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SECOND

Friday, June 17, 2016 11:01 PM

In the West, functionally speaking, “terrorist” is now a propaganda term with little meaning other than “a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies.” It’s even used for Muslims who attack soldiers of an army occupying their country.

The scholars Remi Brulin and Lisa Stampnitzky have spent years documenting how the term “terrorist”, from the start, was little more than a propaganda tool designed to legitimize one side’s violence while delegitimizing its enemies’ violence.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/17/why-is-the-killer-of-british-mp-jo
-cox-not-being-called-a-terrorist/

THGRRI

Friday, June 17, 2016 11:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In the West, functionally speaking, “terrorist” is now a propaganda term with little meaning other than “a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies.” It’s even used for Muslims who attack soldiers of an army occupying their country.

The scholars Remi Brulin and Lisa Stampnitzky have spent years documenting how the term “terrorist”, from the start, was little more than a propaganda tool designed to legitimize one side’s violence while delegitimizing its enemies’ violence.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/17/why-is-the-killer-of-british-mp-jo
-cox-not-being-called-a-terrorist/

The problem with this logic is that in the case of DASH they claim to represent Islam and do not. They claim to be fighting for things most of their fellow Arabs do not support. They are not fighting for the Middle East to have the right to determine it's own fate. Instead they are fighting to force their warped ideologies onto everyone through terror.

ELVISCHRIST

Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:57 AM

Quote:
He passed a back ground check, blame the feds.

Specifically, blame the GOP senators who voted *NOT* to expand background checks or to stop those on terrorist watch lists from buying assault weapons.

SECOND

Saturday, June 18, 2016 3:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:

The problem with this logic is that in the case of DASH they claim to represent Islam and do not. They claim to be fighting for things most of their fellow Arabs do not support. They are not fighting for the Middle East to have the right to determine it's own fate. Instead they are fighting to force their warped ideologies onto everyone through terror.

If you understood the article, you would NOT have mentioned DASH.

The article's title is: Why is the killer of British MP Jo Cox NOT being called a “Terrorist”? Because the killer is white male Thomas Mair, a Britain First affiliate. The excuse the newspapers use is that Mair suffered from mental illness which is now terror shorthand for ‘he wasn’t Muslim’ even if Mair was a Nazi. Mair had struggles with mental illness. But exactly the same was true of Omar Mateen, who slaughtered 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club last week, and he was instantly decreed to be a “terrorist” by essentially every media outlet despite those mental health issues and his obvious struggles with his own sexual orientation.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/17/why-is-the-killer-of-british-mp-jo
-cox-not-being-called-a-terrorist/

I guess I need to mention that because Omar Mateen was called a "terrorist", John McCain launched an attack on Obama because the President had not sent more troops to the Middle East to fight "terrorists" that McCain wants killed. McCain has fallen into the lazy habit of calling everybody who is a bad Muslim a "terrorist" because McCain isn't thinking straight and McCain imagined that Orlando and the Middle East were connected because everything bad is "terrorism". McCain had to retract his claim that Obama caused the killings in Orlando when somebody pointed out that doddering old fool McCain was making less sense than usual.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/16/3789634/nra-favorite-john
-mccain-blames-obama-for-orlando-shooting/

THGRRI

Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:

The problem with this logic is that in the case of DASH they claim to represent Islam and do not. They claim to be fighting for things most of their fellow Arabs do not support. They are not fighting for the Middle East to have the right to determine it's own fate. Instead they are fighting to force their warped ideologies onto everyone through terror.
If you understood the article, you would NOT have mentioned DASH.

The article's title is: Why is the killer of British MP Jo Cox NOT being called a “Terrorist”? Because the killer is white male Thomas Mair, a Britain First affiliate. The excuse the newspapers use is that Mair suffered from mental illness which is now terror shorthand for ‘he wasn’t Muslim’ even if Mair was a Nazi. Mair had struggles with mental illness. But exactly the same was true of Omar Mateen, who slaughtered 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club last week, and he was instantly decreed to be a “terrorist” by essentially every media outlet despite those mental health issues and his obvious struggles with his own sexual orientation.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/17/why-is-the-killer-of-british-mp-jo
-cox-not-being-called-a-terrorist/

I guess I need to mention that because Omar Mateen was called a "terrorist", John McCain launched an attack on Obama because the President had not sent more troops to the Middle East to fight "terrorists" that McCain wants killed. McCain has fallen into the lazy habit of calling everybody who is a bad Muslim a "terrorist" because McCain isn't thinking straight and McCain imagined that Orlando and the Middle East were connected because everything bad is "terrorism". McCain had to retract his claim that Obama caused the killings in Orlando when somebody pointed out that doddering old fool McCain was making less sense than usual.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/16/3789634/nra-favorite-john
-mccain-blames-obama-for-orlando-shooting/

I was responding to this:

Originally posted by second:
"In the West, functionally speaking, “terrorist” is now a propaganda term with little meaning other than “a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies.” It’s even used for Muslims who attack soldiers of an army occupying their country.

The scholars Remi Brulin and Lisa Stampnitzky have spent years documenting how the term “terrorist”, from the start, was little more than a propaganda tool designed to legitimize one side’s violence while delegitimizing its enemies’ violence."

Hear at least we use the term to describe violent acts carried out in the name of an ideology. These acts usually include killing people indiscriminately.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 18, 2016 8:38 AM

Orlando jihad terrorist & wife exchanged texts during rampage

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/17/reports-orlando-gunman-w
ife-exchanged-texts-during-rampage/86027272/

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen exchanged text messages with his wife at the height of the Pulse nightclub rampage, trying to draw her attention to news of the carnage, according to media reports.

CNN first reported the exchange, quoting a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation of the shooting at the popular gay nightclub that left 50 people, including Mateen, dead. NBC also reported the incident, quoting a source close to Noor Zahi Salman, Mateen's wife.

According to NBC, Mateen's mother called Salman during the early morning hours Sunday asking if she knew where her son was. Salman, according to the source, said she did not and texted him: "Where are you?"

Mateen responded: "Do you see what's happening?"

Salman replied: "No?" according to the source.

Mateen then texted: "I love you, babe."

Salman, 30, also tried calling her husband several times during the standoff, a second law enforcement official told CNN.

Salman, who married Mateen in 2011, has been cooperating with investigators. Salman allegedly told investigators that she drove Mateen to the Pulse nightclub in Orlando about a week before Sunday's shooting, suggesting that the gunman identified the target before moving forward with the attack. The development was first reported Tuesday by NBC News.

Fox News reported prosecutors are seeking to charge Salman as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder and for failing to notify law enforcement about the coming attack and lying to federal agents.

SECOND

Saturday, June 18, 2016 6:17 PM

www.gocomics.com/chanlowe/2016/06/13

Second amendment cases at the Supreme Court ought to take into account the invention of the cartridge, the ammo magazine, the semi-automatic rifle and handgun. Courts have already ruled that the second amendment does not cover hand grenades or rocket propelled grenades, despite the fact that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia suggests ‘hand-held rocket launchers’ are protected under second amendment. But now that he is dead, no one heeds Scalia.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/29/602491/scalia-rocket-launc
her/

Opinions differ, as is usual.
www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Second-Amendment-restricted-to-guns

THGRRI

Saturday, June 18, 2016 6:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
www.gocomics.com/chanlowe/2016/06/13

Second amendment cases at the Supreme Court ought to take into account the invention of the cartridge, the ammo magazine, the semi-automatic rifle and handgun. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the second amendment does not cover hand grenades or rocket propelled grenades, despite the fact that Justice Antonin Scalia suggests ‘hand-held rocket launchers’ are protected under second amendment.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/29/602491/scalia-rocket-launc
her/

Opinions differ, as is usual.
www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Second-Amendment-restricted-to-guns

I agree. The AR15 is designed to kill at times of war. AR stands for assault rifle. I take the designers at their word.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 18, 2016 6:42 PM

Feds add Orlando gay club shooter’s father, wife to no-fly lists
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds-add-orlando-gay-club-shooter%E2%
80%99s-father-wife-to-no-fly-lists/ar-AAhdXeL

SECOND

Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:35 PM

In very few words Jayne has today blamed Orlando on Obama and attacked Obama for immigration. Jayne defines every Muslim criminal as a “terrorist” in this retweet:

Adam Baldwin Retweeted
WH PRESS SECRETARY @weknowwhatsbest 16h16 hours ago

Pres Obama plans to process one million Syrians into America. Relax, if only 1/10th of 1% are terrorists, that's only 1,000 Orlandos.

1,055 retweets 772 likes
6:47 PM - 17 Jun 2016
https://twitter.com/weknowwhatsbest/status/743983416891179009

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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