We finally have a face to go with the name of the infamous Islamic State murderer known as “Jihadi John.” He is Mohammed Emwazi and is shown here in a Pittsburgh Pirates hat from his time at the University of Westminster. He turns out to another militant from a well-off family and someone who seemed successful in society as we have seen in other cases. This will make it easier for the United States which, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, has made capturing or killing Jihadi John a priority.
The 26-year-old now beheads people for not believing in his extreme view of Islam.
When this picture was taken he was completing his Information Systems with Business Management degree at the London’s Cavendish campus.
Cases like Emwazi tend to undermine the image of IS militants as coming from people left without jobs or a future in the West.
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Do we think Sandi understands that presidents – even Democratic ones – are elected for four years and Senators – even Democratic ones – are elected for six?
Do we think Sandi feels any member in Congress who didn’t win election in November, 2014 is no longer a representative of his state or district?
Is the President no longer President because he didn’t win election in November, 2014?
What do we suppose Sandi means when she states Congress must override a veto or impeach?
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I think we could all stop falling for good cop/bad cop. Executive law breaking doesn’t have a party attached to it. Congressional lawbreaking and the willingness to “take impeachment off the table” doesn’t have a party either. They are all working together. Look at the pattern of action and this will be clear.
It’s difficult for partisans to grasp just how closely the “two” parties work together. Nevertheless, they do. Until we understand that collusion and what it means to us as citizens, we aren’t going to return to the rule of law. We will just keep electing whichever group of liars, thieves, murderers and torturers has the same letter attached to their name as is attached to our name! Think about how stupid we are to do that! Really, it is both stupid and irresponsible of citizens to keep doing this.
Posting times are sorta like reading history…..it can lie.
Turley posts eastern time. His 3 am may be my perfectly reasonable midnight.
Sandi, this country was in deep trouble the 1st year of Bush’s Presidency and culminated in a financial meltdown by the time Obama took office. I think the next two years will be Congress passing outlandish laws and Obama vetoing them. Or they will just bring one lawsuit after another, costing us lots and lots of money.
Game over,
I went to bed at 11:30PM Central Time and that’s pretty darn early for me. Slept like eine kleiner Engel. Check those posting times again. What the heck were YOU doing up at 3:30 in the morning, hmmmm. 😕
In this country everyone lives a different life, forms opinion based on experience, learns the difference in political goals, and decides on a core of beliefs. Everyone has the right to believe and encourage what they think is best. People with different views than others are just that. They are not idiots. Just a different journey on the way to the same goals. Freedom, health, education, purpose, safety. We can have those. Our representatives have forgotten their purpose. The President most of all.
I disagreed with Clinton on many things, but he followed the Constitution. You didn’t like Bush, but he followed the Constitution. Obama has done the Americans a disservice. He has put himself above our Constitution. Our Congress hasn’t found a way to agree the Constitution is most important. Not their party, not their particular seat, but the one thing that brings everyone there, the Constitution.
I am genuinely afraid that if this continues for two more years, our country will be in deep trouble. So let’s put aside what Obama has done and think about what the rest of the people taking an oath to protect the Constitution haven’t done. They haven’t worked together to protect the American people from an unlawful President. Even if you like the purpose of an Executive Order, the fact that it is unconstitutional should be paramount. Congress is there to make law. No other entity is given that right. When a President vetoes a bill passed by Congress that bill should not be considered dead.
It should come back to Congress and they should decide whether the President was wrong. So the way I see it is Congress has two choices. Impeach or override. Everyone thinks Impeachment would be bad for the country. I disagree. But honestly reviewing a bill, without party politics, but whether it is good for the country. They should take that course more seriously. Does the President rule this country or it’s people’s representatives.
I think the next two years should be decided by the people sent there last November. They are the most current thinking of the people. Those elected or returned should vote for the people, not for a party or President.
Sandi Thanks for your humorous post. Your analysis of Presidents who follow the Constitution was funny since it boils down to GOP President does it, it is legal and Constitutional. I see that you suffer from advance Alzheimers since you forget the illegal spying done by Bush, torture, expansion of executive power. The one that put me on the floor was your assertion that CLINTON followed the Constitution and laws. I guess you forget about the FACT, that Clinton was only the second President to be IMPEACHED by the GOP House. That alone says it all and it will not resound to the credit of that Congress either.
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Millions killed, millions displaced, cities and towns blown to bits. children lost, identities and histories unknown. Throw in greed, old grudges, revenge. Don’t neglect the calculations and strategies of nations. History is very complicated and it isn’t really necessary to say that it is written by the victors.
I’m glad to read your version. But you started off on a very wrong note in your accusations regarding Inga’s grandfather. And then compound your error by saying she took those remarks much to personally. WTF?
Civilization got blown to bits over there and lives and their histories obliterated. You cannot possibly know her grandfather’s story. You attacked her grandfather without any knowledge of his story. That is why she is owed an apology.
randyjet, you drove around Yugoslavia in 1884? In a stick shift ox cart?
Came back to see if randyjet and Inga were waiting for the bell for the 337th round of the Lightweight Class of – – or, the battle of who can stay at their computer all night coiled like a cobra ready to strike at the next post. Check the posting times of each – they must have potty chairs at their computers.
randyjet, who gallantly said he was “willing to end it” should change his “handle” to LastWordLarry and Inga could be Importunate Inga. Importunate is not exactly the same as Important.
On other subjects Inga can be delightful and insightful. Obviously, randyjet has a mind like a flatiron on this subject – impermeable, dogged and determined to browbeat his opponent into submission. I am new on this site and have not availed myself to any of his other verbal disembowelments of fellow posters. I have to say, this is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live here. And you would not want me to.
Learned something about the jet part of randyjet (this is your Captain speaking) – he checked out a German woman pilot. In my flying years I was occasionally checked out, but not in the cockpit. Yes, randyjet, I know what checked out means. I know what an aural warning system is(whoop-whoop – pull up!) I know what ailerons are. I know what evac slide looks like in a wheels up landing. Oops, sorry, the topic was your astonishing (if tedious) knowledge of all things Serbian. How about Lower Slobovia, you know about that region? Oh, you come from there! Ii thought I recognized the accent.
I agree that JT does regularly post on police abuses in the US. That is one reason why I am surprised that he hasn’t posted about the Chicago Black site.
This existence of this black site is not only a question of police abuse, but of a much site which incorporates both federal and local agencies abuse (to include unlawful detention, torture and murder) of citizens. It is a matter of Constitution rights being violated and it truly is a state crime against our Constitution and the people. As such, it needs to be uncovered by coverage!
Cult Leader
Bush
Fat Al Gore
Spinelli cuts and pastes over and over and over and over
Although kudos are his due….nothing about ‘cankles’.
Saving that for the next post I guess.
BTW – note who brings up Bush.
po raises a very legitimate question. Why no post regarding a ‘black site’ in his hometown?
Prof. Turley often seems to go for the lurid, the flogging, the East Asian rape, the latest Daily Mail leering scandal while ignoring enormous questions about the justice system right here.
Has Turley ever written on Voter suppression? Has Turley written on the abortion restrictions? How about how the effects of gerrymandering on democracy?
When Citizenfour won the Oscar for best documentary, there was very uncomfortable applause, and a tepid reception for a doc that should have gotten a standing ovation. You see, it makes the cult leader look very bad. If Bush were president, Glen Grreenwald and the production team would have been the darlings of the ceremony and after parties like Fat Albert Gore was when he won for his propaganda doc, An Inconvenient Lock Box. Must protect the leader @ all cost.
JT routinely, regularly, and quite passionately posts police abuse cases. For someone to criticize him on that front is ludicrous on its face.
Apropos of Eastern European WWII history…
Great movie streaming on Netflix is Ida. It is set in Poland and recounts a (small personal) story of WWII murder and the aftermath of the war. It won the Academy Award for best foreign film. Don’t be afraid of subtitles. There is little dialog. Great movie.
po,
Usually, JT covers stories such as this and I am mystified as to why he hasn’t. Perhaps he will. I’m going to link to it below because it is so important.
“The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation
compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys
while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA
black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as
Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police
units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the
better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that
deny access to basic constitutional rights.
Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with
the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into
Chicago police abuse, include:
Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
Shackling for prolonged periods.
Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours,
including people as young as 15.”
At least one man was found unresponsive in a Homan Square “interview room”
and later pronounced dead.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-”
In Darren’s post we do not know, but can certainly suspect, that Putin would have a reason and ability to commit this crime. In the case of the state crimes committed in Chicago, we can understand who is doing what to whom. Torture and murder are being visited upon those who disagree with the government. This is a profound, alarming Constitutional and legal issue.
Yes, just like Oklahoma.