Terror in America: Just the Facts

The latest news on NOLA and the Las Vegas attacks. 

By Liberty Nation Authors | Jan 2, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags:  Articles, Crime & Punishment, Law

On New Year’s Day, an assailant drove a rented truck into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street. So far, there have been at least 15 confirmed deaths and about 30 others injured. The attacker has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas. Authorities are currently investigating whether the attack was part of a coordinated strike and if the exploding Tesla cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas was connected.

Terrorism in NOLA

Jabbar, reportedly a US citizen who had formerly served in the army, was shot and killed after trading gunfire with law enforcement. His rented truck had an ISIS flag attached to it, and according to President Biden’s statement on the deadly assault, he had made social media videos “mere hours before the attack,” indicating he was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group and expressing a “desire to kill.”

The FBI is investigating this as a terrorist incident and stated that Jabbar had accomplices. Officers discovered improvised explosive devices in the truck and the surrounding area. Authorities believe his accomplices were responsible for planting the outside devices.

“Investigators found multiple improvised explosives, including two pipe bombs that were concealed within coolers and wired for remote detonation, according to a Louisiana State Police intelligence bulletin,” the Associated Press reported.

The French Quarter of New Orleans is usually a heavily regulated zone for vehicles with adjustable bollards (steel columns) in place to prevent access. However, starting in November of 2024, the replacement of the bollards began and left the area more vulnerable.

Las Vegas Explosion

Just hours after the New Orleans attack, a rented Tesla cybertruck exploded outside the front entrance of the Trump Las Vegas hotel. Investigators said the explosion was caused by firework mortars and camp fuel canisters in the back of the truck and was not related to the actual vehicle. The driver of the car was killed in the explosion, and at least seven other people were injured.

Witnesses report that the truck driver – now identified by local media as Matthew Livelsberger from Colorado Springs, also an army veteran – drove up to the valet area in front of the Trump International Hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard and Sammy Davis Jr. Drive and stayed in the vehicle for around 20 seconds before the explosion occurred.

So far, it is believed that Livelsberger rented the truck in Colorado and drove it to Nevada.

Denver 7 Colorado News Chief Investigator Tony Kovaleski posted that:

“Sources also confirming Livelsberger served at the same military base as the terrorist responsible for the attack in New Orleans and authorities are investigating a possible connection between the two men.”

A connection between Jabbar and Livelsberger has not been confirmed by investigators.

Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill suggested that this may also be a terror attack. He said, “This is a Tesla truck, and we know that Elon Musk is working with President-elect Trump, and it’s the Trump Tower … So there’s obviously things to be concerned about and it’s something we continue to look at.

“We are absolutely investigating any connectivity to what happened in New Orleans as well as other attacks that have been occurring around the world … We aren’t ruling anything out,” McMahill said.

The Daily Mail reports that “Law enforcement sources revealed that Livelsberger, who died Wednesday in the explosion outside the hotel, had previously served at the same military base as New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar.” Both the Ford Truck used in New Orleans and the cybertruck were electric vehicles, both rented through the rideshare company Turo.

This is a developing story. Liberty Nation News will keep you updated as facts emerge.

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Democrat-Run New Orleans Overtakes Democrat-Run St. Louis as Murder Capital of the US

Humberto Fontova Sep 24, 2022 @ Townhall.com

 

“ST. LOUIS – St. Louis is no longer the nation’s murder capital,” reports Fox2. “As of Sept. 11, New Orleans, Louisiana, had the highest murder rate in the United States, with about 52 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to data from New Orleans’ Metropolitan Crime Commission.”

Interestingly, back in April 2019, New Orleans’ Democrat Mayor Latoya Cantrell and a retinue of associated New Orleans city officials spent a week in Havana, Cuba, to, in the mayor’s office’s own words, “see firsthand how (Cuba’s) history has produced unique opportunities and challenges in the areas of economic development, trade, health care, education and other quality of life issues."

I realize this sounds like shameless AOC idiocy one-upsmanship. I realize that learning about “quality of life” from a place that saw multiple times as many desperate people die trying to escape it as died trying to escape over the Berlin Wall sounds like shameless click-bait, or even a Saturday Night Live or Monty Python skit. So here’s the proof.

In a way, however, the visit seems appropriate. After all, the rulers of one place drove out practically all productive residents with punitive socialist policies that converted a once charming and prosperous place into a huge slum except for a few tourism enclaves. The other place is named Cuba.

From Stalinist Cuba Democrat Cantrell dutifully performed all the traditional Democrat rituals mandatory for such visits, primarily hailing Cuba’s glorious “healthcare and education!”

“Mayor of New Orleans highlights Cuban achievements,” crowed the totalitarian regime’s KGB-founded media: “According to the Ms Cantrell, the level of the literacy in Cuba is very high, and when she compares this indicator with New Orleans, it is perceptible that there is much to learn from Cuba. She said the same thing happens when analyzing the primary health system, and stated that the U.S. city can take experiences in order to perfect their mother-child program.”

But let’s be fair. Is Cantrell unique in parroting these communist-scripted lies? Haven’t we heard these howlers before and almost ad naseum from liberals? Let’s see:

"Castro has some real accomplishments to point to. Under his rule, the impoverished Caribbean island has created health and education systems that would be the envy of far wealthier nations ... and there is near full literacy on the island."

No, amigos, that’s not Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Cory Booker or Kamala Harris, or even CNN or The New York Times. In fact, it was the London Sunday Times! (owned by Rupert Murdoch!)

If anything proves the devilish proficiency of the Castro regime’s propaganda apparatus the prestigious (for many) Sunday Times editorial from 2006 serves as exhibit A.

For the record: In 1958, that "impoverished Caribbean island" had a higher standard of living than Ireland and Austria, almost double Spain and Japan's per capita income, more doctors and dentists per capita than Britain itself, and lower infant mortality than France and Germany – the 13th-lowest in the world, in fact. Today, Cuba's infant-mortality rate – despite the hemisphere's highest abortion rate, which skews this figure downward and assuming we believe figures from “doctors” persuaded to lie by pistols held to their head -- is somewhere around 30th from the top.

So, relative to the rest of the world, Cuba's health care has worsened horribly under Castroism. And a nation with a formerly massive influx of European immigrants needs machine guns, water cannons and tiger sharks to keep its people from fleeing, while half-starved Haitians a short 60 miles away turn up their noses at any thought of emigrating to Cuba.

In 1958, 80 percent of Cubans were literate, and Cuba spent the most per capita on public education of any nation in Latin America.

During its war of independence near the turn of the 20th century, Cuba was utterly devastated, having lost a quarter of its population. So, Cuba's (capitalist) achievements in national prosperity, health, and education came practically from scratch and in about the same number of years as Castroism’s stint in power.

Can any sane person claim that given that record – and given Cuba's expenditures on public education – illiteracy would not have been eradicated in a few short years?

Better still, Cubans today would not be “literate” in the leftist sense of the term (i.e. rote indoctrinated with Marxist imbecilities) but also educated, allowed to read George Orwell and Thomas Jefferson along with the arresting wisdom and sparkling prose of Che Guevara. A specimen:

"To the extent that we achieve concrete successes on a theoretical plane – or, vice versa, to the extent that we draw theoretical conclusions of a broad character on the basis of our concrete research – we will have made a valuable contribution to Marxism-Leninism, and to the cause of humanity."

I quote "this intellectual, this most complete human being of our time" (Jean-Paul Sartre's description of Che Guevara) exactly. As we see, Cuba's prisons aren't its only torture chambers. With such reading assignments, Cuba's classrooms amply qualify for an inspection by Amnesty International.

Without Castro, Cuba's full literacy would have come about probably as quickly – and without firing squads, mass graves, and a political incarceration rate higher than Stalin's. Most countries in Latin America with lower literacy rates than Cuba had in 1958 have done just that.

"During the 1980s," continued the amazing editorial from the prestigious Times of London, "one could still conceivably argue that Cuba's dictatorship was preferable to its US-backed counterparts in Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua or El Salvador, which went one step farther by murdering thousands of their citizens."

Here one blinks, looks again – and gapes. Forget for a second that none of those regimes abolished private property, free travel, and free speech. None abolished free enterprise and mandated food rations for its subjects. None set up government snitch groups on every city block. Forget that far from being "US-backed counterparts," Pinochet's Chile and Somoza's Nicaragua had economic sanctions slapped on them by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Forget the peripheral ignorance; let's look at the central stupidity: You long to believe otherwise, you grope for an extenuation, you hope you misread – but it's inescapable: The editorial staff of one of the world's most prestigious newspapers was unaware that Castro and Che Guevara’s regime killed people.