August 12, 2009 / by Rush Limbaugh
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RUSH: Now, what I have here is very long. I cannot read the entire thing. But there are summaries that I can read. This is a piece entitled, “What the Health Care Bill Actually Says,” and it was put together by John David Lewis. It is from the website Classical Ideals. John David Lewis is a professor of classics at Duke University, and here is how he introduces his analysis: “What does the bill, HR 3200, short-titled ‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,’ actually say about major health care issues? I here pose a few questions in no particular order, citing relevant passages and offering a brief evaluation after each set of passages.
“This bill is 1017 pages long. It is knee-deep in legalese and references to other federal regulations and laws. I have only touched pieces of the bill here. For instance, I have not considered the establishment of (1) ‘Health Choices Commissioner’ (Section 141); (2) a ‘Health Insurance Exchange,’ (Section 201), basically a government run insurance scheme to coordinate all insurance activity; (3) a Public Health Insurance Option (Section 221); and similar provisions. This is the evaluation of someone who is neither a physician nor a legal professional. I am citizen, concerned about this bill’s effects on my freedom as an American. I would rather have used my time in other ways — but this is too important to ignore. We may answer one question up front: How will the government … pay for all this?
“Higher taxes, more borrowing, printing money, cutting payments, or rationing services — there are no other options. We will all pay for this, enrolled in the government ‘option’ or not.” So, when we talk about how we’re going to pay for it, “How will the government … pay for all this?” it’s all of the following: “Higher taxes, more borrowing, printing money, cutting payments, or rationing services — there are no other options” to pay for it. “We will all pay for this, enrolled in the government ‘option’ or not.” The first question that he wanted to discover here is: “Will the plan ration medical care?” Then he cites the relevant passages from the bill and then evaluates the passages in real language, not the legalese that he found. This section, rationing medical care:
“1. This section amends the Social Security Act. 2. The government has the power to determine what constitutes an ‘applicable [medical] condition.’ 3. The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital. 4. This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted.” In other words, there’s nothing personal about this. That’s why Obama’s answer to the woman with the 100-year-old mother, “Are you gonna take into account the spunk and spirit, the will to live?” was, “I don’t think we can do that.” It’s going to be statistic based. “5. This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.”
There is no other way to analyze this section of the bill. “6. There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.” All this language is in this piece. The language from the bill is from the piece. I’m not just going to read that to you. I’m reading his evaluation, stripping away the legalese, what it all means. “7. The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318.” The next question that the classics professor at Duke researched is: “Will the plan punish Americans who try to opt out?” and then he gives the relevant portions from the bill as it’s written followed by his evaluation. Number one… Remember the question here is: “Will the plan punish Americans who try to opt out? … 1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code.
“2. Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax.” Now, this we know. We’ve seen this ourselves. “3. The IRS will be a major enforcement mechanism for the plan,” as written in this bill. The IRS will be a major enforcer. The next section that he analyzed: “What constitutes ‘acceptable’ coverage?” Because, in the previous passage the bill said: “Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax” So, what is “‘acceptable’ coverage”? Here are the relevant passages, sentences from the bill. “Evaluation of the passages. 1. The bill defines ‘acceptable coverage’ and leaves no room for choice in this regard. 2. By setting a minimum 70% actuarial value of benefits, the bill makes health plans in which individuals pay for routine services, but carry insurance only for catastrophic events, (such as Health Savings Accounts) illegal.”
Let me read that again: “1. The bill defines ‘acceptable coverage’ and leaves no room for choice in this regard. 2. By setting a minimum 70% actuarial value of benefits, the bill makes health plans in which individuals pay for routine services” out of their own pockets, “but carry insurance only for catastrophic events … illegal.” That is one of the solutions to the problem we have now. Pay for what you want — a standard checkup, a standard visit to the doctor — and catastrophic insurance for when that could break your bank. Doing that will be illegal in the House bill. In other words, paying for your own routine day-to-day services but only having insurance for catastrophic events will be illegal. The next section that our classics professor, an average citizen, was curious about: “”Will the PLAN destroy private health insurance? Here is what it requires, for businesses with payrolls greater than $400,000 per year. (The bill uses ‘contribution’ to refer to mandatory payments to the government plan.)
“Pages 149-150, SEC. 313, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS IN LIEU OF COVERAGE,” and then the relevant passages from the bill. Here is the evaluation of those passages. Again, what we’re talking about here is: “Will the PLAN destroy private health insurance?” “1. The bill does not prohibit a person from buying private insurance. 2. Small businesses — with say 8-10 employees — will either have to provide insurance to federal standards, or pay an 8% payroll tax. Business costs for health care are higher than this, especially considering administrative costs. Any competitive business that tries to stay with a private plan will face a payroll disadvantage against competitors who go with the government ‘option.’” Now, let me explain this. Small businesses, say eight-to-ten employees, will either have to provide insurance up “to federal standards.” If they don’t, they will pay an additional 8% payroll tax.
“Business costs for health care are higher than [what will be charged], especially considering administrative costs. Any competitive business that tries to stay with a private plan will face a payroll disadvantage against competitors who go with the government ‘option.’” If they go to the government option, they’re fine. If you don’t and you stay private, you’re going to pay a penalty. The penalty will make it ridiculous and stupid business-wise to stay with your private plan. Therefore, you will — your small business will — be forced out of private insurance onto the government option. “3. The pressure for business owners to terminate the private plans will be enormous,” the financial pressure, the business pressure. “4. With employers ending plans, millions of Americans will lose their private coverage, and fewer companies will offer it.”
Now, none of this is anything new. Everybody showing up at these town halls knows this. This is nothing that has already been learned when discussing it. That’s why when Obama is saying, “If you like your plan you can keep it, it’s not true, because the meat and potatoes of the bill is going to make it impossible.” If your private plan is from an employer, your employer is going to find it very difficult to hold onto private insurance and remain competitive with businesses that opt out and go in the government option. When Barney Frank or Obama himself says, “We can’t do this immediately. It’s going to take 10 to 15 years,” this is what they’re talking about: Eventually forcing small businesses and others out of private insurance because they won’t be able to remain competitive with competitors who go the public option.
“5. The Commissioner (meaning, always, the bureaucrats) will determine whether a particular network of physicians, hospitals and insurance is acceptable” even if you do stay private. “6. With private insurance starved, many people enrolled in the government ‘option’ will have no place else to go” if they don’t like it. So all this talk from Obama about adding to competition is the exact opposite, which is what everybody who’s read this understands and which is why they know he’s lying to them when he says, “If you like your plan you can keep it.” Another way to look at that, “If you like your plan, you can keep it,” is: What if everybody decided to do that, but he says the health care plan, the system we have now is unsustainable. It’s horrible.
Yet if you like your plan you can keep it? How do those two go together? The next question that our classics professor at Duke wanted to figure out by reading the bill: “Does the plan TAX successful Americans more THAN OTHERS? Here is what the bill says, pages 197-198, SEC. 441. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS ‘SEC. 59C. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS,” and then it has the legalese. Here’s the evaluation of what it says: “1. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code. 2. Tax surcharges are levied on those with the highest incomes. 3. The plan manipulates the tax code to redistribute their wealth. 4. Successful business owners will bear the highest cost of this plan.” Successful small business owners, will bear the highest cost of this plan.
“Does THE PLAN ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO set FEES FOR SERVICES? What it says, page 124, Sec. 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES,” and then the legalese of the bill. The analysis or the evaluation: “1. The government’s authority to set payments is basically unlimited. 2. The official” commissioner, bureaucrats “will decide what constitutes ‘excessive,’ ‘deficient,’ and ‘efficient’ payments and services. Will THE PLAN increase the power of government officials to SCRUTINIZE our private affairs? What it says, pages 195-196, SEC. 431. DISCLOSURES TO CARRY OUT HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE SUBSIDIES,” then the legalese in the bill.
The evaluation: “1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code 2. The bill opens up income tax return information to federal officials. 3. Any stated ‘limits’ to such information are circumvented by item (v), which allows federal officials to decide what information is needed. 4. Employers are required to report whatever information the government says it needs to enforce the plan,” meaning your medical records, your employment records, how you’re living your life, what kind of risk that’s posing to the health care system. Next: “Does the plan automatically enroll Americans in the GOVERNMENT plan? What it says, page 102, Section 205, Outreach and enrollment of Exchange-eligible individuals and employers in Exchange-participating health benefits plan,” then the legalese. Here’s the evaluation: “1. Do nothing and you are in” the government plan. “2. Employers are responsible for automatically enrolling people who still work. Does THE PLAN exempt federal OFFICIALS from COURT REVIEW?
“What it says, page 124, Section 223, PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES,” then the legalese and the evaluation. “1. Sec. 1123 amends the Social Security Act, to allow the Secretary to identify areas of the country that underutilize the government’s plan ‘based on per capita spending.’ 2. Parts of the plan are set above the review of the courts.” So the question, “Does THE PLAN exempt federal officials from court review?” and parts of the plan do. This is Mr. Lewis again. His name is John David Lewis, professor of classics at Duke University. He’s a common, average citizen. He’s not a lawyer, not a doctor. What this goes to show is, just about anybody can figure out what’s in this bill if they just take the time to read it. And a lot of people have, and the people showing up at these town hall meetings saying “no,” already know what this bill says and the elements to it, or of it, that I just shared with you.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081209/content/01125108…
Little Gems From the Obama Health Care Bill
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatmen ts and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government=2 0rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll • Page 167: Any individual who doesnt’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
• Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.” • Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls20productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone). • Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resource s, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
Source Jennifer N MS Director Resistnet.com
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
John David Lewis, Visiting Associate Professor, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program Duke University
"Say No to the Vaccine," Trillion
Trillion lyrics:
I put the needle to the record cos the needle is defective
and the needle breaks the record when the needle is the method
for prevention of the fever bringin' death to the receiver
there's no effort in believing that the method feeds the fever
see the leader - diseases are invented in a lab
one believes it on reading recent mentions of the jab
centered in a grand scab of corruption and lies,
injecting views of doom from news room into the public eye
but now the floor has risen on a cause of autism
doctors show research and scores applaud with 'em
it's mercury in vaccines often there's more given
peace ignored and forbidden cos profit is war driven
profit? A Score billion - on vaccines alone
and the government don't care - they're always taxing the clones
and the CDC is right behind this rolling cart,
part involved from the start in this evolving art
of Big Pharma Big Deception, Obama - Big Karma:
enter Wyeth, Roche, Bayer and Baxter Health care (and co)
all a sordid history with stacks of health scares
you got HIV and bird flu mixed up in the shots
Ive been connecting the dots between the money that swaps?
conspiracy? Yeah I sense a couple of plots.
but there is one little word that could save your health, just say NO, say NO to the vaccine.
and if the doctor says YES, then make him take it himself - just say NO, say NO to the vaccine.
there is one little word that could save your health, just say NO, say NO to the vaccine.
and if Lawman says YES, then make him take it himself - just say NO, say NO to the vaccine.
(then pat says)
I don't need your prescription
I ain't go not affliction
Corporate pharmaceutical
Teaming with politician
Put them on proscription
That should be our own decision
Whether we want spending on vaccines
Or health and education
Soon they enlist
The general populous,
They adding to the list
pharmaceutical benefits
Well its thin line
Glaxo Smith Kline,
profit margin fine
still ain't seen a diseased
mad cow, coughing bird, or swine
depopulation linked, with-holding vaccines
rather let a product lapse than save some human beings
now they're busy counting there beans
So they won't hear us runnin' up on the machine
another new flu that is the biggest threat
What about an aging population with no safety net,
so we continue to believe everything we read,
There just ain't No taste in the news feed...
(back to trillion)
Weapons of trial and error, were smiling in terror at the doctor and nurse
take a hold of yourself and control of your health and say no, why don't you go first!
so where was I, conspiracies, secret ops and spy stations
and the catch word of the year - Depopulization
but humans generally are hard to kill, even with a jar of pills,
that's why the politicians have to pass a bill, for compulsory Gardasil
from Malta to Dargaville. and farther still,
another bill protects the maker Merck
from liability for illness and deaths that may occur
cos infertility and cancer are hidden inside the prick
and immune disorders have you bedridden, retired and sick
research is your friend - knowledge keeping is king
every vaccine has a poisoned dollar deep in it's sting
theres no master flu, theyre just after me and you
the last dance is due now their mask is see-through
SARS was a cheats sweep through, swine flu - a scam too,
designed to make a trillion bucks on out of date tamiflu
Manufactured viruses - biological war-fares,
Psychological torture - jail or jab! Dial some more prayers.
our bodies are designed to fight - those bugs intrudin'
But only when our diet is right dont shove junk food in!
Friday, August 14, 2009
The First Amendment is Under Attack by Academics to Placate Islamism
Yale University Press has bowed to Islamists by refusing to publish illustrations about Mohammed in a book about, the banned illustrations.
Camp Preparations
A FEMA camp is pictured in Idaho, June 2009 and the National Guard is recruiting
Interment and Re-settlement specialists. The most difficult thing for people to grasp during the Holocaust must have been that it could actually happen to them. Camps are in the works.
Interment and Re-settlement specialists. The most difficult thing for people to grasp during the Holocaust must have been that it could actually happen to them. Camps are in the works.
Straight From the Horse's Mouth: The White House is Against the First Amendment
The White House is accumulating information against American citizens and the enjoyment of their constitutional liberties.
Excerpt from the August 13 White House Press Briefing with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs:
BQ: The briefings the past 2 days have been unbelievable. Gibbs is out of control, paranoid and defensive; a growing number of press corps are clearly suspicious of the White House admin’s antics.
One of the more interesting exchanges happened between FoxNews.com’s Major Garrett and Gibbs. This is most of the dialogue, with Gibbs cutting Garrett off at the end, never answering his question:
Major Garrett: Do you in any way seek databases or information about people who might be interested in health care?
GIBBS: I will certainly check. I will certainly check. I am not under that impression. But again –
Major Garrett: I mean, folks have emailed me — I just want to know — would like to know how they get an e-mail from the White House when they have never asked for one.
GIBBS: I’d be interested to see who you got that e-mail from and whether or not they’re on the list. I don’t –
Q May I follow up politely on one of Major Garrett’s –
GIBBS: Well, let me — let me finish needling Major.
Q — this row, please.
GIBBS: Again, I just want to be — but I just want to be very –
Major Garrett: So what you’re telling me is I need to give you these people’s e-mails so you can check them on a list? I’m just asking.
GIBBS: Well, you’re asking me if they’re on a list.
Major Garrett: No, they’re telling me –
MR. GIBBS: If you can figure out a different way of checking without asking me to double-check the name, I’m happy to –
Major Garrett: Perhaps I’m not phrasing this correctly. They’re telling me they’re not — they can’t be on a list because they never asked for an e-mail from the White House.
GIBBS: Right, but what I’m saying is I don’t — I’d have to look and see –
Major Garrett: So there’s no — you don’t have an explanation for how someone who never signed up and never asked for anything from the White House would get an e-mail from David Axelrod?
GIBBS: Well, I hesitate to give you an answer, because you might impugn the motives of the answer.
Major Garrett: Why would you say that?
GIBBS: Because of the way you phrased your follow-up. I’d have to look at what you got, Major. I don’t — I appreciate the fact that I have omnipotent clarity as to what you’ve received in your e-mail box today.
Major Garrett: You don’t have to have omnipotent clarity. You don’t have to impugn anything. I’m telling you what I got — e-mails from people who said they never asked anything from the White House –
MR. GIBBS: And I’m simply saying –
Major Garrett: — and yet they received something.
GIBBS: We can — let me go to someplace else that might be constructive.
UPDATE:
BQ: Major Garrett “keeps pushing” in this excerpt from today’s Laura Ingraham radio show.
Major Garrett: Let me update your listeners to what’s happened since.
I hesitated in the briefing to offer up emails because I didn’t have permission from the few people who contacted me.
Laura Ingram: Right, you actually are respecting people’s privacy
Garrett: And since then – it will come to no surprise to you and your listeners – many have emailed me and said, “Here, give these to the White House. I want an explanation.”
I’ve since gone back to Robert [Gibbs] a number of times and said, ok, I have what you requested, let’s have a substantive conversation about this. I’ve gotten no response.
Ingraham: And so how are we gonna get the answer here then?
Garrett: Well, we’re gonna keep pushing. We’re gonna keep pushing.
And there’s a whole additional issue that’s going on right now that’s in the whole other office management budgets out of the White House, y’know O&B recently put out a new change in federal law, a regulation, taking away a 9-year ban on using persistent internet cookies on federal websites. They want to put those in there so if you come to a federal website more than once or twice the federal government can capture your email address. That’s a change in policy that’s being worked out at the federal regulatory process right now but it’s raised concerns among internet privacy advocates that this is something the government hasn’t done; maybe it ought not to.
Now persistent cookies are used by commercial internet sites all the time but –
Ingraham: gmail
Garrett: Yeah, but are we comfortable with the government using that, I don’t know. It’s being worked out. It’s a separate issue but it’s a part of this larger question of the government having an email address and what it may or may not do with it. I’m not suggesting there’s anything nefarious, I just wanna know!
How did someone who never sent anything to the White House get on a list that would make them able to receive directly – not forwarded, I get that, I’m not dense, I don’t misunderstand the concept of forwarding emails. These are not forwarded, they are directly from the White House. How did it happen?
400,000 Military Troops in the U.S.
If this headline from the Progressive, a liberal publication, does not alarm Americans, I do not know what will. Think it can not happen here? Yes, it can. The headline states: "The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S."
In June, the U.S. Northern Command distributed a “Congressional Fact Sheet” entitled “Legislative Proposal for Activation of Federal Reserve Forces for Disasters.” That proposal would amend current law, thereby “authorizing the Secretary of Defense to order any unit or member of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve, to active duty for a major disaster or emergency.”
Previously, the governors of individual states, as a system of check and balances, maintain control of their own National Guard forces, as well as military personnel acting in a domestic capacity in their states.
NorthCom’s Congressional fact sheet refers not just to a “major disaster,” such as Hurricane Katrina, but also to “emergencies.” And it says, “Those terms are defined in section 5122 of title 42, U.S. Code.”
That section gives the President the sole discretion to designate an event as an “emergency” or a “major disaster.” Both are “in the determination of the President” alone.
That section also defines “major disaster” by citing plenty of specifics: “hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought,” as well as “fire, flood, or explosion.”
But the definition of “emergency” is vague: “Emergency means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.”
The current definition of emergency can be re-defined with legislation.
But even the ACLU is alarmed by proposed legislation. Mike German, the ACLU’s national security policy counsel, expressed amazement “that the military would propose such a broad set of authorities and potentially undermine a 100-year-old prohibition against the military in domestic law enforcement with no public debate and seemingly little understanding of the threat to democracy.”
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Whole Foods CEO weighs in against Obama and he makes sensible, reasonable suggestions for health care reform.
Peacable Assembly
Call out the National Guard! The Federal government is alarmed because, and I quote: "The Secret Service is investigating a Maryland man who held a sign," "another man stood across the street from a Presidential town hall with his gun on full display," "Los Angeles police officers apprehended a man Thursday after a standoff. . . . officials said the man had mental problems," Rush Limbaugh "legitimizes people who are on the edge to go do something or say something," "someone painted a swastika outside the office of Congressman David Scott of Georgia, one of Obama's supporters."
Let me summarize, a man held a sign, as stupid as the saying was, it is just a sign, and he was exercising a First Amendment right; another person, who as research pointed out actually holds a valid concealed weapons permit in his state, New Hampshire, and thus exercising, even as an alarmist article states, his "legal" Second Amendment right; a mentally ill person was in a stand-off in L.A.--seems to be business as usual in Los Angeles; a talk show host spoke, hmmmm, seems like the First Amendment again; and, an unidentified person painted a swastika on an office. Anyone know who? Any identified Nazis in town? Any groups meeting there? Any uptick in violence? Any Brownshirts marching in the streets? Anything of substance at all?
No.
One anonymous person performed a reprehensible act.
None of these isolated actions widely dispersed and unconnected across the entire country are indicative of a rise in racial hostility. They are not even racial incidents.
However, as the alarmist news report attempts to drive up emotion, God forbid, the bad guys are also associated with rock music and the Internet. Goodness, what will they think of next? These people must be truly evil, the article can impugn them with guilt by association with connotations of racial hatred, rock 'n' roll, and the Internet.
The news media is ratcheting up the rhetoric. Another story from Florida notes that: "city officials, meanwhile, are trying to determine what local crimes might be associated with the posting of the images on public and private properties," about a possible suspect who is posting the Obama as Joker posters.
Graphic source: poster of Soetoro as the Joker at the S.R. 50 underpass in Clermont, Tom Benitez, Orlando Sentinel/12 August 2009.
Why is it that the local police are "currently. . . still conducting interviews of victims, witnesses, and other suspects," yet they have not determined what crime was committed? First they are pursuing an individual for an unknown offense, then they will find the crime. Isn't that the fascist way? Let's face it, at the worst this is vandalism, at best it is free speech and worth defending.
Nonetheless, the alarmists, such as the Southern Law Poverty Center and the Secret Service, are implying as a headline states: "Fear Grows for President as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash." There is no concrete evidence for this position. Evidence exists that stories are manufactured. For example, Fox News reported that an African-American man from Mississippi admitted to posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook. Even the Department of Homeland Security cobbled a threat assessment together from nothing more than pointless Internet drivel and did not follow standard intelligence practices to conclude that hate groups are thriving.
Yet, that watchdog of violence, the Southern Law Poverty Center, states that there is: "a genuine backlash against Obama."
They are correct to a certain extent. People are simply exercising their liberties under the law. The Center and others are mistaking genuine, simple American frustration with Obama and his misguided policies. If every dumb expression was censored then there is no way to distinguish between truth and falsehood. It is more revealing that the opponents of expression are so dumb founded with legitimate dissent. The cognitive dissonance that they are experiencing demonstrates how out of touch they are with ordinary simple expressions of dissent. Not all dissent is violent, the First Amendment states that there exists: "the right of the people peacably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Peaceable assembly is just as American, and just as authentic. Consider Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s example if peaceable assembly is American. The genuine backlash against Obama may, as in the case of King, involve boycotts, demonstrations, marches and other staples of non-violent protest.
The media created a problem: a cult of personality of Obama as the first black president. Actually, he is not black. If he would release his long form birth certificate we might know for certain but by all reasonable accounts he is a product of a white mother and a black father. Thus, he is half-white and half-black. Nonetheless, he was packaged both by the media and in the election rhetoric as black. Despite his black packaging the American people, 53%, voted for him. The Americans, we have to reasonably conclude, did not invoke the "Tom Bradley" effect, named after a former L.A. mayor who did not garnish white voters since as a black man they would not vote for him.
Meanwhile, real people, an African-American Kenneth Gladney, are physically assaulted by Obama's purple-shirted Union thugs SEIU, yet this incident is not mentioned at all as a racial crime. In addition, the most consistent and incindiary anti-Obama statements are made by African-Americans such as Dr. Alan Keyes,
The Reverend Dr. James David Manning,
Manning interviewed on Fox News, Part 1, in the interview, it is Hannity and Colmes who object to Pastor Manning's characterization of Obama.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
ACLU Opposes Obama On Privacy
You know Soetoro is in trouble when even the farthest left of organizations, the ACLU for instance, identifies how intrusive Obama's policies are.
Australia Rejects Cap and Tax
Australia had the good sense to reject a cap and tax proposal similar to the one proposed by Obama. One advantage of the Parliamentary system is that the Prime Minister has to amend the bill or face an early election. I wonder how Soetoro would do in a national referendum on his policies right now.
National Guard drill at high school to prepare for possible H1N1 riot
Is it time for America's Reichstag fire? Health care rationing has set the Americans on fire and awakened a sleeping giant, Soetoro is tanking in the polls, and it may just about time to: invent another crisis. Before there is any emergency whatsoever, the military, this time the National Guard, is in the streets and drilling. In Maine, the headline reads: "National Guard drill at high school to prepare for possible H1N1 riot."
Twain on Truth and Fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
How to Use the Census to Manipulate Elections
Susan Tully, national field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, explains how the census can be misused to manipulate elections.
Where to Go When You Dump AARP Membership
I dumped AARP and I will receive my remaining membership refund check of $32.15 in 4-6 weeks according to "Vickie Marie." I am disturbed by AARP that suggests supporting health care rationing, despite Barry Soetoro's protestations to the contrary. He knows how the game is played and we should too: AARP of course is "on board" and they support his rationing of health.
AMAC may be a reasonable alternative and seems to actually advocate the interests of American seniors.
I called AARP a week ago and talked to "Steve." I told him my opinion at that time and I was assured that my comments would be taken seriously. In the meantime though, I understand that SEIU remains as a partnering organization with AARP since these "purple shirts" remain listed on AARP's website. You may recall Kenneth Gladney, an unemployed African-American man who attended a Town Hall meeting, trying to raise money by selling patriotic "Don't Tread On Me" flags. The SEIU "purple-shirt" thugs beat him up for his efforts. SEIU remains as a supporter of AARP's "Divided We Fail" campaign, and is listed as a co-sponsor while linked directly to their site from AARP. I noted the connection in my comments to the AARP representative.
As they old saying goes: `Politics makes strange bedfellows' and while checking out AARP's page I also noticed a supporting organization: The Islamic Society of North America. Although ISNA often claims to be a mainstream Muslim organization, it is actually a Wahhabi Muslim organization. The Wahhabi's originate from the extreme purist brand of Islamism characteristic of the Saudi royal family as well as representing the religious background of Osama Bin Laden and his family (Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens, pp. 81-83). Perhaps the Saudi royal family and al-Qaeda does not advocate sound health care practices for Americans and do not wish us well.
It occurred to me also to ask AARP if my comments, since they are "recorded for training purposes," are considered "fishy" and I asked if they would be reported elsewhere, such as to the White House. The answer was in the negative.
In any case, since I am no longer a member of AARP I need to take stock. I considered what services they provide, I get discounts when renting cars and making hotel reservations. Thus, some type of Senior discount membership is useful. Fortunately, there are alternatives. For example, although I am not endorsing anyone in particular, there is another organization that is pro-American and patriot.
AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens, may be a handy alternative for others once they cancel their AARP membership. According to their website they state:
As an American, you have the freedom to make your own health care decisions, along with the guidance of your trusted doctor. Imagine this freedom being stripped away by your own government.
Under proposed health care law, your freedom to choose your own doctors, treatments, procedures, and hospital needs would be limited. Government controlled health care would mean rationed health care.
AMAC may be a reasonable alternative and seems to actually advocate the interests of American seniors.
I do not need AARP and apparently they do not need seniors either. Good riddance.
As a follow-up to this blog, according to my blog traffic, D.C. was interested:
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"Sleeping Giant," A Natural Born Citizen Speaks
"Sleeping Giant" Town Hall protester was once a loyal Democrat but not any more. She is getting calls abusing her as a racist once she opposed health rationing.
Green Is Red
John Bellamy Foster: "The transition to socialism and the transition to an ecological society are one."
Rep. Zoe Lofgren Town Hall Meeting: Rationing to Pay for Abortions
Many people do not realize that rationing must include Federal funding for abortions. It is the law and unless an amendment in the various bills explicitly restricts abortion funding, it will be included. I noted this point when Senator Claire McCaskill stated, correctly, in another Town Hall meeting that abortion is not mentioned in the various bills in Congress: exactly. The pro-rationing forces do not want it mentioned or it may engender debate about Federal funding for abortion.
In the Town Hall Q&A a constituent asks Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA 16) to explain why rationing will cover abortions when at least 90% of them are not medically necessary — in other words, the kind of elective surgery that insurance plans usually don’t cover. CA-16 is a heavily Democratic district and she states truthfully: abortion will be Federally funded with rationing, and personally, she believes it should be so.
Soetoro's Facts in Question
Surely Soetoro should name those greedy physicians who are profiting from cutting off feet for profit as he stated at the New Hampshire Town Hall. On the other hand, he irresponsibly states numbers without regard to reality. The American College of Surgeons took issue with Obama: “Surgeons are not paid $30,000 to $50,000 to amputate a diabetic’s foot. Medicare pays a surgeon, on average, from $541.72 to $708.71 for one of two procedures involving a foot amputation.”
Can't You See I'm On the Phone?
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee blabs on her cell as a woman asks an emotional question about health care rationing at a town hall event.
Other jobs, such as teaching, do not allow a professional to ignore constituents, for example, if this ever happens to a teacher, they could be fined as much as $22,000.
Increased Data Collection In Flights
Oh yeah, nothing wrong with this plan. Some airlines will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration stated. Not all airlines are fully participating yet and might not request the data. According to the TSA spokesperson, it will up to "individual airlines or travel agents to decide how to collect the required information at the time a reservation is made."
So let me get this straight. We are concerned about terrorism and more data will be collected about a travelers genders and DOB as part of the vetting process to board a flight. And, who is collecting this information? Travel agents who are not trained as counter-terrorism experts. Will they have access to more personal information? Will they be a part of law-enforcement agencies? Are travel agents now an arm of Homeland Security?
These data collection and dissemination efforts are a part of Secure Flight, a program aimed at meeting congressional mandates, including those passed in 2007 to put into practice recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. The TSA said the collection of additional data would make it easier for the agency to more accurately match prospective passengers with the thousands of names carried on the government's terrorism watch lists.
My question is how and who is to compare the data at the point of flight and the lists kept by the TSA? Who gets to use, and by implication abuse, the personal data on a larger pool of citizens?
Civil-liberties groups and privacy advocates have criticized the watch lists, saying they should be more narrowly focused on suspected terrorists. "One government estimate put the number of names appearing on its lists at more than 700,000 two years ago," according to the article in The Wall Street Journal. However, the 9/11 Commission stated that our challenge: "is to prevent the very few people who may pose overwhelming risks from entering or remaining in the Unites States undetected," (The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 383).
If the government has a list of 700,000 persons I think we can reasonably assume that the U.S., although facing a genuine threat of terrorism, does not have that many terrorists in the U.S.
I mean, as a hypothetical let's say, what if the White House were to keep a list of "fishy" individuals for example, and law-abiding citizens ended up on a White House assembled "terrorist" list. We can rationally deduce the list is far too large anyway and Secure Flight is not actually targeting terrorists at all. The only target is the law-abiding natural citizens of the U.S. and other citizens.
The TSA's own lists, however, are smaller than that collected by Federal agencies. A TSA spokesman said publicly late last year that there were fewer than 16,000 names on the lists TSA uses for banning fliers or for subjecting them to special scrutiny. At the very least, the TSA list is more focused and represents about the highest number of possible, actual, persons whose motives are suspect.
Obama: New Lowest Poll Numbers
According to the latest Rasmussen poll:
"Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove."
I do not know which is falling faster, Obama's numbers or his Teleprompter. Health care rationing may be his Waterloo.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Barry Soetoro Lying on Tape
“I happen to be a proponent of single payer universal health insurance.”
Soetoro's staged Town Hall meeting yesterday in New Hampshire where he states “I have not said that I was a single payer supporter.” This is a lie.
How To Argue (In These "Wise Latina" Times)
Understanding the difference between an attitude and an argument is a critical step that is all to uncommon today.
Barry Soetoro Without TOTUS: "post office"
Barry without his Teleprompter is a fascinating experience.
What was that Barry? A government-run service, such as the Post Office has difficulties, while privately run postal companies do just fine?
Are you hinting that government-run health care might not be efficient or run smoothly?
Thanks for clarifying that point.
A headline from today is a case in point: "With Fewer Customers and Fixed Labor Costs, U.S. Postal Service Faces $7 Billion Net Loss in 2009."
That whole government take over of health care rationing is sounding bleaker and bleaker Barry; just keep talking without TOTUS so you can clarify it for us.
DHS Made Up Report About Right Wing Extremists
ALG (Americans for Limited Government) discovered a bogus report by filing a Freedom of Information request in April demanding all documents related to the drafting of the controversial “right-wing extremism” memo by the DHS. As suspected, the government wanted a statement with no research or documentation. There was no evidence of any actual active recruitment of "disgruntled veterans" by these groups, no evidence showing that folks who purchase guns or oppose gun-control legislation are necessarily dangerous, and no evidence that the economic downturn or the election of Barack Obama that is fueling any actual ‘resurgence’ of ‘extremism.’” The memo had reported that “right wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans.” “The background DHS used was not based on credible intelligence sources, reporting, and analysis. Instead, what we found is that the Department was apparently surfing the net to see what news stories happened to turn up to support a pre-determined conclusion,” ALG President Bill WilsonWilson explained.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Mobs: Then and Now
A Republican satire on Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech.
Graphic source: this image is in the public domain due to its age.
The populist William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech to advocate the interests of the people. The speech was delivered at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Bryan advocated bimetallism. At the time, the Democratic Party wanted to standardize the value of the dollar to silver and opposed pegging the value of the United States dollar to a gold standard alone. The inflation that would result from the silver standard would make it easier for farmers and other debtors to pay off their debts by increasing their revenue dollars. It would also reverse the deflation which the U.S. experienced from 1873-1896.
The speech gets its popular name from its ending, with its biblical allusions:
Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
At the conclusion of the speech, Bryan stretched out his arms in a Christ-like manner for five seconds, while the crowd remained quiet. According to the New York World, at that point everyone seemed to go mad at once and shrieked and rushed the stage. The New York Times commented that "A WILD, RAGING, IRRESISTIBLE MOB" had been unleashed.
Today, if a public figure advocates the public interest, as Bryan did, "mob" is a term of derision.
McCaskill Asked About Barry's Long Form Birth Certificate
The original article, which has generated an incredible amount of hits, has mysteriously disappeared: 24 November 2014.
http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/127362/
http://theobamafile.com/_eligibility/DemocraticTwoStep.html
How Obama Circumvented the Constitution
One of the key events prior to November's election received no attention nationally whatsoever; however, I believe that the key to the election occurred months before. Senate Resolution 511, passed in April 2008, and co-sponsored by Barry Soetoro, was an attempt to circumvent the Constitution and to amend the clear statement in the Constitution regarding the "Natural Born Citizen" clause.
The resolution addresses a Constitutional clause that no law or legislative body has the right to amend.
-Chief Justice Waite in Minor v. Happersett (1875)
SR 511 states that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen:
* Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires that, to be eligible for the Office of the President, a person must be a `natural born Citizen’ of the United States;
* Whereas the term `natural born Citizen’, as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;
* Whereas there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country’s President;
* Whereas such limitations would be inconsistent with the purpose and intent of the `natural born Citizen’ clause of the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the First Congress’s own statute defining the term `natural born Citizen’;
* Whereas the well-being of all citizens of the United States is preserved and enhanced by the men and women who are assigned to serve our country outside of our national borders;
* Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President; and
* Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That John Sidney McCain, III, is a `natural born Citizen’ under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States.
The resolution addresses a Constitutional clause that no law or legislative body has the right to amend.
The term "natural born Citizen" in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States; however, other rulings by the Supreme Court, Congress, and writings such as originating with John Bingham, do define "natural born citizen."
For example, a Chief Justice stated in 1875:
"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first."
-Chief Justice Waite in Minor v. Happersett (1875)
There is no evidence that the Framers or any Congress intended to limit the constitutional rights of children born to Americans serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country’s President; therefore, the Senate resolved to pass a ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ or some might call it a devil's bargain when passing the provision.
Most of the resolution means very little but one clause is significant.
Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President.
This is not common knowledge, and the resolution provides no examples so we do not know who the Senate referred to: unless the resolution refers to a current presidential candidate.
Who is actually referred to here as a presidential candidate, with no military experience, yet, born "outside" the United States and wants to be viewed as eligible?
The answer is simple to deduce: Barry Soetoro, or, the co-sponsor of the resolution, Barack Obama. Research has elicited a great deal of personal information on previous presidential candidates but a double-standard exists in regard to Barry. He has released no accurate documentation at all. I am reminded of the old expression, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Formerly, American politicians were the target of parody, hatred, and abuse. It may be unseemly but has been part of the political process for a long time. The only reason Barry is not held accountable is the same reason why statist countries do not allow discussion because they promote the cult of personality: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini head the list.
Health Care Rationing Bill Replaces Parents
Thanks to Chuck Norris who is still fighting; Norris has identified a dirty little secret or two in the Obamacare disaster. The government will enter homes and usurp parental rights over child care and development.
In sections 440 and 1904 of the House bill (page 838), under the heading "home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children." The programs would educate parents on child behavior and parenting skills.
The bill says that government agents "well-trained and competent staff" would "provide parents with knowledge of age-appropriate child development in cognitive, language, social, emotional, and motor domains ... modeling, consulting, and coaching on parenting practices," and "skills to interact with their child to enhance age-appropriate development."
Not on my watch will the government tell me how to parent. How will the government know all about each individual child's social, religious, and emotional development? What ever happened to parenting and their rights as adults who can raise their own children?
But the government will be really helpful according to the bill. The bill points to specific targeted groups and problems, on page 840 for example: The state "shall identify and prioritize serving communities that are in high need of such services, especially communities with a high proportion of low-income families."
So the government becomes a nanny in place of parents in low-income families? Is Obama saying that low-income families are stupid and they don't know how to raise their own kids? Isn't this a stereotype? Isn't this prejudice?
The government health care rationing includes government child care. Children belong to their parents, not the Federal government. The rationing entails the ever-intrusive nanny state to control and co-opt the nation. A free people should resist the government.
The Spartans tried all this in the ancient world and it was unsustainable then and we should know better now.
Obama Tracking Citizens
The White House Office of Management and Budget plan to end a ban on federal Internet sites using comprehensive tracking and surveillance technologies.
American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Michael Macleod-Ball said the move could "allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website."
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology have also objected to provisions of the change in policy. Google technology, the most sophisticated tracking available, has already been accomodated and exempted from Federal policy. EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg stated: "Our primary concern is that the GSA (General Services Administration)has failed to protect the privacy rights of U.S. citizens."
The Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Pakistan's Nukes Attacked Three Times Already
While Obama insists Pakistan's nukes are safe a report from India Times indicates that Pakistan's nukes have already been attacked three times in the last two years.
Obama's Daughters Get A Good Health Care Plan: Why Don't I?
Obama objected to a reference to his daughters on a school lunch program poster although another, better advertisement might be for American kids to have one entitled: "Obama's Daughters Get a Good Health Care Plan: Why Don't I?" Obama should not be surprised that his kids get an airing on posters; he has shamelessly shilled them when it was convenient and they have had a high profile. Ordinarily the First Family has kept a lower profile, especially when the kids are younger, but he has exploited them at will so far.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Governors Oppose DoD Emergency Powers
The governors may know something we do not but they are urging that the DoD should not handle terrorist incidents or other emergencies in their respective states.
Taitz, Anti-Obama Attorney, Receiving Death Threats
Can someone call the FBI and check if this David Rush is indeed the one making death threats
Posted on August 10th, 2009 by David-Crockett
Dr. Orly Taitz
Sunday, August 9, 2009 8:21 PM
From: Dr. Josh Backon
To: dr_taitz@yahoo..com
Cc: police@ci.everett.wa.us
Hi Orly
The person who made the death threat against you is David Rash drash@everettcc.edu of 4612 Silvertip Lane, Everett WA [who teaches history at Everett Community College www.everettcc.edu ]
One takes the IP number, accesses http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm in the IP number and get the latitude and longitude. One then copies the latitude and longitude to http://maps.google.com This gives you the exact address. You then access http://www.whitepages.com in their reverse address category and you get the person who lives at that address. keys
The IP # gave the address as 4612 Silvertip Lane in Everett WA.
I am sending a copy to the Everett Police Department since David Rash has made multiple death threats against you in the past.
Best wishes
Josh
=========================
For the benefit of the Everett WA police dept., I am quoting the death threat made by David Rash against you:
> Jennifer
> jlover@aol.com
> 71.112.165.151 Submitted on 2009/08/08 at 7:26am
>
> I saw you on MSNBC … My hate for you russian evil woman trying to overthrow our U.S. government only grew. I think you should be tried for sedition and for the comments you made about raising a militia you should be hung for. I’m serious. It should be broadcast on national TV .. There has never been a person more deserving of death penalty under U.S. law than you.
Obama Thugs Attacking Natural Born Citizens: Eugenics Plan in Motion
In a celebrated news story, Mike Sola and his handicapped son who would not be covered under the proposed health rationing plan in Congress, confronted their Congressman, Representative Dingle at an open Town hall meeting. As a follow-up though, Sola was visited at night by an Obama goon since they know where he lives. People are concerned about rationing health care as they would lose health benefits to the misguided whims of deadly doctors. At a time when Obama minions are describing citizens who are petitioning their government for a redress of grievances as "un-America," it is a chilling development for the Bill of Rights. The federal government is attacking its people and blatantly manufacturing consent. Many people are understandably concerned for the Republic.
Manufactured Consent by Obama
The following letter was sent to Obama's 13 million database members. The story was broken by Canadafreepress.com and demonstrates to what extent Obama's regime is willing to go in order to manufacture consent. The idea here is to promote its own agenda, and ignore what the grass roots populace thinks, in order to shove its programs down the throats of the American people. And, to top it off, the Stimulus money paid for by American taxpayers funded the group that wrote the following letter: Organization for America. Obama is engaged in a massive self-promotion campaign, at taxpayers expense. Waterloo Obama now.
From: “Mitch Stewart, BarackObama.com” info@barackobama.com
To: XXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 2:44:16 PM
Subject: Visit Rep. Clyburn’s office in Florence
Friend --
All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President’s plan, and it’s extremely important that folks like you speak up now.
So we’ve cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform.
All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal story, or even just drop off a customized flyer and say that reform matters to you.
We’ll provide everything you need: the address, phone number, and open hours for the office, information about how the health care crisis affects your state for you to drop off (with the option of adding your personal story), and a step-by-step guide for your visit.
According to our records, you live near Rep. James Clyburn’s office in Florence, SC.
Sign up now to visit Rep. James Clyburn’s office in Florence this week.
(Not your representative, or think there might be another office that’s easier for you to get to? Click here to find a different office.)
As you’ve probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it’s getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hung in effigy, and receiving death threats. We can’t let extremists hijack this debate, or confuse Congress about where the people stand.
Office Visits for Health Reform are our chance to show that the vast majority of American voters know that the cost of inaction is too high to bear, and strongly support passing health reform in 2009.
Don’t worry if you’ve never done anything like this before. The congressional staff is there to listen, and your opinion as a constituent matters a lot. And if you bring a friend, you’ll have more fun and make an even greater impact.
Click below to sign up for an Office Visit for Health Reform:
Wherever you live, these visits matter: Many representatives are pushing hard toward reform, and they are taking a lot of heat from special interests. They deserve our thanks and need our support to continue the fight. But those who are still putting insurance companies and partisan point-scoring ahead of their constituents must know that voters are watching—and that we expect better.
Earlier this week, the President wrote that “this is the moment our movement was built for” and asked us all to commit to join at least one event this month. This is the way to answer that call, and rise to the challenge of this moment together.
Thank you for going the extra mile when it matters the most,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Military Surveillance of Citizens and Damage Control
I will admit to being a bit nostalgic because I favor a military that trains and beats the bad guys in other lands. However, the Air Force, along with the other service branches, has announced that it has monitored citizens in an attempt to grasp the response of people in reaction to the New York City flyover debacle. Web 2.0 tools in particular allow immediate, instantaneous and reactive feedback so the military has had to deal with these two mediums in response to news stories. While I can appreciate the need to employ new technology it would seem to me that the military really ought to training and fighting the bad guys overseas.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Monty Python Introduced Obama's End of Life Counseling
Credit should be given where credit is due; Monty Python thought of end of life counseling years before Obama did. They introduce the concept in this video.
Hillary Says We Can Still Speak and, Guess Who is Hiring in Health Care? Obama
Perhaps Hillary senses which way the wind is blowing and she is not personally attacking grass activists opposed to health care rationing; and, when no one is hiring, Obama is hiring minions to promote his health care rationing plan. At least its a job. He told us he only needed $1 Trillion to prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, 9%, 10% . . . .
Congressman Attacks His Constituents for Asking About Health Care Rationing
The news segment presented provides the background. Representative Scott attacks his constituent, who had asked Scott prior to the meeting for an open forum on health care rationing. During Q&A the attendees were allowed to ask about anything but Scott ranted against his constituents.
Dr. Hill has called the Congressman repeatedly for a health care rationing meeting all to no avail but the district will have an upcoming forum on the topic.
African-American Beaten Up by Obama SEIU Thugs Proclaims Liberty
The African-American, Ken Gladney, assaulted by Obama's SEIU
thugs proclaims his love for his country and liberty. He is now heavily medicated and in a wheelchair. The thugs must have really worked him over.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
African-American Man Beaten Up at Rationing Meeting Interviewed
Neil Cavuto interviewed the Kenneth Gladney, the man who was beaten up at a health care rationing meeting. Apparently he was simply a vendor trying to make a living and sell materials during the meeting; and, he was hurt worst than the reports I had seen earlier about the case. The goons are out in force to hurt people. Obama is telling people to shut up and the message from the White House is to hit back hard. Even the innocent are hurt.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Another Police Officer Disciplined for Trying to Investigate Obama
Just like the two Georgia officers who attempted to run a background check on Obama, another officer, this one in Philadelphia, tried and was disciplined as a result. The regime is clear; no one can question or have doubts about the Leader.
Waiting for Corroboration on Story from Legitimate News Agencies
There is no confirmation on this story by legitimate news sources.
Flag America
The Flag Me White House folks are getting creative as the regime begins its clampdown; however, if I had a good graphics program I would create the Founders with a "flag" as well. Dr. Martin King Jr. should re-appear on the Mall with a "flag." Long may Liberty wave!
Opponents of Health Care Rationing Beaten Up, Locked Out, Abused as Town Hall Turns Violent
A health care rationing town hall meeting turned violent today as the administration beat up, locked out, and abused opponents of the regime. In a meeting a directive from the White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina stated: "If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” according to an official who attended the meeting.
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At the St. Louis event, an African-American man is seen being pummeled by his attackers.
St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old African-American activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with "Don't tread on me" printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.
A first-hand account, by a gentleman at the Tampa event, who appears in the staid news report at the very end of this post, states:
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Tampa Town Hall - from the outside
MY FIRST-HAND REPORT - As I was walking around the block people were coming the other way saying it was closed (right at 6 pm). But I persevered and was in the flow as the line move around the building. I was able to get almost to the doors when police said no one else could go in - even to the air conditioned anteroom. Throughout the hour they continued to not let anyone in even though others were coming out.
This is a video I made from a few pictures I was able to take. More video follows at end of post.
Yes there was chanting out side from both sides - "read the bill!" "Obama! "Just say NO!" "Public Option!" "Bring it outside!"
If there were opponents banging on windows as has been reported, it must have been on the other side of the building, where reportedly supporters were being let in the back door.
Yes, half of the room was reserved for SEIU.
If there was violence, from everything I have seen, it all came from ObamaCare supporters.
I saw one man come out to try to make a police report. He was right in front of me. His shirt was half torn off and he had a large deep scratch on his chest. Said someone inside twisted his arm, ripped his watch off. I could not hear what he said about his shirt and the scratch. I later learned that he was forcibly pushed out the doors to the actually meeting room before the doors were closed to people in the anteroom even being able to hear and see. He is the one in the green shirt by the closed doors in the video below from YouTube.
I was confronted by two ObamaCare supporters who demanded why I could not find a GOP town hall to attend. I told them that as a citizen of Tampa, Florida and America I had every right to be there. They kept a running "what a bunch of hired goons" commentary going behind me.
Another supporter with a handmade ObamaCare sign asked me a question. When I tried to answer she violently slapped my hand and told me to "stop trying to put out her eye with my f**ing finger!". My finger WAS pointed but my hand was at MY waist next to MY body.
The crowd outside was very large and I would say at least 3/1 Obamacare opponents. I can't report on inside but was told by others I knew who made it in that it was a complete farce. Castor did not answer any questions and left 30 minutes into the meeting by the backdoor.
The meeting was supposed to run from 6-8. Police told us to disperse at approximately 7:10. The actual words were -
"We need you to clear the premises so the people inside are able to exit"
My interpretation - "Americans - get out of the way so the select few can leave safely!"
Many continued to stand in front of the building. I am waiting for the 10 pm news to see how this is reported.
In the words of my soon coming protest song - "I will not apologize, I will not sit down. I will fight for freedom's cause and beat this tyranny down!"
This video from Fox News Tampa shows me at the beginning in the white jacket n the middle. The woman standing behind with long blond hair, sign held high saying "We want public option" is the one who slammed my hand. By the way - I am fully expecting my pick slip from the school district when they see I was there.
According to another first-hand witness, who posted a video on YouTube:
Kathy Castor's union thugs beat up a guy (in the green shirt - evidence 3:21) and shut the doors to prevent the opposing opinions from being heard. She then proceeded leave, not taking any questions, because "she couldn't hear." Translation: she doesn't have answers 'cause she hasn't read the House bill.
There are other videos of citizens who accidentally made it into the hall through the back door before the event because people thought they were union. Castor's constituents were basically banned from the event because they picked a small venue and stacked the audience beforehand.
No surprise here; the politicians are coming home and the people are restless and angry because they are being ignored. The MC of the event made an interesting comment; she stated that it made sense to have two doors: one was pro-regime, the other door (if they were allowed in at all) for the opponents of health care rationing. The doors of discrimination in America has begun again after the civil rights movement broke down discrimination. We are reverting backward to a two-class society once again.
In fact, the same tactic worked at the even more disruptive St. Louis Town Hall meeting. Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers attended the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis; however, they were locked out. On the other hand, the Carnahan staff was sneaking in pro-regime SEIU members in the side door marked "handicapped."
The Founders realized the evil of discrimination. George Washington warned Americans against it. In his Farewell Address he wrote:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield.
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.
Subject to the intrigues of foreign influence, Obama should be transparent and release his long form birth certificate, or, alternatively, he could resign as Nixon did and thus save the Republic. Our work during the last two administrations was to fight for the Constitution, Obama is more simply a third term Bush and we can no longer afford blatant assaults on our Constitution.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Next action of Orly Taitz: Censored by Google
Taitz' first filing was "stricken from the court record" because the motion was improperly filed "for the following reasons:"
* Lacks proper notice;
* improper form and format
* Counsel failed to identify her California State Bar No.
* description of motion conflicts or differs from that which counsel entered on Court's e-docket
Orly is going to re-file the recently surfaced Kenyan birth Certificate with Judge Carter.
* Lacks proper notice;
* improper form and format
* Counsel failed to identify her California State Bar No.
* description of motion conflicts or differs from that which counsel entered on Court's e-docket
Orly is going to re-file the recently surfaced Kenyan birth Certificate with Judge Carter.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. Calls for GPS Surveillance
An Oregon congressman says he wants to test having a government GPS unit in every car so a tax could be imposed on the miles driven. The surveillance program, H.R. 3311, will require a $150 million-plus and was introduced by Representative Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.
Oregon has tested this surveillance and tax system as a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) fee.
If you can contemplate such insanity as normal, inquiring of the Federal government is you can and how you use your own car, the additional tax would be crushing on those businesses who depend on miles driven.
"The current system of levying federal taxes on trucks is as discriminatory as it can be to small business, and harmful, but there are lots of unanswered questions with a VMT," Todd Spencer, vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, told the magazine.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported alarm over the potential for abuse in such a draconian system.
"Are you people convinced yet that it's time to grab the pitchforks and head for the castle?" wrote a participant.
Another expressed frustration.
Oregon has tested this surveillance and tax system as a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) fee.
If you can contemplate such insanity as normal, inquiring of the Federal government is you can and how you use your own car, the additional tax would be crushing on those businesses who depend on miles driven.
"The current system of levying federal taxes on trucks is as discriminatory as it can be to small business, and harmful, but there are lots of unanswered questions with a VMT," Todd Spencer, vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, told the magazine.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported alarm over the potential for abuse in such a draconian system.
"Are you people convinced yet that it's time to grab the pitchforks and head for the castle?" wrote a participant.
Another expressed frustration.
"I purchased a small car last spring because gas prices were on the rise. This small car averages 43 mpg. This saved me a lot of money when gas prices hit $4.00+/gal. The car also has the smallest carbon footprint of any non-hybrid vehicle being produced today. The small carbon footprint helps save the environment. I travel 100+ miles/day. The government encourages us to use less gas to help the country become less dependent on foreign oil. The people are doing what they want by driving less or driving more fuel efficient vehicles. Of course gas tax revenues are going to decrease. And now they are thinking about a mileage tax because people are doing what they want.....they can't have it both ways..."
Hoyer Stymied Mid-Sales Pitch by TEA Members
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Dem.) was mocked by American citizens in Utica, N.Y. Hoyer was stymied in mid-sale by Don Jeror who organized a Tea Party in April.
Jeror told Hoyer:
"You’re lying to me. Just because I don’t have sophisticated language, I can recognize a liar when I see one."
Yes, lots of Americans out there who aren’t the most articulate, but they know bull when they smell it or lies when they hear them. And they aren’t sitting quietly for it anymore.
Why would you guys try to stuff a health care bill down our throats in three to four weeks, when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?"
The gentleman seems quite articulate to me.
AARP is Drinking the Kool-Aid
AARP is going over the deep end and advocating interests counter to seniors. AARP disrespects its members and walks out of their own town hall meeting held in Dallas on 4 August.
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