Saturday, July 27, 2013

TO THE MEDIA AND THE RACE BAITERS: LET IT GO!

JUROR #29

THE FULL INTERVIEW……..

THE INTERVIEW AS EDITED BY ABC/CNN

Fact:  George Zimmerman CONFESSED to killing Trayvon Martin IN SELF DEFENSE. 

Fact:  The charges as set forth by the prosecution WERE NOT PROVABLE based on the evidence presented.

Fact:  While Juror #29 may have WANTED to find Zimmerman guilty of something – the jurors followed the letter of the law when they arrived at this verdict.  They are to be highly commended for this.  We don't convict people in this country based on emotion...... yet, anyway.

This case should have never gone to trial.  The prosecution bypassed the Grand Jury phase BECAUSE THE GRAND JURY WOULD HAVE THROWN OUT THE CASE BASED ON THE EVIDENCE – OR LACK OF EVIDENCE. 

This case became a RACE CASE because of the media and the President of the United States.

IF EVER there was a defendant who was NOT a racist, it is George Zimmerman. 
 
If there was any legal name for what Zimmerman did – ANY LEGAL NAME AT ALL – it was Justifiable Homicide - killing without evil or criminal intent, for which there can be no blame, such as self-defense to protect oneself or to protect another.  [Another example:  someone enters your home... you feel threatened... you shoot him/her.... the person dies.  YOU KILLED SOMEONE.  It was justifiable.  End of discussion.]

George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense.  Trayvon Martin died.  Justifiable homicide.

It’s time for the media and the race baiters in this nation, from Obama to Holder to Jackson to Sharpton and as far as the eye can see, to stop fanning the flames of division and hatred. 

As an aside….. check this link – note that the date is PRE-TRIAL.





SOCIAL ENGINEERING BY ‘DATABASE’

Anyone who thinks that all this hoopla about our government ‘mining data’ on law-abiding citizens (as well as business and industry) is just hoopla had better take another look at all the ways it's being used.  Our 'right to privacy' is dwindling every day.  Obama's latest push is to use the strong arm of the government to change the make-up of our neighborhoods.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan (Housing and Urban Development) announced the latest government database and regulations on July 16, 2013 at the NAACP convention…

The problem, according to the Obama administration:  prospective minority buyers are not being encouraged to move into predominantly white neighborhoods with top-notch schools, government services and amenities like grocery stories, etc.

The solution:  “ to punish lack of inclusion.”  In other words, there will be fines and prosecutions for people and/or agencies who actively seek to keep neighborhoods segregated.  The government will withhold “federal funds from local and state government agencies dependent on HUD grants if they fail to push greater diversity. The way those agencies interact with developers, Realtors, homeowners associations and others would need to reflect the federal push for diversity.

A new interactive database will help regulators, local housing officials and individuals take action on a newly proposed regulation that would require agencies to “affirmatively further” the inclusion of minority residents in white neighborhoods.
Sooooo…… to this end,  HUD is mapping the nation’s communities, based on census data, “to score communities on their racial and ethnic concentrations, as well as income and community services.” [BTW – I suppose, in an effort to not discriminate, dots representing black residents will be green, while those representing white residents will be blue.  Too funny!]

These ‘maps’ will then be used to implement Obama’s new ‘housing policy’ of mandatory diversity.   Federal funding will be the carrot and the stick.  

This is the same government that rounded up the American Indians and put them on reservations for the last 200 years.  How's THAT working out for you?

Don’t ya just love data mining and Big Brother!



Thursday, July 25, 2013

THE PATH LESS TAKEN.......

 
I wish the old paths were before us instead of behind us
THE OLD PATHS
I liked the old paths, when
Moms were at home.
Dads were at work.
Brothers went into the army.
And sisters got married BEFORE having children!

Crime did not pay;
Hard work did;
And people knew the difference.

Moms could cook;
Dads would work;
Children would behave.

Husbands were loving;
Wives were supportive;
And children were polite.

Women wore the jewelry;
And Men wore the pants.

Women looked like ladies;
Men looked like gentlemen;
And children looked decent.

People loved the truth,
And hated a lie.

They came to church to get IN,
Not to get OUT!

Hymns sounded Godly;
Sermons sounded helpful;
Rejoicing sounded normal;
And crying sounded sincere.

Cursing was wicked;
Drugs were for illness.

The flag was honored;
America was beautiful;
And God was welcome!

We read the Bible in public;
Prayed in school;
And preached from house to house.

To be called an American was worth dying for;
To be called an American was worth living for;
To be called a traitor was a shame!

I still like the old paths the best! 


FROM AN EMAIL...........

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

WAR ON WOMEN AND RACISM

Two interesting historical commentaries on a slow news day.

Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) died in 2010.  Byrd “joined the Klan at the ripe young age of 24 — hardly a young’un by today’s standards, much less those of 1944, when Byrd refused to join the military because he might have to serve alongside “race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds,” according to a letter Byrd wrote to Sen. Theodore Bilbo at the height of World War II. [Byrd was the Exalted Cyclops]

Today’s obituaries, however, made little mention of Byrd’s once-deeply held hatred for African Americans.”




On January 10th, 1878, Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced the ‘Anthony Amendment’ to the Senate “for a decision on women’s suffrage in the United States. This was the first constitutional amendment on this issue to be brought before Congress…  While it did not pass, it set the precedent for similar legislation to be proposed each year until the 19th Amendment was finally passed [almost 40 years later] in 1919 by both houses. The original text was written by Susan B. Anthony with the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”






Thursday, July 18, 2013

GOVERNMENT FORCES BENGHAZI SURVIVORS TO BE SILENT!

Anyone besides me been wondering why we haven't heard anything from the Benghazi SURVIVORS???  And there WERE survivors!

MANY, IF NOT ALL OF THE SURVIVORS HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TO SIGN NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11/2012!!!!  THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!


Please write your Congressional representative and DEMAND that these people be given amnesty so they can reveal the truth about the deaths of the four Americans that fatal night!

Read more:  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/congressman-benghazi-survivors-forced-sign-non-disclosure-agreements_739975.html

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Find your representatives here and email them!  Just enter your zip code!


Check my other posts on Benghazi.... WE DESERVE THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS!









Sunday, July 14, 2013

A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN TRIAL AND VERDICT

Make no mistake - this entire thing is a tragedy.  I never believed George Zimmerman INTENDED to kill Trayvon Martin.  I do believe Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman hitting him, and I do believe Zimmerman reacted in panic and genuine fear.  Having said that, two lives have been destroyed.

As one defense attorney said post-verdict:  This was a tragedy...it did not become a travesty.

The police investigating the shooting had NO EVIDENCE that it was anything other than a terrible case of self defense gone bad.

And then Barack Obama joined the fray.  It is my complete belief that Obama thought Zimmerman was, in fact, a 'creepy-ass-cracker' (Trayvon's description of Zimmerman, not mine) he could use for political gain and to further divide this country along racial lines.... and that's when he made the 'if I had a son' comment. Let's face it.... Zimmerman is NOT your typical Hispanic name.  Obama thought he had a rich white man of Jewish descent living in a 'gated' community who killed a black teen.  It was not until Obama and the pathetic excuse in this country known as the news media learned that Zimmerman was HISPANIC, that they coined the label 'WHITE HISPANIC'.  Now I ask you - is there anything you can think of more racist than that!!!!

It was about that time that Florida State Attorney (Florida's name for a D.A.) Angela Corey stepped in to take control of the case from the local police, who found no indictable charges against Zimmerman.  It was also about that same time that A.G. Eric Holder SENT STAFFERS TO FLORIDA TO GIN UP PROTESTS AGAINST ZIMMERMAN.

Corey bypassed the normal procedure of presenting FACTS and EVIDENCE to a Grand Jury and went straight for an indictment against Zimmerman for MURDER TWO because she KNEW a grand jury would have tossed the case out -  and Obama and Holder would have been pissed.  Another possibility is that Corey KNEW there wasn't evidence to convict on M2 but allowing a trial to go forward would get her off the hook with Washington.  In either case, she is culpable of MALFEASANCE and should be fired impeached, since she's an elected official.  At the bottom of this post is Florida's definition of what constitutes Murder Two.... tell me if there is anything there that remotely defines what happened in this case.  The prosecution even tried that emotional fall-back position that Zimmerman was a racist with hate in his heart - that he 'profiled' Trayvon.  He failed to mention that it was Trayvon who used racism to describe his follower - see the CAC remark above. 

The rest is history.... thankfully, the prosecution and the defense selected a jury of above-average intelligence, who took their jobs seriously, and who TOOK THE LETTER OF THE LAW SERIOUSLY.  Justice was done.

As an aside.... it is NOT illegal for a private citizen to racial profile ANYONE - it happens every day.  If we, as a nation, succumb to punishing people for what they THINK.... we are no longer the land of the free...

As another aside, it's sadly not illegal for the press to photoshop pictures (all their pictures of Trayvon were when he was 12) or to edit voice recordings (as NBC did to make Zimmerman SOUND like a racist on the 911 call).  Can you say 'yellow journalism'?
‘Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.  Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.’ [Wikipedia]

An interesting timeline of the press treatment of Zimmerman...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/13/Media-Zimmerman-Coverage-Rap-Sheet

Also - here's an article from the Orlando Sentinel from April of this year you may have missed....

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-04-05/news/os-trayvon-martin-settlement-20130405_1_trayvon-martin-benjamin-crump-george-zimmerman

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The crime of Second Degree Murder (as defined by the State of Florida) occurs when a person commits either:
  • Murder with a Depraved Mind
  • Murder with a Depraved Mind occurs when a person is killed, without any premeditated design, by an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind showing no regard for human life.

The primary distinction between Premeditated First Degree Murder and Second Degree Murder with a Depraved Mind is that First Degree Murder requires a specific and premeditated intent to kill.

OR

Accomplice Felony Murder

Accomplice Felony Second Degree Murder occurs when you are an accomplice to a person who kills another human being while engaged in the commission, or attempted commission, of the following statutorily enumerated felonies, regardless of whether they intended the death:
  • Aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult,
  • Aggravated child abuse,
  • Aggravated stalking,
  • Aircraft piracy,
  • Arson,
  • Burglary
  • Carjacking,
  • Distribution of Controlled Substances
  • Escape,
  • Home-invasion robbery,
  • Kidnapping,
  • Murder of another human being,
  • Resisting Officer with Violence,
  • Robbery,
  • Sexual battery,
  • Terrorism,
  • Trafficking in Controlled Substances, or
  • Unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb.
Here's an interesting link....





Wednesday, July 10, 2013

ERIC HOLDER AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ORGANIZE PROTESTS AGAINST GEORGE ZIMMERMAN!!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3041219/posts?page=1
(Article posted 7/10/2013 by Bryan Preston)

Your tax dollars at work!  THIS IS SO ILLEGAL THAT IT'S LAUGHABLE!
Below is a direct quote from this link….. go there to read more disgusting details of how a DEPARTMENT OF OUR GOVERNMENT WORKED TO STIR UP RACIAL PROTESTS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTIN‼‼‼‼‼

Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012. According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service (CRS) deployed to Sanford, FL to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.
Among JW’s findings:•March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL, to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”
•March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.
•March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”
•March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”
•April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”
•April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.” – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?
Judicial Watch says the documents it obtained reveal that CRS is not engaging in its stated mission of conducting “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution,” but instead engaged on the side of the anti-Zimmerman protesters.
Updated link directly to Judicial Watch:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/doj-sends-secret-peacekeepers-where-trayvon-martin-was-killed/

UNBELIEVABLE!


TIME TO STOP THIS PRESIDENT!

WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues…
If you haven't read or heard about this, it's past time to take off the blinders and pay attention.  President Obama is encouraging federal employees to spy on one another - and threatens PUNISHMENT for anyone failing to report strange behavior.  This is in an attempt to stop leaks in what he promised would be THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY! 

Why are our elected representatives in Congress sitting idly by and allowing Obama to usurp their constitutional powers??? By not stopping him, you grant him tacit approval to rule by fiat!!! WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STAND UP TO THIS MAN - HE IS DESTROYING AMERICA!!!!!  This is NOT pre-WWII Germany.


You can find and write to your representative in Congress if you know your zip code  (don’t laugh – some people don’t!)

Monday, July 8, 2013

I THINK I LOVE OBAMACARE!


Just heard on the news that.... oops!  The IRS has no way to VERIFY that you might be eligible for the government subsidy designed to help you PAY for the insurance the government is requiring you to purchase (which is still frigging illegal in my opinion!)

The IRS has been instructed to TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT if you say you are eligible!  That makes ME eligible - and millions of other Americans!  Finally I'm gonna get a chance to slurp at the government trough!

I may need to rethink this socialism thing..... maybe my healthcare will be free after all!

Here's a story on Forbes about this..... can you say government clusterfuck?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/06/not-qualified-for-obamacares-subsidies-just-lie-govt-to-use-honor-system-without-verifying-your-eligibility/

Saturday, July 6, 2013

WE MUST REMEMBER..... LEST WE FORGET!


On this recent 237th anniversary of our Independence, it is good for us all to give pause and consider our legacy.  Most have no idea how quickly our legacy and freedoms are being usurped and squandered by a bloated, “Big Brother” Government that is totally out of control, a Government that holds our Constitution in utter disdain.

John Adams, Founding Father and second President of the United States gave us a few thought-provoking words to reflect upon this Independence Day: “You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

Far too many Americans don’t seem to realize that violations of our Constitution with its Bill of Rights, under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, have now made substantial inroads to destroy of our rights and liberties.  There is blame enough to go around very wide and deep, from the actions of both political parties, and from all branches of Government.  Actually, we no longer have three branches of one government providing the checks and balances that our Framers in their wisdom bequeathed to us.  We are, sadly, being controlled by three separate governments all acting beyond and without powers granted to it by the Constitution.  Without the Constitution there can be no government; it is the font of all power, which power, in turn, is granted to the Government by the People.

I urge you to read Paragraph 2 of The Declaration of Independence but this except will do:   “. . . that to secure these Rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it . . .”  The Government works for us, the People.  Yet the People, the governed, are today being totally ignored and kept in the dark under the pretense of “National Security” as their Constitutional heritage and rights are fast disappearing into a cosmic black hole, a force so powerful that not even light that otherwise races unimpeded across the 13.8 billion light years of our universe can escape from its grip.

Our President constantly ignores and changes laws passed by Congress, the only body given legislative power in Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution; just as tragic, the President blithely bypasses Congress to “write laws” by using non-elected bureaucratic Czars in his federal agencies like the EPA. This is in total violation of Article I, Section I that states: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.”  This is simple declarative sentence with a single, unambiguous meaning.  Period.

For two years in a row during his first term, Mr. Obama addressed large Hispanic groups and told them, in effect, that he wished he could change the law but that we have a Constitution that prevents him from doing so.  But just a few months before the 2012 elections, Mr. Obama unilaterally changed the law by exempting almost one million people from being deported.  The Chief Executive has no power to either create laws or to alter them.  Period . . . again! This was a bold-faced, shameless act of usurpation of power designed to alter the outcome of the elections.  Furious ICE agents have been granted standing and are now suing Obama for yet another gross violation of the Constitution.  In his own words, the President admitted for two years he lacked the Constitutional power to do anything without Congress, yet before the elections he somehow miraculously “found the power.” And for you historians reading this, I would ask if this mystery of new-found power could have any parallel to the “mysterious” power that Hitler found to burn the Reichstag in February of 1933 with elections scheduled for March 5, 1933?  As Lord Acton said in 1906, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Yet the Congress obligingly ignores the President’s Constitutional trespasses.  Congress then passes laws that they have not even read, and even laws that clearly violate the Constitution like the NDAA.

Finally, the Supreme Court “creates laws” from the Bench by distorting the clear meaning of the Constitution. SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) is not infallible, not even consistent. It has reversed its own decisions approximately once every 13 months since it began operation on February 2, 1790.  Something cannot be Constitutional and  unconstitutional at the same time!  Where is the constancy in applying the Constitution? When convenient, the Constitution becomes just a dusty, inconvenient Truth that needs to be rationalized into oblivion in order to make social judgments so that SCOTUS can “pass” socially desirable laws to its liking, a power reserved exclusively to the Congress.

When our liberties are gone it will be too late.  Those who prefer not to care and to leave the future of their liberty, and that of their children, in the hands of self-serving politicians will have no one to blame but themselves when the country finally awakens one day from its Rumplestiltskin lethargy.  Unfortunately it will be too late, as it was for those millions and millions beguiled by the Nazi party and at least 60 million sent to die in the gulags under Josef Stalin.

We have just witnessed the most massive demonstrations in the recorded history of the world that took place in Egypt this week to remove a “democratically elected” President and the Muslim Brotherhood.  Why?  Because this “democratically elected” Government betrayed the People who constitute the source of that government’s legitimacy.  People died throughout Egypt to take back their government and their freedoms, just as our forefathers fought and died to reclaim their liberties and freedom from a tyrannical George III. Egypt’s now “former” new President and his ideologue colleagues betrayed the Nation by trying to impose on 82 million people a vision for Egypt totally at odds with the wishes of the People, the “governed,” the source of any legitimate government’s power.

If cavalier citizens of the United States were to send a similar message to its ideologue-driven, self-serving government of both parties there might be hope for the Republic.  But when the average citizen is oblivious to what its Government is doing there is slim chance of that happening.  It seems that what liberties we lose in stealth and small steps seem somehow to go unnoticed and unchallenged.  Today it is our “private” phone calls and e-mails being collected and stored by an all-seeing, all-powerful central government. Tomorrow it will be our guns and right to self-defense against an imperious government. What will we eventually find at the end of the proverbial “slippery slope we travel?”  Every American should have the opportunity to speak with those who were trapped in Communist Russia for 70 years and with those deprived of their inalienable rights in the conquered nations subjugated behind the Iron Curtain after World War II.  They still seek a new life in a new America, but what will happen to their dreams of liberty and opportunity in a “fundamentally changed,” future America not so far off?

Why has the Department of Homeland Security, NOAA, Social Security and other “benign” agencies of the Federal Government purchased over 1.8 billion (billion with a “B”) rounds of hollow-point ammunition, enough to put 5 rounds in every man, woman and child in the USA?  The Geneva Convention bans the use of hollow-point ammunition in conflict by all signatory nations; it cannot be used by the armed forces; it has but one purpose—to kill.  To kill whom we should ask?  Despite questions by many retired military generals about these 1.8 billion rounds, we are yet to receive an answer other than “for target practice.”  At five times the cost of target practice ammunition does anyone really believe that?  This stockpile of bullets is enough to fight a war like Iraq for decades yet we still have no answer from our Government.  During this time when we commemorate our Independence, won for all of us at incredible sacrifice, we should ponder many questions and issues like this that never make it to Main Street America because of the impenetrable barrier of the Main Street Media:
Far too many Americans don’t seem to realize that violations of our Constitution with its Bill of Rights, under both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, have now made substantial inroads in the destruction of our rights and liberties; our official government policies have usurped powers never contemplated, and certainly never granted, by our Framers in our Constitution:
  • Because of the actions of one Edward Snowden (despite what many think of his actions at stealing ill-guarded “State Secrets), we now know that the U.S. government has spied on each and every one of us for seven years—watching and collecting our phone calls, emails and other communications, amassing all this personal information in secret databases.  The last two U.S. presidents have committed unprecedented violations of the right to privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, with warrantless wiretapping and government mining of electronic communications.  Where was Congress or the Supreme Court to say “No?”  The new National Security Agency’s National Data Center in the Utah desert is so capable of storing and knowing virtually everything about everyone that alarmed spokesmen have said that it is “a turnkey operation, that literally with the turn of a key could turn America into a totalitarian state.”  National Security is one thing but the survival of the Republic is quite another.
The Forth Amendment makes it very clear: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”  Some in the NSA have resigned over what they believe is an unconstitutional hijacking of the Republic whose only purpose is to turn it into George Orwell’s 1984.  Every digital record from bank records to private phone calls and e-mails are at risk of “unreasonable search and seizure.”  With the blatant disdain for the Constitution we already are experiencing, can we even think about surrendering our basic freedoms to a voracious, power-hungry government that the Constitution had limited to be only a small, general government with 17 enumerated powers granted in Article I, Section 8?  To recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, the author of The Declaration of Independence and our third President:     “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”  Thomas Jefferson 
  • The current president has admitted that he has ordered American citizens to be assassinated without charges or trial and claims he has the right to continue this executive murder.  (I would like to see the Constitutional justification for this absurd claim!)
  • In violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of Freedom of the Press, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has secretly ordered the collection of extensive records of phone calls and other information of reporters for the Associated Press and Fox News, even falsely alleging, in order to obtain a warrant, that one reporter was engaged in a criminal conspiracy because he was seeking information.  Holder swore before Congress that he had no knowledge of this yet only he could sign the application for the warrant and the record shows he did so!  Holder now claims that he had no intention of prosecuting, which means he lied twice, this time to a judge in order to obtain the warrant.  How is this different from “show trials” we have witnessed in dictatorships over the years?  The first thing dictatorships do is to seize control of the free press so that when a totalitarian government manipulates the truth there is no one to shine a light into the darkness.  Unfortunately in Obama’s America there is no need to seize the press.  The “press” has gladly abandoned its time-honored obligation to investigate and report, and accepted instead a place of shame at the head of the sacred, virtual procession to enshrine the “Anointed One.”
  • This same attorney general supports the president’s “right” to order the murder of U.S. citizens without trial or due process, claiming: “Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.”  Oh? My copy of the Constitution must be outdated!
  • The U.S. Congress enacted a law in 2012 (See The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, paragraph #1021.)  It gives power to the U.S. president to have the right to order the U.S. military to arrest and hold U.S citizens indefinitely, without evidence, without charges or trial — a patent violation of the right to freedom of expression, the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and the right to a speedy trial, all of which are enshrined in the Bill of Rights. The Executive AND Legislative branches have absolutely NO Constitutional authority to do this.  Just because Congress passes legislation and the Chief Executive signs it, does NOT make it Constitutional.  Yet the average, distracted American has not a clue what is happening.  I find it less than reassuring that President Obama has promised not to use that power.
  • Why do we have a dead Ambassador and staff in Benghazi, Libya?  Why were those who could have protected them told, “to stand down?”  Where was the Commander-in-Chief that evening?  We do know that he left on Air Force One the next morning to go campaigning and fund raising.  After nine months of Congressional investigations, we have no answers and nothing but stonewalling from the purported president of this great Republic.  Yet the “free press” has elected to stay “free” and far from this story because it might put their demi-god hero in an awkward situation where he might be forced to face the truth, never mind to tell the truth.  If our “free press” were no longer free I submit that they would be the first to rebel, claiming the right to a free press.  Yet this same MSM somehow sees no contradiction in cooperating in the ultimate, self-inflicted demise of the free press they are supposed to represent and protect.
  • Financial privacy is dead in America, killed by the PATRIOT Act that forces bankers to act as government spies.
  • Unreasonable restrictions impede Americans’ rights to conduct business offshore, to the point that foreign banks and businesses now reject U.S. clients simply because they are Americans.
  • The Director of the FBI admits that his agents use aerial drones to spy on U.S. citizens, and Congress has authorized the use of thousands of surveillance drones to be used by police, the Defense Department and the Dept. of Homeland Security.  Yet if a citizen tries to fight this infringement of the Fourth Amendment in the courts he is told that he has “no standing” to bring this case.  So where is Congress, the elected representatives of the People?  Do not all these individuals take a solemn oath to uphold, support and defend the Constitution?
  • The FBI is now charged to investigate the criminal behavior targeting conservative groups at the IRS that has recently come to light.  Obama feigned outrage and an investigation.  Yet when Congress asked FBI Director Muller what agent was directing the investigation he had no idea.  It is now six-weeks after this so-called investigation started and not ONE SINGLE VICTIM has been contacted.  The FBI Director works for Attorney General Eric Holder who, in turn, works for Barrack Obama.  Can the fox guard the henhouse? Will we ever learn the truth about the IRS? Yet it is this same IRS that needs to hire at least an additional 16,000 agents to police ObamaCare, another law that was concocted and passed in secret when we had been promised total transparency.  All discussions were to be on C-Span!
Even Democrat Senator Max Baucus, often called the Father of ObamaCare, and who voted for it is dismayed.  In an open discussion with HHS Secretary Sebelius he said: "A lot of people have no idea about all of this," he said. "People just don't know a lot about it, and the Kaiser poll pointed that out. I understand you've hired a contractor. I'm just worried that that's gonna be money down the drain because contractors like to make money ... I just tell ya, I just see a huge train wreck coming down. "
And who could not be cynical when 58% of the American people oppose the legislation while most of the remaining 42% have no idea what it mandates.  Finally, after Kathleen Sebelius recently told the world that all was going smoothly for on-time implementation, the Administration announced without warning in a bombshell release on Twitter just before Independence Day (no press conference or opportunity to ask questions) that the employer mandate would be postponed for a year but that the individual mandate (read: tax and penalty) would not be waived. The result?  The real impact of this draconian change to our healthcare will not be felt until after the 2014 elections. How can one not be cynical about the manipulation of our election process unless drinking the Government’s free gifts of its special “Kool-Aid?”
Our government is systematically destroying our liberties, acting in secret, claiming that we the people have no right to know what is being done because of “national security.”

Americans fought, and we won independence from Great Britain against enormous odds. But now, politicians from both parties are destroying more of our liberties than King George III and the British ever did. Maybe the Egyptians know something we don’t know.


Salva nos et Republicam nobis.

Publius


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