I sit here in disbelief over the mainstream media reporting of the ISIS attack in Garland, Texas. Have we, as Americans, become as stupid as to just accept as gospel-truth every word that comes out of the 50-inch, flat-screen, idiot-box? The news reports on this are specifically crafted to deceive you. This is not a complicated scenario to grasp:
- Free-speech group holds contest for the best Mohammad cartoon/rendering
- Jihadist #1, affiliated with ISIS decides to kill those participating and recruits Junior Jihadist #2
- Jihadist #1 & #2, obtain firearms illegally and drive from Phoenix to Garland to kill people in the name of their prophet (Mohammad)
- After arriving and firing on an unarmed security person wounding him, they are dispatched to their prophet by an armed security person.
- End-of-Story
All the news stories focus on the first point, saying the attack was provoked and “what did they expect?” I’ll tell you what is expected. It is expected that there will be the same response as when this same mainstream media fiercely defended the rights of federally-funded “artists” to display such “works-of-art” as the “Piss Christ”, the painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with shit offending Christians world-wide and when the National Portrait Gallery promoted a video of a crucifix with ants crawling over the body of Christ. There were no violent attacks by those offended and the protests did not relate to the free speech issue, they were all about the fact that this “art” was federally funded! Just like the government is prohibited from supporting one religion above all others, they are forbidden from persecuting one religion above all others.
Still focusing on the first point the mainstream media says that the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is a “hate group” Their source? The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This is the group that also labeled the Family Research Center (FRC) a “hate” group for supporting traditional marriage (this led to an assassin using a SPLC-produced “hate map” to go to FRC’s building and open fire, seriously wounding a security guard, with the intent to kill as many staff as possible, before being subdued). Clearly there are some issues with the source used to define AFDI as a “hate-group” AFDI is provocative, but no more so than the Federally-funded, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) displaying “Piss Christ” or the shit-smeared Virgin Mary.
This treatment by the media is insulting and should be resulting in a public uproar over clear-cut, deliberate, manipulation of the facts and outright deception by the likes of NBC anchor Lester Holt, Washington Post national reporter Lindsey Bever, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and supposed NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann who claimed AFDI were not holding a free-speech event! Shills and charlatans, all of them. They are not any better than Al Sharpton and his race-baiting ilk (I’ll save that for another discussion once Baltimore has been burnt to the ground).
With this simple incident, realize what these “news” people are doing 24×7. Free speech, in this case, is being curtailed out of sensitivity to Muslims, who apparently “earn” this sensitivity by being violent or making threats of violence. Liberals and mainstream media outlets have no such sensitivity toward ANY other religious group.