Five years ago, when I first started complaining to my Yellow Pages rep regarding an unexplainable drop in business calls, I was told that it could be that my new ad was less effective than the one I had recently retired. Although I had always gone to great lengths to see that my ads were informative and clearly formatted, I accepted the possibility that I had missed the mark, and resolved to begin tracking my new calls much more carefully from that point on. As luck would have it, my ordeal  was just beginning, and I saw a troublesome pattern beginning to develop.                           

As the weeks turned into months, I noticed that the ratio of new clients to repeat clients had begun to narrow slightly. I felt at the time that this might have been due to the heavy influx of illegal aliens into locksmithing and all the other trades. Little did I know at the time that my hypothesis barely scratched the surface of reality. While unlicensed competition is definitely a serious problem for anyone trying to do business legally, I remained confident that the quality of my work and hard -won reputation of my company would sustain me, and eventually correct any trade imbalances. I WAS WRONG!!

A year later, having redesigned my Yellow Pages ads, I was ready to get back into the swing of things–I was ready to leave the past in the past, and to get back down to business. Once the new Yellow Pages were distributed I was amazed to see several ‘locksmiths’ listed within spitting distance of my own business address. Normally, I try to avoid becoming overly-concerned with the competition, mainly because I consider myself to be the competition for everyone else. But this new development had an unfamiliar stink to it that bothered me. I started calling some of these new and unfamiliar numbers, learning in the process that dozens of these phony numbers all belonged to the same phony company, which by the way, was located somewhere in the Bronx– way up in New York City, of all places!

At first, I was able to track just 10 or 15 fake locations to a company named PricelineLocksmith, Inc., which appeared to be a company within a company within a company–a bottomless pit of fraud and deceit. Disgusted, I again contacted my Yellow Pages rep to tell her what had found. She suggested that perhaps it was the economy, or my new ad (Again? How could my talent for communication have let me down two years in a row?) She then suggested that maybe it was the size of my ad, implying that a larger ad might convince potential clients of the stability of my company (which had already been pretty darn stable for years). After wrapping my head in duct tape to prevent it from exploding, I suggested that the Yellow Pages again begin checking the licenses of their advertisers (like they had done when I had first started advertising with them,).  I was then told that it was not the responsibility of the Yellow Pages to check the licensing of their advertisers. Little by little, it became more and more difficult to do business, and it was eventually discovered that these fraudulent ads have been extended into the thousands throughout the country!

Today it appears that the practice of the illegal address listing, bait- and- switch practices, physical intimidation, online and 411 monopolization have become the norm. Indeed, a great portion of America’s major metropolitan areas have been dramatically affected. I have even heard rumors of a malpractice lawsuit involving a major telephone provider (I shudder to think of the size of such a lawsuit once the lawyers have factored in the monetary losses of the legal advertisers , as well as the losses of those poor souls unfortunate enough to have responded to all of those phony ads). It also appears that the more the investigators dig, the greater the problem appears. Literally thousands of fraudulent address listings have been discovered blanketing several major metropolitan areas by dominating the top tier of locksmith service listings in SMART pages.com, and in the Verizon Super pages.com., which makes it nearly impossible for a legitimate single- listed locksmith business to get any referral whatsoever from these venues. After much investigation, it has also been recently discovered a second company was also involved in these deceptive practices (USA Locksmith from New Jersey). Then another in Las Vegas, Nevada. And then another (are you beginning to see a pattern?).

411 monopolization comes into play at this point: as fewer and fewer people use the printed Yellow Pages for information, and, as more and more people begin to use the online Yellow Pages and 411 for information, it’s practically guaranteed that they will get either a phony ‘ USA locksmith’ or a phony ‘Priceline locksmith’, after responding to the hundreds of phony locksmith numbers they may find there.

This scam activity that these companies have generated has become so big and so twisted out of shape that it may never completely unravel. It has also been recently learned that these same companies have begun to use these same methods to infiltrate and dominate other businesses, such as carpet cleaning and possibly others. These activities will continue to have a profound impact on my life and, once these scammers have robbed society of its legitimate tradespeople, your nightmare will be just beginning.

I’ll be writing more on this topic as things unfold.

Valerie

Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don’t know something,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you’re tired and weary,
because it means you’ve made a difference.

It’s easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who
are also thankful for the setbacks.

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.

Be glad, and be grateful in the knowledge that there is unimaginable splendor on the other side of the veil.

Dear reader:

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me what a hard time they had in finding a good locksmith, I’d have enough money to wallpaper my bedroom in hundreds. I’ve had clients tell me that the first company they’d called had sent out a pair of disheveled slobs who either showed up extremely late, or who had improper tools, or who apparently had NO tools, or who had either tripled or quadrupled the original telephone quote, or whatever! What all these clients had in common was the fact that, under stress and at the worst possible time, they had decided to call God- knows- who to come out to their home or business and help them with their dilemma.

As almost everyone in the country should know by now, phony, unlicensed scammers posing as locksmiths have been running rampant throughout our society, charging customers an arm and a leg, cutting themselves extra keys to the customer’s house for later, destroying locks that were otherwise perfectly functional, threatening the more mild-mannered customers with physical harm, and vandalizing the personal property of customers who refused to pay the outrageous fees they were charged.  The litany of the scammers’ wrongdoing is a long one, and extremely profitable, to boot.

It won’t be anytime soon before we have rid society of these lowlifes. They’ve tightly wrapped their tentacles around all of the major advertising venues in the nation: online 411, Yellow Pages online, Yellow Book online, Super Pages, etc., and all of these advertising venues have shown little or no interest whatsoever in straightening out the problem. All of which leads to your problem and mine– getting what you need when you need it, and without becoming a rape victim, if possible.

You can cut through a lot of baloney by following the steps I outlined in my free report “5 Dangers in Choosing the Wrong Locksmith (and how to avoid them) listed on this website’s home page. Follow your instincts, and feel free to tell me what you think of what I believe is a very simple solution– finding a reliable, trustworthy locksmith before you need one! If you don’t feel comfortable with a woman locksmith (I’m talking about me, of course), then make as many phone calls as you need to make in order to find a locksmith who answers the phone in a courteous manner (some locksmiths have their wives or girlfriends answer the phone for them because courtesy is not one of their strengths). See if the locksmith answers your questions in a straightforward manner, with minimal side-stepping. Be like a hummingbird– if you land on a flower which leaves a bad taste in your mouth, move onto another flower. My reason for saying so is that, after you’ve sucked on a few lemons, a phone call to me will taste 10 times as sweet. Once you find the right one–   

ENTER THAT LOCKSMITH’S NAME AND PHONE NUMBER INTO YOUR CELL PHONE’S SPEED DIAL ! (As much as I hope that name and number will be mine, I’m almost as happy just knowing that you’ve taken the time to reward an actual, legitimate locksmith with your trust). Like all other tradespeople, my greatest hope is that all my potential clients will come to like what they hear from me on the phone and reward me with their patronage. But this, however, isn’t my only wish. I also wish and hope that all others in my trade who work hard to stay ahead of the criminal curve will be able to hang onto their businesses, while enduring the scourge these scammers have inflicted upon them. My hope and wish is that what is good and true will continue to be valued in our society, and that those who prey upon the innocent will get what’s coming to them in spades!!

Good luck to everyone who works hard at living a decent, honest life. And have a great day, too, ’cause I know I’m gonna…

Valerie Tannenbaum, president
A2Z Locksmith, Inc.

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OK guys. This is tough love time. I can’t put it any other way, things are getting really serious. While we have been distracted with goings-on in the Middle East those in the present administration are wrecking havoc on our domestic fossil fuels and will stop at nothing to cripple our whole energy system. And we know this has been the plan all along.

Make no mistake. It’s all. About. Control.

I am talking about Sunstein, Obama, EPA, Steven Chu (Dept of Energy), Ken Salazar, Soros, Brasil, BOEMRE, Working Families Party, the whole nine yards. Did I leave anyone out?

There is so much going on here, so as not to take up too much space I am going to bullet the more urgent and important items and the others will be in the scribd. document below.

People are going to have to start paying attention and this has to get to the right people who can legislate, go to court, enforce contempt of court rulings, etc. or we’ll be living in caves with no wood, no matches. Only solar panels where there is no sun and windmills where there is no wind.

And to Doc Hastings Chair of House Natural Resources: let me be perfectly CLEAR, I’m sure you are competent and a very nice man, but writing letters to Obama’s minions, doing op-eds in The Hill and issuing press releases is NOT going to get this fixed. Even if Obama does read these letters, which I highly doubt, I am sure he immediately tosses them in the huge trash can next to his desk which also contains wadded up copies of the Constitution. We are losing thousands of jobs. We are losing coal mines, natural gas and oil wells and exploration. Millions upon millions of dollars in revenue and taxes which should be keeping us energy independent from the Middle East especially now when things are so uncertain are going down the tubes.

I am not normally an alarmist, but what I am seeing is truly alarming. A four-alarm fire with no fire hydrant in sight. Gonna lay it all out:

•EPA pulls permit for Arch Coal mine in WVA citing “Clean Water Act” abuse. Aleady in use. WVA is second in coal production in the country.

•Troubled Massey Energy is bought by Alpha Natural Resources. George Soros had 59,800 shares in Massey. No wonder Arch Coal lost the bid. Soros is now the proud owner of MOST of WVA coal mines.

•Chevron, who has been embroiled in a lawsuit in Ecuador for 18 years, and was a couple days ago ordered by an Ecuadoran court to fork over $8.6 billion announced it is exiting the coal business. Chevron on twit says “no connection.” But I ain’t so sure.

•Shell, who was the sole grantee of a permit for oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea after Dept. of Interior announced it’s moratorium was slapped down by the EPA who pulled their air permits. Shell has apparently decided it ain’t worth the hassle to fight the EPA and is pulling the plug on offshore drilling in Alaska.

•Interior Dept. in civil contempt of court for failure to lift Gulf drill moratorium.

•Obama in PA a couple weeks ago touting solar panels and wind while standing on 750 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.

•Hey, Mr. Obama. Bet ya already knew this, but I’m gonna tell these folks here: where does the metallurgy come from to build those solar panels? You guessed it: China, which has a monopoly.

•With the assistance of ACORN/Bertha Lewis-spawned Working Families Party and actor Mark Ruffalo, NY Gov. Paterson bans natural gas horizontal hydrofracking.

•PA puts Ruffalo on terror watch list for promoting ultra-lib/inflammatory/anti-natural gas hydrofracking film “Gasland.” The film shows a young kid from PA tooling around PA and the country attempting to set tap water on fire, and blaming it on natural gas. FYI this film is up for an Academy Award. Unfortunately NOT in the fiction category, so let’s keep this one quiet and hope it doesn’t win otherwise the libs will be out buying it like hotcakes and causing more troubles.

•At least 50 Texas coal and NG plants go down in cold weather and they have to buy electricity from Mexico. Did EPA orchestrate this with their new regs? Pat Dollard says “yea” but I can’t confirm this as yet. But mighty suspicious…

•Obama loans Brasilian mega-oil company Petrobras $2 billion when they have tons of revenue and we have plenty of areas here for drilling. Coincidentally, Soros a couple days before dumps 22 million shares of common stock and buys 5.8 million preferred. FYI Common stock has voting rights but the preferred is paying in excess of a 10% dividend.

I am going to stop here and continue with the scribd. doc below. For those who have read the above, the below document begins on page 3, No. 12.

And for all those who think that wood and timber are not on the table, think again. I met a colleague at CPAC from California who told me they have “rolling blackouts” on wood burning fireplaces and 65 “chimney police” who patrol looking for smoke out of chimneys.

Everything is on the table except for coal, wood, oil, and natural gas.

I hope I have overwhelmed and filled your brains which is what the Obama administration wishes: to deflect, to disorient and to distract.

FYI you can find the members of the House Natural Resources Committee here which I suggest everyone contact pronto.

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The long-term strategy I perceive is even more ominous
civil_truth Wednesday, February 16th at 1:37AM EST (link)
It will make the GM and Chrysler take-overs actions look like chicken feed. And it only gets worse from there.

But if you want a model, just look at Chavez and Venezuela. And don’t forget that Brazil has a self-avowed Communist as its new President.

Lots of dots to connect, but the emerging picture is frightening.

And Rightly So!
Now posting also at GM’s Place

Yes, Roussef is an avowed Marxist..
ladyimpactohio Wednesday, February 16th at 1:48AM EST (link)
Correa in Ecuador is a Chavez-wannabe and is not far from it. Sad thing is most of the people in Brasil like her. They don’t know what they’ve gotten themselves into. It will be like the ’60s down there again.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

GC highly recos this comprehesive report on Obama’s assault on the poor and middle class and
Mike gamecock DeVine Wednesday, February 16th at 10:16AM EST (link)
well, the whole of America. Energy is prosperity. It is what makes the modern world possible. Obama would rather be king over a medieval existence for his subjects.

I can’t beleive that We the People have allowed the ObamaDems to steal our right to use our own resources for so long, ie since 1978.

The USSR and al Qaeda would have paid Dems to do this.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Mike…… Re your last sentence.
Kenny Solomon Wednesday, February 16th at 1:41PM EST (link)
What makes you think they didn’t ?

But it wouldn’t be Al Qaeda, it would be The Muslim Brotherhood.

I’d also add China into the mix, especially when it comes to the rare-earth stuff.

Kenny Solomon
South Florida

Patriot Guard Riders
Standing for those who stood for us.

http://www.PatriotGuard.org

yes, the Dems do raise money from Hamas supporters! – nt
Mike gamecock DeVine Wednesday, February 16th at 1:45PM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen seems to have a backbone
katesmith Wednesday, February 16th at 3:02AM EST (link)
Under a “pioneering agreement with the UN,” “Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserve,” 8/3/10. As you suggest, this is a big topic. The UN and the Hungarian are usually around in these situations. One lady, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), ranking member on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, is my hope for addressing the problem with the UN. I believe most of our problems would be over if we got out of the UN.

This is very important, LIO
pilgrim Wednesday, February 16th at 10:39AM EST (link)
The assault upon energy producing in the US is breath taking in terms of the number of lawsuits filed to impede and the variety of different types of products threatened. One additional area being attacked is the Bakke shale region of North Dakota and Montana. The envirowackos are protesting that the fracking processes are contaminating drinking water. We need to stay informed on the efforts to kill energy production in the US. We need to rein in an out of control EPA.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/193066/

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Lady I.O. – have no idea if this means anything.
bobmontgomery Wednesday, February 16th at 1:58PM EST (link)
..but I read a report from FT on Drudge the other day that GE was buying heavily into oil well equipment, frankly paying premium prices to buy up submersible pump business. Frankly, I didn’t even know GE had anything to do with oil, but, that report just struck me, what with the Obama -Immelt connection.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

Bob, that’s one of those ‘nothing to see here’ deals.
Kenny Solomon Wednesday, February 16th at 2:02PM EST (link)
Fershtay ?

Icksnay on the illing-dray.

And excuse the pun, but it goes ‘deeper’ than just submersible pumps.

It’s who’s using ‘em, which union they belong to (if any) and much much more.

Kenny Solomon
South Florida

Patriot Guard Riders
Standing for those who stood for us.

http://www.PatriotGuard.org

whoever’s texting Obama is making Darth Cheney…
bobmontgomery Wednesday, February 16th at 3:05PM EST (link)
look like a rank amateur.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington

Bob: I read a blog on this GE stuff. Article in Washington Examiner claimed..
ladyimpactohio Wednesday, February 16th at 3:26PM EST (link)
GE got an exemption for a power plant in CA which was to be using turbines manufactured by GE.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/02/obama-issues-global-warming-rules-january-gives-ge-exemption-febr

GE had a hissy fit and denies.

“In fact, GE received no exemption and had nothing to do with the waiver being issued. The EPA provided the waiver to the project developer. GE is not building the plant and did not advocate for the waiver.

GE’s connection to the project is that it submitted a bid for turbines. While GE would welcome the opportunity to provide our high-efficiency, advanced turbine technology for the proposed project, we have not been asked to provide any equipment to date.”

http://www.gereports.com/setting-the-record-straight-epa-waiver/

As far as the submersible pumps, you are correct. GE is buying the well support division of John Wood PLC for $2.8B.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17379486

Wood’s HQ is in Scotland. What do ya know. Bet none of those pumps end up being used in the US. GE said it is going to buy UK company Wellstream, “which has a strong presence in Brasil” namely Petrobras and Soros in the mix.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

Barrasso (R-Wy) has just sponsored S 228..
ladyimpactohio Wednesday, February 16th at 3:55PM EST (link)
“Defending America’s Affordable Energy and Jobs Act.”

Looks like the intention is to dump the EPA. I thought all bills had to start in the House?

FYI WY is the number 1 coal producer in the country.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

Just got off the phone w/Dan Simmons of the Institute for Energy Research..
ladyimpactohio Wednesday, February 16th at 4:44PM EST (link)
He says we have 1 trillion barrels of shale oil in CO, UT & WY but Obama won’t issue any permits til, you guessed it, after the 2012 election.

He read this diary, and told me what I already knew: “Carol, your diary doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what is going on.”

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

LIO, checked in on the Federal Register lately?
lineholder Wednesday, February 16th at 10:21PM EST (link)
Lots and lots of EPA notices going down. Oh, and NOAA is ramping up on the fishing industry too.

I know about the fishing stuff somewhat..
ladyimpactohio Wednesday, February 16th at 11:30PM EST (link)
That’s Obama’s plan: to overload and distract. “Watch what this hand is doing, not the other one.”

And I’m afraid to look at the register.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

L.I.O., almost none of this is Obama himself.
Kenny Solomon Thursday, February 17th at 12:16AM EST (link)
It’s Sunstein. The Nudge Czar.

Administrator For The Office Of Information And Regulatory Affairs.

His title still sends chills down my spine, because it’s right out of Nazi Germany.

Want to stop a large majority of what’s going on ?

Get your contacts to start de-funding procedures against Sunstein’s office……and then move on to criminal and Constitutional violation investigations and trials. Take each and every single person in his damnable agency, plus the rest of The Czars and throw them out on the street.

Kenny Solomon
South Florida

Patriot Guard Riders
Standing for those who stood for us.

http://www.PatriotGuard.org

I suspect anyone Obama chooses would suck though – nt
Mike gamecock DeVine Thursday, February 17th at 12:45AM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Sunstein was hand-picked for what he’s doing.
Kenny Solomon Thursday, February 17th at 12:57AM EST (link)
It took decades for him to master the ‘nudge’.

But real soon, the ‘nudges’ will make way for shoves.

It’s fitting the pattern for a Totalitarian takeover.

Kenny Solomon
South Florida

Patriot Guard Riders
Standing for those who stood for us.

http://www.PatriotGuard.org

Yes, I am very familiar with Cass, as Hugh Hewitt used
Mike gamecock DeVine Thursday, February 17th at 9:14AM EST (link)
to have him on his radio show all the time as a liberal foil.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

LIO, I have to check it for
lineholder Thursday, February 17th at 12:50AM EST (link)
health information updates. Part of the territory.

But I’ve picked up on other things, such as those mentioned above…oh, and the homeless grants coming up in March.

kowalski, don’t see how 800+ acres in backwoods TN
lineholder Thursday, February 17th at 12:53AM EST (link)
is going to be of much help to the homeless, but it is on the list as potential property to be used. Same as the 230,000+ square ft building in SC. Lot of property on those lists.

Something about it doesn’t sit right, but I can’t pinpoint why.

Detention camps? -nt-
ladyimpactohio Thursday, February 17th at 1:17AM EST (link)

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

Not sure, several ideas, nothing solid to go on…yet [nt]
lineholder Thursday, February 17th at 1:22AM EST (link)

Is Obama a communist?
mitomke Thursday, February 17th at 8:21AM EST (link)
Obama has turned NASA into a global warming institute and shut down future space flights. He has enabled the EPA to regulate the emission of CO2 as a pollutant. He has appointed Biotech reps to key positions in the USDA and FDA. He has made loans to foreign nations that compete with our corporations. Coal mines are now being sold to China and India. We will no longer own our resources they are being sold off to foreign countries. Obama is Freemason and a member of the Council of Foreign relations. He has pledged allegiance to a foreign power, the UN. Obama has betrayed the American people and he is the commander of the Armed forces. We are in deep deep trouble.

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Geert Wilders is a Dutch member of Parliament. This is his warning about Islam rising.

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: ‘who lost Europe?’

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission.
All is not well in the old world.

There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.

We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe. Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem.

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

In a generation or two, the US will ask itself:
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin. The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel. I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe. San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call ‘respect’. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey.

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators ‘settlers’. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages – at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means ‘submission’. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam’s territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America – as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem…

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe, American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe’s children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.

We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.

Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, please send it to every free person that you know – it is so very important.

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MY VEHICLE IS CLEARLY MARKED AS FOLLOWS:

A FEMALE LOCKSMITH. COM

A DIVISION OF A2Z LOCKSMITH, INC.

 

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PERIOD. 

                                                                                                                

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