Muslim Brotherhood 'crucifies' opponents, attacks secular media

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 18, 2012

By Raymond Ibrahim
Special to IPT News  August 15, 2012

 

Last week in Egypt, when Muslim Brotherhood supporters terrorized the secular media, several Arabic websites—including Arab News, Al Khabar News, Dostor Watany, and Egypt Now—reported that people were being "crucified." The relevant excerpt follows in translation:

A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others. Likewise, Muslim Brotherhood supporters locked the doors of the media production facilities of 6-October [a major media region in Cairo], where they proceeded to attack several popular journalists.

That there were attacks and violence—both in front of Egypt's presidential palace and at major media facilities, is well-documented. An August 9 report by El Balad, a widely read Egyptian website, gives the details:
Last Wednesday, August 8, "thousands of the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters" attacked 6-October's media facilities, beat Khaled Salah—chief editor of the privately-owned and secular Youm 7 newspaper—prevented Yusif al-Hassani, an On TV broadcaster, from entering the building, and generally "terrorized the employees."
El Balad adds that the supporters of Tawfik Okasha, another vocal critic of President Morsi—the one who widely disseminated the graphic video of a Muslim apostate being slaughtered to cries of "Allahu Akbar"—gathered around the presidential palace, only to be surrounded by Brotherhood supporters, who "attacked them with sticks, knives, and Molotov cocktails, crucifying some of them on trees, leading to the deaths of two and the wounding of dozens."
Far from condemning these terrorists, Al Azhar, Egypt's most authoritative Islamic institution, has just issued a fatwa calling for more violence and oppression, saying that "fighting participants in anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations planned for 24 August is a religious obligation."
Most of the aforementioned Arabic sites point out that these attacks are part of the Muslim Brotherhood's campaign to intimidate and thus censor Egypt's secular media from exposing the group's Islamist agenda, which Youm 7, On TV, and Okasha do daily. [Note: the latter's channel was recently shut down, despite Morsi's previous reassurances that "no station or media will be shut down in my era."]
These threats are not new; back in April, an organization called the "Jihad Group to Cleanse the Country" threatened these media with "painful and severe punishments." Apparently now that Morsi has become master of Egypt, threats are becoming reality, just as promises are being broken.
And the threats are taking their toll. Sky News, which was first to report about the crucifixions, has taken down its original article (though the URL still appears in the address box with the Arabic words "protesters-crucified-in front of-egypt's-presidential-palace").
While one may argue that Sky News removed the article because it was found false, one can equally argue that it censored itself for fear that it would be next in the terror campaign against the media.
In reality, there is little reason to doubt this crucifixion story. Militant Muslims crucifying their opponents is a regular feature of the Islamic world—recent cases coming from the Ivory Coast, where two Christian brothers were crucified, similarly by supporters of a Muslim president who ousted a Christian; Indonesia, where Islamic separatists crucified a fellow Muslim for being a military informant; and in Iraq, where Muslim militants crucified Christian children.
Moreover, those alleged to have been crucified in Egypt certainly fit the Koran's description of who deserves to be crucified. According to Allah, "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this: that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off…" (Koran 5:33).
"Making mischief in the land" is precisely what the secular media is being accused of, by constantly exposing the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist agenda. Even the Jihad Group to Cleanse the Country, which threatens to "liquidate" many secular media, accuses them of "creating chaos to implement the American and Zionist agenda."
Finally, it is telling that only a few months ago, and for the first time in Egypt's modern history, an Egyptian MP proposed to institutionalize Sharia's most draconian punishments—including crucifixion.
In short, under the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the bottle has been uncorked and the Islamic Genie set loose. Expect much worse to come.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum

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Read More: Mohamed Morsi, Arab News, Al Khabar News, Dostor Watany, Egypt Now, El Balad, Khaled Salah, Youm 7, Tawfik Okasha

NEW INTERVIEW WITH ILARIO PANTANO: WHAT HE'S DOING, WHAT HE'S THINKING.

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  Ilario at the AFDI/SIOA 911 Freedom Rally  March 25, 2012

VERNE STRICKLAND August 17, 2012:  

Had a great call from our buddy Ilario Pantano. It's always a special time talking with him. We just talked on and on about things on our minds. Here's an unedited version of our chat, which I know he'd like to share with his friends and admirers throughout his home base here in Cape Fear Country:

ILARIO: You know, Verne, my recent experience in this the GOP primary taught me a lot. It showed me in the first place that I've had too  much self-confidence when I needed to put my faith entirely in the Lord. More I found that I took this loss too much to heart. With God's help I've been able to shake that off and see it as a learning experience. The scriptures tell us that all things work together for good to those who are in Christ, and are called according to His purposes. That's what I took away from that political event. Also I gained a great respect for David Rouzer, who was chosen to lead our party into battle against Mike McIntyre in November. David is an outstanding American, and I support him fully in his campaign. He's going to recapture the Seventh District and America and return us to conservative Constitutional government under God. That can't happen too soon for me.

VERNE: You're a good man, sir.

ILARIO: I don't know if I'm a good man. I know that I am a humble sinner saved by grace, Verne Strickland. That's who I am. Let me share something with you. I'm listening to this unbelievable series on what it means to be a Christian man. I'm going to try  to get a few copies of these and  distribute to some friends. It's by a pastor, Marine combat veteran, and a battlefield historian who uses Civil War heroes in our history to reveal men who were strong Christians, and how they use their faith in their life and their leadership. The two best examples are General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson. Romans 8:28 was Jackson's life verse and Lee quoted it as well. Wanted to share that because your Yankee Doodle Dandy is becoming a card=carrying member of the Sons of the Confederacy. After the war, they were measuring Lee for a statue, and asking what he wanted inscribed on his tombstone, and he said, I guess just my name and the dates to let them know I died. If you have to put anything, just put "A humble sinner saved by Grace." What a testimony to the humility of a truly great American!

VERNE: How are you doing and what are you doing?

ILARIO: We're doing great, the family and I, we've been traveling the country and enjoying our Summer together. And that's been a blessing. I'm working on a book that I'm very excited about, called "God, Guns and Guts" -- How the South will save America again" -- It's about Revolutionary War battles fought in the South. Most Americans are aware of the South's role in American independence. I reveal how northeastern liberals have worked very hard to dismantle America's Southern history. One thing I've come to realize is that in the ascendancy of Southern politicians, whether it was Bill Clinton and Al Gore when the Olympics were held in Atlanta, or the fact that since '84 we started to see significant Republican majorities out of the South, or '94 when Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott and all these southern figures were on the ascendancy in politics, the South has had new punch that exceeded its weight, as a result the South has picked up electoral votes, it means not only is the South voting in a bloc, but the bloc is growing, and over the last decade, most of the economic growth in the country has occurred in the South. Between the Texas job miracles and the great things going on in the Carolinas, and manufacturing returning to Tennessee, and new economic energy in Kentucky, we are seeing employment resurgence here that is not rivaled by any other parts of the country. Because of low tax rates and the fact that the South is not weighed down by union incursion, we have not followed in the perilous footsteps of the North.

What this does  is it sets up an economic divide that becomes fodder in the political battle that affects the young minds in the cultural battlefields which are our schools as Northeastern liberals seek to change them and revise our history about what it means  to be Southern and how we have contributed to American history. So in my book we will DEBUNK SOME OF THE JUNK and God willing it will continue to move along.

I've got a piece of news  I will share with you -- in my research I've discovered that I actually have kinship with North Carolinians in the Revolution. The Ilario/Gregory family line on my mother's side arrived in Virginia in  1630. We were Colonials here in the Revolution and the War of 1812 and beyond. This is a part of my own personal history that I did not previously know and am  very excited about, and I'm very excited about these new personal revelations.

Once I have proof positive and everything confirmed -- we can't  leave any of this to chance --  as the left will do anything to discredit me (I'm one of their favorite punching bags) I will come back to you to share the facts and information on the battles and the wars and the actions in which my kin fought for America in the struggle for independence. And I'll be excited to share that story with you once I develop it.

VERNE: Fill me in a bit on the great Chik-fil-A episode and what it represented to you.

ILARIO: Well, as a matter of record, they really didn't stand in opposition to anyone. What they did was stand for Biblical principles. The moment you stand for something in this country, immediately you'll be attacked by haters and detractors and quite honestly, by fools. And in this case the owner Mr. Cathy, who is an committed Christian and conducts his life and business in a manner pleasing to God, he closes his restaurant on Sunday. This is a person who has been unapologetic also in defense of Christian marriage. God has defined this. Then who are we to redefine it? What a blessing to have men of character like that in our society, don't you agree? It's just a shame that they would be attacked by a bunch of left-wing politicians from Chicago, Boston, and lots of godless places in between.

Lord knows, it was exciting to see such a turn-out, even in places like New Jersey, where people gather in long lines, and I'm getting e-mails by Marine friends in Jacksonville who wanted to get into the Chick-fil-A but the crowds -- which were always orderly -- were just too long. That's the kind of demonstrations I'd like to see more often. Christian demonstrating their support of a Christian business owner, and not yielding to bullies who deny God.

VERNE: I don't think you've lost your magic, good sir. 

The glory goes to God, my friend. I just show up and He makes everything happen from that point. Look, just  know that you're in my thoughts and prayers -- my family's too. Great to visit with you.

DAVID ROUZER FOR U.S. CONGRESS NC/7 SALUTES RYAN CHOICE

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 16, 2012

Paul Ryan: A Bold Choice

by David Rouzer - August 13, 2012 

David fires up the crowd at Morrisville rally

We are at a real crossroads in this country and now is the time for bold action and serious leadership.

I applaud Governor Romney for his bold, smart choice of Congressman Paul Ryan!

Paul Ryan is the right choice at the right time to help lead our nation out of the Obama malaise and get America back on the path to prosperity and greatness.

I was honored to speak at the Romney-Ryan 2012 rally in Morrisville yesterday and I look forward to working to ensure that Governor Romney and  Congressman Ryan are elected this November. I hope you will join me.

DAVID ROUZER  

Sports Illustrated writer slams Michael Jordan for turning back on high school coach Pop Herring.

PREVIEW BY VERNE STRICKLAND
AUGUST 15, 2012

THIS IS A WILMINGTON STORY -- AND NOT A PRETTY ONE. IT TWISTS THROUGH THE EARLY YEARS OF WILMINGTON NATIVE MICHAEL JORDAN, WHO ROSE TO NBA SPORTS IMMORTALITY. AND  CLIFTON "POP" HERRING, JORDAN'S FORMER HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH. AS JORDAN'S LIFE WENT INTO ORBIT, POP'S DESCENDED INTO THE HELL OF PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA.THERE HAS BEEN BITTERNESS ALL AROUND.  THIS IS THE REST OF THE STORY.

Michael Jordan is taken to task by Thomas Lake, a writer for Sports Illustrated, for not lending a hand to his mentally ill former high school basketball coach at Laney High in Wilmington, N.C., Clifton "Pop" Herring.
In an open letter to Jordan, Lake writes Jordan should show some compassion for Herring, a "sick and indigent man" living in "tumbledown old house," and one who was recently put in jail on questionable grounds. Also one who, according to Lake, opened the Laney High gym for Jordan at 6 a.m., "let (Jordan) borrow his car and had (him) over to his house and treated (him) like a son."

 

Michael Jordan has received criticism for not offering assistance to

his former high school coach. (AP Photo)

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Staff report: Sporting News

One well-known story about Jordan’s past is that he did not make his high school varsity squad when he was a sophomore. Jordan has always said he was cut from the team and called out Herring during his Hall of Fame induction speech in 2009. "I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude."

Writes Lake, "Well, it was your mistake. You used what should have been a joyful occasion to call out a man for something he did not actually do. A sick and indigent man at that. As we both know, Pop's life fell apart after you left town. Not his fault. A disease ran in his family, paranoid schizophrenia or some such thing, and he started acting strange, and he lost his job, and his wife, and his daughter, and pretty much everything else. Took to drinking, as you or I might do in similar circumstances."

Herring was arrested recently after a man staying at his house was charged with killing a woman and burying her in the yard. Lake confirmed with the D.A. that Herring had nothing to do with the crime and writes that Herring was incapable of keeping the alleged murderer — a serial rapist — out of his home. The man was taking advantage of him.

Because of Herring’s mental illness, Lake writes, he missed court dates and had a warrant issued for his arrest. He was put in jail, and Lake took $100 out of his own bank account to post Herring’s bond.
The last time Jordan saw Herring, according to Lake, was in 1994 at a celebration in Chicago, when Herring was booed after Jordan introduced him as "the first guy who ever cut me."

Lake writes, “Mike, I know you can’t fix Pop. But you can help him. He helped make you, and now you are a very rich man.” 

Lake suggests that Jordan purchase Herring’s house, knock it down and build a new one; hire some caretakers and an exterminator; buy him some life essentials, like a clothes, dishwasher and a bedframe; and perhaps make a call to Nike and tell them his old coach needs a new pair of shoes.

Clifton "Pop" Herring


More: Read Lake’s full letter to Jordan

Dear Michael Jordan,
I heard Pop Herring was in jail so I drove up to see him the other night. You remember Pop, your basketball coach at Laney High in Wilmington, N.C. The man who opened the gym at 6 a.m. so you could work on that jumper. The man who let you borrow his car and had you over to his house and treated you like a son. The man who put you on jayvee in your sophomore year. Didn't cut you, as you always said after that, although at the time it probably felt like a cut. I guess it still does, or did in 2009, when you were inducted into the Hall of Fame, and you addressed Pop directly without actually using his name and said, regarding his failure to put you on varsity, "I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude."
Well, it was your mistake. You used what should have been a joyful occasion to call out a man for something he did not actually do. A sick and indigent man at that. As we both know, Pop's life fell apart after you left town. Not his fault. A disease ran in his family, paranoid schizophrenia or some such thing, and he started acting strange, and he lost his job, and his wife, and his daughter, and pretty much everything else. Took to drinking, as you or I might do in similar circumstances.
Did you help him? Not in the past 18 years. He and his friends say the last time you saw him was 1994, and no one from your camp has come forward to dispute this. That was at a celebration of you in Chicago, and you introduced him to your fans as "the first guy to ever cut me," and they booed.
Were you unaware of his plight? I guess it's possible, or at least it was until last January, when Sports Illustrated published my story about him. Someone on your staff must have read it. I hoped you would reach out to him then. A visit or a gift or something. But no. It's been seven months, and Pop and his friends say there's been no sign of you.
A terrible thing happened after the article came out. A man who had been staying in Pop's tumbledown old house was charged with killing a young woman and burying her in the yard. Pop was arrested too, because he was drunk and difficult when the police showed up, but he had nothing to do with the killing. Let me repeat that: He had nothing to with the killing. I confirmed this with the District Attorney's office. The bad guy was a serial rapist, one of many shady characters hanging around that house, and Pop was incapable of keeping him out. This is something that happens when you're mentally ill. People take advantage.
Here's another thing that happens when you're mentally ill. You have trouble organizing your life. You miss a court date or two, and the judge issues a bench warrant, and pretty soon the cops come and throw you in jail. This is exactly what happened to Pop. He was living with a criminal because he is mentally ill. He was drinking because he is mentally ill. Nothing against the good people of the New Hanover County justice system, but this much is true: Clifton "Pop" Herring went to jail because he is mentally ill. Recently I called his landlord and heard he'd been back in jail since July 14. No one would bail him out. So I got in the car.
"This is my 24th day," he said, on the telephone, through the glass. He did not seem angry. In fact he was jovial, as usual, and he asked me how my little girl was doing. I told him fine, and he said good, and then he asked a favor. He said the charges had been cleared up that afternoon in court, and he wasn't sure why they were keeping him here, and he wondered if there was anything I could do to get him out. They were treating him just fine, but he didn't want to spend one more night in a cage.
"I got my stuff ready to go," he said.
I said I would go see about it. Sure enough, the charges had been resolved. All except one, a failure to appear. The bond was $100. I had no idea what I was doing. Never bailed anyone out before. Checked my wallet and saw forty bucks.
There's an ATM over in the corner, a deputy sheriff said.
So I went over and took out another hundred. My own money -- not from a Sports Illustrated expense account. It felt wonderful. Like you, Mike, I had profited from Pop's story, and I figured this was the least I could do to pay him back. I slid five twenties under the glass at the magistrate window and the guy gave me a receipt and told me to bring it to the deputy at another window.
"Go in the lobby and wait for him," the deputy said. "Be about 20 minutes."
Pop came out in his secondhand clothes, old jeans and an old gray T-shirt, and he said something grateful about the jail officials having laundered them. He was hungry, and so was I. We drove downtown to The George on the Riverwalk. Pop got a seafood platter with fried shrimp, fried flounder and fried oysters. It looked delicious, better than my shrimp and grits, and he let me try some. Then I took him home.
Mike, I know you can't fix Pop. But you can help him. He helped make you, and now you are a very rich man. Here's what you could do for Pop. You could buy that tumbledown house from Pop's landlord. You could tear it down and build a new one. Nothing fancy. Just a nice little one-story structure that won't blow over next time a hurricane comes through. You could hire a caretaker for this house, preferably two or three. These caretakers would keep the place clean, because Pop can't, and they would keep the shady characters outside, because Pop can't, and they would bail Pop out of jail next time he's caught with an open container, and they would make sure he shows up for court. His niece and his landlord do a lot for Pop, but they both have their own busy lives, and from time to time he falls through the cracks. You could pay people to always catch him. You could even hire his landlord and his niece, so they wouldn't have to work other jobs, and I'm sure they would treat him right.
Fine. I know I'm dreaming here. Asking too much. Well, there are smaller things you could do. Cheaper things. You could hire an exterminator, so Pop could turn on the stove or take a dish from the sink without seeing a swarm of small dark bugs. You could buy him a dishwasher. You could buy him a bed-frame so he wouldn't have to sleep on a mattress on the floor. Pop is a sentimental man, keen on mementos, and he keeps his New Hanover High Most Valuable Player 1969-70 basketball trophy on the mantle in his bedroom. The thing is so old and corroded that it's about to fall apart. You could pay a few bucks to have it restored.
I saw Pop the next morning, getting a shave and a haircut at Washington's Barber Shop. He was talking about getting some new clothes so he could get a girlfriend or two. You could buy him new clothes. I looked down at his feet, at his off-brand white sneakers, stained with water and mud, laces so old they were turning to fuzz. Mike, this would be the easiest of all. No money to spend. Just a phone call to your friends at Nike. You could tell them your old coach needs a new pair of shoes.
Sincerely,
Thomas Lake
Follow Thomas Lake on Twitter @thomaslake.

 

Leftwing gunman shoots up offices of D.C. Family Research Council, wounds guard. Media coverage tepid.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Leftwing gunman shoots up offices of conservative D.C. Family Research Council. Media shrugs off gun incident -- 'Nothing to see here'.

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 16, 2012

WHERE IS THE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, THE FURY AND DEMONSTRATIONS, THE BOLD HEADLINES ABOUT THIS VIOLENT ACT  BY A LEFTWING SHOOTER? WHAT IF THIS HAD BEEN A VIOLENT INCIDENT AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD? CHALK IT UP TO SELECTIVE INDIGNATION.

Leftwing Gunman Shoots Up Offices Of Family Research Council

Added Aug 15, 2012, Under: Crime,Politics, Views: 127

I’ve been holding off on this story until more of the facts come out. Sadly the legacy media has been unusually mum on this.
Here’s what we do know so far:
Earlier today a man walked into the offices of the Family Research Council on G Street in Washington, DC. The FRC is a pro-life Conservative Christian organization.
The gunman, identified as Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28 was carrying a pistol with two 15 rd. magazines. He also was carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A which was recently embroiled in a controversy concerning comments made by their CEO regarding gay marriage.
He made comments about the organization’s political policies before opening fire. A security guard was hit in the arm and the shooter himself was wounded and taken into custody.
Sources told FoxNews that after the guard disarmed the shooter Corkins said “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”
Authorities are calling it an act of domestic terrorism.

Read whatever we know so far: Updates 5:15 pm EST 081623

A security guard at the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a gunman posing as an intern, taking a bullet in the arm before wrestling the suspect to the ground.
The gunman, identified as 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II, entered the lobby of the organization's Chinatown headquarters around 10:45 a.m. and expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions, sources tell Fox News.

When the guard asked him where he was going, he opened fire, according to police.

“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. "He did his job. The person never made it past the front.”“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned.”

The guard, Leo Johnson, was shot in the arm and was conscious after the shooting and in stable condition.

Corkins was being questioned by the FBI, sources said. Sources said he lives in Herndon, Va.
The suspect "made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard," a source told Fox News.

Sources also said the gunman may have been carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A, the embattled fast-food restaurant whose president came under fire from gay activists after he said he did not agree with same-sex marriage.

Sources told Fox News that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, "Don't shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for."

Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism, although James McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said authorities do not yet know the gunman's motive.

“We don’t know enough about him or his circumstances to determine what his connection is to this group [the research council] or his mental state, or what he was doing or thinking of doing,” McJunkin said. “So we’re going to try to sort this all out, pull the evidence together, do all the interviews we can.”

Corkins had been volunteering for about the past six months at The DC Center for the LGBT Community, said David Mariner, executive director of the community center, which is in Northwest Washington. He usually staffed the center's front desk on Saturdays, and his most recent shift was about two weeks ago.
"He always struck me as a kind, gentle and unassuming young man. I'm very surprised that he could be involved in something like this," Mariner said.

The FRC is a conservative nonprofit that seeks to advance "faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion," according to its website. The group weighs in on policy, and has often sent representatives to Congress to weigh in on the social effects of policy matters.

“The police are investigating this incident," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said. "Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today.  Our concern is for him and his family.”
Advocacy groups across the ideological spectrum condemned the violence, with some casting it as a hate crime.

"Today's attack is the clearest sign we've seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as `hateful' must end," Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a statement.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president, who was traveling in Iowa Wednesday, was informed of the shooting shortly after 1 p.m.

"The president expressed his concern for the individual injured in the shooting and his strong belief that this type of violence has no place in our society," Carney said.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a statement that he was appalled. "There is no place for such violence in our society," he said. "My prayers go out to the wounded security guard and his family, as well as all the people at the Family Research Council whose sense of security has been shattered by today's horrific events."

Fox News' Mike Levine and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Leftwing gunman shoots up offices of D.C. Family Research Council.

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 16, 2012

WHERE IS THE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, THE FURY AND DEMONSTRATIONS, THE BOLD HEADLINES ABOUT THIS VIOLENT ACT  BY A LEFTWING SHOOTER? WHAT IF THIS HAD BEEN A VIOLENT INCIDENT AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD? CHALK IT UP TO SELECTIVE INDIGNATION.

Leftwing Gunman Shoots Up Offices Of Family Research Council

Added Aug 15, 2012, Under: Crime,Politics, Views: 127

I’ve been holding off on this story until more of the facts come out. Sadly the legacy media has been unusually mum on this.
Here’s what we do know so far:
Earlier today a man walked into the offices of the Family Research Council on G Street in Washington, DC. The FRC is a pro-life Conservative Christian organization.
The gunman, identified as Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28 was carrying a pistol with two 15 rd. magazines. He also was carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A which was recently embroiled in a controversy concerning comments made by their CEO regarding gay marriage.
He made comments about the organization’s political policies before opening fire. A security guard was hit in the arm and the shooter himself was wounded and taken into custody.
Sources told FoxNews that after the guard disarmed the shooter Corkins said “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”
Authorities are calling it an act of domestic terrorism.

Read whatever we know so far: Updates 5:15 pm EST 081623

A security guard at the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a gunman posing as an intern, taking a bullet in the arm before wrestling the suspect to the ground.
The gunman, identified as 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II, entered the lobby of the organization's Chinatown headquarters around 10:45 a.m. and expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions, sources tell Fox News.

When the guard asked him where he was going, he opened fire, according to police.

“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. "He did his job. The person never made it past the front.”“The security guard here is a hero, as far as I’m concerned.”

The guard, Leo Johnson, was shot in the arm and was conscious after the shooting and in stable condition.

Corkins was being questioned by the FBI, sources said. Sources said he lives in Herndon, Va.
The suspect "made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard," a source told Fox News.

Sources also said the gunman may have been carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A, the embattled fast-food restaurant whose president came under fire from gay activists after he said he did not agree with same-sex marriage.

Sources told Fox News that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, "Don't shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for."

Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism, although James McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said authorities do not yet know the gunman's motive.

“We don’t know enough about him or his circumstances to determine what his connection is to this group [the research council] or his mental state, or what he was doing or thinking of doing,” McJunkin said. “So we’re going to try to sort this all out, pull the evidence together, do all the interviews we can.”

Corkins had been volunteering for about the past six months at The DC Center for the LGBT Community, said David Mariner, executive director of the community center, which is in Northwest Washington. He usually staffed the center's front desk on Saturdays, and his most recent shift was about two weeks ago.
"He always struck me as a kind, gentle and unassuming young man. I'm very surprised that he could be involved in something like this," Mariner said.

The FRC is a conservative nonprofit that seeks to advance "faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion," according to its website. The group weighs in on policy, and has often sent representatives to Congress to weigh in on the social effects of policy matters.

“The police are investigating this incident," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said. "Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today.  Our concern is for him and his family.”
Advocacy groups across the ideological spectrum condemned the violence, with some casting it as a hate crime.

"Today's attack is the clearest sign we've seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as `hateful' must end," Brian Brown, the president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a statement.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president, who was traveling in Iowa Wednesday, was informed of the shooting shortly after 1 p.m.

"The president expressed his concern for the individual injured in the shooting and his strong belief that this type of violence has no place in our society," Carney said.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a statement that he was appalled. "There is no place for such violence in our society," he said. "My prayers go out to the wounded security guard and his family, as well as all the people at the Family Research Council whose sense of security has been shattered by today's horrific events."

Fox News' Mike Levine and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Marxist agitators mug Paul Ryan, attacking freedom of speech at Iowa event.

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 15, 2012

SO MANY LEFTISTS RADICALS, SO LITTLE TIME TO PUT THE RUFFIANS IN JAIL.

Posted by Matthew Vadum on Aug 15th, 2012
FrontPage Magazine

The same Marxist agitators who tried to silence Mitt Romney in the Hawkeye State a year ago tried to shut down his new running mate Monday.

Two days after the presumptive GOP presidential nominee named Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential pick, Ryan was aggressively heckled by the agrarian socialists and union goons of the ACORN-like Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (Iowa CCI) throughout a stump speech at the Iowa State Fair.

At last year’s Iowa State Fair members of Iowa CCI badgered and berated Romney, shrieking and interrupting him as he attempted to share his views on reforming entitlement programs like Social Security. They baited Romney into making his arguably impolitic admission that “corporations are people.”

Left-wing activists call this “accountability,” an Orwellian euphemism. Accountability, as the term is used by leftists, is not about transparency or good government. Perhaps partly inspired by the father of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, who was in favor of silencing non-leftists, accountability actions focus on harassing and intimidating political enemies, disrupting them and forcing them to waste their campaign resources dealing with activists’ provocations.

After Iowa CCI activists loudly demanded Ryan halt the “war on the poor” they perennially accuse Republicans of waging, these broken records of the Left bragged about the trouble they caused as they “challenge[d] Ryan on vitally important issues to everyday Iowans.”

They claimed victory over the congressman, declaring they shaved 30 percent off his speaking time. “Ryan spoke for only twelve minutes, well under his allotment of twenty.”

Several protesters were removed from the event by police. One Iowa CCI activist even reportedly punched a Romney-Ryan volunteer during the speech. Of course the use of physical violence on opponents is an important tactic for the community organizer, as Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky admitted to his protégé Nicholas von Hoffman.

True to form, the left-wing Talking Points Memo website got a key detail of the attempted squelching of Ryan’s speech wrong. TPM’s Igor Bobic fell for Iowa CCI’s spin, referring to the nonprofit as an innocuous-sounding “nonpartisan progressive group.”

Although friendly reporters use the adjectives progressive and liberal to describe Iowa CCI, Marxist or neo-communist are more appropriate descriptors.

Iowa CCI has been praised by Bill Moyers and labeled the “Most Valuable Grassroots Advocacy Group” of 2009 by John Nichols of The Nation magazine. Nichols approves of the group’s “in-your-face activism.”
Iowa CCI’s anti-capitalist, anti-American activism guarantees it generous support from hard-left philanthropies.

The group has taken in funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation ($600,000 since 2001), Ford Foundation ($575,000 since 2003), McKnight Foundation ($415,000 since 1999), Annie E. Casey Foundation ($260,000 since 2001), Rockefeller Family Fund Inc. ($225,000 since 2000), Needmor Fund ($140,000 since 1999), the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation ($40,000 since 2000), Ben & Jerry’s Foundation ($30,000 since 2007), and Threshold Foundation ($25,000 since 2008).

Iowa CCI has also received grants from the Unitarian Universalist Church’s Veatch Foundation. Grants from that charity were used to found the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) in 1986. Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, the ACORN-loving former community organizer, was previously president of the IATP. Ritchie orchestrated Al Franken’s theft of incumbent Republican Norm Coleman’s U.S. Senate seat in the 2008 election cycle.

Iowa CCI is part of a larger Alinsky-inspired organizing network called National People’s Action (NPA). NPA makes no bones about its desire to overthrow what remains of America’s free enterprise system.

New Black Panthers smolders ever closer to White House. Group claims it 'delivered' Obama to office. Yikes!

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 15, 2012

WHEN IS THE LAST TIME WE GAVE THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS A LITTLE PUBLICITY? CAN'T REMEMBER. WELL, LET'S HAVE A GO AT IT.

According to New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz:

• If Republicans win the White House, “There will be little mercy or no mercy on the New Black Panther Party”
• The New Black Panthers “delivered” Obama into office
• Obama “owes” the Black Panthers “some favors”
• Obama and Holder showed the Black Panthers “mercy” in their voter intimidation case, where the DOJ controversially dropped charges against the group
• Republicans are the “most powerful enemies in the world” and they “hate” the Black Panthers
• Republicans will brand the Black Panthers “an official hate group, terrorists”
• Does not know how much longer “President Obama and Eric Holder can hold out” in their favor.

The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) chairman wants to remind Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama that their organization “delivered” the president and his administration to office.

The New Black Panthers, who recently espoused their desire to hang whites and openly meet with
a Holocaust-denying terror regime, believes Obama and Holder “owes them” a few favors.

These new incendiary comments come from NBPP Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz on a radio show hosted by his National Field Marshal, King Samir Shabazz.  The two were having a discussion about what would happen to the organization were Republicans to win the election in November.  The outlook is not good.  According to chairman Shabazz, Republicans don’t like the Black Panthers and would prefer to brand the organization a “hate group” that uses “terrorist” tactics.

That was disconcerting to the host of the show, King Samir Shabazz, who was prosecuted by  the Department of Justice two years ago over well-documented charges of voter intimidation.  These charges had subsequently been dropped by Eric Holder’s Deputies, even though senior attorneys working on the case advised against it.

According to Chairman Shabazz, though, that action was “owed” to the Panthers because they “delivered” Obama to office. Still, he admitted the administration was showing the organization “mercy” and that Republicans have every intention to “re-open the case” against him and the NBPP if they gain the White House in 2012.

Ultimately, Shabazz calls Republicans “the most powerful enemies in the world” and predicts it won’t be much longer that “President Obama and Eric Holder can hold out” against them.  But don’t worry Mr. President, the New Black Panthers have already decided to endorse you again this time around!

undocumented worker.

 
He's not even a worker.
Never held a real job.
Just a government hack.
Mexico won't take him.
What about Kenya?

Carl V. Venters, Jr, Wilmington, NC, is reappointed to UNC-TV Board of Trustees

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 13, 2012








    
Carl V. Venters Jr. 

By David Forbes on 08/11/2012 09:22 AM
MOUNTAIN XPRESS 

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has announced five appointments to the UNC-TV Board of Trustees, all of whom will serve four-year terms running through June 30, 2016. Four of the five are current board members who have been reappointed.

The reappointed board members are Robert D. Teer of Durham, who is the current chairman of the UNC-TV Board of Trustees; William W. Mance, Jr., of Asheville; Assad Meymandi of Raleigh; and Carl V. Venters, Jr., of Wilmington.

Mr. Venters is a longtime broadcaster, owning, managing, and operating a number of radio and television stations in North Carolina and elsewhere. He is credited with a host of professional and civic activities and accomplishments, including service as president of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, vice chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters, and service on the Board of Directors of the University of North Carolina Alumni Association.

Currently, he is chairman of the North Carolina State Emergency Communications Committee and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Mr. Venters was elected to the Hall of Fame of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters in 1995.

UNC-TV provides people of all ages with enriching, life-changing television through its distinctive array of programs and services, including four digital channels: flagship UNC-TV; UNC-EX, the Explorer Channel; UNC-KD, the Just for Kids Channel; and UNC-MX, the Eclectic Mix Channel (available on digital cable only).

UNC-TV’s 12 stations comprise North Carolina’s only statewide television network, made possible through a unique partnership of public investment and private support. UNC-TV is committed to producing, broadcasting, and sharing content for and about North Carolina, making it the most important source of information about the state. Visit unctv.org for more information about UNC-TV. 

Issa announces House Oversight Committee will sue Eric Holder

Verne Strickland Blogmaster / August 13, 2012

OVER 200, INCLUDING BORDER AGENT BRIAN TERRY, DIED IN F&F DEBACLE

• Posted on August 13, 2012 at 6:54am by Mytheos Holt the blaze/POLITICO

“We are filing charges against Attorney General Eric Holder tomorrow.”
Those words, sent in a Tweet at 8:40 PM yesterday by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, signal what may become the first serious existential legal challenge to an Obama administration official yet filed. It also marks a very clear escalation in Issa‘s investigation of the Justice Department’s “Operation Fast and Furious,” a gunwalking operation in Mexico that led to the death of over 200 people, including Border Agent Brian Terry.

US Attorney General Eric Holder attends a Cabinet Meeting with
US President Barack Obama in the Cabinet Room of the White
House in Washington, DC, July 26, 2012. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Since the news of that operation broke, Issa‘s Oversight Committee has been engaged in a bureaucratic knife fight with the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, commanded by Attorney General Eric Holder, over certain documents related to the scandal. While the Justice Department has turned over thousands of pages relating to gunwalking during both of the previous Presidential administrations, a few key missing pieces remain, such as a set of documents that may explain how as many as 2000 guns fell into the hands of Mexican Drug Cartels. Holder has defied the House’s subpoenas for these documents repeatedly, racking up Congressional contempt citations both at the civil and criminal levels, all the while steadily defending his role in the scandal.
Issa has, understandably, refused to take Holder’s word, given the latter’s dogged unwillingness to have the documents related to the scandal disclosed, even in the face of an enforceable subpoena. The fight has further escalated since President Barack Obama made the decision to back Holder up, citing Executive Privilege, turning this into a drag-out fight between the Executive and Legislative branches of government.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,
questions Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas
Shulman during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday,
Aug. 2, 2012. Credit: AP

All that means the resolution of the problem depends on the third, Judicial branch of government. Hence Issa’s Tweet, which moves this battle from the halls of Congress and the White House into the arena of a Federal Court, where Holder will either be compelled to turn over the documents Issa is demanding, or be let off the hook by a judge.

However, there is a complication. It’s not clear that judges have the power to force the Executive Branch to surrender such documents to Congress. The reason is quite simply that there is no legal precedent that can guide a judge’s hand on this point. The closest thing to a precedent is a District of Columbia District Court’s ruling during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration that the House could force certain Executive Branch officials to testify. This, however, does not necessarily imply the ability of the House to force the release of any and all documents or information on the part of the Executive Branch.

Aside from the legal problems, this decision on the part of the House could easily become a talking point in the Presidential race for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, the presumptive nominees on the Republican ticket. And in the event that Issa gets the documents he wants, that talking point has the potential to become a much larger issue, especially given President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege.

 The issue has, to this point, remained under the radar in the Presidential election. Time will tell if that can remain the case once Issa’s lawsuit is filed.
(H/T: Politico)