Obama's Inexcusable Response To The Chattanooga Jihad Attack

Eli Arnold is pictured planting a flag outside the Chattanooga National Guard recruitment center targeted by Mohammed Youssef Abdulazeez.

From No explanation by Obama on flags not lowered to half-staff for Chattanooga shootings (dated July 20, 2015):

The White House provided no explanation Monday amid questions over why the president had not ordered flags across the nation to half-staff in the wake of a Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting that killed five servicemembers.

Spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama offered condolences last week and may speak to veterans at VFW conference Tuesday about the shooting, but he had no further comment.

Obama has issued presidential proclamations that lowered flags at federal facilities and military bases after many mass shootings, including attacks at the Washington Navy Yard, Fort Hood in Texas, and Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut. The lack of a proclamation following the deaths of four Marines and sailor in a possible terrorist attack Thursday by a 24-year-old Muslim man rankled some and spark online outrage.

“I don’t have more information about the status of the flag over the White House,” Earnest said, responding to a question at a daily briefing Monday with the press....

Read the rest HERE.

Let us remember that Obama ordered the lowering of United States flags when Nelson Mandela died in 2013. But not for five of our servicemen slaughtered right here on our home soil? GRRRRRR!

Related reading: Fallujah-in-Chattanooga by Tammy Swofford.

Concluding portion:

Lance Corporal Skip Wells was a highly trained, professional United States Marine. He was “armed” with a cell phone. He used his “weapon” to text the last known words attributed to him:

ACTIVE SHOOTER

This is the real tragedy. It is the tragedy of an unarmed U.S. Marine.

Read the entire essay HERE.

BREAKING: Multiple Shots Fired In Chattanooga On The Armed Forces Career Center AND Navy Recruitment Center

JUST NOW ON THE NEWS @ 2:22 PM, EDT: FOUR MARINES KILLED!

From Reuters:

There have been shootings at multiple places in Chattanooga, including near a U.S. Army Reserve center and a Navy recruiting center in the Tennessee city on Thursday, and a police officer was hit by gunfire, officials and local media reports said.

There have been several shootings at several different locations," said Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman John Harmon. "It's a fluid situation," said Harmon, whose agency was helping local authorities.

"We've got an officer down," Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke told reporters, calling it a "very terrible situation."

The U.S. Navy said it was investigating a report of a shooting at a Navy recruiting center in Chattanooga....

An eyewitness, a woman who states that she was 10 feet away from shooter, is saying that she was "a white guy in a silver Mustang." No tags on the car. The shooter was using a "high-powered rifle."

The photo that I'm seeing on CNN is showing at least 18 bullet holes in the doors of the Navy Reserve Recruiting Station, which is in a strip mall.

There is also an unconfirmed report of a man driving a black BMW firing on the other location.

The two sites fired upon are 7.5 miles apart.

CNN's ongoing coverage is HERE.

Addendum 1: Chattanooga Police are Tweeting out that the active shooter situation is resolved. News conference coming in a few minutes.

Addendum 2: According to reports on CNN, the shooter is dead. Buildings still remain on lock down, however.

Addendum 3: Four Marines injured [UPDATE: MARINES KILLED]. Chattanooga City Police officer wounded, but not seriously.

Addendum 4: Lock downs have ended. There are reports that the shooter and/or the police fired 100 rounds and that there was a shootout between the shooter and the police - with the end coming with two shots at the shooter after he fled into the woods of the big park in that part of Chattanooga.

SITUATION STILL FLUID AT THIS TIME (2:25 PM, EDT)

UPDATE, with thanks to Anonymous for tips:

Police sources are saying that the shooter's name was Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.

From Heavy.com:

He Was a Naturalized U.S. Citizen Originally From Kuwait.

An ISIS-Affiliated Account Tweeted #Chattanooga Just Before the Shooting Occurred Along With a Warning to Americans.

Read the rest HERE.

Furthermore and apparently:

Youssuf Abdullazeez was appointed as a special policeman for the City of Chattanooga Department of Public Works according to this City Council resolution.

Screen shot (Click on the image to enlarge it):

NOTE:

The screen shot may be in error. See Point 3 HERE.

Heavy.com now has this information:

Abdulazeez graduated from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 2012, according to posts on his mother’s Facebook page and a resume posted on Indeed.com.

He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked from April 2009 to April 2010 as an intern with the Tennessee Valley Authority. He also had internships at Mohawk Industries and Global Trade Express.

CBS News incorrectly reported that he was an employee of the city of Chattanooga.

UPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST --- Is Obama Attempting to Destroy the American Military?

From the Vlad Tepes Blog:

The picture is of the five first line US nuclear carriers docked together in one place. 

Just like Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor , December 7, 1941. 

This picture was taken the February 2014 in Norfolk , Virginia. Obama ordered
5 nuclear carriers into harbor for “routine” (?) inspections. Heads of the Navy were flabbergasted by the directive but had to comply as it was a direct
order from their Commander-in-Chief. 

The carriers were all pulled out from the MIDDLE EAST and the Afghanistan
support role leaving our land forces naked and exposed without the air support
needed to carry out their missions.! 

NORFOLK, VA. (February 8, 2014). This is the first time since WWII that five
aircraft carriers were docked together. (These are all nuclear carriers). 

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69),
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77),
USS Enterprise (CVN 65),
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75),
and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) 

are all in port at Naval Station Norfolk , Va. , the world’s largest naval station.
Knowledgeable sources stated that this breached a long standing military
protocol in the Navy meant to avoid a massive enemy strike on major US forces. 

(U..S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ryan J. Courtade/Released). 

This ordering of most of the Navy’s capitol ships into one place is
unprecedented since Pearl Harbor !

Continue reading (a list of Generals fired under Obama's admin)

UPDATE --- Hmm.

This story is filled with distortions:

This photograph of ships lined up at the piers of the Norfolk Naval Base was widely circulated in March 2013 with accompanying claims that it showed five U.S. aircraft carriers simultaneously docked in the same place for the first time since World War II. 

Although the photograph is genuine, and five carriers were indeed docked at Norfolk at the same time, most of the claims in the accompanying text are exaggerated or untrue: the ships were not all "first line" carriers, nor were they "pulled out from the Middle East" and "ordered into harbor for routine inspections," and the situation was not the first occurrence of its type since World War II, nor was it a "breach of long-standing military protocol." 

I am not happy about this.

Sorry to have given you an inaccurate story.

I believe the list of fired generals at Vlad's site is accurate.

If anyone finds out it is inaccurate, please let me know. 

Outrage!

See General Dempsey Fires on Own Troops at Fix Bayonets!, Mustang's site. It is unconscionable and inconceivable that such a travesty has occurred!

The essence of winning a war does not involve being careful not to offend the enemy.

Will Romney take Obama to task on this matter during one of the upcoming debates?

Wade Michael Page (Who Was a Military Vet, Yet Somehow Did Not Know the Difference Between Muslims and Sikhs) Is Identified As The Shooter In Mass Murder As Sikh Temple

Wade Michael Page, member of the band “End Apathy” has been identified as the Wisconsin Sikh Temple gunman. Photo Credit: MySpace .


MEANING OF "14" TATTOO - The “14″ stands for a 14-word slogan they follow that goes as follows, “We must secure the existence of the our people and a future for white children.” 

The assumption is that he was targeting Muslims. There have been reports that he had a "9/11" tattoo, as well as White Supremacist tattoos.

How could the man have spent six years in the military during the 90's yet not have been able to distinguish between Sikh and Muslim?

(And, just in case anyone wanders onto this website who is just as stupid as Wade Michael Page, NO, IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER IF HE HAD GONE INTO A MOSQUE AND SHOT A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS.)

If it is true that he wanted to murder Muslims and he could not tell the difference between Sikh and Muslim then that is a condemnation of our Defense Department and the American Military. If the man can not tell the difference between Muslim and Sikh, how could he possibly have been able to determine the difference between normal everyday Muslim and Jihadist?

If we do not know who our enemy is, we can never defeat them.

From Yahoo:

The gunman who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people has been identified as Army veteran Wade Michael Page. 

Page, 40, opened fire outside the temple before entering around 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning and killed six people. He served in the Army from April 1992 through October 1998. 

Page was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with a police officer who sustained "eight or nine" gunshot wounds, authorities confirmed. Officials are treating it as a case of domestic terrorism. 

Though police have not given any details on the motive of the shooter, but Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Special Agent Thomas Ahern said Page had tattoos that suggested he had ties to white supremacists. 

"It is being investigated. And what his tattoos signified is being investigated. They are all pieces of a possible puzzle to learn what was his motive in carrying out such a horrific act," Ahern said. 

While in the Army Wade served as a sergeant, and later as a specialist based in Ft. Bliss in Texas and at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina. Wade's job was as a Hawk missile system repairman, and he then became a psychological operations specialist, defense official confirmed to ABC news.

Edwards said authorities were treating the event as a domestic terrorism incident and the FBI would be conducting a full investigation. 

"The FBI is working closely with the Oak Creek Police Department and other local and federal agencies to investigate today's shooting incident," FBI Milwaukee Special Agent in Charge Teresa Carlson said in a written statement. 

"This remains an active investigation in its early stages. While the FBI is investigating whether this matter might be an act of domestic terrorism, no motive has been determined at this time. We know our community has been deeply impacted by this incident, and our thoughts are with those affected and particularly with the officer who was wounded in the line of duty to protect others." 

Members of the Sikh community in Milwaukee expressed outrage at the shooting. 

"They went to church not knowing that they might die today," said Simran Kaleka, whose family was in the temple, according to ABC News Radio. "I don't know how sick you have to be to do that, and I don't know if it was directed toward the Sikh culture and them having turbans and having beards, but ignorance is not going to get us anywhere." 

UPDATE -

WADE MICHAEL PAGE GIVEN A "LESS THAN HONORABLE DISCHARGE IN 1998

UPDATE II -

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Photos of Wade Michael Page of the group End Apathy have been released following the temple shooting 2012 this weekend. Wade Michael Page was reportedly lead singer of End Apathy which began as a rock group in 2005. Police have reportedly identified Page as the alleged gunman behind this weekend’s tragic templeshooting. 

On its MySpace page, End Apathy says that their “music is a sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress.” The group claims that they “began in 2005 with roots in oldschool … punk and metal influences.” The group last listed their locationas Nashville, North Carolina. Their last login to MySpace was in February 2012. 

But investigators tell news that the Wade Michael Page moved to a residence near the temple only two weeks before this weekend’sshooting rampage. On MySpace, Wade Michael Page’s alleged music includes songs like “self destruct”, “insufficient”, and “submission”. 

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Wade Michael Page’s alleged music was authored after he was discharged from the army. Page was given a less-than-honorable discharge after serving six years in the army. During his service, he specialized in psychological operations units. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas and thereafter at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 

This weekend’s Sikh Temple shooting ended with six persons dead, four persons injured. Police contend that the gunman’s death toll could have been far worse if a responding officer had not promptly killed the shooter. For more about the tragedy, click HERE. For the band’s myspace account, click HERE.

UPDATE III -

Confirmed, Page was a well Skin Head known and played in various Neo Nazi bands.

The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band. 

In 2010, Page, then the leader of the band End Apathy, gave an interview to the white supremacist website Label 56.