Category Archives: Fail!

The Guardian view on Britain’s slavery inheritance: reflect and atone (Editorial)

Source: The Guardian view on Britain’s slavery inheritance: reflect and atone (Editorial)

Oregon Sheriff Shared Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory on Facebook – The New York Times

(Was the shooting in Oregon part of a conspiracy by the county sheriff to…?)

The sheriff also warned the vice president that “any federal regulation enacted by Congress or by executive order of the president offending the constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies, nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers within the borders of Douglas Country Oregon.”Three days before that letter was released, Mr. Hanlin shared a link on his personal Facebook page to a YouTube video, which suggested that the shootings at Sandy Hook — and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — might have been staged by the federal government to provide a pretext for “disarming the public” through gun control legislation. In a comment imploring his Facebook friends to watch that video, whose producer claims that the parents of children “allegedly shot” at Sandy Hook were actors, the sheriff wrote, “This makes me wonder who we can trust anymore.”

Source: Oregon Sheriff Shared Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory on Facebook – The New York Times

Oregon shooter said to have singled out Christians for killing in ‘horrific act of cowardice’

Only a murky portrait of the shooter emerged, as a quiet withdrawn young man who struggled to connect with other people and may have harbored resentment against religion.

Source: Oregon shooter said to have singled out Christians for killing in ‘horrific act of cowardice’

Hanlin, the Douglas County sheriff, sent a letter to Vice President Biden in 2013, after the shootings in Newtown renewed the debate about gun control. Hanlin said that proposed restrictions would be “irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people” and he and his deputies would refuse to enforce them.

40 years a refugee: From Western Sahara to CPH – The Local

Four decades ago, tens of thousands of Western Sahara’s indigenous population, the Saharawis, fled the advancing Moroccan army and bomber planes across the border into neighbouring Algeria.  Here they set about building what they thought would be temporary refugee camps in one of the most inhospitable parts of the world, the so-called “Devil’s Garden”, where sand-storms are frequent and where temperatures can exceed 50C. Some 165,000 Saharawis remain in the camps in the Tindouf Province today. Others remain in occupied Western Sahara, one of the world’s most repressive and torturing regimes. And others still live in exile in Spain or in Denmark, like Abba Malainin.

Source: 40 years a refugee: From Western Sahara to CPH – The Local

NYC becomes one more city criminalizing Muslim youth and communities

It is incredibly silly. Linda Sarsour, resident badass activist and head of the Arab American Association of New York, pointed to the “criteria” the NYPD uses to identity terror threats. The behaviors that raise suspicion — at least when Muslim youth do them — include: “giving up cigarettes, drinking, gambling and urban hip-hop gangster clothes; wearing traditional Islamic clothing, growing a beard; becoming involved in social activism and community issues.” I don’t know how to describe this as anything but silly.

Source: NYC becomes one more city criminalizing Muslim youth and communities