses.
The WSJ essay, which is based on Balko’s newly released book, “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces,” details several egregious cases, where gunned-up, overzealous SWAT forces executed citizens in the name of enforcing gambling laws and mere regulations. “In 2006,” the author writes, “38-year-old optometrist Sal Culosi was shot and killed by a Fairfax County, VA, SWAT officer,” after an undercover detective overheard Culosi betting on college football games. “The department sent a SWAT team after Mr. Culosi, who had no prior criminal record or any history of violence. As the SWAT team descended, one officer fired a single bullet that pierced Mr. Culosi’s heart. The police say that the shot was an accident.”
That tragedy was hardly an exception. Today, elite police units often break into the wrong houses and kill innocent “civilians,” as cops now refer to citizens, the same people who pay officers’ salaries. The response given to families, friends and communities traumatized by such senseless killings? “So sorry. Just a mistake. Move on now; nothing to see here.”
Balko notes that “longtime and retired law-enforcement officers have told me of their worry that the trend toward [police] militarization is too far gone.” He offers a number of potential courses to reverse this slide to a Soviet-style, oppressive state, including “community policing” and “ending the federal grants that encourage police forces to acquire gear that is more appropriate for the battlefield” than protecting and serving honest taxpayers.
Nothing would be faster or more effective than the latter: Curtailing funds that have enabled the explosive growth of an aggressive, above-the-law police culture across the nation. Elected officials should immediately cut off federal money being funneled to local police departments.
Balko noted that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has given “first responders” $35 billion in grants, since the agency’s creation in 2002, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. Much of that was used to buy military hardware, such as armored vehicles. When U.S. combat units are being disbanded and front-line fighter aircraft grounded for lack of funding, there’s absolutely no justification for giving high-powered automatic weapons, night vision goggles and armored vehicles to thousands of burgs across America. If cities truly need SWAT teams, local residents should pay for them. Eliminate federal bucks and thousands of SWAT units will simply be dissolved, because there’s no need for them.
Equally effective would be the immediate banning of “No Knock” practices, which have claimed countless lives. When heavily armed, black-uniformed officers break into a home, often in the dead of night, how is the owner supposed to determine that those cops aren’t criminal invaders bent on harm? More often than not, an innocent homeowner, trying to protect himself and his loved ones, is killed-despite doing nothing that warranted being shot to death.
Federal, state and local officials also would be well-advised to start listening to outraged citizens, rather than self-serving police unions. Anger is sweeping the nation, thanks to an epidemic of abhorrent, heinous abuses and killings, typically by young, inadequately screened and poorly trained police officers.
For example, more than 30 California families of police-shooting victims marched through Anaheim on July 21 to protest the killing of loved ones. The Austin, Texas-based Peaceful Streets Project, which was founded by a former Army Ranger falsely accused of spitting on a police officer, has expanded at warp speed, with chapters popping up across the country. PSP members routinely follow police officers and video-record their actions. Although unlawful practices are showcased via YouTube, where millions now watch video clips of uniformed officers harassing, beating, abusing and brutalizing citizens, Peaceful Streets members are just as quick to applaud, when an honorable cop does the right thing.
Another asymmetric-warfare tool for exposing bad police behavior is a new genre of novels called “Justice Through Fiction.” By wrapping an intriguing story around the facts of illegal activities and senseless murders committed by law enforcement officers, authors are leveraging the considerable power of fiction and entertainment (books, movies, TV shows, etc.) to lay bare the dark misdeeds of today’s malevolent, rogue cops. Novels and movies also are delivering a thinly veiled warning to honorable officers and every police chief and sheriff: Either clean up your departments, by getting rid of uniformed thugs and killers, or outside forces will.
Americans and their elected leaders are reluctant to accept the truth that a minority within largely professional police forces are routinely abusing and killing innocent citizens, then blatantly lying to protect their own tails. But every taxpayer, community leader and law enforcement official had better wake up and start holding rogue cops accountable for their crimes. Millions are fed up with officialdom blindly accepting sloppy cover-up “investigations” and winking at abuses via courtroom farces structured to ensure killer-cops are routinely exonerated.
And the natives are ready to revolt. That sounds far-fetched, but it’s a fact-and it’s imminent. Unless victims assured of justice, with killer-cops indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned, today’s pandemic of police officer abuse of authority will spark a violent, bloody backlash. Aggressive, imperious police departments that behave like terrorists must be gutted, revamped and restored to a protect-and-serve culture, or cops will become hunted prey. That’s a one-way road to anarchy, and no American wants to go there.
The first step is to cut off funding for unnecessary SWAT units and any department having a record of corruption, abuse and murders-by-cop. Starve the militarized-police beast, and the monster will die with nary a whimper.
The Posse Comitatus Act was established as a legal principle, understanding full well that the federal government should NEVER become empowered with using the military as an enforcement tool for federal and state laws. Most significantly, it was the possibility of a regime gone wild, in which all manner of civil and human rights become trampled upon, that necessitated its implementation in the first place. Therefore, this separation, between the military and general law enforcement, is a major divider/bulwark between free societies and totalitarian regimes. At its core, Washington is being led by thugs in suits and skirts, albeit many are Ivy educated.
Now, knowing what we do about Obama Inc., shouldn’t all rational Americans be terrified that military powers have effectively been transferred to police agencies – even though the Feds deny any such overstepping of bounds – ostensibly to protect citizens from the ‘war on terror’? In other words, which is more terrifying: their power grabs or relying on a regular community policing force, one which is NOT a mirror image of a police state?
Outing the Brotherhood Mafia’s infiltration/penetration is a central component to this blog site. This is mainly due to their steady rise within America and the worldwide ramifications which ensue, as a DIRECT result to their catapult within its core recesses of power.
Each day which passes with Barack HUSSEIN Obama at the helm cements their Islamic grip. No ifs, ands or buts. The Brotherhood Mafia operated in America’s shadows via stealth jihadforyears, but this is no longer the case. If anything, Boston’s jihad blew that wishful thinking sky high – literally – as body parts exploded due to their handiwork. Yes, the Chechen monsters represent part and parcel of the overall jihadi network, regardless of ‘this or that’ cockamamie media spiels. And, the Brotherhood Mafia are the umbrella organ of all jihadi groups, even when warring against each other. Not only that, they are absolutely, incontestably enmeshed in the American landscape, so much so that the CIA Director, John Brennan, is a Muslim convert. You think the above is a whole lot of hooey and phooey? Keep dreaming.
“Islamic Terror Supporters Living on our Military Bases, then Disappearing”
The public is not aware of a dangerous trend happening inside America, and the media (right and left) will not expose this national security trend.
For many years foreign nationals (sent by their respective governments) from such countries as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Islamic based countries are traveling to America to work and live on U.S. military bases.
For over 24 years I worked and lived on military bases. Much of that time was as a Federal Agent (OSI). The American public would be surprised, upset, and afraid if they knew how many foreign military members come to work on our bases and suddenly disappear and never to be seen again.
It was always a serious concern to me when we investigated the disappearance of a foreign national, especially one’s from Islamic based countries.
It is no secret many of these foreigners have went into the secret underground world of ‘Sleeper Cells’. While an Agent I strongly encouraged our government to get more involved in these cases and to make the public aware of this national security issue.
Of course as per the norm, the public was not informed. over the last few years there have been some leaks to the media about this, but the media for the most part has ignored. Why?
For people who believe the U.S. government, specifically the DOJ, does not control much of what is reported in the media, they are wrong. They have an enormous amount of influence about what national security issues are discussed and to what depth they are discussed.
I will give one example. I had left federal service in late 2003. I began working with a former Iraqi Police Captain who had helped American troops in Iraq, and thus had to be brought to the U.S. for his own safety. We were conducting research on Sharia compliance in America, and the theory that the more Sharia compliant, the more there is a likelihood of violence or the supporting of violence against innocent people. We now know this is true, but in 2005 it had not really been proven.
Glenn Beck contacted the Iraqi officer and I while we were in Florida. He wanted to do a television interview with the Iraqi and I. We agreed. The interview lasted several hours and was conducted on a beach in Florida. We explained Sharia law and how Sharia law is practiced by Muslims. Beck was very interested and scheduled the interview to be aired the next day.
Within a few hours of our interview the FBI contacted Beck’s team and the former Iraqi police officer. The interview was to be shutdown in the best interest of National Security. Much of the Sharia law discussion pertained to Saudi Arabia, and the media and DOJ did not want to upset the Saudi’s.
How many foreign nationals from Islamic based countries are missing from U.S. military bases. So many that our government has lost count. Lackland AFB in San Antonio hosts thousands of Saudi military personnel. Several are missing. The government could use the media to post the pictures of the missing foreigners and ask for the public’s help.
This has not happened and will not. Again why? Many of the missing foreigners are from Saudi Arabia, and this would embarrass the Saudi government. The last thing we want in this world is to embarrass the Saudi government. Right?
Major Hassan/Fort Hood Murdered in the Name of Islam & U.S. Government Pays Him to be in Jail! By Dave Guabatz
Regardless of what “news organization or Saudi supported Islamic organizations’ are reporting, the violent ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood is very active in America. The tragedy (murders) at Ft. Hood by Major Hasan are the acts by what many Islamic scholars refer to as a ‘Pure Muslim’. Individuals like Major Hasan are acting upon what they are being taught within many Islamic Centers. Americans must demand our elected officials do their jobs and legally close down centers advocating violence against innocent men, women, and children. The following statements are examples of what Maj Hasan was being taught in America, and there are innocent Muslim children like Rifqa Bary who are trying to speak out, but are being shutdown by politicians who care more about the next election than they do our country and our children.
Major Hassan was doing his part in the name of Islam to reform America to the ways of Sharia as this DVD portrays.
Only the U.S. government pays a terrorist hundreds of thousands to stay in jail. Now if a vet who is rendered disabled during war time and is on Social Security Disability, the checks stop if the Vet is in jail for over 30 days, regardless of the circumstances. Respectfully, Dave G..
DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
“Every Muslim should have the desire for martyrdom in his heart. If he is unable to go into the battlefield, he should certainly have the desire for martyrdom in his heart”
* Pamphlet: “40 Hadith on Jihad” page 7. Author: Maulana Abdus Samad Siyal. Published in Pakistan.
“It is learnt from this Hadith that physical jihad will continue right till the day of resurrection and will be waged as such in some part or the other of the world”. We do not deny the benefit of waging an academic and intellectual war. However, an intellectual war alone cannot be fought everywhere. There are special places and occasions for it. In short, despite waging a jihad with the tongue, pen, rationale and intellect, the Muslim community cannot be absolved of the duty of waging physical jihad”.
* Pamphlet: “40 Hadith on Jihad” pages 21 -22. Author: Maulana Abdus Samad Siyal. Published in Pakistan.
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land, will be that they will be killed”.
* Booklet: “Duties of the learned to Ignorant Muslims”, page 5. Author: Abdul Qadir Oudah (Muslim Brotherhood/Egypt). Published in Pakistan.
“Whatever is against Sharia, is unlawful for Muslims, irrespective of any Government which has declared it lawful or has ordered it to be acted upon because the right of legislation for any Government is restricted to the condition that the law framed by it should be in accordance with the Sharia, its fundamentals and legal spirit. Now, if any Government considers it lawful to exceed these prescribed limits, then because of this attitude of the Government, unlawful shall not become of this attitude of the Government, unlawful shall not become lawful and it would not be lawful for any Muslim to act upon or enforce laws against the Sharia. Rather in such a situation it becomes obligatory for every Muslim to refuse to accept those laws and abstain from acting upon them, for it is unconditional for the Muslims to obey the orders of men in power”.
* Booklet: “Duties of the learned to Ignorant Muslims”, page 34. Author: Abdul Qadir Oudah (Muslim Brotherhood/Egypt). Published in Pakistan.
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One needs to internalize the insidious effects which Obama Inc. has on the U.S. military, and how it came to pass that jihadis can ‘hide in plain sight’ on military bases too! To break it down to its bare essence, the U.S. military is now training foreign jihadis on American soil!
LOST in the shuffle of all the ‘delicate’ business of ‘peace processing’ are the absolute violations of legal imperatives. In the main, Washington and Jerusalem are ‘legal’ outlaws, as they are both ‘conducting business’ with a terror entity, whose Charter (even after its so called ‘revisions’) explicitly exhorts for genocidal goals against Israel/Jews, itself a violation of international law! You got that?
The formal Israeli-Palestinian meeting announced by the US State Department as scheduled for next Wednesday, Aug. 14 is but the outer shell of the secret hard-core negotiations bouncing back and forth for weeks between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, DEBKAfile reports.
The real talks are approaching a climax on the fundamental issues of borders, Jerusalem, refugees and settlements. Every afternoon in past weeks, Kerry has called the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian leader on secure phone lines and taken the talks a step further. Any incoming calls from the two leaders are switched directly through to the Secretary of State, an unheard of procedure in his department.
As early as June 30, DEBKAfile revealed exclusively that the three-cornered negotiations had secretly got down to the brass tacks of core issues.
Ten days later, our sources reported dramatic progress, to the point that Kerry was asking Netanyahu for specific information on the Jewish settlements he was willing to remove in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and Abbas was chipping in with additions to the list. Netanyahu countered with questions about the Palestinian concessions on offer for the evacuations.
The process has been reduced to straight haggling, Middle East bazaar style – except that the wares laid out for sale are Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, security, international security forces and the borders that will separate Israel from a future Palestinian state.
Although Secretary Kerry has stated publicly that his objective is a final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, his expectations are more realistic when he handles the behind-the scenes, real-life horse trading. All three parties appreciate that the most they can achieve are interim accords. Items bound to remain at issue will have to be set aside for a future round of negotiations at a time which none of the parties is inclined to pin down.
For now, the officials assigned with conducting the formal negotiations are not privy to the progress made secretly by their principals. US special envoy Ambassador Martin Indyk, Justice Minister and senior negotiator Tzipi Livni and Palestinian negotiator Saab Erekat are therefore still in the dark.
Progress is substantial enough by now to have prompted Kerry to convene a meeting of Jewish American leaders for a briefing Thursday evening, Aug. 8, at the White House.
He told them there was a “strategic imperative” to arrive at a deal soon, and said he understood the difficulties Netanyahu faced in dealing with a coalition that included hard right parties and figures. He was described as appearing “bullish” about the talks, but also “nervous” about the Israeli prime minister’s ability to overcome the resistance in his own Likud party and government coalition to sweeping concessions on settlements.
As well as Ambassador Indyk, Kerrry invited National Security Adviser Susan Rice to join him at the meeting, which lasted 90 minutes, to signal President Barack Obama’s approval.
Kerry criticized the European Union’s policy of excluding Israeli enterprises on the West Bank from grants and prizes as likely to “nudge Netanyahu away” from a deal with the Palestinians, and therefore counter-productive to the peace effort he launched last February.
According to the information reaching DEBKAfile, Kerry’s motive in summoning American Jewish leaders to the White House was his belief that progress in the negotiations has brought the Israeli prime minister close to a crossroads. He will soon face a decision to reshuffle his cabinet and replace ministers who would oppose the terms of the interim accord shaping up with Palestinians. For this step, he would find the support of American Jewry helpful.
Netanyahu will soon need to present the leaders of the pro-settlement Israel Beteinu and Bayit Yehudi parties with the choice of backing him up all the way to the accord with the Palestinians to which the US Secretary is steering at speed, or quitting the government coalition. The same question will be put to Netanyahu’s own Likud party members.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been roundly condemned for bowing to U.S. President Barack Obama by releasing more than 100 Arabs terrorists, including murderers, as a “good will gesture” to the Palestinian Authority —the sponsor of those villains.
Mr. Netanyahu has been excoriated not only by the families of the victims, but also by countless Israelis, including renowned political commentators—and not only in Israel but also in the United States. The intrepid Jerusalem Post political analyst Caroline Glick has denounced Netanyahu’s subservience to U.S. pressure as “cowardice.” In a comprehensive review of Netanyahu’s previous failings, Israeli political scientist Martin Sherman has urged Netanyahu to resign, to JUST GO!
The eminent legal expert, Purdue University Professor Louis Rene Beres, has shown that the release of those terrorists by the Netanyahu-led government is a clear cut violation of international law. Beres has repeatedly cited the principle “No crime without a punishment,” NULLUM CRIMEN SINE POENA. This principle, he says, is conspicuously codified in binding international law. The same principle, he adds, “is codified directly in many different authoritative sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles (1950).” Accordingly, “Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.”
Nevertheless, the unlawful release of terrorists by Israeli governments has been going on for ten years, since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Israel-PLO Agreement of September 1993. Thousands of Palestinian Jew-killers have been released by these governments with the connivance and complicity of the United States.
The simple but inescapable truth is that both Israel and the United States have been patrons of terror. In fact, year after year, the U.S. has violated American law by appropriating hundreds of millions in support of the Palestinian Authority, a consortium of terrorist organizations with Jewish and even American blood on their hands. Yes, and no Israeli politician and no American politician have been held accountable for any of the crimes perpetrated by the PA.
The bitter truth is that given their complicity in the release of Arab terrorists, the governments of both Israel and America may arguably be called “criminal regimes,” which makes their respective leaders complicit in crimes against humanity.
This makes the example of Israel all the more puzzling—and not only because of Israel’s tortured history. How is it that Israel’s parliamentary, the Knesset, the supreme law-making body of the country, had nothing to say about Netanyahu’s craven obeisance to the United States—especially in view of the fact that his release of Arab terrorists is a clear violation of international law, a criminal act?
What makes the Knesset even more culpable is that members of that assembly are not individually elected by, or accountable to, the voters in constituency elections! Hence, each member of the Knesset bears all the more responsibility for the criminal acts of Israel’s government, which the Knesset in principle, can topple by a vote of no confidence. But as I have explained ad nauseam, the Knesset is subservient to the Cabinet, whose ministers are the leaders of the parties composing the Government!
Hence, there is no system of checks and balances, no accountability, and no effective rule of law in the so-called democratic State of Israel—a Big Lie in the Middle East, where bad people get away with murder and mayhem thanks partly to those deemed “good.”
A Protest against any Collaboration with Terrorists
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
My previous article, “Let the Truth Be Told,” referred to urgent and vital teachings of Professor Louis Rene Beres, an expert in international law. I pointed out that the release of Arab terrorists by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the collusion of the President Barack Obama renders the governments of both countries guilty of violating international law, specifically the principle stated by Professor Beres: “No crime without a punishment,” NULLUM CRIMEN SINE POENA.
This principle, he writes Beres, “is codified directly in many different authoritative sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles of 1950 according to which “Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.”
It was under the Nuremberg Principles that various Nazis were punished and executed as war criminals.
Both the United States and Israel are parties to international laws that prohibit the release and/or rewarding of terrorists. Hence it is the duty of all citizens in both countries to protest the violation of these laws by their respective governments, above all by their political leaders: in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; in the United States, President Barack Obama.
I write of this grave matter because I have the honor of being a dual citizen of both countries and of having served several years as an officer in the United States Air Force. In pondering the plea contained in this letter, I entreat my readers to bear in mind that I am animated by more than sentiment or outraged feelings. I am not only the author of several books on the American Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, but I have devoted years to showing that the basic principles of these two foundational documents of the United States can be traced to Holy Writ, indeed, to the Hebrew Republic of antiquity. In witness thereof, no less than Harvard President Samuel Langdon, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, recommended that the ancient Hebrew Republic, shorn of its ceremonial laws, could serve an excellent model for the then about-to-be-established government of the United States.
Moreover, since I have drafted a Constitution for the State of Israel—which in violation of its own Declaration of Independence has no constitution—I am all the more obligated to urge my fellow citizens in America as well as in Israel to rise up and protest, in a vigorous and sustained but civilized way, against the unlawful and immoral conduct of the Governments of our two beloved countries for having violated international law by releasing, or collaborating in the release, of Arab terrorists, on the one hand, and by thus sullying the lives of their victims on the other.
Letters, telegrams, emails, and other modes of communication should be sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Hussein Obama protesting their violation of international law as well as universal principles of morality by their collusion in releasing Arab terrorists and thus becoming patrons or collaborators in Arab terrorism.
DESPITE all of the above, it is still imperative to peer into the hypocritical, audacious, sanctimonious mindset of Obama Inc. (though previous administrations have been equally culpable), as they send drones to far away lands to assassinate Al Qaeda terrorists – hardly having mercy on them – as they plot to kill American ‘infidels’. Well and good. On the other hand, Kerry demanded – via the Islamist-in-Chief’s directives, but more than of like-mind – that Jerusalem must accede – once again – to the PA terror junta’s demands and release 100 plus Jew-killers, a crime, in and of itself, all for the sake of ‘peace’! Never mind that Israel’s erstwhile ‘peace partners’ have been purposefully killing Jews for decades and will become exponentially more ‘efficient’ in their Jew-killing’, if gifted over any more Jewish land! Need visual aids? Fine. Peek inside the binoculars of a PA intelligence officer.
More specifically, read the following and decide how ‘fit’ – or not – PM Netanyahu is to remain at the helm – “Two years ago, Israel refrained from pointing the finger at Teheran when missiles made in Iran and supplied to terrorists were first launched against Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Rishon Lezion. Israel remains silent when they are pointed at Eilat. DEBKAfile reported Friday.”
As such, he should resign, just resign and allow a Zionist statesman to take over the helm! For if not for PM Netanyahu’s spineless leadership– masked by his splendid oratorical skills – none of the above would be ‘part of the process’.
MORE often than not bombshells are dropped into this site’s sphere of influence. And, it is not as if this blogger isn’t used to highly charged terrain. As a matter of fact, associates/interested parties/circumstances draw this blog into divergent ‘areas of concern’. Be that as it may, when the bomblets/indictments revolve around Jewish (communal) interests, well, suffice it to say that the heart weighs a little heavier. Sigh. It is what it is.
Alas, since there is no rest for the weary or wicked, along comes another heart breaker, but let’s first explore a backgrounder on the latest ‘area of concern’.
Through multiple sources it has been brought to this site’s attention that The Jewish Pressis providing a forum for Islamic supremacists. It hardly matters whether it is unintentional, for the damage accrued is still the same. The (soon to be) referenced jihadists feign ‘brotherly’ love, and said gooey sentiments are enough for far too many deluded brethren, even those religiously imbued. Unfathomable. Despicable. Are they sitting on their G-d given brains?
The charges herein mainly revolve around The Jewish Press’sInternet‘sister’ publication, even though its Print editor insists that one operates independently from the other:
“The Jewish Press is the largest independent weekly Jewish newspaper in the United States……and quickly won a following for its eclectic mix of Jewish news, political and religious commentary… For over five decades now The Jewish Press has championed Torah values and ideals from a centrist or Modern Orthodox perspective. The paper has been a tireless advocate on behalf of the State of Israel, Soviet Jewry….and has taken the lead in urging a greater communal openness in addressing domestic violence and other social ills. Known for its editorial feistiness, The Jewish Press was politically incorrect long before the phrase was coined…..In 2011 the JewishPress.com website and related Internet properties were relaunched as an independent, daily online newspaper, with breaking news and in depth articles on Israel, the Jewish People and the world. The Internet edition is managed by Stephen Leavitt, and the senior Internet editor is Yori Yanover. PRINT CONTACT info found herein….” Moreover, the following was printed atop the Friday, October 7, 2011 PRINT edition: ” Starting this Wednesday, October 5, join us as we welcome a new edition to The Jewish Press family – The e-Edition. No matter where you are in the world, simply log onto http://www.jewishpress.com, click the e-Edition and enjoy the same informative and dynamic newspaper we have been offering our readers for over half a century…”
NOT connected? Oh, really? Both operate under the same Jewish Press umbrella, and the PRINT edition is specifically noted as a ‘point of contact’. Additionally, the website ADVERTISES for its PRINT subscription – Jewish Press Print Subscription – thus, it truly becomes six of one, half a dozen of another with less than six degrees of separation. Tragically, other Jewish/Israeli media outlets are equally embracing in their acceptance of Oktar’s ‘friendship’. All in due time.
Now, while it is surely the case that editorial discretion is up to those who sit at said perch, it is also obligatory upon The Jewish Press,a paper of (Jewish) record and import, to uphold its main mandate; the protection of the Jewish community within Israel and the diaspora. And, it’s a sacred mission. So, just as they must be supported if they ‘out’ Jewish malfeasance – rest assured, this blogger stands squarely behind such heavy lifting, as evidenced in the opening shot – it goes without saying, or it should, that lending a platform to Islamic supremacists (or their apologists) is always a NO GO ZONE…FULL STOP…regardless of ‘this or that’ gobblygook intention.
Yanover: Your love for all monotheistic people is clear and admirable. But while Jews are devoid of a directive to convert others to our faith, the very foundation of most Christian denominations is the command to bring others into theirs. Is it possible for God-loving men to live in peace with a large Christian element fomenting such aggressive intentions? Would it not spell constant tension and unrest within the community of God?
Adnan Oktar: It is natural for members of all faiths to think their beliefs are true and to defend them. Jews, Muslims and Christians have a perfect right to defend and tell others of their beliefs. However, it is of course unacceptable to try to force anyone to be a Christian or compel anyone to be a Muslim. Such a thing has no place in Islam. In verse 256 of Surat al-Baqara, Allah reveals, “There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned.” I do not believe my Christian brothers will put any such pressure or duress on others either. Jews, Christians and Muslims can all live together as servants who believe in the one Allah, who love Him and call upon Him. The important thing is to be very honest. No problems will arise so long as people are honest, because honest people never do anything incompatible with good conscience. They never do anything that will be displeasing to Allah. Lovelessness, harshness, oppression and compulsion are all displeasing to Allah. Those who love Allah stay well away from them…..”
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In plain English – not the bastardized kind – Oktar is exhorting, to one and all, and dare I repeat his main message: “Jews, Christians and Muslims can all live together as servants who believe in the one Allah, who love Him and call upon Him.” So, if Jews and Christians believe in the ‘one Allah’ !, then all relations will be swell. And, the interview continues along the same dhimmituderefrain, yet The Jewish Press’s interviewer prattles on, oblivious – or not – to the explosions/exhortations lobbed within said interview!
FAR be it for this blog to step into matters which are not within its purview or knowledge base, but aside from this site’s vast compendium of research/investigations into Islamic imperatives – amply evidenced within a groundbreaking policy paper ‘Islam & Blood’ – this writer has been on both ends of the interview process.
Regardless, for those who require further visual and audio aides to ‘see from there to here’, listen to the words of several high profile Rabbis – some have even written articles for The Jewish Press – and you be the judge, as to whether or not something is rotten within – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQG4lgkayw. Yes, pay attention to the 2:39 marker, whereby Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander (figuratively) bows down to Allah, via his agreeing with Adnan Oktar….talk about obsequious and craven.
NOT to be lost in the shuffle of those bowing down to Allah, another dhimmi rears his head, as Rabbi Avraham Sherman prays for Adnan Oktar’s mission to be successful! Imagine that. Thus, as Oktar clearly insists that it is incumbent upon ALL to accept the ‘one Allah’, Rabbis continue to play deaf, dumb and blind. Concomitantly, inexplicably, The Jewish Press adds a tailwind. Beyond contemptible.
IF your heart can withstand it (never mind your mental equilibrium), a full scale investigation has been undertaken, explicitly to expose the underbelly of Adnan Oktar’s mission, and then some. Glean within:
ADNAN OKTAR AND THE ISLAMIST SEX CULT
“Adnan Oktar and the Islamist Sex Cult” by Sam Westrop is one of the best, most comprehensive current expository sources that I’ve come across on Adnan Oktar. His downloadable 2013 report* at the Website below is replete with accessible footnote links, including the MEMRI video in which Oktar admits his eventual goal is of Islamic world domination:
“Israeli politicians and Jewish media across the World,” writes Westrop, “have excitedly embraced the efforts of Turkish television channel A9 to effect and encourage interfaith dialogue – or, as the channel itself puts it, promote “peace and love” between all peoples.”
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“The programme is part of a hardline group run by Turkish Islamist Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya), and extremist with a history of promoting Holocaust Denial and who fuses Ataturk nationalism with Turkish Islamism in his attacks upon Jews, Darwinists and Atheists. His group of followers is best described as a cult; one accused by a number of critics of using sexual abuse and blackmail to achieve political leverage.”
A9 is falsely perceived by a number of media outlets as an example of a moderate Islamic voice that is working to bring Jews and Muslims closer together. While this is indeed the declared purpose of A9, it is a façade that shrouds a hostile agenda. Just as democracy was a useful means for Turkish Islamists to propagate their anti-democratic views, so too is A9’s declared devotion to interfaith dialogue a sanitizing veneer that distracts from its more sinister ideas.
Jewish media journalists and Israeli Rabbis have been invited to Adnan’s headquarters free of charge and subsequently agreed to support him. Let it be known that Adnan Oktar has a long history of inviting many influential people to his headquarters which has a camera in every room, filmed sex orgies, and used these same films for black mail so as to demand support for his causes. Adnan Oktar who was diagnosed as being mentally ill, claims to be the next Muslim Mosiach. It is interesting that after various Rabbis have been invited to Turkey, support Oktar’s claims in one way or another in video links below.
Who is Adnan Oktar (pen name: Harun Yahya)? He is claimed on his web page to be a ‘world renown and respected scholar’ who has devoted himself to writing about scientific and faith-related subjects such as the theory of evolution and miracles of God.
He is further described by supporters as a respected ‘scientist’ who has publications in incredibly diverse areas of interest (actually he is not a university graduate). He speaks only Turkish. The fact is that, his publications and his foundation (Science Research Foundation) have recently been banned in Turkey, and most members of his “sect” have been sent to court. This was not due to their Islamic and scientific activities, but due to crimes such as blackmail, extortion, possession of unlicensed weapons and sexual intercourse with minors. About three years ago, upon complaints of victims and many years of suspicion, Turkish police raided residences of this group. The discoveries at the houses and testimony of the group members were shocking. Under the mask of promoting Islam and scientific facts, the group members had been found to engage in extensive criminal activity. These crimes included blackmail, possession of unlicensed weapons and sexual intercourse with individuals under age 18. The head of the group, Adnan Oktar (recorded by police cameras, leaked and shown on Turkish TV channels such as Kanal D, ATV, Star) confessed to blackmailing people who they regarded as an obstacle to their enterprises. These people included the reporters for the newspaper Hurriyet, Emin Colasan, and Fatih Altayli, after they questioned some of Harun Yahya’s activities such as bribing the municipality of Ankara.
Yori Yanover, an editor of the Jewish Press, continues to print Sinem Tezyapar’s articles and attempts to justify it . . .
In this April 21, 2013 article, “A Muslim Perspective: Boston’s Tragedy Must Not Generate More Hate,” that was published one day after the Boston Marathon Bombing, Sinem describes jihad as peaceful and loving and essentially accuses the victims of being hatemongers, propagandists, criminal, and of “inciting lynch mob.”
The following links are from the JPress by Sinem Tezyapar. Most of the talkbacks have been censored. http://www.jewishpress.com/author/sinemtezyapar/
After a free trip to Turkey, Adnan Oktar’s headquarters, various Rabbis freely support Adnan Oktar stating that the time for Mosiach is close and that the 3rd and final Jewish Temple should start from Turkey.
One needn’t think that The Jewish Press is the sole Jewish- related media organ captivated/smitten by Oktar’s taquiyya-driven, stealth jihad. NOT by a long shot. But their platform is huge. Additionally, through one of ‘Oktar’s stable of girls‘, get a load of where else his Islamic message was given a boost – the Jerusalem Post!
“It is essential for Turkey and Israel to act together if the problems in the Middle East are to be eliminated……” read the whole thing….after which, are my readers feeling the ‘Turkish love’…warm and fuzzy-like? Then, listen to these ‘syrupy’ words – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejc-PUa-gO8. Vomit.
Adding fuel to the fire is the ACTUAL admission from Oktar’s followers, but do internalize their MAIN message: Israel must submit to their strictures, as laid out under the Turkish Islamic Union, otherwise there will be no ‘protective’ umbrella! You got that? Israel’s ‘shield’ will take effect, but only once the Jewish nation submits to the dictates of the (reconstituted) Ottoman Empire!
“Ceylan Ozbudak works with the controversial Islamic leader Adnan Oktar, also known as Harun Yahya. One of Oktar’s announcements has been his desire to build a temple for all religions on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Ozbudak suggested that Turkey can mediate between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and other surrounding countries for peace. She added that Turkey could protect the Jewish people’s right to live in Israel as well as manage the region. But will this grandiose plan work and does Israel want to give up much of its sovereignty to be protected by the former Ottoman Empire?
Ozbudak hosts a television show called, ‘Building Bridges’, with a variety of other young Turkish women. They have stated on the program that in order to ensure peace, “we believe that this can only be done through a Turkish Islamic Union, where all the countries will be independent in their states, but they will be under one roof and Turkey will be the spiritual leader of this Turkish Islamic Union”.
The show airs on A9TV, which states on its website that it “has been set up to build up love, justice and solidarity among people and our main aim is being pioneer for peace all over the world by using the unifying policy of Turkish Islamic Union. In every show youwatch you will feel this policy clearly.”
“On to this stage walked Oktar, clutching the first of his books, Judaism and Freemasons, a derivative retread of anti-Semitic clichés in the manner of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which identified Jews and the masons as the devious obstacles to the emergence of a new, powerful Turkish-Muslim nation. “The principal mission of Jews and Freemasons in Turkey,” Oktar wrote, “was to erode the spiritual, religious, and moral values of the Turkish people and make them like animals……
Throughout the 1980’s and early ’90’s, Oktar built up his community. Followers were especially active in the swanky summer resorts along the shore of the Sea of Marmara. A friend of mine, who spent most of her holidays in the late 1980’s at her parents’ summer flat in the area, recalls how the followers’ targeting worked: “They bought flats there and singled out attractive girls and boys. The boys were very good-looking, boys who can easily charm you. I guess this is why they started with the boys. Once the girls entered the cult, they had to give up sexy fashion, so they wouldn’t be able to attract new members. But for the boys, the rules were more relaxed, so that they could continue recruitment……
The social organisation within the group was becoming rigidly hierarchical and, as is common in messianic cults, sexual relations were tightly controlled, with the putative messiah given access denied to others. Oktar considered all female members his legitimate possession. Berk, a recent defector after seven years, describes the groups: “There were sisters (bacilar), concubines (cariyeler) and brothers (kardesler), the male members. The brothers were allowed to marry the concubines, while the sisters were all married to Adnan Hodja.” Of course these marriages were not legal, but they were treated as such within the group. As with Scientology, discipline was maintained through humiliation, the threat of expulsion and physical violence. “I know personally,” Berk told me, “that Oktar beats the sisters…..
Video cameras were installed in the communal apartments, which allowed Oktar to exercise control over his followers and outsiders. As the criminal indictment vividly illustrates, young girls were lured into sex parties with the promise of being admitted to the group, but ended up having to perform sexual acts with men of influence, whom the group needed for its economic and political success. The encounters were filmed and used to coerce the men in question to act in the group’s interest……
Sensing another opportunity immediately after 9/11, Oktar instantly shed his formerly virulent anti-Semitism and published a piece called “Islam condemns terror”, designed, apparently, to curry favour with America. Oktar’s group already had established good relations with US congressmen in 2000, when his Science Research Foundation received the endorsement of seven members of Congress and retired Senator Steve Symms, who described it as “a major influence for good among the younger population of Turkey” and praised its “commitment todemocracy, preservation of national and moral values, and respect for law”…..
Since then Oktar has become an ardent proponent of interfaith dialogue, attempting to unify believers of all stripes against the corrupting influence of Darwinism, which he now holds responsible for Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Most recently, he has been talking about the “Turkish-Islamic Union”, which would bring peace to the entire Muslim world under the leadership of Turkey……
Thanks to the “War on Terror”, Oktar could paint himself as a credible alternative to radical Islam; thanks to our timidity and incompetence around issues of faith he can gain credibility as a representative of Muslim sentiment and a champion of “inter-faith dialogue.”
Though Halil Arda’s indictment continues on – and should be read in full at the above link – a nagging question begs/screams to be asked, albeit doubtful it will be answered: Is it possible that the above same ‘filming’ techniques have been used on some of Judaism’s ‘smitten’ brethren? In other words, is blackmail involved? Don’t get mad at ‘inquiring minds’, thus, pointing (deflecting) fingers in this site’s direction. No Allah-wash.
NONETHELESS, Allah is surely proud of Oktar’s deception and depredations. Holy smokes. In this regard, what say you, The Jewish Press? Why haven’t you conducted your due diligence, before allowing this creature (and others of similar persuasion, but let’s not muddy the waters) to sully your pages, thereby, slapping your devoted readers in the process?
FULL DISCLOSURE: This American-Israeli has been privileged to contribute to The Jewish Press, over the past several years. The op-eds can be accessed herein, but the sidebar links to other contributions from this writer. For many decades, this Jewish ‘institution’ became a ‘bible’ of sorts for Orthodox Jewry, as well as many Christian supporters who love Israel. This is a (communal) fact.
So, as a professional courtesy, this blog calls upon The Jewish Press’s senior editors – in Print and Internet…you know who you are – to fully address said concerns. A ‘tikkun’ , a reckoning, of sorts. But this site is not referring to ‘tikkun olam’ (‘repairing the world’), a revolting mantra often used by leftist Jews, which leaves little room for ‘taking care of pressing Jewish business’.
Many Jews, and non-Jews alike, await a swift and detailed response. Besides, this blog address is as good as any – perhaps better than most – to start the dialogue. An accumulation of several hundred thousand viewers – in just over a year – lends this site viable credibility and heightened visibility.
And, another thing, no ‘weasling’ out…squirming…dodging…or weaving will be countenanced. Straight shooting a necessary requirement. A communal obligation.
The Jewish Press – other media outlets as well – we are watching…waiting…
‘Sudden death’, especially involving one’s nearest and dearest, often leaves a person grappling with unbearable pain, wondering: How the hell did this happen? Yet, even when one is given a medical examiner’s explanation, the ‘bolt out of the blue factor’ can still leave one absolutely reeling. Familiar terrain.
And, even if a loved one dies while performing otherwise risky operational duties, answers to reasonable inquiries must be forthcoming. Besides, not only is it a moral imperative to inquire and receive as much information as possible, but requests for an official autopsy is the norm via accident scene reconstructions, from whatever level of officialdom necessary.
That being said, officialdom’s total stonewall regarding 22 SEAL deaths, on the heels of the much ballyhooed killing of Osama Bin Laden, is unprecedented, even in the ‘secret’ netherworld of special ops forces. Many Generals (and special ops members) are indeed questioning the seemingly unfathomable ‘official’ narrative, to say the least. Added to the fact that a rescue team was held back, and each family offered up the same narrative to those ‘investigating’ the tragedy – that their sons warned that leaks were jeopardizing their missions – well, their deaths have become nothing short of ‘mysterious’.
NEVERTHELESS, a trusted contact, ‘terror hunter’Tom Trento, blew the lid off of the initial cover up with his blockbuster interview SEAL TEAM SIX spars off against Obama Inc. In tandem, the popular radio show host/author, Michael Savage, is in hot pursuit. One way or another the skeletons will pour forth, simply because a band of SEAL brothers are not letting go. Even Obama Inc. will eventually have to admit that tackling with them is way out of their league. These aren’t guys who back off from ANYTHING, not even this criminal regime! Besides, isn’t it curious that stories re the above, from the ‘scooping’ media, are having certain technical problems?
The father of one of the 22 Navy SEALs killed in August 2011 when their Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan, told talk-host Michael Savage he believes the U.S. government sent his son and his colleagues to their deaths.
After Vice President Joe Biden revealed that SEAL Team 6 carried out the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, Strange said the members of his son’s team gave startling indications to their families they were about to meet their demise.
Charles Strange, the father of slain SEAL Michael Strange, told Savage Wednesday night that in June 2011, on at least three separate occasions his son grabbed him by the bicep and announced that he had prepared his will.
The bewildered father finally was able to find out what it all meant.
Michael Strange, his father recalled, said, “Something’s going on with the team. Somebody’s leaking things out. Something’s going on.”
Savage, reacting with emotion, asked: “Your son knew he was being sent to his death?”
“They knew,” Strange replied. “They knew something was up. Every one of them.”
Other families of the victims have reported similar experiences with their sons the last time they saw them, Strange said.
Strange said documents related to the crash that he obtained show that, among other anomalies, the rescue team was held back.
“This was all planned,” he said. “I have it in the paperwork.”
Strange affirmed that there was no chase helicopter or any other kind of support for the team.
“So, you’re saying they planned to execute your son and the others on purpose?” Savage asked.
“One hundred percent, sir,” Strange replied.
Investigation
Prompted by the concerns expressed by family members, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said his subcommittee on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating the crash.
As WND reported in May, Strange recalled to the National Press Club in Washington his experience with President Obama at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Aug. 9, 2011, when the remains of 30 U.S. troops were brought home from Afghanistan.
He leaned over to whisper into President Obama’s ear to ask if there would be a congressional investigation into the death of his son.
President Obama whispered back, “We will look very, very, very deep into this.”
But Strange said he hadn’t heard a word since that encounter.
The families have filed a lawsuit against President Obama, Vice President Biden, the Taliban, the governments of Afghanistan and Iran, because the Islamic regime promises to pay $10,000 for every dead U.S. service member.
Among their many suspicions, the families question the sudden replacement of seven Afghan commandos on board the helicopter just before takeoff. The seven who died in the attack are not the seven listed in the flight manifest. The families say that to this day, they don’t know the identities of the dead Afghans. Strange noted that the chopper’s black box was never recovered and doubts the explanation that it was washed away in a flash flood.
Most significantly, ‘dropping like flies’ is more than resonant when it comes to this criminal leadership. After all, even though the exact circumstances of several ‘too close for comfort’ deaths are varied, the fact of the matter is that those who attempt to ‘out’ the regime’s criminality, in one arena or another, are indeed ‘mysteriously’ dying. Yes, these are cold, hard facts, despite the silence from Obama’s media mouthpieces. As a result, the general media is, to be generous, bereft of ‘inquiring minds’. Some might say, dare this blog suggest, complicit.
Far be it for this American-Israeli (an unequivocal patriot) to take the side of Egypt’s strongman over Washington’s wishes, but such is the case when an Islamist-in-Chief rules the roost – in America!
The prima facie evidence at this site, which is the basis for Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s fealty to the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia (whatever country they rule from, even from within Washington’s recesses), only leads in one direction. The indictment herein is criminal in nature, being that many lives have been lost due to his support of their terror efforts, regardless of anything else. There is no way around it. And, if anything is emblematic of said charge, well, throwing Washington’s weight behind Morsi, as opposed to those seeking to remove the boot of Islamists, more than speaks for itself.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi – Egypt’s next president?
Egypt’s Defense Minister and coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will run for president – possibly before the end of the year, DEBKAfile’s Exclusive sources report. He is deep in preparations for launching his election campaign Thursday August 15 and plans to keep it short. Untroubled by criticism from the United States and Europe, he plans to restore the Egyptian army to political center stage in Cairo and keep the democratic process under control. Like former presidents Gemal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, the defense minister will repress the Muslim Brotherhood he unseated on July 3 before cutting a deal with its leaders to permit them a restricted measure of political activity.
Tuesday July 30, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel phoned Gen. El-Sisi and, according to the official statement issued in Washington, talked about this week’s visit to Cairo by European Union Foreign Policy Coordinator Catherine Ashton and her two-hour conversation with deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
This dry communiqué omitted to reflect the attempts by Hagel and Ashton to twist the Egyptian general’s arm intor releasing Morsi from detention and re-integrating the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s national politics.
Hagel specifically pressed him to bring Muslim Brotherhood members into the interim government and give them free rein to run candidates for parliament in early 2014.
El-Sisi told Hagel and Ashton that it was up to the Muslim Brotherhood to subscribe to his roadmap for the caretaker administration which is ruling the country until elections are held. He then floored the US defense secretary by announcing he was launching a lightning campaign for his own run for the presidency in an early election. German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, who arrived in Cairo Thursday, was also taken aback.
Wednesday, the US Senate voted 86-13 in favor of a motion to block a bill calling for the suspension of US military aid to Egypt. This bill was tabled by the Obama administration to signal its displeasure with and objections to the military coup.
Nonetheless, President Obama has chosen to send to Cairo some time in August, two senior Republican Senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to try and smooth over the rough passage between Cairo and Washington.
The administration can’t do much with Gen. El-Sisi. He addresses Washington and European officials with courtesy but then goes off and does the exact opposite of what they ask of him.
His actions present Washington and its European allies with unpalatable facts:
1. The defense minister is determined to restore the Egyptian army to center stage of Egypt’s political scene – as in the days of his predecessors.
2. Egypt is reverting to the Mubarak era when the army decided who would be president.
3. The democratic process in Egypt will be controlled and overseen by the army.
4. Again like all former presidents Gemal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, El-Sisi is bent on repressing the Muslim Brotherhood which he unseated last month until he can cut a deal with its leaders permitting them to be politically active within pre-set confines. The Brothers will be allowed to seat a small number of representatives in parliament.
5. Should the Americans or Europeans punish the military strongman by halting or cutting back on economic and military aid to Egypt, he is confident that Saudi Arabia and some oil emirates will make up the shortfall.
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that the administration responded Thursday by naming Robert Ford, US ambassador to Syria, as the new envoy to Cairo. Ford made a name for his unconventional methods and for reaching groups opposed to the Assad regime at the outset of the Syrian uprising.
Our sources report that while the West is focusing on restoring the Muslim Brotherhood to the political center, the defense minister is wholly wrapped up in his drive for two goals: Breaking up the constant pro-Morsi Brotherhood sit-in in central Cairo, even by military force if need be; and getting his election campaign underway. He has hired Khalaf al-Adawi, a relatively unknown politician, as national campaign manager and a slogan is in the works: It will call on the general to run for president and “Finish his good work!”
His campaign managers have been set the goal of collecting 30 million signatures for his candidacy. That way, he can run on the ticket of the people’s candidate – not the army’s.
For the umpteenth time the world is transfixed by the “peace process.” One needn’t even identify the referenced nations, for their identities are (purposefully) seared within the world’s consciousness. It is as if there are no other warring parties in the world. And via a mesmerizing illusion – simply dependent upon mixing this and that potion – this time “peace” will be in the offing between PA Arabs and Israel.
The so called “smarties” behave, and religiously believe, as if by their sheer force of momentum “peace” will break through, but only if they just push Israel a little harder! Thus, if they exert enough pressure points upon Israel’s leadership (read, twist enough arms…paradoxically not a hard feat at all) somehow – this go around – they will be able to conjure up an agreeable formula, one in which the elusive “peace” wand will magically appear. As such, poof, its ingredients will usher in the ever elusive pipe dream. Alas – and herein lies the caveat – this wondrous breakthrough will only come to pass if enough Israeli concessions, gestures and giveaways are sacrificed upon the (‘peace’) table, and Israel’s “true believers”, leftists, are more than willing to ante up. Please. Been there. Done that. Israel’s graves are full to the brim with said “sacrifices.” Its hospital rehabilitation wards too.
Now, it is one thing for the world’s busybodies to engage in the “business of peace”, however, very few pundits talk about the insanity of Israel’s leaders participating in this dangerous and deadly charade. Yes, Israel is not an island onto itself. And, indeed, its leaders are under enormous international pressure (mostly from Washington) to give “peace a chance.” However, one would think – and rightfully so – that being burnt, almost to a crisp (with thousands of Jewish graves, and many more maimed for life due to the “process”, thereby, proving its insanity) would disabuse them of participating any longer in this hideous march of madness. IF only.
According to pre-eminent political scientist Professor Paul Eidelberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eidelberg, an American-Israeli PhD from the University of Chicago) “It needs to be understood and emphasized that anyone, regardless of his subjective ideas or feelings, who supports the creation of an Arab-Islamic state in Judea and Samaria is OBJECTIVELY advocating Israel’s destruction. This applies even to an Israeli Prime Minister!
In support of this provocative statement, I offer certain demonstrable facts which indicate there is not a stitch of evidence that contradicts the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to destroy Israel.
This commitment, which is rooted in Islamic theology, is proclaimed in the PLO-Palestinian Charter. Any honest or decent human can read in that Charter their murderous hatred of Jews and Israel. This hatred permeates Palestinian propaganda. It is manifested in the education and military training of Arab children. This ghoulish hatred promises a continuation of the 20 years of Oslo terror that has murdered and maimed 15,000 Jewish women, men, and children…….”
Moreover, many of the heretofore inexplicable answers can be found within a recent interview given by this writer at Inquisitr.com. But in the main, the root of Israel’s folly can be found in the incestuous relationship between its political leaders and its civil society elites. According to Dr. Martin Sherman, Founder of Israel Institute For Strategic Studies “Through their un-elected positions of influence and authority, civil society elites shape the political discourse and hence the perceived constraints on decision-makers…a trinity of interacting civil society elites, comprising groups and individuals who dominate the legal establishment, the mainstream media and much of the nation’s academia – particularly, but not exclusively, in the social sciences and humanities, including law.
These elites, through their unelected positions of influence and authority that their professions confer on them, can to a large measure shape the content and the conduct of the political discourse in the country, and hence the constraints that decision makers perceive themselves to be subject to.
This clearly provides them the capacity to have a dominant impact on the formulation of national policy and to impose their overarching worldview on the elected incumbents, no matter what the latter’s political manifesto or electoral pledges to the voters may be…”
Average Israeli citizens (secular and religious Zionists alike) are scratching/banging their heads, hoping to come up with a ‘plan of action’ – to stop the ‘process’ dead in its tracks. A still birth. So, it is only appropriate to offer up to fellow Zionists some ‘marching orders’, not conjured up via this American-Israeli, but by, none other than, her mentor, Professor Louis Rene Beres –
Sometimes, tragedy and irony may arrive together. Now that it is reportedly back “on track,” the so-called Middle East Peace Process threatens Israel with additional dismemberment, and eventual disappearance.
Aware of these intolerable prospects, thousands of Israelis who are opposed to any further existential surrenders may soon prepare for an appropriate response to “Palestine.” Whatever its particular shape and expression, this “post-peace” response to a new Arab state, one that would be carved out of Israel’s own still-living body, may take some recognizable form of civil disobedience.
To be sure, the Netanyahu Government, inexplicably confident in Palestinian compliance with pre-state agreements on “demilitarization,” will object strongly to any such tactics. Nonetheless, civil disobedience has a long and distinguished tradition in jurisprudence and democratic theory. In part, as the following argument will make clear, certain roots of this tradition actually lie in Jewish Law.
From its beginnings, Jewish law has been viewed as a manifestation of God’s will. Biblically, the law is referred to as the “word of God,” never of humankind. God, therefore, is the sole authentic legislator, and righteousness necessarily lies in observance of His law. Moreover, for ancient Israel as well as for the ancient Greeks, the absence of righteousness is expected to place at risk the lives and fortunes of the entire community……
YET, many legitimate questions still arise as to why a leader, such as PM Netanyahu, who was groomed within the national Zionist camp, would even advocate for a “two-state solution.” A very incisive analysis was penned by Caroline Glick – Bibi and the true believers. Dr. Martin Sherman’s latest J Post column tops the charts, Resign, just resign!Clearly, these analyses are very depressing, but no less necessary. In fact, Dr. Sherman’s recent interview at Inquistr.com, Confronting Israel’s Precarious Future: An Interview With Dr. Martin Sherman: Part One demonstrates precisely how Israel’s leaders, via the “peace process”, have evinced a grave dereliction of duty, thereby, placing the nation of Israel in a position of mortal peril.
All of the above are must reads, if you truly want to understand how/why Israel’s leadership have brought Israel to the brink of disaster.
Basically, there is a colossal tug of war between Israel’s civil society elites – chiefly hailing from academia, media, legal, cultural and diplomatic circles – and the non-existent electoral responsibility between MK’s (Parlimentarians) and the Zionist public, whose votes actually reflect the will of majority public. In this regard, Israel’s political leadership are held captive to those who have the largest megaphones and pocketbooks. Surely, this does not include the average citizen and their political will, in large part due to Israel’s gravely dysfunctional political system.
To wit, Israel’s President (a figurehead/ceremonial post to begin with, and its office is not endowed with policy making decisions), Shimon Peres, is still trotting around the world (a real feat of magic, being that he is past 90!) and selling “peace dreams.” He infamously intoned that “sacrifices for peace” – alluding to the dead and maimed – are necessary to reach a historic accord! Hmm.
Well, I am not sure about world onlookers, but those who were “sacrificed” – as well as their surviving family members and friends – would beg to differ.
But, then again, President Peres and the perennial “peace chasers” are still open for business! So, they must know better, acutely emblematic within:
“The state files request in response to recent Almagor petition to block mid-August prisoner release; argues gov’t believes prisoner release gives Israel potential for improving security situation……”
At its bare base, Israel’s leadership truly believes that releasing bloody-handed Jew-killers (though their hearts are aching…blah, blah) will IMPROVE the nation’s security! Can you see with whom we are dealing…on the one hand lies our enemies, on the other stands our Oslo-driven mentally besieged leadership. NOTHING good will come of this – at least for Israel’s (and diaspora’s) Zionists.
Criminals (whether they commit murder, theft or a variety of crimes) truly believe that their prey are not only weaker, but dumber too. This may be the case some of the time, but certainly not always. And when it comes to ‘average’ thugs they often get away with their crimes, but thankfully many more are caught, even years later. Think of all the murderers who believe they have beaten the rap, only to find themselves ensnared by a dogged pursuit via a ‘cold case posse’. When caught, they often evince looks of sheer stupefaction – deer-in-headlights. Priceless.
Now, consider the enormous challenges when going after the most high powered/connected perps of all – leaders of the free world, and even the not so free. Then, imagine the brick wall, when the so called ‘justice’ system is supposed to serve and protect, yet they do no such thing.
Specifically, to allow this criminal cabal to rule, once again, is to whistle past America’s graveyard. The following is just its tip: Hill’s tap dance around Huma Abedin‘s (her Deputy COS at State) CLOSE/DEEP nexus to the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia is a shocking national betrayal, even though others – RINO’s too – are culpable of said dereliction of duty. And, if said treachery is not enough to land her/them in prison, let alone obviate any run as POTUS, surely this is more than indicting, as Hillary covers up pedophilia and assorted crimes while Sec of State. And, their crime spree marches on…
Exclusive: James Sanders ties high-court justice to attempt to conceal shoot-down evidence – August 5, 2013
By James D. Sanders
After 17 years of investigating a criminal cabal at the top of the Clinton administration and Department of Justice, which included my indictment and trial for investigating them, I finally gathered a comprehensive fact-set any rookie prosecutor can take to a grand jury and obtain indictments. First comes the low-ranking people that keep their federal jobs by engaging in willful blindness – sycophant savants, a common affliction within the FBI and Department of Justice. Then comes the middlemen, and so on up the line.
Such indictments will never happen, however, because the United States has become little more than a very large banana republic coasting along on its crumbling capitalist past. The story even includes two federal judges, one currently on the United States Supreme Court, who assisted the criminal cabal.
Before today the story has only been partially told, only in bits and pieces, allowing the criminal cabal to live worry-free. Much of what you read below has never before been revealed. What has been told before is part of the glue necessary to tell the comprehensive story.
This is the story, from beginning to end in its natural order: July 17, 1996, 12 minutes after takeoff from New York’s JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 was blown out of the sky, killing all 230 people onboard. “Significant Naval units” were in the area, according to a Navy document. Three radar picked up a missile launch. Navy radar observed the missile closing in on the TWA 747, per a Navy radar database uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act. Two key witnesses observed the same missile merge with the aircraft. What happened is not too difficult to determine.
Federal investigators striving mightily to conjure up a politically contrived “Magic Mechanical” explanation made up inside the 1996 Clinton White House have not uncovered one scintilla of evidence pointing toward such a conclusion. In fact, Brookhaven and Sandia national labs, after exhaustive testing, established scientifically that no rational basis exists for calling the loss of TWA Flight 800 a mechanical event.
That warm July evening, a lady identified by the FBI as witness 73, from Madison, N.C., was standing on a beach on the south side of Long Island near Moriches Inlet, her feet in the cool ocean water, watching TWA Flight 800 about eight miles to the south over the Atlantic Ocean at 13,800 feet heading toward Paris, France. The 747 was easily visible – not a mere speck in the sky as the FBI would allege. As she watched the 747 level off she wondered where its lucky passengers were going.
Then, “while keeping her eyes on the aircraft, she observed a ‘red streak’ moving up from the ground toward the aircraft at an approximately 45 degree angle. The ‘red streak’ was leaving a light gray colored smoke trail. The ‘red streak’ went past the right side and above the aircraft before arcing back toward the aircraft’s right wing. (She) described the arc’s shape as resembling an upside down Nike swoosh logo. The smoke trail, which was light gray in color, was narrow initially and widened as it approached the aircraft.” The interviewing FBI agent’s handwritten notes said the missile struck the 747 “right in front of the right wing. She then observed the front of the aircraft separate from the back. …
“(She) was then asked if she had any opinion about what it was that she observed that evening. She replied that she believed that she witnessed a missile, which had been fired from a boat which was located somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.”
At the same time witness 73 observed TWA Flight 800 from a beach near Moriches Inlet, a commercial fisherman, Mike Gallagher, on his boat about eight miles due west of TWA Flight 800, observed the 747 heading east. He then observed an orange streak rise from the ocean, travel upward at an approximate 45 degree angle, approach TWA Flight 800′s right side. Gallagher initially thought the missile would miss the 747. At the last second, however, the missile turned sharply upward into the plane.
Gallagher, drawing a sketch of the 747 from an overhead view, told me the missile struck the aircraft at the point where the leading edge of the right wing meets the fuselage.
These key witness statements, along with approximately three dozen more, were criminally altered during a cooperative FBI-CIA effort to come to a magic mechanical conclusion. Each statement was altered without witness permission, to indicate the witness observed fire cascading down from the 747 and not missile-fire traveling upward to TWA Flight 800.
Actions have consequences. Unintended consequences drove the criminal cabal to ever increasing lawlessness as they tried to get ahead of the information curve descending upon them.
Here’s the indisputable evidence. The Navy had “significant Naval units” in the area of TWA Flight 800, per the Navy’s own document. In July 2003 the Navy destroyed the document containing a detailed explanation of the Naval units – only those three words were released, in response to a FOIA request, as a means to describe the secret information. We need not wring our hands and wonder what was in that classified document. We know for certain the words in the document were even more significant than the synopsis statement: “significant Naval units.” We know where those significant Naval units were because of a weather inversion that night making it possible for FAA radar to look over the horizon where a Navy exercise was under way, just south of TWA’s flight path, no later then 2015 hours, East Coast time – approximately 16 minutes before TWA Flight 800 was shot down.
A probable missile launch southwest of TWA 800 was picked up by three radar, two FAA and one Navy. The FBI and NTSB covered it up – compelling evidence it was indeed a missile launch site. It came from the precise area of the ocean described by Mike Gallagher.
The U.S. Navy RP-44 radar picked up the missile approaching the right side of TWA Flight 800. The Navy covered up this evidence, bumping it up to compelling evidence.
The No. 3 engine, only a few feet from where two key witnesses placed the missile warhead blast, was blown away from the right wing – which jibes with the two key witness statements. It was the first major debris to fall into the ocean. This was a missile “signature,” so the FBI/NTSB moved this engine by paper alteration thousands of feet east where the last of the 747 debris fell into the ocean.
The warhead blast moved upward at an approximate 40 degree angle, blasting the floor of the center-fuel-tank (aka center-wing-tank) upward, as much as 16 inches into the right side of the 747′s Business Class – another missile signature. The 747 reconstruction at Long Island’s Calverton Hangar was therefore altered to hide yet another missile signature. Metal blown upward was cut away. The remainder was placed in a downward position, consistent with the magic mechanical scenario.
The warhead blast left explosive residue and/or solid fuel residue on the right wing, the right side fuselage exterior, inside the center-wing-tank and on the right side of the 747′s Business Class – a missile signature.
I obtained a residue sample, and after initial elemental analysis, a retired missile scientist said it was consistent with an incendiary warhead – unique to the U.S. Navy in 1996 – launched by one of the “significant Naval units” south of the 747.
NASA testing of residue from the center-wing-tank and Business Class tested positive for explosive. The NTSB ordered further testing halted and samples returned. The FBI and NTSB went public, falsely saying the NASA tests showed the tested residue to be “glue.”
The debris field that was pre-altered said the missile evidence was altered to read magic mechanical failure.
The flight data recorder was altered, removing the final four seconds or some multiple of four seconds.
Two federal judges assisted the cover-up. Federal District Court Judge Joana Seybert culled the pool from which 12 jurors were to be chosen to determine whether I conspired with an NTSB investigator to have residue tested to determine if it, too, was evidence of a missile. Judge Seybert removed anyone who believed the federal government might be guilty of a cover-up. She then blocked me from presenting a First Amendment defense.
The Navy document in my possession proving beyond any doubt that “significant Naval units” were in the area of TWA Flight 800 when it was shot out of the sky would have been an invaluable defense.
The Navy radar database I possessed with four data lines partially redacted to hide the missile approaching the 747s right side would have been an invaluable defense.
The FAA and Navy radar showing the missile launch would have been an invaluable defense.
The two key witnesses observing the missile approach and strike the right side of the 747 near where the right wing and fuselage connected would have been an invaluable defense.
The No. 3 engine blown away – as it must have been per the two key witness statements – the first major debris to fall from the stricken aircraft, a missile signature, would have been an invaluable defense.
NTSB and FBI factually false statements about NASA tested residue being glue when it had tested positive for explosive would have been an invaluable defense.
Revealing to the jury the alteration and cover-up of each significant part of the FBI/NTSB “investigation” would have been an invaluable defense.
But the judge said no First Amendment defense.
Even though the district court judge admitted there was no direct evidence against my wife, she was indicted when I refused to provide the FBI with the names of all those assisting my investigation of criminal acts. That would have been quite a list because a rather large insurrection was in the making inside Calverton Hangar. I even had a source very close to FBI Director Louis Freeh.
The Justice Department admitted no evidence existed for my wife, Elizabeth Sanders, to be made a “target” of the criminal cabal inside the TWA 800 investigation. Judge Seybert said it was OK for the wife of a journalist to be targeted in the absence of any evidence. So, even in the absence of any direct evidence at any stage of the DOJ/FBI investigation of Liz Sanders, it was OK for the jury to conclude she was guilty from indirect evidence. None existed, except what came out of the prosecutor’s mouth, and that allegedly does not count.
So Liz’s attorney appealed to the federal 2nd Circuit Court where Judge Sonia Sotomayor sat in judgment as the only actual current member of the 2nd Circuit on the three judge panel. During oral arguments, Sotomayor agreed that it was OK to target the wife of a journalist, even in the absence of evidence.
Sotomayor could not find a reason to uphold Liz Sanders’ conviction in the factual court transcript, so she altered the factual record. Liz’s attorney filed a brief pointing out the alteration. Sotomayor refused to overturn the conviction, implicating her in the DOJ conspiracy to deprive my wife of her civil rights. Sotomayor has been rewarded for her lawlessness. She is now a member of the United States Supreme Court.
America’s Department of Justice and Executive Branch would make a banana republic proud. Over the last decade, DOJ has argued in public and in court that the First Amendment’s freedom of the press no longer exists. Sometimes the statement will be qualified by “prior publication” being a possible exception under some circumstances. By 2004 that possible qualifier to DOJ’s extermination of press freedom was gone. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Fleissner said freedom of the press exists only under one circumstance, in a “very, very narrow” way where, as the AP wrote, “there has been intimidation or bad-faith investigations.” I know from personal experience that Fleissner’s words are factually false, which eliminates any First Amendment protection for journalists.
The Constitution was written primarily to protect the people from the ruling elite. Today the Constitution exists primarily to protect the ruling elite from the people.
NO one should doubt the extent in which Clinton & gang (read: bootlickers extraordinaire) will go to to attain the ultimate prize – Hill’s throne as POTUS.
This hybrid socialist/Marxist/communist/Islamist sympathizing Alinsky devotee witch – even to the degree that she devoted her senior thesis to the aforementioned radical, revolutionary ‘community organizer, you know, the one who wrote ‘Rules For Radicals’, having dedicated his book to Lucifer! – absolutely, indefatigably believes it is her birthright to become Prez, not unlike those in ‘inherited’ dictatorships. Isn’t it telling that the current Radical-in-Chief also hearts with Alinsky, and he too ‘made his bones’ as a ‘community organizer’? Birds of a radical, revolutionary feather.
In this regard, if not thwarted and duly exposed, there will be no stopping America’s demise, as leader of the free world. That is, if there is anything left to destroy, after the (mis)reign of Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
There are so many impeachable scandals flying out of Obama Inc’s direction one can be forgiven for failing to keep up. Not only that, but becoming ‘sick and tired’ and just closing ones ears to all the negative news can be very enticing. Besides, tuning out bad news is simply human nature. This blog understands as much. The (mental) weight can seem unbearable. But what doesn’t kill you often makes you stronger, at least that’s the thinking on this end. Soldier on.
Regardless, it is infinitely worse to allow the reprobates ruling Washington to get away with said criminal charges, even those which may very well include murder, as otherworldy as it appears. Talk about being dropped on your head…
Rep. Darrell Issa accused the Obama administration and its new IRS chief on Tuesday of obstructing his panel’s investigation into the agency’s targeting of tea party, conservative and religious groups.If “the IRS continues to hinder the committee’s investigation in any manner, the committee will be forced to consider use of compulsory process,” the California Republican, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote in a letter to Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel.The letter, which was reported by The Washington Times and CNN, was also signed by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who also sits on the committee.Editor’s Note:Should ObamaCare Be Repealed? Vote in Urgent National Poll The letter, however, did not elaborate on exactly what steps Issa’s panel might take, though he noted that impeding congressional investigators could result in prison terms of up to five years.”Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime,” Issa and Jordan stressed in the letter.”Despite your promise to cooperate fully with congressional investigations, the actions of the IRS under your leadership have made clear to the committee that the agency has no intention of complying completely or promptly with the committee’s oversight efforts,” the letter said.”The systematic manner in which the IRS has attempted to delay, frustrate, impede, and obstruct the committee’s investigation raises serious concerns about your commitment to full and unfettered congressional oversight,” the document said.The Issa-Jordan letter came on the same day when another House panel, the Ways and Means Committee, released an analysis showing that conservative groups faced more probing questions than did liberal groups seeking the same tax-exempt status.Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp told the Times that conservative groups were asked three times as many questions, and were less than half as likely to get approval from the IRS.Like the oversight committee, Camp said his investigators were also waiting on the IRS to turn over more information.”This is just the tip of the iceberg,” he told the Times. “We have received less than three percent of the documents responsive to the investigation.”Meanwhile, an IRS spokeswoman, Michelle Eldridge, told both the Times and CNN that the agency was “aggressively responding to the numerous data requests we’ve received from Congress.”We are doing everything we can to fully cooperate with the committees, and we strongly disagree with any suggestions to the contrary,” Eldridge said.The letter claimed, for instance, that the IRS has handed over only 12,000 of the more than 64 million pages of documents initially identified as potentially relevant to the investigation into the alleged unfair targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.”This incredibly slow pace of production has been an unnecessary attempt to frustrate the committee’s oversight efforts,” Issa and Jordan said in the letter.Eldridge contended, however, that “while the volume of raw data collected … is quite high, it is a misleading figure to use in order to determine the volume of material the IRS will ultimately produce.””The vast majority of it is completely unrelated to the congressional investigations,” she said.”Once the data is limited to the time period in question, and the issue in question, we expect the final tally of produced documents will be far lower — in the neighborhood of 460,000 documents or fewer.”Eldridge said that 70 of 1,500 or so attorneys in the IRS chief counsel’s office were currently working full time to respond to congressional inquiries into the matter.It is a “time- and labor-intensive review process,” she said.In addition, the Issa-Jordan letter also complained that documents produced by the IRS “contain excessive redactions that go well beyond those necessary to protect confidential taxpayer information.”The letter also asserted that a senior IRS official — Cindy Thomas — had been “affirmatively prevented” from providing congressional investigators with relevant documents in her possession.Additionally, Issa blasted the agency for allegedly trying to “carefully orchestrate the public release” of information contained in a 30-day review of the matter back in June — before providing the information to the committee.
Capitol Hill Republicans have long insisted that after President Barack Obama was first elected, the IRS started unfairly targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Democrats, however, argue the IRS improperly scrutinized groups on both the left and right as part of a clumsy attempt to administer vague election-related tax laws.
Now, along comes another ! nail in the IRS’s coffin, and it leads straight back to the Federal Elections Commission, in violation of its own inherent principles: “Members shall be chosen on the basis of their experience, integrity, impartiality, and good judgment and members (other than the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives) shall be individuals who, at the time appointed to the Commission, are not elected or appointed officers or employees in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Federal Government. Such members of the Commission shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. Any individual who is engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment at the time of his or her appointment to the Commission shall terminate or liquidate such activity no later than 90 days after such appointment.”
Breathe…then onto the promised additional ! nail….
Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record before the FEC’s vote in the case of a conservative non-profit organization, according to e-mails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee and obtained exclusively by National Review Online. The correspondence suggests the discrimination of conservative groups extended beyond the IRS and into the FEC, where an attorney from the agency’s enforcement division in at least one case sought and received tax information about the status of a conservative group, the American Future Fund, before recommending that the commission prosecute it for violations of campaign-finance law. Lerner, the former head of the IRS’s exempt-organizations division, worked at the FEC from 1986 to 1995, and was known for aggressive investigation of conservative groups during her tenure there, too.
“Several months ago . . . I spoke with you about the American Future Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization that had submitted an exemption application the IRS [sic],” the FEC attorney wrote Lerner in February 2009. The FEC, which polices violations of campaign-finance laws, is not exempted under Rule 6103, which prohibits the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer information, but the e-mail indicates Lerner provided that information nonetheless: “When we spoke last July, you had told us that the American Future Fund had not received an exemption letter from the IRS,” the FEC attorney wrote.
The timing of the correspondence between Lerner and the FEC suggests the FEC attorney sought information from the IRS in order to influence an upcoming vote by the six FEC commissioners. The FEC received a complaint in March 2008 from the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party alleging that the American Future Fund had violated campaign-finance law by engaging in political advocacy without registering as a political-action committee. The American Future Fund responded to that complaint in June 2008, telling the commission that it had applied for tax exemption in March of that year and was a “501(c)(4) social-welfare organization that was organized to provide Americans with a conservative and free-market viewpoint and mechanism to communicate and advocate on the issues that most interest and concern them.” According to the e-mail correspondence, a month after receiving the American Future Fund’s response, the FEC general counsel’s office — which is prohibited under law from conducting an investigation into an organization before the FEC’s six commissioners have voted to do so — contacted Lerner to investigate the agency’s tax-exempt status.
The FEC general counsel’s office, in its recommendation on the case, apparently didn’t tell the agency’s commissioners about how it had obtained the information about the group’s tax-exempt status. Recommending that the commissioners prosecute the American Future Fund, the general counsel’s office wrote, “According to its response, AFF submitted an application for tax-exempt status to the Internal Revenue Service . . . on March 18, 2008.” The footnote to that sentence reads, “The IRS has not yet issued a determination letter regarding AFF’s application for exempt status. Based on the information from the response and the IRS website, it is likely that the application is still under review.” In fact, an FEC lawyer knew that the organization had yet to obtain tax-exempt status because Lerner provided the confidential information.
The general counsel’s report was issued in September 2008, but it was over five months before the six FEC commissioners voted, in late-February 2009, on whether to prosecute the American Future Fund for violations of campaign-finance laws. (The typical lag time between the submission of a general counsel’s recommendation and a commission vote is about a month, according to a source familiar with the workings of the commission.) As the vote approached, on February 3, 2009, the FEC lawyer went back to Lerner for an update on the status of the American Future Fund’s application. “Could you please tell me whether the IRS has since issued an exemption letter to the American Future Fund? Also if the IRS has granted American Future Fund’s exemption, would it be possible for you to send me the publicly available information and documents related to American Future Fund?”
Despite the recommendations of the general counsel’s office, the six FEC commissioners split on whether to pursue the American Future Fund’s case andvoted six-to-zero to close the case.
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp and oversight-subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany are calling on the IRS, in the wake of these revelations, to provide all communications between the agency and the FEC between 2008 and 2012. “The American public is entitled to know whether the IRS is inappropriately sharing their confidential tax information with other agencies,” Camp and Boustany write in a letter they will send to acting IRS administrator Danny Werfel on Wednesday.
The FEC enforcement attorney also inquired about the tax-exempt status of another conservative organization, the American Issues Project. “I was also wondering if you could tell me whether the IRS had issued an exemption letter to a group called the American Issues Project? The group also appears to be the successor of two other organizations, Citizens for the Republic and Avenger, Inc.” Also sought were “any information and documents that would be publicly available in relation to the American Issues Project, Citizens for the Republic, or Avenger, Inc.”
Lerner was placed on paid administrative leave in late May after she revealed the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups. The IRS has yet to respond to requests from lawmakers about her current employment status with the agency.
But one must first look beyond the high art of rhetoric flying out of Washington & assorted western capitals to really understand what is going on beneath the surface. In effect, what is hidden from the public is much more dangerous than what is being stated.
Even more so, while the following has been going on for decades, there are damn good reasons why they are exploding – at warp speed – as this is being written. The leader of the free world is operating on behalf of the leadership of Wahabbi Islam, the House of Saud. Though other POTUS’s were similarly aligned, it was not to this extent. Even Bush’s hand holding with the Saudi King paled in comparison, as disturbing as that was.
At the same time, Euro banksters and their political leadership have economic interests in stirring the Islamic pot. As previously stated, little stirring is required from the get go! So, the question is two-fold: What are the above players up to? And, where is this worldwide conflagration headed?
3 August 2013: There is one thing certain about the publicized threat to our embassies; it is not what it is presented to be. To accept the official explanation of a nebulous threat from al Qaeda as the reason for closing our embassies across the Middle East and North Africa is being dangerously naive and simplistic. This is much more serious than what we are being told, but not for the reasons we are being given.
We are seeing the consequences of a long running “Cold War” on two major fronts of political conflict that could escalate into military engagement with proxy nations of world super powers. The world, and life as we know it, could change in an instant should we awaken one morning to the news of bombs flying across the Middle East. That is a very real possibility, as we are now in a heightened proxy war environment. We are standing in a thick forest of dry tinder, and the smallest of sparks could ignite a conflagration the likes of which we have never before seen.
How we arrived here
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” This quote attributed to Winston Churchill is applicable to our current situation as it is a consequence of our policies and actions in the Middle East and north Africa.
First, it is important to understand that the so-called Arab Spring did not start on December 18, 2010 as a spontaneous revolutionary wave of demonstrations by people to rid themselves from the shackles of governmental oppression. It was planned many years ago by the globalist power brokers, with the latest incarnations perhaps sketched out in the bowels of a Saudi mansion or an estate owned by a cabal of central bankers, partly to change the geopolitical power structure of the Middle East, and partly as a “jobs program” for the military-industrial complex.
This was confirmed by a 1300 word e-mail dated June 8, 2008, sent by former British Ambassador to Libya Sir Vincent Fean to Tony Blair, just shy of a year after Blair stepped down as prime minister. The e-mail consisted of a briefing on the state of relations between Great Britain and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in advance of a visit by Blair to see Gaddafi.His June 10, 2008 visit with Gaddafi would be one of six made by Blair after leaving office and just three years before Gaddafi was deposed by the U.S. and UK led interests and ultimately murdered.
Exactly what was the purpose of this meeting as well as the others made by Tony Blair on behalf of the Crown? According to the confidential information obtained by The Telegraph, it was about a prisoner transfer agreement that would be signed once Libya agreed to purchase an air defense system to the tune of about £400 million. The prisoner? Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. Who would provide the air defense system? MBDA, a missile developer and manufacturer with operations in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States. They provide products and services for over 90 militaries worldwide. They are a world leader in missiles and missile systems, and employ about 10,000 people in France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and the United States, and produced about 3,000 missiles and missile systems last year alone.
It is not merely the military-industrial jobs program alone, however. According to the confidential memo, a key objective of Great Britain was to force Libya to invest its £80? billion sovereign wealth fund through the City of London. Additionally, the Department for International Development was also eyeing another Libyan wealth fund worth £130 million “to pay for various schemes in Sierra Leone and other poverty-stricken countries.”
Concurrent with the machinations of the UK, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas shed additional light on plans relating to Libya and Syria in an interview with the French TV station LCP:
“I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate. Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me.” [emphasis by this author]
Dumas added: “The only thing I know [about French Leaders] is that they have gone crazy. President Sarkozy hosted Gaddafi a few months ago at the Élysée Palace, with a red carpet and all the grandiose honors. Two months later, Sarkozy is leading a crusader war, at the head of NATO, which has become a pawn serving international politics. This has been going on for a long time.” He further stated that “I regret to see my country, to which I belong with spirit, blood, and life, leading an instrument such as NATO to come and destroy an entire people and attack its leaders.” [emphasis by this author]
Due to the role of Mr. Dumas in the French government, he could not reveal France’s role in the British plan as he would be exposing himself to prosecution for revealing state secrets, thus explaining his statement “I’m French, that doesn’t interest me.”
It should be clear that the Arab Spring, including the NATO action taken against Gaddafi’s Libya followed by the rebels attacks against Assad, is part of a globalist agenda rather than a spontaneous uprising that has become the official historical narrative for the naive.
Benghazi exposed
It was shortly after the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi that I wrote in explicit detail the actual reason for that attack. Thanks to a highly placed source in the intelligence venue, readers learned the truth ten months before the corporate media finally acknowledged that the compound in Benghazi was the operations center for a large CIA weapons smuggling operation where Libya was being used as a weapons storage depot to arm the anti-Assad “rebels.”
The attack at Benghazi was described by this administration and the Clinton State Department as a spontaneous protest over an internet video, although that narrative was proven to be a lie. It was a lie they continued to stick with to hide the fact that the U.S., in conjunction with other NATO allies, were actually doing the work of Saudi Arabia. But why – who benefits? To understand the answer to that question, we must look at what Saudi Arabia is and how the Saudi royals came to power. Much like the U.S., the nation of Saudi Arabia itself is a captured operation, established by a cabal of globalists for the sake of oil. It would be helpful to understand the role Aramco and other oil interests played in the establishment of the Saudi power structure.
As the Obama regime continued forward to advance this Saudi-globalist agenda, Russia’s Putin warned the U.S. that the insanity of destabilizing Syria was not in their best interests, and certainly not in ours. When the warnings were not heeded, proxy groups for Russia, Syria and Iran, in the form of Ansar al Sharia and AQIM launched a deadly assault on the CIA operations center in Benghazi.
The continued pressure of possibly exposing the true nature of the activities in Benghazi, from the illegal arms trafficking in violation of international law to the attack itself, became a serious annoyance to the globalist planners and the Obama subjects to the Saudi royals. The assistance to the anti-Assad rebels was interrupted, albeit temporarily, by this exposure. Consequently, the plans for Syria did not go off as intended, and the timetable had to be extended. Now the anti-Assad rebels are “on the ropes,” and they are being beaten with every passing day, having lost much of the covert assistance of the CIA.
This is the reason the true account of Benghazi has yet to be told to the American people, and the reason that the official accounts are continually being pushed in place of the truth.
Today
If you have understood how we arrived here by the short summary provided, then you will see that we are standing on the brink of not just a regional war, but a global war. Those in power do not want you to know their plans until there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.
It is vital to understand that the embassy closures are a signal of the rapidly escalated intervention in the region by the US. It is a modern day equivalent to the Bay of Pigs, except Barack Hussein Obama is no John F. Kennedy. Those old enough might recall that the CIA trained and inserted a group of “freedom fighters” into Cuba to oust Castro. Exactly like the rebels in Syria, those fighters could never overthrow Castro without direct U.S. military intervention and assistance. The situation is exactly the same in Syria today.
The difference is that Kennedy saw the plan for exactly what it was – a globalist plan not to defeat communism, but to engage us in a larger war to the benefit of the globalists and the military-industrial complex. He refused to take the bait and in so doing, bought the world time by avoiding World War III.
Unlike Kennedy who became his own man while in office, Obama continues the globalist agenda by supporting the CIA trained and backed anti-Assad rebels, and is now leading us to the brink of World War III.
To say that the threat to our embassies is from some nebulous threat by al Qaeda is like saying that the group at the Bay of Pigs were just a bunch of Cuban locals. Nothing that we are being told even remotely approaches the truth, yet few seem to grasp the seriousness of what is unfolding before our very eyes.
Our involvement in the Middle East and North Africa is so large that it would be difficult not to telegraph our actions in advance. Therefore, is it possible that the unspecified al Qaeda threat is actually a cover story for some anticipated action in the region?
We are watching brinkmanship at multiple levels on a global chess board. We have done much to destabilize whatever relative peace might have existed in the Middle East through our actions at the hands of our globalist power brokers. Russia, Iran, Syria and China are not amused, and are not looking the other way. The time clock for the anti-Assad rebels is quickly running out. This administration and every elected official who has signed on to do the work of the Saudis and their handlers have painted us into a corner from which there is little hope for escape. We cannot trust anything we are being told, and nothing we are being told even remotely approaches the truth.
We are seeing the beginnings of the transformation from a cold war to a hot war at the nation-state level. We are about to see a trigger event, after which nothing will be the same.
Much has been written at this site to lead us from there to here. But some prefer to play deaf, dumb and blind, even as confidential emails (hackers have been instrumental in outing much of these worldwide designs, as such, is it any wonder they are being sought as ‘security threats’…but to whose security?) detail some of what is going on behind the global scenes.
Stay alert! But do realize the message sent to Islamic supremacists when a super power scurries hither and yon (but don’t worry, the Islamist-in-Chief didn’t miss his golf game …and surely not his nookie time), thus, closing its embassies worldwide. This is not a sign of prudence, but of retreat, demonstrating that a terror outfit can dictate to the USA when and where it must dance to their jihadi tune. US hyper- muscle…nowhere to be found…even among the castrated, dhimmified Generals.
AL QAEDA TO OBAMA
“CLOSE YOURDAMN EMBASSIES, BOY”
IT’S OFFICIAL
WE SURRENDER TO
AL QAEDA!
Everyone who voted for President Obama should be absolutely
ashamed and disgusted that you sold your American patriotism
for 30 pieces of progressive socialism.
For the first time in the history of our (formerly) great country,
a two-bit, piece of shit terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, has forced the world’s only super power to abandon over twenty locations of
sovereign US territory out of fear for Muslim jihadis!
Do you Obama voters understand the
breadth and depth of what that means?
Do you Obama voters even care that America has now officially been defeated by a small, but highly committed group of Muslim warriors?
Do you Generals who worship at the altar of Obama, sacrificing your self-respect and abandoning your oath to this nation understand
that AQ has defeated your great military?
You Generals are so focused on your pensions and Board seats you don’t realize
that your hi-tech-whiz-bang toys are useless when you no longer have
the will to fight to win.
Do all you “progressive” University professors realize that your years of indoctrination
have finally paid off and now your hated America has received her just deserts?
IT IS A DISASTROUSDEVELOPMENT WHEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HAS TO RETREAT IN THE FACE OF TERROR.
As we at The United West have been screaming for years, in order to
defeat the enemy you must understand the enemy. By design, this President and his Administration, including key Generals and Flag officers have refused to
fulfill their professional obligation to understand the threat doctrine of Islam.
Conversely the enemy, which includes but is not limited to Al Qaeda,
fully understands their enemy, America, and has forced us to run and hide
like a third world banana republic.
The actions of the President and many current military leaders are actions
that have betrayed all those who proudly volunteered to put on the
American uniform to fight and die. Moreover, Obama has betrayed
every American who wants to fight and defeat the enemy.
Ironically, the traitorous actions of the President have NOT betrayed
all who voted for him as they were fully aware of his efforts to
appease Islamic terrorism.
Obama and these voters hoped that the jihadis would change and
worship Obama just as his Generals now worship the President.
Wake up America!
In 2008 we told you Obama’s appeasement leads to defeat!
In 2009 we told you Obama’s apology to Muslims in Cairo leads to defeat!
In 2012 we told you Obama’s appeasement leads to defeat!
President Obama meeting comedian George Lopez as the First Lady looks on. Some observers believe this image shows a distinctive scar which looks like those left after brain surgery. However, there could simply be another explanation such as a bad haircut or birth mark
Rumours: The Escape The Tyranny website strongly questions Obama’s head scars as well as why no one has seen his birth certificate
Since then Oktar has become an ardent proponent of interfaith dialogue, attempting to unify believers of all stripes against the corrupting influence of Darwinism, which he now holds responsible for Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Most recently, he has been talking about the “Turkish-Islamic Union”, which would bring peace to the entire Muslim world under the leadership of Turkey……
Adina Kutnicki 