ISIS May Have Beheaded an American Journalist

Jim Foley was an American reporter in Syria originally covering the oppression of Assad on the Syrian rebels.  However ISIS didn't quite see it that day. Today a video surfaced people fear is the real Mc Coy showing the beheading of Foley, in an orange outfit.  And of course there was the usual forced confession the victim had to read before he was put to death.  And now there is another reporter that ISIS is also threatening to put to Death is ISIS doesn't get its way this time.  It is apparent that ISIS wants to kill Americans because they see us as "the enemy" and seemingly the cause of all their problems.  There haven't been a lot of details in the news as of this point but hopefully we'll learn more.

Things are only getting worse in Ferguson, MO as another Black man is shot.  This one seemingly comitted "suicide by cop" because he is described as a wild man wielding a knife and coming at an officer.  Of course in the case of the shooting of Michael Brown the authorities are careful to release only information that is detrimental to Brown, to defane his character.  Meanwhile they are saying very little about the coroner's report or how the investigation is proceding, except that the guilty officer has not been charged yet, and has not been arrested.  These actions would go a long way twords settling down the protestors.   I don't fault the Missouir governor as other liberals to.  He's just trying various tacticts in this situation he doesn't face every day and he's just seeing what works.  Rush Limbaugh got into the act by pretty much saying that since both President Obama and Eric Holder are Black, that naturally the Federal investigation is going to be racially biased.  Norman Goldman shared the constitutional background as to why the Federal Government even has the right to intervene in such cases.  If a major constitutional civil right is violated, the Federal Government has the right to step in.  I would remind you that Rush Limbaugh said in 2008 concerning Collin Powel's endorsement of Barock Obama that "It's just not partly about race- - it's ALL about race!"  That statement pretty much tells us everything we need to know about Rush.  Actually if the Obama Administration DOES intervene in this case in a big way it would be out of character for them because the Obama Administration has a long, sad history of NOT supporting progressive causes, as you well know.

I didn't know till today that the GI Bill for World War veterans, is only for White - - veterans.  Southern Congressmen specifically wrote provisions into this bill to give racist bankers in the southern states the right they insisted on to deny any loans to Blacks, even if it's part of the GI Bill.  Maybe that's the only way the bill would get passed.  Senator Strom Thermond was the first US democratic Senator actually put into action the "Southern Strategy" because he was the first major political figure to switch to the Republican party after the Civil Right's bill was passed in 1964.  Of course people like Larry Elder will attack Robert Byrd till the cows come home for once being a member of the KKK, even though he evolved into a respectable progressive senator, but Larry Elder has never attacked Strom Thermon.  This only highlights his complete moral inconsistency.  Of course Red Lining was legal by the insurance and Real Estate companies till the late seventies when it was outlawed by the Carter Administration.  So it didn't matter if you had good credit; you were a priori penalized by for living in a particular neighborhood.  In Atlanta apparently they had laws that no Black would live on "Peachtree Street" and apparently Peachtree streets sprung up all over the city.  That sounds confusing to me.  People like Rush Limbaugh can't consider the point for a minute that maybe ghetto Blacks haven't had the same experiences with police officers that he personally has.  It's the same idea that Rush Limbaugh believes that somehow if we just didn't have Obama Care- - that all Americans would be able to get the same quality of health care either he gets or someone like Dick Chaney gets.

There were two high school students, 16 and 17 who were scheduled to start school next week in a local high school in South Passadena.  But of course the two boys were conspiring to stage a mass shooting in the school and looked at all sorts of computer sites on armed conflict and sniper attacks and the like, and the police say were it not from one loan phone call maybe dozens of students would have been dead at this time next week.  So- someone deserves comendation.

Don Pardo - - gameshow announcer from the sixties, passed away today.  He announced the Price is Right and Jeopardy, and I think he also did several other game shows because you heard his name all the time.  I guess he is most famous for announcing Saturday Night Live.  So a bit of American history has passed.

Was the Government Prepared to Deploy Snipers If the Occupy Protests Gained Momentum?

TruthDig reported last year:

“Did the FBI ignore, or even abet, a plot to assassinate Occupy Houston leaders?”

 asksinvestigative reporter Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy. “What did the Feds know? Whom did they warn? And what did the Houston Police know?”

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund yielded an FBI document containing knowledge of a plot by an unnamed group or individual to kill “leaders” of the Houston chapter of the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street movement.

Here’s what the document said, according to WhoWhatWhy:

An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with approximately 6000 persons in NYC. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests have spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.)

Paul Kennedy of the National Lawyers Guild in Houston and an attorney for a number of Occupy Houston activists arrested during the protests said he did not hear of the sniper plot and expressed discontent with the FBI’s failure to share knowledge of the plan with the public. He believed that the bureau would have acted if a “right-wing group” plotted the assassinations, implying that the plan could have originated with law enforcement.

“[I]f it is something law enforcement was planning,” Kennedy said, “then nothing would have been done. It might seem hard to believe that a law enforcement agency would do such a thing, but I wouldn’t put it past them.”

He added that the phrase “if deemed necessary,” which appeared in the bureau’s report, further suggests the possibility that some kind of official organization was involved in the plan.

Texas law officials have a history of extreme and inappropriate violence.

Kennedy has seen law enforcement forces attempt to secretly entrap Occupy activists and disrupt their activities in the city. He represented seven people who were charged with felonies stemming from a protest whose organizing group had been infiltrated by undercover officers from the Austin Police department. The felony charges were dropped when police involvement with a crucial part of that action was discovered.

A second document obtained in the same FOIA request suggested the assassination plans might be on the plotters’ back burner in case Occupy re-emerges in the area.