By Florida Bill
Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch is certainly making her mark with her asinine, "hug and love" speeches, designed to water down the well-placed resentment which Americans have against the radical element of Islam. Her inane comments place her in high favor with her boss, President Obama, and for sure she is his undisputed queen of political correctness.
But her lovey-dovey prescription for getting ISIS to call off its terrorism is not her only articulated nonsense. Recently, she had an inappropriate 30-minute private chit chat with former President William Clinton, despite the fact that his wife, Hillary, is the subject of a high profile criminal investigation by the FBI, which it is Lynch's job to monitor and direct as Attorney General.
A day or so after the gunshot murders of 49 persons and the wounding of 53 others in Orlando by a self- described "Soldier of ISIS," Lynch took to the podium and spoke with compassion and emotion.
Did the Attorney General, who is America's principal law enforcement officer, denounce the hate-filled terrorist who killed for an Islamic cause? Did she promise to destroy these killers and rid the world of this brotherhood of fanatics? No, not at all. With compassion, Lynch said that the nation will never turn a blind eye to the LGBT community and that "good will outweighs evil."
"The most effective response to terror," she asserted, is "compassion, unity and love."
Her words were irrelevant drivel, but if the "love and hug" remedy was not enough, Lynch went on to say that "we need a world that realizes that the word ‘terrorist’ is not synonymous with Muslim, any more than ‘criminal’ is synonymous with Black. The enemy is now and has always been the four threats of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and militarism. These forces and not Islam create terrorism. These forces, and not queerness, create homophobia.” And "my message to the Muslim community is that we stand with you in these times."
Her comments concerning the Orlando terrorism were not her first empty-headed statements about Islamic terrorism in the United States. She seems to have a knack for coming down on the wrong side in such violent incidences.
Last December, after a radicalized Islamic couple shot and killed 14 coworkers at a Holiday luncheon in San Bernardino, Lynch hastened to point out that Islam is a religion of peace, not to be judged with a broad brush as a result of the acts of these two lone wolves.
In the California murders, the couple who had pledged themselves to ISIS, shouted "Allah is Great" as they blitzed their surprised coworkers with gunfire from only several feet away. Ultimately, they were pursued and killed by police. Referencing that terrorism, Lynch declared that her "greatest fear" was "anti-Muslim rhetoric which edges toward violence." For that, she said, Justice department lawyers are prepared to take "aggressive action" and prosecute. Apparently the Atty. General has no "fear" of violence similar to the attacks in Paris and Belgium and elsewhere over the past decades.
While President Obama was no doubt pleased at her concern for Muslims, it is numbing that the Attorney General was ignoring first amendment rights of free speech guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. But then, it may just depend on whose ox is being gored. When Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), recently told his followers to "stalk and kill" policemen who are mistreating Blacks, there was never a peep from General Lynch about anti-police rhetoric "edging toward violence."
Lynch, 57, is a graduate of Harvard law school as was Obama who appointed her and her predecessor, Eric Holder. Holder resigned after having been held in contempt by Congress for his failure to turn over documents in the "fast and furious" congressional investigation.
Along with the obtuse and inane comments she has made following the Islamic murders in the United States, Lynch's credentials as a smart and ethical attorney are being questioned. That issue stems from a 30- minute private meeting she had recently with former President Bill Clinton on her plane at the Phoenix airport. Attorney General Lynch is charged with the criminal investigation and possible prosecution of the former President's wife, Hillary, for mishandling classified emails.
Under any conditions, the meeting was improper and suggests impropriety. Confronted by news reporters about unethical behavior, Lynch said their chit chat dealt only with grandchildren and golf. The subject of the investigation, she has emphasized, never came up. In a subsequent interview, Lynch said that she recognized the concern, and would refrain from doing the same thing again. Also, she said that she will accept the recommendation of the FBI as to a prosecution of Mrs. Clinton.
Thirty minutes of talk about grandchildren seems a bit long, observed Megyn Kelly, a lawyer, in her news report on Fox News. Add the fact that both of them were on separate planes on an airport tarmac, and Clinton left his plane to board hers--presumably to do no more than show her pictures of his new grandchild--and the incident becomes even stranger.
At Harvard, from 1981 to 1984, Lynch was an active member of the Harvard Black Law Students association (BLSA). The group was controversial since it annually brought in representatives from the Palestinian Liberation Operation (PLO) to speak . One such visitor was the group's leader, Mohammed Kenyatta, who called for the "liberation of Palestine" and expressed support for the terrorist organization, leading observers to classify BLSA as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel.
Some members of congress have charged that Lynch has actually threatened to prosecute skeptics of climate change decrying that she is using her federal authority to stifle private debate. In March Lynch testified before the senate judiciary committee that the FBI was looking into information regarding climate change dissent and "whether or not it meets the criteria for what we could take action on."
Lynch's questionable legal competence and inane comments have prompted at least one congressman to call for her resignation. Of course that will never happen, as long as her old friend from law school is pleased with her performance.
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But her lovey-dovey prescription for getting ISIS to call off its terrorism is not her only articulated nonsense. Recently, she had an inappropriate 30-minute private chit chat with former President William Clinton, despite the fact that his wife, Hillary, is the subject of a high profile criminal investigation by the FBI, which it is Lynch's job to monitor and direct as Attorney General.
A day or so after the gunshot murders of 49 persons and the wounding of 53 others in Orlando by a self- described "Soldier of ISIS," Lynch took to the podium and spoke with compassion and emotion.
Did the Attorney General, who is America's principal law enforcement officer, denounce the hate-filled terrorist who killed for an Islamic cause? Did she promise to destroy these killers and rid the world of this brotherhood of fanatics? No, not at all. With compassion, Lynch said that the nation will never turn a blind eye to the LGBT community and that "good will outweighs evil."
"The most effective response to terror," she asserted, is "compassion, unity and love."
Her words were irrelevant drivel, but if the "love and hug" remedy was not enough, Lynch went on to say that "we need a world that realizes that the word ‘terrorist’ is not synonymous with Muslim, any more than ‘criminal’ is synonymous with Black. The enemy is now and has always been the four threats of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and militarism. These forces and not Islam create terrorism. These forces, and not queerness, create homophobia.” And "my message to the Muslim community is that we stand with you in these times."
Her comments concerning the Orlando terrorism were not her first empty-headed statements about Islamic terrorism in the United States. She seems to have a knack for coming down on the wrong side in such violent incidences.
Last December, after a radicalized Islamic couple shot and killed 14 coworkers at a Holiday luncheon in San Bernardino, Lynch hastened to point out that Islam is a religion of peace, not to be judged with a broad brush as a result of the acts of these two lone wolves.
In the California murders, the couple who had pledged themselves to ISIS, shouted "Allah is Great" as they blitzed their surprised coworkers with gunfire from only several feet away. Ultimately, they were pursued and killed by police. Referencing that terrorism, Lynch declared that her "greatest fear" was "anti-Muslim rhetoric which edges toward violence." For that, she said, Justice department lawyers are prepared to take "aggressive action" and prosecute. Apparently the Atty. General has no "fear" of violence similar to the attacks in Paris and Belgium and elsewhere over the past decades.
While President Obama was no doubt pleased at her concern for Muslims, it is numbing that the Attorney General was ignoring first amendment rights of free speech guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. But then, it may just depend on whose ox is being gored. When Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims), recently told his followers to "stalk and kill" policemen who are mistreating Blacks, there was never a peep from General Lynch about anti-police rhetoric "edging toward violence."
Lynch, 57, is a graduate of Harvard law school as was Obama who appointed her and her predecessor, Eric Holder. Holder resigned after having been held in contempt by Congress for his failure to turn over documents in the "fast and furious" congressional investigation.
Along with the obtuse and inane comments she has made following the Islamic murders in the United States, Lynch's credentials as a smart and ethical attorney are being questioned. That issue stems from a 30- minute private meeting she had recently with former President Bill Clinton on her plane at the Phoenix airport. Attorney General Lynch is charged with the criminal investigation and possible prosecution of the former President's wife, Hillary, for mishandling classified emails.
Under any conditions, the meeting was improper and suggests impropriety. Confronted by news reporters about unethical behavior, Lynch said their chit chat dealt only with grandchildren and golf. The subject of the investigation, she has emphasized, never came up. In a subsequent interview, Lynch said that she recognized the concern, and would refrain from doing the same thing again. Also, she said that she will accept the recommendation of the FBI as to a prosecution of Mrs. Clinton.
Thirty minutes of talk about grandchildren seems a bit long, observed Megyn Kelly, a lawyer, in her news report on Fox News. Add the fact that both of them were on separate planes on an airport tarmac, and Clinton left his plane to board hers--presumably to do no more than show her pictures of his new grandchild--and the incident becomes even stranger.
At Harvard, from 1981 to 1984, Lynch was an active member of the Harvard Black Law Students association (BLSA). The group was controversial since it annually brought in representatives from the Palestinian Liberation Operation (PLO) to speak . One such visitor was the group's leader, Mohammed Kenyatta, who called for the "liberation of Palestine" and expressed support for the terrorist organization, leading observers to classify BLSA as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel.
Some members of congress have charged that Lynch has actually threatened to prosecute skeptics of climate change decrying that she is using her federal authority to stifle private debate. In March Lynch testified before the senate judiciary committee that the FBI was looking into information regarding climate change dissent and "whether or not it meets the criteria for what we could take action on."
Lynch's questionable legal competence and inane comments have prompted at least one congressman to call for her resignation. Of course that will never happen, as long as her old friend from law school is pleased with her performance.
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