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A majority of gays vote democrat.
Apparently the enriching Afghan was a registered Democrat. lol
It adds to narrative of historic left-wing violence.
Apparently the enriching Afghan was a registered Democrat. lol
A majority of gays vote democrat.
Apparently the enriching Afghan was a registered Democrat. lol
1,000 mass shootings in 1,260 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like
Sunday's horror in Orlando, Florida was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. But it was only one of six mass shootings – defined as four or more people shot, besides the shooter – in the US just this weekend.
Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive via the crowd-sourced website ShootingTracker.com reveals a shocking human toll: there is a mass shooting – defined as four or more people shot in one incident, not including the shooter – on five out of every six days, on average.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-america-gun-violence?CMP=fb_gu
gun violence is a fundamental, defining aspect of American "civilization", aka, a sick society in permanent decline, owned and run by authoritarian BigCorp for its own enrichment.
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he visted gay chat rooms apparently
Their five-month marriage was abusive from the start. He was controlling. He kept her from seeing her family. He beat her, pulled her hair, dug his fingernails into the soft flesh of her wrists when she wandered away from him in the supermarket.
But when she thinks back on the brief marriage seven years ago, there are other recollections that come to mind. “There were things he would do in his daily life that most straight men don’t do,” she said in a phone interview with TIME on Tuesday.
“He would take a long time in front of the mirror, he would often take pictures of himself, and he made little movements with his body that definitely made me question things,” she recalled, “It definitely popped up in my head whether he was totally straight.”
Mateen and Yusufiy met on Myspace and were married from April to August 2009, until her parents sensed she was unhappy and came down to Florida from New Jersey to check on her. When they realized she was in an abusive situation, Yusufiy’s parents took her back to New Jersey with them, and the marriage abruptly ended.
Yusufiy said she never noticed anything in their sex life that would lead her to believe Mateen was gay. But she noted that any kind of sexual exploration would have been totally forbidden by Mateen’s strict Afghan family.
“In his family structure, sexuality was really not tolerated,” she said. “And one of the directions of his life was to be a perfect son.”
That pressure to be live up to his father’s strict expectations often led Mateen to lash out with violence, she says. Once, she recalled, she fell asleep on the floor while watching TV and he started beating her as she slept. He yanked the pillow out from under her, pulled her by her hair, and then started to choke her. Hours later, when she asked him what happened, at first he claimed he was angry that she hadn’t finished the laundry. Then he revealed that he’d had a fight with his father.
As the only son of Afghan immigrants, Mateen was subject to high expectations from his parents. “It’s pretty pressured. You have to be perfect in every way, you have to have a high education, you have to be totally respectful,” Yusufiy said. “And not be in any way sexual, that’s for sure.”
ORLANDO — A transgender woman described Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen as being curious, searching, and uncomfortable when they met at a popular gay club late last year.
Daniele Tashner, 60, said she immediately recognized Mateen when he was identified as the gunman who killed 49 people and injured dozens more at the Pulse dance club in Orlando early Sunday morning.
“When they showed this guy on the news, my heart cringed and I almost broke out in tears. I saw this person about eight months ago. I actually realized that I spoke to this person for about 15 minutes sitting in a gazebo at the back of Parliament House,” she said in an interview with Yahoo News.
Parliament House is another popular gay club in Orlando that is about a 10-minute drive northwest of Pulse.
Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen was ‘very creepy’ in messages on gay dating app
TOBIAS SALINGER JUN 14, 2016 1:54 PM
Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen sent “very creepy” messages on one gay dating app and was active on at least two others, a Florida man said Monday.
The man identified by investigators as the gunman who killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse nightclub early Sunday had been known in Orlando’s gay community since as far back as 2007 and was a user on the apps Grindr, Jack’d and Adam4Adam, Cord Cedeno told MSNBC.
“He was, like, very creepy in his messages and I blocked him immediately,” Cedeno said. “I recognized him off Grindr — the one of him in the tie.”
Cedeno has a friend who said Mateen, a 29-year-old man who had been living 120 miles away with a wife and family in Fort Pierce, had been visiting the Orlando area since 2007. Police said they fatally shot Mateen three hours after he started his rampage and the subsequent standoff at Pulse.
“One of my friends has seen him in Pulse before. He’s been in that venue several times, that’s not the first time he’s been there. That’s not his first time going there. I know that for a fact,” Cedeno said. “I know there’s plenty of other guys that he has probably tried to contact and hook up from. A lot of them are scared to come out and tell the FBI.”
GOP lawmaker says Orlando shooting site wasn’t a gay club
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) has an amazing habit of saying some pretty remarkable things. Yesterday, however, the far-right congressman nevertheless managed to surprise.
For those unfamiliar with Sessions’ background, in 2014,
Sessions became strikingly confused about what a “witch hunt’ is. The year before,
Sessions said he believes it’s “immoral” to extend jobless aid to “long-term unemployments [sic].” Around the same time,
the congressman said the House should stop worrying about governing and focus exclusively on “messaging.”
Last year, the Texas Republican said he holds President Obama “personally accountable” for murders committed by undo ented immigrants, pointing to imaginary evidence.
Sessions then insisted the Affordable Care Act costs Americans $5 million per person. (He was only off by $4,991,000.)
But despite this record, I didn’t see this one coming.
Asked on Tuesday afternoon whether the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub changes his opposition to a pro-LGBT bill, House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) denied the venue had anything to do with the gay community whatsoever.
“It was a young person’s nightclub, I’m told. And there were some [LGBT people] there, but it was mostly Latinos,” told reporters, according to National Journal.
Sessions has stood in firm opposition to the Maloney Amendment, an attachment that would bar federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT individuals.
Let’s set the record straight: the mass shooting took place at a nightclub called Pulse, which describes itself as “the hottest gay bar in Orlando.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
TX Repugs and their ignorant fantasies!
People on the United States' terrorist watch list passed background checks and have been allowed to purchase firearms 91% of the time in 2015, updated federal data shows.
An updated report by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office, shows individuals on the terrorist watch list were involved in background checks to purchase firearms 244 times -- with 223 of those transactions, or 91%, allowed to proceed.
That same 91% approval rate holds from February 2004, when the National Instant Criminal Background Check System began checking prospective gun buyers against the Federal Bureau of Investigation's terrorist watch list. Since then, people on the watch list have had their backgrounds checked for firearms purchases 2,477 times -- with 2,265 of those transactions allowed to proceed and 212 denied.
Feinstein, a California Democrat, had requested the updated data on March 7.
RELATED: By the Numbers: Individuals on terror lists cleared to buy guns
Under current federal law, there is no basis to automatically prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives because the individual appears on the terrorist watch list -- though the FBI is notified when those watch list members go through background checks for gun purchases. However, a felony conviction or illegal immigration status are disqualifying factors.
that's wonderfully ok with the gun fellators, but they whine if someone's "rights are violated" if erroneously put on/left on the watch list.
Since you go Greyhound you probably don't comprehend the hassle of being on the watch list.
It's not like certain groups in this country don't deal with hassles everyday.
Cucks enjoy it. It wouldn't make him angry
Equating the effectiveness of a shooting unarmed people locked in a club to actual combat
Learn what a ing machine gun is. Then learn what an AR 15 is. Then talk about it, because until then, you are just spouting out of your ass.
Republicans do not hate gays. And even if that were the case, wanting to kill gays is a whole lot worse.
700 rounds per minute, huh? can you pull a trigger over 10 times per second? even if you could what about reload time?
https://theintercept.com/2014/08/05/watch-commander/
Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government do ents obtained by The Intercept.
Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” That category—280,000 people—dwarfs the number of watchlisted people suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined.
The do ents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W. Bush.
“If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism,” says David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent. The watchlisting system, he adds, is “revving out of control.”
The classified do ents were prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center, the lead agency for tracking individuals with suspected links to international terrorism. Stamped “SECRET” and “NOFORN” (indicating they are not to be shared with foreign governments), they offer the most complete numerical picture of the watchlisting system to date. Among the revelations:
• The second-highest concentration of people designated as “known or suspected terrorists” by the government is in Dearborn, Mich.—a city of 96,000 that has the largest percentage of Arab-American residents in the country.
• The government adds names to its databases, or adds information on existing subjects, at a rate of 900 records each day.
• The CIA uses a previously unknown program, code-named Hydra, to secretly access databases maintained by foreign countries and extract data to add to the watchlists.
A U.S. counterterrorism official familiar with watchlisting data told The Intercept that as of November 2013, there were approximately 700,000 people in the Terrorist Screening Database, or TSDB, but declined to provide the current numbers. Last month, the Associated Press, citing federal court filings by government lawyers, reported that there have been 1.5 million names added to the watchlist over the past five years. The government official told The Intercept that was a misinterpretation of the data. “The list has grown somewhat since that time, but is nowhere near the 1.5 million figure cited in recent news reports,” he said. He added that the statistics cited by the Associated Press do not just include nominations of individuals, but also bits of intelligence or biographical information obtained on watchlisted persons.
When U.S. officials refer to “the watchlist,” they typically mean the TSDB, an unclassified pool of information shared across the intelligence community and the military, as well as local law enforcement, foreign governments, and private contractors. According to the government’s watchlisting guidelines, published by The Intercept last month, officials don’t need “concrete facts” or “irrefutable evidence” to secretly place someone on the list—only a vague and elastic standard of “reasonable su ion.”
“You need some fact-basis to say a guy is a terrorist, that you know to a probable-cause standard that he is a terrorist,” says Gomez, the former FBI agent. “Then I say, ‘Build as big a file as you can on him.’ But if you just suspect that somebody is a terrorist? Not so much.”
The National Counterterrorism Center did not respond to questions about its terrorist screening system. Instead, in a statement, it praised the watchlisting system as a “critical layer in our counterrorism defenses” and described it as superior to the pre-9/11 process for tracking threats, which relied on lists that were “typed or hand-written in card catalogues and ledgers.” The White House declined to comment.
They haven't committed a crime. You're suggesting some Minority Report bull .
Radical Islam began when Islam began. This more non-violent Islam is relatively new.
There's many different forms of Islam that have been practiced since the early days. Generalizing Islam into one whole religion is like doing the same with Christianity with its many hundreds of sects.
The Sunni/Shia conflict that generally takes center stage goes all the way back to the death of Muhammed.
But there's other forms besides those. Sufism was very early as well. Kharijite started in the 7th century.
The Sunni/Shia conflict started out as a political difference to decide who would be next in line after Muhammad died. Over time religious differences and different sects within both Sunnis and Shias formed as new rules/laws were introduced by religious scholars on each side.
http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/en...amp;yptr=yahoo
The NRA Has Actually Got Something Right On Gun Control
When the Supreme Court declared for the first time in history that Americans have a cons utional right to keep and bear arms, the late Justice Antonin Scalia made clear that the en lement “is not unlimited.”
Among its limits, he spoke of “longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill,” of “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings,” and of “laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
In the wake of a mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub on Sunday — the deadliest in American history — Democrats seem to be taking Scalia’s words and running with them, as they step up their push for a sweeping ban on firearms purchases on anyone belonging to a so-called “terror watch list.”
Press reports confirmed on Tuesday that the gunman, Omar Mateen, was not on an FBI watch list at the time he purchased his weapons, even though he had been on it at the time the agency investigated him for potential terrorism ties in 2013 and 2014.
Would keeping Mateen on a government list indefinitely, and then using that information to prevent a gun sale to him, have averted the Orlando massacre?
Democrats far and wide seem to think so — from President Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to Democrats in Congress — and one by one are seizing the moment to legislate away the right to gun ownership by tying it to whoever is on these ever elusive lists.
By their own admission, the proposal hasn’t been easy to implement. Speaking at a PBS Newshour town hall in Indiana this month, the president lamented that the powerful gun lobby stood in the way of the well-meaning idea of placing Islamic State sympathizers on an anti-gun registry of sorts.
“And we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun,” he said.
Not to be outdone, the NRA immediately blew Obama’s comments out of proportion, with a headline on its lobbying arm’s website that’s as misleading as it is incredibly apt for what might happen if the president’s measure is carried to its logical extreme: “Barack Obama Unilaterally Wants To Strip Your Gun Rights.”
But to understand its argument, one must look beyond the Second Amendment the group loves so dear to another part of the Cons ution: the one that guarantees due process of law for anyone whose rights the government intends to target.
On this front, the NRA has forcefully and successfully argued government watch lists are cons utionally problematic because they’re bloated and sweep far too broadly, ensnaring innocent Americans that otherwise pose no threat to national security — including one prominent U.S. senator, media pundits, executives, even babies and the late Nelson Mandela.
When anti-gun furor following the Paris terrorist attacks reached fever pitch last year, the NRA pointed to our own coverage here in The Huffington Post to underscore the myriad problems with terror watch lists, and sought to dispel the public misperception that the organization was somehow interested in arming homegrown jihadists.
“The NRA does not want terrorists or dangerous people to have firearms, any suggestion otherwise is offensive and wrong,” a statement from NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker read at the time.
She continued: “The NRA’s only objective is to ensure that Americans who are wrongly on the list are afforded their cons utional right to due process. It is appalling that anti-gun politicians are exploiting the Paris terrorist attacks to push their gun-control agenda and distract from President Obama’s failed foreign policy.”
Notice the Second Amendment is nowhere in that statement, but due process is. It was the latter cons utional right, which provides citizens a judicial forum to challenge unwarranted government overreach, that brought to the NRA’s side an unlikely bedfellow: the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU, which is involved in litigation challenging the cons utionality of no-fly lists — one of many watch lists the government keeps — went as far as to get behind Republicans in Congress who defeated a Democratic-backed gun control measure that relied on the furor following December’s San Bernardino attacks to get traction.
“We disagree with Speaker Ryan about many things. But he’s right that people in this country have due process rights,” wrote Hina Shamsi, the director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “We want to see them respected.”
Shamsi, one of the leaders in the ACLU’s years-long cons utional challenge to government watch lists, told The Huffington Post that her organization’s issue isn’t with sensible gun legislation, only with misguided attempts to cast a wide net that might implicate innocent Americans.
“There’s no cons utional bar for the reasonable regulation of guns,” she explained, echoing Scalia’s guidance. “And government watch lists could theoretically serves as a means to do that, but only with major overhaul of the watch-listing system because it uses vague and overbroad standards, the result of which innocent people are blacklisted without a fair process to correct government error.”
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, filed a class action lawsuit of its own earlier this year on behalf of thousands of American Muslims who may find themselves on a government watch list for no other reason than their religion or protected First Amendment conduct.
And like the ACLU and the NRA, the group says it simply wants to provide a check on the amorphous “predictive judgments” the government is making when deciding who should belong on a government watch list and who shouldn’t.
“These are Americans. And no American has a greater right than any other American,” said Shereef Akeel, one of the lawyers spearheading the CAIR lawsuit, which seeks damages for everyone whom the government branded as a “known or suspected terrorist” without due process.
Akeel added that if the people on the watch lists are truly terrorists, then “get them off the streets,” but let everyone else challenge their designation, just as the Cons ution intended.
With congressional Democrats ready to put up a new fight over gun control in the wake of the Orlando massacre, time will only tell if they’ll heed the advice coming not just from the NRA, but from some of its biggest liberal allies.
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