osama - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T05:40:52Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/osamaSEAL of Approvalhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/seal-of-approval2011-05-05T04:00:35.000Z2011-05-05T04:00:35.000ZRaynard Jacksonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RaynardJackson<div><p><b>May 5, 2011</b></p><p> </p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Of course all the talk this week has been of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by the elite Navy SEAL Team 6. I was hoping, at least in the U.S., that this event would allow America to come together, if only for a moment, and reflect on what makes America such a wonderful place. But, I guess I was a bit too optimistic!</p><p> </p><p>The word SEAL is an abbreviation for <b>SE</b>a, <b>A</b>ir and <b>L</b>and. They are part of the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC). They were formerly referred to as SEAL Team 6. They are based in Dam Neck, Virginia (outside of Virginia Beach, Virginia).</p><p> </p><p>SEALs are considered the most highly trained counter-terrorism force in the world. SEAL Team 6 is comprised of the most elite of the SEALs (so, they are the elite of the elite). Members of SEAL Team 6 are the Michael Jordan’s or Kobe Bryant’s of the military—totally dedication to their craft!</p><p> </p><p>As word began to break Sunday night about bin Laden’s death, I began receiving emails and texts from the political left and right—trying to score political points. I was totally disgusted; and the rhetoric has not gotten any better since Sunday.</p><p> </p><p>In the words of Lionel Richie (a member of the Commodores), from his 1977 hit song “Zoom,” “I may be just a foolish dreamer, but I don’t care; ‘cause I know my happiness is waiting out there, s-o-m-e-w-h-e-r-e. I’m searching for that silver lining; horizons that I never see. Oh, I’d like to take just a moment and dream my dream; ooooh, dream my dream.”</p><p> </p><p>My dream would have been for those on the left and right to give credit to President Obama for being willing to go against “conventional” wisdom (to just drop a bomb on the house) and go with the more risky SEAL team invasion!</p><p> </p><p>This was a clear example of where our U.S. president was acting in his capacity as commander- in-chief. Thus, I was hoping that we could all rally around the “presidency”—just for this moment in time! There is plenty of time for partisanship; but could we put this off for maybe a day or two?</p><p> </p><p>My dream would have also been for the media to focus more on the commitment and dedication that it takes to become a Navy SEAL and also what it takes to become a member of the elite SEAL Team 6.</p><p> </p><p>These men are not a group of chickens who can just lay eggs indiscriminately and move on with their lives. Our nation has asked them to be like pigs—to provide bacon for our country—when you ask a pig for bacon, you are asking for a total commitment. </p><p> </p><p>The training they endure is nothing short of grueling. To become a Navy SEAL, you must forsake everything else—even your wife and kids.</p><p> </p><p>Bin Laden’s death showed me everything that makes America great. When America gets serious, we can tackle any problem or obstacle before us. </p><p> </p><p>But, the question is, are we willing to pay the price again to be the best as a nation. Are politicians wiling to tone down the partisanship and do what’s in the best interest of America? Are parents willing to become more engaged in their children’s lives? Are corporate executives willing to create more opportunities for Americans, even if it means paying more taxes and not moving jobs overseas? Are college and university presidents willing to stop indoctrinating and start educating our students? Is the clergy willing to, once again, become the true moral compass of our society? Is the media really willing to report the news and not distort and become part of the news?</p><p> </p><p>If and when we commit to become SEALs in our own spheres of influence, all of America benefits. We will become better teachers, parents, spouses, politicians, preachers, and businessmen.</p><p> </p><p>SEALs are totally committed to being the best, but yet they seek no recognition. We will never know the names of those responsible for killing bin Laden; and that’s fine with them. They spend years of their lives training for opportunities that may never present themselves. They spent months training for the bin Laden mission and it was over in less than an hour!</p><p> </p><p>But, if we can make America and Americans better, it can last a lifetime. Now that should get everyone’s seal of approval!</p><p> </p><p><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/">www.excellstyle.com</a><i>) & U.S. Africa Magazine (<a href="http://www.usafricaonline.com">www.usafricaonline.com</a>). </i></p></div>Don’t Believe The Hype - The real Osama bin-Laden has been dead for years...https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/dont-believe-the-hype-the2011-05-05T04:00:00.000Z2011-05-05T04:00:00.000ZTheBlackList Newshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackListNews<div><p><strong> From the Ramparts<br /></strong>by <a href="http://comcast.net" target="_blank">J<span style="text-decoration:underline;">unious Ricardo Stanton</span></a></p><p><span>Don’t Believe The Hype</span><br /><br /> <em> “How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the ‘terror mastermind’--who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly--has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight?”</em> Osama bin-Laden’s Useful Death by Paul Craig Roberts <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28016.htm">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28016.htm</a> <br /><br /> H.C. Mencken once remarked, “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” The longer I live the more I see he was right. On Monday The Mad Bomber in the White House announced to cheers, and shouts of USA, USA, that America’s long time nemesis Osama bin-Laden had been killed by US Navy Seals in a firefight in Pakistan. Now that’s a truly amazing feat considering the real Osama bin-Laden has been dead for at least ten years. Yeah that’s right he died of renal (kindney) failure. <br /> But dig this bin-Laden was being treated in a US hospital in Dubai in July of 2001 several months before 9-11 2001 and is supposed to have been visited there by the US CIA station chief while he was in the hospital on dialysis before he went to live in Afghanistan as guests of the Taliban. I don’t know about you but from my perspective if Osama bin-Laden was such a wanted man for his alleged participation in the US Embassy bombing in Kenya and the attack on the USS Cole why wasn’t he arrested or killed in Dubai by the CIA? <br /> I know the CIA trained, funded and armed bin-Laden to fight their proxy war with Russia after Russia went into Afghanistan to prop up the leftist government there which resulted in an even wider civil war. I know Osama bin-Laden was part of a group of idealistic Islamic enthusiasts, thugs, patsies and stooges recruited by the US CIA, British MI6, Pakistani ISI, Israeli Intelligence and the Saudis from across the region to fight the Russians in Afghanistan and later in Chechnya and much later in Czechoslovakia to destabilize those countries on behalf of the West. But even if he was their boy and all indications point to the fact he was, he was on the FBI’s most wanted list for the US embassy and USS Cole bombings (ironically Osama bin-Laden was never on the FBI’s most wanted list for 9-11; more things that make you go hmm?) Shouldn’t the CIA at least detained him for questioning? It wasn’t like he could run away given his advanced medical condition.<br /> These are just some of the unanswered questions about Osama bin-Laden and 9-11. But most Americans are too busy watching sports, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars and who knows what else to consider that the US government is lying to us about everything: 9-11, the economy, the Wall Street bailouts, WMD, Iraq, Iran, Libya. We are like frogs merrily flopping around in a pot, as the heat is turned up gradually we’re unaware we’re being cooked to death. Some more details about the “shooting” come to light making it even more grizzly. Come to find out “Osama bin-Laden” (another fake one) was supposedly living large in Pakistan right next to a military school at a time when the US is stepping up its bombing campaign against the Taliban in Pakistan (killing innocent people every day) and Pakistan is supposed to be an ally. Say what? He wasn’t hiding in a cave like we’ve been led to believe? Nope he was living large out in the open. You mean he didn’t go out in a blaze of glory? Nope, this fake Osama was shot in the face while he was unarmed by US Seals and CIA mercenaries. Then to make sure no one questions the official US narrative they claim DNA tests prove the dead man was Osama bin-Laden and his body was supposedly shipped across Pakistan and buried at sea and they are worried releasing photos of the body might be too gruesome for us. Yeah right! This just doesn’t pass the smell test for me.<br /> Obama was taking major heat about the birther thing, his approval ratings were spiraling downward, there was even talk of impeachment for going to war in Libya without Congressional authorization, (of course the cowards in Congress aren’t going to go against the military industrial complex because if they did, they wouldn’t get re-elected) the economy is still in the toilet, unemployment is at record highs despite what the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg and CNBC say. Things are looking bleak. He’d made all those promises and hasn’t kept them. What’s Obama to do? I know, he could say he got Osama bin-Laden, that should boost his ratings and get the wackos off his back for a while as business goes on as usual. Yeah, that’s the plan.<br /> Yeah that’s the “plan”. Don’t believe the hype and don’t fall for the okey-doke. The real Osama bin-Laden has been dead for years that’s why Bu$h stopped looking for him and said it wasn’t a priority. He was just a media bogey man invented to get the bogus global war on terror up and running and usher in the police security state here in the US. So now all of the warmongers in both parties have to go along with the latest charade about Osama bin-Laden just like they went along with the original 9-11 narrative. I gotta hand it to Obama this was a genius move even if it is a bunch of BS.</p></div>