"Why don't CNN follow up ...?"

From  , where we learn more from the folks posting comments than we do from the paid - and supposedly professional - "investigative journalists." 

 

TiredOfPaying

Why don't CNN follow up with the Gamers who were online with Sean Smith at the time of the attack? He clearly stated in Jabber (online messaging service) that a Lybian policeman was taking pictures 2 hours before the attack. 'I hope I don't die tonight. One of the Lybian policemen guarding us is taking pictures of the building.; His conversations said nothing about a protest.

RIP Vile Rat

September 25, 2012 at 9:24 am 

• Jason
  

  Where did you hear that story regarding Jabber?

  September 25, 2012 at 9:41 am 
  • GenXer
    

    jason – here's one story of many re vile rat:

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-12-us-official-killed-in-syria-was-a-senior-eve-online-player.

    September 25, 2012 at 9:54 am 

 

 

These gamers knew - and know - more about what happened in Benghazi than what the dhimmedia is telling us.  I hear from Yeshiva Son that Smith was a prominent poster at the always useful SomethingAwful forums as well.

Hopefully, there are a lot of young people who are getting the truth - or getting at the truth - because they are the ones who have really inherited a mess.

I think of Bil Whittle "of the pajamahadeen"  -- heh, that's what we called it back in those early days. Tell me this was not prescient (2004):

 

.... I worry about terrorism. I worry about Transnational Progressivism. I worry about the utter moral decline of large parts of Europe. I worry about China. I worry about all these things.

But the only thing I genuinely fear is the cyclical nature of civilization. I fear the consequences of abandoning personal responsibility. I fear the self-hatred and nihilism that grows among the pampered, the narcissistic and the uninformed. These are things to be feared greatly. They have brought down entire civilizations and led to dark ages that have cost this species very dearly. I think we stand at such a point today, and this election -- win or lose -- will not determine the outcome...although it might give us some indication of how sick or healthy we are at this pivotal moment in history.

So prepare yourselves. There is a big fight ahead of us, regardless of who is crowing loud in a few weeks time. Other civilizations have fallen; this one may yet. But none have been armed as we are, and our wonder weapon is not the Carrier Battle Group, the Smart Bomb, or the M1 Abrams. This Civilization is armed with information, with real-time communication, with self-organizing expert systems. And for the first time in history, it has in its quiver the chance to hear from great minds otherwise buried in obscurity, to harness the power of billions of opinions and ideas and little, well-made boxes of competence and expertise; brilliant and commanding voices thrown away with the chaff in preceeding generations. This is a force multiplier to cheer even the most pessimistic.

And civilization will rise or fall on the ability to use these weapons under the shield of our shared values of freedom, opportunity, and just plain courage.

 

Please Gd, may this next generation do a better job than mine has. Who could have imagined that "the pampered, the narcissistic and the uninformed" - the so-called Boomers - would ending up bringing such ruin down on our heads?

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Yep -- Whittle was (and still is) prescient. As for the next generation, I guess the crucial question is: Does it contain more gamers, who know they're not getting the truth and are determined to dig for it on their own, or more Occupiers, who are sure they already have the truth and see no reason to doubt it? The college-educated portion of the next generation will start out with a huge disability: a four-year soaking in lies, lies, and more lies. Everything wll depend, I suppose, on how many of them have the mental toughness to emerge from the soaking without having turned into Leftie zombies.

[Mary]

If O can shut down the Internet then we are truly doomed.

[Charles Jacobs]

Anti-Jewish professors caught on video... in Boston!!! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 27, 2012 New Video: Northeastern University’s Professors promote anti-Jewish, anti-Israel agendas under academic banner. Tenured Professors Indoctrinate Students, Encourage meetings with Anti-Semites. ______________________________________________ Contact: Charles Jacobs, President Americans for Peace and Tolerance 617 835 3584 Boston, MA. September 26, 2012 – Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) today released a 30 minute video (http://bit.ly/PHnt3m ) showing how Northeastern Professor Denis Sullivan and other Northeastern faculty abuse academic freedom to promote anti-Israel lies and anti-Semitism as defined by the U.S. State Department. Sullivan is a tenured professor and director of the Northeastern Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development. The video examines Professor Sullivan’s lectures, invited guests, reading lists and student trips to the Middle East, all of which seem designed to provide students with a one-sided view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Dr. Charles Jacobs, APT President said, “It seems clear that Professor Sullivan has built his department to inculcate students with a hostile and demonized view of the Jewish state, with repeated comparisons to the Nazis. Indeed, viewers will see that some of the core themes promoted in his courses are plainly anti-Semitic, and are outright lies.” Sullivan has also introduced the students and the university to virulent anti-Semitic Arab officials and religious leaders. Jewish students and a Hillel staff member interviewed on the video express deep concern and frustration at Sullivan’s constant defaming Israel. Jacobs said, “the US State Department has clearly defined the “new anti-Semitism” and the video shows that what Sullivan teaches to Northeastern students clearly fits the US government definition.” In addition to video clips featuring faculty from the Middle East Center, the video included a shocking clip from April of this year, which shows Northeastern Economics Professor Shahid Alam telling Northeastern students that they should be proud of being called anti-Semites. Alam brags that over the past 10 years of his teaching there, the student body has largely turned against Israel, while pro-Israel students have been intimidated into silence. This is the third video in a series exposing disturbing examples of radicalism and anti-Jewish activities at Northeastern University. (www.shameonneu.com ) “Recently, Northeastern University administration had taken some positive steps in dealing with issues identified in our first two videos.” Jacobs said. “The problem of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism is not restricted to this campus but is a national problem that first came to wide public attention in 2004 with the controversial film “Columbia Unbecoming,” which documented the intimidation of Jewish students at Columbia University,” said Jacobs.” The Jewish community in Boston needs to get involved,” Jacobs said. “The silence of Boston’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is especially disappointing. Anti-Semitism on campus should be more of a concern for them,” he said. American for Peace and Tolerance has written a letter to Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun asking him to place Sullivan’s Middle East Center under his custodial responsibility until the Center complies with Northeastern academic standards and core values. “Professors Sullivan and Alam cannot be allowed to indoctrinate students and promote lies,” Jacobs said.