Everybody was a liar in Garland, Texas - but mostly the Law Enforcement Agencies

Garland, Texas - SWAT shootout with two wanna-be jihadis. Just another sickening story of American gun violence triggering a cascade of lying by Police, FBI and ATF officials.  

The first words I read on the Garland, Texas shooting were from the New York Times, picked up by the Google News aggregator. The N.Y.T. headline was "Police in Texas Kill Gunman at Exhibit Defying Islam".  As we all know, the "defiance" of Islam's militancy is a modern blood sport that takes great courage to play.   I never forget what film maker Theo Van Gogh got for "defying Islam". He was gutted and had his throat cut, on a public street in Amsterdam.  I decided to follow the Garland incident on the Net:

Dateline: Garland Texas, May 3, 2015 -   American and Dutch Free Speech advocates held a cartoon drawing contest, to make a point about FREE SPEECH.  A $10,000 prize was awarded for the best cartoon to caricature Muhammad (aka "the prophet"..."the messenger"..."the blessed and merciful"  yadda yadda).  The local Police expected trouble and established a security perimeter,  comprised of both uniformed cops and off-duty officers hired out for security. They were not going to allow a CHARLIE HEBDO type massacre on their watch. No sir!

On a death-defying mission from Muhammad, two lunatics drove into the kill zone, and opened fire on the exhibition building.  They were dead in seconds.  Minutes later, heavily armed Garland SWAT team members took to the stage, and informed the audience that there had been an incident outside. They also posed with the winning Muhammad cartoons.  The American media is obsessed with Baltimore at the moment, so the Garland shootout got short shrift. Given the firepower deployed at the cartoon Expo, it's clear that the Juhadis went into action blind. No recon at all. Did I hear somebody say,  "Don't mess with Texas!"    The SWAT officer (above) staring down the Muhammad snakehead painting is the craziest photo I saw all weekend.  I just had to share.

This is the poster advertising the cartoon contest at Garland, Texas.

It references the JYLLANDS POSTEN Muhammad cartoons Furor,

the CHARLIE HEBDO  massacre in Paris, and Muslim child brides. 

Getting some revenge for U.S. Drone Strikes and the killing of U.S. citizen
Anwar Al-Alwaki.  If you don't know who he WAS, watch the documentary
DIRTY WARS on Netflix. The Muhammad Art Expo was just a convenient place 
for a slaughter.  Fortunately nobody got slaughtered except the Jihadists.

Mocking Muslim No. 1

Winner of the People's Choice Award, and the $10,000 prize:

Comic Book artist and fellow blogger,  Bosch Fawstin.
It really is ludicrous that techno-Muslims, those who Twitter
and Youtube their hate and butchery, are so obsessed with
this nonsense of banning any depiction of Muslim No. 1.

The Morning After:
And how will the Media report  the crazy attempt to murder people at a FREE SPEECH event?  Badly. Here is another photo - from the webpage of THE DAILY MAIL, London.  What a crude insult to citizens who still turn to daily newspapers for information. I'm insulted, and so should you be.

THE DAILY MAIL crudely censored a photo taken at the site of the

May 3, 2015 attack in Garland, Texas.  

We live in a culture where most people are taking their information and political messages visually.  That is why I.S.I.S. militants do not issue manifestos, they publish videos.  And that is why newspapers are filled with colour photos these days.  Readers have turned into lookers.  Publishing a mutilated news photo like the DAILY MAIL has done this morning, is  the equivalent to using the silly phrase "the N-Word" or "the F-Word" in your conversation.  In seeking not to offend the self-righteous, we betray whatever integrity we think we possess.

The Garland, Texas SWAT Team posed with

visiting Dutch M.P. Geert Wilders, May 3, 2015.

Early morning reports tell us that security for the Muhammad Cartoon Expo was months in preparation. The event co-ordinators paid $10,000 to the City of Garland for extra police protection.  They got the entire Garland, Texas SWAT Team, and before the event got underway, the keynote speaker (Geert Wilders, Dutch M.P.) posed with the SWAT Team.  This is a scrape from A.F.P. - Agence France Press which says Wilders released the photo to them.   The irony is that these SWAT dudes, dressed for war, didn't get the kills.  An off duty Texas cop faced off with the two gunmen, and shot them dead with his pistol.  They were armed with assault rifles.


POLICE LINE  DO NOT CROSS

"They crossed the line" is usually just a metaphorical expression.

But in Garland, Texas the Jihadis literally tried to cross the line.

The entire venue was demarcated with yellow police tape, and the entrance

to the building was closed off with barriers. Even with assault rifles

there was no way in hell the TWO HOMEGROWN JIHADIS were getting inside. 

UPDATE:  As of noon May 7th, no photos have been released of the weapons used by the Juihadis in Garland Texas. They have their reasons.  But at least one fully loaded magazine is visible in a crime-scene photo. The officer is holding a South Korean manufactured KCI 100-round  dual-drum mag. Note that it is fully charged with .223 rounds.  Elton Simpson had enough ammunition in that one magazine to kill everyone in the audience at the Garland Free Speech event ...without reloading.  He was planning a massacre of colossal proportions,  but instead he stepped into a buzz saw.  No doubt there are a few Jihadi whackos in the U.S. who are smart enough to learn from Simpson's stupidity.  The next target will be oh, so very soft.

And for a YOUTUBE test firing of the ultra-high capacity  KCI dual-drum magazine, jump to  BANG.

Such things are illegal in Canada. And for good reason. We don't want our home-grown Jihadis being able to put the implements of murder on their credit cards.

FINAL UPDATE :   The story just gets too obnoxious.  The police stuck to the "off duty traffic cop" lie for days. Then the coroner's report was released.  The bodies of the two toasted jihadis had been riddled by several pistols and at least three separate Colt M4 assault rifles ... just like those carried by all Garland Texas SWAT team members.

What happened to the story about a Cartoon contest?  Two dead Jihadis?  Garland morphed into yet another example of lying law enforcement flaks and third-rate media coverage.  

Exercising Free Speech - CHARLIE HEBDO and symbols of sadistic expressionism

Yesterday's grim massacre at CHARLIE HEBDO in Paris put me in
 mind of this cartoon by the American, John O'Brien.  The metaphor 
seems appropriate as the guillotine was a French invention.

SADISTIC EXPRESSIONISM

CHARLIE HEBDO or Charlie Weekly, is a satirical publication with a weekly circulation of approximately 50,000 copies. It is described as "left-wing", not because it advocates the overthrow of the Western democracies but because its targets are typically religion, politicians and corporations. It does so with crudely drawn cartoons and biting sarcasm. All very low-brow, which explains the limited circulation. Its managing editor, Stephane Charbonnier, was one of those murdered yesterday. He sometimes took his leftist credentials rather literally, such as when he promoted his publication with the clenched fist of defiance - a traditional gesture of the Communists. It was gutsy of him, because he was courting death. Paris is polluted with Muslim fanatics, and it was inevitable that one of them would go after Charbonnier with a knife on the sidewalk outside of his office.  Had I been Charbonnier,  I would have kept a shotgun within reach behind my desk.  Not a funny image, but a more effective gesture than a clenched fist.

Many will be outraged, for a few days at least, over the massacre perpetrated inside the editorial offices of CHARLIE HEBDO, but the media will turn away and illuminate the next tragedy. They will blather about "free Speech"  but in fact there is not one working journalist in Canada who would subscribe to  CHARLIE.  Not one, and I need not list the reasons.  Mercifully, this time the jihadist assassins had no time to videotape themselves cutting off heads of their victims. We had enough of those gory political theatrics in 2014.  

Still, it is instructive to witness the interplay of crude symbolism. Recall that after decades of wars and atrocities in post-colonial Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the world had grown weary of the bloody images and simply tuned out the carnage.  So ISIS, the new terrorist on the block,  turned up the volume by making a fetish of performing ritualistic beheading ceremonies - filming and uploading the decapitations of captured soldiers and foreigners. Ghastly. Serious.

And then we have the French cartoonists who lampooned the vicious ISIS ritual, even making it the feature gag for the cover of CHARLIE HEBDO on October 1, 2014. (below) The cartoonists in Europe are just as comfortable as the skinheads with the head-lopping motif as the Muslim murderers.  I'm not being prissy in pointing that out. I have written about my Celtic ancestors who were enjoyed taking head trophies and my point remains - millions of moderns are getting too comfortable with ancient forms of barbarism.

In this CHARLIE HEBDO cover page, an ISIS guerrilla

takes the head of the prophet.  The "Charlie" brand of

humour is so primitive that a Neanderthal would "get" it.
For Canadian-style cartoon humour try an earlier
 article Pissing on the Taliban - for a classic Donato cartoon.

And should anyone think for an instant that I am forcing the point, here is a cartoon just published by Dutch cartoonist Joep Bertrams.  It is entitled "Onsterfelijk" with the weekly personified by a staffer in T-shirt, and rendered "Immortal" by a Muslim scimitar. It is clever and effective - the cartoon, not the killing.   In fact the senior staff at CHARLIE HEBDO were lined up and shot in the head with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The Muslim killers were garbed in black fatigues and balaclavas, the well known uniform ISIS guerrillas, (or French anti-terrorist police for that matter), and one gave the raised finger ISIS salute to those filming him with cellphones. So the Dutch cartoonist simplifies matters by returning to the more shocking image of head-chopping. We get it. We get it instantly.

The Canadian media response to the Paris Massacre have been tepid and tame - oh, so safe.  The most honest was of course Christie Blatchford in today's NATIONAL POST [JAN 8/15]  Ms. Blatchford began with these trenchant paragraphs:

I'm hoping the POST with archive her article for a year or more.  Most of the media-rash on murderous events will disappear from websites in a few months, if not weeks, but I'm hoping Blatchford's article will have legs. Jump to the NATIONAL POST and read her piece while it is still topical.

CHARLIE  TAUNTED  MUSLIM  HOMOPHOBES

Of course many flaks rushed in to remind us, ad nauseam, that the Muslim fanatics in Western Europe are few,  while their massive immigrant populations are placid and peace loving. Of course the professional talkers have never read CHARLIE HEBDO or they would know that the weekly often lampooned the prejudices of majority-Muslims.  Here is a sloppy taste of HEBDO humour:

CHARLIE HEBDO mocks Muslim homophobia,
which is very widespread.  Here the CHARLIE
 editor takes a sloppy kiss from the Faithful.

Of course CHARLIE HEBDO was an enemy of all established religions - but especially Christianity, Judaism and Islam. And as we know, cartoonists need only fear the wrath of Muslims. The Hebdo office was guarded by a policeman, and he was the first to be cut down. Unfortunately for expectant readers,  "Left-Wing" satirists  have yet to discover the burgeoning cult of environmentalism, with its many associated fetishes.  That's too bad. I'd like to see what they could do with it.

CHARLIE HEBDO taunted all of the traditional

religions.  Here are a crudely caricatured 

Rabbi, Bishop and Muslim Imam.

"FREE SPEECH"? Now that's funny!

Obligatory Update - January 10, 2015

Wikipedia pages always grow from spectacles that the public seems to be following, so I thought I would consult the Wiki-page for the "Charlie Hebdo shooting".  "Free Speech" on wikipedia? Pardon me while I puke... 

At Noon today the wiki-page for  the massacre of the Parisian cartoonists contains NOT A SINGLE EXAMPLE OF THEIR WORK, with the exception of a photo of a protestor holding up an old copy of the weekly.  Note the careful wording of the caption (below).

WIKIPEDIA is a owned by Jimmy Wales, an American businessman who self-describes as an "atheist".  He currently enjoys living in London, England and according to the most recent update of his own Wiki page, "In December 2014, Wales shared the inaugural $1-million Mohammed bin Rashid Knowledge Award with World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berniers-Lee."