IF THIS PASSES, THERE COULD BE WAR

This country is headed for Dictatorship.

 

 

 

Subject: Gun control

 Oh, he might try this kind of dirty, narcissistic trick, but if he does he is as dumb as a post.  This is exactly why we, the people, have to keep our eye on the law instead of cockamamie legal theories:  The Supreme Court has already ruled that treaties are not superior to the Constitution of the United States and cannot work to deprive Americans of their fundamental rights.  Any law passed by Congress (and treaty ratifications are laws passed by Congress) not pursuant to the Constitution of the United States are null and void from the moment of their inception and carry no weight or force of law, and do not exist just as though they had never been passed.  Marbury v. Madison (and others, see http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/art2frag18_user.html ).

If Obama tries this, it will be time to fight a defensive battle until it becomes clear he is not backing off, and then it will be time to fight an offensive war.  What a delicious end it will be to an absolute despot....

 

Isn’t it interesting.  All we have to do is take our eyes off of what this joker in OUR White House is doing…and he manages to either pass or bill or have someone else do his dirty work for him.

While you were watching the oil spill, the New York failed terrorist bombing and other critical crises, Hillary Clinton signed the small arms treaty with the UN.  OBAMA FINDS LEGAL WAY AROUND THE 2ND AMENDMENT AND USES IT.                           IF THIS PASSES, THERE COULD BE WAR On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States On Wednesday the Obama administration took its first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States . The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments. These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nations and individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms. The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened.  Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress. We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment. This has happened in other countries, past and present!  THIS IS NOT A JOKE OR A FALSE WARNING. As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control. Read the Article U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better. View The Full Article Here  Click on the link below for further acknowledgement….. http://www.reuters.com/articl/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015   Please forward this message to others who may be concerned about the direction in which our country is headed.  This is a very serious matter! Silence will lead us to Totalitarian Dictatorship!!!

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A. Gaines, American Citizens United

The would be king strikes again. Get him OUT!!!!

Obama defies Congress with ‘recess’ picks

Nominations could provoke constitutional fight

By Stephen Dinan and Susan Crabtree

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The Washington Times

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

** FILE ** President Obama introduces former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as his nominee as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on July 18, 2011 at the White House. (Associated Press)

Pushing the limits of his recess appointment powers, President Obama on Wednesday bypassed the Senate to install three members of the National Labor Relations Board and a director for the controversial new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - moves Republicans said amounted to unconstitutional power grabs.
Mr. Obama said the appointments, which he previewed during a campaign-style speech in Ohio, were necessary because Senate Republicans have blocked him at every turn. But in making the move, he rejected three precedents, including two in which he played a part, that would have blocked the appointments.
“I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer,” Mr. Obama said in Shaker Heights, drawing applause from his audience. “When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”
Mr. Obama tapped former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the consumer protection agency and named three others - two Democrats and one Republican - to the labor board. Those nominations had all been stymied by congressional Republicans, who said Mr. Obama was accruing too much power to himself through those two agencies.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session, albeit a pro forma one without any business transacted.
Senators from both parties - including Democrats in 2007 and 2008, when Mr. Obama was in the Senate - have said it takes a recess of at least three days before the president can use his appointment powers.
Mr. Obama’s move threatens to ignite an all-out legislative war with Congress, and Republicans reacted with strikingly sharp language.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the move “arrogantly circumvented the American people.”
“Breaking from this precedent lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress‘ role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch,” he said.
Supporters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have said the lack of a top executive has blocked the fledgling agency from taking on a number of tasks in its mandate to police the financial sector and protect consumers from fraud.
Consumer groups and labor union advocates cheered Mr. Obama’s moves.
Senate Republicans don’t object to Mr. Cordray, but argue the bureau needs an overhaul before it should be allowed to operate. They say it leaves the agency, whose budget is not approved by Congress, with too much power concentrated in the hands of its director.
Senate Republicans last month filibustered Mr. Cordray’s nomination, leaving him seven shy of the 60 votes needed to get a final confirmation vote.
Democrats and Republicans have increasingly turned to filibusters to block a president’s nominees when they are in the majority, making recess appointments an attractive option.
President George W. Bush used them to circumvent Democrats who filibustered judicial nominations and his pick of John R. Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations.

Kennesaw Georgia – where gun ownership is mandatory

Written on January 4, 2012 by The Godfather

New York City Denies Second Amendment Rights

I live just a few miles from the most pro-gun city in the United States – Kennesaw Georgia – where gun ownership is mandatory. It’s not the “Wild West” like some people predicted when it passed a mandatory gun ownership law. “The city of Kennesaw was selected by Family Circle magazine as one of the nation’s ‘10 best towns for families.’ The award was aimed at identifying the best communities nationally that combine big-city opportunities with suburban charm, a blend of affordable housing, good jobs, top-rated public schools, wide-open spaces, and less stress.”[1]
In 1982 the city passed the following ordinance [Sec 34-21] which was a response to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill.

(a) In order to provide for the emergency management of the city, and further in order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in the city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefore.

(b) Exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who suffer a physical or mental disability which would prohibit them from using such a firearm. Further exempt from the effect of this section are those heads of households who are paupers or who conscientiously oppose maintaining firearms as a result of beliefs or religious doctrine, or persons convicted of a felony.

The city’s website states that Kennesaw “has the lowest crime rate in Cobb County,” one of the most populace counties in Georgia. In fact, from 1982 through 2009, Kennesaw had been nearly murder free with one murder occurring in 2007.

There were three murders in 2010 committed by the same man in what is described as a “school safety zone,” an area extending 1,000 feet from any school, including adult colleges and technical schools. This means that even though Kennesaw has the most liberal gun laws in the United States, employees at the facility where the murders were committed could not have a gun on the premises. Of course, criminals don’t care about laws; that’s why they’re criminals. Ed Stone of Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner makes these important points:“Unfortunately experience with actual ‘school safety zones’ in Georgia has proven that the ‘school safety zone’ law approach does not stop violent armed crime, as it disarms only the potential victims of an attack.  Criminals seeking to rob, rape, and murder ignore the ‘school safety zone’ as merely one more law they are breaking.”

Now we come to New York City. In the past few months, a number of gun incidents have spilled over to the national press. In September 2011 Ryan Jerome, a former Marine Corps gunner, walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he could check his gun.
He had a valid concealed carry permit from his home state of Indiana. He also had the rights given to him under the Second Amendment. No matter, the security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail. “The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.”
He brought the gun for protection since he was traveling with $15,000 worth of jewelry that he planned to sell. Certainly a rational decision, given the crime rate in New York City and stories like the U.S. Marine veteran who was shot three times when a Craigslist transaction went bad.
In December of 2011, Tennessee nurse Meredith Graves noticed a “no guns” sign at the World Trade Center site in New York City and asked where she could leave her weapon. Like Jerome, she was arrested and faces similar charges. Mayor Bloomberg claims that she was in possession of cocaine. It seems that what the police found was BC Powder, an over-the-counter pain reliever that is sold exclusively in the South.
“Also in December 2011, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler was arrested after attempting to check a pistol — for which he has a California concealed carry permit — at a New York airport.”
Gun deaths have declined in New York City, while killings involving knives have increased 50 percent. The issue isn’t guns or knives but people who use guns and knives. In a 25 year period, New York City has had more than 15,000 murders – 2245 in 1990 alone – while Kennesaw, Georgia, had 1.
Notes:

1. Family Circle, August 2007

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forced reduction in the amount of legislation they could accomplish

Written on December 28, 2011 by Giacomo

Should Congress Be a Part-time Job?

When the Continental Congress first met in 1774, it was made up of farmers, businessmen, lawyers, teachers and preachers who all had full time jobs in their respected professions.  The first meeting lasted less than two months and all of the delegates returned home to their families and jobs.
When the US Congress first convened in 1789, it was again made up on farmers, businessmen, lawyers, teachers and preachers who all had full time jobs at home.  Congress met for part of the year allowing for the newly elected senators and representatives to return home to their families and businesses.  In these days, they were paid a daily per diem of about $6 for their public service, which meant that they had to rely largely on their private jobs to sustain them.
It was only as the federal government began to grow out of control that the job of serving in Congress became a full time profession.  Once that happened, they managed to pass laws to give themselves numerous financial perks.
Today, members of the House and Senate get paid $174,000 a year for their public service.  I’m not sure if anyone really knows how much more they make in perks and privileges, but it does run into the thousands of dollars.  Paying congressmen and senators to be fulltime politicians has only resulted in a gluttonous government that suffers from all of the side effects of being oversized and out of control.
On top of that, they have a pension plan that starts paying them for serving a minimum of 5 years in office.  They can start collecting their pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 or more years in office.  Currently, the pension plan pays them 1.7% of their annual salary for the first 20 years and 1% for each additional year after that.  That calculates out to $59,160 a year for any congressman who served 20 years in office, and $76,560 for anyone serving 30 years.Perhaps this is why Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is launching a new 30 second commercial this week in Iowa, touting the possibility of once again making Congress a part-time job.  In the commercial, Perry advocates cutting their salaries and staff in half and sending them home for half the year.
Perry’s solution would save taxpayers over $46.5 million dollars a year just in the reduced congressional payroll.  Add the savings of the reduction of staff members and other benefits including a reduction in their pensions and the savings could easily reach $100 million a year.
The larger savings would be the forced reduction in the amount of legislation they could accomplish in a shorter time in Washington.  Less legislation means the government shouldn’t continue to grow at the same rate it has been, and in fact could actually start to decrease in size, much like a person put on half rations for a few years.
While I may not agree with Perry on some of his ideas, this is one I like and would endorse.

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You are already enemy combatants

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This article goes into the details of the NDAA law that Obama just signed.

Storing food could get you labeled as a terror suspect

So then, you might be wondering, “What kinds of activities could get me accused of being involved in supporting terrorism?”
And here’s the kicker, because all the following activities could cause you to be arrested, detained, interrogated and even murdered all under U.S. law, thanks to Obama:
• Criticizing the federal government.
• Using cash to purchase things.
• Storing food and medical supplies.
• Owning a firearm and storing ammunition.
• Standing still and minding your own business near a government building.
• Writing something down on a piece of paper near a government building.
• Using a pair of binoculars.
• Protesting for animal rights in front of a medical lab.
• Protesting your government (or Wall Street).
• Requesting to take more than a couple thousand dollars out of your bank account in cash.
You see, under existing authority, you could be labeled a “terror suspect” for engaging in any of these activities, and then LEGALLY arrested, detained, interrogated or even killed by the U.S. government, all under Obama’s authority (or whatever next President takes over in Washington and perhaps does far worse things with that power…)
You are already enemy combatants, folks. The NDAA does absolutely nothing to protect you from its provisions. In fact, it openly states that it does not limit existing authorities — authorities which already claim the right to subject you to indefinite military detention merely for being “suspected” of involvement with “terrorism,” which could be interpreted to apply in practically any situation.

Democrats are resorting to desperate measures

Written on January 3, 2012 by Giacomo

Obama to Win 2012 Election by Hook or by Crook

Democrats are resorting to desperate measures to try to insure a 2012 victory for Barak Obama and I believe the expression ‘by hook or by crook’ best describes their methods.
Like many of you, I love to go fishing.  I’ve fished many different ways for a number of different types of fish, but always with the same objective, to hook them and reel them in.  I have used various baits from worms, to corn to dough balls and chicken liver to fish with a bobber.  I’ve bass fished using a variety of different lures with the best results being lures my dad made.  Most of all, I enjoy fly fishing as there is more finesse involved in landing your catch.
And all of this reminds me of politics and the use of some kind of bait to lure in the voter.  Once the voter takes the bait by casting their vote, they’re stuck with the consequences and in the case of the Democrats of late, those consequences are much like caught fish, because you end up being devoured by the one that caught you.
As for the crook aspect, there can be no doubt that democrats are doing whatever they can to steal the election for Obama.
One example of this is what has taken place in Virginia with their elections board.  They used whatever loopholes they could to keep some of the Republican presidential candidates off of the primary ballots by claiming they failed to meet certain qualifications.  Newt Gingrich filed suit to have his name placed on the ballot and it appears that several of the other Republican candidates may be joining Gingrich in the legal challenge.
At the same time the Virginia elections board has been trying to keep Republicans off the ballot, it was revealed that they didn’t even bother to verify the signatures presented in 2008 to get Obama on the ballot.  Furthermore, others looking into those signatures have found a number of them to be invalid signatures.Attorney General Eric Holder is another shining example of the ‘crook’ method of securing an Obama win.  South Carolina passed a bill that would require voters to have a photo id when voting.  The reason behind the law was to help stop voter fraud.  Holder and his Department of Justice have blocked the South Carolina law declaring it discriminates against minorities.
Someone please tell me how this discriminates against minorities!
What makes a black, Hispanic, oriental or American Indian unable to get photo id?  Are they incapable of performing such a mundane task as obtaining a photo id?  If they drive a car, they’re required to have a driver’s license and proof of insurance, but they’re incapable of getting a photo id in order to vote?  Don’t they have to have some kind of id in order to receive welfare or other forms of government aid?
All of the arguments that the Democrats and the Obama controlled DOJ use to justify their fight against voter id are empty fronts that can be for no other reason than to keep the system vulnerable to voter fraud.  What other possible reason could the DOJ have to block a law requiring voters to have a photo id in order to cast their ballots?  Even Newt Gingrich has publicly leveled charges of voter fraud being the reason behind the blocking of the South Carolina law.
By hook or by crook should be Obama’s campaign slogan as that seems to be the only way he believes he can win the 2012 election.

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Guns save people

on January 1, 2012 by Bojidar Marinov

Guns Save People, Again

A 19-year-old thug tried to rob a 23-year-old man in the stairwell of his apartment building in Philadelphia. He walked up to the man, pistol-whipped him, and shot him in the leg.
He met some difficulties, though. The mother of the victim heard the commotion from her apartment upstairs, grabbed her legally owned gun, got out and shot the robber. He died immediately, with a wound in his chest.
Robbers we will have, always. Armed they will be, always. Whether laws limit gun ownership or not, criminals are criminals exactly because they don’t care for the laws.
This one is interesting, though. It happens in an apartment building. Nothing wrong with apartment buildings. People who want to spend less on housing, or can’t afford to spent much – especially under the blessings of Obamanomics – find apartment buildings a blessing. Nothing wrong to not be wealthy – in fact, throughout history most people lived on $3 dollars a day, in 2012 prices. Life is still life, and we can enjoy it.
And defend it. Being poor doesn’t mean your life is less valuable than if you are rich. You have the same right to defend it as the rich person.
Having said that, this brings me back to the Democrat obsession with gun control. Some readers will probably remember Emanuel Cleaver: the Congressman who claimed that a Tea-Partier spat on him while walking up to the Capitol building to vote for Obamacare. The video released later showed that Cleaver lied through his teeth, and that there was no spitting at all. If anything, it was Cleaver who poked his finger in the guy’s face, a rude and unacceptable act even between friends, let alone between strangers.
But few know that Cleaver is also very anti-gun. And in his own state, Missouri, he is known as the politician that said that poor people who live in apartment buildings should be banned from having guns. They are poor because of a flaw in their character, and therefore they shouldn’t be trusted with guns. The obvious problem, that a person needs protection the most when they live in apartment buildings – not when they live in gated communities – did not even cross his mind. After all, he’s a politician, and why would he care.It will be unfair to Cleaver if we focus on him only. The truth is, this elitist view about personal protection is shared by all Democrats and by many Republicans. Guns save people – especially poor people – but saving people’s lives is not part of the political agenda. What’s more important is disarming the population so that only the government has all the guns – as it was in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Of course, politicians are exempt from it. Secret Service can keep their guns. Politicians’ lives are valuable; more valuable than the lives of the poor people.
It is hard to imagine the tragedy that would have happened if the “pistol-packing mother” in the news above didn’t have a gun. Her son would have been robbed, and may be even killed. The robber would have gotten away, and then would have robbed another person. And another. And another. Criminals never stop. They only get stopped. The tragedy that would have happened, is happening everywhere in Europe. Every time there is a robbery, or a massacre like the recent ones in Norway and in Belgium, people’s lives would have been saved if there was one decent person with a gun. But there wasn’t. There were many decent people with no guns, and a criminal with a gun. And the police was minutes away.
Guns save lives. Especially poor people’s lives.

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denying women basic human rights

Written on December 21, 2011 by The Godfather

Biden Says the Taliban are Our Friends

If you’re old enough to remember or you studied it in a history class, Gerald Ford, in his debate with Jimmy Carter, made what many believe was a classic blunder. The media never let him or us forget it:

Ford incorrectly stated that Poland was “independent and autonomous” from the Soviet Union, though at the time the Soviet Union dominated Poland and much of Eastern Europe. When pressed, instead of reconsidering, Ford responded more firmly that “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” Ford’s misstatements were considered a major factor in his loss to Carter, and are cited again every four years as among the worst gaffes made in any televised political debate.

Now we have daily-gaff-prone Joseph Biden saying that that the Taliban isn’t an enemy of the United States. If they’re not an enemy of the US, then they must be four friends. And the media hardly bat an eye. Here’s what the Vice President said:
“Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy, because it threatens U.S. interests. If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.”So who’s trying to kill us? Who’s imposing Sharia law, denying women basic human rights, driving out Christians, burning churches, and beheading those who oppose them? “The Taliban engage in attacks against the civilian population. According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban were responsible for 2,477 civilian casualties [in Afghanistan] (76 percent of all casualties) in the first six months of 2010.” Al Qaeda also supported the Taliban with regiments of imported fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia.
But they’re our friends?
Biden believes that if we place nice with the Taliban that in the future they will not continue to force their agenda and kill us if we get in their way.
You may recall that we supported Osama Bin Laden when he and his band of merry men were fighting the former Soviet Union. How well did that work out?

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Muhammad abused a little six-year-old girl sexually

Objective: Undermine recruitment into Islam

Russ Jones - OneNewsNow - 12/20/2011 4:15:00 AM

A California-based Christian ministry is trying to educate students about Islam. Last week the organization reached some 6,000 students throughout the United States.

Dr. Gary Cass, president of DefendChristians.org, says his organization was active in both California and Florida last week, educating students on the teachings of Muhammad. Their objective? "What we're trying to do is just destroy Islam's ability to recruit by telling the truth about Muhammad," says Cass.

Entitled the "9-11 Defend Our Students" campaign, volunteers distribute leaflets to children who live in the neighborhood near a mosque.

"What do those mosques do? They recruit our kids and try to turn them into terrorists," states the ministry spokesman. "The reason why our kids are vulnerable to Islamic conversion is because the schools -- and even the churches, unfortunately -- will not tell the truth about Muhammad."

And the truth, Cass says, is a shocking reflection of a religion that is taking root in the U.S.

"You can see on the flyer we point out that Muhammad abused a little six-year-old girl sexually. Her name was Aisha," he explains. "A lot of black Americans are not aware that Muhammad owned black slaves and had a lot of derogatory things to say about black people."

Cass notes a handful of people, including senior citizens, can reach thousands of young people with the gospel and the truth about Muhammad in less than 30 minutes.

Mickey and Hitler could determine the next president of the United States

Dear Fellow American, Democrats, union members and their cronies in Wisconsin have launched an effort to remove Governor Scott Walker from office because of the responsible budget bill he signed earlier this year requiring union members to pay a small percentage towards their health care and retirement like everyone else. As the January 17 deadline to submit the 540,206 signatures needed to force a recall election nears, officials in Wisconsin delivered a major victory to the anti-Walker factions. Signatures from Mickey Mouse and Adolph Hitler will count! Wisconsin is a key battleground state with 10 electoral votes up for grabs, and the outcome of the Walker recall will predict whether it goes red or blue in 2012. This means Mickey and Hitler could determine the next president of the United States! It may seem funny at first, but this decision will impact all of us. Unions have created a special working class in this country and for too long we've allowed them to hold us hostage. The Obama administration has exacerbated the problem by doing their bidding for the past 3 years. Now we're stuck footing the bill for union members' health care, pensions and other benefits. And that means higher taxes. Defending Governor Walker's fiscally conservative agenda is our single opportunity to halt the Obama/unions big-government agenda before it gains momentum. If we're able to demonstrate that we can match the unions' deep pockets and defeat them at the ballot box, we'll head into 2012 elections poised for victory in all 50 states. This is an all hands on deck situation and time is running out. Please act today to defend Governor Walker and deliver a victory for limited government. Thank you in advance for your support. Sincerely, Peter M. Horkan Founder, Alliance for a Stronger Wisconsin

North Koreans are following the old Soviet script

Hell is Growing More Crowded While we hope that Christopher Hitchens was pleasantly surprised after his passing last week, there is little doubt among believers as to where North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il will be spending eternity after his passing. The Associated Press describes Kim as having, "a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine". They left out his fondness for starving millions of his citizens, forced labor camps, and brutal public executions. As Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch puts it: “North Korea under Kim Jong-Il has been a human rights hell on earth,” said Roth. “Kim Jong-Il ruled through fear generated by systematic and pervasive human rights abuses including arbitrary executions, torture, forced labor and strict limits on freedom of speech and association.” Though perhaps not always the most reliable source of information, Wikipedia has an exhaustive article about human rights abuses in North Korea. Here's an academic paper that presents the case for criminal prosecution for Kim, though such prosecution would have paled in comparison to his eternal sentence. The obvious question is regarding the next steps for this isolated and backwards worker's paradise (which just happens to have nuclear missiles). As the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Auslin puts it in National Review: For now, however, the North Koreans are following the old Soviet script for succession. Kim Jong-un has been named head of the official state funeral committee, thereby confirming his ascendancy for the moment. His work will begin after the funeral on December 28, when he will have to start consolidating his power; alternatively, we may begin to see hints that he is merely a figurehead, such as increased prominence of other leaders. Only if the regime itself is in danger of fissioning or being attacked by the oppressed people of North Korea will the situation on the peninsula change to any appreciable degree. What Asian and Western governments need to prepare for is some kind of military demonstration, such as a new nuclear test, a ballistic-missile test, or even a limited attack on South Korean territory or property, all of which have been the stock in trade of the Kim regime. As a means to prove that the new leadership is fully in control, as a warning to South Korea and the United States not to take advantage of the death of Kim Jong-il to push for regime change, or because of factional in-fighting among the North Korean leadership to jockey for position, an act of aggression is very likely after Kim Jong-Il’s funeral. The Obama administration, along with its South Korean ally, needs to make clear now that any such destabilizing actions will be met with a response. Sadly, there is little chance that Kim Jong-il’s death means the dawn of a new spring in North Korea. Its terrorized and brutalized populace will have to endure more horrors at the hands of the third Kim to rule since the end of World War II, and Asia and the rest of the world will continue to wait nervously for another threat to their safety and security. Now may not be the time to try and weaken the new government, but neither is it time to relax our guard. Our wait-and-see attitude is justified only if we are prepared to strike back against unprovoked aggression and retain the moral compass to condemn the regime for the barbarity that it is. For the time being, we must resign ourselves to perusing Kim Jong-Il's autobiography, which is so full of socialist tripe you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was ghostwritten by Ted Kennedy.

National Defense Authorization Act

Written on December 19, 2011 by da Tagliare

Storing 7 Days of Food Could Send You to Gitmo Indefinitely

If President Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act that is sitting on his desk, it will give him the power to arrest any American citizen and send them to Guantanamo Bay without any charges, without a trial and the imprisonment can be indefinite.
Contained in the over 1800 pages of the massive bill is a provision that gives the military the power to indefinitely detain any suspected terrorists without filing charges.  Since the President is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, that provision also gives him the same powers.
The real danger lies in the government’s definition of what a suspected terrorist is.
According to Sen Rand Paul (R-KY),

“We’re talking about American citizens who can be taken from the United States and sent to a camp at Guantanamo Bay and held indefinitely.  There are laws on the books right now that characterize who might be a terrorist: someone missing fingers on their hands is a suspect, according to the Department of Justice. Someone who has guns, someone who has ammunition that is weatherproofed, someone who has more than seven days of food in their house can be considered a potential terrorist. If you are suspected because of these activities, do you want the government to have the ability to send you to Guantanamo Bay for indefinite detention?”

Paul says this is why he and twelve other senators voted against the bill, because they saw the dangerous implications of this provision which was designed to give the military certain powers during the current conflict with al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
A number of Democrats deny that the bill contains any provision that would allow for the indefinite detainment of American citizens without due process of law.  However, if you look at the list of the Dems making the denials, you will quickly discover that they are the loyal minions of the president and have already proven that they will lie and pervert the law so as to support Obama.
The truly frightening aspect of this is that Obama has placed a number of provisions in place to set the stage for his dictatorial takeover of the country.  Once he touches the ink to this piece of legislation, he will have the power to accuse anyone who opposes him of being a suspected terrorist and have them sent to Gitmo or some other military facility where they can be held without any formal charges for as long as the government determines that we are still at hostility with terrorism.
This provision is another nail in the coffin of free America, mark my word.

Read more: Storing 7 Days of Food Could Send You to Gitmo Indefinitely | Godfather Politics http://godfatherpolitics.com/2686/storing-7-days-of-food-could-send-you-to-gitmo-indefinitely/#ixzz1h0QwqzPL

Written on December 19, 2011 by Giacomo

Mr. President – Put Up or Shut Up!

The controversy over Barack Obama’s legal eligibility has been going on for three years and it is still not resolved.  Obama says that there are no grounds for a controversy and he wishes it would go away.
The White House has produced three separate pieces of documentation, each of which has only added more doubt to the issue rather helping to resolve it.  That latest documentation, a photocopy of a Hawaiian birth certificate that has two different type sets used on it along with wording that was not used until years later.
A number of people have been challenging Obama to give them access to the original documentation in Hawaii that would prove one way or another if he is truly eligible to hold the office of President or not.  With his claiming that he wants this to go away, you would expect him to release access to the real documentation to settle the matter, but for reasons that only cause the public to doubt his eligibility, he continues to refuse access and only attacks those demanding access and proof.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is one of those demanding to see the real records before he will authorize Obama’s name to be placed on the 2012 ballot in his county.  Maricopa County is Arizona’s largest county with nearly 4 million people.  Instead of providing Sheriff Joe with access to the documentation in Hawaii, Obama has instructed the Department of Justice to go after Sheriff Joe and do their best to discredit him and force him out of office.The DOJ has now filed charges of civil rights violations involving racial profiling for the way Sheriff Joe actively leads his department in the fight against illegal trafficking of drugs and people across the Mexican border and into his county.  But how does one carry out his legal duties to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs when over 95% of it involves Hispanics without using some form of racial profiling?
When Sheriff Joe initiated his investigation into Obama’s eligibility, a number of other county sheriffs across the nation were watching to see what happened and if they should join in the investigation.  Now that the DOJ has launched their attack on Arpaio and his department, a number of those watching are having second thoughts about following Sheriff Joe’s footsteps.
It’s time the general public demands that Obama provide access to the real documentation (if it exists).   We all need to be telling him to either put up or shut up and get the heck out of the White House.

Read more: Mr. President – Put Up or Shut Up! | Godfather Politics http://godfatherpolitics.com/2683/mr-president-put-up-or-shut-up/#ixzz1h0Q1MOBk

risk of increased tension in the region

Kim Jong-II was 'the worst sort of dictator': Dutch minister

Monday 19 December 2011
North Korean leader Kim Jong-II was 'one of the worst types of dictator,' Dutch foreign minister Uri Rosenthal said on Monday, in reaction to the news of the Korean leader's death.
'He did not allow the North Korean people any freedom whatsoever and was responsible for heightened tension in the region,' Rosenthal said in a statement.
Rosenthal said that like the rest of the international community, he is concerned about the possibility of a power struggle in North Korea. 'We have to take into account there is a risk of increased tension in the region,' he said. 'The Netherlands and European Union are keeping a close eye on developments.'
In particular, Rosenthal said he hoped discussions on removing the nuclear threat between North Korea, the US, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan could now continue.
For more on the situation in North Korea, see our international news section

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00,000 New Jobs

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How to Create 600,000 New Jobs Simple. According to House Minority Leader, Former Speaker of the House (and certified one-percenter) Nancy Pelosi, extending unemployment benefits would “make a difference of 600,000 jobs to our economy.” Oh where to start. Nobel Prize winner and alleged economist Paul Krugman wrote in his textbook "Macroeconomics" (in 2009): Public policy designed to help workers who lose their jobs can lead to structural unemployment as an unintended side effect. . . . In other countries, particularly in Europe, benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker’s incentive to quickly find a new job. Generous unemployment benefits in some European countries are widely believed to be one of the main causes of “Eurosclerosis,” the persistent high unemployment that affects a number of European countries. In fairness, Ms. Pelosi has never been portrayed as an economics guru (unlike the far-left Krugman), but she does have quite a history of making grand pronouncements which simply defy logic. For example, Pelosi claimed that passing ObamaCare would result in the creation of four MILLION new jobs (including 400,000 immediately upon passage). We didn't know there were that many lobbyists on Earth, but we could be mistaken. According to CNSnews: Pelosi said President Barack Obama will not sign the Republican bill to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance benefits, which passed on Tuesday. That legislation is paid for by extending the standing pay freeze for federal workers for one more year, mandating that federal workers make larger contributions to their pensions, and raising the insurance rates for mortgages held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Millionaires would also be banned from collecting unemployment benefits and food stamps under the bill. Furthermore, Medicare Part B and D premiums would go up for those in the high-income bracket. On the other hand, Democrats who rejected the House legislation want the bill to be paid for by raising taxes on the rich, which they define as people making more than $1 million a year. The president will not sign the bill that the Republicans passed –"having issues that have nothing to do with the payroll tax, like the Keystone Pipeline and again [a] diminished, diminished proposal for the payroll tax cut and in the unemployment insurance,” Pelosi told reporters. “Under the Republican bill, 1 million Americans will lose there unemployment insurance in January; 2 million by February; and the difference between the president's bill and the Republican bill is 3 million people losing their unemployment insurance.” “After avoiding the issue and opposing a payroll tax cut, Republicans reluctantly passed through the House a bill that was doomed from the start,” said Pelosi. “It had the seeds of its own destruction there.” But back to Pelosi's laughable claim. Here's a terrific analysis on the actual numbers from Ed Morrissey: This is a fairly testable hypothesis. The last time Congress extended the jobless benefits was a year ago, in another crunch-time compromise between Republicans and Democrats on Pennsylvania Avenue. Since then, the economy has added about 1.5 million jobs — an average of 125,000 a month, which is only enough to keep up with population growth. Assuming that Pelosi’s correct and we subtract 600,000 from the 2011 numbers, the Obama adminstration’s economic policies would account for growth that falls well below that of population maintenance — at only 75,000 per month. The number and the claim is absurd. Whatever short-term economic benefit arises from giving benefits to the unemployed is not enough to generate enough marketplace demand to create 600,000 jobs, nor would its absence be enough to eliminate 600,000 jobs, either. Its absence would probably force the long-term unemployed into part-time and low-paying jobs to maintain themselves, which would not only service much of that same demand, it would also not take capital from the future — where its absence will cost jobs. There are social and humanitarian reasons for providing unemployment benefits, but job creation and economic growth are not among them. We wonder if anyone has asked Ms. Pelosi what the impact would be if we passed a bill allowing unemployment benefits for life? According to her logic, that should create 400 kabillion gazillion jobs, or just about the number required for the Obama economy to fully recover.

No More Lip-Service: Impeach Obama Now!
     Our elected officials sit in their elite salons and parlors in Washington and plot and scheme. If you were a fly on the wall, it would come as no great shock to hear one of them actually chortle and proclaim, cigar and drink in hand: "Of course Obama SHOULD be impeached, but let's not upset the apple cart. Life is good for us here in Washington. Let's just keep talking tough, do nothing, and those idiotic rubes in flyover country will vote us back into office anyway."

     It's time to send our leaders in Congress a message... that's NOT going to happen!

     And while they plot and scheme, Barack Obama continues to usurp the authority of the legislature and the judiciary, he continues to compromise our national sovereignty. He demagogues and tries to divide us by race and class. He undermines our Judeo-Christian heritage whenever the opportunity presents itself and he repeatedly violates Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution, which requires that he “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

     As columnist Ben Johnson wrote: "Barack Obama has been flirting with impeachment like Bill Clinton at a sorority on open bar night." It's high time we give Obama what he's been asking for, and yet, our Republican leaders refuse to do what must be done for the good of the country... they refuse to hold this 21st century dictator to account... they refuse to stop the rampant lawlessness of the Obama Regime.  They refuse to IMPEACH BARACK OBAMA.

     We say, enough is enough. There's only one solution. It's time to let our so-called Republican leaders know that upsetting the apple cart is REQUIRED and failure to heed that demand will have career destroying consequences.

     The time to speak in one resounding voice is upon us. It is now. It's time to send our elected officials a clear message: If you love the the halls and corridors of power in Washington D.C. and you want to stay... then you must remove Barack Obama from office. Remove Barack Obama or we will remove you in 2012.

FEMA is preparing for a national emergency

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FEMA’s Emergency Camps: Hiring Has Begun

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Alex Jones has posted a “Help Wanted” advertisement issued by a private firm that is working for the U.S. government, namely, FEMA. The document reads as follows:

KBR is establishing a National Quick Response Team for our current Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) work, and for anticipated future contracts. Upon completion of evaluation, certain subcontractors may be invited to establish a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with pre-established lease rates and terms and conditions. The Continental US will be broken up into five regions as indicated in the map below Services will be required in each State within each region.
Anticipated Project Requirements:
Establish services listed below within 72 hours for initial set-up and respond within 24 hours for incremental services. This is a CONTINGENCY PROJECT and it should be stressed that lead times will be short with critical requirements due to the nature of emergency responses.
Subcontractors must be flexible and able to handle multiple, shifting priorities in an emergency environment. Supply lines needed must be short but not necessarily pre-positioned.

But wait! There’s more!

Temporary Fencing and Barricades
Subcontractor will mobilize, transport, erect, install and demobilize temporary fencing, barricades, and associated equipment according to federal, state and local laws, codes and manufacturer installation instructions. The Subcontractor shall be able to mobilize and deploy key personnel(s) within four (4) hours of NTP to meet with KBR Site Manager at the Responder Support Camp (RSC) site in order to finalize the site design plan and acquire site specific design requirements and layout.
Number of linear footage:
Approximately 2,300LF for a 301 person camp after 36 hours of NTP
Approximately 3,600LF for 1,000 person camp after 72 hours of NTP

Step by step, FEMA is preparing for a national emergency.
What do you suppose this emergency will be? Why will camps be necessary? Who will be assigned to these camps? Why? For how long?
Why will the camps require fencing?
All this from the wonderful folks who gave New Orleans protection from Katrina.
Your friends and relatives will scoff at all this. You are a conspiracy nut, they will think. You are inventing impossible stories.
FEMA should be open about this. The outfit should explain to Congress why it is doing all this. But no one in Congress knows about this. That is my point. If this has an acceptable explanation, let’s hear it. But FEMA says nothing.
FEMA has even provided a map of the United States, which is divided into five regions. To see which region you will be located in, click the link.

EPA's War on Coal

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On Monday, EPA will  finalize the "Utility MACT" rule, by far the largest
job-destroying Economic Train Wreck regulation that will raise energy prices
nationwide and cost communities across the country high-paying jobs. 

Visit our Action Center at
http://actformining.org/national-actions/stopMACT/ and urge Congress to stop
EPA's Utility MACT Rule

EPA needs to reconsider its approach to the Utility MACT rule as well as the
various EPA Train Wreck regulations threatening America's mining industry.
Our nation's electric reliability and our ability to create jobs & grow our
economy during the economic downturn is at risk. 

According to the North American Reliability Corporation, EPA is "triggering
'an unprecedented resource-mix change,' with utilities switching to natural
gas from coal..." NERC predicts another 36 to 59 gigawatts of power will go
offline by 2018. That could mean the loss of a quarter of all coal-fired
capacity.

Furthermore, "the nation's power grid will be stressed in ways never before
experienced" and reliability depends on building new power plants to cover
the losses. But the electric industry has only three years to comply under
one EPA regulation known as the utility MACT rule, which is meant to target
mercury and is due to be finalized soon, "while many other destructive rules
are in the works."

To justify these disastrous economic consequences, EPA is arguing these
rules are necessary to protect public health, but studies have shown the
Utility MACT rule will provide very little in terms of health benefits while
imposing substantial costs on American consumers.

We need you to contact Congress at
http://actformining.org/national-actions/stopMACT/ and urge them to stop
EPA's new rule. During this current economic downturn, Congress needs to
ensure any new regulations protect consumers, help create high-paying
American jobs and make sure America has access to reliable and affordable
electricity. 

Visit http://actformining.org/national-actions/stopMACT/ to contact Congress
and make mining's voice heard!

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KUHNER: Obama’s Watergate

Officials cover up culpability for gun smuggling and murder

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

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The Washington Times

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Illustration: Rangel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

A year ago this week, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. He died protecting his country from brutal Mexican gangsters. Two AK-47 assault rifles were found at his death site. We now know the horrifying truth: Agent Terry was killed by weapons that were part of an illegal Obama administration operation to smuggle arms to the dangerous drug cartels. He was a victim of his own government. This is not only a major scandal; it is a high crime that potentially reaches all the way to the White House, implicating senior officials. It is President Obama’s Watergate.
Operation Fast and Furious was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and overseen by the Justice Department. It started under the leadership of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Fast and Furious enabled straw gun purchases from licensed dealers in Arizona, in which more than 2,000 weapons were smuggled to Mexican drug kingpins. ATF claims it was seeking to track the weapons as part of a larger crackdown on the growing violence in the Southwest. Instead, ATF effectively has armed murderous gangs. About 300 Mexicans have been killed by Fast and Furious weapons. More than 1,400 guns remain lost. Agent Terry likely will not be the last U.S. casualty.
Mr. Holder insists he was unaware of what took place until after media reports of the scandal appeared in early 2011. This is false. Such a vast operation only could have occurred with the full knowledge and consent of senior administration officials. Massive gun-running and smuggling is not carried out by low-level ATF bureaucrats unless there is authorization from the top. There is a systematic cover-up.
Congressional Republicans, however, are beginning to shed light on the scandal. Led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Rep. Darrell Issa of California, a congressional probe is exposing the Justice Department’s rampant criminality and deliberate stonewalling. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, who heads the department’s criminal division, helped craft a February letter to Congress that denied ATF had ever walked guns into Mexico. Yet, under pressure from congressional investigators, the department later admitted that Mr. Breuer knew about ATF gun-smuggling as far back as April 2010. In other words, Mr. Breuer has been misleading Congress. He should resign - or be fired.
Instead, Mr. Holder tenaciously insists that Mr. Breuer will keep his job. He needs to keep his friends close and potential witnesses even closer. Another example is former acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson. Internal documents show Mr. Melson directly oversaw Fast and Furious, including monitoring numerous straw purchases of AK-47s. He has admitted to congressional investigators that he, along with high-ranking ATF leaders, reassigned every “manager involved in Fast and Furious” after the scandal surfaced on Capitol Hill and in the press. Mr. Melson said he was ordered by senior Justice officials to be silent regarding the reassignments. Hence, ATF managers who possess intimate and damaging information - especially on the role of the Justice Department - essentially have been promoted to cushy bureaucratic jobs. Their silence has been bought, their complicity swept under the rug. Mr. Melson has been transferred to Justice’s main office, where he serves as a “senior adviser” on forensic science in the department’s Office of Legal Policy. Rather than being punished, Mr. Melson has been rewarded for his incompetence and criminal negligence.
Mr. Holder and his aides have given misleading, false and contradictory testimony on Capitol Hill. Perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power - these are high crimes and misdemeanors. Mr. Holder should be impeached. Like most liberals, he is playing the victim card, claiming Mr. Issa is a modern-day Joseph McCarthy conducting a judicial witch hunt. Regardless of this petty smear, Mr. Holder must be held responsible and accountable - not only for the botched operation, but for his flagrant attempts to deflect blame from the administration.
Mr. Holder is a shameless careerist and a ruthless Beltway operative. For years, his out-of-control Justice Department has violated the fundamental principle of our democracy, the rule of law. He has refused to prosecute members of the New Black Panthers for blatant voter intimidation that took place in the 2008 election. Career Justice lawyers have confessed publicly that Mr. Holder will not pursue cases in which the perpetrators are black and the victims white. States such as Arizona and Alabama are being sued for simply attempting to enforce federal immigration laws. Mr. Holder also opposes voter identification cards, thereby enabling fraud and vote-stealing at the ballot box. What else can we expect from one who, during the Clinton administration, helped pardon notorious tax cheat Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists?
Mr. Holder clearly knew about Fast and Furious and did nothing to stop it. This is because the administration wanted to use the excuse of increased violence on the border and weapons-smuggling into Mexico to justify tighter gun-control legislation. Mr. Holder is fighting ferociously to prevent important internal Justice documents from falling into the hands of congressional investigators. If the full nature of his involvement is discovered, the Obama presidency will be in peril.
Fast and Furious is even worse than Watergate for one simple reason: No one died because of President Nixon’s political dirty tricks and abuse of government power. But Brian Terry is dead; and there are still 1,500 missing guns threatening still more lives.
What did Mr. Obama know? Massive gun-smuggling by the U.S. government into a foreign country does not happen without the explicit knowledge and approval of leading administration officials. It’s too big, too risky and too costly. Mr. Holder may not be protecting just himself and his cronies. Is he protecting the president?
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute.