Palestinians At Brussels Memorial, Tear Up and Cover Up Israeli Flag With Palestinian Flag

[From article]
Video emerged Thursday of a hijab-wearing woman tearing up an Israeli flag at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Brussels terror attacks.
French RTL television captured the disturbing images of the incident at the central Brussels landmark Place de la Bourse, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The woman is seen lifting a Palestinian flag and then ripping an Israeli flag to shreds.
She then hides the pieces under other flags and walks off.
[. . .]
In another video posted on Facebook, a man is seen removing a Palestinian flag from a pole and then using it to cover an Israeli flag on the ground at a memorial site.
Among those decrying the video was one who posted: “This is disgusting. I was going to ask why no one stops them, foolish question. There is no stopping these attacks now. We will see more and more of them.”

http://nypost.com/2016/03/24/woman-in-hijab-rips-up-israeli-flag-at-brussels-memorial/

Woman in hijab rips up Israeli flag at Brussels memorial
By Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
March 24, 2016 | 3:50pm

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[From article]
This is the shocking moment a woman removes an Israeli flag from a Brussels memorial and rips it up, before hiding the pieces away underneath another flag.
A French-language station captured the footage at the shrine set up at Brussels' Place de la Bourse.
During the clip, which is just over one minute long, a woman wearing a hijab, a brown coat and a scarf picks up a Palestinian flag from the candle-lit vigil and takes it over to an Israeli flag.
She bends down to pick up the blue and white Israeli flag and begins ripping it up, before placing the pieces beneath another flag, which looks as though it could be the symbol of Georgia.
The woman then walks off out of shot, with not one of the many onlookers approaching her to question her over her shocking actions.
It is unclear whether she has placed the Palestinian flag in the Israeli flag's place, however you can see that she is no longer carrying it when she walks away.
The French-language station does not refer to the women's actions and instead the discussion that can be heard is about the official memorial marches and ceremonies in Paris.
This shocking video is not the only time an Israeli flag has been tampered with at the memorial.
Another clip shows a man, wearing beige trousers, a black hooded jacket and gloves, walking into the middle of the candle-lit memorial.
He picks up a Palestinian flag and places it over the Israeli flag so it can no longer be seen. Once again, there are many onlookers but although some people can be heard saying 'no, no, no', nobody takes action.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508394/Hijab-wearing-woman-caught-camera-TEARING-Israeli-flag-Brussels-memorial-dead.html

Shocking video shows hijab-wearing woman TEARING UP Israeli flag at Brussels memorial to the dead
French-language station captured the footage taken at Place de la Bourse
Woman picks up Palestinian flag and carries it over to Israeli one
She then takes Israel's flag and tears it up before hiding the ripped pieces
Another video shows man placing Palestinian flag on top of Israeli one
See more on the Brussels attacks at www.dailymail.co.uk/BrusselsAttacks
By KATE SAMUELSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:05 EST, 24 March 2016 | UPDATED: 05:33 EST, 25 March 2016

Researchers Find Altruism, Empathy Controlled By Brain

Scientists found that dampening regions of the brain that block impulses will allow people to act in their true nature - either more selfish or selfless.

[From article]
Treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself - or so the saying goes.
But, while most will have heard the old adage, some people appear more inclined to live their life according to the sentiment.
Now, scientists believe they have uncovered the reason why some are more selfless than others.
Two new studies reveal kind people experience more activity in areas of the brain that fuel empathetic impulses.
Dr Leonardo Christov-Moore, of University of California, Los Angeles, said: ‘Our altruism may be more hard-wired than previously thought.’
[. . .]
Dr Christov-Moore said: ‘It’s almost like these areas of the brain behave according to a neural “golden rule".
‘The more we tend to vicariously experience the states of others, the more we appear to be inclined to treat them as we would ourselves.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3499094/Why-people-nicer-s-brains-altruistic-hardwired-selfless.html

Why ARE some people nicer than others? It's all in their head! The altruistic among us are ‘hardwired to be selfless’
Some people can't help but be altruistic - or selfless, scientists revealed
Kind people have more activity in brain areas fueling empathetic impulses
Shutting down certain brain areas can make people act nicer, study found
Thus, experts say that a person's sense of selflessness is hardwired
By Lisa Ryan For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:19 EST, 18 March 2016 | Updated: 14:02 EST, 18 March 2016

Solution to Divided Population Is Not to Unify Them. Solution Is To Teach Respect and Tolerance For Other Views

The proposed solution to polarization of the population is not to force conformity. Disagreeing may be extreme. But respect and tolerance for dissenting views makes for robust, exciting, interesting and thought provoking debate. Few Americans have ever been challenged with opposing arguments. Fewer were taught to respect people who disagree with them. Encouraging dissent is what leads to truth. 

[From article]
The narrative builds upon the all too apparent fact that there is great discontent and polarization inside the country. No one contests this conclusion. However, the framing of the narrative is turning everything upside down.
The narrative presents the scenario of two poles. The first pole is made up of those who are well-off, successful, and educated. They live in healthy families, and in good neighborhoods with excellent schools, which isolates and buffers them from the rest of America.
[. . .]
On the other side is an underclass composed of those who are poor, uneducated, and neglected. They live in broken families, and in poor neighborhoods with horrible schools. They are joined by blue-collar workers who have lost jobs to immigrants and outsourcing to places like China. They live on the margins of society and are isolated from the other pole.
The two sides share little in common save an increasing animosity. This never-the-twain-shall-meet narrative can be found in Charles Murray’s compelling book, Coming Apart, or in Robert Putnam’s Our Kids. Pundits and columnists repeat and echo versions of this portrayal in diverse media.
[. . .]
The proposed narrative to explain the present electoral cycle would not be based on the battle of the haves versus the have-nots. Rather it holds there is a universal moral crisis that is devastating all society. It is not just polarizing but shattering the nation and its economy into a thousand pieces.
[. . .]
Both groupings see their families being destroyed through divorce and general breakdown. All share in the immoral movies, fashions, drugs, and promiscuity that recognize no class and ravage a social fiber where people no longer pray. Structures across the board are crumbling whether they be governments, families, institutions, or customs.
[. . .]
The narrative that should govern the debate should be one of unity, not division. It should be directed at the moral problems of this universal crisis, not against fellow Americans. The surviving ramparts of the nation’s moral establishment should be fortified, not torn down. People need to return to God as the center of our lives, not the federal government. These are the issues that few dare to mention in the present political circus, but they lie deep within the souls of so many Americans who grieve for the nation.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/who_is_framing_the_narrative_in_the_political_debate.html

March 7, 2016
Who Is Framing the Narrative in the Political Debate?
By John Horvat II

Clinton Campaign Shows No Respect For US Flag

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/american_flag_desecrated_at_hillary_campaign_rally.html

February 10, 2016
American flag desecrated at Hillary campaign rally
By Thomas Lifson

Lowered Standards For Respecting Human Life Pervasive

[From article]
nearly 56 million children had been the victims of legal abortions in the United States since 1973.
[. . .]
the heartless disregard for life in the United States and the world in general is no different than the gradual and unchallenged steps the Nazis took in the 1930’s that culminated in the atrocities they committed in the 1940’s. That they too justified their actions by claiming the human beings they were either exterminating or using for experiments were in fact not human.
[. . .]
the heartless disregard for life in the United States and the world in general is no different than the gradual and unchallenged steps the Nazis took in the 1930’s that culminated in the atrocities they committed in the 1940’s. That they too justified their actions by claiming the human beings they were either exterminating or using for experiments were in fact not human.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/a_message_to_the_supporters_of_planned_parenthood.html

August 3, 2015
A Message to the Supporters of Planned Parenthood
By Steve McCann

Updated: Misguided Diversity Consultants Create Classroom Chaos, Blame White Privilege

Posted June 2, 2015 8:50 PM ET; Last updated June 4, 2015 8:59 PM ET



[From article]
St. Paul faced a problem with minority violence in its school. What to do? The answer: pay a consultant $3 million to teach about White racism.
[. . .]
PEG says concepts like hard work and planning for the future are traits of “white culture,” and implies that minority students cannot be expected to respond to a curriculum based on those values. They say black culture is more in tune with “collectivism,” presumably the type applied in Cuba or North Korea.
According to PEG, white culture is based on “white individualism” or “white traits” like “rugged individualism,” “adherence to rigid time schedules,” “plan(ning) for the future,” and the idea that “hard work is the key to success.”
[. . .]
You know, if a conservative said that "showing up on time" or "working hard" is a White trait, he'd be branded a racist. But when a leftist group like PEG does it, it somehow becomes progressive. What else would you expect from an ideology which conflates peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with racial identity?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/schools_solve_problem_of_minority_violence_by_teaching_about_white_racism.html

June 3, 2015
Schools solve problem of minority violence by teaching about White racism
By Newsmachete
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[From article]
Have the taxpayers of St. Paul spent nearly $3 million over the past five years to bring chaos and danger to their schools and students?
Apparently so.
In 2010, the St. Paul school district began a contractual relationship with the Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based organization that tries to help public schools deal with achievement and disciplinary issues involving black students.
PEG packages and sells the concept of victimization, for a very high price.
It claims that the American education system is built around white culture, tradition and social norms – aka “white privilege” – to the unfair detriment of black students.
PEG believes that black students will only achieve if school curricula are customized to meet their cultural specifications. It also rejects the concept of using suspensions or expulsions to discipline black students.
[. . .]
Student suspensions were replaced by “time outs,” and school officials starting forgiving or ignoring violence and other unacceptable behavior, according to various sources.
[. . .]
The result has been general chaos throughout the district, with far too many students out of control because they know there are no real consequences for their actions.
[. . .]
“Last spring, when she stepped into a fight between two basketball players, one grabbed her shoulder and head, throwing her aside,” the CityPages article explained. “The kid was only sent home for a couple of days.
“In March, when a student barged into her class, McQueen happened to be standing in the doorway and got crushed into a shelf. The following week, two boys came storming in, hit a girl in the head, then skipped back out. One of them had already been written up more than 30 times.
“Yet another student who repeatedly drops into her class has hit kids and cursed at an aide, once telling McQueen he would “fry” her ass. She tried to make a joke of it — ‘Ooh, I could use a little weight loss.’ Her students interjected: ‘No, that means he’s gonna kill you.'”
[. . .]
several teachers, who asked to remain anonymous, describe anything but a learning environment. Students run up and down the hallways, slamming lockers and tearing posters off the walls. They hit and swear at each other, upend garbage cans under teachers’ noses.
Nine teachers at Ramsey Middle School have quit since the beginning of this school year. Some left for other districts. Others couldn’t withstand the escalating anarchy.
In mid-April, staff at Battle Creek Elementary penned a letter to their principal over “concerns about building wide safety, both physical and emotional, as well as the deteriorating learning environment.”
[. . .]
Will officials continue to waste taxpayer dollars on an organization that pushes policies that destroy any hope for creating or maintaining a productive learning environment?
As one recently published story on better-ed.org put it, “Given the recent (and probably ongoing) turmoil in St. Paul Public Schools, it’s time to ask questions about Pacific Educational Group.”

http://eagnews.org/teachers-complain-chaos-reigns-as-st-paul-schools-spend-millions-on-white-privilege-training/

Teachers complain, chaos reigns as St. Paul schools spend millions on ‘white privilege’ training
June 2, 2015
STEVE GUNN

Tennessee Senator May Have Proper Respect for Complexity of Middle East Conflicts

[From article]
Were Barack Obama more prudent than vain, he would want congressional collaborators in problematic foreign ventures. He has, however, ignored the historical norm whereby presidents specify the authority they need. He has offered no substitute for the 60-word AUMF [authorized use of military force] from Sept. 18, 2001, which authorized force against "those nations, organizations, or persons" complicit in 9/11. This was a decade before the Islamic State — which is not a nation and has no clear borders or regime with which to deal — existed.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will010215.php3

A senator to watch in 2015
By George Will
Published Jan. 5, 2015

Cambridge, MA Residents Lament Rudeness Toward City Councilors

In the post constitutional age of the Obama-Holder doctrine (inconvenient laws may be ignored by selected persons, i.e., members of the liberal elite), it is ridiculous to expect any Massachusetts government agency to follow rules, laws, regulations, or constitutions. The Cambridge City Council thrived extremely well without being bogged down with their own rules, no less other foolishness, thank you very much. The letter writers-activists expect civility and respect by councilors when making "decisions that will benefit all Cambridge residents." It is mostly impossible for decisions to benefit all residents. Isn't it better to have good intentions? George Bernard Shaw observed, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Isn't that where the city is headed anyway?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150421/NEWS/150429271

LETTER: Dismay over uncivil treatment of Cambridge councilors
Posted Apr. 21, 2015 at 1:45 PM
Cambridge Chronicle
To the editor:
Phyllis Bretholtz, Jan Devereux, Lisa Camacho, Lee Farris, Laurie Friedman, Pebble Gifford, Richard Goldberg, Nancy Hausman, Mark Jaquith, Jacqueline Dee King, Jonathan King, Richard Krushnic, Susan Markowitz, Marilee Boyd Meyer, Gaylen Morgan, Carole Perrault, Shelley Rieman, Nancy Ryan, Amy Rugel, Betty Lee Saccoccio, Marie Elena Sacoccio, Nancy Seymour, Paul Steven Stone, Barbara Taggart, Kathy L. Watkins, Rachel Wyon

New York City Mayor Disrespects Police

Photo: AP

[From article]
But it’s clear that de Blasio does not have the backs of our men and women in blue, scores of whom ­silently turned their backs on the mayor as he walked into the hospital where the shot officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, were taken. And hundreds turned their backs on the image of the mayor as it was broadcast outside the funerals of the murdered cops, both posthumously promoted to the rank of detective.
But the rejections have drawn only whining from de Blasio as well as from Police Commissioner William Bratton. De Blasio called the back-turning display “disrespectful’’ — to the families of the slain cops. Mayor de Blasio, you have a problem.
It started during the mayoral campaign when de Blasio vowed to end the police practice of stop, question and frisk, which he suggested was racist, and continued last summer when he invited the race-baiting Rev. Al Sharpton to sit front and center at a forum on police-community relations at City Hall.
[. . .]
psycho Brooklyn Judge Laura Johnson who, days after the Liu and Ramos assassinations, freed without bail two men accused of threatening to kill cops. Then Johnson was reappointed to the bench for ­another year by her ideological twin, de Blasio.
But Judge Johnson used “climate’’ to explain that there currently exists far too much anger among the citizenry aimed at those who would harm men and women in blue. So she freed the accused cop haters — in a bid to level the playing field in favor of those who would do police harm.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/08/de-blasio-is-leading-this-city-into-ruin-by-not-having-cops-back/

De Blasio is leading this city into ruin by not having cops’ back
By Andrea Peyser
New York Post
January 8, 2015 | 11:28pm

Police Deserve Respect and Support of Citizens

[From article]
On September 12th, 2001 the first responders, both police and firemen, were heralded as heroes with numerous outpourings of praise. Then Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who was archbishop on the day of the attacks, gave a heartwarming benediction, “On 9/11, and on the days that followed, I became a member of the congregation... No one preached more powerfully than New York’s Finest. The Police Department of the City of New York, from the chief down to the rank-in-file, their sermon was about total sacrifice for others.” So what happened between then and now?
All interviewed believe that Americans have short memories. People forget that twenty-three NYPD officers died on 9/11 and approximately fifty died from injury and illnesses incurred during the rescue and aftermath.
[. . .]
By far the majority of police officers across the nation are true heroes. Every day they put their lives on the line for people regardless of their race, religion, or sex. It appears they are underappreciated and underpaid for what they do. All Americans need to speak out in support of the police.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/supporting_the_police.html

December 31, 2014
Supporting the Police
By Elise Cooper

23,000 Policemen Attend Funeral of NYPD Officer

Photo: Paul Martinka

[From article]
From across the continent, they came to Queens to pay their respects to a hero in blue, brutally gunned down with his partner for no reason other than he wore an NYPD badge.
Clad in dress blues and white gloves on a sunny, cool morning, 23,000 police officers from as far away as San Diego and Canada and from every corner of New York gathered at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale, Queens, to bid farewell to Officer Rafael Ramos.
He and his partner, Officer Wenjian Liu, were shot dead Dec. 20 by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, a madman bent on avenging the police-custody death of Eric Garner. Brinsley fired four shots point-blank at the cops as they sat in a patrol car in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
[. . .]
Accompanying the hearse was a procession that included a record 260 police motorcycles and 93 bagpipers. Ten helicopters conducted a flyover.
Canadian Mounties, Texas state troopers and officers from Mississippi, Ohio, California, Florida and elsewhere saluted their NYPD comrade.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/27/thousands-of-cops-line-up-for-executed-officers-funeral/

23,000 cops mourn slain brother at funeral
By Kevin Fasick, Georgett Roberts and Bill Sanderson
New York Post
December 27, 2014 | 9:17am

Kerry Out Of Touch With New Global Lack Of Respect For America

[From article]
Kerry's belief in himself as the Indispensable Man is touchingly quaint. His conception of the U.S. secretary of state is apparently frozen in a time when it was a position of unparalleled power and respect. Those days are gone.
[. . .]
When Kerry showed up in Cairo to meet with the president of Egypt, he was wanded by the guards, as if he had just wandered in from the airport security line.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0714/lowry072914.php3#.U-snCt0--yM

Jewish World Review

July 29, 2014 / 2 Menachem-Av, 5774
'A hell of a foray'
By Rich Lowry

Journalists As Admired As Lawyers

[From article]
In the Gallup survey, TV reporters were barely more popular than advertising salespeople, state-level politicians, car salesmen, members of Congress, and lobbyists with just 20 percent of respondents saying they had a favorable opinion. They were tied with lawyers.
Print newspaper reporters fared slightly better at 21 points. The most respected professions overall were nurses, pharmacists, grade school teachers, medical doctors, and military officers.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/12/17/journalists-place-near-bottom-poll-ranking-public-respect-profess#ixzz2nmWbXpMN

Journalists Place Near Bottom in Poll Ranking Public Respect for Professions
By Matthew Sheffield

December 17, 2013 | 15:12

NFL Football Player Promises To Be Nice To Women, Then Kills Girl Friend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241954/I-promise-violent-women-Kansas-City-football-star-Jovan-Belchers-pledge-counselor-killing-girlfriend--players-fans-pay-respects.html

'I promise not to be violent towards women': Kansas City football star
Jovan Belcher's pledge to counselor before killing his girlfriend - as
players and fans pay respects
Teammates offer moment of silence for Belcher before kicking off
against the Panthers
Fans fill Arrowhead Stadium with memorials
Belcher had joined an group against violence towards women
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, shot and killed his
girlfriend Kasandra Perkins, 22, at their home this morning
Came after pair argued on Friday when she attended Trey Songz concert
The couple had a baby together less than three months ago
He then traveled to a practice area at the team's Arrowhead stadium
First he thanked his coach and general manager for everything they had
done for him and then he shot himself in the head in front of them
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and DANIEL BATES
PUBLISHED: 15:17 EST, 2 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:07 EST, 2 December 2012

Liberals Tore Down the Rules of Respect

[From article]
"A mother of a disabled child was attacked nationwide, in all major media outlets, for giving birth to and raising that child. Forget about everything else Sarah Palin has endured -- the attacks on her other children, the petty legal hassles, the rumors about her marriage, the fake photos, the betrayals from her own side, and so on. Concentrate on that one element. When I was young, anyone who degraded a woman in such circumstances would have been fired, possibly physically beaten, blacklisted from his industry, and forced out of town, or even out of the country, in order to earn even the lowest type of living. Today they get booked on The View. That's how far we've fallen -- disabled kids, and their mothers, are fair game in the millennial United States.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_era_of_confronting_obama_at_public_events.html

August 18, 2011
The Era of Confronting Obama at Public Events
By J.R. Dunn
American Thinker

Congressman, Least Respected Job


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/september_2009/americans_now_view_congress_as_least_respected_job

Americans Now View Congress As Least Respected Job
Rasmussen Reports
Monday, September 21, 2009

Only Us!

Only Us!

Aaron says, "respect for the establishment and the people working there is something he finds sorely lacking. Generally it involves self-absorption and not paying attention to surroundings." Well duh!(Luke O'Neill, "Dude, YOU ordered the burger," Weekly Dig, 04.26.06, page 10)
Is it only restaurant patrons who are self absorbed? What about women putting on makeup while driving, and cell phone freaks everywhere?
Is it only waitstaff who have feelings? What about the poor politicians and the journalists who also have feelings? All right maybe there are only a couple of politicians and journalists.
It is all people in all settings that are inconsiderate, Aaron.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA