The Motive Behind Fast and Furious

Hat tip to PJ Media

Bob Owens, writing in PJ Media, provides what is, sadly, a very logical explanation behind the motive behind the ATF's Operation Fast and Furious

http://pjmedia.com/blog/why-doj-released-the-top-fast-and-furious-suspect/

Owens is absolutely correct that allowing guns purchased by straw buyers in the US to cross over into Mexico without any attempt at interdiction, control or surveillance would never result in building a case against the leaders of the Mexican cartels, who likely would never touch said guns-just as they have no need to ever touch the drugs they are responsible for sending into the US. The only thing that could be obtained would be intelligence that these guns came from the US when they showed up at the scenes of shootings. Thus, the only explanation that makes sense is what was originally just a conspiracy theory-that the administration wanted to make a point that their statements about 90% of Mexico's guns having come from the US was correct, thus, making the case for tighter gun control here at home. As a result they used, abused, and subverted the ATF to their own political ends.

What other logical explanation exists?

ATF agents at the street level in Arizona were charged with conducting an operation that could not be described as an enforcement operation, rather an intelligence operation that went against everything they had been taught. Their mission in ATF was to get illegal guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals, just as a DEA agent's mission is to get drugs off the street and dealers into jail. While there is a legitimate need for intelligence, the agent's job ultimately is not to write history.

Aside from the blown seizures and arrests, the end result is some 300 deaths in Mexico and the killing of two US agents, Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata, both of whom worked under Janet Napolitano, who, to this day, has not even (according to her sworn testimony) spoken to Attorney General Eric Holder about it.

Terror Attack at Jewish School in France

(DRZZ)

The wave of renewed anti-Semitism in Europe has now led to this; a gunman on a scooter opened fire on schoolchildren in Toulouse, France today killing a rabbi and three children.

Though the shooter is as yet not identified, a former Israel intelligence chief believes Iran or Hizbollah is involved.




(Monkey in the Middle)

According to Le Figaro, although the shooter escaped, surveillance cameras captured the license plate on his scooter.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/03/19/97001-20120319FILWWW00568-toulouse-la-plaque-du-scooter-filmee.php

Gallia Watch has been following the story for several hours and also has its own speculation.

http://galliawatch.blogspot.com/2012/03/multiple-murders.html#links

MRC-TV has posted a French TV news report (with English sub-titles):




DREUZ has published the names and ages of the victims. The children were three, six and eight, and a 17-year-old is in critical condition.

I will not jump to conclusions as to the identity of the killer. Suffice to say at this point, that this is precisely what we have been warning about for years now. It is, indeed, a return to Europe of the 1930s as Jews are being blamed for Israel trying to defend herself against murderous attacks and efforts to wipe her off the map, as well as all the world's ills, including the multiple pathologies in the Middle East.

Will the world wake up now? Did the world wake up after the Munich massacre of 1972? Did the world wake up after Mumbai? Sadly, no.

What will it take?

Jimmy Carter Speaks (Again)

"He told me so."

"They told me so."                                                    


Somebody who writes articles for the Muslim Brotherhood English-language web site (Ikhwan Web) needs to work on his or her English. They obviously have missed the dry sense of humor in the Washington Examiner article they have linked concerning Jimmy Carter's statement of faith in the Brotherhood. Below is the Ikhwan web article.

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=29773

Or could it be that the brothers are also laughing at Carter?

No Pictures! (Of Maxine Waters)

Hat tip to Republican Party Animals

Photographer Edward Lyman tried to get some film of Congresswoman Maxine Waters back in December when she was in Los Angeles signing up voters. Watch what happens when Lyman decides he has the right to videotape a politician on a public street. Also catch the dialogue at the beginning of the tape which indicates that a newly-registered voter apparently put the address of the lady who registered her instead of her own. Republican Party Animals (formerly Counter Contempt) has the video.

http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/2542

What is it about some of these politicians who don't want to be photographed or video-taped? This (slightly) reminds me of the February event I have written about when Waters and Loretta Sanchez spoke at the Islamic Center of Orange County. Sanchez launched into an elderly man who was videotaping and told him to turn it off. Who do these people think they are?

UC Berkeley Professor Facing Occupy Charges

Meanwhile, on the crime front at UC Beserkeley, the Daily Californian reports that a UCB professor, Celeste Langan, is being prosecuted for her actions in a November 9 Occupy action in a local courthouse.


http://www.dailycal.org/2012/03/17/uc-berkeley-professor-pleas-not-guilty-to-nov-9-charges/

"Supporters hoped their solidarity would help influence a dismissal of the charges, said Daniela Urban, vice chair of the Boalt Hall Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild." 

The National Lawyers Guild was created in the 1930s as a legal arm of the Communist Party USA. Currently, they are up to their Che Guevara t-shirts in the anti-Israel, anti-America, and Occupy movements, among others.

“There is intense feeling that these charges are political,” said UC Berkeley associate English professor Geoffrey O’Brien during the press conference." 

English teachers, eh?

Here is a headline for the Daily Californian:

"Fousesquawk calls on UC Berkeley to fire professor Langan for breaking the law, bringing embarrassment to the university, and setting a poor example for her students."

......Only if she's convicted, of course.

Things Louis Farrakhan Doesn't Want to Talk About

"It's all right here in my book."


Hat tip to Daily Californian

Charles Jacobs has posted an article in Berkeley's Daily Californian that exposes Louis Farrakhan's lies about Jews in connection with slavery.

http://www.dailycal.org/2012/03/16/farrakhans-secret-relationship/

Farrakhan, who spoke before a crowd of some 600 people last Saturday at UC Berkeley, would like the world to believe that Jews were behind the African-Trans-Atlantic slave trade. At the same time, he doesn't want to acknowledge two places where slavery still exists today- Sudan (North) and Mauritania.

When I was researching my book on Papiamentu, it was natural that I would do a lot of research into the African-Atlantic slave trade as it impacted Curacao, which at one time was the largest slave depot in the Americas, as well as Aruba and Bonaire. Curacao is also home to a long-standing Jewish community, which at one time was the largest and most important in the Americas-including the US. Were there any Jews involved in the slave trade? Sure, but no more than Gentiles. To say that "the Jews were behind the slave trade" is a lie.

Jacob, who is Jewish, is active in the Boston area exposing anti-Semitism. I myself met him a few years back in San Jose. Recently, he has been active exposing the radicalism of the Boston-area mosque, which is connected to Yusuf al Qaradawi. As a result of his disclosures, Jacobs has incurred the wrath of the local Jewish establishment, which is invested in interfaith outreach with the mosque.

Hats off to the Daily Californian for publishing his article.

More on The Chehabi Controversy at UC Irvine

Hazem Chehabi and wife receiving UC Irvine Medal


Cloudminder and Community Radio Northern Colorado have a recent post on the latest at UC Irvine, where the student government passed a resolution asking for the removal of Hazem Chehabi from the UCI Foundation. Chehabi is the Syrian honorary council for Orange County.

http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=35252

http://www.kunc.org/post/california-students-push-removal-syrian-foundation

Does anything connected with the events in Syria make sense?

As this dictator, Bashar Assad, massacres his own people by the thousands, the UN cannot even pass a resolution, Arab nations send observers who can only stand by and witness the slaughter, the world's activists concentrate their attention and condemnation on Israel, which is the only democracy in the region, President Obama's faith adviser, Dalia Mogahed, condemns Assad because he is "not delivering resistance to Israel, and the Syrian honorary consul in Orange County sits as chair of the UC Irvine Foundation.

Go figure.

Obama Faith Advisor Condemns Syria---For Not Delivering Resistance to Israel

Hat tip to Breitbart.com



Dalia Mogahed, who is one of President Obama's faith advisors, is a big critic of Bashar Assad these days. Unfortuntately, one of her criticisms is that Assad is "not delivering resistance to Israel".

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/03/18/White-House-Muslim-Advisor-In-Hot-Water-Over-Israel-Remarks

Mogahed was born in Egypt and immigrated to the US at the age of four.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalia_Mogahed

As for Obama, he seems to have very poor taste in faith advisers. Do'ya think there is a pattern here?

"Uhhhh, yeeaaaah."

Obama- The Man and the Campaign

“Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one president.”  









Air Force One is winging its way across the Fruited Plain. Aboard, a solitary figure sits alone in his seat, chin in his hand, as he contemplates his next great decision. There are only four more hours before his plane touches down in Hawaii. The fate of the world rests in his decision. And only he, President Barack Obama, can make that fateful decision.




"Do I use a 4 iron or a 5 iron?"


Here below is the man. Here below is the message.








The film switches reels to another moment of great decision, a decision that only the President of the United States can make. As Air Force One makes its way across the Potomac, on its journey from the Nation's Capital to Virginia, the President knows that only he, not David Axelrod, not Hillary Clinton, not Rahm Emanuel, not even Joe Biden can make the decision. It is his alone to make.


"Fries, cole slaw or macaroni and cheese?"


What is the measure of a man, who can order his government to print more money, call on the American people to purchase health insurance, and motivate an entire nation to move from putting gasoline in their cars to algae? They say that Hitler provided the impetus for Germany to produce the Volkswagen. This man, this President has provided the impetus for America to produce the Chevy Volt.

"Ah wunnerful, ah wunnerful, ah."


Not even FDR had the burden of running the US Government, the auto industry, the banks, the health care system, and the insurance industry all at the same time.




It is truly a lonely world when you are the president of the United States having to deal with the monumental issues of the day, when the people look to you for the answer to problems like rising oil prices. The choices are not easy. Keep paying higher prices for oil from unstable countries, many of whom hate us, make cars run on algae, the sun or the wind, or dig for our own oil, which is bountiful?


"Hi yo, no silver bullet!"


And what about the vision of a man who told us that if we didn't pass a massive government spending stimulus plan, that unemployment would rise over 8%?

Imagine the stress of being in the Oval Office, day after day, having to evaluate the advice of countless aides, advisers, cabinet members, campaign contributors and lobbyists.

And we must not forget America's role in the world. Was it not this president's speech in Cairo that sparked the Arab Spring and brought freedom and democracy to the Middle East, as well as a reservoir of love for the United States of America? Was it not this president's leadership that enabled us to support France, the leader of the free world, in bringing about a free and democratic ally in Libya?


"It's a lousy job, but somebody's gotta do it."



That somebody is Barack Obama.

(Hat tip to Tom Hanks)

Karen Lugo on LA Sheriff Lee Baca

Hat tip to Townhall

"Sharia is no threat to the US, right Buffalo Bob?"


Karen Lugo has written a piece for Townhall on LA County's "Sheriff to the Stars", Lee Baca, who, when he's not having luminaries like Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton in his jail facility for tea and crumpets, is hanging around with questionable Islamic leaders and doing their bidding. In this below piece, Lugo compares Baca to NYPD Chief Ray Kelly and refers to Baca's recent appearance at the Orange County Islamic Center, an event at which I was present.

http://townhall.com/columnists/karenlugo/2012/03/17/nypds_ray_kelly_vs_la_sheriff_lee_baca

It gets worse. At the Orange County event, Baca and LAPD chief of the Counter-Terrorism Unit Michael Downing sat on a panel as the panelists, including Democrat congresswomen Maxine Waters, Loretta Sanchez and Judy Chu lambasted Republicans like Peter King and turned the event into a partisan political affair. Also singled out for criticism were the NYPD and FBI-all while Baca and Downing sat there silently.

Moreover, after the event, I spoke with Downing one-on-one and informed him that in 1992, the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, had spoken at the same mosque as a guest of head imam Muzammil Siddiqi and had given a sermon on violent jihad, which was interpreted in real time by Siddiqi. His response?

"Well, Gary, you know some people change over time."

When I mentioned the name of Zuhdi Jasser (mentioned in the Lugo article) to him as an example of a true moderate Muslim, he didn't even know who he was. He asked me if Jasser were connected to people like Steve Emerson and David Horowitz.

This is what is protecting us from terror?

OC Register Report on Syrian Honorary Consul

Hazem Chehabi (below right), UCI Chancellor Michael Drake (center), and retired vice chancellor
Manuel Gomez (left) receiving UCI Medal (Don't ask me for what.)

(Photo: OC Register)


The usually somnolent Orange County Register actually has a front page report on the on-going controversy brewing at UC Irvine over Hazem Chehabi, who is the local Syrian Honorary Consul as well as chair of the UCI Foundation. The UCI Student Government has passed a resolution calling on UCI to break its links with Chehabi.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/chehabi-344955-student-board.html

Generally, I tend not to sympathize with students telling administrators what they should or should not do. In fact, just this week, I described UCSD as a place where the "inmates run the institution". In this case, however, I have to side with the students. This is a clear moral issue. That the Syrian honorary consul would be occupying such a high position at UCI at the same time that the Syrian regime is committing mass murder against its own citizens strikes me as unconscionable.

I have written about this several times and already debated the position of honorary consul. How much does it really matter that Chehabi is unpaid and not an official Syrian diplomat? It seems that he has a clear cut decision to make. Either he wants to continue as honorary consul, or he wants to continue as chair of the UCI Foundation. As a matter of decency, he should either resign his post as honorary consul or resign from his post at UCI. To remain in both is an act of arrogance and can only bring continued embarrassment to the university.

Nigel Farage's Latest Hit

British member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage once again lets EU president Herman van Rompuy have it as he excoriates the whole bureaucracy-followed by a little British humor to drive the point home. Enjoy.