[WND] "We will use the freedoms of the Constitution to destroy the Constitution" ‐ was a sign held by Muslim demonstrators in Dearborn, Michigan, reported Dr. Irwin Lutzer in "The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent" (2013).
Sharia organizer Anjem Choudary of Islam4UK declared (London Daily Express, Oct. 15, 2009): "We have had enough of democracy and man-made law. ... We will call for a complete upheaval of the British ruling system ... and demand full implementation of Sharia in Britain."
Dwight Eisenhower warned of this (Time magazine, Oct. 13, 1952): "The Bill of Rights contains no grant of privilege for a group of people to destroy the Bill of Rights. A group ... dedicated to the ultimate destruction of all civil liberties, cannot be allowed to claim civil liberties as its privileged sanctuary from which to carry on subversion of the Government."
Lawmakers are increasingly faced with the dilemma ‐ should freedom of speech be for groups whose ultimate goal is to censor and eliminate freedom of speech? Should freedom of religion be extended to those with an agenda and track record of abolishing freedom of religion? Should "sharia-practicing" Muslims and enforcers of novel sexual agendas be allowed to demand freedoms for themselves ‐ while bullying and intimidating others into surrendering their freedoms?
Employing the tactic of "psychological projection," intolerant groups accuse their opponents of what they are guilty of. Hateful organizations even post on their websites the lists of those they hate.
Is Western Civilization committing "assisted suicide" ‐ with activist "politically-correct" judges and elitist, deep-state bureaucrats usurping power from the people?
[Stars & Stripes] WASHINGTON ‐ What happened to Michael Flynn? He threw the bullshi* flag, that's what happened to him.
Before he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, before he became a folk hero to many of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters, before he pivoted from accomplished military officer to purveyor of shocking stories about the evils of Islam, something changed in the tough kid who rose to be a three-star Army general.
His friends and critics agree that after winning a reputation as a master intelligence officer on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Flynn broke with lifelong patterns of behavior. Once discreet and apolitical, he morphed into a highly partisan alarm ringer. A man once trusted to cautiously analyze information began touting wild hearsay as fact. Seeing flawed U.S. policy in the ME toss young soldiers into the meat grinder of endless wars will do that to you.
Flynn, 60, is expected to be sentenced in federal court Tuesday after having given prosecutors 19 interviews as part of their investigation into the Trump campaign's relationship with Russia. Whatever punishment the court imposes, the mystery of Flynn's transformation endures.
More than two dozen of Flynn's friends, superiors and colleagues ‐ including some who see him as a heroic truth teller and others who wonder how he went off the rails ‐ agreed in interviews that Flynn's public persona shifted dramatically. They remain at odds over why it happened. "Friends".... like General Stan McChrystal and Admiral Mike Mullen ?
Did he gradually absorb a new, conspiracy-minded worldview, in part inspired by his son Michael Jr.'s embrace of fringe ideas? Did he discard lifelong habits because he'd been enraged to his core when President Barack Obama's administration in 2014 removed him as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), his last and most senior military assignment? Or had Flynn, who retired as a lieutenant general, long harbored extreme views, successfully shielding his real opinions from those around him? Yes, I suppose "Lock her UP" could be characterized as "extreme" if you do not believe in the Rule of Law.
Although the explanations vary, the change is undeniable. More follows
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Did he gradually absorb a new, conspiracy-minded worldview?
Translation: He recognized the existence of the Deep State.
In 2010, Flynn jolted the U.S. intelligence community when he co-wrote "Fixing Intel," a paper for a think tank that concluded that the nation's intelligence work in Afghanistan was "ignorant," "incurious," "disengaged," a massive waste of resources. "Merely killing insurgents usually serves to multiply enemies rather than subtract them," the paper said.
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...The version I've heard is that - as clearly shown in the article - Mike Flynn was very, very, very good. But he started to believe his own legend, and that's where things started to go south for him.
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A pre-sentencing Comey-Muller leak to the WAPO ?
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Do we know exactly what he was supposed to have lied about? Flynn was an intelligence guy. He would have known (or at least suspected) that any conversation with a Rooski pol would be recorded which would make lying about it pointless.
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His "public persona shifted" -- or did the reporting about him shift? After he disagreed with the Obama administration, was the press enlisted in a coordinated smear campaign, the first run of the machine being used against President Trump?
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Back in the day, they called it "The Stars and Lies" for a reason.
Posted as a comment yesterday by Frank G
[American Thinker] As I noted here on June 30, 2017 Michael Flynn and Andrew McCabe have a past that predates the Trump presidency, one that provides ample motivation for the perjury trap that McCabe and James Comey set up after Flynn’s illegal unmasking. McCabe had a personal grudge against Flynn and the perjury trap was his revenge.
It explains why McCabe would entrap Flynn in a seemingly harmless interview about contacts with Flynn’s Russian counterparts, advising Flynn he didn’t need to bring a lawyer along to complicate things:
The federal judge who will sentence Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI has ordered the FBI to give him, by today, the notes written by the two FBI agents who interviewed Flynn in January 2017.
Judge Emmet Sullivan also wants to see a January 24 memo that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote about his own telephone conversation with Flynn, a conversation that happened just two hours before the FBI agents arrived at Flynn's West Wing office.
This follows information in Flynn's sentencing memo to the court, which suggests that Flynn was deliberately set up:
The sentencing memo says at 12:35 p.m. on January 24, 2017, McCabe called Flynn at his West Wing office to discuss a security training session the FBI had recently conducted at the white [sic] House. McCabe's written memo detailing that phone conversation says McCabe told Flynn "that we needed to have two of our agents sit down" with Flynn to talk about his communications with Russian officials.
McCabe wrote: "I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [General Flynn] and the agents only. I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House Counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [General Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants."
To help cover up the setup, it also appears that multiple 302s, or FBI interview summaries, were created:
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The government of Iraq announced December 10 a national holiday in which governmental institutions close to mark the first anniversary of defeating and expelling ISIS from the country. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... this is a bit misleading as ISIS has revived some of its activity in recent months in a number of areas from where it was expelled earlier. Statements about this activity is no longer limited to a number of journalists, security experts, political and civil activists, as even leaders of political blocs and influential parties have started issuing warnings against the dreaded terror group’s return.
Speaking at a presser recently, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party Masoud Barzani warned that "the ISIS threat is not over and has returned to (some) areas in a way that’s worse than before." He said that it’s more dangerous than before, noting that the "organization strongly returned because the reasons that led to the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda have not been resolved."
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The upshot is that ISIS is leveling off from a steep decline and are reviving in Diyala, rural Kirkuk, and southern Niniveh. These are regions that ISIS never really controlled. In contrast, areas like Mosul, Tal Afar, and Anbar have resisted ISIS attempts to return.
One notable trend is setting up protection raquets
and kidnapping rings to earn money. They seem to be devolving into simple criminals (like FARC did in Colombia).
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The editorialist misses a key point, I think: money spent on rebuilding demolished houses is money unavailable for other things, like financing future terrorism, and so the demolitions have strategic value even if the tactic itself is a wash. Interesting facts culled from a longer, and more emotional piece.
[IsraelTimes] The Abu Hamid family, whose home was demolished by the Israeli military early Saturday, has a long history of involvement in attacks on Israeli security forces.
In 1991, the Israel Defense Forces destroyed the family’s home in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah over the involvement of one of the brothers ‐ Nasser, a Fatah member ‐ in terrorism. That house was later rebuilt... before being demolished again Saturday.
In 1994 another brother, Abdul Munim Abu Hamid, along with two Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, members, killed Shin Bet agent Noam Cohen. Abdul himself was killed a few months later.
Nasser Abu Hamid, upon his release from prison, became a founder of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades at the start of the Second Intifada and in April 2002 was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield, not far from the family home.
Other brothers would also spend time in Israeli prisons over the years, among them Islam Yusef Abu Hamid.
During an operation of the elite Duvdevan unit in al-Amari in May, he is said to have thrown a marble slab from a roof at Israeli forces, killing Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky ‐ and leading to the razing of the family home early Saturday.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
The family’s history shows that home demolitions are, unfortunately, highly unlikely to deter would-be attackers.
Although some seem to believe destroying assailants’ homes is a comprehensive solution to preventing terrorism, the case of the Abu Hamid family shows that not only do they not prevent attacks ‐ they can sometimes even fuel motivation for Dire Revenge.
The Abu Hamid home will be rebuilt within a few years, likely with Paleostinian Authority funding, as one Fatah leader has said.
Even if the Fatah money is not forthcoming, someone else ‐ perhaps Hamas ‐ will provide the funds.
There is no magical solution for preventing attacks on Israeli citizens and soldiers, and anyone who holds up house demolitions as the ultimate means to do so is either mistaken or deliberately misleading others. It is an excellent way of soothing the families of the victims and an Israeli public out for Dire Revenge, but nothing more than that.
At the height of the suicide kaboom wave of 2003, three years after the start of the Second Intifada, a report was drawn up by the IDF on the policy of home demolitions, a practice that had received an official green light in the summer of 2002. Hundreds of terrorists’ family homes had since been destroyed.
But the report determined there was no evidence that the demolitions had a deterrent effect and that furthermore, the number of attacks actually rose a few months after the implementation of the policy.
In early 2005, a committee appointed by then-IDF chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon and headed by Gen. Udi Shani recommended ending the razing of homes on the grounds that they were not proven to be a deterrent, and declared that the damage outweighed any benefit.
While Israelis in recent years have become used to a rather low number of attacks, the lava in the volcano that is the West Bank continues to bubble beneath the surface. The Shin Bet and IDF can attest to this, having prevented hundreds of attacks over the past year ‐ sometimes with the close cooperation of the Paleostinian Authority’s security services.
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...compare Charleston before the war to Charleston after Billy got done with it. Same could be said of some Japanese cities by the end of 1945. The Japanese had to relearn the lesson of not bombarding a federal military installation. Seemed to have worked in Germany too as both are among the least militaristic countries in the world today (vs their pre-WWII cultures). Although the Chinese seem intent on changing that in the Pacific.
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Although some seem to believe destroying assailants’ homes is a comprehensive solution
Nice straw man, scarecrow! I doubt anyone actually believes that. A comprehensive solution would be repeated carpet bombing until the miscreants grow tired of their ways.
While we're at it, let's give the "collective punishment" meme a kick in the groin. The idea of knocking down a family home as punishment for the crimes of an individual seems strange to us in the West because we regard the individual as the basic element of society. Not so in clan-based societies. There, honor killings make sense because the woman has reduced the clan's reputation. Marrying a cousin makes sense because it keeps wealth inside the clan and doesn't drag the group into someone else's feuds. It is a different way of looking at the world. If it doesn't affect the clan, it doesn't really matter.
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"some" or "critics say" mean absolutely NO real journalism is involved. It's bias reflected in a "report" that fulfills an agenda
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Why stop with their house? Destroy the neighborhood and the people in it. Dead people don't commit terrorism. Though they do vote democrat and Hezbollah.
[Boston Globe] Where do I go to get my reputation back?
Do you know how many times I've been called a "racist" over the last six years for calling Elizabeth Warren exactly what she just called herself in Baltimore – "not a person of color."
In other words, a fake Indian.
She finally admitted the obvious on a Friday afternoon, just before Christmas, in front of what she must have assumed would be a somewhat sympathetic audience at a black college.
Two months after offering what she claimed was definitive proof of her Native American ancestry, she is now acknowledging that she's a honky.
The fake Indian has finally been scalped … by reality.
Here's the next step for the woman who was white before she was Cherokee before she was white: release your employment applications to the law schools at Harvard and Penn. Since you now admit you're a white woman, it shouldn't be a problem to prove once and for all that you never did "check the box" to grab a racial preference you weren't entitled to.
Show us, fake Indian, that you did not speak with forked tongue many moons ago. If you no lie, we smoke peace pipe.
The takeaway here is, Elizabeth Warren still dreams of being elected president in 2020. She wouldn't be humiliating herself like this if she didn't want to be the Great White Father.
She's been huddling with her fellow geriatric faker Bernie Sanders. She's reportedly scouting locations in Boston for a campaign headquarters. Potomac fever is a tough disease to overcome, especially, for some reason, if you're from Massachusetts.
Just ask Mitt Romney, or John Kerry.
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the Great White Father She is already known the the Great White Faker.
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My GrandMa told me that her ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Okay... Governor Myles Standish, of course. Might even be true, but I always wonder those that (loudly!) believe in reincarnation don't have an ancestor that mucked out the Pharaoh's horse stalls instead of being the Pharaoh...?
[Babylon Bee] SEATTLE, WA‐In what’s being called a miraculous breakthrough, researchers at the University of Washington announced Monday a promising new treatment for the unfortunate male hairstyle known as a "man bun."
The cure is reportedly comprised an inexpensive operation using a pair of shears, coupled with a psychiatric follow-up administered by a medical professional designed to help the victim come to the conclusion that they need to make better decisions about their life.
"In early clinical trials, our aggressive treatment plan has shown a nearly 98% success rate," Dr. Ivan E. Orlov told reporters excitedly. "While a small number of patients later relapsed into gathering their unkempt, sometimes thinning hair into a malformed growth near the back of their head, the vast majority enjoyed sustained recovery and a happy post-man-bun life."
According to Orlov, early experimental treatments like making fun of the subject, covering the deformed lump with a hat or beanie, and waiting for the patient to come to his senses proved ineffective.
"We found that the malicious growth had to be attacked from the root in order to see a marked recovery in the patient," Orlov said.
[Daily Caller] It’s been just nine days since the French government abandoned plans to increase the carbon tax on fuel, and the congressional budgeting arm is suggesting a $1 trillion tax on carbon dioxide emissions to close the budget deficit.
"This option would impose a tax of $25 per metric ton on most emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States," reads a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released Thursday. "The tax would increase at an annual inflation-adjusted rate of 2 percent."
The CBO suggested a carbon tax as one of "121 options that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues over the next 10 years." The CBO published several reports looking at the budgetary impacts of a carbon tax.
However, the CBO’s carbon tax suggestion comes after French President Emmanuel Macron and lawmakers were forced to scrap plans to raise fuel taxes after weeks of violent protests. Those protests also spread to Brussels, where protesters clashed with police over fuel tax rises.
Tens of thousands of protesters, called "yellow vests," took to the streets in November, sparked by a planned rise in diesel and gasoline taxes. The tax increases were part of Macron’s plan to wean France off oil and fight global warming.
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Recycling a CBO Report from November 13, 2013? Remember all of the other promises that new tax revenues would go to paying off the deficit? Under Reagan -- they took the money and spent it. Under Bush, Sr. -- ditto. Why not try one more time? Things will be different this time, right, Right?
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CBO evaluates budget implications of bills. Since when did they start doing proposals? Likely when politicians wanted to avoid sponsoring unpopular laws?
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Frank G asks, " Since when did they start doing proposals?"
Good question.
The CBO produces a lot of reports. Many are required by law. For several decades, more and more individuals in Congress have asked the CBO to do analysis for them. The CBO has, by policy, limited its work of this kind to analysis requested formally by the chair or ranking members of budget, finance and appropriations committees.
The number of analyses required are still a lot and the methodology has become standardized using a number of 'quick and dirty' methods which do not take into account secondary or tertiary financial effects very well (or not at all in many cases) and also don't produce quantitative estimates of impact on, say GDP or income distribution (sometimes the CBO will give a few words on this but without numbers).
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[Breitbart] My favourite advert of the last ten years was probably the "Are you beach body ready?" Protein World poster campaign.
Partly I liked it because it featured a hot-looking girl in a bikini, so naturally it appealed to my inner caveman.
Partly I liked it because it annoyed so many of the right people ‐ everyone from London’s closet Islamist Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, to all the feminists who were outraged that in the 21st century men still want to stare at semi-naked hot chicks with slim bodies more than they want to stare at minging porkers with blue hair and PhDs in gender studies and multiple cat maintenance.
Mainly I liked it because it was a glorious throwback to a happier, better age when advertising did what it is supposed to do: appeal to our most basic instincts in order to seduce us into buying stuff.
These were the days when all aftershave ads gave the impression that if you slapped on the right product you’d get laid ‐ even, no, especially, if you were a spotty teenager and all you could afford was Old Spice or Brut.
When you learned that if you smoked the right brand of cigarettes you’d become cool and rugged like the Marlboro cowboy, or mysterious and chic like the Silk Cut ads, or fast and dangerous like the black and gold John Player Special racing car.
When you learned that if you drank spirits you’d magically enter a world like Duran Duran on a yacht full of beautiful, available women, and that if you drank lager you’d become one of the lads and get extra good at the banter.
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.
[Boston Globe] Where do I go to get my reputation back?
[Babylon Bee] SEATTLE, WA‐In what’s being called a miraculous breakthrough, researchers at the University of Washington announced Monday a promising new treatment for the unfortunate male hairstyle known as a "man bun."
[Daily Caller] It’s been just nine days since the French government abandoned plans to increase the carbon tax on fuel, and the congressional budgeting arm is suggesting a $1 trillion tax on carbon dioxide emissions to close the budget deficit.
