Click here to view the forum on C-SPAN.

Representative Allen West (R-FL) invites you to be part of a dynamic discussion:

The Conservative Black Forum will discuss issues regarding unemployment in the black community, conservative values, and the social disparity in urban communities. The forum will be an intimate and in-depth dialogue on the black conservative voice in the United States.

What: Conservative Black Forum
When: Monday, January 23, 2012
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Where: United States Capitol, House Small Business Committee, Rayburn 2360

“The conservative voice in the black community remains mostly unacknowledged by politicians and the public alike,” West said. “While the conservative black voice has always existed, it is more important than ever that it be recognized and encouraged. More than 95 percent of black voters voted Democrat in the last election. I am hoping this forum will begin to shed light on how we can change this status quo.”

In addition to Rep. West, distinguished members of the panel include:

• Tim Scott (Congressman, South Carolina)
• Jim Jordan (Congressman, Ohio)
• Michael Steele (Former RNC Chairman, Maryland)
• J.C. Watts (Former Congressman, Oklahoma)
• Emanuel Cleaver (Congressman and Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus, Missouri)
• Octavia Johnson (Sherriff, Roanoke, Virginia)
• William Cleveland (City Councilman, Virginia)
• Gow B. Fields (Mayor, Lakeland, Florida)
• Fred Solomon (Community Activist, Alabama)
• Cleon Bryant (Pastor, Louisiana)
• Dr. Christine Brooks (Community Activist, Washington, D.C.)
• K. Carl Smith (Founder, Fredrick Douglas Republicans, Alabama)
• Dr. Karnie C. Smith, Sr. (Fredrick Douglas Republicans, Alabama)
• David Clarke, Jr. (Sheriff, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin)

Topics include:

Perception vs. reality when it comes to Black Conservatism
Urban issues in the 21st Century
The black church and state
The true history of civil rights
Conservative principles in the black community
GOP outreach

Media interested in attending this event, please contact Communications Director Angela Melvin at 202-226-2149.

Dear Patriot,

Greetings to our constituents, fellow Floridians, and all Americans, it is time for our first weekly update of the new year. This will undoubtedly be a crucial year for the future of America.

As I reflect upon a year ago, I remember what many termed the “Arab Spring” when referring to the hoped-for birth of democracy across the Islamic world. However, today we now clearly see this as the “Arab Winter,” especially when one considers that in this month the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamists groups shall have a 60-65% control of the Egyptian government.

Radical Islamists are promulgating their anti-Western, anti-America message and goals all over the world, not just in the Middle East and in Southwest Asia. Please read here about the latest terrorist threat on our own soil- this time in Tampa, Florida- mere hours from our Congressional District.

If that isn’t enough to worry about- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be traveling through Latin America this very week strengthening alliances in the region. Does everyone remember the Monroe Doctrine?

We have a 28-year-old “4-Star General” now in charge in North Korea and he will likely want to take some action to prove his “street cred.” As well, China is expanding its strategic military capability by way of its maritime and air forces. Need I remind you all the last time that occurred in an Asian nation?

With all of this as a backdrop, President Obama made an unprecedented trip to the Pentagon to release his “strategic vision” for our military – a vision which is a nightmare. The President fails to realize the “enemy has a vote” and is preparing to set up America up for another Kasserine Pass or Task Force Smith. We cannot have the United States Military as the bill payer for the fiscal irresponsibility of Washington D.C. Currently, our Department of Defense spending is around 19.6% of our total budget. In terms of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) we are only at 4.5% in defense spending, and that includes funding support to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In contrast, our mandatory spending (net interest on the debt, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, and Social Security) makes up 62% of our federal budget. In Fiscal Year 2011 we saw a 6.7% increase in MEDICARE spending, but less than a 2% increase in defense spending.

With President Obama’s vision, we shall see defense spending over the next ten years drop to 2.7% of our GDP, while mandatory spending grows closer to 12% of GDP. One has to ask, what does President Obama believe to be the essential task of the federal government?

My recommendation is simple: develop a National Security Strategy of “Engage, Deter and Strike”, and from there enact a threat assessment across our geographic AORs (Areas of Responsibility) which looks at threats in those regions for the next 15-20 years. Then develop the requirements, capabilities, and capacities necessary to meet that strategy.

Other evaluative criteria for this strategy: eliminate nation-building or occupation style operations; move from a forward deployed to a power projection platform military; eliminate sustained deployments in a combat zone longer than eight months for our troops and allow for a two-and-a-half year “dwell” time back at home. In addition, we should reduce weapon system procurement and acquisition development timelines down to five to seven years and enact a 10-15% cut across higher headquarters staffs.

No President gets to decide where this country will fight, the enemy will make that decision. The Commander-in-Chief needs to be able to protect this nation and our interests abroad.

I am constantly reminded of Alexander the Great’s famous quote, “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” America always must be led by a lion with a vision of “peace through strength.”

My other concern coming out of this past week is not just about the “recess appointments” made by President Obama, but rather the accompanying rhetoric. Our Founding Fathers established a Constitutional Republic rooted in the rule of law and a system of checks and balances between coequal branches of our Federal Government. America is not an imperial monarchy and no one gets to bypass Congress to implement his ideological agenda.  I hope America is now realizing that elections have consequences.

I am pleased the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5%, but let us not start dancing in the end zone yet. We need to have a consistent drop and never forget that we have millions of Americans who have dropped from the rolls because they are no longer seeking employment, as well as many more who are underemployed. I want to be assured this drop from 9% to 8.6% to 8.5% is not just a “seasonal bump.” Only free market-oriented, private sector, fiscal, monetary, tax, and regulatory policies will create the conditions for sustained economic and job growth.  Furthermore, a year from now, Americans must realize that we could see the most massive tax increases in our history.

I want to close with a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” which was written in the mid-1800s: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

In this critical election year, beware the individual who promises more spending to placate the electorate and expands the level of dependency upon the State. That person, truly a Statist, will end the longest running Constitutional Republic the world has ever known, our America.

Steadfast and Loyal,

From Fox News:

(h/t: Gates of Vienna and Vlad Tepes)

My Fox Tampa Bay: Man charged with Tampa car bomb plot

Kosovar immigrant planned Ybor, South Tampa blasts

Updated: Monday, 09 Jan 2012, 6:20 PM EST

Published : Monday, 09 Jan 2012, 11:33 AM EST

A MyFoxTampaBay.com staff report

TAMPA – A chilling terrorist plot ended with the weekend arrest of a 25-year-old immigrant from Kosovo, FBI agents say. Sami Osmakac allegedly told undercover investigators that he wanted to “die the Islamic way” after attacking locations in Ybor City and South Tampa.

According to the FBI, Osmakac is a naturalized U.S. citizen who now lives in Pinellas Park. Agents were tipped off to the possible plot in September.

The five-month investigation culminated with a sting operation on Saturday. Osmakac was arrested after he allegedly took possession of explosives and firearms that had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement.

Among Osmakac’s alleged bomb targets were nightclubs in the Ybor City area of Tampa, the operations center of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Ybor City, and a business in the South Tampa area.

As part of the second portion of his planned attack, Osmakac allegedly told the undercover FBI employee that, after the car bomb was detonated, he wanted to wear an explosive belt and “get in somewhere where there’s a lot of people” and take hostages.

“Once I have this…they can take me in five million pieces,” he allegedly added, in an apparent reference to a suicide blast.

Osmakac’s family, however, denied the allegations. His father, who owns the Balkan Food Store & Bakery in St. Petersburg, told FOX 13 his son had become more religious recently, but insisted he had no weapons.

He did confirm that federal agents had searched his home over the weekend.

According to the FBI, the plot unfolded through several meetings with undercover sources and agents:

• September: FBI agents receive information from a confidential human source indicating that Osmakac had asked for al-Qaeda flags.
• November: Osmakac and the FBI source discuss and identify potential targets in Tampa. Osmakac allegedly asks the source for help in obtaining firearms and explosives for the attacks.
• December 21: Osmakac tells an undercover FBI employee that he wants an AK-47-style machine gun, Uzi submachine guns, high capacity magazines, grenades, and an explosive belt. Allegedly, he later makes a $500 down payment.
• January 1: Osmakac allegedly outlines his attack. He wants to get a hotel room; park a vehicle with a bomb in it at his target, leave the area, detonate the car bomb, and then retrieve weapons and explosives from the hotel room.

It was during that New Year’s Day meeting when the undercover FBI employee noted that Osmakac could change his mind and back out of the plot. According to investigators, Osmakac immediately shook his head and said, “We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?”

Saturday, FBI agents arrested Osmakac after he took possession of the explosive devices and firearms, which had been neutralized without his knowledge.

Investigators also say Osmakac made a video of himself explaining his motives for carrying out the planned attack.  They did not divulge details about the message, but other videos posted online show a man who appears to be Osmakac railing against infidels and even assaulting members of the outspoken Westboro Baptist Church.

Osmakac faces one charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He made his first appearance in federal court Monday afternoon.

Much more here:

• Gates of Vienna: Jihad Thwarted in Tampa
• Julia Gorin: Happy New Year from Another of America’s “Rescuees” Hailing from the “Liberated” Ancient Serbian Land of Kosovo
• Yahoo News: Muslim man from Kosovo charged in Fla. bomb plot

Pledge your support for Small Business Saturday®

The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday® is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.

On November 26, we’re asking millions of people to Shop Small^sm at their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy. When we all shop small, it will be huge.

Facebook: Pledge to shop small on Nov 26

More information here.

Congressman West Reminds Shoppers to Support Small Businesses

(FORT LAUDERDALE)—- Congressman Allen West (R-FL) released this statement today honoring America’s small businesses and reminding Americans to shop ‘local’ during the holiday season:

“The Saturday after Thanksgiving has officially been deemed “Small Business Saturday” and is a day America has set aside to support local businesses around the country.  My wife, Angela, and I will certainly be shopping at our favorite local businesses this holiday season in South Florida and I encourage all Americans to do the same.

Small businesses, not government, are the economic engine that drives America. Congress must put the power back in hands of small business so they can use their resources to spur innovation and create jobs.  As a proud member of the House Committee on Small Business, I am working to eliminate unnecessary and burdensome regulations, cut taxes, and reduce wasteful spending.

Right now, there are more than a dozen House passed bills sitting on Senator Harry Reid’s desk- that if passed- would remove burdensome regulations on small businesses as well as provide incentives to encourage businesses to hire again.  I call on Senator Reid to not waste anymore time and make these pieces of legislation a priority when he returns from the Thanksgiving holiday.

In the meantime, I encourage all Americans to seek out those small businesses this holiday, and put their money to good use by shopping at and supporting our local ‘mom and pops’. The Small Business is the epitome of American innovation and ingenuity and America would not be the country it is today, and simply put, can not continue to be the great nation it is, without the success of our small businesses.”

Small Business Facts:

There are an estimated 27.2 million small businesses in the United States and  Small businesses create about seven of every ten new jobs and they employ just over half of the country’s private sector workforce. Small businesses have generated 64% of net new jobs over the past 15 years.

For a list of all of the bills the House has passed concerning small businesses, click here

Stop the Islamization of America: Maryland Public Pools Enforce Sharia-Muslim Swim, Segregated Swimming

(h/t: J.C.)
Ever wondered what a “burqini” looks like? Now you know. The article at the above link tells how shari’a and gender apartheid are coming to a sports facility near you.

Perfect: Florida Occupier Busted for Stealing Furniture He Used in Camp

Photo of the perp (but not the furniture) at the above link. No information about whether the victim still wants his furniture back after it’s been collecting mildew and vermin at Occupy Pensacola.

Obama Administration Training Egyptian Islamists for Elections

I keep mentioning that Washington DC is swarming with Muslim Brotherhood moles. Now they’re coordinating the Obama Administration response to the so-called “Arab Spring” so as to cement the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in the affected countries.

If you want proof that U.S. policy towards the Arab Spring is fatally flawed, look no further than William Taylor, the State Department’s Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions and long associate of Muslim Brotherhood apologists. Taylor officially took charge on September 16 and oversees U.S. aid to countries affected by the Arab Spring, specifically Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

Taylor’s office has been giving Egyptian Islamists training to prepare for the election contests that begin on November 28. He justified it by saying that the assistance is open to all parties and the U.S. wouldn’t pick sides. “Sometimes, Islamist parties show up, sometimes they don’t,” he said nonchalantly.

When asked how the U.S. would feel if the Muslim Brotherhood won Egypt’s elections, he said, “I think we will be satisfied, if it is a free and fair election. What we need to do is judge people and parties and movements on what they do, not what they’re called.” The answer seemed to infer that critics of the Brotherhood are needlessly alarmed by the name of the group.

It gets worse. Taylor compared the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, as if that is a positive example to follow. “As long as parties, entities do not espouse or conduct violence, we’ll work with them.” He said there is undue fear of the Islamists. “This is something that we are used to, and should not be afraid of. We should deal with them.”

It is hard to imagine a statement more frightening and naïve coming from a senior official…

Much more here.

The Muslim Brotherhood, like other organizations that support the Islamic agenda, does, in fact, espouse and conduct violence. Muslim doctrine requires violence; that’s what it’s all about.

Hege Storhaug: Very Little to Debate at ‘Human Rights in Islam’ Discussion

It’s an oxymoron.

It is impossible for me to provide a complete account of the debate on “Human Rights in Islam: Just or Unjust?” that was held under the auspices of IslamNet, Norway’s largest Islamic organization, on November 7, 2011. The “ideas” that were presented were utterly lacking in logic or intelligence, and the whole thing raced by very fast. It was almost impossible to keep up with it all: claims were made at a tempo out of another world, and were absolutely without substance. It was far more a revival meeting than a debate.

They delightedly applauded the chopping off of hands and feet. And they didn’t raise an eyebrow when executions committed by family agreement were defended as a reasonable ”human right in Islam.”

You would be forgiven for thinking that we were in deepest Saudi Arabia, or in a long-ago century. Far from it. We were in an auditorium at Oslo University College, where our future was being hatched onstage. The place was packed, and the great majority of the young students were wearing clothes that identifed themselves as followers of the Prophet.

The website Fritanke.no reported prior to the “debate” that the participants were sharia expert Fadel Soliman, Lars Gule, and myself, and that Gule would withdraw from the event if IslamNet separated the audience members by sex. But they did. The young women used one entrance to the auditorium, the young men another. The auditorium consisted of four sitting areas. The areas in the back were entirely separated by sex, while one of the areas in the middle contained members of both sexes — though not in the same rows. The sexual separation “just happened — entirely naturally.”…

More here.

From YouTube:

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Uploaded by BigCatRescue on Nov 29, 2008

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You may wonder whether cats, as obligate carnivores, should be eating pumpkin. It turns out that a small amount of pumpkin added to their diet is good for feline digestive systems. This applies to house cats as well.

Pets.ca: Pumpkin for cats – pumpkin for dogs – Pumpkin for diarrhea or constipation

If your dog or cat is having the occasional case of constipation or diarrhea, one of the things that might help is canned pumpkin. Yes canned pumpkin in its pureed form (NOT pumpkin pie filling) is a fantastic stool softener which makes it a good natural remedy for constipation. It often helps with upset stomach or indigestion for both cats and dogs. It is very rich in fibre and adding just one or two teaspoonfuls to your pet’s food often gets the system moving in no time. Dogs will occasionally want to eat it directly and that’s fine too. Sometimes though, finicky cats and dogs won’t touch it no matter what you do.

On the opposite end of things is diarrhea. Since the dietary fibre in canned pumpkin absorbs water, it can be a great help to a cat or dog that has diarrhea. Some pet owners report that it firms up their pet’s loose stools or diarrhea within a few hours. Again one to two teaspoonfuls is all that is needed.

N.B. It should be noted that both diarrhea and constipation can both be very serious and require immediate veterinary care depending on the cause. Whatever the cause, diarrhea or constipation lasting more than 24-36 hours requires vet care. Click the following links for more general information on diarrhea,constipation and intestinal disorders…

More here.

BIG CATS vs Pumpkins!

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Click here to read the full story from St. Petersburg Times.

Thanks to Fox News:

A Florida appeals court has rejected a request to block a Hillsborough judge from upholding Islamic law in a case involving the former trustees of a local Tampa mosque that has garnered the national spotlight.

The state’s 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday denied without comment a petition filed by the mosque, known as the Islamic Education Center of Tampa, which is challenging Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen’s ruling in March that he intended to cite “ecclesiastical Islamic law” in the case, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

The former trustees have been suing the mosque because they claim they were unfairly removed as trustees. Nielsen said in March that based on testimony, “under ecclesiastical law” and pursuant to the Koran, “Islamic brothers should attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves.”

The two parties reportedly agreed ahead of time to use an imam and Islamic Law to resolve any potential differences through arbitration. So Nielsen only referenced Islamic law in deciding whether the two parties could resolve their differences through arbitration. He ruled they could.

The arbitrator ruled in favor of the former trustees, an outcome that would give them control of $2.2 million in mosque funds if the decision is upheld, the newspaper reported.

But mosque officials say the arbitration never happened, and they dispute the meaning of the appeals court ruling. Mosque attorney Paul Thanasides told the newspaper that an appeals court decision without a written opinion means the court wasn’t addressing the merits of the case.

But Lee Segal, a lawyer representing the trustees, told the newspaper that the ruling was a “big time” win for his clients and vindication for Nielsen.

Lech Walesa rejects OWS

Some of the #Occupy movement signs and slogans seem to resonate with many onlookers. Maybe it’s because they’ve stolen a few talking points (but very little else) from the Tea Party. Maybe it’s because the sympathetic mainstream media carefully edits out what they don’t want you to see.

Let’s take a closer look.

Is this you?

Are you frustrated and angry about unemployment, inflation, the decreasing economic opportunities, the burden of debt, and the declining standard of living in North America, much of Europe, and elsewhere? Are you worried about the sovereign debt problems that bedevil the international financial system?

So am I.

Do you empathize with those struggling to make ends meet in low-paid, part-time jobs? Do you consider bailouts to be unconstitutional, politically and economically unwise, and morally wrong? Do you believe that the Federal Reserve system puts too much power into the hands of too few people who are not accountable to the voters and taxpayers?

So do I.

The Occupy movement blames our predicament on “billionaires”, “rich corporations”, and “Wall Street bankers”. They offer no basis for their accusations, but merely pander to the temptations of envy, sloth, and greed to which all of us are prone.

I agree with Herman Cain in placing most of the blame on Barack Obama and his failed policies. I also blame other public officials in the US and elsewhere whose policies brought about our financial downfall.

Whose side are they on?

Let’s see…the Occubaggers have got the commies, the socialists, the anarchists, the American Nazi Party, the George Soros front groups including the Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, and MoveOn.org, along with Code Pink and Michael Moore, the Muslim Brotherhood and its front group CAIR (more about CAIR and its connections here and here), the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, the leftist establishment media including the New York Times and the Washington Post, Frances Fox Piven, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Khamenei, Hugo Chavez, David Duke, and, of course, that architect of failure and scapegoater-in-chief, Barack Hussein Obama himself.

Along for the ride are the aging drugged-out hippies reliving Woodstock, the young drugged-out prep school and college kids looking for a place to fornicate al fresco, the paid shills, the student loan debtors with useless degrees, the trust-fund babies, the anti-Semites, the LGBT nudists, the race-card players, the outdoor urinators and defecators, the pro-abort feminazis, the tree-huggers, the vegans, and the mentally ill. (Many of these categories overlap.) Rounding out the rogue’s gallery are various drug dealers, crackheads, junkies, thieves, rapists, street bums and other lumpenproletariat, and felons hiding out from the law.

None of them speak for me.

Nor do they speak for Lech Walesa.

Former Polish President Won’t Attend #OccupyWallStreet After Citizen Journalists Expose Its Radical Roots

Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, champion in the fight against communism, and winner of the Liberty Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989, has decided to not make a trip to New York in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Last week the AP reported that Walesa was backing the Occupy “movement” and considered traveling to New York in support of the growing nationwide mob activity that currently plagues the United States. However, when former Illinois gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski, (For the Good of Illinois) found out about this, he quickly reached out to his contacts in Poland to alert the former president to the truth behind this radical movement.

“We made the point that the political themes of Occupy Wall Street may have started out with some of the principles that we share, but OWS themes were rapidly being morphed into anti-freedom and anti-liberty messages. At the core is the want for a big, powerful central government to dominate the lives of individual citizens.” -Andrzejewski

In his write-up last night at BigGovernment.com, Andrzejewski stated that with the help of BigGoverment and other sources, he was able to convey an accurate picture of the Occupy movement, particularly that it is “…organized by anarchists, Code Pink, the American Communist movement, jihadists, anti-Israel, socialist, and anti- free enterprise interests.” After reviewing this information about the true nature of the demonstrations, Walesa and his team withdrew their support and will not be attending any Occupy protests.

We were overjoyed to learn that recent Rebel Pundit investigative reports and footage were able to play an an important role in Walesa’s decision. According to Andrzejewski:

“They appreciated the inside info- they weren’t getting that in Poland from the European media.”

Much more here.

Also see:

• Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Citizens At #OccupyWallStreet
• ‘Dirty Jobs’ Host Mike Rowe Not Impressed By Obama’s Class Warfare
• Occupy Wall Street Is No Friend to Small Business
• Tea Partier Forced To Break Down Flag Pole, Occupy Protesters Left Alone
• New Yorkers Fed Up With Defecating #OccupyWallStreet Protesters
• What Jesus Would Not Do

So…does the #Occupy movement speak for you? Unless you truly are a leftist, with all that this implies, the answer is no.

Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters accused of living in filth as shocking pictures show one demonstrator defecating on a POLICE CAR

Bloomberg: ‘Protesters are taking jobs away from the city’

Gee, ya think?

The shocking images demonstrate the extent to which conditions have deteriorated as demonstrations in downtown Manhattan enter their fourth week. Further pictures seen by Mail Online have been censored, as we deemed them too graphic to show.

According to eye witnesses, when people ran to tell nearby police about the man defecating on the squad car they were ignored.

Incredible.

Standing downwind of the piles of rubbish, bankers walking past the man did a double take before hurrying away.

Brookfield Office Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park, the site of the New York demonstration, have already railed against protesters, who they claim are creating sanitation problems.

‘Sanitation is a growing concern,’ Brookfield said in a statement.

‘Normally the park is cleaned and inspected every week night. . . because the protesters refuse to cooperate. . .the park has not been cleaned since Friday, September 16th and as a result, sanitary conditions have reached unacceptable levels,’ CBS News reported.

Although many of the protesters are understood to be making strenuous efforts to clean up after themselves, after three weeks of occupation, the strain of hundreds of people living on the street has begun to take its toll.

Much more here.

According to Jammie Wearing Fool, the New York Dookie Dude has already inspired a satirical T-shirt.

Problem is, Brookfield Office Properties, the owner of the park, received a huge tax-subsidized loan from the Obama Administration just before they allowed the #OccupyWallStreet protesters to camp there. The loan was for another wind-farm boondoggle. What repercussions would Brookfield face if they suddenly decided it was time to back out of this devil’s bargain and ask the NYPD to evict this gaggle of malcontents from their park?

It is wrong to encourage huge mobs of angry, irresponsible, lawless, and, in some cases, deranged people to gather all over the US. No one made provision for sanitary facilities or other accommodations. These “demonstrations” provide a breeding ground for disease and vermin and impose costs on taxpayers. The ringleaders knew full well that the mobs were going to obstruct traffic, make noise, discard trash and filth everywhere, invade nearby businesses and vandalize the bathrooms, and create a public nuisance in general. That was the plan from the get-go!

Were it not for their political connections, the owners of Zuccotti Park in NYC would have been fined heavily for harboring a public nuisance on their property. The denizens of the park would have been expelled and made to pay for cleanup of garbage and litter. The person who dropped a deuce on the police car would have gone to jail.

Mobs can become dangerous

Mobs can become dangerous at any time. People caught up in mob psychology often perpetrate crimes that they would ordinarily not be tempted to commit. There is no predicting what a mob might do if someone stirs them up – and it is all too easy for a few people planted within a mob to do just that.

At the very least, the Democrats who fomented this mess should have disavowed the rabidly anti-Semitic statements on the part of certain demonstrators. I can only imagine the hue and cry in the media and the political sphere that would have ensued if someone behaving in that way had infiltrated a Tea Party event.

Occupy Atlanta Silences Civil Rights Hero John Lewis!

(h/t: PJ Tatler)

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Uploaded by conservARTive on Oct 8, 2011

What we saw at the “revolution”:

Many curious citizens and media outlets came to the first Occupy Atlanta event, and were visible shocked and confused by the consistent Marxism employed by the group. People abandoned their individuality and liberty to be absorbed into a hypnotizing collective. The facilitator made it clear that he was not a “leader” and that everyone was completely equal; words often spoken by leftists, but in this case they actually applied their philosophy. Into this surreal and oppressive environment, Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights hero and icon of American leftism, came to speak as has so often done at left-wing rallies and events in Atlanta. He is practically worshiped in Democrat circles, and was visibly stunned to see these Marxists turn him away. It was reminiscent of previous Marxist revolutions in history when those who ignorantly supported the revolutionaries are, over time, purged and rejected for the “good of the collective”, when their usefulness has expired.

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Mobs encourage unhealthy and regressive behavior

Mobs don’t do anything automatically. Someone always starts them up, and very often, the real ringleaders are not visible on the podium.

Whenever a large group of “protesters” or “activists” are crowded close together, several people “planted” in the crowd can easily manipulate the rest of them to follow along. All it takes is two or three people to start up with these “call and response” vocalizations, and the crowd will join in and continue that pattern. I suspect that the “call and response” is another example of “astroturf” activity incited by the ringleaders, to inculcate behavior patterns in the crowd that makes them easier to manipulate when the time comes.

The imitative hand-flapping and finger-waggling on the part of the crowd reminds me of the “stimming” behavior that some children and adults with autism use as a means of comforting themselves. The call-and-response repetition reminds me of the echolalia that, in anyone other than small children, is symptomatic of various mental disorders.

This is a sick form of manipulation. If I found myself in a group of people and someone was trying to get me to behave like that, I would leave.

Gates of Vienna: ‘We Have Our Revolution’

This video from the “Occupy Wall Street” demo is too creepy for words. Watch it; you’ll see what I mean.

And make sure to let it run all the way through — Vlad has added his own special take at the end:

Egyptian Tahrir Sq vet gives keynote at march on Wall St Oct 2011

Gates of Vienna: What’s Really Going On With Those Wall Street Protests?

Ezra Levant answers Keith Olbermann:

Occupy Wall St. shows its inevitable motive

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video.

Organizer admits to paying ‘Occupy DC’ protesters [VIDEO]

(h/t: Blazing Cat Fur)

Occupy Wall St. Protesters Being Paid

A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.

TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots…

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From: Michael Djordjevich
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:58 PM

Once I read Stella Jatras’ appeal to us Serbs to defend us Serbs, due to immense respect for her caring about us and her tireless defense of the Serbdom, I had no choice to leave aside other matter and attend this one.

I just hope that Rubio received at least 1,000 letters of protest from us….but did he?

Be kind to forward this communication to all people to whom you sent Stella’s appeal (letter of 9-19).

Thank you.

Michael

Also see:

• Aleksandra Rebic: Serbian Unity Congress founder and trustee Michael Djordjevich responds to Senator Marco Rubio and his slam against the Serbs
• Sparta: My Fax Sent to Senator Rubio
• William Dorich: “Sorry, it’s time to spill my guts!”

One thing I wanted to impress on Rubio is that I like what he says, other than his misguided comment about the Serbs. When I first heard him speak, I thought he was the one - even a possibility of the VP.  The main approach should be to educate him and to try to make him see the injustice that the Serbs have had to endure, rather than make an enemy of him.  I called the office right after I sent my FAX, just to make sure that it was received, and it was.  Let’s hope it will perhaps make him stop and think.  By all means, continue with your calls regarding your feelings and emotions, but also indicate that he has been misguided and try to present some incident to show our side that the papers lied about.  Lord knows there are enough of them!

This is the approach I took.

Sparta

—– Original Message —–
FAX
TO: Senator Marco Rubio
FROM: Stella L. Jatras
a citizen of this great country
DATE:: 21 September 2011
SUBJECT: Your comments during your foreign Policy Speech
NUMBER OF PAGES: 2

SENATOR RUBIO, I ASK THAT YOU PLEASE READ MY FAX AS IT MAY EXPLAIN THE MANY REASONS WHY YOU ARE RECEIVING SOME VERY ANGRY PHONE CALLS AND FAXES..

Dear Senator Rubio,

By now you have probably received many angry phone calls and faxes regarding your comment equating the Serbian people, collectively, to Hitler’s Nazis. Please understand that the messages come from frustration at the injustice that has been perpetrated against the Serbian people. For the record, neither I nor any member of my family is Serbian.

Unfortunately, I believe you have been misinformed about the situation in the Balkans, where the axiom, “Truth is always the first casualty of War” has again been proven true. Therefore, I ask that you consider the fact that the Serbs lost the PR battle in the American media. The Serbian people have been humiliated, denigrated and dehumanized as an entire race, when, in fact they have been fighting the same Muslim jihadists who are out to destroy this country. It was President Bush who said after 9/11 that we will do whatever it takes to keep the nation safe (against Muslim terrorists) yet we denied the Serbian people that right when it came to defending themselves against the same Muslim terrorists.

The Serbian people were our ally in World War One and World War Two. In World War Two, over 500 downed American pilots were rescued by the Serbian forces of General Draza Mihailovich at great sacrifices to themselves. Then, because of the actions of the Soviet mole, Kim Philby, the Allies withdrew support from Gen. Mihailovich to support Marshall Josip Broz Tito, thus betraying the Serbian people and condemning them to live under communism for over 50 years. During World War Two, over a million Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were exterminated by the Ustashi (Croatia’s Nazi party, ably assisted by the Bosnian and Albanian Muslims) so cruelly that even the German Gestapo were appalled.

1 of 2

Please contact Aaron Breitbart, at the Simon Wiesenthal Institute for these statistics.

We again betrayed the Serbian people when we intervened in Bosnia in the 1990s. Instead of being honest brokers in a nasty civil war, we supported the Bosnian Muslims and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – an army that was trained in Osama bin Laden’s terrorist camps – described as terrorists by Special Envoy Robert Gelbard. Did you know that today Kosovo is engaged in sex slavery, kidnapping and prostitution and that over 80 percent of drugs going into Europe come from Kosovo? Surely this is not what you intended to support.

There have been many books written about the war in the Balkans, but during the time of the conflict not one book giving the Serbian side could be found in any of the bookstores nor in the libraries.

Not only have the Serbs had to face insurgents sent in by Iran, but the Serbian people also faced a hostile media. For all the horrors that have been committed against the Serbs, the beheadings, the rape of Serbian women, the castration of Serbian men, the roasting live of Serbian soldiers by Islam’s holy warriors, the murdering of Serbian priests, the lies and distortions of atrocities that were committed by Bosnian Muslim forces for which we bombed innocent Serbian civilians, not one of these atrocities was ever presented to the American people by CNN nor by any of the other major media.

Senator, it is unjust and unfair to condemn the Serbian people before you have the facts. Therefore, I encourage you to send one of your staffers to secure a copy of Professor John Schindler’s book, Unholy Terror, Bosnia, Al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad.”

I leave you with the following important quotes:

Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense. “This organized anti-Serb and pro-Muslim propaganda should cause anyone believing in democracy and free speech serious concerns. It recalls Hitler’s propaganda against the allies in World War II. Facts are twisted and, when convenient, disregarded.”

John Ranz, Chairman of the Survivors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, USA. “The gigantic campaign to brainwash America by the media against the Serbian people is just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information and outright lies.”

Edward Herman, Global Research. “The successful demonization of the Serbs, making them largely responsible for the Yugoslav wars, and as unique and genocidal killers, was one of the great propaganda triumphs of our era. It was done quickly, with such uniformity and uncritical zeal in the mainstream Western media, that disinformation had (and still has, after almost two decades) a field day.

Respectfully submitted,

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September 19, 2011

SENATOR MARCO RUBIO
317 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510-0001

Dear Senator Rubio:

Ignorance is not bliss and repeating lies intended to punish an entire Serbian nation is equally unattractive. Not since Hitler has an entire nation been demonized with collective guilt and yet you resorted to this misleading language in a recent speech in which you said: “The American forces have been the greatest force of good in the world during the past century. It stopped Nazism AND ETHNIC CLEANSING BY SERBS!” The facts are now known. There were not “350,000 killed” as President Clinton said in his last inaugural address. The number of “97,000 killed on all sides” has been internationally confirmed once the propaganda was stripped away.

I am a double victim of Genocide, in 1942 in the Serbian church in the village of Vojnic, Croatia 97 Serbs were locked inside their church and burned to the ground… 17 of those victims were my relatives. Of the more than one million Serb victims of WWII not a single surviving family received justice or compensation.

Prior to 1995, a dozen retired American generals from MPRI in Virgina went to aid and train Croatians in violation of President” Clinton’s insistance that the “U.S. was not taking sides.” During Operation Storn in August, 1995 when over 230,000 Serbs were “ethnically cleansed” from Croatia… (the single largest cleansing of these wars), the last 5 relatives of my name were too old and too sick to flee. I was notified a month later they were found with their throats slit. Where is my justice Senator?

More than 35,000 Serbs are dead, killed in these dismemberment Civil Wars in which the United States not only took sides, but secretly aided and abetted this genocide of the Serbian people. I know many of my Serbian friends in Florida are outraged by your remark. You may need those Serbs when you seek reelection. Where is your voice that since the end of the U.S. bombing in 1999, over 512 ancient Serbian Orthodox Christian churches have been destroyed in Kosovo as you and 17,000 NATO troops look the other way?

I hope that you will apologize for your remark and to stop listening to Senator John McCain who shared a prison cell in Vietnam with Lance Sijan, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, who escaped twice in spite of his broken hip. A building at the Air Force Academy is name for this proud Serb, but Senator McCain never mentions his name. When the Serbian church in Arizona was desecrated with Swastikas and filthy Croatian words in 1994 Senator McCain remained silent but nevertheless took tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from wealthy Serbs in Arizona. He, like too many others in the Senate are rabid Serbophobes who denied Serbs the right to be heard in our House and Senate for the past two decades, betraying their former Serbian allies of two World Wars.

The New York Times did not publish ONE SINGLE article during these dismemberment wars that was written by a Serbian journalist, author, scholar or political leader. Are you following their example by muzzling and demonizing my people too? Apparently, “Equal Justice Under the Law” as etched over the doorway of the U.S. Supreme Court is being trashed as you use political hate speech to further your political aspirations?

I am enclosing two of my books, Jasenovac Then & Now: A conspiracy of Silence and Serbia: Faces & Places to fill the void left by your lack of knowledge about the Serbian people.

William Dorich, Publisher/Author

Sen. Rubio, pay attention here!

Florida has a large, growing, and politically aware Serbian-American community. You cannot afford to alienate us by thoughtlessly repeating vicious slander against the Serbian people.

Click here to view the embedded video.

A message to my Serbian friends.

It has come to my attention from a Serbian friend regarding a speech on foreign policy made by Marco Rubio. At approximately 2016 into his tape, Senator Rubio says (to paraphrase): “The American forces have been the greatest force of good in the world during the past century. It stopped Nazism AND ETHNIC CLEANSING BY SERBS!!!!” In other words, condemning an entire race of people, comparing them to Hitler’s Nazism and the character assassination of the Serbian people.

You can read Rubio’s speech HERE.

Furthermore, it appears the Senator has been getting advice from Senator McCain. (Go to approximately 2015 on the above video.)

You can also reach Senator Rubio at:
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 1-202-224-3041
Fax: 1-202-228-0285
@marcorubio on Twitter
Click HERE for Sen. Rubio’s email contact form.

I strongly urge Serbian organizations and Serbian churches to challenge or protest the inflammatory and damning words of the Serbian people by Senator Marco Rubio.

Zivela Srbija, Zivela Kosovo!

- Sparta

Everyone, please pass this along!

This is believed to be one of the men counter terrorism chiefs say are plotting a terrorist attack in America on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11.

An image of American-born 22-year-old Jude Kenan Mohammad has been posted on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

He has been linked to what officials have called a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaeda threat to set off a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

Mohammad is among three al-Qaeda leaders that investigators believe pose a particular threat because they have lived in the U.S.

Should that mission prove impossible, the attackers have been told to simply cause as much destruction as they can.

Mohammad, who was born in Florida, dropped out of North Carolina’s Fuquay-Varina High School in 2006 and left the U.S. two years later to visit Pakistan, his father’s homeland.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted him and seven other men in 2009 on charges that they conspired to carry out terrorist activities around the world. Two of the men have pleaded guilty, and the trial of four others is set for September 19 in New Bern.

Federal authorities have never arrested Mohammad in the case, saying that they believe he has been in Pakistan since the indictment was issued.

(Via vinienco.com; h/t VanGrungy)

Click here to view FBI WANTED poster.

MUCH more information at The Jawa Report.

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