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Gallup CEOBy Pam Martens and Russ Martens. Years of unending news stories on U.S. government programs of surveillance, rendition and torture have apparently chilled the speech of even top business executives in the United States.

Yesterday, Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, an iconic U.S. company dating back to 1935, told CNBC that he was worried he might “suddenly disappear” and not make it home that evening if he disputed the accuracy of what the U.S. government is reporting as unemployed Americans.

The CNBC interview came one day after Clifton had penned a gutsy opinion piece on Gallup’s web site, defiantly calling the government’s 5.6 percent unemployment figure “The Big Lie” in the article’s headline. His appearance on CNBC was apparently to walk back the “lie” part of the title and reframe the jobs data as just hopelessly deceptive.


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Tuesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Krauthammer – U.S. Should Make A
Formal Declaration Of War Against ISIS
Rick Wells
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Low Gas Prices? nObama Says, 'You're Welcome'  
As we've noted on numerous occasions, U.S. oil production is up and demand is down, leading to lower prices. Increased production is taking place entirely on private lands, yet, once again, Barack nObama is happy to take the credit. On Friday, he told a crowd of adoring supporters, "We're as free of foreign oil as we've been in 30 years. We've doubled the amount of clean energy that we're producing. A lot of families are saving a lot of money at the gas pump, which is putting some smiles on folks' faces." His remarks received a smattering of chuckles and applause, to which he arrogantly responded, "You're welcome." His policies have nothing to do with lower gas prices. Indeed, those lower prices have happened despite his best efforts. He did warn, "[A]t some point, [gas prices] are going to go back up." He has plans...  -The Patriot Post 
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 2015 National Security Gives America the Blues  
Recent terrorist attacks serve as a gruesome reminder that Jihadistan remains a critical threat. In fact, at no other time in history have jihadis controlled such vast swaths of land and boasted such a powerful upper hand. Sadly, rising turmoil has done nothing to sway Barack nObama, who only reaffirmed he's content to keep the issue on the back burner. His latest national security blueprint contains phony diversions like global warming and homosexual rights, while underestimating the world's greatest enemy. According to the Associated Press, "nObama says the United States must resist the urge to 'overreach' abroad, as he outlined a new national security strategy Friday that is meant to serve as a blueprint for his final two years in office. The 29-page document hews closely to n
Obama's long-held views of America's role in the world and forecasts no major shifts in the military campaign against Islamic State militants or in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine." That's rich, coming from a man who oversteps his constitutional authority every opportunity he can get. These "national security" protocols literally aren't worth the paper they're written on. More...
  -The Patriot Post 
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 Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Victims  
After the nObama administration spent years calling Nidal Hasan's murderous attack at Fort Hood an episode of "workplace violence," and thus denying Purple Hearts for the victims, sanity has finally prevailed. Announcing the decision, Secretary of the Army John McHugh wrote, "The Purple Heart's strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood. Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized. It's an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice." Rep. John Carter (R-TX) fought long and hard to win this battle against foolish political correctness. "The victims of this attack have struggled, suffered and been abandoned by this Administration," he said. "No more. Today is a day of victory and I am honored to have fought on their behalf." Clearly, Hasan was in contact with foreign terrorists, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he pulled the trigger. No jihadi is a lone-wolf, and Hasan's rampage was a terrorist attack on our men and women in uniform -- they deserve appropriate recognition. More...   -The Patriot Post 
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 Eric Holder's Biggest Failure: No Gun Control  
The outgoing attorney general certainly tried. First, there was Operation Fast and Furious, the program that was supposed to track how U.S. guns were making their way to Mexican cartels. Then, Eric Holder pressured the FDIC to dry up the loans going to the firearm industry using Operation Choke Point, skirting Congress and the open lawmaking process. There was even the political push to pass federal gun control because of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. It was the latter that Holder points to as the greatest failure of his tenure at the Department of Justice. Holder told MSNBC Sunday, "Well, I'll say this, [viewing the aftermath of Sandy Hook] was the worst day I had as attorney general. It is, I think, the single failure that I point to in my time as attorney general that I was not able to ... convince Congress to really follow the will of the American people -- which was to enact meaningful, reasonable gun-safety measures. The gun lobby simply won." In other words, Liberty was preserved, despite a partisan attorney general with an agenda. More...   -The Patriot Post 
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 Brian Disappears as More Disinformation Emerges   In response to the allegations that he lied about embellishing an Iraq war story, celebrity NBC anchor Brian Williams took a leave of absence and canceled an appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show" to lay low until this whole scandal blows over. "As Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News," he wrote in a statement, "I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days. ... Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us." However, Williams' stories of braggadocio continue to multiply and grow. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air theorizes that the reason NBC staffers have not come forward to contradict or confirm Williams' Iraq war story is that they edited the footage to suggest their chopper was attacked. Combined with the possibly embellished accounts of Williams witnessing Hezbollah rockets and claiming to see a dead body floating in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina, Williams is demonstrating a gonzo streak more at home in Rolling Stone.   -The Patriot Post 
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 Netanyahu, The Churchill Of Our Time, Must Speak Before Congre  
(forbes.com) - It is fitting and proper–indeed essential for our very security–that Speaker backstabber John Boehner has extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them anywhere in the world...The invitation has bipartisan support because many members on both sides of the aisle recognize the fundamental threat to world peace that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose. Like Winston Churchill in the 1930s with Nazi Germany, Netanyahu has been sounding the alarm about Iran’s ominous nuclear and terrorist activities. It’s a message much of Europe and even segments of the US, particularly in the nObama administration, don’t want to hear. The President has made clear his intense dislike of Israel’s prime minister and his refusal to keep quiet about nObama’s desire to conclude a Neville Chamberlain-like deal with Teheran. In a flagrant interference in another country’s election, nObama operatives are working hard in Israel to help bring down the courageous Prime Minister.       http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2015/01/28/why-netanyahu-the-churchill-of-our-time-must-speak-before-congress/
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 Crusades Response To Jihad – Same Problem, Different Time  
(Rick Wells) - Dr. Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam put together a highly informative video and associated “dynamic battle map” which puts the early Islamic jihads and the ultimate response of Christians to their relentless attacks and oppression...the Crusades, into perspective. He recommends that anytime we meet someone who is an apologist for jihad, such as the current occupant of the White House, they should be confronted with the truth and he illustrates that truth in a very easy to understand and digest format in this short presentation.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
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 McCain Involved In Major Islamic To Establish Islamic State 
(Ben Barrack) - Recently revealed conversations between the Pentagon and the Gadhafi regime in 2011 show that then Secretary of State Hilly Clinton was serving the Muslim Brotherhood by pushing a false narrative to justify the removal of Muammar Gadhafi, as Shoebat.com has reported...With the help of corroborating evidence, we’re closer to proving that Republican Senator John McCain was likely just as invested in facilitating the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya as Hilly was. Before getting to the evidence that implicates McCain, let’s work backward from the Benghazi attacks. Any discussion about what happened in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks usually includes the topic of weapons shipments to Syrian rebels via Turkey. According to a book written by a former Navy SEAL and Green Beret, the man who would eventually become CIA Director oversaw that operation from the White House: By the time this is over with, there'll be more involved whos names have not been mention.       http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/02/leaked-evidence-sen-john-mccain-involved-major-islamic-conspiracy-establish-islamic-state/
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 nObama Isn't Happy About the Good News That Bibi Just Received  
(conservativetribune.com) - Apparently, President Barack nObama is not content to simply lose elections in one country. He’s therefore expanded his efforts to Israel — and doing about as well as you’d expect after the November midterms...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party to which he belongs have taken a strong lead in polling leading up to the March 17 election for control of Israel’s 120-seat Knesset. Likud is now beating out its closest rival by four seats, according to a Jerusalem Post/Maariv Sof Hashavua poll. Of the six most recent polls, Likud is leading in four, is tied with Zionist Union party in another, and is behind Zionist Union by one seat in the sixth. Moreover, respondents who told pollsters that they want to see Netanyahu retain his role as prime minister outnumbered those who said they would prefer to see him replaced.       http://conservativetribune.com/good-news-bibi-netanyahu/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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 Al Qaeda Spokesman Receives Deal With nObama Attorneys  
(conservativetribune.com) - Given the nObama administration’s embarrassingly soft stance toward radical Islamists — even the ones who like to blow up buildings and kill innocent civilians...it’s shocking but not a surprise that an Al Qaeda spokesman would receive a generous plea deal from President Barack nObama’s attorneys. Terrorist spokesman Adel Abdel Bary, who also sits as a senior member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was given a generous plea agreement by Justice Department attorneys that would allow him to shorten his sentence of 25 years down to eight, with good behavior and time served taken into account. Even the U.S. District Judge, Lewis Kaplan, wanted to reject Abdel Bary’s plea agreement as he felt it was far too lenient for everything in which he had been involved. Abdel Bary pleaded guilty to a wide range of terrorism charges — ones that included complicity in bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of innocent people and injured over 4,000. We all know where nObama stands.      http://conservativetribune.com/al-qaeda-spokesman-deal/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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 Report Exposes EU Illegal Settlement in Judea and Samaria  
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(Uzi Baruch, Ari Yashar) - Despite the 2012 Levy Report proving the legality of Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria under international law, the European Union (EU) has bitterly opposed that presence and even threatened sanctions...however, a new report reveals that it is in fact the EU that is guilty of "illegal settlement" in the region. Judea and Samaria was divided into Areas A, B and C in the 1993 Oslo Accords which created the Palestinian Authority (PA), and under the agreements Area C is under complete Israeli administrative and security control. However, the new report by Regavim, an NGO watchdog group for Jewish national property rights, reveals the extent of the EU's illegal actions aiding in PA land grabs in Area C. In doing so, the EU is creating illegal facts on the ground to pave the way for a de facto Palestinian state in the Biblical heartland of Israel.       http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/191036#.VNdxoJt00zt
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 Islamic Grooming Gang Arrested in Calderdale  
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(answeringmuslims.com) - Yesterday, I posted an article about the latest Islamic rape-wave in Northumbria, and I drew attention to the number of "Muhammads" on the list of deviants. Here's a list of Muslims recently arrested for grooming young girls in Calderdale...Notice again the number of "Muhammads." Can we really say, with straight faces, that even though the only feature that connects these rapists is their religious background, the problem nevertheless has nothing to do with Islam granting Muslims the right to rape their female captives? Twenty five men have been charged with child sex offences in Calderdale following a major police operation.       http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/02/islamic-grooming-gang-arrested-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+answeringmuslims%2FynNl+%28Answering+Muslims%29
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 Trey Gowdy’s New Benghazi Witness List  
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( Rick Wells) - The next three months could prove quite interesting and quite revealing for the American public, particularly those who have been anxiously awaiting some fruitful results from the Benghazi Select Committee chaired by Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC)...Chairman Gowdy announced on Friday a witness list which included nearly two dozen senior Obama officials, including Hilly Clinton, who is expected to testify within the next thirty days. Also scheduled to appear are former White House press secretary Jay Carney, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, former national security adviser Tom Donilon, present national security advisor Susan Rice, former Clinton deputy chief of staff Jake Sullivan, deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, former CIA director David Petraeus, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and current White House chief of staff Denis McDonough.    http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdys-new-benghazi-witness-list-whos-former-current-obama-operatives/
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 Judge Jeanine Pirro - Attacks nObama Comments  
(nicedeb) - Jeanine Pirro began her show, Saturday night by criticizing the president’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, saying that  “Barack nObama is comfortable with extremism,”...and making plain in her ensuing comments what type of extremism he is comfortable with. “It explains why he goes golfing within minutes of announcing the beheading of an American,” she contended. Pirro continued, “with the Crusaders you so easily identify them as Christians, why is it so hard for you to identify today’s jihadi terrorists as Muslim?…         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt-St_TgPUo
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 Netanyahu vows to scuttle world powers’ Iran deal 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits in front of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, foreground, as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 8, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/POOL/SEBASTIAN SCHEINER)
(STUART WINER) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday he would continue to try to defeat an expected agreement between the US and Iran over the latter’s nuclear development program as Washington predicted a handshake on the matter in the coming weeks... “The [international] powers and Iran are racing forward with an agreement that will allow Iran to arm with nuclear weapons, something that will threaten the existence of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said before the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Netanyahu declared that he was ready to go head to head with US Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry in order to stop the deal. “At the end of the week, Hanoi Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif announced their intention to complete the framework agreement by the end of March, and that is what gives rise to the urgency in our efforts to try and halt this bad and dangerous agreement,” Netanyahu said. “We will continue to act and to lead the international efforts against the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons and we will act in every way to foil the bad and dangerous agreement that would cast a heavy cloud over the future of Israel.”       http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-vows-to-scuttle-world-powers-iran-deal/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=eb90bfa12e-_2015_02_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-eb90bfa12e-54638825
Krauthammer – U.S. Should Make A
Formal Declaration Of War Against ISIS
Rick Wells

     (rickwells.us) - The segment comes in the aftermath of the release of video showing the Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive and begins with the information that the would-be suicide bomber that was originally part of a supposed trade deal has been relocated and will be executed before dawn.

     Charles Krauthammer believes that the objective of ISIS in the brutal murder quite likely was to destabilize its neighbors, most particularly, Jordan, who is the only active participant at this point in the limited air campaign other than the United States.

     He cites the vulnerabilities of Jordan to social unrest and upheaval, including a significant Muslim Brotherhood population as well as ISIS sympathizers.  He thinks that the goal was to draw Jordan further into a direct conflict with ISIS; a prospect which he believes does not benefit the United States.

     Krauthammer remarks that only the United States or Turkey has a true capability to fight ISIS, and that the Jordanian involvement is largely symbolic. He says this was a way for ISIS “to stir the cauldron in a country that is stable, was stable, but is easily destabilized, and that’s what ISIS is after.”

     He feels the U.S. needs to somehow get Turkey involved and the fact that they aren’t is indicative of a failure of our diplomacy.  The discussion also moves on to an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by Congress, which all panel members are in agreement on needs to be passed. The nObama regime also claims to want one so it should be a relatively easy thing to do.

     Krauthammer believes we need to take it one step further, that Congress needs to actually declare war on ISIS, providing us much more latitude in conducting offensive actions against our enemy wherever they are.

http://www.rickwells.us/krauthammer-u-s-make-formal-declaration-war-isis/



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I think there are several serious issues brought up in the article below (and several others I’ve read recently) about Article V Convention of States that should be addressed.  But so far...I haven't found anybody who’s answering a couple of mine.  I think Article V could be disastrous for America with the way the Emperor and Congress are getting in bed with each other.  I suspect the safest way this can be averted is for all 50 states to secede from the Union and partner with each other to overcome Federal grab.  Another question nobody is answering is WHY is Soros in favor of this?  Why is he one of the people backing it?  We KNOW it’s not because he cares what happens to the “peasants” in America.  It sends up a HUGE red flag to me that he’s already figured out a way to manipulate and subvert it.  One thing I advise EVERYBODY…do NOT follow anyone blindly.  Do your own investigating and research before signing or voting for anything. 

 

Many grassroots, Tea Party, and Christian groups are being infiltrated with progressive ideas by people presenting themselves as Conservatives, Christians, or Patriots.   We must all be truth seekers.  Do NOT accept any information without checking out both the message AND the person.  Just because someone claims to be something, doesn’t mean they are.  Everyone / everything needs to be vetted.  Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow, but it is the truth.

 

You may want to read this article as well—“Exposing the Convention of the States (COS) as an Article V Constitutional Convention … and Who’s Behind It All, including Soros & Levin”

 

http://securetherepublic.com/blog/2013/12/08/exposing-the-convention-of-the-states-cos-as-an-article-v-constitutional-convention/

 

 

 

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/delegates-article-v-convention-cant-controlled-state-laws/

 

Delegates to an Article V Convention Can’t be Controlled by State Laws!

 

Our Declaration of Independence (2nd para) sets forth our long forgotten Founding Principles that:

 

  • All men are created equal.
  • Rights come from God.
  • People create governments to secure God-given rights. The first three words of our Constitution throw off the European model where political power originates with the State; and establish the new Principle that WE THE PEOPLE are the "pure, original fountain of all legitimate political authority" (Federalist No. 22, last sentence).
  • When a government seeks to take away our God given rights, we have the right to alter, abolish, or throw off that Form of government.

 

These are the Principles which justified our Revolution against a King.

 

These are also the Principles which permit us today to throw off our Form of government by discarding our existing Constitution and replacing it with another one. This is why the language at Article V of our Constitution, which authorizes Congress to call a convention "for proposing amendments", does not restrict Delegates to merely "proposing amendments": Delegates are invested with that inherent pre-existing sovereign right, recognized in our Declaration, to abolish our existing Form of government (our Constitution) and propose a new Constitution.

 

This has happened once before in our Country. I'll show you.

 

The Federal Convention of 1787: Federal and State Instructions to Delegates

 

Pursuant to Article XIII of The Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress resolved on February 21, 1787 (p 71-74) to call a convention to be held at Philadelphia

"for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation".

 

The Continental Congress authorized each of the then 13 States to appoint Delegates to the convention. Twelve of the States 1 made laws respecting the appointment of Delegates and issuing instructions to Delegates. Ten States instructed their Delegates to propose alterations to the Articles of Confederation; and only two (North Carolina and New Hampshire) gave instructions which arguably permitted their Delegates to do more than propose alterations to the Articles of Confederation. 2

 

But the Delegates ignored the federal and State limitations and wrote a new Constitution.  Because of this inherent authority of Delegatesit is impossible to stop it from happening at another convention.

 

The Delegates also instituted an easier mode of ratification. Whereas Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation required approval of all of the then 13 States before an amendment could be ratified; Article VII of the new Constitution provided that only 9 States were required for ratification of the new Constitution.

 

Why is an Article V Convention Dangerous?

So! Do you see?

 

If we have a convention today, there is nothing to stop Delegates from proposing a new Constitution with its own new method of ratification.

 

New Constitutions are already prepared and waiting for a convention. Here are three:

  • Fifty years ago, the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations produced the Constitution for the Newstates of AmericaIt is ratified by a referendum called by the President [Art 12, Sec. 1]. If we have a convention, and Delegates propose the Newstates Constitution, it doesn't go to the States for ratification – it goes directly to the President to call a Referendum. The States are dissolved and replaced by regional governments answerable to the new national government. Read the Newstates Constitution and tremble for your country.
  • The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA has a Constitution for The New Socialist Republic in North America.
  • The Constitution 2020 movement is funded by George Soros and supported by Marxist law professors and Marxist groups all over the Country, Cass Sunstein and Eric Holder. They want a Marxist Constitution and they want it in place by the year 2020. It further appears that Soros is funding much of the current push for an Article V convention.

 

Warnings from the Wise

 

Brilliant men have warned against an Article V convention. It is immoral
to dismiss their warnings:

 

  • Alexander Hamilton writes of "the utter improbability of assembling a new convention, under circumstances in any degree so favorable to a happy issue, as those in which the late convention met, deliberated, and concluded…"  Federalist No. 85 (9th para)
  • James Madison writes in his Nov. 2, 1788 letter to Turberville that he "trembled" at the prospect of a second convention; and that an Article V Convention would give "the most violent partizans" and "individuals of insidious views" "a dangerous opportunity of sapping the very foundations of the fabric" of our CountryIn Federalist No. 49he shows that the convention method is NOT GOOD to correct breaches of the federal constitution because the People aren't philosophers – they follow what influential people tell them! And the very legislators who caused the problem would get themselves seats at the convention so they could control the outcome.
  • Former US Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg reminds us in his Sep. 14, 1986 article in The Miami Herald, that at the convention of 1787, the delegates ignored their instructions from the Continental Congress and instead of proposing amendments to the Articles of Confederation, wrote a new Constitution. He warns that "…any attempt at limiting the agenda [of the convention] would almost certainly be unenforceable."
  • Former US Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Berger warns in his June 1988 letter to Phyllis Schlafly that "there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention"; "After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don't like its agenda"; and "A new Convention could plunge our Nation into constitutional confusion and confrontation at every turn…"

 

Can State Laws Control Delegates?

Convention supporters say we don't have to worry about any of the above because States can make laws controlling their Delegates.

 

Really? James Madison, Father of our Constitution and a consistent opponent of the convention method of proposing amendments, didn't know that. Two US Supreme Court Justices didn't know that. They said there is no effective way to control the Delegates.

But in case you are uncertain as to who is telling you the Truth – and who isn't - I will show you how easily State laws which pretend to control Delegates can be circumvented.

Let's use House Bill 148, recently filed in the New Hampshire Legislature, to illustrate this:

 

Section 20-C:2 I. of the New Hampshire bill says:

"No delegate from New Hampshire to the Article V convention shall have the authority to allow consideration, consider, or approve an unauthorized amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America." [italics mine]

Section 20-C:1 V. of the bill defines "unauthorized amendment" as:

 

"any amendment outside the scope permitted by the Article V petition passed by the general court of New Hampshire".

What is wrong with this?

  • It doesn't prohibit New Hampshire Delegates from proposing or approving a new Constitution.
  • Article V of the US Constitution provides that Amendments will be proposed at the convention. Any state laws contrary to Article V must fall under the supremacy clause at Article VI, US Constitution.
  • New Hampshire Delegates can't restrict Delegates from other States.
  • It ignores the inherent sovereign authority of Delegates to throw off both their State governments and the federal government by proposing a new constitution with whatever new mode of ratification they want. Remember! Under the proposed Newstates Constitution, the States are dissolved and replaced by regional governments answerable to the new national government.

 

And if the States already know what amendments they want, they should tell their State congressional delegations to propose them in Congress. This is the method James Madison always advised.

 

Section 20-C:2 II. of the New Hampshire bill says:

 

"Any vote taken by a delegate from New Hampshire at the Article V convention in violation of paragraph I of this section shall be null and void. Any delegate making this vote shall be immediately disqualified from serving as a delegate to the Article V convention."

 

What is wrong with this?

 

Section 20-C:2 III. of the New Hampshire bill says:

"Every delegate from New Hampshire to the Article V convention called for by the Article V petition shall be required to take the following oath:"

 

"I do solemnly swear or affirm that to the best of my abilities, I will, as a delegate to the Article V convention, uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the state of New Hampshire. I will accept and will act according to the limits of the authority as a delegate granted to me by New Hampshire law, and I will not vote to consider or approve any unauthorized amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America. I understand and accept any penalties that may be imposed on me by New Hampshire law for violating this oath." [boldface mine]

 

Does one need to comment on the efficacy of Oaths of Office in our degenerate times? Article II, §1, last clause, of our Constitution requires the President to take an Oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"; and Article VI, last clause, requires everyone in the federal and State governments to take an oath to obey the Constitution.

 

Who today honors his Oath of Office?

 

Section 20-C:2 IV. of the New Hampshire bill says:

"Any delegate who violates the oath contained in paragraph III of this section shall be subject to the maximum criminal penalty under RSA 641:2."

 

Any criminal defense attorney worth her salt can figure out how to get around this one:

 

  • As shown above, if the proceedings of the convention are kept secret, or Delegates vote by secret ballot, one would never know if any one Delegate violated his oath. Defense counsel would get any attempted criminal prosecution of any particular Delegate dismissed at a pretrial hearing.
  • Congress can pass a law granting immunity from prosecution to the Delegates.
  • The Delegates can insert a clause in the new constitution granting themselves immunity from prosecution.
  • If the new constitution abolishes the States, as does the Newstates Constitution, there is no State left to prosecute Delegates.
  • The local prosecutor is the one who decides whether he will prosecute any criminal offense under his jurisdiction. Politics are a deciding factor in deciding whether to prosecute. Remember Eric Holder refused to prosecute Black Panthers who intimidated white voters at a polling place?

 

Do you see? James Madison, Justice Arthur Goldberg, and Justice Warren Burger were right: It is impossible to restrict the Delegates.

 

Everything to Lose, Nothing to Gain

 

If there is a convention today, George Washington, James Madison, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton won't be there to protect you. Who will the Delegates be? You don't know. Do you trust them?

 

Our Framers never said that when the federal [and State] government violate the Constitution, the remedy is to amend the Constitution they violate. They never said the remedy is to file a lawsuit and let federal judges decide.

 

They expected us to act as they did – with "manly firmness" 3 - and resist unconstitutional acts of the federal and state governments. Our Constitution doesn't need "fixing" – it needs to be read and enforced by our votes; and failing that, by manly opposition - resistance - nullification.

 

Endnotes:

1 Rhode Island boycotted the Convention. See RI's Statement of Reasons in document at 2 below.

2 For the texts of the States' instructions to their Delegates and a helpful commentary, go to Principled Policy Blog HERE.

3 The 7th paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says: "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people." 

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By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

We seek the truth and let the people know. An informed citizenry is vital for the preservation of our democracy. Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. http://themoneygps.com/

Demand the teaching of our immigrant’s history in the schools.

http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/mi-historia/

America is our country, the land of immigrants that come in search of economic freedom and liberty to be the best they can be through self-determination; many of us know what is like to be an immigrant and what we went through to gain the acceptance and respect of our community. First generation of immigrants is the ones that paid the price so their sons and daughters can have a better life here in American, no matter where we come from, we suffered discrimination and exploitation. The land of the free to the new immigrants becomes the land of the oppressor and the predator that was determined to destroy the immigrant. The irony of this behavior is that they complete forgot about their pass and what they went through when they come as immigrants and the humiliation they experience by discrimination and exploitation to the point that many immigrants were persecute and killed just for being an immigrant.

Today, we must deal with our present immigration issue, and we must acknowledge that we are the ones that are to be blame for this immigration issue. We are the ones that allowed this to take place, Illegal immigration is the result of our failure to enforce our laws, we turned a blind eyes to this issue by convenience, the illegal immigrants are the source of cheap labor, so we do nothing because we benefit from this cheap labor and the exploitation of these people that come here, like us and the millions of immigrants that come to this country before us.

The truth is that Obama have the opportunity to pass an immigration reform in 2004; he had the support of Democratic control of both houses of the United States Congress; and this issue could be resolve as the first act, by the Obama administration after assuming control in 2004, but he preferred to use this issue as a political tool to get political power in the future as projecting an image that he was working on this issue, he continue using this issue by passing the dream act.  Democrats and Republicans use the issue of immigration reform to gain political points at the expenses of human beings that the only thing they want is to have the opportunity to be part of this country, and we did it and our fathers before us.

Fellow Americans 2015 is the time to deal with this issue of immigration reform; this is a matter of human rights and social justice, the exploitation of the illegal immigrants and the incertitude of their families must end.  We must remember that ones we were the new immigrants and were exploited oppressed, discriminate and treated like second class citizens; we do not want to do this to the new immigrants nor to the illegal immigrants; we must embrace this new source of human capital and do our best to educate them and teach them our history and our contribution we made to make this country great.  We are a Christian nation, we believe in our God given rights to freedom, liberty, self-determination and being our brother’s keeper. This is our land the land of the free build by immigrants.

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Our founding fathers come to seek freedom and social justice.

 http://www.history.com/topics/mayflower

The First English Settlements

http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/the-first-english-settlements/

European expansion displaced the Native American peoples.

http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/french-and-indian-war/

German immigrants

http://immigrationinamerica.org/519-german-immigrants.html

Why do they come?.

http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim_wy.html

American- slavery of the Black people.

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery

DISCRIMINATION AND EXPLOITATION AGAINST THE IRISH

http://www.longislandwins.com/news/detail/irish_green_and_black_america_race_on_the_edge_of_civil_war

http://www.sjusd.org/leland/teachers/sgillis/immigration/pdf/irish.pdf

East Asians of the United States exploited and discriminated.

http://apwumembers.apwu.org/laborhistory/04-3_chineserailroadworkers/04-3_chineserailroadworkers.htm

Japanese immigrants 1880

http://archive.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/ja/ja.htm

The Italian Immigrant Experience in America

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/3/99.03.06.x.html

Immigrants in their own land

http://www.farmworkers.org/immigrat.html

We are a nation of immigrants.

http://crfimmigrationed.org/index.php/lessons-for-teachers/72-history-lesson-2

http://www.us-immigration.com/us-immigration-news/us-immigration/facts-about-immigration-to-the-united-states/?gclid=CNbHgKOn1cMCFZU0aQodCHYAyQ

Documentary Latino Americans Foreigners in our Own Land Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-xrxHXSAuc

Documentary | Latino Americans: Empire of Dreams (Episode 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4as0wwE2o

Documentary | Latino Americans: War and Peace (Episode 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIStyHZZg4

Documentary | Latino Americans: The New Latinos (Episode 4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kcW10HHXQ

Documentary | Latino Americans: Prejudice and Pride (Episode 5)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2h7evKd3y8

Documentary | Latino Americans: Peril and Promise (Episode 6)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JK3Q0f3yWc

 The war profiteers, got rich at the expenses and the lives of Americans.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-from-war/1970997/

We are proud to be Latino Americans. This is our land.

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TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Low Gas Prices? Obama Says, ‘You’re Welcome’

As we’ve noted on numerous occasions, U.S. oil production is up and demand is down, leading to lower prices. Increased production is taking place entirely on private lands, yet, once again, Barack Obama is happy to take the credit. On Friday, he told a crowd of adoring supporters, “We’re as free of foreign oil as we’ve been in 30 years. We’ve doubled the amount of clean energy that we’re producing. A lot of families are saving a lot of money at the gas pump, which is putting some smiles on folks' faces.” His remarks received a smattering of chuckles and applause, to which he arrogantly responded, “You’re welcome.” His policies have nothing to do with lower gas prices. Indeed, those lower prices have happened despite his best efforts. He did warn, “[A]t some point, [gas prices] are going to go back up.” He has plans…

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2015 National Security Blueprint Gives America the Blues

Recent terrorist attacks serve as a gruesome reminder that Jihadistan remains a critical threat. In fact, at no other time in history have jihadis controlled such vast swaths of land and boasted such a powerful upper hand. Sadly, rising turmoil has done nothing to sway Barack Obama, who only reaffirmed he’s content to keep the issue on the back burner. His latest national security blueprintcontains phony diversions like global warming and homosexual rights, while underestimating the world’s greatest enemy. According to the Associated Press, “Obama says the United States must resist the urge to ‘overreach’ abroad, as he outlined a new national security strategy Friday that is meant to serve as a blueprint for his final two years in office. The 29-page document hews closely to Obama’s long-held views of America’s role in the world and forecasts no major shifts in the military campaign against Islamic State militants or in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” That’s rich, coming from a man who oversteps his constitutional authority every opportunity he can get. These “national security” protocols literally aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. More…

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Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Victims

After the Obama administration spent years calling Nidal Hasan’s murderous attack at Fort Hood an episode of “workplace violence,” and thus denying Purple Hearts for the victims, sanity has finally prevailed. Announcing the decision, Secretary of the Army John McHugh wrote, “The Purple Heart’s strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood. Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized. It’s an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice.” Rep. John Carter (R-TX) fought long and hard to win this battle against foolish political correctness. “The victims of this attack have struggled, suffered and been abandoned by this Administration,” he said. “No more. Today is a day of victory and I am honored to have fought on their behalf.” Clearly, Hasan was in contact with foreign terrorists, and shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he pulled the trigger. No jihadi is a lone-wolf, and Hasan’s rampage was a terrorist attack on our men and women in uniform – they deserve appropriate recognition. More…

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Eric Holder’s Biggest Failure: No Gun Control

The outgoing attorney general certainly tried. First, there was Operation Fast and Furious, the program that was supposed to track how U.S. guns were making their way to Mexican cartels. Then, Eric Holder pressured the FDIC to dry up the loans going to the firearm industry usingOperation Choke Point, skirting Congress and the open lawmaking process. There was even the political push to pass federal gun control because of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. It was the latter that Holder points to as the greatest failure of his tenure at the Department of Justice. Holder told MSNBC Sunday, “Well, I’ll say this, [viewing the aftermath of Sandy Hook] was the worst day I had as attorney general. It is, I think, the single failure that I point to in my time as attorney general that I was not able to … convince Congress to really follow the will of the American people – which was to enact meaningful, reasonable gun-safety measures. The gun lobby simply won.” In other words, Liberty was preserved, despite a partisan attorney general with an agenda. More…

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Brian Williams Disappears as More Disinformation Emerges

In response to the allegations that he lied about embellishing an Iraq war story, celebrity NBC anchor Brian Williams took a leave of absence and canceled an appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” to lay low until this whole scandal blows over. “As Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News,” he wrote in a statement, “I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days. … Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us.” However, Williams' stories of braggadocio continue to multiply and grow. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air theorizes that the reason NBC staffers have not come forward to contradict or confirm Williams' Iraq war story is that they edited the footage to suggest their chopper was attacked. Combined with the possibly embellished accounts of Williams witnessing Hezbollah rockets and claiming to see a dead body floating in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina, Williams is demonstrating a gonzo streak more at home in Rolling Stone.

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Barack the Lyin'heart Goes on Crusade

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In one of the more appalling moments of his presidency, Barack Obama demonstrated last Thursday an unprecedented level of moral bankruptcy, a breathtaking ignorance of history, and utter contempt for a country that twice elected him to the highest office in the land.

The scene was the National Prayer Breakfast, which took place exactly two days after ISIL released a 22-minute video showing captured Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive. And in one of the most ham-fisted attempts by any politician to downplay the connection between a group of bloodthirsty thugs operating under the self-professed banner of Islam and Islam itself, Obama decided that putting Christianity on the same footing as ISIL was the right thing to do.

“Lest we get on our high horse and think this [barbarity] is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama declared. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Once again, Obama feels the need to belittle or apologize for America in a pathetic attempt to produce moral equivalency. And even then, he gets it wrong or omits half the story. As noted Islamic historian Bernard Lewis writes, “The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad – a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war.”

As for the Inquisition, there were several, spanning the 12th and 13th centuries, including some that were secular in nature. In 1998, the Vatican granted 30 scholars access to the archives of the Holy Office, the modern successor to the Inquisition. These scholars produced an 800-page report concluding the barbarism attributed to them was vastly overstated. “The Inquisition was not born out of desire to crush diversity or oppress people; it was rather an attempt to stop unjust executions,” notes historian Thomas F. Madden.

As for slavery and Jim Crow, Obama neglected two things: Slavery was universally practiced by all cultures for centuries, and Christians led the charge in abolishing slavery in the West. Moreover, millions of Christians opposed the institutionalized segregation of Jim Crow that was ultimately undone by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

None of this is meant to excuse abuses, or those who used Christianity as an excuse to perpetrate them. But note the president had to reach at least 50 years into America’s past – and nearly a thousand years into Church history – to find behavioral and cultural comparisons with what Islamist barbarians are doing right now. Furthermore, Christianity and America have engendered something most Muslim nations and Islam have not: genuine reformation.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aptly addressed that reality. “It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

And let’s not forget part of the Islamic threat includes enslavement – again happening right now. In December, ISIL published a pamphlet entitled “Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves.” Nigeria’s Boko Haram has also sold young girls into slavery, apparently unfazed by the fierce #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign launched against them.

Atrocities Jindal listed as well as the ongoing slave trade were all done in the name of Islam, even as our president has fought tooth and nail to avoid using that term. That is, until Obama finally admitted at the same National Prayer Breakfast that the world’s foremost terror threat is being engineered by those who “profess to stand up for Islam but instead betray it” – followed immediately by his denigration of Christianity. Moreover, it is interesting to note that when Obama was illuminating Christianity’s shortcomings he referred to them as being perpetrated “in the name of Christ.” Would he ever speak of the Islamist’s current depredations being perpetrated “in the name of Muhammad?”

Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, gets to the real bankruptcy behind the president’s invidious comparison. “When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ,” he told Fox News' Todd Starnes. “They cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’”

Perhaps Obama could point to a group of Christians currently engaging in savagery similar to that of ISIL, denounced by the UN last Wednesday for engaging in “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities … including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive.”

How tone deaf is Obama? He made his inflammatory remarks at a breakfast commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide – during which more than a millionpredominantly Christian Armenians were exterminated by Muslim Turks.

It appears there is something profoundly lacking in the mental makeup of Obama. This is a man who spent more than two minutes at a Tribal Nations Conference in 2009 making introductory remarks and offering a “shout out” to a Medal of Honor recipient – before mentioning that Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, had just killed 13 and wounded 31 soldiers at Fort Hood. When Muslims murdered ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods in Benghazi in 2012, Obama handed off the crisis to then-Secretary of State Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, not to be heard from again until he turned up at a fundraiser in Las Vegas the following day. Literally minutes after announcing Muslims had beheaded American journalist James Foley, Obama went golfing – and blamed the ensuing firestorm on the press and “bad optics.”

All of those were appalling moments as well. And perhaps what Americans should fear most is what this president is capable of doing “in the name of Obama.”

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Lessons From an Unenduring Majority

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A 2002 book, “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” posited, as the title suggests, an “enduring Democratic majority” in the wake of “permanent changes” to America’s demography. Co-authored by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, the book’s central idea – the heart of the Emerging Democratic Majority (“EDM”) theory – was that the Democrat Party had amassed such a solid coalition of voters over the decades that the party could endure occasional bad election cycles and still retain control of the levers of government over the long haul. Recently revisiting his book, Judis noted it is, well, wrong. How times change.

Sadly for EDM – and every other Democrat-ideology theory forced into sustained contact with reality – the theory was flawed. It turns out – to paraphrase Mark Twain – news of the Republican Party’s death was greatly exaggerated. Whathasn’t been exaggerated is the magnitude of just how far the authors' theory missed the mark. The theory wasn’t just wrong: It was exactly wrong – a feat extremely difficult even for Democrats to pull off. As Noah Rothman notes at Hot Air, the fatal flaw in EDM is, “Voters expected results from the party in which they had vested new authority.” After the better part of a decade getting none – or should we say the wrongresults – voters learned to vote with their feet, walking out on Democrats at the polls.

The results of that reality check have been telling. Americans do not believe Democrats can provide economic security, let alone national security. The Democrat Party has become the party of racial, social and economic division, promoting class warfare as a primary means to gain political power, at the expense of all. It has accelerated national spending to a point of unfathomable debt, reincarnated the permanent welfare state, and turned public education into a 12-year babysitting service in which children simply bide time until they are turned out onto the streets of reality, lacking critical skills to become productive members of society.

In broad brushstrokes, in the wake of the contentious Barack Obama Era, Democrats have lost both the House and the Senate, lost control of 69 of 99 state-level legislative chambers, and lost countless officeholder seats. In short, the Democrat Party is in its worst position in 90 years. Americans no longer believe Democrats can deliver on any of their Pollyanna visions of the future.

Lest Republicans succumb to the same ruinous party-in-majority arrogance that (at least for the time being) wiped out the Democrats, we should warn that there’s a lesson here for everypolitician. The lesson is this: Ignoring or mistaking the will of the people can be hazardous to one’s political health.

Surveying the Democrat debris in the wake of the 2014 midterm Republican wave, the Chosen One commented, “To everyone that voted, I want you to know that I heard you.” The problem is that in his arrogance he didn’t hear. Immediately following his seemingly conciliatory statement, he punchlined, “To two-thirds of voters that chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.” Sure, Barry: It wasn’t popular will, it was just all those eeevil Republicans holding “the people” back from the polls. Any wonder why Democrats went 0-for-2 in Obama’s midterm cycles?

Summarizing the myriad lessons-learned littering the landscape of Democrats' political destruction, we offer the same advice to Democrats as we do to Republicans: Take time to do the hard thinking to connect the dots between our nation’s core founding principles and today’s voters. The notion that a party can have an enduring majority without understanding the fundamental principles upon which America was founded is mistaken. The same is true for a party that ignores or misunderstands the will of America’s voters. Listen to the Founders. Then listen to the voters. That’s how to create an “enduring majority.” Anything else is just another political theory on the ash heap of history.

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TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS

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OPINION IN BRIEF

The Gipper: “We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. … But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.”

Columnist Jeff Jacoby: “Perhaps the most chilling words ever written about book-burning were penned in 1821 by the great German poet Heinrich Heine: Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen – ‘Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.’ … Just one day after news emerged of the book-burnings in the Islamic State’s so-called ‘caliphate,’ the jihadists released a video exulting in the horrific murder of Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burned alive in a metal cage. There is something uniquely diabolical about setting books on fire, a lust to obliterate that almost ineluctably leads to even more dreadful evils. It is no coincidence that those obsessed with annihilating the physical expression of dangerous thoughts or teachings so often move on to annihilating the people who think or teach them. … Any brute can burn parchment, or ransack a library, or blow up a mosque, or bulldoze cultural treasures. But not even mighty armies can destroy the ideas they embody. … ISIS can’t either.”

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FRC president Tony Perkins: “[Obama] didn’t mention his stop in Saudi Arabia on the way back to this country, and the fact that they rank by his own State Department as one of the worst abusers of religious freedom in the world. Did he publicly lecture the Saudis for their current climate of oppression? Did he try attending a Christian church during his stop there? I’m sure he didn’t because there are no Christian churches in Saudi Arabia. They’re illegal. Mr. President, the next time one of your family members becomes ill, try finding a local Muslim hospital. Or the next time your motorcade speeds through a town whose economy has been shuttered by your big government economic policies, try referring people to the local Islamic homeless shelter. In your next speech about families, maybe you could challenge Americans to consider adoption through the local Muslim adoption agency. The reality is, Christianity isn’t just the largest religion in America, it’s also the most charitable. And disheartening as this may be to your worldview, Mr. President, America was in fact founded on Christian truths and principles – and it’s that heritage that makes America an exceptional nation.”

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Comedian Conan O'Brien: “Brian Williams has admitted he embellished a story about being in a helicopter that was shot at in Iraq. Williams says the helicopter part was true, but it was a coin-operated helicopter outside of a Chuck E. Cheese.”

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform – Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen – standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families.

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THE FOUNDATION

“As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.” –John Adams, Discourses on Davila

TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS

Low Gas Prices? Obama Says, ‘You’re Welcome’

As we’ve noted on numerous occasions, U.S. oil production is up and demand is down, leading to lower prices. Increased production is taking place entirely on private lands, yet, once again, Barack Obama is happy to take the credit. On Friday, he told a crowd of adoring supporters, “We’re as free of foreign oil as we’ve been in 30 years. We’ve doubled the amount of clean energy that we’re producing. A lot of families are saving a lot of money at the gas pump, which is putting some smiles on folks' faces.” His remarks received a smattering of chuckles and applause, to which he arrogantly responded, “You’re welcome.” His policies have nothing to do with lower gas prices. Indeed, those lower prices have happened despite his best efforts. He did warn, “[A]t some point, [gas prices] are going to go back up.” He has plans…

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2015 National Security Blueprint Gives America the Blues

Recent terrorist attacks serve as a gruesome reminder that Jihadistan remains a critical threat. In fact, at no other time in history have jihadis controlled such vast swaths of land and boasted such a powerful upper hand. Sadly, rising turmoil has done nothing to sway Barack Obama, who only reaffirmed he’s content to keep the issue on the back burner. His latest national security blueprintcontains phony diversions like global warming and homosexual rights, while underestimating the world’s greatest enemy. According to the Associated Press, “Obama says the United States must resist the urge to ‘overreach’ abroad, as he outlined a new national security strategy Friday that is meant to serve as a blueprint for his final two years in office. The 29-page document hews closely to Obama’s long-held views of America’s role in the world and forecasts no major shifts in the military campaign against Islamic State militants or in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” That’s rich, coming from a man who oversteps his constitutional authority every opportunity he can get. These “national security” protocols literally aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. More…

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Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Victims

After the Obama administration spent years calling Nidal Hasan’s murderous attack at Fort Hood an episode of “workplace violence,” and thus denying Purple Hearts for the victims, sanity has finally prevailed. Announcing the decision, Secretary of the Army John McHugh wrote, “The Purple Heart’s strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood. Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized. It’s an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice.” Rep. John Carter (R-TX) fought long and hard to win this battle against foolish political correctness. “The victims of this attack have struggled, suffered and been abandoned by this Administration,” he said. “No more. Today is a day of victory and I am honored to have fought on their behalf.” Clearly, Hasan was in contact with foreign terrorists, and shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he pulled the trigger. No jihadi is a lone-wolf, and Hasan’s rampage was a terrorist attack on our men and women in uniform – they deserve appropriate recognition. More…

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Eric Holder’s Biggest Failure: No Gun Control

The outgoing attorney general certainly tried. First, there was Operation Fast and Furious, the program that was supposed to track how U.S. guns were making their way to Mexican cartels. Then, Eric Holder pressured the FDIC to dry up the loans going to the firearm industry usingOperation Choke Point, skirting Congress and the open lawmaking process. There was even the political push to pass federal gun control because of the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. It was the latter that Holder points to as the greatest failure of his tenure at the Department of Justice. Holder told MSNBC Sunday, “Well, I’ll say this, [viewing the aftermath of Sandy Hook] was the worst day I had as attorney general. It is, I think, the single failure that I point to in my time as attorney general that I was not able to … convince Congress to really follow the will of the American people – which was to enact meaningful, reasonable gun-safety measures. The gun lobby simply won.” In other words, Liberty was preserved, despite a partisan attorney general with an agenda. More…

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Brian Williams Disappears as More Disinformation Emerges

In response to the allegations that he lied about embellishing an Iraq war story, celebrity NBC anchor Brian Williams took a leave of absence and canceled an appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” to lay low until this whole scandal blows over. “As Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News,” he wrote in a statement, “I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days. … Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us.” However, Williams' stories of braggadocio continue to multiply and grow. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air theorizes that the reason NBC staffers have not come forward to contradict or confirm Williams' Iraq war story is that they edited the footage to suggest their chopper was attacked. Combined with the possibly embellished accounts of Williams witnessing Hezbollah rockets and claiming to see a dead body floating in the French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina, Williams is demonstrating a gonzo streak more at home in Rolling Stone.

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Barack the Lyin'heart Goes on Crusade

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In one of the more appalling moments of his presidency, Barack Obama demonstrated last Thursday an unprecedented level of moral bankruptcy, a breathtaking ignorance of history, and utter contempt for a country that twice elected him to the highest office in the land.

The scene was the National Prayer Breakfast, which took place exactly two days after ISIL released a 22-minute video showing captured Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive. And in one of the most ham-fisted attempts by any politician to downplay the connection between a group of bloodthirsty thugs operating under the self-professed banner of Islam and Islam itself, Obama decided that putting Christianity on the same footing as ISIL was the right thing to do.

“Lest we get on our high horse and think this [barbarity] is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama declared. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Once again, Obama feels the need to belittle or apologize for America in a pathetic attempt to produce moral equivalency. And even then, he gets it wrong or omits half the story. As noted Islamic historian Bernard Lewis writes, “The Crusades could more accurately be described as a limited, belated and, in the last analysis, ineffectual response to the jihad – a failed attempt to recover by a Christian holy war what had been lost to a Muslim holy war.”

As for the Inquisition, there were several, spanning the 12th and 13th centuries, including some that were secular in nature. In 1998, the Vatican granted 30 scholars access to the archives of the Holy Office, the modern successor to the Inquisition. These scholars produced an 800-page report concluding the barbarism attributed to them was vastly overstated. “The Inquisition was not born out of desire to crush diversity or oppress people; it was rather an attempt to stop unjust executions,” notes historian Thomas F. Madden.

As for slavery and Jim Crow, Obama neglected two things: Slavery was universally practiced by all cultures for centuries, and Christians led the charge in abolishing slavery in the West. Moreover, millions of Christians opposed the institutionalized segregation of Jim Crow that was ultimately undone by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

None of this is meant to excuse abuses, or those who used Christianity as an excuse to perpetrate them. But note the president had to reach at least 50 years into America’s past – and nearly a thousand years into Church history – to find behavioral and cultural comparisons with what Islamist barbarians are doing right now. Furthermore, Christianity and America have engendered something most Muslim nations and Islam have not: genuine reformation.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal aptly addressed that reality. “It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

And let’s not forget part of the Islamic threat includes enslavement – again happening right now. In December, ISIL published a pamphlet entitled “Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves.” Nigeria’s Boko Haram has also sold young girls into slavery, apparently unfazed by the fierce #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign launched against them.

Atrocities Jindal listed as well as the ongoing slave trade were all done in the name of Islam, even as our president has fought tooth and nail to avoid using that term. That is, until Obama finally admitted at the same National Prayer Breakfast that the world’s foremost terror threat is being engineered by those who “profess to stand up for Islam but instead betray it” – followed immediately by his denigration of Christianity. Moreover, it is interesting to note that when Obama was illuminating Christianity’s shortcomings he referred to them as being perpetrated “in the name of Christ.” Would he ever speak of the Islamist’s current depredations being perpetrated “in the name of Muhammad?”

Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, gets to the real bankruptcy behind the president’s invidious comparison. “When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ,” he told Fox News' Todd Starnes. “They cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’”

Perhaps Obama could point to a group of Christians currently engaging in savagery similar to that of ISIL, denounced by the UN last Wednesday for engaging in “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities … including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive.”

How tone deaf is Obama? He made his inflammatory remarks at a breakfast commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide – during which more than a millionpredominantly Christian Armenians were exterminated by Muslim Turks.

It appears there is something profoundly lacking in the mental makeup of Obama. This is a man who spent more than two minutes at a Tribal Nations Conference in 2009 making introductory remarks and offering a “shout out” to a Medal of Honor recipient – before mentioning that Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, had just killed 13 and wounded 31 soldiers at Fort Hood. When Muslims murdered ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods in Benghazi in 2012, Obama handed off the crisis to then-Secretary of State Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, not to be heard from again until he turned up at a fundraiser in Las Vegas the following day. Literally minutes after announcing Muslims had beheaded American journalist James Foley, Obama went golfing – and blamed the ensuing firestorm on the press and “bad optics.”

All of those were appalling moments as well. And perhaps what Americans should fear most is what this president is capable of doing “in the name of Obama.”

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Lessons From an Unenduring Majority

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A 2002 book, “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” posited, as the title suggests, an “enduring Democratic majority” in the wake of “permanent changes” to America’s demography. Co-authored by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, the book’s central idea – the heart of the Emerging Democratic Majority (“EDM”) theory – was that the Democrat Party had amassed such a solid coalition of voters over the decades that the party could endure occasional bad election cycles and still retain control of the levers of government over the long haul. Recently revisiting his book, Judis noted it is, well, wrong. How times change.

Sadly for EDM – and every other Democrat-ideology theory forced into sustained contact with reality – the theory was flawed. It turns out – to paraphrase Mark Twain – news of the Republican Party’s death was greatly exaggerated. Whathasn’t been exaggerated is the magnitude of just how far the authors' theory missed the mark. The theory wasn’t just wrong: It was exactly wrong – a feat extremely difficult even for Democrats to pull off. As Noah Rothman notes at Hot Air, the fatal flaw in EDM is, “Voters expected results from the party in which they had vested new authority.” After the better part of a decade getting none – or should we say the wrongresults – voters learned to vote with their feet, walking out on Democrats at the polls.

The results of that reality check have been telling. Americans do not believe Democrats can provide economic security, let alone national security. The Democrat Party has become the party of racial, social and economic division, promoting class warfare as a primary means to gain political power, at the expense of all. It has accelerated national spending to a point of unfathomable debt, reincarnated the permanent welfare state, and turned public education into a 12-year babysitting service in which children simply bide time until they are turned out onto the streets of reality, lacking critical skills to become productive members of society.

In broad brushstrokes, in the wake of the contentious Barack Obama Era, Democrats have lost both the House and the Senate, lost control of 69 of 99 state-level legislative chambers, and lost countless officeholder seats. In short, the Democrat Party is in its worst position in 90 years. Americans no longer believe Democrats can deliver on any of their Pollyanna visions of the future.

Lest Republicans succumb to the same ruinous party-in-majority arrogance that (at least for the time being) wiped out the Democrats, we should warn that there’s a lesson here for everypolitician. The lesson is this: Ignoring or mistaking the will of the people can be hazardous to one’s political health.

Surveying the Democrat debris in the wake of the 2014 midterm Republican wave, the Chosen One commented, “To everyone that voted, I want you to know that I heard you.” The problem is that in his arrogance he didn’t hear. Immediately following his seemingly conciliatory statement, he punchlined, “To two-thirds of voters that chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.” Sure, Barry: It wasn’t popular will, it was just all those eeevil Republicans holding “the people” back from the polls. Any wonder why Democrats went 0-for-2 in Obama’s midterm cycles?

Summarizing the myriad lessons-learned littering the landscape of Democrats' political destruction, we offer the same advice to Democrats as we do to Republicans: Take time to do the hard thinking to connect the dots between our nation’s core founding principles and today’s voters. The notion that a party can have an enduring majority without understanding the fundamental principles upon which America was founded is mistaken. The same is true for a party that ignores or misunderstands the will of America’s voters. Listen to the Founders. Then listen to the voters. That’s how to create an “enduring majority.” Anything else is just another political theory on the ash heap of history.

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The Gipper: “We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. … But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.”

Columnist Jeff Jacoby: “Perhaps the most chilling words ever written about book-burning were penned in 1821 by the great German poet Heinrich Heine: Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen – ‘Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.’ … Just one day after news emerged of the book-burnings in the Islamic State’s so-called ‘caliphate,’ the jihadists released a video exulting in the horrific murder of Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burned alive in a metal cage. There is something uniquely diabolical about setting books on fire, a lust to obliterate that almost ineluctably leads to even more dreadful evils. It is no coincidence that those obsessed with annihilating the physical expression of dangerous thoughts or teachings so often move on to annihilating the people who think or teach them. … Any brute can burn parchment, or ransack a library, or blow up a mosque, or bulldoze cultural treasures. But not even mighty armies can destroy the ideas they embody. … ISIS can’t either.”

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FRC president Tony Perkins: “[Obama] didn’t mention his stop in Saudi Arabia on the way back to this country, and the fact that they rank by his own State Department as one of the worst abusers of religious freedom in the world. Did he publicly lecture the Saudis for their current climate of oppression? Did he try attending a Christian church during his stop there? I’m sure he didn’t because there are no Christian churches in Saudi Arabia. They’re illegal. Mr. President, the next time one of your family members becomes ill, try finding a local Muslim hospital. Or the next time your motorcade speeds through a town whose economy has been shuttered by your big government economic policies, try referring people to the local Islamic homeless shelter. In your next speech about families, maybe you could challenge Americans to consider adoption through the local Muslim adoption agency. The reality is, Christianity isn’t just the largest religion in America, it’s also the most charitable. And disheartening as this may be to your worldview, Mr. President, America was in fact founded on Christian truths and principles – and it’s that heritage that makes America an exceptional nation.”

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The Real History of the Crusades

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by, Thomas F. Madden | Shoebat Foundation & Shoebat.com | h/t Bill Muehlenberg

As a Crusade historian, I found the tranquil solitude of the ivory tower shattered by journalists, editors, and talk-show hosts on tight deadlines eager to get the real scoop. What were the Crusades?, they asked. The Islamic world has a just grievance against the West. Doesn’t the present violence, they persisted, have its roots in the Crusades’ brutal and unprovoked attacks against a sophisticated and tolerant Muslim world? In other words, aren’t the Crusades really to blame?

Osama bin Laden certainly thought so. In his various video performances, he never fails to describe the American war against terrorism as a new Crusade against Islam. Ex-president Bill Clinton has also fingered the Crusades as the root cause of the present conflict. In a speech at Georgetown University, he recounted (and embellished) a massacre of Jews after the Crusader conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 and informed his audience that the episode was still bitterly remembered in the Middle East. (Why Islamist terrorists should be upset about the killing of Jews was not explained.) Clinton took a beating on the nation’s editorial pages for wanting so much to blame the United States that he was willing to reach back to the Middle Ages. Yet no one disputed the ex-president’s fundamental premise.

Well, almost no one. Many historians had been trying to set the record straight on the Crusades long before Clinton discovered them. They are not revisionists, like the American historians who manufactured the Enola Gay exhibit, but mainstream scholars offering the fruit of several decades of very careful, very serious scholarship. For them, this is a “teaching moment,” an opportunity to explain the Crusades while people are actually listening. It won’t last long, so here goes.

The threat of Islam
Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics. They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general. A breed of proto-imperialists, the Crusaders introduced Western aggression to the peaceful Middle East and then deformed the enlightened Muslim culture, leaving it in ruins. For variations on this theme, one need not look far. See, for example, Steven Runciman’s famous three-volume epic, History of the Crusades, or the BBC/A&E documentary, The Crusades, hosted by Terry Jones. Both are terrible history yet wonderfully entertaining.

So what is the truth about the Crusades? Scholars are still working some of that out. But much can already be said with certainty. For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression—an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.

Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. Christianity—and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion—has no abode. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years.

With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed’s death. They were extremely successful. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt—once the most heavily Christian areas in the world—quickly succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul. The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.

Understand the crusaders
That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.

Pope Urban II called upon the knights of Christendom to push back the conquests of Islam at the Council of Clermont in 1095. The response was tremendous. Many thousands of warriors took the vow of the cross and prepared for war. Why did they do it? The answer to that question has been badly misunderstood. In the wake of the Enlightenment, it was usually asserted that Crusaders were merely lacklands and ne’er-do-wells who took advantage of an opportunity to rob and pillage in a faraway land. The Crusaders’ expressed sentiments of piety, self-sacrifice, and love for God were obviously not to be taken seriously. They were only a front for darker designs.

During the past two decades, computer-assisted charter studies have demolished that contrivance. Scholars have discovered that crusading knights were generally wealthy men with plenty of their own land in Europe. Nevertheless, they willingly gave up everything to undertake the holy mission. Crusading was not cheap. Even wealthy lords could easily impoverish themselves and their families by joining a Crusade. They did so not because they expected material wealth (which many of them had already) but because they hoped to store up treasure where rust and moth could not corrupt. They were keenly aware of their sinfulness and eager to undertake the hardships of the Crusade as a penitential act of charity and love. Europe is littered with thousands of medieval charters attesting to these sentiments, charters in which these men still speak to us today if we will listen. Of course, they were not opposed to capturing booty if it could be had. But the truth is that the Crusades were notoriously bad for plunder. A few people got rich, but the vast majority returned with nothing.

What really happened?
Urban II gave the Crusaders two goals, both of which would remain central to the eastern Crusades for centuries. The first was to rescue the Christians of the East. As his successor, Pope Innocent III, later wrote:

How does a man love according to divine precept his neighbor as himself when, knowing that his Christian brothers in faith and in name are held by the perfidious Muslims in strict confinement and weighed down by the yoke of heaviest servitude, he does not devote himself to the task of freeing them? … Is it by chance that you do not know that many thousands of Christians are bound in slavery and imprisoned by the Muslims, tortured with innumerable torments?
“Crusading,” Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith has rightly argued, was understood as an “an act of love”—in this case, the love of one’s neighbor. The Crusade was seen as an errand of mercy to right a terrible wrong. As Pope Innocent III wrote to the Knights Templar, “You carry out in deeds the words of the Gospel, ‘Greater love than this hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friends.’”

The second goal was the liberation of Jerusalem and the other places made holy by the life of Christ. The word crusade is modern. Medieval Crusaders saw themselves as pilgrims, performing acts of righteousness on their way to the Holy Sepulcher. The Crusade indulgence they received was canonically related to the pilgrimage indulgence. This goal was frequently described in feudal terms. When calling the Fifth Crusade in 1215, Innocent III wrote:

Consider most dear sons, consider carefully that if any temporal king was thrown out of his domain and perhaps captured, would he not, when he was restored to his pristine liberty and the time had come for dispensing justice look on his vassals as unfaithful and traitors … unless they had committed not only their property but also their persons to the task of freeing him? … And similarly will not Jesus Christ, the king of kings and lord of lords, whose servant you cannot deny being, who joined your soul to your body, who redeemed you with the Precious Blood … condemn you for the vice of ingratitude and the crime of infidelity if you neglect to help Him?
The re-conquest of Jerusalem, therefore, was not colonialism but an act of restoration and an open declaration of one’s love of God. Medieval men knew, of course, that God had the power to restore Jerusalem Himself—indeed, he had the power to restore the whole world to his rule. Yet as St. Bernard of Clairvaux preached, His refusal to do so was a blessing to His people:

Again I say, consider the Almighty’s goodness and pay heed to His plans of mercy. He puts Himself under obligation to you, or rather feigns to do so, that He can help you to satisfy your obligations toward Himself. … I call blessed the generation that can seize an opportunity of such rich indulgence as this.
It is often assumed that the central goal of the Crusades was forced conversion of the Muslim world. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the perspective of medieval Christians, Muslims were the enemies of Christ and his Church. It was the Crusaders’ task to defeat and defend against them. That was all. Muslims who lived in Crusader-won territories were generally allowed to retain their property and livelihood, and always their religion. Indeed, throughout the history of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Muslim inhabitants far outnumbered the Catholics. It was not until the 13th century that the Franciscans began conversion efforts among Muslims. But these were mostly unsuccessful and finally abandoned. In any case, such efforts were by peaceful persuasion, not the threat of violence.

All apologies
The Crusades were wars, so it would be a mistake to characterize them as nothing but piety and good intentions. Like all warfare, the violence was brutal (although not as brutal as modern wars). There were mishaps, blunders, and crimes. These are usually well-remembered today. During the early days of the First Crusade in 1095, a ragtag band of Crusaders led by Count Emicho of Leiningen made its way down the Rhine, robbing and murdering all the Jews they could find. Without success, the local bishops attempted to stop the carnage. In the eyes of these warriors, the Jews, like the Muslims, were the enemies of Christ. Plundering and killing them, then, was no vice. Indeed, they believed it was a righteous deed, since the Jews’ money could be used to fund the Crusade to Jerusalem. But they were wrong, and the Church strongly condemned the anti-Jewish attacks.

Fifty years later, when the Second Crusade was gearing up, St. Bernard frequently preached that the Jews were not to be persecuted:

Ask anyone who knows the Sacred Scriptures what he finds foretold of the Jews in the Psalm. “Not for their destruction do I pray,” it says. The Jews are for us the living words of Scripture, for they remind us always of what our Lord suffered … Under Christian princes they endure a hard captivity, but “they only wait for the time of their deliverance.”
Nevertheless, a fellow Cistercian monk named Radulf stirred up people against the Rhineland Jews, despite numerous letters from Bernard demanding that he stop. At last Bernard was forced to travel to Germany himself, where he caught up with Radulf, sent him back to his convent, and ended the massacres.

It is often said that the roots of the Holocaust can be seen in these medieval pogroms. That may be. But if so, those roots are far deeper and more widespread than the Crusades. Jews perished during the Crusades, but the purpose of the Crusades was not to kill Jews. Quite the contrary: Popes, bishops, and preachers made it clear that the Jews of Europe were to be left unmolested. In a modern war, we call tragic deaths like these “collateral damage.” Even with smart technologies, the United States has killed far more innocents in our wars than the Crusaders ever could. But no one would seriously argue that the purpose of American wars is to kill women and children.

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The failure of the Crusades
By any reckoning, the First Crusade was a long shot. There was no leader, no chain of command, no supply lines, no detailed strategy. It was simply thousands of warriors marching deep into enemy territory, committed to a common cause. Many of them died, either in battle or through disease or starvation. It was a rough campaign, one that seemed always on the brink of disaster. Yet it was miraculously successful. By 1098, the Crusaders had restored Nicaea and Antioch to Christian rule. In July 1099, they conquered Jerusalem and began to build a Christian state in Palestine. The joy in Europe was unbridled. It seemed that the tide of history, which had lifted the Muslims to such heights, was now turning.

But it was not. When we think about the Middle Ages, it is easy to view Europe in light of what it became rather than what it was. The colossus of the medieval world was Islam, not Christendom. The Crusades are interesting largely because they were an attempt to counter that trend. But in five centuries of crusading, it was only the First Crusade that significantly rolled back the military progress of Islam. It was downhill from there.

When the Crusader County of Edessa fell to the Turks and Kurds in 1144, there was an enormous groundswell of support for a new Crusade in Europe. It was led by two kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany, and preached by St. Bernard himself. It failed miserably. Most of the Crusaders were killed along the way. Those who made it to Jerusalem only made things worse by attacking Muslim Damascus, which formerly had been a strong ally of the Christians. In the wake of such a disaster, Christians across Europe were forced to accept not only the continued growth of Muslim power but the certainty that God was punishing the West for its sins. Lay piety movements sprouted up throughout Europe, all rooted in the desire to purify Christian society so that it might be worthy of victory in the East.

Crusading in the late twelfth century, therefore, became a total war effort. Every person, no matter how weak or poor, was called to help. Warriors were asked to sacrifice their wealth and, if need be, their lives for the defense of the Christian East. On the home front, all Christians were called to support the Crusades through prayer, fasting, and alms. Yet still the Muslims grew in strength. Saladin, the great unifier, had forged the Muslim Near East into a single entity, all the while preaching jihad against the Christians. In 1187 at the Battle of Hattin, his forces wiped out the combined armies of the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem and captured the precious relic of the True Cross. Defenseless, the Christian cities began surrendering one by one, culminating in the surrender of Jerusalem on October 2. Only a tiny handful of ports held out.

The response was the Third Crusade. It was led by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa of the German Empire, King Philip II Augustus of France, and King Richard I Lionheart of England. By any measure it was a grand affair, although not quite as grand as the Christians had hoped. The aged Frederick drowned while crossing a river on horseback, so his army returned home before reaching the Holy Land. Philip and Richard came by boat, but their incessant bickering only added to an already divisive situation on the ground in Palestine. After recapturing Acre, the king of France went home, where he busied himself carving up Richard’s French holdings. The Crusade, therefore, fell into Richard’s lap. A skilled warrior, gifted leader, and superb tactician, Richard led the Christian forces to victory after victory, eventually reconquering the entire coast. But Jerusalem was not on the coast, and after two abortive attempts to secure supply lines to the Holy City, Richard at last gave up. Promising to return one day, he struck a truce with Saladin that ensured peace in the region and free access to Jerusalem for unarmed pilgrims. But it was a bitter pill to swallow. The desire to restore Jerusalem to Christian rule and regain the True Cross remained intense throughout Europe.

The Crusades of the 13th century were larger, better funded, and better organized. But they too failed. The Fourth Crusade (1201-1204) ran aground when it was seduced into a web of Byzantine politics, which the Westerners never fully understood. They had made a detour to Constantinople to support an imperial claimant who promised great rewards and support for the Holy Land. Yet once he was on the throne of the Caesars, their benefactor found that he could not pay what he had promised. Thus betrayed by their Greek friends, in 1204 the Crusaders attacked, captured, and brutally sacked Constantinople, the greatest Christian city in the world. Pope Innocent III, who had previously excommunicated the entire Crusade, strongly denounced the Crusaders. But there was little else he could do. The tragic events of 1204 closed an iron door between Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox, a door that even today Pope John Paul II has been unable to reopen. It is a terrible irony that the Crusades, which were a direct result of the Catholic desire to rescue the Orthodox people, drove the two further—and perhaps irrevocably—apart.

The remainder of the 13th century’s Crusades did little better. The Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) managed briefly to capture Damietta in Egypt, but the Muslims eventually defeated the army and reoccupied the city. St. Louis IX of France led two Crusades in his life. The first also captured Damietta, but Louis was quickly outwitted by the Egyptians and forced to abandon the city. Although Louis was in the Holy Land for several years, spending freely on defensive works, he never achieved his fondest wish: to free Jerusalem. He was a much older man in 1270 when he led another Crusade to Tunis, where he died of a disease that ravaged the camp. After St. Louis’s death, the ruthless Muslim leaders, Baybars and Kalavun, waged a brutal jihad against the Christians in Palestine. By 1291, the Muslim forces had succeeded in killing or ejecting the last of the Crusaders, thus erasing the Crusader kingdom from the map. Despite numerous attempts and many more plans, Christian forces were never again able to gain a foothold in the region until the 19th century.

Europe’s fight for its life
One might think that three centuries of Christian defeats would have soured Europeans on the idea of Crusade. Not at all. In one sense, they had little alternative. Muslim kingdoms were becoming more, not less, powerful in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The Ottoman Turks conquered not only their fellow Muslims, thus further unifying Islam, but also continued to press westward, capturing Constantinople and plunging deep into Europe itself. By the 15th century, the Crusades were no longer errands of mercy for a distant people but desperate attempts of one of the last remnants of Christendom to survive. Europeans began to ponder the real possibility that Islam would finally achieve its aim of conquering the entire Christian world. One of the great best-sellers of the time, Sebastian Brant’s The Ship of Fools, gave voice to this sentiment in a chapter titled “Of the Decline of the Faith”:

Our faith was strong in th’ Orient,
It ruled in all of Asia,
In Moorish lands and Africa.
But now for us these lands are gone
‘Twould even grieve the hardest stone …
Four sisters of our Church you find,
They’re of the patriarchic kind:
Constantinople, Alexandria,
Jerusalem, Antiochia.
But they’ve been forfeited and sacked
And soon the head will be attacked.
Of course, that is not what happened. But it very nearly did. In 1480, Sultan Mehmed II captured Otranto as a beachhead for his invasion of Italy. Rome was evacuated. Yet the sultan died shortly thereafter, and his plan died with him. In 1529, Suleiman the Magnificent laid siege to Vienna. If not for a run of freak rainstorms that delayed his progress and forced him to leave behind much of his artillery, it is virtually certain that the Turks would have taken the city. Germany, then, would have been at their mercy.

Yet, even while these close shaves were taking place, something else was brewing in Europe—something unprecedented in human history. The Renaissance, born from a strange mixture of Roman values, medieval piety, and a unique respect for commerce and entrepreneurialism, had led to other movements like humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Exploration. Even while fighting for its life, Europe was preparing to expand on a global scale. The Protestant Reformation, which rejected the papacy and the doctrine of indulgence, made Crusades unthinkable for many Europeans, thus leaving the fighting to the Catholics. In 1571, a Holy League, which was itself a Crusade, defeated the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto. Yet military victories like that remained rare. The Muslim threat was neutralized economically. As Europe grew in wealth and power, the once awesome and sophisticated Turks began to seem backward and pathetic—no longer worth a Crusade. The “Sick Man of Europe” limped along until the 20th century, when he finally expired, leaving behind the present mess of the modern Middle East.

From the safe distance of many centuries, it is easy enough to scowl in disgust at the Crusades. Religion, after all, is nothing to fight wars over. But we should be mindful that our medieval ancestors would have been equally disgusted by our infinitely more destructive wars fought in the name of political ideologies. And yet, both the medieval and the modern soldier fight ultimately for their own world and all that makes it up. Both are willing to suffer enormous sacrifice, provided that it is in the service of something they hold dear, something greater than themselves. Whether we admire the Crusaders or not, it is a fact that the world we know today would not exist without their efforts. The ancient faith of Christianity, with its respect for women and antipathy toward slavery, not only survived but flourished. Without the Crusades, it might well have followed Zoroastrianism, another of Islam’s rivals, into extinction.

 

Thomas F. Madden, is one of the top historians on medieval history and also on the Spanish Inquisition. He is an associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University. He is the author of numerous works, including The New Concise History of the Crusades, and co-author, with Donald Queller, of The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople.

 

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Kerry: US “on the road” to defeating the Islamic State

The US is also “on the road” to making its rivers flow with sparkling wine, and replacing all municipal buses with pink unicorns that will carry commuters on their backs. “Kerry says US ‘on the road’ to defeating ISIS, amid claims terror group is spreading,” FoxNews.com, February 8, 2015: Secretary of State John Kerry and […]

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Palestinian Authority rewards jihadis for number of Jews they murder

Don’t you dare call it savagery, you racist, bigoted Islamophobe. “Palestinian Authority Rewards Terrorists for Number of Jews They Kill,” by Edwin Black, Algemeiner, February 8, 2015: Last year, Congressional legislators were astonished to learn that the Palestinian Authority was issuing monthly payouts totaling between $3 and 7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to […]

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Pakistan to continue ban on “blasphemous” YouTube indefinitely

A brittle and insecure culture, desperately afraid that dissent will expose its illogic and hypocrisy, and thereby bring it down. Thus it must act to suppress forcibly all dissenting speech; it considers it a matter of self-protection. This goes not just for Pakistan and Islam, but for the American Left. “Ban on ‘blasphemous’ YouTube to […]

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“Palestinian” Muslima abandons two children to join the Islamic State

If the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, why do only Muslims join it? If it has nothing to do with Islam, why does it have such appeal among so many Muslims who leave their homes to join it? “East Jerusalem Mother of Two Abandons Children to Join ISIS in Syria,” by Raphael […]

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UK: Muslim caught on street with knife on way to behead a soldier

In the wake of this news, David Cameron and Theresa May are no doubt redoubling their efforts to combat “Islamophobia” and make sure that opponents of jihad terror do not enter the country. Meanwhile, here is yet another convert who misunderstood what every British official knows is a Religion of Peace. And yet nary a […]

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UK: Muslims demand non-Muslim buried next to Muslim be exhumed

It’s a multi-faith cemetery, but never mind: the unbelievers are “unclean” (cf. Qur’an 9:28), and that’s that. The local council is, of course, siding with the Muslims. This is modern Britain: in all-out appeasement mode, hoping their new masters will go easy with them. But they won’t. “Dispute over grave plots after burial of Gypsy,” […]

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EU funding illegal “Palestinian” building in Israeli areas

“The Palestinian buildings, which have no permits, come at a cost of tens of millions of Euros in public money, a proportion of which comes from the British taxpayer. This has raised concerns that the EU is using valuable resources to take sides in a foreign territorial dispute.” It has long been clear that the […]

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A wolf in sheep’s clothing

A wolf in sheep’s clothing by Ali Rizvi If an ideology is peaceful, then its most literalist or fundamentalist adherents too would be peaceful. In the case of Islam, let alone Al Qaeda or ISIS, what the governments of Iran or Saudi Arabia do is plain for all to see. In Saudi Arabia they publicly […]

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UK: 1,000 Muslims protest against Muhammad cartoons and free speech

How many Muslims have demonstrated in favor of freedom of speech and against blasphemy laws? Why, none. Meanwhile, Shaykh Noor Siddiqi says: “The actions of the UK media in not publishing the cartoons is highly appreciated by British Muslims and we hope that this kind of self-restraint and mutual respect will ultimately lead to a […]

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Ukraine ExplosionUkraine: Artillery Fire, Not ‘Tactical Nuke’ Attack, Sets Off Large Donetsk Explosion

[Editor’s note: A number of sites, such as Alex Jones’ Info Wars, suggested that the explosion was nuclear, but that seems to be a stretch. Nuclear detonations create significant EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) that would almost certainly have destroyed the electronic cameras recording the events.]

On Sunday night, a series of YouTube videos appear to show a large explosion in Donetsk, Ukraine (several can be watched here). However, it wasn’t a “tactical nuclear weapon,” as some social media users claimed, but just a big blast–reportedly Ukrainian army artillery fire hitting an ammunition depot held by the rebel Donetsk People’s Republic.

Videos that were uploaded Feb. 8 show a massive explosion going off in the distance, with an orange-red fireball lighting up the night sky.

While many details remain unclear, preliminary reports say it was a an artillery attack on a weapons depot owned by the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic. According to Ukrainian news site TSN.ua, right-wing politician Dmitry Yarosh said the blast killed about “200 terrorists,” destroyed 20 Grad rockets, and trucks filled with ammunition. (Read more from about the reports of a tactical nuke in Ukraine HERE)

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New York Times Warn About Russia “Nuclear Saber Rattling” in Ukraine

By JOHN J. MEARSHEIMERFEB. The possibility that Mr. Putin might end up making nuclear threats may seem remote, but if the goal of arming Ukraine is to drive up the costs of Russian interference and eventually put Moscow in an acute situation, it cannot be ruled out. If Western pressure succeeded and Mr. Putin felt desperate, he would have a powerful incentive to try to rescue the situation by rattling the nuclear saber.

Our understanding of the mechanisms of escalation in crises and war is limited at best, although we know the risks are considerable. Pushing a nuclear-armed Russia into a corner would be playing with fire.

Advocates of arming Ukraine recognize the escalation problem, which is why they stress giving Kiev “defensive,” not “offensive,” weapons. Unfortunately, there is no useful distinction between these categories: All weapons can be used for attacking and defending. The West can be sure, though, that Moscow will not see those American weapons as “defensive,” given that Washington is determined to reverse the status quo in eastern Ukraine.

The only way to solve the Ukraine crisis is diplomatically, not militarily. Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, seems to recognize that fact, as she has said Germany will not ship arms to Kiev. Her problem, however, is that she does not know how to bring the crisis to an end. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Obama and SharptonWhen the Rev. Al Sharpton couldn’t make it to Nelson Mandela ’s funeral in South Africa, President Barack Obama brought him back a little souvenir.

The memento, a program from the funeral, hangs on a wall in Mr. Sharpton’s nondescript offices above Midtown Manhattan.

“To Rev. Sharpton,” Mr. Obama wrote. “A fellow warrior for justice!”


Much has been made of Mr. Sharpton’s reinvention, the remaking of a local, sometimes divisive activist into a polished insider with a national TV show and a direct line to the White House.

Yet, at home in New York City, as tensions simmered last year over race, police conduct, and the deaths of Eric Garner and police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, Mr. Sharpton’s new role has been tested. (Read more about what Obama gave Al Sharpton HERE)



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By Heather Laskin. For all of President Obama’s talk of the border being safer than ever, Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul Babeu provided some evidence to the contrary when he spoke before the House Judiciary Committee on the issue of illegal immigration Tuesday.

Babeu, America’s 2011 “Sheriff of the Year” and an Iraq War veteran, testified before the committee that between 88,000 and 123,000 illegal aliens are apprehended at the Tucson Sector, one of nine border-patrol zones along the U.S.-Mexico border, each year. The Tucson Sector covers most of the state of Arizona from the New Mexico state line to the Yuma County line — a total of 262 border miles.

Between 17 and 30 percent of those apprehended have a criminal record in the U.S. “This clearly shows that the border is not more secure than ever,” Babeu said.


He also detailed how 30 to 50 illegal alien criminals are released into Pinal County every day. “These are the people that everybody, including the president, said are the bad actors,” he said. Many of those released have criminal records that include rape, manslaughter, child molestation, financial crimes, armed robbery, and assault against law enforcement.

Babeu said he has asked the federal government for more information regarding those individuals and their criminal histories, but the government refuses to give it to him. “I, as the sheriff, who swore an oath to protect the people of my county, should have a right to that information,” Babeu declared.

He stressed to committee members that the situation is so lawless in some areas of Pinal County — the number one pass through county in America for drug and human smuggling — that it often feels like a war-zone on American soil. (Read more about what Arizona sheriff said HERE)

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By Heather Laskin. For all of President Obama’s talk of the border being safer than ever, Pinal County, Ariz., Sheriff Paul Babeu provided some evidence to the contrary when he spoke before the House Judiciary Committee on the issue of illegal immigration Tuesday.

Babeu, America’s 2011 “Sheriff of the Year” and an Iraq War veteran, testified before the committee that between 88,000 and 123,000 illegal aliens are apprehended at the Tucson Sector, one of nine border-patrol zones along the U.S.-Mexico border, each year. The Tucson Sector covers most of the state of Arizona from the New Mexico state line to the Yuma County line — a total of 262 border miles.

Between 17 and 30 percent of those apprehended have a criminal record in the U.S. “This clearly shows that the border is not more secure than ever,” Babeu said.


He also detailed how 30 to 50 illegal alien criminals are released into Pinal County every day. “These are the people that everybody, including the president, said are the bad actors,” he said. Many of those released have criminal records that include rape, manslaughter, child molestation, financial crimes, armed robbery, and assault against law enforcement.

Babeu said he has asked the federal government for more information regarding those individuals and their criminal histories, but the government refuses to give it to him. “I, as the sheriff, who swore an oath to protect the people of my county, should have a right to that information,” Babeu declared.

He stressed to committee members that the situation is so lawless in some areas of Pinal County — the number one pass through county in America for drug and human smuggling — that it often feels like a war-zone on American soil. (Read more about what Arizona sheriff said HERE)

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Is nObama Trying to Kill President Bush?
Daniel Greenfield
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 WORD SALAD: TEAM nOBAMA OFFERS FOREIGN POLICY   RATIONALE 
The nObama administration will release today its National Security Strategy, a congressionally mandated statement of presidential priorities. Does it matter? Well, releasing a document at this moment that
administration officials said will offer a “full-throated affirmation of President nObama’s strategic commitment to deepening American engagement and investment in the Asia-Pacific region” could almost be taken as farce, so one might be forgiven for ignoring the matter entirely. But that would be a mistake.
          In what will be only the third installment in 13 years of what is supposed to be an annual report to Congress, we can expect thousands of lines of mostly meaningless syntax. Like the Olive Garden for word salad, there will be unlimited refills. But why now, after a five year lapse? The best guess is that it is because the administration is currently turning endless summersaults on foreign policy: The Ukraine policy is working… Wait, it’s not so we are going to start dumping weapons in Eastern Europe. Yemen is a model for the war on ISIS…. Wait, Yemen is a catastrophe. Iran is on the brink of a peace deal… Wait, we need an endless extension. And Libya... well, let’s just forget about that one.
          As the administration prepares to face a restive, anxious Congress, included deeply divided Democrats, on these issues, regurgitating platitudes will do little to convince lawmakers that there is anything more to the president’s foreign policy plans than caroming from crisis to crisis. 
 -Fox News 

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 nObama faces tough sale to Dems on OK to fight ISIS -   While the White House expected to formally ask to Congress to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State terror group within days, President nObama’s toughest customers in selling his plan are likely to be members of his own party. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday that the administration is seeking bi-partisan backing on specific provisions, including how long the authorization will last, what geographical areas it will cover and whether it will allow for the possibility of ground troops. Some Democrats though, frustrated by the president’s inaction have openly bucked the White House, are pushing their own proposals. House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, said talks with the administration are focusing on an authorization time frame of three years. “I’m not saying anybody’s come to an agreement on it,” Pulosi said. “I think it’s going to be a challenge, but we will have it.” House Speaker backstabber John Boehner said he doesn’t want to see the president’s hands tied when it comes to fighting a war, but added, “It’s also incumbent on the president to make the case to the American people on why we need to fight this fight. This is not going to be an easy lift.”
           “[T]he nObama administration is telling the enemy what we’re not going to do. You know, we’re not going to do this and we’re not going to do   that and this is when we're pulling out. We have got to let the military do what it can to address this at the military level and use all elements of national power, obviously, to defeat and destroy this threat.” --Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., on “The Kelly File” Watch
here.  -Fox News 
 
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 Calls grow to arm Ukraine, as European leaders scramble for last-ditch   peace plan -   Fox News: “European leaders scrambled Thursday to try and forge a diplomatic deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine, in an apparent bid to head off U.S. consideration of lethal military aid for the Ukrainian government in its war against Russian-backed separatists. At the same time, a bipartisan call in Congress for the U.S. to arm Ukraine was only growing, with lawmakers saying the military aid ‘is past due.’…Top nObama officials are weighing pleas from both sides, without tipping their hand as to the next step as they hold a flurry of meetings with European counterparts. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, who met with top Ukrainian officials in Kiev on Thursday, offered no definitive decision on the question of lethal aid. But he said President nObama is reviewing all options, including ‘the possibility of providing defensive systems to Ukraine.’…Hanoi Kerry, meanwhile, brought $16.4 million in new humanitarian aid to Ukraine.”  -Fox News 
 
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 SASSE WARNS OF $24,000 ‘AMNESTY BONUS’ FOR ILLEGALS 
Daniel Halper
reports: “[President nObama] has promoted his recent executive action on immigration by arguing that he’s only deferring action – holding off on enforcement of the current immigration laws until an immigration reform he approves of passes Congress. But that's not really true; in fact there’s a way for illegal immigrants immediately to receive ‘amnesty bonuses,’ as [Sen. Ben Sasse R-Neb.] terms it. Here’s how. A recent Homeland Security Committee hearing on immigration revealed an alarming consequence of [nObama’s] executive amnesty—that illegal immigrants with deferred status may be able to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Moreover, this person, who is here in the U.S. unlawfully, could be able to file an amended tax return for up to the last three tax years, possibly receiving upwards of $24,000 in tax credits.”  -Fox News 
 
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 Do Dems face dangers on amnesty? -   With Homeland Security Department funding hanging in the balance, WashEx’s Susan Crabtree and Roll Call’s Emma Dumain, join Power Play host Chris Stirewalt to discuss attempts in Congress to cut funds for the President’s executive action granting temporary amnesty to illegal immigrants. What are the strategies and who will blink? WATCH HERE-Fox News 
 
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nObama's National Security Strategy Is Weak and Underwhelming  

(Nile Gardiner) - President nObama’s new national security strategy will do little to reassure America’s allies or intimidate America’s enemies...Today, the White House unveiled a document poorly suited to the challenges faced by the world’s superpower, which are mounting in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Africa. At a time when American global leadership is increasingly being challenged by an array of adversaries, the new national security strategy sends a weak-kneed message on the world stage. Far from presenting a coherent foreign and national security strategy, the nObama administration has merely offered a reheated and unconvincing version of its “leading from behind” approach, couched in the veneer of “smart power,” a phrase coined by former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton.       http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/06/obamas-national-security-strategy-weak-underwhelming/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolsq7MZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4EScRgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

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 Bring transparency to lawsuits against taxpayers  
(Washington Examiner) - Every year, the federal government gets sued by thousands of people, for-profit corporations, and non-profit corporations. When the government loses or agrees to a settlement...the plaintiffs can not only take a bite out of the taxpayer, but they can also get the government to pay their legal fees. Many of these settlements and attorney payments are meritorious. Some are not. To sort them out, one would have to study the cases and look at the settlements. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no good place to find that information. Senators Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Deb Fischer, R-Neb., are co-sponsoring a bill that would fix this problem and bring transparency to the Judgment Fund, the treasury account that pays judgments and settlements to plaintiffs.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bring-transparency-to-lawsuits-against-taxpayers/article/2559809?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2002/05/15&utm_medium=email
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 FCC Slams ‘nObama’s 332-Page To Regulate The Internet’  
Ajit Pai. Getty Images(Giuseppe Macri) - Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on Friday raised the first of many criticisms to come about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s aggressive net neutrality plan distributed to commissioners Thursday, which Pai described as “President nObama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet.”... “President nObama’s plan marks a monumental shift toward government control of the Internet. It gives the FCC the power to micromanage virtually every aspect of how the Internet works,” Pai said. “The plan explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband… These new taxes will mean higher prices for consumers and more hidden fees that they have to pay.” “The plan saddles small, independent businesses and entrepreneurs with heavy-handed regulations that will push them out of the market,” Pai said. “As a result, Americans will have fewer broadband choices. This is no accident. Title II was designed to regulate a monopoly. If we impose that model on a vibrant broadband marketplace, a highly regulated monopoly is what we’ll get.”       http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/06/republican-fcc-commissioner-slams-obamas-332-page-plan-to-regulate-the-internet/?advD=1248%2C48782&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJjNTliYzIxYy1kM2ZhLTQ5MWMtYjhmZC02M2M2MjhjYzNjZjMifQ%3D%3D
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 AG nominee eyed in massive nObama cover-up  
Loretta Lynch tied to world's biggest banking scandal
Loretta Lynch
(Jerome R. Corsi) - Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch could be facing new confirmation problems in the U.S. Senate after being tied to the world’s biggest banking scandal...involving HSBC, which used its power to temporarily shut down WND.com as the news site was breaking a series of stories on the mega-bank’s money-laundering practices – practices that resulted in more than $1.2 billion in fines. According to court papers filed Wednesday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice appears to be stonewalling the release of documents that could implicate Lynch in a massive cover-up of nObama administration involvement in international money-laundering of Mexican cartel drug money. In 2012, Lynch, as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, oversaw the investigation of drug-related international money laundering allegations against London-based HSBC Holdings LLC.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/ag-nominee-eyed-in-massive-obama-cover-up/
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 Drones in Our Future         
(Ryan Lovelace) - As multi-billion-dollar international conglomerates intent on smuggling drugs, people, and other contraband across America’s southern border, drug cartels are always looking for the newest and best technology to help move their product...And the smugglers have come a long way from the days when border tunnels and small private planes were state-of-the-art. Their latest innovation: drones. Drones by definition do not need an on-board pilot. This means that drones can be far smaller than manned aircraft — and that in the case of a crash, there is no one on board to be killed, or captured and interrogated. A recent incident on the Mexican side of the United States’ southern border has shed new light on how drones are being used by both sides in the War on Drugs. Late last month a drone overloaded with meth crash-landed in a supermarket parking lot in Tijuana, Mexico, less than half a mile from the border, and was recovered by Mexican law-enforcement officials.
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 TEXAS: Valerie Jarrett Working to Cede Your State to Mexico  
(Doug Ross) - President Jarrett is reportedly the driving force behind a campaign designed to turn Texas blue through illegal immigration, thereby ensuring that all presidential elections end up with a Democrat victor...According to Capitol Hill sources, de facto president Valerie Jarrett wants Texas and its 38 electoral votes… badly. More troubling is she has apparently been working very hard to make the state turn blue in the very near future, a result that would finalize far left control of the United States in every national election to follow. Jarrett is doing so with a combination of hundreds of thousands of recent immigrants flooding the state, combined with billions of dollars in federal giveaways like nObamacare that will unofficially pledge those new votes to the increasingly far left/progressive/globalist Democratic Party…       http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/02/06/congratulations-texas-valerie-jarrett-working-behind-the-scenes-to-cede-your-state-to-mexico/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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 Establishment’s Libya War Lies Unravelling  
Establishment’s Libya War Lies Unravelling 
(Alex Newman) - The lies surrounding the nObama administration’s United Nations-approved war on Libya are unravelling faster than ever...From the lies about an imminent Rwanda-style “genocide” to the falsehoods promoted surrounding the post-war attack on the U.S. government facility in Benghazi that left the American ambassador and others dead, it appears to all be coming apart at the seams. Even senior U.S. intelligence officials and retired American generals on the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi are now speaking out. More than a few experts have now denounced, among other propaganda, the blatantly false narrative used to unconstitutionally launch the regime-change operation against strongman Moammar Gadhafi, and to essentially “switch sides” in the terror war by supporting self-declared al-Qaeda “rebels.” As a result of the propaganda and subsequent war, meanwhile, Libya has now become a terror state infested with ISIS, al-Qaeda, and more.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/20057-establishment-s-libya-war-lies-unravelling?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=503de00ce8-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-503de00ce8-289778381
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 Fraud in Wealthy Immigrant Visa Program Exposed  
Fraud in Wealthy Immigrant Visa Program Exposed
(Bob Adelmann) - Five whistleblowers from the Department of Homeland Security related details to ABC News on Tuesday about how the “wealthy immigrant visa program” called EB-5 has been consistently and deliberately subverted to allow criminals, spies, and terrorists access to permanent residency in the United States without going through regular channels...The EB-5 program, first begun in 1990 as a way to invite wealthy foreigners to invest in the United States and then receive permanent resident status, has been used for years by politicians to reward themselves and their friends. Those rewards included political donations, jobs for friends, skimming off outrageous fees to run the program, and visas for undesirables who wouldn’t otherwise be allowed on American soil.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20062-fraud-in-wealthy-immigrant-visa-program-exposed?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=503de00ce8-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-503de00ce8-289778381
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 Trading Away Their Oaths  
Trading Away Their Oaths
(William F. Jasper) - On the opening day of each new Congress, every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives takes an oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”...For many members, no doubt, this solemn act is merely a perfunctory ceremony, but it is a morally and legally binding act, nevertheless, and one that should not be taken lightly. And each member will soon be severely tested regarding that sworn duty. Will it be possible, for instance, for representatives and senators to honor their oaths to “support and defend” the Constitution and “bear true faith and allegiance” to it, and at the same time to vote for so-called trade agreements that surrender American sovereignty to international tribunals that would be empowered to override that same Constitution — not to mention our state constitutions and national, state, and local laws? To vote for agreements that establish new institutions of supranational governance with evolving powers — legislative, executive, and judicial — that subvert and supplant the Constitution? To vote for these same agreements that have been crafted in secrecy by the nObama administration and select corporate interests — with Congress completely excluded — in violation of the Constitution’s mandate for Congress, not the president, “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”?       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/20061-trading-away-their-oaths?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=503de00ce8-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-503de00ce8-289778381
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China Just Handed THIS Harsh Ruling On Muslims In Their Country  

gdsggfs(americanoverlook.com) - After the horrible terrorist attacks last month in Paris, countries around the world are taking action to prevent it from happening on their lands. But the United States is conspicuously not doing anything...Since America is so sensitive about being politically correct, are we missing a perfect opportunity to keep terrorism out of our country? In China, the government is preventing Muslim women from wearing a burqa in public places. Such an action will prevent Muslim women from carrying potentially lethal devices like bombs as well as make a clear statement that the country isn’t going to allow certain types of activities. It’s not surprising that the Chinese Muslim community was outraged by the announcement and are now accusing the Chinese government of religious oppression.       http://americanoverlook.com/china-just-handed-down-this-harsh-ruling-on-muslims-in-their-country-should-the-u-s-follow-suit/35275


   
Is nObama Trying to Kill President Bush?
Daniel Greenfield
 

     (frontpagemag.com) -Ask the White House and it’ll tell you that Al Qaeda is on the run. But it conveniently neglects specifying which direction it’s running in.

     While nObama and his small army of spokesmen mumble something about degrading and destroying ISIS, his policies pad out the ranks of Al Qaeda and ISIS with experienced recruits released from Gitmo.

It’s still unclear whether there is any Gitmo terrorist that nObama will not free.

     Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has said that the White House pressured him to free more Gitmo terrorists faster. White House reports suggested that nObama fired Hagel because he had been moving too slowly on freeing terrorists, making him guilty of thwarting nObama’s plot to close Gitmo.

     That would make Hagel the first Secretary of Defense to be fired for failing to undermine national security.

     But considering the rate at which terrorists are being released, the only way to empty Jihad Alcatraz any faster would be by moving the whole base to Pakistan overnight.

     nObama already freed key Al Qaeda figures, including members of precursor ISIS groups. He freed Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, a bombmaker whom authorities suspected may have known about 9/11. He freed Mohammed Zahir, the Secretary General of the Taliban’s Intelligence Directorate, who was caught with nuclear materials to be used to build a bomb. He was also involved in smuggling drugs to the US.

     Each new release explores the outer limits of the type of terror that nObama will reward with amnesty. Now that we know that nObama will release nuclear terrorists, is there any place where he will draw the line? Would he release presidential assassins? As long as their target was President George W. Bush.

     Two of the Gitmo terrorists released by nObama had threatened to assassinate Bush.

     Muhammed Ali Husayn had “addressed letters to the US President and Congress threatening punishment from Allah, stating that it is ‘time to be destroyed, suffer and lose.’ Detainee has also threatened that the US President would ‘taste the death,’ telling him to await ‘the humiliation by the swords of Islam.’

     nObama assumes that Muhammed’s swords of Islam won’t be headed his way. He is the progressive who is closing Gitmo. Muhammed wouldn’t possibly dream of swinging a sword of Islam in his direction.

     Muhammed was sent off to Kazakhstan despite an executive assessment stating that without rehabilitation he would go back to his old pals in Al Qaeda. Or maybe this former Koran teacher will go back to the University of Pakistan to finish that unfinished degree in Islamic Studies. Then he’ll have the proper background for making infidels “taste the death” in the appropriately peaceful Islamic way.

     Considering that Kazakhstan has its own terrorist groups, he can rejoin the Jihad without too much travel time.

     But releasing Muhammed was an easy call compared to freeing Adel Al-Hakeemy.

     Adel was a senior member of the Global Jihadist Support Network which is exactly what it sounds like. He was a military advisor to Osama bin Laden and had ties to multiple terrorist groups in North Africa. He can counterfeit money, forge passports, command troops and fought us in Afghanistan.

     His Gitmo file rates him as posing a high risk to Americans and having a high intelligence value.

     He is, in short, exactly the sort of terrorist you don’t want to set free, even assuming that you have for some reason decided to release terrorists.

     Adel has joined Muhammed in sunny Kazakhstan. His plans for the future doubtlessly include walks on Kazakhstan’s many moonlit beaches, a graduate degree in the fine arts and a career in standup comedy.

     Or we could just pay attention to what he told interrogators in Guantanamo Bay.

     “Detainee stated if the detainees at JTF-GTMO are released, they are going to exact revenge against the US. Detainee also stated that he would kill President Bush if given the chance.”

     nObama freed a veteran terrorist who had vowed to attack America and kill Bush. Not only has he chosen to disregard American national security and the lives of Americans, but he also chose to disregard the safety of his White House predecessor.

     While nObama’s supporters did tend to fantasize about the assassination of President Bush, they didn’t actually do anything about it. By freeing two terrorists, one of them a trained killer, who had threatened to kill Bush, nObama has actually put the life of a former president in danger.

That’s extreme behavior even by Democratic standards.

     President Clinton had bombed Saddam Hussein over a plot to assassinate George H.W. Bush.

     “The Iraqi attack against President Bush was an attack against our country and against all Americans,” President Clinton told the nation. “We could not, and have not, let such action against our nation go unanswered.”

     nObama clearly has a different opinion. He has reversed Clinton by going so far as to free Al Qaeda terrorists who expressed designs on the life of a president making it clear that he has utter contempt not only for the lives of Americans, but also for the life of a former Republican president. There is no terrorist, whether he plots to detonate a nuclear bomb or to kill a president, whom he will not free.

     Maybe if Adel Al-Hakeemy had threatened to kill nObama, he would still be sitting in Gitmo.

     It was not all that long ago that nObama’s fellow anti-war protesters were marching around with signs calling for the death of President Bush. In contrast to the firestorms that resulted when a rodeo clown mocked nObama or when an outhouse labeled as nObama’s presidential library was featured on a parade float (resulting in a Justice Department intervention), these death threats went unpunished.

     Even Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry had winkingly gotten in on the act, joking, “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”

     New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi had praised Senator Schumer at a public event by saying that, “We really feel bad for poor Chuck, United States senator, the man who, uh, uh, how do I phrase this diplomatically – will put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with it.”

     Unlike Sarah Palin’s target map, the media was quick to dismiss these as just jokes. But jokes can be revealing. They can tell us what someone is really thinking. And back then a lot of top Democrats thought that killing Bush was a good thing.

Now nObama is freeing Islamic terrorists who agree. Is that a coincidence?

     None of the anti-war protesters waving signs calling for Bush’s head ever had the guts to follow through on it. Maybe someone in the White House is hoping that Muhammed and Adel will.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/is-obama-trying-to-kill-president-bush/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120e879a83-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-120e879a83-156509103

 
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4063784434?profile=originalWanted to take the liberty of sharing the following letter that I recently forwarded to our NM Governor Susana Martinez regarding the “Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America”, and respectfully demanding the “Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles”: 

Letter To Governor Martinez:

“February 8, 2015

Dear Governor Martinez,

I again would be remiss if I didn’t share the following letter that I recently forwarded to our NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich regarding the “Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America”, along with respectfully demanding the “Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles”:

Letter To Senator Heinrich:

“February 8, 2015

The Honorable Martin Heinrich

United States Senate

110 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510-3101

Dear Senator Heinrich:

On or about August 12, 2014, I sent your office my sixth letter respectfully demanding the “Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles”, along with sharing some extremely disturbing information with you, which I respectfully requested your take and/or feedback on and to-date I have not received a response from your office regarding said demand and/or request.

On or about January 12, 2015, I received the following letter from your office:

“Jake,

One rule I have always followed in politics is that it is never too early to get your campaign started.
 


As I watched the election returns this past November, then saw Senator McConnell sworn in as Majority Leader last week, I knew that rule was as important today as it ever has been.
 


That is why we set a goal of raising $7,500 online this month.
 
Can I count on your early support?

We need to keep building our people-powered grassroots machine so that we are ready for the fight.

You never know if Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers wait until I’m actually “in cycle” again to run their first attacks. But what we do know is that the attacks will come. And with your support, we will be ready.



So let’s keep building, and winning: click here to contribute $5 today!

Thanks for responding and for all of your support.

Martin”

In your letter above you ask for my donation and make it a point to mention the Koch brothers, whom the Democratic Party claims will spend whatever it takes to push their “radical” agenda(s) through Congress that supposedly includes the ultimate “overtaking of our democracy”, but they fail to mention their own agenda(s) that have been designed and/or implemented to literally take down America, along with the individual(s) financing and/or supporting them in this effort. I believe that the Democratic Party’s true agenda(s) were partially revealed in the following recent article and/or blog that I am taking the liberty of sharing with you in its entirety:

4063584394?profile=originalDEMOCRATS AND MEDIA SLAM KOCH BROTHERS, IGNORE SOROS FUNDING ANTI-COP PROTESTS!-Posted on NewsWithViews.com-By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri-On
January 30, 2015:

In the aftermath of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday and the televised rebuttal by newly elected GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, who is the first woman combat veteran to serve in the U.S. Senate and was strongly backed by the Democrats’ bogeymen the Koch brothers, the news media appeared more interested in the multi-billionaire David and Charles Koch and their political activities supporting Republican politicians and candidates. Yet, the same news organizations turned a blind eye to left-wing billionaire icon George Soros’ financing of anti-police protests and demonstrations through a number of leftist groups.

Although the Koch brothers support many Republican candidates, they are part of the Libertarian wing of the party. They oppose big government and bureaucracies, oppose foreign entanglements and believe in a real free-market not the one that’s morphed into a government controlled hodgepodge of regulations. Soros, on the other hand, wants government to control everything and uses socialism to manipulate the distribution of wealth.

For example, according to news outlets, four of the Republican presidential hopefuls — Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker—are being introduced by the Koch brothers at a dinner party with rich Republicans organized by the Koch brothers. Yet these same news people ignored Soros’ bankrolling the Ferguson, Missouri, protest movement. According to reports, he provided well over $30 million to established groups responsible for the protests and demonstrations in Ferguson and in other locations throughout the nation, claims the Washington Times and other news sources.

During the Ferguson protests—which had clearly deteriorated into riots and looting of local businesses—activists from groups such as Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Make the Road New York, and the Center for Community Change in Washington, benefited from Soros’ contributions beginning in August. The groups went on to organize gatherings and protests there until late December while they expanded their anti-police activities in New York City.

In addition, Soros’ groups such as Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, the Organization for Black Struggle, and an immigration group called Dream Defenders were involved in establishing yet another offshoot, the Hands Up Coalition, an organization that’s name is a proven fallacy: the black youth, Michael Brown, did not get shot by the white police officer, Darren Weeks, while raising his hands and surrendering.

The Hands Up Coalition allegedly organized blacks and white youths to hold local events in their own cities, towns and college campuses to make the Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown a martyr nationwide. The Hands Up Coalition and its affiliates are now calling 2015 a “Year of Resistance.” The group and its affiliates are expecting more of the 84-year-old Soros fortune believed to be upwards of $26 billion.

The is also a connection between George Soros and President Barack Obama through the Soros-funded group which helped in managing and funding the Ferguson demonstrations. Soros money is key in financing the grass-roots organization known as the Gamaliel Foundation. A young Barack Obama started his community-organizing career at Gamaliel in Chicago, Illinois.

Besides Soros and Obama, clergy representatives from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference (SDPC), where the controversial “Obama spiritual leader” Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a trustee, also participated in the protests. Wright was Obama’s long-time pastor in Chicago before publicity about his harsh rhetoric, including use of the phrase “God damn America,” caused Obama to distance himself from Wright.

“We want to send a bill to the president that defunds his amnesty program, but also very importantly funds the Department of Homeland Security — the Coast Guard, TSA, the Border Patrol, the ICE teams [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], the Secret Service,” said Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, in a statement. “It’s a very dangerous time. I would wonder whether or not the president would have real deep misgivings about not signing a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security.”

“We want to send a bill to the president that defunds his amnesty program, but also very importantly funds the Department of Homeland Security — the Coast Guard, TSA, the Border Patrol, the ICE teams [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], the Secret Service,” said Hal Rogers, R-Kentucky, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, in a statement. “It’s a very dangerous time. I would wonder whether or not the president would have real deep misgivings about not signing a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security.”

Meanshile, Pelosi and the far-left wing of the Democratic Party are threatening Americans saying that the “immigration amendments will strangle the debate and put the nation’s security at risk.” But numerous law enforcement officials claim that the Democrats couldn’t care less about security. For example, a border agent leaked documents to a conservative web site, that revealed the Department of Homeland Security has decided that the majority of illegal aliens crossing U.S. borders cannot be detained or deported without approval from top officials in Washington. “The documents do not specifically order agents to let illegal immigrants pass freely into the United States, the source said. But the rules “clearly” say “don’t waste your time because the alien will not be put into detention, sent back or deported,”Newsmax reported.

Source Link:

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news424.htm

What follows are other articles and/or blogs that I believe not only relate to and/or further support my statement above, but provide you with numerous other sources that do a meticulous job of revealing who is actually striving to “overtake our Republic” through their deplorable Cloward-Piven Strategies, hardcore Alinsky style tactics, and right out deception, as evidenced by the never-ending crisis and steep decline that we are experiencing in our country today:

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Is Obama Employing the Cloward-Piven Strategy?-Posted By Anthony Horvath-On January 6, 2010:

http://laiglesforum.com/is-obama-employing-the-cloward-piven-strate...

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Exposing the Alinsky Party!-Posted on FontPage Magazine-ByDaniel Greenfield-On January 30, 2012:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/exposing-the-alinsky-p...

4063584367?profile=originalSoros Network Ready to Boost Radical Groups!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By Matthew Vadum-On July 11, 2014:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/soros-network-ready-...

4063584457?profile=originalGEORGE SOROS AND THE SHADOW PARTY BEHIND CRISES TO TAKE DOWN AMERICA: ‘Soros Democrats strive to take down governments and empower global elite’!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By KURT NIMMO, INFOWARS.COM-On July 14, 2014:

http://www.infowars.com/george-soros-and-the-shadow-party-behind-cr...

4063584385?profile=originalU.S. PASSPORTS ON VERGE OF ELIMINATION? ‘Soros-funded plan champions ‘North American Union’!-Posted on WND.com-By JEROME R. CORSI-On January 28, 2015:

http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/u-s-passports-on-verge-of-elimination/#q...

4063584500?profile=originalSoros Linked to Elite’s Panic Over Social Uprising!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Paul Joseph Watson-On January 29, 2015:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/01/29/george-soros-linked-elites-...

My following blogs contain numerous other sources that I believe relate to and/or further support my statement, along with the above articles and/or blogs, to include a letter that I sent to your office, on or about August 10, 2011, regarding this extremely disturbing issue, but to-date have not received a response to:

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Who Is George Soros?

http://teapartycommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/dishonest-media-avo...

4063626793?profile=originalIs Obama Employing the Cloward-Piven Strategy?

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/is-obama-employing-the-cl...

4063758944?profile=originalDo Alinsky’s Rules Define This Administration’s Governing Style?

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/do-alinsky’s-rules-define...

Senator Heinrich I find your non-response to my numerous letters regarding this issue disheartening and extremely disturbing, but not surprising because, much to my dismay, it confirms what I now believe to be reality in America today, which is that we, as American citizens, no longer have representation because our elected representatives are no longer in charge and are mere figure heads at best. I also believe that we will never get any real answers and/or solutions to our concerns until we all wake up and admit the truth. What follows are two articles and/or blogs and a video that I believe relate to and/or further support my statement:

4064078821?profile=originalEXCLUSIVE—Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country!’-Posted on CNSNews.com-ByTerence P. Jeffrey-On January 16, 2012:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/exclusive-mark-levin-ameritopia-we-...

4063758944?profile=originalVideo: Alarming new issues injected into presidential race!-Posted on FoxNews.com-On February 9, 2012:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1443777591001/alarming-new-issues-inject...

4064078779?profile=originalMy Top 10 Reasons the USA is NO LONGER under Constitutional Law!-Posted on The Gaspee Gazette-On March 13, 2012:

https://gaspeegazette.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/my-top-10-reasons-th...

Senator Heinrich I am a true believer in the American system and, although I am a registered Democrat, I have a problem with what seems to be both the Democrat and Republican Party’s current platforms because I find them to be contrary to the American system and seem to be more in line with the “Communist Manifesto.”  What follows is an American version of the Communist Manifesto that was allegedly entered into the Congressional Record in 1963 and listed 45 goals, which I believe supports my statement:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Source:

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals!-Posted on Rense.com-By Greg Swank-On April 2, 2012:

http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm

My following blog goes into more detail regarding this extremely disturbing issue, along with providing you with numerous other sources that relate to and/or further support my concerns that I believe have been more than adequately outlined, documented and substantiated when you compare the above goals, many that have come to fruition, with the never-ending crisis and steep decline that we are experiencing in our Country/Republic today:

4063523704?profile=originalThe Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!

https://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and...

Senator Heinrich, as a means of further supporting my statement above regarding the Democratic and Republican Party’s platforms, I am taking the liberty of sharing the following videos that contain numerous interviews with a legendary conspiracy author G. Edward Griffin, who discusses and meticulously explains the left-right hoax and how it is being used to steer the destiny of America, along with highlighting a recurring theme – collectivism, which is the opposite of individualism and believes that the interests of the individual must be sacrificed for the greater good of the greater number, thereby uniting the doctrines of communism and fascism:

4063547722?profile=originalVideos: The Collectivist Conspiracy By G. Edward Griffin!-Posted on YouTube.com-By whahappa-On April 20, 201i:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdu0N1-tvU&list=PLWPZXDS0HiuNS...

4063547722?profile=originalVideo: And you thought you were in charge!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Arnie Rosner-On February 17, 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCnm5KGDtk&feature=player_embedded

4063547722?profile=originalVideo: Countdown to Financial Collapse A Conversation with G. Edward Griffin!-Posted on YouTube.com-By Stefan Molyneux-On August 20, 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piC3d2vB8uo

For your information, the above videos, along with numerous other sources regarding this disturbing issue, are contained in my following blog:

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My Opinion of How and Who Controls the People!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-opinion-of-how-and-wh...

Finally, the following articles and/or blogs do a meticulous job of revealing what I now believe to be this Administration’s MO, along with how Americans have been brainwashed and continue to be deceived as a means of accomplishing the above goals, which I also believe are designed to ultimately destroy the American system and this Country/Republic as we once knew it:

4064078922?profile=originalSharyl Attkisson: Obama Administration Has Mastered ‘Propaganda and Spin’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann-On February 7, 2015:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/07/sharyl-attkisson-obama-administra...

4064078846?profile=originalHow to Free the Government’s Grip on Freedom of Information!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Sharyl Attkisson /@SharylAttkisson-On February 5, 2015:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/05/free-governments-grip-freedom-inf...

4064070306?profile=originalDeceive, Divide & Destroy!-Posted on The Post & Email-BySharon Rondeau-On Thursday, February 5, 2015:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2015/02/05/deceive-divide-destroy/print/

4063566197?profile=originalBrainwashing in America: ‘WHY FEW DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY’!

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/brainwashing-in-america-...

Senator Heinrich I would really be interested and would very much appreciate your feedback and/or take on the above articles and/or blogs and video regarding this extremely disturbing and time sensitive issue.

In conclusion, I again am hereby respectfully demanding immediate Restoration of our Government under its intended Constitutional Principles, rule of law, freedom and personal liberty, along with a return to government “of the people, for the people, by the people”, free of despotic and tyrannical federal leadership.

Rest assured that your non-response to my requests, demands and/or concerns only motivates me to continue sharing them with you and my other NM U.S. Representatives because I truly love my God, family, friends and Country/Republic, as evidenced by honorable twenty years of military service where I was required to take an oath to: “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same-So help me God” and will continue to do so until I am called home by my Creator.

I truly hope and pray that my concerns are proven to be unfounded and without merit for the sake of our children, grandchildren and, most important, our Country/Republic for which so many brave Americans in uniform have fought and died for.

Please feel free to contact me at my email and/or home address.

God Bless you and your family-God Bless America!

Respectfully,

Jake Martinez

Captain-USMC-Retired

Response received from Senator Heinrich’s Office regarding my above letter:

“Thank You

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. Please follow me on Twitter and visit my Facebook page for updates on my daily activities in the Senate and travels across New Mexico.”

End of Letter To Senator Heinrich.

For your information, I have also recently forwarded a similar letter to our NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall.

Governor Martinez I again would truly be interested in and would very much appreciate getting your take and/or feedback regarding the extremely disturbing information revealed in my above letter to Senator Heinrich.

I truly hope and pray that my concerns are proven to be unfounded and without merit for the sake of our children, grandchildren and, most important, our Country/Republic for which so many brave Americans in uniform have fought and died for.

Please feel free to contact me at my email and/or home address.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding this extremely disturbing and time sensitive issue.

God Bless you and your family-God Bless America!

Respectfully,

Jake Martinez

Response received from Governor Martinez regarding my above letter: 

“Thank you for taking the time to share your comments and concerns with my office. A constituent service representative will be in contact with you regarding your issue.

Sincerely,

Susana Martinez”

End of Letter to Governor Martinez.

For your information, I will inform you should I happen to get a response from Governor Martinez, which I again really don’t expect, but miracles do happen.

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  The following recent article and/or blog reveals that the Obama regime is currently preparing to do away with free speech on the Internet-why?:

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Free Speech Internet Will Soon Disappear!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Dave Hodges-On February 8, 2015:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/02/08/free-speech-internet-will-s...

I believe that this disturbing move by the regime not only relates to and/or further supports my above recent letter to my NM U.S. Representative, but confirms what the legendary conspiracy author G. Edward Griffin revealed in the following collection of videos that contain numerous interviews with him.

He not only reveals how the left-right hoax is used to steer the destiny of America, but talks at length on a myriad of other important subjects, such as: 1) how the banking elite are obsessed with enforcing a world government under a collectivist model that will crush individualism and eventually institute martial law as a response to the inevitable backlash that will be generated as a result of a fundamental re-shaping of society; 2) the move towards a Chinese-style censored Internet; 3) the demonization of the John Birch Society as a racist extremist group; 4) the Hegelian dialectic;5) the power of tax-exempt foundations; 6) the Council on Foreign Relations; and 7) the question of whether the elite are really worried about the growing awareness of their agenda against Americans-You Decide:

4063547722?profile=originalVideos: The Collectivist Conspiracy By G. Edward Griffin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdu0N1-tvU&list=PLWPZXDS0HiuNS...

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  What follows are other recent articles and/or blogs and videos that relate to and/or further support my above letter to my NM U.S. Representative regarding this extremely disturbing issue-You Decide:

4064078846?profile=original

How to Free the Government’s Grip on Freedom of Information!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Sharyl Attkisson /@SharylAttkisson-On February 5, 2015:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/05/free-governments-grip-freedom-inf...

4064078866?profile=original

Dr. Ben Carson put on “Extremist” Watch List by Southern Poverty Law Center!-Posted on Legal Insurrection-By William A. Jacobson-On February 6, 2015:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/02/dr-ben-carson-put-on-extremist...

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Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Administration Has Mastered ‘Propaganda and Spin’!-Posted on The Daily Signal-By Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann-On February 7, 2015:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/07/sharyl-attkisson-obama-administra...

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The Bankers Are Laughing At You As They Prepare to Steal Everything You Own!-Posted on The D.C. Clothesline-By Dave Hodges-On February 8, 2015:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/02/08/bankers-laughing-prepare-st...

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  My following blogs relate to and/or further support my above letter to my NM U.S. Representative regarding this disturbing and gut-wrenching issue-You Decide:

4063557550?profile=originalResponse from and to NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall (re: Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down  America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 7, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/response-from-and-to-nm-...

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Letter to our NM Governor Martinez (re: The Shadow Party’s alleged agenda to take down America)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On February 2, 2015:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-governo...

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Letter to our NM U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan-Grisham (re: Articles of Impeachment and Impeachment Proceedings)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-rep...

4063758287?profile=originalLetter to our NM U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (re: Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles)!-Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On August 12, 2014:

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/profiles/blogs/letter-to-our-nm-u-s-sen...

4063359777?profile=originalNote: The following videos are extremely appropriate today: 

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

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The Fightin Side of Me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32-OyyLJzHw&feature=player_embedded

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When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqO_Hljf08

4063359777?profile=originalNote:  If you have a problem viewing any of the listed articles and/or blogs, please copy website link and paste it on your browser.  Sure seems like any subject matter that may be considered controversial by this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide: 

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/what-happened-to-free-speech/

“Food For Thought”

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Hello: Are Americans Going To Wake Up and Take a Stand Before The Lights Go Out?-God Bless America!

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

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.htm

Semper Fi!

Jake

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American imperialism is destroying the Republic.

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist  -  voteforamerica@gmail.com

Americas must realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

We seek the truth and let the people know. An informed citizenry is vital for the preservation of our democracy. Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties. http://themoneygps.com/

American imperialism is destroying the Republic.

Fellow Americans the demise of our Republic is the result of greed for power to exploit the natural resources and control defend-less nations through military intervention and occupation. The Mideast wars were planned and execute by George W. Bush in collaboration with the NEOCON and continue by Obama. The wars were promoted by deception and the cover-up of crimes committed by the Bush administration. Today most Americans know that the 9/11 was an inside job done by the American government to justify the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq and the expansion of the war under the pretense of fighting terrorism; that they created in the first place.  The cost of the wars and the bail-out of the financial system and some of the American manufactures cost the US tax more than 14 trillion Dollars. The Bush and the Obama administration manage to expend more than 14 trillion Dollars for nothing, today we are worse than during the recession of 1945-46 following World War II and we are being deceive by our government; Obama is lying to us by proclaiming that the economic is getting better and that jobs are being created for Americans; but the truth is that we are close to an economic catastrophe, worst that the one of 2008; Retail stores are closing by the thousands jobs are getting hard to get, true unemployment is above 15% but the News Media and our government is covering the facts.

We must stop this expending madness and stop the NEOCON imperialism strategy that is destroying our country. We must reclaim our manufacturing, support small business and the local farming and financial system, take your money out of the big banks and place your money in state Banks and credit unions, invest in your community, real estate and business, get your 401k and invest in real estate. Local business and local financial system can survive if they do not invest outside the state, your state will be best if they do all their business at local level.

American imperialism has neither shame nor morality; the U.S long history of embracing dictatorships, overthrowing governments and killing foreign presidents in defense of U.S. interests eroded the moral basis of public support. The America people, unconditional support for dictatorial regimes of the day, such as the Shah in Iran, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Manuel Noriega in Panama, General Augusto Pinochet in Chile (along with the overthrow of democratically elected Salvador Allende) the Reagan-Bush Iran Contra scandal and their support for right-wing death squads in Central America, and the training of Latin Americans collaborators in the school of las Americans in Ft. Benning Georgia. this blind support demonstrated that America would set aside its moral principles in order to support the government control of foreign governments and exploit their natural resources. Bush and Obama deceived the American people and destroyed their moral soul by calling on the American people to support the wars in the Mideast.  The Evil Empire place again, power and wealth before humanity that is why God is destroying the empire to give us an opportunity to elevated human rights to a serious concern in our foreign policy. Our next president must place as our number one priority the reconstruction of our relationship in the world community. This world belongs to humanity and it is not to be controlled and exploit by the world elite. The people of all nations must work together for the benefit of humanity and poverty and hunger must end; we must find our moral conscience and seek the support at home of a new America’s national interests abroad. A new system of collaboration for mutual benefit, and the respect for others systems of governments, culture, religion and self-determination. We must end being the world’s police force and focus in our country’s needs.

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We must learn our constitution.

http://vimeo.com/107933176

The truth about the Greedy Bankers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHgZsyK34g

The American Empire

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

The Bush Administration NEO-Imperialism Foreign policy.

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/10/imperialism-destroys-constitutional.html

American Imperialism is destroying our Republic.

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/10/imperialism-destroys-constitutional.html

The U.S. and the EU Imperialism agenda is destroying the world economic.

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/10/imperialism-destroys-constitutional.html

The American Imperialism

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/10/imperialism-destroys-constitutional.html

The fall of the American Imperial

 http://proutglobe.org/2011/08/the-fall-of-the-american-empire-and-the-rise-of-a-new-economy/

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/06/26/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/

U.S. Government/Central Bankers Economic Recovery Is A Big Lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWffYzLgdZU&list=TLF-2Dilikp4w

Retail store closing in 2015

http://retailindustry.about.com/od/USRetailStoreClosingInfoFAQs/fl/All-2015-Store-Closings-Stores-Closed-by-US-Retail-Industry-Chains_2.htm

Bankers death are Suicide, or Political Murder.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/suicide-omen-or-political-murder-2014-banker-death-count-reaches-double-digits/

Support American manufacturing. Buy made in the USA.

http://www.nam.org/Membership/Benefits/

More American Factories Closing

http://economyincrisis.org/content/more-american-factories-closing

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