[Wash Times] Chicago’s police superintendent fired back at President Trump over his criticism of the city over recent shootings, saying the president hasn’t responded to local officials’ requests for aid to combat crime.
“Seven people shot and killed yesterday in Chicago. What is going on there — totally out of control. Chicago needs help!” wrote Mr. Trump on his Twitter account Thursday.
It’s at least the second time Mr. Trump has highlighted crime in Chicago as president, having previously threatened to “send in the Feds” if they city couldn’t “fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on.”
Supt. Eddie Johnson responded Thursday night, acknowledging that the gun violence is “unacceptable.”
But he noted that the city’s suggestions for ways the federal government could help stem the violence have gone unanswered.
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We'll build a world of are own that nobody else can share...Or words to that effect. Your gumerment at work. Democrat rule for how long?. Gun control laws and you want to do something. I believe you have done quiet enough to achieve this outcome.
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Cause giving tenured teachers union membership more money certainly improved the quality of education. /sarc
Maybe investing in prosecuting federal gun crimes and conspiracy committed by gangs will help remove some the miscreants better than the 'Chicago Way'.
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Wouldn't the Mayor or the Governor have to request federal aid in dealing with these murders? It is their responsibility to protect their citizens from criminal violence.
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Well, it depends what they want it for. If they want more welfare, midnight bassetbaw funds and money to sue gun manufacturers, they can just stick it, ya know...
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"But he noted that the city’s suggestions for ways the federal government could help stem the violence have gone unanswered."
I suspect that Mr. Johnson,etal, gave "suggestions" that were more like ROE, and DJT would have none of the half-assed measures allowed by Chicago city hall.
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BY ROBERT SPENCER
Who is applauding the appointment of H. R. McMaster as national security adviser? Leading the applause are mainstream counterterror analysts whose policy recommendations are based on false premises and have failed time and time again. But even as the world is in flames because of their wrongheadedness, they still keep pushing the same failed analyses again and again.
Cheerleading for McMaster's denial and willful ignorance in Politico today is Will McCants of the Brookings Institution. The Brookings Institution is heavily funded by Qatar, one of the world's chief financiers of jihad terror. That funding has turned Brookings into an apologist for jihad, giving a platform to Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has praised Hitler and endorsed jihad suicide attacks, and Hamas-linked CAIR's Nihad Awad, among others.
McCants himself is the establishment counter-terror "expert" who was involved with the Obama State Department's laughable Think Again Turn Away social media initiative to try to shame jihadis into leaving the jihad based on beliefs and values that the jihadis didn't hold in the first place. McCants has waved away the term "radical Islam" thusly: "Every bit of that phrase is analytically unhelpful...Is this the wine-drinking Islam of the poets? The court Islam of the caliph? What kind of Islam are you even talking about?"
Well, Will, how about the Islam of the Qur'an and Sunnah? It's really very simple: it involves taking the people who say they're motivated by Islamic texts and teachings at their word, rather than condescendingly telling them, "No, you're actually motivated by poverty and lack of economic opportunity, here, we'll give you some cash and build you a school and we'll be pals then, right?" The worst damage is this culturally disarms the public who, dutifully believing "nothing to do with islam" and "no to islamophobia" put pressure on government and law enforcement to do nothing about the attacking ideology of Islamism. Like AIDS it disables our immune response to a hostile invader.
McMaster's attitude is ideological AIDS left over from Obama/Bush.
McCants has also claimed that the Islamic State was not following Islamic rules of warfare, in the process demonstrating only that he has a hazy idea, at best, of what those rules of warfare really are.
Most ominously of all, he recommended in January 2014 that the U.S. "befriend" the al-Qaeda-linked jihad group Ahrar al-Sham. This was the kind of thinking that led to Obama's disastrous policies of arming and training al-Qaeda groups, including Ahrar al-Sham, in Syria.
As Will McCants himself might put it, his analyses again and again are "crazy pants." But he is very happy about McMaster as NSA, because McMaster, like McCants, doesn't dare identify the jihadis' motivating ideology. Note his use in this article of the word "Islamophobes," a propaganda term cynically employed by Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in the U.S. to intimidate people into fearing to oppose jihad terror.
McCants says: "The Islamophobes are not wrong to sense that McMaster will be hostile to their worldview, according to those who know him best. McMaster spent much of his career fighting and winning wars in the Middle East, which required him to know the local cultures and treat Muslims like humans rather than scripturally programmed robots."
He is implying that my colleagues and I think all Muslims behave in exact accord with the Qur'an and Sunnah, which is of course straw man nonsense. What we insist upon, and what Will McCants and his colleagues are determined to obscure, explain away, or ignore outright, is that Islamic texts and teachings are the key element of the motivating ideology of the jihad terrorists, as they themselves insist, and that we can only understand and counter them effectively if we understand those texts and teachings.
Instead, we get the puerile and silly McCants cheering on the unfortunate appointment of another purveyor of the denial that was all-pervasive during the Obama administration. We can only hope that McMaster was just echoing the party line, and will be prepared to be more realistic as a member of President Trump's team. He won't. We voted Trump in to drain that swamp but we won't get it. Trump gets his wall and to kick out illegals, but he doesn't get to fix the BIG MISTAKE made right after 9/11 because its ENTRENCHED. Bureacratic inertia. The stupids have won.
"McMaster Has the Islamophobes Worried. Good.," by William McCants, Politico, February 23, 2017:
When America's most influential Islamophobes are upset, you know the president made a good choice. "Score one [for] the swamp," whined Robert Spencer upon hearing the news that Donald Trump appointed Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to be his national security adviser. Spencer makes a living scaring Americans about the dangers of Muslim soccer moms.
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hello i carefully pasted in all the URL links within this article as it's good research if people wish to follow, but they are all saying "file not found on this server" (they are external links)
so perhaps cut and paste into the browser. apologies if there is a box i failed to tick somewhere
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We really are better off not declaring all Islam the enemy - even if it was true, which it is not (quite.) Makes better sense to silently encourage many of them to fight each other (and/or Russia and China) and the rest to sit on the sidelines, rather than all uniting to fight us.
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Glenmore: It's NOT about declaring all Islam the enemy
it's about HONESTLY facing the fact in word and deed that it's not "nothing to do with Islam".
It's not "everything to do with Islam"
but it IS "something to do with Islam"
and the sooner our leaders admit this openly and have the discussion the sooner we can start targeting that something.
by saying "nothing to do with islam" is why people are dead in san bernadino because Tashveen Malik and I hope their families sue the government for this.
saying "nothing to do with islam" is why theocrats now are way more powerful across the Islamic world today than they were on 9/11 or before we went to war in iraq and stupidly let sharia be put in the constitution
[Jihadwatch] President Trump has chosen Lt. General William McMaster as his new National Security Adviser. As a three-star general, McMaster's appointment will require Senate confirmation, and one hopes that the Senators before they vote will take the opportunity to examine his understanding of Islamic terrorism. For surely this is the greatest threat not only to American security, but to that of the entire West. ... (snip)
Muslims have a duty to spread Islam by means of Jihad, which overwhelmingly means the use of violence, though it can be conducted through other means - as, for example, Jihad of the Pen/Tongue, to spread Islam's message.
Today, along with violence, a new instrument - demographic conquest - is being used to overwhelm the Infidels and spread Islam. "New" because never before in history have millions of people dedicated to the long-term destruction of others been allowed by those others to settle deep behind what ought be regarded as enemy lines, as Muslims have now been allowed to settle throughout Western Europe.
If Muslim numbers do surpass those of the indigenous non-Muslims, Muslims will be in a position to offer non-Muslims a choice: either to convert to Islam, or be killed, or to accept the permanent status of dhimmi, with all of its attendant disabilities. And there is no end to Jihad; it should continue until the whole world is ultimately subjected to Islam. There is nothing -- pace General McMaster -- "cynical" about any of this.
As for those phrases repeated by General McMaster about this "perverse interpretation of religion [used] to justify violence" which becomes, in his longer variant, a "perverted interpretation of religion to incite hatred and justify horrific cruelty against innocents," the only "perverted interpretation" of Islam is, I'm afraid, that of General McMaster himself, who appears certain that Islam properly understood cannot possibly inculcate anything that might "incite hatred and justify violence" against non-Muslims. I'm not sure which would be worse: that he may think he must pretend to believe this nonsense in order to avoid being accused of Islamophobia and to safely rise high in the Washington ranks, or that he really believes it.
Perhaps before they vote, some Senators will press him on this, trying to find out what McMaster thinks Islam, mainstream Islam, teaches and how it differs from that "perverse interpretation" to which he keeps referring. (snip)
Many of the Senators voting on General McMaster’s appointment will prefer not to press these points. Most Democrats will agree with his pollyannish remarks on Islam. Most Republicans may simply wish to defer to the general as a Trump appointee, wrongly assuming that he must, therefore, be "tough" on Islam. Few senators will have the stomach to discuss Islam truthfully in public, knowing they will then have to endure the usual idiotic charges of bigotry and "Islamophobia" from those whose minds are made up, and who do not want to be confused with facts. It's back to the bad old days of lying for Islam, folks. The Bush-era intel bureaucrats have won. We voted for Trump so we could change our failed approach to this problem. We wanted Flynn. But the vote didn't matter. Trump is our president in name only.
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And hasn’t Islam meant conquest through violence, and subjugation, of many different kinds of Infidels, over many different lands, for the past 1400 years?
Not as bad as that, anon1. Looking at his actions so far: the Don understands business, but not the business of war. However, if USA oil/natural gas production is not hampered by enviro-malice --- IMO, Islam is only important because of petrodollars.
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I dunno. My BS detector is quietly beeping. McMasters used to work for Obama. If the boss says Islam is the religion of pieces, then it's the religion of pieces. The new boss ain't the same as the old boss.
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...seems others of the brotherhood found quick retirement when they failed to mouth the words of the WH. Could be McMaster is the other side of Deep State. I'll wait and see.
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And then [McMaster during confirmation] might add: “It is up to us to figure out how best we can help those born into Islam, without any choice in the matter, who recognize those troublesome aspects of their faith that are inimical to real peace and real tolerance, and for which they would like to find a solution, if such is possible.” An unflinching statement like that, from General McMaster, despite the subsequent howls of protest by CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center, would be enough – would be more than enough – to clear a good many minds of cant.
It's doubtful we can eradicate fundamental Islam without the Muslim world itself coming to the understanding that it must change. The question is, will it take ten years or two hundred? Or will Armageddon intervene first?
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You cannot "fix" islam. It is an ideology of conquest and submission, with a thin shell of religion.
The war of words gets you nowhere. What we need to to is to get our country and our allies energy independent of mideast oil and force islam to deal with itself. Islam will have to reform itself, die trying, or kill each other off. There is no basis of trust, so we can associate where we have to, but otherwise they are on their own.
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Sure you can fix Islam. Fixed worship of Baal, haven't we?
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alaska paul: i agree, we can't fix islam and why should we even try it is their problem
they want to live in the dark ages hugging their koran then let them
our problem is our polity, media, public and deep state have all drunk the kool aid "nothing to do with islam" for 15 years now, that's a generation
our borders are open for muslims to migrate in and they have, despite the Muslim Brotherhood's open agenda of civilisational jihad, setting up fifth columns and settlement conquest across the West.
but the problem with McMasters who doesn't get it, and the sacking of Flynn who does, is that you can't say one thing and do another
McMasters can't say "nothing to do with islam" and work behind the scenes to sort the problem
The entire problem is now the inability to act because of widespread misunderstanding of the nature of the threat.
All our defences are down. It's like we have AIDS and Islam is the common cold.
It's easy to fix with some antibiotics but we are not going to take them because we don't think we need them and we don't understand the problem
we will die of pneumonia unless we address the problem.
Flynn got it. Flynn was ready to address the problem. Flynn is gone.
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Frank G: yes i am Aussie and the problem is worse if anything here. Actual sharia compliant laws have been passed banning the "vilification of religion" at the lobbying of Islamists in several states you cannot draw a cartoon of mohammad for fear that someone may take "offense" then sue you civilly.
This is a key part of the jihad: impose the supremacy of islam and make criticism of it impossible if not illegal.
the termites have been feasting on the foundations for 20 years now. the rot is deep. They are not just targeting the US it's across the Western world.
The entire West was looking to Trump to show leadership on this. We all needed Flynn. We needed them to take a stand against Islamism, to honestly state the problem, so that our own governments can follow suit.
Flynn's appointment would have helped the UK, Europe, Australia and Canada's opposition not just the US. We were all counting on him.
[The Hill] Wall Street analysts are pumping the brakes on the Trump stock market rally. Analysts start and stop market rallies? Who knew?
Experts are adjusting their expectations of how long it will take for President Trump to follow through on campaign promises to unlock domestic investment and cut back on regulatory red tape.
Stocks have rallied since Trump's election, with the Dow Jones Industrial Index reaching unprecedented heights and billions poured into funds that track U.S. stocks.
But financial analysts and other stock traders say a lack of clarity from the administration on economic policies -- along with constant distractions in the White House -- are delaying key measures to boost the economy.
Analysts? Experts? Trackers? Which 'analysts and experts?' Those employed by 'The Hill?' All market rallies peak and slumber over the short-term.
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Friday the street had yet another record high, right.
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There's a very basic principle at work:
If the stock market goes vertical like an F-16 on afterburner, that's despite Trump. Don't let the fact that the start of the climb coincided precisely with Trump's election fool you.
If the stock market corrects by 10 or 20%, that's because of Trump.
It's only logical. Got it? Just read CNBC some more.
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So they think what's about to happen will be the tail end of the 'greater fool' principle.
(You were a fool to buy it; you need to find a bigger fool to get rid of it.)
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[Breitbart] Sheriff David Clarke began his closing address to CPAC 2017 as he knew everyone familiar with him would expect, by declaring “Blue Lives Matter in America!”
“To what purpose did our Founding Fathers and the soldiers of our great Continental Army strive? Did they work to form the horrible mistake of what progressive Democrats call the Great Society – a place of cradle-to-grave reliance on the benevolent providence of government as the father, the mother, the breadwinner, and the teacher?”
Clarke asked as he settled down to the primary business of his speech.
“I think not,” he answered. “You see, General Washington was rightly and firstly proud of the nation that he believed lay within the grasp of the colonists, as they struggled to tear it away from the corpulent arms of an overbearing King of England. George Washington wrote to Benjamin Franklin that no country upon Earth had it more in its power to attain these blessings than united America.”
Clarke quoted extensively from Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his address. His overall theme was a call to arms; his closing request was for CPAC attendees to go out and fight. It was, in some respects, the type of closing speech one might have expected to hear if Republicans had lost the 2016 presidential election. Clarke’s purpose was to impress upon his conservative audience that they faced determined opposition from the Left, and would need to remain in fighting trim themselves if they wanted President Donald Trump to implement the policies they voted for.
Clarke stressed that Washington and his revolutionaries “never intended to build a nation to be ruled from a throne room or a centralized government.”
“They weren’t building a land where Boston, or Philadelphia, or New York City, or even today’s capital city that bears his name would dictate terms and conditions to the American people,” he continued. “No, their efforts to secure the basic human rights endowed by the Creator and formation of a most limited government, instituted justly by men and deriving its limited powers from the consent of the governed. They embraced the concept of self-rule.”
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Well I was hoping he was a little younger than 61 so he'd have some more time to find his political niche but he certainly comes across as star material.
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Washington, in more recent years has figured that only lawyers knew how to understand the Byzantine ways of government. Moreover, Washington requires certain pedigrees such as Ivy League. Furthermore, there is a belief that conservatives, who are small government advocates know nothing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Wash Times] Chicago’s police superintendent fired back at President Trump over his criticism of the city over recent shootings, saying the president hasn’t responded to local officials’ requests for aid to combat crime.
[The Hill] Wall Street analysts are pumping the brakes on the Trump stock market rally.
