Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Swiss Peoples Party promises to deport foreign criminals, halt mass immigration, and stay out of the EU-AFP

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8/29/11, "Biggest Swiss party takes aim at immigration, EU," AFP, The Local, Switzerland's news in English

"Election candidates for the far-right Swiss People's Party, Switzerland's biggest, signed a "contract with the people" on Sunday promising to
  • deport foreign criminals and halt "mass immigration".

The "contract" also promises to fend off any moves for Switzerland to join the European Union.

About 200 party candidates for October parliamentary polls signed the document, printed on parchment, before a thousand party loyalists at a ceremony in Zurich.

A similar document signed ahead of federal elections in 2007 had slightly different priorities -- the top three

  • then included tax cuts, now replaced by the promise to turn back immigration.

"We have the feeling that what concerns most people at the moment is immigration," party candidate Christoph Moergeli said at the ceremony.

Earlier this month, Swiss anti-racism authorities urged political parties to refrain from campaigning on racist platforms.

The Swiss People's Party has consistently sparked controversy over its campaigns.

In October 2010, it triggered a trans-border spat after it branded French commuters as "scum". But the party is most notorious for its signature poster depicting white sheep kicking a black sheep out of the Swiss flag.

The party, which already holds around a quarter of the seats in the federal assembly, is expected to make further gains in the upcoming elections."


via Bare Naked Islam

Islamists cause brawl at Playland over burkas, headscarves, 4 yr. old policy in place on headgear that can be caught in rides could cause death

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4/8/10, "Muslim woman strangled by her burkha in freak go-kart accident," UK Daily Mail

"Playland’s policies, posted on its website, include: “All items and clothing must be appropriately secured while on a ride; ...Some rides do not allow backpacks, purses or head gear of any kind.”...Park officials were in the process of arranging refunds when members of the Muslim group got into a scuffle with each other"....

The group's organizer was "painstakingly" informedhis family was informed on entering the park: "Brooklyn resident Amr Khater, who had come to the park about noon with his family, said his family was told about the hijab rule by park employees when they arrived."

A 17 year old girl says she was only told right before she tried to enter a ride (hard to believe at this point), when she basically accused the innocent Playland employee of being a bigoted hate-monger:

"Ola Salem, 17, of Brooklyn, New York, was wearing a headscarf and said she was denied entry onto a ride with her eight-year-old sister.

'They said no because my of my "headgear",' she told the New York Times. 'I said: "It’s not my headgear, it’s my religion".'"...


Rye, NY: "A melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by
  • prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings
  • on some rides.
Police from at least nine agencies converged on the park beginning at 3 p.m. after county police sought assistance in responding to
  • the disturbance, which involved 30 to 40 people.

Two rangers were injured while breaking up a fight between visitors, and two visitors were charged with felony assault, police said. Another 13 people were arrested, most charged with disorderly conduct. Names were not disclosed, and all those charged were released by Tuesday night.

  • One of the rangers suffered an injured knee and the other an injured shoulder, said Deputy Parks Commissioner Peter Tartaglia.

The park was crowded with Muslims celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr, one of Islam’s two major holidays. Most were from community groups in Westchester and New York City as part of a daylong event arranged by the Muslim American Society of New York.
“It’s unfortunate because everybody just wants to be home with their families today,” said Zead Ramadan

  • of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Parks officials “painstakingly” told the organizer about the headgear ban, said
Tartaglia. But he said that the rules might not have been communicated by the organizer to some attendees.

Three accidents on Playland rides that killed two children and a park worker between 2004 and 2007 were unrelated to clothing the victims were wearing. But the headgear ban was among safety rules that went into effect after those deaths.

“It’s a safety issue on rides. If it’s a scarf, you could choke,” Tartaglia said.

Accounts of what happened varied, but everyone agreed the dispute began after parkgoers were told the headgear ban applied to women wearing traditional Muslim head coverings, known as hijabs.

Tartaglia said once word of that got out there were “a lot of unhappy people.”
Tartaglia said park officials were in the process of arranging refunds when

  • members of the Muslim group got into a scuffle with each other.

Ramadan said he could see both sides.

“The people feel like victims, and the police feel like they were just doing their jobs,” Ramadan said. “Personally I think things got a little out of control on both sides.”
Lola Ali, 16, of Astoria said she witnessed a group of girls and women wearing hijabs go to park security to confront them about the headgear issue.

She said the women were upset and yelling. She said the security officers started pushing them away and the girls stood their ground, at which point the security officers grabbed them, pushed them to the ground and handcuffed them.

Men within the park saw this and tried to intervene, Ali said, and the situation went downhill from there.

“They were beating down the girls, then they started beating down the guys,” she said of the security officers.

Earlier, a park cashier told a Journal News reporter that a woman wearing a hijab either pushed or hit a ride operator who forbade her from going on the ride. She said a police officer tried to restrain the woman and the woman’s husband took offense, at which point a multiple-person fight broke out.

The park was never closed to attendees but for a time new visitors were not being allowed in. Crowds were being turned away at Playland Parkway and Forest Avenue. Officials said late in the afternoon that they were slowly reopening the park to new visitors and that the group’s religious ceremony planned for 9 p.m. might still occur.

The organizer had put together the gathering with an offer of $20 ride-all-day wristbands and $3 spectator wristbands. Visitors had come from around the tri-state area to take advantage of the offer.

Brooklyn resident Amr Khater, who had come to the park about noon with his family, said his family was told about the hijab rule by park employees when they arrived.

“Everybody got mad, everybody got upset,” he said. “It’s our holiday. Why would you do this to us?”

He said he had left the park and was not being allowed to return, but his children and wife were still inside.

Eid-ul-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. It is a three-day period during which Muslims give to charity and celebrate their completion of Ramadan’s requirements with family and their community.

At 4:30 p.m., more than an hour and a half after the incident started, nearly three dozen cruisers blocked Playland’s entrance and a helicopter was flying overhead. A reporter counted nearly 60 cruisers on the scene from various agencies.
Tartaglia said the county believed a mass response was required “as a safety precaution.”

Playland’s policies, posted on its website, include: “All items and clothing must be appropriately secured while on a ride; some smaller items can be stored/secured in cargo pockets or waist pouches. Hats must be secured, and jackets/sweaters must be worn properly and not around the waist while on a ride. Some rides do not allow backpacks, purses or head gear of any kind.”

Ali and Gina Shibah of Yonkers said the scale of the police response was unnecessary.
“Sixty vehicles, it’s wasting our taxpayer dollars,” Ali Shibah said.

Sal Mohumed of Brooklyn said he hoped for a refund for himself and his two cousins.

“I thought we would come and play in Playland,” he said. “There’s no playing here. Coney Island is better than this.”"

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9/10/10, "Six Flags over Islam," Grace Cangemi, More Monmouth Musings

Muslims only allowed at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ, the day before Sept. 11, 2010. Non-Muslims were turned away including a mother and her 12 year old daughter, the little girl having earned a pass to the park by doing community service.

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8/31/11, "Mass brawl at theme park after Muslim women are banned from going on rides unless they remove their head scarves," UK Daily Mail, Duell and Whitwell




via Atlas Shrugs, photo from Daily Mail, Altman, Muslims praying at Rye Playland after they disrupted the park, UK burkha strangling via Gateway Pundit

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Six US Congressmen forget Tucson, incite racial hatred and use violent war rhetoric against other Americans they label the Tea Party

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This was news MSNBC kept to itself. 8/31/11, "MSNBC Journalist Tamron Hall Ignores News While Playing Footsie with Congressional Black Caucus," BigJournalism, L. O'Connor

The Tea Party "would love to see us hanging from a tree." US Rep. Andre Carson, 8/22/11 (video below)

Medley of 6 US elected officials in the Congressional Black Caucus inciting racial hatred and using violent eliminationist and war rhetoric across the country in Town Halls, August 2011, including Andre Carson, Cedric Richmond, Alcee Hastings, Al Green, Frederica Wilson, Maxine Waters:

Andre Carson, US Congressman from Indiana, Congressional Black Caucus Whip in Miami at Town Hall meeting, 8/22/11:

"The Tea Party is stopping that change, this is the effort that we're now seeing of Jim Crow..." :23

"Some of these folks would like to see us as second class citizens".... :33
  • (Audience: "Yeah!")
"Some in congress in the Tea Party movement would love to see us hanging from a tree." :41
  • (Audience: "Yeah!")
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Cedric Richmond, US Congressman from Louisiana, Congressional Black Caucus member, in Atlanta, 8/22/11:

"The 4th war we're in is what the Tea Party has started with the United States and particularly the President..." 1:14

"The Tea Party is willing to wreck this economy simply for political gain."...

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Alcee Hastings, US Congressman from Florida, CBC member, Miami, 8/22/11

"All of us know racism...(inaudible)..."
  • (Audience: "Yeah!")
"The Tea Party is just a handful of people, but the whole Republican Party has been captivated by that culture."...
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Al Green, US Congressman from Texas, CBC member

"They have hijacked the principles of the civil rights movement" and they are coming "into the 'hood." Are we going to let the minority dictate to the majority, are we willing to get out of our comfort zone and go across town and support the Congressional Black Caucus? (I didn't hear him say 'Tea Party' on the video clip. Maybe it was there and I missed it. ed.)

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Frederica Wilson, US Congresswoman from Florida, CBC member

"The real enemy is the Tea Party."

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Maxine Waters, US Congresswoman from California, CBC member

"The Tea Party can go to hell" 4:10 "And I intend to help them get there." (Rep. Waters' follow up statement about helping them get there is on second video below. It is left off the first video)

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8/8/11, American Thinker commenter Feral Cat on the race card:

"The Race Card is the most rapid-fire, all purpose, over used and abused, ad hominem and vapid weapon of smear, mass deception and diversion ever conceived by man. It is a weapon under which weak minds are servilely crouched and can be fired with the greatest of ease by even the most reason and integrity challenged, and in fact, was designed especially for use by them. It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in rationality. It is, in plain and clear fact,


via Mark Levin show

Obama issues global talking points on 911, says downplay Al Qaeda as 'increasingly irrelevant.' But bin Laden said goal was to destroy US economy

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In Dec. 2001, bin Laden said the goal was "destruction of the US economy" which "even his own death could not stop." Violence was just a tactic to hurry the ultimate goal of destroying a US economy "on the verge of collapse."

8/31/11, "White House issues guidelines for honouring September 11 anniversary, report says," NewsCore

"Al-Qaeda, however, is downplayed as a major threat following the death of Osama bin Laden.

The guidelines say al-Qaeda terrorists "still have the ability to inflict harm," but that the network has become

  • "increasingly irrelevant," The Times reported."...

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Especially meaningless since the goal has always been to destroy our economy which has been accomplished.

12/28/01, "Osama: Hit U.S. Economy," NY Daily News, Helen Kennedy

""It is important to concentrate on the destruction of the American economy," Bin Laden says on the 33-minute tape, broadcast in full yesterday by Al Jazeera TV in Qatar. "If their economy ends, they will become too busy to enslave oppressed people."

Bin Laden bragged that the attacks caused losses of "more than a trillion dollars on the New York market and elsewhere."

"This economic hemorrhaging continues until today but requires more blows."...

Bin Laden, 44, said America was on the verge of collapse and that even his own death could not stop it.

"We say that the end of the United States is imminent - whether Bin Laden or his followers are alive or dead - for the awakening of the Muslim nation has occurred," he says on the tape, which was air-mailed anonymously to Al Jazeera from Pakistan."...

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12/12/2010, "The Target of the Terrorists Has Always Been Our Economy," American Thinker, T.L. Davis



via WZ

Black mob violence is worst form of racism today, and its apparent accessories at the Wash. Post, NY Times, Chicago Tribune and LA Times won't say so

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"The PC status quo will not acknowledge the fact that the worst form of racism today is black mob violence."

8/30/11, "The Racial Violence that Dare Not Speak Its Name," American Thinker, John T. Bennett

"Recent flash mob violence has alerted Americans to a troubling wave of sadistic racial mayhem. A notable outbreak occurred in Denver in 2009, setting a pattern of delay, denial, and silence. Now that same scourge has returned to Denver, among many other places.


In 2009, a four month wave of mayhem broke out in Denver. There were at least 26 violent robberies committed by two black gangs. The victims were -- without exception -- whites and Hispanics. When the dust settled from that initial spate of violence, victims were left with injuries ranging from a skull fracture to broken noses and shattered eye sockets. The local Denver ABC news affiliate summarized the crime spree:

  • Black gangs roaming downtown Denver often vented their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave, according to interviews and court records obtained by 7NEWS.

That is not the language of a conservative commentator; it's simply a mainstream local news report from an American city that has witnessed widespread racial violence.

The first-hand accounts and surveillance videos of the 2009 attacks are shocking. These weren't sucker punches or fair fights -- the attackers swing madly and rapidly with a viciousness that can only come from blind cruelty. The victims, who can be seen in interviews, were kind-looking, ordinary people. The victims were mostly either gay or straight couples. They didn't provoke the attacks in any conceivable way. The attackers sometimes fractured skulls, or broke eye sockets, and left one victim in a coma. There were a total of 26 attacks from July 17 to Nov. 17.

An incredible 38 people were arrested in connection with this campaign of racist violence. Thirty were ultimately charged, all black. Has this number of arrests been made against any violent white supremacist or right wing organization in the last 50 years?

The story first came to light in 2009 when a source inside the Denver police department said that the department was "keeping the public in the dark" about the attacks. Court documents show that the police did indeed have knowledge of a pattern of racial attacks, but remained silent for 27 days. One victim complained that, had the police informed the public sooner, he could have protected himself. The same group responsible for that violence is suspected in the murder of Andrew Graham, a young graduate student who was senselessly shot in 2010.

Late last month, Denver saw a possible return to violence, as couples leaving restaurants were being attacked by a group of black men with baseball bats. The Denver Police have renewed warnings of those attacks.

The brutality in Denver is disturbingly similar to violence occurring elsewhere, nationwide. In the last few months alone, a young white lady named Shaina Perry was taunted and beaten in Milwaukee. A young white man named Carter Strange had his skull fractured by a mob in South Carolina. Dawid Strucinski was beaten into a coma by a mob in Bayonne. Anna Taylor, Emily Guendelsberger, and Thomas Fitzgerald were beaten and kicked to the ground in separate Philadelphia flash mobs. Every weekend in July, mobs have attacked in Greensboro, NC. In a mostly-white suburb of Cleveland, witnesses reported large groups of "teens" walking through the streets, "shouting profanities and racial epithets," and one man was viciously beaten while leaving a restaurant with his wife and friends. In all of those cases, the victims were white

  • and the attackers were black.

Then there are the ominous stories that no one has ever heard about. For instance, a mob of 150 "young people" descended on a small, predominantly white NJ town named Winfield Township during a firefighter's carnival. Perhaps the townspeople are merely lucky that there wasn't violence. Isn't the racial mob mentality scary enough that we shouldn't have to wait for violence

  • before we take it seriously?

It cannot be emphasized enough that these attacks often occur in suburban areas where the black groups have to leave their own neighborhoods and purposefully travel to areas that are predominantly non-black, to attack non-black victims. For instance, in one of the many flash mob attacks in Chicago, Trovulus Pickett, 17, is part of a group that attacked and robbed several victims, including a 68-year-old doctor. The attacks occurred in the North side, which is 15 miles away from Pickett's home. This indicates a serious level of planning and potential racial targeting. If these were just run-of-the mill robberies, it wouldn't be too surprising. But the social problem we're looking at is large groups, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, sometimes armed,

  • engaging in racially-focused violent crimes.

There is quite simply no way for a politically correct society to grasp these events, much less effectively deal with them. Liberals have reached the depths of self-deception and self-censorship in response. The Washington Post, New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, have all openly stated that they will refuse to report on the racial facts of these violent crimes. The Los Angeles Times explains that they don't want to "unfairly stigmatize racial groups." They prefer the soft bigotry of low expectations instead.

These flash mobs have turned the comfortable narrative of racism on its head. Politicians, the media, academics, and the legal community do not have the capacity to face the issue. The reigning dogma of white racism is too deeply entrenched. There is a small grievance industry built around condemning white racism and intolerance, real or imagined. Indeed, the welfare state itself is in large part based on the assumption that whites need to give more to achieve racial equality, as reflected in President Obama's lament that the civil rights movement didn't focus on economic redistribution. Legal treatises complain that the racist white power structure grows into the bitter fruit of anti-minority racist violence. For instance, the work of Mari Matsuda and Richard Delgado is featured in countless undergraduate courses, and is ubiquitous in graduate and law school courses. They argue that hate speech is a severe social problem and that such speech, along with other tools of racism, keeps minorities in an inferior position (1). While academics dwell on hateful speech, the actual violence continues. We all pay the price, as racial guilt is used to extort tax money for the welfare state, which fosters the mobs. The PC status quo will not acknowledge the fact that

"John Bennett (MA, University of Chicago, MAPSS '07) is a veteran, writer, and law student at Emory University living in Atlanta, GA."

Comment to AT article:

"FeralCat 56 minutes ago

"The Washington Post, New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, have all openly stated that they will refuse to report on the racial facts of these violent crimes."


Which makes them complicit to these violent crimes and hence de-facto accessories. And by their silence, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are also complicit to these violent crimes and hence also de-facto accessories. Barack Obama and Eric Holder, by what they have done and what they haven't done, as well as by what they have said and what they haven't said, have also clearly encourage these racist crimes. At a certain point, which I think has already been passed, a person that is complicit in a crime becomes a conspirator in the crime. Not for at least 60 years
  • has America had such a racist and criminal President and Attorney General."
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New Black Panthers, one brandishing a deadly weapon, at the entrance to Philadelphia polling place on Obama's election day in 2008. The Obama administration says it's an insult to complain about something this minor. (Now that we have this information, what do we do with it?)

3/1/11, "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus 'demeans my people,'" Politico, Josh Gerstein

Reference: 10/22/10, "Washington Post blockbuster confirms worst fears about Holder Justice Dept. Race Policies," Andrew Breitbart, BigGovernment.com
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Sadistic, violent teens were often treated horribly by those who raised them. I have seen it myself. Nonetheless, everyone in these mobs needs to be locked up for a long time to protect civil society. The media is cheering the breakdown of every facet of life in America including black teen mobs which up until now have picked on us because they knew they could. ed

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8/31/11, "A Violent Racist Game Claims More Victims," American Thinker, John T. Bennett

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8/24/10, "Beat Whitey Night” a Smashing Success at Iowa State Fair" Point ‘em Out. Knock ‘em Out in Burlington, Iowa, Associated Content

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8/24/10, "Beat Whitey Night" At Iowa State Fair," The Smoking Gun



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ObamaCare repeal favored by majority of US voters. Only group that loves ObamaCare is politicians-Rasmussen

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8/29/11, "Health Care Law, Voters Express Stronger Enthusiasm for Health Care Repeal," Rasmussen Reports (Aug. 27-28 poll)

"The number of voters who Strongly Favor repeal of the national health care law ties the highest level reached in several months, as most continue to believe the law will push up health care costs and the federal deficit.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that 57% at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law, including 46% who Strongly Favor repeal. Thirty-seven percent (37%) at least somewhat oppose repeal, with 25% who are Strongly Opposed. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Overall support for repeal is up two points from last week. The percentage of voters who Strongly Favor repeal ties the record high last reached in July. The last time this finding was higher was in mid-March when 51% Strongly Favored repeal....

"Most Mainstream voters (64%) think the law will increase the deficit, but
(Since it's already public knowledge that it will increase the deficit, most of the 'political class' is either ignorant or liars. ed.)
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5/23/11, "The Political Class continues to strongly oppose repeal, while most Mainstream voters favor it. A plurality (47%) of those in the Mainstream still think repeal is likely;
  • 74% of Political Class voters disagree."...
5/23/11, "Health Care Law," Rasmussen Reports
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8/18/11, "The Obama administration now admits Obamacare will not reduce health care costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a report last month indicating health care costs will rise faster under Obamacare than they would have in its absence."...

8/8/11, "ObamaCare or America?" Dr. Milton R. Wolf, Washington Times

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12/12/2010, "The Target of the Terrorists Has Always Been Our Economy," American Thinker, T.L. Davis



via Weasel Zippers

Racism in Libya by 'rebels' against African blacks made even worse by war-UK Independent

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"Libyan people don't like people with dark skins." This has been known well before US taxpayers were forced to support them via Obama and a worthless US congress.

8/30/11, "Libyans don't like people with dark skin, but some are innocent'," UK Independent, Patrick Cockburn

"Any black African can expect arrest without proof he was not part of Gaddafi's forces. Patrick Cockburn reports from Tripoli"

"Yassin Bahr, a tall thin Senegalese in torn blue jeans, volubly denies that he was ever a mercenary or fought for Muammar Gaddafi.

Speaking in quick nervous sentences, Mr Bahr tries to convince a suspicious local militia leader in charge of the police station in the Faraj district of Tripoli, that he is a building worker who has been arrested simply because of his colour. "I liked Gaddafi, but I never fought for him," Mr Bahr says, adding that he had worked in Libya for three years laying tiles.

But the Libyan rebels are hostile to black Africans in general. One of the militiamen, who have been in control of the police station since the police fled, said simply: "Libyan people don't like people with dark skins, though some of them may be innocent."

Going by Mr Bahr's experience, any black African in Libya is open to summary arrest unless he can prove that he was not a member of Colonel Gaddafi's forces.

Fathi, a building contractor who did not want to give his full name and was temporarily running the police station, wanted to know why Mr Bahr had a special residence permit that an immigrant worker would not normally obtain. "You must have been fighting for Gaddafi to have a permit like this," he said. Mr Bahr said that three years earlier he had walked through the Sahara and crossed the Libyan border illegally with other West Africans looking for work. They had been picked up by the Libyan police, but he had eventually bribed them to get a residence permit. He had been watching television with nine other African immigrants when they were arrested, though no arms were found in the house.

Racism against black Africans and Libyans with dark skin has long simmered in Libya. Before the war there were estimated to be a million illegal immigrants in the country, which has a population of six million and a workforce of 1.7 million.

In 2000 there were anti-immigrant riots in which dozens of workers from countries like Ghana, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Burkina Faso were killed. The war has deepened racial hostility. The rebels claim that many of Colonel Gaddafi's soldiers were black African mercenaries. Amnesty International says these allegations are largely unproven and, from the beginning of the conflict, many of those arrested or, in some cases, executed by the rebels were undocumented labourers caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But there is no doubt that all black Africans are now under suspicion. The head of the militia in Faraj, a short bearded man in a brown robe named Issam, explained how well-prepared local insurgents had taken over the area on 19 August, telling Colonel Gaddafi's supporters to hand over their weapons and stay at home. There was almost no resistance from the demoralised regime and few people had been arrested. Then Issam added, as an aside, that his men had also detained "tens of Africans whom we sent off to prison". He did not explain why they had been jailed.

Black African immigrants in the past benefited from Gaddafi's aspiration to be a pan-African leader. The position of illegal immigrants was always uncertain, but they were essential to the economy. With the fall of Gaddafi, those who have not already fled face persecution or even murder. Last weekend 30 bodies of mostly black men, several of them handcuffed and others already wounded, were found after an apparent mass execution at a roundabout near Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya headquarters.

Issam, the temporary chief of police, insisted that Mr Bahr had not been mistreated and was being fed well. Any interview with a prisoner must come with a health warning, since he or she are unlikely to speak freely about their treatment while still under arrest. Mr Bahr confirmed that he was being well treated, but he did look very frightened."

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The idea that Gadaffi always favored blacks turns out not to be true:

3/18/11, "Border Blues," Think Africa Press by Ben Judah, reporting from the Tunisia side of the Libya-Tunisia border

"Libya bad for the black....” said a Malian arrival at the camp, “rebel chase us....Gadaffi chase us.”...Unconfirmed claims of tens of thousands of black Africans fleeing southwards into Niger and Chad have also been reported in the region."...

3/18/11, photo from Ben Judah, Border Blues, Think Africa Press, African blacks on the Tunisian side of the Libya-Tunisa border



via Lucianne

Monday, August 29, 2011

US wasted $30 billion taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq over decade, increased corruption in host countries-BBC

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"Beyond just a disservice to taxpayers, the report says that the waste fosters corruption in host countries." In Dec. 2001, bin Laden said the goal was "destruction of the US economy" which "even his own death could not stop."

8/29/11, "US 'wasted $30bn on Afghanistan and Iraq' over decade," BBC, Washington, The US government has wasted $30bn (£18bn) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission.

The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-reliance on contractors, poor planning

  • and fraud for the waste.

It had evidence of lax accountability and inadequate competition, it said.

Writing in the Washington Post, the report's authors warn that investments in the two countries

  • could be wasted even after US involvement there ends.

Among the examples cited were a $40m prison for Iraq that the country did not want and

  • was never completed.

US-funded projects in those two countries also risk going to waste because host governments are unable or unwilling to sustain them.

In one case, $300m was poured into a sophisticated power plant in Kabul which the Afghan government will not be able to run, and a programme worth $11.4bn of facilities for the Afghan National security forces is

  • likely to be unsustainable.

The commission's report is due to be published on Wednesday but its authors, who include former government officials and lawmakers, have already published an opinion piece in the Washington Post, blaming both the government and contractors for the waste.

The article makes the obvious recommendation to be more rigorous when deciding whether a project should be contracted out but it also recommends cancelling or modifying projects that are not sustainable.

Beyond just a disservice to taxpayers, the report says that the waste fosters corruption in host countries and

  • diminishes the standing and influence of the US."
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12/28/01, "Osama: Hit U.S. Economy," NY Daily News, Helen Kennedy

""It is important to concentrate on the destruction of the American economy," Bin Laden says on the 33-minute tape, broadcast in full yesterday by Al Jazeera TV in Qatar. "If their economy ends, they will become too busy to enslave oppressed people."

Bin Laden bragged that the attacks caused losses of "more than a trillion dollars on the New York market and elsewhere."

"This economic hemorrhaging continues until today but requires more blows."...

Bin Laden, 44, said America was on the verge of collapse and that even his own death could not stop it.

"We say that the end of the United States is imminent - whether Bin Laden or his followers are alive or dead - for the awakening of the Muslim nation has occurred," he says on the tape, which was air-mailed anonymously to Al Jazeera from Pakistan."...


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Obama's illegal alien uncle arrested in Framingham, Mass. for drunk driving, told cops he wanted to call the White House

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Obama has 2 illegal alien relatives living in the US off taxpayers. They were found by the UK Times in 2008 following up on mentions made of them in Obama's book. After 6 weeks of work the Times found them in Boston. The discovery was made public right before the election so was ridiculed by US media on behalf of Obama.

8/28/11, "Obama's illegal uncle arrested; 'Uncle Omar' almost hits cop car, tries to call White House," Washington Times, Pickett

UPDATE:

The Australian is reporting that Onyango Obama has retained Cleveland lawyer Margaret Wong. This is the same immigration attorney who successfully represented Mr. Obama's sister Zeituni, when she managed to avoid deportation to Kenya. Mr. Obama pleaded not guilty at his remand hearing.

A number of media outlets have already reported that an illegal immigrant from Kenya by the name of Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he nearly rammed his SUV

  • into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts.

He was later charged with DUI among other violations. I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied:

  • "I think I will call the White House."

It should be noted that the Times of London, highlighted an Onyango Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, when the British daily found President Barack Obama's “Aunt Zeituni” living in Boston illegally.:

Dreams From My Father was first published Yet the US media appears to have overlooked the passage indicating that at least one relative of Mr Obama’s had moved to America and might still be there.

Two thirds of the way through the book Mr Obama’s half-sister talked about Africans who had emigrated to the West and were never heard of again, “like our Uncle Omar, in Boston . . . They’ve been lost, you see”.

A few pages later Mr Obama meets his step-grandmother, Sarah, for the first time in the village of Kogelo. On the walls of her hut are photographs of Omar, “the uncle who had left for America 25 years ago and never came back”. Touchingly, she asks the future presidential candidate if he has any news of Omar, her son and Mr Obama’s half-uncle.

The article continues:

This triggered a six-week search, one that would lead eventually to Boston and to Aunt Zeituni. Public record searches found traces of O. Onyango Obama, Uncle Omar’s real name, in Boston. A friend and a former landlady said that he now uses the name Obama Onyango.

In the course of searching for Uncle Omar The (UK) Times found a Zeituni Onyango, who also played a prominent part in Mr Obama’s book.

In the memoir Auntie Zeituni, Uncle Omar’s sister, explained the family’s complex family tree to the future presidential candidate, introduced him to other relatives and fed him a herbal remedy for an upset stomach.

Also, a wikipedia page about the president's family that has not been edited since August 2 mentions Uncle Omar:

Omar ObamaHalf-uncle of Barack Obama,[126] born on June 3, 1944 in Nyang’oma Kogelo. Oldest son of Onyango and Sarah Obama, resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

The daily log from the Framingham Police Department shows the Onyango Obama that was arrested last week in Framingham, a Boston suburb, has the birth date of June 3, 1944.

Metrowest Daily first reported Onyango Obama's arrest...

According to article, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement has warrant for his arrest and ICE previously ordered him to be deported back to Kenya. In the meantime, a judge has not set bail on the driving charges but ordered that he be held on the ICE warrant. "

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8/17/10, "Boston judge blasts leak in Obama aunt asylum case," AP

"A judge in Boston who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization....His written decision was released this week through the Freedom of Information Act and first was reported by The Boston Globe."...

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8/20/10, "Kenya says Obama aunt was not in danger," AP

"A Kenyan official says the government is unhappy with the impression created by a U.S. court ruling that granted asylum to President Barack Obama's aunt.

Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro said he gave Zeituni Onyango asylum in the U.S. because she would be a target in Kenya not only for those who oppose the United States and Obama but for members of the Kenyan government.

Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua on Friday said the allegations made against Kenya are untrue and that they tarnish the country.

Onyango is the half sister of Obama's late father. She has been living



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Bin Laden said even his own death could not stop destruction of US economy, 12/28/01 report

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In Dec. 2001, bin Laden said the goal was "destruction of the US economy" which "even his own death could not stop."

12/28/01, "Osama: Hit U.S. Economy," NY Daily News, H. Kennedy

"In his latest video message after three months on the lam, a gaunt Osama Bin Laden urged Muslims to wage economic holy war against a "fragile" America. "It is important to concentrate on the destruction of the American economy," Bin Laden says on the 33-minute tape, broadcast in full yesterday by Al Jazeera TV in Qatar. "If their economy ends, they will become too busy to enslave oppressed people." Bin Laden bragged that the attacks caused losses of "more than a trillion dollars on the New York market and elsewhere."
of the American economy and hit the enemy in these joints."...

Bin Laden, 44, said America was on the verge of collapse and that even his own death could not stop it.

"We say that the end of the United States is imminent - whether Bin Laden or his followers are alive or dead - for the awakening of the Muslim nation has occurred," he says on the tape, which was air-mailed anonymously to Al Jazeera from Pakistan."...
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12/12/2010, "The Target of the Terrorists Has Always Been Our Economy," American Thinker, T.L. Davis

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Since the US economy has been destroyed in the past decade, bi Laden died in peace. ed.



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Ground Zero Imam says US must incorporate Sharia law into its legal system to achieve integration with Islam-Herald Scotland

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8/28/11, "Ground Zero imam gives Scotland his recipe for successful multiculturalism," Herald Scotland, by Vicky Allan

"AMERICA’S most controversial imam – the man at the centre of the storm over plans for the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York last year – flew into Edinburgh yesterday to tell the Festival of Spirituality and Peace that greater integration between Islam and the West depends on the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of the UK and the United States as well as Muslims adopting the culture of their host countries."...
  • (First paragraph is from Herald Scotland website. Subsequent paragraphs available via free registration. I've copied them from a posting on Atlas Shrugs. ed.)
"Many see Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as an Islamic moderate even though he has been vilified in the US press as an apologist for radical Muslims. In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Rauf said he believes the world is in the grip of a “dangerous myth” and “self-fulfilling prophecy” that “Islam and the West are at war. But the real battleground is not between Islam and the West, but between the wise, fair-minded people of all faith traditions and the extremists.”

Although he is a pro-US imam who has argued that America is the embodiment of Islam’s ideal society, Rauf became a hate figure in the US over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. The plan offended relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and led to a US pastor proposing a “Burn a Koran day”....

An essential element of this interweaving of cultures, he says, will have to be the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of Europe and the US. In this, he is in agreement with the Archbishop of Canterbury who said that the adoption of some aspects of Sharia law

  • “seems to be unavoidable”.

Rauf points out that “the only truly clashing area is the penal code, and no Muslim has the intention of introducing that to America. The penal code is the area that people in the Western world are worried about – but these are things that aren’t even observed today in most of the Muslim world. Apart from the Taliban and a few places like that, where do you see this happening?”"...

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We've already had Sharia honor killings and female genital mutilation in the US. Dec. 6, 2010 LA Times, Sharia's penal system is growing in popularity in other countries-not decreasing. Pew Study below with chart, popularity of brutal Sharia. 2010 BBC report, Afghan Pres. Karzai spokesman said stoning could be done but must go through proper channels....Libya's new constitution draft calls for Sharia law. Video of stoning to death in August 2010 in Afghanistan--very graphic. (details below). 7/8/10, Stoning to death in Iran of a woman accused of adultery "is expected any day now...under Article 105 of the Islamic Penal Code....Stoning as a method of execution... still exists on the law books in Afghanistan, Iran, sections of Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates." MSNBC.com (7/8/10). 85% of Pakistanis would approve segregating men and women in the workplace.

As Pamela Geller notes

"Rauf does not and cannot point to a form of Sharia that does not contain the mandates for stoning, amputation, etc. So how firm and honest can his assurance that Muslims have no intention of bringing all that here really be? We're already seeing honor killings and female genital mutilation in America. Why shouldn't the rest follow when all of this is justified by Sharia?"...

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2/11/11, "Pew Global Attitudes Project" conducted 4/12/10-5/7/10, released 12/2/10


"The population of Egypt is approximately 80.5 million,
  • 90% of which is Muslim (mostly Sunni)."...
Of the 90% of the Egyptian population that is Islamic:
  • 77% support whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery
  • 84% support the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion
  • 20% support suicide bombing in defense of Islam"...
via American Thinker, 2/12/11, "Pew Poll offers insights in Egyptians," K.E. Campbell ------------------------

Libya's draft constitution calls for Sharia law:

8/22/11, "Libya made safe for Sharia?" American Thinker, Andrew Bostom

"The salient feature of Libya's
new draft constitution is Part 1, Article 1:

"Islam is the Religion principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia)."

Once again, we appear to be witnessing a regional Muslim phenomenon which the prototype Algerian jihadists of the 1990s formulated with succinct candor:

Islamic state by the will of the people."

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Video emerged of public stonings to death in Afghanistan from August 2010. Onlookers yelled Allah Akbar! as they threw huge stones at a burka covered woman drenched in blood. A Pew Poll shows increasing enthusiasm for stoning among Islamic populations.

1/27/2011, "Afghanistan Officials Promise Investigation After Video Surfaces of Stoning Deaths," Zimbio.com

"In the video a Taliban leader explains to a crowd of roughly 200 people last August that a couple deserves to die because they were committed to other people when they eloped together.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Click here to see a very graphic version of the video.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Click here to see a less graphic version of the video.

Dozens of men then throw rocks at the woman, who stands in a four foot hole, while yelling “Allah akbar.” But despite being clobbered for two minutes by countless large stones that left her burqa soaked in blood, the woman, identified as Siddqa, survives the stoning and is eventually shot by a spectator with an AK-47.

The man, Khayyam, is then brought out, blindfolded and subjected to an even more ferocious attack with even larger stones as he lies face down on the floor.

Khayyam reportedly was married with two children when he ran off with Siddqa who was in another relationship against her will. Reports vary as to whether she was engaged or married.

Men in the area are allowed to have up to four wives, so the couple was lured back with the false promise that they would be allowed to marry.

Regional police chief Gen Daoud Daoud told the BBC that special investigators would be sent to the region to find the perpetrators in the video and bring them to justice."...

"Hundreds of people attended the stoning but no-one was charged....

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In a 2010 BBC report Karzai said stoning could be done but must go through proper channels:

"A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Waheed
Omar, said if the incident (stoning to death) was confirmed it would be condemned in the strongest terms by the government. This month the Taliban also reportedly flogged and killed a pregnant widow in western Baghdis province."...

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"It (stoning) still exists on the law books in Afghanistan, Iran, sections of Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates."... . (A BBC article linked in the above story conveys it as unique to the Taliban, which is not accurate).

7/8/10, "Where is stoning legal, and how is it done?" MSNBC and news service reports

  • Stoning is part of sharia law in many places.
"It still exists on the law books in Afghanistan, Iran, sections of Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates.
  • ...Ayatollah Shahroudi, the head of Iran’s judiciary, ...in 2002 said stoning should no longer exist in Iranian law.
Despite Shahroudi’s stance, stoning continues to remain on the law books in Iran and ---------------------------
12/6/10, "Majority of Muslims want Islam in politics, poll says," LA Times, Meris Lutz

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Ground Zero Mosque Imam speaks on July 12, 2005 at a Prime Ministerial Centre Public Lecture in Australia.
  • "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims…
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3/21/2004, "West must act to end jihad: Imam," Sydney Morning Herald, Frank Walker

"The US and the West must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end, says an Islamic cleric invited to Sydney by Premier Bob Carr.

New York-based Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who impressed Mr Carr at an international conference last year, arrives in Sydney today for two weeks of meetings and public talks.

Speaking from his New York mosque, Imam Feisal said

He said there was an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause and there was no sign of the attacks ending unless there was a fundamental change in the world."...

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bin Laden said in Dec. 2001 the goal was "destruction of American economy".
  • His mission was accomplished well before his death.
12/28/01, "Osama: Hit U.S. Economy," NY Daily News, H. Kennedy

"In his latest video message after three months on the lam, a gaunt Osama Bin Laden urged Muslims to wage economic holy war against a "fragile" America. "It is important to concentrate on the destruction of the American economy," Bin Laden says on the 33-minute tape, broadcast in full yesterday by Al Jazeera TV in Qatar. "If their economy ends, they will become too busy to enslave oppressed people." Bin Laden bragged that the attacks caused losses of "more than a trillion dollars on the New York market and elsewhere." "This economic hemorrhaging continues until today but requires more blows. And the youth should try to find the joints
  • of the American economy and hit the enemy in these joints.""
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9/7/11, "Islamic-American Group: Link Between 9/11, Muslim Religion Must Stop," Chicago.CBSLocal.com

These guys should really get their stories straight. I guess they think since politicians buy their act the people will too. These losers in Chicago should check the latest-the Ground Zero Imam says the US needs to have sharia -which we always knew was their intention.



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