Posted on 09/25/2001 9:26:10 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
Today's Boston Globe and the rest of the news media, including Rush are finally covering Jesse Jackson.
Jackson praises Bush for withholding attack
Why is the press lying? They're claiming Jesse spoke publically for the first time, but the Kenneth Timmerman article from Insight Mag. shows a different story.
Jesse was out in front of his PUSH headquarters in Chicago blasting the Bush administration on Sept. 15th. The press was there. Why are they lying?
What this attack calls for is a massive redistribution of American wealth.
From Jesse Jackson and Janet Reno: Where's the press now?
A Tale of Two Preachers
By Kenneth R. Timmerman in Chicago
ktimmerman@InsightMag.com
Though Louis Farrakhan expressed sorrow at America’s tragedy, Jesse Jackson tried to transform a moment of national mourning into the tattered politics of race war.
Jesse Jackson blasted America’s leaders and blamed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on American arrogance in a weekly meeting at Operation PUSH headquarters in Chicago on Sept. 15. In separate appearances in the city during the week, Jackson and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called on President George W. Bush to change U.S. policies they claim created anti-American hatred in the Middle East.
Outside Operation PUSH headquarters on South Drexel Avenue was a van from the Red Cross, and the cavernous hall was packed. Up on stage, Jackson was calling upon people to give blood. But rather than send them outside to the Red Cross van, he asked them to fill out an Operation PUSH recruitment card, promising that if blood were needed his group would give them a call.
Jackson had been seated next to a longtime PUSH activist, the Rev. Willie Barrow, and to Muslim clerics. The choir was singing, the organ was playing and a gospel band was warming up. Behind him, when he began to preach, was a bigger-than-life photo of Martin Luther King Jr. There were many white faces in the crowd, but they were not those of Jackson’s left-wing political friends. These were working-class faces — tough, grizzled faces — men and women with rough hands and thick necks. On their laps they carried banners for Local 15 of the IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, each with an American flag. These workers, and a few isolated patriots here and there in the large audience, were the only ones carrying the flag — and they apparently didn’t know they were offending since they never before had been invited into Jackson’s inner sanctum. Up on Jackson’s stage there were no flags, no red-white-and-blue ribbons, no sign of mourning or of rallying to America.
“It is not fair to stereotype Arabs and Muslim Americans,” Jackson declaimed, blasting the administration for having allegedly singled out Muslims in the wake of the attacks. “Hitler stereotyped the Jewish people. Hitler did racial profiling of the Jewish people and it was wrong. In Oklahoma City, they thought it must be Arabs. They thought it was the Middle East, but it was the Middle West. They said black kids had all these guns and drugs, that they did crack cocaine. They said we’d be a lot safer if we just locked up all them black kids. Then Columbine came. … So we know that stereotyping people for their race and religion is wrong.”
Jackson introduced Ahmed Umar Abdallah of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago with an indictment aimed squarely at Attorney General John Ashcroft, who had asked for tougher laws to fight terrorists. “We say to our Muslim brothers: We share your pain. It was you today, but before sundown it’s the rest of us. … Now a police state is closing in [with] the suspension of civil liberties.”
The soft-spoken Abdallah, with his white hair and well-pressed suit, appeared to agree. In just four days, he noted, there had been 217 “documented cases of anti-Muslim violence and hate crimes.” But instead of blaming Republicans, he denounced those who had carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. “Terrorism has no denomination,” he said. “Terrorists have no religion. Terrorists have agendas — and we categorically reject their agenda. Islam regards terrorism as a cowardly and predatory act against God and man.”
Fellow cleric Azhar Usman offered Koranic prayers and joined in condemning the terrorists. “What makes this tragedy so despicable is that people commit these atrocities in the name of God. As a Muslim, I say to you: Any human being who can support these attacks has lost their humanity.” There are an estimated 350,000 Muslims in the greater Chicago area.
But Jackson had no such words of condemnation. Instead, he focused on a political target: “Colin Powell, we are told, was talking about multilateralism and reaching out to others. The next thing we know, Time magazine reports that he has been pushed to the side. … Man could build some bridges, cure some sick, feed some children. Man could make some friends.”
Instead of deploying U.S. troops to root out the organizations that carried out the attacks and strike the countries that support them, Jackson said, the United States should “launch the fight for the redistribution of resources. One hundred million people will have AIDS in five years. We should use our strength for that.”
Jackson repeated a fabrication about the Arab-Afghans surrounding Osama bin Laden, as if it were a well-known truth. “We say we’re going to bomb the places where they got their training. But they got their training from us.” In fact, as the director of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence told this reporter three years ago in Afghanistan on bin Laden’s footsteps, bin Laden and his followers never received training with the Afghan mujahideen during the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union, but grafted themselves onto the radical Abu Sayyaf group like a band of wandering war groupies.
Neither Jackson’s house in Chicago, nor that of his son Jesse Jr., a Democratic congressman from Chicago, displayed a flag in front or from the windows. The house of another son, Jonathan, who runs a beer distributorship in Chicago, similarly was unadorned.
The Rev. Charles Jenkins, pastor at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church where Jackson is a member, was surprised when he learned of Jackson’s message about American arrogance. “We had a conference call on Wednesday with 50 pastors, and Reverend Jackson was on the line,” he tells Insight. “Our message was one of mourning, one of unity and no scapegoating. President Bush called on us for support, saying we cannot defend ourselves if we are fighting each other. So let this unite us as a people and help us turn to God and the church.” This was not, however, Jackson’s message.
After the public meeting at Operation PUSH headquarters, Jackson invited reporters into a security-tight back room for closer questioning. He claimed that several members of his organization had perished in the blast but soon corrected himself when asked by Insight to name them. “They weren’t actually our staff members,” he said. “Our staff is here and in Washington, in other buildings. But our International Trade group members — for two years of the Wall Street project we were on the top floor of the Trade Center so we frequented that building. We knew a lot of people who worked there.” (see link for rest of article)
The media doesn't want their beloved icons to show the American people how shallow they really are. After the major prop-up job the media has orchestrated to give these people any credibility, they know they are goners if they show their true stripes now when people have no patience for it.
Look how Clear Channel spiked the Jane Fonda comments that appeared last Friday on their Atlanta affiliate. It totally disappeared. **poof** Just like Jackson's statements.
CLEAN SHIP BY RIDDING AMERICA OF ANTI-AMERICANS and SOCIALISTS AND TERRORISTS.
THE BRADY BUNCH, CLINTON, GORE, SCHUMER, FINESTEIN, HANDGUN CONTROL INC. AS THEY ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN OUR BORDERS.
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN IS THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE ALWAYS.
THROW THE RASCELS OUT!!!!!
HERE IS THE REAL STORY
(THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DISARMING US)
http://www.saveourguns.com/peapodschumer.jpg
HERE IS THE REAL STORY ON ARMING PILOTS.
FIVE THOUSAND LOST LIVES FOR THE WANT OF TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS.
Israel Airlines bolts the Cockpit door and all Pilots and copilots carry Firearms.
(TELL THE AIRLINE PRESIDENTS AND CEO'S)
New Release
Ponder for a moment.
We trust a pilot with a 30 million-dollar plane knowledgeable of complex airplane functions, but government policy will not allow them to operate a simple firearm.
I’LL FLY AGAIN WHEN PILOTS ARE ARMED.
Israel Airlines bolts the Cockpit door and all Pilots and copilots carry Firearms.
Scanning the websites this week the following thread from Pilots, Law Enforcement, and American Citizens discuss ways to take positive action against air terrorism.
We trust a fancy security question (Thanks to Jim Kallstom, former FBI, did you pack your bags?) but not millions of active and retired law enforcement officers to Citizen Carry on an airplane.
May I rant for a second! Get these liberal, antigun activists out of our government decision making process. Consider, Israel Airlines policy is to bolt the door, arms it pilots, and has armed travelers in the cabin.
We allow lowly-paid gate-guards to gate dis-arm us, creating a "killing zone of disarmed citizens", as passingers "do battle" in the sky with terrorists, using passion for weapons because misguided government policy has left us defenseless.
The government can not protect you when the terrorist is eyeball to eyeball with you. Now they have ban my pocketknife used to clean my nails. What next, bottles, because they can be smashed for a weapon??
Most all of the former military pilots strapped firearms to their legs when on active duty. Today they are considered not capable, wear the wrong uniform, or untrust worthy.
This BS about putting a 9mm hole in the skin of an airplane will bring it down is more rhetoric and fiction than fact. Just ask the thousand of airmen who returned from flights over Germany in WWII. How about the 747 over Hawaii with a 20-foot hole in the side. Still got a problem with possible decompression? Consider the alternative!
I’ll trust anyday my life to any active or retired law enforcement officer to CITIZEN CARRY on any airline.
I’ll trust anyday my life to any pilot or copilot active or retired to carry on any airline.
I’ll trust any American citizen willing to CITIZEN CARRY after extensive training to carry on any airline. It is a huge responsibility, however, the current "Killing Zones" set up by faulty thinking is killing our husbands, wives, children, and our nation.
I am sure thousands perhaps millions of American’s would trust their life to armed pilots, copilots, air crew members, retired, policemen, FBI, CIA, ATF, or American Citizens willing to train, quality, and stay current with cabin safety issues keeping America airlines safe.
I personally trust all of the above personnel, rather than phony security questions, low-pay air guards, unlocked backdoor food and cleaning functions or gates at airports, or government officials with big titles.
WHO DO YOU TRUST THE GOVERNMENT? OR DO YOU TRUST HONEST AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO LIVE AND BREATH FAMILY SAFETY WHEN TRAVELING?
What do you want in your cockpit, a pilot and copilot with a firearm, or a terrorist? 2,180 dollars (four colt pistols)would have prevented all four terrorist acts and saved five thousand lives.
Government will spend billions of dollars with highly visible, and breach-able security that irritates American citizens during check-in when other more effective obvious solutions exist. Just ask Israel.
Thousands of American veterans, retired LEO's and American Citzens want to sign up today to fight terrorism. Don't tell them they are unqualified. If you do tell them they are unqualifed, they may have a word or two for you.
Visit keepandbeararms.com to carry the fight.
Paul Williams Ninth generation American Patriot
WWW.KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM
Advising Director
end Five thousand American Citizens lost their life for the want of two thousand one hundred eight dollars.
(TELL THE AIRLINE PRESIDENTS AND CEO'S)
Other websites with Pilot talk
( Federal Observer help pilots reclaim cockpits )
http://www.federalobserver.com/index.php?section=Arm+Pilots+NOW%21
(Five thousand lose live for want of a shoelace)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ba6ac034145.htm
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/sep/18/arfs091801.htm
( Kamikaze Pilots on U.S. Soil)
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/sep/14/arfl091401.htm
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/sep/18/arnj091801.htm
http://www.saveourguns.com/selfdefense.htm
http://www.2asisters.org/safety/index.htm
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24549”>( Captains to FAA Focus on cockpits Pilots argue for bullet-proof doors, cameras, guns)</a><P> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24549 <P> end <P>
The press thinks we're stoopid stupid.
publically=publicly (^:
In an interview with Black Entertainment Television this week, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pinned the blame for this week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC squarely on the shoulders of current President Bush. Stating that the Muslims were feeling slighted by the US' boycott of the Durban Conference on Racism, Jesse Jackson, identified Bush as the culprit by ordering the boycott. The Durban conference deteriorated into a name-calling session by Palestinians and Israelis, and no real progress was made.
1 Posted on 09/23/2001 10:36:36 PDT by Charlotte Pearce
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