DHS harasses restaurant owner over live music

 Fire Marshal cites Patriot Act

Muncie, IN – In a stunning move, the Indiana State Fire Marshal is demanding that business owners who provide live entertainment obtain a permit from the Department of Homeland Security.

Their authority? The Patriot Act.

The owner of Folly Moon, a 48-seat hamburger restaurant in downtown Muncie, will have to defend his rights at a commission hearing on Friday, August 2 – to gain the approval of state and federal government in order to stage live musical performances. (click here)

His question to the world. Where will they stop? His point. 

They won't.

This has been done before, in 1933, with the enactment and enforcement of Hitler's Race Laws.

One reader wrote:

Bill Bevington – July 27

Hitler did it a bit differently. He had all musicians register for a permit. (as opposed to venues) Here is a quote from an article: “After the race laws of 1933, the Reichsmusikkammer (Reich Music Chamber) required a registry of all German musicians. As a result, hundreds of talented composers had their work deliberately suppressed and careers ended simply because their race or style of music offended the Third Reich. By 1938, examples of degenerate music were on display at the Entarte Musik Exhibit for the public to view. Famous works by Mendelssohn, Mahler, and Schoenberg were used as examples of unacceptable music. A generation of incredibly innovative and promising musicians was virtually excluded from its place in music history.” The article can be found here –> http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/musDegen.htm

Law man dispenses disinformation on proposed gun law

“You're arguing with the wrong person...”

Waxahachie – Standing on the flat bed, speaking into the mike, the cop with the gun on his hip told Open Carry activists they were arguing with the wrong person.

“We're not going to get into the Constitution on state law,” said Mike Jones. “You're arguing with the wrong person.”

Funny, but no one other than the law man could be heard arguing. The people who confronted him were only asking questions. 

Constable Mike Jones spent 21 years in the Corps, emerging as a retired Master Sergeant. 

He became a police officer in the Ellis County Metroplex bedroom community of Midlothian, where he now serves the Justice Court as Precinct 4 Constable.

At the Dontcomply.com open carry rally and armed march held Saturday, July 27, he blithely spread disinformation while acting as the “spokesman” for the Ellis County law enforcement community.

Dontcomply.com (click here) is part of a nationwide movement to educate Americans on their gun rights under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. They have sponsored numerous armed marches around courthouses and city halls throughout central and north Texas lately, following the arrest of Army M/Sgt. C.J. Grisham by Temple Police for “rude display” of an AR-15 while on a Boy Scout hike with his son.

There is no law against carrying a long gun openly in the State of Texas. Under the disorderly conduct statute, there is a law against “rudely displaying” a rifle or shotgun “in a manner calculated to cause alarm.”

Constable Jones said all that will change come September 1, when SB 299 takes effect. (click here to read the text of SB 299)

The bill, which, according to Constable Jones passed the Legislature in its latest session, deals with the open carry of a handgun by an individual licensed under state law to carry a handgun concealed. It is illegal to carry a handgun openly. Nowhere in its language does SB 299 make mention of long guns. One need only click here to read the text of the bill.

He said he got this information at a “legislative update” meeting. When members of the crowd questioned him, he said “I went to a legislative update meeting. They were telling us all the update information.”

Jones didn't say who organized the meeting, or even where it was held. He just said that local police at the Waxahachie Police Department are going to question those who carry long guns when strolling as a group.

Speaking for the county law enforcement types, he said, “We like the idea of you guys being armed.”

Asked if the Constitution contains any language limiting a citizen's right to keep and bear arms, he declared, “We're not going to get into the Constitution on state law. You're arguing with the wrong person.”

When contacted by phone, a recorded message said he is unavailable for comment at this time.

Heart attack ends JJ Cale's solid gold career

La Jolla - By the time Eric Clapton covered "After Midnight" in 1970, Tulsa rock-a-billy picker J.J. Cale had given up on music. He passed Friday night in a local hospital after suffering a heart attack. 

Suddenly, he recalled many years later, he was a songwriter, no longer just a guitar player with an expensive habit of living.(click here) 

He learned that is a much more profitable business, he often told interviewers. From there on in, he stayed in the background, soft-pedaling his lyrics on vocals, and going on to write many top hits recorded by such luminaries as Lynrd Skynrd, Bonnie and Delaney, and Leon Russell.

R.I.P. Larry Grathwohl - FBI infiltrator

R.I.P. Larry Grathwohl –from American Spectator.org (click to read the whole story)

Larry Grathwohl was a distinguished Vietnam vet who in the 1960s contacted the FBI and offered his services in infiltrating Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s Weather Underground. That was no small deal; it was extremely dangerous. It was a total self-sacrifice, a leap into hell on behalf of his country. He risked his life and endured some wretched things that most of us would refuse to do. For the good of his country, he became part of an ugly inner circle. He had to plunge into their dark side...

Weather Underground wanted poster

I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government. You know, [once] we become responsible for administering, you know, 250 million people. And there was no answer. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people?

The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese, and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the “counter-revolution.” And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education in the [American] Southwest, where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.

I asked, “Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t re-educate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say “eliminate,” I mean kill 25 million people.

To read the U.S. Army's field manual of operation for resettlement and re-eduction, click this link:

http://downdirtyword.blogspot.com/2013/03/containment-and-resettlement-facilities.html

Judge rules out video in opening statements at Hasan trial

Heavily fortified courthouse at Ft. Hood

Ft. Hood - The lead prosecutor answered the judge’s repeated questions as to the relevance of crime scene photos laconically, with a neutral affect - until he was asked about a 911 call that includes audio of one victim’s dying groans.

“What’s the probative value of Michael Pearson’s groans?” Col. Tara Osborn asked.

“Your honor, that’s what it sounds like when someone groans and dies,” the prosecutor said - bluntly.

One of three audio files gleaned from those made from the scene of the shooting on Nov. 5, 2009, it was obtained when a woman crawled under her desk and called 9-1-1 operators, then stayed on the line during the gunfight that ended the shooting rampage of Maj. Abu Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist accused of the premeditated murder of 13 unarmed soldiers dressed in combat fatigues.

He is similarly charged with the premeditated attempted murder of an additional 32 persons.

In probing the prosecution on the relevance an 8-minute video made by FBI crime scene investigators, the judge again struck a raw nerve.

The prosecutor responded by saying, “It’s literally 45 soldiers crammed on top of each other.” In still photos, he explained, “You don’t take away a sense of how small that area was...It started with 45 people sitting in chairs.”

The government will be obliged to prove that each victim is a human being, that they were attacked by none other than Maj. Hasan, and that each victim is positively identified to the jurors - beyond a reasonable doubt - and was killed or injured with pistol fire in a deadly onslaught that ended only when a police officer cut him down with three shots of a 9 mm pistol to the cernter of his chest. He is paralyzed from the sternum to his lower extremeties.

Maj. Hasan repeatedly responded that he had no objection to the graphic evidence that the prosecution will present. In each case, he responded, almost surreally - as one seasoned journalist put it, “Like something out of a Stephen King novel.”

Maj. Hasan repeated the phrase over and over, saying “as long as it preserves the dignity of the deceased.”

At the end of the day, the judge ruled that the crime scene video may not be used during opening statements by the prosecution.

They will rely on still photos which are so bloody, many of them have been replaced with computer-generated diagrams in which the victim resembles a mannequin and show the route of the projectiles and where they struck flesh and bone.

During the testimony phase of the trial, the prosecution will be allowed to use the video.

At one point, Maj. Hasan attempted to stipulate as to the identity of each of his victims, saying “It would save a lot of time...” before the prosecutor cut him off, saying “Your Honor, we’re getting dangerously close to allowing a statement of guilt, here.”

Since such an admission is precluded by law, the error could prove reversible, and the judge declined to allow the stipulation - quickly.

Asked why an “in-life” photo is attached to each autopsy report and accompanying photo exhibits, the prosecutor said “It shows not just the name, but the face.” The judge cautioned the prosecution they should crop out views of the deceased with bare genitalia, open eyes, and gaping mouths.

Similarly, the judge ruled inadmissible pictures of three victims with the time of death written on their foreheads by an emergency medical technician performing triage who did that to fix in her mind exactly what happened, and when.

Asked if he had any objection, Maj. Hasan said, “As long as they do their best to preserve the dignity of the deceased...I understand what they’re trying to do, and I don’t object to that...as long as you don’t show them over and over.”

From a crime scene littered with 45 victims, 145 spent shell casings, documented by more than 1,100 photos, 1,250 autopsy photos and some 400,000 pages of discovery materials, the prosecution has selected 120 photos of the crime scene, autopsy photos of the 13 who lost their lives, and will rely on witnes testimony of those who were wounded by gunfire to prove the premeditated nature of the attack.

Court will reconvene again on Wednesday, July 31, at 2:30 p.m. to allow the judge to ask prosecutors more questions about the relevance of certain items of evidence.

‘Young Guns’ side with White House in NSA showdown

Washington - The tax revolt of 2010 made its influence felt in the fight over NSA phone surveillance.

House Speaker John Boehner formed an unusual coalition with the White House in President Barack Obama’s drive to defeat an amendment that would have defunded warrantless NSA surveillance of Americans’ phone and internet communications.

Drawing on his influence with members of the freshman class of 2010, “Young Guns” Republicans such as District 17 Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan, who were swept into office by Tea Party voters in that year’s tax revolt, Mr. Boehner delivered 217 nay votes, just 12 more than the 205 aye’s that supported the measure.

Liberal members such as Rep. Lloyd Dogget, D-Austin, voted aye on the amendment. Mr. Doggett is a former Texas Supreme Court Jusitce and State Senator who was part of the liberal “Killer Bees” clique who opposed Republican fiscal conservatism in the 80’s.

For a tabulation of how they voted, click here:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml

Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood behind Ft. Hood murders

America fighting back in Killeen courtroom

Mullah Omar of the Afghani Taliban

Ft. Hood – The numbers and the names, the facts and the figures are implacable - and easy to read.

The names and the players are all so familiar to soldiers at this sprawling fortress. Many of them have been there – more than once - during a ten-year war of nerves carried out through means of terror on continents from Asia to Africa, Europe to America.

Murder claimed the lives of 2.2 persons in Chicago – a city where sales of handguns are legally banned - for every one American killed in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan during the corresponding decade.

It's a fresh talking point, a buzz word in the continuing dialogue over American gun rights. The conservative on-line media is humming with the newly calculated fact, led by “World Net Daily.”

Graphic from World Net Daily

In a final day of pre-trial preparation before the beginning of presentation of evidence and testimony in the general court martial of Maj. Abu Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who with a handgun claimed the lives of 13 unarmed soldiers at this military post on Guy Fawkes Day, Nov. 5, 2009, it's not a bad idea to take a look at the motives behind what seems, at first glance, to have been a senseless act.

Maj. Hasan made an earlier motion claiming a mitigating factor in his attack, which the government seeks to prove was a premeditated act involving the attempted murder of an additional 32 people in the Soldier Readiness Center. He said his motive in the deadly attack was the defense of other peoples' lives. That's an affirmative defense to premeditated murder that is enumerated in the Rules of Courts Martial.

He said he sought to save the lives of the Mullah Omar and other members of the command structure of the Taliban in the Emirate of Afghanistan.

Col. Tara Osborn, the military judge in the case, promptly denied his motion to delay his trial by another three months in order to prepare his defense after eliciting his testimony that he justified his murderous attack at a Texas Army post because he was scheduled to deploy there in the near future. Some of the people being readied to transfer to the combat zone might have been headed that way, too.

“Let me get this straight,” she said. “These people (Taliban) were in Afghanistan.” He blithely agreed that he attacked unarmed Americans at a Texas Army post in this mad equation to protect the lives of opposition combatants in Afghanistan.

“...Your motion is untimely and obstructionist,” she ruled.

In fact, the government will seek to prove that in e-mail he sent to the Imam Anwar Awlaki in Yemen, he “gushed” with his desire to join other jihadists in Islamic high heaven. Awlaki since then lost his life in an American drone rocket attack that singled him out as an enemy of his fellow Americans as he rode in a pickup truck through the Yemeni desert. A similar attack claimed the life of his son.

A former teacher at the mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, Awlaki preached Islamic jihad in a continuing global war of terror, both in the war zone, and on U.S. soil. He was a native American citizen connected to many acts of domestic terrorism through his teachings and encouragement.

According to former Yemeni Prime Minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani, 9/11 highjacker Khalid al Mihdhar developed a close relationship with Awlaki during his preparations for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 sailors and wounded 39 in October of 2000. He returned to America and participated in highjacking one of the jets that carried he and other jihadists to glory in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Military analysts note that the radical Taliban that once ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist before American intervention is just a part of a more conservative movement, the Muslim Brotherhood. (click here for a discussion on the subject)

They say the brotherhood, which was founded in British-occupied Cairo, Egypt, in 1928, has spawned many radical organizations from its ranks, all of them bent on jihad. In fact, some military historians trace the origin of the Palestinian branch, Hamas, and the Lebanese organization, Hezbollah, to a special terrorist section created by Nazi black operatives prior to World War Two. Their mission, to oppose British interests in the protectorates of Palestine and Aden, in Egypt and the Emirates of the Gulf states, is still being carried out today - against American armed forces overseas and American civilians on U.S. soil.

Compared to Dr. Hasan's jihadist presentation to fellow psychiatric residents at Walter Reed Army Hospital in the early part of the first decade of the 21^st century, the 20^th century founding motto of the Muslim Brotherhood sounds very familiar.

In his analysis of conscientious objection by fellow soldiers of the Islamic faithful, Maj. Hasan wrote, “We love death more than you love life.”

The founding motto of the Muslim Brotherhood states:

“Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

The stated goal of the jihad, the holy war against Christians and Jews, is based on the infamous “Verse of the Sword,” Qur'an 9.29:

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of truth (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya (holy tax of dhimmitude) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”