Looks like President Barack Obama has plans to flush another four million in taxpayer dollars down the drain, this time on ineffective, vaguely defined and expensive anti-terror recruitment programs.
According to critics, the taxpayer funded federal effort in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to combat extremist recruitment has been slow to start since it was announced a year and a half ago.
Few local programs have been directly created by the “Countering Violent Extremism” pilot initiative, with officials in those cities just starting to distribute more than $500,000 in Department of Justice grant money to jumpstart new local efforts.
And that’s not all. The Department of Justice started seeking applicants this month for some $3.5 million in grant money to develop, replicate or evaluate programs to reduce violent extremism.
Meanwhile, researchers at UCLA, Harvard and the University of Illinois at Chicago have a total of $1 million in Department of Homeland Security money to help enhance efforts to counter extremism in Boston and Los Angeles, specifically.
So far, though, little has been done. The furthest along appears to be Minneapolis, where officials point to at least one newly created but still not operational effort: a mentorship program working with youth in the city’s sizeable Somali community, which has produced extremist recruits over the years.
Six other organizations there also recently received $300,000 in federal and private money to develop programs addressing mental health, employment and parenting issues among the Somali community and other refugee populations.
Boston and Los Angeles, in contrast, appear to be months away from distributing their share of the money — if at all.
“It’s a little frustrating,” says Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michael Downing, whose department had been looking forward to federal support to enhance longstanding efforts that include outreach to help prevent radicalization. “We haven’t seen a dime. We’re clearly at the point where we want to put our money where our mouth is.”
Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for Eileen Decker, the U.S. attorney for central California, whose office is administering the Los Angeles grant money, said this week he couldn’t provide an update on when the money is to be distributed.
But he noted the funds — $216,000 each to Boston and Minneapolis and $100,000 to Los Angeles — were obligated in September 2015 and are good through this coming September, with limited extensions possible beyond then.
The effort in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis was announced in September 2014 and spotlighted during a three-day summit on global extremism convened the following February by President Barack Obama.
But observers say it has been hobbled by a vague mission and poor leadership, despite the millions being allocated.
The Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services, now leading the pilot effort there, is taking steps to distribute its $216,000 in federal money. But the soonest any local organization could expect to see the money under the current timeline is the fall.
Meanwhile, families trying to prevent loved ones from becoming radicalized must navigate challenges largely on their own, said Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism.
“We’re stuck in this weird limbo,” he said. “There should be a way to address this that’s in keeping with civil rights and civil liberties concerns but also recognizes you have families struggling that are getting no support.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Another perfect example of the author of “Hope & Change” is so out of touch with reality that he doesn’t deserve the position and should be impeached before he does any more damage to the country.
Obama breeds incompetence and it seems that is all he has around him. Academics who are socialist and believe in theory and theory does not make it in the real world.
Well he is surr by Muslims! Not that it is bad, but we know they’re biased
Do u honestly believe Obama is trying to stop the Muslims or terrorism? That money was never meant for that purpose.
It is meant 2 further Islamic teachings & eventual conversion of the infidels “us”
Scary isn’t it?
How could you possibly convert from Christianity to Islam. I would say you were blinded by the good looks of the Muslim women but can’t see it myself. But the big deal is God is love. Ten Commandments says Thou should NOT kill. God The Quran has people killing anyone that is not Muslim. It is in the Quran that talks about killing.infidels.My God just doesn’t look like Allah. We are made in the image of God. My God looks like my Heavenly Father dripping love. Allah drips God “the Holy Spirit” ugly rules and works, seclusion, and killing of innocents. God’s Son Jesus shed His Blood so I don’t have to. Jesus is love because that is what He is. I leave the judging to my God as I know He is perfect. He is Just. Jesus is perfectly loving and carried my sin to the cross and grave and left it there. THEN Up from the grave He arose by the Power of the Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ. That same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead quickens (makes alive our body) our mortal body. The mortal body is the only body that has that same spirit in it. That mortal body is the house that we live in til we go home to Glory..
I need to make a correction but do not know how.
that’s right it’s probably in the government employees back pockets
Most of his cabinet staff are muslims. He will protect his own, as he has said, “I am a muslim.”
This shows how cowardly our congress is. They have treason committed right in front of them, on a weekly basis, and see nothing. They are the “21st Century Sgt. Schultz Congress”. I will not vote for any incumbant.
Impeachment proceedings could take years. He would remain as potus until he is could be removex.that alone could take a year or two.
Agreed, 100%. This idiot should have been impeached the middle of his first term in office.he has no clue what’s being done to this country and doesn’t care. His daily agenda is where he can use taxpayer money for vacationing with his family, and the rest of the time he stays hidden so he doesn’t have to answers tough questions that he has no answers for or interest to understand critical issues. He is a complete idiot!
Impeach the slob he has no clue what he is doing but so make this country BROKE and hes done it with almost 20 BILLIONS IN DEBT
They should drop Obama over his Home Land of Africa without a Parachute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He knows what he’s doing and doing a fine job of running the Country to the ground purposely. In the direction of a third world country and doubling the debt. I’m sure the Elites are very proud of him! All that wasted tax money could be going to social security but Obama would rather cut Billions from it in a bill he just signed. When and will this insanity ever end!!!!!!!!
SHOULD’VE DONE THIS ON 01/22/08!!!
I agree
To late for impeachment but he has done a lot to help the enemy!!
ROPE AND CHAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
check this out, scroll to the bottom to see our “president”…he should not be in office: http://constitution.com/every-presidents-citizenship-status-expla
they should check the office if they don’t know what happened to the funds…
I just don’t understand how in the world this President Obama (I absolutely hate referring to him as President!) —why he hasn’t been IMPEACHED LONG AGO!
he should be more than gone. he needs to go on trial for High Treason because of all the ways he has spit on America. the American Constitution and the bill of rights .
you know the govt is always spending more tax payer money and all the while the govt keeps on borrowing from our sworn enemy “Red China” and just giving it away to the musilums and not getting one penny back at all. this has been my biggest gripe since I first started digging into why “We The People” must pay these unwanted expenses. I once wrote to Lamar Alexandria about why America kept giving away money and I received a letter showing the answer. The answer pissed me off more than any thing next to our jackass president. It seems americans pay taxes and that money is wasted giving cash to musilum nations so we can have some sort of leverage on what we ask of those nations. Last year the US Gov gave 1.9 billion dollars to Pakistan. I divided
that number by 300 million and figure we Americans should receive as much as any foreign gov, the amount I came to was about 67,000 to 300 million Americans. could we use that cash ? you danged sure we could , some it would boast over the dead lock grinding pressure to pay our bills. think about it………………………
Impeachment of the TRAITOR Barry Soetoro-Obama would solve 99.99% of the problems in that cesspool called Washington, DC. AND, if a few just half-way decent members of Congress, if any such exist, would immediately IMPEACH his LOWLINESS, Obama, We the People would solve the rest with an Article V Convention of States. Too bad the 114th Congress is totally feckless, reckless and gutless. Did you hear me PAUL RYAN AND MITCH McConnell? IMPEACH OBAMA the cowardly traitor from nowhere.
They the fed can’t figure where the money is going? Well I’ll tell you to Obamas Muslim brother hood in arms and munitions and money to infiltrate ! Who will be the next to die under this Foney Dictator , that congress refuses to arrest .
I think you meet Phony
the only hope is the military,,,,,hoyyah
I’M REALLY GETTING FED UP WITH THIS GOVERNMENT. WHEN ARE AMERICANS GOING TO RISE UP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT WHATS GOING ON IN WASHINGTON. OBAMA IS LETTING EVERYONE AND ANYONE COME OVER THE BOARDER. I JUST WISH SOMEONE COULD TELL ME WHY SOMEONE IN WASHINGTON CAN’T DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. IS EVERYONE CORRUPT? OBAMA IS BREAKING THE LAW. WE DO HAVE LAWS AGAINST PEOPLE WALKING OVER OUR BOARDERS AND OBAMA CANNOT MAKE LAWS. WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON? DO YOUR JOB AND IMPEACH OBAMA NOW. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS COUNTRY SO MESSED UP. WAKE UP STUPID PEOPLE!! YOUR GOING TO HAVE A BOMB FALL ON YOUR HEAD SOON. TAKE CHARGE NOW AND LETS HAVE A REVOLUTION TO GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE RUNNING THIS COUNTRY.
what ever happened to obamas ” czars “… u know those jokers who were his inspirations who showed him the way…. sad they didn’t show him the way out of the office door when he finished his first term.
They are everywhere doing their destruction.
Mosque’s everywhere hiding arms & $$$ to exploit Americans
Islam being slowly infiltrating our schools but you can’t say any prayers to GOD!
More Muslims being brought in by Obama as REFUGEES ! Really, out of touch!
President is a silent Muslim. Take that back, he did announce it once on national TV that he was Muslim.
If ISLAM is so wonderful……….then why is EVERY LAND ruled by them a HELLISH NIGHTMARE from which they are trying to ESCAPE!
Quotes from Obama,“I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
Huma Abedin, who served as Hillary’s longtime deputy chief of staff and has worked with her for nearly 20 years, has known ties to the Muslim Brotherhood – a group bent on “destroying Western civilization from within” – and other Islamic supremacists. As WND has extensively reported, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic supremacist connections not only extend to Abedin’s mother and father, who are both deeply tied to al-Qaida fronts, but to Abedin herself.
Look at some of his appointees in government:
Valerie Jarrett, is another probable Sunni Muslim who was born in Iran where her parents still live.
John Brennan, current head of the CIA (probable) converted to Islam while stationed in Saudi Arabia .
He took his oath on a copy of the Constitution, not a Bible.
Arif Alikhan
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Elibiary
Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad Hussain
Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference(OIC)
Salam al-Marayati
Obama Adviser and founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
??and is its current executive director
Imam Mohamed Magid-
Obama’s Sharia Czar from the Islamic Society of North America
Eboo Patel-
Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
And don’t forget this post to our Homeland Security U.S. Citizens Department, Fatima Noor, another muslim. It is just mind boggling.
hopefully, this will stop when his ars is out of office
how about the next president to be elected will have a name like TOM JONES or Bill SCHMITT.
DONT THEY SOUND MORE AMERICAN
MAYBE WE LEARNED OUR LESSON–IF NOT, THEN HELL WILL SEE US SOON
MIKE THE GREEK
VERY GOOD information and coverage of the massive influx in OUR government. It is sad that the same information would never be published in our government controlled news media services. There has nothing been said about the FBI and DHS having done not one thing about the 22 to 35 Muslim Jihadist training camps that exist across America. We will soon see what Europe is seeing and Obama is to be held responsible. The newspapers refuse to print information supplied by their readers. OUR time is coming soon and that responsibility lies on OUR Muslim President. He was trained for 2 years in Russia and Bill Ayers father paid for his Harvard education.
You stop “radical” Islam very simple y, you unleash the beast upon them and destroy their homes, inferstructur, training
sites. and kill them when and where you find them with no remorse. They are not civilized and they are brainwashed
to hate, kill, murder, rape, plunder and destroy anything they find even other muslime and take thier property as
their own for personal pleasure and gain. Hitler was a rabid and insane person who drove Germany to destruction.
The only way He and the AXIS were stoped was to declare total war upon them and any who supported them. The
same rules must apply to ISIS and any who take up arms against our Nation and the civilized world. Put aside all
your feelings of remorse and political correctness and wage total war upon the enemy.
i agree,this would not have gotten this far if our president had stepped up to the plate to do what a president is suppose to do.people can say what they want to about DONALD TRUMP BUT WE AS AMERICANS WOULD BE IN A SAFER NATION IF HE WERE PRESIDENT. AMERICA SEEMS TO FORGET TOO QUICK.9-11 SAN BARADINO CALA- BRUSSELS,AND MANY MORE. IF THIS NATION WANTS TO LIVE IN A FREE ,SAFE INVIRNMENT YOU BETTER CHOOSE WHO WILL HAVE THE BACK BONE TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP TERRORISM.AND CLOSING OUR BORDERS.
If you look up the word “radical” it means “fundamental” and it is!!
Those nice muslims have failed to adhere to the Koran. It is the Koran which radicalizes them.
I want to state at the outset that this comment has nothing to do with this article in particular. I am interested in sharing some bipartisan thoughts about the topic, We Are The Party, and address it to both Democrats and Republicans alike.
This election cycle has focused my thinking about the process we go through in both parties to select a candidate to represent us in the November elections. During the Democratic primaries Democrats vote for their choice but the “Party” has super delegates who are not beholding to the rank and file Democratic voter. On the Republican side it is apparent that when they don’t like who the rank and file Republicans are voting for “they” the “Party” try to decide who is going to be the nominee over the choice of the majority of their members. In both cases the Democratic and Republican parties forget that in reality you and I “Are the Party” and we should be the ones that ultimately decide who represents us.
To this end I am suggesting a voter “Revolution” where people push back hard on their respective parties and remind those in charge that you and I are the party and we really don’t care for these rules that take the ultimate say away from those of us who are also registered Democrats and Republicans. I would urge those of you who agree to write and call your respective Congressional, State and Local representatives to complain about the “process” in addition to the DNC and RNC depending on your party affiliation.
I think its time that the people involved in the political process understand that they only derive their authority from the People when we give it to them and WE need to recognize that when we acquiesce and let them do as they wish we are abrogating our individual prerogatives to have them represent us as we would like to be represented.
Those of you who feel you agree with my sentiments are free to use this statement in any comments or letters or conversations you have. It is my intention to insert this statement in the comments of every article I read online and to hopefully start a movement that will hold both political parties accountable to their members.
Thanks for reading this whether you agree or not.
What ever happened to “WE THE PEOPLE” ?
COME ON “WE THE PEOPLE” LETS TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK NOW. IF WE DON’T TAKE IT BACK NOW, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE THIS COUNTRY. WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE BOMBED TO HELL SOON AND OBAMA AND HIS SICK WIFE ARE GOING TO TAKE TAKE TAKE AND GO ON VACATIONS THE REST OF THE TIME THEY ARE IN OFFICE. WE DON’T HAVE TO STAND FOR THIS!!! WHY DO WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL HE IS OUT OF OFFICE??
Show the youths the videos of what the suicide bombers look like after the bomb vests they are told to wear, explode……there won’t be much left to play with the promised 72 or whatever virgins!
That might deter some recruitment, more or less……. Encourage them to leave Our Country, we don’t want to clean up their worthless mess after they start their trip to see allah and the “girls”
Every year we hear about wasted money that did not get to an organization or was not used appropriately once the money was received. Wounded Warriors is a good example. People were fired but why not jail. Isn’t using money inappropriately wrong?
Why does it take so long for the money to get to those that need it?
It would make sense to get rid of many of the agencies we now have and hire trained staff to monitor the Tax Payer’s money. Hold people accountable !
Sounds like another welfare program to me,just more waste
The best way to stop radical Islam is to point out the truth about Islam. Like so many Obama initiatives, this plan will waste a lot of money and provide nothing of value.
How can we stop ISIS when the leader of ISIS occupies the White House.It irks me to no end when I see that our politicians on both sides of the isle refuse to admit that Obama is Islamic and Marxist. He should have been impeached the moment he circumvented the Constitution the first time and again with Obama care when our elected politicians were told that they need not read it until they voted for it. At that point the hair on the backs of their necks should have stood on end and their should have been an uproar. What is needed now is a military coup but we’ve lost all our top military people and instead have Iranians and Islamic spokes people in the highest departments of our government. In reality we have been taken over already.
Let’s see if I have this correct:
1. The Feds have set aside millions of dollars in the 2015 budget to fund efforts to counteract the recruitment of radical Muslims.
2. The money was for research into how to accomplish this?
3. Now over a year later, only a small part of the money has been used?
4. The money is to be distributed to “local” efforts to deal with mental health, employment, mentoring, and parenting issues?
May I suggest that the problem with disenfranchised youth is for greater than just some Muslims who take their religion seriously and take up the effort to forcible evangelize unwilling converts. What about the millions of low income white, black, Hispanic, and Asian youth that are turning to drugs, crime, and violence all across the country in rural, small towns, and large cities. And yes, all of the contributing factors listed in item 4 are applicable everywhere.
So the question is: Is this a function of the federal government or should it be addressed on a local and state basis? I submit that the more local the effort – the more effective the effort. Then it is neighbor helping neighbor and not some faceless bureaucrats dictating how we should respond.
Just saying ……
With the “feds” and others continuously spewing forth double messages to America and the West as a whole about ISLAM and its culpability, money isn’t nor will ever be the answer to the problem. TRUTH would be, but it means dropping Political Correctness and being honest about reality.
Again…….”Lets, solve this or that problem”…..”How do we intend too do this event”, “Well, the best way to BS, the public……we will pour money into that hole, lets pour MILLIONS in to that problem”, In reality……this is the way the Leb’s, give the appearance, that they are REALLY DOING SOMETHING…..they don’t know what……but that’s not the point, the point is……lets spend MILLIONS, the more that’s spent……the more the public will think were doing so much more to solve that problem…..what ever that problem is. Now, this is how we have not just one problem, but we now have {yea} two problems, but, again, who cares, they are working on the problem.
Stop ALL Muslim immigration into this country immediately. Use these ‘Ali Baba’ taxpayers dollars to thoroughly VETT those Muslims who are already in this country. Immediately DEPORT those Muslims who do not satisfactorily meet the requirements for a “SAFE” America. (poitical correctnes be damned)
Islam is a ‘cult’, NOT a religion, therefore the aurgument of ‘religious freedom’ is a trojan horse and faux political correctness by the liberal left.
Islam is NOT compatible with the values that this country was founded upon. (Christianaity)
It’s time that WE, as Americans, wake up as to what is being allowed to happen in this country and elect politicians who will take appropriate action.
As long as Alli Baba Obama is in the Peoples House, he will continue to flood this country with country with ‘HIS” people, Islamic extremists.
COMMON SENSE MUST COME INTO PLAY, ANYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WITH EXPIRED DOCUMENTS OR NO DOCUMENTS, IS A FELON. THAT HASNT BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME YET. BRING THEM IN, TRY THEM FOR THE CRIME, SENTENCE THEM FOR THE CRIME. AND THEN DEPORT THEM AT THERE EXPENSE,
He is going to destroy America one way or another, They say he is the Anti Christ, He is never more happier when he is doing something fun whiles carnage is taking place, Brussles and baseball as well as dancing, and then there is beheadings and golfing. Just like the devil.
He probably needs more $$$ to arm our enemies.
Here is what our vets have to say:
“It is not the naivete of Congress that is to blame. The damn that is stopping America from doing anything is the fact that the United States Government is now run by the same Muslims who are perpetrating the crimes against humanity in other parts of the world.
Just wait, it will be coming to your town or city soon.
Pray for Trump as he is our last bastion of relief! ”
March 15, 2016 at 1:45 pm
I am a vet. I don’t like fighting against those who have been given American weapons via the Obama Administration. Can you imagine what we are up against?
What is the reason for not publishing it???
i keep hearing about the good muslims….there is no good muslims except for a dead muslim..
does nobody understand that they are taught from birth to hate infidels and kill them all.. we have been fighting them for 800 years and all they have ever done is cause problems and kill people.. time to wipe them out. destroy all their masques and put an end to it once and for all…
WHEN CATHOLIC PRIESTS DID SOMETHING WRONG, CHURCH OFFICIALS TOOK ACTION AGAINST THEM. YET, WHEN ISLAMIC MUSLIMS COMMIT CRIMES, MOSQUE OFFICIALS DO NOTHING! INSTEAD, THEY ATTEMPT TO RENAME THEM “RADICAL”. THIS IS B.S. THEY READ FROM THE “SAME” BOOK. WHEN HILLIARY, OBAMA & THE OTHER WASHINGTON CRONIES SAY THAT WE CAN’T TARGET A GROUP (IE: MUSLIMS, ISLAM, ETC)……WHY IS IT OKAY FOR MUSLIMS & ISLAM TO TARGET US? IE: AMERICANS, “INFIDELS”, CHRISTIANS. THERE IS ONE HELL OF A DOUBLE STANDARD HERE! WE, THE “INFIDELS” ARE THE TARGETS, SO WE NEED TO KEEP THEM OUT OF AMERICA! MUSLIMS, ISLAM, ALLAH, IMAMS, ETC. OFFICIALLY DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. SO WHY THE DISPLAY OF STUPIDITY BY NOT ACKNOWLEDING & KNOWING WHO OUR DESTRUCTIVE ENEMIES ARE? THE ONLY SAFE THING TO DO IS TO KEEP THEM AWAY FROM US!
WE NEED TO ELECT TRUMP–MANY OF U DISL;IKE HIM, BUT IF U WANT TO TURN THIS LAND BACK TO A DEMOCRACY, THEN, WE CAN’T WASTE TIME VOTING IN AN IDIOT AGAIN WITH POLITICIANS THAT DONT CARE ABOUT AMERICA.
DO NOT EVER VOTE IN SOMEONE WHO IS NOTA TRUE AMERICAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MIKE
The money will end up in a Mosque program named to defeat radical involvement, and it will actually be spent on buying weapons for another attack. Obama supports Islamic terrorism again.
We are ONLY 20 trillion in the hole, let’s see if we can piss away some more. Better idea. Tell all the members of this violent cult that they are no longer welcome here in the US. When their violent brethren decide to move into the 21st century and stop cutting heads off, enslaving minorities, raping women because they happen to be present and all the other atrocities these animals commit, we may welcome them back, however, America and our constitution are diametrically opposed to this cult and everything it stands for.
That debt is really 19 followed by 12 zero’s
Well, this can not be good. It appears the he is determined to waste as munch money as possible and do as much damage to America as possible before he is out of office. In the mean time he being a real party kind of guy.
. he will hire the best generals like general patton and destoy themfollow the moneytake it to the enemy for once and for all.watch thepolls for the will cheat and give your ther foney polls
Obama knows exactly what he is doing. the people are to stupid to think it out..(he is transforming America) and doing a damn good job doing it
How could you possibly convert from Christianity to Islam. I would say you were blinded by the good looks of the Muslim women but can’t see it myself. But the big deal is, God is love. Ten Commandments say Thou shall NOT kill. The Quran has people killing anyone that is not Muslim.The Quran says to kill all.infidels especially Jews. My God just doesn’t look like Allah at all.. We are made in the image of God. My God looks like my Heavenly Father dripping with love for His children. The Quran allows the killing of innocents and the women are just slaves to men who have many wives The Quran allows men to tell a wife I am divorcing you. God’s Son Jesus shed His Blood so I don’t have to. Jesus is love because that is what and who He is. I leave the judging to my God as I know He is perfect. He is Just. Jesus is perfect, loving and He carried my sin to the cross and grave and left it there. THEN Up from the grave He arose by the Power of the Holy Spirit that was in Jesus Christ. That same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead quickens (makes alive our body) our mortal body. The mortal body is the only body that has that same spirit in it. That mortal body is the house that we live in til we go home to Glory..
muslim is just another name for cancer, we must eradicate it.