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ASHLAND, Ky. —Following yesterday’s jailing of a county clerk for stating that it is not possible for her to obey an order to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals against God’s law, it is now being noted that the same federal judge also once ordered Kentucky students to be re-educated about homosexuality despite their objections.
In 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—the same group that filed suit against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis—sued the Boyd County Board of Education to force it to agree to allow a “gay-straight” alliance club to meet at Boyd County High School. A number of parents had strongly opposed the group following its initial formation, with approximately 70 attending a school council meeting to speak out on the matter.
The school board temporarily suspended the meeting of all student groups due to controversy over the matter, but the Bible and drama clubs allegedly continued to meet despite the ban. Students with the alliance subsequently contacted the ACLU, which filed suit over the matter.
Bunning then ordered Boyd County education officials to allow the alliance to meet on campus, declaring that they must be granted the same privileges as other groups, including using the intercom during school hours.
“Absent a preliminary injunction, plaintiffs will be unable to meet at school, unable to benefit from a forum for discussion with other students who are suffering the effects of harassment based on sexual orientation, and unable to work with other students to foster tolerance among all students,” hewrote. (SEE THIS BLOG'S EXCERPT FROM THE COURT CASE BELOW)
But Bunning also required the school district to implement training as part of a settlement, which mandated school staff and students to undergo diversity education, “a significant portion of which would be devoted to issues of sexual orientation and gender harassment.”
However, a number of students objected to being forced to watch a video that asserted that it is wrong to oppose homosexuality and that a person’s sexuality cannot be changed. They discovered that they could not opt-out of the training without being penalized, and contacted the legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) for assistance.
ADF then sued the Boyd County Board of Education over the matter on behalf of student Timothy Morrison and his parents, who said that the re-education requirement “effectively forces the students to speak in agreement with the school district’s view that homosexuality is a safe and healthy lifestyle that cannot be changed.”
But in 2006, Bunning again ruled that the students must watch the video and could not opt-out because of their Christian identity, stating that the education “rationally related to a legitimate educational goal, namely to maintain a safe environment.” He said that the training wouldn’t mean that students would have to change their religious beliefs, therefore, an opt-out was unnecessary.
“Plaintiffs are not requesting that a student absent from the training be considered an ‘excused’ or that the Board offer an alternate assignment on the issue of diversity. Rather, they seek to opt-out of the training altogether,” Bunning wrote.
“Given the requirements of the consent decree, the Board cannot meet this demand. Moreover, as there is no burden on plaintiffs’ freedom of speech, free exercise or other constitutional right, there is simply no basis for an opt-out,” he said.
Bunning pointed to a First Circuit ruling in making his decision.
“We think it is fundamentally different for the state to say to a parent, ‘You can’t teach your child German or send him to a parochial school,’ than for the parent to say to the state, ‘You can’t teach my child subjects that are morally offensive to me,'” the noted ruling stated.
“If all parents had a fundamental constitutional right to dictate individually what the schools teach their children, the schools would be forced to cater a curriculum for each student whose parents had genuine moral disagreements with the school’s choice of subject matter,” it reasoned.
Bunning’s decision was then appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned his ruling in October 2007 and sided with Morrison. It stated that the student could seek damages from the school district because the policy and training “chilled” his ability to express his Christian beliefs about homosexuality to his fellow students.
“Although a favorable decision cannot provide Morrison an opportunity to travel back in time and utter the speech he withheld, it can provide him with nominal damages,” the three-judge panel ruled in the 2-1 decision. “Even though these damages amount to little, they serve to vindicate his rights.” _____________________________________________________________
CHRISTIANS DENIED FREE SPEECH; CHARACTERIZED AS HATE SPEECH BY PLAINTIFFS:
(NOTE: GSA IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR "GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE" CLUB)
18. After the Council announced its decision approving the GSA Club, the reaction from GSA opponents was acrimonious. Principal Johnson described the reaction as one of "open hostility." 3/19/03 Tr. at 8:21-25 (Johnson). The crowd directly confronted the GSA supporters "with facial expressions, hand gestures ... some very uncivil body language ... people were using loud voices and angry voices and, again, beginning to point ... it took some effort just to calm the meeting down and get through it and get out of there ... that was the first time that I stared into the face of someone that I thought would hurt someone involved in this issue if given the opportunity. That was alarming to me and frightening and disheartening." 3/19/03 Tr. at 10:1-11:3 (Johnson).
19. Board Member Teresa Cornette's observations from the October 28, 2002, meeting were similar. Cornette "was appalled at the reaction of the group, the audience. There was nothing but hatred in that room and ignorance showed by moms and dads and grandparents. When I left that meeting, I honestly thought that, you know, yes, a GSA is very much needed in our community, and these people right here needed to be mandated to go to it. It was horrible. And I literally left that meeting with a fear of what was going to happen in our school the next few days. I believe that we can teach tolerance and we can teach it until we are blue in the face, but if our parents don't teach it to our children also, then it's almost like a losing battle." 3/19/03 Tr. at 60:20-61:8 (Cornette).
An appeal was filed Sunday afternoon for Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk who is sitting behind bars for not issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Davis was jailed on Thursday for defying a federal court order to issue the licenses to homosexuals following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in June, saying doing so would run counter to her deeply held Christian beliefs. She is in her fourth day of incarceration at the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Kentucky.
Attorneys for Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian religious advocacy organization, are working on the legal brief that will be filed with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and will ask to expedite the appeal and set the Contempt Order aside.
“While most Americans are enjoying the extended holiday weekend with family and friends, Kim Davis sits in isolation for the fourth day in jail,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “We are working through the holiday to secure Kim’s freedom.”
Judge Bunning has not yet entered a written order, even though Davis is already confined. The Notice of Appeal is directed to the Contempt Order verbally given from the bench last Thursday.
“The contempt order itself was unlawful,” Roger Gannam, a lawyer for Davis, told Reuters.
Davis’ stance has come to symbolize the cultural gap over “gay” marriage. Reuters noted, “Some social conservatives say she is being denied religious freedom. Others say that with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, Davis is defying her duty as a public servant by refusing to implement the law of the land.”
“Mrs. Davis is entitled to proper notice and due process when she is threatened with the loss of her freedom,” said Staver. “There was no indication that she would be incarcerated. We will be presenting our arguments on appeal and asking for an expedited ruling.”
Deputy clerks in Morland, Kentucky, issued marriage licenses to at least four same-sex couples in Davis’ absence.
Davis, an Apostolic Christian, broke down in tears during her testimony in federal court on Thursday, telling the judge she was “always a good person” but that she gave her heart to the Lord in 2011 and “promised to love Him with all my heart, mind and soul because I wanted to make heaven my home.”
“God’s moral law conflicts with my job duties,” Davis told the judge before she was taken away by a U.S. marshal. “You can’t be separated from something that’s in your heart and in your soul.”
As WND reported this weekend, the left-leaning fundraising site GoFundMe has declined to accept a fundraising campaign for Davis.
Supporters attempted to initiate a GoFundMe campaign for her defense, but were thwarted by the site’s Terms and Conditions, which were updated on April 29 to specify the site can choose not to allow “campaigns in defense of formal charges or claims of heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual or discriminatory acts.”
"Listen to these lawless officials. They KNOW they are trampling liberty and are doing it with a smile on their face and mockery in their voice. You need to understand. This is not entertainment folks. Your children’s liberty is GONE! America is gone!
It just happened a couple weeks ago to our patriot friends the Feinman’s and I just finished helping them compile the clips. I’ve never seen anything quite like this. I refused this checkpoint a few years back. These bureaucratic terrorists are getting far more bold and the tactic is changing. This family had no obligation to stop and no obligation to ID since they were not even stopped by the officer but rather were pulled off. It was an illegal engagement in every way.
Some will say this is about showing ID. Some will say, “what’s the big deal”. Still others will say “you should not do this with children in the car”. It’s time to get serious people. Government is ATTACKING liberty. It is our duty to take a stand and show our children how to defend it. Liberty does not end when our kids are in the car. It begins. This video is what patriotism looks like. Thank the Feinman’s for their brave stand and SUBSCRIBE to their channel HERE.
With a laundry list of crimes committed by these officers, they should be punished. Sadly we have a system in injustice where courts, police and corrupt politicians all work with each other. If the County was doing his job, he would not even let such a checkpoint operate in his County. Much less let them assault innocent travelers."
STOP! In the name of fruit! -- Feinman Family ARRESTED in California. This is what we have become. A nation of slaves where dissenters are punished. This has nothing to do with agriculture. It’s all about control.
CALL Sheriff Keith Royal and demand he protect the Constitution. He is oath bound to stop this in his county as he is the highest authority not the CHP or other agencies: 530-265-1471 Email: sheriff@co.nevada.ca.us
SHERIFF REFUSES TO MEET WITH FAMILY NO CHARGES MADE TO DATE Deputy District Attorney, Truckee: Anna Tyner: 530-582-7832 Email: anna.tyner@co.nevada.ca.us
VIDEO OF POLICE STOP: SHORT VERSION
“So you’re a Constitutionalist?.. We’ve had problems with this before!”
FASCIST FALSE PROPHET POPE ORDERS ALL CHURCHES TO SHELTER ILLEGAL MUSLIM MIGRANTS
GLOBALIST ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AGENDA UNDER THE POPE HIDDEN BY "ACTS OF MERCY"
Published on Sep 7, 2015
POPE FRANCIS CALLED ON SUNDAY ON EVERY EUROPEAN PARISH AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY TO TAKE IN ONE MIGRANT FAMILY EACH IN A GESTURE OF SOLIDARITY HE SAID WOULD START IN THE TINY VATICAN STATE WHERE HE LIVES
“I don’t think you can overstate the importance that the rise of Islamic fundamentalism will have to the rest of the world in the century ahead-especially if, as seems possible, its most fanatical elements get their hands on nuclear and chemical weapons and the means to deliver them against their enemies.” – Ronald Reagan
Right now, the European Union states are being besieged by a virtual sea of immigrants seeking asylum in their counties. The vast majority of these people are undocumented Muslims with terror ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS. This type of jihad is known as biological jihad and it is highly successful in changing the makeup of a non-Muslim country into a Muslim majority country. And who is demanding that all of Europe blindly take in these tens of thousands of undocumented Muslim immigrants with ISIS terror ties? Why, it’s our old friend Pope Francis, the False Prophet. What a shock.
Pope Francis Calls For European Catholics to Take In Refugees
Published on Sep 6, 2015
Thousands of displaced Syrians pour into Germany looking for new beginnings after a long journey.
Pope Francis responded to Europe's burgeoning immigration crisis Sunday, asking every Catholic church on the continent to set an example of Christian mercy .
Pope Francis is asking Catholic faithful throughout Europe to shelter refugees Pope calls on Europe's churches to shelter migrants who are 'fleeing death from .
Pope Francis on Sunday called on every Catholic parish in Europe to take in a refugee family, saying the Vatican's two parishes would lead by example.
Planned Immigration Invasion Hits Europe
The Global Elites Takedown Of The West Launches
Published on Sep 7, 2015
Around 8,000 migrants and refugees have now arrived in Germany to a “phenomenal” humanitarian response, with offers of accomodation and aid.
Pope Francis put his Church’s weight behind moves to house the migrants – calling on every parish, religious community, monastery, and sanctuary in Europe to take in one migrant family.
Speaking after his customary Sunday address in Rome, he also said that the Vatican would set an example, with two of its parishes each taking in a family of refugees in the coming days. http://www.infowars.com/more-migrants...
The Global Migrant Crisis Is Escalated by Design
Published on Sep 7, 2015
On this Sunday, September 6 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we take a look at Alex’s “Total Emergency Alert Update: Global meltdown begins,” a video posted on Saturday on the heels of a previous warning in June explaining how the destabilization of social and political systems orchestrated by the global elite imperils humanity. On this worldwide transmission we also break down the migrant crisis in Europe as the Pope demands churches across Europe open their doors to refugees driven out of Syria by the US-Saudi backed proxy war there. Other stories include the US State Department warning Russia to not help the besieged al-Assad regime in Syria and the global elite fine tuning new debt scams to consolidate wealth and drive the people of the world into poverty and desperation.
20 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WAITING ON EUROPE'S DOORSTEP READY TO INVADE
East-West divide: Clashes in Budapest; Eastern Europe rejects migrant sharing quotas
Published on Sep 4, 2015
Clashes break out in Budapest as a crowd of football fans marches by a camp of refugees in the heart of the Hungarian capital. Meanwhile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have unanimously rejected a quota system for sharing migrants.
Migrant Migraine? Swedish anti-immigration party gains huge voter support
OBAMA'S AMERICAN SANCTUARY CITIES
FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Judge Jeanine Pirro Hammers Obama Administration on Sanctuary Cities and Illegal Immigration
BENEFITS FREELY GIVEN TO ILLEGALS, WITHHELD FROM CITIZENS
Pope says churches across Europe must open their doors
Published on Jun 5, 2015
American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor explains how African boat people exploit the humanitarianism of Europeans. He concludes that Europeans have a choice: "Wake up or die."
GERMANY WANTS 800,000 IMMIGRANTS;
OTHER COUNTRIES PRESSED TO TAKE IN MORE CZECH, POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA REJECT EU PROPOSAL FOR REFUGEE QUOTA SYSTEM
East-West divide: Clashes in Budapest; Eastern Europe rejects migrant sharing quotas
ANGELA MERKEL LOVED BY SOCIALISTS, DEMONIZED BY OTHER COUNTRIES
Published on Aug 1, 2015
Filmed at Cadogan Hall on 26th November 2013. They're calling her the devil.
Demonised across Europe for her determined enforcement of austerity, Germany's chancellor remains overwhelmingly popular at home and looks likely to win .
PEGIDA Thousands of anti-immigration demonstrators take to the streets; socialist Merkel warns not to be duped by "far right rhetoric"
Published on Aug 3, 2015
More than 10,000 protesters gathered in the eastern German city of Dresden on Monday night for an anti-Islam demonstration and to protest against the government's stance on immigration. A group calling itself "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West", or PEGIDA, has staged weekly rallies in the city of Dresden that have attracted growing numbers of supporters. One protester who declined to give his name criticised Muslims for demanding Germans adapt to their culture. "It bothers me if I have to see a minaret in Germany, it bothers me a lot. In Turkey or Iraq it's not imaginable, they would never be so tolerant," he said. "Why should we be tolerant with these people?" Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Germans on Monday not to be duped by far-right rhetoric, amid concerns over the growing number of people flocking to anti-Islam demonstrations in the country. "There's freedom of assembly in Germany, but there's no place for incitement and lies about people who come to us from other countries," Merkel said. "Everyone (who attends) needs to be careful that they're not taken advantage of by the people who organise such events." Immigration has emerged as a contentious topic again in Germany, partly due to the recent sharp rise in asylum applications, particularly from Syrians. More than 150,000 people sought refuge in Germany during the first eleven months of the year, an increase of 40,000 compared with 2013.
GERMANY'S CHRISTIANS MUST STAND UP FOR GERMAN CULTURE
AS WELL AS CHRISTIAN HERITAGE
Brave German Woman: Why Heidi Mund Rebuked Islam
INTERNATIONAL JESUS MARCH FRANKFURT 2014
CHRISTIAN HEIDI MUND OPEN AIR SPEECH
GERMAN HUMOR LACED WITH SARCASM
"Super-Heidi Saves the West
Before The Islamization"
Super-Heidi rettet das Abendland vor der Islamisierung A COMIC PORTRAYAL
HEIDI MUND STANDS UP TO MUSLIMS
Freie Bürger für Deutschland - Rede Heidi Mund - Ludwigshafen 2.5.2015 Free Citizens for Germany Speech
GREEK ISLANDS OVERRUN
France Prepares For Mass Unrest
Published on Aug 28, 2015
French security forces are preparing for mass civil unrest and radicalized immigrants taking over entire neighborhoods, according to intelligence sources. http://www.infowars.com/france-prepar...
COMING FROM MOROCCO, STORMING SPAIN'S RAZOR WIRE FENCES
Dreaming of the UK: Europe’s Migrant Crisis
Published on Aug 6, 2015
This report takes us to the French coastal town of Calais, where thousands of migrants, largely from the Middle East and Africa, are desperately trying to board boats or trucks in order to travel to Britain. Calais is a magnet for the migrants from war zones and poor countries who are trying to reach Britain. For years French police have been trying to remove migrant camps in and around Calais; however, the number of arriving migrants have been persistent. Many of the migrants hope to hide in trucks or other vehicles crossing to Britain. We will see what life is like in the camps and find out how they are treated by the police and most local people and if Britain rejects them or not. .
MILAN, ITALY PROTESTS
IMMIGRANT INVASION
OPINION
"DIVERSITY" FOR NON CHRISTIANS;
CHRISTIANS PERSECUTED
FOR ALLEGED "PREJUDICE"
Kristiina Ojuland - EU to Force Mass Immigration on Estonia INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH
Published on Jun 25, 2015
Kristiina Ojuland studied law and politology at University of Tartu. She is the founder and leader of the People’s Unity Party 2014. Ms. Ojuland was once the Foreign Minister of Estonia, a member of Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), and served on the European Parliament in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group. Kristiina is with us to talk about the increasingly troublesome issue of mass immigration in Estonia and Europe in general. She sums up the demographic, economic and social climates of the small, relatively poor country of Estonia, where native populations are quickly being transformed by “refugee” transplants flooding in from North Africa and other Mediterranean countries. We discuss the special privileges and benefits that are granted to non-European immigrants and the major burdens the social system is experiencing through receiving foreigners who resist true integration and exploit the social order. Kristiina touches on the important point of security threats that are presented with mass quantities of Muslims entering Europe, many of whom are lacking passports, have questionable backgrounds, and are seeking new identities as ISIS fighters and Jihadist radicals. We expand on the crippling effects of political correctness in government and where this absurdity needs to be eliminated in order to speak frankly and honestly about immigration issues, namely the European Commission’s response to the recent boat crisis in the Mediterranean and their plan to impose non-voluntary immigration quotas across all EU countries. In conclusion, Kristiina talks about what she is doing to raise awareness about these extreme proposals and highlights steps that must be taken in order to preserve the continued existence of the unique cultures and peoples of Europe.
Authors website: kristiinaojuland [at] gmail [dot] com
Planned Immigration Invasion Hits Europe - The Infowars Nightly News - Full Show - 9/4/2015
DEVIL POPE, USURPER OF CHRIST
INCITES MOVEMENT OF IMMIGRANTS
The Global Elites Takedown Of The West Launches
Published on Sep 7, 2015
Around 8,000 migrants and refugees have now arrived in Germany to a “phenomenal” humanitarian response, with offers of accomodation and aid.
Pope Francis put his Church’s weight behind moves to house the migrants – calling on every parish, religious community, monastery, and sanctuary in Europe to take in one migrant family.
The Global Migrant Crisis Is Escalated by Design: 9/06/15 Full Show
Published on Sep 7, 2015
On this Sunday, September 6 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we take a look at Alex’s “Total Emergency Alert Update: Global meltdown begins,” a video posted on Saturday on the heels of a previous warning in June explaining how the destabilization of social and political systems orchestrated by the global elite imperils humanity. On this worldwide transmission we also break down the migrant crisis in Europe as the Pope demands churches across Europe open their doors to refugees driven out of Syria by the US-Saudi backed proxy war there. Other stories include the US State Department warning Russia to not help the besieged al-Assad regime in Syria and the global elite fine tuning new debt scams to consolidate wealth and drive the people of the world into poverty and desperation.
MORE MIGRANTS REACH GERMANY
AS POPE STEPS IN
Pope says churches across Europe must open their doors
About 8,000 migrants and refugees have now arrived in Germany to a "phenomenal" humanitarian response, with offers of accomodation and aid.
Pope Francis put his Church's weight behind moves to house the migrants - calling on every parish, religious community, monastery, and sanctuary in Europe to take in one migrant family.
Speaking after his customary Sunday address in Rome, he also said the Vatican would set an example, with two of its parishes each taking in a family of refugees in the coming days.
He said it was not enough to say "have courage, hang in there" to those marching towards what he described as "life's hope".
Some 6,000 arrived in Munich on Saturday afternoon and were joined by another 2,000 who crossed the border from Austria early on Sunday.
Most have travelled by train to Munich while others were taken further afield to Frankfurt and Dortmund where they were given temporary accommodation, food and water.
Hungary is again filling up with new arrivals, most of whom have travelled from Syria through Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia.
Sky News’ Europe Correspondent Mark Stone, watching refugees arrive into Austria from Hungary, described the humanitarian response in Vienna as "phenomenal".
He said: "(The refugees) are being greeted with fruit, with water and with a smile - something they didn’t really see in Hungary while the government there decided whether or not it would allow them to transit through towards Germany."
But more people are coming, with Stone saying that, as of 9.30am Sunday local time, 700 people had crossed from Serbia into Hungary - compared with 1,000 during the whole of Saturday. At least 11,500 are expected to have reached Germany by the end of Sunday.
"That suggests that today there will be another huge influx of people and the politicians simply are not giving any answers as to how they're going to be able to cope with that influx yet," Stone added.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised by many for opening the country's door to tens of thousands of refugees.
She has been criticised by political colleagues, however.
Also, four people were arrested in Dortmund after fighting between opposing groups outside the city's main train station where refugees were due to arrive.
Separately, police in Dortmund are investigating an attempted arson attack at a former school building which was to house refugees.
Several dozen French mayors have offered to help, ahead of a national meeting this week to arrange refugee accommodation, but a poll of 1,000 French people found 55% opposed to easing requirements for asylum seekers.
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country will not provide safe haven for migrants because Israel is too vulnerable.
Hungary's prime minister Victor Orban has warned "the supply of immigrants is endless," while criticising EU plans for quotas to commit each country to shelter a proportion of refugees.
"What will it solve if we divide 50,000 or 100,000 migrants among us, when uncountable millions will be on the way?" he said.
Charities in the UK say more than £1m has been raised in response to the crisis and the Scottish government has announced funding of another £1m while offering to accept 1,000 migrants as a "starting point".
It has also renewed focus on Syria and what can be done to put an end to the country's bloody civil war that is causing so many families to flee.
A YouGov poll commissioned by the Sun on Sunday suggests most people support Britain playing a greater military role in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
It comes as former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, called for a renewed military effort to "crush" IS in Syria and backed calls for British military intervention to create "safe enclaves" in the country.
Amsterdam could compete with New York for the title of modern Babylon. More than 200 ethnic groups live here. The whole of post-war Holland has been working hard to build the image of Europe's most tolerant country -- but what has been the result? Regions of the country are populated completely by people not of Dutch origin. Some of them want to accept the Dutch culture, language, and way of life; others are keeping their own traditions and languages. But despite their differences, all these people want to live in Holland. Find out what the Dutch think about it on RT.
THE “MIGRANT CRISIS” IS ABOUT IMPOSING MULTICULTURALISM
ON THE WEST
A backdoor plot to enforce mass immigration that European voters had previously rejected
The politicians and establishment figures in the United States and European Union demanding that the West accept millions of Middle Eastern refugees are the same globalists that created the tragic situation in the first place by destroying the countries their victims are fleeing from. Libya,Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond all offer plenty of evidence showing that to be the case. The horrific consequences of the globalist establishment's machinations, though — thegenocide of Middle Eastern Christians, the emergence of savage terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS), the tsunami of refugees right now cascading into Europe, and more — are only just beginning.
Whether deliberately supporting Islamic terrorist groups and leaving the Middle East in ruins was calculated to produce the tidal wave of suffering refugees remains unclear at this point. It is certainly not far-fetched, considering the decades of globalist and communist support for terrorism, tyranny, and even mass murder, often as a means to an end. But the fact that the Obama administration, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the EU, European national governments, and allied Sunni-Arab dictators created these crises is beyond dispute. So is the fact that they are exploiting the disasters they created to advance multiple agendas, as The New American has been documenting for years.
While the establishment press appears to be counting on its dwindling audience having a short memory, the true source of the refugee crisis has not escaped notice entirely. “The reason so many are fleeing places such as Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq is that U.S. and European interventionist foreign policy has left these countries destabilized with no hopes of economic recovery,” explained former congressman and three-time presidential contender Ron Paul, a leading voice for a constitutional, non-interventionist U.S. foreign policy. “This mass migration from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neocon foreign policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing 'democracy' at the barrel of a gun.”
In Paul's latest column, published by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity he leads, the longtime champion of non-interventionism and liberty expressed sympathy for the displaced people — particularly the children. But, noting that very little attention was being given to the events that led to the mass displacements, Paul urged readers not to forget that “this is a man-made crisis and it is a government-made crisis.” In addition to the warmongers in Washington, D.C., Paul, whose son Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is now running for the GOP presidential nomination, also quite properly assigned some of the blame to European governments. Especially responsible are authorities in the United Kingdom and France, which enthusiastically supported the lawless war on Libya and later, the half-baked “Assad must go” policy.
“As often happens when there is blowback from bad foreign policy, the same people who created the problem think they have a right to tell us how to fix it — while never admitting their fault in the first place,” Paul continued. As an example, he pointed to disgraced General David Petraeus, who led the CIA when the administration launched its unconstitutional “regime change” plot against Syria, and the former general's recent suggestion that the Obama administration forge a formal alliance with al-Qaeda to fight ISIS. “Here is the real solution to the refugee problem: stop meddling in the affairs of other countries,” Paul concluded. “Embrace the prosperity that comes with a peaceful foreign policy, not the poverty that goes with running an empire. End the Empire!”
Estimates on the number of refugees flooding into Europe vary widely, but hundreds of thousands have already arrived in recent months, and millions more are expected, with no end in sight. From overcrowded boats leaving from Libya stuffed with refugees to human trains of misery arriving on foot from Syria and Iraq through Turkey and other nations, the tide of displaced people is growing larger by the minute. Of course, some “refugees” come from other nations without ongoing crises and are simply ditching their identities and claiming to be Syrian to obtain asylum in the West. But the overwhelming majority of the refugees heading into Europe and being resettled in the United States by the UN and Obama come from a handful of nations that share one common trait: destruction and bloodshed wrought by recent “interventions” by Western globalists under some false pretense.
Most of the Syrians and Iraqis fleeing their homeland, of course, are fleeing from ISIS. And according to Vice President Joe Biden, ISIS is the product of Obama's anti-ISIS coalition. “What my constant cry was that our biggest problem was our allies.... What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands, of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight,” Biden said in a speech at Harvard. “Except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra and al-Qaeda and extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.” Those terrorists went on to become ISIS, Biden admitted after exposing Obama's false claims about allegedly “moderate” forces being supported in the fight against Assad. “There was no moderate middle,” he said.
Military leaders have also alluded to the anti-ISIS coalition's role. When asked in Senate testimony whether any “major” U.S. allies supported ISIS, for example, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey noted that it is even worse than that. “I know major Arab allies who fund them,” he responded. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a leading warmonger and proponent of the very policies that produced the ongoing chaos, was taken aback by the response. But what Dempsey said was hardly a secret — this magazine and other sources had been reporting that for over a year — and the notion that Graham did not know borders on the ridiculous.
“The West, Gulf countries [the Islamic regimes ruling Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc.], and Turkey support the Syrian opposition,” the document explains, adding that al-Qaeda and other terrorists are the “major forces driving the insurgency” against the Syrian despot. “There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist [fundamentalist Islam] principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.” (Emphasis added.)
Of course, that is exactly what happened when ISIS declared the establishment of its “caliphate” in Eastern Syria and parts of Iraq during its war on Assad and his allies. The report also warns of the potential consequences — though there is no mention of the ongoing genocide against Middle Eastern Christians facilitated by those same policies. The exodus of hundreds of thousands of Syrians into Europe was also not contemplated in the document, but it is certainly a direct consequences of the policies pursued by the Obama administration and its allies. Apparently military officials warned the administration against backing terrorists in Syria, but the White House proceeded anyway.
Ironically, perhaps, deposed Libyan strongman Gadhafi once boasted of the Islamic presence in Europe and its potential eventual results. “We have 50 million Muslims in Europe,” he said. “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquest — and will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.” Thanks in part to the lawless war to overthrow him by Obama, al-Qaeda, and European governments, that prospect is becoming increasingly less far-fetched. And all of it was based on lies and a UN resolution, with Obama never bothering to seek permission from Congress as the Constitution demands. Today, after the “regime change” plot turned Libya into a terror state embroiled in civil war, Libyan Muslims are fleeing to Europe by the shipload.
As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently warned, talk of how many Middle Eastern refugees to accept based on a proposed EU “quota” system is beyond futile while the continental regime cannot even secure its outer borders. Plus, there will be consequences to allowing millions more Muslim refugees to settle in Europe, he warned, citing, among other concerns, the threat to Western civilization's Christian heritage. Plus, many European governments are already overwhelmed economically and facing massive unrest, with the incoming wave of refugees set to intensify existing crises.
The mushrooming refugee crisis would appear to be yet another a perfect illustration of the establishment's age-old “problem-reaction-solution” scam. In essence, the same figures who created a problem exploit the public reaction to it before offering their “solutions” — almost always involving more tyranny. Obama's former chief of staff alluded to the scam when he said: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Now the world is watching it play out on television.
Resettling millions of non-Western refugees in the West, as is happening right now, would never have been possible without creating the initial problems. But it will have major implications stretching generations into the future. In some parts of Europe, that is already becoming impossible to ignore. Jihadists are openly bragging about their infiltration of the West among the refugees. And it may all be inevitable at this point, with European governments claiming to be unable to contain the human tsunami at their borders. At the very least, though, Americans and Europeans must hold accountable the individuals who unleashed the bloodbath in the first place by waging illegal wars and variously backing dictators and terrorist groups under the guise of “foreign policy.” And that accountability should start at the very top — from Obama and EU leaders on down.
