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Frederick Douglass (née Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey)
February 1818 – February 20, 1895
Notable: Abolitionist & Author
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland. He never knew the exact date of his birth but was most likely born in or around the year 1818 and later chose to use February 14th as his date of birth. As often occurred, Douglass was taken from his mother, Harriet Bailey, while he was still a baby. His mother lived on a plantation several miles away and they would only see each other on a few occasions before she passed away when he was about eight years old. His father's identity is unknown but he is believed to have been a White man, quite possibly his owner, Aaron Anthony.
Douglass was raised from infancy by his grandmother, Betty Bailey, who also cared for the other children at Holmes Hill Farm. The property was owned by Aaron Anthony who is believed to have raised slaves to supply local plantations such as Wye House which was owned by a local wealthy family. Around the age of six, Douglass was deemed old enough to begin working and joined his older siblings at the Wye Plantation.
Two years later, Douglass was sent to Baltimore to work in the Hugh Auld household as a house slave. It was against the law to educate slaves by teaching them to read or write. Slaves were kept illiterate and ignorant because it was believed that an education would make them rebellious and unfit for enslavement. But, the mistress of the house, Sophia, began teaching Douglass the alphabet until her husband intervened. Yearning to continue his education, Douglass learned what he could from other people in the neighborhood.
A pre-teen Douglass was exposed to religion and the Bible by a Methodist minister and a Black man. Now literate, Douglass was able to read newspapers and books which made him aware of the abolitionist movement. One book, in particular, The Columbian Orator by Caleb Bingham, which contained a collection of speeches allowed him to improve his reading and oratory skills as well as shaped his views on human and civil rights.
Following the death of Aaron Anthony, Douglass became the property of his daughter, Lucretia, who was married to Thomas Auld. This meant Douglass had to move once more to St. Michael's. After his arrival, Douglass began using the Bible to teach other enslaved people to read during church services which attracted many attendees. His classes also attracted the attention of locals who broke up the meetings armed with makeshift weapons.
As punishment, Douglass was sent to work on Edward Covey's plantation as he was known for his capabilities as a "slave breaker". It was intended that Douglass would be reigned in by Covey and trained to begin working in the fields. Covey was a cruel and vicious man who was well known for his savage handling of the slaves he managed. He constantly whipped and beat Douglass in an attempt to break his spirit. Suffering both mentally and physically, Douglass reached a point where he couldn't take it anymore. As a 16-year-old young man, he decided to fight back and won in a physical altercation with Covey. After that incident, Covey never attempted to beat him again.
Inspired by his physical triumph and a hunger for freedom, Douglass began plotting to escape. In 1835, he and a group of conspirators began working on ideas to escape but the plan went awry. The plot was found out before it was executed and he and the other men were jailed. The failed escape attempt resulted in Thomas Auld sending him back to Hugh in Baltimore where he was put to work in the local shipyards. While working as a caulker, he used the opportunity to gather knowledge that he could use for future plans to escape.
Now in his late teens, Douglass joined a debating club for free Black men through which he met Anna Murray, a free Black housekeeper. Using borrowed papers that belonged to a free Black sailor, he escaped Maryland and traveled North via the Underground Railroad. Arriving in New York City, he sent for Murray and the two were married on September 15, 1838. Shortly after, the couple moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts where Frederick Bailey adopted the surname Douglass.
Shortly after escaping from slavery Frederick Bailey married Anna Murray, the couple adopted the surname Douglass and settled in New Bedford, Massachusettes. The couple had met while Douglass was still enslaved in Maryland and she aided his escape by helping him procure a sailor's uniform and providing him with money. They would go on to have five children.
Douglass began attending local abolitionist meetings through which he became aware of William Lloyd Garrison and a subscriber to his newspaper, The Liberator . He was eventually asked to share the story of his life at abolitionist meetings through which he came to the attention of William C. Coffin. With the 1841 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Convention on the horizon, Coffin invited Douglass to speak about his experiences during slavery and the story of his escape.
During the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Convention Douglass and Garrison finally met. The convention's attendees were so impressed by Douglass' speech that the society hired him as a speaker and encouraged him to become a leader in the abolitionist movement. Two years later, Douglass joined a six-month national abolitionist tour of America during which he was physically attacked on several occasions. He endured an especially brutal attack in Pendleton, Indiana where he was chased and beaten by an anti-abolition mob.
Douglass came to be regarded as such an articulate and effective orator that some doubted he had ever been enslaved. Intended in part to counter these doubts, Douglass began working on his first autobiography which would be published in 1845 as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave . Since running away in 1838, Douglass had managed to avoid recapture by obscuring his history through the change of his last name. But his autobiography included details about his early life that would have made it possible for him to be specifically identified as the fugitive slave Frederick Bailey.
To promote the book and abolitionism while at the same time avoiding recapture, Douglass traveled to Europe for a tour of Great Britain and Ireland where he remained for two years. Through contributions from supporters, Douglass raised enough money to purchase his freedom from Hugh Auld for $711.66. Upon his return to America, Douglass moved his family to Rochester, New York, and used some of the money from his tour to launch a newspaper, the North Star. Douglass would continue to publish the paper for approximately 15 years although its form and frequency would undergo multiple changes. In its early years, the paper was mired in debt but eventually achieved a degree of financial stability as circulation grew.
Ideological differences with William Lloyd Garrison created an irreparable rift in their relationship. Douglass began to function more independently within the abolitionist movement and also became involved with other social justice initiatives. His home became a stop on the Underground Railroad, providing shelter and a hiding place for slaves escaping to Canada. He was an advocate for women's rights and was the only Black attendee at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. It was also during this time that Douglass met John Brown.
In 1855, Douglass published his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom . Four years later Douglass traveled to Canada and then on to England to avoid arrest but in this case due to his connection with Brown who had led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He returned to America in 1860, the same year during which South Carolina seceded from the Union charting a path to the start of the American Civil War.
Due to his years as a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement Douglass had become one of the most visible and influential Black men in America. Beginning with President Lincoln during the Civil War and continuing through the next few administrations, Douglass would meet with the presidents to advocate on behalf of the Black population.
He was amongst those who called for the creation of an all-Black regiment which resulted in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry. Douglass recruited troops for the regiments and pushed for Black soldiers to receive equal pay and fair treatment in the military.
Following the end of the Civil War, Douglass was appointed to various commissions, councils, and other government positions. Most notable was his brief role as the president of the troubled Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, U.S Marshall of the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, Consul General to Haiti, and Minister Resident to the Republic of Haiti.
In 1881, Douglass published his final autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass . Later that year his wife Anna Murray died from a stroke after 44 years of marriage. Not to be messy, but it is a part of his public legacy so I don't want to gloss over it. Two years later, Douglass married Helen Pitts, a White woman 20 years his junior who had been his secretary while he was Recorder of Deeds. As had previously occurred when knowledge of Douglass' affairs became public, the marriage caused quite a bit of controversy. And Douglass' decades-long mistress, Ottilie Assing, committed suicide.
Douglass Place was developed by Frederick Douglass as affordable rental housing for Black people in Fells Point, Baltimore. He would continue his work as an orator, writer, and activist until his death on February 20, 1895. Frederick Douglass died suddenly from heart failure after giving a speech at the National Council of Women in Washington D.C. He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Cedar Hill, his home in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. was later designated the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.
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"Frederick Douglass." 2020. Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. January 13, 2020. https://www.biography.com/activist/frederick-douglass.
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By Kaylin Li | Nov 7, 2022
With the Supreme Court's current conservative supermajority, the court is continuously overturning previously held precedents, the latest being affirmative action.
On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court heard two cases concerning affirmative action and race-conscious admissions: one against Harvard and the other against the University of North Carolina (UNC), both filed by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). The six conservative justices all seemed to express doubt that race should be considered in admissions processes to promote diversity, suggesting that the court may overturn precedent to rule affirmative action as unconstitutional.
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Our Government And The Muslim Brotherhood
Date: February 17, 2013Author: thetruthsoldier
by Andrew McCarthy
Andy McCarthy is probably the best Federal Prosecutor that I have ever known. When he took on the prosecution of the "Blind Sheik" and his co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the plots to bomb tunnels, bridges, the Federal Building and the UN Headquarters in New York City he immersed himself in not only the evidence, but also the motive behind these actual and planned attacks. After concluding successful prosecutions of all of the Jihadists defendants Andy undertook to become a world class expert on the causes and actions of Radical Islamists and to understand their agenda. He has written two excellent books on the Islamist threat to America, they are: Willful blindness and The grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. I highly recommend both books, however, the article below explicitly describes how a "Soft Jihad" is being built to undermine our Country and its Rule of Law under the Constitution. It is a very troubling issue facing our nation and we need to understand the consequences of ignoring or at least underestimating this threat.
– Oliver "Buck" Revel, Former Associate Executive Director of the FBI
I was invited by the Center for Security Policy to give a speech at the National Press Club in Washington yesterday. The topic was our government's relations with the Muslim Brotherhood and why concerns about Brotherhood infiltration, raised by five conservative House members, are very real. The speech ran nearly an hour, and there was a little over a half-hour of Q&A afterwards. You can view my speech by clicking the clay button above. Below is the prepared text of my speech:
Imagine, if you will, the following scenario.
A candidate for a high position in an executive branch agency — a position that entails a great deal of influence over public policy, a position that requires access to highly classified national security information — comes in for an interview by the FBI.
This is a routine background investigation. Even people being considered for low-level positions in the executive branch are subjected to them. It is not because we question their patriotism or suspect that they are bad people. It is just common sense — in addition to being the subject of a good deal of statutory law and federal regulation.
Naturally, as government positions get higher, more important, and more sensitive, the background investigations get more detailed — probing not only a candidate's background, experiences, finances and associations, but those of the candidate's close family members.
One matter that is of particular importance is connections to foreign countries, organizations, persons and movements. There's an entire section devoted to these concerns in Form 86, the form that all candidates for national security positions in the federal government are required to complete.
Let's assume that our candidate truthfully completes the form. What do you suppose our FBI agent is thinking as he flips through the form, asks some follow up questions, and gets the following story from the candidate:
"I've worked the last dozen years at an institute that was founded by a wealthy, influential Saudi who is intimately involved in the financing of terrorism."
"Are you just speculating about that?" the candidate is asked.
"Speculating? Oh, no, no, I'm not speculating. You see, this Saudi guy actually started an ostensible 'charity' that the United States government has designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It is a designated terrorist because it lavishly funded al Qaeda — you know, the jihadist network that we're at war with. As a matter of fact, one of the men this Saudi guy brought in to help him run the specially designated terrorist organization, was so close to Osama bin Laden, that he actually helped bin Laden start al Qaeda."
The agent figures, "You've got to be kidding me. I guess you didn't know this Saudi guy who was funding al Qaeda, right?"
"Well," our candidate responds, "as a matter of fact, we overlapped for seven years at that institute I worked at. Remember I told you that he's the one who started it and I eventually worked there for twelve years? Well, turns out he stayed involved in it for decades — it was his baby … he gave the institution its mission and its vision. He was still there advising it and shaping it for my first seven years there. Then they took him off the masthead … right around the time he became a defendant in the civil lawsuit filed by the victims of the 9/11 attacks."
The agent is stunned. All he can think to ask is: "Why did you leave the institute?"
"Oh," our candidate replies, "I got offered a full-time job at the State Department, helping the secretary of State make U.S. foreign policy."
I really wish that was a farfetched story.
Now let me back up for a moment. First, thank you all for coming here today.
I came to Washington at the suggestion of my friends at the Center for Security Policy. They asked me to address the controversy stirred by five conservative members of the House of Representatives who've raised concerns about Islamist influence on American policy — specifically, the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamist governments, organizations and affiliates with which it works.
I guess I was asked, in part, because I've been writing about this subject: I've been writing about the Muslim Brotherhood for a number of years. And for the last couple of weeks, I've been writing about the specific topic that we're here to talk about this morning: the Brotherhood's influence on our government, and the slings and arrows these five House members have been catching for having the temerity to notice it.
I was also asked to come here, I believe, because I worked in the Justice Department for about 25 years — first at the U.S. Marshals Service, where I worked as a deputy marshal in the Witness Protection Program; then as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. I was a prosecutor for almost 20 years, and during that time I handled or supervised a number of cases involving national security — meaning terrorism cases, all of which involved attacks plotted by violent jihadists. I was also involved in many other investigations of national and international organized crime groups, many of which were violent in nature.
Based on that experience, I have to confess that the controversy here baffles me. I don't understand why more people in Washington, from both parties, have not rallied to the support of Congresswoman Bachmann and Congressmen Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland and Rooney.
At a time when government policy is being radically harmonized with the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood — meaning, policy has shifted in the direction of avowed enemies of the United States — what ought to shock people is that there is any controversy over a commonsense request. The five House members are simply asking that the inspectors general in pertinent government agencies conduct internal inquiries and report back to Congress about potential Islamist influences at those agencies.
Now, let me be clear about what I said and what I didn't say. I said Islamist influences, I did not say Muslims.
I don't know how many Muslims work in the U.S. government, but I feel pretty safe saying there are thousands. As a federal prosecutor on terrorism cases, I had the privilege of working with several of them. These were patriotic American Muslims, and a number of Muslims who may not be Americans but who have embraced America and the West. Without them, we could not have infiltrated jihadist cells in New York and stopped terrorists from killing thousands of people.
Without them, we could not have translated, understood and processed our evidence so it could be presented to a jury as a compelling narrative. Pro-American Muslims serve honorably in government, in our military, in our intelligence services, and in our major institutions.
We are lucky to have them because they have embraced the culture of individual liberty that is the beating heart of Western civilization. They have accepted the premise of our society that everyone has a right to freedom of conscience and equality before the law. They have accepted our foundational principle that free people are at liberty to make law for themselves, irrespective of the rules of any belief system or ideology. They construe Islam's spiritual elements and its laws as a matter of private conscience, not as a mandatory framework for society.
Those Muslims are not Islamists.
When we talk about the influence of Islamists, we are referring to Muslims who are beholden to Islamic supremacism. Islamic supremacism is an ideology, not a religion. It is a totalitarian social system that would govern every aspect of life down to the granular level — economic, financial, social, political, military, familial, dietary, issues of crime-and-punishment, even matters of hygiene.
That is the sharia system. As interpreted by many of Islam's most influential thinkers — including organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood and academics like the faculty of ancient al-Azhar University in Cairo — classical sharia rejects basic principles of American constitutional democracy.
In fact, it rejects first and foremost our foundational premise that people are free to determine their own destiny and their own laws — regardless of what sharia holds. Classical sharia rejects freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, economic liberty, equality between men and women, equality between Muslims and non-Muslims, and Western notions of personal liberty and privacy.
It is the goal of all Islamists to impose sharia. That is why there is no such thing as a "moderate Islamist." If you want to replace the American Constitution with sharia, and Western civilization with the Islam of the Middle East, you are not a moderate — however grateful we may be that you're not looking to blow up a bridge in order to impose your desires.
Whether they are violent or non-violent, whether they work incrementally toward their goal or work at warp speed, the mission of Islamists is always and everywhere to impose sharia. In Islamist ideology, the implementation of the sharia system is the necessary precondition for turning non-Islamic societies into Islamic societies. And that is what Islamists believe they are under a divine injunction to do.
When I talk about Islamists and Islamist influences, that is what I mean.
It is essential to understand that Islamic supremacism is not a fringe ideology. And with due respect to the trendy, bipartisan diagnosis of it that has become so popular here in Washington, Islamic supremacism — and the extreme forms of behavior it inspires — are not a psychiatric problem.
We like to portray the lethal threat against us as "violent extremism." But "violent extremism" does not combust spontaneously. It is caused by Islamic supremacist ideology. Violent extremism, as well as non-violent extremism, are effects — they are not causes. They are not irrational and wanton, there is a logic to them … I should say, an ideologic.
This ideology is based on a classical interpretation of Islam that has a rich history. We sound really ignorant to the people we're trying to persuade when we pretend that this is not the case.
Islamic supremacism has been developed over the centuries by many of Islam's most respected thinkers — thinkers who are better understood as "jurists" than "clerics." Their specialty is sharia, which is a societal system, not a mere set of religious principles.
Islamic supremacism is the dynamic ideology of the Middle East at this moment in history. There have been times when it has been dormant, and when its worst tendencies have been cabined or suppressed by force, by law, or by cultural pressures. But at this historic moment, it is once again in its ascendancy.
That is a big problem for us. Islamic supremacists mean us grave harm. We are understandably preoccupied with the fact that violent jihadists are taking aim at our lives. But we should not let the immediacy and horror of that threat obscure the fact that the Islamist movement is taking aim at our way of life.
The movement's intellectual leader is the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is not a "largely secular" umbrella organization. It is not "moderate." It is the vanguard of a ground-up, revolutionary, ideological mass movement. It is sophisticated, patient, and determined. It has spent almost 90 years building its reserves and biding its time.
Increasingly over the last half-century, its efforts have been opulently underwritten by oil wealth, especially from Saudi Arabia. The Saudis follow a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, called Wahhabism. That is a close cousin of the Brotherhood's interpretation, which is called Salafism. For our purposes, the two streams merge into the supremacist ideology that threatens us today.
The threat is very real, very aggressive, and much broader than terrorism. That is because the underlying threat is not terrorism but the rationale for terrorism: which is the gradual imposition of classical sharia — by both violence and non-violence.
We hear a lot of chatter trying to separate the two — violent and non-violent jihad. But they are never mutually exclusive. The non-violent jihad is called dawa, the aggressive proselytism of Islam. Dawa is leveraged by the threat of violence. The atmosphere of intimidation is what makes non-violent jihad so effective. It is what allows Islamist organizations to exercise such outsize influence on our policymakers even though Muslims barely register one percent of our population.
Not long ago, I wrote a book called The Grand Jihad. The title is not something I came up with. It was drawn out of an internal Muslim Brotherhood document seized by the FBI from a top Brotherhood operative in Virginia. It was dated 1991 and called the "explanatory memorandum." In it, leading Brothers stationed in the United States explained to their global leadership how the Brothers saw their mission. "Civilization jihad," they called it. Then they elaborated:
The Ikhwan [i.e., the 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.
See, when Islamists speak among themselves, especially when they don't expect that we'll ever hear or see what they say, they are very clear about what they are trying to do. They are also very clear about whom they are doing it with. The explanatory memo actually listed 29 different organizations — many of the most influential Islamist groups in America. The Brotherhood identified those groups as the accomplices in their grand jihad.
And now that the Brotherhood is in the midst of a gradual triumph in Egypt and much of the Middle East, leading Brothers have become bolder in their public pronouncements.
For example, in October 2010, on the cusp of the revolt, the Brotherhood's "supreme guide" in Egypt, a man named Mohammed Badi, gave a speech in which he expressly called for violent jihad against the United States.
Specifically, Badi urged his fellow Muslims to remember "Allah's commandment to wage jihad for his sake with [their] money and lives, so that Allah's word will reign supreme."
Applying this injunction, Badi proclaimed that jihad "is the only solution" against what he called "the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny." Not negotiation — jihad. Badi also took delight in noting that the United States had been badly wounded by jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan. From that, he predicted that America "is now experiencing the beginning of its end, and is heading towards its demise."
So, contrary to what increasingly seems to be popular belief here in Washington, Islamist influences are not benign. They are not something to yawn over. They are something we need to defend against.
We are talking about a very determined movement that pulls no punches in braying that it means to destroy our country. The most important sharia authority in the world, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi — the Muslim Brotherhood's chief jurist — proclaims that Islam will "conquer America" and "conquer Europe." And by the way, you'll want to remember Sheikh Qaradawi's name — we'll be coming back to him shortly.
Islamists not only tell us that they intend to destroy us. They tell us, straight out, how they intend to do it: Not only by the intimidating, constant potential of violence, but by "sabotage" — their word, not mine. The will, they say, "destroy" us "from within." They intend to insinuate themselves into our major institutions, including into the policy-making bodies of our government. They intend to compromise us from the inside, as well as from the outside.
Where I come from, when serious, competent, threatening people tell you what they are going to do to you and how they indend to do it, that is not something to be ignored. It is something to be taken very seriously.
The main way to take it very seriously when it comes to our government is to police our agencies so they are not penetrated by pernicious influences. That is what these five members of Congress have tried to do. What is shocking and demoralizing, what ought to outrage the American people, is that the five of them are standing alone.
To be clear, the five members have not made accusations of criminal wrongdoing. The critics who say they are relying on "guilt by association" are absurdly mixing apples and oranges.
Our bedrock principle against "guilt by association" has to do with criminal prosecutions — we won't tolerate someone's being convicted of a crime and having his freedom taken away just because of who his friends are, or what his associates have done.
But "guilt by association" has nothing to do with fitness for high public office. High public office is a privilege, not a right. Access to classified information is a privilege, not a right. You need not have done anything wrong to be deemed unfit for these privileges.
It is not a question of your patriotism or your trustworthiness. It is about whether you would be burdened by such obvious conflicts of interest that you would be tempted to act on those interests, rather than in the best interests of the United States. It is about whether the American people can have confidence that you are likely to act in the public interest rather than out of bias, favor, or intimidation. It is about whether there's a reasonable chance you could be compromised — not whether you have been compromised.
To be more concrete about it, when I was a prosecutor, the Justice Department would never in a million years have let me handle an investigation that involved members of my family or their friends. That's not because they didn't trust me. It is because it would have been inappropriate.
When government acts, it needs to avoid the appearance of impropriety. The legitimacy of government action depends on the public integrity of government action. My DOJ bosses wouldn't make me sit out the case because they thought I'd do something wrong. They'd make me sit it out because the public might believe I was acting on improper motives.
This anxiety about improper motives is a commonplace everywhere in government. Nothing sends the press and the public into a tizzy quite like the thought that government officials are letting lobbyists weigh in on the formulation of policy. We have rules against former government employees lobbying their old agencies. We have rules against representing both sides of a case. It is expected that government officials will recuse themselves from participating in decisions involving friends, relatives, or former clients.
Those rules flow from human nature. They are not an indictment about the trustworthiness or patriotism of the people involved. People who work in government, especially if they need security clearances, expect to have not only their own backgrounds but also the backgrounds of their family members and associates probed.
When FBI agents ask those routine questions, they are not just going through the motions. If disturbing facts are developed in the background check of a family member, that can be enough, by itself, to disqualify the candidate for the position. That is, it can be enough for us to draw the rational conclusion that the public would be better served having an unconflicted person in place.
If the FBI had asked me about my mother's background, and I'd responded by tearing what little hair I had left out and scolding the agent for daring to question my patriotism, that would not just have been a good enough reason to deny me access to top secret intelligence. It would have been a good enough reason to tell me to go find another line of work.
With that as background, let me speak to the specific circumstances of Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to secretary of state Clinton. It is worth stressing that the five members of Congress sent five different letters asking inspectors general at five different agencies to conduct internal investigations and report back to Congress. Ms. Abedin was far from the only government official whose name was raised. But she has gotten the most attention.
For our purposes today, that's fine because her situation dramatically shows how badly out of kilter things have become.
We've heard all the caterwauling about "Islamophobia" and — my personal favorite, of course – "McCarthyism." Two things about that.
First, Islamophobia is a term that was manufactured by the Muslim Brotherhood precisely for the purpose of browbeating people into silence about the activities and threat posed by Islamic supremacism.
Today, there is no worse public sin than to be called a bigot, even if the charge is utterly empty. It is intimidating. It is intended to paralyze people into silence when it is their duty to speak up. And it works: That's why 13 Americans, some of our best and bravest, were killed in a jihadist atrocity at Fort Hood. It is also why the government would rather dismiss Fort Hood as a case of "workplace violence" than deal with the ideology that caused it.
Duty is calling us now, and it has to be done, even if the grievance industry grieves in overdrive.
As for "McCarthyism," the truth is that all the demagoguery here has been on the other side. Contrary to claims that the five members of Congress have raised, as Sen. John McCain put it, "unspecified and unsubstantiated" concerns, they have actually posited very disturbing factual matters that are quite specific and quite substantial.
Rather than address those factual matters — matters that include connections not only to Muslim Brotherhood luminaries but to an al Qaeda financier — the response of the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, and their echo chamber in the Republican establishment has been to attack and smear the messengers.
Having now spent a good deal of time weighing the competing claims, I am compelled to say that, when it comes to Ms. Abedin's background, the five House members have actually understated the case.
Their letter to the State Department's inspector general stated that Ms. Abedin "has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations." It turns out, however, that Huma Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda.
Ms. Abedin worked for a number of years at the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs as assistant editor of its journal. The Institute was founded by Naseef, who remained active in it for decades, overlapping for at least seven years with Ms. Abedin.
Naseef was also secretary general of the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most significant Muslim Brotherhood organization in the world. Under the auspices of the Muslim World League, he founded the Rabita Trust, which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization under American law due to its support of al-Qaeda.
That is to say: Before you even start probing the extensive, alarming Brotherhood ties of her family members, Huma Abedin could easily have been disqualified from any significant government position requiring a high security clearance based on her own personal and longstanding connection to Naseef.
A little more background: At the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, Ms. Abedin was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. The journal was the Institute's main product. It promotes the fundamentalist version of sharia championed by the Muslim Brotherhood, by Abdullah Omar Naseef, and by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi. Ms. Abedin was assistant editor from 1996 through 2008 — from the time she began working as an intern in the Clinton White House, until the time shortly before she took her current position as Secretary Clinton's deputy chief of staff.
The Institute was founded by Naseef in the late 1970s. He is a hugely influential Saudi who was then the vice president of the King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. Naseef recruited an academic colleague, Zyed Abedin — Ms. Abedin's late father — to be the journal's managing editor.
Zyed Abedin thus moved his family to Saudi Arabia from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ms. Abedin was about two at the time. Her mother, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is also an academic and worked for the journal from its inception. She would eventually take the journal over after her husband died in 1993. She remains its editor to this day. Huma Abedin's brother Hassan, another academic, is an associate editor at the journal.
Not long after the journal started, Naseef became the secretary general of the Muslim World League. As the Washington Post has noted, the MWL was launched by Muslim Brotherhood activists with the financial backing of the Saudi royal family. It is often referred to as a charity, but it is really a global propagation enterprise — exporting the Brotherhood's virulently anti-Western brand of Islamist ideology throughout the world, very much including in the United States.
There are few positions in Muslim Brotherhood circles more critical than secretary general of the Muslim World League. In fact, one of the MWL's founders was Sa'id Ramadan, the right-hand and son-in-law of Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood's legendary founder. The MWL is part of the foundation of the grand jihad — what the Brotherhood also calls its "civilization jihad" against the West.
Nevertheless, the MWL has a long history of deep involvement in violent jihad as well. It was under the auspices of the MWL that, in 1988, Naseef created a charity called the Rabita Trust. To direct the Rabita Trust, Naseef selected Wael Hamza Jalaidan. Jalaidan is not just a member of al-Qaeda. He was a close associate of Osama bin Laden's and actually helped establish the al Qaeda terror network.
According to Osama bin Laden himself, the Muslim World League was one of al-Qaeda's three top funding sources. Consequently, after 9/11, Naseef's Rabita Trust was formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization under U.S. law. So were branches of the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and the International Islamic Relief Organization, two other Saudi-backed "charities" spawned by the MWL.
Throughout the time that he ran the MWL and the Rabita Trust, Naseef kept his hand in at the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs, where the Abedin family continued to run his journal. In fact, Naseef continued to be listed on the masthead as a member of the "advisory editorial board" at the IMMA's journal until 2003.
We might hazard a guess as to why his name suddenly disappeared after that: Naseef's involvement in funding al Qaeda was so notorious that, in 2004, he was named as a defendant in the civil case brought by victims of the 9/11 atrocities. (In 2010, a federal court dropped him from the suit — not because he was found uninvolved, but because a judge reasoned the American court lacked personal jurisdiction over him.)
So to summarize, Ms. Abedin had a very lengthy affiliation with an institute founded by a top figure at the nexus between Saudi terror funding, Brotherhood ideology, and al Qaeda's jihad against the United States. Even if the only pertinent information we had was her personal tie to Naseef, that would be extraordinarily disturbing. But as the five House members pointed out, there is much more.
Ms. Abedin's parents were recruited by Naseef to head up the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs. They obviously had an extremely close relationship with Naseef over the last four decades.
Besides being the editor of the journal since her husband died in 1993, Ms. Abedin's mother, Dr. Saleha Mahmood, has served as a member of the Muslim World League. She also directs an organization called the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child (IICWC or "committee"). This committee has been listed as a MWL organization.
A top advisor of Dr. Abedin's committee is Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi. He, along with several self described members of the Muslim Brotherhood, are authors of the committee's charter. As I mentioned earlier, Sheikh Qaradawi is the Muslim Brotherhood's chief jurist. He is a fierce supporter of Hamas and has issued fatwas supporting suicide bombing against Israel and against American military and support personnel serving in Iraq.
Dr. Abedin's committee describes itself as part of an organization called the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief (IICDR or "council"). Both this council and Dr. Mahmood's committee are components of an umbrella group run by Sheikh Qaradawi, called the Union for Good. The Union for Good funds and supports violent jihad. It is a designated terrorist organization under American law. Moreover, the IICDR is banned in Israel for its support of Hamas.
There is much that could be said about Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin's work at the various Muslim Brotherhood affiliates. The overarching point, though, is this: She is an ardent champion of classical sharia law. Her committee's website, for example, has called for the repeal of Mubarak-era Egyptian laws that ban female genital mutilation, child marriage, and marital rape. All of these noxious practices find support in sharia, so she objects to any prohibition of them.
Furthermore, as the Center for Security Policy has detailed, Dr. Mahmood published and edited a book called Women in Islam: Rights and Obligations. The book appears to have been written by a sister of Abdullah Omar Naseef. It is a sharia guide to women's issues. It extensively cites Sayyid Qutb, who was the Brotherhood's leading theorist after the death of its founder, Hassan al-Banna. Qutb was executed by the Egyptian government in 1966, and his writings continue to influence jihadist terror organizations, including al-Qaeda.
Women in Islam asserts that manmade laws "enslave women" and that sharia is women's "only escape." The book provides sharia justifications for such practices as the following: female genital mutilation; stoning and lashing as punishments for adultery; the participation of women in violent jihad; prohibiting social interaction between the sexes; requiring women to be veiled; restricting free speech to what benefits Islam; forbidding women to abstain from sexual intercourse on demand by their husbands; requiring women to bar entry of any person into their homes unless their husbands have granted permission; and forbidding the death penalty for the murder of apostates (that is because sharia prescribes the death penalty for apostasy from Islam).
Interestingly, about a year ago — a year before he took to the floor of the United States Senate to attack his House colleagues for raising questions about Ms. Abedin and others — Senator John McCain gave an interview to Der Spiegel in which he pronounced himself "unalterably opposed" to any role for the Muslim Brotherhood in post-Mubarak Egypt. Senator McCain's main objection to the Brotherhood was its promotion of sharia which, he observed, "is anti-democratic — at least as far as women are concerned."
One last point on Ms. Abedin's family members. As I mentioned earlier, her brother, Hassan Abedin, is also affiliated with the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs as an associate editor. In addition, he was a fellow at an Islamist Academic Institute in Great Britain — the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. During that time, the Oxford Center's board members included Abdullah Omar Naseef and Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi.
Let me finally make a few closing observations.
In the end, our system is about political accountability more than legal remedies. I am not accusing anyone of committing a crime. But our national security and foreign policy have taken a dangerous turn. That needs to be a campaign issue, regardless of whether the two candidates are anxious to make it one.
The principal policymakers in the Obama administration are the president and the top members of his administration, in particular, Secretary Clinton on foreign policy. No one I know, least of all me, is contending that President Obama or Secretary Clinton needed Huma Abedin in order to develop Islamist sympathies. I'd be surprised if Ms. Abedin does not favor the administration's decision to deal with the Muslim Brotherhood as a friend rather than as an enemy. But she is not the official responsible for that decision.
Some of the people highlighted in the letters by the five House members have very influential positions, and that is cause for concern because they have a lot to say about how policy gets shaped and executed. But no one is claiming that anyone other than the President is ultimately responsible for administration policy.
It is also true that presidents and cabinet officials get to consult and seek assistance from just about anyone they want. The old adage that elections have consequences is particularly apt here. Cabinet nominations and confirmations have consequences, too. If you don't want people with disturbing connections to a deeply anti-American organization like the Brotherhood to have influential government offices, then the point is to avoid electing and confirming politicians who will put such people in those jobs.
Still, it is Congress's responsibility to scrutinize executive branch policy, especially when the policy choices endanger the nation. Let's consider just some of those policy choices in the last three-and-a-half years. Since 2009, the Obama administration has abandoned the federal government's prior policy against dealing directly and formally with the Muslim Brotherhood. The State Department has not only been supportive of this dramatic shift; it has embraced a number of Muslim Brotherhood positions that undermine both American constitutional rights and our alliance with Israel. To name just a few manifestations of this policy sea change:
The State Department has an emissary in Egypt who trains operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations in democracy procedures. We're helping them get elected.
The State Department announced that the Obama administration would be "satisfied" with the election of a Muslim Brotherhood–dominated government in Egypt.
The State Department has collaborated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in deference to sharia prohibitions against examination and negative criticism of Islam.
The State Department has excluded Israel, the world's leading target of terrorism, from its "Global Counterterrorism Forum," a group that brings the United States together with several Islamist governments, prominently including its co-chair, Turkey. By the way, the Erdogan regime in Turkey now finances the terrorist organization Hamas, which is the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. At the forum's kickoff, Secretary Clinton decried various terrorist attacks and terrorist groups; but she did not mention Hamas or attacks against Israel. Transparently, this was in deference to the Islamist governments the administration has chosen to partner with — to the exclusion of Israel. Those government's adhere to the Muslim Brotherhood's position that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and that attacks against Israel are not terrorism.
The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer about $1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood's victory in the parliamentary elections.
The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories notwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organization under American law — meaning that to provide it with material support is a serious federal crime.
The State Department and the administration recently hosted a contingent from Egypt's newly elected parliament that included not only Muslim Brotherhood members but a member of the Islamic Group (Gama'at al Islamia). The Islamic Group is the jihadist organization headed by the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman), who is serving a life sentence for his leading role in a terrorist campaign against the United States in the early Nineties. Like Hamas, the Islamic Group is a designated as a terrorist organization to which it is illegal to provide material support.
On a just-completed trip to Egypt, Secretary Clinton pressured the ruling military junta to hand over power to the newly elected parliament, which is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and to the newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is a top Brotherhood official. Secretary Clinton later met with Morsi, who has also been extended the honor of an invitation to visit the White House in September.
All this, despite the Muslim Brotherhood's extensive record of hostility toward the United States, and despite the fact that Morsi, in his first public statement after being elected president, announced that one of his top priorities is to pressure the United States for the release of the Blind Sheikh.
One last thing. Government agencies are responsible to police themselves — to ensure that improper influences and conflicts of interest do not skew policy away from the public interest. Inspectors general are one way the agencies do that internally. And it is entirely appropriate for Congress to ask that inspectors general perform this role in a manner that informs Congress without unduly interfering in the agency's performance of its mission.
Congress has an obligation to ask questions and conduct oversight over executive agencies. After all, the people's representatives have created these agencies. It is Congress that funds these agencies with taxpayer dollars. What we are paying for dramatically affects our security, so Congress must examine the policies and the expenditures to protect the public interest.
Under the circumstances, there would be something terribly wrong if members of Congress were not asking questions about Islamist influence on our government. And there is something terribly wrong in the fact that these five members of the House are the only ones who have had the courage to step up to the plate.
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Written by Terri Knudsen|	August 14, 2017| Entertainment, Stage
24 years ago, a check for $25,000 with a note saying "Keep doing what you're doing. Love, George" showed up on the doorstep of Project Angel Food in Los Angeles. The George in question was none other than George Michael and the check for $25,000 showed up every year until he died. Now the organization is honoring him with an Elizabeth Taylor Leadership Award – as a final thank you, for his continued support. Read Metrosource's exclusive interview with Executive Director of Project Angel Food, Richard Ayoub, and George Michael's long-term boyfriend and business partner, Kenny Goss.
On September 17th, 1985, Ronald Reagan mentioned AIDS publicly for the first time. On October 2nd the same year, actor Rock Hudson died of an AIDS-related illness, leaving $250,000 to help set up the American Foundation for AIDS research (amfAR). Elizabeth Taylor served as the founding National Chairman – and supported the cause for the rest of her life.
Over the coming years, other showbiz personalities like Liberace (1987) and Freddie Mercury (1991) also succumbed to HIV/AIDS. It was around the same time (1991) that a new chapter started in the life of George Michael – he fell in love for the first time, with Brazilian Anselmo Feleppa. But within months of his newfound happiness, a test revealed that Anselmo had also been infected. On April 20th 1992, in the midst of his heartache, George Michael was performing in front of 72,000 people at Wembley Stadium, honoring his idol Freddie Mercury – knowing that the man he loved was likely heading for the same fate.
'What people obviously wouldn't know about that particular performance, is that Anselmo was in the crowd. I went out there and knew I had to do two things: I had to honor Freddie Mercury and I had to pray for Anselmo. It was all so much to me, all in that one performance. I'm so proud that I held onto that feeling, because I just wanted to die inside. It was overwhelming for me and I think what it did, was that it turned on one of the best performances of my career,' George explained in his documentary, A Different Story in 2005.
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It was after Anselmo passed away from an AIDS-related brain hemorrhage in 1993 that George Michael sent the first donation to Project Angel Food, an organization who helped feeding AIDS-patients all over LA county. In 1993, Project Angel Food was dealing with an influx of clients with AIDS.
Richard Ayoub, Project Angel Food:
There came a moment when we were frightened that we weren't going to be able to make payroll. Then suddenly, at our doorstep, appeared this letter. It was a handwritten note that said, "Dear Project Angel Food. Keep doing what you're doing. Love, George". Out fell a check for $25,000 and it was from George Michael. That check came every single year until the day he died. He's still our largest individual donor and it's a beautiful gift, and a legacy, that he's left with this organization. He also donated his Mercedes to sell at an auction to make money for us. He's also spent some time in the kitchen here to bake some cakes with his then partner Kenny Goss, when he had community service to fulfill. He's always quietly, and with a great deal of dignity, supported this organization. We've called his office multiple times to say that we'd love to honor him, and every single year he's said no. So, this year, because he's passed away, we decided that it's time that everyone knows about his generosity. Everyone knows he's a great performer, everyone knows he's got that legacy that he's leaving behind, but we want to make sure that people also know he's a generous soul.
George Michael with Project Angel Food staff
Project Angel Food was founded in 1989 by author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson in response to the AIDS-crisis. She had friends who were dying of AIDS and she wanted to send them love in form of food. Today, 28 years later, Project Angel Food is still sending love and food to people living with HIV/AIDS, but sharing the outreach with everyone that has a critical illness in LA county: Women with breast cancer undergoing radiation and chemotherapy, people with heart and lung disease, diabetics, and people with kidney failure.
Ayoub:
Every single person gets a specialized meal for their illness. So, for instance, if anyone has a kidney problem, they must have reduced potassium, sodium and phosphorous. We prepare them meals that fit their requirements, and these meals help heal them. Their lab results get better, they feel better and 1 out of 5 feel so much better that they say, "I don't need the program anymore, give it to someone else." That's a great success of what we do.
Kenny Goss:
The real philanthropists and heroes are the people that give their personal time in the kitchen every day. That help to this organization is priceless. George was always committed to organizations that help people in need. At the time that he became involved with Project Angel Food, it was about helping those people with HIV and AIDS, ensuring that they received food every day.
"People Only Need a Certain Amount in a Bank Account"
After George Michael's passing, many of other charities – and individuals – have publicly acknowledged that he quietly supported them too. Jane Barron from the Terrence Higgins Trust said that he donated experiences and gifts used to raise funds to support people with HIV, that he donated parts of the royalties from "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" with Elton John to them and that "his donations contributed to a vision of a world where people living with HIV live healthy lives free from prejudice and discrimination".
Dame Esther Rantzen, founder and president of Childline, revealed that he gave all the royalties from "Jesus to a Child", his first musical tribute to Anselmo Feleppa, to them. She said, "He was determined not to make his generosity public, so no-one outside the charity knew how much he gave to the nation's most vulnerable children." He was also a Macmillian Cancer Support Ambassador. Goss reckons that, altogether, George Michael must have given at least £10M (approx. $13M) to various charities over the course of their 15-year relationship.
Goss:
George believed in donating to many, many needy organizations. It was more important for him to give than to keep the money for himself. He often said, when talking about himself, "People only need a certain amount in a bank account." George was very aware of the many people and organizations in need, and his awareness began with the AIDS crisis.
When he heard about something that struck his heart, he quietly did something about it, and we certainly weren't the only ones who benefitted from that. I think it's pretty remarkable that he kept doing it for us. Our motto is "For Life, For Love, For As Long As It Takes", and he must have believed that same thing. He was a very modest philanthropist, and that's when you know it's genuine.
George supported charitable causes to assist the important work of each charity – not for the publicity value. The donations came from his heart in response to the need of the charities. He was an extremely generous man and so many people benefited from his charitable gifts.
In 2007, George Michael and his by-then partner Kenny Goss decided to found the Goss-Michael Foundation together, which has become one of the leading contemporary British art collections in the United States. It's a non-profit that supports emerging artists, another example of George's charitable commitment that Kenny carries on.
[We] co-founded the Goss-Michael Foundation in 2007, and the collection includes many important artists in contemporary art, including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. In addition to displaying the private collection, the foundation supports an Artist-in-Residence program, is actively involved in many charitable causes and events, [and] exhibits select international artists on a rotating basis, while also working with significant, emerging Texas-based artists. The foundation will continue with its philanthropy and our devotion to helping emerging artists and supporting important causes, focused on those in need.
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Kenny Goss was having Christmas dinner with his family when George's sister Melanie called him to say that there was bad news about George; his manager soon followed up with another call. For a long time, Goss was in a state of shock, trying to process the loss of a relationship that had lasted from 1996 until 2011. Ayoub also vividly remembers receiving the news that George had passed away.
It was Christmas day and I was visiting my family in Texas, and it just hurt my heart
because — not only is this an entertainer who was beloved — but he was a very special friend to this organization, so we were devastated. People loved George here and they were just very sad to hear the news. He was also very young, just 53 years old, and it was so unexpected, so everyone was in great shock. Plus, it happened around the holidays when you're supposed to celebrate. He had the song "Last Christmas" and it was his last Christmas. Everything about it was just heart-breaking and heart wrenching.
Project Angel Food wanted to celebrate George Michael's life on what would have been his 54th birthday; on June 25th, they held a party in honor of him.
We had 11 different performers sing different George Michael songs that day. We had a huge banner where fans signed, sending well-wishes and their thoughts, which we will send to his family in the UK. Chef Angel made a festive GM birthday cake and we sang happy birthday together. LA City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell came by and proclaimed it George Michael Day. It was a pretty special occasion and it was a celebration of him and his music. People in the neighborhood could come in and not only share his birthday but also share and understand what he was all about, and why he cared so much for us.
And the Angel Award Goes to…
On the evening of August 19, 2017, Project Angel Food is paying tribute to George Michael in a very special way as part of their annual Angel Awards in Los Angeles.
Because he said no to us [honoring him] year after year, we're now saying yes to him. We are honoring him with the Elizabeth Taylor Leadership Award, which will be presented by Kenny Goss. There will be music too, and we thought that the best person to do George Michael justice is Adam Lambert. We reached out to him and asked if he would please do a musical tribute. He's touring with Queen right now, and naturally very busy, so we were thrilled beyond belief when he said yes. So, for one night only he's going to stop all the Queen music, and he's going to bring George to life through his music. It's going to be a very, very special occasion. We know that George's family is sending us a letter to read to the group that evening, so we're really excited about that. We definitely have the family's blessing and they're so thrilled that people care so much about George that they want to keep his legacy alive. Just keeping his generosity alive as well, and remind people about him.
I'm very honored to be presenting the award on behalf of my dear friend George. One of my longtime friends was asked by Project Angel Food if I would be interested in helping out this year, as they would be honoring George, so I met with Richard and the team and immediately said yes.
Richard Ayoub:
We're so proud to be presenting George with this award to say thank you for everything that he's done for us.
Fans Carry on His Legacy
George once said, "I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like". Since his passing, his fans have been donating to charities — with some even starting GoFundMe pages to benefit his favored charities such as Project Angel Food. Richard Ayoub remembers a recent event with an attorney from San Francisco:
Out of the blue we got a $10,000 donation. I tracked her down to say thank you, because she'd never donated before. I asked how she found us, because it's always curious to me, and she said, "I'm a huge George Michael fan and I read about his involvement. I also read that you have a waiting-list and I want to help." I reached out to her about the awards, just to say that we're honoring him, and she said she'd like to send another $5,000, adding, "I can't come myself, but I'd like you to use it and get some other people there." This is very, very generous – and it's all because of George Michael. It's a huge testimonial from his fans to him. It also honors his legacy to us, and by having the award given to him it honors our legacy to him.
You can support Project Angel Food and pay tribute to legacy of George Michael by purchasing tickets to the Angel Awards, by donating to Project Angel Food or by supporting the work of the Goss-Michael Foundation.
In Memoriam: A Summary of Causes & Charities Supported by George Michael
Abuse, AIDS & HIV, Animals, At-Risk/Disadvantaged Youths, Bullying, Cancer, Children, Creative Arts, Depression and Suicide, Disaster Relief, Family/Parent Support, Grief Support, Health, Homelessness, Human Rights, Hunger, LGBT Support, Mental Challenges, Peace, Physical Challenges, Poverty, Senior Citizen Support.
Charities:
Barnardo's, ChildLine, Children with AIDS, Comic Relief, Crusaid, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Goss-Michael Foundation, Gray Cancer Institute, Help a London Child, Jubilee Action, Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Meals On Wheels, Mercury Phoenix Trust, Nottinghamshire Bereavement Trust, Outcome, Outline, Positive Nation, Project Angel Food, Rainbow Trust, Red Cross, Red Hot Organization, Rhys Daniels Trust, Sightsavers International, Sports Relief, St John's Hospice, Swan Lifeline, Terrence Higgins Trust, The Food Chain, UK Thalassaemia Society, War Child.
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This may seem weird…but I realized my love for it after I was hit in the face with a baseball size hailstone while riding in my brother's droptop mustang. Being a teenager we had no idea of the danger in front of us.
My nose was broke, and I was knocked unconscious for a short period! After that…it was all over! I had to learn how to storm chase!
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Again, another aspect I care nothing to get into.
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50/50 they support it…they don't like me doing it. For obvious reasons.
Is "Till I'm old and feeble, and can't drive a car" an answer??


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