Blame-Shifters: Democrats Use #Orlando to Scapegoat Christians, GOP, NRA

Posted on | June 13, 2016 | 70 Comments

There is no limit to the Left’s shameful dishonesty:

Christian conservatives are responsible for the mass shooting at a gay bar in Orlando because they “created this anti-queer climate,” according to American Civil Liberties Union attorneys.
“You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate,” ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio tweeted on Sunday morning. . . .
Strangio — who “spend[s his] life fighting Christian homophobia while being loved & supported by [his] Muslim family” — and his colleagues connected the shooting back to Christians and Republican politicians who oppose gay marriage. “The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this,” Strangio tweeted. “No.”

This is a classic reversal of causation, as part of an attempt to deflect attention from what actually happened in Orlando, where the deadliest terror attack in the United States since 9/11 was committed by the son of a Taliban supporter whose hatred of homosexuals was clearly related to his Islamic beliefs. Democrats cannot let this be a story about the dangers of Islamic terrorism, a story that would be bad for Hillary Clinton and good for Donald Trump. Instead, the narrative is about “this anti-queer climate” Democrats can blame on Republicans and Christians. Never mind the facts. Never mind the reality that the so-called “200 anti-LGBT bills” are actually attempts to defend First Amendment rights against totalitarian efforts to deny freedom of conscience to businesses and individuals who do not agree with the radical agenda of the Left.

We see that the American Civil Liberties Union — which began as a Communist Party front group to defend the agents of Soviet-backed subversion — is now against “civil liberties,” insofar as those liberties involve the rights of Christians to live according to their faith.

“Democrats with bylines,” as Instapundit calls the dishonest journalists who peddle partisan propaganda, are also trying to blame the NRA for Orlando, because there is nothing liberals would enjoy more than to completely disarm American citizens, because depriving us of our Second Amendment rights is necessary to abolishing our First Amendment rights.

In Obama’s America, Muslims have rights, immigrants have rights and gay people have rights. The rest of us? We have no rights at all.

"Through the Looking Glass," 2016 https://t.co/6FHcSAQkFx @lastchance4usa @instapundit @Nero @AnnCoulter pic.twitter.com/aqoNbiq9ox

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 13, 2016

Category: Gays, Islam, Terrorism

Extenuating Circumstances? No Mercy!

Posted on | June 13, 2016 | 19 Comments

Oakland, California, Police Chief Sean Whent resigned last week “after a sex scandal that began in his department spread to four other cities, with least 24 officers revealed to have slept with the same prostitute — some of them when she was just 16”:

The woman, who goes by the name of ‘Celeste Guap’, said that she slept with three of the two dozen officers when she was 17. She turned 18 last August. . . .
At least 14 of Whent’s officers had been sexually involved with Guap, whose mother is an Oakland police dispatcher.

When I saw this headline by Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, I was shocked and outraged. Police officers having sex with a teenage prostitute? What kind of decadence and depravity has taken hold in Oakland? We must put an end to this shameless vice and corruption! We must make an example of these officers by imposing the maximum punishment allowed by law! Why would law enforcement officers resort to such wickedness?

The investigation into the officers’ relationship began in September 2015, after married Officer Brendan O’Brien, who had been having an affair with Guap since she was 17, killed himself and named her and several officers in his suicide note.
Since then, two-dozen officers have been revealed to have slept with Guap, some of whom provided her with confidential information.
‘I think cops are fine. They’re cute and all, but it’s like one less officer that’s gonna arrest me,’ she told the East Bay Express.
Under the screen name ‘Superman,’ one officer wrote: ‘Want some advice? Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42(nd Avenue) tonight. There’s a UC (an undercover) operation.’
She replied: ‘Thank u daddy I appreciate it (I don’t) wanna go to jail lol.’
Guap told the East Bay Express that ‘Superman’ had put her in a taxi after she approached him drunk and lost. She began having sex with him a week later.

Teenage prostitute ‘Celeste Guap’ and Officer Brendan O’Brien.

Preventing police corruption is necessary, and obviously Oakland’s training procedures will need to be revised. Officers are sworn to obey an oath, to uphold the law. If laws against prostitution (California Penal Code Section 647) are not rigorously enforced, terrible consequences are certain to follow. Readers may accuse me of being puritanical and merciless in demanding maximum punishment for the officers implicated in this scandal and, while you’re at it, go ahead and accuse me of hypocrisy. What would I do, if I were a police officer confronted by “Celeste Guap,” who asked me to disregard my sworn duty to enforce California Penal Code Section 647 in exchange for her, uh, services?

Ah, but this is mere hypothetical speculation, you see. I am a journalist, not a police officer, and hypothetical speculation is high on the list of practices a journalist should be careful to avoid. Also, remember that while the First Amendment protects our rights of free speech and a free press, the Fifth Amendment protects us against self-incrimination. You have the right to remain silent and anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Furthermore, you have the right to an attorney, and to have your attorney present during questioning.

Why would a journalist memorize the Miranda warning? Well, I wasn’t always a journalist. Once upon a time, I was long-haired teenage dopehead — it was the ’70s, man, and I was a Democrat back then — and a juvenile delinquent learns lessons about law enforcement that most journalists probably never learn. One ironic consequence is that I have no pity for criminals, especially stupid criminals who think they can get with their crimes, but then expect mercy when they get caught. (Ken White’s commentary about the Brock Turner case at Stanford is enlightening in this regard.) What shall we do with police officers who think they can get away with having sex with a teenage prostitute? No pity! No mercy!

“Lead us not into temptation” we are told to pray. Perhaps you sinners should thank God you never faced temptation like “Celeste Guap.”

Perhaps God will have mercy on police officers who violate the law, but California Penal Code Section 647 doesn’t mention “mercy.”

Category: Crime

Radical Madness: @ZJemptv and the Transgender War Against Women

Posted on | June 13, 2016 | 30 Comments

Sitting on my shelf, amid scores of radical feminist books I’ve gathered over the past two years, is Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Creating Ritual in the Dianic Wiccan Tradition by Ruth Barrett, a neopagan high priestess initiated by Z. Budapest, the founder of feminist witchcraft. Ruth Barrett divorced her husband and became a lesbian, so that she is the epitome of a famous anti-feminist quote by Pat Robertson.

There has been a strange battle fought within feminism in recent years between radical feminists and transgender activists, and Ruth Barrett has now become a target of the implacable hatred for which the transgender movement is rapidly becoming notorious. Barrett has announced plans to publish an anthology entitled Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights, with an introduction by Germaine Greer. This collection of 46 essays includes a lot of anti-Christian feminism of the kind that I consider pure satanic evil (e.g., Monika Sjöö and Barbara Mor), however, neither I nor any other right-wing Christian is trying to prevent publication of this book. Guess who is? Transgender activists like Zinnia Jones.

Gallus Mag at the radical feminist site Gender Trender reports:

Less than 48 hours since the announcement of the upcoming Female Erasure anthology and the anti-women, anti-lesbian, anti-speech activists are already swarming with efforts to stop its publication. . . .
Needless to say, the individuals who are invested in forcibly imposing “gender” on women and girls wish to censor female speech about the worldwide, violent, reproductive sex-based oppression of women and girls which transcends all cultures and eras. . . .
Anti-feminist and anti-gay activists — mainly of the transgender variety — are already waging a campaign of harassment against the editor, the contributors, and the fundraising website being used to crowdfund the project.

Is there anyone who is not transgender who is “waging a campaign of harassment” against so-called “TERFs” (trans-exclusive radical feminists)? Not to my knowledge. My preferred “harassment” toward feminists is to quote them, and how am I to quote the crazy things feminists say, if they are not allowed to publish? My warnings about the consequences of feminism (see “Jacobins, Bolsheviks and Feminists”) are based on in-depth research, and I dare yet hope that some of these fools will see the errors of their folly. How can truth contend with error, however, if we are denied the freedom to speak?

America has gone insane, and the lunatics are running the asylum. https://t.co/Vd7Gt87574 pic.twitter.com/79b8wmpFwX

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 10, 2016

Why do transgender activists fear the truth? Why do they try to shut down criticism of their agenda? What are they trying to hide?

Heather McNamara, “Miss Robo” and Zinnia Jones.

You may recall that Zinnia Jones is the partner of Heather McNamara, a self-described “feminist, marxist, queer theorist, lesbian” who in October 2015 deliberately humiliated her son by forcing him to write an essay about “misogyny.” That anyone could be so cruel to their own child is shocking, and we should not be surprised that Zinnia Jones is supporting the war against Ruth Barrett’s book.

Ask yourself: Why do transgender activists care so much about a book by a lesbian feminist witch that they would seek to prevent its publication? Why is it so important to Zinnia Jones to prevent feminists from criticizing the transgender agenda? Why would Zinnia Jones and other transgender activists erupt with a barrage of sexualized slurs against me when I called them out about their efforts to suppress free speech?

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself . . . she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

My advice to feminists is to remember the fate of Trotsky. And you should probably also read The Road to Serfdom, especially Chapter 10.

Category: Sex Trouble

Was James Wesley Howell Planning a Terrorist Attack on L.A. Gay Pride Parade?

Posted on | June 12, 2016 | 23 Comments

In the aftermath of the massacre in Orlando, there has been widespread interest in an arrest today in Santa Monica, California:

An Indiana man armed with assault rifles and explosive chemicals told authorities in Southern California he wanted to harm a gay pride event in the area, police confirmed Sunday.
James Wesley Howell, 20, was arrested when Santa Monica police discovered three assault rifles, high capacity magazines and ammunition in his car, according to a news release from the Santa Monica Police Department. Investigators also recovered a five-gallon bucket “with chemicals capable of forming an improvised explosive device,” police said.
Authorities encountered Howell while responding to a call about “suspicious circumstances” in Santa Monica shortly before 5 a.m. Police said Howell was reportedly knocking on a resident’s door and window. Howell’s vehicle was registered in Indiana.
Santa Monica police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks tweeted that Howell told officers after he arrested that he wanted to harm the gay pride event in West Hollywood that was taking place about seven miles away later Sunday.

OK, so he’s not named “Omar,” but the part of this story I don’t understand is, why would a guy from Indiana drive all the way to California to attack gay people? Is there a shortage of homosexuals in Indiana? Or was there something in particular about this West Hollywood event that would inspire James Wesley Howell to target it? Like, maybe the celebrities? If he was planning to do the “disgruntled-loser-goes-out-in-a-blaze of glory” massacre/suicide thing, did Howell hope that killing a famous gay person would ensure his posthumous notoriety? Was there a specific gay celebrity he had in mind? Because otherwise he could have just killed gay people closer to home at the Indianapolis Pride celebration.

Trying to understand the motives of homicidal maniacs is always difficult. Did I mention Howell was known to be dangerously crazy?

Around 11:17 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, Charlestown Police Department officers were dispatched to Winthrop Drive to investigate a report of James W. Howell, 19, pointing a gun at his neighbors, according to a police report. . . .
One of the neighbors who reportedly had the gun pointed at him told officers he, his wife and several other neighbors and friends had been sitting on the porch having beers and discussing his cat being poisoned several months ago. At that point, a woman who lives at Howell’s residence with her husband, who was on the porch, came around from the back of the house yelling that they were talking about her and calling her names. An argument ensued between the woman and the complainant, and Howell went into his residence and returned with a gun, witnesses said. . . .
“James is going to get someone hurt,” one witness said. “He needs to stop pointing guns at people.”

OK, who poisoned the neighbor’s cat? Do you think this sudden escalation might indicate a likely suspect? A local psychopath? The kind of kook who would drive all the way to L.A. looking to kill some gay people?

Meanwhile, in Florida:

A former Fort Pierce police officer who once worked with 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the assailant in an Orlando nightclub shooting that left at least 50 dead, said he was “unhinged and unstable.”
Daniel Gilroy said he worked the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift with G4S Security at the south gate at PGA Village for several months in 2014-15. Mateen took over from him for a 3 to 11 p.m. shift.
Gilroy, a former Fort Pierce police officer, said Mateen frequently made homophobic and racial comments. Gilroy said he complained to his employer several times but it did nothing because he was Muslim. Gilroy quit after he said Mateen began stalking him via multiple text messages — 20 or 30 a day. He also sent Gilroy 13 to 15 phone messages a day, he said.
“I quit because everything he said was toxic,” Gilroy said Sunday, “and the company wouldn’t do anything. This guy was unhinged and unstable. He talked of killing people.”
Gilroy said this shooting didn’t come as a surprise to him.

Said it before, I’ll say it again: Crazy people are dangerous.

As a society, we have become far too tolerant of kooks. We used to lock up kooks in the lunatic asylum. There were limits to how much craziness you could exhibit without getting hauled away to the funny farm, and so people tried to act normal. Weirdos weren’t flaking out in public all the time, so that if somebody did act out, people would notice, and say something about it. Well, now we are so concerned not to stigmatize mental illness that genuinely strange behavior is now considered normal, and kooks like James Wesley Howell and Omar Mateen run rampant.

But the big story here is that James Wesley Howell has proven that you don’t have to be a Muslim to be a dangerous kook. There’s still enough old-fashioned American psychopaths around to worry about.

Liberals now celebrating arrest of a dangerous hater not named "Omar." https://t.co/lIrsRo4W5U

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

… and the grand prize winner for
Most Stupid Tweet of the Day. @SarahKSilverman pic.twitter.com/1CPbiOLsuJ

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Category: Crime, Gays, Terrorism

Rule 5 Sunday: Hit The Beach (Club)!

Posted on | June 12, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the peculiar institutions here in Las Vegas is the “Beach club”, essentially an open-air pool party targeted at young people and held at one of the local resorts. Wet Republic, Encore, Daylight, Rehab…just about every major resort has one, sometimes as an annex to their normal club venue and sometimes as a standalone feature. This week our appetizer is from Drai’s at the Cromwell, which often has “cruise nights” in addition to its usual club nights. As usual, many of the following links are to pics normally considered NSFW, and if you insist on clicking said links with a fine disregard for time and place, the management is not responsible for whatever evils your boss, wife, girlfriend or other persons inflict on you.

All hands on deck!

90 Miles from Tyranny leads off this week (appropriately enough) with Soaking Wet Cameltoe, All American Girl, and Girls with Guns; Goodstuff follows with Mariah Carey up front and Vikki Dougan bringing up the shapely rear. Animal Magnetism has Rule Five Procedure Prep Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, The Last Tradition adds Adriana Lima and Bar Rafaeli, and First Street Journal salutes women in the military with They Left The Lipstick At Home.

EBL’s herd this week includes the very atomic Debbie Harry, D-Day, Cyd Charisse, Virginia Madsen, Hillary “fashion”, Leslie Rasmussen, and Global Warming.

A View from the Beach supplies us with Time for Another Brazilian – Anne de Paula, A Whole Lotta Clinton.com, The Ring vs The Grudge, Tennis Star Gets Two Year Vacation for Drug Use, Attention Bernie Bros, This Could Happen Here, There’s Got to Be a Morning After at Clinton.com, Wednesday Morning Wake Up, Will California Fall for Clinton.com?, Reporter Swings into Work, Gone Fishin’, Short Shrift at Clinton.com, “Under the Sun, and Clinton.com Leaves a Mark on My Hometown.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Jennifer Sky, his Vintage Babe is Joan Blondell, and Sex in Advertising is covered this week by Sports Illustrated. At Dustbury, it’s Lizzy Caplan and Maya Moore.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is midnight on Saturday, June 18; the deadline to submit links to the FMJRA is noon on the 18th. Thanks to everyone who linked last week for making Rule 5 Sunday top post!

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Category: Rule 5

That Feeling Of Being On The Cusp Of The Big Breakthrough

Posted on | June 12, 2016 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

There just has to be something we can apply to the issue of Gun Free Zones!

Category: Uncategorized

Omar Mateen: Muslim Commits Murder Rampage at Orlando Gay Nightclub

Posted on | June 12, 2016 | 90 Comments

This morning, the TV was on the local NBC affiliate — my wife is having a yard sale and wanted to check the weather — and the report was that about 20 people had been killed when a man armed with an assault rifle attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando. However, NBC said nothing about a motive. June is “Gay Pride” month and, honestly, my first thought was, “This is going to be a redneck homophobe.” Expecting the Left would turn this into a political crusade and find some way to blame Republicans, I checked Twitter and was at first doubtful when I saw reports that radical Islam might be the motive. Then the facts started piling up:

Omar Mateen has been named as the gunman involved in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, CBS News reports.
Police said at least 20 people were killed and about 40 more were wounded in the attack early Sunday morning.
Mateen is a U.S. citizen from Port St. Lucie, Florida, according to CBS News. . . .
Mateen died at the scene after he was shot by police. He had barricaded himself in the nightclub after opening fire. . . .
FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Ron Hopper said at a press conference that there are “some suggestions” the gunman “may have leanings” toward Jihadist ideology. . . .

Well, the death toll in Orlando is now reported at 50, and liberals are unable to say anything about this without making fools of themselves.

Shorter @sallykohn: "Lutheran extremists and radical Methodists commit so much anti-#LGBT violence." #Orlando pic.twitter.com/02ORyTs30D

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Not all Florida Democrats are terrorists, however … pic.twitter.com/1ldZ2IDQzR

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Gosh, if only there were a presidential candidate committed to doing something about this problem. #Orlando pic.twitter.com/HYeNEHwlhp

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

As unofficial spokesman
for the rest of America, I say:
"What part of FUCK YOU
do I need to explain here?" #Orlando pic.twitter.com/vfSkGXUA81

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Omar Mateen: "Gonna commit anti-#LGBT jihad in #Orlando during #Pride2016 but first, let me take a selfie." pic.twitter.com/cYuaLF1Spx

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

UPDATE: “Religion of peace”:

An MSNBC staff writer spoke with the father of Omar Mateen, the gunman who shot and killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday.
“We are apologizing for the whole incident. We weren’t aware of any action he is taking, we are in shock like the whole country. This had nothing to do with religion,” the gunman’s father said. However, he also claimed his son got very angry when he saw two men kissing in downtown Miami recently.

It is possible to get “very angry” about something without going on a shooting rampage — or flying jets into skyscrapers, for that matter.

UPDATE II: Nothing is easier to predict than Third Wave feminists making excuses for Muslims who commit terrorist violence:

Laurie Penny: "Muslim communities …
feeling so much fear" maybe because
MUSLIMS KEEP KILLING EVERYBODY? #Orlando pic.twitter.com/ib5Z8OYXrv

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

Laurie Penny hates America so much she will always defend anyone who shares her anti-American hatred. Muslims kill homosexuals and brutalize women, but that’s OK with Laurie Penny, because Muslims hate America.

UPDATE III: My rage against Laurie Penny’s sort of “feminism” — hate propaganda as “social justice” — tempts me to say that feminism is a greater threat to the world than Islamic terrorism, because feminists (and their “progressive” allies) seek to destroy every means by which we might defend ourselves against the menace of jihad. The ordinary citizen’s understandable concern about terrorism is condemned as “racism” by the Left, no matter how much evidence indicates the truth: Muslims hate everyone who is not a Muslim, and Islam is an evil doctrine of bloodthirsty hatred that commands its followers to kill us. However, because the Left hates Christianity even more than Muslims hate Christianity, the Left is willing to ignore the endorsement of violence that is inseparable from Islamic theology. Any manifestation of anti-Christian evil is acceptable to leftists like Laurie Penny, so that when Muslims commit mass murder, she always looks for an excuse to implicate “Islamophobia,” as if fearing people who want to kill us is irrational. Meanwhile:

Omar Mateen of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, came to the attention of federal authorities twice prior to being identified as the gunman in the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, a senior law enforcement source told The Daily Beast.
Mateen killed 53 people and shot more than 100 in total at the Pulse gay nightclub early Sunday morning, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.
The senior law enforcement source reports that Mateen became a person of interest in 2013 and again in 2014. The Federal Bureau of Investigation at one point opened an investigation into Mateen but subsequently closed the case when it produced nothing that appeared to warrant further investigation.
“He’s a known quantity,” the source said. “He’s been on the radar before.”

We can’t arrest every Muslim who wants to kill us, because all Muslims want to kill us. This is what their so-called “religion of peace” teaches, and freedom of religion protects their murderous hatred.

"Religion of peace." https://t.co/IIX30KIsLk #Orlando #PulseShooting #OmarMateen pic.twitter.com/YxCvpysBSA

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) June 12, 2016

UPDATE IV: Terrorists are everywhere, it seems:

Man with weapons and explosives arrested,
was going to L.A. gay pride parade, police say

Just another random coincidence, I’m sure.