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Nothing to Celebrate in Boston

By on April 22, 2013 in Foreign Policy, News, War

tamerlanjihadThere is nothing to celebrate in Boston, despite that city’s spirited efforts at recovery since last week’s deadly jihadist terrorist attack.

What we now know, starting with the fact that the Boston bombings are, as I suspected, motivated by Islamic terrorism, a term which is arguably redundant, is that the government – on every level, local, state and federal – failed in its most fundamental responsibility to protect Boston’s citizens. At every point and in every sense, despite billions of wasted dollars expropriated from Americans to violate individual rights in the name of “homeland security”, such as the fascist TSA, police, intelligence and military did not succeed in doing their jobs. The best among them are impaired or disarmed and the Moslem terrorist attack, which killed three adults and one child, demonstrates that U.S. policy toward national defense is a disaster.

Consider that:

  • At least one bomber, who has been caught (though killed by his comrade before he could be interrogated), was previously identified by the FBI as a potential Islamic terrorist – and he was released and deemed safe for society. This despite a recent, extended trip to a global center for jihadist training and subsequent video postings for Islamic propaganda (pictured here and since removed from Google-owned YouTube).
  • Neither bomber was under surveillance despite clear signs of jihad.
  • Neither bomber was apparently monitored for increased risk of acquiring military weapons such as guns, bombs and grenades all of which they possessed.
  • The Boston Marathon was vulnerable to attack with no warnings, alerts or  lockdowns.
  • All the government programs and agencies which violate individual rights – and all the government agencies that do not violate individual rights – failed to detect, identify and prevent the attack, including the jihadists’ illegal activities, such as bombmaking.
  • Once it was clear that an attack was under way, the government failed to warn the public that Islamic terrorists were at large and, for precious hours, sought to dispel and appease the notion of Islamic terrorism, downplaying the threat of jihadist attack in spite of evidence to the contrary. All subsequent warnings to the public sought to minimize and trivialize any attempt to accurately assess and ascertain the real threat to the public by the terrorists and their collaborators and sponsors.
  • The attack continued unabated as the unidentified jihadists, still named and pictured as common criminals, murdered a college campus policeman execution-style.
  • The attack continued as the Moslem terrorists threatened the residents of metropolitan Boston with more bombs, military weapons and plots for mass murder, as police continued to refuse to assess and communicate the nature of the threat against the city, state and region.
  • One of the attackers was allowed to be killed by his own comrade as police failed to prevent his death before interrogation, crucially foreclosing the ability to interrogate and, if necessary, torture the mass murderer to ascertain the identities and whereabouts of sponsors and collaborators.
  • Another attacker was allowed to escape, despite being surrounded by police, further endangering the city of Boston. He was not successfully pursued and he took refuge on private property, unbeknownst to clueless police and the entire government of the United States. He was discovered by a lone individual only after the government restriction on travel and movement was lifted.
  • The apprehended jihadist was apparently allowed to attempt to kill himself – as he had killed his comrade before he could be interrogated – possibly injuring himself in the throat without being subdued or sedated.
  • Boston and much of New England was under government control for several days, with residents and businesses alike forced by the state into a defenseless state of siege. To my knowledge, it is unprecedented in a major American city that businesses and residents are ordered by the government to remain in hiding without declaration of martial law.

Despite numerous media reports, including CNN’s report that the dead Moslem terrorist is being investigated by the U.S. government for being the recipient of operation plans from an Islamic terrorist group, which CNN reports is linked to the dead jihadist, the government is engaged in a concerted campaign – as it was during the jihadist attack on the U.S. at Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans were assassinated – to divert public attention from the nature of what motivates the attack and minimize, deny or evade any connection to Islamic terrorism.

But even U.S. government broadcasting, National Public Radio, observed a connection, with NPR reporting on the dead jihadist: “Three women who knew [the dead terrorist] have told NPR that they saw changes in the young man around 2008 and 2009, when they say he became a more devout Muslim. As NPR’s Zwerdling reports, the women say [the dead terrorist] sought to control his girlfriend, ordering her to cover herself and convert to Islam.”

Islam is what motivates those who seek to destroy the United States and the West but you’ll never know that from government propaganda and most media reports and, as good a job as police did in catching those who murdered Martin, Lu, Krystle and Sean and maiming and wounding over 250 others, celebrating marginal success or superficial, feel-good unity to the exclusion of facts including the fact of failure to protect by the local, state and federal government is a grave error that denigrates the magnitude of evil in this act of war – whether waged by lone wolves acting on an explicit or implicit command for jihad or a couple of faith-based soldiers in a jihadist terror cell – and, by showing ignorance and projecting weakness, the “celebrating” harms and endangers the community, commonwealth and country. The reason our eyes well up at post-attack sports events pledging unity and patriotism is because we know what happened is wrong, bad and evil, which causes decent people to feel sad and shed tears.

But grief and sadness are not an excuse for evading facts and the motive for the bombing. What happened last Monday was an act of war by Islamic terrorists, lone, in tandem or sponsored. What should have been an overwhelming military offense against states that sponsor terrorism after 9/11 has been pointed inward, against ourselves, forcing us to sacrifice individual liberty for a false sense of security. We must stop celebrating when we are attacked and instead resolve to annihilate the enemy wherever they plan and fester, not breed them by letting suicide bombers shut down the eastern seaboard for days on end.

We have inverted everything meaningful in America. High-fiving “first responders” – instead of scrutinizing front liners and demanding answers and results in the war against the jihad – after an undetected act of premeditated mass murder by our enemies is the opposite of being strong; it is merely another way of accepting our impending doom.

Bombs Bursting in Boston

By on April 16, 2013 in News, War

“The world mourns with Boston,” read the headline for this morning’s edition of the leftist Boston Globe, owned by the leftist New York Times Company, as it appears on Boston.com. It is a perfectly vacant, nondescript condensation of today’s low journalism, distorting the facts and meaning of yesterday’s terrible news.

The headline is not true. In no sense does the world mourn with Boston, which was attacked by twin bombings in a Boston Marathon terrorist strike that targeted runners’ lower body parts with ball bearings-loaded bombs that left multiple victims in need of amputations with many dead and injured. From Asia, where Communist Korea threatens Texas, California and Japan – and, of course, South Korea – with invasion or nuclear attack, to the Middle East’s Iran and the Arab world, where enemies and adversaries threaten to annihilate the United States and celebrate the attack, the world ignores, snorts or welcomes the attack on America at Boston, as it did the attack on America at Benghazi and the 2001 attack on New York and Washington.

Also, the term ‘mourns’ suggests that those mourning have a sense of the loss – in this case, losing three (as of this writing) young lives, including an eight-year-old child named Martin – and reports barely covered the central facts of the attack, such as where the bombs were located (we still don’t know, except that the second bomb went off near an Apple Store) let alone the identities of those lost. The media were focused instead on executing an orchestrated rush to non-judgment, a coordinated attempt to prejudge audiences and prevent them from making logical conclusions that we may have been hit by jihadist barbarians in another attack on civilization. The press was primarily and fundamentally concerned with being defensive of those who tend to initiate force against Americans, such as faith-based barbarians, including devoutly religious Saudi Arabians and Islamic jihadists, not with reporting key facts, such as who bombed us, what happened during the attack, where are the murderers, when are they likely to have struck – circulating sketches of potentially connected persons who may be at large – and why they seek to destroy us.

As the media failed to report the news, the government, which deliberately and wrongly blamed an earlier Islamic terrorist attack on a movie, refused to take the attack seriously, imposing another lockdown rather than matching the act of war or terrorist strike with moral resolve, led by the nihilist Obama who declined to name either terrorism or attack in a bland, callous commentary signifying nothing in particular. Americans again generally accepted the new normal of duty and obedience to total government control with social media pleas for “calm”, “hope” and “prayer” as against outrage. There was hardly any of that as – and I’ll just say it because I think it’s true – the Boston Marathon died never to be experienced in freedom again, not in the age of the TSA and other forms of fascism that people choose to tolerate in order to avoid the necessity of thinking about the reality that we are losing the war to barbarians – foreign and domestic – in conjunction with – and in proportion to – losing life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness.

Yesterday’s news is bleak. Not only because innocent Americans were maimed and murdered and will remain unavenged as their 9/11 comrades do and not merely because the world does not mourn with Boston. It is bleak because Boston, where there once raged a tea party to protest government control, a spirit that no longer lives among most Americans, does not mourn the loss of what makes Boston an especially American city. America’s outlook is dim because, in yesterday’s aftermath, we lost more of the spirit to win at the finish line. We heard and read about thoughts and prayers, we were urged not to think, judge and defend, and we were pummeled with state-sponsored announcements to remain calm, passive and obedient, ever careful not to name those whom we have every reason to believe attacked us again – let alone name those we lost on the day we lost them – and, 12 years after 9/11, we moved closer to the end of America. That is the salient fact of reality. That is what ought to be mourned.

Hillary Clinton’s Hissy Fit

By on January 24, 2013 in Foreign Policy, War

This week, the U.S. secretary of state tried to conceal her incompetence with an outburst of emotionalism. Time‘s headline: ‘Clinton on Benghazi: Tears and Anger’.

Stressing feelings over facts in another calculated evasion preceding her departure from office after four failed years, Clinton told Congress: “I do feel responsible” (emphasis added) for the deaths of four Americans in the September 11 attack and mass murder in Benghazi, Libya. At one point, the combative former first lady, senator and presidential candidate erupted with a total dismissal of anyone’s attempt to learn the cause of the 9/11 attack, bellowing: “What difference, at this point, does it make?!” By histrionically acting out an avoidance of acknowledging and accounting for the State Department’s and Obama administration’s failure to defend the U.S. from an act of war in a major new advancement of Islamic jihadism in north Africa, she showed that defensiveness, not the nation’s self-interest, is her aim.

It’s part of a pattern in the Obama administration to deflect, divert and conceal any real, honest investigation into what went wrong in Africa. First, she monstrously and wrongly described the murderous jihadists as a small band of rogues that don’t constitute a coordinated attack. Then, she and Obama’s administration blamed a movie for the Benghazi attack. Then she appeared in an advertisement aimed at Moslems in Pakistan explicitly attacking free speech, saying: “We absolutely reject [the film's] content and message.” Since the truth about the Obama administration’s deceptive campaign to name a video as the cause of the attack came out, Secretary Clinton hasn’t been heard from in months on the subject, leaving it to a lower level Obama administration official to explicitly attack the video and dodge the war with Islamic jihadism.

The press fawns over Hillary Clinton, who is depicted as a woman of accomplishment. But the fact is that the radical feminist personifies both the rise and failure of feminism, a notion that one’s identity is based on one’s sex. As a politician, she has reached, which is not the same as achieved, the highest positions of power in the disintegrating United States of America, with not a single distinguished achievement for which she should feel – or deserve to be – proud. From forcing Americans into the enslavement of the medical profession, which is being accomplished by the man who defeated her and conferred her current diplomatic status, to leading what may be the worst foreign policy in American history, with major progression toward nuclear weapons by our arch-enemies, Hillary Clinton, despite her facade of competence, is a failure and a fraud in every respect. In America, women are still somewhat free to work hard and make outstanding achievements for themselves. The fact is that Mrs. Clinton has done everything in her career to stop them.

 

War: Sacrifice for the Sake of Sacrifice

By on December 11, 2012 in War

The loss of a Navy SEAL who was killed on Saturday while rescuing an American doctor held prisoner in Afghanistan underscores that the U.S. military action in Islamicist Asia is based on selflessness, not on our self-interest.

The SEAL’s name is Nicolas D. Checque. He was 28 years old. He came from Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Nicolas reportedly died while trying to rescue an employee of a faith-based organization predicated on helping others in Afghanistan. According to the New York Times, the rescued prisoner, Dr. Dilip Joseph, who lives in Colorado Springs and frequently travels to Afghanistan, was captured by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban approximately 25 miles from a safe stretch of highway heading east from Kabul toward Jalalabad. The organization, Morning Star, pledges on its Web site, which currently advertises several job openings in Afghanistan, to offer a “comfortable and safe environment.”

It did not keep that promise when its three team members returned from one of its altruistic missions of Christian mercy – Morning Star boasts that it is an evangelical Christian group – on Dec. 5. The religious group accepts the tenets of something called the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which claims to be “committed to helping Christ-centered organizations earn the public’s trust through developing and maintaining standards of accountability that convey God-honoring ethical practices”. Among these practices: “Proclaim a Christian witness to the glory of God” and “reflect generally accepted biblical truths and practices.” Any American has a right to be an altruist and exist to help others – in the name of any lunacy including basing its operations in Afghanistan – and certainly the U.S. military, as a proper function of government acting to defend U.S. citizens, should rescue Americans from harm from our enemies.

But contrary to any ethical principles based on human life on earth, Morning Star, which incidentally does not help others in any country except Afghanistan, consistently puts its employees in harm’s way. In the context of the longest war in American history – an abomination of military involvement in which very little or nothing in our interest has been accomplished – with dreadfully anti-American rules of engagement which constantly put the lives of American military members at risk, Morning Star should cease its faith-based operations or continue its selfless activities at its own risk, refusing future help from the U.S. military. With our military being decimated by the Obama administration, which seeks to cut defense spending, and the threat of foreign invaders rising, not falling, we should not risk a single soldier’s life under current rules in a primitive nation run by tribalists, warlords and religious barbarians. Be selfless on your own, and you’re free to do so, but leave our Navy SEALs and other members of our great military free to fight where they might actually be permitted to fight back and defend U.S. interests.

The Obama government, of course, sees the death of Nicolas Checque as merely another sacrifice for the sake of others – a moral directive, sacrifice of self for its own sake, that guides Obama’s administration in foreign and domestic policy. Obama’s Defense Secretary said: “In this fallen hero, and all of our special operators, Americans see the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service upheld.” And Obama, who lied about our military involvement in Afghanistan when he said we were leaving (we’re not, as I observed here), disgustingly said this of Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque: “He gave his life for his fellow Americans, and he and his teammates remind us once more of the selfless service that allows our nation to stay strong, safe and free,” which is also false. What allows our nation to be strong, safe and free is the opposite of selflessness: a military defense dedicated to the nation’s self-interest in its every action, including and especially rules of engagement. Our military should stop being systematically annihilated by our leaders and instead be radically and urgently repurposed to uphold the highest principle of the nation; defense of America’s self-interest.

This means fighting to live, not fighting to be sacrificed and die for the sake of others, especially not for the sake of others whose highest aim is the lowly biblical edict to sacrifice for the sake of others. Our soldiers, and the Navy’s SEALs, deserve the proper purpose, military goal, and necessary rules and weapons, to pursue their happiness, too.

Islamicists Attack America in Africa, September 11, 2012

By on September 13, 2012 in Foreign Policy, Freedom of Speech, War

Though we do not know exactly what happened at the Libyan consulate, we do know that the U.S. ambassador was murdered with three other Americans on diplomatic staff during a siege by Islamic terrorists on the 11th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the worst attack in U.S. history, also carried out by Islamic terrorists. We also know that the attack, which happened on the same day as the attack on the U.S. embassy in Egypt, where Marines did not fight back and the grounds were breached while the U.S. flag was taken down, desecrated and replaced with a black Islamic flag, is an act of war. In the words of Rep. Mike Rogers, following an intelligence briefing on Capitol Hill: “This was a coordinated attack, more of a commando style event. It had both coordinated fire, direct fire, indirect fire.”

With a complicit U.S. media nearly unified in its contempt for the U.S., and feeding its faith-based worship of the primitive, and a U.S. government apology and equivocations by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, the United States responded to the attack by appeasing the combatants and those who sponsored the mass murder – Ambassador Chris Stevens apparently was targeted for assassination by Moslems using a rocket-propelled grenade – with a denunciation of free speech in the form of a video production rumored to have offended some Moslems. This is an outrageous assault on free speech, as the Ayn Rand Center’s Elan Journo argues here, compounded by Hillary Clinton’s reference to the attackers as a small band of rogues that don’t constitute a coordinated attack. Google-owned YouTube has reportedly restricted distribution of the video clip and government-sponsored media such as National Public Radio (NPR) falsely reported that the video “sparked” the attack throughout the day.

A movie did not cause the attack on America; Moslem terrorists motivated by Islam did. The exercise of free speech as the cause of a barbaric attack is an attempt by the Obama administration to conflate an act of evil by America’s enemies with its plan to impose total government control on the people of the United States. Whatever his flaws as a presidential candidate, businessman Mitt Romney showed political courage by rapidly denouncing Obama’s latest appeasement of Islamicism. Contrary to what our state-sponsored – and wannabe state-sponsored – media claim, Mr. Romney did not politicize the latest Islamic 9/11 act of war against the United States of America. Barack Obama’s disgraceful administration apologized to our enemies, trivialized mass murder and attacked freedom of speech, which is today’s reason why we must reject Obama on Election Day.

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