Crackers will drop a bomb on you.

On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.

The surveillance video above gives a fairly decent picture of this man, who is clearly white, middle-aged, and on a mission.

The local news is all over it, of course. WOKV.com reports the FBI investigating it as a hate crime and possible domestic terrorism.

“It was a dangerous device, and had anybody been around it they could have been seriously injured or killed,” says Special Agent James Casey. “We want to sort of emphasize the seriousness of the thing and not let people believe that this was just a match and a little bit of gasoline that was spread around.”

Casey says surveillance video from the Islamic Center shows the arsonist carrying gasoline and the pipe bomb. When the explosive went off, parts of it were found 100 feet away on 9A.

So, a mosque is bombed by a white guy and the bomb isn’t exactly small, but the national media sees no value in reporting it? Really? And yet, that is evidently the case.

Anti-Muslim sentiments in Florida have been bubbling to the surface, particularly after Republican Dan Fanelli’s campaign commercial was aired asking if a man appearing to be from the Middle East “looked like a terrorist.” According to Yahoo News, there were two other ads with even more pointed messages against Muslims:

Another ad has Fanelli saying, “This is a terrorist,” as he presents a “Middle Eastern” man strapped with a “bomb” and wearing what appears to be a dish towel “turban.”

Yet another ad shows two Arabic-speaking “terrorists” constructing a bomb while discussing “martyrdom” and “killing infidels.” The ad also mocks long-standing due process rights such as Miranda warnings and access to lawyers.

These ads air, and a mosque is bombed.

Link: http://wokv.com/localnews/2010/05/possible-hate-crime-investigat.html
Video: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=155892&catid=3

Earlier this month, a similar incident happened:

About midnight last night, the Sikh temple on Locust and East Second Streets went up in flames and was almost completely destroyed.

According to Balwinder Singh, a member of the temple, everything was fine when the temple’s priest left the building at 9 p.m. But by about midnight, the priest received a call about the fire, Singh said. Singh, the priest and several other members of the temple came immediately to the building, where Singh said firefighters were already on the scene and the fire was controlled quickly.

“They did a good job,” Singh said, but added that he received little information from firefighters about the fire. Singh said he was very surprised by the fire. As unexpected as it was, an emotional Singh said members of the temple are not yet sure what they will do going forward.

“I don’t know yet about what we will do,” he said. “It’s just too . . . very emotional . . . all of our holy books, our whole library, that is all burned . . . that was everything to us.”

For now, he said, they are banding together through the difficult time.

“We can be sad together, because what can we do about that. It’s very painful,” he said, wiping off a tear.

Area resident Josh Vestal, who lives just behind the temple, said his home was also broken into last night, in the same period of time that the fire started.

After breaking through the window on his door, burglars stole his telephone, some DVDs and his electric guitar and bass, Vestal said. They also broke his freezer open with a pick ax, though he had nothing of value inside. Vestal said other area residents had had their homes broken into as well.

Vestal was not at home when the burglary occurred, and when he returned home about 12:30 a.m., he said he just caught the end of the fire.

“It was still smoking and flaming, but nothing like these images I have seen on the news (from the height of the blaze),” he said. Firemen were evacuating homes around the area, he said.

“This area keeps getting worse,” Vestal said of the area around his residence.

Vestal said he was not worried about the fire despite his home being just yards away from the temple, mostly because he is on the back side of the building, which is brick.

“I was more worried that someone might have been inside (the temple),” he said.

Make no mistake – A new era of White Terror is coming to Amerika. People of color, protect your children, your families, and yourselves from these Nazi extremists.

Fuck you Amerika.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments.

Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the state’s education board. This week they are expected to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history.

The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.

“We are fighting for our children’s education and our nation’s future,” Dunbar said. “In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections.”

Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery.

Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the “significant contributions” of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war.

The new curriculum asserts that “the right to keep and bear arms” is an important element of a democratic society. Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology.

There is also a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.

The education board has dropped references to the slave trade in favour of calling it the more innocuous “Atlantic triangular trade”, and recasts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven by Islamic fundamentalism.

“There is a battle for the soul of education,” said Mavis Knight, a liberal member of the Texas education board. “They’re trying to indoctrinate with American exceptionalism, the Christian founding of this country, the free enterprise system. There are strands where the free enterprise system fits appropriately but they have stretched the concept of the free enterprise system back to medieval times. The president of the Texas historical association could not find any documentation to support the stretching of the free enterprise system to ancient times but it made no difference.”

The curriculum has alarmed liberals across the country in part because Texas buys millions of text books every year, giving it considerable sway over what publishers print. By some estimates, all but a handful of American states rely on text books written to meet the Texas curriculum. The California legislature is considering a bill that would bar them from being used in the state’s schools.

In the past four years, Christian conservatives have won almost half the seats on the Texas education board and can rely on other Republicans for support on most issues. They previously tried to require science teachers to address the “strengths and weaknesses” in the theory of evolution – a move critics regard as a back door to teaching creationism – but failed. They have had more success in tackling history and social studies.

Dunbar backed amendments to the curriculum that portray the free enterprise system (there is no mention of capitalism, deemed to be a tainted word) as a cornerstone of liberty and argue that the government should have a minimal role in the economy.

One amendment requires that students be taught that economic prosperity requires “minimal government intrusion and taxation”.

Underpinning the changes is a particular view of religion.

Dunbar was elected to the state education board on the back of a campaign in which she argued for the teaching of creationism – euphemistically known as intelligent design – in science classes.

Two years ago, she published a book, One Nation Under God, in which she argued that the United States was ultimately governed by the scriptures.

“The only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the founding fathers at the time of our government’s inception comes from a biblical worldview,” she wrote. “We as a nation were intended by God to be a light set on a hill to serve as a beacon of hope and Christian charity to a lost and dying world.”

On the education board, Dunbar backed changes that include teaching the role the “Jewish Ten Commandments” played in “political and legal ideas”, and the study of the influence of Moses on the US constitution. Dunbar says these are important steps to overturning what she believes is the myth of a separation between church and state in the US.

“There’s been this amorphous changing of how we look at religion and how we define religion within American history. One concern I have is that the viewpoint of the founding fathers is very clear. They were not against the promotion of religion. I think it is important to present a historically accurate viewpoint to students,” she said.

On the face of it some of the changes are innocuous but critics say that closer scrutiny reveals a not-so-hidden agenda. History students are now to be required to study documents, such as the Mayflower Compact, which instill the idea of America being founded as a Christian fundamentalist nation.

Knight and others do not question that religion was an important force in American history but they fear that it is being used as a Trojan horse by evangelists to insert religious indoctrination into the school curriculum. They point to the wording of amendments such as that requiring students to “describe how religion and virtue contributed to the growth of representative government in the American colonies”.

Among the advisers the board brought in to help rewrite the curriculum is David Barton, the leader of WallBuilders which seeks to promote religion in history. Barton has campaigned against the separation of church and state. He argues that income tax should be abolished because it contradicts the bible. Among his recommendations was that pupils should be taught that the declaration of independence establishes that the creator is at the heart of law, government and individual rights.

Conservatives have been accused of an assault on the history of civil rights. One curriculum amendment describes the civil rights movement as creating “unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes” among minorities. Another seeks to place Martin Luther King and the violent Black Panther movement as opposite sides of the same coin.

“We had a big discussion around that,” said Knight, a former teacher. “It was an attempt to taint the civil rights movement. They did the same by almost equating George Wallace [the segregationist governor of Alabama in the mid-1960s] with the civil rights movement and the things Martin Luther King Jr was trying to accomplish, as if Wallace was standing up for white civil rights. That’s how slick they are.

“They’re very smooth at excluding the contributions of minorities into the curriculum. It is as if they want to render minority groups totally invisible. I think it’s racist. I really do.”

The blizzard of amendments has produced the occasional farce. Some figures have been sidelined because they are deemed to be socialist or un-American. One of them is a children’s author, Bill Martin, who wrote a popular tale, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin was purged from the curriculum when he was confused with an author with a similar name but a different book, Ethical Marxism.

At last, Amerikkka stops pretending.

Terrorism Alert: Another black child murdered by pigs.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/16/michigan.police.child/index.html?hpt=T2

Police in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday expressed “profound sorrow” at the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl in a police raid.

Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant as part of a homicide investigation, Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said in a statement.

“This is any parent’s worst nightmare,” Godbee said. “It also is any police officer’s worst nightmare. And today, it is all too real.”

The warrant was executed about 12:40 a.m. ET Sunday at a home on the city’s east side, Godbee said. Authorities believed the suspect in the Friday shooting death of 17-year-old high school student Jarean Blake was hiding out at the home. Blake was gunned down in front of a store as his girlfriend watched, Godbee said.

Preliminary information indicates that members of the Detroit Police Special Response Team approached the house and announced themselves as police, Godbee said, citing the officers and at least one independent witness.

“As is common in these types of situations, the officers deployed a distractionary device commonly known as a flash bang,” he said in the statement. “The purpose of the device is to temporarily disorient occupants of the house to make it easier for officers to safely gain control of anyone inside and secure the premise.”

Upon entering the home, the officer encountered a 46-year-old female inside the front room, Godbee said. “Exactly what happened next is a matter still under investigation, but it appears the officer and the woman had some level of physical contact.

“At about this time, the officer’s weapon discharged one round which, tragically, struck 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones in the neck/head area.”

The girl was immediately transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Godbee said he and other officers went to the hospital while others stayed at the home to execute the warrant.

Aiyana’s father, Charles Jones, told CNN affiliate WDIV, “She was sleeping and they came in the door shooting and throwing flash grenades … burned my baby up and shot her, killed her.”

Jones claimed the officers had the wrong house, but Godbee said in the statement the 34-year-old suspect in Blake’s death was found and arrested at the home. In addition, a vehicle and a moped matching the descriptions of those involved in Blake’s shooting were also found, he said.

The suspect’s name was not released.

Godbee said he wished to “express to the family of Aiyana Jones the profound sorrow that we feel within the Detroit Police Department and throughout this community. We know that no words can do anything to take away the pain you are feeling at this time.”

Police obtained the “high-risk search warrant” based on intelligence, and it was approved by the prosecutor and a magistrate, Godbee said. “Because of the ruthless and violent nature of the suspect in this case, it was determined that it would be in the best interest of public safety to execute the search warrant as soon as possible and detain the suspect … while we sought a murder warrant,” he said.

The police statement said Chief Warren Evans is out of town and could not be present “to personally address this tragedy,” but “his thoughts and prayers are with the family and loved ones of Aiyana Jones.”

The officer’s weapon was secured, and an investigation is under way, Godbee said, emphasizing the information gained so far is preliminary.

“This is a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude to Aiyana’s parents, family and all those who loved her,” Godbee said. “… It is a tragedy we also feel very deeply throughout the ranks of the Detroit Police Department.

“We cannot undo what occurred this morning,” he said. “All we can do is pledge an open and full investigation and to support Aiyana’s family in whatever way they may be willing to accept from us at this time. I understand that they may not be open to such a gesture at this time, but we do stand ready to do anything we can to support them.”

Protect your babies, or AmeriKKKa will take them away.

Glenn Beck: The Price of Crocodile Tears

Will Glenn Beck find this image and have a giant White People Shit tantrum on national television? Only time will tell.

Comrades know how to do their part. Pass it on. Let this blowhard KKKracker adult-convert to Mormonism know the score, and that the Third World and the oppressed nations in his own stolenland stand resolutely against his piggery and all that bile that comes out of his poison mouth.

Tea Party coup in the U.$. settler colony of Maine

Those Tea-Klan KKKrackers are at it again – The Maine Republican party is now openly brandishing a new preamble of pure quackery drafted up by everyone’s favorite fascist kooks, the Tea Klan (1). These pig faced, groveling Nazi cock-suckers voted almost unanimously in favour of adopting the new party outline, which appears to have been assembled slipshod in the dark by sorting through a trashbin full of racism, conspiracy theories and other assorted KKKracker bullshit.

Preamble:

In the course of a nation’s history, it is natural that political philosophies will evolve which run contrary to the original principles evident at the time of that nation’s founding. A nation founded in tyranny will by its nature spawn sentiment in direct opposition to that tyranny. Conversely, a nation which is dedicated to protecting the rights of its people, and seeks to bind the excesses of power which naturally accrue to governments, is subject to the evolution of factions which strive to throw off those shackles of restraint and gather power and influence over the people. Freedom is not a pre-existing condition into which everyone is delivered. Freedom and personal liberty are conditions of existence which are hard fought for and once won, must be maintained. Each generation must be taught anew the importance of eternal vigilance against those who would disregard the limits imposed on government, and usurp powers not granted to them by the people.
Today this state and the nation are in crisis precisely because we as a people have failed to maintain that vigilance. We have failed to pass down from one generation to another the critical knowledge and lessons that history provides. We have let rot from within, the foundation upon which freedom and prosperity must be built for it to survive.
This election cycle is unique in the history of both this state and our nation. We are presented with a situation in which WE THE PEOPLE, must re-educate ourselves and our neighbors, and put the knowledge of liberty to work in the elections this November. Years of neglect have allowed factions detrimental to the core principles of this nation, to entrench themselves in both political parties, and undermine the education of Constitutional principles vital to the survival of the republic.
The Tea Party movement is reminiscent of the principled revolt that led to the birth of the Republican Party in 1854. In June of that year, Horace Greeley referred to the newly formed Republicans as “…united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty…”. This year it is incumbent upon those Republicans who strive to protect and defend our Constitution, to reclaim that heritage.
It is within this context that We, the citizens of Maine united by free association as Republicans, dedicated to seeing the principles which brought forth the birth and ascendance of this State and these United States once again made dominant and pledge our unwavering allegiance, not to a political party, but to the Constitution of the State of Maine and the Constitution of the United States of America. The Republican Party is the vehicle through which we seek to better unify and promote those in pursuit of these goals.
The principles upon which the Republican Party was founded, to which we as Citizens seek return, and to which we demand our elected representatives abide, are summarized as follows:
1.The Constitutions, both State and Federal, are the framework to which any and all legislation must adhere.
2.State sovereignty must be regained and retained on all issues specifically relegated to the States by the constitution.
3.National sovereignty shall be preserved and retained as dominant over any attempted unconstitutional usurpations of such by international treaty.
4.It is the responsibility and duty, of “We the People”, to educate both ourselves and others; to demand honest elections free of corruption, and to hold our elected officials to the highest standards of honesty, integrity and loyalty to the constitution.
_______________________________________________________________________________________

In pursuit of these principles we endorse and shall promote the following initiatives.
I.To Form a More perfect Union
a.All legislation must adhere to the restrictions outlined in the Constitution to protect the individual from intrusive government.
b.Direct the State of Maine to join with other states in asserting our 10th amendment sovereignty rights which protect us from unconstitutional federal government intrusions.
c.Insist on strict adherence to our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms.
d.Pass a “Read the Bill” act, to insure clarity, and eliminate the corruption associated with side issues, earmarks, pork or riders.
e.Oppose “Localism and Diversity”, the Fairness Doctrine or whatever else such attempted restrictions are labeled. Any restriction on speech is by definition NOT free speech.
f.Reject the Employee free -choice Elimination- act, as an unconscionable affront to the right to a secret vote.
g.Restore integrity to the electoral process:
i.Prohibit any public funding of advocacy groups such as ACORN, no matter what it or its affiliate organizations rename themselves; New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice etc.; Conduct thorough investigation of their activities and voter fraud and prosecute violations.
ii.Eliminate motor voter and other voter fraud mechanisms; institute secure voter registration and identification systems.
iii.Reject any effort to give foreign citizens the right to vote in the US in any situation or capacity.
h.Oppose any and all treaties with the UN or any other organization or country which surrenders US sovereignty. Specifically:
i.Reject the UN Treaty on Rights of the Child.
ii.Reject “LOST” the Law Of The Sea Treaty.
iii.Reject any agreement which seeks to confiscate our firearms.
i.Restore the process of assimilation of immigrants to preserve the benefits of an advanced educated and prosperous society. Rescind Maine’s sanctuary State status. No amnesty, no benefits, no citizenship -ever- for anyone in the country illegally. Arrest and detain, for a specified period of time, anyone here illegally, and then deport, period.
j.Pass a Congressional reform act which includes the following provisions:
i.Term Limits: 12 years only, in any capacity.
1.Two Six year Senate terms
2.Six Two year House terms
3.One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
ii.No Pension
iii.Congress participates in Social Security under the same rules as the general public.
iv.Congress can no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
v.Congress participates in the same health care plan as the general public. No preferential plans or treatment.
vi.Congress is subject to and must abide by all the laws they impose on the general public.

II.To Establish Justice:
a.Restore “Constitutional law” as the basis for the Judiciary.
b.Reassert the principle that “Freedom of Religion” does not mean “freedom from religion”.

III.To Insure Domestic tranquility:
a.Promote family values.
i.Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman.
ii.Parents, not government, are responsible for making decisions in the best interest of their children, whether disciplinary, educational, or medical.
iii.We recognize the sanctity of life, which includes the unborn.

IV.To Provide for the Common Defense:

a.Discard political correctness, make public the declaration of war (Jihad), made against the US on 23 Feb 1998, and fight the war against the United States by radical Islam to win.
b.Seal the border and protect US citizens along the border and everywhere, as is the prime directive of the Federal Government.

V.To Promote the General Welfare:
a.Return to the principles of Austrian Economics, and redirect the economy back to one of incentives to save and invest.
b.Cut spending, balance the budget, and institute a plan for paying down debt. Proclaim that generational debt shifting is immoral and unconscionable and will not be tolerated!
c.Pass and implement Fed bill #1207 (Introduced by Ron Paul), to Audit the Federal Reserve, as the first step in Ending the Fed.
d.Return to transparent and honest reporting of economic statistics free of gimmicks and distortions.
e.Require the government and all its agencies adhere to the same GAAP accounting rules that businesses must follow.
f.Restore the provisions of welfare reform removed with the stimulus bill.
g.Defeat Cap and Trade, investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth, and prosecute any illegal collusion.
h.Freeze current stimulus funds, prohibit any further stimulus bills, and apply all unspent funds towards the debt they created.
i.Promote energy independence aggressively by removing the obstacles created by government to allow private development of

our

resources; natural gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power.
j.Institute Zero based budgeting on all programs.
k.Espouse and follow the principle: It is immoral to steal the property rightfully earned by one person, and give it to another who has no claim or right to its benefits.
l.Clarify that healthcare is not a right. It is a service. As a compassionate society we will aid those in need. However, the government takeover of healthcare is not only unconstitutional, but detrimental to the entire healthcare system. Only market based solutions will solve the problems.
i.In the state of Maine:
1.Remove the restrictions on health providers, (as was done in New Hampshire), to increase competition, drive down the costs, and increase the options available.
a.Bring Maine standards in line with national average.
b.Allow purchase of insurance across state lines. LD 290
c.Enact tort reform as exemplified by Texas.
d.Eliminate Dirigo

VI.To Secure the Blessings of Liberty:
a.Restore a vigorous grounding in the history and precepts of liberty, freedom, and the constitution to the educational process. As Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
i.Eliminate the Department of Education and restore schools to local control as specified in the constitution.
b.Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government.

Of particular interesting note is the bit in their preamble about getting rid of the Law of the Sea Convention. For those of you who don’t know, the Law of the Sea Convention defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources (2). In other words, these pigs are outright rallying for the ‘right’ to steal the marine resources of the Third World and then dump all their garbage there when they’re done.

If you thought that was already approaching comic book supervillain levels of evil, the Treaty on the Rights of the Child, which they also seek to repeal, states the following:

The Convention sets out these rights in 54 articles and two Optional Protocols. It spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation; and to participate fully in family, cultural and social life. The four core principles of the Convention are non-discrimination; devotion to the best interests of the child; the right to life, survival and development; and respect for the views of the child.

Amerika, you know no shame for your crimes.

Make no mistake at all — These KKKrackers really are an “Amerikan People’s Party”. They represent perfectly a political party formed of the absolute worst reactionary scum of the Earth, from the most notorious terrorist nation known to mankind: Amerika. These pigs and their KKKinfolk will no doubt spread to the New Hampshire GOP before too long, a state once-hailed as a potential ‘Libertopia’ before the Tea Party even existed.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, militant fascist groups have swelled a shocking 244% since 2009 (3), after nearly a decade of dormancy. If you think these hicks are something to laugh at you’re dead fucking wrong — More than ever now we need a strong International Communist Movement to combat AmeriKKKan pigdom. Outright, unabashed fascism is coming to the U.$. Corporatism without the pretenses of upholding their defunct ‘Democracy’ holds the potential to turn Amerika into a greater, more destructive monster than it has ever been in the past.

Maine is not the only state to be openly showing the true AmeriKKKan colors of white power — Militia group membership and fascist sentiment is growing massively among the Amerikan public, but it is now reaching a point where it is beginning to touch the political leaders as well. You can see for yourself in this recent campaign ad by Dan Fanelli where he outright decries ‘Political Correctness’ and claims all brown people are terrorists and that he intends to make them disappear to places where they will not have legal representation or rights (4):

Amerika must be stopped. Only genuine International Communism, Maoism Third-Worldism, can end the destructive cycle of Imperialism-Capitalism. If Communists don’t act soon, the next victim of Amerikan genocide will be the entire Third World.

(1) http://www.mainepolitics.net/content/maine-republicans-adopt-tea-party-platform
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
(3) http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year
(4) http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/05/republican-campaign-ad-darker-skinned-people-look-like-terrorists/

Don’t get used to it.

Inspired by the revolutionary men and women at RAIMD.

Death to Imperialism, everywhere, forever!

Fuck the troops.

Capitalism is a pyramid scheme…

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