Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2015

KORAN TRANSLATION

More 'Translations' from the Koran:
Surah 9:5 states: " Slay the Idolator's wherever you find them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them."
Surah 9:73 reads: " make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate."
Surah 9:123 commands: " Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them.
Know that [Allah] is with the righteous."
Surah 9:39 warns: " If you do not go to war, [Allah] will punish you sternly, and will replace you with other men."
Surah 8:12 states: " [Allah] revealed his will to the Angels, saying: " I shall be with you.  Give courage to the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels.  Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their fingers! "'
Taken from United Church of God Magazine...
We may as well know what the Koran tells them to do!!!
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Jesse Jackson

Reflections on 50 Years of Struggle

by Rev. JESSE L. JACKSON, Sr.
This is the complete prepared text of Jesse Jackson’s remarks at the March on Washington commemoration. His speech was shamefully cut short by event planners.
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, August 24, 2013.
What a blessing it was to have been here 50 years ago as one of the host of witnesses, excited and fresh from jail in Greensboro, North Carolina. To hear the collective voices of Walter Reuther from labor; the booming voice of A. Phillip Randolph; Floyd McKissick, Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, Dr. King, Bayard Rustin and to stand with Dorothy Height, Walter Fauntroy, Jackie Robinson, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and so many others. 14th Amendment,
I had been to jail twice, once in South Carolina and once in North Carolina. Thank God for allowing me to be a part of an increasingly small group of witnesses who have been long-distance runners. We changed the South and the nation. Across these years we’ve connected Mason and Dixon. We couldn’t have had the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, North Carolina and the Atlanta Falcons in Georgia behind the cotton curtain. We couldn’t have had LSU in Baton Rouge and Alabama in Tuscaloosa playing in the big game; or the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; nor could we have had the auto industry – Toyota, Hyundai and BMW – in the South. Southern Governors tried to block those New South opportunities. Our movement tore down walls and built bridges. Ironically, many who tore down the walls lay beneath the rubble while those who resisted now benefit from the new bridges. And yet we’d do it all again. It’s by grace, not by gratitude and false praise that we go forward with hope and not backwards with fear.
It was important to support the living dream that was addressing the challenges of its day. The dream of 1963 was not the dream of 1968. In 1963 we addressed the barbarism of that day. From Texas to Florida up to Maryland, we couldn’t use a single toilet. We couldn’t swim in the city swimming pool or skate at the skating rink. We couldn’t buy ice cream at the Howard Johnson or rent a room at the Holiday Inn. There was not a Black juror in the South. Only registered voters can serve as jurors. DC was under military lockdown with an appointed Mayor. The dream that day was to address the segregation, barbarism and racial animus.
The dream in 1964 was for a Public Accommodations Bill – make barbarism illegal. The powerful words expressed by Dr. King reflected the historical longings of those who for too long had been locked out. Black soldiers had to sit behind Nazis on trains and military bases. The American flag flew gently above them in the breeze. The dream lifted us from the stench of the blood of Medgar Evers; the smell of southern jail cells; they sentenced us to penitentiaries in Louisiana; they burned the buses of freedom riders in Alabama; they bombed babies in Birmingham; they conducted a terrorist attack on President John F. Kennedy. It was this blood and these martyrs that gave urgency and content to the dream of 1964 – the need for a Public Accommodations Law.
After the 1964 challenge of the Mississippi Freedom Party, led by Fannie Lou Hamer, and the Bloody Sunday of March 7, triggered by the death of Jimmy Lee Jackson, the killing Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney, the shooting of Ms. Viola Liuzzo, the beating death of Rev. James Reeb, the state police trampling of John Lewis, Rev. Hosea Williams and Mrs. Amelia Boynton – the dream of 1965 was a Voting Rights Law.
The dream of 1966 was open and fair housing in Chicago. We were met with violent resistance.
The dream of 1967 – the Poor Peoples’ Campaign – believed that there should be a foundation of education, health care, affordable housing and a job below which no American should fall. With great reluctance, Dr. King challenged the Democratic Party, the White House and the Congress he had helped to elect. He argued that we should not shift our policy of a War on Poverty at home to a war abroad in Vietnam. He felt that such a course of finding more security in bombs abroad than bread at home would lead to spiritual death. Bombs dropped abroad would explode in America’s cities. This act of courage put him in isolation from the mainstream, but he said, “I will speak and I will be heard.”
I was blessed to be with him, to watch and listen to him in the moment of ecstasy in 1963; and in the morning of agony in 1968. He felt the air was leaving the balloon of his dream. He felt that our propensity for the arrogance of war was undermining our moral authority in the world. After having met for several days, I was with him in Atlanta when he agonized in our last staff meeting with Dr. Abernathy, Andy and his wife and Mrs. King. He said, “We’re building a resurrection city of tents, shanties and shacks in Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial where we once spoke of a dream. But today I feel like I’m fighting a nightmare.” He said, “For nearly a week I’ve wrestled with a migraine headache. I thought maybe this is all I can do in 13 years. Maybe I should leave now and head up Morehouse College and write books and travel. Maybe I should stop.” Andy said, “Please don’t talk that way.” He said, “Don’t say peace, peace when there is no peace. Let me talk.” Then he said, “But I can’t quit. If I turn back, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass never quit and they would not accept me if I quit.
“There is disunity in our leadership, going in different directions. While our leadership is different, we are still friends. Maybe if I fast to the point of death, they will come to my bedside and we could reconcile. And then he broke out of his depression. We’re going to turn a minus into a plus. We’re going on to Washington. We’re going to stop by Memphis. We’re going back to the Lincoln Memorial. Maybe we’ll engage in an act of civil disobedience, disrupt traffic in Washington. We must engage in radical sacrifice. It may be the end of us. We must end poverty, racism, militarism and unbridled capitalism.”
His three moods were very much like Jesus’ three moods.
1. Let this cup pass from me.
2. As he prayed, his disciples slept
3. Not my will, but thine be done.
In the last 50 years we’ve seen mountains high and valleys low. We’ve seen the right to vote and its fruits. We’ve occupied offices that we used to not be able to get an appointment in. We’re now Congressman, Mayors and state officials. We’ve had our high moments. The return of Aristide to Haiti; the freedom of Mandela; and the election of President Obama, the crown jewel of our political effort.
And yet today, with all of our vast wealth, military mis-adventurism continues; our subsidy of the wealthy continues; the attack on public education continues; the attack on public transportation continues; attacks on the public post office continue; attacks on small business continue; the largest jail industrial complex in the world continues and is expanding; private prisons with $1.5 billion per year in profits; pre-trial detention up to 5 years; prison labor is expanding; Corrections Corporation of America is on the stock market; just locking up Americans for sport and profit continues. There’s too much hate, too much violence, too many drugs, too many guns in the land. Our dreams are under attack.
Our challenge today may be to create discomfort in houses of power around the nation – in love and non-violence with an appeal for mercy and understanding. There are too many poor people in a nation so wealthy. Today we are free, but not equal. We have closed the separation gap between races, but we’ve expanded the disparity gap between those who live in surplus and those who live in poverty. Free but not equal.
The unfinished business will require both courage and risk. It will require sacrifice. We must dream above the clouds of doubt and fear and cynicism. We still can dream of the constitutional right to vote and an end to the manipulation of voting in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and around to Texas. We still can dream of a new Civil Rights Commission, the conscience of our nation’s government, coming back to life again. We still can dream of picking up the baton of the Poor Peoples’ Campaign and reviving the War on Poverty.
Today, beyond inspiration, we must have a voting rights amendment and appropriations to wipe out poverty and not the poor. The 50 million in poverty and the near poor are unbankable. Their dreams are being squashed. Their hopes dashed. Public housing closed and private housing foreclosed. Facing race profiles and “Stop and Frisk” laws in New York and Stand Your Ground laws and bullets in Florida. There are 31 cities where black male joblessness is above 40% and in 6 cities it’s above 50%.
The march in 1963 was not merely a cultural celebration. It was on the cutting edge of change and the challenges of that day. Thus all of the great marches had a clear political agenda challenging the powers that be and the power that wants to be – to seek relief from misery, anxiety and fear. This season of activity must be no less. All that we fought for is under attack again. We won bloody battles on the fields between 1861 and 1865. The courts took them away with the stroke of a pen in 1896. During this 50-year season, we’ve won bloody battles, but with the stroke of a pen this Supreme Court intends to take it all back – and we won’t go back. We must have a political agenda that is designed to change the legal parameters and discourse of our nation. So it was then. So it must be now. Too many people have been pushed outside the tent of protection. We must end the proliferation of war. We need expansion at home over violence and fear. Revive the War on Poverty with appropriations and allow Dr. King to rejoice in Heaven on his special day.
James Earl Ray, with a bullet, killed the dreamer. We must not kill the legacy of the dreamer and the prophet with mere celebrations and reflections. We too must remain on the cutting edge of today’s challenges. While we may pause to look in the rear view mirror, our challenge is to look out of the windshield. This search for our progress and a more perfect union is real.
We have unfinished business. We want those who are inspired by him to follow him, not just admire him. To admire him is to quote his poetry. To follow him is to pick up the baton that was blown out of his hand. To follow him is to see the Federal budget as a moral document. When the Congress is reconvened and the State of the Union is proclaimed, clearly in this season of too much violence, if we can have the constitutional right to carry guns surely we can have the constitutional right to vote – the very foundation of our democracy.
To follow him is to fulfill his mission. So keep dreaming – student loan debt forgiveness. Keep dreaming – restore public housing and end private housing schemes while bailing out banks. Clearly if we can bailout Wall Street banks, AIG ($175 billion) and the auto industry, we cannot leave Detroit and Birmingham bankrupt and blowing in the wind.
Keep dreaming and use that vote, use those marching feet. When President Obama takes the economy from 4 million jobs down to above the plus zone – stand with him and march for more. And when the President tries to provide health care for all Americans – stand with him. When he bails out our industrial base and gives them a chance to recover – stand with him. When he ends the war in Iraq – stand with him.
Keep dreaming. Stop the “Stop and Frisk” policy and racial profiling because racial profiling is unconstitutional. We should go to higher ground. Instead of “Stop and Frisk,” start “Stop and Employ.” Ask him, “Hey brother do you have a job’? Stop and provide health care, stop and provide head start, stop and build high-speed rail and the cars to go on them; stop and regain trust between the police and the people. Stop and love somebody. We’ve tried loveless justice. It’s too brittle. We’ve tried just love. It’s too sentimental. Dr. King studied Paul Tillich and he was right. We need love, power and justice. But most of all we are not our brothers and sisters “keepers.” We are our brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters. And we want to do unto them, as we would have them do unto us. Those who obtain mercy must be merciful. It’s not merely the color we seek to change, but direction and character. The new vision that we seek – John said it best on the Isle of Patmos in the pit – he saw a new heaven and a new earth. The old one passed away and he promised to wipe aware our tears.
But above all stand with a conscience. Vanity will ask the question, “Is it possible?” Politics will ask the question, “Can we win? But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” If the principle is right, it may never be popular or politic, but it will prevail. Stand through it all, because there’s hope. Stand on those dreams. You’ve come too far to turn back now. Say to the White House and the Congress, partner with us. Let’s make Dr. King happy again. Make him happy by permanently protecting our right to vote with a Voting Rights Amendment added to the Constitution. Give him the joy of reviving the War on Poverty. Make him happy. Give him the joy of ending more and more high tech wars, of reducing budgets for schools and trauma units. Make him happy.
I know it gets dark sometimes. But this land is our land. We the people – with the help of God – Jew and Gentile, Muslim and Christian, male and female, gay and straight, black, white, red, yellow and brown can heal this land. I know it’s dark sometimes, but the morning cometh. Keep dreaming. Keep healing.
If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will forgive their sins and heal their land.
Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson is the founder of Rainbow PUSH

Monday, March 26, 2012

GRADUALISM DEFINED:...




CREATING EMPLOYMENT FOR CIVIL SERVICE WORKERS:

You should know that by today's standards none of us was supposed to ever make it.

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957
vs. 2011


Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack..
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2011 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2011 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2011 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The family gets extra money (SSI) from the government because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman..
2011 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse, Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock..
2011 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2011 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist.
ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher.
English is then banned from core curriculum.. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2011- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents - and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, . Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 ? In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2011 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
This should hit every email inbox to show how stupid we have become!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ready to loose your First, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights?


Obama signed the military appropriations bill which contained legislation allowing to detain indefinitely American Citizens without trial. Barack Obama signed the bill into law in Hawaii on New Years eve when most people were out celebrating. Now we have a another bill about to be signed into law that violates your first Amendment rights to free speech. Internet censoring, all blogs and other means of communication outlawed. This makes it extremely difficult to gather information about who you are voting for except from the mainstream press... Wait! And there's more... 

I was on Kevin Smith's radio talk show six times last year. 
This is what he has to say about our traitorous Senate and congress. Why do we pay those people-we don't!  The corporations do... 

Kevin Smith, Talk Show Host
I must get this sent to you tonight.
The micro-minds in our Congress are at it once again. In their chase for dollars from the lobbyists, and support from the news media, they are once again putting your freedom on the auction block. Not that they haven't done this before. In fact, not that they don't do it daily. But, as they close down one freedom after another, and shred the Constitution into oblivion, with one act of treason after another, the most potent freedom--the one they fear the most--is freedom of speech. And now, they are openly and actively putting it under assault.

SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) are coming up for vote. These bastards are probably going to vote it in NO MATTER WHAT AMERICANS WANT. That's their practice. That is what they do over and over. And Americans keep re-electing them--so, maybe my voice raised is completely in vain. Mushrooms want sh$% and that is why they keep re-electing these traitors.

SOPA and PIPA dictate to sites like Google, FaceBook, Yahoo, GoDaddy, etc. that if they even suspect a site is hosting illegal information or offering illegal downloads, they are to de-list these sites. In other words, these sites disappear from the search engines--without formal charges, trial, a chance to face accusers in court and cross examine witnesses against them. This is total and absolute control over the flow of and access to information. This is completely and abjectly UNCONSTITUTIONAL--not that that little fact matters even one flicker to these traitors.
I do not advocate or practice illegal acts. I do not advocate violence. BUT, I do advocate freedom of speech. Don't you? Well, with these little gems of tyranny, will make it possible for the government to simply declare some types of speech as illgal (which they have already done), and then force the closure of a website they say is doing something illegal. Freedom of speech is THE ONLY WAY you can dissent against the policies of the government. WITHOUT freedom of speech, you are absolutely a slave. If SOPA & PIPA pass into law, freedom of speech is over and freedom is well and truly gone.

President Obama has said he would not sign these into law. Let me remind you he also said he would not sign the NDAA bill that gave the military a mandate to police inside America and to arrest any American they SUSPECT of being affiliated with terrorism, or supporting terrorism, and to hold them without charge or tiral indefinitely. He said he would not sign that bill--he signed it. He says he is not going to to sign these bills. Really? Do you believe that?
Folks, you are about to cross the border. You are about to cross the border into Iran where the government has total control of the internet and the flow of information. You have one shot at regaining freedom. It starts right here, right now. Either do it, or bend over and take what's coming.


This is not troubling. This is not something to be concerned about. This is an all out assault upon American citizens by their own government. Either put a stop to this, or welcome to the Empire.
The so-called entertainment industry is the prime mover and shaker on this. They are lobbying Congress with millions and millions of dollars to get them to pass these treasons into law.
If you like freedom (what tiny speck is left) here is what you need to do right now:
1. Contact your hirelings in D.C. (Representatives and Senators) and tell them you absolutely oppose these bills and will not be voting for them in their next election bid if they vote for these bills.
2. Write a letter to each and every organization listed as a supporter of the bills and tell them you will no longer be spending money with them or any company associated with them.
3. Write to the RIAA and tell them you are not going to be buying any more of their CDs and DVD's because of their support of this violation of the Constitution.
THEN STOP. Damn it, just STOP buying any products sold by or produced by these organizations. Money talks and BS walks. It is time to talk the language they understand. It is time to deny them what they crave---MONEY.
You get one shot at that this. Sit and think about it, consider it, mull it over--basically, just waste your time until you have no chance of freedom--or DO IT. JUST DO IT.
Your grandchildren's future is in your hand right now. Got courage? Want freedom? Then DO IT.
I'm going back to bed now. I am sick. I am sickest over watching my once-free country on its knees to the new oligarchy in D.C. This corrupt and treasonous bunch should be rounded up, charged, and put on trial for their crimes against the citizens of this country.
--Kevin Smith

Monday, November 28, 2011

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT...PASS IT ON...


This so important that I am sending this to everyone I can think of

The provision of the Trading with the Enemies Act of 1917, as modified on March 9, 1933 (search Congressional Record, March 9, 1933, Emergency Banking Act, Trading with the Enemies Act), to include American citizens as enemies is now about to be more fully implemented.  (BTW, this is the “secret” provision that Obama used to justify the murder of an American citizen)   With this new proposed law, I suppose that they have to fill those camps that Haliburton built to justify their $435M cost.  The camp, just southwest of Fairbanks, Alaska, by itself, can hold 2M people; and, during the winter, I bet you can turn over the population every 2 weeks or so.  That’s better than what the Nazi’s accomplished.  There are approximately 800 camps throughout the United States, fully staffed but currently sitting empty, Alaska being the largest.  These were established under Rex-84, Operation Cable Splicer and Operation Garden Plot, by executive orders of the Reagan administration (Google for more information).  
Do nothing and this is what you are facing for you and your family. 

Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial


NDAA detention provision would turn America into a “battlefield”
Saturday, November 26, 2011


The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Under the ‘worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial’ provision of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which is set to be up for a vote on the Senate floor Monday, the legislation will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports the bill.
The bill was drafted in secret by Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), before being passed in a closed-door committee meeting without any kind of hearing. The language appears in sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA bill.
“I would also point out that these provisions raise serious questions as to who we are as a society and what our Constitution seeks to protect,” Colorado Senator Mark Udall said in a speech last week. One section of these provisions, section 1031, would be interpreted as allowing the military to capture and indefinitely detain American citizens on U.S. soil. Section 1031 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil. That alone should alarm my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but there are other problems with these provisions that must be resolved.”
This means Americans could be declared domestic terrorists and thrown in a military brig with no recourse whatsoever. Given that the Department of Homeland Security has characterized behavior such as buying gold, owning guns, using a watch or binoculars, donating to charity, using the telephone or email to find information, using cash, and all manner of mundane behaviors as potential indicators of domestic terrorism, such a provision would be wide open to abuse.
“American citizens and people picked up on American or Canadian or British streets being sent to military prisons indefinitely without even being charged with a crime. Really? Does anyone think this is a good idea? And why now?” asks Anders.
The ACLU is urging citizens to call their Senator and demand that the Udall Amendment be added to the bill, a change that would at least act as a check to prevent Americans being snatched off the streets without some form of Congressional oversight.
Under the National Defense Authorization Act bill, no declaration of martial law is necessary since Americans would now be subject to the same treatment as suspected insurgents in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
If you thought that the executive assassination of American citizens abroad was bad enough, now similar powers will be extended to the “homeland,” in other words, your town, your community, your back yard.
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3865&s_subsrc=fixNDAA