o'fast'n wrong - DOJ coverup? Eric Holder & ATF Again!! 'Project Gun Walker'-'Project Gunrunner'-'Fast & Furious'

From: ConservativeActionAlerts  Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 Subject: Congress Scolds Eric Holder Over ATF Again!!

Original Message from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).
     I believe in the Second Amendment rights that are guaranteed to us by the United States Constitution and whenever those rights being compromised, I want to alert my friends to that.  President Obama and his administration are against those Second Amendment rights.
     Please take a moment to read and act on this important message about keeping Congress, Eric Holder and President Obama accountable for their actions.
     Sincerely, Tony Adkins, Conservative Action Alerts 

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     My Gun Rights Ally, Whenever a high government scandal breaks, the finger-pointing begins.  Eventually, someone takes the "hit" as the "fall guy" so no one higher up the chain of command is indicted.  All reports said that ATF Acting Director, Kenneth Melson, was "the anointed one" to take the hit for Eric Holder and Barack Obama.
      Melson was to be the "scapegoat" for the mis-directions of the ATF Scandal "Fast and Furious" or "Project Gunrunner." 
     But guess what, Mr. Melson decided NOT to play "the Obama Game!"
     In fact, Melson gave secret testimony to Congressional investigators over the holiday, July 4th!
     Going against the rules of his own ATF Bureau, Melson brought his own private lawyer.  He told Congress in a secret deposition that the Department of Justice has falsely leaked stories to the press that he was about to resign, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley and U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa revealed.
     This situation has now put Mr. Melson at odds with Eric Holder.  A meeting scheduled between Eric Holder and Andrew Traver did not happen this past week.  But the July 4th "shocker" might give reason for Barack Obama to move forward in the confirmation process of anti-gun zealot Andrew Traver --- sooner, rather than later.  We cannot let that happen!
     Following the interview with Melson, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, in a 'SCORCHING' letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, expressed their deep concerns about the involvement of the DEA, FBI, and other agencies - including the possibility that they were aware of and even working with people connected to Fast and Furious suspects.
     Acting Director Melson made key assertions to Congressional investigators:

     Contrary to denials by the Justice Department, Melson acknowledged the agents had in fact witnessed transfers of weapons from straw purchasers to third parties without following the guns any further.

     The ATF group executing Operation Fast and Furious had been placed under the direction of the Arizona U.S. Attorney's office.

     In the shocking July 5th letter to Holder, part of it reads: "...His (Melson) interview had originally been scheduled through the Justice Department to occur on July 13 in the presence of DOJ and ATF counsel.  As you know, however, under our agreement Department witnesses who choose to attend a voluntary interview with their own lawyer (like Melson did on July 4) are free to exercise that right rather than participate with counsel representing the Department's interests."
     "After being made aware of that provision of our agreement, Acting Director Melson chose to exercise that right and appeared with his own lawyer. We are disappointed that no one had previously informed him of that provision of the agreement.  Instead, Justice Department officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress.  This is yet another example of why direct communications with Congress are so important and are protected by law."
     Acting Director Melson's cooperation was extremely helpful to the congressional investigation.
     According to Melson, he and ATF's senior leadership team moved to reassign every manager involved in Fast and Furious, from the Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations down to the Group Supervisor, after learning the facts in those documents.
     Additional wording in their letter said:
     "Mr. Melson also said he was not allowed to communicate to Congress the reasons for the reassignments.  He claimed that ATF's senior leadership would have preferred to be more cooperative with our inquiry much earlier in the process.  However, he said that Justice Department officials directed them not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress. The result is that Congress only got the parts of the story that the Department wanted us to hear."
     "If this account is accurate, then ATF leadership appears to have been effectively muzzled while the DOJ sent over false denials and buried its head in the sand.  That approach distorted the truth and obstructed our investigation.  The Department's inability or unwillingness to be more forthcoming served to conceal critical information that we are now learning about the involvement of other agencies, including the DEA and the FBI." 

     The Committee continues to gather evidence, despite the stonewalling!  Now, through the direct testimony of Melson, it strongly suggests that even Holder knew about the illegalities of this project.  There is the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in such activities.
     Here is the "bombshell" paragraph from the letter:
     "It is one thing to argue that the ends justify the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns.  Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify."
     The Department of Justice, under the direction of Eric Holder, prevented ATF from being forthcoming and responsive to questions from Congress.  This is the context in which Mr. Melson decided to submit to an on-the-record interview with private counsel, pursuant to a Congressional agreement with the Department.
     The damaging letter from the Congressional Committee went on to say:
     "Technically, Mr. Melson no longer enjoys the due process protections afforded to career officials.  Given his testimony, unless a permanent director is confirmed, it would be inappropriate for the Justice Department to take action against him that could have the effect of intimidating others who might want to provide additional information to the Committees."
     Obviously, Melson will not willingly be "the fall guy" for this botched operation, even though I am sure that Eric Holder wants him to take it, instead of Holder himself---or even "higher up."  However, now that Melson has somewhat turned against his Department of Justice bosses in this secret testimony, that might give Mr. Obama a reason to fire him and move forward in the confirmation process of Andrew Traver.  NO WAY! 

      In a strange "twist of events," now Grassley and Issa seemingly are on Melson's side.
      Their letter ended by saying: "For now, the Office of Inspector General is still conducting its review, and we are still conducting ours.  Knowing what we know so far, we believe it would be inappropriate to make Mr. Melson the fall guy in an attempt to prevent further congressional oversight."
     Just how far up the chain-of-command does this investigation need to go?
     Now that the ATF Acting Director has spoken, apparently up to Eric Holder!  Maybe even further than that!  Let's help Congress to get to the bottom of this.
     If the anti-gun Andrew Traver is confirmed, valuable follow-up testimony from Melson might be lost, but I am sure that Traver, given his anti-gun reputation, will not be forthcoming with information, either.
     Will you help us to get to the bottom of this?  Please fax and help us right away!  Our communications to every U.S. Senator will tell them the truth; and will implore them that Mr. Traver is NOT the one who should be confirmed!  Please respond today!

     Thank you for your care and concern.
Respectfully, Alan M. Gottlieb, Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (http://CCRKBA.org)
     P. S. Mr. Traver's ANTI-GUN history goes way beyond just fighting gangs. He, along with the backing of his boss, Barack Obama --- wants you to forfeit your guns under the disguise of disarming gangs.  THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS IS A UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONALLY-GUARANTEED RIGHT GIVEN TO US BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS!   If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Dept Code 6574, Liberty Park, 12500 NE 10th Place,
Bellevue, WA 98005 -- Contributions are not tax deductible.  The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911 or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org

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From http://www.lifeandlibertypac.org/

ERIC HOLDER'S GUNRUNNER SCANDAL FUNDED WITH $10 MILLION OF OBAMA'S STIMULUS MONEY

ERIC HOLDER'S POORLY EXECUTED ATTEMPT TO DEMOLISH THE SECOND AMENDMENT

There is a new little wrinkle in Attorney General Eric Holder's claims of ignorance regarding the Gunrunner Scandal – Holder's Department of Justice requested and received $10 million in funding specifically for "Project Gunrunner" as part of Obama's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the Stimulus Bill.  The damning evidence can be found on page 16 of the Act, under the heading "Department of Justice" and subheading "Office of Justice Programs"!  According to the Library of Congress the section reads as follows:
     "For an additional amount for 'State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance', $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to 'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses' for the ATF Project Gunrunner."
     Eric Holder not only knew about Gunrunner, he requested $10 million to fund it.  The only question now is, how much did Barack Obama know and when did he know it? 
     "You've got people who are dead.   You have weapons that are missing and you have an administration that doesn't seem to want to take any accountability for it," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
     Like something out of a bad conspiracy movie, it is beginning to appear that Holder agreed to the now infamous "Gunrunner/Gun Walking/Fast & Furious" program in part to help Second Amendment hating Leftists who sought to impose gun control by "proving" that law abiding American gun shops were responsible for Mexican gang violence.
     The plan might have worked brilliantly were it not for one murdered U.S. border patrol agent and a handful of dedicated ATF agents brave and honorable enough to blow the whistle on their own organization's shameful sellout of the U.S. Constitution.
     Even now, as the true cost and body count resulting from Holder's betrayal become evident, the Left just isn't ready to give up.  Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said in a statement that "no legitimate examination of this issue will be complete without analyzing our nation's gun laws, which allow tens of thousands of assault weapons to flood into Mexico from the United States every year, including fifty caliber sniper rifles, multiple AK variants, and scores of others."  Rep. Cummings apparently does not care that it was the U.S. Government, not its citizens, who sent these guns – in violation of standing U.S. law – to Mexico in the first place.  Anything to kill the Second Amendment – even killing our own brave border patrol field agents!   
     As the damning evidence and criminal implications mount, Eric Holder's Department of Justice seems intent upon stonewalling – adding contempt of Congress to the possible list of charges levied against the ATF and DOJ.
     ATF supervisors, acting as Holder's "yes men" and co-conspirators have already been caught red handed in a web of lies poured upon a suspicious Congress and a shocked nation.   While [LIARS!]--> supervisors told the House Oversight Committee that no guns were ever allowed across the border, whistle blowing ATF field agents have provided ample evidence to the contrary.  For every document the ATF powerbrokers have refused to turn over, brave agents-on-the-ground have turned over their own records, including emails from the very supervisors denying "Project Gun Walker" (now being called "Project Gunrunner" by the mainstream media) which, in the higher-ups' own words and directives, confirms the entire gun walking operation.
     ATF supervisors, surprised that their lies had been exposed, are now refusing to turn documents over to House Oversight Chairman Chairman Darrell Issa's investigators, claiming the need for redaction of sensitive and classified information.  Chairman Issa has made it clear that he wants these documents unmolested.  But given the current state of our criminal government, it is doubtful he will receive the evidence any time soon, if at all.  We must stand up for our rights before a corrupt Eric Holder and tyrannical Barack Obama seize our guns and our liberty without any hope of restoration or renewal.
     BACKGROUND: ERIC HOLDER'S LONG EXPERIENCE WITH GUN RUNNERS: Holder has been defending a Columbian gun running scam since 2007
     The DOJ/ATF "Gun Walker" scandal isn't the first time Eric Holder's name has come up in association with gun runners and terrorist organizations.  Just a few years ago Holder acted as defense attorney for one of the largest gun running scandals in recent history.  In 2007, then private attorney Eric Holder defended the group that funneled $1.7 million into the Columbian group AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) – a U.S. designated terrorist organization.   In addition to funding, Chiquita International Brands (CIB) helped the group illegally import over 3,000 AK-47s and 5 million rounds of ammunition into a country ripped apart by drug wars.   And Eric Holder not only defended CIB, he initially argued to the court that CIB had done nothing wrong.  When that did not work, he helped CIB negotiate a relatively small fine and eliminate legal penalties for the CIB employees who facilitated the illicit weapons transactions.
     Now it comes to light that Eric Holder's own U.S. Department of Justice, through its reporting agency the ATF, instituted a policy of assisting in the illegal export of guns to Mexican drug cartels.  ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agents reportedly not only turned a blind eye toward illegal gun sales, field agents were forced by superiors to actively facilitate the transfers [aka 'violate the law'.]   And in at least one case, that of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the cartels used those "gun walked" weapons to murder U.S. officers.
     In his recent testimony before Congress, Eric Holder claimed absolutely no knowledge of the "Gun Walker" program.  But given his previous work with gun runners, it is not far-fetched to imagine that Holder not only knew, but had a large hand in the program.
     Frankly, the ongoing DOJ/ATF "Gun Walker" scandal represents only the latest in a long line of disgraces associated with Attorney General Eric Holder, including numerous instances of his refusal to enforce or even abide by the law, such as the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, the ACORN Voter corruption and funding scandals, federal court orders regarding "ObamaCare" and Congressional subpoenas, and his shocking dereliction of duty regarding the Defense of Marriage Act.   
     Rather than stand as the "top cop" and ultimate sentinel and protector of our nation's rule of law, Holder seems to be far more interested in traducing the law to suit his own cronies, radical friends, colleagues, business associates – plus random "clients" and high bidders.   
     How much longer will we tolerate corruption and outright trampling of the Constitution from America's highest law enforcement office?  Our current Attorney General is not fit to lead the Department of Justice.  ERIC HOLDER MUST GO!
  Congressional hearings into the "Gun Walker" case are happening now, so we must act quickly to ensure the Department of Justice can be cleansed of the cancer destroying it from within.  Please fax Congress now!  And please consider making a donation to help Life & Liberty PAC continue our crucial whistleblowing operations.

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o'who wrote "Dreams of My Father" ... terrorist, anti-American, traitor, cop killer?

'Judge me by the people who surround me.' (o'manchurian, 2008)

Uploaded on to Youtube by Haggz51 on Mar 26, 2011 Bill Ayers claims he wrote Barack Obama's Autobiography "Dreams of My Father".  He said this in front of over 100 people at a Students for a Democratic Soctiety (SDS) event on March 24, 2011 at Montclair State University in New Jersey.

The same o'mentor says, "Cuba to Qatar Should Get to Vote for US President!" Radicals Ayers and Dohrn Preach One World Government in Lebanon (former fugitives) source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cuba-to-qatar-should-get-to-vote-for-us-president-radicals-ayers-and-dohn-preach-one-world-government-in-lebanon/ Revere1 commented on Youtube March 29, 2011: Classic liberal thinking on foreign policy: “A citizen of the world.” They’d prefer a one-world government to match. orkydorky commented on Youtube March 29, 2011: They should have been executed years ago for treason.

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 William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn – Friends of Barack Obama

 By John Howard , October 7, 2008

article source: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1389/pub_detail.asp

     I am a child of the ‘60s. I grew up with the radical twaddle of people like Tom Hayden (the Ted Baxter of the radical Left), and Romper Room Revolutionaries William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the Mao and Jiang Qing of adolescent radicalism. It was an overheated time made worse by nursery school traitors. It was a time during which the most pampered generation in the history of mankind went into an extended tantrum, punctuated only by the indulgent sighs of their misguided and clueless parents who still apparently thought the destructive impulses of their little darlings were somehow cute. Bill Ayers’ father, the late Thomas G. Ayers, Commonwealth Edison Chairman, Chicago grandee and symbol of muscular capitalism comes to mind. (Does anyone really believe that Ayers and Dohrn, wanted by the FBI, lived without family help and contact for 11 years “underground” in Chicago, the town his prominent father and powerful friends helped run and which has been described as having the distinction of being the only completely corrupt city in the nation? Please.)

     But Ayers and Dohrn demonstrated that low grade, child radicals, too, could be dangerous. Their simple minded nihilism was exceeded only by their almost complete ineptitude. But it is important to recall who they were and to know who they are because not only do they still exist and spread their poison, their very relationship to a national candidate for President should chill every thinking citizen. 

     An outgrowth of an earlier Leftist organization, the Students for a Democratic Society, was established in 1960 with a manifesto that represented a break with the traditional non-Communist Left. With Tom Hayden at its helm, it is unsurprising that it started as a shallow, self-dramatizing collection of students fresh from panty raids and looking for something more interesting to do. As the turmoil of the ‘60s continued to ferment, it became more and more strident, inflexible and radical in its project.

     After an internecine war in 1969, it split into different groups, among which was the Weathermen, a would-be domestic terrorist organization with little apparent purpose except to engage in violent acts in service of the national tantrum and of a badly articulated, simplistic ideology with little grounding in anything other than the romantic fantasy that they were somehow aiding “the Revolution.” The preening self-regard of its leaders was breathtaking. 

     Its primary activity was the issuance of dramatic “communiqués” from the underground in a grotesque imitation of stilted Soviet-speak, like a bad ‘50s movie, threatening violent action in instant mayhem. Its first act was a riot called “Days of Rage,” not surprisingly in Chicago. With its usual flair, the Weathermen announced that its protest would be the largest ever, but with its usual ineptitude, only a few hundred showed up. They blew up a statue honoring policemen who had been killed or injured in earlier riots. (They blew it up again when it was rebuilt several years later.) They burned cars, shattered windows and attacked policemen, injuring 28.

     Bernardine Dohrn, in an astonishing display of hubris, demonstrated her simple-mindedness and limited forensic gifts in her attempt to define their purpose: “We are building a communist organization to be part of the forces which build a revolutionary communist party to lead the working class to seize power and build socialism… We must further the study of Marxism-Leninism within the Weather Underground Organization. The struggle for Marxism-Leninism is the most significant development in our recent history. We discovered thru [sic] our own experiences what revolutionaries all over the world have found — that Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution, the revolutionary ideology of the working class, our guide to the struggle.” 

     History has now shown us the merit of that project as even those who knew it best and preserved it longest have rejected the moronic and evil ideology that was Marxism-Leninism – but not Ms. Dohrn and Mr. Ayers.

     Shortly after the Days of Rage riot, the Weathermen risibly “declared war” on the United States. The sheer pretentiousness of these junior Bolsheviks was vaguely laughable. But they were deadly serious. Dohrn constructed and planted an anti-personnel bomb containing heavy metal staples and metal projectiles on the window ledge of a police facility, killing one officer, Bryan V. McDonnell, and severely wounding and permanently blinding another, Robert Fogarty. Their families never recovered. Ayers laughingly and emphatically admitted his participation and Dohrn’s skill in placing the fatal bomb.

     In 1970, the Weatherman attacked New York City policemen with bombs and firebombed the home of a New York judge presiding over the criminal trial of black thugs who had wrapped themselves in the mantle of radicalism; a favorite ruse of the time. They went on to plant bombs at the United States Capital, the New York City Police Department and the Pentagon, all the time issuing taunting communiqués suggesting more attacks were on the way. Had it not all been so lethal, it would have had all the earmarks of children playing war in the back yard. It is a shame it was not so benign.

     Despite their later, self-serving statements that they really intended to harm only property, the evidence is clearly otherwise. In 1970, an explosion rocked Greenwich Village, destroying a beautiful, privately owned townhouse. The townhouse had been converted to a bomb factory and, demonstrating the ineptitude for which the Weathermen had become almost as legendary as their infantile communiqués, three of them blew themselves up while making bombs. It was a fitting end to the meaningless lives of Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, whose deaths stunned their colleagues but left the world a little cleaner. The fragmentation bombs they were making were intended for the murder of American soldiers at a dance at Fort Dix and for the destruction of a library at Columbia University.

     Who were these people? Children of privilege whose nihilistic, radical project was intended to destroy this nation. They were, and are, at root, evil. Commenting on the Charles Manson murders, Ms. Dohrn told her “collective:” "Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!" “Dig it”, indeed. The “belly” she was referring to contained Sharon Tate’s unborn child. What kind of perverted monster could find pleasure in the thought that a woman eight and one half months pregnant, on the eve of delivery, was killed and mutilated with a fork left sticking out of the unborn infant inher abdomen? That is the measure of Bernardine Dohrn and her consort, Bill Ayers, who attempted to suggest she was “kidding” when she made the statement. It is hard to imagine any context in which the “joke” would be comprehensible to anyone who is not unhinged by radical ideology. No, she wasn’t kidding. Anyone who could wantonly murder police officers with a bomb that shredded them like lettuce has no soul and could not be moved by the Manson Family’s savagery.

     And so it goes to this day. Dohrn’s latest ravings are of a piece with those of her past. In the July/August 2003 issue of the Monthly Review, she descended, yet again, into the pit of radicalism from which she never really emerged ranting about “American imperialism.” Fulminating about law enforcement and the reasonable effort by our government to keep its citizens, even those as unworthy and unthinkable as Bernardine Dohrn, safe. Gibbering about American “oppression.” Biting, yet again, the hand that protects her.

     Some things are not forgivable. There are some things for which one cannot atone. Treason is one. Betrayal of one’s country is another. Wanton murder, still another. But apparently there is forgiveness in Chicago. No one has ever accused the present Mayor Daley of an overabundance of grey matter. But he told the New York Times that he finds value in Ayers and Dohrn. He says Ayers “has done a lot of good in this city and nationally.” “People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life.” Mistakes? Deliberate, cold blooded murder is a “mistake?” Conspiracy to murder soldiers is a “mistake?” Mocking the murder and mutilation of an expectant mother on the verge of giving birth is a “mistake?”

     When Dohrn emerged from the miasma, she was offered a job at Sidley Austin, one of Chicago’s most prestigious law firms, even though she was denied a law license by the State of Illinois. The managing partner, Howard Trienans, a friend of Mr. Ayers’ father, thought she would make a fine addition to the firm. In the sort of dismissive sarcasm so favored by those who are not used to being contradicted, he said “She didn’t get her law license because she is stubborn. She wouldn’t say she was sorry.”  She didn’t say she was sorry, Mr. Trienans, because she isn’t. What more need be said? One wonders how understanding he might have been had one of her targets been Sidley Austin for representing the monopolistic AT&T, his most lucrative client. 

     Her fatuous narcissism continues to this day in her writings and defiant view that this nation that has brought freedom to the greatest number; this nation that is a beacon of hope to people throughout the world; this nation that nurtured the idea of liberty when there were none other to protect it from those to whom Ayers and Dohrn paid their fealty, is the major source of evil on the globe.

     It would be easy to dismiss Ayers and Dohrn as toothless relics of a forgotten age; witless simpletons reduced to legal clinics and the academy. But they are not sorry. And they still spread their poison. And they still have influence.

     Obama’s views on foreign policy did not happen in a vacuum. His disdain for the idea of American exceptionalism comes from the dangerous world view of the milieu from which he so recently emerged. His view of the military, America’s history and his opposition to war come from the environment in which he has immersed himself for these past 20 years; an environment sharply defined by Ayers, Dohrn and their allies and protectors. The New York Times would have us believe Obama and the Ayers hardly knew each other. Yet the exalted Mayor Daley knows them well in the hothouse of Chicago politics, and says so. Is it even remotely likely that an obscure state senator who lived three blocks from Dohrn and Ayers and was first introduced politically at their home does not? It hardly matters, though. They are cut from the same cloth.

     Knowing who Ayers and Dohrn were and are, we must ask ourselves: what sort of people would embrace them? What kind of people would excuse their acts and, more importantly, why? What decent person would welcome them into civil society? What does it say for a public official that he does not condemn them outright? What does it say of a public official that he would accept any help they might offer? That he is ignorant of history? That he is young? That he is naïve? Or is it because, when linked to others of his associations, he may sympathize with their twisted radicalism?

Family Security Matters Contributing Editor John W. Howard is a lawyer, specializing in corporate and business litigation who also founded a non-profit, public interest law firm specializing in First, Second and Tenth Amendment issues. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org.

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1st & 2nd Amendments - "On False Prophets, Demons and Demagogues"

"It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed.  Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained.  Quite the contrary. ... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression.  Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility.  The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint." -- Thomas I. Emerson
Source: The System of Freedom of Expression, 1970 (source: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Emerson.Quote.3FD0 & related: http://harrold.org/quotes)

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Last week, two friends and I were discussing my sense that there is a recent and sudden surge of leftist propaganda vilifying Tea-Party supporters and Conservatives generally, especially 'Consitutionalists', defenders of the 2nd Amendment, Pro-Life and States Rights advocates.

The rhetoric being hurled by prominent Democrat Party members and MSNBC muckrakers insinuates that insurrection, armed resistance, and violence is part-in-parcel with any anti-tax, anti-Big Government, anti-socialist speech ...translation:  anti-administration speech is verboten!

Having failed to marginalize the growing distrust of 'his' regime's plans to 'fundamentally transform' America, he and his fellow travelers' jack-boot fear-mongering exposes their fears of losing momentum in Congress before a repudiation at the polls on November 2nd.

Our conversations were spurred by their having visited this blog, watched some 'pundit' shows on Fox News and from some MSNBC spittle.  (They don't consider the likes of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann as biased commentators.)

I voiced concerns that demonizing Conservatives and Traditional American Values is merely a 'smoke screen' used to minimize publicity exposing the socialist democrat agenda of the current President and his policy co-conspirators.  Of particular objection by the other two are characterizations in cartoons that imply the the current President is 'out of his league' and that Conservative commentators unfairly mock his efforts to fix America's problems.

A case in point was a 'toon, shown above left, that was posted with a list of facts about the President's voting record on the 2nd Amendment.  The 'toon is a caricature which only exaggerates the profile of his bust.  The drawing, in fact, is a fair likeness of the man ... easily recognizable by most of the world's populace who've been repeatedly exposed to his many orchestrated public appearances brandished by the media ... especially TV.  Though he does have a tendency to jut his face up and outward leaning into a look reminiscent of ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini. 

It was my suggestion that the 'toon is not demeaning and certainly doesn't rise to the level of vehemence that was so often displayed by 'left leaning' media when it routinely "bashed" President Bush (II) with a relentless and monotonous negative mantra. (Except when they fearfully sought a leader to defend us from 'the evil East' post 9.11 when they would have willingly extolled a 'Vlad the Impaler' or "The Hammer" Martel.)   They suggested that the vitriolic attacks against Bush were deserved whereas the current President should not be the 'butt' of jokes.  They disagree that the current President has surrounded himself with communists, marxists and former radicals implied by this 'bumper sticker.'


The didn't agree that Bill Ayers is a friend of the current President now or in the past and denied strongly that the current President associates with communists, marxists or self described revolutionaries, ideologues, or an unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber.  Though I defer on understanding his relationships, it was my impression that the two may have been, at some point, mesmerized by "The One."

'Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.' -- 2008 [Videos of which are disappearing from the Net.  Why am I not surprised?]

It's not suprising that a new (Plum Book) hasn't been issued. The Plum Book is used to identify presidentially appointed positions within the Federal Government.

Discussing the 'health care' bill with one of the gentlemen led to an interesting take on the 'inalienable right' for all to have 'free' medical care .. when I said that it is my understanding of the Constitution that government has no business bestowing benefits on people at the expense of others nor should 'not accepting' government welfare be a 'criminal' offense.   The retort to my Constitution "theory" was that the Constitution needs to be changed!

The conversation brought to mind some old mean spirited political 'editorials' from presidential campaigns of old.  "The term "muckraker" was taken from the fictional character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, a man who was consigned to rake muck endlessly, never lifting his eyes from his drudgery." (quote source: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h920.html)  Then, "Theodore Roosevelt gave the muckrakers their creative name."

Now we have the likes of "Time" magazine's mouthpiece spitting venom like: "Time’s Klein: Beck, Palin Potentially Committing Sedition against U.S. Government; Heilemann Adds Limbaugh" using Chris Matthew's 'ivory tower' to denounce their opponents free speech rights. ... What self-debasing hypocrisy!

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/04/18/time-s-klein-beck-palin-potentially-committing-sedition-against-u-s-gover#ixzz0m5im54op

video source: http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdSUnzprVr


sedition, treason, inciting resistance to lawful authority, subversive,

Of course, like my two friends, the 'tired cliché' tactic of the "race card" had to be thrown in, weak defense that it is: "There are two things going on here and one thing is certainly that," Klein said. "One thing is he is African-American, but that his name is Barack Hussein Obama."  Klein's statements are perfect examples of the phrase "standing on feet of clay" as James Joyce coined, "They discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay, after placing him upon a pedestal."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/04/18/time-s-klein-beck-palin-potentially-committing-sedition-against-u-s-gover#ixzz0m5j4gzcT

Coincidentally, on Fr.23Apr10, Glenn Beck discussed two examples of vicious and personal political editorials from the 1800's ... see the video below:
"Glenn Beck Show - Friday April 23, 2010 - Free Speech Under Attack"
video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caRga07yOYw

Watch this at Fox News

examples: "..the 1800 election reached a level of personal animosity seldom equaled in American politics. The Federalists attacked the fifty-seven-year-old Jefferson as a godless Jacobin who would unleash the forces of bloody terror upon the land. With Jefferson as President, so warned one newspaper, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes." Others attacked Jefferson's deist beliefs as the views of an infidel who "writes aghast the truths of God's words; who makes not even a profession of Christianity; who is without Sabbaths; without the sanctuary, and without so much as a decent external respect for the faith and worship of Christians."

Jefferson called the Federalists a prigarchy, a play on the words "prig" and "aristocracy," .. . The Federalists ..  desperately exposed the President's alleged relations with his slave, Sally Hemings, as a national scandal." (quoted from http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jefferson/essays/biography/3)

Dozens and dozens of similar hateful public attacks have been levied against other Presidents and candidates since the earliest days of our Republic.  For those who support the current President, it would behoove them to dig a little deeper into American History beyond the MSNBC prattle.

As for those who are keeping an "arms length" relationship from and giving the current President 'plausible deniability' while they try, on his behalf, to vilify and discredit Americans who dissent from 'transforming America' let me suggest that they quickly review the failed play book of the former minister of the 'Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propagandaministerium'  in order to see their own future past.  Its followers believed also that their Führer was the Messiah that was destined to lead their country to greatness.

This administration's paranoia and its propensity for stealth and secrecy is exemplified by "Net Neutrality" legislation it is seeking.   Its provisions to stifle Free Speech and criticism on the Internet is far-reaching.  Once one media form is controlled, muzzling radio, print media, TV, even the pulpit is only a child's step away.  Satirical parodies like the one below may be censored as could your speech in blogs.

video source: http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdSUSUkUSU


Why would anyone, like Klein and his ilk, go "on the air" and make such preposterous statements about non-government citizenry?  Is it possible that a sinister plot has been hatched?  Recall that two of the Democrat candidates for the Presidency during 2008 referred, on several occasions, to "not wasting a crisis."  One of those persons was elected President of the United States.

Recognizing that he and most all of his cabinet, staff and 'front-men' in Congress, media mouthpieces,  and mentor George Soros are staunch anti-gun proponents.  What better way to "create a crisis" than to incite some crazy person to respond to the vicious propaganda and rumors being spread about like manure on a field that they could then use as an excuse to ram gun-control legislation through Congress.  It stinks yet it can fertilize the growth of a militant reaction which in turn would excuse 'crisis knee-jerk legislation', "Executive Action", and begin gun-confiscation not unlike that in Australia and England.   It only takes a spark to ignite a 'rush to judgement' which has never been seen in the U.S. outside the aberration in New Orleans during the Katrina crisis.

It is no accident that the worms of deceit and dissension are crawling out of the left's bag of tricks as part of a well choreographed 'spontaneous' media blitz.  Political action is usually preceded the laying of ground work among the electorate.  Failing to garner public support, legislators and government leaders hunt for any excuse to mobilize against their target.  What more self serving and sinister deception might be playing out before our very eyes and ears?

To force a pun, "They need to trigger a crisis."

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.  Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.  One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand   (related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4)

P.S. My favorite 2008 Presidential candidates, more or less in this order, were: Mike Huckabee, Alan Keyes, Fred Thompson, Chuck Baldwin and Ron Paul (issues not personality.)  Like many, I voted for the single 'last-man standing' opposition candidate, who regretfully didn't have a 'locked down' block of voters.

My friends opined: "Huckabee ...He's a cracker.  Keyes ...an Uncle Tom."  I remain nonplussed.  Obviously, the 60's term "The Man" has taken on a new meaning.

I plan to post some information on an alternate to the "straight up'n down" ballot system we use for all of our elections. There is an alternative voting scheme that allows you to vote for multiple candidates/issues and in order of preference. It might resolve frustrations that some of us have on being forced to vote for a single candidate who doesn't support our positions on issues and which could also address some of the concerns about the huge amounts of monies spent by candidates trying to become "king of the mountain."

P.S.S. Besides Signing The Health Care Bill, What Other Historical Event Has Occurred On March 23rd?

 

photo source: Barack Obama and the Flying Circus Source: Pravda.Ru
By Ivan Simic at http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/110071-0/

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