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Hillary Is ‘Freakishly Unpopular,’ @MattYglesias Painfully Voxplains

Posted on | September 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

Harvard-educated liberal genius Matthew Yglesias.

That people don’t like Hillary Clinton is hardly news to anyone who has paid attention to American politics since 1992, but among the Manhattan-based, Ivy League-educated liberal elite, the well-known problem of Hillary’s unpopularity was something they hoped could be changed by such P.R. strategies as having her dance with Ellen DeGeneres. The Clinton machine was able to steamroller past Bernie Sanders in the Democrat primaries, and when the Republicans nominated Donald Trump, all the “experts” believed that Trump’s deficiencies as a candidate would render irrelevant whatever remained of Hillary’s unpopularity.

 

Alas, no. The most recent polls show a clear trend toward Trump who, in the span of five weeks, has gained more than 4 points in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls (from 39.9% on Aug. 9 to 44% as of today), while Hillary has lost 2.6 points in barely three weeks, falling from 48.4% on Aug. 27 to 45.8% as of today. That was before the release of the latest Fox News poll, which has Trump leading Clinton 46%-45%. Skeptics may laugh that off, but even the CBS/New York Times poll has Hillary clinging to a bare 2-point lead, which means that Democrats need someone to explain to them how badly their hope is sagging. Cue the Juice Box Mafia’s Harvard-educated Voxplainer, Matthew Yglesias:

Hillary Clinton’s ongoing campaign to paint Donald Trump as unacceptable in the eyes of most Americans is working. It’s just not good enough. That’s the message of the spate of recent polls showing a dramatically tightened race that Trump may even be narrowly winning.
The truth is that Trump is not doing well. Even Trump’s very best recent polls . . . show him receiving fewer votes than Republican candidates usually get. . . .
The problem is that Clinton herself is doing worse. Because despite her campaign’s emphasis on Trump’s weirdness and unpopularity, that isn’t the only force shaping this race. It’s profoundly unusual across two other dimensions — the strength of third party candidates and the weakness of the frontrunner — that will probably prevent Clinton from ever opening up a sustained comfortable lead unless she can do something to make herself better-liked.
Clinton is a freakishly unpopular frontrunner
Despite a couple of days’ worth of bad polls, Clinton still leads in national polling averages. It remains the case that if the election were held tomorrow, she would win.
In that context, her 42-56 favorable/unfavorable split in national polling is truly, freakishly bad. . . .
Lambasting Trump while being unpopular herself would be a clear winning strategy in a zero-sum head-to-head race. But in a four-sided race, where the two lesser candidates aren’t receiving much scrutiny from the press or the campaigns, it tends to have the side consequence of pressing a lot of people to [Libertarian candidate Gary] Johnson or [Green candidate Jill] Stein. . . .

You can read the rest if you enjoy watching a liberal intellectual squirm in embarrassed agony, as I’m sure you do. Yglesias deeply wants to offer an ideological explanation of Hillary’s woeful unpopularity, to say that it is the Democrat’s lack of progressive credibility that is preventing her from pulling away from Trump, but that’s not really the problem at all. The brilliance of Trump’s stock phrases — e.g., “Crooked Hillary” and the “rigged system” — is that it cuts across simple Left/Right categories to reach the kind of grassroots resentment of well-connected political insiders which has been fueling American populism since Thomas Jefferson went after John Adams’ Federalists in 1800. All the “experts” have so underestimated Trump’s mass appeal for so long that if and when the Republican does pull into a clear and sustained lead over Hillary, the Elite Pundit Class will be exposed as frauds and fools. This would be such a truly beautiful sight to behold. Their gloom would likely be as hilarious as anything since the 1988 flop of Mike Dukakis.

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

UPDATE: Pain? You want to see liberals writhe in pain? Trump is beating Hillary by eight points in Iowa and leading by 3 in Ohio.




 

Category: Election, Hillary Clinton, Polls

In The Mailbox: 09.15.16

Posted on | September 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Dirty Dozen Comic Book And Movie
Twitchy: Technicolor Nightmare? Drudge Posts This Colorful Picture And Declares HILLARY LIVES
Louder With Crowder: James O’Keefe “Chalks For Trump” At Berkeley, Liberal Students Lose It!


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I’ve Been Away And Off The Grid
American Power: Christine Amanpour Claims Media Coverage Of Hillary’s Health Is Sexist
American Thinker: K-12 Parent X Takes On Principal Zero
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily News
Da Tech Guy: A Paragraph That Should Be Read By Every Single American Born After 1980
Don Surber: LA Times Poll – Trump Gets 19% Of Black Vote, 31% Of Hispanics
Dustbury: Retropucking
Fred On Everything: Legion of The Tinfoil Hat – Fred Reveals His Martian Loyalties
Jammie Wearing Fools: Americans’ Trust In Mass Media Sinks To New Low
Joe For America: Woman Lied To Police After Attacking Blind Trump Fan, Forgot One Thing
JustOneMinute: The Check Was In The Mail
Pamela Geller: NYPD Officers Attacked With Meat Cleaver; Attacker Named As Muslim Akram Joudeh
Power Line: The Greatest Doctor’s Note Ever
Shark Tank: Rubio Condemns TSA, Obama Administration Over Air Marshal Lie
Shot In The Dark: Deplorable Her!
The Political Hat: Socialized Healthcare – Banning People From Surgery
This Ain’t Hell: Vote Fraud Is “Insignificant”, Eh?
Weasel Zippers: Soros Spending Big Money To Help Dems Defeat Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Megan McArdle: How Many Are Insured Because Of Obamacare? Great Question
Mark Steyn: A Bone Is Thrown


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‘Blunt-Force Trauma’ to Her Vagina

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘Blunt-Force Trauma’ to Her Vagina

Delaney Robinson (left) says she was raped by Allen Artis (right).

Allen Artis is a 6-foot-1, 215-pound junior linebacker for the University of North Carolina and also allegedly a rapist:

A student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has gone public with allegations that she was raped by one of the school’s football players and that the university failed to adequately investigate the reported assault.
Delaney Robinson said at a press conference Tuesday that UNC linebacker Allen Artis sexually assaulted her earlier this year. Robinson claims campus police interrogated her like a suspect in her own assault and “laughed” at her story while interviewing Artis. Robinson’s attorney Denise Branch alleges that the assistant district attorney for Orange County, North Carolina, told her: “unconsciousness is rape, blackout drunk is not rape.” . . .
The North Carolina native said she had been drinking on Feb. 14 when Artis allegedly raped her in an athletic dorm while she was “incapacitated.”
“Yes, I was drinking that night on Valentine’s Day. I’m underage, and I take responsibility for that. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to violate me. I did not deserve to be raped.”
After the alleged assault, the then-18-year-old pre-business student went to a hospital where she was examined by a nurse trained in sexual-assault cases and a rape kit was recorded. A physical exam revealed “vaginal injuries consistent with blunt-force trauma and bruising consistent with a physical assault,” according to her attorney.

OK, for any feminists reading this, trigger warning: Common sense.

If you’re a college girl who decides to get drunk to the point of being “incapacitated” on Valentine’s Day, avoid the athletic dorm.

The evidence in the case — including bruises on Robinson’s neck — appears rather convincing. Artis was suspended from the UNC team Tuesday and turned himself in to the sheriff’s department today,  and we’ll let the criminal justice handle the matter of Artis’s guilt or innocence. However, I would like to call attention to how feminism’s “rape culture” rhetoric amounts to a demand that we demand we ignore common sense.

According to feminists, we are supposed to pretend that 18-year-old college girls never get drunk with the intention of having sex. We are also supposed to pretend that college boys don’t understand that college girls get drunk with such purposes in mind. Now, I say this not in a spirit of “victim-blaming” or “slut-shaming,” but merely to describe known patterns of behavior of drunk college kids. There are more than 18,000 undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill, including more than 4,000 freshmen. Enrollment is 58% female, which means that each fall, about 2,300 girls fresh out of high school show up in Chapel Hill, and how many of those girls get drunk and have sex? A lot, I’ll bet. Drunk sex is probably common enough among girls at UNC that the boys on campus assume that any girl who gets drunk at a party is willing to have sex, and the only question is, “Who is she going to leave the party with tonight?”

Again, I’m simply describing known patterns of behavior, in order to try to explain how feminists fail to acknowledge the way common-sense assumptions are formed. If there are a lot of girls getting drunk and having sex — which is the case on college campuses across America — guys are apt to interpret drunkenness as synonymous with sexual consent. Obviously, this interpretation is sometimes erroneous, which is why we keep seeing all these “he-said”/“she-said” cases where two drunk students have sex but subsequently disagree on whether it was consensual. However, if the vast majority of consensual hookups on campus also occur between drunk students, how many of those hookups could be considered sexual assault should it become a matter of law that drunkenness, per se, renders a person incapable of consenting to sex?

This is exactly where feminists are trying to lead us, as Ashe Schow has pointed out, by implementing campus policies that make it effectively illegal to have sex while drunk, and which deprive accused students of the due-process protections they would have in criminal court.

Allen Artis will face the charges against him in court, but even if he is acquitted at trial, he will probably never again play football for UNC. That’s just the way things are now. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, two University of Southern California football players have been suspended:

USC has banned linebacker Osa Masina from campus while authorities investigate allegations he raped a woman back in July … this according to Masina’s attorney.
TMZ Sports broke the story … officials are investigating allegations that Masina and [teammate] Don Hill had sex with a woman who claims she was drugged up and near unconscious at Hill’s L.A. apartment back in July.
The alleged victim told police 19-year-old Masina recorded the incident and Snapchatted it to her ex-boyfriend — a football player who plays for the University of Arizona.
The woman claims Masina then raped her on a 2nd occasion in Utah later that month.
USC had previously suspended Masina from the football team — but now his attorney Greg Skordas has told the Daily Trojan he’s been banned from being on the campus altogether.

How many cases like this are we going to see before college coaches start forbidding their players to date girls at all? Do any of these girls have even the tiniest bit of common sense? Like, “Hey, let’s go over to this football player’s off-campus apartment because . . .” Why? Why is she there? Is she looking for help with her geography homework? Does she think they’re going to take a moonlight stroll on the beach, holding hands while he recites a few of his favorite Shakespearean sonnets? Bullshit.

Osa Massina is 6-foot-4, 230 pounds of USDA Prime Beef. He is a competitive athlete trained in the aggressive use of physical force. What is a girl going to do when she goes over to Osa Massina’s apartment? Whatever Osa Massina wants her to do, that’s what. He’s a Division I athlete at a big-name program with a reasonable prospect of becoming an NFL star. There is no shortage of girls willing to accommodate the desires of star athletes at major universities, and the players become accustomed to the idea that every woman they meet is looking for a hookup.

Really, why else does a girl go to a USC football player’s apartment? And why does a drunk girl go to the athletic dorm at UNC? Serious question — what decision-making process led to Delaney Robinson’s fateful Feb. 14 encounter with Allen Artis in Chapel Hill?

“Oh, look, it’s Valentine’s Day,” says the freshman girl. “I’ll do something romantic, like get drunk out of my skull and wander over to the athletic dorm, just to share the festive holiday spirit.”

Forgive my cynical sarcasm about this, but it takes an absurd kind of naïveté to believe that a girl can be smart enough to go to college and yet too stupid to understand the likely result of such a decision.

“Vaginal injuries consistent with blunt-force trauma.”

The reader is free to speculate what that phrase means.




 


Category: Crime, Education, Sports

In The Mailbox: 09.14.16

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.14.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Confessions Of An Ex-NFL Fan
EBL: Crooked Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Tried To Scapegoat Colin Powell
Michelle Malkin: Mulan Vs. The Diversity-Mongers
Twitchy: DNC Leak Exposes Pay-To-Play Politics, How The Clintons REALLY Feel About Obama
Louder With Crowder: “Black Rifles Matter”? Man Triggers Liberal Outrage In Maine
Monster Hunter Nation: Writers Should Be Cultural Appropriating All The Awesome Stuff


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Watching
American Power: Killings In Chicago Hit A 20-Year High
American Thinker: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – Goodbye, $15/hr; Hello, Zume Pizza
Don Surber: Dumbass Of The Day
Dustbury: Deliciously Tart
Jammie Wearing Fools: Desperate Spin On Clinton Turns Comical – “This Is A Woman Who Works Twenty Hours A Day”
Joe For America: NFL Will Fine Players Wearing 9/11 Tribute – NYPD Offers To Cover Fines
JustOneMinute: OMG Colin Powell
Pamela Geller: Australia’s Newest Senator Tells Non-Assimilating Muslims To Go Home
Power Line: Frequently Or Rarely?
Shark Tank: A Tale of Two “Deplorables”
Shot In The Dark: Indeed
The Jawa Report: Heartbreak! The Last Triceratops
The Lonely Conservative: Hillary Is OK, She Was Just Powering Through
The Political Hat: Common Sense Is Sexist And Kinda Rapey
This Ain’t Hell: Manning To Get Free Surgery In Return For His Selfless Service To His Country
Weasel Zippers: What Does The Post Office Waste Your Money On? Donating To The DNC, Duh!
Megan McArdle: Banks And Colleges Are Wasting Our Money


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#DNCLeaks: The Benghazi-ISIS Connection (Why Democrats Are Wrong)

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on #DNCLeaks: The Benghazi-ISIS Connection (Why Democrats Are Wrong)

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing do to with. It’s hard for the American people to make sense of that, because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable.”
— Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sept. 14, 2012, while standing over the caskets of the four Americans killed at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya

Why did ISIS emerge as a major terrorist threat in 2013? This is a question that Democrats don’t want Americans to consider a consequence of President Obama’s policies, as it quite obviously is. Nor does anyone in the Hillary Clinton campaign want to discuss how the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was connected to the rise of ISIS, although this connection is equally obvious.

The connection involves the so-called “Arab Spring” uprisings of 2011 that were supported by Clinton’s State Department. A major goal of the “Arab Spring” was the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’athist regime in Syria. In the wake of the successful U.S.-backed overthrow of Libyan dictator Moammar Ghaddafi, the Obama administration sought to recover the weapons it had provided to the Libyan rebels, and transfer them (via Turkey) to the rebels fighting in Syria, where Assad had managed to retain power. It was for this purpose — seeking a weapons “buyback” deal with a group of Libyan rebels — that U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens traveled to Benghazi on that fateful day in September 2012 when he was ambushed and murdered. The offer of a meeting with rebel leaders, it turned out, was the bait for a deadly trap. The anti-Ghaddafi rebel forces in Libya were dominated by Islamic radicals, including al-Qaeda operatives and, in just the same way, the anti-Assad forces in Syria came to be dominated by the radical Muslims of ISIS — and the Obama administration’s policies helped make this happen.

Concealing this truth about the policies that Hillary Clinton had approved and implemented was why she lied about Benghazi, promoting a false narrative about “an awful internet video” in order to distract from the reality of what had actually happened in Libya, and what was also happening in Syria. In its effort to arm the anti-Assad rebels, weapons were being shipped from Libya to Turkey, and then transported to Syria. ISIS was not the intended recipients of these weapons, but the situation in northern Syria was so unstable that many of these weapons certainly did end up in ISIS possession and, furthermore, the U.S.-backed uprising against Assad created the “perfect storm” of anarchy within which ISIS subsequently established its Raqqah-based “caliphate.”

All of this is background to the leaked 2014 email in which Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Policy Director Mike Ryan tries to provide a defensible explanation for the rise of ISIS. The 2003 invasion of Iraq “created the atmosphere for a Jordanian to start a Muslim sectarian war, which ultimately created ISIS,” Ryan wrote:

He goes on to disclose that Zarqawi entered Iraq during the invasion to establish a religious caliphate for just Sunni Muslims and to start a sectarian war against Shias.
The Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Maliki and supported by the U.S. made the situation worse, because Maliki was discriminatory towards Sunnis and helped rally extremists to Zarqawi.
“Malaki’s prejudicial governing style worsened after U.S. troops left Iraq, helping quickly deteriorate the situation further,” Ryan concludes.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Ryan’s explanation is simply a lie — deceit by omission, at the very least — because it wasn’t Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006, who created the situation that developed in Syria in 2013. Ryan’s explanation was a typical Democrat “blame Bush” excuse that ignores both (a) Obama’s disastrous decision to rapidly decrease U.S. troop strength in Iraq, and (b) the equally disastrous policy of arming the anti-Assad rebels in Syria. Ryan’s version of the ISIS story conveniently skips over the seven-year gap between Zarqawi’s death and the emergence of ISIS as a major threat in order to conceal the role that the Obama administration’s policies played in the rise of ISIS. Just a few relevant highlights from the Wikipedia article on ISIS:

In August 2011, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, ISI, under the leadership of [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, delegated a mission into Syria, which under the name Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli ash-Sham (or al-Nusra Front) established a large presence in Sunni-majority Al-Raqqah, Idlib, Deir ez-Zor, and Aleppo provinces. . . . .
In August [2011], al-Baghdadi began sending Syrian and Iraqi ISI members experienced in guerilla warfare across the border into Syria to establish an organisation there. Led by a Syrian known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani, this group began to recruit fighters and establish cells throughout the country. . . .
On 8 April 2013, al-Baghdadi released an audio statement in which he announced that the al-Nusra Front had been established, financed, and supported by the Islamic State of Iraq, and that the two groups were merging under the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham”. . . .
Meanwhile, the ISIL campaign to free imprisoned ISIL members culminated in simultaneous raids on Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons in July 2013, freeing more than 500 prisoners, many of them veterans of the Iraqi insurgency. . . .
On 29 June 2014, the organisation proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate.

Now, from the Wikipedia article on Syrian Civil War:

On 11 January 2013, Islamist groups, including al-Nusra Front, took full control of the Taftanaz air base in the Idlib Governorate. . . . The leader of the al-Nusra Front said the amount of weapons they took was a “game changer”. . . .
On 2 March, intense clashes between rebels and the Syrian Army erupted in the city of Raqqah, with many reportedly killed on both sides. . . . By 3 March, rebels had overrun Raqqah’s central prison, allowing them to free hundreds of prisoners . . .
By 6 March, the rebels had captured the city of Raqqah, effectively making it the first provincial capital to be lost by the Assad government.

It is these events between 2011 and 2014, during Obama’s presidency, that Mike Ryan dishonestly omitted from his email to Democrats. After the death of Zarqawi and the 2007 U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, this ragtag coalition of Sunni extremists was not a threat beyond a few places in western Iraq. However, once the U.S.-backed “Arab Spring” uprising destabilized neighboring Syria — at the same time Obama had withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq — this created a new opportunity for al-Baghdadi.

 

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Democrats don’t want to talk about the policy decisions that brought about the disaster in Benghazi, which is connected to the disasters in Iraq and Syria. Fiddling around with rival factions in Muslim countries is no substitute for exerting our own military strength directly in defense of our own interests. The Obama/Clinton policy was always naïve — as naïve, in its own way, as the idea that we could “make Anglo-Saxon republicans out of obscure desert savages,” as Kevin D. Williamson once described Bush-era “War on Terror” policy. It is not usually necessary for the U.S. to deploy 150,000 troops, to invade other countries and topple dictatorships, in order to influence foreign affairs. However, if we are never willing to deploy any troops, our influence will be minimal, our allies will have no reason to trust that we will defend them, and our adversaries will despise our cowardice.




 

Category: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Islam, Libya, Syria, Terrorism

‘Bragging Rights’: Why Are Female Teachers Having Sex With Their Students?

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘Bragging Rights’: Why Are Female Teachers Having Sex With Their Students?

 

Earlier this year, an episode of the Dr. Phil show highlighted the case of Tanya Ramirez, 31, a Texas teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student. Ramirez then sued the student, Tristan Price, now 20, claiming that she was actually his victim:

A defiant Ramirez says the sex was consensual, Tristan is an adult and he was just fine after their encounter. In fact, her lawyer has claimed it only made him more popular, and led to his being named Homecoming King.
The 31-year-old former teacher says in the video that Price came to her house drunk one night for sex, surreptitiously recorded their amorous encounter on his cellphone without her knowledge, and then showed the video to 11 of his friends at school to earn bragging rights.
‘He wanted some kind of recognition for sleeping with a teacher,’ she tells Dr Phil.
According to the disgraced educator, the sex tape quickly ‘went viral,’ but Price’s mother, Kimberly Tademy, brusquely dismissed Ramirez’s claim.
‘It didn’t go viral. It wasn’t that good,’ Tademy says derisively in the promo, drawing peals of laughter from the crowd. ‘It was only 10 seconds, baby.’
Ramirez sued Tademy last August for calling her a ‘sexual predator’ and accusing her of sexual misconduct with other students, KRIS 5 reported.
Ramirez claims these comments caused her emotional distress and led to her losing a job at a local Jiu Jitsu academy.
Lawyers for the former teacher previously claimed Tristan Price was legally an adult when they had sex and he also was not her student, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.

Ramirez is a convicted sex offender, and her accusations against Price look like DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) tactics, but this nevertheless raises questions about what motivates female teachers to commit such crimes, and how they choose their victims. Is it true, for example, that Price actually pursued Ramirez by going to her house in order to get the video for “bragging rights”? Is it true that this video enhanced Price’s popularity among his fellow students? Why would Ramirez have sex with Price, knowing that this was a crime that could destroy her career? Did she not realize that Price was likely to tell his friends about having sex with her? And really, why does a 31-year-old woman want to have sex with a teenage boy anyway?

Someone should ask Everyday Feminism managing editor Melissa Fabello to explain this, because this kind of behavior doesn’t seem to conform to feminist theory about sexuality under patriarchal oppression.

 

Category: Crime, Education

Haroon Ali-Syed Plotted Terror Attacks

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

Religion of Peace™ Update:

A young Muslim man is accused of attempting to buy guns and a suicide vest for an Islamic State-inspired massacre at Buckingham Palace.
Haroon Ali-Syed, 19, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers amid fears he was on the brink of committing an atrocity.
The IT student is also suspected of trying to contact a bombmaker to build a nail bomb, and researching an Elton John concert in Hyde Park which took place on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
He is charged with planning to carry out an attack at a central London landmark, potentially Buckingham Palace or Oxford Street.
It is understood evidence against Ali-Syed was gathered in a joint operation between MI5 and Scotland Yard.
An undercover officer, posing as an extremist, infiltrated his circle and allegedly recorded exchanges of him preparing a terrorist attack.
Ali-Syed is accused of attempting to get hold of an improvised pressure cooker bomb built to instructions published online by Al Qaeda.
He allegedly made applications for loans worth £8,000 to finance his plans.
Yesterday, he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with preparing an act of terrorism between April 12 and September 9.
Prosecutor Thomas Halpin said Ali-Syed tried to contact someone online ‘to make an incendiary explosive device,’ asking an intermediary: ‘How many people this one bomb can kill or injure?’
He added: ‘His internet searches show he is searching busy places in London. Oxford Street, upcoming events in London. He is looking at internet searches. Where are soldiers in the UK, London’s top ten most crowded boroughs, Buckingham Palace, Royal Marines Reserve, City of London.’

Just another random coincidence . . .

 

Category: Islam, Terrorism

Police Officers ‘Targeted’ in Phoenix

Posted on | September 14, 2016 | Comments Off on Police Officers ‘Targeted’ in Phoenix

 

Marc LaQuon Payne, 44, rammed his vehicle into three cops Tuesday:

An angry Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner played a video showing a vehicle pulling out of a parking space, circling the parking lot and then accelerating toward the police officers outside the convenience store.
In an early-afternoon press conference, Yahner said two officers were seriously injured and the driver will be booked on three charges of attempted first-degree murder.
“I’m very proud of the men and women of the Phoenix Police Department, and I’m outraged by this incident,” Yahner said.
“Our Phoenix police officers were targeted.”
A 33-year-old police officer who was on his first day of duty suffered a head injury, and a police sergeant, 41, suffered a broken leg. A third officer, 36, managed to jump out of the way but was injured during an extended struggle with the driver, Yahner said.
The video shows the rookie officer thrown several feet in the air and hitting the glass window of the QuikTrip. The officer, whom Yahner would identify only by his first name, Jeremy, then helped take Payne into custody, Yahner said.
The sergeant, who had fallen to the pavement, called for assistance, Yahner said.
The collision happened just before 2 a.m. at the store at 2535 W. Camelback Road, just off Interstate 17.
The sergeant had met the rookie at the QuikTrip to talk about expectations of performance, Yahner said. The three officers were standing in the parking lot in front of the store — “a well-lit area,” he said.
About 1:45 a.m., the man pulled into the QuikTrip and backed into a parking space, where he sat for several minutes, Yahner said. He then pulled out of the space, rounded the parking lot and accelerated as he crashed into the officers and then into the store, Yahner said.
The surveillance video speaks volumes, Yahner said.
“We are confident that this is an intentional act,” Yahner said. “This stuff needs to stop.”

“This stuff,” of course, is the Black Lives Matter movement, which has incited violence by deliberately demonizing police officers. Payne had previously been convicted of attacking police during a 1997 traffic stop: “The officers who were attacked told the court they believed the man would attack officers again if he were ever arrested.”

Criminals have always hated cops. Giving criminals a “social justice” excuse for hating cops is dangerous and irresponsible.

(Via Memeorandum.)

 


Category: Crime
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