Category: Terror War

Fox News reports that since the attack in Garland, Texas, ISIS has warned that they have “scores” of trained terrorists in 15, blah, blah, blah, f’n blah.

After three years of Dallas Wittgenfeld threats to “cometh”, two years of Wickre’s empty threats to come to my house “for shhoting [sic] purposes”, and Bernath warning me that one of his unnamed clients was planning to hire hitmen to kill me – that I’d never see coming. You know, threats that the entire staff of FirsTech were pouring over our comments daily to find violations of the Peace Order. That Paul Wickre has so much money that he could hire “undependable persons” to take me out. I guess they are undependable, because I’m still here.

But you know after years of being terrorized by our own countrymen, the threats from some goat-loving throwbacks to the Bronze Age who are thousands of miles away just don’t get me all excited. The terrorists in our own country can’t summon the testicular fortitude to make good on their threats, so I’m not real worried about people whose job is to terrorize on the cheap from a long ways away.

“The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching,” read the post.

Yeah, keep doing it just like that. It’s just like that whenever we score a victory against the Dutch Rudder State, too. They pound their chests and try to make it sound like it was a victory for them. Terrorist are all the same – they’re more bully than terror. I don’t believe that the Lemon Party is ever coming for me, but I still carry a legal gun – I learned in the Boy Scouts to “Be Prepared”.

By the way, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) says this morning that he is introducing legislation today to declare war on ISIS.

This will surprise no one, but National Public Radio published a piece entitled “5 Things To Know About The Organizers Of Muhammad Cartoon Contest“. Why we need to know these things, I don’t know. Mostly, they base their article on quotes from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a losing endeavor right off the bat. The SPLC once called the American Legion a “hate group” because of the Legion’s stance against illegal immigration. So, you see, everyone with whom the SPLC disagrees politically is a “hate group”.

Now, a long time ago, Pam Geller, the force behind the American Freedom Defense Initiative helped this blog get off the ground, so I have a soft spot for her. We have since parted ways, slowly, but surely, but because our blogs went in different directions. I don’t necessarily agree with everything she says or with the tactics that she uses, but, unlike the author of the NPR piece, Eyder Peralta, I don’t think that she should pay for her politics with her life. Nor, do I think the American Freedom Defense Initiative was asking to be rape…er…shot at.

I’d say the same thing about a gathering of peaceful Muslims who were trampling on the US flag, if some rednecks blasted away at them.

The only people who deserve to be shot are criminals who are endangering lives and property, certainly not someone expressing an opinion, no matter how distasteful we might find that opinion.

One of the criminals shot yesterday in their attempt to have a mass-murder scenario was Elton Simpson and according to Fox News, he’s been the subject of a few Islamic terror-linked investigations in the past few years;

Although the suspects’ ties to a specific terrorist organization could not be immediately confirmed, Simpson was known to U.S. intelligence and had been part of a recent terror investigation for allegedly trying to travel to Africa, home of the Al Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabaab, sources told Fox News.

Court documents show that a man named Elton Simpson was convicted in Phoenix of lying to the FBI in January 2010, about whether he’d discussed traveling to Somalia. According to trial testimony, Simpson is an American Muslim who became the subject of a criminal investigation in 2006 because of his association “with an individual whom the FBI believed was attempting to set up a terrorist cell in Arizona.”

Simpson was convicted, but a judge ruled that prosecutors hadn’t proven the false statement involved terrorism. Simpson was later sentenced to three years of probation.

Well, at least he waited until his probation time was served before he went nutzo.

The bottom line is that regardless of whether you agree with Ms. Geller or not, she, nor none of her acolytes, deserved to be shot for their opinions. But, it has been my personal experience that radical, not just extremist, Muslims don’t tolerate criticism well. You can search our archives here and find examples of Muslims physically attacking folks who don’t see things the same way. I’m guessing that it’s because their political and religious beliefs don’t survive scrutiny very well.

By the way, it was one Garland traffic cop who dealt justice to the two gun men yesterday. At least he didn’t hesitate and contemplate how shooting Simpson and his room mate would look in the media while they increased the body count.

According to the Washington Times, Secretary of State John Kerry from the safety of Sri Lanka, told reporters that Yemen isn’t a failed state, you know, even though the Democratically elected president and his cabinet are hiding out in Saudi Arabia, with more than 1200 dead and another nearly 6000 casualties, border clashes between the Saudis and Houthis;

Kerry says the U.S. is working with the United Nations, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to start peace negotiations between Yemen’s government and the Shiite rebels who’ve conquered much of the country.

Kerry says if that happens, Yemen “has the opportunity to hold itself together.”

He says Yemen faces fuel, food and medicine shortages.

So, other than the fact that there’s no central government, there’s no food, no fuel and the Saudis are bombing the country day and night…other than those things, it’s a pretty successful country. Remember it was just a few months ago that the Obama Administration was holding Yemen up as their shining example of how to fight terrorism. I’m sure that the Houthis are amenable to a discussion and arriving at a mutually-beneficial agreement. When they’re not beheading the negotiating team.

According to Fox News, two gunmen opened fire on a security guard at the Curtis Culwell Center near Dallas where Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative was holding a contest for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. One security guard, Bruce Joiner, was wounded. Both gunmen were shot dead.

The statement did not say whether the shooting was related to the event, a contest hosted by the New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Authorities said they were worried that the suspects’ car could contain an incendiary device. Several nearby businesses were evacuated as a precaution and a bomb squad was on the scene early Monday. Police had cordoned off a large area and at least three helicopters circled overhead.

There’s no official word on whether the shooting incident was related to the event, however, the Fox News Channel reports that ISIS has claimed credit for attack.

Of course, no one should be surprised that this happened given the number of potential terrorists in this country, and how easily outraged they seem to be. Personally, I’m on the side of the Constitution, and folks have the right to say and do anything that they want to do.

It’s interesting to me that the people who are alright with folks walking on the flag to express their opinions, think that Pam Geller and her crowd don’t have a justification to intentionally anger Muslims by sticking their finger in the collective eye of the Muslim community. But I don’t see any patriotic Americans gunning down the people who disrespect the American flag.

According to CNN, Iran’s naval forces have fired upon and seized the M/V Maersk Tigris, a Marshall Islands flagged vessel while it was transiting the Straits of Hormuz. Apparently Iran charges that the ship violated it’s territorial waters;

“The master was contacted and directed to proceed further into Iranian territorial waters. He declined and one of the IRGCN craft fired shots across the bridge of the Maersk Tigris,” said Warren. “The master complied with the Iranian demand and proceeded into Iranian waters IVO Larak Island.”

After the shots were fired, the Tigris issued a distress call which was picked up by U.S. forces in the area and the USS Farragut was ordered to head towards the incident. The closest U.S. warship was 60 miles from the incident.

The report also states that the Republican Guards troops boarded the ship.

CNN says that there are no Americans aboard the ship, but that US aircraft are monitoring the activities.

Fox News says that the President is about to announce that the good news is that we droned Adam Gadahn, the American who went over to the Taliban and al Qaeda back in 2004. The bad news is that we also droned Warren Weinstein, a hostage being held by the Taliban since 2011.

According to Fox, the pentagon says that neither the terrorist nor the hostage were supposed to be in the kill zone of the drone attack.

Apparently, this happened back in January.