Federal Government's Fear of the People

For the inauguration Washington will be on lock down for this unprecedented security event. It will be overseen by the U.S. Secret Service and will include 7,500 active-duty soldiers, 10,000 National Guard troops, and 25,000 law-enforcement officers.

On Inauguration Day, the city will be honeycombed with communication command centers staffed with officials from the Secret Service, FBI, police and fire departments, intelligence agencies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department is working with 99 federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies to double its force of 4,100 officers. The FBI will have 600 agents on duty, a 20 percent increase from the 2005 inauguration. All 1,600 Capitol Police officers will be on duty.

Chemical, Biological

The U.S. Army will have a brigade at Fort Stewart, Georgia, ready to respond to a chemical and biological attack. Within 48 hours, hundreds of planes and helicopters could fly to the Washington region if needed.

Even the ceremonial guards at the inauguration are prepared to change out of their dress uniforms to help out in the event of a security lapse.

The effort will even include inspectors, behavioral experts, air marshals and canine teams from the Transportation Security Administration, who are usually deployed at airports. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is sending bomb experts and dog handlers.

Helping to monitor crowds will be 94 surveillance cameras spread throughout the city as well those in subway stations and in helicopters.

Anyone wishing to stand along the route of the inauguration parade will have to go through some type of screening, including metal detectors.

On Inauguration Day, two bridges connecting Washington to Virginia will be closed to all traffic except tour buses, emergency vehicles and pedestrians. Vehicles also will be restricted within a seven-block section west of the White House.

Parade-Route Balconies

Security officials are taking special care with buildings near the festivities. Parking garages in some will be shut down the day before. Guests attending the Air Transport Association’s party at its Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters -- along the parade route -- will have to be pre-cleared because the building has balconies.

The scale of the overkill for the inauguration begins to reveal the extent that the government fears the people and the lengths it can go to shut down the government if necessary.

Politician Free Zone

For the inauguration the signs along 5th and I Streets in D.C. read, "Warning, Prostitution Free Zone." I wonder where all the politicians will be going for the 20th.

Washington, D.C. Bans Free Speech

Free speech is banned in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration. The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department has forbidden a pro-life gathering and chalk display during Inauguration Week. The chalk display had been approved previously for the last 16 years. The City of Washington, D.C., has also allowed numerous public 'chalk art displays' throughout the city, but as this involves a pro-life display in front of the White House and Obama is pro-choice it stands to reason the First Amendment will be suspended.

The Christian Defense Coalition plans to appeal the decision of the police to ban their expression.

Holder Justice?

Eric Holder will be questioned as the Attorney General Elect. Questions regarding his roles will be paramount.

Previous testimony from Holder before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1999 did not go well. Orrin Hatch--then chairman of the judiciary committee asked him why he never pressed the terrorists to provide information about other FALN terrorists who were still at large. Holder was unable to answer the question.

Taxpayers Fund Al Jazeera

WLIW21 relies on many different resources for its support in providing these valuable services - station members, volunteers, corporate sponsors, community groups and governmental funding all contribute to fulfilling the mission of the station. WLIW21 looks forward to a continued partnership with the tri-state area as truly public television.

Since WLIW reports that they receive public funding, Americans must be the dumbest people in the universe. American taxpayers will now be funding Al Jazeera since the company has signed deals to air throughout the U.S. Right now a person is perfectly able to pay for the messages, ideas, and slime that emanates from the black hole but Americans have made it easier to attack America. They will be paying for propaganda that undercuts them as a nation.

A list of the Board of Directors, in case anyone wants to object, appears below:

Board of Long Island Educational TV Council, Inc.
Charlotte Nichoson Ackert
Chairperson
Community Leader

Terrel L. Cass
President and General Manager,
WLIW21

James M. Goldrick
1st Vice Chairman
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co.

Michael Bertuch
2nd Vice Chairman
ViaTech Publishing Solutions

Robert Sturm
Secretary/Treasurer
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Richard M. Aborn
Constantine & Aborn Advisory Services, LLC

Santa Albicocco
Attorney/Community Leader

Angela Anton
Susan Anton Community Newspapers

Hans Bosch
Kenstan Lock Company

Matthew T. Crosson
Long Island Association, Inc.

Nancy R. Douzinas
Rauch Foundation

William G. Forman
North Atlantic Industries, Inc.

Phyllis Hill-Slater
Hill Slater, Inc.


Michael T. Keenan
Wachovia Bank
James H. MacNaughton
Community Leader

Steven C. Millner
Quogue Venture Group, Inc.

Vera Moore
Vera Moore Cosmetics

Thomas A. Nicolette
Akers Biosciences, Inc.

George D. O'Neill
Meriwether Capital, LLC

Diane Chernoff Rosen
Alter & Rosen, LLP

Arnold Scaasi
Community Leader

Barry R. Shapiro
(Chairman Emeritus)
Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.

Robert D. Siegfried
Kekst and Company Inc.

Donald J. Stewart
(Chairman Emeritus)
Parker Publications, Inc.

Jacqueline F. Strayer
Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Paul F. Washington
Time Warner Inc.

Compulsory Military Service?

The irrepressible Congressman Rangel, D-N.Y., is at it again. The perennial proponent of re-instating the draft plans to revive the idea. And, with a Democrat president, a Democrat Senate, and a Democrat House he just may have a shot this time. The Obama campaign discussed, and there has been public support for Obama youth movements, and this seems to be in line with earlier developments. The Republicans will bleat about compulsory service or Obama service groups but there is not a great deal of political opposition that they can muster since they are the minority party. The potential result is most likely some type of compulsory or heavily supported military or paramilitary service as a result.

The historical war-making record of Democrats does not look good either. War efforts have been led by Democratics Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Clinton. Oddly enough, the Republicans have ended or so threatened others with retaliation that war was avoided. Nixon and Reagan come to mind in this regard. Of course, this is a simplistic and all too brief summary but it stands to reason that Rangel is actually on to something.

Keyes on Obama

Dr. Keyes is interviewed summarizing his thoughts on the natural born citizen

controversy.

Ummm, Illinois Profit?

I had blogged before about the socialist, Carol Browning, who had discriminated against her employees as the head of the EPA. Yet, the appointee will be the new coordinator of energy policies in the U.S. Before we go too far astray I have to wonder why she would get this appointment. One aspect to consider is to grasp how much of a benefit that the corn producing states, such as Illinois, stand to gain from an increase in using ethanol. The short answer is a great deal. This is a move that they were savvy enough to move on once it became clear that oil flow to the U.S. was in jeopardy.

Corn belt states began subsidizing ethanol after the Arab oil embargo of 1973. The federal government advocated its use a few years later. The Energy Tax Act of 1978 authorized an excise tax exemption for biofuels, chiefly gasohol (a gasoline blend containing at least 10 percent ethanol). Another federal program provided loan guarantees for the construction of ethanol plants, and in 1986 the U.S. even gave ethanol producers free corn. It's estimated that the excise exemption alone costs U.S. taxpayers as much as $1.4 billion per year.

The immediate beneficiaries of ethanol subsidies have been corn farmers and, more significantly, the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation of Decatur, Illinois, better known as ADM. The world's largest grain processor, ADM produces 40 percent of the ethanol used to make gasohol. As might be supposed, the company and its officers have been eloquent in their defense of ethanol and generous in contributing to both political parties. The politicians have been in return. The libertarian Cato Institute estimates that every dollar of ADM's ethanol profit costs taxpayers 30 bucks.

The circle is complete. The corn growers stand to profit from the increased demand for ethanol and minions are needed to implement the plans of big business. Obama will enter now.

Inauguration Emergency

"An emergency exists in the District of Columbia," White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement. And, with that, Washington, D.C. is on lock-down. What is the emergency? The emergency is the upcoming inauguration ceremony. Since "the emergency" is not really an emergency it seems fair to conclude that Americans should get accustomed to non-threatening situations that are now regarded as emergencies. As Americans are benumbed to the notion of the government regularly declaring emergencies for the most frivolous reasons they can likewise expect to find their liberties diminished as well. The Obama - Bush gang are acting in concert.

Thanks From Bugs

One of the fans weigh in.

Obama/Biden SCOTUS Meet Behind Closed Doors

According to the press release: "The visit is a private event. There will be no photo or press availabilities.” In a meeting that has not happened between a President and a Chief Justice in 17 years, SCOTUS and the President-elect are chatting but without any one from the outside. I wonder what they have to talk about?

'Nary A Brown Ripple

Not a ripple in the MSM about the appointment of Carol Browner.

It may be that considerations of race or politics are secondary if ethanol is promoted by Obama-Browner. It may be worth considering if Illinois is the state that is expected to benefit a great deal from the proposed energy solutions during the new administration.

Obama Stands Behind Socialist on Energy

Graphic source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES APPOINTED.

Carol M. Browner has been tapped as the coordinator of climate and energy policies. Until last week, Browner, Obama's nod as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. The page has been revised but a cached copy reveals that Browner is a socialist.

Just last Thursday though, Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page although a promotional photo of a her speaking on 30 June to the group's congress in Greece was still available.

Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world's more mainstream social democratic political parties such as Britain's Labor Party, is a self-proclaimed socialist group harshly critical of U.S. policies.

Obama tapped Browner last month to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. The appointment does not need Senate confirmation and so will not likely face opposition as a confirmed Socialist.

Previously, Browner ran the Environmental Protection Agency under Clinton and she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.

Her name has been removed from the Gore organization's Web site list of directors, and the Audubon Society issued a press release about her departure from that organization.

The controversial Browner was investigated by The Washington Times who discovered that she refused to use email when she served during the Clinton administration for fear of leaving a digital trail. She also ordered her government computer hard drive wiped clean of records just before leaving office.

An email sent to her surfaced in litigation so she simply decided not to a computer." She said: "I was very careful."

A lawsuit convinced a judge to order that the agency must preserve such records. The same day Browner asked a staff member to erase all files on her government computer and her work computer was scrubbed which prompted allegations of a possible cover-up.

The ensuing investigation ultimately cleared Ms. Browner of any wrongdoing who claimed that she was unaware of the judge's order. Her former agency, however, didn't fare as well. It was found in contempt of court for failing to preserve government records.

There will be no transparency during her tenure since she is "afraid the public might see it later," said Mike Surrusco, senior researcher at Common Cause, a nonpartisan group that monitors government ethics and openness.

Charles Davis, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition at the University of Missouri, said avoiding computers and e-mail "seems a little drastic and over the top."

In addition, according to her Wikipedia article:

"During Browner's tenure, there were many reports from African American employees of racism directed at them from a network of "good old boys" who dominated the agency's middle management layers. The most known of these involved policy specialist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, who in 1997 filed suit against the agency; in 2000 the EPA was found guilty of discrimination against her and she was awarded $300,000. Coleman-Adebayo said that Browner allowed the problems to persist rather than trying to clean them up: "She wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses. We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." In an October 2000 Congressional hearing on the matter, Browner appeared near tears as she said minorities had tripled in the agency's senior ranks during her time as administrator, but she was unable to explain why the culprits in Coleman-Adebayo's case had not been dismissed and in some cases had been promoted. A month earlier, Browner had asked for the Office of the Inspector General to linvestigate [sic] a statement by an African American environmental specialist that she had been ordered to clean a toilet in 1993 in advance of Browner's arrival at an EPA event. This followed a rally in which dozens of EPA employees protested what they saw as rampant bias at the agency. Congressional dissatisfaction with the EPA situation and its treatment of Coleman-Adebayo led to passage of the No-FEAR Act in 2002, which discourages federal managers and supervisors from engaging in unlawful discrimination and retaliation."

LeT the U.S. Become a Jihadist Center

Jamaat-ud-Dawa is supposedly a charitable organisation and Hafiz Mohammed Saeed claims to be an injured innocent; yet, it's clear that the organisation and Saeed's family have been subject to scrutiny by the U.S. government for several years and a couple of Saeed's family members are already in US custody.

As the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) grew in Pakistan, Saeed's family rotated to the US to live and work here for a decade.

During this time, LeT aka Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), has morphed from an ISI-sponsored terror outfit against India to become a global jihadist organisation with increasing ties to Al Qaeda.

JuD originated and deeply resonated in almost all areas of Pakistani life where the U.S. could do little. Mumbai changed the equation.

Previously, Saeed's family rotation lived here as imams while preaching and raising funds for jihad.

The first to land in the US was Muhammad Masood, Saeed's brother, who arrived in 1987 on a J-1 exchange visitor visa. He lived in the Boston area, working odd jobs until he started teaching at the Islamic Academy of New England at the Islamic Center of New England in Sharon, Massachusetts. Masood was arrested in November 2006 and charged with visa fraud and other unnamed crimes.

The second family member to arrive was Abdul Hannan, Saeed's brother-in-law (married to Masood's sister). Hannan arrived in the late-1990s, coming to the US through another member of their organisation, Muhammad Khalil, who is serving time currently in a U.S. jail. By 1998, Hannan himself was in jail, also in Massachusetts.

Hannan was released in 2002, and for the next couple of years floated around another Rhode Island, also as an imam, before returning, as imam to Massachusetts. Hannan was again arrested in November 2006 with his brother-in-law Masood. So far, there were two members of Saeed's family in U.S. jails.

The third member, another brother of Saeed named Hamid arrived in the US in 2001 for a program at Harvard University. He returned to the U.S. later in the year and became an imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester. In October 2007, Hamid was deported to Pakistan, on visa irregularities. But one of the reasons, according to some sources, was that the U.S. discovered that he used to run a safe house for LeT terrorists in Moon Chowk and Lahore, India and that his imam activities in the U.S. were all about teaching jihad to youngsters there.

By 2003, LeT offices opened in California and Virginia. After the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, international organizations discovered that LeT also ran terror training camps which were also used to train terrorists from other groups.

The climax to their activities was Mumbai on November 26.

LeT arose an international terrorist organization allied with, or working in concert with Al Qaeda thus this has piqued the interest of the international intelligence community.

Daniel Markey, currently with the Council for Foreign Relations and earlier with the U.S. State Department, stated that the U.S. concern is that LeT emerged as a global jihadist organization no longer satisfied with the status as just an anti-India group.

Follow the Money

A Newsmax story last year estimated that anywhere from $13 million to $63 million may have been received by the Obama campaign from overseas credit cards or foreign currency purchases. More recently, the FEC itself has flagged 16,639 potential foreign donations to Obama's campaign. The extent and amount of illegal campaign contributions will not likely be known since the majority of the FEC Commissioners are Democrats who are not likely to advocate an investigation.

Its Muslim Time Since Obama Claims Mag

Its Muslim time according to editor Nida Kahn claiming, "It's our time." The publication, Elan magazine, sporting Obama's familiarity with Islam from the daughter of Malcolm X and Benjamin F. Chavis Muhammad, the chief of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, and his time attending an Indonesian Muslim school.

The magazine, which calls itself the "guide to global Muslim culture," is distributed in the U.S., Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Qatar, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, as well as online.

Obama: "We are going to take a new approach"

Obama stated on ABC's This Week that he would meet with our enemies “without precondition.” With this shift he has moved U.S. interests into a position of weakness. Our enemies are quick to take advantage of his weakness: Hassan Qashqavi, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, stated “We are willing to talk to them directly and give them a clear choice and ultimately let them make a determination in terms of whether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way.” Qashqavi's tone is clear; they want to set the agenda of the meeting, they want to dictate to us what our choices are. In addition, the Iranian Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor said that Iran has set two preconditions for holding talks with the U.S. “(A)s long as U.S. forces have not left the Middle East region and continues its support for the Zionist regime, talks between Iran and U.S. is off the agenda.” The two statements form a cohesive whole indicating who is in control. Obama has unilaterally shifted the power base of the region from our allies to our enemies by allowing the United States to weaken its approach to talks and negotiations.

One of the main tenants of Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” is, “the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed by him.”

Obama does not grasp the wisdom of Sun Tzu.

During the Presidential debates, Obama tried to obviate his policy by stating what he really meant, was "preparation," rather than precondition.

Now, of course, he does not have a maverick challenging him in a debate, and Obama's policy is clear. He is now back to his real weakness as a negotiator, he legitimizes the position of America's enemies.

The best case scenario Americans can hope for, given Obama's deficiencies, is that
Hillary can take a harder, more realistic line, since she is more savvy and experienced in global affairs.

Now the Non-Existent Job Creation Plan Promises More Jobs

With each Saturday radio address the "job creation" number grows. Obama, try to create one more new job before inflating non-existing growth each week. The American people deserve results and transparency.

Obama's Priorities: Football, Not Politics

As the Hamas-Israeli conflict widens, which Obama had no comment about, he addressed his priority item of interest. "We need a playoff," Obama told reporters after being asked about Florida's 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in Thursday night's BCS championship game. "If I'm Utah, or if I'm USC or if I'm Texas, I might still have some quibbles." While the serious issues of state unfold, Obama is doing what he does best, show up and vote "Present." I would be delighted if someone could get him interested in the real game: politics.

Muslim Terrorist Evidence in Mumbai Released

The Mumbai evidence is available regarding the terrorist murders of civilians where their handlers cheered after hearing the gunfire over the phone. The material documentation was released after India accumulated a dossier for release. The documents were released by the Indian newspaper The Hindu. More than 170 people were killed and hundreds wounded during the 60 hour terror spree that shut down the city. The Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group allied with al Qaeda and supported by powerful elements within Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and the military, carried out the attack. The identity of the major handler has been identified as a current or former Pakistani military officer who appears to be Hamid Gul, the retired former chief of the ISI.

The Pakistan-based handlers provided real-time intelligence and directed the terrorists to killed specific hostages.

The released dialogue reveals that the terrorists planned and executed the attack for maximum media coverage, ordered the murder of hostages, and cheered after the murders were carried out.

They stated: “Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims,” the handlers stated. “Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the gunfire.”

The handlers are heard cheering in the background.

Once that Indian officials were known to be hostages, they state: “Pray that we find them.”

The handler reiterates “Allah is helping you. The wazir (Indian minister) should not escape. Try and set the place on fire.”

They go on to state: “Keep in mind that hostages are of use only as long as you do not come under fire because of their safety.” “If you are still threatened, then don’t saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages. Immediately kill them.”

“Israel has made a request through diplomatic channels to save the hostages. If the hostages are killed, it will spoil relations between India and Israel.”

“So be it, God willing,” one of the terrorists responded.