Ilhan Omar, the new Democrat Congresswoman from Minnesota, asked a judge to go easy on nine men on trial in 2016 for allegedly trying to join the ISIS terrorist group. She was a state representative at that time.
Rep. Ilhan Omar asks judge for compassion in ISIS recruit sentencing
The 9 Minnesota men charged with planning to join ISIS are scheduled to be sentenced next week. Ahead of those court dates, 13 letters were sent to Judge Michael Davis in the case of defendant Abdirahman Yasin Daud, including a letter from state Rep. Ilhan Omar, who on Election Night became with first elected Somali-American lawmaker in the nation.
Rep. Omar asked Judge Davis for “compassion” and a “restorative approach to justice,” concluding that “this ruling can set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.”
Daud was one of two young men from the Twin Cities arrested in San Diego in April 2015 in an alleged plot to buy fake passports for travel to Syria. Federal prosecutors requested 30 years in prison for Daud, with a lifetime of supervised release.
Here’s part of Omar’s letter to the judge:
Honorable Judge Davis,
As you undoubtedly deliberate with great caution the sentencing of nine recently convicted Somali-American men, I bring to your attention the ramifications of sentencing young men who made a consequential mistake to decades in federal prison. Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to be 50 or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion. Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: “Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.”
The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation. A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.
Omar, of course, tweeted this
Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza#Palestine#Israel
And remember, Speaker Pelosi gave this wretched woman more power
WASHINGTON — Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar — who supports the boycott Israel movement and who once said that Israel “hypnotized the world” — was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday.
The assignment, chosen by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will give a vehement critic of the Jewish state a voice — and a vote — on the powerful panel that oversees US foreign policy and foreign aid.
The freshman Democratic legislator announced the posting on Twitter, saying the assignment would put her on a panel that “oversees all foreign assistance, national security affecting the country’s foreign policy, treaties, peacekeeping and war powers.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar just doubled down on her claim that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” calling its behavior “evil.”
But instead of denouncing it, Democrat leadership rewarded her with a spot on the House Foreign Relations Committee. pic.twitter.com/gyGvb0Pnqt
After the horrific attack on Republican lawmakers earlier this week, two very familiar liberal narrative soon began. The first was, of course gun control. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe went straight to the Well of Failed Gun Control Solutions. Colion Noir took the governor to task
Noir is correct. Gun control is used by people with either no solutions, or people with no intentions to actually solve any problems. Never let a good crisis go to waste right Rahm Emanuel?
“Let’s talk about the Second Amendment,” Goldberg blurted out. “The Second Amendment is about a militia. That’s what it says!”
“That’s the time it was written,” Bila responded. “It’s the right to bear arms, to protect yourself and your family.”
Unable to hold her tongue, Hostin snorted, “Not to protect yourself and your family, that’s not what the Second Amendment is about.”
This is, of course a rare case of a member of the Cult of Gun Control letting their disdain of not only the right own firearms, but to most basic right of self-defense to show itself. Jenn Jacques, appearing on the Cam Edwards, took an opportunity to call out the ladies of The View and corrected some of their talking points. She also invited the cast of the View to attend a firearms training expo with her
Who wants to lay odds that this invitation goes for naught? The Left is generally not interested in reaching out or bridging gaps. They are far more invested in winning, period. We know the Left always talks of toning down rhetoric, and reaching across the aisle, and coming together. But it is, sad to say, all talk. If the Left was truly serious about toning down rhetoric, then they would take a long look in their mirrors and stop their over the top attacks. They would cease and desist from calling Republicans, bigots, hate mongers, racists, sexists, and so on. They would stop their continuous diatribe accusing Conservatives of wanting to kill the elderly and sick by destroying health care. They would stop their insidious claims that the GOP wants kids to starve, the water and air to be polluted, and hates immigrants. The fact is this. the Left is divisive in everything they do. they have been invested in separating into groups for years and years now. They have been encouraging bitterness, division, and discord to gain political advantage for a long time. So, again, before anyone on their side of the fence start calling for civility, they need to clean up the pig sty that is their political house.
READBookworm Beat 4/20/17 — thank goodness for friends edition
Perhaps when outlets like The Huffington Post start refusing to print hate pieces calling for the assassination of our president and GOP leaders, rather than retro-actively pulling them I might have more faith in their sincerity. Puma by Design, a fellow writer here at WOW! exposed the raw hatred HuffPo is trying to cover up
The final paragraph of HuffPo article should be more than enough to bring Fuller up on charges of treason:
Draining the swamp means not only ejecting Trump from the presidency, but also bringing himself and everyone assisting in his agenda up on charges of treason. They must be convicted (there is little room to doubt their guilt). And then — upon receiving guilty verdicts — they must all be executed under the law. Anything less than capital punishment — or at least life imprisonment without parole in a maximum security detention facility — would send yet another message to the world that America has lost its moral compass. In order for America’s morality and leadership to be restored, it must rebuke Donald Trump, his entire administration, and his legislative agenda in the strongest manner possible. And nothing would do more than to convict them of the highest offense defined by our Constitution, and then to deliver the ultimate punishment. Donald Trump deserves nothing less. Mitch McConnell, Steve Bannon, and Paul Ryan should also share Donald Trump’s fate, for they have done more than practically anyone to protect him and to throw our country under the proverbial bus. In order to survive, we as a nation must deliver the ultimate punishment under the law to all involved in its current destruction…
Of course it is not just Fuller, another HuffPo writer, Jesse Benn has some Tweets that might be a tad “over the top”. How about calling for riots
So, if the Left does not really long for more civil discourse what do they want? In short they want to Conservatives, to shut up! That is it in a nutshell. What the Left desires is total political victory, period! Civil discourse? Sure, I am all for it, but, Conservatives, and the GOP need to understand this. No matter what we say the opposition will call it extreme rhetoric. It is what they do. It is a tactic to shame anyone opposing progressive goals into silence.
A longtime Democratic operative from Union County has responded to the Wednesday shooting of a congressman by calling for a “hunt” of Republicans.
James Devine posted several messages on Facebook and Twitter following the Alexandra, Virginia, shooting of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and several others by a gunman with a history of violence and of making online rantings against Republican officials and their policies.
“We are in a war with selfish, foolish & narcissistic rich people. Why is it a shock when things turn violent?” Devine posted on social media, ending the message with the hashtag: #HuntRepublicanCongressmen
“I have little sympathy for the Republican Congressman who got shot today because he viciously opposed President Obama’s effort to reduce gun violence and instead, he accepted more gun lobby money than all but 15 other members of the House of Representatives,” he said on Facebook.
The comments drew criticism from others who follow Devine on Facebook and Twitter.
But Devine told New Jersey 101.5 that he is not backing down, although he insists his comments were meant to shock but not advocate violence.
“It is insensitive and I don’t care. You want me to be politically correct? I don’t have time for that anymore,” he said.
What a class act, but his honesty is refreshing isn’t it? A Leftist being a violent Leftist
As I have said the only consistent thing about Democrats is there inconsistency. As to the repeal and replace bill. The Republicans need to be very open and honest about their bill. None of this behind closed doors mess. After they have a bill it needs to be made accessible to the people, to read, before any votes. The key word? Transparency! Do not do as the Democrats did!
I pray the new bill focuses on allowing the free market to work. Open up buying from insurers across state lines, increase competition, and of course take away mandates for having coverage, and for dictating what Americans must have covered. Again, FREE MARKET! The more insurers have to compete, well, we know the rest don’t we?
As to giving tax credits it would be a better bad solution than subsidies are. I am generally in favor of keeping taxes as low as possible, and eliminating most of the deductions and exemptions. I also favor a flat or consumption tax, where everyone pays the same rate. It might be a better solution to increase the personal exemption, so that Americans would have more money for themselves. Many would use that extra money to purchase insurance. I have never been in favor of government, at any level, punishing or rewarding behaviors with tax dollars. Taxes have one purpose, to raise revenues.
The bottom line is the more this bill privatizes health insurance, leaving the government out, the better it will be for all of us. The more simple this legislation ends up being the better. We do not need another phone book-sized bill. Again, I pray the GOP gets this right, and I pray they can find a bill which all Republicans, and any sensible Democrats can support.
A memo from minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s office calling for a “gun violence prevention day of action” today includes a long itinerary of scripted actions to be taken by Democrat representatives under orders from the 76-year-old gun control zealot. The actions called for are tightly controlled, right down the tweets the powerful California Democrat wants the staff of representatives to use on social media on her orders.
Characteristically, the tweets scheduled to begin at a 12:30 PM ET “tweetstorm” are factually inaccurate.
272 mass shootings this year. When will @SpeakerRyan give us a vote? #NoFlyNoBuy #CloseTheLoophole #GunVote
You would think you might have noticed there being more than one Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook or Pulse Night Club every single day this year, but Pelosi’s numbers don’t come from a reputable source. They are instead pulled from Mass Shooting Tracker, a self-described gun control propaganda site that has changed the traditional definition of mass shootings (four or more people killed in a random attack not including the killer) used by the Congressional Research Office, echoing the FBI’s definition of a “mass murder,” in order to make almost any shooting—from domestic violence incidents to a gang drive-by—a “mass shooting.”
The actual number of mass shootings in 2016 using the Congressional Research Office definition?
Two.
The Uber driver in Kalamazoo, Michigan who killed six random strangers and wounded 2 on February 20.
The Pulse nightclub massacre, which was also an Islamic terrorist attack carried out by a Hillary Clinton supporter on June 12.
Using a much broader definition that includes incidents were four or more people were shot (including targeted attacks, domestic violence, and organized crime) were a total of 11 other “mass shootings” in 2016.
Go read more at the link, Bob Owens, as usual rips the Leftist rips the mask off Pelosi and the rest of the Cult of Gun Control. The fact is this. Democrats A.K.A. Liberals A.K.A. Leftists have no facts that support their morally reprehensible assault on self-defense, the MOST basic of human right, so they lie. Why? Because the only part of gun control they seek is control, of you!
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Actor James Woods is no shrinking violet when it comes to politics.
Although he has only 144,000 followers on Twitter (compared to 53 million for Justin Bieber), Woods regales his tweepsters with wonderful links to heady topics – and a few choice opinions.
Like Saturday, when he posted this tweet: “Pelosi may actually be mentally ill. Her behavior is becoming unhinged. This is no laughing matter.” He linked to this Fox News story.
A heated debate late Friday over security at the southern U.S. border led to a rancorous confrontation on the House floor between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa.
The dustup began when Marino accused Democrats of neglecting the immigration issue when they controlled the White House and Congress in 2009 and 2010, when Pelosi was House speaker, saying that the party is now exploiting the issue for political gains.
‘Under the leadership of the former speaker… in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed,’ Marino said. ‘They didn’t have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it now.’
Soon after he made the remarks, Pelosi, in full view of House cameras, walked across the chamber to the GOP side of the aisle – a rarity in the House – to challenge Marino.
It was not clear what Pelosi said, but Marino responded immediately.
‘It’s true, madam leader, I did the research on it,’ Marino said. ‘You might want to try it. You might want to try it, madam leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That’s one thing that you don’t do.’
