Reflections From a Murky Pond

Now that the Lamestream media has dutifully misreported and now buried the story of the murder and beheading of Colleen Hufford in Oklahoma City I decided it was time to weigh in and critique their (mis)represantion of the event and Jah’Keem Yisrael nee Alton Nolen.

Sanitizing Jah’Keem Yisrael nee Alton Nolen

The MSM’s Portrayal

Yisrael’s True Appearance

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The lengths that the lamestream media has gone to sanitize the image of Jah’Keem Yisrael is truly amazing. Firstly, it’s their constant reference to him as Alton Nolen when he had changed his name, at least for common usage, to Jah’Keem Yisrael. Secondly, it’s their near exclusive use of a photo of Yisrael from 2011 instead of a more recent one that shows his current appearance.

It’s truly amazing how far the media has gone to shield Islam from this vermin’s actions, irrespective of the fact that Yisrael is an extremely devout Muslim, was fired for suggesting Islamic punishments, i.e., stone, for female coworkers, and beheaded one of his victims in the same manner as Islamic fighters do.

The narrative, according the the MSM, is that this was nothing but a regrettable but isolated incident of random “Workplace Violence.” It wasn’t Muslim extremism and it certainly wasn’t yet another incidence of Muslim terrorism on US soil.

In this, the MSM may have a valid point. Yet the lengths that they’ve gone to ensure that their point is the only one available is ridiculous. I mean, talk about Anvilicious!

The Roots of Yisrael’s Savagery

As I said above, it’s my opinion that Yisrael’s savage, murderous rampage wasn’t primarily based upon his being a convert to Islam. Nor do I believe that it truly qualified as an act of terrorism.

First and foremost, Alton Nolen aka Jah’Keem Yisrael is a Black male. Indeed, he is a rather stereotypical Black male, with a history predating his prison conversion to Islam of both drug use and violence, including separate convictions for marijuana, cocaine, and assault upon a law enforcement officer. Seen in that light, his rampage makes perfect sense even without the Islamic component added to it.

From what I can determine, Islam’s involvement in the causation of his feral break with reality was tangential. His being a devout Muslim was part of why he was fired and may have provided Yisrael with some rationale for his response to it, but the boy was more than likely to have responded with murder in any event. No, the largest input Islam had on the Oklahoma City rampage was that it provided Yisrael the exact means of his violence, that of beheading one of his victims with a knife in imitation of the Jihadis.

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From what I can tell, Yisrael murdered because he was just another Black male ghetto thug but he beheaded his victim because he was a Muslim. Hence, it’s not unfair to call it “Workplace Violence.” It also, however, not unfair to point out that, causative or not, Islam did color the events and greatly added to the bestially savage nature of them.

What is the nature of reality? It’s a question that many have asked and that many, many more have thought to answer.

Would He Still Lie?

The Bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley asked this, as did William Fossett. So too did Albert Einstein, Charles Riborg Mann, and George Ransom Twiss. Indeed, throughout the modern age the question has been posed in publications as diverse as The Chautauquan and Scientific American.

All science is theology or, said in another way, theology is the only science, with each otherwise-named path of research merely being a sub-discipline of the greater course of study. The whole of we call the “sciences” is nothing more or less than Man’s attempt to discern the Divine’s will and how it was enacted upon Creation.

There’s no intrinsic conflict between between Science and Religion. Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the father of modern Western science knew that as did even the Muslim World’s AbÅ« Ê¿AlÄ« al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham. The conflict between Science and Religion is a purely modern invention and a poor one at that.

Rep. Pete Olson (R-TXs) and 10 other House Republicans have drafted four articles of impeachment against Holder. They plan on introducing these articles of impeachment as early as today, though the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) won’t commit to moving forward with any of the resolutions of impeachment.

Yet Rep. Goodlatte has little or argument with the content of these resolutions. He’s just unlikely to act upon them.

Under Attorney General Holder’s watch, there has been a lack of leadership and a politicization of the Justice Department. Scandals from the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation to the seizure of reporters’ emails and phone records in national security leaks investigations have undermined the Department’s credibility and the American people’s trust. Attorney General Holder has also politicized the rule of law by refusing to enforce laws he doesn’t like.”

The only way to restore credibility at the Department of Justice is through an improvement in the quality of leadership. President Obama should make a change in the leadership of the Department of Justice to restore the confidence of the American people in our nation’s top law enforcement agency.

This combined with the expected utter lack of support from Speaker John Boehner (“R”-OH) means that the efforts to impeach and remove Attorney General Eric Holder from office are most likely doomed from the start and that Holder will remain protected from the consequences of his myriad high crimes and misdemeanors.

A Moral And Philosophical Divide

Perhaps prophetically, the House is divided morally and philosophically on the matter of Impeaching Holder or Obama.  The House Republicans fall into two camps: those who adhere to the philosophy of Deontology and those who follow the dictates of Consequentialism. With the Senate, still being firmly in the hands of the Democrats, very unlikely to convict Holder no matter what he has done there is no point beyond doing the right thing for its own sake for the House to indict him.

Obviously, the deontologists want to do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do and the fact that nothing will come of it doesn’t really come into the picture insofar as they’re concerned.

Conversely but equally obviously, the consequentialists want to do the right thing but only if doing so will produce a beneficial and ethical result, which any attempt to impeach Holder won’t do since, even of the House indicts, the Senate won’t convict.

With such a fundamental philosophical and ethical divide, the House is unlikely to take any action against Holder.

The Politics of Hate and Othering

Of course, one must not make the mistake of attributing too much devotion to people, especially professional politicians. Most people don’t have a strong tendency towards letting their ethics and morality cause them to put themselves at risk. This is even more true of professional politicians since they want to keep their jobs.

This tendency towards amorality in favor of survival is exacerbated by Obama’s success, with the aid of the ever-complicit Lamestream Media, in the politics of division, hate, and othering. He’s has both successfully redefined bipartisanship and labelled any GOP dissent from his agenda as obstructionist, classist, and racist. That inherently has a chilling effect on many Republican politicians – as Obama and his handlers meant it to.

This has, from what little we’re allowed to know about him, has always been Obama’s preferred modus operandi. He divides people, gets his side to think of the opposition as the Other, and gets them to vote against them rather than to vote for him.

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So, for both philosophical and materialist reasons, I sincerely doubt that the impeachment of Eric Holder will move forward at all. Most likely it won’t even be heard or debated by the House Judiciary Committee Chairman.

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