Saturday, January 31, 2015
Muslim Brotherhood Starts A Political Party Out Of Chicago
Via comment by Anonymous on Open Jihad Declared in Egypt Following State Dept....
In this, the final segment in the Center’s series on the USCMO (United States Council of Muslim Organizations), the first U.S. political party openly associated with the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, the rise of the UMMA (not an acronym but the full name of the group) follows shortly on the return of Sabri Samirah, member of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, to the U.S. following eleven years of exile. Once Samirah’s travel ban was lifted by the Obama administration in early 2014, he returned quickly to the U.S. and launched into a busy schedule of appearances and speeches to galvanize the U.S. Muslim community to political activism.
By 23 September 2014, Samirah’s new organization, Our UMMA, which succeeded UMAA (United Muslim Americans Association) to promote the political ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood formally had been established with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. The following picture is a screenshot from the Illinois Secretary of State’s office with the corporation file detail report for UMMA where Sabri Samirah is named as the registered agent.
In this, the final segment in the Center’s series on the USCMO (United States Council of Muslim Organizations), the first U.S. political party openly associated with the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, the rise of the UMMA (not an acronym but the full name of the group) follows shortly on the return of Sabri Samirah, member of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, to the U.S. following eleven years of exile. Once Samirah’s travel ban was lifted by the Obama administration in early 2014, he returned quickly to the U.S. and launched into a busy schedule of appearances and speeches to galvanize the U.S. Muslim community to political activism.
By 23 September 2014, Samirah’s new organization, Our UMMA, which succeeded UMAA (United Muslim Americans Association) to promote the political ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood formally had been established with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. The following picture is a screenshot from the Illinois Secretary of State’s office with the corporation file detail report for UMMA where Sabri Samirah is named as the registered agent.
More @ Center For Security Policy
“Hating Whitey” in Arizona–More Marxist lies for college students
Via Billy
It seems that the racialist attacks against white people, at all levels, by the politically correct “progressives” (Socialists) are intensifying almost to the point of mania, or maybe it’s to the point of phobia.
Dorkhead
It seems that the racialist attacks against white people, at all levels, by the politically correct “progressives” (Socialists) are intensifying almost to the point of mania, or maybe it’s to the point of phobia.
More @ Revised History
You Thought Conservatives Were Moralistic? Liberal Rules for Political Correctness Are Repressive, Exhausting, Liberal Author Complains
Via WiscoDave
While conservatives are often considered moralistic to a fault, liberal moralism has become so repressive that some liberals now fear everyday conversations.
In a Tuesday article for New York Magazine, a liberal publication, Jonathan Chait wrote about the new "political correctness," which now comes in the form of phrases like "trigger warnings," "microaggressions" or "mansplaining." These new liberal rules, Chait wrote, is a "system of left-wing ideological repression." Those rules are so stifling, any meaningful debate in liberal circles is cut off.
"A community, virtual or real, that adheres to the rules is deemed 'safe.' The extensive terminology plays a crucial role, locking in shared ideological assumptions that make meaningful disagreement impossible," he explained.
The victims of the new political correctness, Chait pointed out, are
not just conservatives; often, they are liberal. He interviewed several
liberals for the article and his thesis was provided further
confirmation when some asked not to be identified for fear of
retribution from their fellow liberals.
An unidentified "professor at a prestigious university" told Chait that she and her colleagues are so "terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma" that they avoid "traditional academic work of intellectual exploration." "This is an environment of fear," she said in explaining her need for anonymity.
While conservatives are often considered moralistic to a fault, liberal moralism has become so repressive that some liberals now fear everyday conversations.
In a Tuesday article for New York Magazine, a liberal publication, Jonathan Chait wrote about the new "political correctness," which now comes in the form of phrases like "trigger warnings," "microaggressions" or "mansplaining." These new liberal rules, Chait wrote, is a "system of left-wing ideological repression." Those rules are so stifling, any meaningful debate in liberal circles is cut off.
"A community, virtual or real, that adheres to the rules is deemed 'safe.' The extensive terminology plays a crucial role, locking in shared ideological assumptions that make meaningful disagreement impossible," he explained.
An unidentified "professor at a prestigious university" told Chait that she and her colleagues are so "terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma" that they avoid "traditional academic work of intellectual exploration." "This is an environment of fear," she said in explaining her need for anonymity.
More @ CP
Chuck Hagel Admits He Was Pressured by The Obama White House To Release GITMO Detainees…
Via comment by Sioux on Outrage Over Public Defender’s Arrest Caught on Vi...
It has long been suspected that President Obama took the direction to empty GITMO of detainees as a strategic maneuver once he was politically unable to put them into Federal DOJ custody for trial.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirms the pressure in that regard.
It has long been suspected that President Obama took the direction to empty GITMO of detainees as a strategic maneuver once he was politically unable to put them into Federal DOJ custody for trial.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirms the pressure in that regard.
More @ The Last Refuge
“WILL PAY A PRICE”
Via comment by Sioux on Obama's America: Red States Bore The Brunt Of Fede...
Valerie Jarrett Promises To Hurt Israel, Netanyahu For “Spitting In Obama’s Face” Over Iran Nukes
Nobody on Obama’s staff has the power to speak this viciously and forcefully, to make crystal clear threats like this against a world leader, to the press, other than Valerie Jarrett.
Plus, the sense of being so very PERSONALLY offended, so PERSONALLY invested in the President, is only going to come from Valerie Jarrett, we all know that. And lastly, the threatening language, the raging, vindictive arrogance are all Valerie’s emotional and rhetorical signatures. Take it to the bank that it was her.
Nobody on Obama’s staff has the power to speak this viciously and forcefully, to make crystal clear threats like this against a world leader, to the press, other than Valerie Jarrett.
Plus, the sense of being so very PERSONALLY offended, so PERSONALLY invested in the President, is only going to come from Valerie Jarrett, we all know that. And lastly, the threatening language, the raging, vindictive arrogance are all Valerie’s emotional and rhetorical signatures. Take it to the bank that it was her.
More @ Free Republic
Friday, January 30, 2015
NYPD to Permanently Patrol Protests with Machine Guns
Via III Percent Patriots
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Thursday that 350 heavily armed NYPD officers, called the “Strategic Response Group,” will soon be patrolling protests and the city at large.
He said the new strain of hyper-armed police will be
Bratton announced their purpose is specifically
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Thursday that 350 heavily armed NYPD officers, called the “Strategic Response Group,” will soon be patrolling protests and the city at large.
He said the new strain of hyper-armed police will be
“…equipped and trained in ways that our normal patrol officers are not. They’ll be equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns — unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances.”
“…designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris.”
More @ The Anti Media
Obama's America: Red States Bore The Brunt Of Federal Grant Cuts
You probably know this line by heart by now; Obama saying we're not a collection of red states or blue states, we’re the United States (I’m paraphrasing). Yet, we all know that’s bologna. Red states and blue states have different values, different views on government, and different attitudes towards America’s role in the world. To put it in another way, it’s the urban-based elite vs. the rural American.
No other president has accentuated such divisions as Barack Obama. That’s fine; I’m a fan of partisanship and government gridlock–our rights remain safe when government does next to nothing.
But, another area where such divisions are shown is in state budgets, where red states have been the victim of disproportionate cuts in federal grants compared to that of their blue state neighbors (via Reuters):
More @ Townhall
"The U.S. has opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct by its own attorneys.."
Via avordvet
Starting out quoting Shakespeare and ending up citing Kafka, Judge Francis M. Allegra’s conclusions about ATF conduct that led him to rule in favor of retired agent Jay Dobyns in a breach of covenant suit are scathingly revealed in his previously sealed opinion. That judgment was revoked after Allegra learned of “fraud upon the court” considerations, this column reported Sunday.
Leading his opinion with a verse from Othello, Allegra pointedly let the government defendants he ruled against know he considered them to have robbed Dobyns of his “good name.” Concluding his opinion with a reference comparing Dobyns’ ordeal to that imposed by the ‘totalitarian state” in “The Trial,” and calling it “Kafkaesque,” Allegra further observed that the conduct of "certain ATF officials ... bears little resemblance to the lofty sayings carved into the facades of the Department of Justice.” He was referring to “words now carved into the office rotunda of the Attorney General” that “The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts.”
“Based on the breach of the covenant, the court finds that plaintiff [Dobyns] is entitled to damages in the amount of $173,000,” Allegra ordered in the opinion he has since revoked in order to pursue an investigation into further government misconduct. “The court concludes that defendant [ATF] is entitled to – nothing.”
Starting out quoting Shakespeare and ending up citing Kafka, Judge Francis M. Allegra’s conclusions about ATF conduct that led him to rule in favor of retired agent Jay Dobyns in a breach of covenant suit are scathingly revealed in his previously sealed opinion. That judgment was revoked after Allegra learned of “fraud upon the court” considerations, this column reported Sunday.
Leading his opinion with a verse from Othello, Allegra pointedly let the government defendants he ruled against know he considered them to have robbed Dobyns of his “good name.” Concluding his opinion with a reference comparing Dobyns’ ordeal to that imposed by the ‘totalitarian state” in “The Trial,” and calling it “Kafkaesque,” Allegra further observed that the conduct of "certain ATF officials ... bears little resemblance to the lofty sayings carved into the facades of the Department of Justice.” He was referring to “words now carved into the office rotunda of the Attorney General” that “The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts.”
“Based on the breach of the covenant, the court finds that plaintiff [Dobyns] is entitled to damages in the amount of $173,000,” Allegra ordered in the opinion he has since revoked in order to pursue an investigation into further government misconduct. “The court concludes that defendant [ATF] is entitled to – nothing.”
More @ Examiner
Outrage Over Public Defender’s Arrest Caught on Video: ‘This Is Not Guantanamo Bay’
Via avordvet
San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson was in a courtroom in the city’s Hall of Justice when she got the word: Police were interviewing and taking photographs of a client of hers elsewhere in the building.
So Tillotson left the courtroom, got to her client, and told him he didn’t have to answer any questions from police; she added to the inspector present that he had no right to take photos of her client or her client’s friend, who was also there, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
Soon someone started recording Tuesday’s incident on a cellphone camera.
San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson was in a courtroom in the city’s Hall of Justice when she got the word: Police were interviewing and taking photographs of a client of hers elsewhere in the building.
So Tillotson left the courtroom, got to her client, and told him he didn’t have to answer any questions from police; she added to the inspector present that he had no right to take photos of her client or her client’s friend, who was also there, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
Soon someone started recording Tuesday’s incident on a cellphone camera.
More @ The Blaze
America's Coolest Small Town 2015
Via Cousin Colby
(Population: 9,744)Locals like to say
that Washington has a small town feel but big town activities. The
waterfront downtown is a major draw, with a renovated theater, wonderful
shops, and a wine-tasting scene that surprises some visitors. The
Pamlico River is popular with the sailing crowd 10 months of the year,
and hunting and fishing are thriving activities in the area. Founded in
1776 and named for General George Washington years before he became our
nation's first president, this town wears its history proudly but
lightly, sometimes referring to itself as "Little Washington."
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If you ever get to Little Washington, NC don't miss Bill's. You'll have to wait and pay cash, but the chili is the best.
There are three toppings: chili, mustard, and onions. No more, no less. No ketchup. Get over yourself. This is Bill’s. You are going to like it, just order it all the way.
American Small Business Is Literally Dying
According to Gallup, the United States now ranks 12th in the world in business startup activity. Italy, one of the weaker countries in the Eurozone, has a higher rate of business startups than the US. This isn’t a statistical quirk. Entrepreneurship, the special sauce that launches new business, is in steep decline here for the first time ever.
“When small and medium-sized businesses are dying faster than they’re being born, so is free enterprise,” writes Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup. “And when free enterprise dies, America dies with it.”
More @ Breitbart
Open Jihad Declared in Egypt Following State Dept. Meeting with Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Leaders
Via Joe
The Muslim Brotherhood called for “a long, uncompromising jihad” in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group’s key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released this week.
Just days after a delegation that included two top Brotherhood leaders was hosted at the State Department, the organization released an official statement calling on its supporters to “prepare” for jihad, according to an independent translation of the statement first posted on Tuesday.
The Muslim Brotherhood called for “a long, uncompromising jihad” in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group’s key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released this week.
Just days after a delegation that included two top Brotherhood leaders was hosted at the State Department, the organization released an official statement calling on its supporters to “prepare” for jihad, according to an independent translation of the statement first posted on Tuesday.
More @ The Washington Free Beacon
FDIC Changes Tactics in Response to Operation Choke Point
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has acknowledged its role in Operation Choke Point and is taking dramatic steps to reverse its policies in targeting legal and legitimate industries that are disfavored by the Obama administration.
“We’re very pleased they’ve acknowledged their wrongdoing and they’ve accepted our suggestions to put in place measures to stop this activity,” Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., told The Daily Signal in a phone call this morning.
More @ The Daily Signal
Best New Rifles of 2015
First, a few random notes. My lack of comments on the past couple of weeks’ posts was due to the fact that every several months or so, my MAC decides that my password is unacceptable and shuts me down. However, I’m now back in business, at least until it screws up again.
A fashion note from SHOT. This year, the big thing, if you had 18-inch biceps and a 19-point IQ, was a sleeveless T-shirt. There was a lot of this.
In at least one SHOT report, I’ve complained about the lack of ventilation at the show, and the farts that lie lurking like pockets of mustard gas on a World War I battlefield. This year I ran into two that would have brought a mule to its knees. It may have been the same person. If so, my advice to him is to see a gastroenterologist without delay; there’s something wrong with you. And a trip to the dry cleaner is probably in order as well.
Anyway, rifles. There were a lot of very good new ones this year, and here they are, not in any kind of order.
More @ Patriot Outdoor News
Lynch Will Take Up Holder's Torch of Injustice
Via Billy
Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation last September, effective when a replacement is confirmed. On Wednesday, Congress conducted the first day of hearings with that nominee, U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch. And it appears she’ll pick up right where Holder left off.
Early in the hearing, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) explained, “[T]he Attorney General is the premier law enforcement officer … in America. He or she sets the tone for law in America, the commitment to law, and must resist politicizing law and do the right thing on a daily basis.”
And Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) lamented, “Public confidence in the department’s ability to do its job without regard to politics has been shaken, with good reason.”
Indeed, what a tone Holder set. To name but a few egregious activities from the last six years in which he served as Barack Obama’s criminal co-conspirator, the AG trafficked illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels via Operation Fast and Furious, tossed an airtight voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia and sued Southern states over voter ID laws. So he’s leaving big shoes to fill.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation last September, effective when a replacement is confirmed. On Wednesday, Congress conducted the first day of hearings with that nominee, U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch. And it appears she’ll pick up right where Holder left off.
Early in the hearing, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) explained, “[T]he Attorney General is the premier law enforcement officer … in America. He or she sets the tone for law in America, the commitment to law, and must resist politicizing law and do the right thing on a daily basis.”
And Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) lamented, “Public confidence in the department’s ability to do its job without regard to politics has been shaken, with good reason.”
Indeed, what a tone Holder set. To name but a few egregious activities from the last six years in which he served as Barack Obama’s criminal co-conspirator, the AG trafficked illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels via Operation Fast and Furious, tossed an airtight voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia and sued Southern states over voter ID laws. So he’s leaving big shoes to fill.
More @ The Patriot Post
Sessions to global warming alarmists: Cool it!
Via Billy
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has a message for global warming alarmists: Cool it.
Alabama’s junior senator took to the senate floor this week to express his frustration with the Obama Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency, which is seeking to impose trillions of dollars of regulations on the American economy, due to what Sessions argued is at best faulty logic and at worst outright propaganda.
“The scare tactics that we’ve been hearing are not coming to fruition,” he said. “(Yet) many members of Congress want to take drastic action that would increase the cost of electricity and gasoline… It would virtually end coal production in the United States… They claim that the science of global warming is settled, but I suggest questions remain.”
To back up his claims, Sessions went full-on classroom mode on the Senate floor, including pulling out charts and graphs to illustrate his points.
Here are four areas he believes prove that imposing further environmental regulations on the economy is irrational.
Alabama’s junior senator took to the senate floor this week to express his frustration with the Obama Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency, which is seeking to impose trillions of dollars of regulations on the American economy, due to what Sessions argued is at best faulty logic and at worst outright propaganda.
“The scare tactics that we’ve been hearing are not coming to fruition,” he said. “(Yet) many members of Congress want to take drastic action that would increase the cost of electricity and gasoline… It would virtually end coal production in the United States… They claim that the science of global warming is settled, but I suggest questions remain.”
To back up his claims, Sessions went full-on classroom mode on the Senate floor, including pulling out charts and graphs to illustrate his points.
Here are four areas he believes prove that imposing further environmental regulations on the economy is irrational.
More @ Yellowhammer News
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Via Sioux
Forget Climategate: this ‘global warming’ scandal is much bigger
How can we believe in ‘global warming’ when the temperature records providing the ‘evidence’ for that warming cannot be trusted?
It’s a big question – and one which many people, even on the sceptical side of the argument, are reluctant to ask.
Here, for example, is one of the two most prominent English sceptics in the House of Lords, Matt Ridley outlining his own position.
More @ Breitbart
NC: 'Bear Lady' of North Carolina may have been killed by bear she was famous for feeding
Via Harry
At one with nature: Grayson lived without a phone, running water or
electricity for two decades at the home she dubbed 'Bearsong' and used
to feed the animals with peanuts and dog food.A woman known as North Carolina's 'Bear Lady' may have been killed by a bear.
The
remains of Kay Grayson, 67, were found in a well-known bear path just
100 yards from her isolated home in Tyrrell County on Monday.
Authorities
could only find bones, hair and ripped clothing, which had likely been
there for two weeks after she was reported missing.
More @ Daily Mail
Mystery of missing Confederate submarines resurfaces
Via Bob
A local historian and urban archaeologist thinks he's solved a mystery: What happened to four Confederate submersibles known to be in Shreveport during the last two years of the Civil War, but missing in action since then.
Marty Loschen, director of the Spring Street Museum in downtown Shreveport, thinks he's found remnants of the hand-propelled craft in the banks of a branch of Cross Bayou about a half-mile west of where the Confederate Navy had a shipyard. At Cross Bayou's mouth on Red River, it was home to the leaky ironclad CSS Missouri and a fast packet, the Webb, whose presence overshadowed the humbler underwater vessels.
A local historian and urban archaeologist thinks he's solved a mystery: What happened to four Confederate submersibles known to be in Shreveport during the last two years of the Civil War, but missing in action since then.
Marty Loschen, director of the Spring Street Museum in downtown Shreveport, thinks he's found remnants of the hand-propelled craft in the banks of a branch of Cross Bayou about a half-mile west of where the Confederate Navy had a shipyard. At Cross Bayou's mouth on Red River, it was home to the leaky ironclad CSS Missouri and a fast packet, the Webb, whose presence overshadowed the humbler underwater vessels.
More @ USA Today
Bush's DHS Secretaries Join With Napolitano: Fund Obama's Amnesty
Via Jeffery
Three former secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS)--including two that served under Republican President George W.
Bush--have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-KY) urging him not to include language in the DHS funding bill to
prohibit President Obama unilateral executive actions on immigration that will allow as many as five million illegal aliens to stay in the United States without fear of deportation.
They said that if Congress did include such language in the bill "the likelihood of a Department of Homeland Security shutdown increases." In other words: President Obama might veto the bill and shutdown the department.
They said that if Congress did include such language in the bill "the likelihood of a Department of Homeland Security shutdown increases." In other words: President Obama might veto the bill and shutdown the department.
More @ CNS News
Investor Warning: South Africa
The
accompanying cutting, from today’s Mercury, serves to confirm that South
Africa is indisputably on a Zimbabwe-style road to rack-and-ruin: Black
ANC government ministers, including King Kong himself, regularly attend
overseas’ business conferences to attract Overseas’ Investors. Any
potential Investors must, however, be warned about the accompanying
article and be warned about the treachery of our black leadership scum.
Furthermore, I must remind potential investors about the perils of the
ANC government’s racist Affirmative Action/Employment Equity, and BEE,
regulations: inexperienced, poorly-educated,
parasitical blacks must be given employment preference, irrespective of
more competent, better-qualified Whites.
Stipulated minimum wages,
furthermore, are proving to be very inflationary in the light of poor
productivity. Similarly, Black Economic Empowerment
is a situation in which politically-connected blacks get handed huge
sums of cash, to start their own businesses, but these morons seem to
think that “turnover is profit,” and spend everything on big homes,
luxury vehicles and expensive clothes, etc. The BEE success rate is
estimated to be less-than 10% but government continues with this drain
on our fiscus!
A long story but l would certainly think twice before investing in this Gucci-Socialistic, crime-ridden country!
Kind regards,
Les Vincent
DurbanFocus on land reform
THE ANC is placing emphasis on the need to speed up land redistribution amid increasing pressure from opposition such as the EFF and Numsa. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said yesterday that the ruling party was calling for a cap on land...Thursday, January 29, 2015
"A martyr for the South, Henry Wirz"
Via Nancy
Début du message transféré :
Début du message transféré :
Expéditeur: "Heinrich L. Wirz" <heinrich.l.wirz@bluewin.ch>
Date: 29 janvier 2015 16:14:37 UTC+1
Destinataire: "'Heinrich L. Wirz'" <heinrich.l.wirz@bluewin.ch>
Objet: Captain Henry Wirz, Assistant Adjutant General, Confederate States Army
Ladies and Gentlemen,
You
may have read or heard me talking before about the American War of
Secession (1861 – 1865) and its best known Swiss participant, Captain
Henry Wirz, my great-granduncle.
His
name is indispensably related to Camp Sumpter Prison, better known as
Andersonville, Georgia. Captain Wirz was its commandant (1864 – 1865).
After the war he was arrested, brought to Washington D.C. where he was
brought to trial and sentenced to death for alleged war crimes and
executed by hanging.
In
2011 the American historian Albert Winkler published an article in the
„Swiss American Historical Society Review“, Vol. 47, No. 2, June 2011: Henry Wirz and Andersonville: The Career of the Most Controversial Swiss American. One of the key sentences is:
„The
tragedy of Andersonville still discredits the nation, and many men in
the Union and Confederacy must share the blame for the high death rates
in that prison, but Wirz was unfairly singled out for punishment. Henry
Wirz was a flawed man who did his best to alleviate suffering and safe
lives at Andersonville, and he is no stain on the honor of Swiss
Americans.”
In
the meantime Albert Winkler wrote another article on this matter which
was recently published in the „Swiss American Historical Society
Review“, Vol. 50, No. 3, November 2014: Henry Wirz and the Tragedy of Andersonville: A Question of Responsibility. Please note the conclusion:
“With
so much guilt to be shared, the prosecution and execution of Wirz was
unjustified. Of all these men, Henry Wirz was probably the least
responsible for the high mortality at Andersonville. In fact, he likely
deserves high praise for doing for what he could to improve the
desperate conditions in the prison, and he probably saved many Union
prisoners who would have perished without his efforts.”
I
again thank Mr. Winkler very much for his thorough historical research
and for the permission to distribute his article electronically (please
see attachment!).
With best regards, H. L. Wirz.
Heinrich L. Wirz, Colonel Swiss Army (Ret.)
Writer in Defence and Military Affairs
Independent Parlamentary Journalist
Editor in chief "Pro Militia" 2007-2010 / 2013
Ritterstrasse 4
CH-3047 Bremgarten
Switzerland
Phone + 41 (0)31 301 79 13
Mobile + 41 (0)79 384 22 66
Virginia Flaggers Lee-Jackson Weekend Report Part III - VMI
After making our way to VMI, we assembled on the parade grounds, at Jackson's statue. Almost immediately, Cadets came out to speak with us, and to pose for photos with Generals Jackson and Lee. As three young men were standing with us, a man came out of the archway, very agitated and screaming the Cadets' names. He approached and demanded they get away from "those people" and "that thing" . We can only assume that by "those people" he meant the re-enactors portraying Lee and Jackson, and the men and women gathered to honor them on the holiday, and by "that thing" he meant the Confederate Battle Flag.
More @ The Virginia Flaggers
St. Louis Police Union Official Wearing ‘I Am Darren Wilson’ Bracelet Reportedly Upset Crowd Before Meeting Turned Into Shoving Match
Via Joe
Before a St. Louis City Hall meeting on a possible police oversight civilian board turned into a shoving match Wednesday, the mood in the room reportedly turned sour when some spotted a man wearing an “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet.
Wilson — a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer — fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, sparking months of racially charged protests and riots.
The man wearing the bracelet was Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, who said he was there to support officers, KMOV-TV reported.
Before a St. Louis City Hall meeting on a possible police oversight civilian board turned into a shoving match Wednesday, the mood in the room reportedly turned sour when some spotted a man wearing an “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet.
Wilson — a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer — fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, sparking months of racially charged protests and riots.
The man wearing the bracelet was Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, who said he was there to support officers, KMOV-TV reported.
More with video @ The Blaze
Woman Hijacks Podium at Muslim Event: ‘False Prophet’ Muhammed ‘Will Never Dominate Texas!’
Via Jeff
Suffice it to say: The 11th annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day is not going well for Texas.
Earlier Thursday we brought you the story of State Rep. Molly White (R-Belton) requesting her staff greet any visitors from the Muslim community with the Israeli flag pin, a request for denunciation of terrorist groups, and a verbal pledge of allegiance to the United States.
When members of the Muslim community showed up to the Capitol for the annual meeting with state lawmakers, they were greeted by roughly 25 protesters who showed up to give the Muslim community a piece of their mind. According to the Texas Tribune, one demonstrator’s sign read “Radical Islam is the New Nazi,” and another’s: “Go Home & Take Obama With You.”
Suffice it to say: The 11th annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day is not going well for Texas.
Earlier Thursday we brought you the story of State Rep. Molly White (R-Belton) requesting her staff greet any visitors from the Muslim community with the Israeli flag pin, a request for denunciation of terrorist groups, and a verbal pledge of allegiance to the United States.
When members of the Muslim community showed up to the Capitol for the annual meeting with state lawmakers, they were greeted by roughly 25 protesters who showed up to give the Muslim community a piece of their mind. According to the Texas Tribune, one demonstrator’s sign read “Radical Islam is the New Nazi,” and another’s: “Go Home & Take Obama With You.”
More @ Mediaite
American Legion: Second chances for Jihadists must stop
Via Joe
By Michael D. Helm
Most Americans do not know who Ali al-Marri is and it is my sincere hope
that they never find out because of another horrendous attack. Nonetheless,
it is extremely alarming that not only has our government released the
convicted al-Qaeda operative from U.S. custody to Qatar, but that it has
also gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.
Picked up for a routine traffic violation just a few weeks after the 9/11
attacks, al-Marri ominously arrived in the United States on Sept. 10, 2001.
After police discovered he was already on a federal watch list, he was
arrested and charged with providing material support or resources to al
Qaeda. In fact, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described al-Marri
as "the perfect sleeper agent because he has studied in the United States,
had no criminal record, and had a family with whom he could travel."
First held as an enemy combatant, a U.S. court later ruled that al-Marri was
entitled to a federal hearing. In a 2009 plea agreement, he pled guilty in
exchange for a 15-year prison sentence and was held in the United States.
Released earlier this month to his native country of Qatar, he can expect
plenty of company in that part of the world as President Obama has called on
Congress to lift remaining restrictions on detainee transfers so he can
close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
To be fair, the release of dangerous detainees is not new and hundreds were
released during the Bush administration. But at a time when ISIS is
committing the most gruesome atrocities imaginable, it is the precise
opposite of what we should be doing.
In 2006, a delegation from The American Legion visited the detention
facility at Guantanamo. Tom Bock, who was the organization's national
commander at the time, reported a very different environment than the
description offered by many detainee lawyers and agenda-driven human rights
organizations.
"The United States may be the only country whose captured enemy combatants
gain weight during their detention," Bock said at the time, while taking
note of the excellent prison cuisine. "The members of Joint Task Force
Guantanamo are absolute professionals. One guard had feces thrown on him
just before we arrived. He calmly showered and changed his uniform. The
abuse at Guantanamo is coming from the detainees, not our military."
Bock added that the detainee medical clinic provided excellent health care,
far superior to what most of the detainees were able to receive in their
home countries prior to their capture.
According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 30 percent of
released Guantanamo detainees have engaged in further terrorist activities.
One such man was Abdallah al-Ajmi. Captured in Pakistan in December 2001,
al-Ajmi was a Taliban fighter and self-proclaimed Jihadist. He was
transferred to Guantanamo and remained there until his release in 2005.
While at Gitmo, he told a military review board that he wanted to kill as
many Americans as possible. Nonetheless, despite a history of violence at
Gitmo, he was returned to his native country Kuwait. According to the
Washington Post, on March 23, 2008 al-Ajmi drove a pick-up truck full of
explosives through an Iraqi military base entrance point in Mosul. The blast
killed 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 42 civilians.
As the nation's largest organization of wartime veterans, The American
Legion believes it has a solemn responsibility to do what it can to keep our
country safe. We do not practice partisan politics, but we do believe in
speaking truth to power, regardless of the consequences.
Mr. President, freeing terrorists and closing Guantanamo is a terrible idea.
By Michael D. Helm
Most Americans do not know who Ali al-Marri is and it is my sincere hope
that they never find out because of another horrendous attack. Nonetheless,
it is extremely alarming that not only has our government released the
convicted al-Qaeda operative from U.S. custody to Qatar, but that it has
also gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.
Picked up for a routine traffic violation just a few weeks after the 9/11
attacks, al-Marri ominously arrived in the United States on Sept. 10, 2001.
After police discovered he was already on a federal watch list, he was
arrested and charged with providing material support or resources to al
Qaeda. In fact, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described al-Marri
as "the perfect sleeper agent because he has studied in the United States,
had no criminal record, and had a family with whom he could travel."
First held as an enemy combatant, a U.S. court later ruled that al-Marri was
entitled to a federal hearing. In a 2009 plea agreement, he pled guilty in
exchange for a 15-year prison sentence and was held in the United States.
Released earlier this month to his native country of Qatar, he can expect
plenty of company in that part of the world as President Obama has called on
Congress to lift remaining restrictions on detainee transfers so he can
close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
To be fair, the release of dangerous detainees is not new and hundreds were
released during the Bush administration. But at a time when ISIS is
committing the most gruesome atrocities imaginable, it is the precise
opposite of what we should be doing.
In 2006, a delegation from The American Legion visited the detention
facility at Guantanamo. Tom Bock, who was the organization's national
commander at the time, reported a very different environment than the
description offered by many detainee lawyers and agenda-driven human rights
organizations.
"The United States may be the only country whose captured enemy combatants
gain weight during their detention," Bock said at the time, while taking
note of the excellent prison cuisine. "The members of Joint Task Force
Guantanamo are absolute professionals. One guard had feces thrown on him
just before we arrived. He calmly showered and changed his uniform. The
abuse at Guantanamo is coming from the detainees, not our military."
Bock added that the detainee medical clinic provided excellent health care,
far superior to what most of the detainees were able to receive in their
home countries prior to their capture.
According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 30 percent of
released Guantanamo detainees have engaged in further terrorist activities.
One such man was Abdallah al-Ajmi. Captured in Pakistan in December 2001,
al-Ajmi was a Taliban fighter and self-proclaimed Jihadist. He was
transferred to Guantanamo and remained there until his release in 2005.
While at Gitmo, he told a military review board that he wanted to kill as
many Americans as possible. Nonetheless, despite a history of violence at
Gitmo, he was returned to his native country Kuwait. According to the
Washington Post, on March 23, 2008 al-Ajmi drove a pick-up truck full of
explosives through an Iraqi military base entrance point in Mosul. The blast
killed 13 Iraqi soldiers and wounded 42 civilians.
As the nation's largest organization of wartime veterans, The American
Legion believes it has a solemn responsibility to do what it can to keep our
country safe. We do not practice partisan politics, but we do believe in
speaking truth to power, regardless of the consequences.
Mr. President, freeing terrorists and closing Guantanamo is a terrible idea.
Work begins to raise CSS Georgia from Savannah River
Via Bob
Divers and military salvage crews will spend the next nine months raising what's left of an armored Confederate warship that's been rotting at the bottom of the Savannah River for 150 years.
After years of planning, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that work has begun to recover the remains of the ironclad CSS Georgia. The ship was scuttled by its own Confederate crew to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union army took Savannah in December 1864.
The shipwreck lies in pieces beneath 30 feet of water where the river winds east of downtown Savannah. Only two big pieces of its armored siding remain intact, the largest being about 64-by-24 feet. Otherwise the riverbed is scattered with artifacts and debris — railroad ties that formed the ship's iron armor, four cannons, pieces of the ship's steam engine, unexploded cannonballs and small fasteners — that will eventually be raised to the surface.
Divers and military salvage crews will spend the next nine months raising what's left of an armored Confederate warship that's been rotting at the bottom of the Savannah River for 150 years.
After years of planning, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that work has begun to recover the remains of the ironclad CSS Georgia. The ship was scuttled by its own Confederate crew to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union army took Savannah in December 1864.
The shipwreck lies in pieces beneath 30 feet of water where the river winds east of downtown Savannah. Only two big pieces of its armored siding remain intact, the largest being about 64-by-24 feet. Otherwise the riverbed is scattered with artifacts and debris — railroad ties that formed the ship's iron armor, four cannons, pieces of the ship's steam engine, unexploded cannonballs and small fasteners — that will eventually be raised to the surface.
More @ Starts & Stripes
People control
As if there was any doubt that “gun control” is just a misnomer for people control, we have more evidence of the new direction on the part of the disarmers of lawful Americans. That direction is Soviet-style punitive psychiatry as well as a vast expansion of the category of “prohibited persons” through retroactive addition of punishments to old convictions.
More @ Oleg Volk
NC: Civitas Institute Maps The Sordid Web Of Left-Wing Extremism
Honestly, this couldn’t be better news for conservatives, especially those living in the Tar Heel state. The Civitas Institute, a right-leaning North Carolina-based think tank, has created Mapping The Left, a website dedicated to identifying the web of left-wing extremism that threatens the state. They point to the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation as one of the main organizations funding this radical liberal agenda. While the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation is known for funding parks and hospitals, they’ve doled out tens of millions of dollars to the political left.
More @ Townhall
Can We Impeach Him Now?
Via avordvet
So now we know we gave up known terrorists for...... a deserter.
What I am buying is that the Obama Administration is doing their level best to suppress this finding by any means possible. But the UCMJ isn't one of those things that is supposed to be subject to civilian review on a micro level. That is, while the civilian government passes the UCMJ (in that the authority for it flows from same) on a case-by-case basis it is not discretionary within the purview of the executive -- including the CIC.
So now we know we gave up known terrorists for...... a deserter.
The Army has decided to charge Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released by Taliban-aligned militants last year in exchange for five Guantanamo prisoners, with desertion, according to a former military intelligence officer.The official Army line is that no decision has been made. I ain't buying it.
What I am buying is that the Obama Administration is doing their level best to suppress this finding by any means possible. But the UCMJ isn't one of those things that is supposed to be subject to civilian review on a micro level. That is, while the civilian government passes the UCMJ (in that the authority for it flows from same) on a case-by-case basis it is not discretionary within the purview of the executive -- including the CIC.
More @ Market Ticker
Seattle Pot Producer Rolling Out 12,000 Joints Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday
A Seattle-based medical marijuana retailer is anticipating Seahawks fans will want a "super bowl" for Sunday's big game. That's why employees at Solstice are working to roll a staggering number of joints — 12,000 in all — for its special "12th Pack" promotion ahead of Sunday, when the Seahawks face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX. That works out to roughly 180 to 220 joints made during an eight-hour shift — double the normal pace, NBC affiliate KING5 reported. "It's not like I go home with cramps or anything," a smiling employee, Katy Filippone, told the station.
More with video @ ABC