[ April 24, 2024 ]
Alarmed! Disarmed! No more “open carry” of guns by Joel Greenberg, Tax Collector, for official duties in Seminole County, Florida. This switch of policy is courtesy of the outgoing Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Yet, security should be the concern of taxpayers: A claim of Islamophobia, magnified by a lawsuit of discrimination, could expose Greenberg, government employees, and the public to violent Jihad.
Greenberg and guns
As Tax Collector and “revenue officer,” Greenberg announced in 2017 his intent to have certain employees “open carry” guns. Security primarily concerns seizures of property due to unpaid taxes. Greenberg explained an expected lower cost of security on premises at the tax offices, reported the Orlando Sentinel: “I’m a big believer in the Second Amendment, and this is mainly to protect our staff, our customers, and to serve as a deterrent.”
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Greenberg’s policy is now challenged: A revenue officer, by definition, does not include a tax collector, according to an informal opinion of the Florida Attorney General. The Orlando Sentinel reported that the letter, dated December 17, 2018, is a non-binding response to an inquiry from the Brevard-Seminole State Attorney. The opinion should be posted on the AG’s website, but not yet.
Truth or Islamophobia?
The Geller Report reported: “A very simple question… Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction of more Muslims. Just one,” Joel Greenberg posted on his personal Facebook page. “Asking for a friend.” It was based on Neal Boortz’s Tweet, which linked to Jihad Watch’s story about a botched female genital mutilation.
“This is Islamophobic,” said Rasha Mubarak, a Muslim activist, who was the “Orlando Regional Coordinator for the Council on American Islamic Relations Florida.” In-other-words, a spokesperson for CAIR-Florida, until July, 2018, according to her page on Facebook. CAIR was named a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates in 2014: Fox News. Rasha Mubarak now is the President of Young Democrats of Orange County, Florida.
Islamophobia is Employment Discrimination
Minaz Mukhi-Skees filed her Amended Complaint against her former employers: Seminole County’s two agencies: The Tax Collector, and Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller. Skees’ allegations of religious and pregnancy discrimination, wrapped in legalese, are effectively Sharia: Islamophobia is employment discrimination. Skees claimed she was fired for being a Muslim: “Joel Greenberg has had a history of posting several anti-Muslim posts on social media.”
Her former employers alleged that Skees was a trouble-maker. “Officials with the tax collector’s office wouldn’t comment on pending litigation, but did provide WESH 2 News with the response it gave to EEOC after the Charge of Discrimination she filed last year. The office suggested there was a, sic ‘negative attitude exhibited toward both her colleagues and her supervisors,’ and that she was, ‘difficult to work with and was often uncooperative.’”
The Tax Collector filed an Answer and Affirmative Defenses, to name one: “Defendant affirmatively asserts that plaintiff was discharged for legitimate, non-discriminatory and non-retaliatory business reasons.”
The Court Clerk filed a Motion to Dismiss: “As with all employees, Plaintiff was an at-will employee and was hired into a ninety (90) day probationary period. Very soon after Plaintiff’s employment began, Plaintiff exhibited various performance problems. For example, Plaintiff criticized the Clerk’s Office’s procedures and the personal knowledge of other team members. Plaintiff’s actions created a significant amount of ill-will and discord among her peers and team members. Because of these, and other problems, the Clerk’s Office terminated Plaintiff’s employment within the probationary period.”
Review the lawsuit’s facts in the Geller Report; and review the updated legal issues in the Geller Report. The case’s pleadings are linked at the end of this story.
Sharia law
Criticism of Islam, apostasy, or refusing to convert to Islam, has the penalty of death.
Under Sharia law, the unbelieving Kafir has only three options:
- Convert to Islam;
- Become a second-class citizen, and pay Jizya, a tax; or
- Die.
Every Muslim has a duty to fulfill Sharia and commit Jihad. Has the above been denied publicly by so-called moderate Muslims? They defend that they do not personally advocate violence. Yet, as devout Muslims, they must practice Taqiyya: Lying to Infidels, non-believers.
Is it a phobia (irrational fear) of Muslims who have the ability and will to kill you?
Conclusion
For the crime of public discourse, Joel Greenberg has blasphemed Islam and Muhammad. By implication, a defacto Fatwa requires a sentence of death against Greenberg.
Security should be the concern of taxpayers: A claim of Islamophobia, magnified by a lawsuit of discrimination, could expose Joel Greenberg, government employees, and the public to violent Jihad.
“When seconds count, police are minutes away.” The Tax Collector’s office may prohibit “open carry,” but may certain employees “conceal carry” guns? If not, then neither Greenberg, the government employees, or the public are safe from a “Charlie Hebdo” style attack by Jihadis.
Criticize Islam, and you risk being a victim of Jihad. That is why, as a citizen and attorney, I have a concealed weapon. I’m “locked and loaded!”
Read the case’s pleadings:
Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint;
Tax Collector’s Answer and Affirmative Defenses; and
Clerk of Court’s Motion to Dismiss
Gerald Lostutter is a Florida licensed attorney, college professor, journalist, and patriot life member (endowment level) of the National Rifle Association. This article does not create an attorney-client relationship. You should consult a licensed attorney for advice.
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47 Comments
5 years ago
When Muhammadists enslave Africans*, imprison or kill atheists, deceive people or cut off clitorisses they should face the full force of the law, wherever they are, globally.
The censorship imposed by for example Saudi Arabia controlled Twitter on social media users in the USA or Israel is an illegitimate, criminal form of deception.
*Africans are enslaved in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
5 years ago
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5 years ago
Reply to
Raymond Hietapakka
Agree. And Left/Libs have been bringing jihad right into America.
somali jihadis attack American citizens while police make excuses https://tinyurl.com/ycymp8wv
Its happening in Demonrat run counties/states .
5 years ago
A Muslim should NEVER be elected to public office in this country. Muslims are bound by Islam to follow Sharia law. Islam and Sharia law are not compatible with our Constitution, our freedoms and our way of life. We cannot assimilate people who are hostile to our government, our laws, our way of life, demanding and intent on conquering. Islam should be banned in this country for that very reason.
5 years ago
Reply to
Buzz
…we now have about 4 or 5 avowed Muslims elected into our government….one of the tenets of Islam is it is okay and admired to fool the infidels to bring Islam to power….they even stand up and swear to uphold the Constitution and our laws while plotting our demise…..
5 years ago
Reply to
Buzz
You are absolutely correct.
These quotes are from their UN-holy book – the quran:
2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them…”
4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”
5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off…”
8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”
8:60: “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatsoever you expend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.”
9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”
9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practice not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.”
9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who fulfills his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.”
9:123: “O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.”
47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads.”
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From “An Explanatory Memorandum” – Muslim Brotherhood:
“The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions…”
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From the Muslim Brotherhood: “The Project”:
Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West. The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:
* Networking and coordinating actions between like-minded Islamist organizations;
* Avoiding open alliances with known terrorist organizations and individuals to maintain the appearance of “moderation”;
* Infiltrating and taking over existing Muslim organizations to realign them towards the Muslim Brotherhood’s collective goals;
* Using deception to mask the intended goals of Islamist actions, as long as it doesn’t conflict with shari’a law;
* Avoiding social conflicts with Westerners locally, nationally or globally, that might damage the long-term ability to expand the Islamist power base in the West or provoke a lash back against Muslims;
* Establishing financial networks to fund the work of conversion of the West, including the support of full-time administrators and workers;
* Conducting surveillance, obtaining data, and establishing collection and data storage capabilities;
* Putting into place a watchdog system for monitoring Western media to warn Muslims of “international plots fomented against them”;
* Cultivating an Islamist intellectual community, including the establishment of think-tanks and advocacy groups, and publishing “academic” studies, to legitimize Islamist positions and to chronicle the history of Islamist movements;
* Developing a comprehensive 100-year plan to advance Islamist ideology throughout the world;
* Balancing international objectives with local flexibility;
* Building extensive social networks of schools, hospitals and charitable organizations dedicated to Islamist ideals so that contact with the movement for Muslims in the West is constant;
* Involving ideologically committed Muslims in democratically-elected institutions on all levels in the West, including government, NGOs, private organizations and labor unions;
* Instrumentally using existing Western institutions until they can be converted and put into service of Islam;
* Drafting Islamic constitutions, laws and policies for eventual implementation;
* Avoiding conflict within the Islamist movements on all levels, including the development of processes for conflict resolution;
* Instituting alliances with Western “progressive” organizations that share similar goals;
* Creating autonomous “security forces” to protect Muslims in the West;
* Inflaming violence and keeping Muslims living in the West “in a jihad frame of mind”;
* Supporting jihad movements across the Muslim world through preaching, propaganda, personnel, funding, and technical and operational support;
* Making the Palestinian cause a global wedge issue for Muslims;
* Adopting the total liberation of Palestine from Israel and the creation of an Islamic state as a keystone in the plan for global Islamic domination;
* Instigating a constant campaign to incite hatred by Muslims against Jews and rejecting any discussions of conciliation or coexistence with them;
* Actively creating jihad terror cells within Palestine;
* Linking the terrorist activities in Palestine with the global terror movement;
* Collecting sufficient funds to indefinitely perpetuate and support jihad around the world;
In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects, The Project is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or outright terror groups, over the past two decades.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readarticle.aspx?artid=4476
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4475
5 years ago
5 years ago
The Muslims will always use “freedom of religion” in defense of their views on women’s clothing, treatment of women and children, treatment of non-believers and lying to infidels. As long as Islam is accepted as a religion, they’ll get away with it too. Simple cure…declare Islam a political cult (like Jim Jones’ People Temple or the Branch Davidians) and OULAW IT. Problem solved.
5 years ago
Notice how in response to the question “A very simple question… Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction of more Muslims. Just one,” the response was not to name a country that had benefited. Instead the response was to accuse the person of being “Islamophobic.”
It’s “Islamophobic” to ask a question that has no answer.
5 years ago
Reply to
EugeneAustin
Islam drags any country it conquers back to the dark ages and and oppresses them with poverty.
http://eskipaper.com/images/thomas-jefferson-9.jpg
5 years ago
I’m amazed Mr. Greenberg hasn’t been fired for daring to criticise the f’ing muslums and their fascist, totalitarian, Jew hating death cult. Kudos to him for daring to do so as well.
5 years ago
Name any society, anywhere and anytime in the world, not just the developed world that has benefited in any way from islam? And now answer why over 600,000,000 innocent people have been killed by muslims over the past 1,400 years?
5 years ago
Reply to
Angel kasparov
Islam is evil and followers offer nothing but evil.
http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Islamic-Faith.jpg
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Our forefathers knew, even then. This has been going on for so long.
We, here, many of us, were blissfully ignorant for so long. We didn’t know how the world was or what was going on.
I try to think what was the eye opener for me personally, I imagine it was 9/11.
5 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
…..that “ignorance” is now bearing fruit….and our young are devouring it….we may have waited too late to stop this…..
5 years ago
Free speech means you have the right to say anything you want; if you are NOT absolutely free to say so, you do not have free speech, it’s very simple.
5 years ago
Free speech means you have the right to say anything you want; if you are NOT absolutely free to say so, you do not have free speech, it’s very simple.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
….if a German was elected to our Congress in the 40s and 50s…and stood up saying the things the Muslims are saying now about Jews…..they would never have been elected in the first place…if they said it after they were elected…. more likely they would have been found dead somewhere….
Picture what would happen if a Congress person had started saying horrible things about Black people….the other Congress persons would have run them out of Congress….
Where in God’s name is the outrage in Congress today about Anti Semitism among their members? Crickets…..
5 years ago
Not only do we have the RIGHT to free speech but a person has the RIGHT to have hurt feelings and be offended!
To suggest others can’t exercise that is totalitarianism for Islam in this situation.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
So far the Left and Big Tech has managed to slaughter our free speech on a daily basis….and still we haven’t risen up en masse to fight it…when is “too late”….too late?
5 years ago
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Who knew. Our history lessons should have focused on American history.
I sort of remember parts of this, but certainly in no detail.
Wow, millions paid in tribute.
Just a few years ago, we had a lot more piracy.
5 years ago
I have said the same thing about Negroes. They have NEVER prospered any area.
On taxes ONLY CONGOGRESS can collect taxes according to PH. It says so in the Constitution. It does not say administrators or bureaucraps or servants, etc. ONLY CONGOGRESS!
That is why taxes are to be voluntary. And no one has “income”. You barter for your wages in input hours. Thus, writing a check to the IRS is TREASON!
5 years ago
LOCK and LOAD
5 years ago
Telling the truth about Islam can get you killed…you must not offend the monsters.
5 years ago
Checking the headlines of Pamela’s stories today show 80% of them are about openingly hating Jews….5 years ago, you would hardly have seen one or two, and those would have been stories in other countries….hating Jews in America has been mainstreamed by the Dimms and Muslims….just like Hitler did in Germany….
If someone had told me five years ago things were headed this way I would have called them crazy….I would have said it couldn’t happen in America….I would have been wrong.
We have to find some way to stop this before it goes way too far…
5 years ago
Reply to
williamdiamon
So…we are now in Phase 2….and sliding rapidly to phase 3 when Muslims have been elected to our Congress and calling our President vile and filthy names…..in public….when that Witch joyfully and openingly called President Trump an “MF”…and not one person in Congress called for her censor or being ousted…..I’ve become very afraid…this isn’t my country anymore…
5 years ago
Reply to
williamdiamon
Now there you go throwing real facts into the situation. Why do the libturds hate facts and truth? Because they make their tiny libturd brain cell explode.
5 years ago
5 years ago
You can still be paranoid if they ARE out to get you! Better to have a gun and not need it than to not have one and need it. That will only happen once. Be a Boy Scout, be prepared! When seconds count, the police are only minutes away! Why do you have insurance? Surely your house isn’t going to burn down, you certainly are not going to get in an accident. There is no reason NOT to carry a gun.
5 years ago
When will guerrilla counter attacks on the stealth jihadists begin in the USA??? Are we not enraged at the filthy islamOnazis yet?
5 years ago
This just keeps happening, and this case won’t be the last, either. Muslim rape gangs are still operating with impunity in Britain. Just last year, some of the victims of the Muslim rape gangs in Rotherham said that the gangs were still operating. The British government has demonstrated an unstinting determination to sweep this scandal under the rug and continue its relentless pandering to Islamic groups. It looked for a time as if at least some of the victims would get justice, and there are still some trials such as this one. But clearly the May government wants the scandal gone, even as its scope keeps widening: one report about the Muslim exploitation of Sikh girls says that it started in the 1960s.
It’s shameful. A country that betrays its girls has no future. Britain has no future.
This is what happens when you let Muslims into your country.
5 years ago
Reply to
Buzz
Sharia May has never addressed or mentioned the mass gang rapes occurring throughout the UK. She is a spineless evil coward that has allowed this filth to infest the country and bends over backwards to accommodate their every command, while chastising and arresting those that dare to speak out about the horror inflicted on a once great nation. She needs to be locked up in solitary while having every brutal crime committed by these barbaric savages broadcast into her cell 24 hours a day.
