John Caffery is no coward, and he is ready to defend the core principles of our civilization. Sir, I tip my hat to you. If only there were tens of millions more like you. "Cartoon flap no joke for resident," from the Beaumont Enterprise, with thanks to LGF:
BEAUMONT - John Caffery called it an act of cowardice by U.S. newspapers for not publishing controversial Muslim-based cartoons, so the local resident decided to take matters into his own hands.On the corner of Daisy and Norwood drives, Caffery erected a large sign Sunday afternoon with one of the cartoons. It also carries a message about the subsequent rioting throughout the world caused by the publishing of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper.
Caffery couldn't understand why American newspapers opted to omit the cartoons but write about the rioting. He said newspapers were not giving the public all of the information they needed to understand.
So he decided to be a source of information, he said, because it's a matter of free speech. At the very least, he can let his local community know the rioting, violence and denouncement of the United States is over a cartoon.
"It's cowardly for (a) newspaper giving in to the pressure from the Muslims for these so-called offending cartoons," Caffery said. "Most of the cartoons are pretty silly. The one out there on the sign is probably one of the least offending cartoons."
The sign is four feet by eight feet, according to Caffery's estimation, and was made as "large as it feasibly" could be made, he said. A cartoon of Muhammad's head shaped like a lit bomb is depicted to the left and a statement on the right reads "For This Cartoon In Danish and Nowegian [sic] Newspapers Muslems [sic] Worldwide Have Rioted, and Killed and Now Offer $11 Million Reward to Kill The Cartoonist."
At the beginning of the statement, an arrow points to the cartoon.
Caffery, 67, lists his e-mail address and phone number. He said he encourages people to call or write him to receive information about the cartoons.
"It's not that I'm anti-Islam," he said. "It's that I'm anti-anybody who says you have to do as they insist or they're going to kill you."
Bravo.
"Caffery, 67, lists his e-mail address and phone number. He said he encourages people to call or write him to receive information about the cartoons."
Can anyone see his email address? I would like to write him a small thank you know and let him know that what he has done is apreciated.
Expat,
I spoke with Mr. Caffery, by phone, this morning and sent him some information, by email, concerning the drawings.
As he did list his telephone number and email address (according to the news story) here they are:
409-866-5566
jcaffery@remax.net
He told me that he's already been contacted by, and has a meeting set up with, a local imam.
I'm sure the cleric will try to spin things and buffalo him, so perhaps any advice (and words of encouragement) you have would be helpful.
No doubt, he'll be receiving more than his share of hate calls/email, too.
Mr. Caffery has more balls than the entire mainstream media. He's out there now, and he is only one of many. Just based on my family, there are Americans that have never seen the cartoons and want to see what the rubarb is all about. What is so offensive about the cartoons that would make Muslims burn, pillage, and murder? I've printed copies for my kinfolk and so far, they find them funny, but not offensive. The mainstream media has got to report this and print the cartoons. "We the People" have the right to know.
Freedom-loving people everywhere should follow Caffery's lead and erect billboards near universities, newspaper offices, and government buildings.
Irony here is that this paper also chose NOT TO PRINT a photo of Mr. Caffery's yard sign &/or the original cartoon images which the yard sign is a direct response to. How enlightening!
Bravo to Mr. Caffery.
Remember the old Burma shave signs on fence posts along the roads years ago??
Sayings from the Koran and sura's and hadith's could be posted and driver's and passengers would get the message on this cult.
I'm sure a lot of rural America has no clue to this ideology. What little they get comes from the MSM.
Thank you PRCS for Mr. Caffery's contact info.
I'll go over to LGF and post now. Lots of lizards waiting to say Thanks to this brave man! Then I'll write to him myself.
This could be made the subject of a movie. One man in Texas. His one-man campaign. His sign (show that sign on the silver screen). His meeting with a local imam (a local imam in Beaumont, Texas?). His being fed taqiyya. The chicken-and-pita-and-baklava meeting he attends, where carefully schooled more-in-sorrow Muslims are told to tell him of how "hurtful" he was being, and how would he like it if other great prophets -- Moses, Jesus -- were depicted as wearing turbans with bombs? His growing inward understanding that something is not right. His contacting the FBI, only to discover that his "Contact Man" is a Muslim chosen to be in charge of "Islam Outreach to the Community." His doubts about this FBI man. His phone being tapped. His dog being found hideously murdered. He himself going to Washington to personally consult with the FBI, the CIA, his Congressman, and having assorted experiences right out of Sperry's "Infiltration."
But then he discovers a counter-network, within and without the government, of people who are aware of this infiltration, and are working to prevent its success. It contains a good many veterans of Iraq, who learned about Islam because they could never quite figure out why they were treated the way almost all Arabs, but not Kurds, treated them, why the indolence, why the fanaticism, why the susceptibility to conspiracy theories, why everything they observed that nothing they had been told at Fort Jackson or Fort Bragg or Fort Benning had prepared them for, and they had to learn on their own.
Enough of this "Syriana" oil-corporation conspiracy stuff. Keep focussing on Ameica. Cameos by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Amsterdam and Philippe Val in Paris.
Financing? Spielberg needs to make up for the Munich fiasco. Perhaps he will come through. Or the CIA could pay for it, the way it once paid for the Congress for Cultural Freedom. How about it?
Thanks PRCS,
I'll make sure to let this brave gentleman know that knowledge of his actions have spread all the way to Denmark and how much we apreciate the support.
Any bets as to how long this sign stays up? I give it 2 days before some cartoonaphobe tears it down.
Actually, I am sitting back and feeling heartened by the brushfire that has been set off in response to the cartoon jihad.
The Prophet-hugging nutbars can rip down one sign, or a 100 signs. They can try to intimidate a few newspaper publishers, but the non-Muslim world still outnumbers the Muslim world by 4 to 1. If only some of the non-Muslim world wasn't so inclined to be Quislings, things would never have gone so far down the Islamist road.
God bless John Caffery.
BTW, his last name sounds almost like Kafir---a true infidel! ;)
Hugh-
Like the idea... it could be even more effective if done in the folksy, small-time manner of a movie like "The Straight Story -about the guy named Alvin Straight who tooled on his rider mower across country to visit his ailing brother.
Melded with the 1950's version of the movie "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers", which was chilling for its small-town atmosphere and personalization of the uncanny threat.
The focus on the one man's fight and individual heroism against the global taqiyya machine and soft Da'wa invasion would hit home more strikingly than a "The Web" type chase flick or "Three Days of the Condor" [the book took seven] intrigue.
One man is easier to focus on, symapthize with and root for than any network.
Maybe something like "Ruby In Paradise", for tone, meets "The Last Man on Earth" for undercurrent (a classic Vincent Price sleeper that I feel is getting to be all-too-true, especially when you add the word "free" after the word "Last" in the title).
Keep us informed about this guy's anti-jihad (struggle) against the smiling lesser jihadists.
To me the words "imam" and "Texas" go together about as well as "poisonous" and "baby pacifier".
If only the positive forces in this country could rally around this one man in the same manner the negative forces have rallied around Cindy Sheehan.
Yeah for Mr.Caffery! seems they have real good men from Texas!
Mr. Caffery talks the talk:
"It's not that I'm anti-Islam," he said. "It's that I'm anti-anybody who says you have to do as they insist or they're going to kill you."
Then he walks the walk:
"...The sign is four feet by eight feet, according to Caffery's estimation, and was made as 'large as it feasibly' could be made, he said."
Well done, Mr. Caffery.
Semper Fi Mr. Caffery!!
Hugh,
Mr. Caffery Goes To Washington?
You suggest, "Cameos by Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Amsterdam and Philippe Val in Paris .. "
And how about the brave Iranian Soccer Girls (who manage to put our Soccer Moms in proper perpective) ? You'd make room for them too, I'll bet! And I know Mr. Cafferty would as well.
Any man who, when asked about when he'll take the sign down, confidently says that he'll " wait for the signal from his wife" .. in my book .. such a man deeply knows the meaning of love and respect - unlike those fundamentalists we are up against.
"It's cowardly for (a) newspaper giving in to the pressure from the Muslims for these so-called offending cartoons," Caffery said.
I suppose its a matter of perspective...
"he's already been contacted by, and has a meeting set up with, a local imam."
Good to see he is willing to seek that other perspective.
I think that when he goes to meet with the imam he should take with him a big ol’ bag of pork rinds and just stand there eating them one after another as the imam talks.
Do you really think that, illustr8rg8r? You obviously do not know the meaning of the word 'perspective.'
Pork to you and me = tasty. Pork to Muslims and Jews (and some Christian sects, I might add)= forbidden.
Tonight on danish television the politician Jens Rohde revealed some info that I am not sure was supposed to be released to the public.
He said that a group of muslims had attempted to get to the daugther of one of the cartoonists at her school. They showed up at the school and started looking for her, but thankfully she was not present at the time.
The fact that he let this info slip during a debate about the danish industry's role in the conflict, makes me think that it wasnt supposed to be make public knowledge. But other media have already picked up on the story, so expect it to make headlines over the next few days.
Muhaha-
Didn't your prophet Issa (Jesus) put the dietary laws into their proper perspective when he said:
"It is not what goes into a person's mouth [food], but what comes out of it [lack of humanity] that makes them unclean."
Islamic dietary laws are abrogated during times of hunger, anyway.
So, even though I find all such rules about foods being "clean" or "unclean" Stone Age stupid -and essentially delusional and demented when you consider that we are all made of DNA- you don't even have to obey these dinner dictates in Islam if you need to chomp on a a pig, or slurp some wine, or nibble a shellfish (for the orthodox Jewish), or gnaw on whatever part of a human corpse is forbidden to the head-shrinking Jivaros, in order to survive.
If Allah created everything, how could he create something unclean?
Sounds imperfect to me.
Had to send this fellow Texan an email of support, and I also had to send him a warning about the iman's prophetic ability to lie for the sake of is-a-lie!
The stars A R E bright tonight!
Bayoucoyote-
What I wondered is: why is an imam asking to meet with Mr. Caffery?
Does the imam know something about cartooning? Or the First Amendment?
Or is it just an effort at soft intimidation? ("Re-education" as the communists used to call it.)
Somebody email the Texas freespeecher a hyperlink to an online Koran so that he can go forewarned and armed.
While it isn't the clearest (I prefer the 1950's Penguin books translation by N.J. Dawood), this link will do in a pinch:
http://www.hti.mich.edu/k/koran/browse.html
Where a more declarative translation of Sura 2.2 in the older (less p.c.) version reads:
"This book is not to be doubted..."
M.H. Shakir's text that U. Mich puts online says:
"This Book, there is no doubt in it..."
That formulation doesn't match the hectoring tenor of the entire Koran's domineering and threatening thrust. Its voice it too oblique and passive. It brings clumsy, comma-hobbled scholasticism into what is more a pure demand not to doubt that this is the perfect word of Mohammad-Gibreel-Allah.
And that if you dare doubt it, the believers will bring a sword down upon your neck.
And consign you to eternal fire, branded and damned, if you elude their knives.
I wish Mr. Caffery well, and hope he's ready for the tsunami of b.s. he has bravely invoked.
Dropped a "U" in the link above- the full one is:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html
Good to see he is willing to seek that other perspective.
What other perspective? The one of hate and crime and moral bankruptcy? The persepective of deception and violence and conquest? The hkappy viewing angle one sees from animalism?
Yeah, it's good to see that perspective. Up to a point. After that, oogha boogha, could you and your fellow Moslems please go to Mars so we don't have to look at your tired assses anymore? We'd like to enjoy life, if you'd be so kind.