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The Associated Press has reported an offer by the Afghanistan Taliban who purportedly has held the only American Soldier POW in captivity since 2009; to trade him for 5 GITMO prisoners.
Sgt. Bergdahl as been in captivity since 2009. Incident reports at the time described that Sgt. Bergdahl was kidnapped while unarmed, in a latrine, while on his own base. An alert was issued at the time to be on the look out for a white van. Since his captors claimed responsibility for his abduction; the Geneva Conventions have not been adhered to, no one has seen him, examined him or interviewed him from the international community, Red Cross, or even negotiators.
A few photos and a video were released several years ago as the only, scant proof of life for us to examine.
I have a working comprehension of the sensitivities involved with hostage negotiations and the adverse policy to POW exchanges as an excuse to kidnap more Americans as currency for trade.
In this particular case, we can only surmise the level of psychological torture and erosion of mental sanity an extended length of captivity a human can endure or what he must do to survive, mentally and physically.
Publicity does not help the Sgt. Bergdahl negotiation in influencing his captors. It actually increases his propaganda value. Neither do the detractors who say; "let him rot, he is a deserter, he belongs with his people".
Accusing a POW of desertion and consorting with the enemy does not negate or trump the sacrosanct tradition that Americans leave no soldiers behind. If he did indeed commit a crime, then he will be punished for it by us, under our system of justice, not the Taliban's.
So, what can we the American public do, if we so choose to attempt to secure the release of one of our Soldiers from his captors?
Pressure your Congressional and Senate representatives.
If the Obama Administration, have exerted all the power, prestige, might, and intellectual stamina to secure the release of the one and only American POW we know of since 2009; then they have come up way short.
Imagine the psychological torture of a POW being told that he has been abandoned by his government and his fellow countrymen.
Imagine, when they show him the news at Benghazi, the scandals, and other degenerative events taking place, and show him that his name is not in one publication or cable news casts since his capture.
Imagine, how his captors are trying to convert him, turn him to their side, to get him to deny the country and people, that have turned their backs on him.
The bottom line is this. With all of our technology, boots on the ground, intelligence networks; we are led to believe all of our resources have been out witted, out maneuvered, and out played, by an innocuous group with none of what we have.
Every American combat soldier is infused with the knowledge and core belief that if captured he is to keep true faith with his fellow prisoners, try to escape if can make it, and do everything he can to stay alive, secure in the knowledge, that his Commander's are doing everything they can to get you back.
It is not beyond reason to surmise the US Government could have mounted an effective rescue or quietly offer to for his release long ago.
It is evident, that there are elements in the Obama Administration who oppose a swap or ransom payment or military rescue.
We are left to conclude, Sgt. Bergdahl has been abandoned by the Obama Administration, because the Military I grew up in would never stop trying to retrieve a soldier officially designated a Prisoner of War.
I support a well planned, tightly executed operation to engage in a prisoner swap in keeping with the rules of war, in this particular case, with this particular POW, and accept all of the weighted consequences, intended and unintended, to include dismissing his detractors, to get him back.
It's about Honor, What say you?
Anyone following the list of Obama scandals and the accompanying media spin assuring us that every thing is fine, just turn the channel to a reality show; are surely on sensory overload.
Let's just stop this torture by a thousand cuts and get down to what is happening before our 'lying' eyes. The Bill of Rights, our founding principles of guaranteed freedom for the individual from an encroaching government is being whittled down to nothing.
The proof is before you. There is a palpable chill on anything resembling dissent against this regime. If you oppose Obama, it is because you are a racist.
If you are in support of the notion of the "Tea Party", as a spiritual revival of assertive, American individuality in defying a powerful king, by tossing his "tea" into the Boston Harbor of our discontent, you are a bigot.
First Amendment: The Right of the people to freedom of religion, press, speech shall not... well, seems the IRS under the spell of the Obama regime abolished that Amendment based on applicants with opposing perspectives, and members of the Press Corps. were targeted for no better reason.
The mantra that seems to lull the public into an hypnotic trance is "terrorism", "safety", "public good". Everyone just walks away as if drugged, sedated, and mindlessly aloof.
Second Amendment: The Right of the People..to keep and bear arms.. shall not be infringed. Well, that one is all but eradicated from the New York State Constitution. The very notion of owning a firearm is being purged from the American mind. Toy guns, cops and robbers, good guys vs. bad guys, are being scrubbed from the brain with a metal Brillo pad.
If a child so much as bites a pop tart into the shape of a gun, he is punished, lambasted, and treated as if he has a mental disease. Any protest to oppose it is met with again, the hypnotic mantra of; "terrorism", child safety", "security". Then the public wanders off to look at the and animal shapes floating in the clouds.
Which brings us to the discussion for those of you who dare to cling to the Bill of Rights. Who dare to think for yourselves. Who dare to question. Who, if you are like me, cannot be so easily entranced into inaction.
First, Mr. Snowden, who is the whistle-blower that exposed the insidious conduct of the U.S. Government secretly, and without your authorization, is invading your privacy, your right to be secure in your private papers, home, and inner thoughts, with a massive, leviathan serpent driven by an insatiable for your private information, whose belly is being built in a massive construction project in Utah, that our U.S. Congress did not know about or authorize, yet got approval for it, under the hypnotic mantra of "safety and security and terrorism."
Well, Bull hockey and horse apples, if you believe we are supposed to be kept safe from totalitarian minded terrorist, by surrendering our Bill of Rights to a fascistic, totalitarian government.
I make the case for No, Thank you. I make the case for we will keep our Bill of Rights, forego surrendering any more freedoms to this government, and reclaim those already absconded.
The spin story is not Mr. Snowden's hero or traitor status for exposing what the government should not be doing to us. His and their mission is not to protect government secrets from us. His and their mission is to protect us from a secret government trying to take over by destroying our Constitution.
The real story is the government is doing it right under our very nose, before our eyes, under the guise of State secrets, national security, and public safety.
Nothing is further from the truth. The IRS was used as a political weapon against free speech and political dissent by this Regime. That is an affront and assault on the Bill of Rights.
Our military is being torn to pieces by incompetence and dereliction at the highest levels of our Executive Branch. That is an assault on our national security of greater impact that what Mr. Snowden pointed out.
Our economy, our currency, our markets, are being ravaged by an ideology that is incompatible with capitalism. This is an assault on our economic prosperity and attack on the fabric of our national power.
Now, look into my eyes, when I snap my fingers, you will wake up, reject this destructive behavior by this regime, restore our Bill of Rights, assert your individual freedom, protect your home, your family and economic well being with every molecule of your existence.
If we abolish the Bill of Rights, and surrender our individualism, then collectivism and totalitarianism will be all that remains.
SNAP!! WAKE UP!! Now get to it.
Anthony Mele, MA, Diplomacy, International Conflict Management
http://newcity.patch.com/groups/anthony-meles-blog/p/abolish-the-bill-of-rights---what-is-left
I graduated the Defense Intelligence College, Staff Attaché course in Washington, DC, during the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis, where US diplomatic personnel were held hostage for 444 days by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomieni.
Under the norms of international law, an attack on a diplomatic mission and their personnel is an act of war. Without divulging details of that Top Secret course; I was trained in what to do if the diplomatic mission came under attack and how to survive if taken hostage. Over the course of my , I lived for a year in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, worked on security details at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as provide a variety of to other Embassies, to include the British, Kuwaiti, Jordanian among others. I also provided similar services to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel.
So, when I analyze the testimony and narrative provided by Hillary and Obama in regard to the fiasco at Benghazi, it does not match what every diplomatic security professional, military veteran and common-sense gifted American intuitively knows. No matter what your political flavor is, no red blooded American abides leaving our people behind at a diplomatic mission, under attack for what-ever reason, when they are frantically calling in for help, period. Yet, that is precisely what happened at Benghazi.
For the sake of good order, let’s set aside what nefarious policy may or may not have been taking place there that would deliver a US Ambassador into the hands of Jihadist on what is a day of high security alert for every diplomatic mission, in every jihadist active country in the world, September 11th.
Here is what happened; the US Ambassador on behalf of the President and Secretary of State went into a hot bed of Jihadist activity on Sept. 11th without an ample security detail. No military resources were put on stand-by alert to extract them as a normal precaution. When the call came in, up the entire chain of command, directly to the Commander in Chief, who was made completely aware the Ambassador and dozens of Americans were under blithering military attack as was every military commander in the region, in real time. An order to stand down from any rescue attempt was given. A stand down occurred. Our people were abandoned. A dis-information campaign, orchestrated by the White House spin machine followed.
Here is what did not happen; a concerted effort to deploy every military resource in the region to rescue them at best or avenge them at worst, immediately. This is the equivalent of ordering the firemen responding to a 5 to remain in the firehouse and let it burn.
In the chain of command, the only stand down authority who can order 4 star General Commanders to withhold their men from a rescue is the Secretary of Defense and President of the United States of America.
This fact alone is a disgrace and dishonor to any Commander in Chief who violates the one and only inviolable and unforgivable act of any American commander, never, ever, leave a man behind, Sir.
[Anthony Mele, MA, Diplomacy, International Conflict Management, served on the US Army Staff for Intelligence at the Pentagon]
President, AMI GLOBAL SECURITY, LLC www.amiglobalsecurity.com
Is this thing on?
I am sitting here trying to understand why the 41% plus of Americans that publicly identify themselves as Conservative are still supporting a political system that has……..short of shooting us down in the streets…….completely attacked and or violated every single moral, ethical, legal, religious or political value we treasure.
If the last 12 months have not demonstrated that we are living the nightmare of a 2 party political reign of terror, created by a ruling class, that has usurped power with the help and full support of elitists from academia, crony capitalists, crony finance and banking, media, and the useless idiots they have created by their monopoly of these segments of society, then what is it going to take?
“The history of the president, Barack Hussein Obama is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the United States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A president, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our elected representative brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.”
If you have ever read the entire Declaration of Independence than you recognize that we have far surpassed the violations of our rights that moved our forefathers to action and subsequently create the GREATEST EXPRESSION OF SELF-DETERMINATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!
I have changed only 10 words to modernize this document, every other word is as it was published 237 years ago this July 4th.
I have intentionally changed and moved sections to hopefully get your attention and more importantly get you mad as hell………….because you should be.
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Thomas Jefferson
Replace King of Britain with Barack Hussein Obama as I did above.
I AM NOT CALLING FOR OVERTHROWING OUR GOVERNMENT……… JUST THOSE OCCUPYING IT!
We must work within the current system to take back what is ours by Divine Right of being Americans.
We can accomplish this by NOT PLAYING THEIR GAME ANYMORE AND REVOLT AGAINST THEIR 2 PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM.
I have written countless times this statement of fact: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing the same way every single time you do it and expect different results”
Albert Einstein
Well what could be more insane than the last 12 months of political betrayal by all members of our 3 branches of government? Do I need to list them for you, they far out way and infringe on our defined rights and liberties and defy our rule of law than anything George was guilty of 237 years ago.
And to the many naysayers that are sure to respond with “we need to change the GOP from within” or “elect more conservative republicans” or “we need to elect tea party republicans”!
A little recent history lesson for you, several are all of the above by GOP standards.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Sen. Jeff Chiesa of New Jersey, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
These are the authors and supporters of the latest affront to our rule of law by signing legislation that will further legitimize people WHO BROKE THE LAW IN COMING TO AMERICA AND INSTEAD OF PUNISHING THEM FOR BREAKING OUR LAWS, THEY ARE REWARDING THEM WITH CITINZENSHIP!
With this celebration of our Independence I am challenging every God loving, Freedom loving, Conservative American to join the Conservative Party of America and end the 2 party political reign of terror before it is too late.
You have a chance to take control of your destiny America, if you have the courage of our forefathers and the love of Liberty they embraced.
Welcome Home America: http://home.conservativepartyusa.org/
Dr. Keith C. Westbrook Ph.D.
Vice Chmn./Pres. Conservative Party-Florida
My DAV chapter has told me that the IRS has revoked the tax exempt status the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) have had for decades. Does anyone know of any other organizations that have had their tax exempt status revoked? If the Charter granted by Congress has not been withdrawn nor changed, how does the IRS get away with this?
Nearly 70 years later, a Marine holds out hope for long-lost Medal of Honor
With an act of almost unbelievable courage, Arthur J. Jackson took out 12 bunkers and killed almost 50 soldiers in a single savage battle for the South Pacific island of Peleliu in 1945, earning him the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman.
But it stayed in his hands for only a couple weeks. Jackson was in New York to be saluted at a gala event along with several other World Word II Medal of Honor winners and left it on his bed when he went out for the evening. It was the last time he saw it.
“I had left my ---damned medal in its box on the bed in the room,” he told Fox News. “And I knew when I got back .... It’s the first thing I looked for – and it was gone.”
For 42 years, the medal’s whereabouts remained a mystery. Then, in 1987, it appeared there was a break in the case.
"It’s the first thing I looked for – and it was gone.”
- Arthur J. Jackson, Medal of Honor recipient
Jackson got a call from Harold “Speedy” Wilson, a fellow Medal of Honor recipient. Wilson had been told by a VA administrator in Chester, S.C., that Jackson’s medal was on display at a local TV repair shop.
The shop owner, Joel Shockley, told Fox News he bought the medal for $300 at a gun show in Charlotte, N.C. It came with a photocopy of Jackson’s citation
, so he assumed it was Jackson’s medal.
Shockley agreed that the medal should go back to its rightful owner. So he boxed it and mailed it to Jackson.
But when Jackson opened the package, and turned over the medal he was stunned. On the back, there should have been an inscription with his name, Truman’s and the place and date of action. But the metal was flat and blank.
The medal was a fake.
For the second time, it had slipped from the grasp of Jackson, now 88, who is a resident of Boise, Idaho.
The FBI got involved, and assumed that Shockley had kept the real medal, while sending Jackson a facsimile. There were plenty of those floating around. In fact, the company that was hired to produce the Medal of Honor was fined and lost its government contract for stamping out bogus medals in addition to the real ones. They became popular items for military collectors.
Twenty-five years have since passed, but the investigation has yielded no clues as to where Jackson’s medal might be.
Fox News learned of the story a few weeks ago and spoke several times with Shockley about the medal he returned and whether it was possible he never relinquished the real one.
In a phone conversation, Shockley told Fox News, “I did not lie about that. I told them – I said that’s the one that I had. It’s the only one that I’ve ever had in my hands and that’s the one I sent him back.”
There were two main reasons the FBI believed there were multiple medals. One was that Wilson had seen the inscription on the back. But according to Shockley, Wilson never came into his shop -- only the VA Administrator did.
The other reason is an article in the Chester News and Reporter from March 30, 1987. It detailed Jackson’s story and Shockley’s offer to send the medal back. In a photograph of Shockley holding the medal, the ribbon is different from the one that held Jackson’s medal. The FBI figured: two ribbons, two medals.
But when Jackson’s family sent the fake medal to Fox News for examination, it came with two ribbons. A ribbon identical to the one in the photo, and a ribbon similar to the original.
When Fox News shared this new information with investigators, they began to reconsider.
It is now possible, sources close to the investigation tell Fox News, that Shockley never had the real medal. That he was essentially duped at the Charlotte gun show into buying a fake.
Fox News asked Shockley if he knew of any collector who might have the original medal.
“No – I wish I did,” he said. “That way I could get this mess straightened out once and for all. I tell you – it has caused a lot of heartache and headaches.”
The question remains: If Shockley never had Jackson’s medal, where is it? The FBI’s only interest now is in returning it to its rightful owner.
The Medal of Honor is a highly prized collectible among fans of military memorabilia. But Jackson’s family says it belongs to the hero who earned it through extraordinary valor.
In fact, Jackson’s Medal of Honor citation is nothing short of incredible. During the savage battle for Peleliu in the South Pacific, his 7th Marines were pinned by withering Japanese fire from dug-in fortifications. That’s when the 19-year-old Jackson drew on an almost superhuman courage and determination.
“When my platoon leader came along,” Jackson told Fox News, “he asked me…Jackson – do you think you can get into that ---damned shallow trench that runs across the front of that big bunker? If you can, you could probably do some bad things.”
Dodging a hail of enemy fire and snipers in the surrounding coconut trees, Jackson made for the trench. He and a squad member had rigged a pack with 45 pounds of C2 plastic explosive. Jackson threw a phosphorous grenade into the bunker, then pushed the pack through the aperture and lit the fuse.
“And it just sizzled. And I knew I had about 30 seconds to get the hell out of the area,” he told Fox News.
Jackson spotted a nearby crater from a 500-pound bomb and ran to it like it was the last thing he’d ever do. It almost was.
“Just as I dove in there, the roof of that big bunker -- whoooooom..! Up it went…coconut logs, boulders, earth.. I thought – I’ve been done in by my own stupidity.”
That would have been enough for most warriors. But Jackson kept going. By the time it was all over, he had taken out 12 bunkers and killed 50 enemy troops.
Almost singlehandedly, Jackson had secured the southern tip of Peleliu for the Marines.
A year later, at the White House, President Truman slipped the Medal of Honor around Jackson’s neck.
“Well, old Truman is a good old boy,” Jackson said, “and he says “I’m proud of you.” He says “you have a fantastic citation.” And he said,“I appreciate everything you did, and so do the American people.”
Jackson now is one of just 10 living World War II Medal of Honor recipients. He told Fox News he doesn’t think he has many years left. He would just like to hold his medal again before he, like so many other heroes of the ‘greatest generation,’ passes.
The FBI is simply hoping that someone out there will do the right thing.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society has agreed to receive and return Jackson’s medal. They are willing to accept it anonymously, or give credit to whoever chooses to return it.
FROM THE BUFFALO GAP ROUND UP: www.BuffaloGapNews.com
Many members of Congress are having scandalous love affairs with deceitful, bloated and infectious legislation called mega-bills. Mega-bills are wrapped in hundreds of pages of legalese to make them look pretty, but underneath are pregnant with fees, fines and regulations. The Simple Bill Amendment would prevent excessively large bills from coming to term by amending the Constitution to limit the length of federal legislation.
The Simple Bill Amendment
"Congress shall make no law in excess of 10,000 words without two thirds approval of both Houses of Congress, and no bill of any length shall be voted for by any member of Congress without that member first reading the bill in full."
The Simple Bill Amendment would limit the wording of most bills to about twice the size of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution's 4,543 words take about thirty minutes to read, therefore a larger bill under this amendment would take about an hour. In comparison, a legislator could read the Constitution 92 times before finishing the 418,779 words of Obamacare, not including the 20,000 pages of regulations it gave birth to.
Had this amendment already been in place, Obama's Affordable Care Act would never have been invited to the dance floor. At 906 pages, Obamacare would have simply been too obese to wiggle under the limbo stick at the congressional conga line. The same would be true of the Patriot Act's 132 pages, which due to its complicated language is being reinterpreted to allow spying on Americans who aren't even suspected of having committed a crime.
For bills that don't want to go on a 10,000 word diet, there is always the option of getting two thirds of the House and Senate to support it. Nevertheless, the amendment's requirement that legislators take the time to read a bill before voting for it would still stand ‒ a legislator shouldn't rely on the explanations of lobbyists or staffers as to why she should vote for it.
Members of Congress who vote against a bill are not required to read it in full. By skimming, legislators can often ascertain if too much pork or excessive regulation is in a bill. In such cases, a lawmaker could determine if attempting to amend such a bill would be an exercise in futility before running it through the shredder.
Requests to sponsor the Simple Bill Amendment are on the desks of two Republicans from Texas, Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Randy Neugebauer. If the amendment survives the ratification process, the time and expense it takes to move bills through Congress should be reduced along with the swollen bags under the eyes of legislators who bother to read the 8000 plus bills introduced into Congress each year.
With bills being limited in size debate should be streamlined, allowing more play time for Democrats and Republicans to golf and eat dinner with lobbyists, which should be reason enough to garner bipartisan support.
The Simple Bill Amendment is designed to help you sort out what your representatives are up to. Shorter bills would help voters to quickly spot flaws and allow them time to sway lawmakers before a bill goes to the floor for a vote. It is time for left-wing and right-wing lawmakers alike to end their infatuation with lengthy and unnecessarily complicated mega-bills.
If you think former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a fog when she said legislators should pass a bill “so that you can find out what is in it,” then email or call your legislators today, encouraging them to contact Ted Cruz and Randy Neugebauer to support and co-sponsor the Simple Bill Amendment.
Lance Hunter Voorhees is a Yahoo! News contributor, actor and former radio talk show host living in Abilene, TX. You can reach him at Lance@LanceVoorhees.com.
Copyright © 2013 by Lance Hunter Voorhees, All rights reserved.
Who would have thought that immigration would bring these two together smiling. When Schumer is smiling with you something is wrong. As Schumer adds 11 million new democratic voters McCain smiles, really?
The permissible numbers of future immigrates along with the original 11 million plus will push the new group into a new majority in a few years. Good or bad that is the future along with the rest of our PC rules and laws. WE need legal immigrates and should be selective, as all other countries are in the western world. I have friends that are Hispanic, although some are mixed races, black and white. There is no race called Hispanic, but our modern PC government acts like it is. I like the Constitution and references that say all men are created equal and that is how we should look at each person, not divide ourselves into groups. If you come to America legally and want to be an American that is great, if not, you should leave and go back to your own country. Mexico is smart, as they provide little welfare and people seek American support and then send billions back to Mexico.
We should protect our borders, but our weak politicians will not do it. They will not reign in Obama or his shadow government and that worries me. They will smile and legalize illegals and give them a path to citizen and voting. Many if not most democrats want control and 11 million plus new voters is a potential lock on permanent power. People may not be happy when that happens and they get the government they deserve, dragging the rest of us along with them.
How about compromise, legal documentation for illegals that come forward and with no criminal records, pay taxes, no citizen ship with following current laws. Guest worker programs and fair treatment and pay for all. Also, seal the borders.
Just In! African protesters:Obama "GO BACK" to U.S...
Oh Africa Please Keep Him!
He's not Black,
He's not White,
He's a freakin' Hybrid,
like those useless cars!
Cal
post scriptus: PALIN IS RIGHT ON!!
Ask Paul Ryan
This was recently posted on Newsmax
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/paul-ryan-house-amnesty/2013/06/29/id/512593#comment-946562085
OMG!.
He might have been VP.
OUT with ALL RINOS.
DO NOT get suckered into Ryan's bi-furcated, convolutated Cockka-mamie
fairytale that Amnesty is NECESSARY for Border Security.
THAT is pure unadulterated Bx%LL$h!+
Ask him to come clean about the Cost of Border Protection ( $9B/yr) vs the Cost of Immigrant "Social entitlements ( currently $10+ B /yr going to $28+ B/yr under S.744)
Ask him about the part that Sen. Cruz exposed... $5000 fine if you hire a Citizen vs an amnestied CRIMINAL... TREASON BY CONGRESS!
Ask him to spell out the bribes (PORK) put into S.744 to buy votes.
Then tell him to
TAKE A HIKE
Will anybody take this bet?..........
I'll bet $10 NO TV News Show or other show ( Not O'Reilly or Fox, or Colbert, or
....)will get Ryan on their show and ask him these questions.
Don't like that bet.
I would love to lose $10 on this one.......
I'll bet that NO/NADA/Zero/Zip Congressman stands on the floor of the House and asks these questions of Ryan.
THAT WILL SHOW YOU HOW OUR dc (DEN OF CORRUPTION) OPERATES.
ANY TAKERS?
Immigration Perspectives
Summary
- The current estimated net cost of illegal immigrants ( excluding Border protection which is part of National Security is ~ $10.4 B per year
- If S.744 becomes law it will balloon to $28.8 B per year
- The approximate cost of Border Protection is $9 B per year.. we could pay all of it
- Greta put forth a one page Immigration bill. Here is my one sentence Bill
- Since Illegals are largely Citizens of Mexico, we should honor their heritage by applying their Home Country Immigration to them…..
- scan below for just summary Headings from that Law
- If you need details scan down and read……….
- Any comments?
Details
- we will feed, clothe, educate, house, and provide benefits of every kind for them. This is an unlawful invasion by a foreign country. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2272497/reply38650845
- What if ALL (most)of those $$$ went to enforcing existing law. Including Border Protection? As reported below that is more than $25 B per year.
- The cost of Border Protection = ~ $9B per Year
- The price tag, until now, has not been public. But AP, using White House budgets, reports obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and congressional transcripts, tallied it all up: $90 billion in 10 years.
- Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/22/20110622us-border-security-huge-costs-mixed-results.html#ixzz2XcVLyoRI
- From The High Cost of Cheap Labor , Stephen Camerota – 2004
- http://www.cis.org/High-Cost-of-Cheap-Labor#balance
- If the estimated net fiscal drain of $2,736 a year that each illegal household imposes on the federal treasury is multiplied by the nearly three million illegal households, the total cost comes to $10.4 billion a year. (before any amnesty/legalization)
- Both simulations show that legalization would increase the net fiscal costs dramatically. Simulation 1 shows that the net fiscal costs to the federal government would increase from $2,736 to $6,022 per household. Simulation 2 shows the net fiscal cost would be even larger, increasing to $7,668 per household.
- If illegals were given green cards and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the net annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would likely increase from $2,736 to $7,668 per household under the most likely scenario. Total costs could grow from $10.4 billion a year to $28.8 billion.
- Mexican Immigration Law
- http://factreal.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/mexico-vs-united-states-mexican-immigration-laws-are-tougher/
- Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
- Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country:
- Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
- Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
- Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony.
- Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:
- The Mexican constitution expressly forbids non-citizens to participate in the country’s political life.
- The Mexican constitution denies fundamental property rights to foreigners.
- The Mexican constitution denies equal employment rights to immigrants, even legal ones, in the public sector.
- The Mexican constitution guarantees that immigrants will never be treated as real Mexican citizens, even if they are legally naturalized.
- An immigrant who becomes a naturalized Mexican citizen can be stripped of his Mexican citizenship if he lives again in the country of his origin for more than five years
- Foreign-born, naturalized Mexican citizens may not become federal lawmakers (Article 55), cabinet secretaries (Article 91) or supreme court justices (Article 95).
- The president of Mexico must be a Mexican citizen by birth AND his parents must also be Mexican-born citizens (Article 82), thus giving secondary status to Mexican-born citizens born of immigrants.
- The Mexican constitution singles out “undesirable aliens.
- The Mexican constitution provides the right of private individuals to make citizen’s arrests.
- The Mexican constitution states that foreigners may be expelled for any reason and without due process.
The married man and woman, committed in covenant to one another, is the basis of society. All other relationships are dependent on the solidity of the marriages society is composed of.
In the marriage relationship, the man tends to be the reasoning, logical and physically strong protector. The woman tends to be spiritual, intuitive, pictorial and nurturing. These are the complementary traits of each. Both can and do exercise the full range of traits. In creating us male and female in His image and likeness, He allowed for a means to be individually fulfilled through the exercise of their diverse gifts and talents (See Proverbs 31:10-31 for a surprising depiction of the ideal marriage).
Love requires an object. The object is the beloved and the beloved's love for her lover. When we marvel at being made in God's image and likeness, it is most profound in the best understanding we have of his Triune Nature. So, too, is the relationship between husband and wife, and how we were made as male and female. The third element is the power of the love between husband and wife. It is awesome as the power of the Holy Spirit. Both create, nurture and guide the fruits of their love for the greater glory of God and the wholeness of the human family. From that basis, all other relationships and adventures have their justification, or their condemnation.
A covenant man will love his wife as Scripture commands. A covenant woman will honor her husband as Scripture commands. With the power of love, they are the full and childlike image and likeness of the Triune God, worthy of honor and praise from those they serve and the children they nurture. (Childlikeness = Key to the Kingdom of Heaven) Many marriages fail today, because one or both partners no longer "feel” anything. A covenant is a lifelong commitment to perform as promised. Love has nothing to do with feeling.
In a non-contraceptive union, the couple share enzymes in the fluids involved in coitus that create a bond of responsibility (covenant) so necessary for the proper raising of children (Perhaps a touch of natural law?). Could the blocking of this “mixing” by contraception reduce this natural bonding be a big reason for divorce and single mothers today? The world always creates a problem – the devil may care contraceptive and abortion society - and then blames the victims while covering society’s sins with blood money.
With so many abandoned children, it is a noble act for people to adopt or foster a child or a house full. Sadly, government interference and the militancy of the so-called “gay” movement has made it difficult for co-habiting folks to take in a child without making demands that destroy the entire child adoption and care structure. A gay or unmarried pair has a greater responsibility to recognize their role in parenting is to lead a child back to the way he was created for the glory of God – male and female and their covenant with God. They may also learn how to adjust their own obsessions.
The image of God is perfect. The Word is perfect, there is nothing held back. So, the Father, begetter has an unconditional self-donation. The Word therefore receives everything from the Father and is one with the Father, as we would hear Jesus later teaching us, "The Father and I are one."
This is an eternal embrace, an eternal kiss, and an eternal union from which proceed the Lord and giver of life forever. God's unconditional love has, on one side, "eternal transmission of life." God's eternal life has, on the flip side, "unconditional love". Love and Life, the two are totally inseparable.
The only way you can give yourself in this total, radical sense, in this image of God, is to that which is able to actually reproduce yourself. That involves the wonderful mystery of the fountain of life. The mutual reproductive gift of a man to a woman and a woman to a man is the fountain of life, the self-ability to reproduce.
To give self, therefore, means that in unconditional self-donation of the husband and wife in that which is called conjugal relations, means that these powers of self-donation will always be present, even if the couple proves to be barren.
The extension of this divine image of God in marriage; the interrelationship of a man and a woman in marriage has to be unitive and therefore pro-creative. "Unconditional love" translates into unitive and "Lord and giver of life" translates into pro-creative. The two qualities of conjugal relationship therefore are meant to be based on the beginning of God's eternal being.
Marriage is a way to learn how to live in God in such a way that when we end this life, we will be ready to enter into God's eternal love and eternal life, because that which we lived on earth, we are ready now to do forever where “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things our Heavenly Father has prepared for those who love him.”
We also must face the reality of Satan, who spoils the genetic code. He wants to change the words unconditional love into mutual exploitation, into conditional love. That changes love into increasing degrees of hatred or hostility. He wants to change the word life into contraception. He wants to halt the transmission of life into the blocking of the transmission of life. He doesn’t tell you overpopulation is the result of fear, stress for survival because of despotic government, not love or even lust. Despots and "progressives" then cover their sins with (borrowed) blood money.
God only intended to make the relationship between man and woman to be the way to heaven. We also have the opportunity to make it a path to hell. Such is the way of our free will and the presence of evil to overcome. May we again get back to the beginning as we were made in the image and likeness of God, for his eternal life and eternal love?
Gerald V. Todd is married to the former Joanne Dean since January 30, 1960. They have three adopted children born in 1963, 65 and 69, with 8 grandchildren.
[1] Based largely on a talk by Fr. Philip Pavich, then Associate Pastor of St. James Church, Medugorje, Bosnia – August 1990 This chapter from my MSS “The Reign of Innocence” contains over 5,300 words.. 1,000 words is enough for anybody!
The married man and woman, committed in covenant to one another, is the basis of society. All other relationships are dependent on the solidity of the marriages society is composed of.
In the marriage relationship, the man tends to be the reasoning, logical and physically strong protector. The woman tends to be spiritual, intuitive, pictorial and nurturing. These are the complementary traits of each. Both can and do exercise the full range of traits. In creating us male and female in His image and likeness, He allowed for a means to be individually fulfilled through the exercise of their diverse gifts and talents (See Proverbs 31:10-31 for a surprising depiction of the ideal marriage).
Love requires an object. The object is the beloved and the beloved's love for her lover. When we marvel at being made in God's image and likeness, it is most profound in the best understanding we have of his Triune Nature. So, too, is the relationship between husband and wife, and how we were made as male and female. The third element is the power of the love between husband and wife. It is awesome as the power of the Holy Spirit. Both create, nurture and guide the fruits of their love for the greater glory of God and the wholeness of the human family. From that basis, all other relationships and adventures have their justification, or their condemnation.
A covenant man will love his wife as Scripture commands. A covenant woman will honor her husband as Scripture commands. With the power of love, they are the full and childlike image and likeness of the Triune God, worthy of honor and praise from those they serve and the children they nurture. (Childlikeness = Key to the Kingdom of Heaven) Many marriages fail today, because one or both partners no longer "feel” anything. A covenant is a lifelong commitment to perform as promised. Love has nothing to do with feeling.
In a non-contraceptive union, the couple share enzymes in the fluids involved in coitus that create a bond of responsibility (covenant) so necessary for the proper raising of children (Perhaps a touch of natural law?). Could the blocking of this “mixing” by contraception reduce this natural bonding be a big reason for divorce and single mothers today? The world always creates a problem – the devil may care contraceptive and abortion society - and then blames the victims while covering society’s sins with blood money.
With so many abandoned children, it is a noble act for people to adopt or foster a child or a house full. Sadly, government interference and the militancy of the so-called “gay” movement has made it difficult for co-habiting folks to take in a child without making demands that destroy the entire child adoption and care structure. A gay or unmarried pair has a greater responsibility to recognize their role in parenting is to lead a child back to the way he was created for the glory of God – male and female and their covenant with God. They may also learn how to adjust their own obsessions.
The image of God is perfect. The Word is perfect, there is nothing held back. So, the Father, begetter has an unconditional self-donation. The Word therefore receives everything from the Father and is one with the Father, as we would hear Jesus later teaching us, "The Father and I are one."
This is an eternal embrace, an eternal kiss, and an eternal union from which proceed the Lord and giver of life forever. God's unconditional love has, on one side, "eternal transmission of life." God's eternal life has, on the flip side, "unconditional love". Love and Life, the two are totally inseparable.
The only way you can give yourself in this total, radical sense, in this image of God, is to that which is able to actually reproduce yourself. That involves the wonderful mystery of the fountain of life. The mutual reproductive gift of a man to a woman and a woman to a man is the fountain of life, the self-ability to reproduce.
To give self, therefore, means that in unconditional self-donation of the husband and wife in that which is called conjugal relations, means that these powers of self-donation will always be present, even if the couple proves to be barren.
The extension of this divine image of God in marriage; the interrelationship of a man and a woman in marriage has to be unitive and therefore pro-creative. "Unconditional love" translates into unitive and "Lord and giver of life" translates into pro-creative. The two qualities of conjugal relationship therefore are meant to be based on the beginning of God's eternal being.
Marriage is a way to learn how to live in God in such a way that when we end this life, we will be ready to enter into God's eternal love and eternal life, because that which we lived on earth, we are ready now to do forever where “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things our Heavenly Father has prepared for those who love him.”
We also must face the reality of Satan, who spoils the genetic code. He wants to change the words unconditional love into mutual exploitation, into conditional love. That changes love into increasing degrees of hatred or hostility. He wants to change the word life into contraception. He wants to halt the transmission of life into the blocking of the transmission of life. He doesn’t tell you overpopulation is the result of fear, stress for survival because of despotic government, not love or even lust. Despots and "progressives" then cover their sins with (borrowed) blood money.
God only intended to make the relationship between man and woman to be the way to heaven. We also have the opportunity to make it a path to hell. Such is the way of our free will and the presence of evil to overcome. May we again get back to the beginning as we were made in the image and likeness of God, for his eternal life and eternal love?
Gerald V. Todd is married to the former Joanne Dean since January 30, 1960. They have three adopted children born in 1963, 65 and 69, with 8 grandchildren.
[1] Based largely on a talk by Fr. Philip Pavich, then Associate Pastor of St. James Church, Medugorje, Bosnia – August 1990 This chapter from my MSS “The Reign of Innocence” contains over 5,300 words.. 1,000 words is enough for anybody!
http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2013/06/putin-america-is-sodom-and-gomorrah-is.html
Putin; 'America Is Sodom And Gomorrah', Is He Correct ?
ARE YOU ONE OF THE FEW
CAN WE COUNT ON YOU!
When it became clear that your country was in trouble. You observed overt premeditated attacks on your countries Constitution, Freedom, Liberty, Justice, even Morality and God. Disbelief was likely your first response. Disbelief exploded into confusion because the force behind the attacks was your own elected representatives. You fought your initial response believing that you must be missing something, that there was a bigger picture you just didn't understand. Then all confusion and disbelief evolved into a reality too treacherous to comprehend. The enemy of all you ever believed and cared about, all that mattered to you and loved was your government. You started trying to get others to listen, they wouldn't. Then you decided if I walk away, if I say "oh well I tried" if stick my head in the sand like those around me..........if not me, who.........if not now it will be too late. You cannot stop fighting, this is how I felt.................................
Sometimes you come to a point where it takes all your strength just to keep from lashing out. Those times when the lies the insults and the threats seem endless. Often it feels like you are on your own. You've spent large amounts of your own money which you couldn't afford to spend. Days come and go with little sleep, there just isn't time for rest, your mission is simply too important. You dare not turn your attention to most of those around you, it would make everything you've done seem like a waste of time. You focus your attention on the ones who have gone before you. They too must have had the same feelings, at times hopelessness, despair, rage and loneliness. If you measured your numbers by the spoken word you would believe you were a part of a massive army. However the utterances you hear, though high in volume, are void of commitment or passion. It's in the actions your numbers are revealed, and they are few. They may be few in number but their courage and valor makes them great.
Do not be betrayed by the noise of those who say they will, measure your strength by those who act among you. Remember actions speak louder than words. I tell you this because many of you who risk all for the right to be free must feel as discouraged as I do at times. I understand the task we are facing and I know that if we give up there will be no one behind us who will take our swords and carry on. You who have accepted the challenge you are the front line there are no reinforcements, we must win for all. There isn't time to waste trying to get those who say, "I don't have time to get involved" or "I would really like to help, maybe after soccer season" or " gee I was going to but American Idol is on tonight." What they are really saying is, "I'm comfortable don't disturb me with saving freedom, that stuff is for the crazy people." Yes I know just how maddening it can be. So many tough guys around me talk a big game and do absolutely nothing. Many of them are cowards and won't even sign a petition. Wouldn't you really hate to live like that.
For the rest of you not willing to do your part.
What I am telling you is, if you are one of those (whiners) and want to save our country, your rights and Freedom, then it is up to you. If you are looking for someone to save your home, America, then get off your butt and go look in a mirror. The person you see there has as much responsibility for that as anyone else.
Art Phillips (Elevengun)
elevengun@earthlink.net
Note: I sincerely hope when true Americans finally remove Barak and his criminal associates from the offices they now illegally hold, that will not be the end of it. Obama, most of his administration along with many in Legislature must be held to account for their violations of the Constitution as well as the laws of our country. They must be brought to justice, tried and (if) when convicted, sentenced to a term befitting any common traitor. We must see to it that this happens to show the world America belongs to true Americans and like Texas, YOU DON'T MESS WITH AMERICA.
Obama must be feeling great going back to the home country and spending 100 million dollars in the process. I guess he will be out for the fourth of July, as he doesn't like much about our past and wants to transform America into a third world un armed country. Cutting 10 military brigades and demoralizing our military is more than any enemy could do or hope for and Obama is doing it. Crushing any Christian he can within the military and where ever else he can, IE, forcing birth control and abortion on the Catholics, while exempting the Muslims, as they like Sharia law, unions and other large campaign supporters. Packing the courts while hoping for that solid 5 to 4 flip of the Supreme Court. That would be the ultimate final stake into the heart of our country. I can imagine how happy ever enemy of America when Obama opens his mouth and every executive order and other anti American action he makes. It makes me sick.
Obama traveled back to Germany thinking about his 2008 campaign speech and the 200,000 happy Germans clapping for him. Of course, the Europeans love anybody that praises them and runs down or belittles America or at least it seems that way to me. So, Obama went back to a crowd of couple of thousand invited guests. His speech, as noted by the Weekly Standard was nothing of substance and just a big talker. He rambled about getting rid of nuclear weapons, of course Russia and every enemy of the US likes the thought of a disarmed USA non super power. He said we are all citizens of the world, so kinda different from Kennedy or even Reagan, calling for the wall removal. Our current President is weak, wants a weak US and wishes the US was reduced to a member state , ( EQUASL OR LESS), to the rest of the world lead by the UN. In Obama's perfect world the Constitution, Amendments, guns, States Rights, cheap energy and anything that makes or has made America great is gone or diminished as much as possible.
It was noted in the article what Winston Churchill said about another ineffective weak British government in 1936. He is, "decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all power to be impotent"
This is a perfect description of Obama. The only things he absolute about are he does not like our Constitution or much else about pre Obamanation of America. If he gets to implement his full vision we will be very damaged weak non superpower and in total decline. I think that is his dream, punish America. Um, sounds like what the terrorist say about the US. Weird, isn't it.
Republican students at Portland State University were invaded on May 30 by Islamist students who disrupted their meeting. Confused students wondered why “progressives” and Islamists have so much in common. Answer: The culture of death has two sides - "progressivism" with its complete disdain and disregard for life at all levels – even to White House operatives wanting to see world population reduced by 80% by any means.. Radical Islam embraces death while killing infidels worthy of reward for advancing Islam and Sharia Law. Ultimately they will clash just as the Communists and Nazis of the last century.
Since this is spiritual warfare, Republicans should know that Mohammed held the Blessed Virgin Mary as the most important woman in Islam. They also believe in Jesus' virgin birth. Ultimately it is the love of God that will overcome all this nonsense. Mary, appearing as Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531 (Bing it yourself), fulfilled an ancient Aztec prophecy on the hill of Tepeyac and saved the forebears of the modern Latino from horrific human sacrifice practiced by the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. Maybe when we’re ready to admit our own failing to defend our freedoms, she’ll appear at Mecca during Hajj and launch the completion of the mystery of God’s love for all humankind made in his image and likeness.
You've been fed dreck in your education and are ill-equipped to deal with the powers of evil - even those who may innocently serve it – like MoveOn.org or Emily’s List - even militant Muslims who have tasted freedom and have been taught to hate it.
The first step is for true Liberals to separate themselves from their "progressive" masters and join Conservatives and Libertarians in creating again the balance of Constitutional rapport that made this country great. Hell, if you're not a liberal in college, you are part of a rarefied atmosphere in academia. Everyone has the opportunity to grow up. - I'm only 78 and still trying to figure it out!




