Spencer: As jihad plots multiply, DHS slumbers on

In Human Events this morning, I discuss some recent jihad plots and then examine DHS policies in light of them:

...Instead, the Obama Administration has succumbed to pressure from Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in the United States and has promised to scrub all training materials for the FBI and other agencies of any reference to Islam or jihad in connection with Islamic terrorism. That means that law enforcement officials are now effectively forbidden to study the motives and goals of the Alabama shooter, the Florida and North Carolina plotters, the former military man, and so many others like them, for to do so would necessarily involve study and discussion of the texts and tenets of Islam.

It cannot be said, however, that the Obama Department of Homeland Security is lying down on the job. Recently it has come to light that for over a year, DHS agents have been monitoring a large number of websites. The purpose of this monitoring, according to a DHS report, is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.”

Situational awareness? A common operating picture? It’s hard to tell whether this wretched English is intended to obfuscate deliberately, or if it was simply written by someone whose thoughts barely rise above the level of incoherence. Either way, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. But this bureaucratic gobbledygook apparently means that the DHS is watching the sites in question in order to become aware of situations involving terror plotting, and that DHS agents will share this information with other agencies so that they won’t be working at cross purposes.

So far so good -- if the DHS were monitoring jihadist websites, which proliferate on the internet. But it isn’t. Instead, it is watching sites where it is extremely unlikely ever to encounter a jihad plotter saying anything to indicate that he is up to no good. To be sure, the monitored sites are all over the map ideologically: they include Live Leak, Vimeo, Youtube, and Flickr, as well as the Huffington Post, Newsweek Blogs and the New York Times Lede Blog -- along with the Middle East Media Research Institute, the global intelligence site Stratfor, and many, many others, including my own website, Jihad Watch. Nonetheless, given the Obama DHS’s stated emphasis on “right-wing extremism,” it is much more likely that when they visit Jihad Watch and other counterterror sites, agents are on the hunt for dangerous conservatives, not hoping to learn anything about jihadist beliefs, motives or activities.

The plots and attacks of the past week illustrate how foolish that is, as well as ominous for loyal citizens who oppose the administration and its policies, and are being watched despite having no intention of ever engaging in any illegal activity whatsoever. The DHS’s slumber will not come without a cost -- for as administration officials continue to make good on their promise to embrace willful ignorance about the Islamic jihad threat, agents will grow ever less equipped to spot and to stop plots such as the one uncovered last week in Florida. To do so will be inexcusably “Islamophobic,” DHS agents will tell each other, as they sip coffee and monitor those crazy right-wingers at Jihad Watch.

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...Obama DHS’s stated emphasis on “right-wing extremism,”???

Frank Gaffney: Obama Administration Bowing to “International Muslim Mafia”

http://newstime.co.nz/frank-gaffney-oic-is-the-most-dangerous-sharia-jihadi-group.html

If Secretary of State Clinton gets her way, e.g. “New York Times” bestseller author Robert Spencer will be put from the now list of potential terrorists (DHS Department Homland Security) to the list of REAL terrorists, and will get a trial-free, indefinite detention

Motto of the Western political élite:

“If you can’t beat Islam — join them!” (appeasement like Neville Chamberlain in Adolf Nazi’s time)

…or will not — for their valuable Muslim votes

Amen brother, preach on!

I am quite sure that there are many DHS agents, even those assigned to monitor this site, who are ashamed to be involved in what the agency has become under this administration. If not, then simply lump them in with those hoping that the crocodile will eat them last crowd.

I wonder at what extent is someone classified a "right-winger"? Does supporting the rights of Homosexuals to not be thrown off tall buildings? How about the lashing of fornicating women? Stoning? Slavery? Rape?

I thought these were all "Leftist" causes... maybe the Leftists are sipping strong "coffee" of their own.

“…the Obama Administration has succumbed to pressure from Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in the United States and has promised to scrub all training materials for the FBI and other agencies of any reference to Islam or jihad in connection with Islamic terrorism.”

I beg to differ, Robert. Obama hasn’t “succumbed to pressure,” except perhaps the pressure in his evil mind to exploit every opportunity to bring down this country, or let others, such as the “Islamists,” do it for him. You have the evidence of his policies and actions over the last 3.5 years that he wishes to destroy this country. Non-entities like GWB and the CEO of any major corporation you wish to name “succumb” to outside pressure. Look at Romney. Perfect candidate for “succumbing” to pressure. Another empty suit. No character. No principles. No moral fiber or spine. A man of plastic. A Ken Doll of politics. But Obama is evil incarnate. You and all his other critics have got to take that last judgmental step and say so, before such judgment is deemed “hate speech” and you say so at your own risk. I’ve said it countless times in my columns on Rule of Reason and Capitalism Magazine and other venues, but no one pays it any attention.

You’ve written about it often enough: Obama welcomes the “Arab Spring.” Obama helps Muslim “radicals” overthrow Qadhaffi in Libya. Obama will negotiate with the Taliban. Obama is huggy-bear pals with killers like Hugo Chavez. Obama bows to Saudi kings. Obama snubs our allies. Obama won’t lift a finger to stop Iran from developing the bomb, or to help the Green resistance group there. Do you really think this man is merely mistaken in his policies and actions? Or that he’s just an ignorant punk way out of his depth? You can excoriate his policies and actions all you wish and call them destructive and that they imperil the country and everyone will agree with you, but you must have the courage to assess Obama’s feral intelligence and call it for what it is: evil. That intelligence is concentrated like magnified sunlight on emasculating this country and leaving it helpless to combat the machinations of our committed enemies.

You can’t condemn a man for the contents of his mind, no matter how evil the contents. It is only when he has taken actions to achieve that evil that one can judge him. Obama has taken actions to achieve his agenda. You have ample evidence of it. What’s stopping you from reaching that ultimate, damning conclusion? You can’t say that Obama’s time in office has been a failure, or that he’s been the “worst” president since Jimmy Carter or Millard Fillmore. He’s achieved a lot. Look at the country. And he isn’t finished yet. And it doesn’t matter that he might be a tool of George Soros or the Clintons. He’s it and he stands for every collectivist, altruist, destructive policy this country has ever endured. He’s their climax and so he’s fair game for moral judgments.

Look at the DHS, and look who heads it. A man-hater. With whom is she in sync? Obama. The same goes for the TSA and its head, and the Federal Reserve, and Obama’s whole cabinet, including his advisors and press secretary. Frankly, they’re all criminals living off our dime. And if the country is dying because of all their policies, and those policies continue in force in spite of all the evidence that they’re killing the country, what more would you need to pass that judgment?

You won’t find me pulling my punches.

Today, 1/18/12, there is to be a huge meeting of Law Enforcement and Intelligence gathering organizations in NYC. Their topic for discussion? STOPPING HOME GROWN TERRORISTS.That's it, period.
Wake up, folks. NDAA, PDD51, The MIAC report, 2006 NDAA- they were all designed to target AmeriKKKan citizens. Truth tellers are the new terrorists.

Obama is simply prohibiting the criminal intent for jihad to be used in the federal prosecution of crime and allowing Sharia law to be unofficially enforced (i.e., prohibition of any critical analysis or criticism of Islam or Mohammad).

H.R. 973, which would prohibit Sharia law being used at the federal level, can be found and tracked at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-973 (see a copy of the main wording of the Bill below.)

Let's write to Congress (www.congress.org):

Dear Representative:

Under the condition that HR 973 deletes the words "or Act of Congress," I support H.R. 973 because President Obama is trying to give the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad a large loop hole to commit jihad/enforce Sharia law in the U.S. by preventing the criminal intent of thieving, extorting, abusing, raping, and murdering non-Muslims BECAUSE they are non-Muslims (Sharia) from being recognized,evidence collected, and being used in prosecution by banning/censoring even the words describing such intent from the U.S. Government vocabularies. Such action is in itself enforcement of Sharia law which prohibits any critical analysis or criticism of Islam or Mohammad.

Muslims in the U.S. have every right under the U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights to believe whatever they want, they do NOT have the legal right to enforce Sharia law. As we have "gang crimes" with stiffer penalties because of the extreme disregard for human life and property, let there be "jihad crimes" which recognize the criminal intent of committing crimes against non-Muslims BECAUSE they are non-Muslims, and giving tougher punishment because they are seditious in attempting to enforce Sharia law over Constitutional law.

Bill 973:

‘CHAPTER 183--USE OF FOREIGN LAW IN FEDERAL COURTS

‘Sec. 4201. Limitation on use of foreign law in Federal courts

‘In any court created by or under article III of the Constitution of the United States, no justice, judge, or other judicial official shall decide any issue in a case before that court in whole or in part on the authority of foreign law, except to the extent the Constitution or an Act of Congress requires the consideration of that foreign law.’.

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