This homophobia This generally means fear of homosexuals or
hatred of members of the LGBTQ plus community.
June 16th June 12th, 2016 A man named Omar Mateen went into the
Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, murdered 49 people, injured 53
and held people hostage. Here is Barack Obama summarizing
the events four days later. This was an attack on the LGBT
community. Americans were targeted because
we're a country that has learned to welcome everyone no matter
who you are or who you love. And hatred towards people
because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes
from, is a betrayal of what's best in us.
So nice of us just sitting here. Reminds me of 9/11.
We were just minding our own business and then they hate us
for our freedoms. Donald Trump, let's go.
Let's go to the total opposite side of the aisle.
Donald Trump, what does he have to say about this?
This is a very dark moment in America's history.
A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub not only
because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to
execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual
orientation. It's a strike at the heart and
soul of who we are as a nation. It's an assault on the ability
of free people to live their lives, love who they want and
express their identity. OK, all inspiring.
It turns out just because the club happened to be a gay club
does not mean he was targeting the club because of that.
It was also mostly young people. It's not because he had anything
against young people. It was in Florida.
He didn't have anything against Florida, Floridians in
particular. Now, a reminder that much like a
protest, the purpose of terrorism is to amplify a
message, not conceal it. So we actually have a transcript
of the Omar Mateen phone call. Listen in.
See if you detect sexism, homophobia, the hatred of
Americans, hatred of Christians. Here's what he says.
You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq.
They are killing a lot of innocent people.
What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over
there? You get what I'm saying?
You need to stop the US air strikes.
Tell the US government, stop the bombing.
They are killing too many children.
They are killing too many women, OK?
I feel the pain of the people getting killed in Syria and
Iraq. They need to stop bombing Syria
and Iraq. the US is collaborating with Russia and
they are killing innocent women and children, OK?
The air strikes need to stop and stop collaborating with Russia.
OK, the fucking the air strikes need to stop.
You see now you feel, now you feel how it is.
Now you feel how it is. Far from being paranoia, the
Council on Foreign Relations actually published the number of
bombs dropped on Syria and Iraq in this year 2016.
Syria 12,192, Iraq 12,000 and 95.
If you walk into the Capitol building without a permission
slip, you're a terrorist dropping 24,000 bombs on two
countries who never initiated violence against America.
That's just public service. I mean, what's wrong with
keeping people safe? Turns out the Intercept got
their hands on some of these documents relating to a portion
of these bombings, according to the Intercept, when it was good
with Glenn Greenwald. Not today.
During one five month period of the operation, according to the
documents, nearly 90% of the people killed in air strikes
were not the intended target. In Yemen and Somalia, where the
US has far fewer limited intelligence capabilities to
confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the
equivalent ratios may be much worse than 90% of people killed
who were not the intended target.
And by the way, for them to determine intended target, they
basically play like 6° from bin Laden.
If you were ever in a country that experienced radicalism,
you're an intended target. It Lori Calhoun works with me at
the Libertarian Institute. She said that at one point it
was all men ages 16 and older who were considered military
targets. Very devastating.
Again, even though men were the only people in that document who
were considered OK to kill, The problem is not gender, or else
we'd just say yeah, you got to include 16 year old women on to
that too. That's not the issue.
The problem is the initiation of violence.