BREAKING: Benghazi cover up censored by media

At least five major bombshell revelations emerged during the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on the September terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. But as of yet, the liberal media have done no more than pay lip service to these revelations. And the MRC is taking action. The State Department knew it was a terrorist attack, but blamed it on a video. Commandos were denied permission to go to Benghazi and help those under siege—even though no one knew how long the attacks would last. A FEST team was denied permission to go in because conditions were “too dangerous.” Yet, they wanted to go and this is exactly what they’re trained for! Gregory Hicks—the #2 diplomat in Libya—was demoted after complaining that that the administration was lying! Secretary Clinton was never interviewed by the Accountability Review Board! Why has there been so little coverage on an attack that cost American lives and is now proven to be an administration cover up? Because the liberal media want to censor the truth in order to protect their ally in the White House. This is a disgrace and it violates every established journalistic ethic. I hope you’ll stand with us to take action. The victims’ families deserve the truth, and YOU deserve the truth. Sign our petition demanding the media thoroughly investigate the Benghazi scandal until the full truth is revealed. You can take action here. I will keep you updated as we learn more. Sincerely, L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President Media Research Center

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Generation Jihad

Generation JihadH/T Red Fox A fascinating Documentary: In Generation Jihad, Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the Internet. Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born. In the first episode, Peter hears from those convicted under Britain’s newest anti-terror laws and investigates how some of the most notorious terrorists came to be radicalised. He finds a generation that has shed the moderate Islam their parents brought to this country, and instead have adopted a faith that they believe compels them to stand apart from Britain and its values. Watch the full documentary now (playlist – 2 hours, 57 minutes) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/generation-jihad/

New High School Principal——-THIS IS GREAT!

If all schools nationwide adopted this ideology for their schools, I know we would all be better off!

New High School Principal——-THIS IS GREAT!

America has lost its decency, manners, politeness…………….soon without quick changes character!

Listen to the young people, F-this, F-that, and nary anyone will step up and correct them- even with wife and kids in tow!

New high school principal

We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado , along with Sara Palin and Tom Brokaw on TV a couple of weeks ago….what a dynamic, down to earth speaker. Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did little but nod and agree with him.

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give.
By Dennis Prager.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so.
There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that some ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.

First , this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity.
I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity — your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American.

This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values — epluribus Unum, “from many, one.” And this school will be guided by America ‘s values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism — an unhealthy preoccupation with the self — while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second , I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America ‘s citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here — it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English — but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third , because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor , everything in this school will reflect learning’s elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth , no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school’s property — whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can’t speak without using the f -word, you can’t speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as “Nigger,” even when used by one black student to address another black, or “bitch,” even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth , we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way — the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago — by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth , and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue… There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate — to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

Pass this along if you agree. . . . If not delete …. .and later regret it !

 

Sing Sing Sing – 9 minute version

Uploaded on Dec 27, 2008

This is a special recording of the swing classic Sing, Sing, Sing in 2 parts by Benny Goodman on a 12″ 78 rpm record. This number usually closed concerts and was their signature tune. Most recordings of Sing, Sing, Sing are 3 minutes or so to fit on a regular record, but this is a real jam session with almost 9 minutes of music, much like their concert performances, showcasing Benny Goodman, Harry James, and especially Gene Krupa. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtB6dijjWl8

Video (19 mins): DHS terrorizes one of its own

H/T Dorrie!

This is a bit of a step out of my usual fare, but it’s certainly related. As far as I’m concerned, DHS harbors the worst “leaders” we have in our gov’t, just below Hussein and Holder. Napolitano is an enemy-enabler of the first order. DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes #N3 This newsletter is not the official newsletter or communication of ACT! for America, Inc. This newsletter is independently owned and operated by that ACT! for America chapter named on this communication. The statements, positions, opinions and views expressed in this website, whether written, audible, or video, are those of the individuals and organizations making them and do not necessarily represent the positions, views, and opinions of ACT! for America, Inc., its directors, officers, or agents Statements, views, positions and opinions expressed in articles, columns, commentaries and blog posts, whether written, audible, or video, which are not the original work of the ACT! for America chapter that distributes this newsletter and is named on this site, are not necessarily the views, positions, and opinions of the ACT! for America chapter that distributes this newsletter.

NEW YORK: Officials search for human remains at Ground Zero Mosque! We told you it is a victory mosque!

NEW YORK

Officials search for human remainsat Ground Zero Mosque!

We told you it is a victory mosque! EVERYONE KNEW THERE WERE STILL BODY PARTS IN THE BUILDING!!!

The New York City medical examiner’s of­fice plans to resume searching for human re­mains two blocks from the World Trade Center after the sudden discov­ery of landing gear be­lieved to be from one of the planes hijacked Sept. 11, 2001. Medical examiner’s spokeswoman Ellen Bo­rakove told The Associat­ed Press on Saturday that the alley behind a mosque site will first be tested as part of a standard health and safety evaluation.

Borakove said sifting for human remains will begin Tuesday morning.

Obama & Hilary Clinton Campaign Found Guilty Of Fraud! Forgery Put Then Senator Obama On The ballot For 2008 Presidential Primary In Indiana Says Jury – Voter Fraud

H/T Twana

Obama & Hilary Clinton Campaign Found Guilty Of Fraud!

Forgery Put Then Senator Obama On The ballot For 08 Pres Primary In Indiana Says Jury – Voter Fraud

Attorney: Records Show State Police Targeted Man For Loss Of Pistol Permit – WBEN NewsRadio 930 : Buffalo & Niagara Falls, NY

NYS should be ashamed!!

Attorney: Records Show State Police Targeted Man For Loss Of Pistol Permit – WBEN NewsRadio 930 : Buffalo & Niagara Falls, NY.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) In State Supreme Court, the attorney for a man whose pistol permit was temporarily revoked says records from the Erie County Clerk’s office were unsealed. Jim Tresmond says the records show State Police had their man, his client in their sights all along.

Tresmond says Judge Russell Buscaglia signed the subpoena order to have Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs hand over the records regarding David Lewis, Tresmond’s client. “The records reflect the New York State Police had Mr. Lewis’ name, date of birth, pistol permit application, date of birth, mental health history,” says Tresmond. “The notion the State Police simply provided Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs with a name and age range and required Jacobs to do due diligence was patently false.”

Read More: http://www.wben.com/Attorney–Records-Show-State-Police-Targeted-Man-f/16137623

You have to keep tabs on this grid…illegal criminal counts…

http://immigrationcounters.com/
ImmigrationCounters.com provides the key numbers and events related to illegal immigration in the United States. Using the latest government and private sources, research and analysis trending data is factored at their individual rates of increase. For information about the research behind the individual counters clickhere Data Sources. ImmigrationCounters.com supports legal immigration and respect for all humanity yet highlights the significant impact of illegal immigration in America.

rain water tax?

H/T Wilson

If you don’t think fighting Agenda 21/EPA is important, get this.

Maryland residents will now pay taxes on RAIN WATER that falls on their property. I am NOT kidding.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/maryland-rain-tax-stormwater-runoff-chesapeake/

http://www.gazette.net/article/20130405/NEWS/130409397/-1/the-x2018-rain-tax-x2019&template=gazette

http://intellihub.com/2013/04/08/md-residents-to-pay-new-rain-tax-for-rain-that-falls-on-their-property/

I Used To Have A Country by Don Feder

GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary http://www.grasstopsusa.com/df040113.html
By Don Feder
04/01/2013

Once upon a time, I had a country. It was called America or the United States, “Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean,” the land of the free and home of the brave. The Founding Fathers envisioned it as a Shining City on a Hill.

For more than two centuries, it blazed across the skies of history. Now, its light flickers. Soon, it may be no more than a trail of dust and debris.

It was the nation that taught humanity the lessons of republican government, personal sovereignty and inalienable rights. It was the foe of tyranny which twice in the last century saved humanity from unspeakable horror.

It was the shores of refuge where my Jewish grandparents and your Irish or Italian or Hispanic or Asian ancestors came for a life which was impossible and, indeed, inconceivable, anywhere else.

It was a cornucopia of products and inventions that enriched the masses here and abroad and made life infinitely easier for millions. It was the factory from whose assembly line rolled forth the incandescent light bulb, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the television, the refrigerator, the computer and on and on.

It was a land of strength, determination, optimism, ingenuity and heroism. It was a nation that led by example, inspired, liberated and defended – that was unbelievably generous to the destitute and disaster victims around the world.

It was a country that produced giants – leaders touched by the Divine – like Washington, Adams, Lincoln, Coolidge and Reagan – inventors like Edison, Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, the Wright brothers and Jobs, and artists like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cecile B. DeMille.

It was a nation whose optimism was reflected in movies like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Casablanca,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Best Years of Our Lives,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “The Ten Commandments.”

It was a nation that was born in blood, endured wars and depressions, slavery and segregation, bread lines, picket lines and quarantine signs, reversals and betrayals, gang warfare, urban riots and “peace” rallies.

That was then. Today, what are we?

We may still dominate the world – industrially and militarily – but, increasingly, we are living off the accumulated capital of the past, drawing down on our legacy until nothing is left but a wistful memory of our former glory.

We are a people drowning in an ocean of debt – $16.6 trillion, over a third in the past four years alone, a nation of indigent sheep blindly following politicians who lack the will to stop spending money we don’t have (at an average rate of $3.86 billion a day). We are a car without brakes full of happy drunks, oblivious to the fact that we are careening toward a cliff.

We are a culture of brokenness. For every 100 children born here, 60 will grow up in broken families. We are killing the future – 1.1 million of them a year –in the name of a spurious right to choose. Now, our fertility rate is the lowest since we began keeping records.

Reagan said, “A nation that can’t control its borders is not a nation.” We lost our sovereignty at the Rio Grande.

While politicians dress up amnesties as a “pathway to citizenship,” the nation is infiltrated by parasites, criminals, potential terrorists and the arrogantly unassimliable – and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Washington, the courts and media multiculturalists tell us that attempts to stem the flow are hateful, bigoted and futile.

We’re a nation whose entertainment industry is a cavalcade of degeneracy – a steady stream of nudity, raw sexuality, bathroom humor, gut-wrenching violence and sadism. Instead of manufactured products, this toxic trash is now one of our principal exports.

We are a nation with leaders whose answer to rampaging psychopaths is to disarm the innocent, leaving them at the mercy of thugs and lunatics, while congratulating themselves on their courage in standing up to the mythical gun lobby, as they travel about with armed guards and live in gated communities.

We are a nation of serfs whose laws are written by geriatric ideologues in black gowns who have made a mockery of democracy and turned the Constitution into an excuse for tyranny and bizarre social experiments.

We’re a nation which betrays its historic friends while slobbering over its foes, whose response to the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 Americans was a decade-long orgy of tolerance and understanding for the death cult that animated the murderers, dubbed the “religion of peace.”

We’re a country where a plurality now favors “solemnizing” an absurdity and calling the travesty “marriage” – an unparalleled corruption of language that is deconstructing an institution on which civilization depends.

We are a republic riding a rising tide of secularism, rapidly turning away from the God in whose name we were founded.

Our officials hypocritically take an oath of office on the Bible, while they rarely miss an opportunity to undermine its teachings. We’re a land of the lost where it’s illegal to display the Ten Commandments on public property or erect a cross as a memorial to war dead, with a president who deliberately misquotes the Declaration of Independence, leaving out the crucial affirmation “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

We are a people so consumed by envy that we habitually fall for the Democrats’ con that society is a zero-sum game, that profits come at our expense and that Obama and his Congressional gang are all that stand between our precious programs and Republican budget-warriors determined to preserve “tax cuts for the rich” at any cost.

We are a country of benefit-addicts who are hooked on handouts. We tell pollsters that we want Washington to reduce spending rather than raising taxes – but not at the expense of my program or any program marketed as benefiting children, the elderly, the disadvantaged, the disabled, or any but tap-dancing, Anglo-Saxon millionaires.

America 2013 is epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama, a man who so despises this nation and every thing it stands for that he can’t even bring himself to say that there’s anything objectively special about the country he leads (American “exceptionalism”), who showed his contempt for Middle America right at the start, when he characterized small towns as the haunts of religious zealots, gun nuts and bigots – a president who’s determined to govern without Congress and outside the Constitution, who’s committed to expanding government as rapidly as possible – for whom “revenue-enhancement” is a religion and mega-deficits are a ritual.

Still, the man who occupies the White House, the way Germany occupied France during World War II, is a symptom, not the disease. As a conservative congressman recently remarked: “I think we can survive another four years of this guy. I’m not sure we can survive another four years of a country that would reelect this guy.”

It wasn’t the media or the elites that ushered in the Age of Obama. We the people put him in office and we kept him there.

He’s given us the longest sustained period of 7%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression, and we reelected him. He’s given us our only trillion-dollar deficits – one for every year he’s been in office – and we reelected him. Due to his war on energy, gas prices more than doubled on his watch, and we reelected him. He nationalized health insurance, resulting in huge increases in premiums, and we reelected him.

Due to a failure to mount a rescue operation (while he was off playing golf), a U.S. ambassador and three others died in Benghazi, and we reelected him. His administration spent weeks denying it was terrorism, and we reelected him. He called the Ft. Hood massacre (perpetrated by a Muslim militant shouting “Allah is great!”) “workplace violence,” and we reelected him.

His Justice Department became an enabler of the New Black Panther Party, and we reelected him. ATF ran guns to Mexican drug lords, and we reelected him. He told businessmen who somehow managed to make a profit in his economy, that their success was due to the collective (“You didn’t build that”), and we reelected him. His family takes lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous vacations at our expense, while the ranks of the chronically unemployed swell, and we reelected him.

No wonder zombie movies are so popular.

Those of us who still believe in America are confronted with the appalling choice of two political parties. One is run by a conglomeration of radicals, panhandlers and perpetually aggrieved minorities; the other has turned our values into campaign slogans which it sneers at in non-election years. The Reptilian National Chairman recently castigated his party’s base for “acting like Old Testament heretics” (sic.) by taking his party’s platform seriously.

We are fiscally and spiritually bankrupt. We are rubes at the county fair who fall for the most absurd nostrums, and gape in awe at the panaceas that are peddled to us, who care more for “Dancing With The Stars” (while Obama dances with the Czars) and the latest mini-series than our nation’s survival.

We allow the decent and the honorable – the Boy Scouts, law-abiding gun owners, churchgoing Americans, entrepreneurs – to be vilified. We arm our enemies ($1.5 billion in military aid to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood), undercut our allies (dictating extinction borders to Israel), surrender our sovereignty and sell our inheritance for a bowl of government pottage.

What can be done? First, accept the reality that we will probably lose – that those of us over 40 may well be the last generation of real Americans.

But in that acceptance, there is power and, perhaps, hope. In “Band of Brothers,” a captain advises a private who admits his fear: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact at that you’re dead and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to function.”

America may yet beat the odds, though the prospects grow dim. If not, what better than to die for than the country that once was? While there are still words to write and speak, ballots to cast, flags to wave, cases to argue and noble gestures to make, duty requires us to stand fast.

Like the Marines who died in a green hell in the Pacific and the 101st Airborne who fell at Bastogne – like those who stayed at machine gun emplacements until the last bullet was fired and were later found dead with the bodies of the enemy piled up around them – we must fight to the last.

Our sacrifice will be an appeal to Heaven that may yet avert what now seems inevitable. Or, perhaps, centuries hence, another people will arise to claim the title of “Americans,” more worthy of it than our contemporaries. May they be inspired by the example of the last of the old Americans.

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com.

Medical concerns with gun law linger – SAFE Act lacks full support for a reason

There has been a lot of talk about the New York gun law. If this so-called SAFE Act is what the governor says it is, why have various police depart­ments come out against it? The Erie and Saratoga sheriff’s departments have stated they are against it, as have other departments. Even officers I have talked to are against it. If this is such a good law, then why does it not have 100 per­cent support from the police?

JIM NOLL

ROCHESTER

Mental health officials, counties seek changes; Cuomo unwilling

Jessica Bakeman

Albany Bureau

Psychiatrists, county officials and law enforcement are questioning a por­tion of New York’s gun-control law that requires them to take steps that could lead to firearms being seized from po­tentially dangerous people they en­counter or counsel. Since a mid-March effective date, the state’s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act has re­quired mental health treatment provid­ers to report to their county govern­ments when a patient is a potential dan­ger to himself or others.

Once approved by the county, the re­port is sent to the state for entry into a database. Local law enforcement must then suspend or revoke gun licenses is­sued to people in the database and, if necessary, remove their firearms.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promoted the reporting requirements outlined in the law, saying they will keep guns out of the hands of the dangerously mental­ly ill and prevent the type of mass shootings the nation has seen of late.

But the parties who must participate in the process said it was hastily designed and broadly written. “When someone drops a whole new set of rules out of the sky, and there isn’t a whole lot of time to discuss them or consider them or appreciate the many dimensions that may be played out in this, it becomes really entangling,” said Eric Caine, chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “You trip up on a lot of stuff.” Mental health and other medical groups have pushed for amendments that they said would promote consistency with previously existing laws and diminish potential liability. The groups had hoped to see the changes made in the budget, which included tweaks to other parts of the law. “We think these technical changes fall within the realm of what the leaders have indicated they’re willing to discuss,” Liz Dears, the state Medical Society’s senior vice president for governmental affairs, said while budget negotiations were ongoing. The complete budget passed Thursday.

Changes sought

Cuomo, who signed the gun law Jan. 15, has suffered harsh criticism since passing the measure, which is considered the toughest gun-control law in the nation. Gunrights groups said it violates the Second Amendment, and there are two lawsuits pending. He agreed with legislative leaders on a few changes to the law in the budget. But he was adamant the state would make only “technical” amendments. “I am not open to any substantive changes on the law, period,” Cuomo said when asked March 20 about the proposed changes to the mentalhealth requirements. “No substantive changes have been entertained.” Sen. Jeff Klein, DBronx, who supports the SAFE Act, doesn’t expect mental health changes, he said during an interview last week with Gannett’s Albany bureau. Klein heads the Independent Democratic Conference, which shares power in the Senate. “I don’t think it’s too much to ask a mental health professional that if one of their patients tells them that they are going to commit harm to themselves or somebody else that they have a duty to report it,” he said. “That’s common sense.” Senate Mental Health Committee Chairman David Carlucci, New City, Rockland County, said he’s considering holding hearings around the state to explore the effects of the law on treatment. At the hearings, the committee and advocates would discuss “how we can make sure that we’re delivering the best services to residents around New York state and we’re not impeding access or having a stigma attached to mental illness,” he said.

Reporting standards

The state Medical Society and the Psychiatric Association petitioned the governor for changes in early March, before the provisions took effect. Patients’ advocates, nurses and social workers have since joined the lobbying effort.

Primarily the groups are arguing for changes in the law’s reporting standards, because they vary from criteria that had previously governed treatment providers’ actions.

Typically, if a therapist believes a patient presents “a serious and imminent threat” to the health and safety of himself or others, the professional may report the patient to law enforcement or a potential victim without breaching confidentiality.

Under the SAFE Act, the therapist must report “when in their reasonable professional judgment,” the patient “is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.”

The state Office of Mental Health, which has issued guidance materials including a 22-minute video tutorial on how to use the online reporting portal, maintains that the standard is the same. Caine, who heads the University of Rochester suicide-prevention research center, agrees. But he said therapists are confused about the standard and will over-report as a result. “Clinicians, not really understanding the nature of the law, may report people that the law never had the intention of being reported, and in the process, destroy all sorts of trust that might be there,” he said. “We’re not sure at all that it’s going to make anybody safer, and it may have unintended consequences.”

In the letter to Cuomo dated March 1, mental health groups wrote that the existence of two standards would lead to the reporting of people who would never require hospitalization and deter people with mental illnesses from seeking treatment.

Therapists’ chief concern has been that patients who were feeling suicidal or homicidal might conceal their troubles to avoid having their guns removed.

The state Nurses Association wrote in a memo to Cuomo on March 13 that the law stigmatizes mental illness by linking it to gun violence, creating barriers for those who need treatment.

The groups also believe the language in the SAFE Act could make health officials vulnerable to lawsuits.

The law shields therapists from civil and criminal liability when the decision to report is made “reasonably and in good faith.” But medical professionals want the law changed to protect them from liability unless they exercise “malice or intentional misconduct,” which is harder to prove in court.

Who reports

Also at question is who should be required to report. The law states that physicians (including psychiatrists), psychologists, registered nurses and licensed clinical social workers are obligated to make reports. Experts argue that nurse practitioners, who have a higher level of education, should be included, rather than registered nurses. “The scope of practice of RNs does not extend to making the diagnosis and prognosis necessary to evoke a report,” the Medical Society and Psychiatric Association wrote in the March 1 letter. The Nurses Association also objected in its memo, urging for an amendment that would relieve registered nurses from the requirement.

Cuomo has responded to criticisms from the mental health community, arguing the law allows therapists a choice of whether to report. In addition to the local groups’ concerns, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has said it won’t comply with the law.

“The law prescribes that it’s basically in the discretion of a mental health provider, and if a mental health institution says they have confidentiality, they have secrecy, they don’t want to share information — that’s their business,” Cuomo said during a news conference March 20.

When pressed that the law constitutes a requirement, not an option, for reporting, Cuomo said he couldn’t imagine a situation in which a therapist would choose not to report a dangerous person.

“If they have determined that someone is an imminent threat to themselves or others, I don’t know what the ramifications are if they say, ‘I concluded that, and I did nothing.’ I don’t think they’d ever be in that situation,” Cuomo said.

Counties as middlemen

Under the law, after a report is made, county mental health officials review it. If they agree that the patient is dangerous, they forward the report to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

County officials want to be removed from the process, suggesting that therapists should report directly to the state instead.

For one, the process will be time-consuming and is an unfunded mandate, said Kelly Hansen, the group’s executive director. Hansen also questioned the clinical value of the county officials’ involvement.

“If the person isn’t known to you — which, outside of a rural county, it’s very unlikely that they would be — why would anyone … question the clinical judgment of the person who has laid eyes on the patient and is treating them?” Hansen said.

Arthur Johnson, Broome County mental health commissioner, handled a few reports already and said approving and forwarding them to the state has been generally simple, although he did encounter a few glitches. Johnson said he and his colleagues in other counties told the state they want the ability to track the reports so they can make sure they’ve been processed. “The professional making the report is exempt from liability, but the county is not,” he said. “So we don’t want any (reports) to fall through the cracks.”

Taking a gun

Law enforcement will get involved at the end of the process, when the state has identified whether reportedly dangerous individuals hold firearms licenses. Putnam County Sheriff Donald Smith said deciding whether to suspend or revoke a gun license and removing firearms is already part of his job. Sheriffs carry out orders to retrieve firearms from those who have been served with restraining orders, he said. Smith said seizing guns from mentally ill people might prove a dangerous task, but sheriffs are trained for it. “The action that we take is in accordance with the situation that we’re presented with,” he said. “If it’s a more dangerous situation, we take the appropriate precautions.”

Contacted last week by the Democrat and Chronicle , a Monroe County spokesman and the Sheriff’s Office said it was too early to comment on how the program was being implemented.

JBAKEMAN@Gannett.com Twitter.com/jessicabakeman

Includes reporting by staff writer Jessica Alaimo.

New York Fascist State: Opt-out forms inundate clerks – Pistol owners want to keep info private – Opt-out forms cost county $177K

Haley Viccaro

Albany Bureau

ALBANY — County clerks around New York say they are struggling with thousands of pistol permit opt-out forms flooding their offices and with no money from the state for the addi­tional work.

A provision in New York’s new gun­control law provides state residents with the option to fill out a form that would keep their pistol permit records exempt from Freedom of Information requests. State Police released the forms on Feb. 15, and permit holders have until May 15 to complete the forms or risk having their information available to the public.

Monroe County has received 11,000 forms. Westchester County has re­ceived 9,000, and Broome County has gotten 4,000. Clerks report long lines of people submitting the forms.

“It started a little slow the first week with a couple of hundred a day, and now we get about 700 to 800 at the most per day,” said Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni. “People realize that the deadline is approaching soon to get these forms in.”

Westchester County has received opt-out forms from more than half of the 16,800 people who have active pistol permits, Idoni said. The provision was included in a state gun-control law in January after the Journal News , a Gan­nett Co. Inc. publication, released an in­teractive online map in December of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. The map was taken off the Journal News website af­ter the new law was passed.

The gun-control law expands a ban on some weapons with assault-style features, requires registration of guns every five years and limits the number of rounds in a magazine to seven except in limited circumstances.

Gun-permit information that is held by counties will be kept private until May 15, when the opt-out forms take effect. Those who still want to complete a form can do so after that date, according to the law, but they wouldn’t be assured that their information would be kept private in the meantime.

County clerks said the forms have their offices working overtime and pulling staff from different divisions to help organize the information. Some counties said they have started sending the forms to county judges for approval to stay ahead of the process.

“Right now we are absolutely overwhelmed, we have lines out the door, and our staff are stressed to the max,” Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo said. “We are treading water and doing what needs to be done to get through the day.” Dinolfo said about 1,000 of the county’s forms came from new pistol-permit applicants because the law has also spurred a surge in people seeking guns. Monroe County has about 45,000 pistol-permit holders.

For most counties, the opt-out forms are approved or denied by county judges. Then they are sent back to the county clerk’s offices, where the pistol permit holders’ status is updated and logged as private. The opt-out form allows for a number of reasons why a gun owner can seek to have his or her information kept private. The options include if an applicant is a law enforcement official, victim of domestic violence, had served on a grand jury and feared for their safety or were concerned about harassment. Clerks said the law is not clear as to who needs to give final approval of the forms. State officials have said the new gun law shouldn’t add costs to local governments. State Police Superintendent Joseph D’Amico testified at a hearing in February that the process would be borne mostly by the state.

“We don’t expect any counties to incur costs here,” D’Amico said. “That, I think, was an intention of the governor when the bill was passed.” Chenango County received about 700 opt-out forms, and the County Clerk Mary Weidman said the county judges might decide to accept the forms without reviewing them. “We have triple the number of people coming in now because the deadline is approaching and they are concerned that they will lose their right to have guns, which is certainly not the case,” Weidman said.

Sen. Thomas O’Mara, R-Big Flats, Chemung County, said the law should be changed to simply keep all gun information private, avoiding the need for the work by counties. O’Mara is among gun-rights supporters who want a full repeal of the law. “The opt-out should be done away with all together. There shouldn’t be any disclosure of this information,” O’Mara said.

Some good-government groups have disagreed and supported the Journal News’ attempt in December to get the pistol-permit data from Putnam County, which refused to release the information.

“We oppose efforts to undermine the integrity of the state’s Freedom of Information Law and fear the slippery slope of carving out exceptions as an attempt to undermine the public interest,” the groups said in a statement Jan. 8. Some counties have their sheriff’s departments handling the pistol permit forms. The Broome County Sheriff’s Department said it doesn’t have a computer system and logs individuals’ records using index cards. Identification Officer Brian Curtis said his three-member staff plans to locate each pistol permit holder’s index card and stamp it if their optout requests are approved. They received about 4,000 forms out of 23,000 residents in the county with pistol permits.

“There is no way we are going to beat the deadline with the amount of people putting in new permits and buying guns,” Curtis said. “We average about a two-hour wait to get into our office.” County clerks said they were bracing for the registration of assaultstyle weapons, which is set to begin April 15 when the State Police will make the forms available online.

“It is an unfunded mandate and it was dumped on us,” said Cortland County Clerk Elizabeth Larkin. “It should have never happened on the state level with no thought of the consequences to local county offices.”

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Cheryl Dinolfo, Monroe County Clerk, displays the stack of 11,000 opt-out forms filed with her office as of Thursday. The forms allow pistol owners to keep their information private, if approved. SHAWN DOWD/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

NEW ARTICLE

Clerk seeks state reimbursement

Jessica Alaimo

Staff writer

The Monroe County Clerk’s Office has incurred $177,107 in costs to process the opt-out forms it has received under the state’s new gun laws, and it is re­questing reimbursement from the state.

The Secure Ammunition and Fire­arms Enforcement Act passed Jan. 15 al­lows for pistol permit holders to file a form with the county clerk to keep their names out of public databases and Free­dom of Information Act Law requests. As of Monday, Monroe County had re­ceived more than 11,000 forms.

County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo be­lieves the state should reimburse the county.

“The NY SAFE Act states that any costs associated with the program will be paid out of the Division of State Police capital budget and I am simply request­ing how we will be reimbursed,” Dinolfo said in a release.

Dinolfo cited several news reports in which state officials said counties wouldn’t be harmed, including this com­ment by State Police Superintendent Jo­seph D’Amico at a hearing in February. “We don’t expect any counties to incur costs here,” he testified. “That, I think, was an intention of the governor when the bill was passed.”

Dinolfo estimates processing the opt­out forms will cost about $177,107. Depu­ty Clerk Kirk Morris said the office fig­ured out the average cost of processing a document in 2012 and multiplied it by the number of forms to arrive at this fig­ure, with an average cost of $16.10 a form.

Each form must be time stamped, sent to a judge, sent back and filed. The office has had to bring on extra help to handle to workload, Morris said. Many people delivered the forms in person, taking up staff time.

Morris said there has been no com­munication from the Governor’s Office regarding reimbursement of costs.

However, the Governor’s office says the burden is on local governments to find ways to address the issue.

“By any reasonable standard, making all forms readily available online and setting a grace period that will keep pistol permit information private until each opt-out form is processed mitigates costs to local governments,’ said Richard Azzopardi, a spokseperson for the Governor’s office.

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has also expressed concerns about costs to the county under the mental health provision in the bill.

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ACT! TX Action Alert for TX/US Reps! (not just for Texas but for ALL states!)

*** TEXAS LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT ***WHY HAVE YOUR FEDERAL REPS NOT YET COSPONSORED H. RES. 36 TO INVESTIGATE THE BENGHAZI ATTACK? by Lisa Piraneo, Director of Government Relations Dear Dorrie, The U.S. Congress is in recess for the next two weeks. That means your federal legislators are out of hectic Washington, DC and back home in their communities. Their time at home is an excellent opportunity for you-their constituents-to contact them about important issues, and that is why I’m writing to you today. As you may know, Representative Frank Wolf (VA) has introduced H. Res. 36, legislation that would create a special short-term (90 day) congressional committee to investigate what happened in Benghazi last September 11th when a U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans were killed, and many others injured. While much discussion of the attack continues to occur on Capitol Hill, there are still many important unanswered questions. A short-term committee would have more of a chance to get to the bottom of what transpired in Benghazi. We at ACT! for America support this approach. In fact, we support it so much that H. Res. 36 was the first piece of legislation placed on our High Priority list for the 113th Congress. The American people clearly want answers about what happened in Benghazi. I recently delivered an ACT! for America Open Letter to Congressional Leadership in support of Rep. Wolf’s legislation. In just a few weeks, the document was signed by over 23,000 people. And due to popular demand, we have returned the letter to our website (not just for Texas but for ALL states!) for this week only, in order to allow more concerned Americans to add their names. (If you have not already done so, please sign the letter today!) We are pleased to see that many Members of the U.S. House of Representatives already have supported Rep. Wolf’s Benghazi bill by signing on as cosponsors. Unfortunately, there are still some legislators who have yet to do so-legislators who should know better. Those Representatives need to hear from you, their constituents, and we need your help with that today. ** Important Action Item ** The following are some Representatives in your state who have NOT cosponsored Rep. Wolf’s Benghazi bill, H. Res. 36. Please contact their offices at one of the numbers listed below TODAY to ask that they support the legislation as a cosponsor as soon as possible. (NOTE: H. Res. 36 is NOT the same as H. R. 36. Please be sure to identify the legislation accurately to avoid confusion.) TEXAS Rep. Ted Poe (2ndDistrict) 202-225-6565 (Washington, DC Office) 281-446-0242 (Kingwood Office) 713-681-8763 (Houston Office) Rep. Sam Johnson (3rdDistrict) 202-225-4201 (Washington, DC Office) 469-304-0382 (Plano Office) Rep. Jeb Hensarling (5thDistrict) 202-225-3484 (Washington, DC Office) 903-675-8288 (Athens Office) 214-349-9996 (Dallas Office) Rep. Joe Barton (6thDistrict) 202-225-2002 (Washington, DC Office) 972-875-8488 (Ennis Office) 817-543-1000 (Arlington Office) Rep. Michael McCaul (10thDistrict) 202-225-2401 (Washington, DC Office) 512-473-2357 (Austin Office) 979-830-8497 (Brenham Office) 281-255-8372 (Tomball Office) Rep. Michael Conaway (11thDistrict) 202-225-3605 (Washington, DC Office) 325-247-2826 (Llano Office) 325-659-4010 (San Angelo Office) 432-331-9667 (Odessa Office) 432-687-2390 (Midland Office) 325-646-1950 (Brownwood Office) 682-936-2577 (Granbury Office) Rep. Kay Granger (12thDistrict) 202-225-5071 (Washington, DC Office) 817-338-0909 (Ft. Worth Office) Rep. Mac Thornberry (13thDistrict) 202-225-3706 (Washington, DC Office) 806-371-8844 (Amarillo Office) 940-692-1700 (Wichita Falls Office) Rep. Randy Neugebauer (19thDistrict) 202-225-4005 (Washington, DC Office) 325-675-9779 (Abilene Office) 432-264-0722 (Big Spring Office) 806-763-1611 (Lubbock Office) Rep. Lamar Smith (21stDistrict) 202-225-4236 (Washington, DC Office) 210-821-5024 (San Antonio Office) 830-896-0154 (Kerrville Office) 512-912-7508 (Austin Office) Rep. Kenny Marchant (24thDistrict) 202-225-6605 (Washington, DC Office) 972-556-0162 (Irving Office) Rep. Blake Farenthold (27thDistrict) 202-225-7742 (Washington, DC Office) 361-894-6446 (Victoria Office) 361-884-2222 (Corpus Christi Office) Rep. Pete Sessions (32ndDistrict) 202-225-2231 (Washington, DC Office) 972-392-0505 (Dallas Office) Thank you for all that you do. Together we ARE making a difference. REMEMBER, YOUR VOICE COUNTS! IF EACH OF US DOES JUST A LITTLE, TOGETHER WE CAN ACCOMPLISH A LOT! ACT for America P.O. Box 12765 Pensacola, FL 32591 www.actforamerica.org

Ancient Messianic Temple with The Name YESHUA

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50 year old Navy Veteran Detained for Evaluation, Gun Permit and Firearms Confiscated

My name is David A Schmecker. If possible I’d like to get my story known to as many people as possible.
To make this as brief as possible I live in Connecticut and I’m 50 years old and I’m an honorably discharged disabled NAVY veteran. I don’t have a psychiatric past or a criminal past.
Feb 5th 2013 my veterans hospital primary care doctor called my home and heard a message on my answering machine he said sounded peculiar and the VA contacted the local police to perform a wellness check.
The police came to my home and without any justification whatsoever, hauled me away for a psychiatric evaluation to a local hospital. I submitted to their forceful insistence under duress and fear of arrest or worse. I wasn’t arrested and no crime was committed nor any threats made to myself or others.

See video, read more: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/50-year-old-navy-veteran-detained-for-evaluation-gun-permit-and-firearms-confiscated_032013

Patient status in hospital can lead to jolt

Subtle difference can affect Medicare payout

Patti Singer

Staff writer

Being treated at the hospital doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the hospi­tal.

You may be in a bed in a room on a floor, with doctors and nurses coming and going and doing all sorts of tests. You may be there for days. But you may not actually be an inpatient.

Instead, you may be on observation status.

For the tens of thousands of seniors with traditional Medicare, the differ­ence is more than just words.

Traditional Medicare requires a three-day inpatient stay before it cov­ers the first 20 days of rehabilitation in an approved skilled nursing facility. Patients who are classified as observa­tion status do not qualify for such Medi­care services after they leave the hos­pital.

“The repercussions a family goes through financially, besides emotional­ly, can be staggering,” said Bill Stevens of West Bloomfield, Ontario County.

His 95-year-old mother had two hos­pitalizations last year that were classi­fied as observation, leaving him to pay $7,000 for 17 days of rehabilitation in a nursing home after the first one and provide 24-hour care for her after the second. In late February, she was hospi­talized for about a week as an inpatient. That time, Medicare covered her reha­bilitation at a nursing home.

Stevens contended that observation status was not explained to him the first time, but it taught him a lesson. “For $7,000, I can get real smart real fast.”

Under observation

Observation status looks and feels like full hospital admission, but techni­cally you are an outpatient. Observa­tion is meant to be short term, for the time it takes doctors to decide whether you need to be admitted or can be sent home.
“Observation really means an outpatient level of care,” said Sommer Slavin, manager of utilization management for Strong Memorial Hospital.

Doctors refer to nationally accepted guidelines when they determine the appropriate level of care. The criteria are objective, but they’ve changed over the years as technology has allowed more procedures to be done on an outpatient basis.

Ultimately, the determination of observation or inpatient status comes down to physicians’ judgment.

“The last thing we want is the patient stuck in the middle of this extremely confusing process,” said Dr. Bryan Gargano, medical director of the emergency department at Rochester General Hospital. He gave examples of patients with appendicitis or who’ve undergone heart procedures who have been treated under observation when in the past they would have been inpatients.

While the patient is still getting the same care in the hospital, the problem arises if they need followup after they leave the hospital.

That’s where the three-day qualifying inpatient stay is crucial for Medicare fee-for-service patients.

“The ones I feel worse for are elderly patients who are not doing well at home … and they need rehab but are stuck with a huge bill,” Gargano said.

Medicare Advantage plans do not necessarily have the same rule.

Dr. Frank Dubeck, chief medical officer for Medicare policy and clinical editing at Excellus Blue-Cross BlueShield, said that under Excellus, hospital status doesn’t affect eligibility for rehabilitation services, as long as they are deemed medically necessary.

Robin Wood, associate director of public relations for MVP Health Care, wrote in an email that the insurer’s Medicare Advantage plans require the three-day qualifying stay in an effort to keep premiums affordable.

People with private commercial insurance are subject to terms of their contract.

More common

Far more patients have inpatient status at Rochester hospitals than are classified as observation. Strong Memorial in fiscal year 2012, for example, had a total 41,160 inpatient cases and 10,321 observation cases. Among its Medicare patients, 13,163 were inpatient and 2,980 were observation.

Observation cases are increasing at Rochester hospitals.

» Strong projected total Medicare observation cases for fiscal year 2013 at 3,361, up nearly 1,000 over five years ago.

» Highland Hospital in fiscal year 2012 had 19,589 total inpatient cases and 3,301 total observation cases. Of those, 1,456 were Medicare patients. Highland projected Medicare fee-for-service and Medicare Advantage observations for fiscal year 2013 at 1,958 out of 3,922 total observation cases. It projected slightly fewer total admissions for the year.

» Rochester General had 33,159 total admissions and 8,387 observations in fiscal year 2012. Of the observations, 1,526 were among Medicare recipients.

» Unity Hospital’s total observation cases in 2012 were up nearly 29 percent over 2010 and inpatient cases were down slightly more than 9 percent in that time. A breakdown for Medicare patients wasn’t available.

Local data reflect national trends. A study in the June 2012 issue of the journal Health Affairs reported the ratio of observation stays to inpatient admissions from 2007-2009 among fee-for-service Medicare patients increased 34 percent. In addition, the nearly 1 million Medicare recipients who were placed on observation were kept in that status longer, sometimes for more than 72 hours. Medicare doesn’t cap the length of an observation stay, but its regulations call for it to last no more than 24 hours and only in rare cases to exceed 48.

In theory, observation stays can eliminate an unnecessary inpatient stay. The study said increased observation stays might be a result of payment policies — assessing penalties on readmissions and performing audits to make sure admissions were appropriate — by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But it said more research was needed into the reasons.

Whatever the cause, patients and hospitals are pushing back.

In November 2011, the Center for Medicare Advocacy and the National Senior Citizens Law Center filed a class-action suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Medicare.

Last November, the American Hospital Association filed suit against HHS over payments that were denied because auditors ruled care could have been provided on an outpatient basis.

This past February, local advocates for seniors asked state legislators to require hospitals to notify and give a full explanation to patients about what observation status means. They’ve also asked federal legislators to pass legislation that allows time spent in observation to count toward hospital days needed to receive Medicare-covered skilled nursing. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., announced early in March his plan to introduce bipartisan legislation that would have observation stays count toward the three-day requirement. According to the senator, more than 225,000 people in Monroe and eight nearby counties are affected.

Learning lessons

Stevens’ education started in July, when his mother went to the hospital because of anxiety and vomiting. She was treated, and Stevens was told he could take her home. He objected because of her condition, and she ended up staying four days. When she was being discharged, Stevens was told his mother would need rehabilitation services. He said it wasn’t until then that he was told her stay was observation and not inpatient.

“I asked, ‘What does this mean?’ ” Stevens said. “I’m told she needs rehab. That’s when observation is mentioned. The bottom line is Medicare will not pay.”

In December, Stevens’ mother fell and he thought she’d had a stroke. He took her to the same hospital, which he declined to identify, and said she stayed approximately four days in observation while tests were done. She did not suffer a stroke, but she did have a broken toe.

Stevens said doctors told him they could discharge her to a rehab facility or 24-hour home care. He knew that because his mother was not an inpatient, he’d have to pay for rehab. He took care of her.

In late February after a fall at home, the elderly woman was admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital, and about a week later was discharged to a nursing home for rehabilitation. Stevens said he didn’t ask why this episode resulted in an admission as an inpatient while the others were handled as an outpatient observation. Dan Katz, president and chief executive officer of Jewish Senior Life, said rehab facilities try to screen each patient to make sure there’s been a qualifying hospital stay. But admissions happen fast; Katz said the Jewish Home has 1,000 a year for the 68-bed transitional care unit. “We can have four or five a day.”

If the facility learns the patient doesn’t qualify for Medicare coverage, “it puts the family in a bind,” he said.

Costs for nursing home care can exceed $400 a day.

Follow the money

Observation status for patients can mean a denial of coverage for rehabilitation and for hospitals it can mean lower reimbursement. John Midolo, vice president of finance for Rochester General Health System, said a hospital is fortunate if the reimbursement for an observation patient is half that for an inpatient.

It’s the same across town at Strong Memorial. It reported that for the most common diagnoses, the average payment for a one- or two-day inpatient case was $5,782, while the payment for an observation case of the same duration was $2,329.

“I know a lot of people focus on reimbursement,” said Strong Memorial’s Slavin. “We’re trying to get the level of care right because it really is the best thing to do for the patient.”

While doctors take a cookbook approach to decide on observation or inpatient status and hospital care managers review the call, it can come under review.

Medicare contracts with auditors to make sure hospital admissions are justified. Strong is being questioned for some one- and twoday admissions and is appealing the auditor’s findings, said Charlie Hetterich, associate director of financial services for Strong.

Rochester General had 857 denials of cases it classified as inpatient since 2010, according to Midolo. In all but four cases, the hospital appealed.

So far, it has won 69 cases and has 708 still in the process.

Until recently, losing the appeal meant the hospital had to absorb all the charges. Midolo said that a CMS ruling in early March will allow hospitals to rebill for outpatient treatment, which may give patients a higher co-pay or deductible.

Informing patients

Slavin said the auditing goes on behind the scenes and hasn’t affected how doctors assess patients. Patients such as Stevens claim that the designation of a patient’s status isn’t always obvious.

Stevens said that during his mother’s December hospitalization, he told a doctor that he’d never been informed about observation status.

“The doctor came back with a pamphlet,” he recalled. “That did a good job explaining it, but I had never received it.”

Slavin said at Strong the expectation is that patients in the emergency department are considered observation status. She said it’s understandable that patients moved elsewhere in the hospital would think they are now an inpatient, and her department explains observation status.

“It’s very, very difficult for them to understand that,” said Kelly Luther, director of social work and patient and family services. “If I were in their shoes, I would appreciate that as well.”

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Claim: Aurora Shooting Suspect A Muslim – Death sought for suspect in massacre

James Holmes, the gunman who massacred 12 people and left 58 others wounded in Aurora, Colorado last July 20, has decided he is now a Muslim so he can justify his barbarous assault. One prison source said, “He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels.”

Read More: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/20/James-Holmes-Now-A-Muslim

Death sought for suspect in massacre

Trial won’t take place until next year

Trevor Hughes and Gary Strauss

USA TODAY

CENTENNIAL, COLO. Arap­ahoe County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against JamesHolmes, accused of first­degree murder in the deaths of 12 Aurora movie theater-goers last July.

At a court hearing Monday, District Attorney George Brau­chler rejected a defense bid that Holmes plead guilty in ex­change for a life sentence with­out parole.

Holmes also faces charges for nearly 70 others who were wounded by gunfire or injured while fleeing. Judge William Sylvester entered a not guilty plea on Holmes’ behalf last month.

“In this case, for James Egan Holmes, justice is death,” Brau­chler said, adding that his office had spoken with 60 people who lost loved ones in the shootings.

Holmes showed no visible reaction to the announcement, but his parents clasped hands and then embraced.

NEW JUDGE

Brauchler’s decision, as well as a switch in judges, delays Holmes’ trial, initially set to be­gin in August, until next year.

Judge Carlos Samour Jr. set a four-month trial to begin next February. He replaces Sylvester, who decided he lacked the time to oversee a death penalty case.

Holmes’ court-appointed at­torneys said in a court filing last week that their guilty plea offer could have ended prolonged le­gal maneuvering. “Mr. Holmes is currently willing to resolve the case to bring the proceed­ings to a speedy and definite conclusion for all involved,” Holmes’ lawyers said.

Without such a deal, public defenders Daniel King and Ta­mara Brady said that an insan­ity defense is virtually a lock. They’ve said at prior hearings that Holmes, who dropped out of a University of Colorado neuroscience doctoral program after failing a final exam in May, suffers from mental illness. Holmes, 25, was undergoing psychiatric care before drop­ping out.

In a response to the filing, Brauchler said that the plea of­fer was a “unusual and unprec­edented” and done as a publicity ploy that violated Judge Sylvester’s standing gag order on the case.

Legal experts say without a plea deal, an insanity defense may be Holmes’ only legal re­course. At his January prelimi­nary hearing, prosecutors presented evidence that showed Holmes methodically planned his July 20 attack at Aurora’s Century 16 theater complex, buying an assault ri­fle, shotgun, two semi-automat­ic pistols, 6,000 rounds of ammunition, bomb-making material and other gear over several weeks prior to the shootings.

Photos from his cellphone showed he had staked out the rear of the theater and exit doors. Aurora police arrested Holmes in the rear of the thea­ter parking lot minutes after the shootings.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against James Holmes, accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of 12 people last July at this movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

Muslim Cleric Calls U.S. Aid to Egypt ‘Jizya’

Muslim Cleric Calls U.S. Aid to Egypt ‘Jizya’.

As earlier suggested, the wonderful thing about Salafis—those extra “radical” Muslims who seek to emulate as literally as possible prophet Muhammad’s teachings and habits—is that they are so unabashed and frank about what they believe.   Such is the degree of brainwashing that they have undergone.  Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded much earlier, doublespeak is not second nature to the Salafis.

The most recent example comes from Al Hafiz TV, an Egyptian Islamic station.  During a roundtable discussion on the U.S. and foreign aid to Egypt, an Islamic cleric, clearly of the Salafi bent—he had their trademark mustache-less-beard—insisted that the U.S. must be treated contemptuously, like a downtrodden dhimmi, or conquered infidel; that Egypt must make the U.S. conform to its own demands; and that, then, all the money the U.S. offers to Egypt in foreign aid can be taken as rightfully earned jizya.

Read More: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-cleric-calls-u-s-aid-to-egypt-jizya/

Brain damage tied to Gulf War illness

Brain damage tied to Gulf War illness
By Kelly Kennedy

USA Today

WASHINGTON — Re­searchers say they have found physical proof that Gulf War illness is caused by damage to the brain — and that proof ul­timately might help civil­ians who suffer from chronic fatigue syn­drome and fibromyalgia. Using “functional” MRI machines, the Georgetown University researchers were able to see anomalies in 31 Gulf War veterans in the bun­dle of nerve fibers in the brain that interpret pain signals. The research was published Wednes­day in PLOS ONE jour­nal.

An fMRI is a scan that measures activity by de­tecting how blood flows through the brain. The findings are “huge,” because an fMRI allows doctors to diag­nose a person with Gulf War illness quickly, said James Baraniuk, senior author and professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Cen­ter. The research, he said, also shows that Gulf War illness is not psycholog­ical.

Many veterans have had difficulties getting benefits and treatment for a service-connected condition because doc­tors assumed they were either faking it or suffer­ing from post-traumatic stress. “That’s a problem with all physicians — VA, mil­itary or civilian,” Barani­uk said. “If it doesn’t fall within their small world of known diseases, then the patient is nuts.”

Gulf War illness is a series of symptoms that has affected more than 250,000 veterans of the 1991 war against Iraq in response to Iraq’s inva­sion of Kuwait.

Baraniuk said the cor­relation of anomalies in the brain’s white matter with Gulf War illness has not been studied before. Researchers, he said, also found that fatigue and pain worsen congru­ently in the veterans.

John VanMeter, direc­tor of Georgetown’s Cen­ter for functional and mo­lecular imaging, said they looked in particular at the fibers that process pain. “The fibers in the Gulf War veterans have dete­riorated compared to the control,” he said. Those fibers interpret environ­mental pain, but in the case of the veterans, a ti­ny pulse of pressure is in­terpreted as a painful pinch, or normal muscle fatigue from walking a flight of stairs could be interpreted as climbing to the 14th floor. “They get, ‘I’m in pain! I’m in pain! I’m in pain!’ all the time.” The researchers do not know whether the veterans’ symptoms will continue to worsen, though it appears they have from their onset 22 years ago until now. “The guys who were robust and leading the charge on this 10 years ago are now using canes,” Baraniuk said. This research appears to correlate with previ­ous research on Gulf War illness.

Jihadist Terrorism Hostage Status Update from IntelCenter

James Foley, held hostage in Syria since November 2012 by as yet unknown gunmen who captured him near the Turkish border

http://terrortrendsbulletin.com/2013/03/12/hostage-status-update-from-intelcenter/

IntelCenter is an invaluable resource for information and updates on Jihadist terrorism. We highly recommend their services:
http://www.intelcenter.com/
Their latest email bulletin included this update on hostages held by Jihadist terrorists around the globe, in places like Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Nigeria, Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, Niger, Iran and Iraq. The overwhelming majority of hostages are Western; 8 are Americans:
• French national Tanguy Moulin-Fournier held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French national Albane Moulin-Fournier held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French Moulin-Fournier family uncle held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French Moulin-Fournier Child, age 5, held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French Moulin-Fournier Child, age 8, held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French Moulin-Fournier Child, age 10, held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• French Moulin-Fournier Child, age 12, held hostage in Cameroon/Nigeria for 20 days
• Canadian Jernoc Wobert held hostage by ELN in Colombia for 1 month, 21 days
• Austrian national held hostage in Yemen for 2 months, 18 days
• Finnish female national held hostage in Yemen for 2 months, 18 days
• Finnish male national held hostage in Yemen for 2 months, 18 days
• French national Francis Collomp held hostage by Ansaru in Nigeria for 2 months, 20 days
• American journalist James Foley held hostage in Syria for 3 months, 17 days
• French national Alberto Rodriguez Leal held hostage by MUJAO in Mali for 3 months, 19 days
• Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva held hostage by Abu Husayn Squadron in Syria for 4 months, 27 days
• American journalist Austin Tice held hostage in Syria for 6 months, 26 days
• Canadian Astrid Shel held hostage in Somalia by al-Shabaab for 8 months, 11 days
• Canadian Korat Sadazi held hostage in Somalia by al-Shabaab for 8 months, 11 days
• Filipino Glenn Costes held hostage in Somalia by al-Shabaab for 8 months, 11 days
• Norwegian Stephen Denis held hostage in Somalia by al-Shabaab for 8 months, 11 days
• Saudi diplomat Abdullah Mohammed Khalifa al-Khalidi held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen for 11 months, 11 days
• German/American Michael Scott Moore held hostage in Somalia for 1 year, 1 month, 18 days
• Australian Warren Richard Rodwell held hostage by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Philippines for 1 year, 3 months, 6 days
• Swedish national held hostage in Mali 1 year, 3 months, 14 days
• Dutch national held hostage in Mali 1 year, 3 months, 14 days
• British national held hostage in Mali 1 year, 3 months, 14 days
• French national Serge Lazarevic held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Mali for 1 year, 3 months, 15 days
• French national Philippe Verdon held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Mali for 1 year, 3 months, 15 days
• Spaniard Blanca Thiebaut held hostage by al-Shabaab in Somalia for 1 year, 4 months, 26 days
• Spaniard Montserrat Serra held hostage by al-Shabaab in Somalia for 1 year, 4 months, 26 days
• American aid worker Warren Weinstein held hostage by al-Qaeda in Pakistan for 1 year, 6 months, 26 days
• Canadian tourist Colin Rutherford held hostage by Taliban in Afghanistan for 2 years, 4 months, 7 days
• French national Marc Feret held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Niger for 2 years, 5 months, 23 days
• French national Thierry Dole held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Niger for 2 years, 5 months, 23 days
• French national Daniel Larribe held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Niger for 2 years, 5 months, 23 days
• French national Pierre Legrand held hostage by al-Qaeda Maghreb (AQLIM) in Niger for 2 years, 5 months, 23 days
• American soldier Bowe Bergdahl held hostage by Taliban in Afghanistan for 3 years, 8 months, 11 days
• Brit Murray Watson held hostage by al-Shabaab in Somalia for 4 years, 11 months, 10 days
• American Robert Levinson held hostage in Iran for 6 years, 2 days
• German Sinan Krause held hostage by Arrows of Righteous Brigade in Iraq for 6 Years, 1 month, 5 days
• South African Johann Enslin held hostage in Iraq for 6 years, 3 months, 1 days
• South African Hardus Greef held hostage in Iraq for 6 years, 3 months, 1 days
• South African Callie Scheepers held hostage in Iraq for 6 years, 3 months, 1 days
• South African Andre Durant held hostage in Iraq for 6 years, 3 months, 1 days
• American Jeffrey Ake held hostage in Iraq for 7 years, 11 months
• American Dean Sadek held hostage by 1920 Revolution Brigades in Iraq for 8 years, 4 months, 9 days
• American Aban Abdel Malek Mahmoud Elias held hostage in Iraq for 8 years, 10 months, 8 days

Obama and Hitler Symbols eerily the same….

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it and you can’t blame Bush.

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it and you can’t blame Bush.
The next terrorist attack you own it.
Can’t get a job after graduation, you own it.
Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama’s EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.
A nuclear Iran, you own it.
Bowing to Russia, you own it.
Another severe recession, you own it.
A volatile border with Mexico, you own it.
Trouble getting good health care, you own it.
Higher health insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.
No budget, you own it.
Our allies mistrust, you own it.
Another trillion of debt, you own it.
More Benghazi situations, you own it.
No one willing to join the military, you own it.
Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.
More dependency on food stamps, you
own it.
Trouble finding good employment, you own it.
Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.
A World Government, you own it.
The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves, you own it.
A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table even if it is “Dead on Arrival”, you own it.
China controlling our world trade trampling all over us, you own it.
Loss of our freedoms as we have known it in the past, you own it.
A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constitution, you own it.
Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.
Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.
More government corruption and lies, you own it.
More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamists, you own it.
Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.
Your revenge instead of love of country, you own it.
President
George Bush is out of it now, and
there is not another good man for you to vilify and lie about. In a way
I am relieved that another good man will not be blamed when it was
impossible to clean up this mess you voted for. Have a good day. God
bless the United States! God is our hope now

Your president, he isn’t mine.

Anger toward Islam binds players behind film

Anger toward Islam binds players behind film

By Michael R. Blood

Associated Press

DUARTE, Calif. — The shared belief that radical Islam threatens the world brought together an ex­convict, an insurance salesman and a Christian charity in production of a crudely crafted film that ridicules Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad and has incited violent pro­tests across the Middle East. Media for Christ, a nonprofit that raised more than $1 million last year “to glow Jesus’ light” to the world, was listed as the production company for the film. Steve Klein, a California insurance salesman and Vietnam War veteran who has spent years protesting at mosques and espousing hatred of radical Mus­lims, acted as the film’s promoter. Federal authorities have identified Nakoula Basseley Nakoula as the key figure behind the film. A federal law en­forcement official on Thursday said that au­thorities had identified Nakoula as the man using the pseudonym Sam Ba­cile, who claimed earlier to be the writer and direc­tor of the film. Nakoula, who says he managed lo­gistics for the film, has been convicted of bank fraud and uses multiple names, authorities say.

Most of “Innocence of Muslims” was shot in about two weeks inside a warehouse that serves as the offices of Media for Christ, according to Eric Moers, who served as chief electrician for the production.

Media for Christ

What prompted Media for Christ’s involvement isn’t known because the organizations’ leaders have not spoken publicly. And much about the film remains a mystery, nota­bly who financed it.

The clumsily produced film, which looks like a spoof, alternately por­trays Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a child molester. Despite its poor production values, the film would have cost at least tens of thousands of dollars to make be­cause of the equipment used and the professional actors and stage hands who were hired.

Moers said the film took 15 to 16 days to shoot and 90percent of the work was done at the Media for Christ studios. He said one day was spent at a movie ranch in Santa Clarita, and one day was spent filming at the home of the man he knew as Ba­cile.

Most of the film was shot using special effects to simulate other loca­tions. The crew members were not given scripts, and Moers said there was no mention of the name “Muhammad” throughout the filming. Other actors have come forward to say references to Muhammad were dubbed after the film was shot and they had no idea the film would be so denigrating.

“I’d say this was the most unprofessional pro­fessional film I’ve worked on,” said Moers, who esti­mated the cost of produc­tion at $100,000. “I don’t think anyone took it seri­ously.”

He said he was paid with a check issued on the account of Abanob Basse­ley Nakoula, the 20-year­old son of the purported filmmaker.

Connection to hate groups

While Klein has grant­ed a steady stream of in­terviews and is unapolo­getic for the film, Nakoula has disappeared since talking to an Associated Press reporter Wednes­day in the driveway of his suburban Los Angeles home. And Media for Christ President Joseph N. Abdelmasih — a Coptic Christian originally from Egypt — has not spoken publicly.

Tax records for the charity do not identify any donors other than Abdelmasih, who loaned the organization at least $30,000. He did not re­spond to phone messages or an email sent to the charity. Kamal Rizk, list­ed as vice president on federal records, did not return several phone messages.

Abdelmasih has spo­ken out against radical Is­lam and participated in a protest against a mosque and Islamic cultural cen­ter near the World Trade Center site.

Klein has a long history of anti-Muslim activities. He founded Courageous Christians United, which conducts protests outside abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques. He also started Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, which preaches against Mus­lims and publishes vol­umes of anti-Muslim propaganda that Klein distributes.

The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled two of the organizations Klein is affiliated with as hate groups.

Keep this one going!

It’s amazing that something with no vulgarity can be one of the most insulting and powerful messages to Obama that I have seen to date

NOT RACIST…NOT VIOLENT…JUST NOT SILENT ANY MORE!

KEEP This One Going! Send it to all your friends.

H/T TCT

Gay Marriage: Not Inevitable

Out of 196 countries in the world, same sex marriage is only legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden.

via New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms

“The president’s willingness finally to say what he believes increased the sense among gay-marriage supporters that final victory is inevitable… Although this smug confidence will envelop President Obama as he campaigns in such lucrative precincts as George Clooney’s living room, it badly overstates gay marriage’s prospects.”

Gay Marriage: Not Inevitable
The president’s announcement won’t decide a still-raging battle.

By Rich Lowry

President Barack Obama insists that he didn’t announce his support for gay marriage out of political considerations. He’s right. He did it out of self-regard.

How it must have eaten away at him to be the first African-American president, yet not associate himself with what has been deemed the foremost civil-rights issue of the age. To be a progressive in favor of all things “forward,” but retrograde on marriage. To know that his stance was a transparent charade and see it treated as such by the lefty opinion makers he respects most. To watch his sloppy, unserious second-in-command get all the credit for moral courage by forthrightly endorsing gay marriage on Meet the Press while he clung to his artful dodge.
As an act of personal catharsis, the president’s statement of support was in an appropriately first-person key: I, me, and my. He had favored gay marriage back in 1996 when it was out on the fringe. He was one of the few people on the planet who flipped into opposition as gay marriage became more mainstream. For a while he invoked his faith in justifying his opposition, then he said he was “evolving,” which everyone understood to mean he would embrace gay marriage as soon as he wasn’t running for reelection anymore. The Obama team likes to say Mitt Romney’s flip-flops show he lacks a core. Obama’s long spell of deception on gay marriage shows he has a core, but one that he has devoted much of his national political career to obscuring.

Read More:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299663/gay-marriage-not-inevitable-rich-lowry

Michael Behenna Celebrates’ Another Birthday In Prison

The Ballad of Michael Behenna

Play video This ballad is dedicated to 1LT Michael Behenna, an Army officer wrongly convicted of killing an al-Qaida operative in Iraq. To Learn More Go to http://www.DefendMichael.com May the families of 5th Platoon 00:05:35 Added on 3/09/12 6,345 views

To the thousands of Michael Behenna supporters,
Many of you have been asking about the hearing before the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) that was held on April 23, 2012. While it is difficult to get a read on how the judges will ultimately rule, overall we felt good about it. The questions that the judges asked made it clear that they had thoroughly reviewed Michaels case. In the first few minutes of Michael’s attorney’s narrative one Judge started a barrage of comments and questions that appeared to be against Michael’s position. But later the same Judge jumped all over the government counsel on the confusing jury instruction given by the trial judge concerning self-defense, at one point declaring Ive read the instructions about four times and it is very confusing ..and Im a Judge of this court; to which the government counsel admitted Your honor, it is confusing. Another judge backed the government counsel into a corner more than once and got him to concede that there w as no evidence submitted at trial that Michael had illegally assaulted Mansur in the culvert by pointing a weapon at him. We thought that was very positive. The Court has no timeline for returning a decision, but given that this court set the hearing so quickly we believe they will not take too long to render their decision.
May 18th will mark the fourth birthday Michael will spend behind bars in Ft. Leavenworth military prison. On that day Michael will turn 29 years old. While he will not have cake for this birthday he will have his family with him as well as his unwavering belief that justice has not abandoned him and that she will soon come to set him free. Despite all he has been through he remains hopeful that the civilian justices who preside on CAAF will come to a far different conclusion than the previous Army courts.
Michaels hope is further encouraged by the many cards, letters and prayers that you have delivered to him these past several years of his imprisonment. There are days when Michael receives more mail than his entire pod (about 70 prisoners). Michael is not one to seek attention, but those cards and letters provide a significant inspiration and boost to his mental and spiritual being. Please remember him on his 29th birthday with a card, letter, or prayer as we need him to stay strong while we wait for the courts decision. Remember that your letters to him do not need to be lengthy. Just let your heart tell you what to write to a warrior whose only mistake was that he cared too much for his men.
Letters and cards can be sent to Michael at:
Michael Behenna 87503
1300 N. Warehouse Road
Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66027-2304
Also, if you have not seen the YouTube version of the Ballad of Michael Behenna. including pictures and video – check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMbytddDjWI
Thank you for your continued support for a hero we remain proud to call our son!!!
Respectfully,
Scott & Vicki Behenna
http://www.defendmichael.com

How MSM Manipulates The Masses! You Included, Powerful Video On How It’s Done

At the core of all this research was always commercial and political entities. Who wanted to manipulate and control the populations…against competitors and rivals..
But now we are in the end game and manipulation is the name of the game, for all parties. Once you watch this video Hopefully you will understand how you are being controlled. Must See video

Devastating. Obama Knew OBL’s Hideout Since Summer of 2010 – Refused to Act

Flags to fly at half-staff for Spencerport ‘s Bruce Kevin Clark

Flags around New York will fly at half-staff Monday to honor an Army medic and nurse from Spencerport who died this week while serving in Afghanistan.
According to a statement from his family, U.S. Army Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, 43, died Monday while on a Skype call with his wife, Susan Orellana-Clark. His body arrived at Dover Air Force Base Thursday night.
The cause of Clark’s death has not been released by the Department of Defense.
“Bruce’s wife tragically witnessed her husband’s death during one of their regular Skype video-chats on Monday,” according to the statement, attributed to Clark’s wife and family.
“At the time of the incident, the family was hoping for a rescue and miracle, but later learned that it was not to be. Although the circumstances were unimaginable, Bruce’s wife and extended family will be forever thankful that he and his wife were together in his last moments.”
The family, the statement said, is awaiting the results of a military investigation into Clark’s death.
A funeral is being arranged in Spencerport, with a memorial in Michigan, where he was born.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120503/NEWS01/305030043/Bruce-Kevin-Clark-Afghanistan-flags-half-staff

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• Medic’s death in Afghanistan felt back home in Spencerport

Wife saw husband, a Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse in Afghanistan, die while on Skype chat

By Hayley Kappes \ El Paso Times

Posted:   05/04/2012 07:21:34 AM MDT

Cpt. Bruce Clark (Provided by Beaumont Army Medical Center)

›› Update: Death of Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse during Skye chat not combat-related
›› Guestbook: Offer condolences to friends and familyThe wife of a Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse who died Monday in Afghanistan said the incident took place while she was talking with her husband through Skype’s video chat.

Army officials have not released the cause of death for Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, 43, of Spencerport, N.Y.

A statement from the family said they are waiting for results of a military investigation.

“Bruce’s wife tragically witnessed her husband’s death during one of their regular Skype video chats,” the statement said.

“At the time of the incident, the family was hoping for a rescue and miracle, but later learned that it was not to be,” according to the family’s statement.

“Although the circumstances were unimaginable, Bruce’s wife and extended family will be forever thankful that he and his wife were together in his last moments.”

Beaumont Army Medical

Center officials could not be reached for comment on Thursday.U.S. and Australian special operations soldiers in Afghanistan honored Clark this week, according to the statement.

Clark was assigned to A Company, Troop Command at Beaumont.

He deployed in March to support U.S. and coalition efforts in Afghanistan.

Clark’s awards and decorations include the Army Commendation Award, Mili tary Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Army Service Medal.

Clark had two children.

His family is planning funeral services in Spencerport, N.Y.

A memorial service will also be conducted in Addison, Mich. http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_20545474/wife-beaumont-nurse-died-while-skype-chat

Wife saw bullet hole while Skyping with soldier

Story and Video; http://www.democratandchronicle.com/viewart/20120506/NEWS01/305060035/Bruce-Kevin-Clark-Afghanistan-Spencerport-Skype

DALLAS — An Army nurse who lived in Spencerport for six years showed no alarm or discomfort before suddenly collapsing during a Skype video chat from Afghanistan with his wife, who saw a bullet hole in a closet behind him, his family said Sunday.

Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark’s family released a statement describing what his wife saw in the video feed recording her husband’s death.

“Clark was suddenly knocked forward,” the statement said. “The closet behind him had a bullet hole in it. The other individuals, including a member of the military, who rushed to the home of CPT Clark’s wife also saw the hole and agreed it was a bullet hole.”

The statement says the Skype link remained open for two hours on April 30 as family and friends in the U.S. and Afghanistan tried to get Clark help.

“After two hours and many frantic phone calls by Mrs. Clark, two military personnel arrived in the room and appeared to check his pulse, but provided no details about his condition to his wife,” the statement said.

The Pentagon has said the cause of Clark’s death remains under investigation.

In the statement, Susan Orellana-Clark said she was providing details of what she saw “to honor my husband and dispel the inaccurate information and supposition promulgated by other parties.”

Clark, 43, grew up in Michigan and previously lived in Spencerport, his wife’s hometown. Clark served at the Spencerport Fire Department from 2000 to 2001 and he and his wife regularly attended St. Mary’s Church in Rochester.

Clark worked for four years at Highland Hospital, then enrolled in a nursing program at The College at Brockport and graduated in 2006.

He joined the Army in 2006 and was stationed in Hawaii before he was assigned to the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso. He deployed to Afghanistan in March.

Clarence Davis, spokesman for William Beaumont Army Medical Center, declined to comment on Clark’s family’s statement.

Clark’s body was returned Thursday to Dover Air Force Base. A funeral is being arranged in Spencerport.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, aged 3 and 9.

Wife Saw Bullet Hole While Skyping With Soldier: Wife Saw Bullet Hole While Skyping With Soldier

U.S. not reporting all Afghan attacks on American and other foreign troops

U.S. officials say that in most cases the Afghans who turn their guns on their supposed allies act as a result of personal grievances against the coalition
WASHINGTON — The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.

The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds — or misses — his U.S. or allied target. It also doesn’t report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.

Such attacks reveal a level of mistrust and ill will between the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan counterparts in an increasingly unpopular war. The U.S. and its military partners are working more closely with Afghan troops in preparation for handing off security responsibility to them by the end of 2014.

In recent weeks an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of American soldiers but missed the group entirely. The Americans quickly shot him to death. Not a word about this was reported by the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the coalition is formally known. It was disclosed to the AP by a U.S. official who was granted anonymity in order to give a fuller picture of the “insider” problem.

ISAF also said nothing about last week’s attack in which two Afghan policemen in Kandahar province fired on U.S. soldiers, wounding two. Reporters learned of it from Afghan officials and from U.S. officials in Washington. The two Afghan policemen were shot to death by the Americans present.

Just last Wednesday, an attack that killed a U.S. Army special forces soldier, Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Brittonmihalo, 25, of Simi Valley, Calif., also wounded three other American soldiers. The death was reported by ISAF as an insider attack, but it made no mention of the wounded — or that an Afghan civilian also was killed.

The attacker was an Afghan special forces soldier who opened fire with a machine gun at a base in Kandahar province. He was killed by return fire.

That attack apparently was the first by a member of the Afghan special forces, who are more closely vetted than conventional Afghan forces and are often described by American officials as the most effective and reliable in the Afghan military.

Coalition officials do not dispute that such non-fatal attacks happen, but they have not provided a full accounting.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-reporting-afghan-attacks-american-foreign-troops-article-1.1070174

Treyvon Martin

http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer/

You say … God says

U.S. not reporting all Afghan attacks on American and other foreign troops

U.S. officials say that in most cases the Afghans who turn their guns on their supposed allies act as a result of personal grievances against the coalition
WASHINGTON — The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops.

The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or other foreign soldier is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds — or misses — his U.S. or allied target. It also doesn’t report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.

Such attacks reveal a level of mistrust and ill will between the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan counterparts in an increasingly unpopular war. The U.S. and its military partners are working more closely with Afghan troops in preparation for handing off security responsibility to them by the end of 2014.

In recent weeks an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of American soldiers but missed the group entirely. The Americans quickly shot him to death. Not a word about this was reported by the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the coalition is formally known. It was disclosed to the AP by a U.S. official who was granted anonymity in order to give a fuller picture of the “insider” problem.

ISAF also said nothing about last week’s attack in which two Afghan policemen in Kandahar province fired on U.S. soldiers, wounding two. Reporters learned of it from Afghan officials and from U.S. officials in Washington. The two Afghan policemen were shot to death by the Americans present.

Just last Wednesday, an attack that killed a U.S. Army special forces soldier, Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Brittonmihalo, 25, of Simi Valley, Calif., also wounded three other American soldiers. The death was reported by ISAF as an insider attack, but it made no mention of the wounded — or that an Afghan civilian also was killed.

The attacker was an Afghan special forces soldier who opened fire with a machine gun at a base in Kandahar province. He was killed by return fire.

That attack apparently was the first by a member of the Afghan special forces, who are more closely vetted than conventional Afghan forces and are often described by American officials as the most effective and reliable in the Afghan military.

Coalition officials do not dispute that such non-fatal attacks happen, but they have not provided a full accounting.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-reporting-afghan-attacks-american-foreign-troops-article-1.1070174

Jihad: Works both ways.

H/T Wilson

Retracto: Best song EVER!

Hear Retracto!! http://thearmyyouhave.bandcamp.com/track/retractos-theme

Retracto’s Theme

by The Army You Have

The ass says he doesn’t have a horse in this race But Retracto knows he does, now he’s got egg on his face The donkeys on the left got owned by a kid They can say it was a crime but Retracto knows what he did
Retracto the Correction Alpaca Retracto!  He’s comin’ at ya
The story’s gonna come out whether they like it or not If they told it like it is, they wouldn’t be in this spot Lyin’ to the people gets a psychotic reaction But Retracto calls ‘em out, now they’re makin’ retractions
Retracto the Correction Alpaca Retracto!  He’s comin’ at ya
We need the news not projection Or he’s gonna demand a correction
Retracto the Correction Alpaca Retracto!  He’s comin’ at ya

credits

released 30 November 2011

Shelli Eaton:  Lead Vocals Michael Broderick:  Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals Gary Eaton:  Guitar, Bass, Drums, Tambourine and Backing Vocals Retracto:  Vocals Written by Gary Eaton

CNN HAS A HAUNTING VIDEO from reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network in which she traces the path of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales on the night of his alleged killing spree

Can you say “BIASED”?? See the afghan people say “THEY” not “HIM” or HE”. Was this a taliban mission blamed on a US Soldier?? The reporter herself says it’s a 2 day walk, how did one soldier do this in all than one night?

It takes 2 days for the reporter to walk to the village where the murders took place. How did a drunk Bales do it in one night? Along with visiting an afghan base for an hour, return to the village to kill some more and make it back to his base in a few hours? He must be Superman!

CNN HAS A HAUNTING VIDEO from reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network in which she traces the path of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales on the night of his alleged killing spree and talks to survivors of the attack — including an 8-year-old girl who witnessed the murder of her father.
“How did he die?” the child is asked.
“The Americans,” she responds.
Throughout the video, witnesses refer to multiple U.S. troops as carrying out the attack. Watch. http://bit.ly/HoQavt

The Lefts Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America – TEN FEDERAL REGION NEWSTATES

Proposed Constitution for
the Newstates of America
The Proposed Constitution Articles of the New States of America

This New States Constitution denies most of the freedoms that you now enjoy

This Awareness wishes to inform entities that this New States Constitution denies most of the freedoms that you now enjoy, and while it is worded in legal terminology to give it the appearance of creating something that will diminish crime and so forth, it is also creating a police state such as the reserving of all powers now given in the New States Constitution to the police.

This Awareness indicates that this kind of phraseology as that which means everything except what is covered in this Constitution, the police then can make up any rules they want for any situation that is not covered in this document. That there are so many similar and tricky phrases in the New States Constitution that there will be little room for anyone to move or have any rights of freedom, including freedom of speech, assembly, etc.; that it will make it almost impossible to ever escape from the domination of these laws, or to ever again gain freedoms that have been allowed under the Constitution.

Some Scary Parts of the New States Constitution

This Awareness indicates that entities really need to read the New States Constitution. It gives the president a 9 year term in office, and senators also have a long term. It creates a way of dealing with certain people whereby they are placed in insane asylum situations if they are not cooperative and there is not a trial or remedy to give them the change to defend themselves. It would allow entities who are political antagonists to be removed from society and treated by psychiatric drugs or experimentation or given lobotomies or whatever else is prescribed for their social redemption.

It is a very frightening document if entities read between the lines as to what is being said in the document, for there are ways of saying things that do not sound so bad until you stop to think about what was left out or what can be implied from a general term. For example, it would allow private property to be taken without due process. It would allow private property to be taken without reasonable payment. There are so many areas in this that by leaving the word out, allows for all kinds of violations.

Where it appears in the reading that it is saying one thing favorable, such as a statement that property cannot be taken without compensation, sounds like: “Well that’s fair!”, until you stop to think, the word left out that was in the old Constitution was just compensation. They could give you ten cents for it and take your property under this constitution, but if it were “just” compensation, they would have to pay you fair market price or something close to fair market price. Thus, by leaving out a term here or there, this constitution appears to say one thing on the surface, while in actually creates a means by which you have no rights and can have those rights taken from you for little cost or little provocation.

(Revelations of awareness newsletter 91-5)

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The Proposed Constitution Articles of the New States of America
This transcript of the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America was transferred from Col. Arch Roberts’ website at Committee to Restore the Constitution. When possible, we transfer whole files — always giving credit to its source — in the event a website with pertinent information may be discontinued. — Jackie (Sweetliberty.org)

A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA, from the book, THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell, published 1974 (Harper & Row: $20.00) illustrates with chilling clarity the final objective of regional governance conspirators. The goal is a corporate state concentrating economic, political and social powers in the hands of a ruling elite. “A Constitution for the Newstates of America”, is the fortieth version of this revolutionary document prepared by a team of social experimenters at the CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, Fund for the Republic (Ford Foundation), Post Office Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103.

The Center, its first objective accomplished, has appointed socialist-oriented University of Denver Chancellor Maurice B. Mitchell as its new head and may merge with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a Colorado-based world government policy promotion agency.

Aspen Institute Chairman is Robert O. Anderson, chief executive officer, Atlantic Richfield Company; member, Committee for Economic Development (laid ground work for regional government), and advisory board member, Institute for International Education. Anderson is the principal figure in campaign aimed at seizing control of the National Rifle Association.

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A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA
Review by Dr. Peter David Beter, political economist, author and lecturer (deceased)

In 1964, the writing of a new constitution for America began, at a tax-exempt foundation with the misleading name, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

The people who took it upon themselves to write this new constitution on our behalf were, of course, not elected representatives, or in any other way our representatives. As a tax-exempt foundation, they were able to do political work on what amounts to a subsidy taken from your taxes, but you and I were never asked if we wanted a new constitution written. Indeed, only a very tiny fraction of the people in the United States even know that it exists: it has been made known to practically no one except a select category of influential people whose views and interest generally coincide with those of the people who wrote it. The American people as a whole are still in the dark about it, and this situation is deliberate. It is therefore truly a “secret” constitution.

This model constitution took ten years to write, drawing upon the efforts of more than 100 people. A preliminary version was published in 1970 and given exposure in limited circles. But, in 1974, an essentially final version was quietly published in a book entitled THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell (Harper & Row, $20), the man who directed the formulation of the new constitution. It is the fortieth draft. During most of the time that their constitution was being written, the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions was lavishly funded to the tune of $2,500,000 annually.

DR. BETER’S CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Certain powerful forces hoped to celebrate our nation’s Bicentennial in 1976 by replacing the freedoms guaranteed in our present Constitution with their own dictatorship – a cleverly disguised dictatorship. It has been made to superficially resemble the government that we have now, so that we will not recognize it for what it is – until too late. They are using every propaganda trick at their command to make us lower our guard. And they are about to put us all in a condition of economic desperation to persuade us to accept their cleverly disguised dictatorship.

Our U.S. Constitution, according to the Preamble, is intended to provide for justice, domestic tranquility, common defense and general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty not only to ourselves, but to our posterity These were the goals that shaped our Constitution. And this is the Constitution that enabled America to become a great nation of free people.

TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CONSTITUTION

The Newstates of America Constitution has a Preamble, too – it mentions not one of the objectives of our present Constitution. Instead of “justice and domestic tranquility”, the new constitution seeks only “good order” without defining what that means. The very first words are “So that we may join in common endeavors” – and the body of the new constitution makes it clear that this means an end to individual endeavors. Their new constitution is expressly states to be good only for a prescribed period of 25 years: our posterity is left to fend for itself. No reference is made in the Preamble to our defense or general welfare. Worst of all: the matter of liberty – so central to our present Constitution – is totally ignored in the Preamble of the new one, which seeks only, “an adequate and self-repairing government”. The emphasis throughout their new constitution is on the government – not on the people. “Adequate” turns out to mean: too powerful to be challenged. And “self-repairing” means that the laws and governmental structures can be continually changed and shifted to permit anything our rulers wish to do.

Before I explore some of the details of their secret new constitution, let me give you a bird’s-eye view: Article I is divided into two parts defining “Rights” and “Responsibilities.” It turns out that some of our present rights disappear outright, and practically all of the rest become conditional and fragile, able to be terminated on the whim of the government. The responsibilities, however, which are obligations of the citizen to the government, are absolute and unconditional.

TEN FEDERAL REGION NEWSTATES

Article II defines what are called the “Newstates”. The 50 states we have now become 10 in number. It is no accident that our federal government for the past several years has managed its outlying activities through ten federal regions. These 10 new states will be completely subservient to the federal government and creatures of it. Read The New States Review

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Proposed Constitution for
the Newstates of America

This transcript of the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America was transferred from Col. Arch Roberts’ website at Committee to Restore the Constitution. When possible, we transfer whole files — always giving credit to its source — in the event a website with pertinent information may be discontinued. — Jackie

A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA, from the book, THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell, published 1974 (Harper & Row: $20.00) illustrates with chilling clarity the final objective of regional governance conspirators. The goal is a corporate state concentrating economic, political and social powers in the hands of a ruling elite. “A Constitution for the Newstates of America”, is the fortieth version of this revolutionary document prepared by a team of social experimenters at the CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, Fund for the Republic (Ford Foundation), Post Office Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103.

The Center, its first objective accomplished, has appointed socialist-oriented University of Denver Chancellor Maurice B. Mitchell as its new head and may merge with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a Colorado-based world government policy promotion agency.

Aspen Institute Chairman is Robert O. Anderson, chief executive officer, Atlantic Richfield Company; member, Committee for Economic Development (laid ground work for regional government), and advisory board member, Institute for International Education. Anderson is the principal figure in campaign aimed at seizing control of the National Rifle Association.

Constitution for the Newstates of America

PREAMBLE

So that we may join in common endeavors, welcome the future in good order, and create an adequate and self-repairing government – we, the people, do establish the Newstates of America, herein provided to be ours, and do ordain this Constitution whose supreme law it shall be until the time prescribed for it shall have run.

ARTICLE I

Rights and Responsibilities

A. Rights

SECTION 1. Freedom of expression, of communication, of movement, of assembly, or of petition shall not be abridged except in declared emergency.

SECTION 2. Access to information possessed by governmental agencies shall not be denied except in the interest of national security; but communications among officials necessary to decisionmaking shall be privileged.

SECTION 3. Public communicators may decline to reveal sources of information, but shall be responsible for hurtful disclosures.

SECTION 4. The privacy of individuals shall be respected; searches and seizures shall be made only on judicial warrant; persons shall be pursued or questioned only for the prevention of crime or the apprehension of suspected criminals, and only according to rules established under law.

SECTION 5. There shall be no discrimination because of race, creed, color, origin, or sex. The Court of Rights and Responsibilities may determine whether selection for various occupations has been discriminatory.

SECTION 6. All persons shall have equal protection of the laws, and in all electoral procedures the vote of every eligible citizen shall count equally with others.

SECTION 7. It shall be public policy to promote discussion of public issues and to encourage peaceful public gatherings for this purpose. Permission to hold such gatherings shall not be denied, nor shall they be interrupted, except in declared emergency or on a showing of imminent danger to public order and on judicial warrant.

SECTION 8. The practice of religion shall be privileged; but no religion shall be imposed by some on others, and none shall have public support.

SECTION 9. Any citizen may purchase, sell, lease, hold, convey, and inherit real and personal property, and shall benefit equally from all laws for security in such transactions.

SECTION 10. Those who cannot contribute to productivity shall be entitled to a share of the national product; but distribution shall be fair and the total may not exceed the amount for this purpose held in the National Sharing Fund.

SECTION 11. Education shall be provided at public expense for those who meet appropriate tests of eligibility.

SECTION 12. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. No property shall be taken without compensation.

SECTION 13. Legislatures shall define crimes and conditions requiring restraint, but confinement shall not be for punishment; and, when possible, there shall be preparation for return to freedom.

SECTION 14. No person shall be placed twice in jeopardy for the same offense.

SECTION 15. Writs of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except in declared emergency.

SECTION 16. Accused persons shall be informed of charges against them, shall have a speedy trial, shall have reasonable bail, shall be allowed to confront witnesses or to call others, and shall not be compelled to testify against themselves; at the time of arrest they shall be informed of their right to be silent and to have counsel, provided, if necessary, at public expense; and courts shall consider the contention that prosecution may be under an invalid or unjust statute.

B. Responsibilities

SECTION 1. Each freedom of the citizen shall prescribe a corresponding responsibility not to diminish that of others: of speech, communication, assembly, and petition, to grant the same freedom to others; of religion, to respect that of others; of privacy, not to invade that of others; of the holding and disposal of property, the obligation to extend the same privilege to others.

SECTION 2. Individuals and enterprises holding themselves out to serve the public shall serve all equally and without intention to misrepresent, conforming to such standards as may improve health and welfare.

SECTION 3. Protection of the law shall be repaid by assistance in its enforcement; this shall include respect for the procedures of justice, apprehension of lawbreakers, and testimony at trial.

SECTION 4. Each citizen shall participate in the processes of democracy, assisting in the selection of officials and in the monitoring of their conduct in office.

SECTION 5. Each shall render such services to the nation as may be uniformly required by law, objection by reason of conscience being adjudicated as hereinafter provided; and none shall expect or may receive special privileges unless they be for a public purpose defined by law.

SECTION 6. Each shall pay whatever share of governmental costs is consistent with fairness to all.

SECTION 7. Each shall refuse awards or titles from other nations or their representatives except as they be authorized by law.

SECTION 8. There shall be a responsibility to avoid violence and to keep the peace; for this reason the bearing of arms or the possession of lethal weapons shall be confined to the police, members of the armed forces, and those licensed under law.

SECTION 9. Each shall assist in preserving the endowments of nature and enlarging the inheritance of future generations.

SECTION 10. Those granted the use of public lands, the air, or waters shall have a responsibility for using these resources so that, if irreplaceable, they are conserved and, if replaceable, they are put back as they were.

SECTION 11. Retired officers of the armed forces, of the senior civil service, and of the Senate shall regard their service as a permanent obligation and shall not engage in enterprise seeking profit from the government.

SECTION 12. The devising or controlling of devices for management or technology shall establish responsibility for resulting costs.

SECTION 13. All rights and responsibilities defined herein shall extend to such associations of citizens as may be authorized by law.

ARTICLE II

The Newstates

SECTION 1. There shall be Newstates, each comprising no less than 5 percent of the whole population. Existing states may continue and may have the status of Newstates if the Boundary Commission, hereinafter provided, shall so decide. The Commission shall be guided in its recommendations by the probability of accommodation to the conditions for effective government. States electing by referendum to continue if the Commission recommend otherwise shall nevertheless accept all Newstate obligations.

SECTION 2. The Newstates shall have constitutions formulated and adopted by processes hereinafter prescribed.

SECTION 3. They shall have Governors, legislatures, and planning, administrative, and judicial systems.

SECTION 4. Their political procedures shall be organized and supervised by electoral Overseers; but their elections shall not be in years of presidential election.

SECTION 5. The electoral apparatus of the Newstates of America shall be available to them, and they may be allotted funds under rules agreed to by the national Overseer; but expenditures may not be made by or for any candidate except they be approved by the Overseer; and requirements of residence in a voting district shall be no longer than thirty days.

SECTION 6. They may charter subsidiary governments, urban or rural, and may delegate to them powers appropriate to their responsibilities.

SECTION 7. They may lay, or may delegate the laying of, taxes; but these shall conform to the restraints stated hereinafter for the Newstates of America.

SECTION 8. They may not tax exports, may not tax with intent to prevent imports, and may not impose any tax forbidden by laws of the Newstates of America; but the objects appropriate for taxation shall be clearly designated.

SECTION 9. Taxes on land may be at higher rates than those on its improvements.

SECTION 10. They shall be responsible for the administration of public services not reserved to the government of the Newstates of America, such activities being concerted with those of corresponding national agencies, where these exist, under arrangements common to all.

SECTION 11. The rights and responsibilities prescribed in this Constitution shall be effective in the Newstates and shall be suspended only in emergency when declared by Governors and not disapproved by the Senate of the Newstates of America.

SECTION 12. Police powers of the Newstates shall extend to all matters not reserved to the Newstates of America; but preempted powers shall not be impaired.

SECTION 13. Newstates may not enter into any treaty, alliance, confederation, or agreement unless approved by the Boundary Commission hereinafter provided.

They may not coin money, provide for the payment of debts in any but legal tender, or make any charge for inter-Newstate services. They may not enact ex post facto laws or ones impairing the obligation of contracts.

SECTION 14. Newstates may not impose barriers to imports from other jurisdictions or impose any hindrance to citizens’ freedom of movement.

SECTION 15. If governments of the Newstates fail to carry out fully their constitutional duties, their officials shall be warned and may be required by the Senate, on the recommendation of the Watchkeeper, to forfeit revenues from the Newstates of America.

ARTICLE III

The Electoral Branch

SECTION 1. To arrange for participation by the electorate in the determination of policies and the selection of officials, there shall be an Electoral Branch.

SECTION 2. An Overseer of electoral procedures shall be chosen by majority of the Senate and may be removed by a two-thirds vote. It shall be the Overseer’s duty to supervise the organization of national and district parties, arrange for discussion among them, and provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office. While in office the Overseer shall belong to no political organization; and after each presidential election shall offer to resign.

SECTION 3. A national party shall be one having had at least a 5 percent affiliation in the latest general election; but a new party shall be recognized when valid petitions have been signed by at least 2 percent of the voters in each of 30 percent of the districts drawn for the House of Representatives. Recognition shall be suspended upon failure to gain 5 percent of the votes at a second election, 10 percent at a third, or 15 percent at further elections.

District parties shall be recognized when at least 2 percent of the voters shall have signed petitions of affiliation; but recognition shall be withdrawn upon failure to attract the same percentages as are necessary for the continuance of national parties.

SECTION 4. Recognition by the Overseer shall bring parties within established regulations and entitle them to common privileges.

SECTION 5. The Overseer shall promulgate rules for party conduct and shall see that fair practices are maintained, and for this purpose shall appoint deputies in each district and shall supervise the choice, in district and national conventions, of party administrators. Regulations and appointments may be objected to by the Senate.

SECTION 6. The Overseer, with the administrators and other officials, shall:

a. Provide the means for discussion, in each party, of public issues, and, for this purpose, ensure that members have adequate facilities for participation.

b. Arrange for discussion, in annual district meetings, of the President’s views, of the findings of the Planning Branch, and such other information as may be pertinent for enlightened political discussion.

c. Arrange, on the first Saturday in each month, for enrollment, valid for one year, of voters at convenient places.

SECTION 7. The Overseer shall also:

a. Assist the parties in nominating candidates for district members of the House of Representatives each three years; and for this purpose designate one hundred districts, each with a similar number of eligible voters, redrawing districts after each election. In these there shall be party conventions having no more than three hundred delegates, so distributed that representation of voters be approximately equal.

Candidates for delegate may become eligible by presenting petitions signed by two hundred registered voters. They shall be elected by party members on the first Tuesday in March, those having the largest number of votes being chosen until the three hundred be complete. Ten alternates shall also be chosen by the same process.

District conventions shall be held on the first Tuesday in April. Delegates shall choose three candidates for membership in the House of Representatives, the three having the most votes becoming candidates.

b. Arrange for the election each three years of three members of the House of Representatives in each district from among the candidates chosen in party conventions, the three having the most votes to be elected.

SECTION 8. The Overseer shall also:

a. Arrange for national conventions to meet nine years after previous presidential elections, with an equal number of delegates from each district, the whole number not to exceed one thousand.

Candidates for delegates shall be eligible when petitions signed by five hundred registered voters have been filed. Those with the most votes, together with two alternates, being those next in number of votes, shall be chosen in each district.

b. Approve procedures in these conventions for choosing one hundred candidates to be members-at-large of the House of Representatives, whose terms shall be coterminous with that of the President. For this purpose delegates shall file one choice with convention officials. Voting on submissions shall proceed until one hundred achieve 10 percent, but not more than three candidates may be resident in any one district; if any district have more than three, those with the fewest votes shall be eliminated, others being added from the districts having less than three, until equality be reached. Of those added, those having the most votes shall be chosen first.

c. Arrange procedures for the consideration and approval of party objectives by the convention.

d. Formulate rules for the nomination in these conventions of candidates for President and Vice-Presidents when the offices are to fall vacant, candidates for nomination to be recognized when petitions shall have been presented by one hundred or more delegates, pledged to continue support until candidates can no longer win or until they consent to withdraw. Presidents and Vice-Presidents, together with Representatives-at-large, shall submit to referendum after serving for three years, and if they are rejected, new conventions shall be held within one month and candidates shall be chosen as for vacant offices.

Candidates for President and Vice-Presidents shall be nominated on attaining a majority.

e. Arrange for the election on the first Tuesday in June, in appropriate years, of new candidates for President and Vice-Presidents, and members-at-large of the House of Representatives, all being presented to the nation’s voters as a ticket; if no ticket achieve a majority, the Overseer shall arrange another election, on the third Tuesday in June, between the two persons having the most votes; and if referendum so determine he shall provide similar arrangements for the nomination and election of candidates.

In this election, the one having the most votes shall prevail.

SECTION 9. The Overseer shall also:

a. Arrange for the convening of the national legislative houses on the fourth Tuesday of July.

b. Arrange for inauguration of the President and Vice-Presidents on the second Tuesday of August.

SECTION 10. All costs of electoral procedures shall be paid from public funds, and there shall be no private contributions to parties or candidates; no contributions or expenditures for meetings, conventions, or campaigns shall be made; and no candidate for office may make any personal expenditures unless authorized by a uniform rule of the Overseer; and persons or groups making expenditures, directly or indirectly, in support of prospective candidates shall report to the Overseer and shall conform to his regulations.

SECTION 11. Expenses of the Electoral Branch shall be met by the addition of one percent to the net annual taxable income returns of taxpayers, this sum to be held by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs for disposition by the Overseer.

Funds shall be distributed to parties in proportion to the respective number of votes cast for the President and Governors at the last election, except that new parties, on being recognized, shall share in proportion to their number. Party administrators shall make allocations to legislative candidates in amounts proportional to the party vote at the last election.

Expenditures shall be audited by the Watchkeeper; and sums not expended within four years shall be returned to the Treasury.

It shall be a condition of every communications franchise that reasonable facilities shall be available for allocations by the Overseer.

ARTICLE IV

The Planning Branch

SECTION 1. There shall be a Planning Branch to formulate and administer plans and to prepare budgets for the uses of expected income in pursuit of policies formulated by the processes provided herein.

SECTION 2. There shall be a National Planning Board of fifteen members appointed by the President; the first members shall have terms designated by the President of one to fifteen years, thereafter one shall be appointed each year; the President shall appoint a Chairman who shall serve for fifteen years unless removed by him.

SECTION 3. The Chairman shall appoint, and shall supervise, a planning administrator, together with such deputies as may be agreed to by the Board.

SECTION 4. The Chairman shall present to the Board six- and twelve-year development plans prepared by the planning staff. They shall be revised each year after public hearings, and finally in the year before they are to take effect. They shall be submitted to the President on the fourth Tuesday in July for transmission to the Senate on September 1 with his comments.

If members of the Board fail to approve the budget proposals by the forwarding date, the Chairman shall nevertheless make submission to the President with notations of reservation by such members. The President shall transmit this proposal, with his comments, to the House of Representatives on September 1.

SECTION 5. It shall be recognized that the six-and twelve-year development plans represent national intentions tempered by the appraisal of possibilities. The twelve-year plan shall be a general estimate of probable progress, both governmental and private; the six-year plan shall be more specific as to estimated income and expenditure and shall take account of necessary revisions.

The purpose shall be to advance, through every agency of government, the excellence of national life. It shall be the further purpose to anticipate innovations, to estimate their impact, to assimilate them into existing institutions, and to moderate deleterious effects on the environment and on society.

The six- and twelve-year plans shall be disseminated for discussion and the opinions expressed shall be considered in the formulation of plans for each succeeding year with special attention to detail in proposing the budget.

SECTION 6. For both plans an extension of one year into the future shall be made each year and the estimates for all other years shall be revised accordingly. For nongovernmental activities the estimate of developments shall be calculated to indicate the need for enlargement or restriction.

SECTION 7. If there be objection by the President or the Senate to the six- or twelve-year plans, they shall be returned for restudy and resubmission. If there still be differences, and if the President and the Senate agree, they shall prevail. If they do not agree, the Senate shall prevail and the plan shall be revised accordingly.

SECTION 8. The Newstates, on June 1, shall submit proposals for development to be considered for inclusion in those for the Newstates of America. Researches and administration shall be delegated, when convenient, to planning agencies of the Newstates.

SECTION 9. There shall be submissions from private individuals or from organized associations affected with a public interest, as defined by the Board. They shall report intentions to expand or contract, estimates of production and demand, probable uses of resources, numbers expected to be employed, and other essential information.

SECTION 10. The Planning Branch shall make and have custody of official maps, and these shall be documents of reference for future developments both public and private; on them the location of facilities, with extension indicated, and the intended use of all areas shall be marked out.

Official maps shall also be maintained by the planning agencies of the Newstates, and in matters not exclusively national the National Planning Board may rely on these.

Undertakings in violation of official designation shall be at the risk of the venturer, and there shall be no recourse; but losses from designations after acquisition shall be recoverable in actions before the Court of Claims.

SECTION 11. The Planning Branch shall have available to it funds equal to one-half of one percent of the approved national budget (not including debt services or payments from trust funds). They shall be held by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs and expended according to rules approved by the Board; but funds not expended within six years shall be available for other uses.

SECTION 12. Allocations may be made for the planning agencies of the Newstates; but only the maps and plans of the national Board, or those approved by them, shall have status at law.

SECTION 13. In making plans, there shall be due regard to the interests of other nations and such cooperation with their intentions as may be approved by the Board.

SECTION 14. There may also be cooperation with international agencies and such contributions to their work as are not disapproved by the President.

ARTICLE V

The Presidency

SECTION 1. The President of the Newstates of America shall be the head of government, shaper of its commitments, expositor of its policies, and supreme commander of its protective forces; shall have one term of nine years, unless rejected by 60 percent of the electorate after three years; shall take care that the nation’s resources are estimated and are apportioned to its more exigent needs; shall recommend such plans, legislation, and action as may be necessary; and shall address the legislators each year on the state of the nation, calling upon them to do their part for the general good.

SECTION 2. There shall be two Vice-Presidents elected with the President; at the time of taking office the President shall designate one Vice-President to supervise internal affairs; and one to be deputy for general affairs. The deputy for general affairs shall succeed if the presidency be vacated; the Vice-President for internal affairs shall be second in succession. If either Vice-President shall die or be incapacitated, the President, with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint a successor. Vice-Presidents shall serve during an extended term with such assignments as the President may make.

If the presidency fall vacant through the disability of both Vice-Presidents, the Senate shall elect successors from among its members to serve until the next general election.

With the Vice-Presidents and other officials the President shall see to it that the laws are faithfully executed and shall pay attention to the findings and recommendations of the Planning Board, the National Regulatory Board, and the Watchkeeper in formulating national policies.

SECTION 3. Responsible to the Vice-President for General Affairs there shall be Chancellors of External, Financial, Legal, and Military Affairs.

The Chancellor of External Affairs shall assist in conducting relations with other nations.

The Chancellor of Financial Affairs shall supervise the nation’s financial and monetary systems, regulating its capital markets and credit-issuing institutions as they may be established by law; and this shall include lending institutions for operations in other nations or in cooperation with them, except that treaties may determine their purposes and standards.

The Chancellor of Legal Affairs shall advise governmental agencies and represent them before the courts.

The Chancellor of Military Affairs shall act for the presidency in disposing all armed forces except militia commanded by governors; but these shall be available for national service at the President’s convenience.

Except in declared emergency, the deployment of forces in far waters or in other nations without their consent shall be notified in advance to a national security committee of the Senate hereinafter provided.

SECTION 4. Responsible to the Vice-President for Internal Affairs there shall be chancellors of such departments as the President may find necessary for performing the services of government and are not rejected by a two-thirds vote when the succeeding budget is considered.

SECTION 5. Candidates for the presidency and the vice-presidencies shall be natural-born citizens. Their suitability may be questioned by the Senate within ten days of their nomination, and if two-thirds of the whole agree, they shall be ineligible and a nominating convention shall be reconvened. At the time of his nomination no candidate shall be a member of the Senate and none shall be on active service in the armed forces or a senior civil servant.

SECTION 6. The President may take leave because of illness or for an interval of relief, and the Vice-President in charge of General Affairs shall act. The President may resign if the Senate agree; and, if the term shall have more than two years to run, the Overseer shall arrange for a special election for President and Vice-President.

SECTION 7. The Vice-Presidents may be directed to perform such ministerial duties as the President may find convenient; but their instructions shall be of record, and their actions shall be taken as his deputy.

SECTION 8. Incapacitation may be established without concurrence of the President by a three-quarters vote of the Senate, whereupon a successor shall become Acting President until the disability be declared, by a similar vote, to be ended or to have become permanent. Similarly the other Vice-President shall succeed if a predecessor die or be disabled. Special elections, in these contingencies, may be required by the Senate.

Acting Presidents may appoint deputies, unless the Senate object, to assume their duties until the next election.

SECTION 9. The Vice-Presidents, together with such other officials as the President may designate from time to time, may constitute a cabinet or council; but this shall not include officials of other branches.

SECTION 10. Treaties or agreements with other nations, negotiated under the President’s authority, shall be in effect unless objected to by a majority of the Senate within ninety days. If they are objected to, the President may resubmit and the Senate reconsider. If a majority still object, the Senate shall prevail.

SECTION 11. All officers, except those of other branches, shall be appointed and may be removed by the President. A majority of the Senate may object to appointments within sixty days, and alternative candidates shall be offered until it agrees.

SECTION 12. The President shall notify the Planning Board and the House of Representatives, on the fourth Tuesday in June, what the maximum allowable expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year shall be.

The President may determine to make expenditures less than provided in appropriations; but, except in declared emergency, none shall be made in excess of appropriations. Reduction shall be because of changes in requirements and shall not be such as to impair the integrity of budgetary procedures.

SECTION 13. There shall be a Public Custodian, appointed by the President and removable by him, who shall have charge of properties belonging to the government, but not allocated to specific agencies, who shall administer common public services, shall have charge of building construction and rentals, and shall have such other duties as may be designated by the President or the designated Vice-Presidents.

SECTION 14. There shall be an Intendant responsible to the President who shall supervise Offices for Intelligence and Investigation; also an Office of Emergency Organization with the duty of providing plans and procedures for such contingencies as can be anticipated.

The Intendant shall also charter nonprofit corporations (or foundations), unless the President shall object, determined by him to be for useful public purposes. Such corporations shall be exempt from taxation but shall conduct no profitmaking enterprises.

SECTION 15. The Intendant shall also be a counselor for the coordination of scientific and cultural experiments, and for studies within the government and elsewhere, and for this purpose shall employ such assistance as may be found necessary.

SECTION 16. Offices for other purposes may be established and may be discontinued by presidential order within the funds allocated in the procedures of appropriation.

ARTICLE VI

The Legislative Branch

(The Senate and the House of Representatives)

A. The Senate

SECTION 1. There shall be a Senate with membership as follows: If they so desire, former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Principal Justices, Overseers, Chairmen of the Planning and Regulatory Boards, Governors having had more than seven years’ service, and unsuccessful candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency who have received at least 30 percent of the vote. To be appointed by the President, three persons who have been Chancellors, two officials from the civil services, two officials from the diplomatic services, two senior military officers, also one person from a panel of three, elected in a process approved by the Overseer, by each of twelve such groups or associations as the President may recognize from time to time to be nationally representative, but none shall be a political or religious group, no individual selected shall have been paid by any private interest to influence government, and any association objected to by the Senate shall not be recognized. Similarly, to be appointed by the Principal Justice, two persons distinguished in public law and two former members of the High Courts or the Judicial Council. Also, to be elected by the House of Representatives, three members who have served six or more years.

Vacancies shall be filled as they occur.

SECTION 2. Membership shall continue for life, except that absences not provided for by rule shall constitute retirement, and that Senators may retire voluntarily.

SECTION 3. The Senate shall elect as presiding officer a Convener who shall serve for two years, when his further service may be discontinued by a majority vote. Other officers, including a Deputy, shall be appointed by the Convener unless the Senate shall object.

SECTION 4. The Senate shall meet each year on the second Tuesday in July and shall be in continuous session, but may adjourn to the call of the Convener. A quorum shall be more than three-fifths of the whole membership.

SECTION 5. The Senate shall consider, and return within thirty days, all measures approved by the House of Representatives (except the annual budget). Approval or disapproval shall be by a majority vote of those present. Objection shall stand unless the House of Representatives shall overcome it by a majority vote plus one; if no return be made, approval by the House of Representatives shall be final.

For consideration of laws passed by the House of Representatives or for other purposes, the Convener may appoint appropriate committees.

SECTION 6. The Senate may ask advice from the Principal Justice concerning the constitutionality of measures before it; and if this be done, the time for return to the House of Representatives may extend to ninety days.

SECTION 7. If requested, the Senate may advise the President on matters of public interest; or, if not requested, by resolution approved by two-thirds of those present. There shall be a special duty to note expressions of concern during party conventions and commitments made during campaigns; and if these be neglected, to remind the President and the House of Representatives that these undertakings are to be considered.

SECTION 8. In time of present or prospective danger caused by cataclysm, by attack, or by insurrection, the Senate may declare a national emergency and may authorize the President to take appropriate action. If the Senate be dispersed, and no quorum available, the President may proclaim the emergency, and may terminate it unless the Senate shall have acted. If the President be not available, and the circumstances extreme, the senior serving member of the presidential succession may act until a quorum assembles.

SECTION 9. The Senate may also define and declare a limited emergency in time of prospective danger, or of local or regional disaster, or if an extraordinary advantage be anticipated. It shall be considered by the House of Representatives within three days and, unless disapproved, may extend for a designated period and for a limited area before renewal.

Extraordinary expenditures during emergency may be approved, without regard to usual budget procedures, by the House of Representatives with the concurrence of the President.

SECTION 10. The Senate, at the beginning of each session, shall select three of its members to constitute a National Security Committee to be consulted by the President in emergencies requiring the deployment of the armed forces abroad. If the Committee dissent from the President’s proposal, it shall report to the Senate, whose decision shall be final.

SECTION 11. The Senate shall elect, or may remove, a National Watchkeeper, and shall oversee, through a standing committee, a Watchkeeping Service conducted according to rules formulated for their approval.

With the assistance of an appropriate staff the Watchkeeper shall gather and organize information concerning the adequacy, competence, and integrity of governmental agencies and their personnel, as well as their continued usefulness; and shall also suggest the need for new or expanded services, making report concerning any agency of the deleterious effect of its activities on citizens or on the environment.

The Watchkeeper shall entertain petitions for the redress of grievances and shall advise the appropriate agencies if there be need for action.

For all these purposes, personnel may be appointed, investigations made, witnesses examined, postaudits made, and information required.

The Convener shall present the Watchkeeper’s findings to the Senate, and if it be judged to be in the public interest, they shall be made public or, without being made public, be sent to the appropriate agency for its guidance and such action as may be needed. On recommendation of the Watchkeeper the Senate may initiate corrective measures to be voted on by the House of Representatives within thirty days. When approved by a majority and not vetoed by the President, they shall become law.

For the Watchkeeping Service one-quarter of one percent of individual net taxable incomes shall be held by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs; but amounts not expended in any fiscal year shall be available for general use.

B. The House of Representatives

SECTION 1. The House of Representatives shall be the original lawmaking body of the Newstates of America.

SECTION 2. It shall convene each year on the second Tuesday in July and shall remain in continuous session except that it may adjourn to the call of a Speaker, elected by majority vote from among the Representatives-at-large, who shall be its presiding officer.

SECTION 3. It shall be a duty to implement the provisions of this constitution and, in legislating, to be guided by them.

SECTION 4. Party leaders and their deputies shall be chosen by caucus at the beginning of each session.

SECTION 5. Standing and temporary committees shall be selected as follows:

Committees dealing with the calendaring and management of bills shall have a majority of members nominated to party caucuses by the Speaker; other members shall be nominated by minority leaders. Membership shall correspond to the parties’ proportions at the last election. If nominations be not approved by a majority of the caucus, the Speaker or the minority leaders shall nominate others until a majority shall approve.

Members of other committees shall be chosen by party caucus in proportion to the results of the last election. Chairmen shall be elected annually from among at-large members.

Bills referred to committees shall be returned to the house with recommendations within sixty days unless extension be voted by the House.

In all committee actions names of those voting for and against shall be recorded.

No committee chairman may serve longer than six years.

SECTION 6. Approved legislation, not objected to by the Senate within the alloted time, shall be presented to the President for his approval or disapproval. If the President disapprove, and three-quarters of the House membership still approve, it shall become law. The names of those voting for and against shall be recorded. Bills not returned within eleven days shall become law.

SECTION 7. The President may have thirty days to consider measures approved by the House unless they shall have been submitted twelve days previous to adjournment.

SECTION 8. The House shall consider promptly the annual budget; if there be objection, it shall be notified to the Planning Board; the Board shall then resubmit through the President; and, with his comments, it shall be returned to the House. If there still be objection by a two-thirds majority, the House shall prevail. Objection must be by whole title; titles not objected to when voted on shall constitute appropriation.

The budget for the fiscal year shall be in effect on January 1. Titles not yet acted on shall be as in the former budget until action be completed.

SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the House to make laws concerning taxes.

1. For their laying and collection:

a. They shall be uniform, and shall not be retroactive.

b. Except such as may be authorized by law to be laid by Authorities, or by the Newstates, all collections shall be made by a national revenue agency. This shall include collections for trust funds hereinafter authorized.

c. Except for corporate levies to be held in the National Sharing Fund, hereinafter authorized, taxes may be collected only from individuals and only from incomes; but there may be withholding from current incomes.

d. To assist in the maintenance of economic stability, the President may be authorized to alter rates by executive order.

e. They shall be imposed on profitmaking enterprises owned or conducted by religious establishments or other nonprofit organizations.

f. There shall be none on food, medicines, residential rentals, or commodities or services designated by law as necessities; and there shall be no double taxation.

g. None shall be levied for registering ownership or transfer of property.

2. For expenditures from revenues:

a. For the purposes detailed in the annual budget unless objection be made by the procedure prescribed herein.

b. For such other purposes as the House may indicate and require the Planning Branch to include in revisions of the budget; but, except in declared emergency, the total may not exceed the President’s estimate of available funds.

3. For fixing the percentage of net corporate taxable incomes to be paid into a National Sharing Fund to be held in the custody of the Chancellor of Financial Affairs and made available for such welfare and environmental purposes as are authorized by law.

4. To provide for the regulation of commerce with other nations and among the Newstates, Possessions, Territories; or, as shall be mutually agreed, with other organized governments; but exports shall not be taxed; and imports shall not be taxed except on recommendation of the President at rates whose allowable variation shall have been fixed bylaw. There shall be no quotas, and no nations favored by special rates, unless by special acts requiring two-thirds majorities.

5. To establish, or provide for the establishment of, institutuions for the safekeeping of savings, for the gathering and distribution of capital, for the issuance of credit, for regulating the coinage of money, for controlling them edia of exchange, and for stabilizing prices; but such institutions, when not public or semipublic, shall be regarded as affected with the public interest and shall be supervised by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs.

6. To establish institutions for insurance against risks and liabilities, or to provide suitable agencies for the regulation of such as are not public.

7. To ensure the maintenance, by ownership or regulation, of facilities for communication, transportation, and others commonly used and necessary for public convenience.

8. To assist in the maintenance of world order, and, for this purpose, when the President shall recommend, to vest jurisdiction in international legislative, judicial, or administrative agencies.

9. To develop with other peoples, and for the benefit of all, the resources of space, of other bodies in the universe, and of the seas beyond twelve miles from low-water shores unless treaties shall provide other limits.

10. To assist other peoples who have not attained satisfactory levels of well-being; to delegate the administration of funds for assistance, whenever possible, to international agencies; and to invest in or contribute to the furthering of development in other parts of the world.

11. To assure, or to assist in assuring, adequate and equal facilities for education; for training in occupations citizens may be fitted to pursue; and to reeducate or retrain those whose occupations may become obsolete.

12. To establish or to assist institutions devoted to higher education, to research, or to technical training.

13. To establish and maintain, or assist in maintaining, libraries, archives, monuments, and other places of historic interest.

14. To assist in the advancement of sciences and technologies; and to encourage cultural activities.

15. To conserve natural resources by purchase, by withdrawal from use, or by regulation; to provide, or to assist in providing, facilities for recreation; to establish and maintain parks, forests, wilderness areas, wetlands, and prairies; to improve streams and other waters; to ensure the purity of air and water; to control the erosion of soils; and to provide for all else necessary for the protection and common use of the national heritage.

16. To acquire property and improvements for public use at costs to be fixed, if necessary, by the Court of Claims.

17. To prevent the stoppage or hindrance of governmental procedures, or of other activities affected with a public interest as defined by law, by reason of disputes between employers and employees, or for other reasons, and for this purpose to provide for conclusive arbitration if adquate provision for collective bargaining fail. From such finding there may be appeal to the Court of Arbitration Review; but such proceedings may not stay the acceptance of findings.

18. To support an adequate civil service for the performance of such duties as may be designated by administrators; and for this purpose to refrain from interference with the processes of appointment or placement, asking advice or testimony before committees only with the consent of appropriate superiors.

19. To provide for the maintenance of armed forces.

20. To enact such measures as will assist families in making adjustment to future conditions, using estimates concerning population and resources made by the Planning Board.

21. To vote within ninety days on such measures as the President may designate as urgent.

ARTICLE VII

The Regulatory Branch

SECTION 1. There shall be a Regulatory Branch, and there shall be a National Regulator chosen by majority vote of the Senate and remoable by a two-thirds vote of that body. His term shall be seven years, and he shall preside over a National Regulatory Board. Together they shall make and administer rules for the conduct of all economic enterprises.

The Regulatory Branch shall have such agencies as the Board may find necessary and are not disapproved by law.

SECTION 2. The Regulatory Board shall consist of seventeen members recommended to the Senate by the Regulator. Unless rejected by majority vote they shall act with the Regulator as a lawmaking body for industry.

They shall initially have terms of one or seventeen years, one being replaced each year and serving for seventeen years. They shall be compensated and shall have no other occupation.

SECTION 3. Under procedures approved by the board, the Regulator shall charter all corporations or enterprises except those exempted because of sixe or other characteristics, or those supervised by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs, or by the Intendant, or those whose activities are confined to one Newstate.

Charters shall describe proposed activities, and departure from these shall require amendment on penalty of revocation. For this purpose there shall be investigation and enforcement services under the direction of the Regulator.

SECTION 4. Chartered enterprises in similar industries or occupations may organize joint Authorities. These may formulate among themselves codes to ensure fair competition, meet external costs, set standards for quality and service, expand trade, increase production, eliminate waste, and assist in standardization. Authorities may maintain for common use services for research and communcation; but membership shall be open to all eligible enterprises. Nonmembers shall be required to maintain the same standards at those prescribed for members.

SECTION 5. Authorities shall have governing committees of five, two being appointed by the Regulator to represent the public. they shall serve as he may determine; they shall be compensated; and he shall take care that there be no conflicts of interest. The Board may approve or prescribe rules for the distribution of profits to stockholders, allowable amounts of working capital, and reserves. Costing and all other practices affecting the public interest shall be monitored.

All codes shall be subject to review by the Regulator with his Board.

SECTION 6. Member enterprises of an Authority shall be exempt from other regulation.

SECTION 7. The Regulator, with his Board, shall fix standards and procedures for mergers of enterprises or the acquisition of some by others; and these shall be in effect unless rejected by the Court of Administrative Settlements. The purpose shall be to encourage adaptation to change and to further approved intentions for the nation.

SECTION 8. The charters of enterprises may be revoked and Authorities may be dissolved by the Regulator, with the concurrence of the Board, if they restrict the production of goods and services, or controls of their prices; also if external costs are not assessed to their originators or if the ecological impacts of their operations are deleterious.

SECTION 9. Operations extending abroad shall conform to policies notified to the Regulator by the President; and he shall restrict or control such activities as appear to injure the national interest.

SECTION 10. The Regulator shall make rules for and shall supervise marketplaces for goods and services; but this shall not include security exchanges regulated by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs.

SECTION 11. Designation of enterprises affected with a public interest, rules for conduct of enterprises and of their Authorities, and other actions of the Regulator or of the Board may be appealed to the Court of Administrative Settlements, whose judgments shall be informed by the intention to establish fairness to consumer and competitors and stability in economic affairs.

SECTION 12. Responsible also to the Regulator, there shall be an Operations Commission appointed by the Regulator, unless the Senate object, for the supervision of enterprises owned in whole or in part by government. The commission shall choose its chairman, and he shall be the executive head of a supervisory staff. He may require reports, conduct investigations, and make rules and recommendations concerning surpluses or deficits, the absorption of external costs, standards of service, and rates or oprices charged for services or goods.

Each enterprise shall have a director, chosen and removable by the Commission; and he shall conduct its affairs in accordance with standards fixed by the Commission.

ARTICLE VIII

The Judicial Branch

SECTION 1. There shall be a Principal Justice of the Newstates of America; a Judicial Council; and a Judicial Assembly. There shall also be a Supreme Court and a High Court of Appeals; also Courts of Claims, Rights and Duties, Administrative Review, Arbitration Settlements, Tax Appeals, and Appeals from Watchkeeper’s Findings. There shall be Circuit Courts to be of first resort in suits brought under national law; and they shall hear appeals from courts of the Newstates.

Other courts may be established by law on recommendation of the Principal Justice with the Judicial Council.

SECTION 2. The Principal Justice shall preside over the judicial system, shall appoint the members of all national courts, and, unless the Judicial Council object, shall make its rules; also, through an Administrator, supervise its operations.

SECTION 3. The Judicial Assembly shall consist of Circuit Court Judges, together with those of the High Courts of the Newstates of America and those of the highest courts of the Newstates. It shall meet annually, or at the call of the Principal Justice, to consider the state of the Judiciary and such other matters as may be laid before it.

It shall also meet at the call of the Convener to nominate three candidates for the Principal Justiceship whenever a vacancy shall occur. From these nominees the Senate shall choose the one having the most votes.

SECTION 4. The Principal Justice, unless the Senate object to any, shall appoint a Judicial Council of five members to serve during his incumbency. He shall designate a senior member who shall preside in his absence.

It shall be the duty of the Council, under the direction of the Principal Justice, to study the courts in operation, to prepare codes of ethics to be observed by members, and to suggest changes in procedure. The Council may ask the advice of the Judicial Assembly.

It shall also be a duty of the Council, as hereinafter provided, to suggest constitutional amendments when they appear to be necessary; and it shall also draft revisions if they shall be required. Further, it shall examine, and from time to time cause to be revised, civil and criminal codes; these, when approved by the Judicial Assembly, shall be in effect throughout the nation.

SECTION 5. The Principal Justice shall have a term of eleven years; but if at any time the incumbent resign to be disabled from continuing in office, as may be determined by the Senate, replacement shall be by the senior member of the Judicial Council until a new selection be made. After six years the Assembly may provide, by a two-thirds vote, for discontinuance in office, and a successor shall then be chosen.

SECTION 6. The Principal Justice may suspend members of any court for incapacity or violation of rules; and the separation shall be final if a majority of the Council agree.

For each court the Principal Justice shall, from time to time, appoint a member sho shall preside.

SECTION 7. A presiding judge may decide, with the concurrence of the senior judge, that there may be pretrial proceedings, that criminal trials shall be conducted by either investigatory or adversary proceedings, and whether there shall be a jury and what the number of jurors shall be; but investigatory proceedings shall require a bench of three.

SECTION 8. In deciding on the concordance of statutes with the Constitution, the Supreme Court shall return to the House of Representatives such as it cannot construe. If the House fail to make return within ninety days the Court may interpret.

SECTION 9. The Principal Justice, or the President, may grant pardons or reprieves.

SECTION 10. The High Courts shall have thirteen members; but nine members, chosen by their senior justices from time to time, shall constitute a court. The justices on leave shall be subject to recall.

Other courts shall have nine members; but seven, chosen by their seniors, shall constitute a court.

All shall be in continuous session except for recesses approved by the Principal Justice.

SECTION 11. The Principal Justice, with the Council, may advise the Senate, when requested, concerning the appropriateness of measures approved by the House of Representatives; and may also advise the President, when requested, on matters he may refer for consultation.

SECTION 12. It shall be for other branches to accept and to enforce judicial decrees.

SECTION 13. The High Court of Appeals may select applications for further consideration by the Supreme Court, of decisions reached by other courts, including those of the Newstates. If it agree that there be a constitutional issue it may make preliminary judgment to be reviewed without hearing, and finally, by the Supreme Court.

SECTION 14. The Supreme Court may decide:

a. Whether, in litigation coming to it on appeal, constitutional provisions have been violated or standards have not been met.

b. On the application of constitutional provisions to suits involving the Newstates.

c. Whether international law, as recognized in treaties, United Nations agreements, or arranagements with other nations, has been ignored or violated.

d. Other causes involving the interpretation of constitutional provisions; except that in holding any branch to have exceeded its powers the decision shall be suspended until the Judicial Council shall have determined whether, in order to avoid confrontation, procedures for amendment of the Constitution are appropriate.

If amendatory proceedings are instituted, decision shall await the outcome.

SECTION 15. The Courts of the Newstates shall have initial jurisdiction in cases arising under their laws except those involving the Newstate itself or those reserved for national courts by a rule of the Principal Justice with the Judicial Council.

ARTICLE IX

General Provisions

SECTION 1. Qualifications for participation in democratic procedures as a citizen, and eligibility for office, shall be subject to repeated study and redefinition; but any change in qualification or eligibility shall become effective only if not disapproved by the Congress.

For this purpose a permanent Citizenship and Qualifications Commission shall be constituted, four members to be appointed by the President, three by the Convener of the Senate, three by the Speaker of the House, and three by the Principal Justice. Vacancies shall be filled as they occur. The members shall choose a chairman; they shall have suitable assistants and accommodations; and they may have other occupations. Recommendations of the commission shall be presented to the President and shall be transmitted to the House of Representatives with comments. They shall have a preferred place on the calendar and, if approved, shall be in effect.

SECTION 2. Areas necessary for the uses of government may be acquired at its valuation and may be maintained as the public interest may require. Such areas shall have self-government in matters of local concern.

SECTION 3. The President may negotiate for the acquisition of areas outside the Newstates of America, and, if the Senate approve, may provide for their organization as Possessions or Territories.

SECTION 4. The President may make agreements with other organized peoples for a relation other than full membership in the Newstates of America. They may become citizens and may participate in the selection of officials. They may receive assistance for their development or from the National Sharing Fund if they conform to its requirements; and they may serve in civilian or military services, but only as volunteers. They shall be represented in the House of Representatives by members elected at large, their number proportional to their constituencies; but each shall have at least one; and each shall in the same way choose one permanent member of the Senate.

SECTION 5. The President, the Vice-Presidents, and members of the legislative houses shall in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace by exempt from penalty for anything they may say while pursuing public duties; but the Judicial Council may make restraining rules.

SECTION 6. Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, each legislative house shall establish its requirements for membership and may make rules for the conduct of members, including conflicts of interest, providing its own disciplines for their infraction.

SECTION 7. No Newstate shall interfere with officials of the Newstates of America in the performance of their duties, and all shall give full faith and credit to the Acts of other Newstates and of the Newstates of America.

SECTION 8. Public funds shall be expended only as authorized in this Constitution.

ARTICLE X

Governmental Arranagements

SECTION 1. Officers of the Newstates of America shall be those named in this Constitution, including those of the legislative houses and others authorized by law to be appointed; they shall be compensated, and none may have other paid occupation unless they be excepted by law; none shall occupy more than one position in government; and no gift or favor shall be accepted if in any way related to official duty.

No income from former employments or associations shall continue for their benefits; but their properties may be put in trust and managed without their intervention during continuance in office. Hardships under this rule may be considered by the Court of Rights and Duties, and exceptions may be made with due regard to the general intention.

SECTION 2. The President, the Vice-Presidents, and the Principal Justice shall have households appropriate to their duties. The President, the Vice-President, the Principal Justice, the Chairman of the Planning Board, the Regulator, the Watchkeeper, and the Overseer shall have salaries fixed by law and continued for life; but if they become members of the Senate, they shall have senatorial compensation and shall conform to senatorial requirements.

Justices of the High Courts shall have no term; and their salaries shall be two-thirds that of the Principal Justice; they, and members of the Judicial Council, unless they shall have become Senators, shall be permanent members of the Judiciary and shall be available for assignment by the Principal Justice.

Salaries for members of the Senate shall be the same as for Justices of the High Court of Appeals.

SECTION 3. Unless otherwise provided herein, officials designated by the head of a branch as sharers in policymaking may be appointed by him with the President’s concurrence and unless the Senate shall object.

SECTION 4. There shall be administrators:

a. for executive offices and official households, appointed by authority of the President;

b. for the national courts, appointed by the Principal Justice;

c. for the Legislative Branch, selected by a committee of members from each house (chosen by the Convener and the Speaker), three from the House of Representatives and four from the Senate.

Appropriations shall be made to them; but those for the Presidency shall not be reduced during his term unless with his consent; and those for the Judicial Branch shall not be reduced during five years succeeding their determination, unless with the consent of the Principal Justice.

SECTION 5. The fiscal year shall be the same as the calendar year, with new appropriations available at its beginning.

SECTION 6. There shall be an Officials’ Protective Service to guard the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Principal Justice, and other officials whose safety may be at hazard; and there shall be a Protector appointed by and responsible to a standing committee of the Senate. Protected officials shall be guided by procedures approved by the committee.

The service, at the request of the Political Overseer, may extend its protection to candidates for office; or to other officials, if the committee so decide.

SECTION 7. A suitable contingency fund shall be made available to the President for purposes defined by law.

SECTION 8. The Senate shall try officers of government other than legislators when such officers are impeached by a two-third vote of the House of Representatives for conduct prejudicial to the public interest. If Presidents or Vice-Presidents are to be tried, the Senate, as constituted, shall conduct the trial. Judgments shall not extend beyond removal from office and disqualification for holding further office; but the convicted official shall be liable to further prosecution.

SECTION 9. Members of legislative houses may be impeached by the Judicial Council; but for trials it shall be enlarged to seventeen by Justices of the High Courts appointed by the Principal Justice. If convicted, members shall be expelled and be ineligible for future public office; and they shall also be liable for trial as citizens.

ARTICLE XI

Amendment

SECTION 1. It being the special duty of the Judicial Council to formulate and suggest amendments to this Constitution, it shall, from time to time, make proposals, through the Principal Justice, to the Senate. The Senate, if it approve, and if the President agree, shall instruct the Overseer to arrange at the next national election for submission of the amendment to the electorate. If not disapproved by a majority, it shall become part of this Constitution. If rejected, it may be restudied and a new proposal submitted.

It shall be the purpose of the amending procedure to correct deficiencies in the Constitution, to extend it when new responsibilities require, and to make government responsible to needs of the people, making use of advances in managerial competence and establishing security and stability; also to preclude changes in the Constitution resulting from interpretation.

SECTION 2. When this Constitution shall have been in effect for twenty-five years the Overseer shall ask, by referendum, whether a new Constitution shall be prepared. If a majority so decide, the Council, making use of such advice as may be available, and consulting those who have made complaint, shall prepare a new draft for submission at the next election. If not disapproved by a majority it shall be in effect. If disapproved it shall be redrafted and resubmitted with such changes as may be then appropriate to the circumstances, and it shall be submitted to the voters at the following election.

If not disapproved by a majority it shall be in effect. If disapproved it shall be restudied and resubmitted.

ARTICLE XII

Transition

SECTION 1. The President is authorized to assume such powers, make such appointments, and use such funds as are necessary to make this Constitution effective as soon as possible after acceptance by a referendum he may initiate.

SECTION 2. Such members of the Senate as may be at once available shall convene and, if at least half, shall constitute sufficient membership while others are being added. They shall appoint an Overseer to arrange for electoral organization and elections for the offices of government; but the President and Vice-Presidents shall serve out their terms and then become members of the Senate. At that time the presidency shall be constituted as provided in this Constitution.

SECTION 3. Until each indicated change in the government shall have been completed the provisions of the existing Constitution and the organs of government shall be in effect.

SECTION 4. All operations of the national government shall cease as they are replaced by those authorized under this Constitution.

The President shall determine when replacement is complete.

The President shall cause to be constituted an appropriate commission to designate existing laws inconsistent with this Constitution, and they shall be void; also the commission shall assist the President and the legislative houses in the formulating of such laws as may be consistent with the Constitution and necessary to its implementation.

SECTION 5. For establishing Newstates boundaries a commission of thirteen, appointed by the President, shall make recommendations within one year. For this purpose the members may take advice and commission studies concerning resources, population, transportation, communication, economic and social arranagements, and such other conditions as may be significant. The President shall transmit the commission’s report to the Senate. After entertaining, if convenient, petitions for revision, the Senate shall report whether the recommendations are satisfactory but the President shall decide whether they shall be accepted or shall be returned for revision.

Existing states shall not be divided unless metropolitan areas extending over more than one state are to be included in one Newstate, or unless other compelling circumstances exist; and each Newstate shall possess harmonious regional characteristics.

The Commission shall continue while the Newstates make adjustments among themselves and shall have jurisdiction in disputes arising among them.

SECTION 6. Constitution of the Newstates shall be established as arranged by the Judicial Council and the Principal Justice.

These procedures shall be as follows: Constitutions shall be drafted by the highest courts of the Newstates. There shall then be a convention of one hundred delegates chosen in special elections in a procedure approved by the Overseer. If the Constitution be not rejected it shall be in effect and the government shall be constituted. If it be rejected, the Principal Justice, advised by the Judicial Council, shall promulgate a Constitution and initiate revisions to be submitted for approval at a time he shall appoint. If it again be rejected he shall promulgate another, taking account of objections, and it shall be in effect. A Constitution, once in effect, shall be valid for twenty-five years as herein provided.

SECTION 7. Until Governors and legislatures of the Newstates are seated, their governments shall continue, except that the President may appoint temporary Governors to act as executives until suceeded by those regularly elected. These Governors shall succeed to the executive functions of the states as they become one of the Newstates of America.

SECTION 8. The indicated appointments, elections, and other arrangements shall be made with all deliberate speed.

SECTIONN 9. The first Judicial Assembly for selecting a register of candidates for the Principal Justiceship of the Newstates of America shall be called by the incumbent Chief Justice immediately upon ratification.

SECTION 10. Newstates electing by referendum not to comply with recommendations of the Boundary Commission, as approved by the Senate, shall have deducted from taxes collected by the Newstates of America for transmission to them a percentage equal to the loss in efficiency from failure to comply.

Estimates shall be made by the Chancellor of Financial Affairs and approved by the President; but the deduction shall not be less than 7 percent.

SECTION 11. When this Constitution has been implemented the President may delete by proclamation appropriate parts of this article.

http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/concon/newstates.htm

My Collage of Memorials to Andrew Breitbart, Father of the New Media with many videos and radio interviews

If you have a favorite Andrew Breitbart memory or tribute, send a comment and I will add it…I will surely miss this icon as if he was a close family member…

The Warriors–

 The staff from Breitbart.com carries on.

 
Father of the New Media: In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/father-of-the-new-media-in-memoriam-andrew-breitbart-1969-2012/

IAmBreitbart ~ He once told Larry O`Connor this was his favorite picture of hiimself.

Vet the Prez: Breitbart “we have a sea of new media to expose your lies! the old media has FAILED!” http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/breitbart-we-have-a-sea-of-new-media-to-expose-your-lies-the-old-media-has-failed/

Washington Salutes Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/washington-salutes-andrew-breitbart/

Breitbart Is Here http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/breitbart-is-here/

Every Tuesday, there is a Breitbart segment with various Breitbart employees: http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/larry-oconnor-interviews-andrew-breitbart-on-the-greg-garrisons-big-tuesday-show-february-28/

The Larry O’Connor Show, Honoring Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/the-larry-oconnor-show-honoring-andrew-breitbart/

Winning the Culture War: The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/winning-the-culture-war-the-legacy-of-andrew-breitbart/

Prior to his passing, Andrew Breitbart said that the mission of the Breitbart empire was to exemplify the free and fearless press that our Constitution protects–but which, increasingly, the mainstream media denies us. http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/the-vetting-part-i-baracks-love-song-to-alinsky/

Breitbart Memorial:  “Man Against The Mob ” http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/breitbart-memorial-man-against-the-mob/

Remembering a rebel http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/remembering-a-rebel/

Andrew Breitbart’s Postcard to Our Troops http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/andrew-breitbarts-postcard-to-our-troops/

Daily Caller: TUCKER CARLSON: Andrew Breitbart, RIP http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/daily-caller-tucker-carlson-andrew-breitbart-rip/

BigDawg Music Mafia: A Tribute to Andrew Breitbart! http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/bigdawg-music-mafia-a-tribute-to-andrew-breitbart/

Something for all you (us) Breitbart Fans http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/something-for-all-you-us-breitbart-fans/

Tribute to Andrew Breitbart-Where We Gonna Go From Here-Anne Marie Harpen http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/tribute-to-andrew-breitbart-where-we-gonna-go-from-here-anne-marie-harpen/

Kevin Jackson on the passing of Andrew Breitbart and his/our continuing fight http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/kevin-jackson-on-the-passing-of-andrew-breitbart-and-hisour-continuing-fight/

Warrior: Franklin Center Remembers Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/warrior-franklin-center-remembers-andrew-breitbart-2/

Pollak: Breitbart More Courageous than Conservative Critics http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/pollak-breitbart-more-courageous-than-conservative-critics/

GATEWAY PUNDIT: Good-Bye Friend & Patriot Andrew Breitbart – Your Legacy Lives On http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/gateway-pundit-good-bye-friend-patrio-t-andrew-breitbart-your-legacy-lives-o-n/

Explosive: Connecting Obama, the OWS, & the Abolish Capitalism Movement – Thank You Breitbart! http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/explosive-connectin-g-obama-the-ows-the-abolish-capitali-sm-movement-thank-you-breitbart/

Andrew Breitbart at the Red Mass Group greater Boston Tea Party event in Lexington Mass on September 16 2011 http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/andrew-breitbart-at-the-red-mass-group-greater-boston-tea-party-event-in-lexington-mass-on-september-16-2011/

Hugh Hewitt’s Poetic Tribute To Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/hugh-hewitts-poetic-tribute-to-breitbar-t/

CNN.com revisited Andrew Breitbart’s final appearance on CNN — an interview on “Piers Morgan Tonight” alongside Michael Reagan. http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/cnn-com-revisited-andrew-breitbarts-final-appearance-on-cnn-an-interview-on-piers-morgan-tonight-alongside-michael-reagan/

BREITBART: The ‘Big’ Change http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/breitbart-the-big-change/

Breitbart’s ‘Story Of Decade’ Proven: Big Labor, Academia, Help Occupy Movement ‘Abolish Capitalism’ http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/breitbarts-story-of-decade-proven-big-labor-academia-help-occupy-movement-abolish-capitalism/

 Trailer: ‘Hating Breitbart’ http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/trailer-hating-breitbart/

Front Page: Remembering Andrew Breitbart  — on The Glazov Gang http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/front-page-remember-ing-andrew-breitbart-on-the-glazov-gan-g/

Redeye Tribute to Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/redeye-tribute-to-andrew-breitbart/

Five Reflects On Death Of Their Friend Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/five-reflects-on-death-of-their-friend-andrew-breitbart/

Andrew loved citizen journalism and investgative work: Video: Connecting B. Hussein Obama pals Derrick Bell and Bill AYers Together! http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/video-connecting-b-hussein-obama-pals-derrick-bell-and-bill-ayers-together/

Songs for Andrew Breitbart http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/songs-for-andrew-breitbart/

The #DJBreitbart Project: Remembering Andrew Breitbart with the music he loved so much. A Nirvana Free Zone. http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/the-djbreitbart-project-remembering-andrew-breitbart-with-the-music-he-loved-so-much-a-nirvana-free-zone/

Andrew Breitbart: Coroner wants to ‘cover all the bases’ http://a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/andrew-breitbart-coroner-wants-to-cover-all-the-bases/

Arab and Obama Seal…Hitler’s Victory Hand sign and Obama Victory hand sign…only two men in history hand insignias for their regimes

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MUST SEE: Full speech of Dinesh D’Souza from the CPAC livestream

Video of Michelle Obama as a Young Harvard Occupier?

About 1:12 into video from link at MentalRecession:

The vetting of Obama, something that should have been done in 2008, continues. This time, with video of what may be a young Michelle Obama taking part in a protest on behalf of race-extremist, Professor Derrick Bell. The purpose of the Occupy-like sit-in is in advocating the very definition of racism – they were demanding that the Harvard Law School hire professors based on race.
Via Pajamas Media (h/t Twitchy):

Read more http://mentalrecession.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-of-michelle-obama-as-young.html

Over PA and Syria’s Objections Israel Treats Palestinians and Syrians

Evelyn Gordon..
Commentary/Contentions..
24 May ’13..

You couldn’t make this up: As thousands of people in large swathes of the planet, including war-torn Syria, are dying daily for lack of adequate medical care, the one geographic area whose “health conditions” are slated for condemnation at the World Health Organization’s annual conference is, naturally, “the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.” What makes this surreal isn’t just that the above areas enjoy far better “health conditions” than much of the rest of the world. It’s that the Palestinian Authority (Israel’s “peace partner”), together with Syria and other Arab countries, is seeking to condemn Israel at a time when it is actively providing medical services to both Palestinians and Syrians.

The denunciation of health conditions on the Golan is particularly surreal: Syrians in Syria, where medical care of any kind is often simply unavailable, would be thrilled to get the same state-of-the-art care as their brethren on the Golan–where, as in East Jerusalem, Israeli law applies, entitling residents to the same services as all other Israelis.

But thanks to Israel, some of those Syrians actually are getting such care–which is doubtless Syrian President Bashar Assad’s real gripe. Israel has quietly set up a field hospital on the Golan where dozens of Syrians wounded in the civil war have been treated; others, who need more intensive care, have been transferred to regular Israeli hospitals.

Israel has also offered treatment to some Syrian refugees. Just this month, via Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart program, Israeli doctors saved the life of a four-year-old Syrian refugee with a serious heart condition. Similar treatment was offered to three other Syrian children in Jordan who have similar conditions, but their parents refused: Apparently, they fell victim to their own anti-Israel propaganda. Still, the doctors are hoping they will change their minds once the first girl returns to Jordan healthy and happy.

In the PA and Hamas-run Gaza, health care is also far better than in much of the rest of the world, though admittedly not up to Israeli standards. Of course, any deficiencies are their own fault: Both have had complete autonomy in civil affairs for years; Israel can hardly be blamed if they chose to invest in, say, military training for schoolchildren rather than better health care.

But more importantly, they have an advantage most other countries with similar health-care systems don’t: generous access to Israeli hospitals for any problems their own can’t treat. And you needn’t take my word for it: Just this month, after PA Health Minister Hani Abdeen visited Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported that “30% of the patients who are children are Palestinians.” It also reported that Hadassah is now training some 60 Palestinian doctors, who will then return to serve the PA’s own population.

It’s disgraceful that an otherwise respectable organization like WHO would lend its countenance to a farcical resolution like this. But it’s an excellent lesson in why the positions of the “international community” are often deserving of derision rather than respect–especially when it comes to Israel.

Link: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3730/israel-prosperity

John Effin’ Kerry pronounces Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians.

Under the circumstances, the U.S. would do better to tell the Palestinians there is no deal to be had unless they — both the Fatah and Hamas — demonstrably accommodate the reality that Israel is a legitimate, permanent part of the region. Otherwise, it is for Israel to determine how best to defend itself from those “challenges over the horizon.”

Shoshana Bryen..
Gatestone Institute..
24 May ’13..

At first blush, it might have sounded like praise, but it wasn’t. Before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if tomorrow there will be peace because there is a sense of security and a sense of accomplishment and of prosperity.”

So, Secretary Kerry thinks it would be better for Israel to approach negotiations from a position of precarious poverty? Does he think Israel’s quest for legitimacy and security in an unstable, over-armed and hostile region would be better received if Israel were a needy, insecure supplicant to Palestinian and Arab interests? Or that the Palestinians would have pity on an unnerved and anxious Israel struggling with a bankrupt, aid-dependent economy?

There are people – not necessary Secretary Kerry – who prefer their Jews as needy supplicants, but that is not a role Israel is prepared to play, thank you. The entire Zionist enterprise is designed precisely to ensure that Jews in the State of Israel are able to wake up every day with a “sense of security” and determine their own interests. The fact that Israelis also wake up with a hard-earned and well-deserved “sense of accomplishment and of prosperity” is icing on the cake.

What Kerry appears to have meant was that this is somehow a pivotal moment for Israel because its prosperity and security may be evanescent. He continued, “Over the horizon… one can see the challenges,” that make it important “to resolve this at this moment, when there is a willingness for people to look for a way [to achieve an agreement].”

“At this moment” Israel is a stable, educated, increasingly energy independent, democratic, prosperous country with a military that appears willing and able to defend the people from threats over the horizon. It has a clear understanding with the Kingdom of Jordan for security along the Jordan River that protects both neighbors. It has an almost clear understanding with the President of the United States (and certainly has one with Congress) that the main threat to its security lies in the nuclear aspirations of Iran.

This, says Kerry, is “the moment” Israel should feel a pressing imperative to dump King Abdullah and cut a deal with a Palestinian polity that is bifurcated between a kleptocratic, autocratic, openly anti-Semitic West Bank ruled by a man whose sole elected term ended in 2009, and a corrupt, Islamist, Gaza ruled by terrorist-worshipping, Iranian-sponsored Hamas. Hamas and Fatah are at war with one another and their only point of agreement appears to be that the independence of Israel in 1948 was a mistake waiting to be “rectified.” A deal with Mahmoud Abbas, old, ailing, and very unpopular at home, would be a temporary deal at best. If Hamas wins its war, Israel will have stripped itself of vital territory only to find its heavily populated coastline under the same rocket and missile fire that southern Israel now absorbs. And Jordan would similarly find hostile forces aligned with Iran overlooking the Kingdom.

Under those circumstances, the U.S. would do better to tell the Palestinians that there is no deal to be had unless they – both factions – demonstrably accommodate the reality that Israel is a legitimate, permanent part of the region. Otherwise, it is for Israel to determine how best to defend itself from those “challenges over the horizon.”

The boundaries of the Levant determined by the British and the French early in the last century are being erased; there is little border left between Lebanon and Syria as militias on all sides fight in both countries. Tribalism and religious enmity from both radical Sunni and radical Shiite expansionists have produced monstrous swamps of Arab blood, and atrocities that rival Rwanda and Cambodia. Iraq is devolving into Sunni and Shiite cantons at war with one another. Turkey, long a country tolerant of Jews and engaged in a mutually beneficial relationship with Israel, has become a financial and political backer of Hamas, which is sworn to the bloody destruction of Israel. Qatar is second only to Turkey in its willingness to be seen as Hamas’s benefactor, not to mention Qatar’s pledge of $1 billion to “protect the Arabic and Islamic heritage of Jerusalem” (meaning to erase what it can of Jewish patrimony there). Egypt, after a 30-year stable peace, is ruled by a party that eschews relations with Israel and is constrained mainly by its military and its own economic debacle from acting on its ideological platform.

Under the circumstances, Kerry would do better to praise Israel without the forked tongue.

Link: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/24/israel-treats-palestinians-and-syrians-over-pa-and-syrias-objections/

Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center.

Apostate Christianity – Jay Bakker’s Rain bow Bread “Communion ”

http://juicyecumenism.com

This week Minnesota became the twelfth state in the United States to redefine marriage. Jay Bakker, son of the televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, marked the occasion by offering “rainbow bread” for “communion” at the inaugural service of Revolution Church Minnesota on Sunday, May 12th.

Bakker explained all were welcome to participate in the meal regardless of religious belief or lack thereof, and that “today we do this in remembrance of what Christ did and what folks who followed in Christ’s footsteps did, but also in the celebration of what’s happened here in the House and with what our hopes are to happen tomorrow in the Senate.”

Bakker co-founded Revolution Church in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona, and has moved the church to various cities since then. Most recently he pastored Revolution NYC until he relocated to Minneapolis in March 2013. Explaining the “rainbow bread” to those gathered at Bryant Lake Bowl, he said “Hell yeah I’m gettin’ political. This is to celebrate our LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer] brothers and sisters … and remember those who maybe didn’t make it this far.”

The Church, Bakker claimed, is “the final frontier of equality in this issue … we still haven’t seen the full importance of these civil rights in the faith that I love and care about so much.” Bakker, who has been critical of the politicization of Christianity urged attendees, “If you have a chance tomorrow go out to the capitol and call your senators … let them know that you believe in equality. If you don’t believe in equality stay at home. Sleep in, go to work, just don’t talk to anybody.”

Bakker, popular Minnesota based emergent writer Tony Jones, and others held a vigil at the state’s capitol Monday, May 13th for the senate’s vote to legalize same-sex marriage in their state.

Complementing the rainbow bread, Bakker spoke on grace and inclusion, focusing on St. Paul, who “gets grace the most,” as he was a ruthless persecutor of Christians before his conversion. “The Bible is full of unperfect people” and it was “murderers and traitors … literally starting a faith, being part of a faith and that’s what I would call the good news,” Bakker said.

“The idea of Christ was to come into that midst and find the one who’s doing the hurting and turn him into an ally turn him into someone who’s loved and what you see here is … a love of inclusion,” Bakker claimed.

Not even St. Paul meets Bakker’s inclusivity standards, as he declared “Paul said some stuff that’s pretty crazy … there would be times if I knew Paul the apostle … I would say ‘Listen, I’m going to have to call “expletive” on this … remember your message.’”

“Inclusion in the Church” is so important to Bakker that he has “a hard time dealing with ideas of hell … when I see a God that reaches out to people in the midst of murder and in the midst of betrayal and says ‘I want you. I want to use you. You are loved and you are cared for.’”

“What MLK did got him killed. What Ghandi did got him killed. What Jesus did got him killed. And I think they all died for similar reasons.” Jesus probably did not die to save us, according to Bakker, but rather, “What if Jesus was killed for the same reason Ghandi and King were killed? Because they were trouble makers who showed too much love and too much inclusion?”
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/May21/215.html#hVWmVseePlhoSklc.99

Wind power is not worth it

There is a major worldwide push for “green” renewable ener­gy, a topic we read and hear about almost daily here in upstate, wind en­ergy being the most talked about. Having researched wind energy extensively, I find more information regarding the negative realities of industrial wind energy (IWE) daily than I have time to read. However, local media tends to overlook reports of the damaging effects on other economies and environments. Because IWE is only available when the wind blows within a narrow range for sustained peri­ods of time, backup sources can never shut down. Denmark has over 6,000 turbines, and re­portedly hasn’t closed one fossil fuel power plant to date. They now require more coal-gener­ated power to compen­sate. A study has shown that their carbon dioxide emissions increased 36 percent in 2006 alone. In Colorado, the American Tradition Institute sued the state in 2011 over re­newable energy man­dates, claiming IWE cre­ates more pollution than it saves.

Each turbine requires hundreds of gallons of oil and lubricating fluid. Multiply that times the 195 turbines at the Maple Ridge facility in Lewis County, New York. Poten­tial for chemical dis­charge during damage or maintenance is ghastly.

And what about dam­aged and aged-out tur­bines? Each one is the size of a 40- to 50-story build­ing. How will thousands of them be disposed of? Just look at Hawaii to see the horror of deserted, rusted turbines. The mammoth blades are made of carbon fiber composite. It can’t be re­cycled or incinerated (too toxic). With the aging of Denmark’s turbines, they are facing a major dispos­al problem. In 2011, Den­mark’s leading business journal stated, “There ex­ists no solution.”

What about the cost to taxpayers? More than thirty federally funded “green” energy compa­nies are failing or bank­rupt. The 2009 stimulus set aside $80 billion in subsidies for “green” en­ergy projects. In 2012, taxpayers contributed $13.5 billion in addition to $5.8 billion in grants, for a mere 3.6 percent of the energy produced nation­wide. And how much of that money goes to manu­facturers in Europe? We then pay again for the en­ergy produced and for the cost of backup energy.

Regarding bird kills, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates half a million birds are slaugh­tered by turbines yearly. American Bird Conser­vancy projects that could more than double in 20 years if the current ad­ministration continues down the IWE path. There is so much more that consumers and tax­payers need to know. I challenge the media to look more deeply.

Albright lives in Greece.

Two Copts in New Jersey Beheaded by Muslim

H/T Dorrie

We’re SHOCKED about it in London, but we IGNORED it in the US in February. I sent out the original story on this on 2/20/13: http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/muslim-accused-of-beheading-2-christians-in-u-s/ http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/23/not-all-muslims-shoot-behead-two-coptic-christians-in-new-jersey/ DC Trawler Muslim behead two Coptic Christians in New Jersey 10:51 AM 05/23/2013 This story is from February, but it’s news to me. It didn’t make national media at the time, but people are pointing it out now, after yesterday’s savage Islamic beheading attack in London. Christian Post, 2/20/13: In a crime that New Jersey authorities have described as heinous, a local man is believed to have shot to death two Coptic Christians before severing their heads and hands and burying their bodies in the backyard of a relative’s abandoned home. “These were grisly murders in which the defendant allegedly shot both victims in the chest at close range,” said Attorney General Chiesa in a press release. “We allege that the defendant was ruthless and calculating in the manner in which he carried out the killings and attempted to prevent identification of the victims by cutting off their heads and hands before burying their bodies. The New Jersey State Police has conducted a thorough investigation, which will enable us to secure justice for the victims.” The suspect has been identified as 28-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim of Jersey City, N.J., whom they apprehended Feb. 10. He has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of desecration of human remains. Yeah. What a mystery. Why would anybody do something like that? Why does it keep happening over and over, around the world? Is there a common denominator here? Hmmmm. This wasn’t a national story, because his name isn’t Chuck Johnson and he doesn’t belong to the local chapter of the Tea Party. He’s a member of a Designated Victim Group, and therefore the MSM turns a blind eye. Willful blindness, pretending the motive is a mystery, won’t make the problem go away. It won’t prevent more attacks like this. Just look at London. Just look at Benghazi. Just look around. Update: And let’s not forget Muzzammil Hasan, the Buffalo entrepreneur who started America’s first Muslim TV channel in the English language. He had to resign as CEO in 2009, though, after he cut off his wife’s head. [Well, tecnically, that was an Honor Killing: He was embarrassed in the mosque by his wife's behavior and was bringing shame on Islam, so she had to go.---Dorrie]

the Barka

H/T Loki and Wilson! Too funny for words!

Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond – Article Pulled for PCness

Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond
Homeland Security NTARC News | 5/22/2013
A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday.
Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Mich., and charged with giving false statements to federal agents and possessing an altered passport.

Durie: The Woolwich (London) Murder by Muslim

H/T Dorrie

http://counterjihadreport.com/2013/05/22/the-woolwich-killing-we-must-fight-them-as-they-fight-us/

{This article might not come thru very clearly. It’s all over the board with fonts and font sizes and color, etc.–Dorrie]

 

The Woolwich Killing: “We must fight them as they fight us.”

Posted on May 22, 2013by lburt

MAY 22, 2013, By Mark Durie:

Today in Woolwich, England, a man reported to be a British soldier was cut down by two Anglo-African Muslims wielding knives and a machete.  One of the killers, speaking in a home-grown English accent, is heard on video to say: There are many, many ayah [verses] throughout the Koran that says we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I apologize that women had to witness this today but in our land women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don’t care about you.(An earlier version of this post had a less accurate translation.)

Eyewitnesses said that the victim had been wearing a ‘Help for Heroes’ t-shirt.  Help for Heroes is a charity to help British soldiers wounded in current conflicts.

Eyewitnesses also reported that the killers attempted to behead the soldier, and that they asked bystanders to call the police, and moved towards the police as if to attack them, as soon as they appeared. While some said the killers were crazed, the contrary seems to be the case.  They appear to have been acting in accordance with a theologically determined logic which can be understood on the basis of Islamic teachings.  In the midst of perpetrating this carnage, they found time, calmly and clearly, to explain their motivations on camera.

The killer captured on video was referencing passages from Islamic sacred texts. “We must fight them as they fight us” is a reference to a phrase found repeatedly in the Koran: “. . . fight in the cause  of Allah those who fight you … And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for fitnah (oppression, persecution) is worse than slaughter; …  if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith. ” (Sura 2:190-9)

“fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together”  (Sura 9:36)

“Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those(believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory” (Sura 22:39)

The Arabic word for ‘fight’ used in the Koran in these passages is qatilu — which literally means fighting to kill. (See here for an explanation of the meaning of Sura 2:190-91, a passage used by Muslim jurists to justify killing.

Durie touches on it, then moves away from it too fast in my opinion: Fitnah is found in 2:190-192. It is the justification Muhammad – excuse me – Allah sent down to his Followers as long ago as 622 for fighting offensive war all the time forever: (and this is extreme paraphrasing, I know that, but long dissertations aren’t my thing) “We want the world and since we’re Muslims we’ve got the right to it; the kuffar aren’t going to like it and they’ll fight us. So let’s make sure they understand it’s their fault for getting in our way of taking what we’ve got a right to, by killing them.”Twisty-headed logic, but it works for them quite well. Just don’t believe it’s because we’re presently in their lands — they got those lands by conquest in the first place. They kill us because Allah says to do so, and has always said that. When Muslims are in sufficient numbers to carry out the order, they carry it out.

The reference ‘an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth’ is also from the Koran (although ultimately borrowed from several passages in the Mosaic law):

And We prescribed for them therein: The life for the life, and the eye for the eye, and the nose for the nose, and the ear for the ear, and the tooth for the tooth, and for wounds retaliation. (Sura 5:54)

The Muslim killers here are invoking a religious ruling that it is permissible to fight and kill people who wage war against Muslims.  As Bin Ladin put it in his letter to the American people: “It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed [fitnah: We non-Muslims are keeping the Muslim from his right to own the world] have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance, and revenge.”

The belief which seems to underlie the Woolwich attack is that because the British government is fighting a war against Muslims in Muslim lands, it is therefore legitimate for Muslims to wage jihad against the British.  British people, who voted the government into power, are also considered to be personally culpable, which is why they ‘will never be safe’ and are told to ‘remove your government’.

The killer’s language is strikingly reminiscent of Bin Ladin’s November 2002 letter to the American people, in which he not only spoke of ‘removal’ of governments (in Muslim lands), but also explained that it was legitimate to attack American civilians because they are the ones who voted their government into power: “… the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. … The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want. … the American army is part of the American people. … This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us. … Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. …  whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

The phrase ‘you people will never be safe’ is reminiscent of Muhammad’s instruction to his followers to invite non-Muslims to Islam by telling them aslim taslam “Accept Islam and you will be safe” (see here).  The implication is that non-Muslims are not safe because their blood and property can be taken until they convert.  Thus Muhammad said to his cousin Ali, on the eve of the attack against the Jews of Khaibar: “Fight (qatilu) until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger [i.e. until they convert to Islam] and when they do that, then their blood and their riches are inviolable [safe] from your hands.” (Sahih Muslim. Book of the Merits of the Companions of the Holy Prophet 4:29:5917).

It seems  the killers desired martyrdom [the only guaranteed way to get to Paradise is to take out a non-Believer during jihad for Allah] in accordance with their beliefs, because they asked bystanders to call the police and immediately moved to attack the police when they arrived on the scene.

This slaughter on the streets of Woolwich has all the hallmarks of a theologically motivated attack, and keys to understand it can be found in the Qur’an and the teachings of Muhammad.

Whether the views adopted by the killers are ‘legitimate’ interpretations of the Koran and Muhammad’s teachings may be disputed.  What cannot be disputed is the source where they found their inspiration.

Mark Durie is an Anglican vicar in Melbourne, Australia, author of The Third Choice, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle Eastern Forum.

Pastor at Northwood Church in Keller, TX still carrying the water for our enemies

H/T Dorrie

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/texas-mega-church-welcomes-islamists-to-global-faith-forum/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b501de7d8b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b501de7d8b-156518973 Full disclosure: Bud Kennedy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram did his best to make me look like a fool in one of his op eds when I put out an email blast in 2011 that this church and its pastor were waaaaay far wrong (I think I called Pastor Roberts an idiot, at the least; might’ve gone further than that) for inviting 1500 Muslims to mingle with the church members to celebrate those things they “held in common” with Azhar Azeez’s (see below) flock from the Irving mosque. The Dallas Morning News picked me as Texas’s third biggest bigot of the year for that same email. When you’ve got both the Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News against you, you’re doing things right. Texas Mega-Church Welcomes Islamists to ‘Global Faith Forum’ May 22, 2013 By Ryan Mauro Comments (10) The 3,000-member NorthWood Church of Keller, TX is holding a “Global Faith Forum” in November. In yet another Islamist-attended interfaith event, Christians will hear from a former Saudi intelligence chief, a former director-general of Al-Jazeera, officials from U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities and the non-Muslims who embrace them. Pastor Bob Roberts. Jr. is known for his efforts to build-bridges with Muslims. He spoke at the “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference put together by Palestinian Christians at Bethlehem Bible College. So did Florida Pastor Joel C. Hunter, who has gathered negative attention for his association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity [Hunter told the FL lege: Don't vote for American Law for American Courts]. Hunter is also critical of “Christian Zionists.” An article posted on Hunter’s website reports how the “Christ at the Checkpoint” audience, including students from Wheaton and Eastern Universities, “were moved by the testimony of Palestinian men and women who shared the pain and suffering they experience on a daily basis caused primarily by the continuing occupation.” Pastor Roberts reacted to the anti-Islam Innocence of Muslims video by suggesting that governments crack down on its distribution. He said, “There is a ‘clear and present’ danger the U.S. courts have ruled in regard to freedom of speech-I think that has to extend globally.” [So, he's still an idiot.] In January, NorthWood Church hostedAzhar Azeez, Vice President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) since 2002. [He is also imam of the Islamic Center of Irving, which is part of the Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT), which is of course part of the Muslim Association of North America (MANA), which is of course Muslim Brotherhood.] ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in a major terrorism-financing trial. Federal prosecutors labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, a fact confirmed by the Brotherhood’s own secret documents. He is also the senior National Director of Islamic Relief USA, a charity linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. In November, his church’s Global Faith Forum will bring the spotlight to his interfaith efforts and those involved in them. Event speakers include Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) [anybody in Rep Granger's Fort Worth district should really get to her to change her mind on this!], former South Carolina Governor David Beasley and Christianity Today editor Mark Galli, but they aren’t the main attractions. The conference website’s home page proudly advertises Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. from 2005 to 2007, as a main speaker. Before that, he was the Saudi foreign intelligence chief from 1977 to 2001, making him a top figure in Saudi Arabia’s proliferation of Wahhabism around the world for over 20 years. He represented a Sharia-based government that persecutes Christians. Faisal Bin Muammar was an advisor at the Saudi Royal Court and Secretary-General of the Riyadh-based King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue. Safi Kaskas is a co-founder of East West University in Chicago and a “strategy consultant for a number of business organizations in the USA and Saudi Arabia.” He is a member of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo identifies AMSS as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” The memo says its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” The AMSS is also closely linked to the International Institute of Islamic Thought. Another main speaker is Professor John Esposito, one of the top non-Muslim supporters of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network. He is a frequent guest speaker at their events and was a witness for the defense in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation. The aforementioned Azhar Azeez is again speaking. Wadah Khanfar was the director-general of Al-Jazeera from 2006 to 2011. Al-Jazeera’s extremism is well-documented. The Arabic station even gives Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi a weekly show. Ayatollah Ahmad Iravani is President of the Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East. He’s also been a teacher for 10 years at the Catholic University of America. He graduated from Qom, Iran and has taught Sharia Law in Tehran. He’s also participated in Catholic-Muslim dialogues called “A Common Word” that includes allies of Qaradawi. Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh is a member of the North American Imams Federation. Radical imam Siraj Wahhaj has served on the Board of Trustees. Its website lists Ashrafuz Zaman Khan as its President. Bangladesh has charged him with war crimes from his days in the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami. Dahlia Mogahed is from the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and is a friend of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities. In 2008, she said that CAIR and ISNA were designated as unindicted co-conspirators by the federal government in order “to silence, you know, institution-building among Muslims. And the way o do it is [to] malign these groups. And it’s kind of a witch hunt.” Suhail Khan is a former Bush Administration official and Senior Fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. He has been accused of helping U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities gain influence in the Bush Administration after 9/11 and of having Brotherhood ties himself. He denies that the Muslim Brotherhood even exists in America. Rev. Jack Sara is President of Bethlehem Bible College and Pastor with the Evangelical Alliance Church in the Holy Land. The College put together the “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference and has a long relatonship with Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding. It wouldn’t be surprising if Pastor Roberts didn’t know who he was dealing with. After all, he cited Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi as a “key Islamic leader” condemning anti-American violence. The desire for interfaith credentials seems to surpass the desire to have a standard. [I think it would be incredulous to think he didn't know who he was dealing with. I know a few of his members who've told him, and they've left his church because he won't give up this horrible behavior.]

Huma’s Moonlighting? No Problem … Just Don’t Mention Her Crescent-lighting

Huma’s Moonlighting? No Problem … Just Don’t Mention Her Crescent-lighting
By Andrew McCarthy | May 21, 2013
Well, well, well, the Huma Abedin controversy has finally hit the legacy media. Okay, okay – it’s not the Huma Abedin controversy, but it’s one Obama’s court stenographers apparently feel comfortable talking about. It seems Ms. Abedin, accurately described by the New York Times as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ”longtime aide and confidante,” spent her last months at the State Department not [...] Read More:
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