This video is of Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s opening statement on how criminal illegal aliens are being released by the Department of Homeland Security. Congressman Chaffetz is Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment seem determined to do two things: to elect Hillary Clinton President of the United States this November, and to make sure that nothing impedes the huge influx of Muslim migrants into the U.S.
Yet San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik had passed five separate background checks from five separate US government agencies. Ahmad al-Mohammed and one other of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country.
Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all. So why are they claiming to be Syrian and streaming into Europe, and now the U.S. as well? An Islamic State operative gave the answer when he boasted in September 2015, shortly after the migrant influx began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had already entered Europe. He explained their purpose: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.” These Muslims were going to Europe in the service of that caliphate: “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.”
Paul Ryan doesn’t care. He only cares that the bipartisan politically correct establishment retains its power.
“Paul Ryan says he might sue Donald Trump if he tried to enact the Muslim ban,” by Allan Smith,Business Insider, June 17, 2016:
Paul Ryan considers Donald Trump’s proposal to indefinitely ban Muslim immigration into the US to be executive overreach.
And during an interview with The Huffington Post, uploaded on Friday, the House speaker said he’d “sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.”
Ryan, who said Trump supported the separation of powers when the speaker endorsed the presumptive Republican nominee, released part of his agenda regarding executive overreach this week.
However, Ryan is not totally sure if Trump enacting a ban on Muslims entering the country would be outside of presidential authority.
“That’s a legal question that there’s a good debate about,” Ryan said, pointing to the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act. That act was meant to exclude immigrants from certain countries from coming to the US in the aftermath of World War II.
On Monday, Trump made the appeal that he could legally enact such a ban as president.
“The immigration laws of the United States give the president powers to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons,” he said at a rally. “I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats.”…
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Many taxpayers want to know where their money is going. Is, for example, the federal government using tax dollars wisely or not. One are that has garnered great interest is the bringing of refugees to the United States funded by federal agencies.
One such agency is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Using information within the TAGGS system for Health and Human Services we were able to identify the recipients for Grants specifically designated for “Unaccompanied Alien Children”, or UAC’s.
HHS Tracking Spending, Increasing Accountability logo.
Readers may go to the HHS Tracking Spending, Increasing Accountability website and click on the TAGGS link. We selected the state of Florida and typed into the search box Unaccompanied Alien Children.
The search resulted in 143 agencies, at the city, county and state levels that received $4,268,376,198 to resettle unaccompanied alien children.
We also learned that in 2016 Florida is number 4 of the top 50 recipients of HHS funds receiving over $9.8 billion.
| 2016 | FL ST FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION | TALLAHASSEE | FL | US | 9,880,125,626 |
FAIR has previously reported that the Sunshine State spends approximately $5 billion to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens.
Perhaps every taxpayer should do their own analysis of the costs of resettling unaccompanied alien children and ask: Could these funds be put to better use?
You may do a search for your state by clicking here.
The cost of allowing illegals to freely come to the United States has become a cornerstone of the presidential political debate. The Department of Health and Human Services is just one of many agencies dealing with the illegal alien issue. HHS TAGGS is just the tip of the iceberg.
As you know the Obama Administration is aiming to bring in 85,000 refugees from around the world (many religions and nationalities) this fiscal year (FY 2016 ends on September 30th).
So what do we know about thousands of Rohingya Muslims we are now picking up throughout this region of the world? No data bases there either! No criminal records to search.
Rohingya Muslims Migration Map BGR
Our focus here at RRW is primarily (obviously) on the refugee portion or as the feds like to refer to them—humanitarian arrivals, which along with the refugees include a number of different categories of legal and illegal migrants (see a description here) that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement takes responsibility for.
Rohingya Muslims gathering at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia last year. Picture: AP.
There has been so much news about the Syrian, mostly Muslim, refugees entering the US this fiscal year and I wanted to see how those numbers compared with some other Muslim-sending countries (again this is for refugees!), and so I checked the State Department data base for this fiscal year (which began on Oct. 1, 2015) and up to June 15, 2016.
This is what I found (I did not check every country) and I want to emphasize that we really can’t properly vet any of these people especially the devout Rohingya Muslims coming from Burma that have been scattered throughout South East Asia.
There are also many Muslims from other Middle Eastern and African countries coming, I just checked the major ethnic groups.
Again! Security screening any of these refugees is almost impossible and certainly won’t stop the 2nd generation jihadi killers.
So, as you freak out over Syrians, consider that they aren’t the only Muslim ‘refugees’ being spread out through America this year.
P.S. One day the Rohingya will be on the national news, so anyone interested in learning more about them can visit our Rohingya Reports category, here. It goes back to 2008 and has 188 posts in it!
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Donald Trump has been in the forefront asking the hard questions about immigration, both legal and illegal. He has called for a temporary stop to refugee resettlement from Middle Eastern countries that support terrorism. In the below interview with Sean Hannity, Trump questions, given attacks in San Bernardino, CA and Orlando, FL, whether first generation children of Muslims are assimilating:
Trump said:
“Assimilation has been very hard. It’s almost, I won’t say nonexistent, but it gets to be pretty close. I’m talking about second and third generation. They come, they don’t— for some reason there’s no real assimilation.”
“There is a percentage of people that want to do what this maniac did in Orlando. There’s a percentage of people. That percentage becomes—the number of people become more and more as we take in thousands and thousands of more people. There’s a hate that’s going on that’s unbelievable. Okay? Unbelievable. They don’t mind dying. That’s a hate that’s going on that’s unbelievable. And we allow it to happen.”
Trump has on multiple occasions called for surveillance of Mosques tied to terrorists and terrorism.
President Obama, Democrats, Muslim organizations alike have called Trump a bigot, Islamophobic and anti-Muslim. Democrats have embraced homosexuality and made it a centerpiece of their gender equality platform. Because of this the gay community has become more vocal and public in its push for their agenda.
At the same time Muslims, because of Democrats and some Republicans, have become emboldened in their rhetoric. Muslims have called for their community to not cooperate with the FBI or law enforcement in general. Most recently we saw this policy of failing to report dangerous behavior play out in Orlando when the wife and employer of Omar Mateen did not report his anger to authorities.
Democrats created an atmosphere of intolerance to those who criticize Islam and the gay lifestyle. This intolerance is codified in the words Islamophobic and Homophobic. Democrats have coupled these two words with other charged language such as bigot, racist, hateful and intolerant.
Democrats use words like coexist, embracing our differences, multiculturalism to further efforts to protect these two constituencies. The result of their effort is what happened in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning.
Orlando is now the epicenter of two political ideologies, streets named Islamophobia and Homophobia. The blood is on the hands of those who promote either or both.
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Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has been in office less than a year and has admitted 25,000 (or more by now) Syrian Muslims to live in Canadian towns and cities. They are in addition to his huge Somali Muslim population and he thinks a stunt like this will be well received?
Is this meant to say to Muslims ‘get used to it!’
If so, he is braver or dumber than I thought.
I suspect he really means to send a message to homophobes on the right (and isn’t thinking about how the Muslim WORLD will view it). Maybe he thinks he has so many brownie points for bringing in Muslim refugees that he is immune from their wrath (hint: they don’t think in Leftist do-gooder terms).
We have an entire category on Canada (179 previous posts), go here for more.
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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of Canadian PM Trudeau and Canadian New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair sharing a kiss as a statement on the Orlando, FL massacre.
This morning our Ex. Dir. of Refugee Resettlement Relief spoke with the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Trump Victory event. Our director raised his hand and was acknowledged by Mr. Trump, then stated: “Mr. Trump please repeal the Refugee Resettlement Act.*** That is how the terrorist are getting into the country.”
Trump responded, “I agree” and then pointed out several recent acts of Islamic terrorism committed by refugees and their families.
Mr. Trump had already spent most of his time talking about terrorism. With regard to the mass shooting in Orlando at the Pulse nightclub he said a high ranking representative in the gay community told him that the LGBT community was going to support him because “they know I am the only one who is going to protect them.” He went on to say that this is not only true for the gay community, but for all of us.
He again committed to building the wall and reminded us that the 16,000 Federal Border Patrol employees have endorsed him—-something they have never done in any other presidential race.
Trump emphasized the immigration issue at the Mexican border. He dwelled on the massive amount of illegal drugs coming across the border, and claimed that the wall would help stem the flow of the drugs.
Trump was calm, well spoken and reasonable. He was a very pleasant, but a firmly committed gentleman. This is not the Donald Trump the media is describing. Donald Trump is thoroughly a gentleman, knows where he is going and what he wants to do when elected president.”
LOL! Check out this story about the event. Trump left empty seats for the banned Washington Post Reporters!
***Of course we all know it takes Congress to repeal the Act (Trump can press Congress from the bully pulpit), that is why it is so important that Speaker Ryan be given the heave-ho. Under his leadership it will never happen!
For all of our comments worth noting and guest posts, click here.
EDITORS NOTE: If you are a regular reader, you know that occasionally we post a comment from a reader that we don’t want to lose buried at a specific post. This is from Joe Newton of Georgia’s ‘Refugee Resettlement Relief’ a citizens’ group (a pocket of resistance!).
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German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) wrote a poem titled “First They Came.” Niemöller was the brother-in-law of Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was implicated in the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. On the personal order of Adolf Hitler, Pastor Bonhoeffer was one of the last Germans executed by the Nazis on April 9, 1945. Bonhoeffer while in a Nazi prison wrote:
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“First they came” is a famous statement and provocative poem about the cowardice of German intellectuals following the Nazis’ rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with the themes of persecution, guilt and responsibility.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Today we find the rise of the new Democrat Party. An allegiance of three key factions, the Socialists, Islamists and Homosexualists. Each faction has made it their goal to:
These three factions are fundamentally incompatible one with the other. We are now seeing the Islamist faction turning against the Homosexualist faction. Soon the Socialist faction will turn against the Islamist faction, out of political necessity. Only one faction can survive in the end.
America is witness to a new cowardice of American intellectuals following the Democrat rise to power and the subsequent purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
Here is a modern day version of Niemöller’s poem:
First they came for the TEA Party
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a member of the TEA Party
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for the Christians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Christian
Then they came for the gays
And I did not speak out
Because I was not gay
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
The Vortex talks about Orlando, Gays, Liberals and Muslims. Message: The Catholic Church wants to save gays from Hell. Islam wants to send gays to Hell.
TRANSCRIPT
All the victims at the gay nightclub who were murdered over the weekend need our prayers. Fifty people, 50-plus souls were on the scene, and the very next moment, they were standing before the judgment seat of Almighty God — as we all will be one day. Life can seem so certain one moment and over the next, in a twinkling of an eye. We must always be prepared to die.
The murders bring about a very interesting point of a larger discussion. The liberal alliance has brought various factions together, with one common goal: to end Catholic morality’s influence on Western civilization.
There are indeed some strange pairings in this liberal alliance: homosexualists, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media and Islam. Whatever differences Islam and liberals have, they have been willing to overlook them to join forces against the common enemy of Christianity, specifically Catholicism.
So, for example, from ISIS and the Islamic world you hear threats against Rome — loud threats, so loud that Italian army soldiers now stand at the ready fully armed with machine guns in very plain sight around the boundaries of Vatican City. And you hear from various gay groups that the Catholic Church hates gays — that we are homophobic, that we are a threat, that we need to have our non-profit status revoked, that we need to be monitored and so forth.
One point needs to become very clear to all those who wish to paint the Church as an enemy of gays: We want you saved. Islam wants you dead. And let’s be very clear: The Catholic Church wants to save gays from Hell. Islam wants to send gays to Hell.
Just last month in the Middle East, these horrific images of a man being thrown off a building to his death were released. His “crime”: being gay in a Muslim country. Again, Catholics don’t hate gays. But Islamicists do. It wasn’t Catholics throwing that man to his death. And it wasn’t a Catholic in the gay nightclub murdering dozens of same-sex-attracted men and women.
But this whole situation does pose a very difficult conundrum for the whole liberal alliance. Gays hate the Church because the Church teaches about the immorality of homosexual acts. And Islam hates the Church because it was born from a hate of the Church and has always had as its object the overthrow of Christianity.
Up until now, the liberal mainstream media has been happy to be complicit in giving Islamic terrorism a pass because it had common cause with undermining Catholicism in the culture. The liberal alliance was happy to make common cause with Islam because they had a common enemy: the Catholic Church. So whenever an Islamic terrorist murdered a group somewhere, it could be whitewashed and follow-up stories done on how Islam doesn’t really have a widely accepted notion of jihad and violence, and how the various terror acts were “isolated,” or the individual was disturbed and so forth. But Islam could never be approached as a problem in itself. That would be shooting an ally in the back.
Well, this past weekend radical Islam shot one of its own allies in the back; more than 50 souls were dispatched into eternity as a result. So now the conundrum: Random victims were not targeted but homosexual men and women. Islam hates gays and wants them dead, and this is a fact that the liberal alliance of homosexualists, Democrats and the media have simply not said out loud.
Well, now they have to.
The liberal alliance may finally have to come out and say for the whole world to hear what should be blindingly obvious to the whole world: Islam hates gays and wants them dead.
But that admission will cost the liberal alliance. For all their common cause with wanting to undermine or even eradicate Catholicism, the Church does share some core principles with Islam regarding morality. Pope John Paul II was able to use those shared beliefs about sexual morality in the U.N. Cairo Conference back in the 1990s to fend off an attempt by Western nations to embrace abortion and contraception as human rights. By working with various Islamic nations, the Church was able to beat back the initiative.
This move by the Vatican angered many Western powers who want to push sexual immorality, and the Church came into sharp focus as a threat to their new world order. So the liberal alliance of gays, news media, politicians, Hollywood, all banded together and began their relentless pounding of the Church. To the extent that Islam could be conscripted, even indirectly, all the better.
Up until Orlando, the strange alliance between gays and gay-hating Islam was able to hold. Now, it’s over — or, at least, it should be. What remains to be seen is how this will be handled or massaged in the media. Will the Muslim killer be painted as a lone extremist who does not represent “peaceful” Islam? Will media reports devolve into story after story about the need for gun control? Will the murderous action be whitewashed as an act against “Americans” and “our way of life” instead of the full-on truth that Islam hates gays and wants them dead?
Now that Islam has broken ranks with the liberal alliance by attacking a key component of it in the homosexual ideology, what remains to be seen is which enemy will the liberal alliance choose to attack more: Islam or the Catholic Church? Since Satan is behind the liberal alliance, the homosexual ideology and Islam, it’s pretty certain the Church will be the one continuing being attacked once this has all receded from the headlines.
The liberal alliance will move on with business as usual.
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America suffered another Islamic terrorist attack by a Muslim (Omar Mateen), but why did this Muslim select a homosexual nightclub in Orlando? The answer to this is not as complicated as the media wants you to believe. Omar Mateen was a Muslim, her followed the ideology of Islam, he attended various mosques throughout his life. In short, Mateen was taught to kill homosexuals from a very young age, in his Florida mosque. The killing of homosexuals is not something so called radicals such as ISIS carries out and the so called moderates condemn. No, homosexuality is wrong in the thinking of all Muslims who follow Islam and the false Prophet Mohammed. It is a very basic tenet of Islam.
Many people know I have conducted firsthand in research in mosques all across America and throughout the Middle East. Every mosque that I have ever attended has the hadiths and sayings of Prophet Mohammed, and there are many books and pamphlets within mosques informing worshippers that not only is homosexuality is wrong, but it is punishable by death. Imams throughout America advocate killing homosexuals wherever they are found, and America is not excluded from the ‘hit’ list. People must continuously remind themselves that issues such as homosexuality in Islam is a piece of Sharia law. Sharia law is to be enforced in all areas of the world, regardless what man made law may be in place where they live.
Omar Mateen (MySpace via AP)
Hadith and Sira
There are several lesser hadith stating, “if a man comes upon a man, then they are both adulterers,” “If a woman comes upon a woman, they are both Adulteresses,” “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shakes,” and “Kill the one that is doing it and also kill the one that it is being done to.”
Abu Dawud (4462) – The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.”.
Abu Dawud (4448) – “If a man who is not married is seized committing sodomy, he will be stoned to death.” (Note the implicit approval of sodomizing one’s wife).
Bukhari (72:774) – “The Prophet cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, ‘Turn them out of your houses .’ The Prophet turned out such-and-such man, and ‘Umar turned out such-and-such woman.”
al-Tirmidhi, Sunan 1:152 – [Muhammad said] “Whoever is found conducting himself in the manner of the people of Lot, kill the doer and the receiver.”
For some insane reason, liberals in America believe they are “do-gooders” and are the friends of Islam. Liberals believe that the hate and violence conducted by Islamic terrorists are meant for ‘right wingers’ and not for them. They are wrong. Islam was never intended to be peaceful, loving, or without violence. The ideology of Islam is geared toward one goal and that is an Islamic caliphate worldwide and under Sharia law. Any person or government who oppresses Islam from reaching this goal is an enemy of Islam. Some of the most far left liberals in America are homosexuals. This group of people truly believe Muslims love them. The fact is Muslims hate homosexuals. Even the most moderate of Imams in a mosque would never support homosexual rights. They know it would be a death penalty for them if they did.
In order to understand Islamic terrorism and the mindset of Muslims, one must study prior violence committed by Muslims, such as homosexuals in Iraq and Saudi Arabia being thrown from rooftops by followers of Islam. Muslim terrorists have been gruesomely killing homosexuals for centuries and this will never stop because Prophet Mohammed taught his followers to hate and kill homosexuals.
The murders in Orlando by a Muslim who adheres to Islam and Sharia law simply did what his parents (unless they are apostates of Islam), Prophet Mohammed, his Imam, his Sharia school teachers, and fellow Muslims wanted him to do. There are books and manuals printed directly from the Saudi government that fill bookcases in mosques that advocate killing homosexuals. Omar Mateen is considered a martyr by organizations such as CAIR (Council on American/Islamic Relations), MSA (Muslim Student Associations on every major college campus, and ISNA (Islamic Society of North America). Publically these supporters of terrorism will condemn the actions of Omar Mateen, but behind the scenes they will be clapping and praising this so called brave Jihadist who stood up for the basic principles of Islam.
If America is ever to escape the clutches of Islamic based terrorism we must understand the enemy of America and the world is Islam itself. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas and the other terrorist groups are just vines hanging from the tree of Islam. The ideology of Islam must be conquered. This can be done once we identify Islam as the enemy and we are able to put such a vile taste in a persons mouth when they hear or see anything Islamic. We have branded Nazism as evil and anyone associated with this violent ideology of Hitler is perceived to be bad. This is what must happen to the Islamic ideology.
Hate and violence are being taught by Muslims in every mosque in America. Our government and law enforcement must work together to close these satanic organizations before we start reading about our children murdered in the masses within their schools. Islamic terrorists have done it before and they will not hesitate to kill our innocent children.
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Clarion Project asked residents of Florida for their thoughts on the Orlando terror attack. We were inundated with replies. Here’s a sample.
Clarion Project is determined to be the focal point for discussion on Islamism. In this case we turned to our subscribers in Florida to get their thoughts following the June 12 terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
We received dozens of replies. Below are just a few.
We thank you all for your replies.
Please continue this conversation with us – wherever you live.
This is another horrific terrorist attack by a radical Islamic coward. Our thoughts and prayers to all the victims and their families. I would have liked to have seen someone or many people in that nightclub to have carried a legally concealed weapon. The outcome on this tragedy would have been very different… Then these animals who perpetrate such an act of hatred might start taking notice. We are not going to be sitting ducks for you to kill as many as you like. We are Americans, and we will protect our own from scumbags like you. We will stop you!
Anytime something like this happens, I think please don’t let it be Muslim. Let it be an American not that that is any better when lives are lost. How many lives need to be lost before we rein in the guns and the gun mentality.
The next thing I think about is what gives anyone the right to take anyone’s life? The proliferation of guns in our society is so wrong. Guns do not make us safer obviously it gives the wrong people power to do what they wish. And so often these killings are in the name of religion. No religion condones killing, what are they thinking?
And unchecked anger, we need to bring back civility and politeness toward each other. Kindness needs to be taught in our society as well as equality.
L.
Once again we have a Muslim declaring allegiance to the Islamic State and committing an atrocity in the name of Islam. This person was on the FBI’s radar in the past. Why wasn’t he dealt with then? He was stopped by the police having a weapon. Why wasn’t he arrested then? Where did he get his weapon? It certainly wasn’t legal for him to have it. This is what gun-free zones bring. If someone had been armed in the club, even if they were security, the loss of life could have been minimized. If Americans lose their right to carry firearms in public, as Hillary Clinton advocates, these massacres will be even more commonplace as only criminals will have guns.
Rick Parker
I believe the Orlando massacre is actually a hate terror crime and not associated with Islamic radicalism even though the shooter is Muslim. I don’t have all the facts but I don’t believe that it was coordinated with jihad or ISIS. Only the end result of the investigation will determine what is really the truth
S.S.
We need to join with Russia and seek UNITED NATIONS troops to enter Syria and destroy ISIS, then get out so as not to be perceived as occupiers.
J.R.H
I’m really getting tired of the use of the word alleged. Alleged terrorist. Alleged ISIS sympathizer. Alleged Islamic terror ties. Alleged stopped when he made the phone call and shouted alahu akbar as he was shooting. He is no longer alleged. He was an Islamic terrorist with proven ties to Islamic terrorist groups. He called 911 and professed his allegiance to ISIS and its leaders.
This wasn’t about a bigoted person that was upset because he saw 2 men kissing. This wasn’t about the LGBT community as a whole. This was about a person who is part of a religion that accepts, condones and encourages this type of behavior against those who will not conform to their ideologies.
Many religions around the world do not condone nor do they accept gays, yet we don’t see members of those religions going out and committing these types of atrocities.
This was not an anti gay act, this was an anti American act. We are for the most part a tolerant nation. We have the right to be what we want to be. People have the right to live their lives as they see fit. We don’t always agree with the choices others make, but we do not massacre those we do not agree with.
This act was a tragedy of epic proportions but even more so, it was a blatant attack against our nation by believers of an ideology masquerading as a peaceful religion.
It is a shame that we have a so called leader who refuses to acknowledge and accept that his chosen people are violent extremists who will wage jihad against anyone, anywhere and at any time to achieve their goal of converting the world to Islam.
Marvin Myers
Seems an Islamic terrorist attack.
Specifically targeted Gay community.
Already calls for tougher gun controls. I.E. background checks, Magazine limits, “Assault” weapons ban.
This is the future.
I wonder if the ‘club’ was a gun-free zone. Florida has easy CCL regs yet nobody in the club appears to have been armed.
E.P.
Obviously, the Orlando shooting is tragic. This is not a gun control issue, as some are trying to make it out to be. The problem is radical Islamic terrorism. Let’s call it what it is and deal with it.
I was glad they brought out an Imam to speak at one of the press conferences, but he missed a great opportunity to say that the Muslim community stands with the rest of America in a fight against radical Islam. We need to all be outspoken about our solidarity against and be able to target our enemy: Radical Islam!
Donna R.
I live in Central Fl.
I would like to know why it took reportedly 3 hours for law enforcement to counterattack?
How many victims bled out and died in that time?
My local TV is full of officials patting each other on their backs praising each other for how well they responded. I would like them to use that energy to prevent attacks not spin them after they happen. Enough already.
Jerry Kenney
Absolutely of sick minds.. horrible.. my condolences to all family, friends of these poor victims..
Art Castro
Clearly, a business that has a “gun free zone” policy just found out what that really means for their slain and injured patrons. No question, but the club will probably be sued into oblivion by the survivors and relatives of the dead for lack of proper security. Obviously the Muslim murderer never read the sign on the door, all he cared about was killing Gay folks out for a good time. And he certainly succeeded, 50 confirmed dead, and over 50 more injured, some of whom may also succumb! This is a warning to us all, don’t disarm our country, rather we must arm ourselves, as this is probably the work of ISIS or its followers. Join the NRA and the CCRKBA (citizens committee for the right to keep and bear arms). Protect your God given right to self protection and support THE SECOND AMENDMENT! Remember, it’s the one guarantees the existence of all the others!
D.K.
Isis said they would attack Florida. An LGBT would be the most obvious target in the State with 350 people there. Muslims kill gays.
The National Guard might have been the only way to protect these folks who hate Christians but love Muslims.
J.M.
When a person buys an assault weapon, is there not any vetting in a bank of information somewhere in law enforcement opened to review of previous arrests?!!! Especially like Omar
Mateen and 3 arrests?!
Could this have been prevented if we allowed more peaks than squeaks of privacy laws?!!!!
R.D.
So much for political correctness.
FBI had the perpetrator on their radar screen for almost three years and they drop the ball. Hail to the chiefs of political correctness. I would rather be safe than being wrong on keeping an eye on a suspected terrorist.
Steve A.
My heart is heavy with sorrow and compassion for the families and loved ones of those murdered in the Pulse night club.
I continue to pray for those being treated at ORMC and for the numerous others who are traumatized by this act of terrorism.
Joe M.
It’s about time we focus on the Muslim organizations that adhere to, and support, the Muslim Brotherhood ideology. That would include groups such as; CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MSA, the USCMO and more. We can’t identify the “Bad Muslims” if we only focus on the majority of Muslims that are “Good Muslims.”
Roger G.
It’s time to ban assault weapons from being sold to the public. We need to hold gun dealers accountable for their sales. This won’t stop all crimes but will decrease the amount and put us, all of us, at a more causative place in society.
I pray and mourn those innocent souls which have been tragically lost.
Ingrid
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Donald Trump posted the following statement on Facebook:
Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist. It was the worst terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11, and the second of its kind in 6 months. My deepest sympathy and support goes out to the victims, the wounded, and their families.
In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words ‘Radical Islam’. For that reason alone, he should step down. If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘Radical Islam’ she should get out of this race for the Presidency.
If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore. Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can’t afford to be politically correct anymore.
The terrorist, Omar Mir Saddique Mateen, is the son of an immigrant from Afghanistan who openly published his support for the Afghanistani Taliban and even tried to run for President of Afghanistan. According to Pew, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law.
We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year. Since 9/11, hundreds of migrants and their children have been implicated in terrorism in the United States.
Hillary Clinton wants to dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East, bringing in many hundreds of thousands during a first term – and we will have no way to screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from radicalizing.
We need to protect all Americans, of all backgrounds and all beliefs, from Radical Islamic Terrorism – which has no place in an open and tolerant society. Radical Islam advocates hate for women, gays, Jews, Christians and all Americans. I am going to be a President for all Americans, and I am going to protect and defend all Americans. We are going to make America safe again and great again for everyone.
– Donald J. Trump
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EDITORS NOTE: The Counter Jihad Report published the following:
Officials say Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, an Afghan-American who held two firearms licenses and a security officer license, was employed by the security firm G4S Secure Solutions USA Inc. since Sept. 10, 2007. The Jupiter, Fla.-based company merged with the Wackenhut Corp. after 9/11 and assumed federal contracts.
“G4S supports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CPB), with its operations at the U.S. Mexico border and with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transport illegal immigrants in selected urban areas,” the company says in a brochure, titled “Providing Manpower Solutions for Government Services.”
You’ve been seeing the phrase in news reports….
So where did it come from?
‘Pockets of resistance’ is what the federal bureaucracy initially called us! We liked the description so much that we have made it our own!
I just did a quickie look around for the idiom ‘pockets of resistance’ and see that it usually is a reference to a small group of people resisting domination. Hmmm! When I first heard it to describe us—anyone questioning the UN/US government’s colonization of our communities with third world refugees—I thought of the famous, tough and brave French resistance to Hitler’s domination of France.
Pockets of resistance in WWII France fought bravely against Hitler’s domination of the country.
I first heard the phrase uttered (in derogatory tones) by an employee of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement three years ago (June 2013) in Lancaster, PA, and was amazed that federal bureaucrats and their refugee contractors had actually taken time to ‘brand’ us.
They mentioned three states where ‘pockets of resistance’ had formed—Georgia, New Hampshire (because of Gatsas) and Tennessee.
Now there are many many more in a national network of ‘pockets of resistance!’
Up until a reader from Tennessee directed me to a 2012 news story posted at the UNITED NATIONS, I assumed the phrase originated in the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (in HHS), but check this out: The UNHCR, when reporting on a US State Department trip to mollify Tennesseans, references the phrase!
The U.S. State Department’s head of refugees met with local officials Thursday. His visit is partially in response topockets of resistance to resettlement in Tennessee.
So, it appears that the inner circles at both the US State Department and at the Dept. of Health and Human Services were both using ‘pockets of resistance’ when discussing America citizens’ concerns about the program. Amazing!
See our category, pockets of resistance, here.
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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of 18 year old French Résistance fighter, Simone Segouin. Her nom de guerre was Nicole Minet. She had come from Chartres to help liberate the capital.
Simone had killed two Germans in the Paris fighting two days previously to this photo being taken and she also had assisted in capturing 25 German POWs during the fall of Chartres. She was member the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group (French for “free shooters”), the group named themselves after the French irregular light infantry and saboteurs who fought the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War.
Simone Segouin was involved in armed actions against enemy convoys and trains, attacks against enemy detachments, acts of sabotages etc. The French newspaper Independent Eure-et-Loir on its August 26, 1944 issue described her as “one of the purest fighters of heroic French Resistance who prepared the way for the Liberation”. She was present at the fall of Chartres, on August 23, 1944, and at the Liberation of Paris. She was promoted to lieutenant, and awarded the Croix de guerre. A street in Courville-sur-Eure was named for her.
Photo taken in Paris, August 19, 1944.
The promise to build a wall along America’s southern border with Mexico has carried Donald Trump to his remarkable victory in the Republican primaries for president. Now it’s time to put that promise into the official Republican Party Platform.
Many would be surprised to learn that a border security fence or wall was not already in the Republican platform. After all, President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act which Congress passed in 2006 with the support of many Democrats including then-Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In the 10 years since Bush signed that law in a staged photo-op, the government has actually built only 36 miles of secure double fencing instead of the 700 miles authorized by that bipartisan, high-profile law. As a result, our southern border is penetrated daily by wave after wave of drug smuggling, human trafficking, people with incurable or infectious diseases such as the Zika virus, and even Muslims and Chinese people who somehow made their way to Mexico.
Business lobbyists and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who hold too much influence in the Republican party, oppose a wall because it would interfere with their continued exploitation of cheap foreign labor at the expense of American workers. In addition to tolerating the flow of illegal labor, the Chamber wants to expand every category of visas for foreign workers, both skilled and unskilled.
According to Politico, Republican power brokers have convened “as many as 10 closed-door huddles with business lobbyists to discuss the party’s platform.” Attendees were warned not to discuss details with the press, but you can bet that building a wall was not on their agenda.
The big-business lobbyists also expressed alarm at Trump’s promise to “discourage companies from moving jobs outside the United States.” One participant said his colleagues are “pretty much aghast” at Trump’s proposals to protect Americans against rampant cheating by our so-called “trading partners.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan, meanwhile, has been developing his own agenda for Republicans in an effort to compete with Trump’s. Under the slogan “A Better Way,” Ryan’s proposals include old chestnuts like cutting taxes, entitlements and regulations, but nothing about limiting immigration or the hemorrhage of jobs to foreign countries.
The Ryan agenda is basically the same as what Jeb Bush and 15 other failed presidential candidates campaigned on, but those ideas obviously didn’t sell to the Republican electorate. The voters have spoken, and the future of the Republican Party starts with a wall along our southern border.
Even some members of the Republican National Committee are resisting the wall as a political statement that belongs in the party platform. One RNC member called the wall “a symbolic thing” rather than “a physical thing,” while another member said the border wall is not to be taken “literally” because “it is a metaphor.”
The two RNC members are right that the border wall would be a powerful symbol, but only if and when it is actually built. Once completed, the wall on our southern border would stand as a “metaphor” for the fact that coming to America requires the invitation and permission of the American citizens who are already here.
The 2012 platform has many good provisions, including opposition to “any form of amnesty” and support for states using their authority to enforce federal immigration laws. But building a wall is now the foundation of Republican immigration policy – and yes, Mexico will pay for the wall.
Yet the Chamber of Commerce calls it a “myth” that “building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and deporting all undocumented immigrants from the United States, would enhance national security.” The Chamber’s analysis asserts that a border security wall would cost between $15 and $25 billion to build, and not even $1 billion to maintain, but those are small sums compared to the real costs of illegal immigration.
The federal, state, and local costs of criminal justice to process and incarcerate criminal aliens is at least $15 billion a year, not to mention the harm caused by those crimes, such as horrific crashes that have occurred when smugglers drive the wrong way on freeways at night with their headlights turned off. Even deportation is not as expensive as opponents of border security pretend.
A wall along the border would reduce illegal immigration and cause real wages to increase for average American workers for the first time in more than a decade. That may not be something the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants for big business, but it’s something that would attract American workers to vote Republican.
By Wallace Bruschweiler and William Palumbo –
Is the American population at large capable of independent thought anymore? With politics going the way they are today, it’s a question worth asking.
As the 2016 election season progresses, it becomes more and more apparent on a daily basis that a vast majority of Americans on both the left and the right require their news to be ruminated, masticated, hashed and rehashed prior to consumption. Instead of using their brains to consume and synthesize facts concerning their country’s politics and politicians, Americans – more often than not – have consigned themselves to a state of cerebral laziness.
For such people, what the news says is the truth, period. Should you be mentally engaged reading this right now, “sheep” may come to mind.
Let’s take, for example, the latest kerfuffle involving Donald Trump and a certain judge. If you were to gauge public opinion by what you see and hear on the news networks, you would conclude that Donald Trump has been outed as a racist after criticizing the judge, Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the Trump University case.
Yet according to the judge’s own CV, Curiel is affiliated with the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). In July 2015, this organization issued a press release boasting of its intentions to target ultimately Trump’s business interests.
The judge’s flagrant inability to rule impartially is even acknowledged by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who wrote in defense of Trump: “These circumstances, while not necessarily conclusive, at least raise a legitimate question to be considered.”
If you ever find yourself wondering why your friends, family, colleagues or peers cannot digest a basic factual political truth despite being otherwise intelligent, consider this: intelligence has little chance in overpowering regular and systematic brainwashing.
On the right, conservative pundits in the media have conditioned millions of loyal listeners and viewers to hang on and eat their every word. Their daily appearances amount to a priestly sermon for far too many conservatives, and it is absorbed, sans critique, as Gospel. Should the fickle media gods decide to turn on an issue or individual, however threadbare their reasoning, they surely bring the majority of their jelly-headed listeners.
On the left, the mainstream media has conditioned millions to selectively disregard inconvenient episodes (i.e. Benghazi, State Dept. emails, etc.). This intellectually dishonest environment creates lopsided narratives: e.g., despite Hillary (and Bill) Clinton’s seemingly endless scandals, a few malcontents who attended Trump University overshadow Benghazi, the Arab Spring, the Clinton Foundation, Bill’s philandering, mysterious deaths, and decades of ongoing lies to the American public.
What happens when a country’s citizens lose their ability to think for themselves? The media and political class are applying the methods used successfully in the past by Communist regimes and Goebbels; they mold and shape minds to accept things uncritically and unconditionally. What is presented today as supposedly newsworthy are politically pre-selected events. This creates the inevitable end result of cerebral torpor and mass-media conditioning.
Come November 8, 2016, we unfortunately will see if the brainwashing was too widespread and too deep to be overcome. Amen.