BALTIMORE, Maryland September 11, 2015 - It was 14 years ago this morning that a group of profoundly evil Islamic Men under the stylized command of the since-assasinated Osama bin Laden, massacred over 3000 Americans by flying hijacked jetliners into Manhattan's World Trade Center twin skyscrapers and the Pentagon. A fourth jetliner, said to be heading for the United States Capital Building, crashed instead in a Pennsylvania farm field after a group of American passengers rebelled against the hijackers and staged a counter-attack. During the ensuing life or death struggle, the jet went down. You would think that anyone who became the Mayor of a large East Coast City in the wake of 9/11/2001 atrocities would have spent some time preparing for disasters. Stephanie Rawlings Blake didn't think such preparation was necessary and learned nothing from history, however recent, so when disaster did strike Baltimore in the guise of a blood-curdling racial uprising, she was totally ill-prepared. Even as the riots and arsons took place at various locations throughout one of the Northeast's southern-most urban areas, there were rumors that Blake had fled the City for the protection of a friend's suburban home. Some old timers - this writer included - pined yet again, as these events unfolded, for the sure and moral leadership of the late William Donald Schaefer, a man seemingly born to be Mayor. Blake, meanwhile, ordered the Baltimore City Police Department to "stand down;" i.e., not confront, rioters, looters, pilagers and plunderers, in the face of the large scale rioting, even ordering lines of officers deployed in the path of the carnage and not wearing protective gear, to not react when being pelted with bricks, stones and other potentially lethal projectiles. She later denied giving these orders, but that order didn't appear out of nowhere, and she had hand-picked a completely unvetted West Coaster to be Police Chief (she subsequently fired him after saying many times that he had acted appropriately). Today, Ms. Rawlings-Blake will announce - according to any number of sources - that she will not seek re-election. To that, most Baltimoreans say, "thank God!"
In recent weeks, and well before the news that Blake was about to quit had hit the streets, several high-profile Baltimore Politicians had announced their candidacies for Mayor, including former Mayor Sheila Dixon. Rumors about several others are everywhere. Faced with a virtual silent coup, Ms. Blake did the only logical thing, she cried "No Mas!" No Mas indeed.
It was in the middle of the brutal and shocking street uprisings that Rawlings-Blake - the daughter of the late and much lamented Baltimore Political and Elected Leader Wayne Rawlings - said during a news conference that the rioters had to be given "room to destroy." Many who heard her say those words live could only blink in amazement. Did she really mean to say such a ghastly thing? But they weren't aware that she was a personal adherent to the uber leftists in the White House, including the Iranian, Valerie Jarret, who is said to be President Obama's most trusted advisor. Obama and Jarret are openly opposed to any kind of police action airmed at those who riot against traditional authorities. Both Obama and Jarret concede that they follow the uber left Marxist rants of the late Saul Alinsky, who schooled Communists, Anarchists and other Anti-American elements in the rudiments of anti-Americanism. Both learned well, but when Jarret tried to pass these lessons on to Rawlings-Blake as the unrest unfolded, she learned that the Baltimorean was not such a quick learner. Admitting to the press, in the middle of the riots, that she was on the side of the destroyers was not a good idea. Well, she knows it now (although her decision to announce that she wouldn't fun again on the anniversry of 9/11 will remind some that there are those who never really learn life's lessons).
Blake did seeth openly at the rioters as they pulled off the unrest's most egregious and shocking acts - one hound dog stuck a kitchen knife in a fireman's hose as the BCFD tried to douse a huge blaze at a pharmacy - Blake also avoided impassioned calls from Maryland's new Republican Governor, Robert Hogan, who had the National Guard poised and ready to deploy on the first night of the riots, but did not want to act until Blake approved. Instead, Blake would not come on the line with the Governor. Just as Hogan was about to act unilaterally, Blake finally approved, but not until later on Monday night. When she did, the nation was confronted with Baltimore as a City of military occupation for the next ten days. There are countless City residents who wish the Guard had stayed longer - ten months instead of ten days - because their departure touched off an astounding string of murderous rampages that forced the murder rate to skyrocket. The rate of cold-blooded murders has already passed last year's totals and are racomg pell-mell toward national records. Baltimore's murder rate has shot past that of New York's, and is closing in on the World's Shooting and Murder Capital: Chicago, home of the nation's very-own personal political agitator, Barack H. Obama. When confronted with her "room to destroy" statement, Blake initially denied the statement was hers. But when shown a video of the quote, she proceeded to claim it was taken out of context. Huh? How does one even begin to take such a statement out of context? Ms. Blake obviously needs a beginners lesson in Freudian Slips.
Two days before today's concession, Blake announced that the City will pay the family of Freddy Gray - the man whose death while in police custody sparked the urban conflagration back in April - a sum exceeding $6 million to settle their wrongful death claim against the City. The amount would be outrageous in any circumstance, but it was announced against a backdrop that includes a State Wrongful Death Statute that has very firm statutory limits on what a jury or judge can award in a wrongful death case, and a well-known fact that Gray was a career criminal and well-known West Baltimore heroin dealer who has been convicted of selling narcotics, including heroin, to school children. And Blake knows that the money will have to be paid by a City that is cash-starved on its best day. She will live with the knowledge that these millions of taxpayer dollars will be going to the Gray family instead of the many desperately impoverished residents served by City agencies. Many immediately wondered also about the timing of the Mayor's announcement, made, as it was, just two days before the hearing and ruling on the six defendant police officers' motions to have their cases moved out of the City to a state jurisdiction not clamoring for the officers' respective scalps. As it turned out, Blake need not have been concerned about the timing, since the Judge who conducted the hearing immediately ruled against the motion in one of the biggest travesties in the history of the State of Maryland (See Credible and Incisive post of September 10, 2015, entitled "A Really Awful Court Decision in Baltimore All But Eliminates Chances Six Defendants Will Receive Fair Trial.") It is interesting to note that a community center has opened in the same neighborhood where the Gray case unfolded. Although not City-funded, it has been named in honor of the dead narcotics dealer.
Obama Said to Demand No Christians Be Among 10,000 Syrian Refugees Coming to USA
As hundreds of thousands of refugees stream out of Syria and seek asylum in Europe and the USA, Barack Hussein Obama, the USA President, has announced that he wants to take 10,000 of the refugees for asylum here in the USA. Sources say that he has told those involved in the process that none of the people coming to America can be Christian. Hence, they will all be Muslim.
Obama has claimed in the past that he is Christian, but his actions since being re-elected have cast a large question mark on that claim. He has authorized his secretary of state to sign a treaty with Iran that will inevitably lead to Iran getting possession of a nuclear arsenal even though its leaders continue to vow almost daily its intention to destroy the USA and its close ally, Israel. He has kept Christians throughout the Middle East from coming to the USA even though they are being hunted into extinction by ISIS and, some say, Iran. He has prevented the USA's military from doing anything - other than sporadic air strikes - to curtail ISIS as the rogue Islamic Movement butchers tens of thousands of Christians and Moderate Muslims throughout the Middle East and beyond, and continues a land-grab that has resulted in it having actual physical control of most of Syria and Iraq. ISIS calls these occupied lands a new Islamic Caliphate. Obama has also has spoken out publicly when two Muslims were allegedly killed in North Carolina by an American. But Obama remained silent when killers alligned with ISIS butchered Americans. He has criticized Christians for actions taken by their long-ago ancestors during the Crusades of the earliest part of the second millenium, but remained silent as today's Muslims throw gay people off of the roofs of multi-story buildings while being tied to a chair. He has given his full support and that of his administration to those parts of his Obamacare (referred to by this Column as "obamashame") that force Christian organizations such as the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide birth control products to their employees even though such an act would be in direct contravention of their deeply held religious beliefs. In response, national Archdiocesan Groups have joined together to sue the Obama Administration over the policy. There have been many other acts against the Christian Faith, but in the interest of brevity, we will end the list here. Countless citizens, including many who formerly backed Obama, have recoiled at the vicious nature of his anti-Christian campaign, a campaign he neither defends or rationalizes.
When Obama ran for president in 2006 and 2007, and then throughout his first term in office (2008 through early 2012) Barack Hussein Obama stated over and over again, and very publicly, that he was opposed to marraige between members of the same sex; i.e., so-called 'Gay Marraige." After winning a second election, thereby ending any possibility that an act or statement that he makes will haunt him in a future election, Obama made a very public and much-balleyhooed announcement that his views of marraige between members of the same sex have "evolved." Obama said he now is a strong supporter of Gay Marraige. Cynics claimed that Obama has always favored Gay Marraige, but felt he could not make these views public during his campaigns for President because the nation, during these times, was opposed to such marraiges.
Obama was very public in his 'admissions' that he was Christian. He embroiled himself in controversy when he claimed, in a book, that he greatly admired his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago, and that he treasured the outspoken Wright's personal and political advice. But the few journalists willing to write anything other than glowing stories about Obama learned that Wright was always incredibly critical of all things American. An excerpt from one sermon, played over and over again in the conservative media, claims that the 9/11 massacres were "Americas chickens coming home to roost." Obama felt compelled to publicly break with Wright. Now, Credible and Incisive, and others, wonder if sometime soon there will be an announcement by Obama that he is converting to the Muslim faith. His identified father's family are all Muslim, although Obama has said that his father did not practice Islam. There are questions about whether Obama is really the son of the late Kenyan. Those who believe those stories point to Frank Marshall Davis as the actual father of the President. They claim there is a facial resemblance and a confluence of lives along about the time Obama was conceived. What differene does it all make now? Well, no one denies that Mr. Davis, an avowed Communist and gifted poet, was a mentor of sorts to Obama in his formative years.
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