FBI probes conversion to Islam of fired store-worker who BEHEADED female co-worker and stabbed another woman before being shot by hero boss who was part-time police officer

Alton Alexander Nolen

Mark Vaughan

A fired employee who had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam stabbed two female colleagues - beheading one of them - before an off-duty officer shot him, police have said.

Alton Alexander Nolen, who converted to Islam during a recent stint in prison, was fired from Vaughan Foods, a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, on Thursday before returning to his SUV and smashing it into another vehicle.

The 30-year-old then climbed out and entered the building, attacking the first two people he saw with a knife he had used at the plant, Moore Police Sergeant Jeremy Lewis said.

After beheading Colleen Hufford, 54, and stabbing Traci Johnson, 43, Nolen was shot and wounded by off-duty sheriff's deputy and company CEO Mark Vaughan.

Nolen survived and was hospitalized. Johnson is in stable condition in hospital. 

The FBI is now investigating Nolen's recent conversion to Islam to determine whether it was connected to the attack.

'Killer': Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, allegedly attacked two women after entering a food distribution center on Thursday - beheading one of them. He was eventually stopped when he was shot by an off-duty officer

'Killer': Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, allegedly attacked two women after entering a food distribution center on Thursday - beheading one of them. He was eventually stopped when he was shot by an off-duty officer

The bureau will work in conjunction with the Moore Police Department to chart Nolen's background as his motives are still unclear, Fox News reported. 

Authorities applauded Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy, for his quick-thinking. He owned Vaughan Foods until it was acquired by Reser's Foods in 2011.

'This was not going to stop if he didn't stop it,' Lewis said. 'It could have gotten a lot worse.' 

Sheriff John Whetsel with the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office added in a statement: 'These were heinous criminal acts that were ended by the quick response of Oklahoma County Reserve Deputy Sheriff Mark Vaughan.

'I am extremely proud of the actions of Deputy Vaughan and I am convinced those actions saved the lives of several other employees.

'Mr. Vaughan, who serves as CEO of Vaughan Foods, was at work and when he was alerted that a man was attacking employees with a knife, Mark didn't hesitate. He quickly responded. 

'Mark put an end to the threat by shooting the suspect and saving the life of a second victim who was being actively attacked by the suspect. 

Mark Vaughan

Heroic: Mark Vaughan, pictured above, shot the suspect multiple times to put an end to his killing spree. Mr Vaughan is the former president of the company, left, and a reserve sheriff's deputy, right

'There is every reason to believe that the lives of untold others were saved who would have been targeted by the suspect if it hadn't been for Deputy Vaughan's actions.' 

Sergeant Lewis, who said he does not know why Nolen was fired, added that police are waiting until he was conscious before they move forward with charges. 

On Friday, Lewis said that Nolen had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam and that local police had contacted the FBI to help investigate the man's background, KFOR reported.

Co-workers said Nolen himself had only just converted to Islam, according to News9. It is not yet known if his beliefs played a role in the attack. 

There were no immediate indications of a link to terrorism, officials said. 

Announcing the FBI's involvement in the case, police released a statement saying: 'After conducting interviews with Nolen's co-workers, information was obtained that he recently started trying to convert several employees to the Muslim religion. 

'Due to the manner of death and the initial statements of co-workers and other initial information, the Moore Police Department requested the assistance of the FBI in conducting a background investigation on Nolan.'

Records show Nolen has a long previous criminal record including assault and battery on an officer, possession of a controlled substance and possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute.

In 2010 he was charged with assault and battery of a police officer after being pulled over for having a fake license plate.

He was discovered to be driving with a suspended license and when the officer tried to cuff him he pushed him hard in the chest and bolted. 

According to Oklahoma State Court Records, there was 'a massive manhunt involving four law enforcement agencies, two helicopters... and lasted for over 12 hours.'

As part of his sentence – five years with all but the first two suspended – he was ordered to attend an anger management course. He was last released from jail in March 2013, according to records. 

Records also reveal he has a tattoo of Jesus on his chest and praying hands on his arm.

He also has 'Assalamu Alaikum' - a greeting often used by Muslims meaning 'may peace be on you' - on his abdomen.

On Friday, 911 calls revealed the panic after he entered the building on Thursday afternoon.

'They're in the office, front office of the building. Yeah, we can hear a lot of screaming,' the caller tells the dispatcher.

'We don't know where the person went and he went through our front office, went through the shipping office and stabbed a woman in our customer service department.'

The suspect can be heard running and then three gun shots are heard, KFOR reported.  

'Stay down! Stay down!' the caller tells his fellow employees. 

Lewis confirmed to KFOR that the type of knife he allegedly used in the attack was the same kind used at the plant. Nolen had worked as a production line employee. 

He added that the suspect and the victims were apparently not involved with each other outside of their work at the business.

'The victims had no relationship to the suspect. He is just an angry employee that acted out,' Lewis said. 

Police had been called to the store around 4.15pm following a report about a fight inside Vaughan Foods. While en route, officers were told that there had been a shooting, Lewis said.

'When officers arrived they approached the business as an active shooter situation. Once they entered the business they found a female deceased of stab wounds and they had a male with multiple gunshot wounds,' Lewis said. 

He said the building was evacuated and searched and no other danger was found. 

Employees returned to work on Friday. 

'On behalf of everyone at Vaughan Foods, we are shocked and deeply saddened by the events of today,' the company said it a statement. 'Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the team member we lost and all those affected.'

It added that it will provide support and counselling for those affected.

DEUT. 28:

64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

66 DEUTERONOMY 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

JOB 18:

11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Rejected by their families, gay teens in the South flock to Atlanta

Ryan Peterson

Ryan Peterson's first low point happened in California in 2011 when he woke up on the roof of a house he didn't recognize, still high, after being awake for what he says was around five days.

He started to cry and called his cousin who bought him a plane ticket home to Georgia. He had just started to get his life back on track, he said, when he found out he was HIV positive. It crushed him.

"Not because of the fact that I was positive," he said. "Because of the fact that I couldn't have kids. That's what really crushed me the most, because I've always wanted kids. And I always will."

For HIV-positive men, having children can be a costly and difficult procedure.

His second low point was earlier this year, crashing on couches in Atlanta and dealing crystal meth to support his $300-a-day drug habit.

Peterson, now 23, is one of many young people in Georgia, and other Bible Belt states, who flock to the big city – Atlanta – after coming out as gay. But each night, some 2,000 children and youth in Atlanta are homeless. Nationally, about 40 percent of homeless youth identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, according to a survey by UCLA's Williams Institute.

Religious families are more likely to kick out gay children, making the Bible Belt a particularly tough place to be young and LGBT. In what activists say is a crisis of gay homeless youth in America, some call Atlanta "ground zero."

But the South also has few emergency shelters for LGBT youth in need. Lost-n-Found Youth is the only Atlanta nonprofit dedicated to getting homeless gay kids off the streets. The group's three founders created the organization in 2011 after all of them had experiences trying to place LGBT youth in shelters, only to have them turned away.

 

In the past few weeks, a gay Georgia teen's video of his family disowning and attacking him went viral, garnering more than 6.5 million views. It catapulted Daniel Pierce to sudden online fame, and an online fundraiser brought in more than $90,000 to help him start his new life. 

But while this kind of national recognition for a gay teen's struggle is unusual, says Rick Westbrook, the executive director of Lost-n-Found, the struggle itself is not.

"That's something that happens every day here," he said. "We were just fortunate enough that Daniel hit record on his phone so that people could see the hate that is spewed by parents toward their children, just because they love somebody of the same sex."

Since its founding, Lost-n-Found has helped more than 400 kids, often found when volunteers hit the streets or through referrals, Westbrook said. But on any given night, the group estimates that there are 750 LGBT homeless youth in Atlanta.

Lost-n-Found also proffers another sad fact: Within 48 hours of becoming homeless, a third of gay youths will do something illegal to survive.

"Whether that be steal from a grocery store or a convenience store, just to put some food in their bodies," he said, "or sell drugs or take drugs to cope, or sell themselves."

Peterson grew up in Walnut Grove, a rural area 40 miles from Atlanta. He acknowledges some responsibility in the conflict with his mother that prompted him to drop out of school and leave home at 17.

"I was very much like, 'OK, mom, I'm going to throw it in your face that I'm gay,'" he said. "Because I thought … she didn't love me because of it. At that time that's what I thought."

Now sober and reconnecting with her, he believes his family was just scared of what would happen to him.

"I can only imagine what I put her through and what she went through, because all she did was try for me," Peterson said.

But Peterson needed more than his mother to try for him. The promising gymnast fled home, doing odd jobs for money – a lot of porn – and then dating a drug dealer, so he "didn't really have to have a job."

"You name it, I did it," he said. "It was an easy way to make money… but I blew it all".

He would frequent adult bookstores, video booths and bathhouses, looking for a quick hookup, just so he would have a place to stay. Until just a few months ago, Peterson was homeless, and the Atlanta streets are soiled with ugly memories, like walking to the McDonald's to get a milkshake, after having nothing to eat for days. 

 Ryan Peterson'

Drugs, theft and "survival sex" – hooking up for a warm place to sleep at night – are all common resorts for gay homeless youth in Atlanta, says Art Izzard, who's spent the last five years trying to track down and help them as Lost-n-Found's outreach director.

"It's not that they're coming from a poverty-stricken life," he said. "I've had kids whose fathers own large companies, have access to good bits of money, that just for religious reasons they're banned from the household, cut off from their families and they have nothing else to do."

At one spot, under a bridge, off a running trail, behind a few gay bars, he says he finds kids as young as 16.

"Oftentimes they'll use drugs so they can stay awake and keep their wits about them, protect themselves, things like that," he said. "Or just petty criminal activity, stealing … digging in a dumpster for food."

Lost-n-Found is now refurbishing an abandoned, century-old building into a homeless shelter for gay teens, leased to them by a local church at the cost of $1 a year. Pierce, the young man behind the viral video, asked people to stop donating money to him, and to instead direct it to the building effort. Westbrook is hoping the center will open next spring.

A few months ago when he was fearing death, Peterson reached out to Lost-n-Found and is now employed at its thrift store. It's his first steady job in years. He's also 100 days sober and making plans to go to college. He considers Lost-n-Found a second family.

"I know if anything ever happens to me, I've got a group of people behind me, ready to just string up whoever did it," he said.

Without them, he added that he would "probably still be using, and probably still lost and still hating myself and still thinking there was no escape."

LEVITICUS 20:

13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

GENESIS 19:

1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Police officer shot in Ferguson, two suspects at large

 

 

A police officer has been wounded with a gun shot in the US city of Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb still gripped by public outrage over the killing of an unarmed teenager by a cop last month. The police have cordoned off the crime scene.

The police have reported that the two suspects fled on foot. K9 officers and police helicopters are searching the area. Local police have earlier described one suspect as a black male with dreadlocks.

The chase took place outside the Ferguson Community Center. The officer had reportedly blocked a bullet with his bicep, reutrning fire, but not hitting either target.

With mounting public distrust for the police following the initial early August incident, the gathered crowds refused to take any explanation by the authorities at face value.

“A police officer has been shot tonight. That's the only person who has got shot,” Captain Ron Johnson told the crowd which had gathered near the crime scene.

With trust eroded between police and the local community, people doubt the suspect - or suspects - are still alive. There are also reports circulating among the witnesses and citizen journalists at the scene that a civilian was shot or might have been killed by police, but the authorities deny such reports.

“I'm going to ask you to leave, and I'm only asking you one time,” Johnson told an angry crowd of 100 people late Saturday.

Parts of the crowd reportedly broke off to stage a separate protest at the Ferguson police headquarters, but the atmosphere did not escalate.

It remains unclear whether the current shooting was in any way related to the protests that took over Ferguson following the shooting death of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown six weeks ago. More confusion still stems from the fact that the police couldn't seem to get the gender of the wounded officer right. The St. Louis County Police and Ferguson Police gave different acconts.

Furthermore, some reports indicated that the wounded officer was off duty, others that he was on a routine patrol when he witnessed a burglary and attempted to stop it.

"[The suspect] returned with fire and the officer was able to block it with his arm," St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told local News 4. "The officer said he was able to get a couple of shots off. We have no indication that [the suspect] was shot." The chief likewise does not believe the shooting was in any way related to the Ferguson tension surrounding the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson.

Presently, parts of the suburb of West Florissant are also on lockdown as the search for the suspects is underway.

The initial incident sparked weeks of unrest in the predominantly black community of Missouri, while the highly militarized response to protests and demonstrations near the site of the shooting exacerbated tensions and galvanized the local population to call attention to racial grievances.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson on Thursday appeared outside police headquarters in civilian clothes to assure protesters calling for his resignation that there would be reforms following Brown’s death. But tensions escalated when he tried to take part in a march in honor of the slain teenager. Four arrests were made as a result.

The parents of Michael Brown said they were unmoved by Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson’s apology which he offered earlier this week, more than a month after their 18-year-old son was killed.

“An apology would be when Darren Wilson has handcuffs, processed and charged with murder,” Michael Brown Sr. told the AP, while Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said Chief Tom Jackson should be fired.

Zephaniah 2:

1 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger come upon you.

Deuteronomy 33:

7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

Iraqi PM says Islamic State plans subway attacks in U.S. and Paris

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

Iraq has "credible" intelligence that Islamic State militants plan to attack subway systems in Paris and the United States, the prime minister said on Thursday, but U.S. and French officials said they had no evidence to back up his claims.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's comments were met with surprise by security, intelligence and transit officials in both countries. New York's leaders scrambled to ride the subway to reassure the public that the nation's largest city was safe.

Abadi said he received the information Thursday morning from militants captured in Iraq and concluded it was credible after requesting further details. The attacks, he said, were plotted from inside Iraq by "networks" of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

"They plan to have attacks in the metros of Paris and the U.S.," Abadi told a small group of U.S. reporters while in New York for the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. "I asked for more credible information. I asked for names. I asked for details, for cities, you know, dates. And from the details I have received, yes, it looks credible."

Some Iraqi officials in Baghdad questioned Abadi's comments. One high-level Iraqi government official told Reuters it appeared to be based on "ancient intelligence." Another called it "an old story." Both spoke on condition of anonymity.

Abadi did not provide further details. A senior Iraqi official traveling with him later said Iraqi intelligence had uncovered "serious threats" and had shared this information with its allies' intelligence agencies.

"A full assessment of the veracity of the intelligence and how far the plans have gone into implementation is ongoing," the official said.

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, said the United States had "not confirmed any specific threat."

"What we've consistently said to the Iraqis is if they have information that is relevant to terrorist activity or terrorist plotting, that they can and should share that through our intelligence and law enforcement channels," Rhodes told reporters traveling with Obama on Air Force One from New York.

"We would certainly take seriously any information they are learning," he said.

French security services also said they had no information confirming Abadi's statement, a French government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

STRONGER TRANSIT SECURITY

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other local officials suggested they were unfazed, updating their public schedules on Thursday to add trips on the city's subway system to reassure millions of daily commuters.

"We are convinced New Yorkers are safe," de Blasio said at a press conference at a lower Manhattan subway station as he stood alongside New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and George Venizelos, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The New York Police Department's intelligence bureau found no specific, credible threat, de Blasio said.

Bratton said in response to Abadi's comments that he sent more police to patrol subways and streets in the city which was already on high alert because of the U.N. meeting.

Joseph Sheehan, 44, from the city's Queens borough, learned about the threats from the web. "They were checking bags earlier at the Port Authority. Seems like they do that at times of heightened alerts," he said.

In Los Angeles, America's second most populous city, law enforcement officials said that while no specific threat had been made to the transit system, they were working with federal authorities to monitor the situation and urged residents to remain vigilant.

Officials in Chicago and Washington also said they knew of no threats to their transit systems.

The United States and France have both launched air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq as part of a U.S.-led campaign to "degrade and destroy" the radical Sunni militant group, which has seized a third of both Iraq and Syria.

Abadi disclosed the intelligence while making a case for Western and Arab countries to join that campaign. "We want to increase the number of willing countries who would support this," he said. "This is not military. This is intelligence. This is security. The terrorists have a massive international campaign. Don’t underestimate it."

In the past, the United States had received threats that various militant groups were targeting transportation systems but there is no recent information about an imminent plan by Islamic State, one U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Abadi also said that Iraq did not want to see foreign "boots on the ground," but stressed the value of providing air cover, saying Iraq's air force did not have sufficient capability.

He said Australia was "very interested" in participating, though he did not provide details. He also voiced optimism about a planned British parliament vote on Friday on the matter, saying "they reckon it will be successful."

Earlier on Thursday, France said it would increase security on transport and in public places after a French tourist was killed in Algeria, and said it was ready to support all states that requested its help to fight terror.

Mark 13:

8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

 

 

Isaiah 47:

11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

Texas Preacher Holds Thieving Grandma At Gunpoint Until Police Arrive

Benny Holmes 

Benny Holmes (pictured) is a man of God and pastor at The Church of New Beginnings in Baytown, Texas, toting the Bible in one hand and a pistol in the other.

The preacher, however, had to resort to using his handgun to stop Laurie Ferguson from allegedly stealing packages that were being delivered to his home, according to ABC News.

Holmes grew tired of having his packages stolen from his side porch, so he decided to concoct a plan to catch the culprit snatching the goods. The pastor placed two decoy packages on his side porch and hid from view as he waited with pistol in hand for the package thief to come calling.

Hours went by and finally Holmes saw a car pull up in his driveway. A middle-aged White woman stepped out of her vehicle and walked towards the side porch. When the woman went to grab the packages, Holmes made his move, pulling his gun out and forcing the culprit to lie on her stomach on the ground.

The good minister placed his foot on Ferguson’s back to keep her from trying to escape as they waited for the authorities.

Meanwhile, Ferguson’s alleged excuse to Holmes for her being at his residence was that she had lost her pups and was trying to hunt them down. Unfortunately, the woman’s reason for being at the Holmes residence was the very same one she had used two years ago when he had reportedly caught her on the side of his home.

This go-round, when Ferguson used the same excuse about her dogs, Holmes responded, “You found him, bow-wow,” reports ABC News.

Ferguson was taken into custody and when police investigated her residence they stumbled upon at least 30 packages stockpiled in a closet.

As far as Holmes facing any criminal charges, there won’t be any at all. In Texas, a resident of the state has a right to protect their property. Ferguson however has been slapped with a theft charge and possibly more indictments to come down the line according to authorities.

Isaiah 9:16

16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Jeremiah 23:

21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Wife Stabs Husband 5 Times For Texting, He Refuses to Press Charges

The nation has been fixated on discussing domestic violence since Ray Rice knocked his then-fiancée Janay in a dispute that occurred on an elevator, but the conversation is often one-sided, with the man being the perpetrator and the woman being the victim.

Sadly, many people are unaware that more than 40 percent of domestic abuse victims are male, which is a strong indication for a need to have a broader conversation about domestic violence that is inclusive of male victims. If that’s not convincing enough, perhaps this is: A 54-year-old man of Youngstown, OH called the police on his wife after the woman stabbed him for texting a friend.

According to a police report, officers were called at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday to a house on reports of a stabbing. When police arrived, they found the man conscious and bleeding in the bathroom. He told police his wife became angry after she found out that he texted a friend. The couple argued and the woman left the house, according to the report.

The disgruntled wife returned several hours later and another argument ensued. The man said his wife went to the kitchen where she retrieved a butcher knife and told him she was going to stab him. The man said, “Do what you gotta do,” and she stabbed him five times in the upper torso, according to the report. A local news station reports the man wrestled the knife away from his wife and she fled the scene.

The man was treated at local hospital and refuses to press charges against his wife; however, police are investigating the case and charges may still be filed. “If there is any other way we can prove that case we do,” said Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Becky Doherty. “We do utilize other evidence even if the victim is uncooperative.”

The main evidence the police need is the wife’s side of the story and more evidence to prove that she did stab her husband.

Ephesians 5:

22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Deuteronomy 28:

56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Preacher’s YouTube Sermons About Oprah Being Anti-Christ Cost Him a Job

Dr. Eric Walsh 

When posting pictures, comments, or videos on social media, many users express themselves freely and without a censor, not considering who may have access to their information.  A preacher in Georgia learned the hard way that social media can be used against you in real life, especially if you are searching for employment.

Dr. Eric Walsh (pictured) is a Seventh Day Adventist preacher who uploads his sermons on Youtube.  With an interest in public health, he desired a director’s position with the Georgia Public Health Department.  In May, he was one step from securing the position, he just had to complete a background check.  While performing the check, the company discovered Walsh’s sermons and were not pleased with what they found.

Walsh had recorded speeches where he accused Oprah of harboring the spirit of the anti-Christ and Jay-Z of being a disciple of Satan, as The Grio reported.  He claimed that the distribution of condoms causes AIDS, the devil helped create Catholicism, and the pope is the actual anti-Christ.

After this revelation, the company passed on recruiting Walsh as an employee.

Walsh is now filing a formal charge of discrimination against the company and a civil rights suit against the state, as he thinks his history of performances in past jobs should be judged when being considered for hire, rather than his religious beliefs.

“I was shocked at what happened,” Walsh said Tuesday during a press conference. “Quite frankly, I didn’t know in the United States of America that something like this could happen when your work record is stellar.”

Walsh has a history of controversy, according to The Grio.  In the past, he was invited to speak at Pasadena City College in California, but after students discovered his videos, they protested against him, and he was uninvited.

Walsh’s attorney, Lee Parks, agreed that his client’s sermons should have been insignificant to the Georgia Public Health Department.  “You don’t have to agree with what he says, but you have to agree that he has the right to say it,” said Parks.

No matter what the outcome of the case, Walsh insisted that he will continue to speak out on his religious beliefs. “People of faith should not be required to sacrifice their religious beliefs just to get a job.”

Do you think that social media should be used against potential employees when being considered for hire?

 

1 John 2:

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

 

 

1 John 4:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General

Al Sharpton 

The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is "engaged in immediate conversations" with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder, who is set to announce his resignation Thursday afternoon.

"We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder," Sharpton said in a statement.

Sharpton praised Holder, the first African-American attorney general, as the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights.

"The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community," he said. "We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most."

According to a Politico profile in August, in the aftermath of the racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton has become Obama's "go-to man" on race issues.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Sharpton is involved in the decision-making process for Holder's successor.

In his statement, Sharpton further urged Holder or his successor to promptly take over the investigations of both the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, whose fatal encounter with the police triggered the Ferguson protests, and the death of Eric Garner during a New York Police Department arrest in Staten Island.

"As I stood with the families of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner of Staten Island, New York, and called on the Justice Department to take over the criminal investigations of those cases …. today, we hope Attorney General Holder will authorize this before his departure or that it becomes the first order of business for his successor," Sharpton said.

"We did not say we are in the decision making. We are in conversation to reach out to them to have meetings about what we want to see in a successor," said Sharpton. "I have personally spoken to Attorney General Eric Holder today to express my views that he was the best civil rights Attorney General in history."

 

Isaiah 30:

30 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

 

 

Acts 5:

29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Jackson rips NFL for lack of diversity in domestic violence advisers

Jesse Jackson

Rev. Jesse Jackson decried the National Football League’s lack of diversity on Tuesday when it NFL's harsher penalties on domestic abusers a 'positive first step' | Al Jazeera America – all white – to help shape its policies on domestic violence following the release of a video in which star running back Ray Rice is seen knocking his then-fiancee unconscious.

About two-thirds of the league’s players are black, according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. NFL director of player engagement and education Deana Garner, who helps lead the league's domestic violence programs, is black.

“Where is the jury of your peers?" Jackson said. The civil rights leader called the lack of diversity among the senior advisers a "shameful insensitivity" that "compounds the credibility crisis."

In a memo to the league's 32 teams, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league had retained Lisa Friel, Jane Randel and Rita Smith as senior advisers to "shape the NFL's policies and programs relating to domestic violence and sexual assault."

Lisa Friel was the head of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit in the New York County District Attorney's Office for more than a decade. Jane Randel is the co-founder of No More, a campaign against domestic violence and sexual assault. And Smith is the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Goodell has been heavily criticized for his handling of the domestic abuse case involving Rice. The player was initially suspended for two games. Goodell at first defended the punishment, but more than a month later he told owners he "didn't get it right" and that first-time domestic violence offenders would in future face a six-game suspension.

Rice subsequently was released by the Baltimore Ravens and indefinitely suspended by the league after a video surfaced of the assault on Janay Rice.

Nearly one-third of black women are victims of domestic violence and experience abuse at a higher rate, 35 percent, than white women, according to the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. They also are less likely to seek social support, join battered women programs or visit the hospital. 

MICAH 3:

11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

LAMENTATIONS 2:

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

Drug dealer, 44, who spent millions on luxury cars, watches and lavish getaways jailed for 25 years for trafficking a TON of cocaine

Garnett Gilbert Smith

 

 

One of Baltimore's biggest ever drug dealers has been jailed for 25 years for shipping a ton of cocaine - and enjoying a life of fast cars, designer clothes and luxury properties with the earnings.

Garnett Gilbert Smith's lavish life was revealed in court in Baltimore, where he was found guilty of shipping the drugs from California to Maryland between 2010 and 2011.

The 44-year-old cleared $10,000 profit on each kilogram, raking in more than $10 million in total, according to court documents. Prosecutors say he also trafficked heroin.

He splashed the cash on stays at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills - where rooms can reach $1,000 a night - and owned or rented numerous properties in Baltimore, Georgia, Virginia and California.

He had an impressive fleet of 19 luxury vehicles, including a $162,300 Lamborghini Murcielago, a $219,000 2009 Maybach, a $165,000 Aston Martin  and motorcycles worth up to $65,000.

His designer wardrobe included items from Gucci, Cartier and Louis Vuitton.

Authorities also seized $258,000 worth of shoes, belts, pants, glasses, belts, hats and bags from his Atlanta storage unit, the Baltimore Sun reported.

They also took £1.1 million in jewelery from his condo in Studio City, California, and $741,000 in cash - some hidden in speakers and tool boxes - from his Maryland home.

High life: Garnett Gilbert Smith, 44, has been sentenced to 25 years for drug trafficking

Authorities photographed the massive piles of cash that Smith had stockpiled

 at the time of his arrest

Authorities photographed the massive piles of cash that Smith had stockpiled at the time of his arrest

Smith stockpiled cash easily as he

 cleared $10,000 profit on each kilogram

Bling: They also confiscated piles of garish gold and diamond jewelry and multiple watches

It doesn't seem the diamond encrusted evil eye pendant did him much good

It doesn't seem the diamond encrusted evil eye pendant did him much good

He raked in over $10million selling drugs, and all these luxury watches became the property of the federal government

His condos in Beverly Hills and McLean, Virginia both rented for $4,800 a month

After sending Smith to prison for 25 years, the judge handed $6.7 million of Smith's assets over to the federal government, including a condo in downtown Baltimore, $1.6 million in jewelry and cars.

Authorities say he blew through millions of other dollars earned from drugs on clothes, parties, vacations and his large entourage.

His lengthy sentence came after the Drug Enforcement Administration had spent two years investigating Smith, who authorities called 'Mr Big'.

'Garnett Smith, simply put, is one of the largest cocaine and heroin dealers to be prosecuted in Baltimore in recent history,' prosecutors wrote to a judge ahead of the sentencing, the Sun wrote.

Smith had pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

After his arrest, he allegedly tried to hide his investments and worked to get some of his assets 

liquidated or hidden, authorities said.

Pricey: He also had a condo at this downtown Baltimore apartment block and

 spent thousands on designer clothes, hotels and jewellery. In his defense he simply said he was 'a work in progress'

Pricey: He also had a condo at this downtown Baltimore apartment block and spent thousands on designer clothes, hotels and jewellery. In his defense he simply said he was 'a work in progress'

Home: This property in Georgia was just one of many that Smith bought or rented with his $10 million earning from his cocaine trafficking business. Authorities also seized a condo and 19 vehicles

Home: This property in Georgia was just one of many that Smith bought or rented with his $10 million earning from his cocaine trafficking business. Authorities also seized a condo and 19 vehicles

'Smith carefully laundered his drug money, utilized friends and relatives as title-holders on cars, established multiple aliases to conduct financial transactions, and created businesses which functioned to disguise the source of his wealth,' prosecutors wrote to the judge.

He made the money selling cocaine he shipped from California, hiding it in compartments in vehicles that were then loaded on to car carriers.

It was a slick operation - with his workers using new cell phones on every trip.

But in 2011, Arkansas state troopers stopped one of the shipments and seized over $2.3 million.

Afterward, Smith found a new supplier, resumed his cocaine shipments and started trafficking heroin, prosecutors said.

Nineteen expensive vehicles were seized including this Lamborghini Murcielago

He also had a Maybach, which stopped being made in 2012 but was a peer to cars like Bentleys

No doubt less conspicuous than his Maybach and Lambo, he had this Beetle

His Toyota Cruiser doubled as a vehicle for drug running

But an SUV was stopped in Texas, where authorities found a stash of heroin in a compartment. Authorities used one of Smith's middlemen to deliver it to Smith, arresting him when he opened the compartment.

'Smith will now spend the prime of his life in prison and will not be eligible for parole until he is a senior citizen,' said Gary Tuggle, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Baltimore office.

In his sentencing, Smith, who has previous arrests for drugs and paraphernalia possession, apologized and said he is not the monster he was made out to be.

'I'm a work in progress,' he told the court.

EXODUS 22:

18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

EZEKIEL 13: 

22Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: 

Transgendered ‘girl’ crowned homecoming princess

Scarlett Lenh, who was born Andy Lenh 

Students at Sand Creek High School and their parents have mix reactions to their homecoming court after a transgender female was crowned the 2014 homecoming princess.

Scarlett Lenh, who was born Andy Lenh and began identifying himself as a girl this school year, was crowned homecoming princess at the school’s football game last Friday, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports.

The 16-year-old, who has worn girls’ clothing and used the female bathroom at Sand Creek since school started a few weeks ago, told the news site she is excited that her peers in the junior class voted for her over two other candidates, but not everyone is celebrating the occasion.

“One of my friends mentioned it, and I didn’t think anything of it because I didn’t think I’d be nominated. But, now, it really matters to me,” Lenh said. “This is something I’ve wanted to do since my freshman year. I want people to be themselves and not feel uncomfortable in their own body and mind.”

Lehn said two other candidates for homecoming princess were supportive of her win, while a third “was really upset.”

Some local residents, parents and students were also upset by the transgendered princess.

“It’s craziness,” grandparent Jana Neathery told the Gazette.

“Originally, it was a joke that he was going to be nominated for homecoming princess, but he got a lot of nominations,” Neathery said. “And now there are a lot of upset girls because a spot was taken from them.

“I’m very sympathetic that he’s transgender, but he should be on the boys’ side, not the girls’.”

“I think it’s wrong because he’s actually a guy, he’s not a girl, and he hasn’t been doing this his entire life – he’s only been doing it recently,” Sand Creek junior Jarrod Clarke told the Gazette.

Lehn, in fact, only informed her parents of her new gender last week.

“It was really hard,” Lehn said. “My mom didn’t like it, but she wants to support me for what I do in life.”

Clarke and Neathery both believe it’s strange that Lehn uses the female bathroom at school. The grandmother said she complained about that to school officials, and alleges the teen’s sexuality should also be considered in deciding which facilities she should use.

“It’s ridiculous – he’s interested in girls, and they’re allowing him to use the girl’s bathroom,” Neathery said.

Lehn, meanwhile, contends that “for the last year and a half, I haven’t been attracted to anything.”

The situation is at least the second the area in which a transgender student has run into complications at school.

“In June 2013, at another school, a transgender first-grader who was born a boy but identifies as a girl won the right to use the girls’ restroom at Eagleside Elementary in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8,” the Gazette reports.

“Coy Mathis’ parents took the case to the Colorado Civil Rights Division, claiming the district’s refusal to allow Coy to use the girls’ bathroom violated Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act. The division ruled in favor of the girl, saying keeping the ban in place ‘creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive.”

School officials for District 49, which oversees the high school, did not comment specifically about Lehn, but stated simply that “leaders at Sand Creek High School and in District 49 respect the decision of the Scorpion student body in electing their homecoming court.”

The reactions from Gazette readers to Lehn’s homecoming crown were as mixed as those from students.

“The pervert is doing this as a political stunt to show everyone he is in a special protected class and can do things heterosexuals cannot,” wrote Jennifer Lowe. “To congratulate him shows how brainwashed with political correctness our children really are.”

“Kudos to the Sand Creek school officials who respected the decision of their students and said so publically,” Jack Edwards posted. “In an era of absurd zero-tolerance policies, these administrators are a breath of fresh air.”

ISAIAH 29:

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

1 CORINTHIANS 14:

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.