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Military Expert: America’s Leaders Are Inviting More Terrorism

Former military intelligence officer and author Steven Coughlin predicts more jihadi violence in America based on what radicals and international elites are saying and doing.

Coughlin explains in this video interview that both political parties appear increasingly more worried about not being called “a bigot” than in protecting American citizens from emerging threats.

Asked here to comment on the disregard by the Obama administration for keeping Americans safe from terror with inadequate immigrant vetting, open borders and the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, this author focuses on the cultural and political narratives that demonstrate a form of information warfare.

Coughlin, co-founder of Unconstrained Analytics, and author of “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad,” exposes further evidence of political leaders subscribing to a multi-cultural narrative that puts us in danger and prevents officials from seeing threats emanating from “a religion of peace.”

A September Reuters/Ipsos poll showed increasing numbers of Americans feel they are unable to recognize their country. Yet when asked about this poll, Coughlin believes the profound American political and cultural transformation relates to the ideological and intentional hollowing out of rights manifested in our founding documents, and this dominant political correctness that elevates other cultures while obfuscating the truth.

On explaining why some supporters of Donald Trump may disagree with some aspects of the GOP front-runner’s agenda, Coughlin says he believes most of Trump’s supporters realize “somebody has to wreck the current group of people who are enforcing the narrative that locks everybody out.”

Coughlin, known for his in-depth briefings for policymakers, was asked about the demagogic rhetoric used by President Obama and others to deride those critical of welcoming refugees in the face of increasing security concerns. Coughlin says, “What I am seeing is talking points and a narrative that are deliberately overriding the facts on the ground, where the media is attacking people for this, and it’s staggering because it is almost airtight.”

“Somebody pulled the rug right from underneath us. Somebody got control of our public schools and made our children grow up hating us for believing in the systems that gave them the rights to do what they’re doing, even as they’re using those rights to destroy the very idea of rights,” he continued.

To Coughlin, current debates over open borders, refugee policies or challenging jihadists show “the locked-in narrative of the left.”

“What we are seeing is the execution of a narrative to silence dissent in America by people who can win the debate with facts, when the other side can only win through a narrative that intimidates and silences.”

Coughlin predicts more jihadist violence based on two timelines. The Organization of Islamic Conference’s (OIC) 10 Year Program of Action, enacted in 2005 to outlaw the defamation of Islam. is the first. In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed to the head of the OIC in Turkey to use “plain old fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming” against Americans who defied Islamic speech codes. To Coughlin, this is a direct affront to America’s First Amendment protections of speech.

His second timeline is contained in a 2005 Der Spiegel article showing phases of world Islamic supremacy with 2016 opening up “direct confrontation,” following the Arab Spring and the establishment of a caliphate.

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THE FACE OF FREEDOM: Student Sues Public Arizona College For Ignoring First Amendment

Eric Owens

Education Editor

Brittany Mirelez courtesy of The Daily Signal/The Heritage Foundation

A freshman at a public community college in Arizona has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a tiny, restrictive campus free-speech zone.

The student is Brittany Mirelez, reports The Daily Signal.

Mirelez attends Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, Ariz.

In October, Paradise Valley official Mike Ho, the director of student life, booted Mirelez from the school’s small campus zone for political speech because she had failed to seek administrative permission to use the space.

Mirelez had placed a temporary table in the space and was attempting to promote Young Americans for Liberty, a limited-government-focused group she is starting at the community college.

She filmed her altercation with Ho. Campus Reform has the video.

Ho explained to Mirelez and a Young Americans for Liberty field representative — also at the makeshift table — that the Maricopa County Community College District has a two-year-old policy mandating free speech zones on its 10 campuses.

“The public has the right to use this space within a two-day notification period,” Ho explained.

The Paradise Valley bureaucrat then started a big argument with Mirelez about how the school can limit her right to free expression and about how she must fill out the proper form.

The Paradise Valley speech-zone policy allows students who obtain permission two days in advance — using the correct form — to speak freely on campus from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on a small portion of walkway which compromises less than 0.26 percent of the public school campus, according to The Daily Signal.

Mirelez maintains that another official in the Paradise Valley bureaucracy had granted her permission to use the modest free-speech zone on the public campus.

Eventually, Mirelez and the Young Americans for Liberty representative abandoned their table.

The lawsuit, filed in December, asserts that Paradise Valley Community College officials “severely limited” Mirelez’s right to “constitutionally-protected expression on campus” and caused “the fear of arrest or punishment.”

You can see the full federal complaint here.

“Although PVCC encourages free discourse and debate on campus, it uses its Guidelines for Public Expression on Campus (the ‘Policy’) to restrict student speech to one designated speech zone,” the suit explains. “PVCC’s Policy prohibits students from speaking outside of the Speech Zone, including on public sidewalks, walkways, lawns, and other outdoor areas.”

The lawsuit notes that the community college is a public institution which receives taxpayer funds. It observes that “the First Amendment rights of free speech and press extend to campuses of state colleges.”

Mirelez’s lawsuit seeks attorneys’ fees but does not seek specific money damages. Her primary demand is that Paradise Valley Community College end its restrictive “speech zone” policy.

“A lot of students have told me it’s weird that they only see us in one spot, that they would like to see us around campus more,” Mirelez told The Daily Signal.

“You don’t wake up and say I kind of want to sue my school to get rid of something,” the freshman also said. “But it’s gotta happen.”

Free-speech restrictions on America’s public college campuses are frequently the subject of federal and state litigation. College administrators frequently lose or quietly settle the lawsuits.

In September, for example, officials at Dixie State University in Utah coughed up $50,000 in damages and attorney’s fees for banning libertarian students from distributing fliers which variously featured images of Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Che Guevara. The public school bureaucrats censored the fliers because, they said, the fliers “disparaged” the two U.S. presidents and the murderous communist revolutionary. (RELATED: Dixie State University Slammed With Lawsuit For Poster Censorship)

In January 2015, a federal judge in Chicago ordered officials at Waubonsee Community College to stop ignoring the First Amendment and allow a stridently anti-gay group to distribute leaflets on campus. Administration officials had reasoned that opponents of homosexuality could not speak on the public campus because it might lead to “unlawful hostility.” The judge called this argument grossly unconstitutional. (RELATED: Community College Bureaucrats SHOCKED To Learn First Amendment Totally Applies To Them)

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