Apparently no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state, Fox News decided to take what passes for the law these days into its own hands today, turning in a 46 year-old grandmother from Indianapolis, Indiana for having a “possible terrorist link.”
The entire case against the woman, one Kathie Smith, appears to have been based around data culled off of her Facebook page and the content of emails they exchanged with her. The Department of Homeland Security in Indiana confirmed that their first information about Mrs. Smith was when Fox News sent them a video in which she allegedly makes “anti-American comments.”
The case against Mrs. Smith is virtually entirely circumstantial, and is available, in all its grim details, on Fox News’ website. The report cites photographs of suspects in a German terror plot appearing in their home. Smith notes that her husband, a German Muslim, grew up with the men in question.
Indeed, Fox expresses outraged that Mrs. Smith flew “as recently as two weeks ago,” to Germany with her husband and demanded to know she was not on the “no-fly list” on the basis of her conversion to Islam and her criticism of US foreign policy.
Despite being an effort to portray Mrs. Smith as a thoroughly unseemly character, the article itself delves into serious kookiness later on, as the author complains that Mrs. Smith refused to “friend” her on Facebook and was discovered to have clicked “Like” on a profile for Anwar al-Awlaki, a US born cleric tapped for assassination by President Obama.
The “case” against Mrs. Smith however is not really the relevant factor here, so much as the fact that Fox News took it upon themselves to build a case against some random convert in Indianapolis and then “turned her in” to the feds.
The indications are that the feds were thoroughly unimpressed with the case against her, adding the video to some state-wide database called the “Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center” but apparently doing little else.
The effort against Smith closes with a chilling comment from the grandmother, who notes “I am exercising my right, as an American citizen to freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bare arms. I have the right in America to say what ever I want. That is what makes America so great, right?” The report then immediately segues into a comment from an unnamed “consultant” claiming that Smith’s comments are “classic signs of extremism.”
Fox News where everything they say is Right,
Right Wing, Extreme Right Wing and then Rupert Murdoch Right Wing.
The Religious Right is neither. Ain't that the biggest oxymoron of all that time?
her husband, a German Muslim, grew up with the men in question.'
Typical of fake news. What a group of disgusting individual who use all the usual games of attack. Who other and a fake news junkie would accept "men in quesiton" without some backup or meaning to that term as a source to attack someone. One only has to look at the tears of that guy who was screwing his assistance to understand how they do not consider it fair to be judge by the same standards. I happen to believe if you abuse your position as boss you are wrong. I guess it makes a lot of sense to not let the different hate groups like fake news know your real identity. They most certainly have no standards so one never know what to expect from them. I believe Fake news had a great an influence in getting this nation into the fiasco of Iraq than an other organization. I did notice they are busy beating the war drum to attack Iran. I guess they are running out of grandmothers or muslims to put on the news.
The irony here is that Fox "News" feels towards Muslims the same way you feel towards Jews.
It is not hyperbole to call FNC fascist.
I think it's about time that the god of the Christuns makes hypocrisy a sin punishable by unbearable pain. While FIXED News turns cop, look at what they are doing themselves:
Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick should have been executed http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/tucker-carlson…
FIXED News: there's a terrorist organization if ever there was one. Destroying minds by the millions, one lie at a time.
The US is officially fucked…
right to bare arms? Well, I guess that's a right, but I thought the more important right was to bear arms…
The Fox News article is very poorly written and non attributed, in addition to its other negative aspects. One of the funniest lines is "the right to bare arms."
it's the right to "bear" arms. Possibly with bare arms.
I like the "chilling" comment. It's like those random critics' quotes on the cover of one of those psychotronic/paranoia-infused P.K. Dick novel. "Chilling! Utterly believable!"
The Fox News "reporter" in question very obviously targeted this woman's profile after trolling the "Likes" on the Anwar al-Awlaki profile. This behavior conforms very closely to the FedGov tactic of seeking out disaffected persons and luring them into criminal conspiracies. It behooves all of us to be particularly aware of the fact that the security organs and their helpers are actively monitoring the Internet, looking for victims.
I hope Homeland Security has no friends in the zipper business to make us shut our traps – they have friends in the scanner business and the tax payer dollars go flowing into their coffers.
so this is really all about "flying around",,,again we see big ole jetliners causing BIG problems,,,
My god, it's incredible how fast the whole thing is devolving. I sometimes wonder if I'm dreaming.
I suppose I'm next, since many of my replies and commentaries are critical of my own US of A, and of Israel. I'm very disheartened that the land of free speech is that in name only- but I have to wonder, given the ideological leanings of the present administration, would a person be targeted for 'liking' Stalin or Kruschev… since, after all, they were enemies of The State as well at one time. Would a person be targeted for 'liking' Nelson Mandela, given his conviction as a terrorist? Would a person be targeted for 'liking' Robert E. Lee, since he led Confederate forces against the US? Would a person be targeted for 'liking' Jonathan Pollard, given that he's a convicted spy- or would you be given a pass since Pollard is a hero in Israel?
I guess I'll have to give up my lucrative business making back-room deals on Farmville for fear of being turned in for who my friends are.
The thought just struck me, maybe this story won't last long after all. The FBI just might get into the act and shut down Fox News' manufactured investigation because Fox is horning in on the FBI's ball of wax manufacturing terror plots so they can foil them. It just wouldn't do for two agencies of the USG to be in competition over who can invent the most imaginative terror plot and then take credit for stopping it from occurring.
This reminds me of what I perceive to be Fox News' odd behavior. Several weeks ago I briefly caught a snippet where some Fox talking head was talking to Judge Napolitano and the judge quite clearly stated the case in defense of Julian Assange and the Fox anchor had to nod his head that the judge clearly was correct. Only later in the day and the days following did I see other talking heads, women anchors, etc.. smirk and condescendingly make smarmy comments against Assange. One moment getting taken to task and the next stabbing you in the back. What a bunch of louses!
Anwar dined at the Pentagon, proving who he really works for. 911 was an inside job and the war on terror is totally fraudulent. Why do the leftist gatekeepers refuse to talk about 911? Amy Goodman, Chomsky, etc. They all shill for the limo left and ultimately help the Establishment Right.
Stop claiming to have been fisted by aliens.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance! Citizens! The enemy may be that man in the dark hat, that woman on the train, or yes, in fact, that grandmother who lives across from you. The enemy is everywhere! Fear is your friend. Do not mock those who would protect you from space aliens. Learn from them and beware. Your mother may be a spy and you have a duty to your country to expose her to Fox news.
The Christian-Militia nutcase down the street with all the guns and explosives, who wears the aluminum foil hats all the time- no, actually, never mind him. He's harmless. Fox News has spoken!
Well, you got it half right. Your apparent sarcasm about space aliens and the duty to turn in your mother may be mockery we can appreciate.
The next paragraph attacking the christian – militia nutcase down the street with all the guns and explosives who wears aluminum foil hats all the time is likely the ONLY person you know who has any real interest in upholding or defending the US Constitution. Perhaps someone who is serious about the Second Amendment seems like a threat to a Statist informer, but without those kind of people having given their lives in the past, the freedoms you mock today would not have been won. Perhaps a bigger threat to the loss of our freedoms are the people being brainwashed to attack neighbors who stand up for the Constitution.
beeboltwu, you're referring to the Franklin "quote" forged by the pro-fascist William Dudley Pelley in 1934, I guess? How sad.
I thought Muslim women didn’t have a right to bare arms! 😉
Please get someone to copy edit the stories.
*bear arms, not bare arms.
Besides, since when does anyone take FOX seriously?
My name is Adrienne Weddle. My mother is the supposed "Jihad Grandma". Since the interview was aired ,not only has their home been raided twice and belongings like their computer, Islamic books and their Shahadah flag have been taken and kept for "evidince",but they are also attempting to imprison her husband and charge him for numerous accounts from terrorism to attempt to plot,guilty bu association ect. They are also doing everything in their power to keep her from traveling back to Germany.Within the past two weeks they have been claiming that they both are linked to a boy who killed two soldiers because he happen to be on her husbands buddy list,ive personally have seen their buddy lists and they have had over 1000 people on their buddy lists before their accounts were deleted. As for the e-mails, they were about how she has been treated by homeland security through-out her travels.As for the YouTube video that was made, it was a video her husband put together for her after he learned to use a video program.What was shown and stated in the video was not violence but refrences to the Quran, the sunnah . Jihad that was refrenced in the video was not the Jihad that America thinks of when they hear the word.It was refering to the struggle or spiritual and physical desires that everyone faces,that the Ummah(community) faces on a daily bassis. The death threats have slowly stopped,but in return the government has listed them as offical terrorist ,despite what they have said here and there.The interview was obviously chopped and edited to the news stations liking,but the interviewer was harassed by the "upper powers" for what little truth he did show.Thanks to channel 8's news report, my family's life has been put in the middle of this lie of a war.This war isn't on terrorism,this war is aginst Islam and its true followers. I support my mothers beliefs 100%.She is not a terrorist,her husbands is not a terrorist,and if the motto of our united states is "your either with us or your a terrorist" then our country has failed and has become a terrorist itself.I have seen more terrorisim in the local news done by our own people for lesser things than i have seen muslims do(this does not include true muslims because a muslim on their deen(islamic way of life) would not do such things like our American government has done i.e GITMOor Black Flag Ops. because that is not what was taught by the prophet nor the mujahideen because they fear Allah.)I pray that our people will see truth before its to late,but we all know the reality of the situation at hand and the percentage of our people waking up or even wanting to wake up is far lower than it should be.All in all this is just another way the truth has been twisted and turned into lies and propaganda for the masses to believe and fear"THE LIE".
When are people going to realize that fox news is a controlled opposition operation. Rupert Murdock's top campaign contributions all go to democrats. Obama. Clinton Reid Pelosi etc..