Monday, October 16, 2023

What FBI Director Says People Should 'Be on the Lookout' For in US After Hamas' Attack on Israel

 

FBI Director Christopher Wray said domestic threats have increased since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, urging increased vigilance amid the “heightened environment.” 

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“There’s no question we're seeing an increase in reported threats and we've got to be on the lookout, especially for lone actors who may take inspiration from recent events to commit violence of their own," he said Saturday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in San Diego.

“History has been witness to antisemitic and other forms of violent extremism for far too long,” Wray continued. “Whether that be from foreign terrorist organizations, or those inspired by them, or domestic violent extremists motivated by their own racial animus, the targeting of a community because of their faith is completely unacceptable.” 

The FBI director said the agency is committed to “confronting those threats” in the U.S. and abroad. 

Last Monday, the FBI said it “does not have specific and credible intelligence indicating a threat to the United States stemming from the Hamas attacks in Israel,” but that it will be “closely monitoring unfolding events and will share relevant information with our state, local, federal and international law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security partners to ensure they are prepared for any impacts to public safety.” 

The agency added, “We will not hesitate to adjust our security posture, as appropriate, to protect the American people.”

First Amendment Right or Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?

 

There is a very interesting question that our Constitutional Republic must face in the aftermath of the savage and barbaric attack of a designated Islamic terrorist organization, Hamas, against a sovereign Nation-State, Israel. There can be no equivocation about the evil and heinous actions that were committed against innocent women and children. As a soldier, I understand being attacked by an enemy. Albeit, this is a non-State, non-uniformed belligerent operating on a battlefield, which means they have no Geneva Convention rights. If you are a young woman at a music festival celebrating love, you do not deserve to be raped and killed. If you are an elderly man or woman sitting in your domicile, you do not deserve to be targeted and killed. If you are a little baby in a crib, you certainly pose no harm or threat and do not deserve to be beheaded.

These are some examples, proven facts, of the animalistic nature of this enemy to the entire world. Then, we have the former leader of this Hamas organization -- whose charter is the extermination, eradication, elimination, the erasing of the Jewish people -- calling for a day of global jihad, protest, and violence. All, of course, from the safety of a posh existence in Qatar.

All this being said, we have helpful idiots who have taken to the streets, social media, and other outlets to profess their solidarity with a designated terrorist organization. Black Lives Matter put out a very disturbing meme showing a black-out of a paraglider under a terrorist flag. Those were the ones who attacked the peaceful music festival. We have a member of our US House of Representatives who displays the flag of this terrorist organization outside her taxpayer-funded office. The American taxpayers, who mourn the loss of some 25 Americans dead and dozens of others missing, were presumed to be taken hostage by this Hamas organization. In Australia, they are chanting, "Gas the Jews." On our own soil, there are marches supporting these terrorists, even at the University of Florida, which has one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country; the supporters of this terrorist organization and their attack turned against a peaceful vigil.

It is interesting that our government will label parents who attend school board meetings and want their children educated as “domestic terrorists.” Or that our very own FBI infiltrated the Catholic Church because they take a pro-life stance. However, due to the lobbying of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups, such is not allowed in mosques. Or, how about pro-life supporters having raids conducted in their homes, yet, those who openly support the murder of Americans, killing and raping of young women, elderly, and beheading of babies are treated with kid gloves.

At a point, one loses their First Amendment rights, and that line has been crossed. When you are openly aligning yourself with terrorists and supporting their efforts, you are aiding and abetting terrorism. That is a violation of US statute, code, and law. Your freedom of religion, speech, press, expression, and right to peaceably assemble is invalidated when you support those who advocate for killing innocents, including American citizens. Anyone showing up at these pro-Hamas (meaning Islamic terror) rallies should be treated as subversives. If they are non-US citizens, they should be deported. If they are US citizens, they should be investigated. I mean, the FBI did a really great job in tracking down anyone who happened to be near the US Capitol on January 6th or even citizens who questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election. But are we supposed to allow supporters of terrorism to roam about freely?

Recently, I penned a piece called "What is Palestine?" because my exegesis of history does not reveal to me a State or people referred to as such. The very same region could also be referred to as the Levant. I hear absurd lies promulgated, such as the “occupation” of Gaza. Well, I remember when Israeli troops exited Gaza and forced Israelis to do the same, leaving behind destroyed greenhouse structures. A free press would tell the truth, not take a propagandized and ideological side rooted in hyperbole and terrorist organization rhetoric.

Should we have allowed Al Qaeda and Taliban sympathizers to hold marches and rallies after 9-11? Or how about allowing ISIS supporters to have rallies after the beheadings of Americans? Maybe we should allow the transnational narco-criminal terrorists we call the cartels to rally, as they enable the killing of Americans by fentanyl and proliferate human and sex trafficking into our nation.

I have said this before and will reiterate, "When tolerance becomes a one-way street, it leads to cultural suicide." America and Americans should not tolerate the idea that those who wish to kill us and are not capable of living in civil society, Islamic terrorists, deserve the freedom to advance their evil, including social media. Funny, I have been kicked off social media for discussing facts about the COVID-19 shot, but jihadists and their supporters roam about freely.

Leftist Governor Michele Lujan Grisham wanted to suspend the Second Amendment rights of legal and law-abiding citizens in New Mexico. Her state is a border state, just as where I reside in Texas. How interesting that somehow Israel lost operational control of their border, and nearly 1,500 Israelis have paid for that. Sadly, here in America, we have a government that is violating our rule of law, and our Constitution, and intentionally, purposefully, allowing the loss of operation control of our border and admitting millions of single military-age males, even from China.

The Bill of Rights and its freedoms are intended for those who abide by our rule of law. It is not intended for those who would undermine, subvert, and destroy our Constitutional Republic. Even if the Obama/Biden cabal of Islamic jihadist apologists and sympathizers do nothing, our state and local law enforcement -- especially constitutional sheriffs -- should. The dangerous consequence of doing nothing is that we are enabling terrorist cells. As Sir Edmund Burke asserted, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing."

Hamas and their Islamic jihadist cohorts are terrorists, and they are undeniably evil.

Shall we do nothing under the weak guise of multiculturalism and appeasement? Or shall we tell them to take that crap somewhere else? There is no constitutional right to aid and abet terrorism or evil in America.

We Are Sitting Ducks and Our Leaders Do Not Care

 

I typically write my Townhall columns a couple of days ahead of time, and I hope that events don’t overcome this one. Why am I worried? Because what I’m writing about now is the deadly threat that our incompetent elite, led by that senile, corrupt, dust puppet masquerading as our president, have allowed to fester in our country. Last Thursday, I wrote about how the left literally wants to see you raped and murdered. Well, the left has also left the door open for the murderers. Now, half the Third World is waltzing across our southern border, and how do you think this is going to end? Think it ends well? Does it seem like a really smart idea? Of course not, which is why they are doing it.

Though around the world sociopaths stabbed some folks, the Day of Jihad fizzled in America – how many bummed patriots slammed in a mag hoping some mutant was going to choose his small town to prove Jason Aldean right? But it is only a matter of time. When you allow millions of military-aged males to come unvetted into your country, including many from bizarre hellholes where hatred for Americana is more common than food and indoor plumbing, there is a non-zero chance that some of them are part of sleeper cells waiting for the signal to murder Americans here at home.

Oh, now I’m just a pundit, albeit one who actually has a little experience doing things, and it is not beyond the realm of pundit possibility that a commentator may exaggerate for effect. So ignore what I say. Ignore this heartfelt warning that our country is vulnerable to a massive insider threat made up of illegal aliens who have walked across the open border and can, at the time of their own choosing, decide to slaughter mass numbers of Americans. Put aside that it has happened before, from 9/11 to San Bernardino to the Pulse nightclub, and for all we know, in Las Vegas, because the FBI is too busy arresting scary grandmas for praying outside abortion clinics to figure out what the hell happened there.

I had the opportunity to ask probably the most respected senior White House official of the Trump Administration, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, whether he thinks there’s a threat. Well, I’ll let him speak for himself:

"The border is open. Thousands of military-age males from adversary nations enter the United States without women or children every day. Suppose only one-tenth of one percent of the millions of people who have crossed into America illegally over the past three years have malign intentions against our country. In that case, we have a serious national security problem."

When serious guys like Ambassador O’Brien are worried, maybe people should pay attention. Just look at those facts and decide for yourself, understanding that most people will refuse to do so. It’s scary and unpleasant. Based on our elite’s legacy of failure over the last few decades, it takes a lot of dead Americans for people to sit up and pay attention. Our elite actually supports our enemies. You have an organization, Black Lives Matter, that actively celebrates the murder of innocents and that has received millions upon millions of dollars from mainstream corporations. On our allegedly most prestigious universities’ campuses, you have a bunch of sophomore psychopaths cheering on the rape and murder of innocent people, all in the name of “decolonization.” 

Meanwhile, the regime media and the Democrat Party are doing everything they can to neuter our ability to respond. 

Our ruling class decided they would take the risk. After all, if you’re going to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. Except you and your family are the eggs. When jihad cretins go on a killing spree, they’re not going to attack college campuses. They’re going to attack where normal, patriotic people are. They’re going to attack churches, ball games, shopping malls, movie theaters, and other places where you and your kids are. 

Why? Because they want to murder you. Actually, your death is a fringe benefit. They believe there’s political gain to doing it. If they spill enough American blood, maybe we will withdraw from the world. Maybe we will roll up into a fetal position and allow them to run rampant across the rest of the globe until, after their jihad has put the rest of the world under the black flag, they can finally concentrate their forces upon us and purge us from the face of the Earth.

I know you want to call me crazy. Next, I am probably going to tell you that a bunch of Arabs allowed into our country might band together, hijack four planes, and fly them into major buildings, killing thousands. How nutty is that?

Luckily, we have our crack law enforcement and intelligence communities on the case. I might feel a little more confident if the targets the FBI has been focusing on – people taking selfies in the rotunda, folks criticizing their school boards, people going to mass – were the actual threat. And, of course, our intelligence community saw 9/11 coming, got Iraq right about the WMDs, and warned Israel about what would happen in Gaza a couple of weeks ago. Oh, right, none of that is a thing. If you’re putting your personal safety in the hands of this coterie of clowns, all I can say is that you ought to go get yourself some good-term life insurance.

As always, your security is your problem, but luckily, the Second Amendment provides a solution. You need to buy guns and ammunition. I know I sound like a broken record, which is another reference that no one under 30 is going to get. When all hell breaks loose, you can expect communications to be down, you can expect chaos to rain, and if you think your local gendarmes are going to roll up in their back and white cruiser to solve your problem, you have got another thing coming. You need to do it yourself because there’s no one else who’s going to be able to do it for you. Not the cops. Not the army. Not Spider-Man. I was there in the Los Angeles riots when civilization literally collapsed in a matter of hours. You don’t think it can happen? Buddy, that is the natural state of man, not this beautiful illusion that we live with here in America. 

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You have got to step up, especially now that the people you trusted to protect you have utterly failed and invited in the jihadi hordes. Maybe I’m wrong. I hope I’m wrong. I would love to hear nothing but “Kurt, I told you so.” But that doesn’t change the reality. The risk is real, and your family’s life is your responsibility. Don’t be one of those terrified people in the next set of terrorist selfies with no way to fight back. Channel the warrior heritage that belongs to every American. Be ready to fight. You might die anyway, but at least you’ll die like a man.

Just because you’ve heard it before doesn’t make it any less true. Buy guns and ammunition.

Ms. Omar, That Image of Dead Children From 'Gaza' Are Actually Syrians Gassed by Assad

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) reputation as the most disgraceful member of Congress was reinforced by her retweeting of fake news regarding the Israel-Hamas war. There have been numerous Hamas propaganda pieces, from white phosphorous to Israeli jets bombing civilian cars; the lies are pervasive. On the latter, the fake Israeli airstrike was later determined to be a car bomb set off by Hamas. 

Ms. Omar retweeted images of dead children from Gaza, but there was a serious problem: The photos of the dead children were from 2013, and they were Syrians gassed to death by President Bashar al-Assad. 

Omar is one of the most vocal opponents of Israel, known for spewing anti-Semitic postings. This activity has been going on for years. She also couldn’t call the 9/11 attacks for what they are, instead controversially saying that “some people did something.”

Finally, Some Jewish Space Lasers?

 

While that doesn’t appear to be the case, at least not yet, various sources report that Israel is working furiously on their close-in air defense system as the Hamas War rages on in the Gaza Strip.

But about that name…

Iron Dome is Israel’s well-known and fully operational missile defense system. Unlike America’s various ballistic missile defenses, designed to shoot down small numbers of nuclear-tipped missiles incoming from China, Russia, or some rogue state like North Korea or Iran, Iron Dome is a strictly local affair. In service since 2011, Iron Dome is a truck-towed, mobile air defense system whose primary job is shooting down Hamas and Hezbollah rocket attacks against Israeli cities.

The problem with Iron Dome is that while homemade missiles like Hamas and Hezbollah use are inexpensive, antimissile missiles run up to $150,000 a pop, and each missile battery costs about $50 million to manufacture. The costs don’t exactly work in Jerusalem’s favor.

ASIDE: For the record, MTG never used the phrase “Jewish space lasers.” But, before she was elected to Congress, she did once share on Facebook a rumor about the possibility that secret lasers controlled by the Rothschilds — intended to clear land for then-Gov. Jerry Brown’s high-speed rail project — had started a series of deadly wildfires. I have no room to criticize because my entire Twitter feed is one disqualification from public office after another.

Enter, Israelis with fricken laser beams. Iron Beam is a “100kW class High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS). It’s designed to intercept a wide range of threats such as Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (RAM) and UAVs.”

Israeli defense firm Rafael revealed Iron Beam at the Singapore Airshow in 2014. Its job is to defend at ranges too short for Iron Dome — and for a lot less money, too. Firing a laser beam and an incoming projectile costs just $2,000. Cheap at twice the price!

Just a year ago, Defense News reported that deployment had slipped to at least 2024, maybe 2025. Could Rafael speed things up in time for use during the current conflict? Rafael exec Michael Lurie told Defense News back then, “We don’t have a technology problem or a scientific problem anymore… it’s now an engineering problem.”

Maybe they’ve rushed things along enough over the last 12 months to produce a working prototype, but I wouldn’t bet money on that I couldn’t afford to lose. But I’d wager a mortgage payment that the IDF has at least one working battery in time for the next major war.

What does it all mean? It means that Israel is taking one more step towards fulfilling the prophecy of the great Mel Brooks.