Newspaper Page Text
PAGE 5A
ForsythOpinion
Friday, June 17, 2016
YOUR ELECTED
OFFICIALS
CITY COUNCIL
Mayor H. Ford Gravitt, PO. Box
3177, Cumming, GA 30028; (770)
887-4342
Christopher Light, 100 Main St.,
Cumming, GA 30040; (770) 480-
1396
Mayor Pro-Tem Quincy Holton,
103 Hickory Ridge Drive,
Cumming, GA 30040; (770) 887-
5279
Lewis Ledbetter, 205 Mountain
Brook Drive, Cumming, GA
30040; (770) 887-3019
Linda Ledbetter, 100 Main St.,
Cumming, GA 30040; (770) 781-
2010
Charles Welch, 100 Main St.,
Cumming, GA 30040; (770) 781-
2010
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Chairman R.J. (Pete) Amos, Post
1, 10 E. Main St., Cumming, GA
30040; (678) 513-5881; rjamos @
forsythco.com
Secretary Brian Tam, Post 2,
4410 Dorset Lane, Suwanee, GA
30024; (404) 392-6983; office,
(678) 513-5882; brtam @forsythco.
com
Todd Levent, Post 3,
110 E. Main St., Cumming, GA
30040; (678) 513-5883; tlevent@
forsythco.com
Vice Chairwoman Cindy Mills,
Post 4, 110 E. Main St., Cumming,
GA 30040; (678) 513-5884;
cjmills@forsythco.com
Jim Boss, Post 5, 110 E. Main St.,
Cumming, GA 30040; (678) 513-
5885; jjboff@forsythco.com
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Ann Crow, District 1, 320
Dahlonega St., Cumming, GA
30040; (770) 490-6316; acrow@
forsyth.kl2.ga.us
Vice Chairwoman Kristin
Monrissey, District 2, 3310 Cany
Creek Lane, Cumming, GA 30041;
(678) 250-4047; kmorrissey @
forsyth.kl2.ga.us
Tom Cleveland, District 3, 5225
Millsford Court, Cumming, GA
30040; (770) 844-9901; tcleve
land @forsyth.kl2.ga.us
Chairwoman Darla Sexton
Light, District 4, 50080 Hopewell
Road, Cumming, GA 30028;
(770) 887-0678; dlight@forsyth.
kl2.ga.us
Nancy Roche, District 5, 7840
Chestnut Hill Road, Cumming,
GA 30041; (770) 889-0229;
nroche @forsyth.kl2.ga.us
NATIONAL LEGISLATORS
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, 120
Russell Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510; (202)
224-3643 or (770) 661-0999
U.S. Sen. David Perdue, B4OD
Dirksen Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510; (202)
224-3521
U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, 9th
District; 513 Cannon House Office
Building, Washington, D.C.,
20515; (202) 225-9893; fax, (770)
297-3390
U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, 7th
District; 1725 Longworth House
Office Building, Washington, D.C.,
20515; (770) 232-3005; (202) 225-
4272; fax, (202) 225-4696
STATE LEGISLATORS
Sen. Steve Gooch, 51st District,
Suite 421-C, State Capitol, Atlanta,
GA 30334; (404) 656-9221
Sen. Michael Williams, 27th
District, Coverdell Legislative
Office Building, Room 323-B, 18
Capitol Square, Atlanta, GA
30334; (404) 656-7127
Rep. Kevin Tanner, 9th District,
Coverdell Legislative Office
Building, Room 401-E, Atlanta, GA
30334; ?404) 656-0152
Rep. Wes Cantrell, 22nd District,
Coverdell Legislative Office
Building, Room 507-E, 18 Capitol
Square, Atlanta, GA 30334; (404)
656-0202
Rep. Sheri S. Gilligan, 24th
District, Legislative Office
Building, Suite 612, 18 Capitol
Square, SW, Atlanta, GA 30334;
(404) 656-0333
Rep. Mike Dudgeon, 25th
District, Coverdell Legislative
Office Building, Room 608-C, 18
Capitol Square, Atlanta, GA
30334; (404) 656-0298
Rep. Geoff Duncan, 26th
District, Coverdell Legislative
Office Building, Room 512-B, 18
Capitol Square, Atlanta, GA
30334; (404) 656-7859
‘Send a letter to the editor to PO. Box 210 Cumming, GA 30028; fax it to (770) 889-6017; or e-mail it to editor@forsythnews.com.
Junior E. Lee talks about what
bugs him this election year
I had hoped to catch you
up on the current status of
the presidential race before
now but in order to do so, I
needed to talk first with
Junior E. Lee, general man
ager of the Yarbrough
Worldwide Media and Pest
Control Company in
Garfield, Georgia.
Junior E. Lee not only
oversees our company’s
much-admired and oft-quot
ed political polling service,
Round or Square Polls,
where our motto is “If
you’ve got the dough, we’ll
cook the numbers,” he is also
a certified pest control pro
fessional. There is not anoth
er polling service in the
country that I know of with a
certified pest control profes
sional on staff. Junior mod
estly shrugs off the distinc
tion and says a pest is a pest,
whether they are eating the
leaves off the collard greens
in your garden or making
robocalls while you are try
ing to eat your supper. He
has a point.
Getting hold of Junior has
been a bit difficult. I had for
gotten about the Wash Pot
Festival, which is held annu
ally in Garfield in late May.
Junior tries to work his
schedule so that he can be off
during that time. The Wash
Pot Festival is the highlight
of his year. There is a parade,
a lawnmower pull, lots of
Florida: Americas Jihad playground
The home of the “Happiest
Place on Earth™ has been
breeding killer jihadists and
Muslim zealots for years.
Omar Mateen, the cold
blooded mass murderer who
gunned down 49 people at an
Orlando gay nightclub and
wounded 53 more before
police took him out late
Sunday, may have worked
alone. But he operated in the
larger context of a teeming,
terror-coddling paradise.
While tourists from around
the world soak up sunshine
and dreams at Disney World,
Islamic extremism festers
around them.
Schools: The Muslim
Students Association, found
ed by the radical Egyptian
Muslim Brotherhood whose
stated purpose is to wage
“grand jihad” on America, is
active at the publicly funded
University of Central Florida
in Orlando. The group defi
antly brought un-indicted
terror co-conspirator Siraj
Wahhaj to campus. He's the
black Muslim convert and
inflammatory imam tied by
federal prosecutors to the
1993 World Trade Center
bombing and New York City
landmarks bombing plots.
Wahhaj served as a charac
ter witness for convicted ter
ror mastermind Omar Abdel
Rahman (the Blind Sheik),
called for replacement of
America’s “constitutional
government with a caliphate™
and roots for our nation to
“crumble” so Muslims can
take over. UCF funded a
Muslims “da’wa” (conver
sion) seminar and with an
endowment by the Saudi
supported International
Institute of Islamic Thought
sought to create an Islamic
Studies chair to “help the
Ummah regain its intellectu
al and cultural identity and
re-affirm its presence as a
Letter policy
The Forsyth County News welcomes your opinions on issues of public concern. Letters must be signed and
include full address and a daytime and evening phone number for verification. Names and hometowns of letter writ
ers will be included for publication without exception. Telephone numbers will not be published.
Letters should be limited to 350 words and may be edited or condensed. The same writer or group may only sub
mit one letter per month for consideration.
Letters must be submitted by noon Wednesday for Sunday publication. We do not publish poetry or blanket let
ters and generally do not publish letters concerning consumer complaints. Unsigned or incorrectly identified letters
will be withheld.
Mail letters to the Forsyth County News, PO. Box 210, Cumming, GA 30028, hand deliver to 302 Veterans
Memorial Blvd., fax to (770) 889-6017 or e-mail to editor@forsythnews.com.
T j;
‘ Ay 'v‘
| ot
DICK YARBROUGH
Columnist
good food (cooked in wash
pots) and much fun and fri
volity. Junior says the
Garfield Wash Pot Festival is
kind of like the Mardi Gras,
except you don’t have all the
drinking or bare-chested
women throwing beads at
you. It sounds like my kind
of event.
When he got around to
returning my call, I told him
that a number of you were
seeking my thoughts on who
to vote for this November for
president. I certainly didn’t
want to respond without first
seeing if he had any updated
polling information I could
share with you.
Junior said the latest num
bers from Round or Square
Polls showed that the current
candidates are about as excit
ing as a tree fungus. What
we have to choose from, he
reminded me, is a woman
who only lies when her lips
are moving, a socialist who
has never held a real job in
the real world and a guy with
orange hair who shoots off
his mouth too much and
would probably start World
War 111 before his inaugura-
MICHELLE MALKIN
Columnist
dynamic civilization.”
The IIIT, also a Muslim
Brotherhood affiliate, donat
ed at least $50,000 to a
“think tank” run by Sami al-
Arian that served as a front
group for the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad. While al-Ari
an, a Muslim Brotherhood
member dating back to the
1980 s, served as a computer
science professor at Tampa’s
University of South Florida,
he toured the country raising
money for terrorism over
seas. Investigative reporters
and the feds caught al-Arian
on tape inciting his attendees
against, America, Israel “and
their allies until death.” The
left-wing academic pleaded
guilty to a terror-fundraising
conspiracy charge in 2006.
Al-Arian brought
Palestinian-born Ramadan
Shalah to teach at USF and
head his “think tank™ for a
spell. Shalah left the school
in 1995 and resurfaced as
head of Syria’s Islamic Jihad.
He remains one of the FBl's
most wanted indicted terror
ist fugitives.
Apologist officials at USF,
first exposed by counter
jihad researcher Steve
Emerson as America’s “Jihad
U,” turned a blind eye to the
terror helpers among them.
Mosques: Mateen’s homi
cidal hatred for gays didn’t
exist in a vacuum. Mateen’s
neighborhood mosque in
nearby Fort Pierce, Florida,
was also the house of wor
ship of Moner Abu-Salha, an
American jihad recruiter and
suicide bomber who blew
himself up in Syria last year.
This is a page of opinion — ours, yours and
others. Signed columns and cartoons are the
opinions of the writers and artists, and they
may not reflect our views.
tion parade had ended.
That’s not much of a
choice, I replied. Junior
agreed and said we have bet
ter choices of what insecti
cides to use in spraying for
members of the order
Phthiraptera than we do for
selecting who should be the
next president of the United
States. I’ve never had a con
versation with Junior E. Lee
where he didn’t find an
opportunity to throw some
pest control jargon into the
conversation to make a polit
ical point. That seems to go
with the territory when you
are dealing with a political
analyst who is also a pest
control professional.
I told Junior that I didn’t
think you would ever hear
Bill O’Reilly or that guy on
MSNBC who looks like the
Pillsbury Doughboy talking
like that. Junior snorted and
said that while he believes he
could hold his own political
ly with O’Reilly and the
Doughboy, he doubts either
of them would recognize a
species of the genus
Solenopsis if it bit them on
their self-important rumps.
What can I tell my readers,
I asked. Junior said to tell
you it wasn’t too late to
spray for mosquitos if you
are planning on being out in
the yard much this summer.
And to watch out for pickle
worms in the garden, espe-
The Palm Beach Post report
ed this week that Abu-Salha
had posted videos of an
imam’s death-to-gays rant on
Facebook.
Marcus Dwayne Robertson
(a.k.a. Abu Taubah), a former
U.S. Marine turned career
criminal and bodyguard to
the Blind Sheik, headed
another mosque, Masjid
Al-Thsaam, in Orlando. He
also founded the Orlando
based Fundamental Islamic
Knowledge Seminary in
2008 and railed against gays
and non-Muslims. Mateen
was enrolled in Taubah’s
course.
Just weeks before the
Pulse nightclub massacre,
another Orlando mosque, the
Husseini Islamic Center,
hosted a guest imam who
had preached that “gays must
die” and that Muslims should
not “be embarrassed about
this ... let’s get rid of them
now.”
Also in Orlando, the al-
Rahman mosque led by
Imam Muhammad Musri
made headlines in 2010 after
holding a fundraiser for the
terrorist group Hamas.
In Tampa, Sami al-Arian
founded the al-Qassam
mosque named after an infa
mous Syrian terrorist. Last
fall, the mosque — owned by
the North American Islamic
Trust, an un-indicted terror
co-conspiracy organization
— invited an exiled Muslim
Brotherhood instigator and
Hamas cheerleader to speak.
In South Florida, the Darul
Uloom Institute mosque in
Pembroke Pines counted al-
Qaida jihad pilot Adnan el-
Shukrijumah (allegedly
killed in a raid in Waziristan
by the Pakistan military in
2014) and convicted jihadist
Imran Mandhai — who plot
ted with fellow mosque
attendees Hakki Aksoy and
cially around your canta
loupes. He suggested you
consider using Neem oil
extract or his old standby,
Malathion. If you aren’t sat
isfied with his recommenda
tions, Junior said to contact
Bill O’Reilly or the Pillsbury
Doughboy. Since they think
they are so smart, maybe
they can tell you how to get
nd of pickle worms, but he
oubted it.
I told him that I knew you
would find that information
very helpful, particularly if
you have a garden, but what
about the presidential elec
tion?
Junior said he would keep
analyzing the polling num
bers right up to November,
but he wasn’t expecting to
see things improve much and
for you not to get your hopes
up. He says this bunch of
candidates reminds him of
Ixodidae: What you see is
what you get. I don’t know
about you, but that sounds a
little scary to me. I wonder if
Bill O’Reilly or the Pillsbury
Doughboy feels the same
way?
You can reach Dick Yarbrough
at yarb24oo@bellsouth.net; at
P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta,
Georgia 31139; online at dick
yarbrough.com or on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/dick
yarb.
Shueyb Jokhan to blow up
power stations, synagogues
and a National Guard armory
-- among its worshipers.
Shukrijumah’s brother still
lives in Broward County near
the Darul Uloom mosque
and has posted social media
videos condemning “‘moder
ate” Muslims, blaming 9/11
on Jews and promoting the
caliphate. Darul Uloom’s
imam is a gay-bashing,
Christian-bashing, Jew
bashing bigot who has pub
licly stated that at least one’
of the 9/11 hijackers prayed
at his mosque.
Jails: Florida’s prisons and
penitentiaries are unfettered
cesspools for jihad radical
ization and recruitment.
Convicted al-Qaida dirty
bomb plotter Jose Padilla
(a.k.a. Abdullah al Mujahir)
was introduced to Islam
while serving time for an
armed road rage incident in
Sunrise, Florida. The above
named Abu Taubah radical
ized nearly 40 fellow inmates
while behind bars on a weap
ons conviction. He was freed
last summer by U.S. District
Judge Gregory Presnell after
time served despite prosecu
tors’ pleas to add 10 years to
his sentence based on
enhanced terror charges.
Gun-grabbers and bleeding
hearts, wake up and stop
playing Mickey Mouse poli
tics. The problem isn’t weap
ons. It’s the weaponized
Muslim hate-moagers and
jihad enablers operating
openly in our midst.
Michelle Malkin is a senior edi
tor at Conservative Review. For
more articles and videos from
Michelle, visit
Conservativeßeview.com. Her
email address is malkinblog@
gmail.com.