Calls For "Retroactive Assessment" Begin After US Arrests Two Mid-East Refugees On Terror Charges

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“There are reasonable concerns about the safety and security of the citizenry of the State of Texas regarding these refugees.”

That’s a quote from federal court documents filed in connection with a lawsuit the state of Texas brought against the State Department last year in an effort to block the Obama administration’s plan to settle Syrian refugees in the Lone Star State.

On Thursday, Alabama sued the federal government as well.

The lawsuits came on the heels of the Paris Attacks which prompted a number of Republican governors to insist that Washington cancel plans to place some 10,000 Syrian refugees across the country. Here’s a look at a map we highlighted back in November when the debate began to heat up in earnest:

On Thursday, Texas got more ammunition for its fight against the resettlement of refugees in the state when US officials arrested Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan in Houston. Al-Hardan and Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab (who was arrested in Sacramento), are charged with supporting Islamic militant groups, but not with plotting an attack on US soil. 

Both Al-Hardan (who came to America in 2009 from Iraq) and Al-Jayab (who immigrated from Syria in 2012) are Iraqi-born Palestinians. "Al-Hardan was charged with providing material support to the Islamic State militant group and for making false statements about ties to the group when seeking U.S. naturalization," Reuters reports, adding that "Al-Jayab was arrested on Thursday on a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism."

Al-Jayab stands accused of "traveling to Syria to fight alongside terrorist groups, including Ansar al-Islam," The New York Times adds before outlining the men's specific crimes as follows:

Prosecutors said on Thursday that Mr. Hardan has been associated with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, since 2014 and was trained to use automatic machine guns. He has been charged with one count each of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully, and making false statements, prosecutors said.

 

In California, the indictment accuses Mr. Jayab of discussing his experience fighting against the government of Syria, and planning to return to fight alongside terrorist groups, over social media in 2012 and 2013.

 

“O God, grant us martyrdom for your sake while engaged in fighting and not retreating; a martyrdom that would make you satisfied with us,”

 

Mr. Jayab wrote in one online exchange from April 2013, according to the indictment.

 

It said he wrote to an associate in another online exchange, “America will not isolate me from my Islamic duty. Only death will do us part. My only wish is to see you and start the action.”

 

Prosecutors said that Mr. Jayab traveled from Chicago to Syria, by way of Turkey, on Nov. 9, 2013, and fought alongside terrorist groups, including Ansar al-Islam, until January 2014, posting about his experiences with the group on social media along the way. He returned to the United States on Jan. 23, 2014.

Here's the Justice Department on Al-Hardan:

The indictment alleges that Al Hardan attempted to provide material support and resources, including training, expert advice and assistance, and personnel – specifically himself – to a known foreign terrorist organization.  According to the allegations, he also knowingly responded, certified and swore untruthfully on his formal application when applying to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.  He allegedly represented that he was not associated with a terrorist organization when, in fact, he associated with members and sympathizers of ISIL throughout 2014, according to the charges.  The indictment further alleges that during an interview in October 2015, Al Hardan falsely represented that he had never received any type of weapons training, when he allegedly received automatic machine gun training.

And on Al-Jayab:

According to the complaint, Al-Jayab is a Palestinian born in Iraq, who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee in October 2012.  Between October 2012 and November 2013, while living in Arizona and Wisconsin, he communicated over social media with numerous other individuals about his intent to return to Syria to fight for terrorist organizations.  In those communications, according to the complaint, Al-Jayab discussed his previous experience with firearms and with fighting against the regime in Syria.  On Nov. 9, 2013, he flew from Chicago to Turkey, and then traveled to Syria.  Between November 2013 and January 2014, Al-Jayab allegedly reported on social media that he was in Syria fighting with various terrorist organizations, including Ansar al-Islam, a designated foreign terrorist organization since 2004.  He returned to the United States on Jan. 23, 2014, and settled in Sacramento.

Needless to say, both Texas governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick jumped at the opportunity to say "we told you so." 

"I applaud the FBI for today's arrest of this dangerous subject. However, this is precisely why I called for a halt to refugees entering the U.S. from countries substantially controlled by terrorists," Abbott said. "I once again urge the President to halt the resettlement of these refugees in the United States until there is an effective vetting process that will ensure refugees do not compromise the safety of Americans and Texans."

“Based on the facts, as we know them, today’s action may have prevented a catastrophic terror-related event in the making and saved countless lives,” Patrick chimed in. “This is exactly what we have repeatedly told the Obama administration could happen and why we do not want refugees coming to Texas.”

Both suspects appeared in court on Friday. Authorities say it's exceedingly possible the two men communicated with each other over the last several years. The complaint against Al-Jayab says he spoke with an unnamed Texas resident about training in Syria.

"I need to learn from your weapon expertise," the Texas man wrote to Al-Jayab.

Al-Jayab wrote back: "We will make your abilities very strong."

"Our concern now is only to arrive there," Al-Jayab went on. "When you arrive to al-Sham [Syria] you will be trained."

You can expect the backlash against Mid-East asylum seekers to grow in the US on the heels of the arrests. "This is an extraordinary snapshot of what we're facing now -- the challenge of vetting individuals and maintaining the beacon of hope that America has been for the world over," Michael Wildes, an immigration attorney and former federal prosecutor said. 

Of course the fact that the two men have been in the country for an extended period of time raises questions about the existence of sleeper cells. "I commend the law enforcement for apprehending these two individuals, but their apprehensions raise the immediate question: Who else is there? What are they planning next?," Ted Cruz asked on the way to suggesting that America may need to conduct "retroactive assessments" of refugees living in the country.

That raises the following questions. Will the US soon begin to catalogue and round up refugees already living in the country for questioning and interrogation? If so, how will authorities decide who to scrutinize? Will it be based country of origin? Religious affiliation? How does one create an archetype for "terrorists"? Is Cruz's suggestion materially different from Trump's Muslim database and ID cards? 

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Al-Hardan indictment

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:35 | 7018210 J Jason Djfmam
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Duh!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:39 | 7018238 MrNosey
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And Trump was vilified for suggesting that this would happen......

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/1000-depraved-migrants-ra...

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:42 | 7018249 surf0766
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Just like Trump was for the assult weapons ban

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:46 | 7018280 tmosley
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Can't wait for the mass rape to hit the states accepting these Islamic soldiers.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:52 | 7018290 Pinto Currency
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Check the Articles of Impeachment of Barack Obama from the North American Law Center:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235166431/NALC-Articles-of-Impeachment-of-Barack-Hussein-Obama

 

http://www.infowars.com/report-rnc-will-consider-obama-impeachment-proceedings/

How about a retroactive assessment of the guy who let them in?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:20 | 7018472 dizzyfingers
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I don't think this is a serious impeachment attempt but just a sop to angry former GOP voters and undecideds. Impeachment of Clinton was turned into a joke; instead of choosing real misdeeds they chose cigars and blue dresses. Morons.  It would take until next November to get an impeachment rolling, and then of course the GOP would have their dog-and-pony show like they did before, and by the time the election had come and gone, who knows... the pretend attack on OB might not only fail but start a movement for him to be "president" forever. What's the potential help? What's the potential hurt?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:24 | 7018500 Pinto Currency
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We'll see where it goes.

It seems the MSM is losing control of the narrative and BO and friends are starting to thrash around.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:35 | 7018562 TBT or not TBT
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They cannot bring themselves to blame Islam or the pathetic  "prophet" of that subhuman cult.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:38 | 7018579 TeamDepends
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This just in: Peaceful Muslim Ambushes Philly Cop http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/01/philadelphia-policeman-shot-execution-style/

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:44 | 7018606 Pinto Currency
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“Wahhabism is no more than an engineered perversion, a division, an abomination which has but spread like a cancer onto the Islamic world and now threatens to destroy all religions… Wahhabism is not of Islam and Islam will never be of Wahhabism – it is a folly to conceive that Islam would ever sanction murder, looting and atrocious barbarism. Islam opposes despotism, injustice, infamy, deceits, greed, extremism, asceticism – everything which is not balanced and good, fair and merciful, kind and compassionate. If anything, Wahhabism is the very negation of Islam. As many have called it before – Islam is not Wahhabism.”

Shakdam continues:

“Wahhabism is merely the misguided expression of one man’s political ambition – Mohammed Abdel Wahhab, a man who was recruited by Empire Britain to erode at the fabric of Islam and crack the unity of its ummah (community). Wahhabism has now given birth to a monstrous abomination – extreme radicalism; a beast which has sprung and fed from Salafis and Wahhabis poison, fueled by the billions of Al Saud’s petrodollars; a weapon exploited by neo-imperialists to justify military interventions in those wealthiest corners of the world. ISIS’s obscene savagery epitomises the violence which is inherent and central to Wahhabism and Salafism, its other deviance. And though the world knows now the source of all terror, no power has yet dared speak against it; instead, the world has chosen to hate its designated victim – Islam.”

http://thenewsdoctors.com/creating-sunnistan-foreign-affairs-calls-for-syria-and-iraq-to-be-balkanized/

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:55 | 7018651 TBT or not TBT
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Islam prescribes totalitarian backwardness since its inception, in its founding documents and traditions.   The word itself means "Submission"   it is a psychotic death cult. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:44 | 7018603 Laddie
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@TBT or not TBT

Why would Israel be devoting massive amounts of resources to assisting ISIS terrorists?

London Daily Mail

Under cover of darkness, an Israeli armoured car advances down the potholed road that leads to Syria. As it crests a small hill, the driver picks up the radio handset and tells his commanding officer that the border is in sight.

He kills the engine. Ten heavily-armed commandos jump out and take cover, watching for signs of ambush. Then five of them move up to the 12ft chainlink fence that marks the limit of Israeli-held territory.

On the other side, on the very edge of Syria, lies an unconscious man wrapped like a doll in a blood-drenched duvet. The commandos unlock the fence, open a section of it and drag him onto Israeli soil.

The casualty – who doesn’t look older than 20 – is losing blood fast. He has been shot in the intestines and the liver, and has a deep laceration in his left ankle.

After putting him on an emergency drip, the commandos stretcher him back to the armoured car and head back to Israel.

But this wounded man is not an Israeli soldier, or even an Israeli citizen. He is an Islamic militant. And his rescue forms part of an extraordinary humanitarian mission that is fraught with danger and has provoked deep controversy on all sides.

Almost every night, Israeli troops run secret missions to save the lives of Syrian fighters, all of whom are sworn enemies of the Jewish state.

Israel insists that these treacherous nightly rescues are purely humanitarian, and that it can only hope to ‘win hearts and minds’ in Syria. But analysts suggest the Jewish state has in fact struck a deadly ‘deal with the devil’ – offering support to the Sunni militants who fight the Syrian ruler Assad in the hope of containing its arch enemies Hezbollah and Iran.

There is no doubt about the danger involved. Many of the casualties rescued by Israel belong to Salafist groups who harbour a deep-seated hatred of the Jewish State. It has also been reported that some may be members of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian group affiliated to Al Qaeda that has kidnapped scores of UN peacekeeping troops in this area, and has massacred Christians deeper in Syria.

It is unclear how the two enemies arrange the rescue. All that has been disclosed is that word reaches Israeli forces that casualties have been dumped at the border, intelligence establishes that it is not a trap, and the commandos are sent in.

In the three years that Israel has been running these operations, it has saved the lives of more than 2,000 Syrians – at least 80 per cent of whom are male and of fighting age – at a cost of 50 million shekels (£8.7 million).

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:01 | 7018684 TBT or not TBT
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Let's see. There are 1.5 billion muzztards and maybe 4 million nominally jewish residents of Israel alongside a couple million nominally muslim christian and so on other israeli citizens.   Several large powers in the region would like to genicide israel off the map.  If Israel can play these powers off against each other, shouldnt they?   

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 18:08 | 7019307 11b40
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Absolutely, they should try to survive by hook or crook. 

It is called self preservation, and it is the same reason that the Palestinians will never stop trying to kill them for stealing their lands.  And they shouldn't stop, either.  I wouldn't.

Israel controls some of the most precious religious centers to all the world's major religions, and they stole those, too.  The Muslim countries surrounding them see them as nothing but thieves and murderers....a cancer to be removed.

Like any living organism, Israel will fight for it's life, but the natives are 100% justified in trying to exterminate the invaders, and that is what the Israelis are.  

Am I wrong?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:30 | 7018533 thesonandheir
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Obama should be exiled to one of those countries that he'saved', you know like Libya or Egypt.

 

Hitlary too.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:11 | 7018416 highandwired
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These Islamic soldiers are also being brought on

MILITARY planes into Canada.

 

The Islamic Invasion has begun: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx2haIRJHeY

 

Justin Turd-eau has stated that the first 25,000 were just the "beginning"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:22 | 7018483 scottch
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Women are armed here in the states and they practice regularly.  The stakes are much higher for you pervs here.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:28 | 7018522 TBT or not TBT
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They're devotees of a pervy sect.   Their guru gave his 8 year old wife a solid rodgering for her 9th birthday, according to their sacred documents.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:24 | 7018495 Scooby Doo
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I can wait, hopefully forever.  However, my state is accepting these refugees.  Our small city is overflowing with burquas.  Go down 6th street, & you'll think you are in another country. Slaves wearing sheets walking behind their masters

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:12 | 7018762 TBT or not TBT
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What city do you live in?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 17:43 | 7019214 Raymond K Hessel
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6th Street?! Please don't say you're talking about Austin!

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 17:53 | 7019251 TBT or not TBT
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Moscow on the Brazos. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:40 | 7018240 Ghost of PartysOver
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No!  Say it ain't so.

Some politicians and bureaucrats are dumber than a box of rocks.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:29 | 7018531 TBT or not TBT
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Many more have been bought by oil sheiks and related interests.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:34 | 7018558 beemasters
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Yes. We have much bigger world terrorists in Washington DC. And nobody is saying or doing a damn thing about it.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:15 | 7018790 TBT or not TBT
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We have quite a civilisation going here despite the evil hydra in DC.   Bringing in failure from the muslim septiic tank regions will not improve things for us.   And guess who is doing it?   The DC hydra.  The out of control administrative state.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:15 | 7018435 junction
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These brainwashed guys look at the United States as the Aloha Sandwich snackbar.  With Obama and Hillary at the switch, wrecking the Middle East on commands from their NWO masters, you had plenty of displaced persons to recruit as suicide bombers and the like.  Hillary is cancer surgery brain damaged goods, a liar and a monster who will carry out the NWO's initiatives.  Including looking the other way as moles are let into the USA to form sleeper cells controlled by the dark core of the CIA.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:33 | 7018549 Never One Roach
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Islamic State follower ambushes Philadelphia police officer

 

PHILADELPHIA - A gunman claiming to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer in an ambush on his patrol car, the city's police commissioner said on Friday.

 

Hartnett chased Archer, who was arrested by responding officers and later confessed to the attack, saying he had carried it out "in the name of Islam," police officials told reporters.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/islamic-state-follower-ambushes-philade...

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:39 | 7018573 TBT or not TBT
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To be fair, Hillary and Barry worked hard to turn over Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood, but failed.  They did turn over swaths of the middle east to islam infected sickos however, as per their hopes for.the region.  The secular dictator Assad offends Obama deeply.  

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Fri, 01/08/2016 - 18:10 | 7019318 RiverRoad
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It's getting easier and easier to see why the FBI and The CIA hate each other.  The FBI has it's hands full for sure with the fallout from the ME.  Sad part is prisons are full of the stupid criminals while the smart ones live happily amongst us.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:35 | 7018215 Xibalba
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NWO doc. A must see in my book. Subbed for the English (because they should watch) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a8_1451921214

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:37 | 7018220 buzzsaw99
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nobody wants those maggots (except owebomba)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:51 | 7018309 Winston Churchill
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I'm all in favor of them staying in Syria.The cultures are simply not compatable except when

a small number can be assimilated at a time.

Syria is for the Syrians, but Uncle Scam and its gangmembers are the ones making it uninhabitable.

Stop bombing the fuck out of Syria first,pay reparations for the war crimes, and the problem is/will

be solved.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:31 | 7018543 TBT or not TBT
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Islam is the problem.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:59 | 7018670 gimme soma dat
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We already have half of Somalia living in the country and they sure as shit can't assimilate. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:19 | 7018810 TBT or not TBT
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They don't have to.  Welfare is luxurious to them. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:36 | 7018222 atomicwasted
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You could apply the same logic to gun owners.  Or white men who shoot up a school.  Or who occupy a shitty building in Oregon.  Of course, the Muslim-hating neo-Nazi populists who infest ZH will eat this shit up.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018233 Thick Willy
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Get fucked Moslem.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:51 | 7018236 Rockatanski
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you've been here trolling for 5 years? dont your cohorts over at the hufo miss you?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:17 | 7018444 Publicus_Reanimated
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No, you can not apply the same logic.

Allow me to explain:  The Second Amendment affirms the right to bear arms.  There is no corresponding section of the Constitution or any valid U.S. law that I know of guaranteeing non-citizens entry to the United States and the unrestricted right to reside here.

Any questions?

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:37 | 7018226 Lost in translation
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Send them home + end the wars. 

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:43 | 7018597 TBT or not TBT
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Send them to enjoy the charms of their islam infested homelands, war or no war.   An islamic refugee is no such thing.  Its a virus particle expelled by a dying host.  

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018227 Thick Willy
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Shocking.  Nobody could have predicted this.  There was no reason to believe that Moslems from Iraq would be capable of conducting Jihadi acts of terror against Christians.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:50 | 7018305 dexter_morgan
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 “We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens.” – Mark Levin

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 16:35 | 7018892 TBT or not TBT
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Ted Kennedy's immigration reform was designed to fix that.   The statists want people who are preprogrammed to be subjects and dependents.   They had to bring in replacements as not enough Americans would have voted for what they have accomplished since '65.   

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:38 | 7018229 MasterControl
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Crisis = progressive crack cocaine.

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 14:43 | 7018258 Save_America1st
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ain't that the fucking truth. 

Hegelian Dialectic:  Problem - Reaction - Treasonous Gov-scum Solution (already planned out well ahead of time, of course)

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:00 | 7018361 Chupacabra-322
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@ Save,

Add to your list part of The Hegelian Dialect which is " Divide $ Conquer." Sprinkled in with Balkinization & "Order Out of Chaos."

Fri, 01/08/2016 - 15:00 | 7018362 Raging Debate
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Save America - You are correct. Importing enemy combatants is treason. How about that jihadist shooting the cop 13 times? You law enforcement had better get your head out of your ass and push back too. 

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