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Monday, August 25, 2008
flatline
I've tried to keep the blog afloat for awhile now. However at this time, due to some health and related issues, Gang Intelligence Threat Management, will most likely "flatline" if you will.
Hopefully will be able to get back online in the near future. In the meantime, if you stumble across this blog or are a regular reader (if I have any :) ) feel free to look around.
In the years I have worked to help save kids, I have learned that in doing so, it is often the other way around. They have saved me. When a kid tells you, "I wish you had been my dad." That makes all the feelings of futility go away.
These kids are worth it.
In the event that I am no longer able to return to working here or am simply no longer able to return at all from this particularly darker path, I wish to leave you with some thanks and thoughts.
There are lots of old articles that may be of use to you if you are working on papers for gangs or other violence related issues (if you are a high school or college student.)
If you are law enforcement, the same applies. Just use the search feature on the blog.
I am always honored to have some of my work cited in reports etc and much appreciation to all of those who have asked me for feedback on some of these issues.
To our military, I cannot express what you all do means to people like me and others who get to sit back in the comfort of our living rooms and play armchair warriors. You are the bravest people on the planet. No matter what anyone tells you...what you are doing is saving lives in the long run. I won't tell you how I know this, but I do know it is a fact, regardless of what some twit on some political spectrum may say. I am not worthy to lace your combat boot straps.
To any young person, gang member, etc...know this...there are people out there that do care. It doesn't seem like there are too many, and frankly that is the truth. Until society can let go of its self centered attitude many of you will be left to fend for yourselves. But know this too, the leaders of gangs, the adults, do not have your best interests at heart. Most if not all of them, don't care either...they just take the time to fake it so you'll make them money and fame. Find a way out.
Finally thanks to all of you who are out there fighting for kids and victims' rights. Without you, the world will simply crumble and our future would...
flatline.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
“Excuse me, does anyone in the media or government have the guts to call this ugly thing what it really is? Well, here goes: World War III. Like it or not, that's what history will someday call it.”
-Michael Harrison, Publisher TALKERS Magazine
Dangerous is the man who fights with something to live for. More dangerous is the man who fights with nothing to live for. Most dangerous is the man who fights with something TO DIE FOR.
-Anthony
"We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom."
"It will end with the triumph of Islam. It will end with the annihilation of Israel and the United States of America” -Osama bin Laden from his unpublished but widely circulated book: America and the Third World War.
Just to name a few...the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Philippines, China, Russia, Algeria, the entirety of the Balkans, the Middle East, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, parts of central and South America, and the list goes on and on. Terrorist actions, cells, and or sympathizers of fanatical Islamic terrorism are now present in every corner of the globe. Literally encompassing the entire planet.
While not every cell may call itself al Qaeda, most of them share similar ideologies. And they are constantly aligning themselves more and more to defeat their common enemy even if some of their own beliefs vary. And their common enemy?
Anyone who does not believe their version of Islam is the correct one. (And that includes Muslims who practice their religion legitimately.)
People who like to downplay this global war are the same ones that had no idea who Osama bin Laden was prior to 9-11, they have never seen teenage girls with their heads sawed off by Islamic militants because they were on their way to church....the same church where one of their heads would be found sitting on the steps, they have never seen images of a boy no older than 9 having his arm run over by a truck because he stole something and that violated “Islamic law.” They have never picked up pieces of men, women, and children blown apart in bus bombings, train bombings, and building bombings, ALL OVER THE GLOBE, perpetrated by those who literally say that Islam (their brand) should rule the world.
I had a doctor tell me once, “Oh this terrorism thing, won't last, its about over.” That was almost 8 years ago. That doctor has since died. And the war still goes on.
Al Qaeda is no longer just a “group.” It is an ideology. An ideology that has followers or sympathizers to one extent or another on ever continent on this planet.
People who “are just ready for this to be over” are going to be sadly disappointed.
Closing your eyes to the darkness does not make the darkness go away. It just makes you even more vulnerable to what hides in that darkness.
The term World War 1 and World War 2 did not really even emerge until close to the end or after these global conflicts. We get too stuck on naming things. Just because the US, China, and Russia aren't exchanging nuclear weapons does not mean that this is not a world war.
It is a war declared by jihadists on everyone besides themselves. And if you are stupid enough to think that you have no part in it, then you are dead wrong.
If you think that you haven't done anything to incite Jihadist anger, then you are dead wrong. Because unless you believe like them then they consider you the enemy. The devil incarnate. You deserve to die as do your children. And no means is off the table. You forget that, and you are just plain dead.
Most Americans think that the worst school massacre was Columbine. But it was not. Not by a long shot.
It was in Beslan Russia. Where over 360 men, women, and children were held hostage in a gym in a school for several days before being killed by Chechen “rebels” as the media likes to call them. These “rebels” themselves called themselves jihadists and were and continue to be funded and supported with money and manpower from Middle Easter Islamic terrorist groups. They used the Koran as justification for shooting, stabbing, and blowing up children from infants to pre-teens as part of their jihad. They killed Russian children, almost 200 of them, for “God.” When you start to feel “something” for the poor oppressed people that “are driven” to terrorism...look up images from the Beslan massacre. And imagine those see through plastic bags hold your children.
Only a few years back, relatively speaking, Islamic terrorism was limited to the Middle East. Now take the time out from Starbucks and reality TV and use search engines with terms such as “jihad” and any country's name. You will almost always find sympathizers, supporters, and often full blown terrorist organizations in every country on the planet now. All with the nearly the same goal.
You join them or you die.
This war is global and will continue to escalate. Providing “food” or “education” to these people will relieve nothing. It will not stop it. Feeling sorry for their so called plight, which is a lie, will do nothing except provide the throats of relief workers as new flesh to slice for the next jihadist tapes. Tapes where young jihadists in training, 3,4,5 year olds are made to watch as indoctrination. (We tried to provide food and relief to Somalis in the early 90's. It was in fact, al Qaeda affiliated terrorists who kept the food and starved the remaining populace. The same terrorist affiliates who would later engage our troops in Mogadishu as portrayed in Black Hawk Down.)
Many of the terrorist leaders and suicide bombers themselves do NOT come from poor, impoverished, or repressed backgrounds. Many of them are doctors, some are scientists, and many of them have college educations and are not poor. Buzzwords, political correctness, and cliches, and quick fix mentality will not make this go away. EVER.
Jihadists do not do
what they do because of the situation they are in. They do what they do because of WHAT they believe in.
Long ago, bin Laden himself called this World War 3. He declared it. He started it even before 9-11.
And if given the chance by bleeding hearts, ignorant people, apathetic pseudo intellectuals, and the sheepish general populace...
he will finish it and unless we wake up and realize what this really is.
His ideology will win. And it will not matter if he is dead or alive. Others will replace him. Islamic Jihadist terrorism will not end until the ideology does. It does not matter who is the figurehead.
We fight because we have something to live for. The enemy fights not because they have nothing to live for (as pseudo-hippies would have you believe), but because they have something to die for. For them it is paradise to kill. For us it is hell.
For everyone it is World War 3.
Don't just take my word for it...
"The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles. If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with joy."
-- Osama bin Laden in videotape at son's wedding; regarding attack on U.S.S. Cole inYemen
"When God has guided a bunch of Muslims to be at the forefront and destroyed America, a big destruction, I wish God would lift their position."
-- Osama bin Laden Oct. 7, 2001; Internationally televised response to retaliatory attack by U.S.
"It is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God." -- Osama Bin Laden 1998, in statement titled: "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam"
"In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."
-- Osama bin Laden to ABC News 1998.
"Our work targets world infidels. Our enemy is the crusader alliance led by America, Britain and Israel. It is a crusader-Jewish alliance." — Osama bin Laden
"Youths only want one thing, to kill you so they can go to paradise." -- Osama bin Laden in fatwa issued in 1996
(pictured, Taliban teaches 12 year old boy how to behead someone.)
"Terrorism can be commendable, and it can be reprehensible. The terrorism we practice is of the commendable kind for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah." Osama bin Laden to journalist John Miller, 1998
"Being killed for Allan's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for."
-- Osama bin Laden in CNN interview, 1997
Related Article:
Let's Call This War What It Really Is
By Michael Harrison, Publisher TALKERS Magazine
This article originally appeared in the November, 2001 issue of TALKERS Magazine.
Copyright 2001, Focus Communications, Inc.
Forgive me for seeming nit picky, but terminology is important - especially when explaining and defining concepts that involve not only life and death, but the very survival of our society and its values, as well.
That is why our use of the label "War On Terrorism" to describe the conflict in which America finds itself embroiled is both disturbing and dangerous. It reeks of the media-manufactured, politically spun logoism that gave us names for such monumental losers as the "War On Poverty" and the "War On Drugs." Let us pray that the so-called "War On Terrorism" does not meet a fate in any way similar to those failed campaigns.
Modern-era 24/7 cable news television has played a role in contributing to the pop-journalistic labeling of serious situations in its zeal to capitalize on the moment (and inarticulate politicians have done little to offer improvement). After all, what good are snazzy graphics and dramatic music if they do not have a catchy title to serve as a centerpiece for the production?
Thank you CNN for giving us "America's New War" (which is sort of like "new and improved" laundry detergent) that was hastily slapped on the screen immediately following the awful events of September 11. How about the title "America Strikes Back" that is currently being used by several key TV news outlets? How invigorating! Here's a tip of the hat to the creative genius of George Lucas for inspiring that nifty gem. Then there's "America's Mission" which gives the whole affair sort of a romantic, adventurous ambiance, like a television series or even a manned trip to Mars. Don't even get me started on the military's contribution to our nomenclature with "Operation Infinite Justice" and "Operation Enduring Freedom." Why don't we just bring back "The War To End All Wars"?
It is vitally important that we articulate concepts as accurately as possible so that we can discuss them with clarity while focusing on our challenge without being side tracked by muddy thinking, irrelevant issues, and collective denial. It is sadly ironic that while our culture has developed the bad habit of wanton hyperbole regarding the description of events, we are seriously (and uncharacteristically) understating the true nature of this conflict with the aforementioned terms and titles. By calling this the "War On Terrorism," we continue to bury our head in the sand. What exactly do we mean by this overly misused word, terrorism? We might just as well call our enemies bogeymen.
What happened on September 11 was not a tragedy (the term we hear over and over). It was an atrocity. Tragedy makes it sound like an accident…an unfortunate situation that we would want to put behind us. Some 5,000 American civilians were murdered in cold blood by a multi-national foreign entity that is on record as being bent on not simply conquering, but actually bringing our nation to extinction. This is far worse than a tragedy. It was the worst attack that America has ever suffered and it clearly indicates that our enemies really are serious! Can you imagine America in the early forties responding to Pearl Harbor by wanting to get "back to normal" as quickly as possible so those pesky Japanese and Germans didn't feel they could disrupt our precious lifestyles? Do you think FDR would have told Americans to react to the situation by going to Disney World? Does the Dow holding its own mean everything is okay?
Just a handful of short weeks ago, the President of the United States went before the entire world and eloquently stated that we are responding to the events of September 11 by going after the perpetrators of the attacks including the individuals that planned and executed them as well as the governments that support them. There would and could be no backing down from his powerful declaration. Officially declared or not, George W. Bush told every nation on the planet Earth, that the United States was now at war on a massive, long-term scale. His words were applauded by a wide majority of Americans and endorsed by the leaders of both parties.
Excuse me, does anyone in the media or government have the guts to call this ugly thing what it really is? Well, here goes: World War III. Like it or not, that's what history will someday call it.
Our generation grew up imagining World War III to be synonymous with Armageddon. We imagined it being a very rapid uncontrolled nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union (maybe with Red China) that would result in the end of the world, as we knew it. When the Cold War ended and we stopped worrying about mutually assured destruction, somehow we dropped the idea that a third world war could still happen within our lifetimes. Now that we are in the opening stages of the real World War III, we do not recognize it. This is a dangerous lack of perception. We are not fighting shadowy bogeymen. We are at war with real countries and real peoples who use terrorism as a weapon against our superior military muscle. We know exactly who they are and we can name them. So, America, are you really ready to roll?
World War III does not have to be Armageddon. It could actually turn out to be a short war with relatively light casualties (when compared to the first two world wars) and usher in a new era of international peace and understanding. However, if we do not clearly understand what we are dealing with here and address it for exactly what it is, this so-called War On Terrorism will neither go away nor be less likely to escalate into something far more clear cut and hideous.
(He says it better than I did or could.) - Anthony
Nobody wants any information on gangs until someone they care about gets hurt by one. Or until their kid gets involved in one. Until there is a "problem" in their own neighborhood.
Too late.
Nobody wants to know anything about terrorism until someone runs an airplane into a building where someone they care about works. Or until their son is shipped off to fight them on foreign soil.
Too late.
Nobody wants to know anything about what makes a person kill their own child until it happens in their community.
Too late.
Nobody wants to know anything about what makes a person go into a restaurant or a school and methodically shoot people, TAKING TIME TO RELOAD WITHOUT BEING STOPPED BY ANYONE, until it happens to their kid or at a school in their community.
Too late.
Nobody wants to know how predators choose their prey, how rapists operate, or how to avoid getting brutalized until it happens to them or someone they love.
Too damn late.
By God though let some new information come out about "Brangelina", Britney Spears, or some other "star" then people are foaming at the mouth to buy the latest edition of People, US, or some stupid book written by someone who knows someone who knows someone on the inside.
I used to teach self defense for women and offer it all over my community. I didn't charge outlandish prices like some of these BS over priced seminars you can find on the internet. I only asked for a simple donation of any amount whatsoever and in the process provided those who attended written training manuals at my own expense.
Turn out was usually dismal at best. In fact most of the women who came had already been victims of sexual assault and other forms of violent crime or knew someone close to them who did.
Yeah. Too late.
People spend millions of dollars a year on football games, gossip magazines, and over priced crap clothing to "fit in", like sheep.
That's the problem though isn't it? Sheep are the easiest to slaughter. They aren't paying attention to what's going on around them. They've got their heads to the ground worrying only about their immediate appetites. They have no idea how to protect themselves nor do they care.
Until a wolf begins to rip them apart.
Too late.
I used to give lots of things away and volunteer a lot of time to help people learn to be more safe, to protect themselves. I couldn't bring myself to rip people off by charging $200 bucks for a gang seminar or a self defense class like so many other parasites do. Let me let you in on a secret. They don't have any more information on how to defend yourself or understand gangs than anyone else does.
"Sheeple" see money and assume it must be great. Just like clothing labels. I guess my morals, like always, have prevented me from being some big shot.
No more am I giving out any free information. I've had my stuff stolen and ripped off (once by a woman completing her teaching degree where she used one of my manuals as the bulk of her paper to graduate).
TO BE A TEACHER OF YOUR KIDS.
Our society has become so self absorbed and so easily titillated by immediate gratification that they have become unable to protect themselves or actually LEARN anything on their own. Unless its in a forwarded BS email or on the new messiah, Oprah. Eventually our society will pay for their self absorbed and self centered behavior. The wolves are out there and they do train everyday to kill people. In the training ground violent arenas of their minds, in the deserts overseas, on streets where cops don't go, and maybe in your own backyard. But most people won't care until the wolf has them by the throat.
From the News: Leonard Padilla and his nephew, Tony Padilla, said they will arrive in Orlando on Sunday and post a $500,000 bond for Casey Anthony, the mother of Caylee, who has been missing since mid-June.
Leonard Padilla, who hosts a TV show called "Bounty Hunters" on National Geographic, told Local 6 News that he has been talking to Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, about bailing his client out of jail.
"We eat in the same room, sleep in the same room. After a while, these people feel better than sitting in a cell looking at the walls, and they will discuss things that they won't discuss with parents or anybody else," Leonard Padilla said.
The Padillas announced the move in an e-mail to Local 6 News.
The e-mail stated:
"On Sunday, August 17, World Famous Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla and his nephew Tony Padilla, owner of Tony Padilla Bail Bonds of Sacramento, CA., will be traveling to Orlando with two of Leonard Padilla's associates. Tony Padilla will be posting a $500,000.00 bond for the release of Casey Anthony."
You have got to be kidding me. Leonard Dick Padilla. No I didn't make up the middle name.
This loon is going to bail out a woman who REFUSES to tell anyone anything about her missing daughter. She refuses to tell the truth about anything. If you've not read the story, you should.
In addition she has lied and lied and lied about everything from where she worked, the existence of a phantom babysitter, to mysterious kidnappers. This same mother's mother, reported that the smell of death she noticed in the woman's car turned out to be "rotten pizza." Then she conveniently washed the clothing in the car that smelled like death.
They waited over a month to report the child missing.
So along comes this "World Famous Bounty Hunter"...yeah that's what he calls himself, is going to bail out this creature in order to "get her to talk." His supposed assumption is that if she is in a better environment, a Jesus inspired miracle will happen and she'll suddenly get a conscience.
I've read countless posts on news sources where people have said that maybe she will eventually feel guilty about what happened.
NO NO NO.
Pathological liars and sociopaths NEVER feel guilty about anything. This same woman who complained from her jail cell about not getting to talk to her "boyfriend" instead of talking to the cops about where her little girl disappeared to is supposed to suddenly feel compelled to talk in the presence of this attention and ratings seeking turd.
Sociopaths and pathological liars are incapable of feeling guilt. Please people before you comment on something, stop viewing other people in the way "you would do it." Bother to research what kind of personality, what kind of behaviors, what kind of brains that sociopaths and pathological liars have.
They can cut a person apart and feel no different than you would cutting a steak. And for you vegetarians, cutting a piece of cabbage.
They are self centered, narcissistic, charming, lying, manipulative individuals who only seek to serve their own interests in life. They are unable to change this behavior. There is no rehabilitation for a sociopath. In short, they are not like most people. They are the closest thing to a monster you will ever encounter. And the majority of them do not kill. But they do enjoy manipulating others, using others, and playing people against each other for sheer entertainment.
Now this goofball believes that he is some sort of psychiatrist, mentor, or spiritual guide who will be able to get her to talk by "living with her????"
You cannot tell me that this is ANYTHING but a grab for attention, an attempt to draw ratings to his TV show. I'd never heard of this guy until this story, which goes to show you that what he is doing is working.
This woman, this so called mother isn't as smart as she thinks she is. Unfortunately she is still able to fool stupid people.
This "World Famous Bounty Hunter" AS HE CALLS HIMSELF you have got to have serious doubts about. Who refers to himself as world famous anything?
He's as transparent as wet toilet tissue. Although I feel like toilet tissue probably is more useful.
For God's sake this woman is the only person who knows exactly what happed to her little girl. This same "mom" who went out partying and making stupid high school party pictures AFTER her daughter went missing.
Yeah, she's just eat up with guilt.
Nothing she says regardless of where she is at can be taken seriously. But now she's going to be in good company. I find it hard to take this so called "World Famous Bounty Hunter" serious either.
He's a troll looking for ratings, a book deal, and fame.
Then there's the ever charming grandmother (Cindy Anthony) claiming that pizza was found in the car, I guess after she made the 911 call reporting that the car smelled like a dead body, she must have noticed the magic pizza rotten with maggots. Yeah that's what she claimed.
That is a blatant lie. Period. Think what you will about the grandmother but that is a lie. Pizza does NOT ever smell like a corpse. EVER. Just take one and let it set in the trunk of your car for 2 weeks, you'll find nothing more than the smell of grease and pizza "jerky." Pizza lady also says that when this all comes out, Casey will be seen as mother of the year.
Oh my God.
The moronic mother (Casey Anthony) of this missing child didn't have enough sense to shut her stupid mouth up either as her self centered, spoiled mouth ran on jailhouse recordings. Pissing and moaning about wanting her boyfriend's telephone number. If its not her, then the brother is being interviewed and chuckling about throwing out toys for the child (that were donated by well meaning well wishers) that smelled like cigarrette smoke. Yeah, that's what I'd be doing on the news if my niece was gone for over a month...chuckling and telling people that their gifts were thrown in the trash.
The grandmother, the pizza lady, has been aggressive, short, and smart mouthed from day one with the media, then bitches about the media all the time now. When she is not talking about what all SHE'S been through, how tired SHE is, or how SHE hasn't had any sleep she's blaming everyone from the phantom babysitter (that she has never seen) to some sort of anonymous kidnapping terrorists who have yet to send demands for the return of the child. She's also a private investigator now who follows up on her own tips that she doesn't bother to tell the cops about. Oh yeah then there are the sightings all over the country of the girl that she says have to be real, as if the kidnappers have the ability to bend space and time and jump from state to state in a matter of hours. The real problem is not fairy tale phantoms kidnapping the child, its the troll sitting in prison more concerned with partying and banging her boyfriend than finding her little girl.
Then there's the grandfather and his rants against the media. Threatening to "run over" reporters and whatnot. Too bad he doesn't seem to have the balls to use that anger towards his daughter to get her to talk. Rather the whole family seems to say "honey this" or "baby that" trying to sweet talk the only person who knows where the child is.
Now they finally got a spokesman for their family to deal with the media. Some other troll who was media spokesman for guess who?
John Mark Karr. The little sick twit that claimed he killed Jon Benet Ramsey. Well isn't that fitting.
Another troll.
Seems that everyone in the family and everyone connected to the family is seeking attention for everything else but where it should be. On the child and the lack of cooperation this so called mother is exhibiting in the case.
All the attention seeking trolls need to shut up. The only one who should be talking is the one who isn't. And now the hope of finding this little girl rests solely on the shoulders of this guy:
"Everyone has read about them in books and seen them portrayed on TV or in movies. However, when we hear the name Bounty Hunter we think of images from the old west, the wanted posters offering a reward and "Wanted Dead or Alive"." -From his website...talking in the third person about himself. EVERYONE has heard of him?
When is the music video comin' out Leonard? Where can a get a T-shirt?
By WILLIAM FOREMAN URUMQI, China (AP) — China said Wednesday that some evidence suggests terrorist groups may have been involved in a series of attacks in the Muslim territory of Xinjiang, far from the Olympics in Beijing.Since the assaults began nine days ago, killing 31 people, authorities have been playing down the possible connection with terror groups that may be operating in Xinjiang, a sprawling region of deserts and mountains bordering eight Central Asian nations...
...However, some analysts were skeptical about the claims that terror groups were involved.Yitzhak Shichor, a political scientist at the University of Haifa in Israel, said China effectively crushed the terror networks within its borders in a crackdown that began in the 1990s.The recent assaults "are not the kind of coordinated terror attacks that are being orchestrated by some kind of organization inside or outside of China," Shichor said. "It seems like individual acts of revenge."
A political scientist is now a terrorism expert? Or is he just some quack? NOT TERRORIST ATTACKS???Let's see they bombed both police and civilian targets. Just days prior the Turkestan Islamic Party posted videos on the internet threatening attacks on China. What a coincidence! Blowing people up as "revenge" (which incidentally is what bin Laden basically says, revenge for the US "violating" Muslim soil"), IS terrorism even if the people doing aren't card carrying members of the TIP or other terrorist groups such as the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement.
Sounds like the old familiar excuse that kids in rural towns who sell drugs, shoot at each other, and commit other crimes against residents while calling themselves Crips, Bloods, or some other gang name are just "wannabes."
Quack, quack, quack. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED BY SOME WELL KNOWN GROUP TO BE A GANG MEMBER OR A TERRORIST. Where does Yitzhak get his information from?
Any half wit can simply use GOOGLE or some other search engine and find plenty of terrorist activity being reported in China. Blowing up buses back a few months ago. More "revenge?"
Please don't swallow everything you read or hear without looking into it yourself. Not even what I say. We ignored terrorism for 30 plus years and now there are cells located in over 60 countries.
If it walks like a duck, quacks, like a duck...its a duck.
I have looked into the dead faces of three little girls who were executed in their own school. There was no time while I stood there that global warming popped into my mind. Yet when I look into a trash heap, I still do not think about recycling or global warming.
I think about kids I have known that had to eat out of the garbage to survive.
I just got through looking at the Top Causes page available through an application that is used on Myspace, these are "causes" that people can put on their profiles. The one's about "help join my cause to stop...(insert cause of choice here.)Tell me what's wrong with this picture:
Stop Global Warming 10,135 members - $25,643
Society Against Child Abuse 21,690 members - $16,050
Notice how much more money the global warming people have contributed despite having lower membership? 10,000 members less and around $10,000 dollars more contributed in the Global Warming group.
Fear is a great motivator. You know its one thing for scientists to debate the causes of global warming. Such as the statistic that humans only generate 3% of the CO2 that causes global warming. (The rest is decaying plant matter etc).
Its quite another when "just because" someone like Al Gore, who is not a scientist, uses someone else's research to win the Nobel Prize, and tours the country in his PRIVATE JET only to return home to his mansion where his light bill every month is more than the average person's light bill is in 17 months...everyone automatically swallows what is pronounced as absolute fact by the media.
Whatever happened to the "doomsday" prophecy that we're all going to die from the hole in the Ozone layer? Nobody even mentions that anymore. In the 70's scientists JUST KNEW that the earth was COOLING...GLOBAL COOLING due to pollution. Yeah they had "proof" of this issue then.
Why does Al Gore's carbon footprint program where donations are eventually funneled back into his pocket not get the attention of the media? If he were a televangelist it would be everywhere. But really that's not the point at all. Debate it all you want. MOST of you are not scientists and have never done a day's research with data you collected yourself (Google does not count) in your life. So waste your time being "sure" that you know what you are talking about. But ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR of you young ladies has been or will be molested by the age of 18. You think that a debate that still has thousands on both sides each with their own "proof" that global warming is real or not real is more important than abuse, neglect, and rape of children?
Well maybe that's why the earth is warming up. Maybe the planet is getting ready to shake, (the society that abadons its children in place of a "in" cause,) off its surface.
Its disgusting that more money is going into a cause that is still being debated rather than one we KNOW for sure is happening. You look into the eyes of a kid that has been raped with a broom handle by his own father and tell him that you believe donating money to "stop global warming" is more important than what happened to him.
NONE OF YOU WILL.
We hear all the time about all the doomsday outcomes of global warming. (If only the cows would just stop farting)...things such as the rising of the oceans and subsequent flooding, deadly storms, dying crops, and famine. Do you really think that companies that make billions of dollars a year polluting the air are going to stop? Don't be naive.
FEAR FEAR FEAR. It motivates people to act without questioning anything. Do any of these people who are shoveling twice the amount of money over to the above cause than the child abuse cause actually know where their money is going? Do they have any idea?
How many times have you seen protesters carrying signs protesting global warming? MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD which is made from guess what???
TREES!!!! Trees which can help with conversion of CO2 and thus reduction of any warming of the earth's surface.
Idiocy has run amok.
I don't know if global warming is man made, a natural cycle of some sort, or what. I am not a scientist who is collecting data. But I am someone who is not willing to crap away my money to an organization that I know nothing about where the funds are going. What I do know is this. I know what it is like to look into the eyes and listen to the voices of children who have been brutalized in ways most of you could not imagine in your worst nightmares. I KNOW for a fact by working with them what they go through is real.
We as a society should be ashamed of ourselves. But we are not, because we'd rather "feel good" thinking we are doing something to "help" the planet.
To hell with the kids who live on it.
You hear all the doomsday prophecies about global warming all the time. Well let me give you a look at the reality of what happens to many abused children. These are REAL accounts of abuse:
• A man shot off a teenage girl's arm for the sexual thrill it gave him.
• A rapist of 13 year old girls preferred to anally rape them on cement floors so it would hurt more.
• A father would use lit candles to cauterize the cuts he would inflict to his daughter's vagina and around her nipples.
• A father who knew his 9 year old daughter was afraid of the dark would tie her to a tree in the woods and allow different rapists to come into the woods and rape her in the night.
A father describes how he abused his son:
"I was putting a large Ziploc bag over his head and taping it around his neck with black duct tape and raping him to the point that he would turn blue, pass out. At that point I would rip the bag off his head, not for fear of hurting him, but for the excitement." "After seeing him pass out and ripping the bag off his head…I'd jump up on his chest and masturbate in his face and make him suck my penis…as he started to come back awake. While he was coughing and choking I would rape him in the mouth."
From Anna Salter's book, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders)
So the next time you hear Al Gore or some other "expert" debating the issue either way...you think about plastic bags. Not about how they pollute the environment.
But about how one was used by a little boy's father to suffocate him over and over again while the father raped him orally.
Then decide where you think its most important to put your money.
Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and all the other flavors of racists often use the phrase, "race traitor" in demeaning those that they feel are betraying their white race by collaborating, supporting, or otherwise mingling with black people (as well as other races.) Well, I also assume that since they are big on principles, they certainly would never want to be labeled hypocrites. Nor would they want to "betray" their own race by supporting or in any way endorsing black people.
With that being said, all racists, uh...I mean racial purists, have some new rules to go by so that they stay true to their race.
You can no longer have any form of heart surgery. In 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
You can no longer use the phrase "the real McCoy" because it was coined after the inventor Elijah McCoy known for inventing ingenious devices to lubricate heavy machinery automatically. (Guess that means you may not use any machinery or anything made by machinery.)
You are no longer allowed to use light bulbs or lamps. Lewis Howard Latimer is best remembered for his key contributions to the incandescent light bulb. In 1881 Latimer patented an electric lamp with an inexpensive carbon filament and a threaded wooden socket. He later joined Thomas Alva Edison's team of inventors and wrote the first known book on electric lighting.
You can no longer wear shoes unless you make them from scratch. Jan E. Matzeliger is most famous for designing and creating a machine that stretched leather shoe uppers around a foot-shaped model, or last. Before Matzeliger introduced his machine, highly skilled artisans lasted a maximum of 50 pairs of shoes a day. Matzeliger's automatic shoe lasting machine revolutionized the shoe making industry, producing as many as 700 pairs of shoes in a single day.
You can no longer ride or utilize any goods transported by trains. American railroad engineer and inventor Granville T. Woods patented a remarkable 35 electrical and mechanical devices during his prolific career. Woods received his first patent in 1884 for a steam boiler furnace. His many later patents included a system that enabled telegraph lines to carry voice signals; an induction telegraph for sending messages to and from moving trains; and electromechanical and electromagnetic railway brakes.That means FOOD transported by train too.
You are no longer allowed to stop or go at traffic lights. If you are trapped in a fire, a fireman will no longer be allowed to come and rescue you. In the event of a terrorist gas attack, you have no option but to die. Garrett A. Morgan patented the first traffic signal in 1923. Morgan made national news when he used another of his inventions--the gas mask--to rescue several men trapped in a tunnel beneath Lake Erie. Morgan's mask was soon adopted by firemen around the world, and was also refined for use by the United States Army during World War I.
Related to your possible "fire crisis" you cannot use a fire extinguisher or fire escape ladder. fire escape ladder: J. W. Winters; May 7, 1878 fire extinguisher: T. Marshall; October 26, 1872
You cannot eat or otherwise use any food transported in a refrigerated vehicle. Frederick McKinley Jones is most remembered for introducing the first practical refrigeration system for trucks and railroad cars, a system that completely changed the food transport industry. Jones was responsible for a phenomenal 60 patents during his lifetime, 40 for refrigeration equipment alone. Again...that includes primarily, food.
If you need a blood transfusion, you have to die instead. That goes for your family too, your wives and children. (Unless you want to call them race traitors) American surgeon Charles Richard Drew conducted pioneering work in blood storage and transfusion techniques. Drew showed that blood plasma lasts longer than whole blood, a medical breakthrough that enabled the creation of the modern blood bank. In 1939, Dr. Drew used his new understanding of blood storage and transfusion to help establish the first blood banks to serve the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. He went on to become the first director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
You cannot eat peanut butter. George Washington Carver (1860–1943) invented peanut butter and 400 plant products
You cannot use a toilet. Standard Toilet by T. Elkins
If you need a pacemaker, you will have to die instead. You cannot use IBM computers either. Otis Boykin (1920–1982) invented the electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the pacemaker.
If you have certain kinds of eye problems that will lead to blindness. Get a seeing eye dog and hang it up. Dr. Patricia. E. Bath (1949–) invented a method of eye surgery that has helped many blind people to see.
You cannot eat anything that was planted with in any way shape or form unless it was planted by hand. Henry Blair was the only inventor to be identified in the Patent Office records as "a colored man." Blair was born in Montgomery County, Maryland around 1807. He received a patent on October 14, 1834 for a seed planter and a patent in 1836 for a cotton planter. (There's that food thing again)
You cannot have your clothes dry cleaned. Thomas Jennings received a patent in 1821 for a dry cleaning process.
You cannot listen to Ipods, listen to CDs or utilize anything else that requires something being plugged into a computer. Mark Dean and his co-inventor Dennis Moeller created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. Their invention paved the way for the growth in the information technology industry. We can plug into our computers peripherals like disk drives, video gear, speakers, and scanners.
You cannot eat ice cream unless it was made prior to 1832 Augustus Jackson was a candy confectioner from Philadelphia who created several ice cream recipes and invented an improved method of manufacturing ice cream around 1832.
And if you should find some vintage pre-1832 ice cream you cannot use an ice cream scooper to get it out. * ice cream scooper: A. L. Cralle; February 2, 1897
You may not use air conditioners. * air conditioning unit: Frederick M. Jones; July 12, 1949
You cannot use doors with knobs. * door knob: O. Dorsey; December 10, 1878
You cannot use fountain pens. * fountain pen: W. B. Purvis; January 7, 1890
You cannot play golf. * golf tee: T. Grant; December 12, 1899
You cannot brush your hair. (Doesn't apply to skinheads). * hair brush: Lydia O. Newman; November 15,18--
You cannot play guitar Robert F. Flemming, Jr. March 3, 1886
You may not drive cars other than stick shifts. (Wait, those things have spark plugs don't they?) * automatic gear shift: Richard Spikes; February 28, 1932
You can't use lawn mowers, use a lock to secure anything, use a mail box, lunch box, mop the floor, use any motor that requires a spark plug, allow a doctor to use a stethoscope to examine your heart, cook with a stove, sharpen your pencil with a sharpener, use a cooling or heating device with a thermostat, use a keyboard which was developed from the typewriter (one of "their" inventions), and you also have to take tricycles away from your kids.
Get the picture? No you don't. Because you can't look at pictures either. Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus of Newton, New Jersey invented an improved photographic print and negative wash machine...also invented an improved machine for embossing photographs (see patent drawing left). His machine was designed to both/either mount or emboss a photographic print. Embossing is a method or raising parts of a photograph for a relief or 3D look.
Here's the bottom line you uneducated morons. If you follow your own rules about being a “race traitor” there isn't a whole lot you can do. Looking over the list, (and believe me its only a fraction of the things invented by black people,) there's not much you can eat. You better not get in a fire, and you sure had better not require any heart surgery.
If you follow your own philosophy...racism will take care of itself shortly.
Because you'll all die out. So be true to your race!
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