Orlando

Remember that at the time of 9/11 the meme the government wanted to forge was that it was the work of terrorists who were part of an international (dare I say) conspiracy to attack this country and our beloved freedom. No one dared focus solely on airport security or cockpit door reinforcement. No, the message was it’s international and therefore wars with natural resources and asset-rich countries like Iraq and Afghanistan were necessary.

This photo has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter of this piece.

(MEE) The gunman who massacred 49 people at the Pulse club in Orlando was himself a regular at the gay nightspot, four club goers told the Orlando Sentinel on Monday.
“Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” Ty Smith told the Sentinel, referring to Omar Mateen.
Smith told the paper that he saw the 29-year-old inside at least a dozen times.

The dogs of war (source)by Gaius PubliusIn the wake of the horrific tragedy in Orlando, in which one man with an AR-15 assault weapon murdered 50 and wounded more than that, many public figures have made statements.

This is the way to do it, questioning claims uncritically put forth by the mass media, without resorting to much speculation for a general and big audience.

That about sums up my feelings. I will not try and compete with your own disgust or claim that I’ve somehow tapped into a greater appreciation of the horror than you have. I’m not for pithy hashtags or filters. I don’t send thoughts and prayers out as I’ve never understood what that even mean. What I do is try and dissect the issues and apply a healthy dose of critical thinking to a horror that’s been coopted by every faction and ideological mob. the usual suspects.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) United States — We — not solely the U.S. government, but all of us — collectively drive a now-endless cycle of terrorism. Nearly all of us can claim the dubious distinction of creating the exact terrorists we claim to abhor.

(ANTIWAR) As I write this (it’s Sunday morning, 5:00 a.m. PST) the news is breaking that an Orlando gay nightclub has been attacked by a gun-wielding 29-year-old son of Afghan immigrants, Omar Mateen, who appeared to “’have leanings towards’ radical Islamist ideology,” according to the FBI.” At least twenty people are dead, and forty-two are wounded. Mateen died in a gun battle with police. (Updated below)

A gay Zionist friend in Florida, who spends a lot of time doing drugs and listening to Hate Talk Radio, sent me this note earlier: "I went to read your story about the Orlando shooting, are you going to post one? Do you see these Muslims should not be protected by the left?

“I heard they didn’t get caught. So, what was the whole point for even chasing at the end?” said the victim Yahaira Montalvo said, holding back and then breaking into tears, “I just want to get better, right now, and at least that no one goes through what I go through.”
A Florida cop was cited by state police for running a red light which you can see in the viral video below leading to a horrifying high speed crash crash.