BY RAUL HERNANDEZ
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The blood bath in Paris caused by ISIS terrorists was horrific, more than 150 people are dead including one American student.
Americans are sending their heartfelt thoughts and prayers and supporting the country’s oldest and one of its strongest allies, the French people.
But let’s not forget that this is a war with religious and violent cave-dwelling thugs who need to be tracked down and destroyed wherever we find them, including in their rat nest bases where this evil breeds, trains and concocts nefarious plans to kill so-called “infidels,” including women and children.
There are no simple solutions to this complex problem. However, this might be a wakeup call to European and other nations, and there might be some lessons to be learned from 911.
One of America’s major flaws on its War on Terror was that information about terrorism wasn’t being shared by federal agencies like the CIA and FBI.
Some reports indicated that it was because of federal egos and turf wars. Also much of it had to do with the lack of technology to do so. The U.S. did a lot to quickly correct this problem.
As a result, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was formed after the Homeland Security Act of 2002 was passed by congress.
This is also a problem in the world. Stronger communications and more coordination among countries including Russia who have been hit by terrorists seems to be lacking.
There is a need to form a 24/7 International Terrorist Task Force that includes countries such as France, England, Italy, Germany, Russia and other nations to find terrorists along with tracking down their source of weapons and financing.
Russia is already in the Middle East, Syria, so why not use their military resources, expertise and intelligence to help defeat terrorists there.
After the Russian airline was shot down by ISIS, I believe Putin will be more that willing to get involved in the creation of an International Terrorist Task Force that could be headquartered in Vienna, Spain or Norway.
Also get China involved in this Task Force.
This recent story got little publicity but there has been cooperation between the U.S. and Chinese law enforcement officials
In September, They met in Beijing to coordinate their efforts to fight international drug trafficking, authorities announced.
Officials said representatives of both sides held two separate but related meetings to exchange law enforcement information, share their assessments of the drug problem, discuss responses in their respective countries, review progress and examine possible mechanisms for further cooperation.
Why would it be difficult to get China to be part of an Terrorist Task Force too?
In addition, the Task Force could use Special Ops Forces from the member countries and have boots on the ground to coordinate airstrikes, organize armies like the Kurds, find and track terrorists throughout the world.
Sadly, terrorism has been going on for decades and more terrorist acts will be committed somewhere in the world. However, world leaders need to find a way to prevent much of this blood shed of innocent lives.
From an economic standpoint, terrorist can also wreck havoc on a country’s and the world’s economy.
TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN
During a campaign speech earlier this month, Donald Trump reminded me of the disheveled, drunk buffoon who is wobbling in the middle of the office party with a cigarette in one hand, holding a beer in the other hand and not ware that his zipper is down, ranting and trying to be amusing .
But he is annoying and making a fool of himself.
Trump demonstrated to his supporters last week how difficult it is to be stabbed through a belt buckle like political rival Ben Carson had described.
It was embarrassing, below is the video:
Today, Trump — turned diplomat — commented on the Paris terrorist attack. He said this: “nobody had guns but the bad guys,” and so the terrorists were able to kill people one by one, according to published reports.
I guess at a Texas Truck Pull everybody could whip out their “open-carry” guns. Then, when the police arrived, they’d have to sort out the terrorists from the “good guys” with a gun who by that time would have probably mistakenly gunned down other “good guys” with guns.
Sometimes, Trump decides to hold three-piece-suit Klan Rallies — minus the crosses and sheets — that are thinly disguised as political campaigns where he imitates a fiery preacher when he talks about rounding up and deporting 11 million illegal immigrants.
This gets his audience all riled up. Cheers. Whistles. Applause. Applause.
The rest of the world has been laughing because much of America is so gullible, ignorant and racist and because the Republican candidate for the nation’s highest office is too stupid to realize that he has become a political punchline, a national joke, and an embarrassment.
On the flip side of this political horserace and running in second place is the other Republican candidate Ben Carson who is constantly stepping on his tongue, is a master of convoluted logic, and who is about as interesting and intriguing as watching a slug go up a drain pipe.
Seriously, we owe some Third World countries apologies for years of high-browing their election process.
The Bible According to Snooze.
Ben Carson told Christians during a campaign stop that they should fear “secular progressives”
It’s not the liberal bogeyman who Christians need to fear. It is the wolves in sheeps’ clothing like Carson who hoodwinks Christians by sprinkling his speeches with thus saith the lord phrases and then, gets caught in a web of lies, including his involvement with Mannatech.
CNN Investigation: http://www.cnn.com/…/ben-carson-mannatech-fact-check/
Author Sarah Posner in a column published earlier this month for the University of Southern California wrote the following:
“Secular progressives, to Carson, are not mere political adversaries. In Carson’s usage, the term seems to encompass any sort of person or entity that might fall into categories as varied as liberal, secular, religious liberal, religious progressive, communist, socialist, feminist, LGBT rights activist, civil liberties advocate, Someone Who Disagrees With Ben Carson, atheist, agnostic, dormant and dead moderate Republicans, and, oh, I don’t know, CNN?…” according to her column.
Posner is the author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.”
“News” Reporters and The Candidates
The media should ask the Republic and Democratic candidates three basic questions on any political issue during these debates: What is your plan, give specific details? How much will it cost the taxpayers? Do you believe voters will support your plan and why?
Instead reporters and TV pundits spent much of their time gabbing about what a candidate’s body poses and posturing on the debate stage mean.
Putting serious thought to figure what candidate thumped his or her chest the most during a debate and the significance of this. Who had the best insults, one-liners, and who made the most caustic comments. Who are a political candidate’s allies and who can negotiate with Putin the best.
I am surprised that the media isn’t reading the candidates’ Horoscopes or feeling the bumps on these candidates heads to make some of these incredulous conclusions and incredible remarks after these debates.
Totally, insane, and there is nearly a year more of this.
But covering Trump and others candidates especially from the Republican Party has paid off in handsome dividends to TV networks — ratings are up and so are profits.
So why should they want to shut down this political amusement park?
Police Killings
Jerome Karabel, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote an excellent column titled:
“Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, Capital Punishment, and a Movement Responds.”
Being a cop is a very tough job. Who would want to go from one crime scene to another all day long?
But there is a fact about the risks involved in being a cop that Karabel noted in his column that puts in perspective the danger of policing.
Karabel wrote, citing a study: “Yet though the risks police face are real, their training causes them to systematically overestimate it. For as Stoughton (study) points out, police officers interact with civilians about 63,000,000 times a year and are assaulted in 0.09 percent of all interactions, injured in 0.02 percent, and killed in 0.000008 percent. The task of good police training, he suggests, is to “help officers put these risks in perspective.”
But the training police get seems to exaggerate the danger, setting up an “us and them” mentality and a “circle the wagons” mindset that leads to abuse, brutality and fatal shootings.
The public, for the most part, has been part of the problem because, up until cell phone cameras started capturing the police beating and shootings, neither the people nor the District Attorneys Offices held bad police officers accountable.
Bad cops continued to be bad cops, and good cops continued to look the other way.
Also the media in the past has been reluctant to report on police abuse and brutality or simply ignored it because they believed this would upset the cop cheerleading section, their readers and viewers and other badge bunnies.