Posted on 01/13/2017 2:54:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, among the most important jobs in the still-forming Trump administration, has said some pretty incendiary things on the Internet.
Before being tapped to advise Trump on national security issues, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn was an intelligence officer and head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama until he was removed from his command in 2014 over his leadership style. Flynn went on to criticize some of his superiors, including Obama, regarding their stances on Islamist extremism. He also traveled to Russia on a trip paid for by state-run media and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn said that he was using the trip to advance U.S. interests.
Before joining the Trump campaign and drawing the ire of his colleagues for using his rank to support a political campaign that would often disparage the very establishment he had just departed, Flynn was well-regarded by his colleagues.
In his book “My Share of the Task,” retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal wrote that Flynn was “pure energy” and had an “uncanny ability” to digest information, “marshal his people, resources and energy to make it happen.”
Apart from his military career and political ascension, Flynn also has a digital legacy that is problematic. Below are some of his tweets over the course of the Trump campaign. Ryan Lizza, a writer with the New Yorker, also put a number of Flynn’s tweets on his feed Thursday night.
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It’s normal to fear getting your head chopped off.
Did you time travel to 2018?
Its not even the first few weeks of 2017! ;-)
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedanism law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property–either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
—Churchill
I asked the moderator to fix it.
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Oh I disagree. The words to use instead of “fear” are “distrust” and “legitimate target”. Both of which they have brought upon themselves.
Incendiary? Like maybe a muslim committed mass muder at a Christmas Party in San Bernardino, at a gay nightclub in Orlando, or just recently an airport in Fort Lauderdale?
Is that islamiphobic to even state this?
It’s actually taken somebody almost 16 years since 9/11 to publicly say this?
I was in a Post Office before Christmas to mail a package. There was a long line. In comes a Muslim woman (or a woman dressed like one) in a full hijab. She had a package. She did not stand in line, she put the package down on a table where there was some mailing supplies, then rummaged around in her purse looking for something. Then she left but left the package on the table.
Everyone in line looked very uneasy. I was 4 or 5 people from the top of the line and did not want to leave the line, yet I kept glancing over at that box (as was everyone else). I was angry that I was put in the position of even having to think of what could happen ... but I couldn’t un-think it.
A couple of people near the end of the line left. I waited. Then a few more people left. I was now about 2 people from being served and very loathe to leave the line and have to come back another time to mail the package. But I was very worried. Was mailing the package worth possibly being blown to bits or worse, being maimed for life? I resent even having to think like that ... and yet I could not un-think it.
In the end I stayed in line and was served and left as quickly as possible. Altogether about 6 people left that I saw. As I was outside going to my car I saw the woman head back into the post office, but by that time she had been gone almost 15 minutes.
I wonder whether she did it as an experiment to see how many people would leave or if she just forgot something in her car and it was nothing to worry about. But clearly everyone in that line was worried.
We shouldn’t have to be worried but we also shouldn’t have to apologize for being worried.
Could have been a dry run. Never know with these types. Guess we will know if there is news of exploding post offices in the future.
It is rationale you, asshats. You think people just walk around being afraid for no reason?
Most people just want to live their life without being messed with and don’t wake up looking to “hate” or be “afraid” of anything or anyone. So..if there is a fear, it’s because there is TRUTH to it.
Fear of muslims IS rational.
They have a religious obligation to subjugate, convert or kill everyone on the planet.
They have a 1400 year history of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem.
Islam commands that they continue jihad until everyone else submits or dies.
Their “holy” book is full of instructions from their prophet on making the rest of the world submit.
Islam means submission.
Submit or die are the only options for unbelievers under Islam.
Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace
Islam is a war plan.
Carry a concealed weapon.
Be quick to exit, and say something loud, like unattended package! Let the Muslim be uncomfortable. We are getting searched getting on to planes because of them. Christmas morning, TSA was squeezing my crotch as I boarded a plane to Florida.
I once yelled at TSA at the statue of liberty. Two muslim women were moving into an unsecured area while waiting for the ferry boat. They could do this to pick up a bomb or a gun. TSA politely told them to get back in line. They ignored TSA, and TSA ignored them. I walked back into the security area and yelled at the top of my lungs, “they don’t give a shit what you say!!!”. It lit a fire under their butts.
I’m fed up. I bet the woman did it to test security.
She might have done it so everyone would leave and she wouldn’t have to wait in line.
But it’s perfectly fine for the PC Snowflakes to fear “Trump supporters”
I also think she did it to get a thrill, watching infidels squirm.
I carry every where I go, and I don’t give them an inch. I refuse to be intimidated.
These people depend on intimidation. It’s part of their culture. They get a kick out of bullying people and scaring people.
Is it ok to just hate ‘em if you’re not scared of ‘em?
Good chance.
On Christmas morning we had a muslim couple waiting to board the plane we were getting on. I would have skipped the flight if they didn’t have a baby. I figured they wouldn’t kill their own kid, so I got on the plane. But if they didn’t have a kid, I would have went straight to the airline rep and told them I need the next flight because of security reasons, that I don’t feel safe on this flight.
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