Obama's America: Voter intimidation A-OK

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Bryan Fischer, Executive Director

IVA IN THE NEWS: CBS AFFILIATE ON CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE RULING

Bryan Fischer with the Idaho Values Alliance said that vote may be one that will give traditionalists a gain in momentum.

“Yesterday was a huge setback for them, that’s going to rob them of a lot (of momentum).”

Fischer agrees the way forward is a bit confusing. Where as a nation do we go? Does marriage need to be redefined? Marriage has changed vastly over the last 100 years.

(Said Fischer,) “Marriage has always been, since the dawn of civilization, you look at the first page of the Bible, marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”

What is the future of marriage? | KBCI CBS 2

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OBAMA’S AMERICA: VOTER INTIMIDATION BY BLACK PANTHERS A-OK

They say that the wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly fine. Well, in Obama’s America, it looks like the wheels of justice have jumped the tracks and aren’t grinding much at all, unless they’re grinding up the voting rights of ordinary Americans.

Obama’s political appointees in the Justice Department this week dismissed a civil complaint against three Black Panthers who wielded nightsticks and intimidated voters by using racial slurs and wearing military-style uniforms, replete with black berets, combat boots, battle-dress pants, and black jackets with military-style insignias, at a Philadelphia polling place last Election

Day, an incident famously caught on videotape and widely watched on YouTube.

According to one of the defendants, the incident was part of a nationwide effort to deploy Black Panthers at polling places on Election Day.

According to the now-dismissed Justice Department complaint, the three men engaged in “coercion, threats and intimidation, ... racial threats and insults, ... (and) menacing and intimidating gestures.”

In a sworn affidavit, Bartle Bull, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign, who was a credentialed poll watcher at the site, said, “In all my experience in politics, in civil rights litigation and in my efforts in the 1960s to secure the right to vote in Mississippi ... I have never encountered or heard of another instance in the United States where armed and uniformed men blocked the entrance to a polling location.”

Bull overheard one of the Black Panthers tell a white poll watcher, “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”

Bull says the Panthers’ conduct was an “outrageous affront to American democracy and the rights of voters to participate in an election without fear,” and was “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen.

Ludicrously, DOJ spokesman Alejandro Miyar said, “Claims were dismissed ... based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law.” What “facts,” exactly, would that be?

The accused didn’t even bother to appear in court to answer accusations over the five-month period since charges were filed in January. Apparently they figured they didn’t need to, even though a federal judge had ordered – ordered! – the DOJ to seek sanctions against them for their failure to appear.

Bottom line: there doesn’t seem to be much “justice” left at the “Department of Justice.” And it’s at least three and one-half years before Americans can do anything about that.

Washington Times - EXCLUSIVE: Career lawyers overruled on voting case

CONGRATULATIONS: YOU NOW OWE OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO UNCLE SAM

According to a USA TODAY analysis, out-of-control federal spending over the last year alone has dumped an extra tax burden of $55,000 on your family, raising the total amount of debt your family is now on the hook for to a mind-numbing $546,668.

Yes, you read that right. Your household, as of today, is on the hook for more than half a million dollars just to satisfy the federal government’s insatiable demand for goodies from your wallet.

Last year’s jump of 12% represents the biggest leap since President Bush rammed through his ill-conceived Medicare prescription drug benefit plan in 2003. Thank you, GOP.

The amount of debt with which the federal government has saddled the average American household is now quadruple what

Americans owe for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined.

Says a former U.S. comptroller general, “We have a huge implicit mortgage on every household in America – except, unlike a real mortgage, it’s not backed up by a house.”

Future generations are now staring at an inconceivable total of $63.8 trillion in unfunded liabilities for such things as Social Security and Medicare, obligations the government has incurred but which it has no earthly idea how to pay for.

Thomas Jefferson said long ago, “Loading up the nation with debt and leaving it for the following generations to pay is morally irresponsible. Excessive debt is a means by which governments oppress the people and waste their substance. No nation has a right to contract debt for periods longer than the majority contracting it can expect to live.”

He was right then, and even more right now.

And to quote our new president, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

Respected investor Marc Faber said yesterday that he is “100 percent sure” the U.S. economy will enter a period of “hyperinflation” in the not too distant future, inflation he says which will approach Zimbabwean levels.

Zimbabwe’s inflation, rate, by the way, reached 231 million percent in 2008.

Tea Party on July 4, anyone?

Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink - USATODAY.com

U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says - Bloomberg.com

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BONUS BYTES

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Liberals bloviate endlessly about the Constitution’s declaration in Article VI that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification of any Office or public Trust under the United States.” Unless, of course, a conservative fails one of their own religious tests, in which case they fall mysteriously silent about constitutional rights and feel perfectly free to ignore the Constitution altogether. Democrats in the Texas senate yesterday rejected the governor’s appointment to chair the State Board of Education simply because he believes in the biblical account of origins. What in the world is that, other than a “religious Test?” (Allies: Christian beliefs cost Texas schools chief his post | Houston Chronicle)
The White House is in scramble mode, making efforts to convince the pro-abortion crowd that Sonia Sotomayor believes that killing babies in the womb is a constitutionally protected right. Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, slipped by admitting candidly that the right to abortion is one of the “unenumerated” rights in the Constitution, which being interpreted, means it isn’t in there at all. Remember that the federal government has no rights whatsoever other than those specifically enumerated in the Constitution. But Gibbs assured nervous Nellies on the left that Obama is “very comfortable with her interpretation of the Constitution being similar to that of his,” which being interpreted means it means whatever he wants it to mean. A former colleague of Sotomayor’s says, “I can guarantee she’ll be for abortion rights.” (White House Tries to Quell Abortion Rights Supporters' Fears About Sotomayor)
Serious trouble may be brewing both for President Obama and for ACORN, the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that apparently served, in violation of federal law, as a functioning arm of Obama’s presidential campaign. Compelling evidence is emerging that the Obama campaign forwarded email addresses to ACORN of donors who had maxed out on their contributions to Obama coffers, apparently so they could donate to ACORN, which in turn could conceal the money trail through labyrinthine accounting methods and use those tax-deductible dollars to work feverishly on Obama’s behalf. The New York Times abandoned an investigative piece on this scandal right before election after an Obama campaign staffer screamed, yelled and cursed its reporter and intimidated her and the paper into burying the story. (CNSNews.com - The Truth About ObamACORN)
Obama’s grand plan to release 50 Gitmo terrorists into European countries has hit a snag. They won’t take any unless Obama releases Gitmo terrorists into American society, which no Congressman in his right mind is about to support. Can you picture the electoral future of any member of Congress who allows terrorists to settle in his district? Fuhgedaboutit. Obama’s plan is so bad even Democrats in Congress are refusing to fund his plan to close Gitmo until he tells everybody what he’s going to do with its inmates. So far, Britain and France have accepted one Gitmo prisoner each, but won’t take any more. Obama tried to get Germany to accept nine Chinese Muslim terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda, but Germany understandably got suspicious when Obama said they would be barred from traveling to the United States. (Europeans Say U.S. Should Take Some Guantanamo Bay Detainees - washingtonpost.com)
You gotta love it. Never forget that the environmentalist’s ultimate creed is, “There’s something wrong with everything.” That now appears to include planet-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs, which thanks to President Bush, is the only kind of bulb we will be able to buy after 2012. But environmentalists are now screeching that, because CFLs contain miniscule amounts of mercury, they can harm infants, pregnant women and children, and will pollute the environment if tossed in landfills or incinerators. Maine is getting ready to order manufacturers – at a cost of $1 a bulb – to reduce the mercury in CFLS and pay for their safe recycling. Unfortunately, there are no known substitutes for mercury if you want CFLs to actually produce light. Environmentalist’s other motto: “Back to the Stone Age!” (Maine bill would require light bulb manufacturers to reduce mercury - The Boston Globe)
Quote for the day: “[T]he rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” ~ President John F. Kennedy