Smack Talking ISIS Threatens to Blow Up Obama's Crib

The fanatical Islamic jihadist organization ISIS is getting close to jumping the shark with their latest audacious series of threats. The group’s alleged spokesman has boasted that his ragtag army of smelly, gut-eating, Allah worshipping, ragheaded desert punks are going to swarm European cities Rome and Paris and absorb them into the great Islamist caliphate. For good measure the mouthy Abu Muhammad al-Adnani - who in any civilized society would be fortunate to find work as a clerk at a 7-11 store - upped the ante to include blowing up the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Emperor Barack Obama’s crib over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

According to the website of the Washington D.C. television station CBS DC in the story “ISIS Vows To ‘Blow Up The White House, Big Ben And The Eiffel Tower’”:

En route to conquering the European cities of Paris and Rome, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria says they plan to “blow up” the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.

ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani detailed the terror group’s plans to conquer Portugal, Spain, Paris and Rome in an almost 30-minute audio message to the West, “So They Kill And Are Killed,” which references a Koran verse.

“We won the day Europe and U.S. dreamt of reclaiming Tal Hamis, Mosul, Sinjar, Tikrit, Qaim, Derna, Tell Abyad, and more,” stated the ISIS mouthpiece, as transcribed by Ynet News.

“We — with Allah’s help — want Paris, before Rome and Islamic Iberia and after we blow up the White House, Big Ben, and the Eiffel Tower before Paris, and Rome,” al-Adnani warned. “The Muslims will return to power, to be the vanguard and lead in every place.”

It is such a crock of horseshit that it could have come from a U.S. politician and is so over the top that it is laughable in a way that with any serious group would have members drenched in shame. This pack of degenerate douchebags are lucky to be able to pull off their trademark cowardly ambushes and highly choreographed beheadings against overwhelmed and unarmed victims but storming and conquering the world’s great cities is a fantasy. I don’t believe that the potent hallucinogenic peyote cactus is found in the Middle Eastern deserts that these savages prance around in but they definitely sound like they are high on something.

Blowing up the White House is ludicrous and could be easier pulled off by a few drunken Secret Service agents by accident than the vastly overrated black menace. ISIS is smelling their own piss and why not? It’s not as though the western media – in particular the sensationalist MSM in the U.S. – doesn't practically act as their public relations arm by ensuring that every grotesque beheading gets blanket coverage. As the media maxim goes, if if bleeds, it leads but at what point does it just become the height of irresponsibility by promoting these sleazy assholes in a manner that they never could accomplish themselves?

ISIS is obviously intoxicated on their own bullshit, watch too many movies and are even being given a run for their money in the beheading business by our wonderful and humane allies in Saudi Arabia. The media should stop feeding into the hysteria which would not only take some wind out of the group’s sails but probably seriously crimp recruiting efforts as well.

Obama Justice Department Scooping Up American Cellphone Data

One nation under surveillance could fittingly be the new motto of the United States circa 2014. Not only have numerous revelations over the past year and a half revealed the stunning degree to which the NSA has been spying on law-abiding Americans – all ostensibly to “keep us safe” but there has been much bleeding over into other big government agencies as well. Americans who surrendered their civil liberties with nary a whimper after the 9/11 attacks should be shocked at how the government has gone on to use those acts of terrorism as an excuse to expand its own powers exponentially.

The latest outrage comes courtesy of a story reported by The Wall Street Journal entitled “Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program” . The piece details how the Department of Justice is gathering up data from the mobile phones of Americans using small airplanes equipped with special equipment. This is the same D.O.J. that has been presided over for the past six years by Barack Obama’s ruthless henchman Eric Holder and has set new standards in the abuse of state power. I except the following from the WSJ piece:

The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging a large number of innocent Americans, according to people familiar with the operations.

The U.S. Marshals Service program, which became fully functional around 2007, operates Cessna aircraft from at least five metropolitan-area airports, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population, according to people familiar with the program.

Planes are equipped with devices—some known as “dirtboxes” to law-enforcement officials because of the initials of the Boeing Co. unit that produces them—which mimic cell towers of large telecommunications firms and trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information.

The technology in the two-foot-square device enables investigators to scoop data from tens of thousands of cellphones in a single flight, collecting their identifying information and general location, these people said.

People with knowledge of the program wouldn’t discuss the frequency or duration of such flights, but said they take place on a regular basis.

A Justice Department official would neither confirm nor deny the existence of such a program. The official said discussion of such matters would allow criminal suspects or foreign powers to determine U.S. surveillance capabilities. Justice Department agencies comply with federal law, including by seeking court approval, the official said.

The program is yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution in that it like those utilized by the NSA Stasi is effectively conducting warrantless searches. The Fourth Amendment very clearly states that:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

An army of legal weasels within the government has been furiously working for years to decouple the government from the Constitution and the American bedrock principles espoused within it and have had a stunning degree of success.  The Founding Fathers certainly could never have envisioned the dystopian nightmare of the high-tech surveillance state is it exists today but they understood the nature of kings and despots and based their document on solid defenses of individuals from their abuses of power. Whether it be King George’s redcoats ransacking homes in door to door searches or Eric Holder’s Justice Department flying surveillance planes over their homes in the 21^st century it is one and the same.

The greatest problem that we face today – an existential crisis – is how much is enough power to vest in an increasingly out of control and unaccountable government. While it is the responsibility of that government to keep Americans safe it will matter nothing if the Constitution has been gutted for we will then live in a totalitarian society.

We are well on the way there now unless a very serious intervention is undertaken and done soon.

TSA Sued Over Desecration of Ohio Man's Mother's Cremated Remains

Ever since its inception the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) which serves as America’s airport Gestapo has come under fire for numerous transgressions. Whether it be feeling up children, shaking down old women in medical diapers, intimidating hapless travelers or stealing their belongings it is a big government abomination of the worst type. In a great example of not letting a good crisis go to waste, the TSA was launched in the tense aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and has turned into a permanent fixture in an increasingly fascist America. It represents the worst aspects of the Department of Homeland Security, a bloated monstrosity that has absolutely no place in a free society. Were there political leadership with integrity and a respect for American values it would be dismantled very rapidly and replaced with less onerous forms of security.

Now an Ohio man is suing the government goon squad for desecrating the ashes of his beloved mother who had been cremated. According to a story from the website of Cleveland TV station FOX 8 that is entitled “Lawsuit: Man claims mom’s cremated remains found dumped in suitcase after TSA inspection”:

A Cleveland man had carefully planned an emotional trip to take his mother’s cremated remains to a final resting place, but instead he says the journey turned horrific and upsetting.

Attorney Adeladi Williams says his client, Mr. Shannon Thomas, was flying from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to San Juan, Puerto Rico in early October 2012.

It was Mr. Thomas’ mother’s last wish to have her ashes spread in the crystal waters of the Caribbean Sea.

But a lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Cleveland Thursday claims a disturbing incident destroyed that wish and violated his rights.

According to court documents, Mr. Thomas had followed all of the guidelines and properly packed his mother’s “heavy and sturdy” urn inside of his suitcase for check-in.

The urn was tightly screwed closed and he says it was packed with extra clothing for padding and protection.

But when he arrived in Puerto Rico, he found his mother ashes dumped inside of the suitcase, all over his clothing and with a TSA notice of inspection.

The lawsuit, seeking $750,000 in damages, names multiple defendants including “The United States of America, Transportation Security Administration, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice, 10 agents or employees with the TSA, and 10 other unnamed persons who had contact with his luggage.

It states that “The United States is liable for damage to the urn and his personal effects,” and says the actions of  the TSA agents and others “constitute intentional and/or negligent infliction of emotional distress.”

A TSA spokesperson told FOX 8 that they cannot comment on pending litigation, and therefore cannot say what exactly happened to this urn.

The TSA is exactly the type of organization that would thrive in Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union. It provides a place of gainful employment for those inclined to be bullies and the existence of such an agency in what was once a free country is yet another tragedy of our times. In a free country government thugs and goons do not conduct random searches and engage in the molestation of powerless travelers who face arrest if they do not submit. It is not going to stop at airports either.  Whenever there is another real terrorist attack on The Homeland - and there will be at some point - it will expand into sports stadiums, public venues and your local shopping malls as well. The defense think tank the RAND Corporation produced a study years ago that could serve as the blueprint.

There is however a glimmer of hope in that a number of the nation's airports are now just saying no to the TSA goon squads. According to a story from The Liberty Crier entitled “Dropping The TSA: 19th Airport Joins More Efficient Private Screening Program”:

Tired of long lines at TSA airport checkpoints? Today, the Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) began a transition to private security screeners rather than Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners in a change that promises more efficient security measures.

SFB just joined the TSA’s Screening Partnership Program (SPP) that allows airports to replace TSA screeners with more flexible and cost-effective screening services provided by private companies and overseen by the TSA. While this may seem strange to many Americans who have grown accustomed to TSA-manned checkpoints, it really isn’t abnormal for airports to manage their own security with government regulation and oversight. After all, most European airports are run this way, and now 19 airports in the U.S. are as well.

While privatization does have any number of pitfalls it does offer one critical aspect that does not exist at the federal government level in the USA! USA! USA! anymore: accountability even though it is slight.

Land of Fear: Panic Rules as White House Evacuated

The corrupt corporate-state media has done such an effective job in promoting the menace of ISIS that an intruder who climbed over the fence at the White House succeeded in triggering a panicked evacuation of part of the building. Wow. If this is all that it takes to get Americans to piss all over themselves then the terrorists have truly won. The intruder, who actually managed to make it inside  late yesterday has been identified as Omar J. Gonzalez, a 42 year old man from Texas.  Given the mounting paranoia over the imminent infiltration of the U.S. homeland itself by the head-chopping, jihadi menace - some that mentioned Barry’s residence in particular - it is astonishing that security wasn’t tighter. Then again, what can you expect from a Secret Service notable for exploits that  included frolicking with prostitutes while on a business trip.

Details are provided by The Guardian in a story entitled “Secret service criticised after White House intruder prompts evacuation” from which I excerpt the following:

An intruder who sparked an evacuation of the White House managed to get inside after jumping over the fence just minutes after President Obama had left, the US secret service said on Saturday.

The incident on Friday may have been the first time a fence-jumper has made it inside the US president's official residence, and it prompted fresh criticism of the secret service.

After scaling the fence on the north side of the White House, the intruder ran toward the building, ignoring calls from secret service agents to stop, spokesman Ed Donovan said. The 42-year-old man was apprehended just inside the north portico doors – the grand entrance that looks out over Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives oversight and government reform subcommittee on national security, called the incident "totally unacceptable" and said it was just one of a string of security failings on the secret service's watch.

"Unfortunately, they are failing to do their job," said Chaffetz, who is from Utah. "These are good men and women, but the secret service leadership has a lot of questions to answer."

"Was the door open?" he added, incredulously.

El Presidente had already left the building at the time of the security breach. The motives of Mr. Gonzalez have yet to be divulged. Perhaps it would be apropos that since Obama is the most Nixonian president since Tricky Dick himself that Gonzalez just felt like doing what Hunter S. Thompson once wrote of during Watergate and was "feeling a compulsion to do something like drive down to the White House and throw a bag of live rats over the fence".

The media have practically been accomplices to ISIS and every hysterical report of a beheading, a new video or some wild threat only plays into the hands of the extremist Islamist army. The grand poobah of the caliphate - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - has to be laughing his hairy ass off watching a fear-stricken American populace being terrified that there are terrorists hiding under their beds. It doesn’t even take an actual attack to accomplish the objective of terrorism by its actual definition when he has a ratings-driven mainstream media eating out of his hand. Pathetic but oh so predictable with the star-spangled sheep who have been conditioned to live in fear since September 11, 2001.

The Secret Service has such a dismal record under Obama that one has to wonder whether they are intentionally trying to expose him to danger. There was also that earlier breech with the 2009 crashing of a White House party by two uninvited guests. This kind of stuff just should not happen and is one more indication at how badly broken that this once great country is today.

What the Hell ever happened to that thing about the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave”?