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Good Tidings of Great Joy

Good Tidings of Great Joy
by Becky Akers

It's hot and sticky, and war criminal George W. Bush still struts free, lying to the mainstream media's useful idiots with his usual impunity. Nevertheless, Your Intrepid Reporter has been doing a happy dance the last week. Working up a sweat in this wretched weather, it's true, but hey, how else to express one's delight at the cornucopia of good news?

For starters, even if DC's sociopaths and Keynesians don't shut themselves down on Tuesday, one of their most dictatorial and inept agencies has already "partial[ly]" closed. "[A]fter lawmakers failed to reach a last-minute agreement on a stopgap funding measure for … the FAA [, it] will be unable to collect federal taxes on airline tickets." Alas, it is thereby "losing" $30 million daily (as if our money ever belonged to it in the first place) and "must furlough 4,000 federal workers [sic for 'leeches'] … without pay[!!!!!!!!]." What'd I tell you? Happy dance!

Of course, temporarily ridding us of 4000 parasites is barely a beginning: the monstrous, murderous FAA with its "requested" budget of $9.8 billion made "work" for 47,456 sponges in FY10. And their incompetence, irresponsibility, and sheer cussedness are legendary: recall that they loudly and frequently asserted their exclusive authority to safeguard aviation's passengers – until their hidebound orders to cooperate with hijackers killed almost 3000 people one tragic morning ten years ago. And so Congress created a second but equally incompetent, irresponsible, and utterly cussed agency to "protect" passengers via sexual assault: the Transportation Security Administration.

Nor did 9/11 put the fear of God into the FAA. Indeed, while the corporate media wrung its hands over the short-term sacking of 4000 "non-essential" personnel, the FAA kindly furnished us with yet another example of its ineptitude: " The Transportation Security Administration cannot determine the real identity of thousands of the people to whom the Federal Aviation Administration has issued licenses as pilots and aircraft mechanics, but has located an additional 27 who should not have held them because of terrorist connections, according to an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security."

Anyone who understands security will tell you that proving someone's identity is pretty much irrelevant to preventing crime. But if you believe in government, the tooth fairy, and bureaucrats' abilities to protect us, you'd likely lose some sleep over the FAA's failure here. Naturally, you won't demand the agency's abolition … but gosh, don't you wish you were smart enough that you could?

My blissful gyrations at the FAA's cutbacks left me nigh dizzy. Then I stumbled across another joyous revelation: a state representative in Georgia "introduced House Bill 875 in November 2009. The first two sentences of that proposed legislation, better known as the 'Right to Travel Act,' summarize what the bill is about: 'Free people have a common law and constitutional right to travel on the roads and highways that are provided by their government for that purpose. Licensing of drivers cannot be required of free people because taking on the restrictions of a license requires the surrender of an inalienable right.'" Whoa!

Incredibly, it gets better: "other groups around the country are pushing to introduce similar bills to their state legislatures…," according to the National Motorists Association, Yeehaw! Imagine life without the tyranny of driver's licenses and all the costs, hassles and silly demands for ID concomitant with them! Plus, one of Leviathan's most cherished and perpetual schemes, that of turning licenses into a national ID, would immediately crash and burn.

Unfortunately, licenses are one of the chains the slaves most closely clutch: virtually everyone swallows the State's baloney that its permits "protect" us rather than enrich itself (if you don't believe me, check out the readers' comments here, or simply announce at your next barbeque that we should eliminate licensing – and then take cover). Apparently these wingnuts have never driven in New York City, Boston or Florida, nor lost anyone to the horrific carnage of government-licensed drivers on government-managed roads.

We turn for our final throes of exultation to an unexpected source: the WaPo, Leviathan's indefatigable cheerleader and partner in crime. You need read no further than this headline to begin grinning: "Federal employees are worried, angry about potential government default." Let's hope they suffer as many nightmares over their gravy train's possible derailment as their golden geese suffer under an audit from the IRS.

Can you stand further glee? Here are the column's opening sentences: "Angry. Disappointed. Worried. Terrified. Furious. Afraid. Disgusted. These are among the words we can print that federal employees used when we asked them to describe their feelings about a potential government default."

Sweet, isn't it? How many of us have run that gamut of emotions while hoarding incandescent light-bulbs thanks to "federal employees'" impending ban? Or while awaiting an ogle and grope from "federal employees" at the airport? Or while fuming over the brainwashing "federal employees" dictate for public schools' prisoners at our expense? Or while visiting a man "federal employees" have caged for possessing a vegetable? Or while mourning a friend's maiming or death in the wars "federal employees" wage against foreigners who've never harmed us?

Be sure you sample the readers' comments on this article: they'll restore your faith in our fellow serfs. But first savor every delicious irony in the "federal employees'" responses to the WaPo's questions: "As a federal employee," the newspaper requests, "describe how you feel about the possibility of a default." Which elicited this gem from "Army" in "Alexandria": "Angry that they see federal employees as cash cows."

Yeah, turnabout is never fair play, is it, Army? Only civilians should be cash cows. After all, somebody's got to pay for those bennies you and your buddies exploit while slaughtering villagers.

Then there's this from "Homeland Security, Flint, Mich": "Worried about the bills and if I will be able to support myself and my family."

Yep, I'm grinning, too, more broadly than any Cheshire cat.

http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers160.html

The Assassination of Abdel Fatah Younes

The Assassination of Abdel Fatah Younes
A clue as to what Libya's rebels are about
by Justin Raimondo, August 01, 2011

Any illusions that the US and its NATO allies are backing " democracy" in Libya against the reign of Moammar Gadhafi evaporated last week as the rebel chief of staff, Abdel Fatah Younes, was murdered – not by Gadhafi's troops, but by his own "Free Libya" forces.

A former Interior Minister and once quite close to the Libyan dictator, Younes defected to the rebel ranks early in the insurgency, when Benghazi was under assault from loyalist forces. With much military experience, and prominent in his own right, Younes' was immediately appointed commander of the rebel army by the "National Transitional Council," the rebels' political arm, and hailed by the West and their Libyan proxies as a great patriot and military leader.

He was opposed, however, by Khalifa Haftar (sometimes spelled Hifter), a former Libyan military commander who defected to the Chadian forces in Libya's war with Chad. Haftar set up his own guerrilla group, funded by the CIA and Saddam Hussein. After being kicked out of Chad, Haftar's last known address, before returning to Libya to join the rebel forces, was less than five miles away from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Back in April, the "Free Libya" armed forces announced that Haftar had replaced Younes as top commander – but, as the Guardian reported, the NTC reversed this attempted coup – and "denied there had ever been a change."

The factional warfare was tamped down, for the moment, by a compromise effected at the top: in the end, neither Younes nor Haftar was given the title of Commander El Supremo. Instead, an intermediary process was set up, with the "army" – such as it is – put under the Defense Minister, Omar Hariri, and then Hariri's successor, Jalal al-Dogheily, with Younes demoted to chief of staff and Haftar given the number three position.

Yet beneath the surface, the factional and tribal tensions reached the boiling point. Younes was summoned to Benghazi by the NTC to discuss certain "military matters," according to the Official Story, but in reality he was under arrest and being detained to answer charges he was in secret communication with Gadhafi. He was murdered on the way, supposedly by members of the "September 17 Martyrs Brigade," a group said to have ties with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group – essentially al-Qaeda-in-Libya. The Fighting Group is an officially designated terrorist organization whose assets are subject to seizure by the US State Department – however, in this case, since that very same State Department is the primary sponsor of US intervention in Libya, one supposes that executive order 13224 is inoperative. Indeed, since US aid is flowing to the rebels, we can say with certainty that the assassination of Younes was funded by the American taxpayers.

Aside from the general barbarity of this act, which gives us a glimpse of what the rebel regime will look like if and when they take power in all of Libya, look at the curious factional line up in the rebels' internal power struggles. Although the Official Story, as promulgated by the NTC, keeps changing – initially, a "pro-Gadhafi" faction in Benghazi, an "armed gang," was blamed for the killing, but there are too many Western reporters in town to keep a lid on the truth (or some approximation of it) for long. Now we are told that those responsible for the killing – rebel soldiers – have been arrested. However, whomever gets the Official Blame in the end isn't what's interesting: the real scoop is that our boy, Haftar – think Ahmed Chlabi, Libyan version – is aligned with the Islamists against the more secular elements, defectors like Younes and the Benghazi lawyers who make up the civilian leadership of the rebellion.

As in the Balkans, where US-trained and-funded "Kosovo Liberation Army" guerrillas fought alongside al-Qaeda's legions and NATO forces, so the same alliance is fighting to "liberate" Libya. It is as if a time machine has thrust us back in the Clinton years – and indeed these are the Clinton years, redux, at least in the foreign policy realm, as this is the policy area that has been ceded to the Clintons by a disengaged and generally hapless President Obama. All of which puts in a new perspective recent boasts by top administration officials and various "experts" that we are on the verge of finally defeating al-Qaeda. Why, then, are they allying with Osama bin Laden's Libyan legatees?

It makes no sense, but then again this entire Libyan adventure has never made any sense. We were told that the prevention of a "humanitarian disaster" was the reason for US/NATO intervention in the first place, with a top US official putting the death figure at more than 100,000 if NATO failed to lift the siege of Benghazi. Yet it was the defection of Gen. Younes, who commanded the besiegers, that really turned the tide of the war. This gave him tremendous authority – and aroused the ire of his tribal and ideological enemies. Whichever scapegoat gets blamed for the act, it is clear that both the Islamists and Washington's-sock-puppet Haftar worked to undermine Younes, spreading rumors about his alleged secret contacts with Tripoli, getting him summoned to Benghazi for interrogation – and ultimately engineering his assassination.

That this happened shortly after the primary agitator of the NATO campaign, the government of British Prime Minister David Cameron, granted official diplomatic recognition to the NTC as the "legitimate" government of Libya, unceremoniously kicking out Gadhafi's ambassador and staff, just underscores what critics of the Western intervention have said all along: that the policymakers behind this intervention never knew what they were getting into.

We were told, remember, that the clock was ticking, and the death of tens of thousands, at the very least, was imminent. Gadhafi, if he were allowed to take Benghazi, would have depopulated the city – which is precisely what the rebels are doing in the mountainous region of western Libya, as Der Spiegel reports:

"Several towns along the route [of the rebels' advance] are now completely depopulated. One is Awaniya, a town of 15,000 people until the rebels captured it. The shops lining the highway in Awaniya were looted and are now littered with garbage. In some stores, even the shelves are missing. In the town itself, houses stand empty and ransacked, and some have been burned down. Other towns look similar. New houses are still burning days after the rebels took over, and trucks are removing anything that was overlooked during the initial looting: sacks of wheat as well as food and sheep.

A piece of graffiti on the wall of an empty supermarket in Awaniya berates the 'Mashashiya traitors.' The Mashashiya are the tribe that lived in Awaniya and two other nearby towns. Most of its members supported Gadhafi, as did the inhabitants of most of the remaining depopulated towns along the road from Zintan to the front, including Qawalish."

The assassination of Younes and the scorched earth tactics of the Libyan "liberation" army should give us a clue as to what kind of future they envision for their nation. As to why we haven't heard much about this aspect of the rebel army, Der Spiegel reports:

"The rebels respond aggressively to anyone who tries to investigate. A SPIEGEL team was taken into custody in Awaniya, escorted to the Zintan command post and interrogated."

If this is how they treat foreign media, which they've been cultivating with some success so far, it's not hard to imagine how they'll deal with their own media organizations. The rebels no more represent the forces of "democracy" than do Gadhafi's forces: this is a civil war in which both sides aim to establish a de facto dictatorship, and employ the same brutal methods. What is the American interest in the outcome?

In a rational world, the assassination of a major rebel commander by his own side would preclude US recognition of the rebel government, if not forever than for the foreseeable future. It would also provoke a major rethinking of a policy that played such a volatile wild card as the Libyan rebels. In the Bizarro World alternate universe from which US policymakers issue their pronouncements, however, this is just a minor glitch, to be brushed aside as the armies of Libyan "liberation" sweep onward to victory. As Obama administration shill Juan Cole put it:

"Younis was too close to Qaddafi, despite his defection, to remain truly popular with the rebels, and it is a little unlikely that his death will affect the terms of the uprising, despite what some observers are saying. He was not allowed to be a field officer because of the mistrust, so his absence would not affect the battlefield.

"In fact, the hardy Free Libya forces of the Western Mountain regions took a strategic town near the Tunisian border as news of his assassination was announced. And, Brega, though being cleared of mines, has fallen to Free Libya forces in the east, a major advance for the rebels. Western observers keep looking for a stalemate, but the rebels have in fact steadily advanced."

Never mind those "isolationist" naysayers and "Mashashiya traitors" – what do they know? Onward, soldiers of "democracy" and harbingers of the "Arab Spring," Washington-style! Onward to victory!

During the Bush era, Prof. Cole was the go-to academic for trenchant analysis of why the neoconservative strategy for defeating terrorism – invading the Arab world – was disastrously misguided. Today he stands with the Obama administration and the neocons in their enthusiasm for the US/NATO-supported Libyan rebels, who are in no way different from Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress or any of the other CIA-backed exile groups, including Haftar's outfit. Incredibly, Cole had nothing to say about the assassination of Younes other than that it wouldn't mean beans in the long-run, as the rebels are headed for victory. If this brazen murder raised any questions in his mind as to the nature of the forces he's aligned himself with, Cole has so far kept silent.

As for our State Department, they, too, are mum – and I, for one, can hardly blame them. What are they supposed to say – that we're aiding and abetting a gang of savages in Libya?

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/07/31/younes/

AG Coercing Banks to Repeat Old Mistakes

 

[Maybe not enough people paid attention last time, but affirmative-action ("subprime") lending is what brought on our economic meltdown in 2008. Now, beyond all reason, Obama is pushing banks for it again. df]

 

 

Investor's Business Daily, 07/08/2011

 

Holder Launches Witch Hunt Against "Biased" Banks

 

In effect, Justice is using private banks to carry out affirmative-action lending

 

By Paul Sperry,

 

In what could be a repeat of the easy-lending cycle that led to the housing crisis, the Justice Department has asked several banks to relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination, according to court documents reviewed by IBD.

 

Prosecutions have already generated more than $20 million in loan set-asides and other subsidies from banks that have settled out of court rather than battle the federal government and risk being branded racist. An additional 60 banks are under investigation, a DOJ spokeswoman says.

 

No Job, No Problem

 

Settlements include setting aside prime-rate mortgages for low-income blacks and Hispanics with blemished credit and even counting "public assistance" as valid income in mortgage applications.

 

In several cases, the government has ordered bank defendants to post in all their branches and marketing materials a notice informing minority customers that they cannot be turned down for credit because they receive public aid, such as unemployment benefits, welfare payments or food stamps.

 

Among other remedies: favorable interest rates and down-payment assistance for minority borrowers with weak credit.

 

For example, the government has ordered Midwest BankCentre to set aside almost $1 million in "special financing" for residents living in predominantly black areas of St. Louis. The program includes originating conventional home loans at fixed prime rates for African-American borrowers "who would ordinarily not qualify for such rates for reasons including the lack of required credit quality, income or down payment."

 

The same federal order, signed last month, praises Midwest for adopting "less stringent underwriting criteria" while under investigation.

 

In the case against Citizens Bank of Detroit, settled in May, the U.S. decrees that "the bank may choose to apply more flexible underwriting standards in connection with the programs under this order."

 

Such efforts risk recreating the government-imposed lax underwriting that led to the housing boom and bust, critics fear.

 

"It's absolutely outrageous after what we've just gone through," said former Rep. Ernest Istook, a Heritage Foundation fellow. "How can someone both be financially stable enough to merit a mortgage at the same time they're on public assistance? By definition, you don't have the kind of employment that can support such a loan."

 

Justice March

 

Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said the anti-discrimination notice "does not compel the banks to make loans to people who do not qualify." She said such measures are "essential to remedy the harmful effects of the banks' conduct."

 

But industry analysts fear Attorney General Eric Holder is rekindling an anti-bank witch hunt launched by Attorney General Janet Reno in the 1990s, when Holder served as her deputy.

 

Some blame that in part for the subprime boom, because banks were ordered to throw open their lending windows to credit-poor minorities. That crackdown spurred the American Bankers Association to distribute to its thousands of members "fair-lending tool kits" advising the adoption of more permissive underwriting criteria to help inoculate them from prosecution.

 

In the new prosecutions, Justice acknowledges in every case it did not prove charges of intentional discrimination, while banks have denied any wrongdoing. Many, in fact, earned outstanding ratings from anti-redlining regulators enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act.

 

Istook calls Holder's crusade an "egregious overreach by the government." He says many of the targets are smaller banks without the resources to fight a protracted legal battle.

 

The House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate.

 

"This is an expansion of the law," said a congressional investigator. "They're pushing the envelope as far as they can go in the enforcement of civil rights."

 

DOJ Demands 'Nondisclosure'

 

As part of settlement deals, prosecutors have required banks to sign "nondisclosure agreements" barring them from talking about the methods used to allege discrimination. Bank lawyers contend the prosecutors are trying to hide the shaky legal grounds on which the cases are built. "It's horrible what they're doing at the civil rights division," said Reginald Brown, a partner at Wilmer Hale in Washington, who has represented banks in connection to recent race-bias investigations. "They don't have any proof, just theories."

 

He added, "They want you to sign something saying you agree, under the condition of any settlement with them, that you won't disclose what their theories were. That's because their theories are loopy and wouldn't stand the light of day."

 

One such theory — "disparate impact" — holds that merely a difference in loan application outcomes is enough to prove racial discrimination — even if no intent exists on the part of loan officers to contrast based on the color of applicants, and even legitimate business factors — such as credit scores and down payments — help explain disparities in loan outcomes between white and black applicants.

 

Under this broad theory, banks have been accused of racism simply for failing to open branches or aggressively market mortgages in black neighborhoods — regardless of the demand for, or viability of, such loans in those areas.

 

Following this theory, the government has ordered several banks to advertise in black media and open branches in black neighborhoods, despite the weak economy.

 

Justice confirmed it has asked banks to keep its methodologies, which include computer-based statistical analysis, secret.

 

"In certain circumstances, when a bank has requested details of our analysis, the department has requested that a defendant agree to a confidentiality agreement," Hinojosa told IBD.

 

Critics say Holder's interpretation of civil-rights law is even more radical than Reno's.

 

For the first time, prosecutors are judging banks for the secondary impact their policies have on entire minority communities, not just households. And they're ordering reparations accordingly.

 

In announcing a recent $2 million settlement with Dallas-based PrimeLending, Civil Rights Division chief Tom Perez said, "We will require lenders to invest in the community that they've harmed."

 

Another Reno protege, Perez has compared bankers to Klansmen. Only difference is, he said, bankers discriminate "with a smile" and "fine print." He said this kind of racism, though more subtle, is "every bit as destructive as the cross burned in a neighborhood."

 

Perez has put in place an infrastructure to enforce "fair lending" — including a first-of-its-kind Fair Lending Unit staffed with more than 20 lawyers, economists and statisticians.

 

He's appointed a special lending cop to run it — Special Counsel for Fair Lending Eric Halperin, who also worked for Reno. Before returning to Justice, Halperin was chief Washington lobbyist for the Center for Responsible Lending, an anti-redlining group that urged banks to relax lending standards for low-income urban borrowers before the crisis.

 

Perez has required bank defendants to earmark potentially millions in funding for inner-city community organizers — who must be approved by Justice. Critics say lenders are being forced to bankroll Acorn clones that often exist just to shake them down for risky loans.

 

Hinojosa declined to provide a list of these "qualified organizations."

 

Perez is also prosecuting banks for "reverse redlining through the targeting of minority communities for predatory loans."

 

Istook finds it odd that the government is condemning lenders for doing too well what it pressured them to do in the name of diversity before the crisis. "Banks are damned if they do, damned if they don't," he said.

 

Also, critics say Justice is acting as a bank regulator by enforcing its own quota system for multicultural loans. The civil rights division has set "benchmarks" for minority lending, and will monitor bank lending volume and activity in that area among the banks it's suing.

 

In effect, Justice is using private banks to carry out affirmative-action lending, Istook says, a campaign he describes as "legal plunder."

 

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Dan Friedman
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Obama By Ruse Of Debt Ceiling ~ Is Forcing Congress To Eliminate The Constitutional Powers Of The Legislative Branch ~ Thus Obama The Dictator.

Emergency => Obama By Ruse Of Debt Ceiling ~ Is Forcing Congress To Eliminate The Constitutional Powers Of The Legislative Branch ~ Thus Obama The Dictator. Volubrjotr | August 1, 2011 at 23:39 | Tags: barack obama, Democratic Party (United States), history, republican, Tea Party movement, united states, United States Congress, war room | Categories: bailout, barack obama, government, obama, political, politics, socialism, soetoro, subversion, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, treason, unconstitutional, video, white house, yes we can | URL: http://wp.me/psXSG-bc8

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Barack Hussein Obama had no message for Easter 2011 but has one for Ramadan

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A Cheer and a Half for the Tea Party

A Cheer and a Half for the Tea Party
by Sheldon Richman, August 1, 2011

Were it not for the Tea Party, the debt-ceiling controversy might never have happened. Kudos on that count alone.

Unsurprisingly, the governing class and its boosters in the media portray the Tea Party folks as a collection of bumpkins and idiots who "don't know the difference between campaigning and governing," indeed who would rather destroy the world economy than compromise their dogmatic insistence on spending cuts and resistance to tax increases.

But the policy and media elites' attitude reveals more about them than about the Tea Party. The spenders and borrowers in Washington have had their way largely unimpeded for generations. What have they wrought? A formal debt about equal to the American economy's annual output (GDP), a 75-year "entitlement" unfunded liability of $39 trillion, a budget deficit well over $1 trillion a year (more than 40 cents per dollar spent, about 10 percent of GDP), and federal spending that consumes about 25 percent of GDP.

And that isn't enough for the governing class and its apologists in the intelligentsia!

All this happened before there was a Tea Party. Without it the debt ceiling would likely have been raised with little fuss, as it has been so often before. It would not have been linked to a debate over cutting spending, reducing the deficit, and shrinking the government. Some tea partiers opposed raising the ceiling under any circumstances. Contrary to the power elite, that is a sign not of ignorance and inexperience but of good sense.

No one exemplified anti-Tea Party snobbery more clearly than MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell (though he had close competition from his colleagues Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow). Stunned and outraged that the Tea Party was able to keep a new debt ceiling from being passed without difficulty or even public notice, he furiously waved an old one-page debt-limit bill, fuming, "There is nothing easier for Congress to do than to raise the debt limit."

How pathetic to see O'Donnell being so clueless about two important things: first, that the ease with which the government has been able to borrow is a big part of the problem facing the country, and second, that this ease in abusing the American people is precisely why the Tea Party emerged.

For O'Donnell and his state-worshiping ilk, any resistance to the growth of government spending -- which, let us recall, is nothing but the forcible transfer of scarce resources from private owners to greedy, power-lusting politicians -- is an impertinence, a sign of disrespect for one's betters. How dare anyone question those anointed to "run the country"? How dare mere citizens object to being committed to more debt, which will impose even additional burdens on them, their children, and their grandchildren? How dare they thwart the grand schemes their benevolent rulers have in store for them?

Well, the Tea Party knows better than O'Donnell & Company that the politicians are not our betters. And they know a political comeuppance is long overdue.

For all that, I give a cheer and a half for the Tea Party. But why not more than that?

Because the tea partiers need to be more radical. They have missed too many opportunities to advance their cause.

For one thing, they have been largely silent on the American Empire. The government spends over $1 trillion a year on imperial activities misleadingly called "defense," far more than the nearly $700 billion in the War Department's budget. Empires are bloody expensive, and the sooner the Tea Party understands this, the more effective it will be in fighting for smaller government. They also should understand that this trillion dollars is not just a misguided effort to protect American security. It is a scam largely designed to line the pockets of the military-industrial complex. They can start by reading President Eisenhower's farewell address.

Second, tea partiers need to learn that the middle-class welfare state is a snare and a delusion. Social Security and Medicare masquerade as benevolent mutual-aid programs, but they are devices to foster allegiance to power. If you depend on politicians for support in your later, vulnerable years, how can your freedom truly be secure? The welfare state robs working people while turning the elderly into wards of the cold state.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1108a.asp

Fwd: Have You Signed the Fair Primary Pledge?

In the 2010 election Republican party insider groups like the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee used their money and influence to support incumbent candidates against primary challengers with new ideas and grassroots support.  They tried to keep candidates like Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio out of office and elect long-term incumbents and their insider cronies instead.  They even supported candidates like Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter who took their money and then left the party. Now they're getting ready to do the same thing again in 2012. They're already giving money to incumbents like Orin Hatch (UT) and Dick Lugar (IN) who have been in office for 30 years and are completely out of touch with the voters.  Party leaders and organizations have apparently committed themselves and your money to a system of perpetual incumbency. They hate the idea of a Republican Party driven by the grassroots and want to stop the people from having a voice in picking new leaders.  They don't want us to take the party back by electing candidates who represent real Republican values like smaller government and more liberty. Fair Primary 2012 (http://www.fairprimary.org) has a plan to stop these groups by cutting off their money with the Fair Primary Pledge.  Don't let them use your money against the next Rand Paul or Mike Lee the way that they did in 2010. The pledge is a nationwide drive to encourage Republican voters not to send contributions to organizations which seek to skew primaries in favor of incumbents or establishment candidates. The goal is to keep primaries open and honest and give more opportunities to grassroots candidates who have new ideas, a dedication to fundamental Republican principles and are not committed to just maintaining the status quo. We want more and better Republicans in office, not the same old big-government hacks who have already failed us and will keep making the same mistakes again and again. If you want to bring government back to the people and make Republican primaries fair, open and honest.  Please sign the Fair Primary Pledge at http://www.fairprimary.org Dave

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Socialist Party of America Releases The Names of 70 Democrats in Congress Who Are Members

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Socialist Party of America Releases The Names of 70 Democrat Members Of Congress Who Are Members Of Their Caucus

 

 A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

~ Ronald Reagan

By Gary P Jackson

This should come as a surprise to absolutely no one. The radical Marxist-progressives (communists) took control of the democrat party some time ago. They've only become more emboldened with the election of Barack Obama, who was raised as a communist from birth.

With their new found leader, Barack Obama, the Socialist Party of America felt secure enough to announce the names of 70 democrats in Congress that belong to their caucus. This was recently posted on Scribd.com:

 

American Socialist Voter–

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?

A: See the listing below

Co-Chairs

Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs

Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members

Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members

Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)

Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)

Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)

Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)

Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)

Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)

Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)

Hon. André Carson (IN-07)

Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)

Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)

Hon. William "Lacy" Clay (MO-01)

Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)

Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)

Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)

Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)

Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)

Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)

Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)

Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)

Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)

Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)

Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)

Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)

Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)

Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)

Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)

Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)

Hon. John Hall (NY-19)

Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)

Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)

Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)

Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)

Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)

Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)

Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)

Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)

Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)

Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)

Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)

Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)

Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)

Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)

Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)

Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)

Hon. George Miller (CA-07)

Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)

Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)

Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)

Hon. John Olver (MA-01)

Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)

Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)

Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)

Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)

Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)

Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)

Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)

Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)

Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)

Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)

Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)

Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)

Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)

Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)

Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)

Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)

Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)

Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)

Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)

Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Read the entire document here.

Though I'm sure you'll recognize many names on the list, one notable is Pete Stark who recently told members in his district that the federal government can do pretty much anything it feels like:

Other than Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who openly ran as a socialist, the rest of this lot ran as "moderate democrats." I think it's time we put the myth of the "moderate" democrat to bed. They are all Marxists, or Marxist leaning. They all are big government totalitarians hell-bent on destroying America, the Constitution, and our way of life. One needs no other proof than the way Congress has acted since the Marxist-democrats took control four years ago, and the tyranny that has been championed since Obama was sworn in.

Socialism, communism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it, is a vile, dangerous ideology. The people that practice this religion of hate, and that's what it is, a religion, are evil. Marxism demands a strict centralized command and control government, where the people surrender all of their rights to the almighty government. Government replaces God as savior of man. This is why you see these power hungry demons work relentlessly to control every aspect of your lives. What you eat, what you drink, and so on. It's a very diseased ideology.

Although the Socialists of America don't out their party's leader, Barack Obama, there is little need. From the Jawa Report, October, 2008:

The "New Party" claimed Barack Obama was a card carrying member in a 1996 newsletter found on internet archive.

Via Politically Drunk on Power: In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party". The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards…

…"New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago. "

More here at No Quarter.

So much for the "Obama is a moderate" meme his media stenographers are pushing. Next time that really annoying democrat you know tells you there are no communists in the Marxist-democrat party, show them this. Their party is infected with them.

You might also give them this link. After all, only 100 million people were murdered in the name of communism! (or more)

Can't happen in America?

Remember Obama's murdering domestic terrorist buddy William Ayers, the fellow who ghost wrote Obama's first book? (allegedly) Well, Ayers and Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Jones, who helped write much of the $1 trillion Obama stimulus package, were dead serious. As FBI informant Larry Grathwohl points out in the video below, Obama's mentors not only advocated re-education camps for those who didn't go along with their visions of a communist utopia, they were prepared to slaughter as many as 25 million Americans to make their nightmare come true!

Think that doesn't matter today. Grathwohl would disagree:

There is a lot more you can read about here.

Remember, these people are now "respected educators" and members of foundations. They are also close to Barack Obama.

Oh, and don't forget the "mainstream media." Many "name" journalists and members of academia are communists.

A look at the 45 Communist Goals For Take Over Of America shows us that the Marxists are well on their way to realizing their sick vision for America.

This is why it is essential to defeat every democrat in every election, at every level. They are the natural enemy of Freedom, Liberty, and the American way. They are the enemy of the Constitution, as well as the Rule of Law. They must all be defeated, and their kind must never be elected again.

As we saw with the recent death wishes for Sarah Palin by NH Marxist-democrat politicians, as well as the hundreds Stacy Drake recently reported on, these people ARE exactly like the bloodthirsty radicals Larry Grathwohl described in the videos above: Evil, and highly dangerous.

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[[  Mabus probably would change the spelling to "NAVIE". ]]

 

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Navy too politically correct for 'old salts'

** FILE ** The USS Curtis Wilbur, a 8,950-ton Aegis destroyer of the U.S. Navy, right, is docked with South Korean navy ships at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, Friday, June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/ Yonhap. Jo Jong-ho)

By Rowan Scarborough

The Washington Times

8:47 a.m., Saturday, May 28, 2011

The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up.

Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some "old salts" worried.

"It's pretty dire," said John Howland, a 1964 U.S. Naval Academy graduate who manages a web site on naval issues called USNA-At-Large.

"We're back to 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' " he added, a reference to the comic opera about English shipboard life. "The leadership of the military is pretty much politically correct kind of stuff. You like to think that we're approaching hitting bottom, but these people are not through with us yet."

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a Democrat and former Mississippi governor, has embraced assigning women to the cramp underwater quarters of submarines, including enlisted females on attack subs. The first female officers are do to report aboard larger ballistic missile submarines this fall.

In addition, Mr. Mabus has left open the possibility of putting women in the decidedly all-male and physically challenging world of Navy SEALs, like the ones who killed Osama bin laden.

"It's my notion that women should have the same opportunities as men in the Navy," Mr. Mabus told the Navy Times, an independent newspaper.

"The only reason I'm being a little hesitant for the SEALs is some of the physical things you've got to go through to be a SEAL."

Earlier this month, Mr. Mabus riled some conservatives by reaching out to Hispanics and naming a supply ship after union activist Cesar Chavez, who served in the Navy.

"Mabus is an unequivocal disaster," Mr. Howland said. "He's done nothing but the straight social engineering play book. Women on submarines is a looming disaster that is sure to come. He's done the ship naming things."

Mr. Mabus defended his selection.

"His service was difficult, because Cesar Chavez faced a segregated Navy, but that challenge like others he faced in his life, helped forge the leader he became," he said at the naming ceremony in San Diego May 18.

"His example blazed a path for subsequent generations. His example will live through this ship. He will continue to inspire young Americans to do what is right."

Mr. Chavez was a champion of better working conditions for farm laborers. He enlisted in the Navy in 1946 at age 17. He later called it "the worst two years of my life," according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, who saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine officer, believes Mr. Mabus made a political decision.

"This decision shows the direction the Navy is heading," said Mr. Hunter.

"Naming a ship after Cesar Chavez goes right along with other recent decisions by the Navy that appear to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navys history and tradition."

Last week, Mr. Hunter introduced legislation directing the Navy to name the next available ship after Marine Corps Sgt. Rafael Peralta. Sgt. Peralta was killed when he fell on a grenade during combat in Fallujah, Iraq, and was awarded the Navy Cross.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Mabus did not return a reporter's phone messages.

The Chavez was the second Lewis-and-Clark class cargo ship that Mr. Mabus named after a civil rights leader.

In 2009, Mr. Mabus announced a ship would be named after Medgar Evers, the Mississippi civil rights activist who was shot and killed in the drive way of his home in 1963. Mr. Evers had no professional connection to the Navy. He served two years of combat in Europe in World War II and was honorably discharged an Army sergeant.

Before the Chavez and Evers namings, most of the other 12 Lewis-and-Clark ships were named after Navy pioneers. They include retired admiral and astronaut Alan Shepard and Arctic explorer Adm. Robert E. Peary. One ship is named the USS Carl Brashear, after the Navy's first black master diver.

There are four exceptions: the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who were commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson; their guide, Sacajawea; aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart; Dr. Charles Drew, who developed a system of life-saving blood banks during World War II.

There have been other events this year that some sailors view as politically correct.

In January, the Navy fired the popular commander of a U.S. aircraft carrier for producing a raunchy shipboard video. Some sailors came to Capt. Owen Honors' defense, saying he was the victim of a "PC Navy" for an internally produced morale builder.

The Navy chaplain's office went overboard by announcing it would allow same-sex marriages on naval facilities, a policy at odds with the Obama administration.

The White House had told Congress such unions would not be allowed because federal law defines marriage as one man and one women. Under pressure from lawmakers, the Navy retracted the policy.

The Navy's perceived "PC" tilt comes as troops are experiencing the biggest social change since blacks were integrated into the ranks in 1948.

The four branches have launched an extensive indoctrination campaign, both in the states and in war zones, to prepare troops for open gays by the end of the year. Homosexuals now serve under a policy called "don't ask, don't tell" that requires them to keep their sexuality private.

An outside commission set up by Democrats when they ran the House has recommended the Pentagon end its ban on women serving in direct ground combat units such as the infantry, tank corps and Special Operations Forces.

There has been dissension in the ranks.

Sailors are circulating online a spoof uniform patch in protest. The patch is of a coffin holding a carrier jets landing tailhookwith the inscription: "1911-2011: It was a good ride."

The decidedly unofficial patch says, "No cursing. No call signs. No tradition."

Adm. J.C. Harvey, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces and the man who fired Capt. Honors, posted his actions on his own blog page and allowed sailors to comment by name or anonymously. Some supported the admiral; some did not.

"What a horrendous end to so many that gave their lives to their country and to the Navy," said one anonymous sailor.

"Why have we turned into a 'no defect' Navy and think it is appropriate to go back years and punish those who were doing their best to maintain morale and keep their personnel focused on serving and protecting their country?"

 

 

 

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