Leave No Man Behind: Go Back For Officer Holtzclaw

Marina Medvin / Townhall Tipsheet

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Americans are an excitable bunch. We get excited about MAGA hats, plastic straws, Twitter bans, ozone holes, Hillary’s emails, and other simplistic, emotionally-charged topics. But we drag our feet connecting to more profound, yet emotionally-draining issues. And for a good reason. Why discuss that which makes us feel dejected when we can stick to topics that enliven us? But these emotionally-ignored topics have human beings attached to them. And those human beings live through the consequences of us leaving them behind.

Do you recall the U.S. military saying “leave no man behind”? Well, we left Officer Daniel Holtzclaw behind, to die in the field. We need to go back for him.

Officer Holtzclaw was an Oklahoma cop left behind to rot in prison for life, for crimes he did not commit. He was accused by an early version of a #MeToo mob, of various sexual acts, none of which were true. The movement against Holtzclaw was lead by a feminist-style detective who explained that the fit young man “looked” the part of a sexual predator, so she went out to find victims. Lo and behold, she did! The jury didn’t need facts because they had feelings, so Holtzclaw was found guilty and sentenced for more time than people who commit: serial murder, singular murder, terrorism, child rape, human trafficking, etc. He was burned alive in effigy. At age 29, he was put away for life, for 263 birthdays, to be exact. (Overkill, just in case science catches up to death.)

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UN counterterror top dog calls for “rehabilitation” of ISIS jihadis and their “reintegration” into Western societies
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

Another inexpert “expert.” “We need to think about the reintegration of a number of people involved in these terrorist activities, but after the rehabilitation process.” Rehabilitation process? When has that ever worked? In reality, deradicalization programs, upon which the West has placed so much hope, have long been an obvious failure. Such programs are based […]
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Netanyahu’s son banned on Facebook

By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

 
What is it going to take to stop megalomaniacal sharia-fetishist Mark Zuckerberg?

Facebook is the public square. It is a public utility, and the US government should ensure our freedoms in the public square.

Netanyahu’s sharia crime?

Yair Netanyahu has said there will not be peace in the land of Israel until either all the Jews or all the Muslims leave — and he would prefer the latter.

The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted the comment on Facebook on Thursday:

“There will not be peace here until:
1. All the Jews leave the land of Israel.
2. All the Muslims leave the land of Israel.

“I prefer the second option,” he added.

Read entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/12/facebook-fascism-antisemtism.html/

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