2 gunmen shot dead outside Muhammad Art Exhibit in Garland
GARLAND — A search for explosives continued into the night Sunday after two men were shot and killed outside a provocative contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. SOURCE
I have been telling folks for a long time; we do things a lot differently here in Texas…
Garland and Rowlett, where I live, share a long common border and have a strong mutual aid agreement. We help each other any time help is needed. Our weather may not be to your liking, yes indeed, it gets HOT here in the summer, but damn, you can’t beat our cops and the guns laws.
And most, if not ALL of my positive POLICE posts and comments are based on 1st hand knowledge about Texas and Louisiana Police Officers, folks I know, from Sheriffs and Chiefs all the way down to the Officer on the street. This is hard core redneck country, PISS on ISLAM and every goat loving son of a bitch that’s a member of that evil cult.
Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, put on the Muhammad Art Exhibit. She referred to it as a “free speech event” on Twitter. One tweet from her after the apparent attack read “this is a war.”
A free speech event or an antagonistic attempt to bring open warfare to the streets of North Texas before she jumps back on a plane and heads off back to New York?
I personally have NO USE for Pamela Geller, and that goes back for quite a while: Pamela Geller Is Not the Epitome of Conservatism | The TexasFred Blog. Nothing has happened to cause me to change that opinion, of her or her big buddies Annie Hamilton and Debbie Schlussel, they all 3 launched a huge histrionic screed against Texas Governor Rick Perry a while back in which they ALL accused him of being a Muslim, or perhaps a stealth Muslim.
Since that day I have had NO USE for any of those three Drama Queens that play a race card, an anti-Semitism card, any time someone speaks against them. They are no better than the trouble makers on the Left in that regard.
Sure, we all pretty much know; WAR is coming, maybe it’s a good thing to get it going and get it over with, but folks here in Texas don’t need some Drama Queen from New York coming here, starting trouble in OUR back yard just to garner hits for her blog when SHE is NOT going to be the one on the street with HER ass on the line when the lead starts whizzing around.
1. Shouldn’t have happened.
2. When it did, the good guys won.
Keep your powder dry
Welcome to Texas ISIS… This is what you can expect from all of us backwards rednecks…
All religion is fine slavery.
Ya know, strangely, I agree with you… Belief, personal belief, means a lot more to me than the dogma being preached in mega churches…
Agreed, Tex.
Fred, you’re right, war is coming. Just listen, we can hear the drums of war picking up tempo. It will come like a storm if we are not ready. I believe one term is “blitzkrieg.”
Texans know they don’t have to fall, we have each others backs (mostly). The liberal mindset planted the seeds, radical hatred tended the planting.
The Liberals can fight or die, at the hands of the Jihadis or otherwise… Read between THOSE lines..
If she’s from NY, why didn’t she hold this in NY? Why hold it in another state especially when you believe there may be trouble? She had a lot of security in place so she must have suspected there would be trouble. Funny how she went to someone elses back yard to hold the event instead of hers.
This answer will NOT make me any new friends but it IS the truth as I see it and believe it; Pam Geller is a Drama Queen, trouble stirring BITCH from HELL, her only intent is to make her blog and following grow…
Doesn’t speak well of her followers in MY opinion..
“Pam Geller is a Drama Queen, trouble stirring BITCH from HELL, her only intent is to make her blog and following grow… ”
NOT in my Conservitive eyes she’s not.
Look to the Left and the Muzzies for that kind of nonsenses.
Well, we ALL have an opinion….
Hey, isn’t the rule around here that if you stir the pot you gotta lick the spoon?
She did it in Garland precisely because of gun laws - in New York this would have ended badly for the US, as it is Garland has pulled ahead in the Liberty Olympics. With any luck, jihadis the world over will realize they are picking the wrong target - our leadership may make us look soft, but go ahead and scratch the surface, I dare you …
I know that, YOU know that, anyone with half a brain knows that but her followers are seriously lacking in the acceptance of reality…
Maybe at least they will stay the hell out of here.
Two less ragheads to worry about when the feces hits the fan. Am sure Geller held the event here in Texas because of the gun laws. Seems she may have achieved her purpose by drawing these cretins out in the open and giving Islam a little more exposure for what it is. The enemy.
On the enemy part we agree, but this shit was in my back yard… She brought it here and had it not been for the incredible response from the GPD, we would have been in the news for a mass shooting much like those recently seen in Europe…
… and they came from my backyard …
Fred, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs on islam. Spenser, Geller, Daniel Pipes, Greenfield, Tancredo and many others. I’m sorry for any violence that occurs at any gathering, being against Jews, Christians, athiests etc.. What happened yesterday was anticipated and prepared for and as Cary says it’s because of the gun laws. Good guys won out and I don’t think the jihadis will get the memo about who should be attacked and where. The message from Geller et al is to call attention to the cult of death. Peace my ass. Sorry about your back yard.
I don’t care what the reasons were, it was a set up, well organized *baiting* and done because it was presumed, correctly, that Texas would not play well with terrorists…. Big fucking deal, what do we do now? Stage ALL anti-Islam events in Texas? I have NO PROBLEM with killing the bastards but it needs to be an offensive, not some done for publicity BS function…
100 % correct Fred
Y’all do know why this spot was chosen? There was a “Stand with the Prophet” conference to counteract Islamophobia held at this very facility in Garland in January. It was almost immediately announced about this art contest and its location to respond and correspond to this conference.
I respect everyone’s ideas here, but that is the fact…well, as I understand it.
Did it have to be so in your face? Well, they sort of in someone’s neck a lot.
Yep… Summed up nicely…
I didn’t think it was a good idea for the American Nazi Party to march through Skokie, IL back in the 60s. It was provocative. But they were well within their rights. And here’s the thing: what good is the 2nd amendment if the 1st amendment is dead? Maybe it’s just a little provocative for the US taxpayer to be required to underwrite a crucifix in a jar of urine, but that is not hate speech is it? This is America and to quote or paraphrase Votaire: I may disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Geller and company were *not* victims. In fact, the only victim involved was the guard who took one for the good guys. Was this predictable? Yes, it was. Because those Muslims who don’t agree with free speech for some reason seem to agree with the right to bear arms against us. But predictable though it may have been, I will say this: being afraid to speak is no different from not being allowed to speak.
Keep your powder dry
I never said Geller and Company didn’t have a *right*, I only question her motives and why in the hell she had to do it here… She’s got a *right*, she needs a brain to go with it…
Let me clear something up and stop some back-channel talk regarding the incident in Garland last night and my commentary about its sponsor..
Pam Geller has every right to be as stupid, antagonistic, arrogant, manipulative and self serving as she wants to be in her persecution of Islam, I have no issue with that in and of itself, as a matter of fact, there are *some* points that I agree with 100%, I just don’t like Geller and the way she took herself to national prominence, but that too is her action to answer for at some time in the future, but she has the RIGHT to say whatever she wants…
That said; I too have the same right to FREE SPEECH, to some degree on Facebook and completely on this blog… So, why is it all these *hot-damn* Geller supporters want ME to shut up and not speak MY mind too?
F’ing hypocrites…
P. Geller and her “followers” as you refer to them are trying to shine the light on this non-religion…….islam. She got the ground zero people to back off and that was a good thing. I, for one don’t think islam is a religion and liken it to naziism. The American voting populace should be made aware of the danger of this death cult and I don’t care who raises their voice against these seventh century savages as long as it inspires people to investigate this false religion. CAIR did have a stand with mohammed rally at this venue, in your back yard. We will have physical contact with these jihad inspired assholes. It’s a crapshoot as to where it happens next.
I agree Wayne, I just can’t stand Geller and her BS… It’s a personal matter and you can’t deny a man an opportunity to hate someone, especially someone as opportunistic as a DAMNED YANKEE that brought this upon us here in Texas..
Maybe I need to go to NYC and sponsor a big BBQ and machine gun shoot… Wonder how well that shit would go over?
We don’t need Muslims in Texas but we don’t need Geller and her *showmanship* drawing them in either…
Fred,
I’m just glad to know you are safe and sound after that event. Regardless of whatever one thinks or feels about Pamela Gellar, one thing is for sure. Those two ‘moh lovebirds got some serious “bird-shot” that sent them reeling to their Allah, only to find out there weren’t 72 boi virgins waiting for some lovin’ in their pparadise. Instead, they heard the infidel fatwa loud and clear: NO SOOFI FOR YOU!
Yes indeed…