RUTHFULLY YOURS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/29/marine-corps-whistleblower-faces-vengeance-from-su/

THIS IS ABOUT A DIFFERENT FORM OF “LEAK”…..”Central to the charge of unlawful command influence is the case of Capt. James V. Clement, whose cadre of Marine snipers were accused of urinating on four dead Taliban fighters. They made a video that was uploaded to YouTube in January 2012, sparking White House denunciation and a criminal investigation. The administration sent clear signals that it wanted the Marines punished.”

The Marine Corps officer who filed a complaint against the commandant for intervening in the Taliban urination cases against eight Marines is now the target of reprisals from superiors, his attorney says.

Retired Marine Col. Jane Siegel, who is representing Maj. James Weirick, said superiors have subjected the major to retaliations since it became known that he filed a whistleblower complaint against Gen. James Amos, the commandant and Joint Chiefs of Staff member.

“Headquarters Marine Corps is undercutting a hero,” Col. Siegel said. “He did the right thing, and they are trying to bury it and him.”

Maj. Weirick, a staff judge advocate at the Combat Development Command at Quantico, Va., accuses Gen. Amos of violating the military edict against unlawful command influence by urging guilty verdicts to the general overseeing the cases.

The major also told the Pentagon’s inspector general that Gen. Amos’ legal advisers unlawfully classified most of the evidence, including potentially embarrassing emails at headquarters, to keep the material away from defense attorneys.

Earlier this month, Maj. Weirick sent an email to a lawyer who had worked on Gen. Amos’ staff, urging him in pointed language to cooperate with investigators.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4200/why_oh_why_does_this_palestinian_glorification_of_violence_never_stop

Just when you thought it was safe (did you really?) for Israel to go back into talks with the Palestinians on a peace agreement, this emerges courtesy of the invaluable watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch:

“My homeland taught me that it is the blood of Martyrs (Shahids) that draws the borders of the homeland.” That’s the text next to a picture of a man holding what looks like an AK-47. It was posted on “moderate” Fatah’s Facebook page just as everyone was getting excited about peace talks.

Regular readers may turn up their noses. So, what else is new, they may say. Don’t! This matters. People in the West do not understand what Palestinian rejectionism is all about. That in turn determines their perception of Israel as an unreasonable aggressor. Please see PMW’s full story here, and do share widely, especially to those you think need a little education.

Just another day in the Middle East, eh….

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4198/six_year_old_transgender_child_this_isn_t_a_victory_it_s_child_abuse
Six year old transgender child? This isn’t a “victory”, it’s child abuse
Consenting adults can do what they want. Like the Commentator, I am libertarian on such issues. But am I the only one to think that this story is not just weird, it’s sick and twisted too?

To be honest, the Daily Telegraph was guilty of just a bit of sensationalist hype in its headline: “Six year old in Argentina changes gender”. In fact, the six year old in question did not have anything cut off or added on as you might infer; rather s/he has had his/her gender changed on his/her identity documents.

Still, it’s pretty shocking, isn’t it? The child is six. Let me say that again: the child is six! SIX!!

The name is Lulu now that she has been accepted as a girl. She was born a boy called Manuel. It has become a famous case in Argentina after the child’s mother wrote to President Kirchner asking for help with the authorities on the matter.

The Telegraph reported that Homosexual Community Argentina has hailed the move as “historic”. The mother said: “By accepting that my son was not the son I gave birth to, but a girl, I accepted her identity and put myself at her side.” Manuel/Lulu had, the mother said, identified him/herself as a girl as soon as s/he started talking.

Now, we’re absolutely sure about all that are we? In most parents’ experience, when children start talking there’s more than a little confusion around. Though it seems unlikely that the first words out of a two-year old boy’s mouth would be: “Hey mum. I don’t feel comfortable with my gender; can I change it?”, most parents would presumably respond: “Well, you are two, so let’s wait until you’re an adult before doing anything drastic, shall we?” At least that’s how I remember it when I learned to speak.

But to me, this isn’t funny at all. It’s more like child abuse. What is this from the mother: “I accepted her identity and put myself at her side”. Children that age still believe in pixies. The law does not hold them responsible for their actions. Society accepts that they need guidance and support; not that they should have their whole lives sacrificed to some politically correct fad.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7432.htm

September 29, 2013 Special Dispatch No.5461

The Success Of The New Iranian Strategy (I) – The U.S. Administration Swallows The Lie About Khamenei’s ‘Fatwa’ Against Nuclear Arms

In his address to the U.N. General Assembly (September 24, 2013), U.S. President Barack Obama stated: “The Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons.”[1] In fact, such a fatwa was never issued by Supreme Leader Khamenei and does not exist; neither the Iranian regime nor anybody else can present it.

The deception regarding “Khamenei’s fatwa” has been promoted by the Iranian regime and its spokesmen for several years. Each time it was mentioned, the “fatwa” was given a different year of issue – for example, 2005, 2007, or 2012 – but the text of the “fatwa” was never presented.

MEMRI has conducted in-depth research with regard to this “fatwa” and has published reports demonstrating that it is a fiction. See MEMRI reports:

Renewed Iran-West Nuclear Talks – Part II: Tehran Attempts to Deceive U.S. President Obama, Sec’y of State Clinton With Nonexistent Anti-Nuclear Weapons Fatwa By Supreme Leader Khamenei http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6291.htm

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ One fine day religion died. Morality shortly followed it. Any values based on some antique prophets or philosophers went into the rubbish bin. The table was cleared and its blankness was the new world, the terra nova, the blank slate of a revolution in human ideas. Unfortunately there was nothing to actually put there. […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/voices-of-reason-about-the-gender-wars/ In recent months, a group called the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE) has been making headlines and inciting angry protests with a series of lectures at the University of Toronto. What provocative messages, what unconscionable claims, what inflammatory statements, you might ask, have caused all this hullabaloo? Answer: nothing more or less than sober […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/leader-of-black-communist-terrorist-group-elected-mayor-of-jackson-mississippi/print/

Hitler has a lawsuit in the works for copyright infringement

Hope and change.

Here’s where you might have last heard of the Republic of New Africa.

Two hijackers who have been living in exile in Cuba claim they shot and killed a New Mexico police officer in self-defense after he stopped them in a stolen car in 1971 near Albuquerque.

Hill and Finney were interviewed in Havana, where they have been living since the 1971 hijacking of TWA Flight 106 at Albuquerque International Airport. Rosenbloom was shot days earlier.

At the time, the two men were members of a group called the Republic of New Africa, a Black Panther splinter group. They were driving across country when Rosenbloom stopped them.

After the shooting, the men went into hiding for several days and then called for a tow truck. They hijacked the truck and drove onto the tarmac at the airport where they commandeered Flight 106, which had 49 people aboard, to Tampa, Fla. They released the passengers there, and then took off for Havana after refueling.

Until now. At any rate.

On July 1, Chokwe Lumumba, an attorney with a long record of black radical activism, took office as mayor of Jackson.

A crowd of 2,500 packed the hall. The city councilors and other dignitaries, most of them African-American — Jackson, a city of 177,000, is 80 percent black — sat on the dais.

Then Lumumba smiled and raised his right hand halfway, just a little above the podium, briefly showing the clenched fist of a Black Power salute.

“And I want to say, free the land!”

Applause rang out, bells chimed, wooden staffs rose up and people shouted back, “Free the land!” That’s the motto of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), the movement formed in 1968 that sought to turn the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina into an independent black nation.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cairs-islamophobia-meltdown/ Two days after the release of a CAIR report claiming to expose the network financing “Islamophobia”, Charles C. Johnson ran his own report documenting CAIR’s convoluted financing schemes. While the CAIR report attempted to stigmatize terrorism research by reporting on the straightforward funding of organizations and individuals such as Robert Spencer; the Johnson report showed […]

http://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2013/09/from-new-york-to-nairobi/?utm_source=Mosaic+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=d05a6e5535-Mosaic_2013_9_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-d05a6e5535-41165129 Dr. Emmanuel Navon heads the Political Science and Communication Department at the Jerusalem Orthodox College, and teaches International Relations at Tel-Aviv University and at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center. He is a Senior Fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.   The horrific attack perpetuated by Al-Shabab in Nairobi is a painful reminder of the Islamist […]

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/09/29/a-few-thoughts-about-freedom-with-an-assist-from-benjamin-constant/?print=1 Out in beautiful Colorado Springs a few days ago, I was chatting with some friends about the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott [1]. (If you don’t know his work, I recommend it, in particular the brilliant essay “Rationalism in Politics [2].”) One of our merry band mentioned an essay by the Swiss-born French writer Benjamin […]