The Las Vegas Run-Over Attack.

Since COP21 ended on December 12th (12/12/15) there seems to have been an intensified effort to destabilise developing nations - particularly in East/Central Africa.

The intention seems to be to intimidate those nations into ratifying the draft agreement that COP21 produced which will permanently stop any effective action being taken to combat climate change.

This has obviously prompted lots of frantic global discussion. The US' contribution to these discussions has been so poor that it gives the impression that the administration of US President Barack Obama is actually on a completely different planet to everybody else.

On Sunday (20/12/15) the US effectively threw its hands up in frustration and conceded the point that Obama is in fact completely useless when a car repeatedly drove into a crowd of pedestrians outside the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This left one person dead and 36 injured.

I really covered all of this in my posts yesterday. However by the time I got to events in Las Vegas I was in a rush to finish so really only provided the bare bones. I hope to correct that now.

The fact the incident occurred outside the Paris Hotel was a clear reference to the COP21 Summit that took place in Paris, France. More specifically it was a reference to the terrorist threat that has become synonymous with attempts to combat climate change.

For example COP21 was proceeded by the November 13th (13/11/15) Paris Massacres and the November 20th (20/11/15) attack on a hotel in Bamako, Mali which was intended as a threat to the hotels that COP21 delegates would be staying at.

The vehicle involved in the Las Vegas crash was registered in the US state of Oregon which is almost at the opposite end of the country to Nevada.

In highlighting the undue burden that the COP21 draft places on developing nations I've frequently referred to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The COP21 draft would require the DRC to keep a complete IPCC standard inventory of the entire Congo Rainforest.

This is an area twice the size of the US state of Oregon. If you're that interested Oregon is itself twice the size of the US state of Kentucky.

The incident was initially investigated as a terror attack and although this now seems less likely I understand that this possibility has not been completely ruled out.

The reason why it had to be investigated as a potential terror attack is because this tactic of driving motor vehicles into crowds of pedestrians in an attempt to kill them is a very common terrorist tactic in Israel.

Although you may certainly disagree with some of the conclusions they reach - I often do - you cannot deny that Islamic inspired terrorism is a daily part of life in Israel. As a result the Israelis have a lot of experience in how to fight terrorism.

If US President Barack Obama were to pay closer attention to Israel and benefit from their experience it would be increasingly obvious to him what is wrong with his own fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Take for example the December 2nd (2/12/15) ISIL attack on San Bernardino, California. Obama's initial reaction to this was to call for greater gun control to protect America by keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists.

The facts that the guns used in San Bernardino were obtained illegally and that gun control measures Obama was suggesting wouldn't have affected the attackers anyway didn't seem to matter to Obama.

Therefore it is unlikely that it would matter to Obama that Israel provides a good example of why tight gun control doesn't prevent terrorism.

Although it might surprise some right-wing Americans gun-control is actually very strict in Israel. In order to obtain a firearms permit you essentially have to served in either the Israeli military or the police. Obviously due to conscription that means that most Jewish Israelis are entitled to apply for a license.

However in order to be granted one Israelis still have to be recommended by a serving, senior police or military officer and undergo medical and weapons proficiency tests. These tests include a written exam on how and when lethal force can be used.

These tests have to be repeated every year when each license is renewed and the police can carry out warrantless, snap inspections on all license holders to ensure their weapons are being stored safely.

Although there are rare exceptions for Arab Israelis (I prefer the term; "Palestinians") who have been cleared for military service generally Palestinians simply aren't allowed firearms.

However this has not stopped the terror attacks. In 2014 the fashion was very much for the type of run-over attack seen in Las Vegas while in 2015 they've moved more towards knife attacks. These attacks are currently occurring at a rate of around several times a week.

One of - if not the - main driving force behind this latest upsurge in violence has been the rise of ISIL just across Israel's border in Syria.

As I think we all know ISIL produce a vast amount of online propaganda. This revels in their violence and how that violence has helped them to produce what they claim is a ideal Islamic State.

This propaganda has found an fertile audience amongst young Palestinians who have become frustrated at attempts to establish a Palestinian state through peaceful negotiation and instead have opted to choose ISIL's path of violence.

Initially they attempted to justify their violence by claiming that Israel was about to demolish the Al Asqa Mosque and build a Jewish Temple in its place atop what is known as the Temple Mount. This simply isn't true.

Apart from the annual tightening of security around Jewish New Year there has been absolutely no indication of any attempts to change the status of Temple Mount.

After months of being asked to produce evidence of why they thought Israel was going to demolish Al Asqa and failing the Palestinians simply switched to try to justify their violence by claiming it was a response to Israelis killing Palestinians while they were carrying out their attacks.

As such there have been numerous false claims of innocent Palestinians being murdered only for the Israelis to plant weapons on them to cover it up.

A particular case in point was that of Ahmed Mansara which occurred in October. Initially the Palestinians claimed that the 13-year old Mansara had been murdered by the Israelis. So Israel responded by releasing photographs of Mansara in hospital very much alive. 

The Palestinians then claimed that he shouldn't have been shot at all because he was innocently playing in the street at the time. So the Israelis responded by releasing video footage of Mansara stabbing two people and then being shot.

Another case in point occurred on November 11th (11/11/15) when Israeli police stormed a hospital in Hebron to arrest Azzam Shalaldeh who had been shot whilst carrying out a stabbing attack. In the process they shot and killed Azzam's brother Abdallah Shalaldeh when he attacked them. The Palestinians responded by condemning it as a war crime.

That's simply a nonsense because war crimes can only occur when a state or war exists. No such state currently exists in Israel. 

Also while they are protected from military attack hospitals certainly aren't safe havens of sanctuaries. That means that the police can go into them to arrest people. If their lives or the lives of bystanders are threatened they can use lethal force to remove that threat just the same as they could anywhere else.

Just before the incident in Las Vegas occurred a man was shot an killed by the police in a hospital in Los Angeles, California, US after he attacked them. Rather then being declared a war crime this received very little press coverage because it's a perfectly normal thing to happen.

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Although US President Obama has made so many mistakes in his fight against ISIL it is quite hard to identify just a single one amongst his main mistakes has been to take the terrorists claims at face value.

For example Obama seems to genuinely believe that ISIL are some sort of humanitarian organisation committed to rescuing Syrian Muslims from their brutal oppression at the hands of the Syrian government. Therefore if he were to overthrow the Syrian government ISIL would simply wither and die.

Likewise Obama seemed to genuinely believe that ISIL's Nigerian franchise - Boko Haram - were simply angry at the way they were being oppressed by the brutal Christian dictatorship of Goodluck Jonathan.

Therefore all the US needed to do was stage an electoral coup to force out Jonathan and replace him with known Boko Haram sympathiser Muhammadu Buhari and Boko Haram would simply beat their swords into ploughshares and the world would live in harmony.

On the issue of the terrorist threat to the US homeland Obama seems to genuinely believe that the world's Muslims are simply angry because of Guantanamo Bay. Therefore all he needs to do is fulfil his campaign promise the close Guantanamo and the threat simply disappear.

There he may have a point but I think someone should remind him that Guantanamo Bay was only opened in response to Al Qaeda's September 11th (11/9/01) attacks on the US homeland that killed 2,977.

This was done in protest of the US' establishment of the false nation of Saudi Arabia in 1932 and its continuing support for the occupation of the holy city of Mecca by the al-Saud family.

If he had been prepared to learn the lessons from Israel Obama would understand that various terrorist groups each have their own agenda.

In the case of the Palestinians it is to establish a viable nation state. However in the case of nihilists such as ISIL is to cleanse the Levant region of Shia-Muslims in order to bring about the return of the Messiah to earth triggering the great war that will bring about the end of the world.

Regardless of what their true objective is terrorists will also lie to justify their actions.

If you make concessions to remove that justification the terrorists will simply invent a new lie. You can then either make more concessions to remove that lie or you can simply eliminate the terrorists to prevent them from inventing another lie.

The driver in the Las Vegas incident has since been identified as Lakeisha Holloway - a a 24 year old black female. Apparently she was travelling through Nevada to Texas to confront the absentee father of her 3 year old daughter.

This is clearly a reference to the Sandra Bland case.

If you are not familiar with that story on July 10th (10/7/15) Sandra Bland - a heavy marijuana user - was Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in the state of Texas on her way to a new job at Prairie View A&M University.

After being seen driving erratically Ms Bland was stopped by the police and became physically abusive leading to her arrest. Despite the police charitably dropping the DUI charge whilst in custody Ms Bland crashed psychologically and committed suicide in her cell.

Unfortunately the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign couldn't cope with this so made up increasingly elaborate stories to explain Ms Bland's death and therefore justify their protests.

Although it is hard to follow BLM's train of thought generally the theory seems to be that the police officer simply beat Ms Bland to death at the scene. The police then covered it up by staging Ms Bland's corpse for a mugshot and inventing a story about her committing suicide.

The fact that the police were able to produce video of Ms Bland - very much alive - being booked into custody and having her mugshot taken didn't seem to quieten BLM's howls of; "RACIST!!!" much.

Yesterday (21/12/15) a Grand Jury was convened under a Special Prosecutor to assess the Sandra Bland case. To the surprise of absolutely no-one it decided not to indict anyone on any criminal charges. If I'm being totally honest I can't even imagine any possible charges they could indict under.

BLM however of course took to Twitter to express their outrage at the racist verdict. Some even went so far as to claim that Ms Bland hadn't done anything wrong. This is despite Las Vegas providing them with a clear example of the consequences of DUI or otherwise driving erratically.

The Sandra Bland case of course provides a window onto the wider BLM campaign.

If US President Obama still can't see through their lies to their terrorism and instead chooses to continue engage in the grubby racial politics that have blighted African nations both during and after the colonial era then he is clearly incapable of being part of the solution.

And once again I have become bored of my own post.

21:35 on 22/12/15 (UK date).

Edited at around 16:00 on 23/12/15 (UK date) to add;

The fact that Ms Holloway was homeless, jobless and a single parent is a reference to the problems within America's black communities which suffer from high rates of poverty, broken families, unemployment, drug abuse and low rates of high school graduation.

The question is whether by blaming everything on racism Obama and BLM are helping to solve these problems or simply helping to perpetuate them.

The Las Vegas incident occurred close to where the Miss Universe pageant was being held. The climax of this event was marred by a 'mistake' in which the host announced the wrong winner. This seems to be an intentional reference to something that happened just after the Paris Massacres.

Like many other news outlets Britain's Sky News decided to anchor their coverage from the Place de Republic in Paris where an impromptu memorial had been set up.

I've complained about this type of sensationalist media coverage before because terrorists are very focused on what is known as; "The Propaganda of the Deed." That is to say that because they can't sustain a widespread military campaign they instead carry out limited scale atrocities in the hope that it will terrify an audience far wider then the actual victims of the attack.

Therefore by covering the attacks in such a mawkish way the media is effectively doing the terrorists job for them.

Obviously the media do need to cover what are important news stories. I just think though they could anchor that coverage from the news room rather than constantly sticking camera's in the faces on grieving relatives.

Rather pointing out the problem with this type of coverage by Sunday (15/11/15) Sky News anchor Kay Burley discovered that she'd run out of things to report. So instead she took a photograph of a Labrador dog and posted it on the Internet claiming that you could "see the sadness in his eyes."

The rest of the Internet spent the rest of the day mercilessly mocking her for this.

Not wanting to be left out I joined in by posting a picture of a Jack Russell Terrier down a rat hole. I said something along the lines of there being no sadness in his eyes because he'd had a little sniff.

Jack Russells are of course bred to hunt rats. Therefore in their tiny little terrier minds there is nothing more awesome then the prospect of fighting and killing a rat.

When the terrorist violence first broke out in eastern Libya in early 2011 then President Muammer Qaddafi announced that he was sending in troops to kill the rats.

The US and others claimed that this was evidence that Qaddafi was going to engage in genocide and used it as an excuse to declare war on Libya. However Qaddafi was never a man who said exactly what he meant so I took the same quote as an indication that he was simply going to kill the terrorists ending the insurgency.

With the Paris Massacres giving us a clear example of what these terrorist rats are capable of I thought it was obvious to all that we should have just let Qaddafi get on with it and end the rats there and then.

It obviously wasn't obvious to US President Obama because culminating in a signing ceremony of December 17th (17/12/15) the US and others have once again being trying to overthrow the Libyan government in order to put the rats in power.

I once knew a woman who owned a Jack Russell. As is rather routine one of the contestants in this year's UK season of X-Factor was a reference to that woman. On that Sunday this contestant came in the bottom two and was facing being voted off. Although I didn't watch it was at this point the host made a similar mistake by either announcing that the wrong contestant had been voted off or making the announcement to early.

This 'mistake' gave everybody involved in the X-Factor ample opportunity to apologise for the incident and by extension trying to use my reputation to sell their particularly crappy show.

The 'mistake' at Miss Universe revisited all those discussions.

Despite even the US throwing its hands up in frustration at Obama the international criticism has not stopped. Yesterday (22/12/15) France announced that it had foiled a terrorist plot in the city of Orleans.

Obama's response to the Paris Massacres was particularly despicable. Rather then immediately convening a NATO Summit to devise a response to this attack on a NATO member Obama effectively blew France off to go on an 11 day holiday.

What made matters even worse is that France is one of if not the US' oldest ally. Since the Paris Massacres this has been highlighted by the Marquis de Lafayette who was George Washington's right-hand man during America's war of independence.

In tribute there are numerous districts, streets and buildings in America bearing the name "Lafayette." Probably the most famous of these is the in the city of New Orleans which the likes of Obama claim was destroyed by racism in 2005 in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. New Orleans is of course named after the French city of Orleans in much the same way New York City is named after the English city of York.

Today the news has come through that Yassin Salhi who carried out a terrorist attack at a French factory on June 26th (26/6/15) has committed suicide whilst in prison. Although I don't think that this was planned or in anyway anything other than a genuine suicide it is related.

In carrying out his attack Salhi was heavily influenced by BLM and in particular Obama's handling of the February 10th (10/2/15) Chapel Hill shootings. It's clear that Salhi intended to use his trial to further his terrorist agenda by claiming that he had simply been involved in a work place dispute and therefore portraying the accusations of terrorism as Islamaphobia.

It turns out though that 6 months in solitary confinement gives you a lot of time to think. Clearly in that time Salhi decided that he didn't have the strength of character to complete his mission so took the cowards way out.

17:00 on 23/12/15 (UK date).