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Posted a12iggymom Blog-By America’s Survival-On July 8, 2011:

“Mr. Leal, convicted of murder during a sexual assault, had grossly incompetent legal representation. If he had been given access to a Mexican diplomat, he would have had a chance at better counsel and likely the opportunity to strike a plea deal, avoiding the death penalty.”


So said The New York Times in a June 17 editorial about convicted rapist-murderer Humberto Leal. Just before his execution, the Times quoted the Associated Press as saying, “In his last moments, Mr. Leal repeatedly said he was sorry, and shouted twice, ‘Viva Mexico!’”


What the AP reported was that he said, “I have hurt a lot of people. … I take full blame for everything. I am sorry for what I did.”

So, in other words, he was guilty as hell. But this had been proven beyond any doubt. Nevertheless, for Leal to shout this from his death-bed was extremely newsworthy and egg in the face of those in the media who had designed their coverage in a manner sympathetic to his well-deserved plight.

The Times story was headlined, “Mexican Citizen Is Executed as Justices Refuse to Step In.”

In fact, he was an illegal alien in the U.S., as the shouts of “Viva Mexico!” attest. He was executed in the U.S. not because he was here illegally, but because his crimes were committed here.

This is the killer that the Times wanted to be able to avoid the death penalty. His victim was a 16-year-old girl, Adria Sauceda. He raped and killed her, obliterating her face and head with a chunk of asphalt, and then left a large stick in her that he had used to sexually assault her.

The Obama Administration intervened to save his life, calling it a “stay of execution.” It wanted the Supreme Court to let him live at least until Congress decided to pass Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy’s bill, theConsular Notification Compliance Act. The copy of the bill on Leahy’s website didn’t even have a number, meaning that it was not a serious piece of legislation. Not even listed on the “legislation” page of Leahy’s website, it was subsequently assigned S. 1194 and has no co-sponsors.

Clearly, he introduced the bill in order to facilitate the activities of the left-wingers anxious to exploit the case for the purposes of creating a massive miscarriage of justice.

Incredibly, in a move that is even more questionable than the jury verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, the Obama Administration asked for the killer’s life to be spared so that the Supreme Court could preserve “its potential future jurisdiction” in the case. This is actually in the brief.

The Supreme Court ruled against Obama. It said that “€¦we are doubtful that it is ever appropriate to stay a lower court judgment in light of unenacted legislation. Our task is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be.”


So why would the Obama Administration go to such drastic and absurd lengths to save the life of an illegal alien killer?

The answer provided by crime blogger Tina Trent, an advocate of victims’ rights, is that Obama’s constituency demanded it. This is the part of the story the Times, The Washington Post, and other liberal media refuse to tell.

These “progressives,” many funded by George Soros as part of the “anti-incarceration” movement, believe criminals are the real victims and that international law should supersede national law.

As Trent revealed, Leal’s attorney, Sandra Babcock, has been funded by the government of Mexico and works at Northwestern University Law School with former communist terrorist Bernardine Dohrn.


Dohrn had participated in a 2003 conference, sponsored by all of the major liberal groups, on how to force U.S. courts to use international law and U.N. treaties in place of laws passed by Congress and state legislatures.

Incredibly, the bomber Dohrn, a friend of Obama’s and former fundraiser for him, is now accepted by the progressive community as an advocate for families and children and spoke on this subject at the conference. They raised a child, Chesa Boudin, whose parents, fellow members of the Weather Underground, went to prison for murder. He became a cheerleader for the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela and took Dohrn and her husband, fellow terrorist Bill Ayers, on “educational” tours of Venezuela.

The treaty at issue in the Leal case had never been implemented by the Congress.

The Obama Administration argued that the treaty should be observed because legislation to implement it might be passed by Congress, even though the Leahy bill to do so, introduced on June 14, had no co-sponsors.

This would be comical were it not so tragic. It was a fraud on the courts.

One of the participants in that conference, with Dohrn, was Harold Koh, whose name appears on the cover of the Obama brief in the Leal case. Koh is now the State Department legal adviser.

The story is not a “Mexican national” being executed in violation of a treaty that has never been implemented. That is a bad enough version of the story. The story is that the “progressive” community, with some Republican dupes, wanted to have the courts implement a treaty, in the absence of congressional action, so that international lawyers and their media allies could use Leal to press their ultimate objective €”abolition of the death penalty in the U.S.

I wrote about this campaign over 10 years ago, in a report entitled, “Saving the Lives of Killers, Traitors, and Spies.”

And yet the Supreme Court rejected this ploy only by a 5-4 vote. This is as shocking as Leal’s in-your-face acknowledgement of his crimes and tribute to Mexico.

Source:

http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/good-riddence-to-bad-and-illegal-rubbish/

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Tells Supreme Court To Stop Execution of Mexican Murderer!

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Posted on Examiner.com-By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner-On July 7, 2011:

“As per a Mexican government directive, Obama wants Texas to stop this week’s scheduled execution of 38-year-old Humberto Leal, who was convicted nearly two decades ago and has lost a myriad of appeals. Leal has lived in the U.S. illegally since he was a toddler and in 1994 kidnapped, raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio.

In a political maneuver following the receipt of the Mexican government’s “written orders,” President Barack Obama asked U.S. Supreme Court justices to halt the execution of an illegal immigrant convicted of bludgeoning, raping and murdering a teenage girl because it would do “irreparable harm” to U.S. interests abroad.

Mexico has no death penalty and refuses to extradite criminals who flee the U.S. unless prosecutors assure they won’t seek capital punishment. Over the years a number of hardcore felons—including child murderers and rapists—who would ordinarily face death in the U.S. have fled south of the border. Mexican authorities only return them if prosecutors vow not to pursue death, according to a public-interest group that fights government corruption, Judicial Watch.

As per a Mexican government directive, Obama wants Texas to stop this week’s scheduled execution of 38-year-old Humberto Leal, who was convicted nearly two decades ago and has lost a myriad of appeals. Leal has lived in the U.S. illegally since he was a toddler and in 1994 kidnapped, raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio.

“Every American should be calling the White House and complaining about this typical left-wing response to justice. Obama and his ilk have no problem killing millions of unborn babies in America, but worry about executing a man who brutally raped then murdered a 16-year old kid,” said former NYPD detective Mike Snopes.

Besides opposing capital punishment, Mexican officials claim that Leal’s rights were violated because San Antonio police failed to tell him that, as a Mexican national, he could contact Mexico’s consular officials.

“In the early hours of May 21, 1994, 16-year-old Adria Sauceda and dozens of others attended a raucous Southside house party on Vincent Street, where witnesses reported seeing a dazed Sauceda — pumped full of alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana — pulled to the backyard. There she was stripped and circled by eight or nine men, each “taking turns” on the disoriented teenager. Friends who came to her aid were told to shut up, drink, and quit spoiling the party.

Humberto Leal later abducted this already brutally savaged teenager and raped her some more before finally ending your misery by crushing in her skull with a 35 lb chunk of asphalt. When police found her dead and ravaged body on the side of the dirt road where Leal left her, there was still a large stick that had a screw protruding from it that Leal left jammed up her lifeless body after he raped her with it.”

Ironically, the San Antonio Police Department has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell mandate forbidding officers from inquiring about suspects’ immigration status. Evidently the city’s sanctuary policy, backed by Mexico because it prevents racial profiling, hurt this particular illegal immigrant.  Police did not know the suspect was an illegal alien when he was arrested.

The bottom line remains that Leal confessed and powerful DNA evidence and witness testimony proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The illegal immigrant received great legal representation and got a fair trial, according to appellate decisions upholding the conviction. In fact, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that Leal was“overwhelmingly” guilty and that a new trial would only produce the same outcome.

Yet, the United States government is bending over for our neighbor to the south and has asked the nation’s highest court to delay the execution until Congress can enact legislation to save Leal and foreign nationals like him facing death.

The magic law, obviously crafted to appease Mexico, was introduced a few weeks ago by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont Democrat Patrick “Leaky” Leahy. Leahy was dubbed “Leaky” when he had been removed from the Senate Intelligence Committee for leaking classified material regarding President Ronald Reagan’s fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

In a brief filed a few days ago by Obama’s solicitor general, the president asked the Supreme Court to stop Leal’s execution because it would cause “irreparable harm” to U.S. interest abroad and “would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international law obligation.”

This will lead to “serious repercussions for United States foreign relations, law-enforcement and other co-operation with Mexico, and the ability of American citizens traveling abroad to have the benefits of consular assistance in the event of detention,” according to the brief.

The White House filed the document and Democrats introduced legislation shortly after receiving a written mandate from Mexico. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan demanded that the“U.S. government support Mr. Leal’s request for a stay of execution in the U.S. Supreme Court.”  Sarukhan also threatens to pull his country’s commitment to the U.S.-Mexico “bilateral agenda” if Leal dies and says another execution of a Mexican national will “undoubtedly affect public opinion in Mexico.”

A few days after receiving the Mexican directive, Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder thanked Leahy in writing for his “extraordinary efforts to enact legislation” that could halt Leal’s execution and, in turn, offer an “essential legislative solution” to a bigger issue. In a three-page letter to Leahy, Clinton and Holder point out that his measure is “particularly important” to the nation’s “bilateral relationship with Mexico.”

Source:

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/stop-execution-of-mexican-murderer-obama-tells-supreme-court

II. Why Did The President Defend Torture-Killer Humberto Leal?-Posted on Crime Victims Medial Report-By Tina-On July 6, 2011:

http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=3866

III. In a Death Penalty Case, Texas Battles Mexico, Washington (and the World)!-Posted on American Thinker-By David Paulin-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/in_a_death_penalty_case_texas_battles_mexico_washington_and_the_world.html

IV. Soros meddles in courts, attempts to buy Leftwing judges!-Posted on National Examiner-By Anthony Martin-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/soros-meddles-courts-attempts-to-buy-leftwing-judges

V. New Soros Agenda: Stacking The Courts!-Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-soros-agenda-stacking-the-courts/

VI. A Preference for Discrimination!-Posted on National Review Online-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271150/hed-tk-editors

VII. A Horrible Racial Preference Ruling in Michigan!-Posted on American Thinker-By Jeffrey Folks-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/a_horrible_racial_preference_ruling_in_michigan.html

VIII. 49 Congressmen Demand Investigation Into Elena Kagan’s ObamaCare Lies!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On July 1, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/investigate-elena-kagans-obamacare-lies-49-congressmen-demand/

IX. Supreme Court: California Cannot Ban Sales of Violent Video Games to Kids!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/supreme-court-california-cannot-ban-sale

X. Have the ‘Supremes’ Gone Plumb Loco?-Posted on Canada Free Press-By Ron Ewart –On June 11, 2011:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37445#When:21:40:37Z

XI. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email

Note:  It seems to me that what we are currently witnessing are the shocking results of George Soros’s meddling with the courts and the buying-off of Left wing judges to use them as pawns to implement some of his many agendas that are meant to destroy our country from within, which are “anti-incarceration” because he believes that criminals are the real victims and that international law should supersede national law and the abolishment of judicial elections and the reshaping of America’s courts.  His deplorable agendas are meticulously outlined on the following web site and reports-You Decide:

I. Geroge Soros!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

II. The Anti-Incarceration Movement: A Crisis Not Wasted!-Posted on The Capital Research Center-By Joseph Lawler-On May 2009:

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1241118291.pdf

III. OSI’s $45MCampaign to Abolish Judicial Elections and Reshape America's Courts!-Posted on American Justice Partnership-By Colleen Pero-On September 2010:

http://www.americanjusticepartnership.com/pdf/Justice_Hijacked_Report.pdf

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Progressive group maps out President Obama’s strategy for next 2 years!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/progressive-group-maps-out-president-obama’s-strategy-for-next-2-years/

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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How Does America Break Out of the Financial Crisis?

 

I will try to explain this as succinctly as possible.  America is faced with several looming problems that are preventing our recovery and are being largely ignored.  Much of it is not revealed or pursued because there are many folks making a lot of money over it!!  They are picking your pockets!

 

The first problem is the gusher of deficit dollars going overseas whether it is for oil, manufactured goods or US military spending.  Dollars leave at a much faster pace than they come in.  The trade deficit is on the order of $540 Billion dollars annually and that does not count the Military expenditures!!  By way of comparison our total manufacturing is $1,700 Billion annually.

 

The second problem is a lack of quality jobs, due in part to the mass exodus of manufacturing overseas.  Today we manufacture a little over 10% of what we consume.  That represents one of our greatest threats to national security.  We cannot fend for ourselves.  We have to trade with overseas partners to survive.

 

Third, is the fallacy of “stimulus” spending by the Government being able to always stimulate the economy.  When it is done in the form of rebates to the people or by way of tax cuts, then there is a strong chance it will stimulate spending and move the economy forward.  When it takes the form of creation of new government jobs, it actually stifles the economy, although the new employees are spending, they are either being paid through increased taxes or increased borrowing.  The former gives folks more money to spend and leaves them feeling better about the economy with an inclination toward spending more, but the latter leaves less, for everyone who pays taxes, to spend and injects caution or fear into their spending patterns with an inclination toward tightening the purse strings further (Where we find ourselves now).

 

Fourth is the Federal Reserve’s penchant for working deals behind closed doors, for printing dollars at will and for refusing to disclose what they are doing and who they are doing it with.  I can tell you, that they have been around 98 years and during that time the dollar has devalued 98%!  Some job of protecting the currency they are doing!

 

Fifth is the “Culture of Cowardice in the Congress”!  There is a great unwillingness to take the hard votes!  That’s why we can’t reduce spending, balance the budget, slow the deficit or reform our entitlement programs.  The individual Congressmen and Senators fear their campaign donors, the lobbyists, the threat of another Wall Street manufactured financial crisis, or the idea they might be blamed for another terrorist attack if they were to trim some dollars from the defense budget more than they fear “We the People”!  The two things the founders feared the most, a standing army and a large central bank, are what have consumed and devalued a tremendous number of dollars leaving us even less secure.  Meanwhile the Pentagon and the Federal Reserve remain un-audited!! 

 

To think that spending can be reined in, the budget balanced, the deficit reduced or entitlements reformed without putting the Defense budget under scrutiny is, at best, foolhardy.  In total when you consider the entire DOD related spending which includes the Pentagon Base Budget, New construction, Veterans Administration, DOD/Military retirement benefits, Nuclear program under DOE and other DOD administrative spending it accounts for nearly a third of the current total budget and a third of the budget represents deficit spending, or borrowed money.  To say current spending levels are unsustainable is a gross understatement.

 

There is no plan before the Congress today that can succeed.  Only measures that can be fully implemented during the current session of the Congress will be of lasting benefit.  Last year one of the battle cries was for the “Repeal Amendment”, this year another is for “Cut, Cap and Balance”…problem is, it is another multi year program, again!  You remember what happened to the former, it just sort of lost steam, as probably will the current plans.  Now honestly, do any of you really believe the Congress can embark on and stick to some grand multi year program to cut spending and reduce the budget?  We need to address some of the root problems, right now.

 

You can help implement the following commonsense five-point program to get America started down the road to recovery immediately, by making sure the Congress listens to and fears, “We the People” more than they fear the special interests!  Call (877)-762-8762 or email your Congressmen and Senators today and every day until they:

 

v    Drill Here and Drill Now!  For oil, natural gas and coal.

v    Bring Manufacturing Jobs Back to America! Rein in the EPA and Gang Green!

v    Audit the Federal Reserve and stop the devaluation of the dollar!

v    Audit the DOD/Pentagon and cut wasteful and duplicative spending.

v    Immediately cut back the “stimulus” programs that grew the Federal government.

 

Only if these points are implemented and realized can plans like the Balanced Budget Amendment (which will take several years to be ratified) be able to help succeed in restoring fiscal order and security in America.  We must begin treating the ailment instead of just relieving the symptoms, to ensure our long-term fiscal health!!

 

You know in your heart no matter how hard they massage the debt and spending, they will not succeed if they don’t implement the above commonsense measures.  Ignoring these points, which can all be implemented immediately, leaves the Congress on a fool’s errand.

 

Don’t expect many to be talking about these issues.  There are only a few, like Tom Coburn, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Paul, Alan West, Michele Bachmann and Frank Wolf along with a handful of others, with the courage to speak out and sponsor appropriate legislation.  To expect much more from most of the others would be like expecting a pickpocket to say “Hold still while I lift your wallet”!

 

Take your country back and restore financial security, starting today!  “Turn Up the Heat In Washington”; bring the “Fear Factor” to Capitol Hill.  Thank you, for all you do for Liberty.

 

Tom Whitmore

Washington DC Tea Party

Copyright 2011, Thomas J. Whitmore

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Satire by John W. Lillpop


Thinking like an official of the Mexican government when it comes to illegal immigration to the U.S. requires that one abandon common sense and logic in total.

That reduced mental capacity would lead one to endorse the following immigration principles:


( ) There are NO valid borders between Mexico and the United States. In this age of progressive enlightenment, open borders reflects the new age of trust and reciprocity between the nations.

( ) Although there are no borders restricting migration from Mexico, prudence demands that the rich cultural heritage of the Mexican people be preserved.

Consequently, borders and border fences in southern Mexico are necessary to maintain our sovereignty and limit the dilution of our unique heritage by foreign interlopers.

( ) Mexico is a free and open society that welcomes diversity: We welcome the use of most dialects of Spanish in government, business, education, and medicine. Because English is the language of white racists, its use in strongly discouraged, especially around young children and the elderly.

( ) Mexican citizens unable to provide the bare necessities of life to their families have a patriotic duty to migrate to the U.S. where free welfare, housing, food, education, health care and other benefits are available.

( ) Legal migration to the United States is far too time-consuming and riddled with bureaucratic red tape for most Mexicans. Much of the paperwork is in English, which unnecessarily complicates legal migration even further.

( ) Given the fact that the U.S. immigration system is hopelessly broken, Mexicans desperately in need of
food, housing, education, and health care are urged (mandated) to sneak across the border and establish residency in one of the many Hispanic-majority cities and Sanctuary Cities that welcome undocumented refugees by the millions.

Government brochures, including detailed maps, names and phone numbers of DNC and ACLU offices, are available for free at any Mexican government office or on-line at mexinvasionofus.gov

( ) Those migrating illegally into America are advised to bring with them at least one late-term pregnant woman currently in, or about to be, in labor.

Upon delivery of a new born on American soil, or reasonably close thereto, the woman should immediately register the child as a U.S. citizen which will indemnify the entire family from deportation, and will open the door for other family members left in Mexico to migrate north.


( ) Mexicans planning to migrate illegally to United States are reminded that the U.S. is a racist, terrorist state that abuses minorities, especially brown people, with reckless abandon. When in danger, always find a local office of the Democrat Party or an ACLU office for help.

Do NOT seek help from the local police, most of whom are red-neck Tea Party bozos who foolishly believe that Arizona, Texas, California, and New Mexico are a part of the U.S. rather than Mexico.

( ) The Mexican government aggressively defends our citizens against abuse at the hands of racist, right-wing extremists. This effort is very expensive; thus, we encourage all patriotic Mexicans to send as much money back home as possible. Because most undocumented Mexicans will pay no taxes on their income, those savings should be the minimal amount sent home.

And there you have it: The Felipe Calderon welcome wagon kit for illegals headed north!
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Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of the Species in 1859, the theory of natural selection, religion’s supernatural creation of man theory has been a bone of contention. More lately, religion’s compromise to Intelligent Design is a softening stand, but not acceptable to the federal judiciary. It is not permitted to be taught in public schools.  For the most part, science disagrees with Intelligent Design.  

 

The idea that we came from monkeys is acceptable theory to roughly half of the American people, and is responsible for political division.  While I’m anti-religious, no way do I accept the silly notion that I came from monkeys.  If we came from monkeys, why are we the only species on the planet possessing reason and logic? It is just as ridiculous to say we are of supernatural creation. 

 

 In Cosmos and Psyche, from his thirty year research, Richard Tarnas determined that there is consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history. From the history of the past two thousand years, it may be determined that the world has been influenced largely by external factors, and oblivious of the internal part of us and the universe, namely the creation of heaven and earth. “And God said, Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26). The ancient sages of India said so is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm.  Therefore, do you say, the things I don’t know I’ll call supernatural, or do you say I’ll take apart the things I don’t know and examine them?  If you are religious, you take for granted the supernatural.  If you are not religious, what: Get out of my face?  This is what makes the world go around. There is a better answer, a new worldview. 

 

Religion’s theocratic notions are responsible for the current breakdown of order in the world, and for the complete course of human history, reason and logic be damned.  My philosophy has received, in four months, over 10,000 largely highly favorable comments from innovators all over the world on my Web site, www.mymiraclemessage.com. (for a cross section of response www.mymiraclemessage.com/?p=75 ) How could this be?  I’m a nobody and I know zip about promoting a Web site.  Psychologist Carl Jung called it synchronicity.  It goes with my territory. I’m Aquarius rising, a messenger for those who have come before us. In the Age of Aquarius, we are told, we become our brother’s keeper, the water-bearer spilling out the life-force, spiritual energy.

 

It is simply amazing how people blessed with reason and logic can read the scriptures and come up with notions that their interpretations leave all who don’t agree with them doomed to hellfire and damnation. Send others to hell? How ridiculous!  Blind faith is against one’s gift of reason and logic.  You don’t do unto others what you would not have them do unto you. The state of consciousness is the answer, how to get past current religious doctrines and dogmas, the big turn-off that limits conscious awareness, even turns us against our own kind. Common sense tells you this is not God’s will.  How do we get past this roadblock?

 

Again, it is simply amazing how people blessed with reason and logic can be so gullible as to believe they are entitled to the fruits of another’s labor, for instance, that they are entitled to health care, someone’s service or product.  We are entitled to the things that politicians say we are entitled to—and, we are not all entitled, only those politicians say are entitled!  Notice that the cost of whatever it is certain of us are government entitled to skyrockets in price, naturally, because the law of supply and demand doesn’t work. Government entitlements are bankrupting us and as yet nothing at all has been done about it. How do we get past that roadblock?

 

Politicians have been addressing the symptoms of the problems they created. On August 2, 2011, according to America’s Treasurer Geithner, America will default unless the President is given the $2.7 trillion he asks for, to pay the bills already there, and nothing much to cut costs.  In the first place, Geithner lies.  He has the income in tax revenue to pay the current bills.

 

Bankruptcy is my choice—simply wipe out all debts and start over with the original rules, everyone with equal opportunity and no government entitlements, the way it was when the American people had God-given rights and responsibilities. Rest assured my answer will never be government’s answer.   Government plans to reduce the national debt to a fraction of its present figure. You people who depend on yourselves will be left up a creek without a paddle.  For the good of all, government will give us hyperinflation, everyone under government control, including future generations. This would be the answer were it not for the fact that nature’s God has other plans. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.  

 

 

 

 

  

 

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By John W. Lillpop



When President Obama officially leaves office on January 20, 2013 and passes the nearly-extinguished flame of American Exceptionalism to President-elect Mitt Romney and Vice-President-elect Sarah Palin, he will leave a legacy of blaming others for his dismal performance.

Truly, Barack Obama has been the Blame Others President.

For example, Obama spent the better part of two years blaming former President George W. Bush for everything from global warming to the putrid economy to Michelle’s ongoing struggle to eat carrot sticks rather than Tacos.

Now that the W. rag doll has been battered into oblivion, Obama has been forced to dig deeper to find situations and people to blame for the putrid economy and his persistent bungling of damn near everything that he sticks his nose into.

Obama’s blame game hit new lows on July 8 when the numbers for June showed an increase in the unemployment rate to 9.2 percent.

In trying to explain the alarming news, Barack Obama blamed Greece, Japan, high gas prices, uncertainty over the debt-ceiling issue, and natural disasters across the globe.

Not once did the president mention the anti-business climate that he and his administration have deliberately created. That would include the potentially devastating impact of ObamaCare; the prospect of recovery-killing higher taxes; and a plethora of new EPA regulations sure to stifle economic growth and cost jobs.

From this reporter’s perspective, Barack Obama needs to own up to his own failings.

A good, long, hard look into a mirror might go a long way toward helping Obama identify the culprit in this era of rising unemployment, out of control spending, and exploding federal deficits.


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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken exception to Boeing building a plant in North Carolina (a right to work state).  American workers in all states should be granted the full freedom of association - which includes the freedom not to associate - in the area of union membership.  Read about it in IMPRIMIS a publication of Hillsdale College.

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp

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Posted on Examiner.com-By Tom White, Richmond Political Buzz Examiner-On July 8, 2011:

In June 1995, the Virginia Board of Education approved Standards of Learning (SOL) in four core content areas - mathematics, science, English, and history and the social sciences - and in computer technology.

In September 1997, the Board of Education established new Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia (SOA) that link statewide accountability tests to the SOL and hold students, schools, and school divisions accountable for results.

The SOL’s set the minimum standards to ensure schools adequately prepare students for the future, a worthy endeavor indeed and deemed necessary due to the inconsistency of High School Graduates across the state. While many children received first class educations that left them well prepared for college or work, other schools turned out students who were functionally illiterate and unable to compete in either academia or the job market. Virginia’s SOL’s were designed to alleviate this problem.

Unfortunately, Standards of Learning can also be used as a tool by those with a political agenda to push their particular viewpoint, and the state mandates conformity with this way of thinking. The subject area with the greatest danger of falling prey to an ideological agenda is World History. And that is exactly where the Virginia Board of Education has begun a left wing indoctrination of Virginia’s children.

This is Part One of a three part series. We will first examine how the Board of Education has twisted the Virginia SOL’s to push Islam and the virtues of the religion while all other religions, including Christianity, America’s most popular religion, are moved far to the background. This report is not a reflection or indictment of Islam, nor is it a call for greater instruction in Christianity or any other religion. It is a call for objectivity in what we teach Virginia’s young minds. Perhaps some on the left feel that Islam has unfairly been given a bad name by horrific terrorist actions around the world, and there is truth to that thought, but it is neither the mission nor the responsibility of the Virginia Board of Education to correct this perception in the schools. Their job is only to accurately teach history, nothing more.

The second part of this report examines the vilification of America through the SOL’s as aggressors and imperialists causing problems around the world.

The third and final section will examine possible remedies to restore factual teaching without a political agenda in Virginia’s schools.

It seems  that Virginia Board of Education has hijacked the Virginia Standards of Learning as a tool to indoctrinate our children in Islam to the near exclusion of Christianity and all other religions. One need look no further than the first page of the 2008 Strikethrough Version History & Social Science Curriculum Framework to see the Virginia brand of Selective Secularism exhibited.

“Selective Secularism” is the belief  that all religion except Islam must be purged from any public document. Islam is exempted from this purge for fear of offending Muslims. And Islam deserves a bit of “Affirmative Action” because of terrorist acts around the world executed in the name of Islam. There is no doubt that Muslims that are good people, and good Americans. Generalized hatred of any religion for the actions of a few is simply wrong. To be clear, the villain here is not Islam or Muslims. The villain is the Virginia Department of Education and the misguided thinking that has gone into the creation of the Virginia Standards of Learning.

The Virginia Department of Education has clearly made an effort to revise history to suit a far left agenda and promote Islam through the Virginia Standards of Learning. This type of agenda driven education is not new, but it has accelerated to the point we must put a stop to this in favor of an honest and true view of history, and not one tainted through the prism of the left wing spin we have uncovered.

The very first page of the 2008 Strikethrough Version History & Social Science Curriculum Framework sets the tone for the rest of the document. The wonderful thing about a strikethrough version is that you can easily see what the document writers were thinking when they made the changes. The first victim was Christ as A.D. was changed to C.E. (Anno Domini > Common Era). “In the Year of our Lord” is now the Common Era. And B.C. – Before Christ is now B.C.E. or Before Common Era. This is nothing more than politically correct nonsense.

And it gets worse. The SOL’s have been used to create the text books Virginia students must study in order to pass.

Pro-Islamic Discrimination in Virginia's High School History Texts:

The pro-Islamic discrimination in our public school texts favors Islam in secular schools, revises history and obscures Sharia law including treatment of non-Muslims. Students are not exposed to fundamental Islam’s goal of imposing Sharia law on all peoples and suppressing all other religions.

These examples are from Ancient World History, Holt McDougal, VA Edition, 2011,

Chapter 3 section, “Origins of Judaism”, Chapter 6 section “Early Christianity” and Chapter 10 in entirety “The Muslim World.

Favor Islam:

  • Text length: Origins of Judaism, 8 pages, Early Christianity 6 pages, The Muslim World, 22 pages.
  • Text content: Life and Teachings of Jesus, 2 pages, Life of Mohammad and Qu’ran, 5 pages
  • Online Student Research Link, Early Christianity, 3 items total on Christian catacombs, Arch of Titus, and timeline of sacred texts. [i]

Muslim World, 6 items total including Sayings of the Prophet, Complete Islamic history sources and 2 Qu’rans[ii]

Revise History:

  • Fiction in text: “Because the Qu’ran forbade forced conversion, Muslims allowed conquered peoples to follow their own religion.” p.270
  • Fact:When Pope Benedict said in Regensburg in 2006 that certain caliphs spread Islam by the sword, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia protested that the sword was only a last resort if non-Muslims refused to convert to Islam or surrender and pay the poll tax.[iii]
  • Fiction in text:“Sharia law requires Muslim leaders to extend religious tolerance to Christians and Jews.” p.268
  • Fact:In addition to paying the poll tax Jews and Christians must keep to the    side of the street, must not build as high as Muslim buildings or repair their churches, ring the bells or have public funerals. If they violate these conditions the caliph choses between death, slavery, release or ransom.[iv]
  • Half-Truth in text: regarding Sharia, “this system of law regulates the family life, moral conduct, and business and community life of Muslims.” p.268
  • Fact:   The Sharia is a complete code of life regulating relations with non-Muslims as well as Muslims, in which the earlier peaceful verses of the Qu’ran were abrogated by later verses.[v] Sharia includes the aHadeeth (words and deeds of the Prophet), such as “I have been ordered by God to fight with people till they bear testimony to the fact that there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger….)[vi]

Obscures Sharia Law:

These are but a few examples indicative of pro-Islamic discrimination throughout this text, its sequel on Modern World History, and comparable high school history texts of mainstream publishers adopted across America.  The supplemental study guides of the Virginia Department of Education re-enforce the texts instead of correcting them.

Is this the kind of disinformation our schools should be teaching?

There are serious consequences for our Constitution when Islamic fundamentalists in this country are calling for a parallel legal system or special dispensations for Muslims in public schools, workplaces, and taxpayer funded facilities.

The textbooks don’t begin to teach the whole truth about Islam.

Conflicting Meanings of Jihad:

The Earlier Peaceful Meaning Is Abrogated by the Later Aggressive Meaning

Holt McDougal Student Resources Link for Jihad:

Text Used in Mosques Across America to Train Leaders for the Next Generation

Those who believe and emigrate and strive with might and main with their wealth and their lives have the highest rank in the sight of Allah. p.170

Footnote: Strive The word Allah used in Arabic is: wa Jaahada Fee Sabeelillah – meaning: made Jihad in the path of Allah. It is incorrect  to translate the word Jihad to mean strive/striving because Jihad is a legal terminology with a specific meaning, and that is,  fighting in the path of Allah and the struggle therein. Translating the word Jihad to mean ‘Striving’ is misleading as it gives a meaning different to the intending meaning in the verse. Unfortunately, this error has become a common practice amongst the translators, so let them be careful from falling into such errors.

So, how does the quantity of information taught on Christianity and Islam differ?

See for yourself. Click here to view the required elements of Christianity. (Opens in a new window.)

And what does the Virginia Department of Education want our children to know about Islam? A couple of points, like with Christianity?

Not hardly. Click here to see what is required to pass the SOL sections on Islam. (Opens in a new window.)

Apparently, Christian Culture is not important. This is an in depth look at the history and teachings of Islam, Mohammad, the “Noble” Quran complete with a play by play of everything you ever wanted to know about Islam but were prohibited from learning in school by the United States Constitution.

And if I recall that long forgotten religion called Christianity, there was some fellow called Jesus and a book called theBible.

This gives nothing but a passing mention of Christianity and reads like a Theological study in Islam. This is absolutely shameful and unconstitutional!

Most Christians as well as Muslims would probably be far happier of the State Controlled School System simply deleted both of these sections and let the parents decide which Mosque or Church (or Temple or Synagog) their children should receive religious training.

Below are the documents where a lot of this information came from. This first one is a copy of the teacher’s workbook. Feel free to browse through and see for yourself what Virginia’s children are being asked to accept as history. 

Teacher’s Workbook - World History

And this is a copy of the 2008 Strikethrough Version History & Social Science Curriculum Framework

SOL Strilethrough Edition

[i]http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/wh_ancient_va/page_build.htm?id=resour...

[ii]http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/wh_ancient_va/page_build.htm?id=resour...

[iii] The National Observer Australia. “Islam and the dhimma pact”. Mark Durie. http://www.nationalobserver.net/2010/82_3_islam_durie.htm

[iv] Reliance of the Traveler, the Classic Manual of Sacred Islamic Law. Amana Pbl, MD, USA. o11.4 – .11, o9.14

[v] Islamic Jurisprudence.  Imran Nyazee. Islamic Research Institute, 2000. p.319

[vi] Sahih Bukhari, Vol.I, p. 13. http://answering-islam.org/BehindVeil/btv2.html

Source:

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-richmond/virginia-sol-s-push-islam-and-far-left-agenda-virginia-schools

Note: These are other articles and/or blog posts, videos and a report that reveal what our children are being taught in our classrooms regarding Islam, to include history textbooks that present an incomplete and confected view of Islam (e.g., misrepresenting its foundations and challenges to international security, etc.)-You Decide:

I. Islamic education on the rise in US!-Posted on MSNBC-By Kari Huus, Reporter-On June 15, 2011:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43331744/ns/us_news-life/t/islamic-education-rise-us-struggle-acceptance/

II. Mandatory Arabic Classes Coming To Mansfield-Posted on CBSDFW.com-On February 7, 2011:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/mandatory-arabic-classes-coming-to-mansfield/

III. School system to get Muslim holiday-Posted on Boston Globe-By Brock Parker, Globe Correspondent-On October 10, 2010:

http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/10/10/school_system_to_get_muslim_holiday/

IV. Texas Fights For Us All Against Pro-Islamic Textbooks-Posted on Right Side News-By PAUL COOPER - NEWSREALBLOG.COM-On September 25, 2010:

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010092511736/life-and-science/health-and-education/texas-fights-for-us-all-against-pro-islamic-textbooks.html

V. Texas warns book publishers: 'No more white-washing Islam'-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On September 24, 2010:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=207577

VI. 'ACLU-crafted court order criminalizes Christianity'-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On September 24, 2010:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=206561

VII. School Trip to “Moderate” Mosque: Inside Video Captures Kids Bowing to Allah-Posted on Americans for Peace & Tolerance-On September 15, 2010:

http://www.peaceandtolerance.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129:school-trip-to-moderate-mosque-inside-video-captures-kids-bowing-to-allah&catid=7:our-statements&Itemid=39

VIII. New Muslim college opens in California amid furor over proposed mosque near ground zero-Posted on FoxNews.com-By The Associated Press-On September 9, 2010:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/09/new-muslim-college-opens-california-amid-furor-proposed-mosque-near-ground-zero/

IX. HS test ‘slams’ Christianity, lauds Islam-Posted on The New York Post-By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter-On August 24, 2010:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bad_faith_in_regents_exam_IHsTi7lMbqhfdMDrnF3xYL

X. Kagan Promoted Shariah Law at Harvard-Posted on Townhall.com-By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann-On July 21, 2010:

http://townhall.com/columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2010/07/21/kagan_promoted_shariah_law_at_harvard/print?showfull=true

XI. Islamic Indoctrination vs. Education-Posted on FrontPageMag.Com-By Nonie Darwish-On February 18, 2010:

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/18/islamic-indoctrination-vs-education/

XII. US Textbooks: Muslims Discovered America-Posted on YouTube.com-By 1001Phoenix-On July 25, 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6bARRmEpH8

XIII. Islam in The Classroom: What The Textbooks Tell Us-Posted on HistoryTextbooks.org-By GILBERT T. SEWALL-2008:

http://www.historytextbooks.org/islamreport.pdf

XIV. Muslim religion taught under guise of history: 'Students perform skits about the tenets of Islam belief'-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On September 20, 2007:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=43621

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Is Shariah Law A Danger To Our U.S. National Security?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/is-shariah-law-a-danger-to-u-s-national-security/

What do American Citizens Know About “Sharia Law” and is It Something That We Should Know More About?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/what-do-american-citizens-know-about-“sharia-law”-and-is-it-something-that-we-should-know-more-about/

Should Americans Fear Islam?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/should-americans-fear-islam/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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AG Eric Holder lies to Congress’
Oversight Chairman Issa in
Covering-up DOJ Gun Gaffes
 
 
 
          Whether you’re talking about the debt-ceiling “debate” or Eric Holder’s refusal to cooperate with the House Oversight Committee investigation, we’re beginning to detect a pattern here . . .  the Obama administration believes that obfuscation and spin will win!  We'll soon find out if that's true for the economy and for deliberately seeking to undermine the 2nd Amendment . . . .
According to Rajjpuut’s unofficial count:  42 times in the last two weeks, President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, and various other progressive Democrats resorted to the phrase “shared sacrifice” in discussing their attempts to raise the ceiling on the national debt, increase government spending, and expand the size of government. In all 42 out of those 42 occasions the very next words next escaping from the other side of the orators’ mouths were condemnations of the Republicans in Congress, especially those controlling the House of Representatives, for seeking to get fat “on the backs of the middle class.” In addition, Obama also said that it was the public’s worry that the debt-ceiling would NOT be increased that was causing uncertainty in the business community thus hampering hiring and contributing to last month’s rise from 9.1% to 9.2% unemployment in the nation which occurred despite 250,000 job applicants quitting the hunt for work and no longer being counted as “unemployed.” Meanwhile only 18,000 new jobs were created in June while the job numbers from April and May were revised downward 44,000 jobs.
The last claim by the President is absolutely shocking in its disregard for the truth. YES, the business community as a whole and small business owners (the segment of society most commonly attributed for creating new jobs) in particular have certainly spoken repeatedly about uncertainty . . . but it is their uncertainty with regard to Obamacare; new government regulations; energy cost; and more than anything else government spending and government interference in the businessman’s life that has caused them to keep their investment funds on the sidelines. In other words, it is Obama’s policies which are creating the uncertainty (and certainly NOT the Republicans’ attempts to slash government spending, reduce the national debt and dramatically shrink the size and scope of the federal government. The President’s fast-and-loose treatment of the truth, however, only earns second place in the BS Sweepstakes for early July.
By far the most shameless spinning going on right now is that of Attorney General Eric Holder and other spokesmen within his “Justice” Department. First of all, it is now a certainty that Eric Holder has lied under oath when discussing “Operation Fast and Furious” as to when he first learned of and how much he knew about this seemingly rogue operation that deliberately put American weapons in the hands of Mexican drug-cartel operatives and cost at least two American immigration officers their lives as well as potentially the lives of hundreds of Mexican citizens as thousands of American weapons were deliberately sold to drug cartel operatives and then allowed to flow across the southern border into Mexico. Ordinary internet viewers were already reading of the DOJ’s improprieties at least a full seven weeks prior to the time which Holder has stated in sworn testimony to Darryl Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee that he first learned of problems with Fast and Furious.
While pledging openness and cooperation with the Oversight Committee, Holder and his department have submitted countless filings of obstructions to the scope of the investigation. Even when a DOJ paper is turned over to Issa’s committee it is virtually completely blacked out except for the DOJ heading and words like “the,” “and,” “a,” “of” and “an.”  While otherwise claiming privileged communications within the DOJ could not be examined. The seriousness of this matter can be calculated by this simple fact: instead of only the stalwart FOXNEWS organization and New York Post reporting on the issue, just this week (after two months!) even CNN has also begun to cover the story.
This much is certain: Both the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation deliberately left the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in the dark as to virtually every aspect of Operation Fast and Furious which was known within the ATF as “Project Gunrunner.” Throughout the life of the ill-conceived sting operation, ATF was spinning its wheels investigating people and events that the DOJ and FBI already knew everything about. Meanwhile the DOJ saw to it that American weapons were put into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels and then allowed those weapons to drop off the information grid. Two of those weapons are implicated in the deaths of the two Immigration officers.
While Holder and other bigwigs in the FBI, DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Attorney’s Office (who conducted all sorts of wire taps that the ATF was never allowed to know about) and even the Drug Enforcement Agency have been zipping lips and pointing shaking fingers at ATF acting director, Kenneth Melson as their hoped for scapegoat; truth has nevertheless begun to pour out. Melson and virtually the entire ATF have been forthrightly providing Issa’s committee with truckloads of information including documents that reveal the ATF’s initial and ongoing reservation for the wisdom of the DOJ initiated operation. Obama and Holder are pressuring Melson to resign and take the fall for the botched operation which Holder appears to have created.
The skeleton of what is now conclusively known points at Holder’s DOJ as plotting to create an embarrassment for the nation’s 2nd Amendment enthusiasts by creating scenarios implying that their shortfalls and enthusiasm for selling and buying weapons were behind much of the Mexican drug cartel armaments. However, rather than legal and normal gun sales leading to better armed drug lords, it is up to now only certain that the DOJ’s interference (while using the ATF as an unknowing stooge) has put guns into the hands of these lawless criminals. Holder is meanwhile doing everything he can to point at Melson and even DOJ underlings as the root cause of the fiasco.
In a letter to Holder released yesterday, Oversight Chairman Rep. Daryl Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley accused the Justice Department of blocking their investigation into the burgeoning scandal (which has resulted in the deaths of at least two American agents and countless Mexican civilians), muzzling the ATF and involving other federal agencies, including the FBI and the DEA, in funding the crackpot scheme.
"The evidence we have gathered raises the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons, but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in such activities," said Issa and Grassley in the letter.   
"It is one thing to argue that the ends justify the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns. Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congressthe possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify."  The following five paragraphs are courtesy of the New York Post article linked above:
Issa and Grassley note in their letter, that had the other agencies shared information with the ATF, "then ATF might have known that gun trafficking 'higher-ups' had already been identified."   Since the identities of the Mexican criminals were known to the feds, precisely what was the point of Project Gunrunner -- and why is Holder so desperately trying to stonewall by withholding hundreds of documents from Congress?
Law-abiding gun owners and dealers think they already know. With the Obama administration wedded to the fiction that 90 percent of the guns Mexican cartels use originate here in the United States -- which they do not -- many suspect that "Fast and Furious" was a backdoor attempt to smear domestic gun aficionados as part of its stealth efforts on gun controlby executive (Presidential) fiat.  "I just want you to know that we're working on it," Obama was quoted as saying to gun-control advocate Sarah Brady in a March speech. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."  Unfortunately for the administration, this one's out in the open now.
Melson testified behind closed doors on July 4, but the country needs to hear him speak -- loudly and publicly. "Let me be clear," Issa wrote to Melson in April, "we are not conducting a concurrent investigation with the Department of Justice, but rather an independent investigation of the Department of Justice."  Exactly. Because this one's not just a domestic issue. A Mexican senator, Rene Arce Islas, told Fox News that he believes whoever is responsible for the monumental, lethal screw-up should be tried not only in America but in Mexico, too.
That's not going to happen, of course. Even if any prominent American officials are implicated, there is zero chance they'd have to face Mexican justice.  But Issa's charge that Holder & Co. are obstructing a congressional investigation is serious. Not even the Justice Department is above the law.
The best way to disinfect the putrid mess that is Operation Fast and Furious is to expose it to sunlight. Let's hear what the attorney general and others have to say in open hearings.  Because somebody's got some "splainin' " to do -- fast, before the American people get furious.
Eric Holder’s involvement is no longer in doubt, if he wasn’t aware of “Fast and Furious” he’s an incompetent and should lose his job; if he was aware (which all signs clearly point to now), he’s stepped way over the line from malfeasance into deep, deep corruption by now unabashedly heading up the cover-up . . . the real questions, given the quote from Obama’s speeches to anti-gun functions are these: How much does Barack know? When did he first learn it? Did he authorize “Fast and Furious” himself?
            It now appears that Obama himself spearheaded this operation. We say that because the Obama administration is choosing to spin the screwed-up “Fast and Furious” results as indications of the need to institute anti-2nd Amendment measures immediately by Presidential fiat. This latest power-grab by the administration is being euphemistically called “new gun safety measures” and will be implemented by Eric Holder’s Justice Department without Congressional input. Presidential press secretary Jay Carney announced today that the “new steps will be made public in the near future.” 
Looking for a sweeping net of proposed benefit, Carney said the purpose of the new laws will be to “prevent another Tucson.” Anti-gun zealots are refusing to notice that incompetent law enforcement by the Tucson Sheriff Dupnik (the one calling within minutes of the shooting for condemnation of the “haters” and implying that the haters included talk radio and FOXNews). Of course, the leftist enthusiast perpetrator Jared Loughner is criminally insane and had dozens of contact situations with the congresswoman he shot (as well as 18 other people including the six who were killed. Dupnik ignored several prior complaints about Loughner including at Loughner’s university.
Carney and others are tying “Project Gunrunner” to the Bush administration. This is false. Gunrunner was a Bush sting on illegal gun purchases wherein the guns were sold and the illegal recipients were immediately arrested in the United States.  Holder deliberately allowed the ATF to believe that Project Gunrunner was just being continued with a new emphasis. As soon as savvy ATF agents on the ground figured out what was going on (no arrests but just following the guns into Mexico?) they were alarmed and protested loud and long . . . several of these whistle-blowers have lost their jobs already. The brilliance of the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” is that the guns are now forever lost unless they are found later at crime scenes. Told you it was brilliant!
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
 
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Posted on National Review Online-By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER-On July 8, 2011:

Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road, and get serious about debt.

This from the man who:

  • Ignored the debt problem for two years by kicking the can to a commission.
 
  • Promptly ignored the commission’s December 2010 report.
 
  • Delivered a State of the Union address in January that didn’t even mention the debt until 35 minutes in.
 
  • Delivered in February a budget so embarrassing — it actually increased the deficit — that the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it 97–0.
 
  • Took a budget mulligan with his April 13 debt-plan speech. Asked in Congress how this new “budget framework” would affect the actual federal budget, Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf replied with a devastating “We don’t estimate speeches.” You can’t assign numbers to air. 

President Obama assailed the lesser mortals who inhabit Congress for not having seriously dealt with a problem he had not dealt with at all, then scolded Congress for being even less responsible than his own children. They apparently get their homework done on time.

My compliments. But the Republican House did do its homework. It’s called a budget. It passed the House on April 15. The Democratic Senate has produced no budget. Not just this year, but for two years running. As for the schoolmaster-in-chief, he produced two 2012 budget facsimiles: The first (February) was a farce and the second (April) was empty, dismissed by the CBO as nothing but words untethered to real numbers.

Obama has run disastrous annual deficits of around $1.5 trillion while insisting for months on a “clean” debt-ceiling increase, (i.e. with no budget cuts at all). Yet suddenly he now rises to champion major long-term debt reduction, scorning any suggestions of a short-term debt-limit deal as can-kicking.

The flip-flop is transparently political. A short-term deal means another debt-ceiling fight before Election Day, a debate that would put Obama on the defensive and distract from the Mediscare campaign to which the Democrats are clinging to save them in 2012.

A clever strategy it is: Do nothing (see above); invite the Republicans to propose real debt reduction first; and when they do — voting for the Ryan budget and its now infamous and courageous Medicare reform — demagogue them to death.

And then up the ante by demanding Republican agreement to tax increases. So: First you get the GOP to seize the Left’s third rail by daring to lay a finger on entitlements. Then you demand the GOP seize the Right’s third rail by violating its no-tax pledge. A full-spectrum electrocution. Brilliant.

And what have been Obama’s own debt-reduction ideas? In last week’s news conference, he railed against the tax break for corporate-jet owners — six times.

I did the math. If you collect that tax for the next 5,000 years — that is not a typo — it would equal the new debt Obama racked up last year alone. To put it another way, if we had levied this tax at the time of John the Baptist and collected it every year since — first in shekels, then in dollars — we would have 500 years to go before we could offset half of the debt added by Obama last year alone.

Obama’s other favorite debt-reduction refrain is canceling an oil-company tax break. Well, if you collect that oil tax and the corporate-jet tax for the next 50 years, you will not yet have offset Obama’s deficit spending for February 2011.

After his Thursday meeting with bipartisan congressional leadership, Obama adopted yet another persona: Cynic-in-chief became compromiser-in-chief. Highly placed leaks are portraying him as heroically prepared to offer Social Security and Medicare cuts.

We shall see. It’s no mystery what is needed. First, entitlement reform that changes the inflation measure, introduces means testing, then syncs the (lower) Medicare eligibility age with Social Security’s and indexes them both to longevity. And second, real tax reform, both corporate and individual, that eliminates myriad loopholes in return for lower tax rates for everyone.

That’s real debt reduction. Yet even now, we don’t know where the president stands on any of this. Until we do, I’ll follow the Elmendorf Rule: We don’t estimate leaks. Let’s see if Obama can suspend his 2012 electioneering long enough to keep the economy from going over the debt cliff.

Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2011 the Washington Post Writers Group.”

Source:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271344/elmendorf-rule-charles-krauthammer

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Expects Political Pain on All Sides in Debt Deal!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-expects-political-pain-all-sides-d

II. An Economy in Panic!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On July 8, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/08/morning-bell-an-economy-in-panic/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

III. Business Replies to Obama!-Posted on National Review Online-By Victor Davis Hanson-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/271395/business-replies-obama-victor-davis-hanson

IV. Jobs Figure Devastating for Obama!-Posted on NewsMax.com.com-By Martin Gould-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/barackobama-Ericcantor-johnboehner-economy/2011/07/08/id/402921?s=al&promo_code=C93B-1

V. Constitutional Nonsense on Debt!-Posted on National Review Online-By JOHN BERLAU-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271329/constitutional-nonsense-debt-john-berlau

VI. The Left’s Desperate, Devious and Dangerous 14th Amendment Ploy!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Ernest Istook-On July 6, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/06/the-lefts-desperate-devious-and-dangerous-14th-amendment-ploy/

VII. Ryan Tweets Challenge to Obama: Debate Me on Debt Crisis!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Eric Scheiner-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ryan-tweets-debate-challenge-obama

VIII. Obama Considers Cutting Social Security Full Payment!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Bloomberg News-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/social-security-cuts-inflation/2011/07/07/id/402875?s=al&promo_code=C93B-1

IX. Buffett: Congress Playing Russian Roulette With Debt Ceiling!-Posted on Money News-By Forrest Jones-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Buffett-Congress-Playing-Russian/2011/07/07/id/402798?s=al&promo_code=C93B-1

X. Obama Handicaps Detroit!-Posted on National Review Online-By Henry Payne-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/271339/obama-handicaps-detroit-henry-payne

XI. Car Czar: ‘I Did It All For The Unions’?-Posted on The Blaze-By Buck Sexton-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/car-czar-i-did-it-all-for-the-unions/

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

ACORN-The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)-Automaker Labor Unions!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/acorn-the-community-reinvestment-act-cra-automaker-labor-unions/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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God Shed His Grace on Thee!

Posted on National Review Online-By Mark Krikorian-On July 6, 2011:

I know this is a little late for the Fourth of July, but after the celebration and fireworks I think a little humility is in order. I generally agree with Walter Russell Mead’s weekend piece that we’re in good shape to face the future compared to the rest of the world, but that’s a pretty low bar, considering how screwed up much of the rest of the world is. But for all of our nation’s genuine exceptionalism, we’ve gotten ourselves into ourselves into some pretty unexceptional hot water: spending more than we take in, failing to provide for the future soundness of our public and private institutions, wallowing in a hedonistic and degenerate culture.

This is why I love America the Beautiful and agree with those campaigning to make it our national anthem, undoing the New Deal selection of “The Star Spangled Banner”.  I have nothing against our current anthem, but the patriotism of “America the Beautiful” is more fitting for a republic in general, and our republic at this time in particular. I’m not talking about the war vs. nature themes of the two songs — like any conservative, I believe that war is the answer sometimes, depending on the question (though the War of 1812 we probably could have done without).

Rather, the song’s appeal is that it’s a prayer for God’s assistance, rather than simply a celebration of our wonderfulness. People often misinterpret the lyrics; when the first verse reads “God shed His grace on thee,” that’s not a statement of fact, as Ray Charles’s wonderful rendition implies (he improvises “God done shed His grace on thee, yes He did”), reflecting the understanding of most Americans. Rather, it’s a petition, an appeal, a hope: “May God shed His grace in thee.” It’s not “crowned thy good with brotherhood” but “may He crown thy good with brotherhood,” continuing the prayer for the solicitude of the Creator.

I think part of the reason we don’t get that, apart from the sin of pride, is that we don’t usually sing the other verses, which end in similar entreaties for the Almighty’s assistance: “God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!” and “May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine!” There’s no claim that the Lord has already mended our every flaw or refined our gold or shed His grace, but that we need His help in doing so.

It is especially important for the people of a republic, who have no king in this world, to acknowledge the Author of Liberty, as another fine song puts it. But at a time when we need all the mending and refining and grace we can get, an anthem that focuses our attention on that is all the more important.”

Source:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/271156/god-shed-his-grace-thee-mark-krikorian

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this issue-You Decide:

I. Obama Wants to Cut God Out of Government!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On July 6, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/obama-wants-to-cut-god-out-of-government/

II. Religious Censorship at Public Cemetery?-Posted on The Patriot Update-On July 4, 2011:

http://patriotupdate.com/videos/religious-censorship-at-public-cemetery

III. Forgetting Founders’ tough love!-Posted on The New York Post-By Michael Goodwin-Updated on July 3, 2011:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/forgetting_founders_tough_love_wOLf1lt9EE7IV3WfYkqWIM

IV. MSNBC’s Religious Expert Excoriates ‘Radical,’ ‘Theocratic’ Christians Who ‘Hate’ America!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Scott Whitlock-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110706051327.aspx

V. Citizens Against Religious Bigotry Stand up to NBC for Removing Under God from our Pledge of Allegiance!-Posted on Citizens Against Bigotry-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.citizensagainstreligiousbigotry.org/

VI. Gallup: Blacks Most Religious Group in U.S.!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Pete Winn-On July 6, 2011:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-polls-blacks-most-religious-group

VII. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email

Note:  The following articles and/or blog posts reveal that George Soros has a pastor close to President Obama on his payroll, along with exposing the President, Soros and the Religious Left-You Decide:

Soros Has a Pastor Close to Obama On His Payroll!-Posted on American Thinker-By Ed Lasky-On August 25, 2010:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/soros_has_a_pastor_close_to_ob.html

Barack Obama, George Soros and the Religious Left!-Posted on American Thinker-By Jason Lee-On June 12, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/barack_obama_george_soros_and_the_religious_left.html

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Faith of Our Forefathers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

American Flag Clothing Sparks New Protest!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/american-flag-clothing-sparks-new-protest/

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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West Calls For Eric Holder's Removal!

Posted on WND.com-By Michael Carl-On July 8, 2011:

A new member of Congress who rode into office during the 2010 American rejection of Washington’s business-as-usual practice today said that a special prosecutor needs to review the actions of Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the “Fast and Furious” gun scandal where weapons were sold to carriers known to supply Mexican drug lords, and the circumstances make it appear that President Obama could have dirty hands in the deal.

During an appearance on the Steve Gill Show, U.S. Rep. Allen West said the roads that appear to lead to those responsible for the botched program that was supposed to trace guns to high-ranking drug lords are alarming.

“This is just another sad chapter in the Eric Holder book of ineptness and incompetence,” West said. “Eric Holder needs to be brought before an investigative committee and if those charges are warranted he needs to be held accountable.

“At least the president needs to realize that Eric Holder needs to be removed from the Department of Justice … or else it appears President Obama is complicit and in approval of the actions of his attorney general,” he said.

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West’s comments came in the wake of word from Acting Director Kenneth Melson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the DOJ blocked him and other senior agency officials from cooperating with members of Congress who were investigating the scandal.

West, R-Fla., said the solution is an independent special prosecutor who would be assigned to look into the roles of top DOJ officials, such as Holder, regarding the “Fast and Furious” gun-running scheme.

“If all roads lead to him as far as obstructing justice, then we’ve got to have that special investigation,” West said.

Those revelations by Melson are fueling the outrage among members of Congress who have had concerns about the situation, especially because it appears at least one of the weapons dispatched by the federal government to a drug gang was used in an attack that killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Officials with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have been looking into the circumstances, but were tight-lipped today in light of the new developments.

“I can say that this is an ongoing investigation and that when details become available, Mr. [Darrell] Issa [Republican from California] will make them public,” the committee’s press office explained.

It was in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder that Committee Chairman Issa and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said after Melson’s Monday testimony, they were disturbed to learn that guns may have been taken across the border by known criminals and that they’re determined to learn more.

“The evidence we have gathered raises the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in such activities. While this is preliminary information, we must find out if there is any truth to it,” Issa and Grassley wrote.

The letter also said that Melson only learned about the charge of criminals carrying the guns to Mexico after the fact.

“According to Acting Director Melson, he became aware of this startling possibility only after the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the indictments of the straw purchasers, which we now know were substantially delayed by the U.S.,” Issa and Grassley wrote.

Firearms law analyst and writer David Codrea believes that even if there is evidence to prove that known criminals took the guns to Mexico with taxpayer money, nothing is likely to be done with the evidence.

“If left to Holder’s Justice Department, nothing, because it shows this had to be top-level DoJ-authorized. That’s probably a question for Issa’s office, although I doubt they’d be inclined to respond and we’ll need to see how things play out with them as further hearings are held,” Codrea said.

According the committee report, other federal agencies have also been drawn into the operation. The DEA, FBI and upper-level DOJ officers, including the U. S. attorney’s office in Phoenix have been named.

The Issa-Grassley letter also says Melson was surprised about the depth of the operation

Once the Fast and Furious operation was made public, several agents and supervisors were reassigned from the Phoenix office. Melson allegedly made the reassignments but was told by DOJ officials not to report the reassignments to Issa’s committee.

Spokeswoman Becca Watkins of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said there was pressure being applied.

“He [Melson] didn’t say anything to the committee because the ATF operates under the DOJ,” Watkins said.

Codrea said the explanation for Melson’s silence is something the DOJ will have to tell under oath, but he has his own suspicion.

“That is a question for DOJ officials – under oath. My sense is because any shared information provides another thread to pull, and they don’t want the fabric to unravel, so they’re keeping a lid on all information and only providing bare minimal responses that have been carefully vetted for damage control,” Codrea said.

There is also speculation about whether Melson will resign, something that Issa and Grassley address in their letter to Holder.

“In the last few weeks, unnamed administration officials have indicated to the press that Acting Director Melson would be forced to resign. According to Mr. Melson, those initial reports were untrue. Regardless of what we might have thought before about how he should handle a request to resign, we now know he has not been asked to resign,” the letter stated.

“We also now have the benefit of hearing his side of the story and will have a chance to examine what he said and compare it to the other evidence we are gathering. However, that will take some time,” the letter added.

The Issa-Grassley letter asserts that Melson is being pressured to leave, even though Melson knew that the appointment was supposed to be temporary.

“In 2009, he said he was asked to take over as acting director of the ATF. Acting director of the ATF is by its nature a temporary job. According to Mr. Melson, he was willing to serve the department with the understanding that after a short tenure as acting director, he would return to a position as a career senior executive elsewhere within the department,” the letter read.

“However, two days after he told Acting Deputy Attorney General Cole about serious issues involving lack of information sharing, the Wall Street Journal reported that unnamed sources said that Melson was about to be ousted,” the letter added.

Codrea agrees with that assessment and says the administration has a political motive.

“They wanted him to go quietly and they’d get their preferred anti-gun advocate Andrew Traver to bring the Chicago Way to the Bureau – either as acting or through a recess appointment as he’s already pretty much been rejected through normal channels,” Codrea said.

Melson’s admissions were made public in a “Tweet” posted by Issa on his Twitter account.

The Tweet said, ATF Acting Director Melson spilling the beans to Darrell Issa! Issa Tweet! Darrell Issa 

#AskObama: who is right on #fastandfurious: Eric Holder or #ATF Dir.Melson, whom we just interviewed? INFO:http://1.usa.gov/pvqXJQ #2nd.
PDF File letter by Issa & Grassley http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Letters...”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=319861

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I. Issa Says He Doesn’t Believe Holder’s Testimony Was Accurate!

Posted on CNSNews.com-By Fred Lucas-On July 7, 2011:

(CNSNews.com) - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) says he does not believe Attorney General Eric Holder gave accurate testimony when Issa questioned him in the House Judiciary Committee on May 3.

In that testimony, Holder told the Judiciary Committee he had “probably” heard only in the “last few weeks” about the Justice Department’s “Operation Fast and Furious.” Issa told CNSNews.com he is convinced—“absolutely”—that Holder knew about the operation earlier than he claimed.

Operation Fast and Furious, begun in 2009, purposefully allowed known and suspected smugglers to purchase weapons at licensed gun dealers in the United States—sometimes while under active surveillance by U.S. law enforcement—and then allowed the smugglers to get away with the weapons, in some cases delivering them, as the government expected, to Mexican drug cartels. Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were specifically ordered not to stop the purchases, not to intercept the smugglers after they made the purchases, and not to retrieve the weapons.

The purpose of the operation was to let the Justice Department trace the movement of the guns and uncover the full structure of the gun-smuggling operations.

However, on Dec. 14, 2010, two rifles sold to one of the smugglers that the Justice Department had allowed to buy guns turned up at the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Within 24 hours of Terry’s murder, according to an internal ATF email released by Issa, the FBI had definitively traced the rifles found at the murder scene back to Operation Fast and Furious and had so notified ATF.

Six weeks later, on Jan. 27, 2011, Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa) wrote a letter to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson asking him to explain Operation Fast and Furious in light of the weapons found at the scene of Terry’s murder. Five days after that, on Feb. 1, 2011, the story of Operation Fast and Furious broke in the press—with multiple reports referencing Grassley’s letter to Melson. By Feb. 3, 2011, the operation, its link to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Terry, and Grassley’s inquiry to the ATF about it, had been reported in USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press.

Yet, three full months after these public news reports, at a May 3 Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Holder, under questioning by Issa, testified that he had “probably” only learned about Operation Fast and Furious in “the last few weeks.”

“We believe that he was aware of it much earlier than he said in his testimony and questioning before the Judiciary Committee,” Issa told CNSNews.com in an interview.

“Are we confident that Eric Holder knew it much earlier? No,” said Issa. “Did he know it earlier than he testified? Absolutely.”

At the May 3 Judiciary Committee hearing, Issa asked Holder: “When did you first know about the program officially, I believe, called Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge, what date?”

Holder responded: “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

To watch Issa question Holder at the May 3 Judiciary Committee hearing click the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkaRU9EoVM&feature=player_embedded

The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines “few” as “a small number of units” and “week” as “any of a series of 7-day cycles used in various calendars.” By contrast, Merriam Webster defines a “month” as “approximately 4 weeks or 30 days.”

While Holder told the Judiciary Committee he had “probably” heard about Fast and Furious” a “few weeks” before May 3, readers of the Washington Post heard about it a few months before that, on  Feb. 2, when the Post ran a page-4 story that referred to “Fast and Furious” three times by name in describing how guns sold to a smuggler during the operation ended up at the scene of Border Agent Brian Terry’s murder.

“Two AK-47 assault rifles purchased by a man later arrested in a federal gunrunning investigation turned up at the scene of a fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in December, according to sources familiar with the investigation,” said the lead of the Feb. 2 Washington Post story.

“Whistleblowers who have contacted a U.S. senator allege that federal agents allowed guns, including the AK-47s, to be sold to suspected straw buyers who transported the weapons throughout the region and into Mexico,” reported the Post.

CNSNews.com asked Issa, “If DOJ officials have lied to Congress, would there be a possibility of perjury or contempt charges?”  Issa responded, “Certainly if you lie to Congress, that’s a possibility. One of the oddities, if you lie to Congress, we’d refer to Justice for prosecution.”

The Feb. 2 Washington Post story was hardly the only piece of evidence that would have alerted people in the Justice Department to Operation Fast and Furious more than “a few weeks” prior to Attorney General Holder’s May 3 Judiciary Committee testimony.

Melson met with staff investigators of the House oversight and Senate Judiciary committees with his personal attorney present instead of Justice Department attorneys present. According to a July 5 letter from Grassley and Issa to Holder, “Acting Director Melson’s cooperation was extremely helpful to our investigation. He claimed that ATF’s senior leadership would have preferred to be more cooperative with our inquiry much earlier in the process. However, he said that Justice Department officials directed them not to respond and took full control of replying to briefing and document requests from Congress. The result is that Congress only got the parts of the story that the (Justice) Department wanted us to hear.”

Source:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/issa-says-he-doesn-t-believe-holder-s-te

II. Is this why White House funded 'guns-to-drug-lords' scheme?-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 10, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=320809

III. Video: ‘Fast And Furious’ Smoking Gun!-Posted on The Blaze-On July 11, 2011:

http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/11/flashback-video-obama-directly-linked-project-gunrunner

IV. Gun-Running Timeline: How DOJ’s ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Unfolded!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Fred Lucas-On July 7, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/gun-running-timeline-how-doj-s-operation

V. ATF Chief: Justice Dept. Blocking Mexico Gun Probe!-Posted on FoxNews.com-By William Lajeunesse-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/06/justice-department-obstructing-fast-and-furious-gun-probe-atf-director-says/

VI. Whistleblower Testifies Obama Obstructed Fast and Furious Investigation!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On July 6, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/whistleblower-testifies-obama-obstructed-fast-and-furious-investigation/

VII. DOJ 'Distorted Truth and Obstructed Our Investigation' in Guns-to-Mexico Probe, Lawmakers Say!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/justice-dept-may-have-obstructed-our-inv

VIII. Furious: The Obama Regime Gave 2,000 Guns to Mexican Drug Lords!-Posted on Conservative Byte-On July 8, 2011:

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/07/furious-the-obama-regime-gave-2000-guns-to-mexican-drug-lords/

IX. “Fast And Furious”: BATFE Director Starts Talking, While Washington Post Keeps Spinning!-Posted on NRA-ILA-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=6983

X. Obama Administration Not Enforcing Gun Laws, Rep. Issa Says!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-administration-not-enforcing-gun-l

XI. Obama Expected to Boost ‘Gun Safety’ by Executive Order!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press-On July 8, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-expected-boost-gun-safety-executiv

XII. The Future of Obama’s Stealth Gun Control!-Posted on Pajamas Media-By Mike McDaniel-On July 6, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-future-of-obamas-stealth-gun-control/

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Did ATF provide weapons to Mexican drug cartels that were subsequently used to kill one of our own?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/did-atf-provide-weapons-to-mexican-drug-cartels-that-were-subsequently-used-to-kill-one-of-our-own/

What is the true intent of the UN Small Arms Treaty?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/what-is-the-true-intent-of-the-un-small-arms-treaty/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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The Law of Oblivion

I attempted to link the last responder to My Miracle Message to my latest blog. A glitch occurred. My Miracle Message and all 263 comments disappeared in a black hole.  Weird!

 

After writing My Miracle Message last February, I bought my own domain from Bluehost and named it mymiraclemessage.com. I was given a choice of format providers. I picked WordPress and entered My Miracle Message to my Web site.  Much to my surprise, it soon attracted an audience and comments.  My audience referred My Miracle Message  and other blogs I posted to their friends, associates, twitter, etc. In short order, www.mymiraclemessage.com was attracting so many comments I couldn’t read them all.

 

I know nothing about managing and promoting a Web site.  The monthly cost is $12.95 to place my blogs before the world.  If one has good logic to offer, one-on-one communication is an extremely powerful force.  You don’t need to hire a pro.  No telling how many people are being exposed to this nobody’s logic.  It’s like a pandemic of new thinking. What a change!   

 

Fortunately, my domain provider. Bluehost, found My Miracle Message for me.  No telling how it got there. It was in my WordPress trash file.  Had the blog not been found, however, all of my blogs link to my original blog. There is that distinction. The Law of Oblivion would not have applied. Not so with U.S. Code.  For the past 75 years, the interpretations of the U. S. Constitution have not linked whatsoever with the original Constitution. The ship of state left its constitutional course when the Roosevelt Administration added a government duty, during the Great Depression, to “help out” the individual. Property became the means to Roosevelt’s end—government dependence for the good of all. The means was justified by the end, thus leaving a downward spiral of personal responsibility and self-reliance at the expense of the taxpayers.  I was a self-employed taxpayer, and as such not eligible for government entitlements. I couldn’t pay my rent and was locked out.  When the French people couldn’t afford bread, Marie said, “Let them eat cake.”   For the good of all, as far as the government is concerned, the individual counts for naught.

 

Roosevelt’s New Deal Law was manna from heaven for politicians and the less ambitious.  Nice work if you can get it, this, the most outrageous fraud in the history of man. “Take from the rich and give to the poor” led to the present situation, a $14.3 trillion national debt (that’s a sickening 50 grand debt for every man, woman and child in America), high unemployment, a third more spending than federal income, two-thirds of the spending on government entitlements, a divided nation, and more than half of the American people in one way or another dependent on government. Where have the American people been?   Most Americans don’t want to look at reality. They prefer to live in the hope that things will work out. Don’t they always?  Take the Holocaust. Hope did not work.

 

America’s intelligentsia has the philosophy that nothing is factual that either does not meet certain mathematical standards or that otherwise has verifiable consequences.  This academic approach—the Roosevelt and Fabian Socialist approach—placed the cart before the horse. I’m sorry to say, folks, this time things are not going to work out for you.  

 

Natural law and nature’s God created a being possessing reason and logic.  Reason and logic dominated the English common law. The English common law applied in the writing of the U. S. Constitution. Then came Roosevelt’s duty to the people. The American people bought it. Now, Unfortunately, realistically looking at the facts, the election of 2012 will see officials in charge of a bankrupt nation. The mass of less ambitious government pawns say nay to capitalism. In the last quarter, Obama raised $80 million in campaign funds.  He’s going for a billion dollar campaign and none of the money will be spent in a primary.  Actually, the answer appears to be another banana republic.  

 

My Miracle Message is a clue to your future.  Most if not all of the comments I’m reading, from people all over the world, are from entrepreneurs with something to sell on the Internet—innovators making their own way.  Surprise! Whenever natural law and reason and logic are not good enough, the Law of Oblivion applies. S-o-o-o, no way, Jose. Adios!

 

However, as far as they go, I will say America’s control freaks are right. National boundaries, as a practical matter, will disappear; the third world will prosper; one-on-one communication will flourish. I don’t think they had this in mind. The United Nations, the Muslim Brotherhood, and socialism will simply wither away. It is the Law of Oblivion.

 

In spirit, the second coming of Christ, we will become our brother’s keeper. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Viva Justice, Texas Style!

By John W. Lillpop


Just before he was put to death on Thursday, Humberto Leal Garcia said, "I am sorry for everything I have done. I have hurt a lot of people. Let this be final and be done. I take the full blame for this."

Leal then shouted "Viva Mexico," followed by "I'm ready warden, let's get the show on the road."

Garcia’s confession, although not under oath and without the benefit of legal representation, should put an end to the foolish argument advanced by some which suggests that the brutal rapist-killer could have been absolved of his heinous crime if only he had been allowed to consult a Mexican lawyer.

The truth is that the man was as guilty as sin, and when you do what he did to 16-year old Adria Sauceda in Texas, you can expect to be sent away from this life, even it takes 17 years to send you away!

As to Garcia’s “Viva Mexico!,” uttered twice before the thug was silenced forever, an appropriate rejoinder is: “Viva Texas Justice, and Adios Humberto Leal Garcia!”

Garcia’s execution should also serve as a warning to other Mexicans contemplating an invasion of America. That message is simply, “When in America, you must abide by US laws. Failure to do so can, depending on the crime, cost you your life!”

“Safest bet: Stay in Mexico!”
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4063342681?profile=originalMy fellow Americans, in regard to the U.S. presidency, please tell me we are over "the black thing." Can we move past race and gender and simply elect the best American for the job?


Due to liberal media manipulation and guilt, America elected an incompetent black guy as leader of the free world to prove that we are not racist. Obama's black skin has made him untouchable, the left's dream tool to further their socialist agenda. Once America gets over "the black thing", will the liberal media demand we elect Hilliary to prove we are not sexist?

How long will it be before the liberal media demands that we elect our first openly gay/lesbian president to prove that we are not homophobic?

I believe that the novelty of a black guy in the White House is over -- been there, done that, got the historic Obama (false) Hope & Change t-shirt.

I hereby proclaim the season of Presidential Affirmative Action
over!

Funny how the liberal media and their far-left buddies deal with blacks and women. You need to understand that the left's progressive/socialist agenda trumps everything. Thus, race and gender are highly effective tools used to further their agenda.

If you are a black liberal, the left gleefully views you as a poor victim of a racist America. Quoting Obama's pastor, Rev. Wright, "Barack knows what it feels like to live in a country controlled by rich white people". The left demands that standards be lowered and government entitlements be gifted.

If you are a black conservative, the left views you as a stupid self hating n***** suffering with Stockholm Syndrome. And yes, the left freely uses the "n" word when referring to black conservatives.

If you are a liberal woman, you are a victim of a sexist America controlled by white male SOBs. If you are a conservative woman, you are a stupid slut.
http://bit.ly/ldGnE3

So, you can understand why my stomach turns when the liberal media and their far-left buddies are lauded for their superior compassion and tolerance for blacks and women.

The left celebrates liberal blacks and women while engaging in the high-tech lynching of conservative blacks and women. It is quite simple, folks. If you are a minority confident enough to be a self-starter and you love your country, you are on the left's excrement list. Leftists embrace only victims. Why? Because it fits their desire to believe that America sucks and is the greatest source of evil in the world.

I realize that what I am about to say will make a lot of folks angry. Well, I am sorry, but it is the truth: black voters behaved like a bunch of racists in the 2008 election. Obama got 96% of the black vote with surveys proving that many blacks were clueless about Obama's intentions and even his running mate. Some black Obama voters thought his VP was Sarah Palin.

Call me crazy, but if it "ain't" right for whites to vote for the white guy because he is white, it "ain't" right for blacks to vote for the black guy because he is black.

Yes, we blacks have suffered greatly in the past due to racism. But, to exploit America's original sin of slavery as a license for black racist behavior is a slap in the face to MLK and all who have sacrificed, suffered, and died to move us forward and together as a nation.

Race-profiteers love to opine about America's racist roots and the eternal debt owed to blacks. They completely ignore the fact that decent, God-fearing Americans corrected those evils. Apparently, these race-profiteers are unaware of the Civil War. Approximately 40,000 blacks died, 320,000 whites died, and 275,200 were wounded fighting to end slavery.

So, America, despite what the liberal media and race-profiteers say, your debt to black Americans is paid in full. You elected the first affirmative action president. Rah-rah,
congratulations! Now, can we please, this time around, elect the best candidate for our country?

The presidency of the United States of America is far too important to the world to be decided by silly surface nonsense such as race or gender. Never again can we allow the liberal media to select our president based on whose "turn" they think it is -- Asian, Muslim, gay, lesbian, or whatever.

I am black. I want the best American leading our great country. I want the horrific assault on our freedom called Obamacare
repealed! I want a conservative presidential candidate who is well aware of the evil confronting us and is boldly and eagerly up for the battle.

Folks, the left/liberal media will never retire the race and gender cards. Both cards have proven extremely powerful and effective.

The liberal media will always "blame America first." Though powerless over changing the liberal media, we have total power in our response to them: no pandering, appeasing, or fearing them. We must simply ignore their propaganda and defeat them.

The year 2012 is not just another presidential election. It is the most important presidential election in the history of our country. Obama is destroying America, plain and simple. Four more years under the lawless reign of this divisive, evil man will land a serious deathblow to the heart of America as we know it.

We need a hero, folks. Regardless of race or gender, we need the
best American in the White House -- someone who is "champing at the bit" to clean up Obama's mess!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Vice Chair, www.CampaignToDefeatObama.com

 

 

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on Crime Victims Medial Report-By Tina-On July 6, 2011:

The Nun:

This is rapist and murderer Humberto Leal, mugging for the camera beside one of his many supporters, Sister Germaine Corbin.  Not included in the picture? Sixteen-year old Adria Sauceda.

Adria can’t mug for cameras with nuns because she’s dead.  Not just dead — gang-raped, then kidnapped, tortured, raped, and beaten to death in the desert, her skull crushed with repeated blows from a 40 pound slab of asphalt, her body violated by a fifteen inch broken stick.

But he looks like such a nice boy.  Look at the nun’s smile.

Nuns minister to murderers and Catholics oppose the death penalty.  And so it should be.

But photos like this have nothing to do with ministering to a soul: this is public relations calculatedly erasing the memory of another soul — Adria Sauceda — disappearing her and placing Leal in her place.  Humberto Leal’s supporters — who include the President — want to turn Leal into a mere victim of America’s “vicious and unfair” justice system.  The only way to do this is to lie about the legal record and erase the evidence of his crime, namely an innocent sixteen-year old girl named Adria.  A shopworn way of scrubbing such human evidence is to plaster airwaves with photos of the killers looking shy and boyish in the presence of beaming nuns.

I have a modest suggestion for avoiding such deceptions in the future: the next time Sister Corbin wants to play Helen Prejean by clasping hands for the cameras with someone like this, she should use her other hand to hold up a picture of the victim.  Then things like facts and what is really at stake will not be buried behind the smiles.

The SNAP:

Shamefully, SNAP, the Survivor Network of Those Abused by Priests, has also come out in Humberto Leal’s defense, because, they claim, he was molested by a priest.  But they don’t stop there: in their eagerness to climb into bed with Leal’s Bernadine Dohrn-connected defense team (see below), SNAP is actually promoting the defense’s risible claims of Leal’s innocence.  Their statement of support completely whitewashes Garcia’s crimes, a stunningly cynical act by a group that claims to exist in order to . . . oh, oppose the official whitewashing of sexual crimes:

“Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, National Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests [contact info deleted].  We wholeheartedly support efforts to postpone the execution of Humberto Leal, and to try and protect kids from Fr. Federico Fernandez, through both secular and church channels.  We believe it is possible, even likely, that Fernandez could be criminally prosecuted, but only if Catholic and Texas authorities aggressively seek out others who saw, suspected or suffered the priest’s crimes. Delaying Mr. Leal’s execution is just and fair and would help this outreach process.”

The whitewashing doesn’t end there.  SNAP uses their website to promote a discredited version of Leal’s “innocence.”  This version has been rejected repeatedly by the courts.  Worse, it intentionally minimizes the circumstances of the murdered girl’s suffering.  Here is SNAP’s version, quoting a wildly inaccurate article by someone named Brandi Grissom, who happens to be an anti-death penalty activist writing as a journalist for an online paper.  I’m quoting extensively here to offer some background, but the last paragraph’s the kicker:

“One of [a priest’s] alleged victims is Humberto Leal, a death row inmate who in 1995 was convicted of raping and bludgeoning to death a 16-year-old girl. His attorneys this week filed a clemency petition on his behalf. They asked Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stay his execution and allow him to testify both as a victim and a witness of abuses allegedly perpetrated decades ago by Father Federico Fernandez, who served at St. Clare’s from 1983 to 1988.”

Now, others who attended St. Clare’s have been spurred by Mr. Leal’s recent revelations to come forward and report similar abuse. They hope that by telling their stories they can stop the July 7 execution of Mr. Leal, and spur law enforcement to investigate and prosecute Father Fernandez.

The priest, who currently works in a church in Bogotá, Colombia, denies ever abusing anyone.

Church authorities in San Antonio removed him from the parish and sent him to New Mexico for treatment in 1988 after a grand jury indicted him for sexually abusing two other boys. In statements to police, the boys described multiple occasions when Father Fernandez schemed to get them alone and groped them. After the indictment, the boys’ family reached a settlement with the church, and the young men decided not to testify. Charges against Father Fernandez were dropped, and terms of the settlement were sealed.

Even before Father Fernandez arrived at St. Clare’s, he had been accused of sexual misconduct. In 1983, San Antonio police charged him with exposing himself in public, though the charges were eventually dropped. And since Mr. Leal’s revelation, others who attended St. Clare’s have reported similar abuse. . .

As is usually the case in a criminal matter, the facts of what led to Mr. Leal facing execution next month are in dispute — all, that is, except that Adria Sauceda was raped and murdered. Mr. Leal maintains he did not rape the girl and witnesses testified at his trial that she had been gang raped at a party. Witnesses told the authorities that Mr. Leal arrived at the scene and, outraged at what had happened to her, took her away from the party. He admitted that he and Ms. Sauceda physically fought after they left, and that she could have died after he pushed her and she hit her head on a rock. The police found her body about 100 yards from the location of the party.

Hit her head on a rock  . . . as he was rescuing her!  Gee, this Leal guy sounds like he might be innocent, doesn’t he?  And this is SNAP, after all, and they stand beside victims who have had their sexual assaults pushed under rocks, as it were.

Let’s be very, very clear about what SNAP is doing.  They are attempting to deny that Adria Sauceda was raped — again — by Leal as he bludgeoned her to death.  They are using their credibility as a rape victims’ rights organization to say that Leal’s kidnapping and rape of Sauceda may not have occurred.

And this is a rape victims’ rights organization.  Jesus wept, though not just this one time: I’ve seen similar ugliness in other victims’ rights groups hijacked by advocates for offenders.

Regarding the rape, SNAP forgot something.  They forgot the stick. After the child was taken from the party by Leal, she was raped with a stick.  A jagged stick with screws sticking out of it, to be precise, which, to be even more precise — let’s say discerning — was used on Adria Sauceda while she was still alive.  That’s rape, and SNAP, of all bloody organizations, should know that, rather than quibbling over the number of times a dead girl was violated.  What, are they the only victims who ever matter?  Where is their membership regarding this obscenity?

With this decision to publicly support Leal, and to support him in the way they have chosen, SNAP’s leadership has made itself vulnerable to a common accusation — that they are just left-wing activists using the molestation crisis to attack the growing sexual conservatism of the Catholic Church.  I discount these accusations when they come from people who are themselves busy downplaying the reach of the molestation issue (particularly the cover-ups).  The absurd John Jay “hippies made us do it” “study” is one example of cover-up that discredits its advocates, for example.

But with this swift move by SNAP, such exploitation of victims is full circle now.  As usual, the people left out in the cold are the ones unfortunate enough to have been raped or murdered by one politically protected group or another.

What we’re actually witnessing here is the mundane drumbeat of insinuation, as yet another victims-rights group centrifuges its values and joins its opponents in picking and choosing among victims to support.  In a broader sense, I blame this sort of ethical slippage on the many political satisfactions of “hate crimes” laws, which codify and reward the act of valuing some victims over others.  Once identity politics is larded into sentencing, and activism, it’s easy to throw less politically useful crime victims out with the trash.

Here is the real record of the evidence, from Pro-Death Penalty a serious website that deserves serious attention, especially from those who hold that the death penalty itself is universally insupportable on religious or ethical grounds.  It is especially important for these types of death penalty opponents (I count myself one) to witness the whole truth, to not push away facts, or fall for outrageous claims of innocence, or pose for color glossies with sick sadists, or violate one’s mission statement to defend certain victims by helping bury others.

I encourage you to read the entire story at Pro-Death Penalty, because it catalogs the disturbing censorship by virtually every news agency — and activists at SNAP, among others.  Pro-Death Penalty quotes Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbot.

This passage is long, and painful to read: please remember it as you see the whitewashing of this crime in every media source over the next week:

  • “[A] witness testified that an unidentified male invited him to have intercourse with Adria. The same witness testified that he later observed another man carrying a disoriented Adria to a truck, where he “had his way with her.” Twenty-three-year-old Humberto Leal was also at the party. At some point the intoxicated but conscious victim was placed in Leal’s car. Leal and Adria left together in Leal’s car. About thirty minutes later, Leal’s brother arrived at the party in a car which came to a screeching halt. Leal’s brother was very excited or hysterical. Leal’s brother started yelling to the people left at the party, “What the hell happened!” Leal’s brother was yelling that Leal came home with blood on him saying he had killed a girl. Two of the trial witnesses were present when Leal’s brother made these statements. Shortly thereafter Leal’s brother left in a rush. Several of the party members went looking for Adria in the same area where the party was. They found her nude body lying face-up on a dirt road. They noticed Adria’s head had been bashed in and it was bleeding. Her head was flinching or jerking. These party members called the police. When the police arrived, they saw the nude victim lying on her back. There was a 30 to 40 pound asphalt rock roughly twice the size of Adria’s skull lying partially on Adria’s left arm. Blood was underneath this rock. A smaller rock with blood on it was located near Adria’s right thigh. There was a gaping hole from the corner of Adria’s right eye extending to the center of her head from which blood was oozing. Adria’s head was splattered with blood. There was a bloody and broken stick approximately 14 to 16 inches long with a screw at the end of it protruding from [her body]. Another 4 to 5 inch piece of the stick was lying to the left side of Adria’s skull. The police made a videotape of the crime scene portions of which were admitted into evidence. Later that day, the police questioned Leal. Leal gave two voluntary statements.”

Remember this part: it is important, in the context of President Obama’s defense of Leal.  Yes, that President Obama.

  • “In Leal’s first statement he said he was with Adria in his car when she began hitting him and the steering wheel causing him to hit a curb. Leal attempted to calm her down but Adria leaped from Leal’s car and ran away. Leal claimed he sat in his car and waited about ten or fifteen minutes to see if Adria would return and when she did not he went home. After giving this statement, Leal was informed that his brother had also given a statement. Leal then gave another statement. In this statement, Leal claimed he followed Adria when she got out of his car and ran away. Leal claimed Adria attacked him. Leal pushed her and she fell to the ground. When she did not get up Leal attempted to wake her but could not. He then looked at her nose and saw bubbles. Leal stated he got scared, went home, prayed on the side of his mom’s bed and told family members what had happened, claiming it was just an accident. After giving this statement an officer gave Leal a ride home. The police searched Leal’s house. The police seized a blouse which contained several blood stains, hair and fibers. This blouse was later identified as belonging to Adria. The police also seized Leal’s clothing from the night before. Leal was arrested later that afternoon at his home. Leal’s car was also impounded. The police conducted Luminol tests of the passenger door to determine whether any blood was evident. Blood stains were discovered on the passenger door and seat. Detectives testified that the blood stains were streaked in a downward motion, indicating that the blood had been wiped off.  There was insufficient residue to conduct a blood typing of the stains on the vehicle. Other DNA evidence was found on the underwear Leal was wearing that night. That evidence consisted of blood as well as bodily fluid. The DNA test did not preclude Adria’s blood type from the evidence tested. Dr. DiMaio, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy, testified about Adria’s injuries and cause of death. DiMaio testified that even though Adria was intoxicated when she received her injuries, she would have been aware of what was happening to her. In addition to Adria’s massive head injuries, DiMaio testified about injuries Adria received to her chest and shoulder which were consistent with having been inflicted by the stick found in Adria’s vagina. DiMaio also testified about the defensive wounds Adria received to her hands trying to protect herself from some object. DiMaio also testified Adria was alive when the stick was placed in her vagina. Adria’s neck also contained injuries consistent with manual strangulation. DiMaio testified Adria received some of her injuries while standing up. Adria received her head injuries while lying flat. The injuries to Adria’s head were due to blows from the front. These injuries were inconsistent with a fall. Adria’s head injuries were consistent with Adria lying on the ground with somebody standing over her striking her. DiMaio testified the large rock could have delivered the injuries to Adria’s head. Based on the injuries to Adria’s head, DiMaio testified Adria would had to have been struck with the rock two or three times. DiMaio testified Adria died from blunt force trauma injuries to the head. DiMaio could not say for certain that the rock caused the injuries. He testified Adria was beaten about the face with a blunt object or more than one object which could have been the rock or something else. On cross-examination, DiMaio testified that one blow from the rock could have caused Adria’s death. DiMaio also testified about bite marks he found on Adria’s left cheek, the right side of her neck and the left side of her chest. Another witness compared the bite marks on Adria’s chest and neck with dental impressions of Leal’s teeth. They matched. The State’s indictment charged that Leal killed Sauceda while in the course of and attempting either to kidnap her or to commit aggravated sexual assault. Leal was convicted and, after a separate punishment phase, sentenced to death.”

Nice work, SNAP.

The Law Professor:

Meanwhile, in the courts, the whitewashing of Adria Sauceda’s murder continues, cradled in the hands of experts trained in such ugly arts.

Humberto Leal’s defense attorney, Sandra L. Babcock, of the terrorist-sheltering law school at Northwestern University, has an interesting vitae.  Ms. Babcock’s research interest is imposing international law on the American justice system, a hobby she practices with her colleague, terrorist-cum-law-professor Bernadine Dohrn.

In 2008, Babcock and Dohrn worked “tirelessly” together to get Chicago’s city council to pass a resolution signing on to the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child.  Of course, such things always sound nice.

In 2003, along with the A.C.L.U., The Jimmy Carter Center, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Open Society Institute, Sandra Babcock, Bernadine Dorhn, and Van Jones (he’s listed as “invited”) participated in an A.C.L.U. sponsored conference called Human Rights at Home:

International Law in U.S. Courts (program here).

The purpose of the conference was to find ways to insinuate international (read: United Nations) laws and resolutions in American legal arenas, as Sandra Babcock is attempting to do to free her client, Humberto Leal.  From the conference program:

The conference will familiarize lawyers and advocates with international human rights treaties, laws and organizing strategies that can strengthen domestic social justice work by:

  • Ensuring U.S. accountability for violating international human rights principles in additional to domestic constitutional ones
  • Providing new, affirmative protections for workers, poor people, immigrants, and victims of discrimination
  • Linking multiple issues to address problems that intersect race, gender, and poverty
  • Connecting local advocacy to global struggles

As per her academic research and this movement, Babcock is now claiming that the police failed to inform Leal of his right to Mexican consular support when he was arrested.  Allegedly, this failure violated the rules of the International Court of Justice at the Hague: Leal, as a “Mexican national,” should have simply been able to call “his” embassy and the entire mess — the body, the rock, the stick, the bloody clothes, et. al. could be whisked away like some New Guinean ambassador’s parking tickets.

But there’s one little problem: Humberto Leal has lived in the United States, apparently illegally, since he was two.  Talk about wanting it both ways: Leal was an American until the moment he murdered Adria Sauceda.  That changed in the brief space between bashing in a young girl’s head and wiping down the doors of his car.  Now he’s a “Mexican national,” a term everyone from the President to the New York Times to “human rights” organizations (Leal’s rights, not Sauceda’s) is using with no irony and no explanation, as they lobby to cloak a killer in layers of special privileges while simultaneously lobbying to prevent police from inquiring about immigration status.

Get it?  The police will have to determine if someone is a foreign citizen in order to offer them consular rights, but they’ll also be forbidden to ask if someone is a foreign citizen in the interest of not discriminating against illegal immigrants, a lovely Catch 22 dreamed up by academics.  This cliff we’re careening towards is permanent demotion of Americans’ legal rights on their own soil.  If President Obama, his friend Bernadine Dohrn, and Jimmy Carter get their way, the police are going to find their hands tied in ten different ways, and our criminal justice system will soon be utterly subservient to whatever the hell they dream up at the U.N.

Expect more Humberto Leals.

Why isn’t the president of Mexico (or, say, America) calling for justice for Adria Sauceda?  Is that so difficult to conceive?

In an excellent article in American Thinker, David Paulin writes:

“In Mexico, ordinary citizens can expect little from their country’s criminal justice system; it’s not a place where they can count on receiving justice.  So it is surprising that Mexicans on death row in the U.S. can expect so much from their government.  Americans, moreover, have always fared badly when caught in Mexico’s criminal justice system; it’s one of the risks of going to Mexico, and international law does not seem to offer additional guarantees of safety to visitors going there.  Yet in this case and others, Mexico presents itself as a paragon of virtue, committed to the lofty ideals of international law that Texas and other U.S. states are ignoring.

In 2004, Mexico sent its top legal talent to the International Court of Justice in The Hague — and complained about 51 of its citizens being on death rows in various U.S. states; none, they complained, had been advised that their government was prepared to offer them top lawyers for their defense.

That Hague court ruled that the U.S. was indeed bound by the treaty — prompting President George W. Bush to ask the states to apply it and review cases involving Mexican citizens awaiting death sentences.  However, Gov. Perry was unimpressed.  He refused to grant a stay-of-execution for Jose Medellin, 33, an illegal immigrant from Mexico found guilty in the 1993 rape-strangulation of two teenage Houston girls, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña.  Instead, Medellin was executed, despite having never been informed that Mexico was ready to provide him with a great lawyer.”

The President and His Newspaper:

In order to really disappear Adria Sauceda, fully and truly, you need more than bunches of law professors and activists: you need the media.  The New York Times does not disappoint.  The Times gawkingly refers to Humberto Leal merely as a “Mexican citizen,” as if he wandered over the border one day and ended up smashing a girl’s head in with a rock, his decades of residency in the U.S. tacitly denied.  As they put it:

“Mr. Leal, a Mexican citizen, was not immediately informed of his right, under an international treaty signed by the United States, to seek assistance “without delay” from Mexican consular officials in navigating a confusing foreign legal system.  Such help might have been crucial for someone like Mr. Leal who, his lawyers say, had few resources and a limited understanding of his plight.”

Poor guy: maybe he didn’t speak English and got lost looking for directions back to the embassy.

Or, maybe people like Northwestern University Law Professor Sandra Babcock have just gotten so used to lying, of not being challenged by the paper of record that they simply don’t expect to be called on even the most astonishing deceptions.  Babcock’s statement is a cringing embarrassment for the Times and Northwestern Law School (which, as Bernadine Dohrn’s employer, admittedly short circuited their ability to blush decades ago).

But Babcock’s Times quote goes beyond lying.  It is direct, false accusation of everyone involved in the Leal conviction, from the police who arrived at the murderer’s house to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit, which, David Paulin writes, strongly affirmed Leal’s guilt.

Luckily for Ms. Babcock, her accommodating and incurious pals at the Times do not cite the appeals record.  Nor do they interview anyone who might disagree with her fable of “foreigner” Leal’s Bread-and-Chocolate disorientation with the country where he has lived since he was in diapers.  The word of one academician who grotesquely fibbed her way through two previous paragraphs apparently trumps our entire appellate legal system:

“This was an eminently defendable case, and I don’t think it would have been a capital case if he’d had decent trial counsel” from the start, said Sandra L. Babcock, a Northwestern University law professor representing Mr. Leal on behalf of the Mexican government.”

Contrast this with the brief summary of Leal’s appeals compiled by John G. Winder.  Brief, but too long to list here.  Would it be too much for the Times to acknowledge that Leal has had at least 45 different hearings and appeals?

Maybe the Times is just practicing for the time when decisions about American justice are being made in the Netherlands, or 760 United Nations Plaza. In any case, reporter Brian Knowlton blithely allows a passel of activists to insist, one after the other, that Leal’s defense was insufficient, without once mentioning those 45 hearings.

Reading Times articles like this one does have its advantages.  It is amazing, the things you can learn when observing activists in their own natural surroundings.  Mexico’s justice system may be incapable of staunching the flow of blood on their own streets, but they’re spending millions of dollars defending outsourced child rapists and murderers from the vagaries of American jurisprudence:

“Early assistance in murder cases also matters, said Noah Feldman [continuing the ‘poor Humberto’ meme], a Harvard law professor: [sic] Prosecutors know that seeking the death penalty is a long, difficult, expensive process, and they carefully weigh their chances. Knowing that the accused will be well represented could tip the balance away from seeking death, he said.

With that sort of idea in mind, Mexico in 1999 created an ambitious legal assistance program to aid its citizens in capital cases. The program’s director, Gregory Kuykendall, now heads a team of 32 lawyers; in the year ending in May, Mexico spent $3.5 million on the program, according to the Sunlight Foundation, which focuses on government accountability.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the private Death Penalty Information Center, said Mexico’s active legal support had probably contributed to a decline in death penalty cases in Texas. “I think part of it is just better representation,” he said. “Mexico gives advice to other countries about how to do this.”

So if you want to come to America to rape and murder young women, either tomorrow or some time in 2028, it’s best to get Mexican citizenship first.

However, also according to the Times, the U.S. is not far behind Mexico in preparing the ground, as it were, for the future transition to governance by the United Federation of Planets:

“The State Department has held hundreds of training sessions across the country to familiarize federal, state and local law-enforcement officials with the Vienna treaty and has issued a 144-page booklet outlining the requirements, with translations in 20 languages, including Creole and Cambodian.

Written, of course, by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the same “private” organization paid a pretty taxpayer dime to decide and then tell us stuff like why it is that some crimes are called hate crimes and some crimes are just bashing in a young girl’s head while raping her with a stick.  It’s not how laws are written and passed by elected legislative bodies, you see.  What really matters is the opinion of experts like law professors, Eric Holder, the IACP, the United Nations, and the Hague.”

At the end of this dark, long road to dismantling the American Justice System, there lies — what? 

The District Court of the United Nations Human Rights Council?  

The fact that President Obama has joined forces with the United Nations to side with Humberto Leal and against our own courts is terrifying. In the wake of the Casey Anthony verdict, it has also gone unnoticed.  

Justice for Adria Sauceda and Caylee Anthony?  Not in this America.”

Source:

http://crimevictimsmediareport.com/?p=3866

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. In a Death Penalty Case, Texas Battles Mexico, Washington (and the World)!-Posted on American Thinker-By David Paulin-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/in_a_death_penalty_case_texas_battles_mexico_washington_and_the_world.html

II. Soros meddles in courts, attempts to buy Leftwing judges!-Posted on National Examiner-By Anthony Martin-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/soros-meddles-courts-attempts-to-buy-leftwing-judges

III. New Soros Agenda: Stacking The Courts!-Posted on The Blaze-By Tiffany Gabbay-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-soros-agenda-stacking-the-courts/

IV. American Activists Aiding Hamas Are Enemies of the State and Should Be Dealt With Accordingly!-Posted on National Review Online-By MARIO LOYOLA-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/271153/face-enemy-mario-loyola

V. Nazi' police 'kidnap' woman at town hall!-Posted on WND.com-By Joe Kovacs-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=319501

VI. 18 Signs The Collapse Of Society Is Accelerating!-Posted on The Economic Collapse-On June 2011:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/18-signs-the-collapse-of-society-is-accelerating

Question: Was the President complying with one of his puppet master’s (Geroge Soros) agendas by defending this torture-killer?

In 1979 Soros established the “Open Society Institute (OSI)”, which serves as the flagship of a network of Soros foundations that donate tens of millions of dollars each year to a wide array of individuals and organizations that share the founder’s agendas.  The following website reveals George Soros’s “Guide For The Political Left”, which meticulously lays out his overall agendas, along with a wide array of individuals and organizations that he funds and thus share his agendas-You Decide:

George Soros-Posted on DiscoverTheNetWorks.org:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

These are pertinent excerpts from this article and/or blog post:

"Summarized agendas are as follows:

  • promoting the view that America is institutionally an oppressive nation
  • promoting the election of leftist political candidates throughout the United States
  • opposing virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by U.S. government, particularly the Patriot Act
  • depicting American military actions as unjust, unwarranted, and immoral
  • promoting open borders, mass immigration, and a watering down of current immigration laws
  • promoting a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes
  • promoting social welfare benefits and amnesty for illegal aliens
  • defending the civil rights and liberties of suspected anti-American terrorists and their abetters
  • financing the recruitment and training of future activist leaders of the political Left
  • advocating America's unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending
  • opposing the death penalty in all circumstances
  • promoting socialized medicine in the United States
  • promoting the tenets of radical environmentalism, whose ultimate goal, as writer Michael Berliner has explained, is "not clean air and clean water, [but] rather ... the demolition of technological/industrial civilization"
  • bringing American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations
  • promoting racial and ethnic preferences in academia and the business world alike
  • promoting taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand
  • advocating stricter gun-control measures
  • advocating the legalization of marijuana

Soros and his foundations have had a hand in funding such noteworthy leftist organizations as:

American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the National Organization for Women; Feminist Majority; the American Civil Liberties Union; People for the American Way; Alliance for JusticeNARAL Pro-Choice America; America Coming Together; the Center for American Progress; Campaign for America's Future; Amnesty International; the Sentencing Project; the Center for Community Change; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Human Rights Watch; the Prison Moratorium Project; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Coalition for an International Criminal Court; The American Prospect; MoveOn.org; Planned Parenthood; the Nation Institute; the Brennan Center for Justice; the Ms. Foundation for Women;  the National Security Archive Fund; the Pacifica Foundation; Physicians for Human Rights; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Urban Institute; the American Friends Service Committee; Catholics for a Free Choice; Human Rights First; the Independent Media InstituteMADRE; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; and the Peace and Security Funders Group.



“Apart from the more than $5 billion that Soros’ foundation network has donated to leftist groups like those listed here, Soros personally has made campaign contributions to such notable political candidates as Charles Rangel, Al Franken, Tom Udall, Joe Sestak, Sherrod Brown, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Ken Salazar, Patrick Leahy, John Kerry, Charles Schumer, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin, Jon Corzine, Joe Biden, Richard Durbin, Lane Evans, Dennis Kucinich, Maurice Hinchey, and Al Gore. He also has given large sums of money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation.”

To view a list of many of the more important Soros donees that support the foregoing agendas, click here.”

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Progressive group maps out President Obama’s strategy for next 2 years!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/progressive-group-maps-out-president-obama’s-strategy-for-next-2-years/

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

It’s Getting Very Serious Now!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/it’s-getting-very-serious-now/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

Note If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.

“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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John W. Lillpop

Who would ever imagine that the administration of the most liberal president in U.S. history would actually sell guns, including AK-47 assault rifles, to “straw purchasers,” with the intent of tracing the flow of said weapons into Mexico?

And who could possibly imagine that some of those same weapons would end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels and be used in murders including that of a border patrol agent?

Could this botched project titled, “Fast and Furious” be a part of Obama’s “under the radar” assault on the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution otherwise known as Project Gunrunner?

Is the Justice Department obstructing an investigation into the scandal?

Those intriguing questions are being pursued with vigor by Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

As reported, in part, at the reference:

“The closed-door testimony of ATF’s acting director, saying that the Justice Department was obstructing a congressional investigation, has prompted an expansion of that ongoing probe into the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons-smuggling operation.

“We’ll go wherever the investigation takes us,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a key inquisitor in probing the operation, during which guns, including AK-47 assault rifles, were “walked” into Mexico.
He said the weekend testimony of Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, had corroborated information that “more agencies within the Justice Department may have been involved in allowing guns to fall into the hands of known straw purchasers.”

A spokesman for Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that the Melson testimony “raises new questions” about the scope of the program and certainly “justifies an expansion of the investigation.”

“After talking with the acting ATF director, I think we have a greater insight into what happened and what questions need to be asked to lead to some final answers as to who authorized this program and why,” said spokesman Frederick Hill, whose boss also has been a key player in the ongoing investigation.

Meanwhile Thursday, Mexican police released a videotaped interview of Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, in which the recently captured No. 3 leader of the Los Zetas drug cartel said “all the weapons” the Zetas use were “bought in the United States” and that “even the American government itself was selling the weapons.”

Mr. Grassley and Mr. Issa have been investigating accusations that Operation Fast and Furious, part of an anti-gun initiative known as “Project Gunrunner,” allowed thousands of weapons to be purchased by “straw buyers” in Arizona and Texas that later were “walked” unchecked to drug smugglers in Mexico.

At least three of those weapons, including two AK-47 assault rifles, later were found at the site of separate shootings that claimed the lives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, who was killed by Rejon Aguilar’s Zetas, and U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry.
The lawmakers also want to know what role other federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), played in the operation.

Last weekend, Mr. Melson said during two closed-door interviews that the senior leadership at the agency wanted to cooperate in the congressional probe but were stopped by Justice Department officials who took control of all briefing and document requests. Mr. Grassley and Mr. Issa, in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., accused Justice of “muzzling” the director.

Mr. Melson confirmed information the committee has been investigating that some of the suspected gun traffickers targeted by ATF in the Fast and Furious probe may have been working with the FBI and DEA without ATF’s knowledge.

He also confirmed concerns expressed by several ATF agents during their recent testimony before Mr. Issa’s committee that while they witnessed the transfer of weapons from the straw buyers to others, they were not allowed to follow the guns further as they made their way to Mexico. He told the investigators he became aware of “this startling possibility” only after the killing of Mr. Terry and the indictments of the straw purchasers.

“We have very real indications from several sources that some of the gun-trafficking ‘higher-ups’ that the ATF sought to identify were already known to other agencies and may even have been paid as informants,” Mr. Grassley and Mr. Issa wrote in the letter to Mr. Holder. “The acting director said ATF was kept in the dark about certain activities of other agencies, including DEA and FBI.”

In the videotape, Rejon Aguilar told Mexican police that his gang - considered that country’s most violent - had armed itself with weapons “bought in the United States.”

 
Rep. Issa has already stated that he knows with certitude that Attorney General Eric Holder knew about Fast and Furious much earlier than Holder has admitted.

This is a huge scandal with enormous implications that could rival the Iran-Contra mess in gravity.

Thank goodness the American people had the good sense to install a GOP majority in the U.S. House last November.

If Nancy Pelosi was still House Speaker, we might never learn the answer to, “What did the president know and when did he know it?’

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Obamexico

HEY GENTLEMEN. You hit the nail right on the head.
Both the Obama Regime and the Hispanic overthrow of this nation is the unsettling downfall of our rights and liberties as we know them.
2011is supposed to be, by the Prophetic Timeline of the Book of Daniel, chapter 11 and verse 20 the year of the End of The Taxman! But, nobody believes in the prophetic. Nobody believes in the Bible, and or, nobody believes in the way I have learned how to interpret this piece of scripture.
I assume (or guess) that the word I had published a few months ago has fallen upon deaf ears and blind eyes. To much rhettoric has been placed upon the distraction and nothing given in the arena of creedence to the SuperNatural Laws of the Prophetics of God. Oh well.
We're all in the same boat now. Could have been a cake walk through this valley of the Shadow of Death, now its more like we're all going to be trudging through the muck and the mire of muddy streets of ill-repute, children 1,000 X worse off all the way around than they already are in 2011. And soon too.
Ridding ourselves of the Taxman, hmmm, What could that have produced?
No more Welfare and Food Stamps.
No more Home Owners Associations in Politics
No more Outsourcing of Jobs and Corporate Glut
No more Oopsy Daisy, Sorry Gubnah, was that your oil shale we just drilled through, CRAP!
No more Wall Street and overladened Banking Pigs
No more Ruby Ridge or Waco's
And another 1,000 X NO! And one hell of a lot more BETTER! HMMM! America, SAVE AMERICA!
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John W. Lillpop



Mention strong enforcement of the Rule of Law and the name Barack Obama does not immediately pop to mind.

Obama’s flippant disregard for the War Powers Resolution and application to war in Libya; his refusal to secure the U.S.-Mexican border and enforce U.S. immigration laws; his sidestepping of the Congress via a vast left-wing conspiracy of stealth czars; and his sponsorship of ObamaCare, all point to a dictatorial tyrant intent on ruling by fiat, rather than by Democratic rule of law.

However, Obama’s anti-Rule of Law fetish went missing when the president became aware of an illegal alien Hispanic in need of intervention in Texas.

The plight of Humberto Leal Garcia, an illegal alien convicted of a brutal rape and murder 17 years ago, became vital to Obama’s 2012 campaign strategy. It became Obama’s mission to lobby the U.S. Supreme Court and delay the execution of Garcia, said execution scheduled for July 7.

In full campaign mode, President Obama flexed his liberal muscles and dispatched a 30-page epistle to the SCOTUS. which essentially argued that executing Garcia would violate international law and "would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international law obligation."

Obama argued for a delay to give the U.S. Congress time to craft a law more favorable to the convicted murderer and rapist, who was also an Mexican citizen.

As reported at the reference, the SCOTUS was neither convinced nor amused by Obama’s plea:

“Refusing to defer to President Obama’s view of a threat to U.S. foreign relations, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 late Thursday afternoon to allow Texas to execute a Mexican national whose international treaty rights were violated in his prosecution for murder. The Court majority dismissed as “free-ranging assertions” the President’s foreign policy arguments against the immediate execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, and added that the Obama Administration had not presented “a persuasive legal claim.”

 
Hmm.

The Obama Administration had not presented a “persuasive legal claim”?

One would expect much, much better from an alleged professor of law and Harvard Law School graduate.

Shortly after the SCOTUS rejected Obama’s “free-ranging assertions” and lack of “persuasive legal claim,” Texas law, and common sense, prevailed and the brutal killer-rapist was put to death.

Still, not all is lost: Obama can remind Hispanics and illegal aliens that he went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court on their behalf.

Obama can also claim that he championed the Rule of Law—even though it was international law that would have usurped American law had the president’s argument not been so devoid of “persuasive legal claim” and had it not been riddled with “free-ranging assertions.”

Viva Texas justice!

http://nclawtalk.net/?p=313
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