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October 29, 2005

Another bomb (5th) rocks Trinidad. The FBI is investigating.

by @ 10:12 pm. Filed under Terrorism and War

Another bomb has rocked Trinidad’s capital Port of Spain. The 5th bombing in a series this year! The FBI is investigating and FBI Director Robert Mueller has visited the area to pledge US assistance.

Another bomb blast rocks capital

Officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) were at the scene shortly after the blast, which sent debris flying into the air.

The explosion occurred on the pavement outside a construction site at Spektakula Forum, a popular calypso tent on Henry Street in Port of Spain.

Reports are that a bottle containing a black substance has been seized and a man was seen running away from the scene.

Mayor of Port of Spain Murchison Brown confirmed there were no injuries and that damage to the construction site seems to be minimal.

This new wave of violence is causing fear to sit in and changing their normal way of life.

Violence alters way of life in Trinidad

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – A parallel drug economy and a crippling crime surge of kidnappings for ransom, murders and, more recently, bombings have placed this oil- and gas-rich Caribbean nation on the edge of a crisis.

Now a string of five bombings that started in July — the latest one occurred Thursday — have rocked the capital of Port-of-Spain and left Trinidadians with a new sense of vulnerability. The bombings have injured 28 people.

About 15,000 Trinidadians recently marched through Port-of-Spain to protest the record crime rate on this island of 1.3 million people.

An increasing number of people admit they now fear going out.

By all indications, the discomfort may continue for some time. National Security Minister Martin Joseph said last week that “things are likely to get worse before it gets better.”

On Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller flew in for a one-day visit. After meeting with Manning and his national security team, Mueller pledged U.S. assistance to Trinidad’s anti-crime effort. He offered to expand the U.S. legal attache’s office in Port-of-Spain,provide four agents to assist in the bombing investigations, more forensic help in identifying trace materials used in the bombings and increased assistance in areas of narco-trafficking and kidnapping.

”I have become more aware than I was before of the crime situation that faces the population of this country and to the extent that we can assist in doing so we would like to” help, Mueller said at a news conference, according to the Associated Press.

Days before the bar bombing, the U.S. State Department issued an advisory to Americans in Trinidad to stay off the streets in downtown Port-of-Spain.

Police were investigating a known Islamic Radical group and took some of them in for questioning after the 4th bombing.

The attacks directed police attention to Islamic organization Jamaat al Muslimeen’s leader Yasin Abu Bakr and three followers, who were questioned and released.

Bakr, who led a violent coup attempt against the government in July 1990, later dismissed law enforcement interest in his group as a ”political conspiracy” and vowed to use the intelligence arm of his group to find the perpetrators of the bombings.

I’m thinking OJ’s investigation to find his ex-wife’s killer might turn up better results than Bakr’s efforts to find the people behind these bombings!

Related post: Muslim Radicals in Trinidad too!

Maxwell High School of Technology folds on banning anti-abortion clothing

by @ 5:45 pm. Filed under Evangelicals Under Attack, The Truth Shall Set you Free!

BrianIn a victory for all who know “Abortion is Homicide”, a Gwinnett County public school has backed off attempts to prevent student Brian Ramirez from wearing clothing that carries the phrase! Brian, who attends Maxwell High School of Technology every school day morning for a three-hour auto collision repair technology class, would at times wear shirts that carried statements like “Abortion is Homicide” on the front and “You will not silence my message; you will not mock my God, and you will stop killing my generation.” on the back. He is a senior at Collins Hill High School. While the administration at Collins Hill High School never expressed any issues with his clothing, a teacher at Maxwell did start taking issue with his choice of shirts some days. He was asked to remove his shirt or turn it inside out. The teacher says he had heard some complaints from others in the school about the shirts. Brian refused and was given a ZERO for the day, every day he wore a shirt that the teacher objected to.

The linked article above mentions:

The assistant principal told Ramirez that he was disciplined not because of what his sweat shirt said, but because he disobeyed his teacher?s request.

Now if he was wearing all white shoes and the teacher said take them off, I doubt the school would have gone along with disciplinary action! Although the assistant principal attempts to spin the issue, this is all about the content on the shirt!

Well Brian’s parents contacted ACLU killers The Alliance Defense Fund. (The best Anti-ACLU group in the land :D !) Also Brian’s issue started getting national attention among various pro-life circles. After that attention and a strongly worded letter from the ADF, Brian’s record has been cleaned and all zeros removed!

The ADF letter to the school principle mentions:

It is imperative that Brian?s constitutional rights be restored immediately. In light of the immediacy of these issues, and due to the fact that Brian is being suspended on a continuing basis, please notify my office in writing by close of business tomorrow, Friday, October 28, 2005, that the school will no longer prohibit Brian, or any other student, from wearing such messages. We also request that the suspensions immediately cease, that any ?0? he has received be removed from his grades, that he be permitted to make up lost work without any penalty, and that his file be expunged of any information or documentation related to this incident. If we fail to hear from you by tomorrow, or if his rights continue to be violated, we will inform our client of his right to seek redress in federal court.

And the rest is history! Brian can wear his shirts and express his feelings as a child who is against the murder of children in the womb!

I say job well done!

The “black armbands” reference in the ADF letter is regarding the US Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines (1969). You can read summaries of that case and other related cases at the following web sites:

October 28, 2005

50 Cent’s billboards yanked after protests, good job!

by @ 5:07 pm. Filed under The Truth Shall Set you Free!

It is moments like this that I long for! Moments when groups that I normally take issue with stand up on a matter I AGREE WITH THEM ON!!! Because this is where I feel the focus should always be. Not on what government can give or what someone’s great, great, great, great grandparents did to anyone. Because this matter they took issue with this time is part of a real problem in inner cities. A culture of violence and depravity!

It started with this:

What? A coalition of Los Angeles Community

leaders, and parents who have lost children to gun

violence are demanding that Paramount Studios

remove the billboards and posters that are currently

being used to promote the upcoming release of

Gangsta rapper Curtis” 50 CENT” Jackson’s new movie

“Get Rich Or DieTryin.” The billboards and posters

depict the gangsta rapper “50 CENT” armed with

handguns and pointing them.

Why: “Gun violence is one of the leading causes of death for

young black males in South Central Los Angeles and

across urban America. It’s irresponsible for Paramount

Pictures to promote and market a movie that glorifies

carrying guns.Guns are weapons of mass destruction,

that are used to kill people, we demand that Paramount

Pictures remove these negative images of death

and destruction, images that our young children are

influenced by,” stated Najee Ali of Project Islamic HOPE

When: Tuesday Oct. 25, 2005

Time: 11:00 am


Where:
6422 Crenshaw Blvd.

South Los Angeles CA 90043

Sponsors: Project Islamic HOPE

The National Action Network

Justice For Murdered Children

NAACP

Stop The Violence Increase The Peace

Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson


Contact:
Project Islamic HOPE / 323-350-1065

Now you know I’m a Conservative right? So I’m not buying all their “guns are a WMD” talk. I’m all for gun ownership and notice the ending of the assault weapons ban has not resulted in the mass mayhem some Liberals said would occur! But just the same their principle is sound! There is a real problem in the culture of many urban areas that involves people feeling they should shoot each other way too much! Their protest was an effort to bring about change in that culture. Kids really are influenced by this stuff and I’ve mentored enough to know! And most every group involved in the protest is one that I usually take issue with on other matters. But I have to say, if I lived in that area and the event was not being used as a Muslim recruitment rally or anything other than a protest of 50 Cent’s crap I WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE PROTESTING TOO! Because with the bodies laying in streets across America I’m happy to see efforts to denounce the culture that fosters it!

So they protested, and they were successful!

50 Cent’s billboards yanked after protests

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The distributor of rap star 50 Cent’s upcoming film said on Thursday it was taking down some movie billboards near Los Angeles-area schools after community leaders complained they glorify gangs and violence.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich sent a letter to distributor Paramount Pictures urging the billboards be yanked, starting with one outside a public school in Altadena, a suburb north of Los Angeles.

“This billboard conveys to the students a disturbing message actively promoting gun violence, criminal behavior and gang affiliation, he wrote in the letter to Paramount Motion Pictures Group Chairman Brad Gray.

So I say to them keep up the good work and I pray they all do more in this area.

Hey I give them their fair share of a pounding when I disagree with them. So I must be fair and acknowledge when they do good and actually take action that I think is a true positive. When they use the cameras for good like this I am glad.

(Take a picture this post, you may not see another like it from me for some time :D .)

Race based attacks against Michael Steele!

by @ 2:42 am. Filed under Nuts on Parade

Unable to use facts and pertinent issues to make their case, some Liberals resort to cheap racial games. And the real shame is that some of them are Blacks using racial attacks against a Black man.

Michelle Malkin and The Political Teen have full coverage!

It’s 2005 and look who’s using racist caricatures from the 1960’s :roll: …. Although one Democrat was wise enough to pull such mess! Back in the 1960’s and earlier plenty of racist Democrats used things like this. Who knew some Blacks would join in doing the same! Oh well, given the rate of Black on Black crime in the streets these days I guess I should have expected it! Sad on all levels!…

GA Republican Senator Johnny Isakson, another weak so-called Conservative!

by @ 2:11 am. Filed under Questionable Items

GA Republican Senator Johnny Isakson has been pretty critical of people who stood against Harriet Miers’ nomination and is upset she stepped down. He wanted her in because she is a woman.

Here is what Senator Isakson had to say early on in the Miers nomination process:

Isakson said he was pleased Bush followed the advice of his wife, Laura, and tapped a woman for the job.

He even said it on his own web site!

Isakson Statement on Nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court

I am delighted President Bush has nominated a woman to replace Sandra Day O?Connor.

Even after all the information that came out about Harriet Miers Senator Isakson was still supporting her going through the full nomination process in radio interviews. I also heard him mentioning in interviews that critics of Miers did not know who she is. I think we gathered more than enough information to know, despite her shot paper trail!

After all the information that came out even James Dobson had doubts about her!

In a statement released after Miers? decision, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson called it a ?wise decision.? While the Colorado-based religious broadcaster had earlier tried to use his considerable weight in the evangelical community to back Miers, he said he had begun to have doubts.

?In recent days, I have grown increasingly concerned about her conservative credentials,? Dobson said. He cited the abortion speech and her expressions of ?so much praise for left-wing feminist leaders? as reasons that he now realizes he ?would not have been able to support her candidacy.?

No matter what came out, Isakson wanted to drag out our time and money to push it to a vote! That nomination, although she is a “nice lady” did not deserve to have time spent going to a full vote!

This is why I voted for Herman Cain in the GA Republican Senatorial primary. We have open primaries in Georgia, so I can vote in any I wish without joining a political party.

Bottom line, take note of who the weak so-called Conservatives were at moments like this and vote them out in the primary! I pray Georgia voters remember these events and don’t continue to vote for Isakson in primaries simply because he’s been in GA politics for DECADES! I don’t care how long he’s been in. He’s becoming a liability to the Conservative cause and is not true to Conservative principles!

I’ve made it known that I support Janice Rogers Brown being nominated. And I support her because of her credentials. Not at all because she is female or Black. If I simply wanted to endorse a Black person I’d recommend someone like Larry Thompson who has a very short paper trail. But I don’t want someone for their race or gender. I want someone who will do the best job. And the fact Senator Isakson stood so strongly behind Miers despite everything that came out shows he is as weak a Conservative as I’ve always felt he is!

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