Category: Bigotry

Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners

Israel has over 7,000 Palestinians in prison, most held without charges.  The others faced long sentences for gathers of 10 or more for what Israel calls political expression.  Palestinians are banned from displaying their flag or political symbols.  Again a 10 year prison sentence.   10 years if a Palestinian orally attempts to influence public opinion in a way Israel thinks would harm public peace.  Remember, these rules only apply to the Palestinians, not the Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory.  Life in prison for any act that Israel determines a disturbance or a danger to the security of the area or threats the security of the IDF (military).  That includes kids throwing rocks at the illegal wall Israel built in Palestinian territory.   Of course the laws are written very vague so they can be applied to anything a Palestinian does that someone in Israel doesn’t like.   Remember that while Israeli media and people held huge events celebrating the return of their family members, the Palestinians were warned they would be all be arrested if there was a similar celebration of returning family members.

Do you not see the Palestinians are kept in an open air prison with every aspect of their lives under the military control of Israeli IDF and at the mercy  of any Jewish citizen who harms them.  I recently watched a video of an illegal Jewish settler walk up to a Palestinian man who was unarmed and just shoot him.  A few feet away was an Israel Soldier who did nothing.  On the Palestinian’s land, he was a farmer shot on his own property.  The Jewish man was never charged.  There is more in the video.  Hugs.  Scottie

Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons.

Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.

In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations and why hostage negotiations have historically involved the exchange of Palestinian prisoners.

Let’s talk about a poll spelling trouble for the US and Israel….

Those Were the Days

Those Were the Days

By my dogs that love gravy, this is perfect.  One of the best cartoons I have seen all year.  So spot on.  Hugs.  Scottie

Bari Weiss Had No Problem Permanently Cancelling Palestinian Writer And His Family

Daily Wire Host: “I Support Christian Nationalism”

Daily Wire Host: “I Support Christian Nationalism”
“We’ve got ‘In God We Trust’ on our money. It’s a Christian country. Most people are Christian. It’s just a Christian country. There’s no other way to put it.
Elagabalusa day ago

Before the “illegals” arrived in 1620 from across the seas, the native population was decidedly NOT Christian. So there.

Flora DeMann a day ago edited
It was founded explicitly as a Christian nation in 1620 by the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock who sailed here on the Mayflower.


No, stupid, the pilgrims are not the same as the founding fathers

TrollopeReader  Flora DeManna day ago

and the Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony were different than the Puritan founders of the Mass Bay Colony who were different than the Roger Williams who was kicked out, and formed Rhode Island, let alone the Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Catholics in Maryland, and the Anglicans of Virginia.

(and of course, assorted early Jewish synagogues.)

Gustav2  TrollopeReadera day ago

The Pilgrims were a Hippie commune compared to the Puritans’ capitalism.

ECarpenter  TrollopeReader a day ago edited

Those are just facts, and we know mythology is much stronger than facts in the US today.

Chris Baker  TrollopeReader20 hours ago

Didn’t some states even ban Catholics? Even the idea of what is “Christianity” is up for debate. Catholics, Protestants, Othodox and even Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses disagree on what a “Christian” is.

Paddycakes2001  TrollopeReader 19 hours ago

And the fact that the 1607 Virginia colony was founded earlier and solely as a commercial venture.

And yes, those Puritans & Separatists who set themselves up in Massachusetts Bay & Plymouth didn’t set up “our country.” They set up a religious dictatorship that executed and exiled other sects, like Quakers and Baptists. And, oh yeah, witches too.

DreadPikathulhu  Flora DeManna day ago edited

This is what happens when the Internet effectively lowers the barriers of entry to zero and anyone with a microphone can potentially draw millions of listeners – and millions of dollars. Networks of decades past wouldn’t have given this kind of bullshit air and it would have been limited to fringe pamphlets handed out at Bircher rallies.

AyJayDee2  DreadPikathulhua day ago

That’s exactly it. The very democratization of information that was supposed to be the liberating part about the internet has instead opened the floodgates to fascist propaganda and disinformation. Any smooth talker with some inexpensive equipment and decent production sense can become an instant thought leader despite having no discernible expertise or talent.

It’s worth noting that it was the rapid spread of new communication technology that enabled the last rise of fascism too.

Flora DeMann  AyJayDee2 a day ago

The Volksempfänger (“people’s receiver”) was a range of low-cost German radio receivers developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of the Nazi regime.
Its purpose was to make radio reception technology affordable to the general public. Goebbels realized the great propaganda potential of this relatively new medium and thus considered widespread availability of receivers highly important.

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1936 Nazi propaganda poster, promoting the use of the Volksempfänger. The text can be translated as, “All of Germany hears the Führer with the People’s Receiver.”

Nazis pioneered broadcast television as well.

Mrs. Councillor Nugent  Flora DeManna day ago

Word Salad for breakfast.
Half that lot stayed behind, and the passenger list had to be made up from scraping the streets of London in order to make the trip profitable on that old scow.

cfa  Mrs. Councillor Nugenta day ago

The colony was very much a mix of “Saints” and “Strangers”. My ancestor Edward Bumpus, who arrived on the ship Fortune in 1621, was very much of the latter category, and notable as America’s first welfare deadbeat. His origins are uncertain, and one theory is that he was one of the “lusty young men” of the Southwark docks.

Mrs. Councillor Nugent  cfa a day ago

As long as we’re sharing lusty progenitors, Ahem:
John Howland arrived as the indentured servent to the Carvers, a childless couple who then very conveniently died the very next Sping. Of course, this broke the indenture, and he somehow inherited the entire lot.
He then proceeded to marry Elizabeth Tilley, another Mayflower passenger, producing ten children, each of whom married in turn, spewing another 8-10 apiece. By the third generation, then, we’re dealing with some 75+ people.
John also brought over his brothers Henry and Arthur, each of whom appeared nearly as busy between the sheets.
The real kicker on the last two is that they turned Quaker by mid-century, and promptly got booted to Dartmouth Township, a tract purchased from the Natives, and extending from Fairhaven to the RI border. The Joke was on the Plymouth Colony when New Bedford became fabulously wealthy from whaling, including Howland descendant Henrietta Howland Greene!

ECarpenter  Flora DeManna day ago

They didn’t land on Plymouth Rock – that’s a myth. Like everything else this guy claims.

thatotherjean a day ago edited

No, you idiot. It was “founded,” after a fashion, in 1607, when English settlers built Jamestown, in what is now Virginia. Religion had nothing much to do with that one; they were looking to make a profit. They didn’t, but the settlement held, unlike the earlier effort at Roanoke, in what is now NC. The pilgrims were latecomers in 1620; slavery had already arrived in Virginia, in 1619.

Our Founding Fathers made sure that the country they were creating was NOT Christian. They rejected an established church, did not mention Christianity in any of our founding documents, and made their intentions clear in both letters and treaties. Some individuals, certainly, were ardent Christians, like William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Others, like Thomas Jefferson, rejected the divinity of Jesus. He removed the supernatural happenings and miracles from the Bible, creating a work he called “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christian. We are, thanks to them, a secular nation, Mr. Knowles–welcoming all faiths and none–and we need to stay that way.

crusaderrabbit a day ago
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rando350 a day ago

We’re 40th on the list of longevity by nation.
All of the top 39 have more socialistic style of healthcare.
That’s cuz all of those other countries care for their poor citizens more than we do.
The poor are figured in those stats whether you want it or not.

And who was it who is the namesake of the christian religion, and who walked among the poor and implored his followers to care for the poor? Well that would be their christ.

The 60 attempts to kill the Affordable Care Act prove conclusively to me that those Care Killers are as far away from the teachings of their “moral” leader as the Andromeda galaxy is away from our own galaxy.
And those “Care Killers” are working hard to make the lives of the poor among us, even more difficult.
You can hardly get farther away from a so-called Christian view than that.

ECarpenter  StarGmom 19 hours ago edited

Amazing how many people here are certain that only they know the “real” definition of christian. As we all know (those of us who read history, anyway) christians have frequently slaughtered other christians over their differences, and all christians claim to follow the “one true christianity” – but they have over 20,000 different sects, so that is laughable. And they all get extremely upset if outsiders look at the whole herd of them and say “yup, you’re all christians”.

 

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban
As I previously reported, the ADF first filed its lawsuit in May 2021 and lost in US district court in September 2021 before losing again before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2022.

According to Brian Tingley’s resume, he’s led seminars on “authentic manhood” and “true masculinity.”

Before that, he wrote and produced commercials for car dealerships, bingo halls, and county fairs.

As I’ve reported many times over the years, ex-gay torture therapists often end up rejecting their work and coming out as gay themselves. And sometimes, they are arrested for sexually assaulting their clients.

Then there are the ones that are busted trolling online for gay sex, such as the nationally prominent therapist caught cruising Manhunt in 2018 as HotNHairy72.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, whose lead attorney was once House Speaker Mike Johnson, has advocated for criminalizing homosexuality in the United States and has provided free legal support to foreign groups seeking the same in their own countries.

 

 

Ross  Uncle Mark is back!21 hours ago

Hey! Let’s debate the Holocaust!

Hey! let’s debate slavery!

Hey! Let’s debate murder and rape!

Sarah  Ross21 hours ago

“Teach the controversy!”

Gustav2  Ross20 hours ago

Let’s debate which groups we can or cannot have genocidal practices!

 

What, me worry?21 hours ago

My sexuality is not a “debate.” It’s a fact of life, just as a straight person’s sexuality is a fact of life. Just because these religious whack jobs are too stupid to understand that should not be my problem.

liondon#traitortrash  What, me worry?21 hours ago

They understand…the cruelty is the point.

Tazzari1  What, me worry?21 hours ago

Maybe they should debate the weather, or gravity, or something. All as changeable as sexuality, and just as unnatural. /s

JoeMyGod Mod21 hours ago

Ladybird Bachmann is surely sobbing into the sleeve of his caftan.

Uncle Mark is back!  JoeMyGod21 hours ago

He’ll do what he always does…finding ways to fill his emptiness & sorrow.

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Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Uncle Mark is back! 20 hours ago

Never get a blowjob from a Ferengi. They sharpen their teeth.

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The_Wretched  JoeMyGod21 hours ago edited

His “exgay” shop is in MN, not WA. It’s also still open even though MN has banned “exgay” torture as well (by eo in 2021 and statute this year).

The_Wretched21 hours ago

WA: “No torturing”
Alito and Thomas: “Wait!! Christians should get to torture!!!”

Tor  The_Wretched21 hours ago

Christians have a long and glorious history of torture. “It’s tradition.”

StarGmom  Tor21 hours ago

Deeply held beliefs

Gregory In Seattle  The_Wretched20 hours ago

That is basically what it comes down to: the perception that one has a religious right to bully people to death.

Eli Bradley 21 hours ago
The decision received separate dissenting opinions from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

 

Evergreen opinions, paid for by Leonard Leo and the Vatican.

Tazzari1 21 hours ago

What are we coming to, when good, god-fearing christo-fascists can’t torture kids?

SFHarry 21 hours ago

No one is stopping him from saying his beliefs. What they are doing is preventing him from imposing them on others through the guise of medical treatment and accepting money for it.
You can also believe massage cures cancer but you can not put out a medical shingle and take money for curing cancer through massage.

Or you can believe blood letting cures depression but you can not charge for this as a medical treatment.
We have medical standards based on science.

Uncle Mark is back! 21 hours ago

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Thomas claimed that Washington had “silenced one side of this debate”

I had no idea that basic human rights, torturing children & wonton abuse were up for debate.

Randy503  Uncle Mark is back!20 hours ago

They are so full of it. No side has been “silenced.” But to them, unless they are forcing their beliefs upon the populace, you are silenced.

Darreth  Randy50319 hours ago edited

Give evangelicals a nanometer and they will steal a light-year from under our noses.

oundentenor  Uncle Mark is back!19 hours ago

The more right wingers are silenced, the louder they get all over social media and right wing tv and radio. They are the only silenced people who are deafeningly loud.

JW Swift 21 hours ago
Brian Tingley, a licensed marriage and family counselor, said the law violates his free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment because the government is seeking to dictate what he says.

No, the gov’t is still letting you “say” anything you want. They are regulating how you conduct your business so that you don’t harm your patients.

Gustav2  JW Swift20 hours ago edited

What the government is saying they are not going to pay for the mumbo jumbo via Medicaid or approve it for reimbursement by insurance companies. It is not banned, you just have to pay for the religious practice yourself.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  JW Swift21 hours ago

Under this argument, any restrictions the FDA puts on medical advertisement is also invalid.

Lestat quatre  JW Swift21 hours ago

Exactly right. The courts have long recognized that commercial speech is more subject to regulation than other kinds of speech. Tingley et al. are trying to argue that it is religious speech in a commercial context. Um, sorry, no.

Priya Lynn  Lestat quatre17 hours ago

” Tingley et al. are trying to argue that it is religious speech in a commercial context. “.

This shows their goal is to erase the separation of church and state and turn the U.S. into a theocracy.

bobbyboy 21 hours ago

Authentic manhood ? He looks like my creepy social studies teacher who was always inviting us over fro all guy nights. Yuck!

weshlovrcm21 hours ago

Very telling that the two “judges” who many people say take the most bribes are the ones who demand a Constitutional right to commit fraud.

 

Mass Palestinian Opposition To Hamas Before Israel’s Revamped Ethnic Cleansing Campaign

Geraldo Defends Palestinians And Schools Fox News On The Crisis … May 19, 2021 Nothing has changed, just gotten far worse

Geraldo Rivera schooled Fox News on the ongoing crisis.

Palestinian land stolen by Israel

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Peoples rights in Texas

Bomb Threat Shuts Down Maryland Drag Brunch

Bomb Threat Shuts Down Maryland Drag Brunch

So the haters again got what they wanted.  This is terrorism.  They got something they hate / dislike shut down even though it was not harming anyone.  Plus tell me how it is “protecting the children” to threaten to blow them up?  I think we need to stop giving in to the threats.  The bomb threats always turn out false, no bomb, and yet the events get cancelled.  I am an atheist, a few weekends ago a church sent squads of believers in to our park without permission and they went door to door bothering people.  Does that give me the right to threaten their church or them? This attempt to control what other people can do, see, hear, places they can attend, and how they dress is Taliban shit.  It is horrible.   Why?  So a group of regressive people can be happy by forcing the world to be just like them?   Hugs.  Scottie

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Washington DC’s NBC affiliate reports:

A popular restaurant and bar in Takoma Park, Maryland, received bomb threats on Saturday morning over a drag brunch and story time event. The restaurant, Motorkat, bills itself as “a safe space for people of all orientations and backgrounds.

Motorkat was forced to cancel the drag brunch to keep its patrons safe, the restaurant said in the release. Those with tickets will get a full refund.

Police were emailed a bomb threat toward attendees at the restaurant’s drag event, and the police department and a bomb squad “swiftly responded to the threat, ensuring the safety of both patrons and staff,” Motorkat said.

Read the full article.

 

 

Bert_Bauer a day ago

Because drag brunch and story hours harms children but threatening to kill children, their parents and drag queens does not. How the warped conservative mind works.

Gustav2a day ago edited

It is strange the universities are getting push back on genocidal speech when calls for our elimination will be permitted because “religion.”

But religion vs. religion is unacceptable?

BlindBill a day ago

The threat was emailed to the police, not the restaurant, that is odd…and probably from a local source. Email should be easy to trace. Even if sent from a public library computer, time stamps and security cameras everywhere will help identify the terrorist. But if a maga police officer receives (or even sent) it will the electronic trail be lost like a rape victim’s DNA kit?

Octoberfurst  BlindBill21 hours ago

Exactly my thoughts! How dumb do you have to be to email a threat? It could easily be traced back to the sender. But on the other hand, right-wingers are not known for their intellect.

Fire Crown  Octoberfurst12 hours ago

Technically, it can be traced back to the IP address from which it was sent, not the person. That said, it’s not 100% true that an email can always be tracked back to the actual IP address, either. (And yes, I used to be a tech guy who worked with people occasionally tasked with tracking the source of an email – which usually led to some student spoofing the identity of a person of authority.)

Mow  Octoberfurst18 hours ago

They prolly thought no paper to leave fingerprints on. /s

Mike P a day ago

Takoma Park and the rest of Montgomery County are fairly liberal areas right up against D.C. I’m worried that there aren’t “safe places” anymore. Maybe the concept was always an illusion.

2lostsouls  Mike Pa day ago

This is my neighborhood, ate there last week. Every waiter I’ve had is gay which may be why it was targeted. Didn’t know they had a drag brunch.

bearLvrFL  Mike Pa day ago edited

On the on hand, nothing is 100% safe, ever. On the other hand, our “reasonably safe spaces” require protecting…enhancing.

Halou a day ago

Perhaps a few high profile prosecutions and harsh prison sentences will convince people that making terrorist threats doesn’t qualify as “free speech”?

Kruhn a day ago

Takoma Park is as blue as it gets. It’s probably Indigo. If a drag brunch is threatened by a bomb, shows that this is a very serious threat to the LBTQIA community.

What, me worry?  Kruhn21 hours ago

On the other hand, it’s super easy to call in a bomb threat, just to fuck with us and keep us in fear for our lives.

bearLvrFL  kaydenpata day ago

I just watched an upsetting movie on Netflix last night about Americans turning on each other. So, one of my first thoughts was “did the email come from outside the police station or inside?”

crusaderrabbit 19 hours ago

Remember just a few years ago when this wasn`t a thing. Then the Repugs told the non-thinking rubes it was a thing, a very important thing along with CRT and “saying Gay”, etc. Though the rubes may have always disliked some of it most of it was stuff they never even thought about as being important until they were told it was. In fact now it is so important that a certain percentage of the rubes are willing to kill you over it to save our society. While they wait to be told what the next important thing is of course. It`s the time honored way the Repugs have always operated. Be afraid, be very afraid, only we can save you. You don`t need to think about it or ask why (as if you would anyway) drag shows are bad so get to work. Keeps the rubes occupied and keeps their votes and always works.

StudioTodd  crusaderrabbit17 hours ago

I think it has more to do with hatred and fear of transgender people than it does with drag. The ignorant dimwits involved in the protests and threats don’t understand that they are not the same thing. They think that drag queens=trans and that they are “promoting transgenderism” when they appear in public.

NorthBayBrian19 hours ago

Grown adults, simply dressing up in whimsical, flamboyant costumes on a Saturday morning and trying to have some fun and help others do the same while they enjoy a meal. Sure, why not call in a bomb threat? That sounds just awful and depraved. Save the children! Christ on a cracker.

Yves R. Mektin  JCF11 hours ago edited

Yes, I personally feel like Putin has had more direct responsibility with these recent flare-ups of homophobia and transphobia than Trump himself, not that Trump was totally innocent. Also, the willingness of big sports stars and sports associations/leagues to sell out to Qatar, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other sponsors/venues which are effing horrible for women’s rights and LGBT rights. This has been a big social back-sliding moment.