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Ground Zero Mega Mosque Community Board 1 Landmarks Meeting (7-27-10)

July 30, 2010 UPDATE: New video added. Part 3 of 3. Please scroll down. All videos are posted now

July 27, 2010.  At the latest Community Board 1 meeting in Lower Manhattan, concerning the Ground Zero mosque site, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were among many members of the community who spoke to the committee; once again enumerating the many reasons the mega mosque at 45-47 Park Place should not be approved and the current building should be granted landmark status.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Be sure to check out Atlas Shrugs to read more about the meeting .

And don’t forget to join SIOA and FDI in a solemn protest against the 911 mega mosque at Ground Zero on September the 11th in the afternoon, after the memorial services — exact time and date to be determined. World leaders, prominent politicians and 911 family members will be speaking.

Please go to www.sioaonline.com for updates on the rally.

Media Hides Terror Ties to Imam & Ground Zero Mosque

From Atlas Shrugs, a revealing screen shot of Perdana page at Perdana4Peace.org

The single largest funder of the IHH jihad warship convoy (aka flotilla) and Imam Rauf is a prominent figure in this hate group and terror sponsor. He is ranked second right behind Mahathir Mohammed the notorious Jew hater from Malaysia, “Jews control the world by proxy” .

And from Front Page Mag:

This video reveals The Truth About the Flotilla that was ignored by the international community and buried by the mainstream media.

Senior Israeli Defense Forces officials have provided the following video about the “Flotilla Incident” that took place on May 31, 2010.  It reveals the truth behind the event.

At 3:02 in the video you will hear the Turkish crew on the Mavi Marmara responding to the Israeli Navy: “Shut the Fuck Up. Go Back to Auschwitz. We’re helping the Arabs go against the US and Don’t Forget  9-11  “

Follow-up investigations revealed that “the rioters were found with large sums of money in their pockets and without identifying information” .

At 0:34 one of potential martyrs says : I wanted to be a shahid, I wasn’t that lucky. Third time lucky, with the help of god, I will be a shahid”

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf  is a prominent figure in a hate group that was the single largest funder of the flotilla. This is an outrage.

We do not need any hand-holding, Imam Rauf, you must build your bridges elsewhere. Ground Zero is sacred ground, a memorial to those murdered by the Shahids of Islam.

And we ask you, Mayor Bloomberg, Community Board #1 and the Landmark Commission to do the right thing.

Grant Landmark Status to 45-47 Park Place.

Do NOT tear down these walls!

For more info on the Ground Zero Mosque, go to http://nomosquesatgroundzero.wordpress.com

UPDATE:

And this is very important,  if any of you are in Manhattan tomorrow evening, July 27, 2010, please come to the next Community Board 1 meeting concerning the Ground Zero mosque site at 6:00 PM at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers and Elk Streets). We need to be there.

SEPTEMBER 11TH: SOLEMN PROTEST AGAINST MEGA MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO

BREAKING FROM ATLAS SHRUGS

Ground zero bus

“Please join SIOA and FDI in our solemn protest against the 911 mega mosque at Ground Zero on September the 11th in the afternoon, after the memorial services — exact time and date to be determined.

World leaders, prominent politicians and 911 family members will be speaking. This is a solemn protest.

Please, no inflammatory signs. “Ground Zero is sacred ground.” “Ground Zero is a war Memorial.” “Ground Zero Mosque is Radically Insensitive.”

We will begin with interfaith prayer and the playing of “Taps” for the 911 victims.

Please mark your calenders. (snip) If you feel this mosque is an insult, a stab in the eye to those Americans who lost their lives in the largest attack on American soil in history, now is the time.

Also, if you are in Manhattan tomorrow evening, please come to the next Community Board 1 meeting concerning the Ground Zero mosque site at 6:00 PM at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers and Elk Streets). We need to be there.”

For more background  on the Ground Zero Mosque: http://nomosquesatgroundzero.wordpress.com/

(Video) Allen West on Healing this Country+ Integrity,Honor & Courage in Washington

Lt. Col. Allen West ~ How will you Heal this Country?

Posted at http://wootv.us on  7-24-10

When asked How will you heal this country ? Lt. Col. Allen West answers it right!

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Restoring Integrity, Honor, and Courage to Washington

Posted at http://wootv.us on  7-24-2010

Lt. Col. Allen West tells us a life experience that shows his integrity.

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JULY 27, 2010 @ 6 PM-PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE AT COMMUNITY BOARD#1

FROM Pamela Geller on Landmark Status:  We have filed our written submission with the Landmarks Protection Commission. The record is closed. At least according to the LPC, the record is closed.

WE CAN STILL PROTEST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE AT COMMUNITY BOARD#1

Community Board 1 meets on Tuesday at 6:00 PM at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers and Elk Streets). Despite reports that the vote was unanimous, it was not. 29 voted for the Islamic supremacist mosque, 4 against, and 9 abstentions.

We need to be there! ALL OF US. It is critical that the world sees we will not go away and that we won’t back down. We need to be orderly and civil, but we need to let these people know we will not back down. The LPC is expected to vote at one of its upcoming meetings, probably in August.

In Staten Island, an average of 150 members of the community have protested every Sunday for six weeks against the planned sale of the convent building to the Muslim American Society (MAS), the public face of the Muslim Brotherhood. There is are reams of documentation tying the leaders of the MAS with Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

MARK YOUR CALENDERS

6:00 PM JULY 27th at  DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM .

We won in Staten Island, we will win at Ground Zero. We can’t do it without you. Join  Sarah Palin (read more on her Facebook assault against ), Rick Lazio, Rep Peter KingCarl Paladino and from Newt Gingrich:

“America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.  Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.  No mosque. No self deception. No surrender. The time to take a stand is now – at this site… on this issue.

JOIN SIOA .

Stop Islamization of America .

July 27, 2010 at 6 PM.

BE THERE!


Breaking (7-22-10) VICTORY! No Muslim Brotherhood MAS Mosque in Staten Island!

From Atlas Shrugs (7-22-10) There will be NO  MOSQUE in Midland (Staten island)! The Saint Margaret Mary Church will not be converted into a Muslim Brotherhood project.

NYC Councilman Oddo confirmed the NO vote by the Board of Trustees.

News just broke that the Catholic Church has reversed and and canceled the sale of the convent in Midland Beach to MAS.

This is now a textbook case on how to fight Islamic supremacists.

Statement on Saint Margaret Mary Parish

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 22, 2010

STATEMENT ON SAINT MARGARET MARY PARISH
Father Keith Fennessy, pastor of Saint Margaret Mary parish on Staten Island, announced in June that after careful consideration he was withdrawing his support for the planned sale of the parish convent to the Muslim American Society.

The trustees of the parish have met, as legally required under New York State law, and voted to ratify the pastor’s decision.

The Muslim American Society has been informed that the sale of the convent will not take place.

The Archdiocese of New York has enjoyed a good relationship with the Islamic community in the past, and looks forward to continued dialogue, friendship, and understanding in the future.

It is also our prayer that unity will now return to the parish and to the Midland Beach community.

SIOA Mosque Manifesto: All Mosques are Not Created Equal, A Handy Guide to Fighting the Muslim Brotherhood

Go to NoMosquesatGroundZero.Wordpress.com to see the video from the Staten Island Community Board Meeting on June 11,  where we made a difference!

More links can be found at Atlas Shrugs.

August 2010 Washingtoons from LTC(R) Allen West: Liberal Racism

Washingtoons
18 July 2010
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired)
Liberal Racism

“One Nation under God Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All”

Greetings Wheels on the Road readers, fellow South Floridians, and all Americans, my how time flies and here we are again for our monthly political assessment.

It never ceases to amaze me that as we get closer to our monthly submission of this regular missive that the topic becomes evident. I often use an ole saying from my parents, “sometimes you just have to thank God for stupid people”….and I do. The focus for this month without any doubt has to be the NAACP and its President/CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous.

Let me make one thing very clear, my Mother, Elizabeth Thomas West, was a lifetime membership holder with the NAACP. Therefore growing up in our home I clearly understood the mission and vision for this organization. It was a mission and vision that enabled me to have the pride in myself and the heritage of my parents, grandparents, and extended family. It was a mission and vision that, to me, fostered a desire to excel beyond the standard and have a commitment to excellence regardless of skin color.

However, something has happened to that mission and vision, something horrific and inconsistent with the principles and values I recalled emanating from the “ole school” black community. Somewhere along the way victimization mentality has taken root in the black community resulting in astronomical unemployment rates, high incarceration rates, appalling murder rates, breakdown of the black family, and embarrassing teen pregnancy rates.

And in the light of all these negative socioeconomic indicators the NAACP decides that the preeminent focus of their national convention would be on issuing a resolution castigating the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement as racist. Even Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas was so compelled as to state that the Tea Party is filled with Klan members…..but we will get to the Congressional Black Caucus a bit later.

Instead of maintaining its mission and vision, the NAACP has now become the “useful idiots” (a term coined by Vladimir Lenin) for liberal racism. They have made themselves into a political hack job organization which now seeks to maintain the liberal progressive socialist control of the 21 century plantation. It is on this new economic plantation where the liberals seek to enslave the black community in order to maintain a devoted, monolithic, voting electorate.

I find it interesting that the NAACP was silent when Senator Harry Reid made his insidious comments about President Obama was favorable, likeable, because he is “light-skinned” and did not speak in “negro dialect”. I recall that the NAACP said nothing when Vice President Joe Biden referred to Barack Hussein Obama as “clean and articulate”. The NAACP said nothing when liberals attacked Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice (birthing tubes cartoon), Michael Steele, and General Colin Powell.

In 2008, where was the NAACP to denounce the obvious case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party? Why did the NAACP not demand President George W Bush, and now, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the Obama adminstration, to prosecute this case to the fullest extent? Does the NAACP now support the same tactic which targeted the black community seeking to restrict the most fundamental of American individual rights, the right to vote? And shall the NAACP distance itself and condemn Malik Shabazz and the New Black Panther Party?

It is this duplicitous hypocrisy which allows me to state that the NAACP is shamefully now a liberal racist enabler. The upcoming mid-term elections have the Democrat party in certain peril. Therefore they have turned to their tactic of first and last resort, race baiting.

The resolution issued by the NAACP against the Tea Party is just a strategy to focus this coming election not against liberal progressive policies, which are anathema to our Republic. No, the NAACP, in conjunction with their masters, the Democrat party, seek to make this into an election based upon an insane charge of racial hatred.

We even see charlatan blasts from the past such as Julian Bond stating that Martin Luther King Jr was a socialist, a feeble attempt to garner black community acceptance of the liberal progressive agenda. We are truly on the verge of a dangerous situation in America. And yes, this also includes the lawsuit being brought against the sovereign State of Arizona, an attempt to win Hispanic votes…..an extension of liberal racism to another minority group.

We can fully expect from now until 2 November 2010 to see the usual suspects come out to promote the dishonest tyranny of the liberals. You will find the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton out to ensure blacks remain wedded to the failing liberal social welfare policies, all the time shouting how the Democrats know what is best. I find it comical that Al Sharpton has already leapt forward to head up a new left-wing grassroots group to counter the Tea Party called “One Nation”.

Does One Nation believe in higher taxes and bigger government? Will this counter group promote individual rights and freedoms, liberty, and adherence to our US Constitution? I presume this group will seek to intimidate and put forth the ideals of collectivism combined with victimhood and expansion of the “nanny-state”.

I find the Tea Party, to which I have spoken to several times, stands for fundamental principles and values consistent with that which has made America an exceptional Constitutional Republic.

Therefore, under the “leadership” of Al Sharpton, this counter group One Nation obviously stands for principles which are antithetical to our Republic.

In closing, I am sure you are asking why did the ole Colonel have the last sentence in the Pledge of Allegiance in the title for this piece?

Simple, Liberal Racism does not believe in One Nation under God. They believe in a Nation of subjects organized into collective groups under which they shall rule, not govern, in a secular humanist based society.

Indivisible, Liberal Racism does not believe in “e pluribus unim”, they prefer a balkanized America where they can pit us against each other through their manipulated messages….such as Tea Party racism.

Liberal racism does not believe in Liberty and Justice for All, they believe in freedom defined by a ruling class elite while creating more victims who become dependent upon their dishonest benevolence. Justice in the world of Liberal Racism means social and economic justice rooted in a principle of leveling, which founding father Samuel Adams spoke against. Al Sharpton defined justice as everyone having the same in every home in America…..government engineering of results and outcomes.

The mid-term elections of 2 November 2010 comes down to “One Nation under God Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All” or the concept of One Nation under the proprietor of victimization Al Sharpton, a simpleton crony of Liberal Racism. Which shall you choose?

Steadfast and Loyal,
LTC(R) Allen B West

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To read and see more from Allen West Go West For Allen West!
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Statement Condemning the NAACP Resolution by LTC Allen West (USA, Ret.)

July 13, 2010

“The NAACP has missed the target. Their target should not be the Tea Party, but instead the larger issues facing the Black community: astronomical unemployment rates (15.5%) and the breakdown of the Black family, which result in higher drop-out rates, disproportionate incarceration rates and teen pregnancy rates (12.6%). These issues should be the focus of increased scrutiny by the NAACP. This NAACP Resolution is consistent with the Obama administration tactic of demonizing and blaming someone else for your own failures and shortcomings, and not take responsibility and accountability.”

Statement Condemning the NAACP Resolution by LTC Allen West (USA, Ret.)

(Video)Ground Zero Mosque Landmarks Preservation Commission Meeting (7-13-10)

 

July 13, 2010 at Hunter College. The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission held a Public Hearing on the landmark designation proposal for 45-47 Park Place ,  the Cordoba Initiative, aka The Ground Zero Mosque. The meeting lasted approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes.

Slide show of pictures [VodPod slide show no longer available]

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Video of meeting posted in 5 parts: Part 1 of 5 begins with the Commission Chairman, Robert B. Tierney and a staff member read a description of the building. The first speakers represented the mosque and opposed landmark status. However , the Cordoba Initiative reps quickly digressed to a discussion of the religious reasons for the building rather than the landmark status.   Then those who support the landmark status for the building began to speak in response to both, landmark  and mosque.

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Part 2 of 5 continues with speakers who are for and against the landmark status amongst these (in Part 2) are Robert Spencer (more  from Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch ) and Rick Lazio. However, the Cordoba Initiative had da’wha on the agenda so it was a meeting that had a very difficult time staying on topic which was, landmark status!

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Part 3 of 5 ( in switching tapes, lost name of woman speaking at the top) Speakers continue from both sides. At approx. 15:00 there are three speakers in support of landmark status who are very compelling. Also, in Part  3, the lunatic commie heckler is finally removed from the auditorium (that was over an hour in to the Public Hearing) Very unfortunate that the police permitted him to interrupt the speakers for so long; speakers who supported landmark status.

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Part 4 of 5: July 13, 2010,Hunter College. The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission held a Public Hearing on the landmark designation proposal for 45-47 Park Place (aka The Ground Zero Mosque). The speakers continue from both sides. There were even more speakers who lost family on 9-11 and spoke in support of the landmark status.

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Part 5 of 5: Even as the meeting wound down, and the press was thinning out, there were still quite a few speakers, some of whom were very articulate as they pressed for landmark status. The press that remained focused so closely on the pro-mosque speakers, they manage to miss some very compelling speakers from the pro-landmark side.

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UPDATE: According the the NY Daily News, the name Cordoba Initiative will disappear.  Seems El Gamal and company, as they held their quick confab off on the side  of the audience (post Commission ), have grown weary of hearing the historical, factual meaning of Cordoba . So let’s put some “Lipstick on the pig”! The new name for Cordoba House  is now the rather BLAND: Park51.  (Read more HERE on this obfuscation from Atlas Shrugs)

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Ground Zero LandMark D-Day (July 13, 2010)ALERT: MEETING LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED

JULY 14: Video of the Landmark Commission Meeting is now posted . Please go here
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UPDATE: Mayor ‘no term limits for me’ Bloomberg continues to twist  and manipulate the Landmark Meeting…constantly changing the location and time….The FIX is in and it is an OUTRAGE. If you are in the area and you see this ALERT: BE THERE!!

From Atlas Shrugs:

Please get this out to your lists. Perhaps someone should wait at the last venue change and let folks know. They have moved the meeting place again. This is deliberate. The fewer people who witness this vile exhibition of cronyism, dhimmitude, and corruption, the better. Bloomberg is a snake.

LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ****PLEASE NOTE**** THE LOCATION FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING HAS CHANGED

THE NEW LOCATION IS: 681 Park Avenue

The Public Hearing for 45-47 Park Place application will take place at

681 Park Avenue,
Hunter College Assembly Hall, Borough of Manhattan
(The entrance is on East 69th Street, between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue).
Please bring a picture ID for entrance into the building.
The hearing will start at 2:00p.m. – end at 5:00p.m.

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Why is Mayor Bloomberg trying to expedite the building of the Ground Zero mega mosque, when according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, the majority of New Yorkers do not want it? The World Trade Center has not been rebuilt. It is still a large gaping horrible wound. The 911 Memorial Museum has not been built, although remains of the dead are still be found, and yet Bloomberg is ambivalent about all that….. but the mega mosque? That’s his priority.

One phone call from Bloomberg could table these hearings, giving much needed time for our landmarks legal team to work up our report. The only one who has accountability on this is Mayor Bloomberg. He controls the landmarks commission; they are all his appointees. None of them will go against him.

Make it your business to contact Bloomberg’s office today.

Bloomberg has an obligation to meet with the Coalition for the Preservation of Ground Zero to hear what the 911 families and the majority of New Yorkers feel passionately about.

Contact — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Hall. Write him every day:
PHONE 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
FAX (212) 788-8123
E-MAIL: http://w
ww.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

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And it has architectural landmark status –look at these pictures and background info on the architect, Daniel Badger. Read more HERE at Atlas Shrugs

Park palce

Broaday landmark


Park Place Broadway landmark
45 Park Place (Ground Zero mosque site) and 311 Broadway

Look at the two buildings . The building above  is 45 Park Place. The building on the left is 311 Broadway, and was granted landmark status in January 2010 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the grounds that there were very few Italian Renaissance, palazzo-style buildings left in the city. Yet both buildings are Italian Renaissance, palazzo-style architecture in the same neighborhood. Why is one being granted landmark status and the other being denied that status? A rhetorical question, of course.”

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For more on the Ground Zero Mosque, go here