Too bad. Rather had talks with CNN, ABC, and NBC in 2006 about possible employment after his departure from CBS, but they refused to hire him because he brought “too much baggage.”
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Newsbusters
So he’s suing CBS for the forged document scandal that put him in this position? I haven’t read the court docs, but it might be good for a laugh.
The fact is, he DOES have an ongoing lawsuit against CBS.
I couldn’t find a satisfactory commie picture of the IVAW alone, so this one will have to do. From The Two Malcontents.
The marxist IVAW plan is to bring their dog and pony show before the House Progressive Caucus, since their original efforts in Maryland didn’t go over so well. The next phase is to go over and sing to the choir in Washington; their dutiful fellow pink-o comrades in the Progressive Caucus. (Rep. Dennis Kucinich, co-chairman)
Take a look at the organizations that support the Congressional Progressive Caucus (Circus). It should give you an idea of the 70 or so Congressional members of this caucus(circus) and how they spend their time:
“An array of national progressive organizations will work to support the efforts of the caucus, including the Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation magazine, MoveOn.org, National Priorities Project, Jobs with Justice, Peace Action, Americans for Democratic Action, and Progressive Democrats of America. Also co-sponsoring the kickoff event were the NAACP, ACLU, Progressive Majority, League of United Latin American Citizens, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, National Council of La Raza, Hip Hop Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, and the National Hip Hop Political Convention. The CPC has long maintained cordial ties with the Democratic Socialists of America, which hosted its website during the 1990s.”
Until 1999 the Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations’ websites. -Discover the Networks
The eyes and ears of thousands will be inspecting closely every word spoken by IVAW testifiers since, according to IVAW press release, the Congressional testimony is billed as being under “oath”. A few calls for “proof” (date, time, place, witnesses, leadership, and unit involved) would be appropriate…generalities may be satisfying to a gullible media or politically correct congress, but when our warriors and nation’s policies are potentially defamed and distorted, only facts and credible evidence will be acceptable.
There was nothing of substance reported at the WSII National Labor College event so we can expect the IVAW tilted crystal ball to fabricate additional fantasy, if this appearance actually occurs.
Information as to where and when of the testimony is listed below in a IVAW press release.
Media Advisory: May 5, 2008
Contact: Francesca Lo Basso, 215-498-3347, media@ivaw.org
Winter Soldier on the Hill: Iraq Veterans to Testify Before Congress on Failure of Troop Surge
WHAT: Winter Soldier on the Hill
WHO: Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) & The Congressional Progressive Caucus
WHEN: May 15, 2008, 9:30am-12:30pm
WHERE: 2261 Rayburn House Office Building
WHY: To present eyewitness accounts of the Iraq occupation to Congress.
Washington, DC - On May 15, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will testify under oath before Congress about their eyewitness accounts of the military occupation of Iraq. Testifiers will include veterans who served during the surge.
This testimony represents a shift from reports to Congress from high-level commanders and political appointees to direct accounts from boots-on-the-ground soldiers and Marines about the situation in Iraq. Testifiers will detail the ineffectiveness of the “troop surge,” the dehumanization, abuse and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians, and the breakdown of the military as a result of the ongoing occupation of Iraq.
Testifiers will include Luis Montalvan, who served two tours in Iraq as an Army Captain; Jason Washburn, a US Marine Corps Infantry Rifleman who served three tours in Iraq; and Kristofer Goldsmith, who served in the Army as an Artillery Forward Observer in Sadr City, Iraq.
“The time has come for Congress to hear about the occupation from the soldiers and Marines who have seen it first-hand. Petraeus continues to repeat the administration’s talking points while ignoring what the soldiers on the ground know: the Iraq occupation is not working,” said Kelly Dougherty, a former Military Police Sergeant in Iraq and Executive Director of IVAW.
Winter Soldier on the Hill is a continuation of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (WSIA), held at the National Labor College from March 13-16, 2008. Named after Thomas Paine’s reference to soldiers who stand up for their country in its darkest hours, WSIA gathered over 250 members of IVAW and collected over 30 hours of testimony regarding the negative impact of the Iraq occupation on the military - including an overburdened Veterans’ Administration, demoralized service members and a crumbling military infrastructure.
Iraq Veterans Against the War was founded in 2004 to give those who have served in the military since September 11, 2001 a way to come together and speak out against an unjust, illegal and unwinnable occupation. Today, IVAW has over 1,000 members in 43 states, Washington, D.C. and Canada and on military bases overseas.
From Colonel Riley (USA, Ret) through email.
More at the Sniper here and here, here
GOE has created another petition (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ivawtruthintestimony/) asking the CPC to verifiy any info that the IVAW brings to them. This petition reads about the same as the petition that was circulated for the Senate Armed Services Committee. The CPC is more of an ad-hoc group than any sort of official committee, but since we’ve been out in front of IVAW on this, we should probably stay there.
Please circulate this petition among your mailing lists.
Although all things considered, I’m not sure how much good it will do beyond show them that we’re watching every move they make.
Black & White On the Grey Matters 3 (Gay marriage / abortion
This guy is kind of funny, but don’t watch if you’re offended by extreme language. If you can get past that, he has some good points.
From see-dubya over at Michelle Malkin’s.
Interview With Carol Platt Liebau About Her Book, Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) at Rightwing News.
Reading the headlines and looking at the news lately makes me wonder just what the heck is going on out there.
First, it was the man carrying the baby story…the “man”, is pregnant! But as it turns out, “he” is really a woman who elected to become a man so she could legally be declared a man, even though her DNA says she’s a woman and she kept her female reproductive organs. She had a mastectomy, but she still has her reproductive organs, so it appears to me that no matter what gender you are - if you take the right hormones, enough of the right changes will happen so that you could be passed off as someone of the opposite gender. It’s all confusing to me.
And I’m sure it will be very confusing to the child, which apparently is a girl. Why does daddy look like me? Why is it that society is trying so hard to redefine what is normal and force is all to accept it?
And around the same time, was the polygamist rogue Mormon group that was raided by the government, where they took into custody over 400 children-mostly girls. On that story I have to wonder why the perps are left to run around loose, and why the government thinks that taking the children is a good idea. I just read that rangers talked to the guy who supposedly knocked up the girl who started this whole thing off with allegations of abuse. And they didn’t arrest him.
If this group was or are matching girls up with old men when the girls are of childbearing age (like 13), why isn’t something done about it? Why are the girls taken into custody and having their lives disrupted? Why aren’t the men arrested for child rape?
Why are the courts making decisions that should be left to the families? If polygamy is illegal, why not stop it?
This time, Canadians are the recipients, but this stuff goes on all the time; leftists love the courts, and they love activist judges. They love crippling someone with the charges it would cost someone to defend themselves, especially if the charges are specious. In Canada, they love the Human Rights Commission, because that entity can throw political correctness around and make a bigger impact with it than the courts can - because the HRC promotes someone’s right not to be offended over the rule of law in a regular court situation.
Levant has written about this Richard Warman character previously. Warman is a former Human Rights Commission investigator, who learned while he was working for the HRC, that he could use section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act to his advantage, and that it could be quite profitable. I found it rather shocking that he- practically all by himself-has kept the HRC going with a full case load of ‘offenses’ to investigate.
Now, after Levant succeeded in battling the HRC from Syed Soharwardy’s stoopid Motoons HRC complaint, Levant finds himself with a different battle on his hands: A handful of Canadian Conservatives, Levant included, are named defendants in a new lawsuit brought on by Richard Warman.
Warman’s not just suing me. He’s suing some of the biggest names in the Canadian blogosphere – from Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals to Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury (or, Five Feet of Furry, as the lawsuit says on page 2), to Free Dominion, the largest conservative chat site in Canada.
Free Dominion is Canada’s equivalent to America’s “Free Republic”.
Warman’s goal is breathtaking in its chutzpah: he wants to muzzle the Canadian conservative Internet. It’s not just his goal – it’s the goal of the CHRC itself, and its friends at the Canadian Jewish Congress, who have stated their goal is to “tame” the Internet – or at least those voices they disagree with. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the CJC was bankrolling Warman’s lawsuit – they’ve done joint legal work together before, and Warman’s number one defender is on the CJC’s legal committee. The CJC hates conservatives, and this would be a way for them to do damage to the conservative blogosphere without taking the political flak for it.
Take a look at the language Warman’s lawsuit uses to smear Free Dominion. At paragraph 17, Warman calls them an “extreme right-wing discussion forum”. Look at that language – hardly distinguishable from the CHRC’s and CJC’s boilerplate insults reserved for neo-Nazis. That’s what this lawsuit is about: an attempt by the CHRC’s biggest star to try to marginalize Canadian conservatism. And why not? The CHRC has moved from targeting white supremacists to targeting mainstream conservatives like Mark Steyn; the Alberta HRC has already gagged Christian pastors and taken a run at Calgary’s bishop, and two years ago they charged me with publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Surely attempting to criminalize conservatism is just the next, natural step for these congenital censors.
Look for the “donate” buttons at Ezra Levant’s, Connie Wilkins and Mark Fournier’s, Kathy Shaidle’s and Kate McMillan’s blogs. Pitch in what you can.
It will cost them about $30 grand a piece to defend themselves.
The Top Nine Little Known Facts About Richard Warman
This is rather frightening when you think about the ages of kids in the third grade.
All the interviews that I’ve heard of talk about what the courts are going to do to discipline these kids - and say nothing about the parents.
Are our kids now wards of the state, and is the state now trying to render parents’ decisions irrelevant?
That’s what it seems like when you consider that ruling in California that stated that home schooling is ‘unconstitutional’.
We are so hopelessly dependent on government that here in Illinois they’re talking about passing legislation to make it illegal to text message someone while walking across the street. Nevermind that if you’re that stupid and get hit by a bus, you deserve it. How in the heck would government protect someone from his own stupidity by passing a law? It’s the same thing as legislating people to wear a seatbelt or to strap their kid in a carseat, or to keep people from smoking.
Yes, unbelievably, she was fired from the Nixon impeachment staff for unethical practices.
Parts One, Two and Three are up at Sweetness and Light with Gilbert’s usual snarky comments following the articles.
I’ve been laying off Hillary in favor of talking about Obama because of what Obama has in common with meatbrain.
But Hillary isn’t completely off my radar:
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Patterns of behavior are difficult to conceal after a while, I guess…
Youtube is completely set up to protect liberal interests.
The Jawa Report has another jihadist video and a call to flag it for inappropriate content.
But when I go to do that,
It gives the typical liberal disclaimer about ‘hatespeech’.
Per our Community Guidelines, we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a protected group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity). Please indicate the group attacked.
And look at the sacrosanct ‘victim groups’ it calls out as protected:
age
color
disability
ethnic origin
gender identity
national origin
race
religion
sex
sexual orientation
veteran status
And so…I think that about covers them all…including fake veterans-and on top of it all, enables the jihadists. There is nothing there about protecting the public from jihadist propaganda….or their hateful ‘kill the infidel’ ‘kill the kaffirs’ and ‘kill Israel’ and ‘drive Israel into the sea’ type stuff.
Youtube is flooded with videos like these, and there seems to be nothing we can do about it.
On what grounds would we complain?
We’re not part of a ‘protected group’ that I know of…
Yet the fact that it isn’t practiced anymore doesn’t prevent leftists from wailing about it incessantly.
If Senate Democrats thought Attorney General Michael Mukasey was someone they could push around to score political points, yesterday they discovered their error. The new AG stood his ground on the legal war on terror, despite five hours of grandstanding over an interrogation technique that the CIA doesn’t even practice anymore.
What a waste of taxpayer money!
Mr. Mukasey was true to his promise during confirmation hearings to investigate the legality of government interrogation practices. And so yesterday he certified that all techniques currently in use are legal. However, in a letter to the Senate, he added that, “I do not believe it is advisable to address difficult legal questions . . . in the absence of concrete facts and circumstances.”
This displeased some of the Senators, who accused him of dodging the waterboarding issue. But Mr. Mukasey is right to avoid hypothetical legal judgments over something that is no longer practiced. The former judge was careful to point out that legality depends on context, and he couldn’t judge the actions of others in 2002 without knowing the circumstances.
You can’t ‘dodge’ an issue if it doesn’t exist anymore. Only three people were ever waterboarded, anyway. It was never even a common practice, as leftists seem to want to believe.
The most effective use of waterboarding, according to current and former CIA officials, was in breaking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as KSM, who subsequently confessed to a number of ongoing plots against the United States.
A senior CIA official said KSM later admitted it was only because of the waterboarding that he talked.
Ultimately, KSM took responsibility for the 9/ll attacks and virtually all other al Qaeda terror strikes, including the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
“KSM lasted the longest under waterboarding, about a minute and a half, but once he broke, it never had to be used again,” said a former CIA official familiar with KSM’s case.
The techniques for interrogation that are now left available to CIA interrogators are “longtime standing,” which includes exhaustion and sleep deprivation with prisoners forced to stand handcuffed, with their feet shackled to the floor.
CIA officers subjected themselves to the waterboarding technique and lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.
This is yet another pathetic example of how hateful leftists are circumventing any available method to pursue the enemy and prevent another terrorist attack on American soil.
The political left has made “waterboarding” a proxy for the ‘torture-of-enemy-combatants© claim -of course, done by the evil BushRovianHalliburtonconspiracyTM, which the Demonrats seem to think is a winning political issue for them. Prodding Mukasey to declare he’s concluded ‘waterboarding’ is “illegal” would prompt Democrats to flog the Bush administration from now until the election in November with ‘even Attorney General Mike Mukasey says it’s illegal!”
What a disappointment this must be for them.
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I found this really amazing. Particularly the practice routine which involves something like 1500 CPDRC inmates.
I think the communist anti-war people should do a routine like this when they celebrate ‘wear orange day’ for the Gitmo thugs.
One thing this seems to accomplish, though - even though I imagine it’s good for the inmates to raise their self-esteem - is-it tells the world how harmless murderers and rapists are.
They are trying to rehabilitate these people to go back into society. And from what I’ve seen, when a person makes it to the end of the program, he is given a ceremony with a certificate of completion - and stands in front of his village and tells them he’s sorry and is going to be a better person.
You think this would happen to the Gitmo detainees…or rapists and murderers like the ones who killed Jennifer Hartman and Elizabeth Pena?
These are dangerous videos from that viewpoint…the journalists and cameramen are walking among them as though they’re just street performers.
Ezra Levant’s opening statement at the human rights commission, the publisher of the Western Standard which published the Mohammed Cartoons-3 years ago. The Islamists are going after people because ‘they’re offended’. See his posts and narrative to go with each video on this at Ezra Levant dot com.
Meat-for-brains says “Why are you unable to cite any specific inaccuracies in the list of pre-9/11 terrorist acts provided by Wikipedia?”
Who said I’m “unable”???
Here are 100 or so examples of domestic terrorism which are missing from the Wikipedia list that Meatbrain referred to. Citing the missing incidents of domestic terrorism isn’t a problem….it’s just another reason to point and laugh at the endless cluelessness and moonbattery at thinkingmeat.net.
Update: One of the greatest examples is the murder of Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002 by ecoterrorist and animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf, who confessed in court to murdering Fortuyn to stop him from targeting “the weak parts of society to score points” in seeking political power. The funny thing about this crime is that Wikipedia actually has an entry on Pim Fortuyn, but doesn’t include his murder in the list of terrorist attacks.
As muslims against sharia said in comments:
“Alas for Cao, history puts the lie to her clumsy attempt to proselytize for religious bigotry.”
What exactly did she say that qualifies as “religious bigotry”? That Muslims are responsible for most terrorist attacks? That’s not religious bigotry, that’s a fact. Those terrorist attacks qualify as religious bigotry or rather self-genocide, because the victims are mostly Muslim.
This just puts the lie to yet another one of meatbrain’s ridiculous claims.
A few articles recently came out that indicated the FBI has finally indicted some ecoterrorists from ALF and ELF. From this one:
A 65-count indictment unsealed yesterday describes the 11 defendants as members of a group that claimed affiliation with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front, two loose-knit movements the government describes as eco-terrorists. The government accuses the group of committing 17 attacks across five states, causing millions of dollars in damage to property.
But I’m sure these are a number of heroes that meatbrain would be cheering on and defending.
The 11 defendants named yesterday are accused of a series of assaults on a broad range of businesses and facilities from 1994 to 2001, including forest ranger stations, meat-packing plants, lumber companies, holding pens for wild horses, and a high-tension power line tower. Several are also charged with starting a 1998 fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo., that caused $12 million in damage.
Also, from this link:
Since 1996, numerous crimes in 14 states, totalling over $100 million in damage nationwide; see map, which is from Maxim Magazine’s 2004 article (Denson 2004)
Add to those 4-these 12 incidents which are also missing from the Wikipedia entry:
1991 ALF raid, causing $100,000 in damages to the U.S. Department of Agriculture offices at Washington State University.
1991-December-Billingsgate Fish market in Edmonton, Canada-4 large fish delivery trucks were spray painted with slogans, tires slashed and incendiary devices left on their front seats. Three of the incendiaries ignited causing approx.. $75,000 damage. (Source: No Compromise: Interview with Darren Thurston)
1992-January-Another ALF incident occurred, also at Billingsgate Fish Company, when their store and three replacement rental trucks were spray painted with slogans and tires slashed. (Source: No Compromise: Interview with Darren Thurston)
1992-Attack on a research lab at the University of Alberta, “freeing” 29 cats.
1997 - July - Arson fire that burned down a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Oregon. ALF claimed responsibility for that fire, which caused an estimated $1 million in damage. According to an FBI affidavit, an informant told investigators that five-gallon plastic buckets filled with a mix of gasoline, diesel oil and soap were used to ignite the fire, using an electronic timer. This type of incendiary device is a signature of ELF and ALF fires.
1998-June-$1.2 million arson at a U.S. Department of Agriculture Building in Olympia, Washington.
1998 -December - fire at U.S. Forest Industries in Medford, Oregon, which caused an estimated $500,000 in damage.
1999 fire at Childers Meat Company in Eugene that caused over $1 million in damage.
1999-December-they knocked down an 80-foot transmission tower outside Bend, Oregon.
2001-May- fire at the Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie, Oregon.
2001 -Arson fire at the Litchfield, Calif., U.S. Bureau of Land Management wild horse corrals.
2001 -January-firebombing of lumber mill in Glendale, Oregon, which caused over $1 million in damage. ELF claimed responsibility for that fire.
And there are about 100 or so more:
MAY 1984
Philadelphia, Pa.
An ALF raid at the University of Pennsylvania Head Injury Lab caused $60,000 in damage.
DEC. 9, 1984
Duarte, Calif.
The ALF raided the City of Hope National Medical Center, causing $400,000 in damage.
APRIL 1, 1985
Riverside, Calif.
The ALF raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, causing $700,000 in damage. About 500 animals were released.
OCT. 26, 1986
Eugene, Ore.
The ALF claimed an attack on a University of Oregon laboratory that did nearly $120,000 in damage.
APRIL 15, 1987
Davis, Calif.
An ALF arson attack at the University of California, Davis, Animal Diagnostics Laboratory destroyed a building and 20 vehicles, causing $5.1 million in damage.
SEPT. 1, 1987
Santa Clara, Calif.
The Animal Rights Militia, part of the ALF, claimed an arson fire at the San Jose Valley Veal & Beef Company that caused $10,000 in damage.
NOV. 28, 1987
Santa Clara, Calif.
The words “ALF” and “murderers” were sprayed on walls at the V. Melani poultry distribution company, where a fire caused $200,000 in damage.
APRIL 2, 1989
Tucson, Ariz.
The ALF set fires in a laboratory at a Veterans Administration hospital at the University of Arizona that caused $500,000 in damage.
APRIL 15, 1989
Monterey, Calif.
The ALF set timed incendiary devices at a meat company, where an apparently unexpected early morning crew smelled smoke and managed to flee to safety.
JULY 4, 1989
Lubbock, Texas
The ALF destroyed records and smashed computers and other equipment during a laboratory raid at Texas Tech University, causing $700,000 in damage.
JUNE 10, 1991
Corvallis, Ore.
ALF member Rod Coronado and others broke into the Oregon State University’s experimental mink farm and set timed incendiary devices that caused $62,000 in damage.
DEC. 15, 1991
Yamhill, Ore.
Rod Coronado set fire to a Hynek Malecky facility where mink pelts are dried, causing $96,000 in damage.
FEB. 28, 1992
East Lansing, Mich.
Rod Coronado and other ALF members set a $1.2 million fire at Michigan State University’s mink research facility. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) donated $42,000 toward Coronado’s defense, but he was imprisoned anyway and not released until 2001.
JAN. 1995
Henrietta, N.Y.
The ALF set two trucks on fire at the Conti Packing Co.
APRIL 14, 1995
Syracuse, N.Y.
The ALF ignited an incendiary device at Oneata Beef Company, causing $6,000 in damage.
JUNE 15, 1995
Murray, Utah
The ALF torched Tandy Leather, causing $300,000 in damage.
DEC. 24, 1995
Eugene, Ore.
The ALF planted incendiary devices under three Dutch Girl Ice Cream trucks, causing $15,600 in damage.
APRIL 2, 1996
Salt Lake City, Utah
The ALF burned an Egg Products store to the ground and damaged two of the firm’s trucks, causing over $100,000 in damage.
October 28, 1996.
Detroit, OR, USA
A U.S. Forest Service pickup is torched on the parking lot of the Detroit Ranger District headquarters. The building is spraypainted with “Earth Liberation Front” and anti-logging slogans. A incendiary device consisting of plastic jug is later found on the roof. It did not go off. Damages: $15,000 - Earth Liberation Front
October 17, 1996.
Cottage Grove, OR, USA
McDonald’s locks glued and slogans painted. - Earth Liberation Front
October 17, 1996.
Exit 104 on I-5, OR, USA
McDonald’s locks glued and slogans painted. - Earth Liberation Front
October 16, 1996.
Grants Pass, OR, USA
McDonald’s locks glued and spray-painted in support of the McLibel Two. - Earth Liberation Front
October 14, 1996.
Eugene, OR, USA
26th and Williamette Chevron Gas Station locks glued and painted with the slogan “504 years of genocide”. - Earth Liberation Front
October 14, 1996.
Eugene, OR, USA
The IZ and Pearl public relations office of Weyerhauser and Hyundai locks glued, spray-painted with “504 years of Genocide” and “Fuck Corporations”. - Earth Liberation Front
October 14, 1996.
Eugene, OR, USA
Hwy. 99 and Garfield McDonald’s locks glued and spray painted. - Earth Liberation Front
OCT. 27, 1996
Detroit, Ore.
The ELF and the ALF jointly torched a U.S. Forest Service truck.
OCT. 30, 1996
Eugene, Ore.
The ALF and the ELF burned the U.S. Forest Service Oakridge Ranger Station, causing $5.3 million in damage.
NOV. 12, 1996
Bloomington, Minn.
A firebomb claimed by the ALF was thrown through a window at the Alaskan Fur Company, causing over $2 million in damage.
FEB. 15, 1997
Troy, Mich.
The ALF left butyric acid, a foul-smelling chemical, in a McDonald’s and spray-painted “McShit, McMurder, McDeath” on the restaurant’s bathroom walls.
MARCH 11, 1997
Sandy, Utah
A series of firebombs claimed jointly by the ALF and the ELF destroyed four trucks and leveled the offices of the Agricultural Fur Breeders Co-Op, causing about $1 million in damage.
MARCH 18, 1997
Davis, Calif.
The “Bay Area Cell of the Earth X ALF” took credit for setting fire to the University of California, Davis, Center for Comparative Medicine facility, which was still under construction.
MARCH 18, 1997
Ogden, Utah
Montgomery Furs, a trapping supply store, was torched by the ALF while a night watchman was inside. The watchman escaped unhurt.
March 14, 1997. Mackenzie River watershed, OR, USA
Tree spiking at Robinson-Scott timber harvest site in the Mackenzie River watershed, Willamette National Forest. Joint ALF / ELF claim.
APRIL 19, 1997
Indianapolis, Ind.
The ALF torched an Archer’s Meats truck cab.
JULY 21, 1997
Redmond, Ore.
The ALF and ELF used napalm — which they referred to as “vegan Jell-O” — to destroy the Cavel West horse slaughtering plant.
AUG. 16, 1997
West Jordan, Utah
Four ALF activists burned a McDonald’s restaurant to the ground, causing $400,000 in damage.
AUG. 17, 1997
Morton Grove, Ill.
The ALF threw two Molotov cocktails through a Cosmo’s Furs window.
AUG. 19, 1997
Fort Collins, Colo.
The ALF claimed an arson attack on Wildlife Pharmaceuticals.
AUG. 26, 1997
Howell, N.J.
The ALF torched several Jersey Cuts Meat Co. trucks, destroying three that were valued at $60,000 each.
FEB. 28, 1998
Indianapolis, Ind.
The Outdoorsman Sport Shop had its windows broken and was set on fire. ALF slogans were spray-painted at the shop.
MAY 4, 1998
Wimauma, Fla.
The ALF claimed credit for burning down Florida Veal Processors Inc., causing $500,000 in damage.
JUNE 28, 1998
Olympia, Wash.
The ALF and ELF claimed responsibility for an arson at a U.S. Department of Agriculture Damage Control building.
JULY 16, 1998
Paramus, N.J.
The ALF claimed the destruction of a Steven Corn Furs truck.
OCT. 18, 1998
Vail, Colo.
The ELF burned down the Vail Associates ski facility, destroying seven structures valued at more than $12 million.
NOV. 16, 1998
Manalapan, N.J.
A van owned by the Leather and Fur Ranch was firebombed by the ALF.
NOV. 29, 1998
Burns, Ore.
The ALF and the ELF claimed joint responsibility for an arson at the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse Corrals.
DEC. 26, 1998
Medford, Ore.
The ELF claimed the $500,000 arson of a U.S. Forest Industries facility.
FEB. 18, 1999
Chicago, Ill.
Unidentified PETA activists were credited for throwing two pies at Procter & Gamble executive John Pepper to protest the company’s animal testing.
MARCH 5, 1999
Eugene, Ore.
The “Biotic Baking Brigade” took credit for throwing a banana cream pie in Sierra Club staffer Charlie Raine’s face to protest the Club’s support of land exchanges between the government and timber companies.
MARCH 11, 1999
Hampton, N.H.
Three Biotic Baking Brigade activists threw pies at University of Wisconsin geneticist Neil First, who was speaking at the University of New Hampshire, to protest genetic engineering at UW. David Pike and Renee Medford were charged with assault.
MARCH 27, 1999
Franklin, N.J.
The ALF firebombed six Big Apple Circus vehicles, destroying two trucks.
APRIL 5, 1999
Minneapolis, Minn.
Laboratories at the University of Minnesota were vandalized and dozens of research animals stolen by the ALF, wrecking research into Alzheimer’s and cancer.
MAY 9, 1999
Eugene, Ore.
ALF set a fire that destroyed a two-story office building, a shipping dock and a refrigeration unit at Childer’s Meat Co., wreaking about $150,000 in damage.
MAY 10, 1999
Neah Bay, Wash.
Sea Defense Alliance activists Jake Conroy and Josh Harper (who would later work for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) were charged with felony assault after allegedly throwing ignited smoke canisters at a Makah tribe’s whaling support vessel and firing a lighted flare across its bow.
JUNE 25, 1999
Miami, Fla.
The ALF claimed the firebombing of a Worldwide Primates truck.
AUG. 7, 1999
Escanaba, Mich.
ELF arsonists torched two fishing boats at the home of veterinarian James Boydston and spray-painted his garage door with “FUR IS MURDER, ELF.”
AUG. 9, 1999
Plymouth, Wis.
Mink feed supplier United Feeds was burned down by ALF at about the same time as an ALF raid and mink release at Gene Myer’s Fur Farm, also in the Plymouth area.
AUG. 29, 1999
Orange, Calif.
The ALF claimed an attack on a Bio-Devices Inc., research laboratory that resulted in $250,000 damage and the theft of 46 dogs.
AUG. 31, 1999
Fulton County, Ga.
The ALF burned down a McDonald’s restaurant. PETA’s Bruce Friedrich announced the crime on AR-News, an online animal rights news service.
SEPT. 23, 1999
Phippsburg, Mass.
The ALF claimed a failed arson at the Phippsburg Sportsmen’s Association, where activists turned over coffee pots, left plastic cups on the burners, and turned on a gas line.
OCT. 1999
Various cities
An ALF faction known as the Justice Department took credit for sending over 80 razor blade-laced envelopes, each containing a threatening letter with a picture of a bomb on it, to animal researchers, hunting guides and others in the United States and Canada. An ALF communiqué said some of the razor blades, which were positioned so as to slice open the fingers of anyone opening the envelopes, were coated in rat poison.
OCT. 22, 1999
Warwick, R.I.
The ALF claimed the torching of four Harris Furs vehicles.
NOV. 1, 1999
Seattle, Wash.
Four gasoline bombs were thrown into a Gap clothing store in an attack the FBI attributed to the ALF.
DEC. 4, 1999
Las Vegas, Nev.
PETA activist Dawn Carr hit rodeo showgirl Brandy DeJongh in the face with a pie moments after DeJongh was awarded the Miss Rodeo America 2000 crown.
DEC. 25, 1999
Monmouth, Ore.
The ELF claimed responsibility for burning down logging firm Boise Cascade’s regional headquarters.
DEC. 31, 1999
Lansing, Mich.
The ELF used accelerants to destroy $400,000 worth of property at Michigan State University in an action targeting Monsanto’s genetically engineered products. The blaze was discovered by a faculty member working late inside the facility.
January 23, 2000.
Bloomington, IN, USA
A fire destroyed a house at the Sterling Woods Development in the Bloomington area with estimated damage of $200,000. The ELF communique stated, “The house was targeted because the sprawling development it is located in is in the Lake Monroe Watershed. This is the drinking water supply for the town of Bloomington, Indiana and the surrounding area. It is already being jeopardized by existing development and roads.”
JAN. 3, 2000
Petaluma, Calif.
The ALF set fire to buildings and trucks at Rancho Veal’s meatpacking plant, causing $250,000 in damage.
JAN. 15, 2000
Petaluma, Calif.
The ALF claimed credit for placing five incendiary devices in offices and trucks at a Petaluma Farms chicken farm (which “enslaves chickens for their eggs”). Two trucks were destroyed.
JAN. 23, 2000
Bloomington, Ind.
The ELF claimed credit for torching a house under construction, causing some $200,000 in damage. “No Sprawl, ELF” was painted at the site.
JAN. 24, 2000
Redwood City, Calif.
The ALF claimed credit for attempting to burn down Primate Products, a medical research facility.
February 9, 2000.
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
ELF Crop Destruction, $1000+ damages.
March 24, 2000.
Highway 55 reroute, Mineapolis, MN, USA
Extensive damage doen to construction equipment $500,000 in damages.
April 22, 2000.
Richfield, MN, USA
Earth Night action at road construction site, a bulldozer front window wall smashed out and tire slashed, a truck windshield and window smashed, smaller vehicle and an equipment trailer have tires slashed.
April 30, 2000.
Ind. 46 construction, Bloomington, IN, USA
At least six pieces of logging and heavy construction equipment are sabotaged and a trailer full of wood chips is set ablaze at a road construction site just outside the city. $75,000+ damages.
MAY 30, 2000
Washington, D.C.
PETA activist Arathi Jayaram was charged with assault after throwing a pie at U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman at the National Nutrition Summit.
June 29, 2000.
Bloomington, IN, USA
Crooked Creek Road timber sales had tree spiked.
JULY 2, 2000
North Vernon, Ind.
The ALF took credit for burning a Rose Acre Farm chicken feed truck, causing $100,000 in damage. “Polluter, animal exploiter, your turn to pay,” was spray-painted at the scene.
July 21, 2000.
Rhinelander, WI, USA
U.S. Forest Service - Forest Biotechnology Laboratory, the ELF cut down thousands of experimental trees, mostly poplars, andspray-paint vehicles. The Earth Liberation Front claims the attack was against bioengineering. $1 million damages in crop destruction & vandalism
JULY 30, 2000
San Francisco, Calif.
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade activist Bhaskar Sinha was charged with battery after threatening rock star Ted Nugent outside a Neiman Marcus department store.
SEPT. 9, 2000
Bloomington, Ind.
In an attack aimed at a highway project, the ELF claimed a minor fire at the Monroe County Republican Party headquarters that was meant as “a reminder to politicians.”
October 18, 2000.
Martin County State Forest in Indianna, USA
Logging equipment (Three skidders and a loader) had hoses cut, slash seats, destroy gauges and pour sand in the engines, fuel tanks and radiators. They leave spray-painted graffiti including, “Earth Raper,” “Go Cut in Hell,” and “ELF.” $55,000 damages.
November 11, 2000.
Coram, Long Island, NY, USA
The ELF visited a housing construction site. The newly built houses had their windows smashed and slogans spraypainted. The ELF stated they carried out their action to appose urban sprawl.
NOV. 27, 2000
Boulder, Colo.
The ELF claimed responsibility for torching a $2.5 million Legend Ridge mansion.
December 1, 2000.
Middle Island, Long Island, NY, USA
The ELF visited another housing construction site, monkey wrenching 12 vehicles and smashing over 200 windows of new houses. The ELF claim this action was to set a precedent that Long Island’s unique Pine Barren ecosystem wil not vanish without a fight.
December 9, 2000.
Middle Island, Long Island, NY, USA
Fire erupts in a condominium under construction. The Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility, saying the homes were “future dens of the wealthy elite.” The group, announcing “an unbounded war on urban sprawl,” claims it checked for occupants - human and animal - in 16 condos before setting incendiaries in them. $200,000+ damages.
DEC. 19, 2000
Miller Place, N.Y.
The ELF claimed credit for burning down a home under construction.
DEC. 29, 2000
Mount Sinai, N.Y.
The ELF took credit for burning down four new homes at Island Estates. Teenagers Jared McIntyre, Matthew Rammelkamp and George Mashkow III pleaded guilty to charges connected to the attack. Fellow teen Connor Cash was later indicted for arson, arson conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.
JAN. 1, 2001
Glendale, Ore.
The ELF torched the Superior Lumber Co., causing $400,00 in damage. “This year,” the ELF said, “we hope to see an escalation in tactics against capitalism.”
JAN. 23, 2001
Capitola, Calif.
Peter Schnell and Matthew Whyte, both of the Animal Defense League, were found behind the Capitola City Hall with plastic milk bottles, gasoline and candles. After five containers of gasoline were found in Whyte’s car, Schnell told police he was working on a “craft project.” Authorities ultimately would sentence Schnell to 24 months and Whyte to 14 months in prison for attempted arson.
FEB. 20, 2001
Visalia, Calif.
The ELF claimed a fire at a research cotton gin owned by Delta & Pine Land, a firm accused of ties to Monsanto’s genetically engineered seed program.
MARCH 2, 2001
Douglas County, Ore.
The ELF claimed responsibility for spiking trees at the Umpqua National Forest to prevent a timber sale.
MARCH 30, 2001
Eugene, Ore.
Thirty SUVs at Joe Romania’s car dealership were torched, causing about $1 million in damage. The ELF said the attack was in support of Jeff “Free” Luers, who was serving a 23-year prison sentence, in part for torching cars at the same dealership.
APRIL 5, 2001
Arlington, Wash.
The ALF set fire to a National Food Corp. egg farm, causing $1.5 million in damage.
APRIL 15, 2001
Portland, Ore.
The ELF claimed an arson attack, using time-delayed fuses, that caused $210,000 in damage to cement trucks at Ross Island Sand & Gravel.
MAY 21, 2001
Seattle, Wash.
The ALF set fire to the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture, causing $5.6 million in damage and wrecking years of research on genetically altered poplar trees and similar projects.
JUNE 1, 2001
Estacada, Ore.
One logging truck was destroyed and two more damaged during an arson attack on Schoppert Logging trucks.
JUNE 12, 2001
Tucson, Ariz.
Four under-construction luxury homes were set afire and “CSP,” for Coalition to Save the Preserves, was found spray-painted at the site.
JUNE 14, 2001
New York, N.Y.
PETA activists aiming for fur designer Karl Lagerfeld missed and hit designer Calvin Klein with a tofu cream pie. Six members were charged with disorderly conduct and attempted assault.
JULY 2001
Cowlitz County, Wash. The ELF claimed responsibility for spiking hundreds of trees slated for a timber sale in the Cowlitz Valley.
JULY 4, 2001
Detroit, Mich.
The ELF torched an executive office of logging giant Weyerhauser to protest the company’s part in funding Oregon State University and the University of Washington’s poplar and cottonwood genetic engineering research.
JULY 24, 2001
Sands Point, N.Y.
The “Pirates for Animal Liberation” claimed responsibility for unsuccessfully trying to sink a Bank of New York employee’s 21-foot boat.
SEPT. 8, 2001
Tucson, Ariz.
Saying the attack was meant “as a warning to corporations worldwide,” the ALF and ELF claimed joint credit for the $500,000 arson of a McDonald’s restaurant.
SEPT. 20, 2001
Alamogordo, N.M.
The ALF claimed a $1 million arson fire at Coulston Foundation’s White Sands Research Center. Lab owner Dr. Fred Coulston had earlier had a bomb scare at his home and had also received razor blades in the mail.
OCT. 15, 2001
Susanville, Calif.
The ELF planted four firebombs at a Bureau of Land Management corral, burning down an $85,000 barn.
OCT. 24, 2001
Long Island, N.Y.
The “Special Operations: Huntingdon Life Sciences” cell of the ALF attacked Bank of America offices, smashing more than 30 windows and later boasting sarcastically that it had “joined the United States in their [sic] noble War Against Terrorism!”
NOV. 5, 2001
Idaho County, Idaho
The ELF claimed the spiking of trees in the Nez Perce National Forest to prevent a timber sale.
NOV. 5, 2001
Houghton, Mich.
After a series of ELF E-mail threats, suspected ELF activists planted incendiary devices at the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building and a U.S. Forest Service laboratory at Michigan Tech University. Security guards disarmed the devices.
NOV. 11, 2001
San Diego, Calif.
The ALF destroyed a contract animal research lab owned by Sierra Biomedical, causing $50,000 in damage.
JAN. 29, 2002
St. Paul, Minn.
The ELF claimed a $250,000 arson at the University of Minnesota’s Microbial and Plat Genomics Research Center, which was under construction.
JAN. 29, 2002
Fairfield, Maine
The ELF and ALF jointly claimed the sabotage of a biotech plant being built for Jackson Labs, an animal testing business. Sand and mortar mix were used to wreck construction equipment at the site.
Dec. 28, 2002
Philadelphia, Penn. ELF claims vandalism against new housing development in Philadelphia suburb.
Dec. 02,2002
Harborcreek, Penn. ELF & ALF joint claim fire at the Mindek Brothers Fur Farm.
July-Oct, 2002
Richmond, Virginia - The ELF takes numerous actions against SUVS in and around Richmond - causing between $50-100,000 in damages.
Aug. 11, 2002
Irvine, Penn.- The ELF claims attack on the United States Forest Service Northeast Research Station in Irvine, Pennsylvania causing over $700,000 in damages and destroying 70 years worth of research.
MARCH 24, 2002
Erie, Penn.
Saying it was trying to stop a highway project, the ELF spiked trees and torched a $500,000 construction crane at a bridge worksite.
MAY 3, 2002
Bloomington, Ind.
The ALF claimed a fire that destroyed a Sims Poultry truck.
JULY 10, 2002
Seattle, Wash.
Animal rights activists set off smoke bombs in two downtown buildings, sending 700 office workers fleeing into the streets. The targets were firms insuring Huntingdon Life Sciences, a company that does animal testing.
Jan. 29, 2002
St. Paul, Minn. The ELF claimed a $250,000 arson at the University of Minnesota’s Microbial and Plant Genomics Research Center, which was under construction.
News Release & Communique
Jan. 29, 2002
Fairfield, Maine. The ELF and ALF jointly claimed the sabotage of a biotech plant being built for Jackson Labs, an animal testing business. Sand and mortar mix were used to wreck construction equipment at the site.
October 8, 2003
Jemez Mountains, New Mexico Construction equipment belonging to the US Forest Service in the Jemez Mountains (New Mexico) had electrical wires cut, tires cut and windows broken. Officials say both vehicles had the initials “ELF” scratched onto them.
September 23, 2003
Mecosta County, Mich. Earth Liberation Front claims incendiaries left at a pumping station supplying a water bottling plant owned by Nestle Waters North America (formerly known as the Perrier Group of America) in Mecosta County, Michigan. According to news reports, these incendiaries failed to ignite and were removed from the station without incident.
September 19,2003
San Diego, Calif. ELF takes action against urban sprawl in the upscale Carmel Valley neighbourhood of San Diego, torching four houses and causing an estimated $1 million in damages. A banner left at the scene read “Development destruction. Stop raping nature. The ELFs are angry.”
September 05, 2003
Santa Fe, New Mex. ELF takes action against SUV dealer in New Mexico - spraypainting SUVS with messages naming the seven deadly sins. 1/3 of the dealership’s stock was marked, leaving thousands of dollars in damages.
August 22, 2003
West Covina, Calif. ELF takes action at four SUV delearships in Southern California causing an estimated $2.5 Million in damages. In West Covina, California an early morning fire ripped through a GM autodealership, destroying and damaging several SUVS including several Hummer H2s. A warehouse on the site was also destroyed by fire. Messages left at the scene there included “I (heart) Pollution,” “American Wastefullness” and “ELF”.
August 01,2003
San Diego, Calif. In the largest act of environmental sabotage in US history, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claims responsibility for a $50 million fire in San Diego, California, that destroyed an unfinished five-story condominium complex.
June 4, 2003
Macomb County, Mich. ELF sets fire to two luxury homes in a Macomb County housing development in an action against urban sprawl. Damages estimated at $700,000.
June 3,2003
Chico, Calif. Attempted anti-sprawl fire at Sterling Oaks development claimed by ELF.
March 28, 2003
Montgomery, Ala. Vehicles at Navy Recruiting Headquarters in Montgomery attacked. Damages included messages spraypainted on three Navy sedans and two Navy vans. In addition, a large two-panel truck was set on fire. This is the first specifically anti-war action carried out by the ELF in North America.
March 21, 2003 Superior Township, Mich. ELF sets fire to two luxury homes in a Superior Township housing development in an action against urban sprawl. Damages estimated at $400,000.
Jan. 1, 2003
Erie, Penn.ELF torches Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury Dealership causing $90,000 in damages. Specifically targeted were SUVs in the lot.
January, 2004
Fayetteville, Arkasas Hummers in Fayetteville area vandalized over several weeks, tires slashed and vehicles spraypainted with “Glutton” and “ELF”
February 7, 2004
Charlottesville, Virginia Construction equipment at 30-acre development site targeted. One bulldozer set on fire and several other pieces of construction equipment have minor damage (broke windows and cut wires). Banner left at scene reads “YOUR CONSTRUCTION = LONGTERM DESTRUCTION - ELF”
Some of these incidents have been squeezed into the timeline, taken from ELF’s website–Diary of Actions.
It’s been a few days, but after reading this, I thought I’d just throw some thoughts out there.
You’ve all heard about the awful tragedy that happened at the San Francisco zoo when a Siberian tiger jumped from it’s cage area, killing one 17-year old and severely injuring his two friends. The tiger was shot to death by the San Francisco police. Ever since I first heard this story, I smelled something. There is simply no way a tiger in a zoo is going to become so enraged that it will jump over a 12 1/2 foot wall and attack an innocent onlooker without being provoked. As it turns out, that is likely exactly what happened.
The San Francisco zoo was supposedly negligent, according to early news reports, because the boys were assaulted by the tiger, and their cries for help fell on deaf ears. Another thing about it that stunk out loud was the fact that this happened AFTER CLOSING TIME. What in the hell were these guys doing around the tiger’s enclosure at that time?
According to CNN.com, the San Francisco police are looking into apparent evidence which shows the three young men were tormenting the tiger before the attack. The alleged evidence includes everything from an empty vodka bottle in their car to a foot print on the railing which indicates one of the young men were standing on top of the railing, or swinging his leg over it onto the tiger’s side of the wall. Other reports claim the police have found sling shots on the scene as well. All of this paints a terrible picture of three drunk guys who thought it was funny tormenting a caged and presumably defenseless animal until it had enough and started fighting back. The loss of human life is tragic. If that’s where the story stopped, everyone would be sad, and the tiger’s death would be understandable. But, the story continues.
The two surviving men are claiming they never tormented the animal, and they are suing the zoo for negligence in the case. These details put the case into an all together different light. Now, not only are the guys refusing to confess and be remorseful for the role they played in the death of their friend and the tiger, they are lying about their crime and are trying to cash in on the tragedy. In view of these facts, my feelings of sympathy transfer from the victims to the tiger and the thought arises that the San Francisco police officers shot the wrong target. Instead of the tiger, they should have put the other two guys out of society’s misery. If what the evidence seems to show is actually the case, these guys are the worst kind of human waste imaginable.
But it gets better.
Of course, no case of this public magnitude can happen in California without Mark Geragos being involved. The pair have retained Geragos to handle their civil case against the zoo. You may remember Mark Geragos. He is the “high profile” attorney who has handled the cases of Winona Ryder, Nate Dogg, Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. The only bright side of this story is the absolute embarassment Geragos is to the legal profession. Winona Ryder was found guilty of shop lifting over $5000.00 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue and was sentenced to 480 hours of community service. Nate Dogg was found guilty of possessing an unmarked fire arm and was sentenced to 3 years probation. Michael Jackson actually fired Geragos a few days before his case when to trial. Scott Peterson was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. So, the fact that these guys have hired Geragos to handle their case is great news. Who knows, with Geragos’ record, his clients are not only likely to lose their suit, but he might so mishandle things that they will actually be found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. We can only hope:).
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, these boys made a pact not to cooperate with police when they were in the ambulance on the way to the hospital to have their injuries treated.
Apparently these sickos, who were drunk and had been smoking marijuana, were also taking pictures of the aggravated tiger while they were in the midst of tormenting her. Police have the cellphones, but the young men have refused to allow authorities to take a look at the photographs.
Using the argument that the exhibits at the zoo don’t meet certain safety criteria - like the wall isn’t high enough - is simply skirting the notion that these men are responsible for what happened to them after tormenting this tiger.
People and animals have a limit. This is something leftists like meathead, who constantly torment conservatives, are counting on; that somewhere somehow someway, someone is going to crack and respond inappropriately. Then they can cry the victim howl.
And just like these men, deny responsibility, lie about it, and refuse to admit that they did anything wrong, etc. Just like Spocko did with Melanie Morgan! It’s manufactured victimhood!
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After a muslim woman complained.
Sep 28, 2007 Oak Lawn Schools May Cancel Holiday Traditions School District To Discuss Possible Cancellation Or Renaming Of Holiday Celebrations
(CBS) OAK LAWN, Ill. A southwest suburban school district has taken action, responding to the concerns of a parent who is Arabic.
But now, as CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot reports, other parents are angry that traditional school holidays will be renamed or even eliminated.
“That does not represent all the Muslims, all of the Arabs at that school,” said Qais Nofel, the father of a student in Ridgeland School District 122.
There was some heated discussion between parents outside Columbus Manor Elementary School in Oak Lawn on Friday. The thought of no more traditional holiday celebrations has many parents really upset.
I should say so; my kids had “Christmas sings” at school and sang traditional Christmas carols.
Update: This is a misreported misunderstanding. The schoolboard misunderstood the request. She requested that “Ramadan” be added to the holidays, not for Christmas and Halloween be no longer observed. The school board reversed and revised the decision.
The debate, which has raged in the community for weeks, was sparked by a parent, Elizabeth Zahdan, who asked that stars and moons be displayed in schools in honor of Ramadan. She was denied and told that schools couldn’t partake in religious celebrations.
“I want everyone to be equally acknowledged. I never demanded that no one can celebrate. I never said take Christmas away,” Zahdan said at the meeting.
Frontpage Magazine has a great piece on this today, by Andrew Walden.
Islamists in Oakland have been waging a campaign of intimidation and violence to carve out a section of the “progressive” city that conforms to Islamic law — and the far-Left municipal leadership has looked the other way. It appears, however, they have finally gone too far.
Read the rest.
I do have one observation to make, though. Not all choices lead to good outcomes, and this is about the most radical outcome of leftist stupidity I’ve ever seen.
For example: Yusef Bey, who founded Your Black Muslim Bakery and a number of other businesses, died of cancer in 2003. His court hearings on charges of rape, sodomy and lewd acts on children hadn’t come up yet. He had, in fact, impregnated a 13-year old girl and was reputed to having other ‘relations’ with underage girls that resulted in something like 50 out-of-wedlock children.
They claim that they’re about ‘morality’ and ‘clean living’, but these people are more like street gangs…the torture and murders that are described in that piece describe a culture that I’m amazed has survived here. It is no surprise that the Bey’s group was related to the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, now associated by leftists with the ‘civil rights’ movement…when the truth is far from the “reality”-based community that journalists supposedly are a part of…
Previous: the Nation of Islam, Black Panthers and hate crimes
Hopefully you can follow this, I’ve been doing a lot of research and reading on the subject in preparation for a paper I’m going to be writing for a class later on. These are all examples of cases where people have been let go because of political correctness who’ve committed some vicious crimes. As a result, they’ve been walking among us like a bunch of Hannibal Lecters. Some are still free.
Naturally, in today’s world, the term ‘hate crimes’ are only applied to certain groups…but even as far back as in the ’70’s, the Nation of Islam (NOI) was spreading their anti-white hatred and encouraging their members to kill white people.
Domestic Terrorism: The Nation of Islam and the Zebra Murders1
The term “Zebra” was employed by the SFPD, because the Department reserved radio frequency “Z” for all broadcasts related to the specific killing spree in progress. Military and police organizations use a term for each letter in the alphabet. For “A Company,” you use, “Alpha Company;” for “B Company,” “Bravo Company;” and so on. One proceeds similarly when reading off a license plate number to a police dispatcher. For Z, one says “Zebra.”
From 1970-1974, the Nation of Islam earned the title of the bloodiest domestic terrorist group in American history, as it murdered as many as 270 whites in California alone. Jesse Lee Cooks, Larry Green, and Anthony Cornelius Harris were charged with the crimes. According to what I’ve read, there were two businesses that they worked for and were NOI-owned–one was Black Self Help Moving and Storage that was a burglary operation, and the other was the Shabazz Bakery. Cooks, Green, and Harris were members of the Black Muslims (now known as the Nation of Islam), who had been recruited, along with dozens of other Black Muslims, to randomly murder whites. Cooks worked for the Bakery, all of them worked for Black Self Help Moving and Storage, where they butchered at least two white victims, one a homeless man who they bound, gagged, and chopped of his body parts while he was still alive. Their other crimes are equally as horrendous; one where a man was found trussed up like a turkey–another was of a couple who were beaten and hacked in the face with a machete–after the woman had been raped. The woman was almost decapitated, but her husband miraculously survived.
Black Self Help Moving and Storage, according to Nicholas Stix, was not only involved in serial killings of white people, but was a burglary operation. He says “So much for the NOI’s self-image and public persona as a clean-cut, racial supremacist religion preaching racial annihilation while refraining from common crimes such as robbery, burglary, and rape.”
Tom Manney, the manager of Black Self Help, let the murderers use his black cadillac and lent them an illegal firearm but was never charged, according to the DA, due to ‘lack of evidence.’
In addition to Manney, Clarence Jamerson, Dwight Stallings and a fourth man who was given the pseudonym “Jasper Childs” by Zebra author Clark Howard, were also arrested in the Zebra Killings, but released for lack of evidence.
Lest We Forget: Remembering the Zebra Victims2
The Zebra murders were perpetrated on white victims by a special group of assassins belonging to the Nation of Islam, called the “death angels”. They have/had a point system for white victims; giving more points for the murders of white women and children than those they give for murdering white men.
In order to become a Death Angel, one had to murder four white children, five white women, or nine white men. In the NOI, cowardice is a virtue.
Four of the NOI murderers were tried and convicted for the San Francisco killings. They are still in prison today, but they come up periodically for parole:
Jesse Lee Cooks, J.C. Simon (aka J.C.X. Simon), Larry Green and Manuel Moore.
The Nation of Islam paid for the legal representation of all but Cooks, because Cooks admitted to the murder of Frances Rose.
Yahweh ben Yahweh cult murders3
The Yahweh ben Yahweh cult was lead by a self-proclaimed black messiah named Hulon Mitchell Jr. who based his religion on a hatred of whites and urged his followers to murder “white devils” and bring him back body parts - a sliced-off ear or finger or head - as proof of the kill.
Mitchell’s spite was also directed at defectors such as Green who was murdered and beheaded at age 25. Green had the audacity to grow disillusioned with the cult’s odious dogma and renounced it. For that sin, he was beheaded, the first of 14 murders attributed to the cult.
A ruling on a failed appeal, U.S. v. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (792 F. Supp. 104) starts:45
Violent crime cases are the exception in federal courts. The instant case is arguably the most violent case ever tried in a federal court: the indictment charges the sixteen defendants on trial with 14 murders by means such as beheading, stabbing, occasionally by pistol shots, plus severing of body parts such as ears to prove the worthiness of the killer. They were also charged with arson of a slumbering neighborhood using molotov cocktails. The perpetrators were ordered to wait outside the innocent victims’ homes wearing ski masks and brandishing machetes to deter the victims from fleeing the flames.
Interestingly, Mitchell ended up suffering from prostate cancer and his lawyers pleaded for his release so he could ‘die with dignity’. Of course that is a laugh considering how he treated his victims. It seems to be a common theme, though.
It should also be noted that he didn’t have any medical background but he had classes for women to have their babies at home. In those classes he behaved more like a sexual predator. He forced one woman to have sex with him just within days of having her baby, and her stitches ripped out. He became also a sexual predator of children as young as 10 years old.
COMMISH REOPENS PROBE IN ‘72 CASE6
October 8, 2006 — Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has launched a probe into what is widely considered one of the most embarrassing episodes in NYPD history: the coverup of the murder of killing in Louis Farrakhan’s Harlem mosque #6 on April 14, 1972.
This is where Patrolman Philip W. Cardillo was ambushed and murdered when he responded to a fake ‘officer in need of assistance’ call that was made by a person or persons in the mosque.
Cardillo died five days after he was shot in the mosque alongside three other officers who were badly beaten after the four of them responded to a phony 911 call saying an officer was in trouble.
Fearing a racial riot in an age when every city outside New York had been torn up by black mobs, the investigation was hampered by politics.
Only one man, Lewis 17X Dupree, was ever arrested in the case. His first trial ended in a hung jury, and his second with an acquittal on murder charges.
Kelly said his decision to open the probe came at the urging of former Detective Randy Jurgensen and former prosecutor James Harmon, who both spent years hunting Cardillo’s killer.
Jurgensen has just penned a book about the Cardillo saga, “Circle of Six: The True Story of New York’s Most Notorious Cop-Killer and the Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him.” 7
I can’t wait to read it.
She’s an interesting case–as she has found a tenured position in academia, and even wrote a leftist polemic about women in combat on a Random House Study on the subject. So much for objectivity.
She joined the Communist Party in 1968 and was a member until 1991 when she joined the Committees of Correspondence, which she is a member of today. The Committees of Correspondence seeks to unite all radical socialist groups in the United States. She was also a Black Panther, although I can’t find when she joined. Her association with the Black Panthers is notorious-because she provided arms registered in her name to the Black Panthers to free her imprisoned black panther lover, George Jackson in 1970. From Discover the Networks:8
In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther and prison thug George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors hostage. In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis.
To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot (she supplied the hijackers with a small arsenal, but claimed not to know the purposes for which it was used) Ms. Davis fled California, where she used aliases and changed her appearance to avoid detection. Two months later she was arrested by the FBI in New York City. At her 1972 trial, Davis presented her version of where she had been and what she had been doing at the time of the shootout; because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined. She presented a number of alibi witnesses, almost all Communist friends, who testified that she had been with them in Los Angeles playing Scrabble at the time of the Marin slaughter.
Witnesses who placed her in Marin were dismissed by Davis and her fellow attorneys as being unable to accurately identify blacks — because they were white. Davis’ case was further aided by the pliant nature of the jury, which acquitted her. Following the verdict, one juror faced news cameras and gave a revolutionary’s clenched-fist salute. He laughed at the justice system, saying that prosecutors had been mistaken to expect that the “middle-class jury” would convict Davis. He and most of the jurors then went off to partake in a Davis victory party.
Malcolm X - A Homosexual Rapist and Male Prostitute9
As far as I can tell, if someone is speaking critically of capitalism and have attracted admirers from the Socialist Workers Party, you’re not a ‘conservative’. Malcolm X might have been conservatively dressed, but it seems to me that his ideas were still those of a socialist revolutionary along the lines of a Che Guevera.
In the 1991 biography of Malcolm X, The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Station Hill, New York), written by Bruce Perry, there are some interesting facts: that Malcolm X was not only a homosexual, he was a homosexual rapist and prostitute.10
Malcolm X was a convicted drug dealer that sold poison to his own people for profit.11 He was a pimp and a rapist who violently attacked both black and white women. As a young boy he was a ward of the state, a shoe shine boy in Boston, a street hustler and pimp in New York, and a convicted felon by the age of twenty.
He was a racist and anti-Semite in the Nazi tradition, condemning all white people as “blue-eyed devils” doomed to burn in hell for eternity. After embracing Islam in prison and directing his grassroots leadership and speaking skills to recruit members to the Nation of Islam, he became an influential black nationalist during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
After a trip to Muslim terrorist Saudi Arabia Mecca in 1964, Malcolm X embraced the fanatic Wahabi Islam of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Wahabism - which is what they call the only “true” Islam based on the Nazi Koran and the Nazi Hadith - preaches hatred and genocide against all non-Muslims. “Genuine Islam” does not hate whites as long as they convert to Islam, but does hate all non-Muslim whites and all non-Muslims of every race.
I have seen it said that Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam, that his leaving and calling attention publicly to some impropriety within the cult left members angry which could have led to his death.
Teacher and mentor to Malcolm X. A black supremacist.
Elijah Muhammad showed pride in his ability to stand equal with whites, and was willing to work with them when this would further the aims of the NOI. He apparently would claim that he lived in a mostly white neighborhood, and he allowed George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party to address the NOI, at a time when both organizations were opposed to racial integration.
One of those Elijah Muhammad would influence was an ex-convict whom the world would come to know as Malcolm X. Though he would later leave the NOI, the influence of Elijah Muhammad on Malcolm’s life was undeniable. The young Malcolm developed his speaking and political outlook within the NOI and under Elijah Muhammad’s tutelage.
The rift between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X was largely due to Malcolm’s discovery regarding rumors that Elijah Muhammad was having sex with various young NOI women working for him, and that he had fathered their children. Elijah Muhammad’s son, the women, and eventually Elijah Muhammad himself confirmed to Malcolm that the rumors were true. Malcolm felt compelled to make this known to the congregation, and to the public. A year later, he was forced out of NOI for the released of this damaging information, famously stating that “I am most probably dead already.” His action was not forgotten by the NOI. There is controversy as to whether Elijah Muhammad ordered Malcolm X’s assassination, or whether he stood by while promoting it; Elijah Muhammad’s followers did not like the accusations made, and refused to believe it.12
This is all very interesting considering they present themselves conservatively dressed but they seem to go against everything they represent. They’re supposedly law abiding citizens, but they have committed crimes like arson, robbery and murder, telling their disciples never to admit to a crime in the ‘white man’s courts’.
Your Black Muslim Bakery - Chauncey Bailey’s murder13
EMERYVILLE, Calif. August 3, 2007 — The attorney for Oakland Post editor Paul Cobb told NBC11 that slain journalist Chauncey Bailey was working on an article that would have criminally implicated Your Black Muslim Bakery, which was raided by SWAT teams Friday morning.
Apparently there are more crimes having to do with this bakery than Bailey’s death.
It will be interesting to see with the political climate of today…how this goes or if anything will come of it.
Confessed serial killer Coral Eugene Watts convicted in Michigan in ’70s student slaying
KALAMAZOO, Michigan (July 28, 2007): Jurors convicted a confessed serial killer of first-degree murder in the 1974 slaying of a 19-year-old Western Michigan University student.
Coral Eugene Watts, who claims to have stabbed more than a dozen women to death but denied killing WMU student Glorida Steele, faces a mandatory life prison sentence after Friday’s verdict.
Steele was stabbed more than 30 times in the apartment she shared with her 3-year-old daughter in 1974.
Watts, of Inkster, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) west-southwest of Detroit, already is serving a life sentence for the 1979 murder of Helen Dutcher in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.
Watts, 53, received immunity for the 12 killings to which he has confessed, including 11 in Texas and one in Michigan, as part of a 1982 deal with Texas prosecutors. 14
It takes a long time to bring these people to face charges, and even then, like Angela Davis, they don’t seem to pay a debt to society for what they’ve done - using ‘racism’ and ‘discrimination’ as the excuse. When taking these killings and maimings all into consideration, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman’s murders seem to have been very similar to some of these others
Arrest made in 1976 murder -The 85-year-old victim had been raped and stabbed.
ST. PETERSBURG (July 18, 2007) - For more than 30 years, the gruesome murder of Mary Jane Barth remained unsolved, one of the department’s oldest open cases.
She was an 85-year-old retiree who had grown senile and often wandered away from home. On Sept. 17, 1976, police found her facedown inside Greenwood Cemetery. She had been raped and stabbed 27 times. 15
Through DNA evidence, they were led to the home of a convicted sex offender.
Last month, police got word that the DNA from semen on a small piece of Barth’s clothing matched a profile in an FBI database: Alfonzo Austin, 58, a convicted sex offender who was living in an apartment just outside Quincy in the Panhandle.
Although he was not even a suspect in the original case, he has admitted to it and faces a first-degree murder charge. Austin also made some comments that could link him to another unsolved murder that took place just four months before Barth’s killing. I hope they read him his miranda rights, because if they don’t do things by the book all the way down the line, his lawyers will use it as a means to get him off.
From Horowitz’s book “Hating Whitey and other progressive causes”, p. 28-16
According to the Department of Justice Figures, 85% of the crimes of interracial violence nationwide are committed by blacks against whites. Not surprisingly, the first hate-crime conviction to be appealed to the Supreme Court involved a black perpetrator and a white victim. Of course, the social redeemers who are in favor of hate-crime legislation rarely reflect on the practical consequences of the reforms they enact. It is enough if the thought behind the legislation feels moral and right.
How many of the interra
