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John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban fighter, to be released in May, hasn't denounced Islamism

Excerpt from the article:

Walker Lindh’s release later this year is likely to be met with headaches for security services across the globe, especially since he has since acquired Irish citizenship and plans to move there — even though he hasn’t denounced radical Islamic ideology and has even made pro-Isis comments to the media.

 Why in the world would Ireland allow this dog into their country?!?

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John Walker Lindh, a former American Taliban militant convicted in 2002 for supporting the terrorist organization, is due to be freed in May.

The former Islamist fighter, dubbed “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan. Then just 20 years old, he was among a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Within a year, Walker Lindh was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison -- even as some hardliners urged authorities to consider treason charges that could have resulted in the death penalty.

Walker Lindh’s release later this year is likely to be met with headaches for security services across the globe, especially since he has since acquired Irish citizenship and plans to move there -- even though he hasn’t denounced radical Islamic ideology and has even made pro-Isis comments to the media.

The National Counterterrorism Center penned a document dated Jan. 24, 2017 claiming the former Taliban fighter remains as radicalized now as he was in 2001.

“As of May 2016, John Walker Lindh (USPER) — who is scheduled to be released in May 2019 after being convicted of supporting the Taliban — continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts,” the Foreign Policy magazine reported.

The report added Walker Lindh told “a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release.”

It appears, however, that the Irish government won’t follow the example of the British government -- which rescinded a Jihadi bride’s British citizenship -- and won’t stop Walker Lindh from entering the country.

“Irish citizens are not subject to immigration control,” the spokesman for Ireland’s Department of Justice told the London Times. “Therefore, if a person has Irish citizenship and presents their Irish passport on arrival, they will not be refused entry to the state.”

(Even if they're a f--king terrorist?) 

Walker Lindh confirmed his plans to head to Ireland after his release in remarks he made to CAGE, a London-based organization focused on supporting people impacted by the War on Terror.

“I don’t really know what to expect from the Irish government. I know virtually nothing about them. I think the only reasonable way to present my case to them is to explain my unique circumstances that make my survival in the US practically impossible.

— John Walker Lindh

He added: “Essentially I am seeking asylum from one country where I am a citizen in another country where I am also a citizen. The worst they can do is decline my request. I figure it is worth at least trying.”

In the U.S., meanwhile, multiple lawmakers have called for the creation of a registry of convicted terrorists, modeled after sex-offender registries, as multiple high-profile releases are set to take place in the next two years.

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Sometimes I come across a story that is so heartwarming

A Pakistani man has died of injuries sustained while participating in a violent anti-American protest that involved burning a United States flag.

The man, identified as Abdullah Ismail, died of smoke inhalation. He was standing close to the flags while they were being torched by rioters, according to a Pakistani news outlet.

WOW...when they shout Allah is Great they're not kidding!

More than 10,000 demonstrators allegedly took to the streets in Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, during a rally against the obscure amateur video that mocked the life of the Prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam.

Rioters at the rally organized by the Tehreek Hurmat-i-Rasool chanted anti-American slogans and torched a large U.S. flag outside the American consulate in the eastern Pakistani city. The mob clashed with police officers as they tried to reach the consulate building, as has happened in several other countries.

Among the Muslim clerics whipping the crowd into a frenzy was the head of the jihadist Jamatud Dawa group, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who insisted the U.S. government was linked to the film. Saeed called for film director Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and those involved in its production and distribution to be hanged, and then according to the Express Tribune, he issued a direct threat: "The U.S. must make a law against blasphemy, or we will not let the U.S. consulates in Pakistan to function.”

There were a number of other similar protests across the country in Pakistan on Tuesday as well, including one involving hundreds of rioters in the northwest, who torched a press club and a government building. They also surrounded a police station, where officers locked themselves in to stay safe. One protester was killed and several others were wounded in a shootout in the city of Wari, according to police spokesperson Akhtar Hayat.

In Karachi, in the south, hundreds also clashed with police for a second day as a mob did its best to try and reach the U.S. Consulate there as well. Forty arrests were made.

In Chaman, some 3,000 students and teachers held what has been reported as a peaceful protest as well.

The video, released six months ago in the United States, made no headlines at all until a clip was translated into Arabic, posted on the Internet and broadcast on Egyptian television. Radical Islamists and Muslims extremists instantly pounced on the clip as the latest excuse for worldwide violence to “defend the honor of Islam.”

Savage attacks on U.S. and other Western embassies and consulates around the world prompted the United States and a number of other countries to close their missions, at least temporarily. A U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three American diplomats, as well as two U.S. Marines were murdered in the global attacks.

Sometimes I come across a story that is so heartwarming

Colorado joins effort to elect presidents by popular vote, go around Electoral College

So in effect, they’re trying to kill off the electoral college because they hate Trump and will go to any extreme to stop him in 2020. First Dems, signed a bill to kill newborns, then they want 16-year-olds to vote, and now a direct assault on the Constitution, and nobody gives a damn. 

If this goes into effect why bother having elections? CA hasn't voted for a Republican since 1988 and NY since 1984. What this is doing is taking mid-America's voice away. This was the reason why the forefathers provided us with the Electoral College.

  

Here are the final numbers for 2016:

Clinton received 65,844,610 votes or 48.2% of the total vote.

Trump received 62,979,636 votes or 46.1% of the total vote. (That's a difference of 2.86 million votes.)

30 states voted for Trump. So, of course, it's only fair to say the majority of states wanted Trump to be president. Now the Dems want to ignore that. Take away CA and NY and Trump would have won in a landslide. It's amazing Trump lost by only 2.86 million votes when you consider NY's population is almost 20 million and CA at 39.5 million!

Oh...and if you noticed every state that signed on to this is blue.

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Colorado has become the latest state — and the first swing state — to join a group pledging to elect presidents based on who wins the national popular vote.

Eleven other states and the District of Columbia have signed onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement that requires those states to select their presidential electors based on who wins the most individual votes nationwide, regardless of which candidate wins in the state.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Friday bringing the state into the compact.

The compact only goes into effect once states with at least 270 electoral votes — the number needed to win a presidential election — have signed on. While the addition of Colorado brings the electoral count of states in the compact to 181, reaching the 270 point before the 2020 election appears unlikely.

Supporters say the concept would create a fairer basis for presidential elections by essentially going around the Electoral College and creating a system where each individual vote counts the same. It would also motivate potential voters in non-swing states to come out to polls, supporters say.

Although Colorado has trended more solidly Democratic in recent elections, the state represents the first traditional swing state to join the effort. Every other state in the compact has voted for the Democratic presidential candidates in every election since at least 1992.

“Getting a battleground state like Colorado is really important for us,” said Barry Fadem, the president of the nonprofit National Popular Vote Inc.

The other states that have signed on since 2007 are California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia.

Legislatures in Delaware and New Mexico have also passed bills in those states, though their governors haven’t yet signed them.

Fadem said he’s also “bullish” on passage in Oregon this year and the group has started efforts in Maine and Nevada. He added the group will “probably not” reach 270 electoral votes in time to be effective for the 2020 election but said he’s optimistic the movement could cross that threshold by 2024.

Whenever the group does reach 270 electoral votes, legal challenges are almost certain.

Constitutional issues

Norman Williams, a law professor at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., said he supports the idea of a national popular vote but is doubtful the national popular vote compact would be found constitutional. The Constitution lays out a state-by-state approach for presidential elections. Adhering to the national popular vote contradicts that.

Fadem rejected that view, saying the Constitution leaves to the states the absolute right to dictate how it chooses electors, including through a national popular vote.

But, Williams said, the state-by-state approach of the compact would present operational challenges. Each state sets its own rules for who is eligible to vote and, importantly, when a recount is triggered.

Any one state refusing to conduct a recount would undermine confidence in the entire election’s legitimacy, he said.

The compact also includes a clause prohibiting states from pulling out. Williams said that would be unenforceable and would likely be one of the issues leading to a court challenge.

Hypothetically, if the compact were in place in 2020 and President Donald Trump won the popular vote nationwide, California legislators would be under immense political pressure to pull out of the compact and award the state’s electoral votes to the Democratic challenger, he said.

“It’s going to be very difficult to explain to Californians — to your California constituents as a California representative or senator — why you’re casting California’s electoral votes against the wishes of a supermajority of Californians in favor of Donald Trump,” he said. “And that will be true in all of the states that are having to cast their electoral votes against the wishes of how the state voted.”

After the 2016 election, the second in the last five when the Republican candidate won the presidency while losing the popular vote, the issue has become more partisan. No Republican lawmakers voted for the bill in Colorado or New Mexico. In Delaware, two Republican senators joined Democrats to vote in favor but no House Republicans did.

Falling support

Overall support for a national popular vote dipped after the 2016 presidential election, especially among Republicans, according to a Gallup poll.

The poll — which asked about a constitutional amendment, not the national popular vote compact — conducted within weeks of Election Day found 47 percent of voters said they favored keeping the current system, up from 35 percent in 2011. Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, only 19 percent supported changing the system, down from 54 percent in 2011.

Democrats were a mirror image, with 81 percent supporting an amendment to switch to a national popular vote, up from 69 percent five years earlier.

Advocates say the idea is nonpartisan and isn’t meant to favor either party. But some Republicans don’t buy that.

Paul Lundeen, a Republican state senator in Colorado who voted against the compact, said it would hurt smaller and more rural states and empower urban areas, where Democrats are stronger.

It also undermines the principle of federalism by removing power from individual states and “cedes power” to larger states like California and New York, Lundeen said. He added he thought some want to change the system because they oppose Trump, but he said that’s a short-sighted view.

“If there’s a partisan element it’s the knee-jerk reaction: ‘I hate this current president and he didn’t win the popular vote,’” he said. “And I think that hurts us in the long run.”

Still, the 2016 election also won new advocates for the concept. Fadem’s group has seen “spontaneous grassroots combustion” from activists on the ground, which was particularly helpful in getting the Colorado effort over the finish line, he said.

Sylvia Bernstein, an activist in Colorado, said she became aware of the effort after the 2016 election. She connected with the national group, which helped her organize a grassroots campaign while professional lobbyists worked with lawmakers to write and pass the bill.

Bernstein said she joined up because she was frustrated with the 2016 election, but said that had more to do with the idea of any popular-vote winner losing the presidency.

States are well-enough represented in Congress and don’t need the power to elect presidents as well, she said. Instead, that power should rest with individual voters.

“The president is the only national office that we have,” she said. “It sure seems to me it should be elected by Americans — not Coloradans, not Californians, not Wyomans — Americans.”

Colorado joins effort to elect presidents by popular vote, go around Electoral College

The Trump - McCain Riff

This is how it all got started.

In the summer of 2015, Donald Trump launched his bid to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee going after Mexican illegals.

"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some I assume are good people," which is the truth but the left can't handle the truth. 

This first campaign outing was also when Trump brought up his plan to build a wall on the US southern border.

McCain swiftly denounced the businessman's attacks on illegals, accusing him of "firing up the crazies" with his views. So, in other words, McCain threw the first punch. Not only at Trump but to everyone who is concerned about illegals entering the country. "Firing up the crazies" is more in line with Hillary's left-wing "Basket of deplorables" remark. McCain throughout his career has always been a RINO. Remember... it was McCain and his pal Ted who wanted to grant amnesty to all the illegals. 

I can't prove it but in the last presidential election, I'll bet McCain didn't vote at all or voted for Hillary. Then to top it off he turned over the unsubstantiated 'dirty dossier' to the FBI just to fuck Trump!

I suspect McCain believed (as a two-time presidential loser and after a lifetime in the Senate) Trump who never held any political office didn't deserve to be POTUS.

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The Beat Goes On

President Trump on Sunday criticized John McCain for a second consecutive day amid reports that an associate of the late Republican senator had shared a dossier of allegations about Trump's ties to Russia with the media.

"So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) 'last in his class' (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election," Trump tweeted. "He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!"

So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019

Fox News reported that newly unsealed court filings showed a McCain associate shared the dossier with the FBI and several media outlets.

The dossier contains numerous allegations, including some salacious claims, about the president's ties to Russia. Many of the allegations are unverified.

Sunday marked the second straight day that Trump went after McCain, who died last August after a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

The president on Saturday quoted former independent counsel Ken Starr, who called it a "very dark stain" that McCain had helped spread the dossier.

"He had far worse 'stains' than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!" the president tweeted, referring to the Arizona lawmaker's vote against the GOP Senate majority during the Republican attempt to repeal ObamaCare in 2017.

Trump and McCain had a fraught relationship, with the Senate icon remaining one of the president's staunchest Republican critics even after his cancer diagnosis.

The president previously went after McCain by suggesting he was not a war hero because he was captured while serving in Vietnam. He has repeatedly brought up the late senator's "no" vote on a skinny repeal of the Affordable Care Act and waited to lower flags to half-staff following McCain's death.

(Trump should not have brought up his war record. That was a mistake. Instead, he should have pounded him on being a RINO. Because of McCain, the word was coined. Go on Bing and type in RINO. This is what you're going to see right off the bat)

The Trump - McCain Riff