From the Ron Paul 2008 campaign:
Enthusiasm for the Ron Paul presidential campaign increases by the day. From Pasadena, California to Manchester, New Hampshire, people are responding to Ron Paul's message of freedom, peace and prosperity. The more they hear, the more they want to be a part of the campaign.
The first Ron Paul MeetUp group started with one person two months ago in Pasadena. Now, there are 11,383 members in 269 cities who have held 293 events nationwide. Dr. Paul tops the charts among all presidential candidates on Eventful.com, MySpace.com, and YouTube.com. Phone calls and e-mails continue to pour into our office. Interview requests from the national broadcast and print media are much more frequent.
The United Republicans of California unanimously endorsed Dr. Paul's candidacy. This group was formed in 1963 and represents the traditional conservative wing of the GOP in California. Former New Hampshire State Representative Barbara Hagan, one of the most respected leaders in the pro-life community in America, has endorsed Dr. Paul.
Tonight (June 13), Congressman Paul will be a guest on the Colbert Report. Tomorrow evening (June 14), Congressman Paul will speak to the National Taxpayers Union convention in Washington, D.C. The following day (June 15), he will address the National Right to Life convention in Kansas City. He then travels to Phoenix to speak before the Arizona Republican Assembly on Saturday (June 16).
Yes, enthusiasm for Ron Paul's campaign for president is building! And that was never more evident than in Manchester, New Hampshire a week ago during the CNN debate at Saint Anselm College. Hundreds of Ron Paul supporters showed their support at the debate site, and then afterwards at Murphy's Tap Room in downtown Manchester.
Our new video of the CNN debate is longer than normal, but the extra time was needed to accurately show the enthusiasm from that day, along with all of Congressman Paul's answers. To watch it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJKGfAWQUo
Thank you!
Kent Snyder
Chairman
Ron Paul 2008
Saturday, June 16, 2007
MUSTANG REPORT # 9.
U.S. Army Special Forces
Civic Action: The Building of Loyalty & Trust
Civic Action: The Building of Loyalty & Trust
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Before I get into the meat of this report I would like to introduce you to a very special website and a real hero of mine. Major Glenn MacDonald has voluntarily assumed the role of a modern day crusader for justice. Every day he goes up against those who would undermine law and order within the military establishment. It is those who, through use of devious or downright illegal actions to protect persons of rank, that deny the victims of their actions justice in the truest sense of the word. Perhaps I am particularly concerned because I have two grandsons in the military and would want Major MacDonald, a man of courage and unquestioned integrity working with other brave men and women to help rid the "System" of evil men and women who are not mentally equipped to lead our troops.
Fighting for the Truth ... Exposing the Corrupt
Maj. Glenn MacDonald: staff@militarycorruption.com
======================================================
Civic Action, as I define it in my book Expendable Elite, is "The use of American and local military, paramilitary or irregular forces on projects useful to the local population in such fields as transportation, training, public works, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, sanitation and others contributing to economic and social development, which also serve to improve the standing of the central government with the local population."
Have no doubt in your minds that the need for effective civic action programs, using qualified Special Operations personnel with a knowledge of the local language or the availability of loyal interpreters is absolutely essential in Iraq and Afghanistan or any other nation whose native people have been taught by one method or another to dislike, distrust or even hate outsiders, especially Americans. We must, as the words of the catchy phrase "Winning the Hearts and Minds of the People" imply, do what is needed to develop a bond between our forces and those who we have been sent to help.
This concept was used very effectively during Special Forces instruction to the officer's class I was part of on Smoke Bomb Hill at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was in the spring of 1964 when we were taught that one of the primary roles of the U.S. Army Special Forces in a counter-insurgency warfare situation such as it was in the Vietnam "conflict," more aptly called a WAR. Those of us who were on the ground facing the enemy knew it was a war. Our mission in An Phu, South Vietnam, would include civic action, psychological warfare and military government operations such as we lived and dealt with on a daily basis from 27 December 1965 through 2 August 1966.
Counter-Insurgency is comprised of military, paramilitary, psychological warfare, political, economical and civic actions taken by a government to defeat a subversive insurgency. Conversely, insurgency is an insurrection against a constituted government that falls short of civil war. Victory by insurgency depends on the insurgent's ability to enlist the local population, either by fear through intimidation or by convincing those same people that their government is self-serving, thereby gaining their numbers in the insurgent's base, and in doing so, weakening the government's capabilities as their loyal base shrinks.
I like what Hans Halberstadt, in his book Green Berets - Unconventional Warriors: In Action With America's Elite Fighting Men (Berkley Books, NY © 1989), said of the Army's Special Forces Organization: "It is, within the Army, a group of men at the tactical level who are taught to look at conflict in a radically different manner, in subtle political and social ways, at the reasons behind conflict, rather than the popular and sensational reasons found on television or in newspapers."
You will learn, when you read Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare, that our Special Forces team A-424, working with the Vietnamese Special Forces in An Phu, South Vietnam, devoted 60% of our day-to-day effort to civic action, psychological warfare and military government operations. Our conscious efforts convinced the 64,000 people of An Phu that we truly cared about them. We worked to show the central government in Saigon that the Hoa Hao people posed no threat to them, which was what the government once feared to be the case. We would, within 30 days of our taking on an "independent warfare operation" mission, retake ground that had been occupied by the enemy, provide a high level of security in our area, weed out local insurgent sympathizers and gain the loyalty of the citizens. They then, without fail, made us aware of any enemy activity, no matter how insignificant, that could adversely affect the people of An Phu.
Colonel Harry L. Corkill, speaking to me when I first reported in as a Sergeant First Class to be his right hand man in the 82d Airborne Division Logistical Support Center, expressed an "attitude" about dealing with people, telling me what I will never forget: "Marv," he told me, "loyalty must first go down and then it will bounce back up on its own and you can count on that." With that in mind I led my team of Green Berets in serving the people of An Phu in every aspect of our independent operations, keeping their security and welfare uppermost in daily priorities. Once, having witnessed our loyalty through individual and team actions, the people, almost 100% Buddhists of the Hoa Haos Sect, understood that we cared for them and they then did all they could to let us experience the reality of their caring for us.
Proof of the pudding? You could ask any of my men who had been out on combat patrol with our Hoa Hao Irregulars, what it was like and their most likely response would be to let you know that the only place the enemy could have shot them would have been in the head because our Hoa Haos would virtually surround them to protect them once bullets started flying. Judging from that you can rest assured that we had, in fact, "won the hearts and minds of the people."
© Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired)
Author of Victory Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare
Invasion news updates - 6/16/07
WHAT PART OF 'NO' DOES OUR GOVERNMENT NOT UNDERSTAND?
By Beverly Eakman
NewsWithViews.com
Apparently both parties in the Senate have seen fit to “dis” the electorate and are putting the same, rejected “shamnesty” of an immigration bill right back on the agenda.
http://tinyurl.com/2948rw
“Deal Struck To Bring Amnesty Back To Senate Floor"
That means the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty bill is back and steamrolling toward passage in the Senate -- unless grassroots citizens once again “roar” in opposition.
http://tinyurl.com/2y856s
By Beverly Eakman
NewsWithViews.com
Apparently both parties in the Senate have seen fit to “dis” the electorate and are putting the same, rejected “shamnesty” of an immigration bill right back on the agenda.
http://tinyurl.com/2948rw
“Deal Struck To Bring Amnesty Back To Senate Floor"
That means the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty bill is back and steamrolling toward passage in the Senate -- unless grassroots citizens once again “roar” in opposition.
http://tinyurl.com/2y856s
NYPDS - 6/16/07
Gold Will Reach $750 This Year on Inflation
By Claudia Carpenter, Bloomberg News
Gold will rise as high as $750 an ounce this year, about $100 more than today, as concern about accelerating inflation spurs demand for the metal as a store of value, Newmont Mining Corp. Vice Chairman Pierre Lassonde said.
http://tinyurl.com/2bbro7
NSA 'spy room' at AT&T exposed
Agency can spy on email and web use with impunity
Iain Thomson, IT Week
Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claim to show that US telco AT&T allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to set up a 'secret room' in its offices to monitor internet traffic. ...The US government has asked the courts to dismiss the case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets.
http://tinyurl.com/262fxp
DNA database agreed for police across EU
Ian Traynor in Luxembourg
The Guardian
· New law heralds world's biggest biometric system
· Police to share information on visa applicants
http://tinyurl.com/ytsfbu
Diagnosis: Conflict of Interest
By DANIEL CARLAT, NY Times
The chore of teaching doctors how to practice medicine has been handed to the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, dangerous side effects are rarely on the curriculum.
http://tinyurl.com/3xqucb
Hit Anywhere on Earth with ICBMs
By Noah Shachtman, WIRED News
The Pentagon doesn't just want to blast any target on Earth, in an hour. The military wants to strike everywhere and anywhere, just about instantly....
http://tinyurl.com/3b5czy
Heavy pesticide exposure linked to brain cancer
Reuters
Agricultural workers with extensive exposure to pesticides may have an elevated risk of brain cancer, new research suggests.
http://tinyurl.com/2upkfm
Blair backs new online journalism regulator
By George Jones, Political Editor, Telegraph
Changes are on the horizon to eliminate any free speech.
http://tinyurl.com/2aupon
ZERO TOLERANCE A ONE WAY STREET FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by Jim Kouri
© 2007 NewsWithViews.com
The attack on manhood has turned into an all-out assault on males of all ages.
http://tinyurl.com/yv6jcd
Biofuels could lead to mass hunger deaths: U.N. envoy
Reuters
The UN can't make up their minds whether they want everyone to use alternative fuel sources or not! Use petroleum, you destroy the planet; use biofuels you'll starve to death!
http://tinyurl.com/2mdq8b
By Claudia Carpenter, Bloomberg News
Gold will rise as high as $750 an ounce this year, about $100 more than today, as concern about accelerating inflation spurs demand for the metal as a store of value, Newmont Mining Corp. Vice Chairman Pierre Lassonde said.
http://tinyurl.com/2bbro7
NSA 'spy room' at AT&T exposed
Agency can spy on email and web use with impunity
Iain Thomson, IT Week
Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claim to show that US telco AT&T allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to set up a 'secret room' in its offices to monitor internet traffic. ...The US government has asked the courts to dismiss the case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets.
http://tinyurl.com/262fxp
DNA database agreed for police across EU
Ian Traynor in Luxembourg
The Guardian
· New law heralds world's biggest biometric system
· Police to share information on visa applicants
http://tinyurl.com/ytsfbu
Diagnosis: Conflict of Interest
By DANIEL CARLAT, NY Times
The chore of teaching doctors how to practice medicine has been handed to the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, dangerous side effects are rarely on the curriculum.
http://tinyurl.com/3xqucb
Hit Anywhere on Earth with ICBMs
By Noah Shachtman, WIRED News
The Pentagon doesn't just want to blast any target on Earth, in an hour. The military wants to strike everywhere and anywhere, just about instantly....
http://tinyurl.com/3b5czy
Heavy pesticide exposure linked to brain cancer
Reuters
Agricultural workers with extensive exposure to pesticides may have an elevated risk of brain cancer, new research suggests.
http://tinyurl.com/2upkfm
Blair backs new online journalism regulator
By George Jones, Political Editor, Telegraph
Changes are on the horizon to eliminate any free speech.
http://tinyurl.com/2aupon
ZERO TOLERANCE A ONE WAY STREET FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by Jim Kouri
© 2007 NewsWithViews.com
The attack on manhood has turned into an all-out assault on males of all ages.
http://tinyurl.com/yv6jcd
Biofuels could lead to mass hunger deaths: U.N. envoy
Reuters
The UN can't make up their minds whether they want everyone to use alternative fuel sources or not! Use petroleum, you destroy the planet; use biofuels you'll starve to death!
http://tinyurl.com/2mdq8b
Friday, June 15, 2007
Blogs for Borders 061207
Amnesty Zombies?
Uncounted Beans?
And 100% Preventable!
Vote for us at RealClearPolitics
March For America is this weekend! Are you going? If not, why not? Along with the big 'do' in DC there are events in several states.
As we said in the "Emergency Burst" the horrifically bad S. 1348 isn't dead yet, please help put it out of our misery!
Noe Aleman headed to jail on Monday, whatever help you can offer is deeply appreciated.
Uncounted Beans?
And 100% Preventable!
Vote for us at RealClearPolitics
March For America is this weekend! Are you going? If not, why not? Along with the big 'do' in DC there are events in several states.
As we said in the "Emergency Burst" the horrifically bad S. 1348 isn't dead yet, please help put it out of our misery!
Noe Aleman headed to jail on Monday, whatever help you can offer is deeply appreciated.
The War Being Waged RIGHT NOW on America
By Samuel C. Gipp, Ph.D.
Listen to what is being taught in California in a public school program called "History of Culture":
*The are required to adopt an Arabic name.
*They are made to chat "Praise to Allah" in response to their teacher.
*They are forced to memorize the Muslim profession of faith, "Allah is the only God and Muhammad is his messenger."
*Profess as true the Muslim belief that, "The Holy Quran is God's Word."
*Observe the Muslim Helly-day Ramadan.
*Taught they must fight & die for Allah.
*They are forced to where the wear the Islamic star and crescent.
*They are forced to play "Jihad Games" where they are taught to murder for Islam.
*They are forced to recite the prayer: "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation. The Compassionate, the Merciful King of Judgment. You alone we worship, and to you alone we pray for help. Guide us to the straight path."
*They are told at the beginning of the course, "You and your classmates will become Muslims."
They are taught to, "March in the cause of Allah...If you do not fight, he will punish you sternly and replace you with other men."
When the California school district was sued the vile, wicked, hellish Ninth Circuit Court ruled the program did not violate the First Amendment! The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the ruling!
*In South Carolina children are forced to study the "5 Five Pillars of Islam.
*In Arizona students are forced to listen to a Muslim speaker in class who taught them to pray as Muslims.
*In Virginia students are forced to pretend they are Muslims.
(Information from: Christian Action Network, P>O> Box 606, Forest, VA 24551)
This is more destructive to our nation than the September 11, 2001, Muslim murder of 3,000 innocent Americans. Here are the groups that are actively helping the Muslim murders to take over our country:
1. The News Media: They support anyone who hates this nation and seeks its destruction.
2. Public Schools: They are run by the liberal NEA and want every child in America destroyed.
3. Liberal Judges: They over throw the will and the good of the people to help destroy America.
4. Hollywood: They promote pro-Muslim, anti-Christian programming.
5. Politicians: The Democrats actively support the destruction of America while the Republicans are too cowardly to take any stand they think will hurt them politically.
6. Cowards: who are intimidated into silence by their television sets.
The worship of false gods violates God! This nation has seen nothing but drought, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, industrial collapse, and other catastrophes because of our national, cowardly kowtowing to false religions.
We Have NEVER Been "Multi-cultural!"
In 1854 THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE of the United States declared: "Had the people during the revolution had any suspicion of an attempt to war against Christianity, that revolution would have been strangles in its cradle: At the time of the adoption of the constitution and its amendments the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged...That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants."
A NEW Bill of Rights
By no means do I desire to eliminate the first ten amendments of our Constitution. Nor do I believe the following should be added to it. These are just some things that I believe Americans have a right to expect.
1. I have the right to expect someone helping me on the phone to speak English understandably. (Do you think people in France have the right to expect their service representatives to speak French understandably? Arabs?)
2. I have the right to be served in hotels and restaurants by people who understand what cleanliness is.
3. I have the right to resent anyone who comes to this country and tries to make it the country they left.
4. I have the right to resent anyone who enters my country illegally.
5. I have the right to resent anyone who tries to claim English isn't our national language.
6. I have the right to resent school teachers who are too incompetent to teach their subject instead using their class to indoctrinate helpless children with their socialist gospel.
7. I have the right to resent my constitutional guaranteed "Free Press" being kidnapped by liberal totalitarians.
8. I have the right to resent the News Media covering for Muslim murderers.
9. I have the right to resent politicians who view one-world issues as more important than the sovereignty of my country.
10.I have the right to resent liberal judges who overthrow the will of the people by negating issues passed by voters just because of their own political prejudice.
###
If the above information has your blood boiling - don't just sit there - DO SOMETHING! Go to http://www.daystarpublishing.org and order Dr. Gipp's booklet entitled "We Are Americans". This is an excellent source of quotes from our Founding Fathers on their faith, esteem for the Bible, Christian principles and their evangelistic fervor. Then read what has happened to America and what YOU can do about it. This booklet needs to be in the hands of every school student and thinking adult. I would like to encourage you to order several hundred copies of "We Are Americans" and pass them out at your community's 4th of July celebration. This is an occasion when people will be feeling very patriotic - don't let this opportunity pass you by. We passed some out on Memorial Day and people actually came over and asked for a copy! In the words of Dr. Gipp - FIGHT ON!
Listen to what is being taught in California in a public school program called "History of Culture":
*The are required to adopt an Arabic name.
*They are made to chat "Praise to Allah" in response to their teacher.
*They are forced to memorize the Muslim profession of faith, "Allah is the only God and Muhammad is his messenger."
*Profess as true the Muslim belief that, "The Holy Quran is God's Word."
*Observe the Muslim Helly-day Ramadan.
*Taught they must fight & die for Allah.
*They are forced to where the wear the Islamic star and crescent.
*They are forced to play "Jihad Games" where they are taught to murder for Islam.
*They are forced to recite the prayer: "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation. The Compassionate, the Merciful King of Judgment. You alone we worship, and to you alone we pray for help. Guide us to the straight path."
*They are told at the beginning of the course, "You and your classmates will become Muslims."
They are taught to, "March in the cause of Allah...If you do not fight, he will punish you sternly and replace you with other men."
When the California school district was sued the vile, wicked, hellish Ninth Circuit Court ruled the program did not violate the First Amendment! The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the ruling!
*In South Carolina children are forced to study the "5 Five Pillars of Islam.
*In Arizona students are forced to listen to a Muslim speaker in class who taught them to pray as Muslims.
*In Virginia students are forced to pretend they are Muslims.
(Information from: Christian Action Network, P>O> Box 606, Forest, VA 24551)
This is more destructive to our nation than the September 11, 2001, Muslim murder of 3,000 innocent Americans. Here are the groups that are actively helping the Muslim murders to take over our country:
1. The News Media: They support anyone who hates this nation and seeks its destruction.
2. Public Schools: They are run by the liberal NEA and want every child in America destroyed.
3. Liberal Judges: They over throw the will and the good of the people to help destroy America.
4. Hollywood: They promote pro-Muslim, anti-Christian programming.
5. Politicians: The Democrats actively support the destruction of America while the Republicans are too cowardly to take any stand they think will hurt them politically.
6. Cowards: who are intimidated into silence by their television sets.
The worship of false gods violates God! This nation has seen nothing but drought, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, industrial collapse, and other catastrophes because of our national, cowardly kowtowing to false religions.
We Have NEVER Been "Multi-cultural!"
In 1854 THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE of the United States declared: "Had the people during the revolution had any suspicion of an attempt to war against Christianity, that revolution would have been strangles in its cradle: At the time of the adoption of the constitution and its amendments the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged...That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants."
A NEW Bill of Rights
By no means do I desire to eliminate the first ten amendments of our Constitution. Nor do I believe the following should be added to it. These are just some things that I believe Americans have a right to expect.
1. I have the right to expect someone helping me on the phone to speak English understandably. (Do you think people in France have the right to expect their service representatives to speak French understandably? Arabs?)
2. I have the right to be served in hotels and restaurants by people who understand what cleanliness is.
3. I have the right to resent anyone who comes to this country and tries to make it the country they left.
4. I have the right to resent anyone who enters my country illegally.
5. I have the right to resent anyone who tries to claim English isn't our national language.
6. I have the right to resent school teachers who are too incompetent to teach their subject instead using their class to indoctrinate helpless children with their socialist gospel.
7. I have the right to resent my constitutional guaranteed "Free Press" being kidnapped by liberal totalitarians.
8. I have the right to resent the News Media covering for Muslim murderers.
9. I have the right to resent politicians who view one-world issues as more important than the sovereignty of my country.
10.I have the right to resent liberal judges who overthrow the will of the people by negating issues passed by voters just because of their own political prejudice.
###
If the above information has your blood boiling - don't just sit there - DO SOMETHING! Go to http://www.daystarpublishing.org and order Dr. Gipp's booklet entitled "We Are Americans". This is an excellent source of quotes from our Founding Fathers on their faith, esteem for the Bible, Christian principles and their evangelistic fervor. Then read what has happened to America and what YOU can do about it. This booklet needs to be in the hands of every school student and thinking adult. I would like to encourage you to order several hundred copies of "We Are Americans" and pass them out at your community's 4th of July celebration. This is an occasion when people will be feeling very patriotic - don't let this opportunity pass you by. We passed some out on Memorial Day and people actually came over and asked for a copy! In the words of Dr. Gipp - FIGHT ON!
Invasion news updates - 6/15/07
The Regime Against the Nation
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.
http://tinyurl.com/22mrfe
Bush’s Deal: Border Cash for Amnesty
By Amanda Carpenter
In an effort to resurrect the Senate’s immigration bill,President Bush has agreed to spend $4.4 billion to increase border security based on the premise that money would be repaid later with penalties and fines from illegal aliens seeking legal status.
http://tinyurl.com/2enfk8
Immigration's Impact On American Workers
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
By Steven Camarota
There is NO EVIDENCE of a labor shortage in this country! This report is in PDF format, and is well worth the read.
http://tinyurl.com/yuhal3
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.
http://tinyurl.com/22mrfe
Bush’s Deal: Border Cash for Amnesty
By Amanda Carpenter
In an effort to resurrect the Senate’s immigration bill,President Bush has agreed to spend $4.4 billion to increase border security based on the premise that money would be repaid later with penalties and fines from illegal aliens seeking legal status.
http://tinyurl.com/2enfk8
Immigration's Impact On American Workers
Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
By Steven Camarota
There is NO EVIDENCE of a labor shortage in this country! This report is in PDF format, and is well worth the read.
http://tinyurl.com/yuhal3
NYPDS - 6/15/07
BBC Rejects Jerusalem as Capital of Israel
by Ze'ev Orenstein
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) issued an apology this week for having referred to Jerusalem as being the capital of Israel in one of its broadcasts.
http://tinyurl.com/2m86jp
U.S. To Use Hamas Upheaval To Squeeze Israel for Concessions
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
American President George W. Bush will press visiting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week to fork over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money to prop up the standing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
http://tinyurl.com/2mhagf
Billy Graham's wife Ruth dies at 87
Mike Baker- Associated Press
Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all five of their children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham's spokesman.
http://tinyurl.com/33ess6
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
by Bruce Schneier Wired News
Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/29mxc5
Judicial Review vs. Constitutional Government
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
One overlooked effect of judicial review – the power of American judges to declare laws unconstitutional – is that it gives judges power to adopt amendments the people, through their representatives, have rejected.
http://tinyurl.com/2szten
The Exploitation of Children?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Our grocery stores should look like they did in the old Soviet Union, with brown boxes called names like "soap" and "cereal." And as every good socialist knows, the best way to get rid of advertising is to get rid of competition and the need to market anything in the first place.
http://tinyurl.com/2o8hla
by Ze'ev Orenstein
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) issued an apology this week for having referred to Jerusalem as being the capital of Israel in one of its broadcasts.
http://tinyurl.com/2m86jp
U.S. To Use Hamas Upheaval To Squeeze Israel for Concessions
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
American President George W. Bush will press visiting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week to fork over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money to prop up the standing of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
http://tinyurl.com/2mhagf
Billy Graham's wife Ruth dies at 87
Mike Baker- Associated Press
Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all five of their children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham's spokesman.
http://tinyurl.com/33ess6
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
by Bruce Schneier Wired News
Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/29mxc5
Judicial Review vs. Constitutional Government
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
One overlooked effect of judicial review – the power of American judges to declare laws unconstitutional – is that it gives judges power to adopt amendments the people, through their representatives, have rejected.
http://tinyurl.com/2szten
The Exploitation of Children?
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Our grocery stores should look like they did in the old Soviet Union, with brown boxes called names like "soap" and "cereal." And as every good socialist knows, the best way to get rid of advertising is to get rid of competition and the need to market anything in the first place.
http://tinyurl.com/2o8hla
Thursday, June 14, 2007
McCarthy Bill Rammed Through The House
-- Deal between NRA leadership and Democrats leaves most Republicans
in the dark
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday started out as a routine day in the U.S. Congress, with Representatives attending congressional hearings, meeting with constituents, perhaps devising clever new ways to pick our pockets.
At 8:30 in the morning an email went out to House Republicans indicating that a gun control bill, recently introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), was on the Suspension Calendar (normally reserved for "non-controversial" bills).
Many Representatives didn't see that email until it was too late. Less than three hours later, the bill passed by a voice vote. The bill in question, H.R. 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America.
Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. A sausage factory in a third world country with no running water has nothing on today's U.S. Congress.
The Washington Post reported earlier this week that a deal had been struck between the NRA leadership and Democrat leaders in the House. The headline read: "Democrats, NRA Reach Deal on Background-Check Bill."
Red flags went up throughout the pro-gun community. Who was party to this "deal," and how many of our rights were being used as bargaining chips?
The McCarthy bill, at the time, looked to be going nowhere. The general consensus among pro-gun Congressmen was that any gun bill offered by McCarthy was simply DOA.
After all, if there were such a thing as a single issue Member of Congress, it would have to be McCarthy. Rep. McCarthy ran for office to ban guns; Hollywood made a movie about her efforts to ban guns; and she is currently the lead sponsor of a bill that makes the old Clinton gun ban pale by comparison.
Even many Democrats wouldn't go near a McCarthy gun bill. They have learned that supporting gun control is a losing issue. Enter Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the so-called Dean of the House, having served since the Eisenhower administration. Dingell is also a former NRA Board member, and was in that capacity tapped to bring the NRA leadership to the table.
The end result of the negotiations was that this small clique among the NRA leadership gave this bill the support it needed to pass.
But why was it necessary to pass the bill in such an underhanded fashion? If this is such a victory for the Second Amendment, why all the secrecy? Why was a deal forged with the anti-gun Democrat House leadership, keeping most pro-gun representatives in the dark? Why was the bill rammed through on the Suspension Calendar with no recorded vote with which to identify those who are against us?
For starters, it would be a hard sell indeed for the NRA leadership to explain to its members what they would gain by working with McCarthy. If this legislation had gone before the NRA membership for a vote, it would have been rejected. For that matter, if it went through the House in the regular fashion, with committee hearings and
recorded votes, it would have been defeated.
Consider also what the bill is: GUN CONTROL! The lead sentence in an Associated Press article accurately stated that, "The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade."
The bill's supporters can talk all they want to the contrary, but forcing the states to hand over to the federal government millions of records of Americans for the purpose of conducting a background check is certainly an expansion of gun control.
This is a bill designed to make the gun control trains run on time. Problem is, the train's on the wrong track. We don't need greater efficiency enforcing laws that for years we have fought as being unconstitutional.
Sure, there are provisions in the bill by which a person who is on the prohibited persons list can get his name removed, but not before proving one's innocence before a court, or convincing a psychiatrist that he should be able to own a gun (though most psychiatrists would be more likely to deem a person mentally defective for even wanting to own guns).
Sad thing is, this bill, which spends hundreds of millions of your dollars, will do nothing to make us safer. More gun control laws will not stop the next deranged madman. What will stop a killer is an armed law-abiding citizen. In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, we should be considering removing barriers that prevent
honest, decent people from carrying their lawfully possessed firearms.
We don't know where the next shooting will occur; that's something the killer decides. So whether it is in a school, a church, a shopping mall or a government building, we should urge our elected officials to repeal so-called gun free zones and oppose more gun control.
Instead, we end up with a bill supported by Handgun Control and Sarah Brady, Chuck Schumer, Teddy Kennedy, Carolyn McCarthy, and the rest of the Who's Who of the anti-gun movement, and all the while the NRA leadership maintains that this is a win for gun owners.
This is a Faustian bargain, which will repeatedly haunt gun owners in the years to come.
But you should realize why they had to do it this way. Your activism has resulted in an avalanche of grassroots opposition against this bill. Gun owners have raised their voices of opposition loud-and-clear, and many congressmen have been feeling the heat.
The fight is not over. They still have to run this through the Senate. Already, there is a small cadre of pro-gun senators who are ready to slow this bill down and do everything they can to kill it. To be frank, a bill that has the support of all the anti-gun groups and the NRA will be tough to beat, but we will continue to fight
every step of the way.
Although we've suffered a setback, we want to thank all of you for the hard work you've done. Your efforts derailed the McCarthy bill for the past five years and we would have prevailed again were it not for the developments described above.
Be looking for an upcoming alert to the U.S. Senate. GOA will give you the particulars of the bill that passed the House, and we will provide you suggested language for a pre-written letter to your two senators.
Stay tuned. There is more to come.
in the dark
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday started out as a routine day in the U.S. Congress, with Representatives attending congressional hearings, meeting with constituents, perhaps devising clever new ways to pick our pockets.
At 8:30 in the morning an email went out to House Republicans indicating that a gun control bill, recently introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), was on the Suspension Calendar (normally reserved for "non-controversial" bills).
Many Representatives didn't see that email until it was too late. Less than three hours later, the bill passed by a voice vote. The bill in question, H.R. 2640, is a massive expansion of the Brady Gun Control law, the subject of many previous alerts by Gun Owners of America.
Its passage in the House is a case study in backroom deal making, unholy alliances and deceit. A sausage factory in a third world country with no running water has nothing on today's U.S. Congress.
The Washington Post reported earlier this week that a deal had been struck between the NRA leadership and Democrat leaders in the House. The headline read: "Democrats, NRA Reach Deal on Background-Check Bill."
Red flags went up throughout the pro-gun community. Who was party to this "deal," and how many of our rights were being used as bargaining chips?
The McCarthy bill, at the time, looked to be going nowhere. The general consensus among pro-gun Congressmen was that any gun bill offered by McCarthy was simply DOA.
After all, if there were such a thing as a single issue Member of Congress, it would have to be McCarthy. Rep. McCarthy ran for office to ban guns; Hollywood made a movie about her efforts to ban guns; and she is currently the lead sponsor of a bill that makes the old Clinton gun ban pale by comparison.
Even many Democrats wouldn't go near a McCarthy gun bill. They have learned that supporting gun control is a losing issue. Enter Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the so-called Dean of the House, having served since the Eisenhower administration. Dingell is also a former NRA Board member, and was in that capacity tapped to bring the NRA leadership to the table.
The end result of the negotiations was that this small clique among the NRA leadership gave this bill the support it needed to pass.
But why was it necessary to pass the bill in such an underhanded fashion? If this is such a victory for the Second Amendment, why all the secrecy? Why was a deal forged with the anti-gun Democrat House leadership, keeping most pro-gun representatives in the dark? Why was the bill rammed through on the Suspension Calendar with no recorded vote with which to identify those who are against us?
For starters, it would be a hard sell indeed for the NRA leadership to explain to its members what they would gain by working with McCarthy. If this legislation had gone before the NRA membership for a vote, it would have been rejected. For that matter, if it went through the House in the regular fashion, with committee hearings and
recorded votes, it would have been defeated.
Consider also what the bill is: GUN CONTROL! The lead sentence in an Associated Press article accurately stated that, "The House Wednesday passed what could become the first major federal gun control law in over a decade."
The bill's supporters can talk all they want to the contrary, but forcing the states to hand over to the federal government millions of records of Americans for the purpose of conducting a background check is certainly an expansion of gun control.
This is a bill designed to make the gun control trains run on time. Problem is, the train's on the wrong track. We don't need greater efficiency enforcing laws that for years we have fought as being unconstitutional.
Sure, there are provisions in the bill by which a person who is on the prohibited persons list can get his name removed, but not before proving one's innocence before a court, or convincing a psychiatrist that he should be able to own a gun (though most psychiatrists would be more likely to deem a person mentally defective for even wanting to own guns).
Sad thing is, this bill, which spends hundreds of millions of your dollars, will do nothing to make us safer. More gun control laws will not stop the next deranged madman. What will stop a killer is an armed law-abiding citizen. In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, we should be considering removing barriers that prevent
honest, decent people from carrying their lawfully possessed firearms.
We don't know where the next shooting will occur; that's something the killer decides. So whether it is in a school, a church, a shopping mall or a government building, we should urge our elected officials to repeal so-called gun free zones and oppose more gun control.
Instead, we end up with a bill supported by Handgun Control and Sarah Brady, Chuck Schumer, Teddy Kennedy, Carolyn McCarthy, and the rest of the Who's Who of the anti-gun movement, and all the while the NRA leadership maintains that this is a win for gun owners.
This is a Faustian bargain, which will repeatedly haunt gun owners in the years to come.
But you should realize why they had to do it this way. Your activism has resulted in an avalanche of grassroots opposition against this bill. Gun owners have raised their voices of opposition loud-and-clear, and many congressmen have been feeling the heat.
The fight is not over. They still have to run this through the Senate. Already, there is a small cadre of pro-gun senators who are ready to slow this bill down and do everything they can to kill it. To be frank, a bill that has the support of all the anti-gun groups and the NRA will be tough to beat, but we will continue to fight
every step of the way.
Although we've suffered a setback, we want to thank all of you for the hard work you've done. Your efforts derailed the McCarthy bill for the past five years and we would have prevailed again were it not for the developments described above.
Be looking for an upcoming alert to the U.S. Senate. GOA will give you the particulars of the bill that passed the House, and we will provide you suggested language for a pre-written letter to your two senators.
Stay tuned. There is more to come.
Invasion news updates - 6/14/07
I FOUND AN AMERO IN MY POCKET
By Dan Nelson
NewsWithViews.com
You and I may not remember what it was like to pay 5 cents a gallon for gas, but by the end of this summer we will find out what it feels like to pay 5 dollars a gallon.
http://tinyurl.com/243smn
AMNESTY ANATHEMA
By Geoff Metcalf
NewsWithViews.com
This was a bad idea when Reagan did it, and it is a worst idea now that Bush and Congress are trying it.
http://tinyurl.com/yvuepd
BUSH SIDES WITH MEXICAN KILLERS AGAINST U.S.
By Cliff Kincaid
NewsWithViews.com
The State Department’s top legal adviser told international lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers.
http://tinyurl.com/yvacq2
CERTAIN MORTALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
At the very least, if that bill passes with Bush’s Kervorkian mission to kill this nation, and as he said, “pass this product,” we will see this country bleed to death and overdose on legal and illegal immigrants from a line that never ends.
http://tinyurl.com/2cyawp
Army Wants to Enlist Illegals
The provision at stake is the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM that offered illegal residents a way to join the military and, ultimately, become citizens, Carr explained.
http://tinyurl.com/24hahx
Grassroots Opposition To Amnesty Increases
After Bush Says 'See You At Bill Signing'
Press Release from Grassfire.org
http://tinyurl.com/2w3aap
By Dan Nelson
NewsWithViews.com
You and I may not remember what it was like to pay 5 cents a gallon for gas, but by the end of this summer we will find out what it feels like to pay 5 dollars a gallon.
http://tinyurl.com/243smn
AMNESTY ANATHEMA
By Geoff Metcalf
NewsWithViews.com
This was a bad idea when Reagan did it, and it is a worst idea now that Bush and Congress are trying it.
http://tinyurl.com/yvuepd
BUSH SIDES WITH MEXICAN KILLERS AGAINST U.S.
By Cliff Kincaid
NewsWithViews.com
The State Department’s top legal adviser told international lawyers on June 6 that President Bush is so committed to the primacy of international law that he has taken his home state of Texas to court on behalf of a group of Mexican killers.
http://tinyurl.com/yvacq2
CERTAIN MORTALITY OF THE UNITED STATES
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
At the very least, if that bill passes with Bush’s Kervorkian mission to kill this nation, and as he said, “pass this product,” we will see this country bleed to death and overdose on legal and illegal immigrants from a line that never ends.
http://tinyurl.com/2cyawp
Army Wants to Enlist Illegals
The provision at stake is the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM that offered illegal residents a way to join the military and, ultimately, become citizens, Carr explained.
http://tinyurl.com/24hahx
Grassroots Opposition To Amnesty Increases
After Bush Says 'See You At Bill Signing'
Press Release from Grassfire.org
http://tinyurl.com/2w3aap
NYPDS - 6/14/07 Part II
GOP's Ron Paul, Other Candidates, Mull Debate Complaint
FreeMarketNews.com
There is nothing wrong with private organizations providing varying ground rules for varying candidates. But to stipulate fairness and deliver something else misleads viewers and injures participants.
http://tinyurl.com/34xo3g
Government Investigation Finds Autism Vaccine Related
by Evelyn Pringle
However, years ago children only received a small number of vaccines that were injected with a period of time in between and one dose at a time. Since 1988, the number of vaccines given to children before the age of two has tripled.
http://tinyurl.com/phxdc
What the Verdict Will Mean for Vaccines
Physicians Worry Vaccine Hearings Could Prompt Scare, Missed Immunizations
By DAN CHILDS and LAURA OWINGS
ABC News Medical Unit
[editor: Of course they're scared! That's a sizable income they stand to lose! The only ones who will win are innocent children.]
http://tinyurl.com/293q73
Jammed cities eye 'pay to drive'
New York and other major US cities are considering fees for those driving during rush hour.
By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
http://tinyurl.com/2nyj32
HOW THE FDA IS BECOMING A DRUG COMPANY
PART 1 of 2
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company.
http://tinyurl.com/2zcft6
HOW THE FDA IS BECOMING A DRUG COMPANY
PART 2 of 2
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
Not a single Senator raised one concern about the significant safety issues inherent in the Critical Path Initiative/Reagan-Udall Foundation or conflicts of interest when Big Pharma and the FDA work side by side to develop, patent, and license drugs.
http://tinyurl.com/ys7cfj
FreeMarketNews.com
There is nothing wrong with private organizations providing varying ground rules for varying candidates. But to stipulate fairness and deliver something else misleads viewers and injures participants.
http://tinyurl.com/34xo3g
Government Investigation Finds Autism Vaccine Related
by Evelyn Pringle
However, years ago children only received a small number of vaccines that were injected with a period of time in between and one dose at a time. Since 1988, the number of vaccines given to children before the age of two has tripled.
http://tinyurl.com/phxdc
What the Verdict Will Mean for Vaccines
Physicians Worry Vaccine Hearings Could Prompt Scare, Missed Immunizations
By DAN CHILDS and LAURA OWINGS
ABC News Medical Unit
[editor: Of course they're scared! That's a sizable income they stand to lose! The only ones who will win are innocent children.]
http://tinyurl.com/293q73
Jammed cities eye 'pay to drive'
New York and other major US cities are considering fees for those driving during rush hour.
By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
http://tinyurl.com/2nyj32
HOW THE FDA IS BECOMING A DRUG COMPANY
PART 1 of 2
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company.
http://tinyurl.com/2zcft6
HOW THE FDA IS BECOMING A DRUG COMPANY
PART 2 of 2
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
NewsWithViews.com
Not a single Senator raised one concern about the significant safety issues inherent in the Critical Path Initiative/Reagan-Udall Foundation or conflicts of interest when Big Pharma and the FDA work side by side to develop, patent, and license drugs.
http://tinyurl.com/ys7cfj
NYPDS - 6/15/07 - Part I
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Kevin R.C. Gutzman has just released The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. For what my opinion is worth, this is one of the most important books of the past 25 years. There is absolutely nothing like it, anywhere.
http://tinyurl.com/2xrtcc
Is Mandatory Volunteerism, Uncompensated Labor?
by Nancy Levant
In our psychological re-wiring and redirection, all American “communities” are operating with massive volunteer-based work forces – from most healthcare facilities to social/human service organizations to libraries to youth-based community projects – remembering that this “volunteerism” was also initiated and commanded by our president. Notice how we the people are working “for free” to demonstrate our compliance and willingness to serve “the greater good of our communities.”......
http://tinyurl.com/2c8ujb
Lessons of the Holocaust
by Max Raskin
One of the biggest misconceptions about Adolph Hitler and the Nazis is that they were somehow fundamentally different from Joseph Stalin and the Communists. Hitler is "right wing" and Stalin is "leftist."
http://tinyurl.com/2sfuta
Property owners win one
By John Stossel
I object to anyone having his property taken by force, but at least traditionally, this power of eminent domain ("superior ownership") was limited to the building of highways, bridges and parks — things meant for general public benefit.
http://tinyurl.com/2vy97x
EDUCATION OR RAPID, NATIONWIDE POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?
By Holly Swanson
NewsWithViews.com
History provides us with sad and real examples of how education has been used in the past to politically indoctrinate children and change the course of nations.
http://tinyurl.com/39abb6
GLOBAL WARMING AND ITS EVIL TWIN 'CLIMATE CHANGE'
By Tom DeWeese
NewsWithViews.com
Now any change in weather, be it mild winters or cool summers can be attributed to "climate change." Whatever the weather, the news is very bad.
http://tinyurl.com/2ajjxw
TAKING BACK THE COUNTRY
By Jim R. Schwiesow
NewsWithViews.com
Dictatorships don’t just happen; they are a product of several elemental constituents.
http://tinyurl.com/2y2u2d
Losing Our Way
By Dennis Behreandt
Tomorrow, 50 years in the future, historians might just look back on the world of today and marvel at the wrongheaded and dangerous policies that wiped out the last vestiges of America’s heart and soul — the middle class.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4331
Behind the Job Loss
By William F. Jasper
The accelerating exodus of American businesses and American jobs to China, Mexico, and dozens of other countries over the past two decades is unprecedented in our history. The devastating impact of this development on America’s middle class has been amplified by the simultaneous influx of millions of illegal aliens who have taken the jobs of U.S. citizens.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4342
The Trouble With Our Trade Treaties
By William F. Jasper
During his 1993 White House signing ceremony of the three documents comprising the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bill Clinton stated his belief that NAFTA would create 200,000 U.S. jobs in the first two years after going into effect and a million jobs in its first five years.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4343
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Kevin R.C. Gutzman has just released The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. For what my opinion is worth, this is one of the most important books of the past 25 years. There is absolutely nothing like it, anywhere.
http://tinyurl.com/2xrtcc
Is Mandatory Volunteerism, Uncompensated Labor?
by Nancy Levant
In our psychological re-wiring and redirection, all American “communities” are operating with massive volunteer-based work forces – from most healthcare facilities to social/human service organizations to libraries to youth-based community projects – remembering that this “volunteerism” was also initiated and commanded by our president. Notice how we the people are working “for free” to demonstrate our compliance and willingness to serve “the greater good of our communities.”......
http://tinyurl.com/2c8ujb
Lessons of the Holocaust
by Max Raskin
One of the biggest misconceptions about Adolph Hitler and the Nazis is that they were somehow fundamentally different from Joseph Stalin and the Communists. Hitler is "right wing" and Stalin is "leftist."
http://tinyurl.com/2sfuta
Property owners win one
By John Stossel
I object to anyone having his property taken by force, but at least traditionally, this power of eminent domain ("superior ownership") was limited to the building of highways, bridges and parks — things meant for general public benefit.
http://tinyurl.com/2vy97x
EDUCATION OR RAPID, NATIONWIDE POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION?
By Holly Swanson
NewsWithViews.com
History provides us with sad and real examples of how education has been used in the past to politically indoctrinate children and change the course of nations.
http://tinyurl.com/39abb6
GLOBAL WARMING AND ITS EVIL TWIN 'CLIMATE CHANGE'
By Tom DeWeese
NewsWithViews.com
Now any change in weather, be it mild winters or cool summers can be attributed to "climate change." Whatever the weather, the news is very bad.
http://tinyurl.com/2ajjxw
TAKING BACK THE COUNTRY
By Jim R. Schwiesow
NewsWithViews.com
Dictatorships don’t just happen; they are a product of several elemental constituents.
http://tinyurl.com/2y2u2d
Losing Our Way
By Dennis Behreandt
Tomorrow, 50 years in the future, historians might just look back on the world of today and marvel at the wrongheaded and dangerous policies that wiped out the last vestiges of America’s heart and soul — the middle class.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4331
Behind the Job Loss
By William F. Jasper
The accelerating exodus of American businesses and American jobs to China, Mexico, and dozens of other countries over the past two decades is unprecedented in our history. The devastating impact of this development on America’s middle class has been amplified by the simultaneous influx of millions of illegal aliens who have taken the jobs of U.S. citizens.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4342
The Trouble With Our Trade Treaties
By William F. Jasper
During his 1993 White House signing ceremony of the three documents comprising the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bill Clinton stated his belief that NAFTA would create 200,000 U.S. jobs in the first two years after going into effect and a million jobs in its first five years.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4343
Monday, June 11, 2007
Invasion news updates - 6/11/07
GOVERNMENT'S ILLUSIONAL BORDER SECURITY
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
The creation of false statistics to provide assurance that arriving passengers are being thoroughly screened does not make our nation safer, it only creates an illusion that the vital mission of the inspectors is being done diligently while the arriving tourists easily stream through ports of entry.
http://tinyurl.com/2dat9j
ILLEGALS/NAU: A HOT SUMMER COMING
By: Devvy
© 2007 - NewsWithViews.com
Americans who are following the rapid and calculated destruction of these sovereign united states of America are fully aware of what the North American Union means along with it's enforcement maze deceptively titled the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
http://tinyurl.com/38j7a3
NOW! WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH IMMIGRATION
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
Teddy Kennedy created the worst bill in U.S. history and he remains the worst senator in U.S. history. He should be fired and become employed as paparazzi for Paris Hilton. That way, he couldn’t do so much damage to this Republic. He’s already done enough harm, don’t you think?
http://tinyurl.com/3d2keu
Harry Reid's Favorables Fall to 19%
http://tinyurl.com/29elt7
Terrorists Use Mexico to Enter U.S.
Jim Meyers
Counterterrorism authorities have come to fear that the porous U.S.-Mexico border provides entry into the United States, not only for illegal aliens, but for Islamic terrorists as well.
http://tinyurl.com/37wyzl
Bush immigration bill push tests clout
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer
Bush to amnesty opponents: "I'll see you at the bill signing."
http://tinyurl.com/2vpsl7
by Michael Cutler
NewsWithViews.com
The creation of false statistics to provide assurance that arriving passengers are being thoroughly screened does not make our nation safer, it only creates an illusion that the vital mission of the inspectors is being done diligently while the arriving tourists easily stream through ports of entry.
http://tinyurl.com/2dat9j
ILLEGALS/NAU: A HOT SUMMER COMING
By: Devvy
© 2007 - NewsWithViews.com
Americans who are following the rapid and calculated destruction of these sovereign united states of America are fully aware of what the North American Union means along with it's enforcement maze deceptively titled the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
http://tinyurl.com/38j7a3
NOW! WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH IMMIGRATION
By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com
Teddy Kennedy created the worst bill in U.S. history and he remains the worst senator in U.S. history. He should be fired and become employed as paparazzi for Paris Hilton. That way, he couldn’t do so much damage to this Republic. He’s already done enough harm, don’t you think?
http://tinyurl.com/3d2keu
Harry Reid's Favorables Fall to 19%
http://tinyurl.com/29elt7
Terrorists Use Mexico to Enter U.S.
Jim Meyers
Counterterrorism authorities have come to fear that the porous U.S.-Mexico border provides entry into the United States, not only for illegal aliens, but for Islamic terrorists as well.
http://tinyurl.com/37wyzl
Bush immigration bill push tests clout
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer
Bush to amnesty opponents: "I'll see you at the bill signing."
http://tinyurl.com/2vpsl7
Ron Paul updates - 6/11/07
Volume of Pro-Ron Paul Calls Shut GOP Call Center?
FreeMarketNews.com
When presidential candidate Ron Paul's (R-Tex) campaign manager Lew Moore visited Utah, he told supporters that Ron Paul's support was swelling dramatically and cited two incidents, according to "Utahns for Ron Paul."
http://tinyurl.com/3y2g7l
GOP's Ron Paul Runs 2nd Place in Utah
FreeMarketNews.com
There was a straw poll conducted by the GOP Convention to gauge support for presidential candidates, and Ron Paul came in 2nd place!
http://tinyurl.com/2hejyt
FreeMarketNews.com
When presidential candidate Ron Paul's (R-Tex) campaign manager Lew Moore visited Utah, he told supporters that Ron Paul's support was swelling dramatically and cited two incidents, according to "Utahns for Ron Paul."
http://tinyurl.com/3y2g7l
GOP's Ron Paul Runs 2nd Place in Utah
FreeMarketNews.com
There was a straw poll conducted by the GOP Convention to gauge support for presidential candidates, and Ron Paul came in 2nd place!
http://tinyurl.com/2hejyt
NYPDS - 6/11/07
White Ants
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
International Director of Barnabas Fund
n many Western countries an insidious and destructive force is eating away at our Judaeo-Christian heritage. There may be little visible change but ideological Islam is eroding the foundations and supports of Western society, its culture and its religion, by a gradual process of Islamisation.
http://tinyurl.com/2z3qgh
Fred Thompson called out on his profession of faith
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Doubts continue to swirl over Fred Thompson's faith even among members of his own church.
http://tinyurl.com/2rxdfp
National Security, Swiss-Style
by Nick Bradley
Contrary to popular belief, history has repeatedly shown that societies do not need full-time, government-funded militaries to defend themselves – a heavily-armed populace will suffice.
http://tinyurl.com/2fnfm5
American Idols
Joseph Sobran
How can this country survive much longer, when the younger generation is so appallingly ignorant? Only half of them can name the first book of the Bible, or any of the four Gospels.
http://tinyurl.com/29jymt
OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 1 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
Americans are witnessing a political vortex accelerating before their very eyes: an intensifying consolidation of power in the General Government, an increasing concentration of that power in the Executive Branch, and an expanding militarization of that Branch.
http://tinyurl.com/3bzsmx
OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 2 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
NSPD-51 purports to turn this constitutional hierarchy upside down, by claiming an unprecedented power in the Executive Branch to “coordinate[ ]” “a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.”
http://tinyurl.com/2spa6b
OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 3 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
NSPD-51 mandates that We the People are to be subject to the President’s “guidance”—or, more realistically, to the “guidance” of those bureaucrats and other nameless, faceless, conscienceless operatives the President appoints to carry out his “directives,” “executive orders,” “proclamations,” and other ukases. Which means that, when the “[c]atastrophic emergency” the Establishment is obviously expecting finally occurs, We the People are likely to lose every vestige of control over their own government, as that government is transmogrified before their very eyes into an hydrocephalic monster.
http://tinyurl.com/2w2nwn
Powell Would Close Guantanamo
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he would close down the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America." "Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Making it clear that he "would not let any of those people go," Powell said, "I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our more federal legal system." He said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?" -Washington Post
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Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
International Director of Barnabas Fund
n many Western countries an insidious and destructive force is eating away at our Judaeo-Christian heritage. There may be little visible change but ideological Islam is eroding the foundations and supports of Western society, its culture and its religion, by a gradual process of Islamisation.
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Fred Thompson called out on his profession of faith
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Doubts continue to swirl over Fred Thompson's faith even among members of his own church.
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National Security, Swiss-Style
by Nick Bradley
Contrary to popular belief, history has repeatedly shown that societies do not need full-time, government-funded militaries to defend themselves – a heavily-armed populace will suffice.
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American Idols
Joseph Sobran
How can this country survive much longer, when the younger generation is so appallingly ignorant? Only half of them can name the first book of the Bible, or any of the four Gospels.
http://tinyurl.com/29jymt
OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 1 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
Americans are witnessing a political vortex accelerating before their very eyes: an intensifying consolidation of power in the General Government, an increasing concentration of that power in the Executive Branch, and an expanding militarization of that Branch.
http://tinyurl.com/3bzsmx
OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 2 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
NSPD-51 purports to turn this constitutional hierarchy upside down, by claiming an unprecedented power in the Executive Branch to “coordinate[ ]” “a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.”
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OUTFLANKING THE KAKISTOCRACY
PART 3 of 3
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
NewsWithViews.com
NSPD-51 mandates that We the People are to be subject to the President’s “guidance”—or, more realistically, to the “guidance” of those bureaucrats and other nameless, faceless, conscienceless operatives the President appoints to carry out his “directives,” “executive orders,” “proclamations,” and other ukases. Which means that, when the “[c]atastrophic emergency” the Establishment is obviously expecting finally occurs, We the People are likely to lose every vestige of control over their own government, as that government is transmogrified before their very eyes into an hydrocephalic monster.
http://tinyurl.com/2w2nwn
Powell Would Close Guantanamo
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he would close down the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America." "Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Making it clear that he "would not let any of those people go," Powell said, "I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our more federal legal system." He said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?" -Washington Post
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
The Fred Thompson Record
Thanks to a good friend of mine, Teno Groppi, for this information. If you think that Fred Thompson is a good conservative, then after reading this, you will either change your mind, or be extremely angry at me for posting such.
Editor/RP
Here are some of the unconstitutional and liberal behaviors and actions of Fred Thompson. You will see clearly he's not the stalwart he's portrayed as. He's an ACTOR, both in Hollywood and Washington. He was a Tennessee Senator from 1995 to 2003. I missed a few sessions (and it's tedious to look them up), but this is more than enough to disqualify Thompson as a viable candidate for any Christian Constitutionalist.
6-95
(20) Counter-Terrorism Legislation, S. 735. This bill would federalize virtually all state crimes of assault, murder, kidnaping, sabotage, and even simple vandalism under the guise of anti-terrorism legislation as long as "the offense obstructs, delays, or affects interstate or foreign commerce in any way or degree...." Because the Supreme Court has since the 1940s ruled that almost everything under the sun has an effect on interstate commerce, the bill is a blanket federalization of the criminal code. The bill would also weaken the posse comitatus guidelines (which bans the use of the military in domestic police actions) to allow for military assistance in chemical and biological weapons cases, initiate a new foreign aid program for terrorism prevention, urge the President to "undertake immediate efforts to develop effective multilateral efforts" to stop terrorism, and authorize the President to use "all necessary means" to stop international terrorism -- including "military force." S. 735 does contain a few appropriate items such as longer jail sentences for terrorists and limitations on habeas corpus appeals from state courts, but the general direction of the legislation was best summed up by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a proponent of the bill, in debate on the Senate floor: "[T]he Congress is faced with a decision to increase protection for the people by chipping away at the edges of freedom .... We have no idea what kind of mistakes will be made, or whose rights will be infringed, when this bill is implemented." The Senate passed the bill on June 7, 1995 by a vote of 91 to 8 (Congressional Record, page S7857, roll call 242; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: This is a Nazi-KGB police state bill making most crimes federal. This takes power away from local law enforcement, who are accountable to the local taxpayers who pay their salary, and gives it to unaccountable, far-away, federal functionaries who can much more easily abuse the amassed power. Of course they would never abuse their power (that's what the Germans and Russians thought), at least not under a good conservative like George W. Bush - but maybe they could under Hillary.
1-96 70% Conservative
(25) Non-Discriminatory Award of Federal Contracts, Amendment to H.R. 1854. During consideration of the fiscal 1996 legislative appropriations bill, Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) offered this amendment to prohibit the awarding of federal contracts under the bill to anyone but the most qualified (i.e., those with the lowest bids), effectively prohibiting the Clinton Administration from carrying out various minority set-aside programs. While the Gramm amendment was being considered, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) offered an alternative amendment to prohibit the awarding of federal contracts to "unqualified persons" in the furtherance of "reverse discrimination." Gramm explained that "the whole purpose" of the language in the Murray amendment "is to confuse." The grant recipients who benefit from minority set-aside programs "very well may be qualified, but ... somebody else might have been better qualified or have submitted a lower bid." Interestingly, Murray even admitted in debate that nearly $8 billion in federal set-asides would be at risk if the Gramm amendment were added to each of the regular appropriations bills. Gramm's logic and Murray's admission notwithstanding, the Senate rejected the Gramm amendment on July 20, 1995 by a vote of 36 to 61 (Congressional Record, page S10418, roll call 317; we have assigned pluses to the "yeas" and minuses to the "nays"). The Senate subsequently adopted the fraudulent Murray amendment by a vote of 84 to 13.
TG: Fred, and his colleagues, want to be able to discriminate when spending YOUR money.
(28) Federal Funding for AIDS Programs, S. 641. This legislation would reauthorize "such sums as may be necessary" for the federal Ryan White CARE Program for AIDS research through fiscal year 2000, provided the total does not exceed the total for cancer research in any given year. While passage of this bill occasioned many senatorial self-congratulations as to how generous they are with other people's money, few senators heeded the constitutional limitations of the federal government under the Tenth Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from exercising any power not specifically authorized by the Constitution. The Senate passed the bill on July 27, 1995 by a vote of 97 to 3 (Congressional Record, page S10760, roll call 338; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Thompson voted more than once to spend your money on AIDS programs, which is unconstitutional even if it was a good thing (which it's not).
6-96 70% Conservative
(43) Start II Treaty Ratification. This vote would ratify the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) with Russia, which would, by the year 2003, require the reduction in the total number of nuclear warheads to 3,500 for each country, ban MIRVed land-based missiles, and reduce the number of submarine-launched missiles. Noting that President Clinton had vetoed a bill to deploy a ballistic missile defense system because it might interfere with START II, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) criticized the Clinton Administration policy, stating: "Yes, we are getting the Russians down to 3,500 missiles, if they comply.... My simple proposition is this: Missile defense should be our highest national security priority. If the President believes that our highest priority must be sacrificed to gain Russia's approval of START II, I say it is too high a price to pay." The Senate ratified the START II Treaty on January 26, 1996 by a vote of 87 to 4 (Congressional Record, page S484, roll call 6; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: We would limit our arms and Russia would promise AGAIN to limit theirs (Pete Rose wants to bet on whether they do or not). Providing for AMERICAN defense is one of the few things gov't is supposed to spend our money on.
(54) Line-Item Veto Legislation, Conference Report on S. 4. This conference report would unconstitutionally grant the President line-item veto power in spending and tax bills by allowing him to cut or eliminate spending or a tax break within legislation after signing it into law. Congress would then have the option to pass a bill overturning the line-item deletion, but that bill would itself be subject to a veto by the President. This dangerous legislation would savage the separation of powers and further tip the scales of power from the legislature toward the executive branch. Although the legislation was marketed as a means of eliminating legislative pork, all it would do is make one player in the pork barrel politics game dominant: the President. As an example of how the line-item veto would be used to facilitate even more costly presidential pork, Senator Dale Bumpers (D-AR) recalled that when "I was governor ... I had a line-item veto. And I used it occasionally. Do you know what I used it for? To get legislators in line. 'Senator, you know that vo-tech school for your high school in this bill? That sucker is going to be gone unless you get back down there and change your vote.' That is the way I used it. That is the way a President of the United States would use it." The Senate adopted the conference report on March 27, 1996 by a vote of 69 to 31 (Congressional Record, page S2995, roll call 56; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: This gives the President near-dictatorial legislative powers, which is unconstitutional and dangerous. How much more dangerous will it be when Hillary holds the pen? Ignorant Christians and conservatives are duped into thinking something might be a good idea if "their" guy is in office (not taking into consideration they are also being duped about who is "their" guy). But that will all change when a Democrat gets into office (or do they think Democrat will never get back into power?). They will be glad to take full advantage of such powers that OUR side gave them.
(57) Constitutional Amendment for Congressional Term Limits, Senate Joint Resolution 21. This resolution would call for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms a congressman could serve to two terms for senators (12 years) and six terms for representatives (12 years), regardless of the wishes of the voters. By preventing many congressmen from seeking re-election, the amendment would give Congress an increasing flavor of a perpetual lame-duck session and insulate congressmen from the wishes of their constituents. Lame-duck legislatures are the friends of special interests and the advocates of big, wasteful, and elitist government. The supporters of term limits attempted to invoke cloture and end debate on the measure (thereby clearing the way for a final vote to pass the resolution), but failed to do so on April 23, 1996 by a vote of 58 to 42 (Congressional Record, page S3879, roll call 79; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas"). A three-fifths vote of the entire Senate (60 votes) is necessary to invoke cloture. Failing the cloture motion, the Senate dropped the measure.
TG: Terms should be limited at the ballot box. What this did was keep a few honest conservatives from running again. What it would also do is create an entire Congress of lame-ducks who wouldn't have to worry about being accountable to their citizens. They could vote however they wanted, break any promise made, and not have to worry about reelection.
10-96 75% Conservative
(79) Minimum Wage Increase, Conference Report on H.R. 3448. This bill would increase the federal minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 per hour in two stages ending September 1997. The bill also contains a number of tax breaks for individuals and small businesses totaling $20 billion over ten years -- elements added as a sugar coating to get the Senate to take the minimum wage-hike pill. The Senate adopted the conference report on August 2, 1996 by a vote of 76 to 22 (Congressional Record, page S9527, roll call 265; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Not all jobs are intended to support a family. There are lots of temporary, entry-level, non-skilled, part-time jobs intended for kids just getting into the work force, someone wanting a little extra cash working part-time or weekends, and so forth. Forcing employers to pay every bus boy twice what the market calls for forces them to only hire half as many bus boys, hurting the very lower class they pretend they are helping. If you want to hire a kid to walk your dog, mow your lawn or shovel your snow, should the gov't force YOU to pay them $9/hr? Why not? In such cases YOU would be the employer.
8-97 85% Conservative
(2) Requiring Congressional Approval of U.S. International Trade Agreements That Amend U.S. Law, Senate Joint Resolution 5. Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) offered an amendment to S.J.R. 5 which would require congressional approval of any U.S. international trade agreements that amend or repeal U.S. laws. The amendment reads, in full: "No international trade agreement which would in effect amend or repeal statutory law of the United States law may be implemented by or in the United States until the agreement is approved by the Congress." As Senator Hollings noted during consideration of the amendment, "This is constitutional language, that no international agreement that would, in effect, amend or repeal statutory law can be implemented until approved by the Congress. Under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, it is the duty of the Congress to regulate foreign commerce -- not the executive branch ...." Despite the constitutional mandate, the Senate approved on March 5, 1997 a motion to table (kill) the Hollings amendment by a vote of 84 to 16 (Congressional Record, page S1970, roll call 25; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Thompson might have been planning on running for President long ago. He keeps voting to give the President unconstitutional, dictatorial powers. Too bad he's voting that power to Hillary.
(9) Extending Welfare Benefits to Legal Immigrants, Amendment to S. 672. Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) offered this amendment to extend Supplemental Security Income and food stamp benefits to legal immigrants through September 30, 1997 -- the date those benefits are scheduled to end. D'Amato reasoned: "I do not believe we ever wanted to take 500,000 basically senior citizens and say that 'you're going to be cut off,' senior citizens who are here in this country legally ...." D'Amato did not point out that these welfare recipients are not even citizens and that, even if they were, the U.S. Constitution does not authorize the payment of welfare benefits. The Senate passed the D'Amato amendment on May 7, 1997 by a vote of 89 to 11 (Congressional Record, page S4068, roll call 58; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: If they don't have a job, or a sponsor, they don't belong here. They certainly don't have the right to MY paycheck.
(11) Automatic Funding of Federal Government, Amendment to S. 672. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) offered an amendment to strike language in S. 672 which would have put the federal government's spendathon on auto-pilot at the previous year's funding level if Congress and the President fail to pass a budget by the start of the next fiscal year. After the amendment was offered, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) motioned to table (kill) the amendment. This legislation would have the identical effect as the amendment described under House vote #13. The Senate approved the Stevens motion, thereby favoring putting the government on automatic pilot in the event of no budget, on May 8, 1997 by a vote of 55 to 45 (Congressional Record, page S4172, roll call 61; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, and make it automatic!
6-98 65% Conservative
(44) Anti-Free Speech Campaign Finance “Reform,” Motion on S. 1663. This legislation, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” package, is the most dangerous threat to free speech to reach the floor of the U.S. Senate in decades. It would have a chilling effect on free speech by severely restricting independent expenditures, thereby crippling the ability of conservatives to overcome the leftist domination of the mass media. Under the broad and vaguely worded provisions of the bill, even nonpartisan voter guides such as the John Birch Society’s TRIM Bulletin could be subject to vigorous regulations, random audits, regular reporting requirements, and mandatory publication of contributor rosters. The bill’s authors must have known that it assaults constitutional principles, since it contains a “severability” clause that anticipates that at least part of it will be declared unconstitutional. A severability clause states that if the Supreme Court rules that one part of the law is unconstitutional, the court would throw out only that part and not the whole law. The McCain-Feingold bill was offered on the Senate floor as a substitute to campaign finance legislation already under consideration. The Senate rejected a motion to table (kill) the McCain-Feingold substitute on February 24, 1998 by a vote of 48 to 51 (Congressional Record, page S906, roll call 12; we have assigned pluses to the “yeas” and minuses to the “nays”).
TG: Sending out a post like this near an election would be illegal if Thompson had his way.
10-1998 55% Conservative
(66) Separate Male and Female Military Training and Barracks, Amendment to S. 2057. This amendment by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) would have required segregated training for male and female recruits in the military, and separate barracks for male and female soldiers after basic training. “Let us not delay the process of implementing changes recommended by former Senator Kassebaum-Baker and the commission she headed, a commission established by the Secretary of Defense,” Senator Byrd urged. “Put these young recruits in separate barracks, train them separately until they have been installed in the military discipline....” The Senate rejected the Byrd amendment on June 25, 1998 by a vote of 39 to 53 (Congressional Record, page S7156, roll call 180; we have assigned pluses to the “yeas” and minuses to the “nays”).
TG: This is a tough one. Women don't belong in the military. But they don't deserve special treatment when they're in, either.
(70) Require All Gun Dealers to Make Trigger Locks “Available,” Amendment to S. 2260. This amendment would require that all federally licensed firearms dealers sell trigger locks, lock boxes, and other safety devices in addition to firearms. “My amendment requires that vendors have these safety devices available for sale,” explained Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), “but it does not require that a vendor sell a safety device along with every firearm.” The amendment would have unconstitutionally imposed an additional burden on the firearms industry, although it was promoted by Craig as a means of avoiding the even more draconian Boxer amendment under consideration (see Senate vote #71). The Senate adopted the amendment on July 21, 1998 by a vote of 72 to 28 (Congressional Record, page S8634, roll call 215; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: What? The great gun rights champion wants to put an inFRINGEment on our gun rights? He wants to force the cost of them to go up?
(76) Abolish Marriage Penalty in Tax Code, Motion on S. 2312. This amendment would have abolished the tax code’s so-called “marriage penalty,” which taxes a married couple at a higher rate than an unmarried couple living together. The amendment would have allowed married couples to file separately using “one half of the taxable income computed as if the spouses were filing a joint return.” “The federal government should not be penalizing marriages, a sacrosanct institution and the bedrock of our social structure,” Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID) persuasively argued. The Senate rejected a motion to table (kill) the amendment on July 29, 1998 by a vote of 48 to 51 (Congressional Record, page S9177, roll call 242; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”). Subsequently, the amendment was withdrawn.
TG: Why should Thompson care? He can afford it.
(78) Restore Congressional Control Over War Powers, Motion on S. 2132. This beautifully concise, one-sentence amendment would have prohibited funds in the Defense Appropriations bill from being used for “offensive military operations by United States Armed Forces except in accordance with Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the power to declare war and take certain other related actions.” Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) explained the rationale for his much-needed amendment: “The framers never intended the Armed Forces to be employed by the Executive as a blunt instrument for enforcing U.S. foreign policy without congressional approval. Yet … that is exactly what we have seen. Absent a reaffirmation by Congress of its proper constitutional war powers, we will certainly see it again.” The Senate tabled (killed) the Durbin amendment on July 30, 1998 by a vote of 84 to 15 (Congressional Record, page S9392, roll call 251; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: Yet another bill turning our president into a king (well, Queen).
* And several unconstitutional big spending bills in each session. Some of them were for "good" things, like agriculture, but it is nonetheless unconstitutional to spend taxpayer's money on things not authorized by the Constitution. The money is better left with the citizens who earned it.
1999
(1) Impeachment of President Clinton, Article I. Article I — Grand Jury Perjury — is described in House vote #1. A two-thirds majority of the Senate would be required to convict the President and remove him from office. The Senate acquitted the President on February 12, 1999 by a vote of 45 to 55 (Congressional Record, page S1458, roll call 17; we have assigned pluses to the “Guilties” and minuses to the “Not Guilties”).
TG: He voted to keep Clinton in office. He SAID some damning things about Clinton's Commie China contributions, but when push came to shove he failed to WALK his talk.
(13) Ban on Assault Weapon Sales to Juveniles, Amendment to S. 254. Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) offered this amendment to (in his words) “prohibit private sales of semiautomatic assault rifles to minors, and it would require that they have parental permission in order for one even to be in the possession of a minor.” The Senate adopted the amendment on May 13, 1999 by a vote of 96 to 2 with only Senators Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Robert Smith (R-NH) defending the right to keep and bear arms (Congressional Record, page S5236, roll call 115; we have assigned pluses to the two “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: Another infringement on gun rights. 96 of 98 Senators violated their oath of office on this vote, making them lying frauds, if not traitors.
11-2002 56% Conservative (in pdf file, so I couldn't paste the text)
* Taxpayer bailout of airlines
TG: Anti-free market and an unconstitutional expenditure of our tax dollars.
* $200 Million in worldwide AIDS funding
TG: Again using YOUR money to pay for queers getting AIDS.
* Increase National debt to $6.5 trillion
TG: Spend, tax, spend, tax, hide, and still pretend to be a fiscal conservative. Manage a business this way and you get fired (if not jailed), and they go belly-up.
* Fast track trade treaties for President
TG: One last opportunity to turn the White House into the Pale Palace.
http://www.jbs.org/node/792
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee which is investigating illegal campaign fundraising, grabbed headlines at the start of his hearings with the charge that the communist government of China has been illegally pouring "substantial sums of money" into U.S. political campaigns to "subvert our election process" and "buy access and influence in furtherance of Chinese government interests." However, citing national security concerns and the sensitive nature of the evidence supporting those assertions, Thompson did not provide substantiating details.
TG: Again, all talk, no WALK.
12-22-97 Article by William Jasper
Following close on the heels of the whirlwind car-trunk documents were revelations of at least two other major Clinton scandals involving either inexcusable ineptitude or (more likely) criminal obstruction of justice. In the one instance, the FBI claims it simply "overlooked" key intelligence information that it had failed to turn over to congressional investigators on Red China's efforts to buy political influence in the United States. Attorney General Janet Reno claims that she first learned of the evidence -- some of it going back as far as 1991 -- on November 5th, five days after Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) suspended Senate hearings into campaign finance abuses, including attempts by Beijing to subvert the U.S. political process.
TG: Just when they almost nailed the Clintons, Thompson suspended the investigation. Getting a little too close to the fire, eh, Freddie? Now Hillary will repay him by beating him in the general election.
Judicial Watch interview:
Q. Do you mean that no one really knew about this man’s activities until then?
A. Without our lawsuit, much of what has become known as “Chinagate” would never have come to light. What happened is that the Senate Government Affairs Committee headed by Senator Fred Thompson [R-TN] didn't subpoena Huang, and Attorney General Janet Reno’s Justice Department neither talked to him nor subpoenaed him. We know that Congressman Dan Burton [R-IN], chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, issued a subpoena to have him appear, but it was never enforced. And that raises the question: Why does John Huang have such protection?
TG: Just when they almost nailed the Clintons, Thompson came up short again.
Teno Groppi
Wolf Watch: http://tdgwolfwatch.blogspot.com/
WMD: http://wismd.blogspot.com/
Editor/RP
Here are some of the unconstitutional and liberal behaviors and actions of Fred Thompson. You will see clearly he's not the stalwart he's portrayed as. He's an ACTOR, both in Hollywood and Washington. He was a Tennessee Senator from 1995 to 2003. I missed a few sessions (and it's tedious to look them up), but this is more than enough to disqualify Thompson as a viable candidate for any Christian Constitutionalist.
6-95
(20) Counter-Terrorism Legislation, S. 735. This bill would federalize virtually all state crimes of assault, murder, kidnaping, sabotage, and even simple vandalism under the guise of anti-terrorism legislation as long as "the offense obstructs, delays, or affects interstate or foreign commerce in any way or degree...." Because the Supreme Court has since the 1940s ruled that almost everything under the sun has an effect on interstate commerce, the bill is a blanket federalization of the criminal code. The bill would also weaken the posse comitatus guidelines (which bans the use of the military in domestic police actions) to allow for military assistance in chemical and biological weapons cases, initiate a new foreign aid program for terrorism prevention, urge the President to "undertake immediate efforts to develop effective multilateral efforts" to stop terrorism, and authorize the President to use "all necessary means" to stop international terrorism -- including "military force." S. 735 does contain a few appropriate items such as longer jail sentences for terrorists and limitations on habeas corpus appeals from state courts, but the general direction of the legislation was best summed up by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a proponent of the bill, in debate on the Senate floor: "[T]he Congress is faced with a decision to increase protection for the people by chipping away at the edges of freedom .... We have no idea what kind of mistakes will be made, or whose rights will be infringed, when this bill is implemented." The Senate passed the bill on June 7, 1995 by a vote of 91 to 8 (Congressional Record, page S7857, roll call 242; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: This is a Nazi-KGB police state bill making most crimes federal. This takes power away from local law enforcement, who are accountable to the local taxpayers who pay their salary, and gives it to unaccountable, far-away, federal functionaries who can much more easily abuse the amassed power. Of course they would never abuse their power (that's what the Germans and Russians thought), at least not under a good conservative like George W. Bush - but maybe they could under Hillary.
1-96 70% Conservative
(25) Non-Discriminatory Award of Federal Contracts, Amendment to H.R. 1854. During consideration of the fiscal 1996 legislative appropriations bill, Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) offered this amendment to prohibit the awarding of federal contracts under the bill to anyone but the most qualified (i.e., those with the lowest bids), effectively prohibiting the Clinton Administration from carrying out various minority set-aside programs. While the Gramm amendment was being considered, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) offered an alternative amendment to prohibit the awarding of federal contracts to "unqualified persons" in the furtherance of "reverse discrimination." Gramm explained that "the whole purpose" of the language in the Murray amendment "is to confuse." The grant recipients who benefit from minority set-aside programs "very well may be qualified, but ... somebody else might have been better qualified or have submitted a lower bid." Interestingly, Murray even admitted in debate that nearly $8 billion in federal set-asides would be at risk if the Gramm amendment were added to each of the regular appropriations bills. Gramm's logic and Murray's admission notwithstanding, the Senate rejected the Gramm amendment on July 20, 1995 by a vote of 36 to 61 (Congressional Record, page S10418, roll call 317; we have assigned pluses to the "yeas" and minuses to the "nays"). The Senate subsequently adopted the fraudulent Murray amendment by a vote of 84 to 13.
TG: Fred, and his colleagues, want to be able to discriminate when spending YOUR money.
(28) Federal Funding for AIDS Programs, S. 641. This legislation would reauthorize "such sums as may be necessary" for the federal Ryan White CARE Program for AIDS research through fiscal year 2000, provided the total does not exceed the total for cancer research in any given year. While passage of this bill occasioned many senatorial self-congratulations as to how generous they are with other people's money, few senators heeded the constitutional limitations of the federal government under the Tenth Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from exercising any power not specifically authorized by the Constitution. The Senate passed the bill on July 27, 1995 by a vote of 97 to 3 (Congressional Record, page S10760, roll call 338; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Thompson voted more than once to spend your money on AIDS programs, which is unconstitutional even if it was a good thing (which it's not).
6-96 70% Conservative
(43) Start II Treaty Ratification. This vote would ratify the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) with Russia, which would, by the year 2003, require the reduction in the total number of nuclear warheads to 3,500 for each country, ban MIRVed land-based missiles, and reduce the number of submarine-launched missiles. Noting that President Clinton had vetoed a bill to deploy a ballistic missile defense system because it might interfere with START II, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) criticized the Clinton Administration policy, stating: "Yes, we are getting the Russians down to 3,500 missiles, if they comply.... My simple proposition is this: Missile defense should be our highest national security priority. If the President believes that our highest priority must be sacrificed to gain Russia's approval of START II, I say it is too high a price to pay." The Senate ratified the START II Treaty on January 26, 1996 by a vote of 87 to 4 (Congressional Record, page S484, roll call 6; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: We would limit our arms and Russia would promise AGAIN to limit theirs (Pete Rose wants to bet on whether they do or not). Providing for AMERICAN defense is one of the few things gov't is supposed to spend our money on.
(54) Line-Item Veto Legislation, Conference Report on S. 4. This conference report would unconstitutionally grant the President line-item veto power in spending and tax bills by allowing him to cut or eliminate spending or a tax break within legislation after signing it into law. Congress would then have the option to pass a bill overturning the line-item deletion, but that bill would itself be subject to a veto by the President. This dangerous legislation would savage the separation of powers and further tip the scales of power from the legislature toward the executive branch. Although the legislation was marketed as a means of eliminating legislative pork, all it would do is make one player in the pork barrel politics game dominant: the President. As an example of how the line-item veto would be used to facilitate even more costly presidential pork, Senator Dale Bumpers (D-AR) recalled that when "I was governor ... I had a line-item veto. And I used it occasionally. Do you know what I used it for? To get legislators in line. 'Senator, you know that vo-tech school for your high school in this bill? That sucker is going to be gone unless you get back down there and change your vote.' That is the way I used it. That is the way a President of the United States would use it." The Senate adopted the conference report on March 27, 1996 by a vote of 69 to 31 (Congressional Record, page S2995, roll call 56; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: This gives the President near-dictatorial legislative powers, which is unconstitutional and dangerous. How much more dangerous will it be when Hillary holds the pen? Ignorant Christians and conservatives are duped into thinking something might be a good idea if "their" guy is in office (not taking into consideration they are also being duped about who is "their" guy). But that will all change when a Democrat gets into office (or do they think Democrat will never get back into power?). They will be glad to take full advantage of such powers that OUR side gave them.
(57) Constitutional Amendment for Congressional Term Limits, Senate Joint Resolution 21. This resolution would call for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms a congressman could serve to two terms for senators (12 years) and six terms for representatives (12 years), regardless of the wishes of the voters. By preventing many congressmen from seeking re-election, the amendment would give Congress an increasing flavor of a perpetual lame-duck session and insulate congressmen from the wishes of their constituents. Lame-duck legislatures are the friends of special interests and the advocates of big, wasteful, and elitist government. The supporters of term limits attempted to invoke cloture and end debate on the measure (thereby clearing the way for a final vote to pass the resolution), but failed to do so on April 23, 1996 by a vote of 58 to 42 (Congressional Record, page S3879, roll call 79; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas"). A three-fifths vote of the entire Senate (60 votes) is necessary to invoke cloture. Failing the cloture motion, the Senate dropped the measure.
TG: Terms should be limited at the ballot box. What this did was keep a few honest conservatives from running again. What it would also do is create an entire Congress of lame-ducks who wouldn't have to worry about being accountable to their citizens. They could vote however they wanted, break any promise made, and not have to worry about reelection.
10-96 75% Conservative
(79) Minimum Wage Increase, Conference Report on H.R. 3448. This bill would increase the federal minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 per hour in two stages ending September 1997. The bill also contains a number of tax breaks for individuals and small businesses totaling $20 billion over ten years -- elements added as a sugar coating to get the Senate to take the minimum wage-hike pill. The Senate adopted the conference report on August 2, 1996 by a vote of 76 to 22 (Congressional Record, page S9527, roll call 265; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Not all jobs are intended to support a family. There are lots of temporary, entry-level, non-skilled, part-time jobs intended for kids just getting into the work force, someone wanting a little extra cash working part-time or weekends, and so forth. Forcing employers to pay every bus boy twice what the market calls for forces them to only hire half as many bus boys, hurting the very lower class they pretend they are helping. If you want to hire a kid to walk your dog, mow your lawn or shovel your snow, should the gov't force YOU to pay them $9/hr? Why not? In such cases YOU would be the employer.
8-97 85% Conservative
(2) Requiring Congressional Approval of U.S. International Trade Agreements That Amend U.S. Law, Senate Joint Resolution 5. Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) offered an amendment to S.J.R. 5 which would require congressional approval of any U.S. international trade agreements that amend or repeal U.S. laws. The amendment reads, in full: "No international trade agreement which would in effect amend or repeal statutory law of the United States law may be implemented by or in the United States until the agreement is approved by the Congress." As Senator Hollings noted during consideration of the amendment, "This is constitutional language, that no international agreement that would, in effect, amend or repeal statutory law can be implemented until approved by the Congress. Under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, it is the duty of the Congress to regulate foreign commerce -- not the executive branch ...." Despite the constitutional mandate, the Senate approved on March 5, 1997 a motion to table (kill) the Hollings amendment by a vote of 84 to 16 (Congressional Record, page S1970, roll call 25; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Thompson might have been planning on running for President long ago. He keeps voting to give the President unconstitutional, dictatorial powers. Too bad he's voting that power to Hillary.
(9) Extending Welfare Benefits to Legal Immigrants, Amendment to S. 672. Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) offered this amendment to extend Supplemental Security Income and food stamp benefits to legal immigrants through September 30, 1997 -- the date those benefits are scheduled to end. D'Amato reasoned: "I do not believe we ever wanted to take 500,000 basically senior citizens and say that 'you're going to be cut off,' senior citizens who are here in this country legally ...." D'Amato did not point out that these welfare recipients are not even citizens and that, even if they were, the U.S. Constitution does not authorize the payment of welfare benefits. The Senate passed the D'Amato amendment on May 7, 1997 by a vote of 89 to 11 (Congressional Record, page S4068, roll call 58; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: If they don't have a job, or a sponsor, they don't belong here. They certainly don't have the right to MY paycheck.
(11) Automatic Funding of Federal Government, Amendment to S. 672. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) offered an amendment to strike language in S. 672 which would have put the federal government's spendathon on auto-pilot at the previous year's funding level if Congress and the President fail to pass a budget by the start of the next fiscal year. After the amendment was offered, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) motioned to table (kill) the amendment. This legislation would have the identical effect as the amendment described under House vote #13. The Senate approved the Stevens motion, thereby favoring putting the government on automatic pilot in the event of no budget, on May 8, 1997 by a vote of 55 to 45 (Congressional Record, page S4172, roll call 61; we have assigned pluses to the "nays" and minuses to the "yeas").
TG: Tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, and make it automatic!
6-98 65% Conservative
(44) Anti-Free Speech Campaign Finance “Reform,” Motion on S. 1663. This legislation, commonly known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” package, is the most dangerous threat to free speech to reach the floor of the U.S. Senate in decades. It would have a chilling effect on free speech by severely restricting independent expenditures, thereby crippling the ability of conservatives to overcome the leftist domination of the mass media. Under the broad and vaguely worded provisions of the bill, even nonpartisan voter guides such as the John Birch Society’s TRIM Bulletin could be subject to vigorous regulations, random audits, regular reporting requirements, and mandatory publication of contributor rosters. The bill’s authors must have known that it assaults constitutional principles, since it contains a “severability” clause that anticipates that at least part of it will be declared unconstitutional. A severability clause states that if the Supreme Court rules that one part of the law is unconstitutional, the court would throw out only that part and not the whole law. The McCain-Feingold bill was offered on the Senate floor as a substitute to campaign finance legislation already under consideration. The Senate rejected a motion to table (kill) the McCain-Feingold substitute on February 24, 1998 by a vote of 48 to 51 (Congressional Record, page S906, roll call 12; we have assigned pluses to the “yeas” and minuses to the “nays”).
TG: Sending out a post like this near an election would be illegal if Thompson had his way.
10-1998 55% Conservative
(66) Separate Male and Female Military Training and Barracks, Amendment to S. 2057. This amendment by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) would have required segregated training for male and female recruits in the military, and separate barracks for male and female soldiers after basic training. “Let us not delay the process of implementing changes recommended by former Senator Kassebaum-Baker and the commission she headed, a commission established by the Secretary of Defense,” Senator Byrd urged. “Put these young recruits in separate barracks, train them separately until they have been installed in the military discipline....” The Senate rejected the Byrd amendment on June 25, 1998 by a vote of 39 to 53 (Congressional Record, page S7156, roll call 180; we have assigned pluses to the “yeas” and minuses to the “nays”).
TG: This is a tough one. Women don't belong in the military. But they don't deserve special treatment when they're in, either.
(70) Require All Gun Dealers to Make Trigger Locks “Available,” Amendment to S. 2260. This amendment would require that all federally licensed firearms dealers sell trigger locks, lock boxes, and other safety devices in addition to firearms. “My amendment requires that vendors have these safety devices available for sale,” explained Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), “but it does not require that a vendor sell a safety device along with every firearm.” The amendment would have unconstitutionally imposed an additional burden on the firearms industry, although it was promoted by Craig as a means of avoiding the even more draconian Boxer amendment under consideration (see Senate vote #71). The Senate adopted the amendment on July 21, 1998 by a vote of 72 to 28 (Congressional Record, page S8634, roll call 215; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: What? The great gun rights champion wants to put an inFRINGEment on our gun rights? He wants to force the cost of them to go up?
(76) Abolish Marriage Penalty in Tax Code, Motion on S. 2312. This amendment would have abolished the tax code’s so-called “marriage penalty,” which taxes a married couple at a higher rate than an unmarried couple living together. The amendment would have allowed married couples to file separately using “one half of the taxable income computed as if the spouses were filing a joint return.” “The federal government should not be penalizing marriages, a sacrosanct institution and the bedrock of our social structure,” Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID) persuasively argued. The Senate rejected a motion to table (kill) the amendment on July 29, 1998 by a vote of 48 to 51 (Congressional Record, page S9177, roll call 242; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”). Subsequently, the amendment was withdrawn.
TG: Why should Thompson care? He can afford it.
(78) Restore Congressional Control Over War Powers, Motion on S. 2132. This beautifully concise, one-sentence amendment would have prohibited funds in the Defense Appropriations bill from being used for “offensive military operations by United States Armed Forces except in accordance with Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the power to declare war and take certain other related actions.” Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) explained the rationale for his much-needed amendment: “The framers never intended the Armed Forces to be employed by the Executive as a blunt instrument for enforcing U.S. foreign policy without congressional approval. Yet … that is exactly what we have seen. Absent a reaffirmation by Congress of its proper constitutional war powers, we will certainly see it again.” The Senate tabled (killed) the Durbin amendment on July 30, 1998 by a vote of 84 to 15 (Congressional Record, page S9392, roll call 251; we have assigned pluses to the “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: Yet another bill turning our president into a king (well, Queen).
* And several unconstitutional big spending bills in each session. Some of them were for "good" things, like agriculture, but it is nonetheless unconstitutional to spend taxpayer's money on things not authorized by the Constitution. The money is better left with the citizens who earned it.
1999
(1) Impeachment of President Clinton, Article I. Article I — Grand Jury Perjury — is described in House vote #1. A two-thirds majority of the Senate would be required to convict the President and remove him from office. The Senate acquitted the President on February 12, 1999 by a vote of 45 to 55 (Congressional Record, page S1458, roll call 17; we have assigned pluses to the “Guilties” and minuses to the “Not Guilties”).
TG: He voted to keep Clinton in office. He SAID some damning things about Clinton's Commie China contributions, but when push came to shove he failed to WALK his talk.
(13) Ban on Assault Weapon Sales to Juveniles, Amendment to S. 254. Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) offered this amendment to (in his words) “prohibit private sales of semiautomatic assault rifles to minors, and it would require that they have parental permission in order for one even to be in the possession of a minor.” The Senate adopted the amendment on May 13, 1999 by a vote of 96 to 2 with only Senators Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Robert Smith (R-NH) defending the right to keep and bear arms (Congressional Record, page S5236, roll call 115; we have assigned pluses to the two “nays” and minuses to the “yeas”).
TG: Another infringement on gun rights. 96 of 98 Senators violated their oath of office on this vote, making them lying frauds, if not traitors.
11-2002 56% Conservative (in pdf file, so I couldn't paste the text)
* Taxpayer bailout of airlines
TG: Anti-free market and an unconstitutional expenditure of our tax dollars.
* $200 Million in worldwide AIDS funding
TG: Again using YOUR money to pay for queers getting AIDS.
* Increase National debt to $6.5 trillion
TG: Spend, tax, spend, tax, hide, and still pretend to be a fiscal conservative. Manage a business this way and you get fired (if not jailed), and they go belly-up.
* Fast track trade treaties for President
TG: One last opportunity to turn the White House into the Pale Palace.
http://www.jbs.org/node/792
Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee which is investigating illegal campaign fundraising, grabbed headlines at the start of his hearings with the charge that the communist government of China has been illegally pouring "substantial sums of money" into U.S. political campaigns to "subvert our election process" and "buy access and influence in furtherance of Chinese government interests." However, citing national security concerns and the sensitive nature of the evidence supporting those assertions, Thompson did not provide substantiating details.
TG: Again, all talk, no WALK.
12-22-97 Article by William Jasper
Following close on the heels of the whirlwind car-trunk documents were revelations of at least two other major Clinton scandals involving either inexcusable ineptitude or (more likely) criminal obstruction of justice. In the one instance, the FBI claims it simply "overlooked" key intelligence information that it had failed to turn over to congressional investigators on Red China's efforts to buy political influence in the United States. Attorney General Janet Reno claims that she first learned of the evidence -- some of it going back as far as 1991 -- on November 5th, five days after Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) suspended Senate hearings into campaign finance abuses, including attempts by Beijing to subvert the U.S. political process.
TG: Just when they almost nailed the Clintons, Thompson suspended the investigation. Getting a little too close to the fire, eh, Freddie? Now Hillary will repay him by beating him in the general election.
Judicial Watch interview:
Q. Do you mean that no one really knew about this man’s activities until then?
A. Without our lawsuit, much of what has become known as “Chinagate” would never have come to light. What happened is that the Senate Government Affairs Committee headed by Senator Fred Thompson [R-TN] didn't subpoena Huang, and Attorney General Janet Reno’s Justice Department neither talked to him nor subpoenaed him. We know that Congressman Dan Burton [R-IN], chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, issued a subpoena to have him appear, but it was never enforced. And that raises the question: Why does John Huang have such protection?
TG: Just when they almost nailed the Clintons, Thompson came up short again.
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Blogs For Borders Emergency Amnesty Edition
Short and sweet...It's not dead yet!
Learn more about your congresscritters stance on immigration at the excellent "Immigration Stance."
If you're not already a member please make sure to sign up with NumbersUSA, they bring you the 411 on the who to call, when to call them, and what to yell at them about!
If you're unsure why this is an important fight? Watch this video made by Roy Beck of NumbersUSA and it details the demographic realities that this bill would only make worse.
H/T Maggie's Notebook
Learn more about your congresscritters stance on immigration at the excellent "Immigration Stance."
If you're not already a member please make sure to sign up with NumbersUSA, they bring you the 411 on the who to call, when to call them, and what to yell at them about!
If you're unsure why this is an important fight? Watch this video made by Roy Beck of NumbersUSA and it details the demographic realities that this bill would only make worse.
H/T Maggie's Notebook
NYPDS - 6/10/07 Part II
Daycare children 'more antisocial'
MARC HORNE, SCOTSMAN
EVIDENCE is mounting that young children who spend significant periods of time in daycare while their parents work are more prone to developing aggressive and antisocial behaviour. [editor: Huh, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that children are supposed to be raised by PARENTS, not institutions?]
http://tinyurl.com/2clrso
Government Study Ties Chemical Food Additives To Child Behavior Problems
By: Jeff Rense
We all know what to expect from the FDA: more corruption, deal-making, lies, deceit, obfuscation (how about aspartame for one small example) and the ultimate sacrificing of human lives, especially our children, to the chemical additive and food preservative industries.
http://tinyurl.com/2xc2r7
Genetically Engineered Foods May Cause Rising Food Allergies
Part 2: Genetically Engineered Corn
By Jeffrey M. Smith
The biotech industry is fond of saying that they offer genetically modified (GM) crops that resist pests. This might conjure up the image of insects staying away from GM crop fields. But “resisting pests” is just a euphemism for contains its own built-in pesticide. When bugs take a bite of the GM plant, the toxin splits open their stomach and kills them.
http://tinyurl.com/38jh3x
Man-made microbe 'to create endless biofuel'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, Telegraph
It is part of an effort to create designer bugs to manufacture hydrogen and biofuels, as well as absorb carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases.
http://tinyurl.com/ywgwmb
Face recognition set for takeoff in Australia
Public trials of the SmartGate biometric system, in conjunction with electronic passports, to begin at airports this summer.
By ZDNet Australia Staff
http://tinyurl.com/2yzfb3
Some see scans for lunch as taste of Big Brother
Taunton schools to use fingerprints
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff
Taunton schools this spring could become the first in Massachusetts to have students pay for lunch by scanning their fingerprints, a plan that is triggering an uproar among parents....
http://tinyurl.com/33cjlq
Homosexual Marriage Approved by California Assembly
In a 42-34 vote, the State Assembly voted to pass AB 43, allowing homosexual marriage in California. After a lengthy floor debate, Democrats voted to flout the will of California voters by choosing to overturn Proposition 22, the 2000 initiative that clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
http://tinyurl.com/2862dj
MARC HORNE, SCOTSMAN
EVIDENCE is mounting that young children who spend significant periods of time in daycare while their parents work are more prone to developing aggressive and antisocial behaviour. [editor: Huh, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that children are supposed to be raised by PARENTS, not institutions?]
http://tinyurl.com/2clrso
Government Study Ties Chemical Food Additives To Child Behavior Problems
By: Jeff Rense
We all know what to expect from the FDA: more corruption, deal-making, lies, deceit, obfuscation (how about aspartame for one small example) and the ultimate sacrificing of human lives, especially our children, to the chemical additive and food preservative industries.
http://tinyurl.com/2xc2r7
Genetically Engineered Foods May Cause Rising Food Allergies
Part 2: Genetically Engineered Corn
By Jeffrey M. Smith
The biotech industry is fond of saying that they offer genetically modified (GM) crops that resist pests. This might conjure up the image of insects staying away from GM crop fields. But “resisting pests” is just a euphemism for contains its own built-in pesticide. When bugs take a bite of the GM plant, the toxin splits open their stomach and kills them.
http://tinyurl.com/38jh3x
Man-made microbe 'to create endless biofuel'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, Telegraph
It is part of an effort to create designer bugs to manufacture hydrogen and biofuels, as well as absorb carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases.
http://tinyurl.com/ywgwmb
Face recognition set for takeoff in Australia
Public trials of the SmartGate biometric system, in conjunction with electronic passports, to begin at airports this summer.
By ZDNet Australia Staff
http://tinyurl.com/2yzfb3
Some see scans for lunch as taste of Big Brother
Taunton schools to use fingerprints
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff
Taunton schools this spring could become the first in Massachusetts to have students pay for lunch by scanning their fingerprints, a plan that is triggering an uproar among parents....
http://tinyurl.com/33cjlq
Homosexual Marriage Approved by California Assembly
In a 42-34 vote, the State Assembly voted to pass AB 43, allowing homosexual marriage in California. After a lengthy floor debate, Democrats voted to flout the will of California voters by choosing to overturn Proposition 22, the 2000 initiative that clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
http://tinyurl.com/2862dj
NYPDS - 6/10/07 Part I
BUSH SOWS SEEDS OF AMERICA'S DEMISE
By Cliff Kincaid
NewsWithViews.com
With most of the media attention focused on the collapse of the Bush-backed Senate immigration bill, the American people are not being told the complete story of how the President sold out American interests at the G-8 meeting in Germany.
http://tinyurl.com/2lgeaj
NY ELECTRONIC TAGGING DEVICE BILL - AN ORWELLIAN MEASURE
by Jeffrey Leving and Glenn Sacks
NewsWithViews.com
Assembly Bill 5424, recently introduced by State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), is a draconian measure which will victimize many innocent New York men and fathers. The bill requires “any person against whom an order of protection is issued…to wear an electronic monitoring device.” The device will allow pinpoint tracking of the wearer, and tampering with the device will be a felony.
http://tinyurl.com/277elv
OIL PRICE GOUGING: FROM ENRON WITH LOVE
David R. Usher
NewsWithViews.com
Federal and state politicians in both parties have failed to address this “Enroning of America” because government is on the take too. Taxes rise with gasoline prices, fattening political contributions while feeding slush budgets and pork barrels at both the state and federal levels.
http://tinyurl.com/3bq36y
Rice warns Turkey against 'robust' sweep into Iraq
Turkish, iranian forces shell PKK positions across border
Compiled by Daily Star staff
SecState goes on to say that the US cannot do a thing to stop the Turks from attacking the one group that is supposed to be the Americans' allies in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/3x7fbe
CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed'
A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate "war on terror" suspects.
http://tinyurl.com/3amk7k
Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign Relations
By Mary Green
People Exclusive
The prestigious think tank officially approved Jolie's membership nomination, adding her to a group whose membership includes presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, ABC's Diane Sawyer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and journalist Tom Brokaw.
http://tinyurl.com/yswq2p
US arrests former CIA leader in Laos
By Sebastien Berger, Telegraph
The ageing former leader of the CIA's "Secret Army" in Laos was in an American prison last night, accused of mounting a coup against his and Washington's old Communist enemy. General Vang Pao, 77, and nine other people were arrested in dawn raids by more than 200 federal agents in dawn raids across California.
http://tinyurl.com/3b284m
A Voice Only You Can Hear: DARPA's Sonic Projector
By Sharon Weinberger
Wired.com
Imagine a weapon that creates sound that only you can hear. The Air Force has experimented with microwaves that create sounds in people's head (which they've called a possible psychological warfare tool), and American Technologies can "beam" sounds to specific targets with their patented HyperSound.
http://tinyurl.com/27vchd
By Cliff Kincaid
NewsWithViews.com
With most of the media attention focused on the collapse of the Bush-backed Senate immigration bill, the American people are not being told the complete story of how the President sold out American interests at the G-8 meeting in Germany.
http://tinyurl.com/2lgeaj
NY ELECTRONIC TAGGING DEVICE BILL - AN ORWELLIAN MEASURE
by Jeffrey Leving and Glenn Sacks
NewsWithViews.com
Assembly Bill 5424, recently introduced by State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn), is a draconian measure which will victimize many innocent New York men and fathers. The bill requires “any person against whom an order of protection is issued…to wear an electronic monitoring device.” The device will allow pinpoint tracking of the wearer, and tampering with the device will be a felony.
http://tinyurl.com/277elv
OIL PRICE GOUGING: FROM ENRON WITH LOVE
David R. Usher
NewsWithViews.com
Federal and state politicians in both parties have failed to address this “Enroning of America” because government is on the take too. Taxes rise with gasoline prices, fattening political contributions while feeding slush budgets and pork barrels at both the state and federal levels.
http://tinyurl.com/3bq36y
Rice warns Turkey against 'robust' sweep into Iraq
Turkish, iranian forces shell PKK positions across border
Compiled by Daily Star staff
SecState goes on to say that the US cannot do a thing to stop the Turks from attacking the one group that is supposed to be the Americans' allies in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/3x7fbe
CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed'
A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate "war on terror" suspects.
http://tinyurl.com/3amk7k
Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign Relations
By Mary Green
People Exclusive
The prestigious think tank officially approved Jolie's membership nomination, adding her to a group whose membership includes presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, ABC's Diane Sawyer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and journalist Tom Brokaw.
http://tinyurl.com/yswq2p
US arrests former CIA leader in Laos
By Sebastien Berger, Telegraph
The ageing former leader of the CIA's "Secret Army" in Laos was in an American prison last night, accused of mounting a coup against his and Washington's old Communist enemy. General Vang Pao, 77, and nine other people were arrested in dawn raids by more than 200 federal agents in dawn raids across California.
http://tinyurl.com/3b284m
A Voice Only You Can Hear: DARPA's Sonic Projector
By Sharon Weinberger
Wired.com
Imagine a weapon that creates sound that only you can hear. The Air Force has experimented with microwaves that create sounds in people's head (which they've called a possible psychological warfare tool), and American Technologies can "beam" sounds to specific targets with their patented HyperSound.
http://tinyurl.com/27vchd
Invasion news updates - 6/10/07
Supporters of ALIPAC:
We had to delay the launch of this article due to the Senate Amnesty brawl. Please forward this article and post it on other sites if you agree. Your comments and feedback are welcome. Please post any feedback by following the link at the bottom of this article.
The Lost Angeles Tinderbox Primed for Large Riots!
http://tinyurl.com/2l3s5n
Another border agent due to start prison term Here we go again.
Judge, prosecutor the same as in Ramos-Compean case
http://tinyurl.com/2harag
We had to delay the launch of this article due to the Senate Amnesty brawl. Please forward this article and post it on other sites if you agree. Your comments and feedback are welcome. Please post any feedback by following the link at the bottom of this article.
The Lost Angeles Tinderbox Primed for Large Riots!
http://tinyurl.com/2l3s5n
Another border agent due to start prison term Here we go again.
Judge, prosecutor the same as in Ramos-Compean case
http://tinyurl.com/2harag
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