The Watergate playbook - Organizing for Action, a criminal enterprise, June, 2016 the Obama administration filed requests with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. Barack Obama made sure that government agencies watched and listened to Donald Trump to help Hillary Rodham Clinton gain the White House, it's a criminal act.

Organizing for Action, 
a criminal enterprise,  

June, 2016 the Obama administration filed requests with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers.  

Barack Obama made sure that government agencies watched and listened to Donald Trump to help Hillary Rodham Clinton (Clinton Foundation - Global Criminal Enterprise) gain the White House, it's a criminal act,pulling a page out of the Watergate playbook.

Obama's Loretta Lynch (secret meeting with Bill Clinton), DOJ had sought a (Secret) FISA court approved surveillance warrant for Trump Tower back in the summer of 2016 that was denied but received a narrower focused warrant in October - 

Obama wanted to know everything and Loretta Lynch (Crime Family Member), James Comey (Crime Family Member), Eric Holder (Contempt of Congress Crime Family Member) and others knew the pathway inside, Secret FISA warrants. 

The day before the election, “sources with links to the counter-intelligence community” confirmed that a FISA court had granted a FISA court warrant in October to monitor activities in Trump tower. 

They were previously denied a request in June, the Obama team classified the investigation at the lowest possible level, allowing the data gathered from the investigation to be shared and leaked widely within the administration. Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder and others are behind all the leaks, it's a criminal effort to remove President Donald Trump. 

The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.

Counterintelligence investigations examine the connections between American citizens and foreign governments. Those connections can involve efforts to steal state or corporate secrets, curry favor with American government leaders or influence policy. It is unclear which Russian officials are under investigation, or what particular conversations caught the attention of American eavesdroppers. The legal standard for opening these investigations is low, and prosecutions are rare.

“We have absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such an investigation,” said Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition.

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Russian officials, it is worth reminding Americans of the revelations involving Hillary Clinton and the Kremlin.

1. Hillary Clinton approved the transfer of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia and nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

While Hillary Clinton’s State Department was one of eight agencies to review and sign off on the transfer of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia — then-Secretary of State Clinton herself was the only agency head whose family foundation received $145 million in donations from multiple people connected to the uranium deal, as reported by the New York Times.

2. Bill Clinton bagged $500,000 for a Moscow speech paid for by a Kremlin-backed bank while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a speech in Moscow and received a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian government-connected bank, while his wife’s State Department was getting ready to sign off on the transfer of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia.

“And, in one case, a Russian investment bank connected to the deals paid money to Bill Clinton personally, through a half-million-dollar speaker’s fee,” reported the New Yorker.

3. Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman’s Joule energy company bagged $35 million from Putin’s Rusnano.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the executive board of an energy company, Joule Unlimited, which received millions from a Putin-connected Russian government fund. Podesta also owned “75,000 common shares” in Joule Unlimited, which he had transferred to a holding company called Leonidio LLC.

Podesta also failed to fully disclose his position on Joule Unlimited’s board of directors and include it in his federal financial disclosures, as required by law, before he became President Obama’s senior adviser in January 2014.

4.  Clinton Foundation chatter with State Dept. on Uranium Deal with Russia.

Senior staffers inside Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign were warned by Clinton Foundation senior vice president Maura Pally that the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), was asking the Department of Justice to investigate the State Department approval of the sale of American uranium assets to a Russian company.

The chain of emails proved the regular interaction between members of the Clinton campaign and senior staff at the Clinton Foundation.

5. Hillary Clinton hid $2.35 million in secret donations from Ian Telfer, the head of Russia’s uranium company.

Ian Telfer, the head of the Russian government’s uranium company, Uranium One, made four foreign donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation, as the New York Times reported.

“Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million,” the Times reported. “Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.”

The Inner Borders - Rat Traps for Illegal Aliens - Illegal Employers and Illegal Aliens - Look out your window

Sanctuary City's are about to be closed and invaded by the National Guard, Illegal Aliens are advised to find another rat hole because San Francisco, Chicago and most of Atlanta is just about to be closed, The Inner Border - “Not one cent,” Representative Lou Barletta (R-PA) told Breitbart Texas in an interview on Thursday morning. “These mayors, sheriffs, and state leaders are thumbing their noses at federal immigration law. The only way to stop them is to hit them in their pocketbooks."

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Those jurisdictions certified as not being in compliance are:

• The State of Connecticut
• The State of California
• Orleans Parish, Louisiana
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• Cook County, Illinois
• Miami-Dade County, Florida
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Clark County, Nevada

Jeff Sessions Senate Hearing - Democrats Foolish Biased and Communist - The Neanderthal Senate hearing today concerning Jeff Sessions reveal that Jeff Sessions is the exact right man for the job of U.S. Attorney General.

Jeff Sessions, Senate Hearing, shouting in the background, radicals, progressives, socialists are removed by force, but there's more. 

The Neanderthal Senate hearing today concerning Jeff Sessions reveal that Jeff Sessions is the exact right man for the job of U.S. Attorney General. The progressive socialist brutes still run Media, Publishing, Hollywood and theoretically they are the reasons that Donald Trump became president of the United States.

Barack Obama will give his big speech tonight and brag about eight years of solving problems which are still problems just a lot bigger after Barack Obama Barry Soetoro.

The Barack Obama Hillary Clinton jigsaw puzzle is coming together now as people are planning to write their books, cash in on insider information without bothering to worry about Obama or Clinton taking revenge.

All puzzles are put together by random choices until you find a pair that fit together.  Now we see Obama Hillary Clinton and John Kerry makes the perfect three piece combination that will reveal the truth.

Occidental College Freshman Year Records Barry Soetoro Barack Obama have been released.  Yes, a foreign student.

This one piece fits nicely with the Iran Nuclear Deal and Communist Russia now moving Uranium to Iran.

This one piece clears up the smoke when we found out that Barack Obama moved $1.7 billion in cash, in secret, to Iran.  Worst yet we have just discovered, Obama gave Iran over $10 billion dollars in cash, gold and other assets in secret.

This one piece explains the fake red line in Syria.

This one piece explains dumping Israel at the U.N.

This explains why Hillary Clinton is not behind bars and Huma Abedin is still running free while breaking every federal law concerning secret documents.

As you watch Jeff Sessions today, you can hear your own voice.

Welcome back America.

Hillary Clinton's plight is desperate so get ready for anything. The Clinton's believe in getting even, but America wants revenge now for the repugnant crimes against our U.S. Constitution.

The root of the entire matter concerning illegal aliens, is the fact that they are illegal aliens, subject to immediate deportation.

There is a crisis in the community of illegal aliens, fake marriages, extended VISA holders hiding inside America.

The illegal alien is an undesirable risk to the United States so they will be removed, as the honest American understands.

America was being paralyzed by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the people without any moral conscience now have the law on their heels as their socialist dream remains unsold.

Hillary Clinton's plight is desperate so get ready for anything.

The Clinton's believe in getting even, but America wants revenge now for the repugnant crimes against our U.S. Constitution.

The great city of New York City, NY has over 750,000 illegal aliens and destroys the prosperity of legal citizens, but not Mayor Bill De Blasio, he survives off the crawling feeble DOJ FBI and corrupt White House but in the early morning hours he's starting to feel the heat.

Scared and white, eager and tense, the wretch's Bill De Blasio, Rahm Emanuel defy federal law and their cities will remain Sanctuary cities, against the law.

Both these law breakers should warn their citizens that property taxes in both cities will at least triple when the federal dollars stop flowing, they can never be replaced.

Worst of all, the mayor's open the doors for extreme riots, destruction of property, killing in the streets, but worst of all, the cities will fill with crime, crumble to dust.

Both mayor's have now set the conditions for extreme violence.

In the moonlight this morning, behind locked doors, the people of Chicago and New York City will look for an officer of the law before they step outside.

Like a burglar, they buy a gun, hide it in the house, take it to work, and they are no longer going to just sit around, Donald Trump is the President and the deportations must begin.

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214 Federal Prisoners Pardoned Today by Barack Obama... now tell me that he won't Pardon Hillary Clinton.... Obama has released 562 criminals so far not counting the killers released from GITMO. Barack Obama is trying to change the narrative today away from the $400 million cash bribe to Iran, his secret discovered.

214 Federal Prisoners Pardoned Today by Barack Obama... now tell me that he won't Pardon Hillary Clinton.... Obama has released 562 criminals so far not counting the killers released from GITMO.  Barack Obama is trying to change the narrative today away from the $400 million cash bribe to Iran, his secret discovered.

GOP Surrenders - Gun Controls for Chicago - Negro's Cannot Have Guns - Rahm Emanual goes Ape over the New State Law - Barack Slams Trump - Hillary ducks for Cover

Chicago Negro's kill other Chicago Negro's, not exactly the Planned Parenthood plan of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton but they never flinch at the weekend murder numbers.  I guess black llives don't matter in Chicago... keep voting them in boys...Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know how to take care of the blacks... on either side of the tracks. GOP Surrenders - Gun Controls for Chicago - Negro's Cannot Have Guns - Rahm Emanual goes Ape over the New State Law - Barack Slams Trump - Hillary ducks for Cover -  Secret Service Agents worry about travel to Chicago.

Target Stores North Carolina LGBT Supreme Court - DOJ Loretta Lynch - Too Short Too Fat and Short Sighted pushes men dressing like girls into the little girls room in North Carolina

LGBT The Transgender White House - Surely Loretta Lynch - DOJ - Department of Justice has a lot more to do to place Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison for Treason against the United States but she continues to press ahead on the LGBT Transgender Bathroom Scandal in North Carolina.  

The Rainbow

Loretta Lynch, the shame of Obama, pushes ahead to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to entertain the Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender Community to pander their dozen votes.  DOJ Loretta Lynch wants to waste the time of the U.S. Supreme Court to make sure the queer guy, dressing like a girl, can go to the bathroom with the real girls, just like in a Target Store.  It's clear that the radical progressives Obama Clinton Pelosi Reid Holder Lynch are careless with the U.S. Constitution and have little real work to do, to defend America.  As the FBI has rooms of evidence to place Hillary Clinton behind jail bars the Obama administration panders to all minority groups, black, brown and of course the cross dressing groups.  

The U.S. Constitution is the ultimate law in the United States

The U.S. Constitution is the ultimate law in the United States for the purpose of maintaining liberty and defending the nation from hostile invasions.  You always have Constitutional Rights, they cannot be taken away.  Your Constitutional rights are more powerful any any local, state or federal laws.  The government sponsored schools did not and will not teach your children about their Constitutional Rights as they reduce the federal government and clearly show that the people are the government and your representatives are servants of the people. 

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15 states that-

“The congress shall have the power to….provide for the calling forth of the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrection and repel invasion.”

According to Richard Henry Lee, the “militia,” when properly formed, is made up of the people themselves and includes all men who are able to bear arms.  Put in the context of the U.S. Constitution, this makes sense because the idea of our republic is that the people are sovereign to government power and the government is a servant to the people. This could not be the case except for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which are known as the Bill of Rights.

Today, it seems as if many people accept the idea that the federal government, through the supremacy clause, has total power over the states. This is untrue: they only have supreme power over those laws that support the Constitution, and the Tenth Amendment explicitly states that:

“All powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people, respectively.”

This supports the rights of the people to be armed and ready to act in defense of the nation. Many people today feel that the idea of militias and an armed citizenry is outdated and unnecessary because we have an Army. In fact, many would argue that the National Guard is the constitutionally authorized militia. Not true; the reality is that the only constitutionally authorized military force to be funded and maintained by the government is the United States Navy.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 13:

“The congress shall have the power to provide and maintain a Navy”

While Article 1, Section 8, Clause 12 states that:

“The congress shall have the power to raise and support armies, but no appropriations of money to that use shall be for more than two years.”

That means that the standing U.S. Army is in fact an unconstitutional entity receiving money illegally. The founders, at the time of signing the Constitution, understood that standing armies historically have been the greatest threat to the liberties of the people.  That is still true today, as the tyrannies of the twentieth century saw the world’s most brutal dictators use their standing armies to commit mass murder on an unprecedented scale. At the time, of course, the founders would have been referring to the armies of Great Britain and the history of the Roman Empire as examples.

This clause explicitly describes the congress’ responsibility to provide funding for the state militias while giving it a choice to provide for a “national military.” This is more evident by the actual wording of the Second Amendment. Not too many people realize that the Second Amendment is the only place in the Constitution where the word “necessary” is found. The word is referring to the maintenance of the people’s militias.

The purpose of our constitutional republic based on the rule of law is to protect the sovereignty of the people and ensure government does not have the power to suppress the rights of freemen.  Our Constitution is not a granter of our natural rights, it only states what they are, while establishing a system of government where the power to protect those rights is derived from us, the people of the United States. Any law that is passed in direct contradiction to the Constitution is null and void and people have no obligation to follow such laws. The precedent for this was established in Norton vs. Shelby County in 1886.  Failure to understand this is essentially the only way a free people can lose their rights. This is why there is such an influence of the social and behavioral sciences colluding with government and education. They seek to psychologically condition you to surrender your rights out of fear and uncertainty.

The Constitution described the powers of the federal government as few and limiting in scope so as to ensure that the vast majority of political power would remain with the states and people, as described above in the Tenth Amendment. When government abuses these powers, the people are under no obligation to offer allegiance, as the government’s primary responsibility is the preservation of life, liberty, property, and the people’s right to pursue their own ends, to pursue happiness. In fact, it is the responsibility of sovereign state governments to immediately enact laws that protect the constitutional rights of its citizens in the face of such usurpations. This includes but is not limited to laws concerning the constitutional militia and gun control. In fact, in 1903, a law was passed that was to prohibit the federal government from ever trying to enact gun control laws based on this very reasoning. This was called the Dick Act of 1902.

 While the context of this article will certainly appear radical to many, it doesn’t change the historical facts presented.

FBI Director Blind Sided by Presidential Pardon for Hillary Rodham Clinton - Expect an immediate presidential pardon for Hillary Clinton Email Top Secret Scandal Computer Server

The extraordinary truth about the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Top Secret Email Scandal is getting complicated while you slept.  You have noticed that Hillary Clinton will not answer any questions about her private, illegal and secret underground computer servers holding top secret U.S. Government documents by the thousands, there is a reason.  

The FBI and DOJ is in the process and drafting documents to pardon Hillary Rodham Clinton for her illegal activity.  Barack Obama plans the pardon and shield Hillary Clinton from federal prison time with a presidential pardon.

Hungry for justice the American People will not stand for this injustice and the appetite for jail time looms as Hillary Rodham Clinton grows darker by the day.  Hillary Clinton has been pleading her case behind closed doors at the White House inside the Oval office and has pleaded for mercy from Barack Obama through many lawyers as Hillary Clinton operatives offer up promises for the soon to be retired president.

Expect an immediate presidential pardon for Hillary Clinton.

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FrackNation - Special Real Time Reporting - Facebook suspends reporting of FrackNation - Dimock Water Trial - Dr. Tony Ingraffea - Anti Fracking Movement -

I wanted to let you know that our FrackNation Facebook page has been attacked by activists leading to two posts being removed and the page being locked for 24 hours.

As you know I've been covering the Dimock Water Trial that is finally revealing the truth about this scam - where two families are claiming an oil and gas company have polluted their water. Well - their case is collapsing because they have no evidence and in fact the evidence is emerging that the case is nothing but an anti-fracking multi-million dollar bogus lawsuit.

I've been the only reporter to be in the courtroom all through the trial and revealing, on the FrackNation Facebook page, the ludicrous lies at the heart of this case. This has infuriated anti-fracking activists who have started up a concerted campaign flagging up my posts as "inappropriate".

This has led Facebook to delete two damning posts that shows the fraud at the heart of the lawsuit but most damagingly of all it has led to Facebook suspending the account for 24 hours over the weekend. This meant I was prevented from posting onto the page so you could not learn more about the case.

This is serious - there is so much that needs to be known about this case that has only emerged under oath in the courtroom.

I've reported on the parent who alleged the gas company poisoned his children but never bothered to take them to the doctor (but did find time to take them to the media and trial lawyers for a lucrative lawsuit).

I've also revealed how Dr Tony Ingraffea - the favorite scientist of the anti-fracking movement - was caught lying about not being an activist and was forced to admit under oath that he had no proof that Dimock's water was polluted but fracking. Watch him run and hide behind a woman as I ask some tough questions.

And even better I was able to report that the plaintiffs' own lawyer admitted they had "no scientific evidence" that fracking fluids had ever polluted Dimock's water.

This is why they have tried to shut down the FrackNation page and this is why I need your help. I need you to go to the page and like and share every post about the Dimock water trial and then I need you to forward the links to all your friends so we build up a massive number of supporters for the page. This should help balance the organized attack by anti-fracking activists against the page.

If we don't fight back - they could succeed in having the page permanently suspended and prevent me from letting the world know the truth about fracking as the trial enters its final week.

So please go to the FrackNation page and like and share the posts about the trail. With your help the censorship stops here.

Thanks

Phelim

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"The study, published late last month, is entirely based on the debunked idea that proximity to oil and gas development is negatively impacting public health. It’s lead author, Dr. Anne Epstein, acknowledges she has been paid to give anti-fracking lectures."

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IMPORTANT: Activists Are Trying to Stop this Page from Reporting the Truth about Fracking

I need your help. As you can see, anti-fracking activists have targetted my reports on the Dimock Water Trial and Facebook removed a recent report because activists falsely claimed it "violated community standards." I was even locked out of the FrackNation Facebook page for awhile.

I am the only journalist reporting in detail about the Dimock Water lawsuit and the misrepresentations and exaggerations of the plaintiffs. Finally, eight years after the lies about Dimock started, the story is completely unravelling when people are forced to testify under oath.

This is infuriating. We can't allow the anti-fracking activists and Facebook to censor the truth. So I need your help. Please like and comment and share my reports on this page. Your actions will allow the Facebook algorithm to see that the public wants / needs articles and videos such as these. Your engagement will help protect the page from being closed down.

So please, if you want the truth about fracking to reach the public and you want to fight this bullying censorship, spread the word about the Dimock Water Trial by sharing these articles.

Thanks for your help.

- Phelim

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BREAKING NEWS: Judge in Dimock Water Trial Says He Has “Grave” & “Significant" Concerns About Key Aspects of the Case

Plaintiffs in the Dimock Water Trial--two families alleging a gas company polluted their water through fracking--suffered a major setback after the judge presiding over the case expressed significant doubts about the veracity of some of the claims.

Judge Martin Carlson made the comments after the plaintiffs rested their case following six days of evidence. The Ely and Hubert families in Dimock, Pennsylvania are suing Cabot Oil and Gas in a case that has become a cause célèbre for anti-fracking activists. The alleged pollution in Dimock has been described as the “Ground Zero” for fracking pollution. However, the case suffered an early blow when the plaintiffs’ lawyer admitted in opening arguments that they had no scientific proof of fracking fluids in the families’ water.

The most serious blow came today when Cabot asked Judge Carlson to dismiss the case and not send it to the jury, due to lack of evidence. After submissions, Carlson, without the jury present, said he would defer a decision on the dismissal, awaiting further information, but warned the plaintiffs’ lawyer he had “grave concerns” about the veracity of claim that the Elys had suffered a loss of value to their property, and he had “significant concerns” about claims that any damage to their water could have been caused by gas drilling.

Judge Carlson did not give any indication when he would give a final ruling on the Cabot motion.

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Tony Ingraffea, Retired Cornell Professor and anti-fracking advocate tells court he has "no proof" Dimock water polluted by oil and gas company.

In an important development Ingraffea - the plaintiffs key witness in the high profile trial has admitted there is no evidence to back up his theory.

Retired professor Tony Ingraffea made the admission during a trial where the Ely and Hubert families of Dimock Pennsylvania are suing Cabot oil and gas for allegedly contaminating their water. The Dimock case is important because activists say it is ground zero for fracking contamination and the area has featured in the Gasland documentaries and hundreds of other activist events and pieces of journalism.

Under cross examination by a lawyer for Cabit Oil and Gas Professor Ingraffea was asked:

"If we follow your theory, the Gesford 3 S well is the leaking well and the well gas migrates out of it over into the other well which is as you said, is speculation - you don't have any direct proof of that - right?"

To which Professor Ingraffea replied:

"Yes".

Ingraffea's admission of no proof is the latest in a series of setbacks for the plaintiffs in the case.

The trial continues in Scranton Federal Courthouse

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5 Reasons Dimock Plaintiff Scott Ely Is Probably Lying about His Water Being Contaminated by Fracking

FRACKNATION·WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016

By Phelim McAleer

The Ely family in Dimock, Pennsylvania is suing an oil and gas company alleging they contaminated their water well through fracking. Dimock has become a focal point for anti-fracking activists with many calling it “Ground zero” for pollution. Dimock and the Ely's have been featured in national and international news reports and documentaries. Celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo, Yoko Ono, and Susan Sarandon have visited the tiny community to sympathize.

But yesterday in the first day of the trial, facts started to emerge that show the truth is much different from the previously reported stories. Questioned under oath, Scott Ely's claims look a lot less certain and he looks a lot less credible. Below are five facts that emerged during the first day that show Scott Ely may have been lying about his water being contaminated by fracking.

1. What the Frack?

It's bad when your own lawyer admits that there is no scientific evidence to backup a central allegation of your case, but that’s what happened on the first day of the trial. Scott Ely's lawyer  stated clearly:

“This is not a case....about toxic materials ending up in the water. We do not have proof of that. We don't have proof of that. This is not about fracking fluid appearing in the water. Hydraulic fracturing materials, we don't have proof of that.”

2. Dirty All the Time

Instead Scott Ely is claiming that Cabot Oil and Gas has made his beautiful, pure, pristine Pennsylvania water undrinkable. He said they polluted it with methane and  made it dirty, brown, smelly, and completely unusable when they started drilling in 2008. Except under cross examination Mr Ely had to admit that prior to getting his new well drilled he got his water from a spring at the house that was so dirty none of his family would drink it. In fact he was forced to admit that it was so dirty that his wife would only use bottled water for cooking. It was so bad he used bottled water up until 2003.

3. No Case(ing)

But then Scott Ely got a water well drilled in 2003. The idea that this well supplied pristine water until it was polluted by the evil oil and gas company very quickly withered away under a few pointed questions. It turns out that Ely's water well is 300 ft deep but is only lined for 40ft. After that it is open to the earth, allowing clay and animals and anything else that comes out of the ground to fall into the water. It seems he has no case and no casing on his well.

4.  Million Dollar Listing - PA

Mr. Ely does not behave as if his water has been polluted and the health of his wife and children put in peril. He told the jury that it has been a “nightmare” having to travel 17 miles to a nearby town in a water tanker to bring drinkable and usable water to his house. They were always short of water, he complained. The family even had to share bathwater, he said. Most of us faced with such hardship--unusable, undrinkable water that’s damaging our children’s health and happiness--might give up. But not Scott Ely. Instead he and his wife decided to build a $1m, 7000 sq ft, twenty-two bedroom house on the lot despite claiming it had unusable, dirty, dangerous water. In short, their behavior was not the behavior of people who believed their water was polluted.

5. Dimock Time Machine

Scott Ely told three different people that they started to notice the water smelling and tasting bad in August 2008--and these were not just casual conversation. Ely confirmed this start date in a hand written declaration to his lawyer, and he repeated the claim to a hydro-geologist investigating the water. He even told a doctor that the problems with his water started in July 2008. The problem for his case is that Cabot did not start drilling the gas well he says polluted his water until late Sept/early October 2008. So unless there was a Dimock time warp, Scott Ely's water problems started before the fracking for gas.

And that’s just day one of the trial. Scott Ely's cross examination continues today.

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Filmmaker Phelim McAleer has been using the FrackNation page to report on the Dimock water trial – in which two families from smalltown Pennsylvania are trying to sue an oil and gas company for millions of dollars, alleging that it polluted their water with fracking fluid.

Thanks to the families’ allegations – eagerly, unquestioningly repeated in the green propaganda movies Gasland and Gasland 2 and frequently cited by activists like Mark Ruffalo and Yoko Ono – Dimock is now synonymous with environmental disaster. Not only have its faucets (taps to UK readers) been on shown on screen to burst into flames when you set a match to them but aggrieved locals have attested to the sickness the allegedly contaminated water has caused them, even to the point where they “won’t even shower in it.”

Now the case has finally come to trial, however, it is proving absolutely disastrous to the fracktivists’ cause: none of the claims by the two families – the Ely and the Hubert family – appear to be standing up.

Despite claiming to have suffered neurological, gastrointestinal, and dermatological damage from drinking the water, the families have had to admit they can produce no evidence of this. Indeed, they never even visited a doctor, not even when their children had supposedly been poisoned.

The Ely family were so oddly unperturbed by the deadly toxic water beneath them that they built a $1 million mansion on top of it.

Scott Ely has not proved to be the most credible of witnesses:

Scott had told three different people–a doctor, a hydrologist, and in a handwritten statement to his own lawyer–that the water problems started in August 2008. However, his lawyer has also told the court that they all accept drilling did not start on nearby gas wells until late September/October 2008. So on the witness stand, Scott suddenly remembered–eight years after the case started–that in June/July 2008 he remembered a massive gas leak at a gas well that he was claiming must have affected his water.

Nor has Monica Ely:

She testified that she tried “not to involve our kids with this.” Then the Cabot lawyers pointed out and produced photos (see above) that showed far from sheltering her children Ms Ely had in fact “brought them to press conferences, rallies with people like [actor] Mark Ruffalo, taken them to the Tribeca Film festival,” and had allowed them to be featured in the highly contentious documentary Gasland. Monica Ely: no time to take her children to the doctor even though she thought they were poisoned but plenty of time to take them to rallies with actors and activists.

And the expert witnesses haven’t been of much help either.

Under skillful cross-examination, Professor Ingraffea was forced to admit that he’s an anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel “advocate.” He denied being an activist, but his face fell when lawyers for Cabot asked to show the jury photographs of him speaking in front of anti-fracking signs and participating in an Artists Against Fracking press conference alongside Ruffalo, Lennon, and Ono.

Even the lawyer for the families, Leslie Lewis, blurted out in open court that she “wasn’t thrilled” that the photos existed.

Nor has the judge been persuaded by the case that the fracking in Dimock has damaged their property values. That’s because, since drilling started, their property value has increased.

All of this has naturally infuriated the powerful and well-funded, celebrity-backed anti-fracking lobby which marshalled its forces over the weekend to try to get the FrackNation page closed down. It did this by repeatedly flagging up McAleer’s posts as “inappropriate.” Facebook responded by imposing a 24 hour ban on the account.

In response McAleer is now asking defenders of the truth to go to his Facebook page  and like and share his posts.

Every time you do so, it is almost guaranteed that Yoko Ono will caterwaul like a tortured Siamese, that Mark Ruffalo will burst his sphincter and Leo DiCaprio will become so discombobulated he will wander forlornly into the woods in the hope of being raped chastisingly by one of Mother Gaia’s grizzly bears.

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Hillary Clinton settles for Home Time vs. Prison Time in connection to SAP Top Secret Documents -

Supreme Court Battle - Hillary Clinton says we're a nation of laws and Barack Obama should consider and nominate a Scalia Supreme Court Justice right away, it' the law.  Hillary Clinton knows little about the law as she is lawless and unblinkingly she lies to everybody listening in South Carolina. 

Imagine, the lawlessness of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and laugh just a little as Hillary Clinton is telling people with her full throat smoky raspy voice

 "my friends we are a nation of laws" 

which is a remarkable statement from the criminal Hillary Clinton while the FBI has her under criminal investigation for mishandling SAP Documents and Top Secrets of the United States which is a felony and maybe even Treason against the United States. 

The mutations of the laws of the land is beyond any understanding as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sway back and forth from street gangsters to political thugs.  The history of this duo is clear, they are criminals and liars but they preach entirely something different when they want something, just like a drug invested teenager that wants to borrow the car.  You just say no.

Obama and Clinton have diminished America.

Obama's Quran Revealed - Kill them wherever you find them - Barack Obama Quran Koran Reveals the Presidents unrest with Christ and the Constitution Allah Muhammad Teachings

Quran

Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing...

but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun(the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)" (Translation is from the Noble Quran) The verse prior to this (190) refers to "fighting for the cause of Allah those who fight you" leading some to believe that the entire passage refers to a defensive war in which Muslims are defending their homes and families. The historical context of this passage is not defensive warfare, however, since Muhammad and his Muslims had just relocated to Medina and were not under attack by their Meccan adversaries. In fact, the verses urge offensive warfare, in that Muslims are to drive Meccans out of their own city (which they later did). Verse 190 thus means to fight those who offer resistance to Allah's rule (ie. Muslim conquest). The use of the word "persecution" by some Muslim translators is disingenuous (the actual Arabic words for persecution - "idtihad" - and oppression - a variation of "z-l-m" - do not appear in the verse). The word used instead, "fitna", can mean disbelief, or the disorder that results from unbelief or temptation. This is certainly what is meant in this context since the violence is explicitly commissioned "until religion is for Allah" - ie. unbelievers desist in their unbelief.

Quran (2:244) - "Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things."

Quran (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.

Quran (3:56) - "As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help."

Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority". This speaks directly of polytheists, yet it also includes Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be 'joining companions to Allah').

Quran (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward." The martyrs of Islam are unlike the early Christians, who were led meekly to the slaughter. These Muslims are killed in battle as they attempt to inflict death and destruction for the cause of Allah. This is the theological basis for today's suicide bombers.

Quran (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"

Quran (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."

Quran (4:95) - "Not equal are those of the believers who sit (at home), except those who are disabled (by injury or are blind or lame, etc.), and those who strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit (at home).Unto each, Allah has promised good (Paradise), but Allah has preferred those who strive hard and fight, above those who sit (at home) by a huge reward " This passage criticizes "peaceful" Muslims who do not join in the violence, letting them know that they are less worthy in Allah's eyes. It also demolishes the modern myth that "Jihad" doesn't mean holy war in the Quran, but rather a spiritual struggle. Not only is this Arabic word (mujahiduna) used in this passage, but it is clearly not referring to anything spiritual, since the physically disabled are given exemption. (The Hadith reveals the context of the passage to be in response to a blind man's protest that he is unable to engage in Jihad, which would not make sense if it meant an internal struggle).

Quran (4:104) - "And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain..." Is pursuing an injured and retreating enemy really an act of self-defense?

Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle.

Quran (8:15) - "O ye who believe! When ye meet those who disbelieve in battle, turn not your backs to them. (16)Whoso on that day turneth his back to them, unless maneuvering for battle or intent to join a company, he truly hath incurred wrath from Allah, and his habitation will be hell, a hapless journey's end."

Quran (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more fitna (disorder, unbelief) and religion is all for Allah" Some translations interpret "fitna" as "persecution", but the traditional understanding of this word is not supported by the historical context (See notes for 2:193). The Meccans were simply refusing Muhammad access to their city during Haj. Other Muslims were allowed to travel there - just not as an armed group, since Muhammad had declared war on Mecca prior to his eviction. The Meccans were also acting in defense of their religion, since it was Muhammad's intention to destroy their idols and establish Islam by force (which he later did). Hence the critical part of this verse is to fight until "religion is only for Allah", meaning that the true justification of violence was the unbelief of the opposition. According to the Sira (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 324) Muhammad further explains that "Allah must have no rivals."

Quran (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."

Quran (8:67) - "It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land..."

Quran (8:59-60) - "And let not those who disbelieve suppose that they can outstrip (Allah's Purpose). Lo! they cannot escape. Make ready for them all thou canst of (armed) force and of horses tethered, that thereby ye may dismay the enemy of Allah and your enemy."

Quran (8:65) - "O Prophet, exhort the believers to fight..."

Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them." According to this verse, the best way of staying safe from Muslim violence is to convert to Islam (prayer (salat) and the poor tax (zakat) are among the religion's Five Pillars). This popular claim that the Quran only inspires violence within the context of self-defense is seriously challenged by this passage as well, since the Muslims to whom it was written were obviously not under attack. Had they been, then there would have been no waiting period (earlier verses make it a duty for Muslims to fight in self-defense, even during the sacred months). The historical context is Mecca after the idolaters were subjugated by Muhammad and posed no threat. Once the Muslims had power, they violently evicted those unbelievers who would not convert.

Quran (9:14) - "Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people." Humiliating and hurting non-believers not only has the blessing of Allah, but it is ordered as a means of carrying out his punishment and even "healing" the hearts of Muslims.

Quran (9:20) - "Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are triumphant." The Arabic word interpreted as "striving" in this verse is the same root as "Jihad". The context is obviously holy war.

Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." "People of the Book" refers to Christians and Jews. According to this verse, they are to be violently subjugated, with the sole justification being their religious status. Verse 9:33 tells Muslims that Allah has charted them to make Islam "superior over all religions." This chapter was one of the final "revelations" from Allah and it set in motion the tenacious military expansion, in which Muhammad's companions managed to conquer two-thirds of the Christian world in the next 100 years. Islam is intended to dominate all other people and faiths.

Quran (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"

Quran (9:38-39) - "O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place." This is a warning to those who refuse to fight, that they will be punished with Hell.

Quran (9:41) - "Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! That is best for you if ye but knew." See also the verse that follows (9:42) - "If there had been immediate gain (in sight), and the journey easy, they would (all) without doubt have followed thee, but the distance was long, (and weighed) on them" This contradicts the myth that Muslims are to fight only in self-defense, since the wording implies that battle will be waged a long distance from home (in another country and on Christian soil, in this case, according to the historians).

Quran (9:73) - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination." Dehumanizing those who reject Islam, by reminding Muslims that unbelievers are merely firewood for Hell, makes it easier to justify slaughter. It also explains why today's devout Muslims have little regard for those outside the faith.

Quran (9:88) - "But the Messenger, and those who believe with him, strive and fight with their wealth and their persons: for them are (all) good things: and it is they who will prosper."

Quran (9:111) - "Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme." How does the Quran define a true believer?

Quran (9:123) - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."

Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction." Note that the crime is moral transgression, and the punishment is "utter destruction." (Before ordering the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden first issued Americans an invitation to Islam).

Quran (18:65-81) - This parable lays the theological groundwork for honor killings, in which a family member is murdered because they brought shame to the family, either through apostasy or perceived moral indiscretion. The story (which is not found in any Jewish or Christian source) tells of Moses encountering a man with "special knowledge" who does things which don't seem to make sense on the surface, but are then justified according to later explanation. One such action is to murder a youth for no apparent reason (74). However, the wise man later explains that it was feared that the boy would "grieve" his parents by "disobedience and ingratitude." He was killed so that Allah could provide them a 'better' son. (Note: This is one reason why honor killing is sanctioned by Sharia. Reliance of the Traveler (Umdat al-Saliq) says that punishment for murder is not applicable when a parent or grandparent kills their offspring (o.1.1-2).)

Quran (21:44) - "We gave the good things of this life to these men and their fathers until the period grew long for them; See they not that We gradually reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? Is it then they who will win?"

Quran (25:52) - "Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness..." "Strive against" is Jihad - obviously not in the personal context. It's also significant to point out that this is a Meccan verse.

Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter." This passage sanctions the slaughter (rendered "merciless" and "horrible murder" in other translations) against three groups: Hypocrites (Muslims who refuse to "fight in the way of Allah" (3:167) and hence don't act as Muslims should), those with "diseased hearts" (which include Jews and Christians 5:51-52), and "alarmists" or "agitators who include those who merely speak out against Islam, according to Muhammad's biographers. It is worth noting that the victims are to be sought out by Muslims, which is what today's terrorists do. If this passage is meant merely to apply to the city of Medina, then it is unclear why it is included in Allah's eternal word to Muslim generations.

Quran (47:3-4) - "Those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord... So, when you meet (in fight Jihad in Allah's Cause), those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives)... If it had been Allah's Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight), in order to test you, some with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost." Those who reject Allah are to be killed in Jihad. The wounded are to be held captive for ransom. The only reason Allah doesn't do the dirty work himself is to to test the faithfulness of Muslims. Those who kill pass the test.

Quran (47:35) - "Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost (Shakir: "have the upper hand") for Allah is with you,"

Quran (48:17) - "There is no blame for the blind, nor is there blame for the lame, nor is there blame for the sick (that they go not forth to war). And whoso obeyeth Allah and His messenger, He will make him enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; and whoso turneth back, him will He punish with a painful doom." Contemporary apologists sometimes claim that Jihad means 'spiritual struggle.' Is so, then why are the blind, lame and sick exempted? This verse also says that those who do not fight will suffer torment in hell.

Quran (48:29) - "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves" Islam is not about treating everyone equally. This verse tells Muslims that there are two very distinct standards that are applied based on religious status. Also the word used for 'hard' or 'ruthless' in this verse shares the same root as the word translated as 'painful' or severe' to describe Hell in over 25 other verses including 65:10, 40:46 and 50:26..

Quran (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way" Religion of Peace, indeed!  The verse explicitly refers to "battle array" meaning that it is speaking of physical conflict. This is followed by (61:9): "He it is who has sent His Messenger (Mohammed) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam) to make it victorious over all religions even though the infidels may resist." (See next verse, below). Infidels who resist Islamic rule are to be fought.

Quran (61:10-12) - "O You who believe! Shall I guide you to a commerce that will save you from a painful torment. That you believe in Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and that you strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives, that will be better for you, if you but know! (If you do so) He will forgive you your sins, and admit you into Gardens under which rivers flow, and pleasant dwelling in Gardens of'Adn- Eternity ['Adn(Edn) Paradise], that is indeed the great success." This verse refers to physical battle in order to make Islam victorious over other religions (see above). It uses the Arabic word, Jihad.

Quran (66:9) - "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end." The root word of "Jihad" is used again here. The context is clearly holy war, and the scope of violence is broadened to include "hypocrites" - those who call themselves Muslims but do not act as such. Other verses calling Muslims to Jihad can be found here at AnsweringIslam.org

Hadith and Sira

Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Bukhari (52:256) - The Prophet... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, "They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans)." In this command, Muhammad establishes that it is permissible to kill non-combatants in the process of killing a perceived enemy. This provides justification for the many Islamic terror bombings.

Bukhari (52:65) - The Prophet said, 'He who fights that Allah's Word, Islam, should be superior, fights in Allah's Cause. Muhammad's words are the basis for offensive Jihad - spreading Islam by force. This is how it was understood by his companions, and by the terrorists of today.

Bukhari (52:220) - Allah's Apostle said... 'I have been made victorious with terror'

Abu Dawud (14:2526) - The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist)

Abu Dawud (14:2527) - The Prophet said: Striving in the path of Allah (jihad) is incumbent on you along with every ruler, whether he is pious or impious

Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah

Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."

Muslim (1:30) - "The Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah."

Bukhari (52:73) - "Allah's Apostle said, 'Know that Paradise is under the shades of swords'."

Bukhari (11:626) - [Muhammad said:] "I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes."

Muslim (1:149) - "Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which of the deeds is the best? He (the Holy Prophet) replied: Belief in Allah and Jihad in His cause..."

Muslim (20:4645) - "...He (the Messenger of Allah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa'id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!"

Muslim (20:4696) - "the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: 'One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah nor did he express any desire (or determination) for Jihad died the death of a hypocrite.'"

Muslim (19:4321-4323) - Three separate hadith in which Muhammad shrugs over the news that innocent children were killed in a raid by his men against unbelievers. His response: "They are of them (meaning the enemy)."

Muslim (19:4294) - "When the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort him... He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war... When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them... If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them."

Muslim (31:5917) - "Ali went a bit and then halted and did not look about and then said in a loud voice: 'Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people?' Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: 'Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger'." The pretext for attacking the peaceful farming community of Khaibar was not obvious to the Muslims. Muhammad's son-in-law Ali asked the prophet of Islam to clarify the reason for their mission to kill, loot and enslave. Muhammad's reply was straightforward. The people should be fought because they are not Muslim.

Muslim (31:5918) - "I will fight them until they are like us." Ali's reply to Muhammad, after receiving clarification that the pretext for attack Khaibar was to convert the people (see above verse).

Bukhari 1:35 "The person who participates in (Holy Battles) in Allah’s cause and nothing compels him do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty ( if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise ( if he is killed)."

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power." Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad's men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill. An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.

Tabari 9:69 "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam.

Tabari 17:187 "'By God, our religion (din) from which we have departed is better and more correct than that which these people follow. Their religion does not stop them from shedding blood, terrifying the roads, and seizing properties.' And they returned to their former religion." The words of a group of Christians who had converted to Islam, but realized their error after being shocked by the violence and looting committed in the name of Allah. The price of their decision to return to a religion of peace was that the men were beheaded and the woman and children enslaved by the caliph Ali.

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 990:- Lest anyone think that cutting off someone's head while screaming 'Allah Akbar!' is a modern creation, here is an account of that very practice under Muhammad, who seems to approve.

Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992: - "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah." Muhammad's instructions to his men prior to a military raid.

Saifur Rahman, The Sealed Nectar p.227-228 - "Embrace Islam... If you two accept Islam, you will remain in command of your country; but if your refuse my Call, you’ve got to remember that all of your possessions are perishable. My horsemen will appropriate your land, and my Prophethood will assume preponderance over your kingship." One of several letters from Muhammad to rulers of other countries. The significance is that the recipients were not making war or threatening Muslims. Their subsequent defeat and subjugation by Muhammad's armies was justified merely on the basis of their unbelief.

Notes

Other than the fact that Muslims haven't killed every non-Muslim under their domain, there is very little else that they can point to as proof that theirs is a peaceful, tolerant religion. Where Islam is dominant (as in the Middle East and Pakistan) religious minorities suffer brutal persecution with little resistance. Where Islam is in the minority (as in Thailand, the Philippines and Europe) there is the threat of violence if Muslim demands are not met. Either situation seems to provide a justification for religious terrorism, which is persistent and endemic to Islamic fundamentalism.

The reasons are obvious and begin with the Quran. Few verses of Islam's most sacred text can be construed to fit the contemporary virtues of religious tolerance and universal brotherhood. Those that do are earlier "Meccan" verses which are obviously abrogated by later ones. The example of Muhammad is that Islam is a religion of peace when Muslims do not have the power and numbers on their side. Once they do, things change.

Many Muslims are peaceful and do not want to believe what the Quran really says. They prefer a more narrow interpretation that is closer to the Judeo-Christian ethic. Some just ignore harsher passages. Others reach for "textual context" across different suras to subjectively mitigate these verses with others so that the message fits their personal moral preference. Although the Quran itself claims to be clear and complete, these apologists speak of the "risks" of trying to interpret verses without their "assistance."

The violent verses of the Quran have played a key role in very real massacre and genocide. This includes the brutal slaughter of tens of millions of Hindus for five centuries beginning around 1000 AD with Mahmud of Ghazni's bloody conquest. Both he and the later Tamerlane (Islam's Genghis Khan) slaughtered an untold number merely for defending their temples from destruction. Buddhism was very nearly wiped off the Indian subcontinent. Judaism and Christianity met the same fate (albeit more slowly) in areas conquered by Muslim armies, including the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe, including today's Turkey. Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of a proud Persian people is despised by Muslims and barely survives in modern Iran.

Violence is so ingrained in Islam that it has never really stopped being at war, either with other religions or with itself.

Muhammad was a military leader, laying siege to towns, massacring the men, raping their women, enslaving their children, and taking the property of others as his own. On several occasions he rejected offers of surrender from the besieged inhabitants and even butchered captives. He inspired his followers to battle when they did not feel it was right to fight, promising them slaves and booty if they did and threatening them with Hell if they did not. Muhammad allowed his men to rape traumatized women captured in battle, usually on the very day their husbands and family members were slaughtered.

It is important to emphasize that, for the most part, Muslim armies waged aggressive campaigns, and the religion's most dramatic military conquests were made by the actual companions of Muhammad in the decades following his death.

The early Islamic principle of warfare was that the civilian population of a town was to be destroyed (ie. men executed, women and children taken as slaves) if they defended themselves and resisted Islamic hegemony. Although modern apologists often claim that Muslims are only supposed to "attack in self-defense", this oxymoron is flatly contradicted by the accounts of Islamic historians and others that go back to the time of Muhammad.

Some modern-day scholars are more candid than others. One of the most respected Sunni theologians is al-Qaradawi, who justifies terror attacks against Western targets by noting that there is no such thing as a civilian population in a time of war:

"It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al—Harb [ie. non-Muslim people who resist Islamic conquest] is not protected... In modern war, all of society, with all its classes and ethnic groups, is mobilized to participate in the war, to aid its continuation, and to provide it with the material and human fuel required for it to assure the victory of the state fighting its enemies. Every citizen in society must take upon himself a role in the effort to provide for the battle. The entire domestic front, including professionals, laborers, and industrialists, stands behind the fighting army, even if it does not bear arms."

Consider the example of the Qurayza Jews, who were completely obliterated only five years after Muhammad arrived in Medina. Their leader opted to stay neutral when their town was besieged by a Meccan army that was sent to take revenge for Muhammad's deadly caravan raids. The tribe killed no one from either side and even surrendered peacefully to Muhammad after the Meccans had been turned back. Yet the prophet of Islam had every male member of the Qurayza beheaded, and every woman and child enslaved, even raping one of the captives himself (what Muslim apologists might refer to as "same day marriage").

One of Islam's most revered modern scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, openly sanctions offensive Jihad: "In the Jihad which you are seeking, you look for the enemy and invade him. This type of Jihad takes place only when the Islamic state is invading other [countries] in order to spread the word of Islam and to remove obstacles standing in its way." Elsewhere, he notes: "Islam has the right to take the initiative…this is God’s religion and it is for the whole world. It has the right to destroy all obstacles in the form of institutions and traditions … it attacks institutions and traditions to release human beings from their poisonous influences, which distort human nature and curtail human freedom. Those who say that Islamic Jihad was merely for the defense of the 'homeland of Islam' diminish the greatness of the Islamic way of life."

The widely respected Dictionary of Islam defines Jihad as "A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Quran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose of advancing Islam and of repelling evil from Muslims…[Quoting from the Hanafi school, Hedaya, 2:140, 141.], "The destruction of the sword is incurred by infidels, although they be not the first aggressors, as appears from various passages in the traditions which are generally received to this effect."

Dr. Salah al-Sawy, the chief member of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America, stated in 2009 that "the Islamic community does not possess the strength to engage in offensive jihad at this time," tacitly affirming the legitimacy of violence for the cause of Islamic rule - bound only by the capacity for success. (source)

Muhammad's failure to leave a clear line of succession resulted in perpetual internal war following his death. Those who knew him best first fought afterwards to keep remote tribes from leaving Islam and reverting to their preferred religion (the Ridda or 'Apostasy wars'). Then the violence turned within. Early Meccan converts battled later ones as hostility developed between those immigrants who had traveled with Muhammad to Mecca and the Ansar at Medina who had helped them settle in. Finally there was a violent struggle within Muhammad's own family between his favorite wife and favorite daughter - a jagged schism that has left Shias and Sunnis at each others' throats to this day.

The strangest and most untrue thing that can be said about Islam is that it is a Religion of Peace. If every standard by which the West is judged and condemned (slavery, imperialism, intolerance, misogyny, sexual repression, warfare...) were applied equally to Islam, the verdict would be devastating. Islam never gives up what it conquers, be it religion, culture, language or life. Neither does it make apologies or any real effort at moral progress. It is the least open to dialogue and the most self-absorbed. It is convinced of its own perfection, yet brutally shuns self-examination and represses criticism.

This is what makes the Quran's verses of violence so dangerous. They are given the weight of divine command. While Muslim terrorists take them as literally as anything else in their holy book, and understand that Islam is incomplete without Jihad, moderates offer little to contradict them - outside of personal opinion. Indeed, what do they have? Speaking of peace and love may win over the ignorant, but when every twelfth verse of Islam's holiest book either speaks to Allah's hatred for non-Muslims or calls for their death, forced conversion, or subjugation, it's little wonder that sympathy for terrorism runs as deeply as it does in the broader community - even if most Muslims personally prefer not to interpret their religion in this way.

Although scholars like Ibn Khaldun, one of Islam's most respected philosophers, understood that "the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force", many other Muslims are either unaware or willfully ignorant of the Quran's near absence of verses that preach universal non-violence. Their understanding of Islam comes from what they are taught by others. In the West, it is typical for believers to think that their religion must be like Christianity - preaching the New Testament virtues of peace, love, and tolerance - because Muslims are taught that Islam is supposed to be superior in every way. They are somewhat surprised and embarrassed to find that this is contradicted by the Quran and the bloody history of Islam's genesis.

Others simply accept the violence. In 1991, a Palestinian couple in America was convicted of stabbing their daughter to death for being too Westernized. A family friend came to their defense, excoriating the jury for not understanding the "culture", claiming that the father was merely following "the religion" and saying that the couple had to "discipline their daughter or lose respect." (source). In 2011, unrepentant Palestinian terrorists, responsible for the brutal murders of civilians, women and children explicitly in the name of Allah were treated to a luxurious "holy pilgrimage" to Mecca by the Saudi king - without a single Muslim voice raised in protest.

The most prestigious Islamic university in the world today is Cairo's al-Azhar.  While the university is very quick to condemn secular Muslims who critique the religion, it has never condemned ISIS as a group of infidels despite horrific carnage in the name of Allah.  When asked why, the university's Grand Imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb explained: " Al Azhar cannot accuse any [Muslim] of being a kafir [infidel], as long as he believes in Allah and the Last Day—even if he commits every atrocity."

For their part, Western liberals would do well not to sacrifice critical thinking to the god of political correctness, or look for reasons to bring other religion down to the level of Islam merely to avoid the existential truth that this it is both different and dangerous.

There are just too many Muslims who take the Quran literally... and too many others who couldn't care less about the violence done in the name of Islam.