It was either John Nichols or the other guest on Democracy Now yesterday,
who was talking about the moderator and who said that it was his job as
moderator, at specific points, and he described them, to ask Trump and some
of the other candidates to clarify or to confront them when they made a
statement that was patently untrue. So I suppose it depends on what one
thinks a moderator's job is.
Miriam
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Humel
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:09 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a
Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fear-
Trump? Admit he was wrong? When pigs fly, as they say!
Somebody, it may have been Miriam, but I'm not sure, said something about
the media being complicit in this crap.I don't think it is so much that as
that they did not want to start a fist-fight with the asshole who asked the
question, and, anyhow, their role is not so much to have an opinion, but to
moderate, emcee, whatever one wants to call it.it was most unfortunate,
however...
On Sep 18, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender
"rogerbailey81" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don't forget that Trump was a promoter of the birther movement and
when he could not prove that Obama was not a U.S.born citizen I don't really
recall that he ever admitted to having been wrong. That might have a lot to
do with his failure to refute this clown.
On 9/18/2015 10:31 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Warning! This is the tip of a time bomb, ticking down to
Zero.
If anyone has lingering doubts, just revisit this week's
edition of,
"Republican Clowns On Parade", and listen to the clatter of
weapons
being aimed at any who appear different. Listen to the
exchange
between Donald Trump and his Hate-Spewing supporter, calling
out for
the extermination of anyone who is Muslim, looks like a
Muslim, is
determined to be a Muslim, and most likely anyone with skin
color that
is considered too dark. And Emperor Trump did not slam the
door in
this freak's face. Trump allowed the flames of hatred and
fear to
spread, even to the President of the United States of
America.
This is coming to us courtesy of the Republican National
Leadership.
A clear picture of our future under any of those "Leader
Wannabees"
And we, Fools that we were, believed Americans had become
too educated
to fall for another McCarthy. After that demented Senator's
effort to
spread fear and hatred by declaring a Communist Threat, and
dubbing
anyone or anything that did not agree with his demented
beliefs, as
Red or Pinko, and a threat to our American Way of Life.
But it appears that we've been too conditioned to love being
scared
and shocked. We love that frightening feeling that at any
moment a
Boogie Man might jump out and grab us. We are taking to our
constant
training in violence, anger, unreasoned fear, and vengeance.
How it
must amuse our Masters as they watch the results of their
handiwork,
seeing us turn on one another, sparing them the task of
doing us in.
Maybe we really are as stupid as they think we are. Maybe
we are
easily marched by the Pied Pipers of the Empire, down the
road of self
destruction.
If what we are witnessing as "The Cream of the best leaders
our nation
can offer, then the fix really is in, and our self
destruction cannot
be turned back.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/17/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greenwald writes: "What happened in Irving, Texas
yesterday to a
14-year-old
Muslim high school freshman is highly illustrative
of the rotted fruit of
the US's sustained climate of cultivated anti-Muslim
fear and
demonization."
MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14,
poses for a photo at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was
arrested and interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade
clock to school. (photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock:
The Fruits of Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15
There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed
career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by
deliberately exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state
of abject fear of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists
who build their public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at
concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting
that such a thing does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques
is opposed across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State
of Emergency" it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time
since that attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a
state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified
as "extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a
result of all of this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is
routinely targeted with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the
Free, while fear and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a
14-year-old Muslim high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but
it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained
climate of cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News
reports that "Ahmed Mohamed
-
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart
- hoped to impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to
MacArthur High," but "instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress
his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing
stuff," Ahmed was
arrested by the police and led out of school with
his hands cuffed behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be
questioned by the four police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one
of them - who had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I
thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and
his name - one of the
most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by
the boy's family,
taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a
NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was
anything more than a clock,
nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and
inventive freshman built
it
as anything other than a school project. But even
now, "police say they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they
acknowledge he told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock."
According to the BBC, "police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the
interview, Ahmed had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the
boy was unable to give
a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used
for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself
by posting a video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist
Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And
it's easy to mock,
which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting
it as some sort of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the
opposite of aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the
culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously
inflamed for many
years. The circumstances that led to this are
systemic and cultural, not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a
beloved national hero to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February,
she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that
area imams had created a
special court based on sharia law. In response,
Mayor Van Duyne posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with
every fiber of my being"
the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website
gushed that Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent
Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal
system" and hailed her
as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the
Texas State Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor
made clear was targeted
at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving
City Council went out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state
bill. It was enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed
the bill - William "Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to
'embrace the Muslims'"
-
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide
margin." I've spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but
thriving community there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim
animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative
of the U.S. broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went
into a shameful fit of
mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center
near Ground Zero - as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack
- but since then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of
opposition from their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical
menacing and violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more
negatively toward Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that
come from being a nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge
numbers of innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are
drained away from individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of
weapons manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded -
seized - in its name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized
in order to maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless
war degrades the culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You
can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war
against predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last
six years alone - and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old
triggers vindictive fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school.
That's no more surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot
seeds in fertile ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and
inevitable, not surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14,
poses for a photo at his
home in Irving, Tex. On Sept. 15. Mohamed was
arrested and interrogated by
Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade
clock to school. (photo:
Vernon Bryant/Dallas Morning News)
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-
fruits-15-years-fear-mongering-anti-muslim-animus/https://theintercept.com/2
015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-fruits-15-years-fear-monge
ring-anti-muslim-animus/
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock:
The Fruits of Sustained
Fear-Mongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
16 September 15
here are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed
career "terrorism
experts" in the U.S. that profit greatly by
deliberately exaggerating the
threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state
of abject fear of
"radical Islam." There are all sorts of polemicists
who build their public
platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at
concerns over
"Islamaphobia," with the most toxic ones insisting
that such a thing does
not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques
is opposed across the
country, or even as they are physically attacked.
The U.S. government just formally renewed the "State
of Emergency" it
declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time
since that attack
occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a
state of permanent,
endless
war, subjected to powers that are still classified
as "extraordinary" even
though they have become entirely normalized. As a
result of all of this, a
minority group of close to 3 million people is
routinely targeted with
bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the
Free, while fear and
hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.
What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a
14-year-old Muslim high
school freshman is far from the worst instance, but
it is highly
illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained
climate of cultivated
fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News
reports that "Ahmed Mohamed
-
who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart
- hoped to impress his
teachers when he brought a homemade clock to
MacArthur High," but "instead,
the school phoned police."
Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress
his engineering
teacher,
consistent with his long-time interest in "inventing
stuff," Ahmed was
arrested by the police and led out of school with
his hands cuffed behind
him. When he was brought into the room to be
questioned by the four police
officers who had been dispatched to the school, one
of them - who had never
previously seen him - said: "Yup. That's who I
thought it was." As a
result,
he "felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and
his name - one of the
most
common in the Muslim religion."
On Twitter, Anil Dash published a photo, provided by
the boy's family,
taken
as he was led out in cuffs. Note that he's wearing a
NASA shirt:
There's absolutely no evidence that this was
anything more than a clock,
nor
any indication of any kind that the talented and
inventive freshman built
it
as anything other than a school project. But even
now, "police say they may
yet charge him with making a hoax bomb - though they
acknowledge he told
everyone who would listen that it's a clock."
According to the BBC, "police
spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the
interview, Ahmed had
maintained that he built only a clock, but said the
boy was unable to give
a
'broader explanation' as to what it would be used
for."
The Dallas Morning News let Ahmed speak for himself
by posting a video of
him recounting what happened. Behold the Terrorist
Mastermind:
The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And
it's easy to mock,
which
in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting
it as some sort of
bizarre aberration. But it's not that. It's the
opposite of aberrational.
It's the natural, inevitable byproduct of the
culture of fear and
demonization that has festered and been continuously
inflamed for many
years. The circumstances that led to this are
systemic and cultural, not
aberrational.
The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a
beloved national hero to
America's anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February,
she seized on a
fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that
area imams had created a
special court based on sharia law. In response,
Mayor Van Duyne posted a
Facebook rant in which she vowed to "fight with
every fiber of my being"
the
nonexistent "sharia court." One anti-Muslim website
gushed that Irving "is
being called 'ground zero' in the battle to prevent
Islamic law from
gaining
a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal
system" and hailed her
as
"the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood."
That led to support for a bill introduced in the
Texas State Legislature
banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor
made clear was targeted
at
least in part at these "sharia courts." The Irving
City Council went out of
its way to enact a resolution supporting the state
bill. It was enacted in
June. One of the City Council members who opposed
the bill - William "Bill"
Mahone, who "denounced the vote and urged Irving to
'embrace the Muslims'"
-
then lost his seat in the city election "by a wide
margin." I've spoken to
Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but
thriving community there,
which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim
animus.
Just like Ahmed's arrest, Irving is representative
of the U.S. broadly, not
aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went
into a shameful fit of
mass
hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center
near Ground Zero - as
though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack
- but since then, in
obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of
opposition from their
mere existence, or once they do exist, physical
menacing and violence. A
2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more
negatively toward Muslims than
any other religious group in the country.
There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that
come from being a nation
at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge
numbers of innocent
people all over the world. Vast resources are
drained away from individuals
and programs of social good into the pockets of
weapons manufacturers. Core
freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded -
seized - in its name. The
groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized
in order to maximize
fear levels and tolerance for violence.
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless
war degrades the culture
and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You
can't have a
government
that has spent decades waging various forms of war
against predominantly
Muslim countries - bombing seven of them in the last
six years alone - and
then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old
triggers vindictive fear and
persecution because he makes a clock for school.
That's no more surprising
than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot
seeds in fertile ground
and then carefully water them. It's natural and
inevitable, not surprising
or at all difficult to understand.
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