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Perhaps first today, a link to something that up and jumped out of me in the fall of 2004, amid oceans of tears,
portraits of six people who had a major influence on me during my formative years, behind a brief introduction of how that little book just up and jumped out of me quite a while before the angels just upped grabbed me in early 1987 - the rest, I suppose, is history :-).
four somewhat dated “doctored” photos of moi,
compliments the boss pirate publisher
of www.bigpinekey.com
After seeing a bit about it on TV news the other day, I went searching yesterday and found:
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Anonymous Warned Garland PD of ISIS Attack Two Days …
thefreethoughtproject.com/anonymous-warned-garland-texas-pd-pendin…
2 days ago - Anonymous, Garland Texas, Charlie Hedbo, Islamic State, Twitter, terror attack warning.
Garland, Texas – On May 4th Elton Simpson, 30, and his roommate Nadir Soofi, 34, opened fire on an unarmed security guard outside of a controversial Prophet Muhammad drawing the contest. Two days prior to that, a woman living outside of the US, connected to Anonymous, sent a message to the official Garland Police Department Twitter account warning of a potential Islamic State attack.
Apparently the message never raised any red flags or was forwarded on by police.
“That is the first time I’ve heard that,” GPD spokesman Joe Harn said, when informed of the warning, according to The Daily Dot. “We were monitoring things; we had the FBI and ATF, but we didn’t see anything [on Twitter].”
The Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest was, in actuality, a Muhammad drawing contest being held under the auspices of free speech. It would be considered blasphemous and a direct provocation to Muslims, as it is forbidden within Islam to create physical representations of the Prophet. It is widely thought that the January attack on satirical French paper Charlie Hedbo was a direct result of their humorous cartoon depictions of the Prophet.
Anonymous has shown a penchant for targeting Islamic State accounts on Twitter and has numerous IS-related groups that regularly attack and track the terrorist group on social media.
According to The Daily Dot:
At 5:37 p.m. on Friday, May 1, the user, who requested anonymity for the sake of her security, tweeted at the Garland Police Department’s official Twitter account, warning them of a potential attack. …
On Friday, the user discovered that another Twitter account, @AnsarAlUmmah49, had referenced an upcoming attack in Garland, where a group of Americans were planning a “draw Mohammad” event.
So the user tweeted to @garlandpd with a link to the tweet in question, which called for an attack, specifically in Garland and on May 3. @AnsarAlUmmah49 has since been deleted.
image: http://tftppull.freethoughtllc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2015-05-06-at-22.30.46-PM.png
But this also raises some deeply troubling questions.
Why, if teams were on the ground and aware of the imminent attack, were these men allowed to open fire before being neutralized by law enforcement?
If the operation was conducted in the name of public safety then these men should have been taken into custody well before they actually attempted to execute an attack.
It would seem that law enforcement allowed the attack to take place, but why would they do this?
One possible explanation is that they allowed this plot to progress to the point of actual gunfire with the intention of creating a media sensation of a terrorist attack. This has been proven in the past to make people more fearful and thus more readily willing to give up civil liberties in the name of safety.
What’s certain is that Americans are tired of our government spying on them. Perhaps the state is attempting to justify why they have these blanket surveillance programs listening in on innocent U.S. citizens’ conversations.
What do you think; did the government allow this attack to take place as a means of making people more willing to give up security for the illusion of safety? Let us know in the comments below.
Please share this story if you think this “attack” was intentionally allowed to happen.
Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, freethinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has previously been published on BenSwann.com and WeAreChange.org. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.
Then I read a heap of reader comments, and finally found one I liked and responded to:
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Dustin Harris · Student at University of Alaska FairbanksA valid point, but if your big lip art contest did happen yes, people would show up pissed and PROTEST, loudly, maybe some vandalism, but I really doubt the killing spree. Apples and oranges.Reply · Like · 3 · Yesterday -
Sloan Bashinsky · Top Commenter · Janitor at God
Michael Michael, your comment goes to the heart of the matter, for me anyway. Yesterday on TV, a woman being interviewed on a news show was livid over the cartoon contest, or whatever it was. Why deliberately provoke Islam in this way? When it is known how some elements of Islam will, and do, respond to such provocation, which they view as the gravest, most demonic form of blasphemy, under they beliefs, punishable by death. I wonder how long it’s going to be before America has made itself into a police state? It isn’t like America didn’t go over there into Islamic countries and mess with that maybe should not have been messed with. At one time, Islam was America’s ally against the Soviets. Islam had no use for communism. Well, in Genesis, God does tell Abraham that the seed of his son Ishmael, by Abraham’s concubine Hagar, selected by Sarah for Abraham, as I recall, since Sarah was barren, that Ishmael’s seed would become a great nation and would cause Isaac’s seed trouble. Issac was the son Sarah later conceived and birthed very late in life, a miracle as the story is told. Judaism and Christendom, which descended from Isaac, view him as the son God promised Abraham, but Islam views Ishmael as the promised son. There is a similar story in the Koran, and I imagine all Muslims view Ishmael as the promised son, and Islam as the true religion, therefore, and it is God’s will for Islam, Ishmael’s seed, to cause Judaism and Christendom, Isaac’s seed, trouble. A potent brew. Perhaps best not to poke with sharp sticks, or at all. I believe Jesus, were he around today, would tell his followers not to poke Islam with a sharp stick, or at all. I bet he would tell his followers to first take the beam out of their own eye, and to otherwise live as he taught in the Gospels. I don’t suppose, if he were President of USA, he would be waging war in Islamic countries. His war was internal, in the spirit. That is a very different jihad, and I imagine there are members of Islam who know of that jihad and attempt to wage it, I’m certain the Sufi sect in Islam knows of that kind of jihad, the internal war. The saints in Christendom knew that jihad. I wonder what’s really chewing on the people who put on that cartoon contest? I wonder what their friends and family members might say about that? What their ministers might say about that? If they have ministers.Reply · Like · yesterdaySloan Bashinsky · Top Commenter · Janitor at God
The night of September 8/9, 2001, a familiar voice asked me in my sleep, “Will you make a prayer for a Divine Intervention for all of humanity?” I awoke, wondering what that heralded?, and then I said, “Okay, I pray for a Divine Intervention for all of humanity.” On September 11, I knew why, and I knew the worst thing America could do was go to war in an Islamic country, I knew the attack was bait just to provoke a US war in a foreign country. A few days later I was told, “America should get out of the Middle East altogether, and stop all aid to Israel, and let Israel and Islam work it out, or fight it out, and in that way learn which, if either of them, are God’s chosen people.”Reply · today
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Anonymous Warned Garland PD of ISIS Attack Two Days …
Meanwhile, Paul, of Homestead, formerly of Key West, signed off on our email back and forth reported in yesterday’s fools errands and related misfit dilemmas – Key West proving ground post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
OK, Sloan.
Sorry.
I won’t trouble you further.
Good luck with every thing.
I replied:
Aw, Paul, I was having myself some good old redneck mystic fun with Key West mammon worship and running for President Fool!
It gets a bit ridiculous, Key West thinking it’s so damn important, the center of the meverse (mutation off universe) reminded otherwise after Pres. Obomber opened up Cuba to USA visitors, it was reported in the Key West Citizen about ferries from KW to Havana are in the planning stage, even though the KW Port Authority is not up to the task, maybe a bit sickly after just giving the Mayor over a million for his new city hall, which I still say should be called THE MAYOR CATES CITY HALL, since it’s the flagship for his 4 mayor terms (he said the first time he would only run for and serve one term), even as the US Coast Guard says it’s going to search the ferries returning from Havana to KW, for illegal aliens and contraband, perhaps just one of many pesky hiccups President Obomber and City Commissioner Tony Yaniz didn’t foresee. Yaniz, Cuban, is saying Cuba opening could be as big as cruise ships for KW, if the cruise ships all stop coming to Key West, Cuba $$ will pick up the slack. Why don’t Tony man up and just say the City Commission should ban those sea killers from Key West? Then, he goes to Cuba and gets Raul and Fidel to do the same for Cuba.
As for my Presidential blabbering, the angels’ wit is wicked. The conservative (religious) right keep hollering about America having been founded as a Christian nation, that it is one nation, under God … what a howler, I’m going to be saying, okay, if that’s true, elect the only US Presidential candidate in a l-o-n-g time who says, when the Lord wants him to do something, then the Lord finds a way to let him know what it is, and when the Lord doesn’t want him to do something, the Lord finds a way to let him know that, too, and although it is true I don’t attend church, I would if I could find one where God was in charge. All of which redolent I have read Abraham Lincoln said, the former while he was in office, the latter when he was interviewed by the Republican big wigs from back east, after they realized he might end up being their candidate.
So, here I am waiting on the Christian right to have National Public Radio dial me up and maybe get themselves and Radio America patched through to Jesus, Archangel Michael and Magdalene Melchizedek, that’s about as close to talking to God as I can get them, which ought to be good enough, since the Christian right, and the Christian left, too, think Jesus himself is God, when the actual God, Islam would say Allah, Jews might say Jehovah or Yahweh, Rastafarians would say Ja, actually is a bit more busy and occupied with far vaster matters than what happens on this small planet orbiting a small sun in an actually rather small galaxy, as far as galaxies go, in a universe surrounded by billions of other universes, oh, my bad, trillions. Yeah, God’s pretty tied up right now, and that’s not going to change before this solar system’s star novas and ends the redolent petty religious commotioning on this little planet once and for all.
Meanwhile, do you want Jeb Bush, or Hillary Clinton, or Marco Rubio, or Ben Carson, just for examples, conversing with the Masters of this universe, even though they have had no prior preparation to do that? Or do you want someone who actually is having those conversations? Sort of makes one nation, under God, seem kinda like not such a swell boast after all, yes? Voting against me, the Christian right, and the Christian left, and let’s not leave out the Christian middle, will vote against the three celestial messengers and overseers who put me up to be a candidate for the Offal Orifice, and since those three are thought to have hot lines straight to God, thought by the conservative right and by the left and middle, too, even though they have no clue their beloved mysterious Melchizedek was Mary Magdalene in the time of Jesus, that pretty well puts the lot of their asses in slings, don’t it, if they don’t vote for me?
What a redolent howler of a campaign. Dang good they closed all the state mental hospitals in Florida. Otherwise, imagine what the Christians, Catholics Jehovah’s Witnesses and Morons in America would do with Jesus, if it was him, not me, tossing his hat into the swine flu ring?
That’s for pig.
Which is for politics.
National variety.
Oink!
Meanwhile, I suppose I will continue sharpening my knives and arrow and spear heads and blow gun darts, by sticking them in local pork drama queens.
Ciaosky,
Sloan for Presidentsky
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
above, moi, in my Love Kills Slowly pirate t-shirt,
chomping down on a BBQ pulled pork sandwich
at a Big Pine Key wedding reception, 2012
below,
2015
moi and my running mate Kari Bradford-Dangler,
currently doing time in the county jail
on Stock Island, just above Key West,
plenty about that already published
at goodmorningkeywest.com,
perhaps plenty more ahead
