Lost in the fracas here is the fact that what Annabelle Lima-Taub wrote is largely true. Tlaib really is demonstrably an anti-Semite who is friendly with several open supporters of jihad terror. See, for example, all the evidence here and here. That she might “blow up Capitol Hill” is hyperbole, but of course J. C. Jimenez never for a moment considered the possibility that Anabelle Lima-Taub may actually have been on to something, or that Ilhan Omar really might be a hatemonger and that Rashida Tlaib may really be an anti-Semite who is sympathetic to jihad terror groups and jihadis themselves. And no establishment media journalist would dare ask Tlaib or Omar themselves for a statement on their obvious closeness to anti-Semites and supporters of the jihad against Israel. Establishment media journalists only ask tough questions to those who dissent from the Leftist agenda, not to those who support that agenda.
Pablo Lima should immediately be reinstated, and Jimenez should apologize to him. But that would require this to be a sane world.
“Bay Harbor Islands cop suspended for social media post on wife’s anti-Muslim comments,” by Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, January 16, 2020:
The husband of a Hallandale Beach commissioner who was condemned for anti-Muslim comments was placed on administrative leave by the Bay Harbor Islands police department Thursday for social media posts appearing to show support for his wife’s views.
Pablo Lima, a corporal in Bay Harbor Islands and a former vice president of the Miami-Dade police union, submitted an application Tuesday to become the town’s next police chief.
On Thursday morning, after the Miami Herald asked town officials about comments and posts that Lima “liked” on Facebook and Instagram, the department placed him on paid leave and opened an internal affairs investigation.
“The content of the social media posts that were brought to our attention are not consistent with our Town’s values and policies,” Town Manager J.C. Jimenez said in a statement. “Corporal Pablo Lima is currently on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. State law prohibits us from discussing details of an open internal affairs investigation.”…
In January 2019, the Hallandale Beach City Commission voted 3-2 to condemn Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub for a Facebook post saying that Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, might become “a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill.”
The post was denounced as hate speech by numerous Muslim and Jewish human rights organizations, but Lima-Taub remained unapologetic, saying Tlaib’s support for boycotting Israel equated her with terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
The day of the commission vote, dozens of supporters of Lima-Taub held Israeli flags and signs calling Tlaib a terrorist outside Hallandale Beach City Hall. The group included people with a wide range of politics, including those who support Israel and denounce the boycott movement against it, and far-right Internet personality and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.
On Jan. 30, 2019, one week after the vote to condemn the Israeli-born Lima-Taub, Pablo Lima shared a story on his Facebook page from WLRN.org titled, “Why A Hallandale Beach Panel Condemned A Commissioner For Anti-Islamic Language.”
Lima proceeded to “like” five comments showing support for Lima-Taub, including multiple comments that appeared to espouse anti-Muslim sentiments. One comment that Lima “liked” included the line: “This [piece of s—] took her oath on the Koran.”
“Screw these liberal commisioners and mayor,” the comment said. “When will these politicians grow some cohones and start supporting America and it’s Americans. They talk about [Lima-Taub] being a racist and spewing hate. These [expletive] forget that this muslim [Tlaib] supports the people who flew planes into our NY twin towers and killed over 5000 people and more dying from exposure still 18 years later.”
The comment continued: “This [piece of s—] took her oath on the Koran. She openly hates Jews and talks about how they should all die or be killed. Remind me again why you would not support Lima-Talib [Lima-Taub]?”
Lima also “liked” comments on the post that said: “I applaud her”; “Complete BS….”; and “free speach fk them.”
Another comment that Lima “liked” said: “But Talib [Tlaib] gets to spew her hatred of Jews and others not of the Islamic faith and it’s ok not to defend yourself ? I’m with the commissioner, awaiting the next terrorist plot to open eyes again only when something happens.”
Lima did not post any comments below the Facebook post himself.
The Herald also made Bay Harbor Islands officials aware of an Instagram post by Lima-Taub that was “liked” by Lima’s personal account.
In a post on Sept. 11, 2019, Lima-Taub quoted a statement by U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar — one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress, along with Tlaib — that “some people did something” in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Lima-Taub, using her Instagram account “@theroguecommissioner,” called Omar a “hate monger” and said the United States was “founded on Judeo-Christian values.”
“#NeverForget #911 ‘Some people did something,’ as per America’s vitriolic hate monger, @repilhan!” Lima-Taub wrote. “Those 19 Jihadi terrorists massacred over 3,000 innocent men and women, encroached on our constitutional rights and caused several billion in loss to dollars with the deliberate action to destabilize our economic stability.
“This country was founded on Judeo-Christian values and we must never let the deaths of those who perished on 9/11 be in vain.”…
The Bay Harbor Islands police department’s social media policy prohibits any speech that “ridicules, maligns, disparages, or otherwise expresses bias against any gender, race, religion, or any protected class of individuals.”…
“Protected class” indeed.
Steven Taylor says
In MY opinion this is a violation of the right to “free speech.”
Further, in MY opinion, in a lawsuit yet to be filed he will recoup his salary, benefits and a credit for the time lost to be attached to his work record.
Stephanee says
PC BS instead of truth
Janis Hoplin says
You are correct on all points and frankly I’m sick of the bowing down of these officials in order to not offend anyone when they are the offenders but never held accountable for their words or actions. Its BS!
Pilot says
The last sentence says it all. There should never be a protected class. Everybody should be treated equally but never protected. It only leads to hate because ppl can’t express themselves about a group of ppl. Free and open discussion is the only way to get rid of hate.
No Muzzies Here says
Did you actually think that there was “freedom of speech” in the USA? There isn’t, and there hasn’t been for decades. You can lose your means of support for moving your mouse cursor to a specific spot on your computer screen, and pressing the left button.
Westman says
By the Bay Harbor Islands police department’s own logic in suspending the officer – if liking a post is equivalent to creating a “hateful” post then Tlaib and Omar’s approval of Hamas’ goals should make them equivalent to what?
Ashley says
Good article with contact information to cry foul over this silly action:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/support-corporal-pablo-lima-of-bhi-fl-he-was-suspended-for-supporting-his-wifes-post-against-bds/
GreekEmpress says
I saw that article and got J.C. Jimenez’ office number and called to protest officer Lima’s treatment. I hope he’s reinstated and gets his promotion.
RJ says
this insanity needs to stop and stop now…..who ever did the suspending needs to be fired, it is anti American and the Americans are getting sick of it. hike your muslim loving ass right over there with them and leave this country to those who love it. it is time for them to stop getting away with the destruction of this country
mortimer says
THE ARROGANT, ‘INFALLIBLE’ LEFTARDED GOOSE-STEPPING ORTHODOXY
George Orwell recognized the ‘INFALLIBLE’ attitude of Left and how they silence original, independent observers :
“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines — being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general TACIT AGREEMENT that “it wouldn’t do” to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralized, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an ORTHODOXY, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was “not done” to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.” – George Orwell
You know who the real fascists are … the globalists.
mortimer says
Why would Ilhan Omar even talk about blowing up the Capitol if she did not take the idea seriously?
Indeed, that was Bin Laden’s plan on 9-11.
Ilhan Omar would be the first police suspect if such a thing occurred (perish the thought).
keith says
She probably has a shrine to Bin Laden in her home.
And your right, people only speak about doing something if the concept of carrying out those actions has been more than a fleeting thought. Something that has been seriously considered.
DHazard says
Cowards everywhere.
Walter Sieruk says
Since Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are again mentioned in this site it’s therefore appropriate to reiterate
the message needs to be made known to all the Muslims who live in the United States of America , be they politicians or not ,who dislike and maybe even despise the US Constitution and would like to replace it with Sharia law as Omar and Tlaib .
Those same Muslims instead in trying to force Sharia law on American citizens. Then they really should leave the USA and then go to live in either Shii ‘ite, Iran or Sunni , Saudi Arabia if they actually feel the Sharia law is the grand, great and wonderful .
Moreover, all this is a strong reminder of the wise words declared by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech. “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism , only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those two Muslim politicians Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib being so very anti-Jewish and anti-Israel must also be, in hidden essence, very anti-American .As the former US President ,William Howard Taft, had so wisely declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Furthermore, those two anti –Israel Muslim politicians are ignorant fools for the Jews have every right to that land that now makes up the State of Israel. For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. 135:4. Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
As Psalm 135:4. reads “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself . Israel for His special treasure.” [N.K.J.V.]
elee says
Hey cop, you remember the phrase lawyer up? Do it
Walter Sieruk says
Many times Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib like to have their picture taken by the press while they are smiling.
This is called “impression management ” to the American public. Likewise this is a reminder about being wise about not being deceived by the smiling faces they put on. With their scheming Islamic agenda.
So much so that their smile is related to the song written and played on the radio in the early 1970’s. Some of the lyrics to that song are “Don’t let them fool you …enmity you can see in smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies .”
tgusa says
“not consistent with our Town’s values and policies”
What are their values, death to America?
“Protected class”
Good to know that this towns values and policies include inconsistent protection under the law. Their flawed values and policies will eventually blow up in their faces. I have had enough. As long as that is confined to these types I wont lose a wink of sleep over it. Sometimes in life you get exactly what you ask for.
gravenimage says
Florida: Cop suspended for liking his wife’s social media posts criticizing Tlaib and Omar
…………………
Just appalling. Now police are not allowed to have political opinions?
That what his wife said was accurate makes this all the worse.
gravenimage says
If the posts in question had been anti-Trump would this have happened? I think not…
tgusa says
A spokes mouth for the Democratic Governors Association’s (DGA), creative director, Zainab Javed, shared a tweet regarding the Virginia 2nd amendment supporters. She called it terrorism to legally carry rifles. Now why would she say that? Well we all know why. Yes, exercising your Constitutional rights is terrorism according to the left. It appears that democrats are more concerned with law abiding Americans than they are the death to America crowd. That is probably because they are the death to America crowd.
People such as these believe in the magic dirt theory, a fatal flaw in their logic that will not end well for all of us.
gravenimage says
Yes–with Muslims this is not just flawed logic, but a deliberate attempt to conquer us.
James Lincoln says
What we need in the United States are MORE law enforcement officers like Pablo Lima…
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, James!
tgusa says
Yes and more wives just like his.
gravenimage says
+1
JHL says
Tlaib and Omar are committed to Islam — not the US Constitution.
Janis Hoplin says
Openly
maemae77 says
That’s right because they swore on the Quran which includes Sharia Law which is foreign law. Their oath they took is against our constitution.
Mike Casmer says
Wait a minute. Isn’t he a minority? (Hispanic). Aren’t minorities given a pass? I don’t get it. Oh wait a minute, he must be a conservative.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Queen B says
And so it begins , the persecution over free speech. First to demonize with the ultimate goal of repealing the right of free speech,thought and expression.
maemae77 says
That’s definitely a case of Islamic psychological terrorism. We need to ban and criminalize all forms of terrorism.
Psychological terrorism destroys lives too.
jca reid says
Ridiculous! What about his 1st. Amendment Rights???!! Free Speech & all that! The guy ought to sue the Authorities. surely, there’s some lawyer will do it. If the guy criticised Pres. Trump, he would be hailed a hero! Seems in the New Democracy of the West to criticise or endorse ANYTHING that is contrary to Islam, the MOST FASCISTIC, PERVERTED, RETROGRADE, “IDEOLOGY” there is, is simply not to be tolerated at any cost! If the Officer had been a white guy, chances are he would have ended up in court. Strange that, as Mohammed WAS a White Man. Stated clearly in various Islamic Texts, so they cannot deny it.
owensgate says
It’s not so much about the “Protected Class”, as it is about WHO is doing the protecting, and why. As for “Equality”, the only thing that should be “equal” is equal administration of justice and consequences regarding the Law; all other ideas about “Equality” are nonsense. THIS world is (or should) be “merit based”. As for “Hate”, there is no entity in THIS world that can tell me who or what to hate or not, or why, and I have an absolute right to state that granted by the First Amendment, with a Second Amendment to back it up if required.
kirk says
This was a the Democrats at work pushing for a blasphemy law towards Muslim and Islam however it’ll be a ok to insult Christianity
Giacomo Latta says
Funny, but it seems to me that public servants everywhere are screaming for their supposed right to take part in political organizations without getting any flak for it. All civil servants should be as apolitical as possible in my book but if not then their own political leaning should not be questioned.
Ed Lee says
Everyone needs to get armed and practice shooting quickly and accurately. Within the next 5 years we are going to be defending our lives and our way of life on our front porches with no support from any level of government, with the exception of a few local cops, like Pablo Lima, who understand the threat and defy their bosses.