Monthly Archives: April 2011
So, how do they celebrate Easter in China?
By arresting Christians. Funny how Communism works isn’t it? The Left thinks Social Justice AKA Communism is wonderful. Not so much
Chinese police detained at least 30 Christians belonging to an unregistered Beijing church as the congregation gathered Sunday for an Easter service, a church member said.
Police stopped the worshippers from the unregistered Shouwang church as they gathered near a public plaza in the city’s university district, then bused them to a local police station. The Associated Press saw about a dozen people taken away but a church member said at least 30 were detained.
Shouwang members have been trying to meet at the plaza in Beijing’s Haidian district every Sunday since the congregation was evicted from its usual rented place of worship three weeks ago, but they have been detained or put under house arrest each time.
Just a reminder that green is the new red!
Yesterday was Earth Day, and also the birthday of one ofn histories biggest scumbags. Coincidence? Let a Conservative Teacher answer that.
Comrades- Happy Lenin’s Birthday and a Happy Earth Day too!
Today is April 22nd, and not only is it Earth Day, it is also Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. Is it just a coincidence? I don’t think so- Earth Day is supposed to be celebrated on the exact same day as Lenin’s Birthday because the holiday is just one big stinking communist plot! Oh, I know what you’re thinking- it’s just a pure coincidence and you’re just some sort of paranoid right-wing nut- but you see comrade, I’ve done a little additional research over the years, and the fact that Lenin’s birthday and Earth Day are the same day isn’t my only piece of evidence that it is just a communist plot.
One of the very first Earth day celebrations took place in 1970- which also happens to be the 100 year anniversary of Comrade Lenin’s birthday (born in 1870). Many former communists saw Earth Day, with its goals and interests, as being very similar to the goals and interests of the great communist Lenin.
The group that founded “Earth Day” was a group called Friends of the Earth. When I last checked their website, I noticed something interesting- in addition to promoting Earth day, this group also promotes communism! Of course there are the usual environmental stuff on the website, but mixed in are calls for redistribution of wealth, government regulation of nearly all aspects of people’s lives, communal land ownership, and control of production in the hands of the masses, etc. The Friends of the Earth don’t like people who hurt Mother Earth, but they also don’t like “evil” corporations, Big Oil, Wall Street, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and resisting ‘corporate domination of the masses’. Oh yeah- and Earth Day too- the communism almost overwhelmed the message of ‘Earth Day’. Convinced yet that Earth Day is a communist plot? I’ve got more evidence!
The symbol of the very first Earth Day was a circle with a broken cross, with the bars pointing downward. It is a New Age symbol meaning the rejection of Christianity. The goal was to replace the worship of the Christian religion with the worship of Mother Earth- and the protector of Mother Earth is an all powerful government the controls industry and the means of production for the good of the workers. First you reject the Christian god and then you worship the state, much like communism demands.
Be sure to read the entire piece, some good stuff to consider. The connection between Communism and radical environmentalism is undeniable. Private property is loathed in both ideologies, redistribution of wealth is adored by both as well. And, to me, the clearest connection is that while both promise glorious things, both deliver, in the end, only misery and slavery for mankind.
Maybe Obama used all those silver bullets killing domestic oil production?
Image by DonkeyHotey via Flickr
Doug Powers reports that Barack Obama has no “silver bullets” to bring down those darned gas prices. Maybe they were all used up shooting holes in our economy, especially domestic oil drilling? Or maybe, as Powers suggests, it is not about silver but about gold and green?
There are several “silver bullets” to help bring down the price of gas, but none of those pieces of silver create gold for the “green” sector or keep the tax stream flowing to government, so motorists will keep being in the red for the foreseeable future:
President Barack Obama reiterated his plan to stabilize soaring gas prices, telling Americans in his weekly address on Saturday that “instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow’s.”
At a time when the economy is struggling to rebound and many people are still searching for jobs, a $4 per gallon price tag is “just another burden when things were already pretty tough,” Obama said.
Echoing a criticism he has made frequently in the past, the president condemned politicians who “score a few points” by offering quick-fix solutions whenever there is a spike in gas prices. “The truth is, there’s no silver bullet that can bring down gas prices right away,” Obama said.
So far Obama’s only real solution for strapped consumers has been to tell them to trade in their gas guzzlers for kumquat-powered golf carts and to mock “drill baby drill,” and yet the oil market seems unimpressed.
Powers also points out that Obama is willing to help build a new refinery. He is even willing to shell out nearly 3 billion of our dollars for it. That refinery will be in Columbia, no, not Columbia, South Carolina, of course not! It will be in Columbia, as in Central America. Can you say outsourcing jobs? Of course, Obama also wants to use our technology to help Brazil drill off its shores for oil. Yet he opposes the use of that same technology here! He also opposes drilling in Alaska, and seemingly anywhere else in this country. Gee, I wonder if these policies might have a hand in rising gas prices? Or, as Obama prefers to say, a “gradual adjustment”
Of course, Obama tells us he wants us to get “greener” find alternative sources of energy. And, if you really think he gives a damn about Americans gas woes, recall that he loves him some cap and trade. And cap and trade will mean less “gradual adjustments” and more “skyrocket”!
You see it is about a “fundamental change” in America. A change that will force us to go “green”, no matter how much it harms our economy. Even if it “bankrupts” certain industries.
And if Obama would bankrupt the coal industry, and see prices for electricity “skyrocket”, why would he hesitate to do the same to the domestic oil industry?
Of course, we should not worry because President Obama has a vision, a vision of a new Marxist America. An America where wealth is, well, you know, “shared”, and a nation where we have economic and social justice!
The busiest month ever at The DaleyGator
With a week to go in April, Ed and I are pleased that we have already passed our record for hits in a month! Our first 30,000 hit month is at hand, and if we keep our current average of 1,300, hits a day, and over 1,400 this week up 40,000 will be reached as well.Thanks to everyone who links, visits, comments, and passes our blog along to others!
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Road To Ruin Getting Shorter – Mark Steyn
Congressman Paul Ryan, one of the least insane men in Washington, has a 10-year plan.
President Barack Obama, one of the most insane spenders in Washington, has a 12-year plan.
After hearing the president’s plan, Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. Sovereign debt outlook to “negative.” Ah, the fine art of understatement. In 1940, after the fall of France and the evacuation from Dunkirk, presumably they downgraded Britain’s outlook to “spot of bother.”
At the world’s first “Presidential Facebook town hall meeting” on Wednesday, even Obama had a hard time taking his “plan” seriously. Sometimes he referred to it as a 12-year plan, sometimes 10 years, sometimes saving four trillion, sometimes saving two trillion. So will the Obama plan save four trillion over 12 years or two trillion over 10?
For the answer let’s go to next week’s first Presidential Twitter town hall meeting:
OMG!!! LOL!!!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
Overly Massive Government!!! Legislating Official Largesse!!!!!!! Requiring Offering Foreign Lenders More American Ownership!!!!!!!!!
The president’s plan is to balance the budget by climbing into his Little Orphan Obammie costume and singing: “The sun’ll come out tomorrow/Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun.” We’ve already bet our bottom dollar and it’s looking like total eclipse. But Obammie figures if we can only bet Daddy Warbucks’ bottom dollar the sun will shine. The “rich” don’t have enough money to plug the gap: As a general principle, whatever the tax rates, the Treasury can never take in more than about 19 percent of GDP. Since Obama took office, the government’s spent on average 24.4 percent of GDP.
That five-point gap cannot be closed, and it’s the difference between the possibility of a future and the certainty of utter ruin. Hence, outlook “negative.”
By the way, if you were borrowing (as the United States government does) $188 million every hour, would your bank be reassured by a 12-year plan?
That’s 2023. Go back 12 years. That’s 1999. Which, if any, politicians correctly identified the prevailing conditions in the America of 2011? Most of our problems arise from the blithe assumptions of the political class about the future. European welfare systems assumed a mid-20th century fertility rate to sustain them. They failed to foresee that welfare would become a substitute for family and that Continentals would simply cease breeding. Bismarckian-Rooseveltian pension plans assumed you’d be living off them for the last couple of years of your life. Instead, citizens of developed nations expect to spend the final third of their adult lives enjoying a prolonged taxpayer-funded holiday weekend.
What plans have you made for 2023? The average individual attempts to insure against future uncertainty in a relatively small number of ways: You buy a house because that’s the surest way to preserve and increase wealth. “Safe as houses,” right? But Fannie/Freddie subprime mumbo-jumbo and other government interventions clobbered the housing market. You get an education because that way you’ll always have “something to fall back on.” But massive government-encouraged expansion of “college” led Americans to run up a trillion dollars’ worth of student debt to acquire ever more devalued ersatz sheepskin in worthless pseudo-disciplines. We’re not talking about the wilder shores of the stock market – Internet start-ups, South Sea bubbles and tulip mania – but two of the safest, dullest investments a modestly prudent person might make to protect himself against the vicissitudes of an unknown future. And we profoundly damaged both of them in pursuit of fictions.
I don’t claim absolute certainty about what the world will be like in 2023, but I know what our governing class is telling us. At Tufts University, Nancy Pelosi urged her “Republican friends” to “take back your party, so that it doesn’t matter so much who wins the election – because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors. Elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do.”
The last line attracted a bit of attention, but the “shared values” – i.e., the fetid bromides of conventional wisdom – are worth decoding, too: “Education of our children” means more spending on an abusive and wasteful unionized educrat monopoly; “growth of our economy” means more spending on stimulus funding for community-organizer grant applications; “how we defend our country” means more spending on defense welfare for wealthy allies; “our security and civil liberties” means more spending on legions of crack TSA crotch fondlers; “how we respect our seniors” means more spending on entitlements for an ever more dependent citizenry whose sense of entitlement endures long after the entitlement has ceased to make any sense.
Nancy Pelosi fleshed out the Obama plan: More spending. More more. Now and forever. That’s what S&P understands. The road to hell is paved with stimulus funding.
The world has started to listen to what Obama is telling us. In that respect, let me make a single prediction for 2023 – that by then the dollar will no longer be the global reserve currency. Forty years ago, Treasury Secretary John Connally told Europe that the dollar is “our currency but your problem.” The rest of the world is now inverting the proposition: The dollar is our problem but, in the end, it’s your currency, not ours. In Beijing, in Delhi, in Riyadh, in Rio, the rest of the planet is moving relentlessly toward a post-dollar regime.
What will America look like without the dollar as global currency? My old boss Conrad Black recently characterized what’s happened over the past half-century as a synchronized group devaluation by Western currencies. That’s a useful way of looking at it. What obscured it was the dollar’s global role. When the dollar’s role is ended, the reality of a comatose “superpower” living off a fifth of a billion in borrowed dollars every single hour of the day is harder to obscure.
In the absence of responsible American leadership, the most important decisions about your future will be made by foreigners for whom fatuous jingles about “shared values” have less resonance. If you don’t want the certainty of a poorer, more decrepit, more diseased, more violent America, you need to demand your politicians act now – or there won’t be a 2023.
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Uncharitable – Andrew C. McCarthy
“In the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation,” President Obama claimed during his 2009 Cairo speech. “That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.”
This statement contained two falsehoods. One, as I’ve previously detailed, was obvious: There are, in fact, no American laws or rules that make it harder for Muslims to give to charity. What we have are laws against material support of terrorism – against using devices like charitable fronts to channel money to jihadists.
Those laws are not directed at Muslims. They apply to everyone but are applied most often to Muslims, because Muslims carry out most anti-American terrorism.
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Academic Rot – Walter Williams
The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea of the academic rot at so many of our colleges. Save for a tiny handful of the nation’s colleges, what distinguishes one college from another is the magnitude of that rot.
One of the best sources of information about our colleges is the New York City-based Manhattan Institute’s quarterly Web magazine, Minding the Campus, edited by John Leo, former columnist for U.S. News & World Report.
The magazine’s Winter 2010 edition contains an article by Dr. Candace de Russy, former member of the board of trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY), titled “Hate-America Sociology.”
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Reagan Democrats: ‘Tea Baggers’ Or MSNBC Viewers? – Ann Coulter
Among the most preposterous claims being made on MSNBC about the fight over public sector unions in Wisconsin is that Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans are losing “Reagan Democrats” by taking on government employees.
The theory seems to have been concocted by Howard Fineman, editor at The Huffington Post, who said, back in February on Lawrence O’Donnell’s “The Last Word,” that the “whole idea of a Reagan Democrat” was that union families were voting for Reagan. But today, according to Fineman, they are shifting against Republicans because of Walker’s tough line on government unions. “That’s got to scare Republican strategists nationally,” he said.
Private sector unions are as similar to public sector unions as they are to gay civil unions.
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The Unhappy President – Jonah Goldberg
he president has always had a gift for self-pity.
The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff… I’m like, “C’mon guys, I’m the president of the United States. Where’s the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up?” It doesn’t happen. – Pres. Barack H. Obama
The list of people I feel sorry for is long. It includes not just all of the people I know personally who are suffering from one misfortune or another, but the billions around the world who’re having a rougher time than they ought: Japanese earthquake victims, targets of ethnic cleansing, etc. Then there’s the supplemental list, which includes everyone from fans of Lost who were ripped off by the series finale to the guy in the middle seat on a long flight.
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Donald Trump’s Eminent-Domain Empire – Michelle Malkin
Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump’s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we wised up to the eminent-domain thievery championed by our hometown faux free-marketeers.
America, it’s time you wised up to Donald Trump’s property redistribution racket, too.
Trump has been wooing conservative activists for months and flirting with a GOP presidential run – first at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington and most recently at a tea party event in South Florida.
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Bull About Bullying – Thomas Sowell
There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying.
When politicians want to do nothing and yet look like they are doing something, they appoint a blue-ribbon committee or go to the U.N. or assign some cabinet member to look into the problem and report back to the president – hoping that the issue will be forgotten by the time he reports back.
When educators are going to do nothing, they express great concern and make pious public pronouncements. They may even hold conferences, write op-ed pieces, or declare a “no tolerance” policy. But they are still not going to do anything that is likely to stop bullying.
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Your Morally Retarded Moment of the Day!
Oh the Left, they so loathe Israel, while defending cowardly terrorists who kill babies? These people are sick bastards! And too stupid to realize that these same terrorists would gladly slit their throats.
(Israel National News) — Several ultra-leftist groups organized a visit to the Arab village of Awarta on Saturday, April 16, in support of the villagers and against the IDF’s activities there in the search for the murderers of Ruth and Rabbi Ehud Fogel and their children Yoav (11), Elad (4) and Hadas (three months).
The leftists visited several homes in the Samaria village, including that of the Awad family, which spawned the murderers. The identities of the confessed murderers were released for publication on Sunday, the day after the visit. The murderers were already in IDF custody at the time of the leftists’ visit and their arrest – including the fact that they are relatively young – was already widely rumored and hinted at by the press.
A photograph from the visit which can be viewed here, posted by one of the activists on her Internet blog, shows Raya Yaron, spokeswoman of Machsom Watch, comforting a woman described as being 37 years old and “in a deep depression.” The blogger explained in her post that the woman fainted during the leftist women’s visit and was distraught over the arrest of her husband, her two sons and a daughter.
The woman is easily recognizable as Nuf Awad, mother of Hakem Awad, whose photograph was featured on the front page of Arab newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida Monday.
“It is impossible that my son did this,” she is quoted by the paper as saying. “My son doesn’t know how to slaughter a chicken” (the translation is from the Seventh Eye media-watch website).
read the statements these “innocent” boys made when they CONFESSED!
The two murderers confessed, however, to slaughtering five human beings and investigators reported that they expressed no remorse, and even said that had they realized there were two more children sleeping in the house, they would have killed them as well.
They saw no problem in slitting baby Hadas’s throat, they explained, since she was a Jew.
Susan Collins is still a gutless RINO
One of the keys to getting our country back on a sane fiscal course is to get RINOs out of office! Susan Collins is a prime example of a RINO that we have to replace with a real Republican.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.) said Friday that she will not support the 2012 budget passed by the House last week.
“I don’t happen to support Congressman Ryan’s plan but at least he had the courage to put forth a plan to significantly reduce the debt,” Collins said on “In the Arena” a program on WCSH 6, a local NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine.
In fairness Collins did give credit to Ryan for doing what President Bambi does not have the fortitude to do, that is to TRY!
“The president has yet to come up with a detailed plan,” Collins said. “At least Ryan had the courage to come out with a detailed plan
It is just too bad Collins does not support a real plan to help reign in government spending!
Donald Trump on private property rights
Any fool still drinking that Trump Koo-Aid? If so have a look at this
In 2005, the Supreme Court handed down one of its worst decisions ever in a case known as Kelo v. New London. In that case, the Supreme Court (on which current Chief Justice John Roberts did not yet serve) affirmed the right of the City of New London, Connecticut to seize the houses of about sixty residents of a neighborhood in New London, and turn the land on which they sat over to a private developer who had promised to develop a shopping center and high rise condominiums that would bring more revenues to the cash starved city.
Ms. Kelo, a middle class single woman who owned “a little pink house,” one of the sixty condemned, sued the City of New London. She wanted to keep her house. She didn’t understand why the City of New London had a right to steal it from her in order to enrich a private developer. The Supreme Court disagreed with her. They ruled that the City of New London could, in fact, steal her house, and the houses of her neighbors.
After the ruling, the City of New London purchased the little pink house from Ms. Kelo, and sold it for $1 to a preservationist who moved it off the development property. The other houses were purchased and demolished. The development, however, never panned out. Today, where Ms. Kelo’s house and neighborhood once stood, an empty field filled with trash and broken glass now stands, a testament to the over-reaching arrogance of the state, as affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.
What is Donald Trump’s opinion of this travesty?
In a July 2005 interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, he publicly stated that he was 100% in favor of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the City of New London to take Ms. Kelo’s house.
“But I happen to agree with it [the Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London] 100 percent, not that I would want to use it. But the fact is, if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether it’s local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make area that’s not good into a good area, and move the person that’s living there into a better place — now, I know it might not be their choice — but move the person to a better place and yet create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.”
So, to remind you, Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts, also known as the Supreme Court Justices with brains, voted AGAINST this abomination of a ruling.
So, I ask, how is it that Trump is a Conservative?
Yes, sometimes sanity does still prevail
It is easy to get cynical isn’t it? It sure seems like the forces of political correctness are always advancing, encroaching on our rights to speak, and write what we believe. Chris points out, however, that sometimes the good guys still win
Remember Derek Fenton? He’s the guy NJ Transit fired after video surfaced of him burning a Koran during a 9/11 protest last year. At the time Gov. Chris Christie said, “I knew he was going to be fired, and I had no problem with it.”
Well, guess what. The U.S. Constitution does have a problem with it. And yesterday, in what they hoped would be a low-key settlement, NJ Transit agreed to give Derek Fenton his job back, complete with back pay and legal fees.
“Our government cannot pick and choose whose free speech rights are protected, based on whether or not they approve of the content of our statements or actions,” Fenton said in a statement. “This is the very essence of the First Amendment.”
Now, for the record, I am not a fan of burning things as a form of protest. I tend to view it as a detestable act frankly. In this case, I think it does more to offend decent Muslims than it will ever do to change the radical Muslims. However, in our country, certain rights are sacred, and the right to free speech is such a right. Nothing could ever be more obscene than for us to sacrifice our natural rights upon the altar of PC!
Three Economic Charts That Will Blow Your Mind
Three Economic Charts That Will Blow Your Mind – Rightwing News
First off, here’s a breakdown of who pays into personal income taxes. Look at those numbers and SMELL the unfairness.
So, the top 10% of income earners pay 69.9% of the income tax while the bottom 50% of Americans pay 2.7%. Now, if we were actually going to make the tax code more “fair,” who would actually be paying more and who would be paying less? Maybe the rich aren’t getting quite as sweet a deal as you’d think if you got your information from Obama speeches and MSNBC.
Now, here’s another chart that defies conventional wisdom.
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Over the decades, tax rates have varied quite a bit. They’ve even gone up as high as 90% in some brackets. Yet, the actual amount of revenue coming in doesn’t change very much in relation to revenue. It’s almost as if conservatives are right and people do react to higher tax rates by changing their behavior. Maybe they work less, take more loopholes, lobby Congress to create loopholes, invest differently, move industry offshore, etc., etc… it really doesn’t matter.
The key thing to take away from this is that the amount of revenue the government can bring in via the income tax is, for whatever reason, more inelastic than most people think. That’s yet another reason to put more emphasis on balancing the budget via spending cuts as opposed to trying to fix the problem with tax increases.
Now, if Hauser’s law is as spot-on as it has been in the past and it’s going to be difficult to raise the government’s revenue level much beyond the 20% mark, this is one hell of a scary graph.
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Notice that we’re up from 2.7% of GDP in 1965 to 9.1% (the halfway mark) in 2012 and then 100% of all of tax revenue in 2052. Some people may take a little comfort from that. After all, 2052 seems like a long time away – and so it is. But, don’t forget – we have a 14 trillion dollar debt we need to pay off and the federal government funds a lot of other things besides those entitlement programs.
That money is where defense, intelligence, border security, government salaries, interest payments on the debt, welfare, and even Harry Reid’s precious Cowboy Poetry comes from.
At what point do people look at the size of the deficit, size of the debt, and numbers like these and then conclude it’s not safe to lend us money anymore? It could be much sooner than we think unless we start showing the world we’re serious about controlling spiraling entitlement costs.
Transit Worker Who Was Fired For Burning Koran Near Ground Zero Gets His Job Back
Transit Worker Who Was Fired For Burning Koran Near Ground Zero Gets His Job Back – Daily Mail
The transit worker fired for burning pages of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is getting his job back, being given $25,000 and receiving back pay for every day he was out of work.
Derek Fenton, 40, from New Jersey, hit headlines last year when he ripped up the pages from the Muslim “holy book” and set them alight outside the site of the planned mosque near Ground Zero.
He was taken away by police but released without charge and a few days later he was sacked by NJ Transit.
But a settlement obtained by The Star-Ledger Newark shows that Mr Fenton has been given his $86,000-a-year job back, will receive $25,000 for ‘pain and suffering caused’ and receive back pay equal to the amount of $331.20 for every day since he was fired on September 13 last year.
The state will also pay $25,000 in legal fees to the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit claiming Fenton’s right to free expression was violated.
He said in a statement: ‘Our government cannot pick and choose whose free speech rights are protected, based on whether or not they approve of the context of our statements or actions.
‘This is the very essence of the First Amendment.’
The New Jersey man was not working when he carried out the protest at Park51, nor did he identify himself as an NJ Transit employee.
Fenton will return to work next week if he completes a physical and a drug test on Monday, said Deborah Jacobs, New Jersey executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
A statement from the company at the time of the sacking said: ‘Mr Fenton’s public actions violated New Jersey Transit’s code of ethics.
‘NJ Transit concluded that Mr Fenton violated his trust as a state employee and there he was dismissed.’
Mr Fenton was allegedly inspired to carry out the act by Reverend Terry Jones, the Florida clergyman who sparked international protests when he threatened to stage a Koran burning day on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
A police source told the New York Daily News: ‘He said “this is America” and he wanted to stand up for it, in a Tea Party kind of way.’
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Global Outcry After More Than 80 Killed In Syria Protests – Jakarta Globe
World leaders strongly condemned Syria after its security forces killed more than 80 people during “Good Friday” protests in one of the bloodiest days of a month-long uprising.
The deaths signalled no let-up from President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces used live ammunition and tear gas against demonstrators in several towns and cities nationwide, witnesses and activists told AFP by telephone.
The bloodshed erupted as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in order to test long sought-after freedoms one day after Assad scrapped decades of draconian emergency rule.
SANA, the official news agency, said 10 people died in clashes between protesters and passers-by, adding security forces intervened using only tear gas and water cannon.
Rights groups put the toll much higher.
A group called the Committee of Martyrs of 15 March Revolution issued a list of 82 names of people killed, but said the toll could reach 100 as it tried to confirm more deaths from what it called a “massacre.”
The London-based Syrian Human Rights Committee put the death toll at 72, while others gave an even higher toll, including a group of activists who said in an Internet statement that 92 people were killed.
Friday’s toll compared with killings on March 23 in the southern town of Daraa, a focus of the protests, when activists said 100 people died.
A chorus of international condemnation rang out.
United States President Barack Obama blasted Syria’s “outrageous” use of violence, accusing Assad’s regime of seeking Iran’s aid in the brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy movement that erupted in Damascus on March 15.
“Instead of listening to their own people, President Assad is blaming outsiders while seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria’s citizens through the same brutal tactics that have been used by his Iranian allies.”
The UN chief said Assad’s government must “respect international human rights, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly” and called for an independent probe into the killings.
France urged Syria to engage in a “political dialogue without delay,” while European Parliament chief Jerzy Buzek called for the release of all prisoners of conscience and British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the killing of demonstrators is “unacceptable.”
Amnesty International joined the condemnations with its Middle East and North Africa director Malcolm Smart saying: “The Syrian authorities have again responded to peaceful calls for change with bullets and batons.”
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The London-based rights watchdog said “at least 75 people have been killed today [Friday] in Syria during mass protests… as the government launched its deadliest crackdown yet on demonstrators calling for political reform.”
According to Amnesty, which cited activists, and the martyrs’ committee, most of those who perished were killed in the southern town of Ezreh, in the governorate of Daraa, the epicentre of the protests launched on March 15.
More than 20 were killed in and around Damascus, including in the northern suburb of Douma, and Amnesty said at least 18 were killed in the central city of Homs. Two boys aged seven and 10 were among those killed in Ezreh, Amnesty said.
Thousands of protesters chanting “freedom, freedom,” and calling for the fall of the regime swarmed cities across Syria on Friday from Qamishli in the northeast to Daraa, the protest hub, in the south, witnesses said. There were protests also in the capital Damascus and the northern suburb of Douma, they told AFP.
Assad, in power since replacing his father Hafez as president in 2000, issued decrees Thursday scrapping emergency rule, abolishing the state security court and allowing citizens to hold peaceful demonstrations.
But his detractors said the moves were not enough, and the so-called Syrian Local Coordinating Committees of protesters made a raft of demands, urging a halt to the torture, killings and arrests of protesters.
Friday’s protests came after a call by Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011 for rallies spanning the Christian and Muslim faiths on “Good Friday,” which commemorates Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
Friday is also the Muslim day of rest when the biggest demonstrations have been staged across Syria after weekly prayers.
Before Friday, security forces and plain-clothes police had killed about 220 people in a brutal crackdown on the protests, according to Amnesty International.
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Murder Solved After Cops Find Crime Scene Tattooed On Gang Member’s Chest
Murder Solved After Cops Find Crime Scene Tattooed On Gang Member’s Chest – The Blaze
When 23-year old John Juarez was shot dead in front of the Los-Angeles-area Ed’s Liquor in 2004, cops couldn’t figure out who did it. The case sat unsvolved and cold for four years. That is until a vigilant cop happened upon a curious mug shot:
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That’s 22-year old Anthony Garcia, a member of the notorious LA gang Rivera-13, who was arrested in 2008 for driving without a license. As part of procedure, cops took a picture of his tattoos and entered it into a database. Later that year, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Detective Sergeant Kevin Lloyd was looking through the photos. That’s when he noticed something odd: the scene tattooed on the front of Garcia‘s chest looked a lot like the the crime scene from Juarez’s murder:
The LA Sheriff’s Department describes the similarities Lloyd noticed:
He pored over the cold case file and compared the crime scene photos with the photo of the tattoo on Garcia’s chest.
The tattoo window and frames of the store are similar to the crime scene photo of the liquor store, even the tattoo line on the roof represents the Christmas lights.
The tattoo shows a peanut man being shot then falling down face down. A helicopter is depicted shooting the peanut man.
The gang nickname of convicted murderer Anthony Garcia is “Chopper.” (Chopper is common slang for a helicopter)
Garcia’s gang refers to members of their rival gang as “peanuts.”
The direction that the shots were actually fired, matched those in the tattoo.
The tattoo street light and street sign to the left of the liquor store resemble the corner of Rosemead and Carron St., the scene of the murder.
The Daily Mail reports what happened next:
After Lloyd recognised the mural, sheriff’s detectives arrested Garcia for the shooting and officers, posing as gang members, got a confession from the gang member who bragged to them about carrying out the shooting.
This week, it led to a first-degree murder conviction in a case that police had at one time given up hope of ever solving.
Lloyd, the investigator who cracked the case, had been at the scene of the murder in 2004 when he was a station sergeant in Pico Rivera, Los Angeles.
“Think about it. He tattooed his confession on his chest. You have a degree of fate with this,” Captain Mike Parker told the LA Times.
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