Only a little bit more than a year after Barack Obama began his career in the United States Senate with the promise of becoming the next generation’s Paul Wellstone, Obama now seems more likely to become the next generation’s wet noodle.
It was bad enough to see Barack Obama defending George W. Bush against the censure resolution from Senator Russ Feingold. Obama sure didn’t look like a liberal that day.
Now, Barack Obama seems to be fully in the thrall of the Dark Side. He’s rushing to the defense of Senator Joseph Lieberman, who was voted Senator Most Likely to Be Mistaken for Emperor Palpatine by progressives last year.
It’s hard to believe, but Barack Obama is actually campaigning for Joseph Lieberman, against Lieberman’s progressive Democratic rival, Ned Lamont.
On every issue of importance, Joseph Lieberman has spent the last five years being George W. Bush’s pet Democrat. Joseph Lieberman has stood against almost every good progressive effort in the US Senate since Bush first occupied the White House.
Barack Obama ought to be ashamed for aligning himself with a politician like Joe Lieberman. It makes one wonder if Barack Obama is really a progressive after all, or if he’s just playing us all for a bunch of suckers.
Fortunately, when Barack Obama went to Connecticut to praise Senator Lieberman in front of a crowd of Democrats, nobody seemed to take Obama’s admonitions to support Lieberman seriously. Instead, the Connecticut Democrats booed and hissed when Joseph Lieberman took the stage.
Connecticut is not a conservative state. Connecticut can do better than Lieberman. This year, Connecticut is aching to vote for a real progressive Democrat, Ned Lamont.
From the contact I’ve had with politicals, I wonder if this is a case of a “they” becoming a “we” or “dancing with them as brung ya”.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. Obama’s “progressive” orientation was always vastly oversold, based on nothing more than his charisma. He is very much in the Hillary Clinton mold — talking a good game when he wants to attract liberal support (and money), but toeing the DLC line when it really counts.
My disappointment in Senator Obama grows. FWIW, here’s his response to my suggestion that the senate should censure President Bush.
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Dear Frank:
Thank you for writing about Senator Russ Feingold’s proposal to censure President Bush. I understand your strong feelings on this issue. While I share your frustration and anger, I do not think censure is justified at this time.
I agree with Senator Feingold that the Administration’s attitude toward congressional oversight and the FISA law has been cavalier and arrogant. We are a nation of laws, and those laws should be applied to all of us, from humblest citizen to the president of the United States. No president should be allowed to knowingly and willing flout our laws, and I believe the President exceeded his authority with his domestic wiretapping program. The justifications offered – that the president possesses inherent presidential authority under Article II, or was granted that authority in the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force — seem to contradict prior precedent and our constitutional design.
But my and Senator Feingold’s view is not unanimous. Some constitutional scholars and lower court opinions support the president’s argument that he has inherent authority to go outside the bounds of the law in monitoring the activities of suspected terrorists. The question is whether the president understood the law and knowingly flaunted it, or whether he and his aides, in good faith, interpreted their authority more broadly than I and others believe the law allows. Ultimately, this debate must be resolved by the courts.
Also, a censure resolution does nothing to deal with the underlying problem of unchecked executive power. It would not force the president to modify his domestic surveillance program or force the Senate Intelligence Committee to do its job. In order to do that, Congress must reassert its constitutional role in overseeing the domestic surveillance program. And it should bring the warrantless wiretapping program back under the authority of the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Therefore, my focus is on crafting an effective surveillance program that both combats terrorism and contains meaningful judicial review of wiretapping, which is the most effective way to restore balance between the battle against terrorism and the rule of law.
Again, thank you for writing. I will closely follow the hearing on Senator Feingold’s bill taking place in the Judiciary Committee this week to see if any further information surfaces that might impact my decision.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator
Frank,
Thanks for sharing that letter. It’s a very odd argument indeed: I believe Bush broke the law, but I don’t think action on that is appropriate? Them’s weasely words.
I think the best word to describe Senator Obama is “careful.” He’s protecting his political future, at the cost of the principled present.
Barack Obama is a sellout of the highest order.
From backign Joe Lieberman, to becoming yet another pawn of AIPAC and the pro-Israel Lobby, Obama might as well BE Hillary Clinton or Joe Lieberman for that matter.
If he is the hope of the Democractic party, then abandon hope, because Jenna Bush’ll be president before two-faced Barack
I’m not surprised. So what if he has more melanin than some of the other policos on the hill? High amounts of melanin do not guarantee his honesty or his actual political alignment.
I think the real reason Obama is such a sensation is just flat out White Liberal Guilt. Probably explains why instead of talking about his record and the very notable stands he’s taken recently everyone talks about how “articulate” and “well spoken” he is. Well I know that routine. That’s what has historically been said about any black person who doesn’t scare the piss out of his white peers on a regular basis when they aren’t paying attention to anything but his skin color.
Just my two cents.
DIPLOMATS SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT :
It’s the equivalent of another Downing Street Memo… Huge news!, but I’ve found only ONE MSM news report of it in this country, ” Ex-British expert on Iraq says intel overstated “. And Google News returns ZERO matches for that one news report! Imagine that …..
Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act… ( more )
In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, “at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq’s WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests.”
Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been “effectively contained”.
He also reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringing down the Iraqi dictator would lead to the chaos the world has since witnessed. “I remember on several occasions the UK team stating this view in terms during our discussions with the US (who agreed),” he said.
“At the same time, we would frequently argue when the US raised the subject, that ‘regime change’ was inadvisable, primarily on the grounds that Iraq would collapse into chaos.”
He claims “inertia” in the Foreign Office and the “inattention of key ministers” combined to stop the UK carrying out any co-ordinated and sustained attempt to address sanction-busting by Iraq, an approach which could have provided an alternative to war.
Mr Ross delivered the evidence to the Butler inquiry which investigated intelligence blunders in the run-up to the conflict.
The Foreign Office had attempted to prevent the evidence being made public, but it has now been published by the Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs after MPs sought assurances from the Foreign Office that it would not breach the Official Secrets Act.
It shows Mr Ross told the inquiry, chaired by Lord Butler, “there was no intelligence evidence of significant holdings of CW [chemical warfare], BW [biological warfare] or nuclear material” held by the Iraqi dictator before the invasion. “There was, moreover, no intelligence or assessment during my time in the job that Iraq had any intention to launch an attack against its neighbours or the UK or the US,” he added.
Mr Ross’s evidence directly challenges the assertions by the Prime Minster that the war was legally justified because Saddam possessed WMDs which could be “activated” within 45 minutes and posed a threat to British interests. These claims were also made in two dossiers, subsequently discredited, in spite of the advice by Mr Ross.
His hitherto secret evidence threatens to reopen the row over the legality of the conflict, under which Mr Blair has sought to draw a line as the internecine bloodshed in Iraq has worsened.
Mr Ross says he questioned colleagues at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence working on Iraq and none said that any new evidence had emerged to change their assessment.
“What had changed was the Government’s determination to present available evidence in a different light,” he added.
Mr Ross said in late 2002 that he “discussed this at some length with David Kelly”, the weapons expert who a year later committed suicide when he was named as the source of a BBC report saying Downing Street had “sexed up” the WMD claims in a dossier. The Butler inquiry cleared Mr Blair and Downing Street of “sexing up” the dossier, but the publication of the Carne Ross evidence will cast fresh doubts on its findings.
Mr Ross, 40, was a highly rated diplomat but he resigned because of his misgivings about the legality of the war. He still fears the threat of action under the Official Secrets Act.
“Mr Ross hasn’t had any approach to tell him that he is still not liable to be prosecuted,” said one ally. But he has told friends that he is “glad it is out in the open” and he told MPs it had been “on my conscience for years”.
One member of the Foreign Affairs committee said: “There was blood on the carpet over this. I think it’s pretty clear the Foreign Office used the Official Secrets Act to suppress this evidence, by hanging it like a Sword of Damacles over Mr Ross, but we have called their bluff.”
Yesterday, Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons who was Foreign Secretary during the war – Mr Ross’s boss – announced the Commons will have a debate on the possible change of strategy heralded by the Iraqi Study Group report in the new year.
The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
Published: 15 December 2006
Be sure to snag a personal copy of the full transcript of evidence given to the Butler inquiry ….
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, AND HOW ?
We certainly know now that Republicans in power cannot be trusted with the Constitution or the Budget.OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER:
Twice now they just found it easier to go off and make wars rather than tackle the real reforms America needs. Don’t forget that Bush Father also caved in on taxes & spending, once he started his war, just as his son followed the same path. The warfare state always pays homage to the Welfare State.
Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
A nonpartisan, international foundation advocating free press and speech rights for all people.Has been under attack for the last six years.
Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President.
Many committees in the House and Senate, without taking any energy away from ending the war, can finally conduct the investigations that have gone undone for 6 years, exposing evidence that could very well lead to criminal, civil, or political accountability, as well as pressure to end the war and precedent to help prevent the next war.
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We’re sorry, the page you’re looking for has
been moved or been deleted by order of your
government. It is coming if our first Amendment rights
are not protected.
Freedom of expression, speech, and press has been
deluted down to. Yor have such right as long as it is
Politically correct, does not offend the executive department,
and conforms to its way of thinking. You are on my side or
you will pay penalties for it.
Penalties such as 112 Journalist killed, press offices being
blown up. Shot at newly established check points, or fired
if your information is somewhat incorrect.
The rules coming from the executive, influenced by
lobbies foreign or corporate, with no regard for the
people.
I notice, which I hope you have, the Media seems
more willing to report , and under less restraint the
last couple of weeks. Like since the last election.
The caution now remains with the “ownership of”
and influence by outside lobbies, over mainstream
media.
AMERICANS must remain vigilant, in protecting
OUR Constitution. STAY INVOLVED…
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WATCH-OUT THE HOUSE OF TREASON
TORAH JEWS WILL TAKE CLASS
ACTION;
Today in Bilin Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists joined together for yet another non-violent protest against the apartheid wall and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. Demonstrators of all ages holding signs and Palestinian flags marched to the apartheid fence (also referred to as a wall) where they were met with sound bombs and tear gas. Dozens suffered from severe tear gas inhalation.
Today, activists managed to pull open the yellow gate next to the fence, after cutting through the surrounding barbed wire. This gate is regularly used by the army to invade and harass the people of Bilin. Beyond the gate you can see the Israeli army’s current encampment as well as fields and olive trees belonging to Palestinian families from Bilin. The apartheid wall usurps 60% of the village’s land.
International demonstrator T.D. commented, “All the values and principles of morality that we know have been completely inverted and perverted here, its Orwellian.” His placard read, “War monger Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize.” Another sign read: Rouge criminal state Israel: The only “democracy” in the Middle East.
True Torah Jews against Zionism:
Zionists Do Not Represent Jews
From the inception of the Zionist State and particularly in recent times, the impression has been created in the World that there is some connection between the State, which falsely calls itself Israel, and the Jewish people as a whole. Therefore, we who continue to uphold the never-changing tradition of the Jewish people find it proper to again clarify the following points:
A Jew is one who remains faithful to the laws of the Jewish religion, that is, the Holy Torah and its commandments.
The Jewish people became a people before they had their own land, and continued to exist as a people also after they went Into exile, because our very people hood is based exclusively on the Torah.
The Holy Land was given to the Jewish people on the condition that they observe the Torah and its commandments. When they failed to do this, their sovereignty over the land was taken from them, and they went into exile. From that time, we are prohibited by the Torah with a very grave prohibition to establish a Jewish independent sovereignty in the Holy Land or anywhere throughout the world. Rather, we are obligated to be loyal to the nations under whose protection we dwell.
This situation has existed for close to 2000 years when the Jewish people were dispersed throughout all corners of the world. During this time, the Jews always remained faithful to the country in which they lived.
The Jewish people are grateful to all those merciful nations which have allowed them to observe Torah and the commandments undisturbed.
From ancient times, the relations between the Jewish and Islamic peoples have always been those of peace and brotherhood, and friendship always reigned between them. The proof of this is the fact that for centuries, in all the Arab lands, hundreds of thousands of Jews lived in honor and amidst mutual esteem.
Jews throughout all generations yearned to grace the sacred soil of the Holy Land and to live there. However, their sole purpose was to fulfill the commandments dependent upon the land and to absorb Its holiness. Never, G-d forbid, did they have any nationalist or sovereign intent whatsoever which, as mentioned above, is forbidden to us. Indeed, also here in the Holy Land, our fathers lived in neighborly harmony with the Palestinian residents of the land, helping one another, to mutual benefit.
Until about two hundred years ago, the vast majority of Jews observed the Torah and the commandments in entirety. Jewry’s leaders were Torah scholars, who directed the people according to the Torah. They were loyal citizens in the host nations where they dwelled and to the local laws. They prayed for the welfare of their respective governments. To our sorrow, at that time a small number of Jews slowly left their observance of Torah and commandments. Together with this, they began to deride the spiritual leadership of their people. This assimilation was the basis upon which, one hundred years ago, the ideology of Zionism was born. Its founders were assimilated Jews who had abandoned the Torah.
Immediately at the founding of the Zionist movement, masses of Jews under the leadership of their Rabbis, launched a heavy battle against Zionism. Their attack was directed not only at the non-religious Zionist idea, but rather, primarily at its opposition to the Torah-ordained path that Jewry must follow while in exile. As such, the Zionists incited the nations of the world, demanding political sovereignty over the Holy Land while remaining oblivious to the resentment this would arouse In the Palestinian Arabs, the land’s veteran inhabitants. As stated, the leaders of Orthodox Jewry vehemently opposed the movement with all force.
The Zionists refused to heed the voice of the Rabbis and Torah authority. They persisted in their ways until they succeeded in influencing the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration concerning the “establishment of a national home for the Jews in the land of Israel.” To our great sorrow, from that point on began the deterioration of the good relations between the Jews and the Arab inhabitants of the land. This occurred because the Arab people understood that the Zionists wished to seize ruler ship from them. In addition, the Arab people had suspicions as if the Jewish people wished to seize control of the Temple Mount and other similar sites. Matters worsened as a result.
The Jewish leadership of that time saw it as proper to clarify before the Arab leaders that the Torah-true Jews had no desire whatsoever for sovereignty, and that our desire was to continue to live in peace with the Arabs, as we had always done. The leader of the G-d-fearing Jewish community at that time, Rabbi Yoseph Chaim Zonnenfeld. of blessed memory, organized a delegation in July of 24′ which visited King Hussein and his sons Faisal the King of Iraq and the Amir Abdullah In order to lucidly present to them the position of the G-d-fearing Jewish community. The Jewish delegation clarified unequivocally that Torah Jewry is totally opposed to the Zionist sovereignty over the Holy Land. It Is worth noting that the delegation was received with great honor. They were even assured that all Arab lands were completely open to Jews, however, on the condition that the Jews do not demand political rights. This condition also applied to the Holy Land. One of the members of the Jewish delegation, Professor Yisroel Yaakov De Haan, paid with his life for his participation.
Torah Jewry protests at every opportunity against the Zionist rule over the Holy Land, and the Zionist rebellion against the neighboring nations. Torah Jewry has condemned the Zionist oppression of the Palestinians, the land’s veteran inhabitants who have been driven from their homes and properties. The Zionists’ barbaric and violent deeds are absolutely antithetical to the essence of the Jewish people.
Torah Jewry has never ever recognized the Zionist state. Since the Zionists succeeding in establishing their state, Torah Jewry has continuously announced to the world that the Zionists do not represent the Jewish people, and that the name “Israel” that they use is a forgery. For as has been stated above, it is forbidden to us from the Torah to rebel against the nations, and all sovereignty by us is prohibited. Rather, we await the days when all the world will recognize the sovereignty of the Creator, and the words of the prophet Isaiah will yet be fulfilled: “And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. No nation will lift its sword against any other, nor will they learn warfare anymore.”
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews have refrained to this day from taking any funds from the Zionist regime, whether for their educational institutions, synagogues or other benefits. Obviously, they do not participate in the Zionist elections, whether for the “Knesset” or for the municipality. We do not serve in their army, and we even avoid speaking in the Hebrew language that the Zionists Invented. (incidentally, this is not the holy and true Hebrew language in which the Bible is written.) All this is done because Torah Jewry does not recognize the Zionist regime, which Is against the Torah and against humanity.
Lately, the question has once again arisen concerning the Temple Mount and sovereignty over it. Thus, we wish to state unequivocally: a) In our time, it is a severe Torah prohibition for any Jew to set foot on any part of the Temple Mount area. b) The Jewish people have no claim whatsoever to sovereignty over this holy site, which is under Islamic authority, nor over any other holy site. Rabbi Zonenfeld was once asked, “is it true, that the Rabbi prefers an non-Jewish government over all of the Holy Land”? Rabbi Zonenfeld replied, “if King Hussein would rule over Palestine, the holiness of the Holy Land would not be diminished to even to an Iota degree”. We yearningly await G-d’s great day, when He will return His Divine Presence to Zion, restoring the holy city to its former holiness and glory as in days of old, to be a light to the peoples and the nations.
The Zionists have no right of any sovereignty over even one inch of the Holy Land. They do not represent the Jewish people in any way whatsoever. They have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people. Therefore, their words, declarations and actions are not in any way representative of the Jewish people. This is because the Zionists’ seizing of power over the Holy Land is antithetical to Jewish law, and also because the Zionists do not behave like Jews at all rather, they desecrate the sanctity of the land.
We once again clarify that it is our desire to live in peace with our Arab and Palestinian neighbors, as we did before the Zionist revolution, and as Jews all over the world till today live, accepting the yoke of rulership of their host nation, with complete loyalty. Our sole desire is to serve our G-d and to fulfill His commandments with a perfect heart and to delight in the radiance of the sanctity of the Land.
PUT THE “HOUSE IN ORDER”
A LAST DITCH EFFORT
Every last tissue of belief in the GOVERNMENT should by now be shred and cast aside. The Democrats are no less the corporate bailers and militarists than the Republicans. They hand trillions to the banks and brokerage firms; they dissolve union contracts and send the workers to the dogs; their unmanned drones bomb Pakistan, killing and maiming innocents and displacing tens of thousands; they sell the same lies about the wars-that they have to do with terrorism or democracy rather than oil and other resources-as their predecessors; they fund the very enemy that they claim to fight; they keep up the same contracts with Blackwater and its successors; they vote for the same war funding; they carry out the same secret renditions; they sanction and continue the same spying on US citizens; they exonerate torturers and war criminals from the previous administration; they are war criminals in complicity with other war criminals. It is now obvious
to most that both parties have
sold the American people out to
organized crime. The corruption
and control continues on the same
path with the same special
interest groups in charge.
The 14 characteristics of Fascism
remain the same now as they did
for the previous eight years.
Where is the change promised, the
coalition of Zionist states continues.
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism – Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights – Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause – The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military – Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism – The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media – Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security – Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined – Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected – The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed – Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts – Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment – Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption – Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections – Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Public debate looks good, but the
closed door secrets and corruption
remains the same.
Now we know revolution is likely coming prior to a one world government.
Disappointment, to rage, to distruction.
We left the Republican Party, now the
Democrat Party has left us. Where do
we go from here.
We need to put our HOUSE in order.
Dear G-D:
Our international HOLY LAND is being
distroyed. How can we protect it from
the present falsehoods? A political
movement.
The reality of the political movement,
Zionism, should be the re-establishment
of Sodom and Gomorrah as their capital
cities.
Christian Right Is ‘Trolling for Assassins’:
Messages that have been pouring out of FOX News … talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him.”
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American Christianity Is At The Heart Of Our Worst Problems:
racism is at The heart of the great deal of the extreme animosity
Former president Jimmy Carter went on the record to point out that he believes that racism is at the heart of the great deal of the extreme animosity being leveled at President Obama (NBC News September 15). Carter identified himself as a Southerner with an insider’s understanding. There’s something he didn’t mention however: the special culpability of his own religion — Evangelical Christianity — for the anti-Obama hyperventilating and furious reaction to our first black president. And that reaction has less to do with race and more to do with the ugliest side of religion.
The fact is that if you’re going to blame one group above all others for the willful ignorance and continuing ugliness of the response to President Obama the best candidate would be the evangelical/fundamentalist community. The angry part of the South Carter spoke of is racist because it’s dominated by a certain type of “Christian” culture.
Since Carter is also an evangelical Christian (as well as a Southerner) he would have done well to use his evangelical insider status to point to not just racism but to scream bloody murder about a bigger problem today: the hijacking of Christianity as the source of the hate and anger directed against all things “other” by a vocal (and health care lobby-organized and funded) angry minority of voters who are poisoning the American body.
American Christianity Is At The Heart Of Our Worst Problems
Are the New Atheists leading us to enlightenment? The problem with the recent New Atheist attacks on Christianity is that they mirror the hostility of the evangelical/fundamentalist subculture toward the secular society that it so disdains. The real answer to the question; “Can Christianity be saved from the Christians?” is not going to be found coming from people like Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris et al. Instead that answer may be found in the life and work of Christians such as former president Jimmy Carter, President Obama, the late writer John Updike, and other public figures from Desmond Tutu to Nelson Mandela who’s faith can be taken seriously because of the moral authority given them by their achievements outside the realm of theology.
The people running around calling Obama is “Hitler”, the so-called “birthers” and all the rest can’t be understood outside of the context of the hermetically sealed world-hating gated community known as Evangelical Christianity. As a former Evangelical and son of an Evangelical Religious Right leader, let me share a little of the insider perspective that I wish Carter had brought to the subject.
What Defines American Evangelicals These Days?
The key to understanding the Evangelicals is to understand the popularity of the Left Behind series of books about the “return of Christ” (and the whole host of other End Times “ministries” from the ever weirder Jack-the-Rapture-is-coming!-Van-Impe to the smoother but no less bizarre pages of Christianity Today magazine). This isn’t some new or sudden interest in prophecy, but evidence of the deepening inferiority complex suffered by the evangelical/fundamentalist community.
Left Behind
The words “left behind” are ironically what the books are about, but not in the way their authors intended. The evangelical/fundamentalists, from their crudest egocentric celebrities to their “intellectuals” touring college campuses trying to make evangelicalism respectable, have indeed been left behind by modernity. They won’t change their literalistic anti-science, anti-education, anti-everything superstitions, so now they nurse a deep grievance against “the world.”
This has led to a profound fear of the “other.” Jenkins and LaHaye (the Left Behind authors) provide the ultimate revenge fantasy for the culturally left behind against the “elite.” The Left Behind franchise holds out hope for the self-disenfranchised that at last soon everyone will know “we” were right and “they” were wrong. They’ll know because Spaceship Jesus will come back and whisk “us” away, leaving everyone else to ponder just how very lost they are because they refused to say the words, “I accept Jesus as my personal savior” and join our side while there was still time!
The bestselling status of the Left Behind novels proves that, not unlike Islamist terrorists who behead their enemies, many evangelical/ fundamentalist readers relish the prospect of God doing lots of messy killing for them as they watch in comfort from on high. They want revenge on all people not like them–forever.
Generations Of Indoctrination
We are several generations into the progeny of leaders such as James Dobson and his radio show Focus On The Family. These offspring extol the virtues of corporal punishment, patriarchy, applying biblical law to public governance and so forth. Millions of evangelicals have been raised in homes where they’ve been isolated from the wider culture, home schooled and/or sent to “Christian schools” where they have been indoctrinated to believe that the Federal Government is the enemy of all true believers, that the “End” is near, that secular society is their enemy as is art, learning and culture.
They now form a Fifth Column of the deliberately intellectually disenfranchised. They know they are out of the loop and hate the rest of us for their own self-imposed isolation. I’m afraid they will soon turn to violence.
Here Are The Alternatives To Change the Theologically-Induced Hate Landscape:
A) all sane Americans must become atheists or agnostics,
or…
B) those of us who are Christians must rescue Christianity from the willfully ignorant evangelicals and fundamentalists.
I favor the second alternative. First, having been raised in an evangelical/fundamentalist home I’ve long since moved beyond my background when it comes to my politics and my theology. That proves something; people can change their minds! I did.
But I believe more strongly than ever that we human beings are spiritual beings with or without the permission of those who take a purely rationalist approach to human existence. The better — and I think only realistic option — is to regard religion as an evolving process of human consciousness and work to reform rather than eliminate it
I have very deliberately started a radical conversation through which I hope many of us can carve out a position that embraces religion while absolutely rejecting the type of insanity that has become synonymous with the word “Christian” in contemporary America.
” THE REPUBLICAN-ZIONIST PARTY IS A HATE GROUP”——Go To: highfive4u.com or highfive4all.com .
DEMAND SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE.
Our government should be for all people, of all faith or none.It is our constitution.
TAX EXEMPTIONS SHOULD END: Tax exemption is unfair and needs to end totally. It clearly is said that we should pay our taxes. Why should anyone’s stocks, bonds, and real estate be tax exempt. Charity is to be for the poor, but they rarely see it. Only 10 percent and less ever reaches the needy. But wealth has been made by a large number of greedy persons from contributions. Talk about a fraud system with no audits Though the measure is rarely enforced, the political activism of some conservative Christians over the past two decades has caused religious and political liberals to demand that the tax-exempt status of some conservative ministers be revoked. Fact being that all should be revoked. Any way you slice it, this is a government subsidy of religion. People who may not share a particular faith, or any faith, are thus forced to contribute to ideas with which they might disagree. Thomas Jefferson said of such a practice: “Almighty God has created the mind free. … to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Churches may now hold weeknight political forums at which candidates may speak and answer questions. They are prohibited, however, from endorsing candidates from the pulpit, or actively lobbying for or against legislation. We all know the real reality. We would not be in the serious situation we are in today if it were not for the lobbying and complete support for the actions of the Republican Party, Israel, and AIPAC. There are options to correcting this imbalance in church-state relations. Most effective is for churches and other nonprofits that are engage in political discourse and legislative activism should give up their tax exemptions so that government will have no controlling authority over them. This would be the preference to most because it offers them unfettered opportunity to influence and shape government according to their own beliefs without the fear or favor of government leaders who might support their views today, but after a future election, oppose them. Exactly what the Republican Party has done for decades. When churches become “accepted” and appendages of political parties and politicians they tend to depart from their primary obligations and opportunities and become identified with earthly causes and political kingdom-building. The mystical exploitation of religion has created a hierarchy of sanctimonious pedagogues who prosper in an environment free of obligation to the society from which they profit immensely. There is no such thing as a non-profit religion. If there were non-profit religions, most established religions would not exist. If a mystical organization cannot prosper or survive because of taxation, it must not have a message or purpose worth sustaining, nor the ability to communicate a concept that appeals to the public. If it requires exemption from taxation as the only way it can exist, then it is a religion based on a superficial concept of Biblical nonsense that eventually the public will ignore. The scheming and manipulation of the frenzied, right wing religious fundamentalists, has proven that religion untaxed, is more dangerous to Liberty than taxation of the same. Why should an institution founded on fantasy and myth, be exonerated from taxation while existing in a society that supports the infrastructure and services that make it possible for that religion to succeed? My freedom, yours, and every other individual that exists in this society, is threatened by the immense influence of organized religion in its massive appeal to legislate laws favorable to its establishment. We, unlike the religionists, do not as individuals, have the use of untaxed funds or Christianized Coalitions that exist to exercise leverage over politicians. What is Democratic, what is justifiable in allowing the churches the extraordinary freedom to exist exempt from taxation? Especially, when the exempted religions pursue as their objectives, the influence of legislation favorable to their continued material advancement. The survival of organized revealed religion is dependent on not only the generosity of its members, but also from a government that is sympathetic to the continued domination of mystical authority in the affairs of state and society. Witness George Bush receiving the blessing from his religious minister for the carpet bombing and resulting mass murder of Iraqi civilians during the Desert Storm exercise in ignorance. The established religions have prospered in an environment that is maintained through the taxation of others for such simple things as street upkeep, courts of law, police and fire protection, or any of the many other services that the public pays for. It is we the people, who are assuring that religious associations can perform their functions, while they are exempted from the same obligation. They have been granted an exclusion, that is based on the erroneous concept, that religion is a non-profit enterprise. Anyone who believes religion is not profitable and exists solely as a distributor of myth and magic, has not looked recently at the vast resources and property that churches have acquired as non-profit organizations. The fact Christian religious leaders accept, and even court, the tax-exemption illustrates without question the non-altruistic, greedy and hypocritical nature which permeates Christianity. Not paying your fair share of anything, including taxes, reveals a non-altruistic and greedy streak. That’s exactly what you would think of someone in a group of friends who all go on an outing and all chip-in to pay for expenses with the exception of one individual. And that selfish person is one of the very wealthiest people in the group! It will only be a matter of time until the others catch on and refuse to allow the unfairness. Christian leaders add the ingredient of hypocrisy to themselves and their mythology by pretending to be followers of Jesus who allegedly believed religions SHOULD pay taxes to existing governments by saying, according to Luke 20:25, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” According to this quote from their holy book, their god would be against tax-exemptions for his followers. As Thomas Paine wrote, “… the Church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.” The religions of this nation do not contribute, in any way, to my freedom, your Liberty, or the future of civilization. Freed of taxation they exist exclusively as a hierarchy whose interest is the exploitation of others! IS IT NOT TIME THAT WE THE PUBLIC DEMAND THAT THE RELIGIONS OF THIS NATION PAY FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY??? Is it not the proper time to cease characterizing religious institutions as a privileged ideology that is more important than other philosophies and concepts? Why should the labor of a person working eight hours a day be taxed, while a preacher is allowed to avoid taxation in many areas? Why should there be a tax for the general public, but not for those engaged in the production (or fabrication) of a religious ideology? Is the enterprise of corporate religion any better or more useful to society than an individual who thinks about existence from a philosophical and rational perspective? I think not. There is no such thing as an aristocracy of thought or complete agreement on any conception. Religion in all its many forms does not have the exclusive answers to the complexity of existence. Its reliance on mystical incomprehension and the miraculous is rooted in the dreams and desires of primitive man. Taxation of religion is based on fairness and justice. It is a notification to those who represent corporate religion that they are not a special institution or a favored aristocracy. It is telling them they do have an obligation to support society in the form of taxation. Particularly, as the Christian Coalition is doing, using the millions of dollars saved from taxes to pump into the campaigns of politicians who agreed to spread their brand of bigotry and superstition. NOW! We all face deficits in the federal budget, every state budget, local budgets, a hugh 12 Trillion national debt. That requires that we all should share in its being resolved. William H. Rehnquist spoke for the court: Tax exemption for Church property is a clear violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. It is a form of subsidy; the Tenth Circuit Court addressed and held that “tax exemption is a privilege, a matter of grace rather than a right.” We tax payers demand that TAX EXEMPTIONS SHOULD END: Tax exemption is unfair and needs to end totally. It clearly is said that we should pay our taxes. Why should anyone’s stocks, bonds, and real estate be tax exempt. Charity is to be for the poor, but they rarely see it. Only 10 percent and less ever reaches the needy. But wealth has been made by a large number of greedy persons from contributions. Talk about a fraud system with no audits Though the measure is rarely enforced, the political activism of some conservative Christians over the past two decades has caused religious and political liberals to demand that the tax-exempt status of some conservative ministers be revoked. Fact being that all should be revoked. Any way you slice it, this is a government subsidy of religion. People who may not share a particular faith, or any faith, are thus forced to contribute to ideas with which they might disagree. Thomas Jefferson said of such a practice: “Almighty God has created the mind free. … to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Churches may now hold weeknight political forums at which candidates may speak and answer questions. They are prohibited, however, from endorsing candidates from the pulpit, or actively lobbying for or against legislation. We all know the real reality. We would not be in the serious situation we are in today if it were not for the lobbying and complete support for the actions of the Republican Party, Israel, and AIPAC. There are options to correcting this imbalance in church-state relations. Most effective is for churches and other nonprofits that are engage in political discourse and legislative activism should give up their tax exemptions so that government will have no controlling authority over them. This would be the preference to most because it offers them unfettered opportunity to influence and shape government according to their own beliefs without the fear or favor of government leaders who might support their views today, but after a future election, oppose them. Exactly what the Republican Party has done for decades. When churches become “accepted” and appendages of political parties and politicians they tend to depart from their primary obligations and opportunities and become identified with earthly causes and political kingdom-building. The mystical exploitation of religion has created a hierarchy of sanctimonious pedagogues who prosper in an environment free of obligation to the society from which they profit immensely. There is no such thing as a non-profit religion. If there were non-profit religions, most established religions would not exist. If a mystical organization cannot prosper or survive because of taxation, it must not have a message or purpose worth sustaining, nor the ability to communicate a concept that appeals to the public. If it requires exemption from taxation as the only way it can exist, then it is a religion based on a superficial concept of Biblical nonsense that eventually the public will ignore. The scheming and manipulation of the frenzied, right wing religious fundamentalists, has proven that religion untaxed, is more dangerous to Liberty than taxation of the same. Why should an institution founded on fantasy and myth, be exonerated from taxation while existing in a society that supports the infrastructure and services that make it possible for that religion to succeed? My freedom, yours, and every other individual that exists in this society, is threatened by the immense influence of organized religion in its massive appeal to legislate laws favorable to its establishment. We, unlike the religionists, do not as individuals, have the use of untaxed funds or Christianized Coalitions that exist to exercise leverage over politicians. What is Democratic, what is justifiable in allowing the churches the extraordinary freedom to exist exempt from taxation? Especially, when the exempted religions pursue as their objectives, the influence of legislation favorable to their continued material advancement. The survival of organized revealed religion is dependent on not only the generosity of its members, but also from a government that is sympathetic to the continued domination of mystical authority in the affairs of state and society. Witness George Bush receiving the blessing from his religious minister for the carpet bombing and resulting mass murder of Iraqi civilians during the Desert Storm exercise in ignorance. The established religions have prospered in an environment that is maintained through the taxation of others for such simple things as street upkeep, courts of law, police and fire protection, or any of the many other services that the public pays for. It is we the people, who are assuring that religious associations can perform their functions, while they are exempted from the same obligation. They have been granted an exclusion, that is based on the erroneous concept, that religion is a non-profit enterprise. Anyone who believes religion is not profitable and exists solely as a distributor of myth and magic, has not looked recently at the vast resources and property that churches have acquired as non-profit organizations. The fact Christian religious leaders accept, and even court, the tax-exemption illustrates without question the non-altruistic, greedy and hypocritical nature which permeates Christianity. Not paying your fair share of anything, including taxes, reveals a non-altruistic and greedy streak. That’s exactly what you would think of someone in a group of friends who all go on an outing and all chip-in to pay for expenses with the exception of one individual. And that selfish person is one of the very wealthiest people in the group! It will only be a matter of time until the others catch on and refuse to allow the unfairness. Christian leaders add the ingredient of hypocrisy to themselves and their mythology by pretending to be followers of Jesus who allegedly believed religions SHOULD pay taxes to existing governments by saying, according to Luke 20:25, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” According to this quote from their holy book, their god would be against tax-exemptions for his followers. As Thomas Paine wrote, “… the Church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.” The religions of this nation do not contribute, in any way, to my freedom, your Liberty, or the future of civilization. Freed of taxation they exist exclusively as a hierarchy whose interest is the exploitation of others! IS IT NOT TIME THAT WE THE PUBLIC DEMAND THAT THE RELIGIONS OF THIS NATION PAY FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY??? Is it not the proper time to cease characterizing religious institutions as a privileged ideology that is more important than other philosophies and concepts? Why should the labor of a person working eight hours a day be taxed, while a preacher is allowed to avoid taxation in many areas? Why should there be a tax for the general public, but not for those engaged in the production (or fabrication) of a religious ideology? Is the enterprise of corporate religion any better or more useful to society than an individual who thinks about existence from a philosophical and rational perspective? I think not. There is no such thing as an aristocracy of thought or complete agreement on any conception. Religion in all its many forms does not have the exclusive answers to the complexity of existence. Its reliance on mystical incomprehension and the miraculous is rooted in the dreams and desires of primitive man. Taxation of religion is based on fairness and justice. It is a notification to those who represent corporate religion that they are not a special institution or a favored aristocracy. It is telling them they do have an obligation to support society in the form of taxation. Particularly, as the Christian Coalition is doing, using the millions of dollars saved from taxes to pump into the campaigns of politicians who agreed to spread their brand of bigotry and superstition. NOW! We all face deficits in the federal budget, every state budget, local budgets, a hugh 12 Trillion national debt. That requires that we all should share in its being resolved. William H. Rehnquist spoke for the court: Tax exemption for Church property is a clear violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment. It is a form of subsidy; the Tenth Circuit Court addressed and held that “tax exemption is a privilege, a matter of grace rather than a right.” We tax payers demand that Churches pay their “Fair-Share”…
President Obama is ready to fight the lobbyists to pass his bold agenda. And the fight is officially on. Yesterday a top lobbyist called Obama’s plan to transform our economy What we must understand is that we have only one real enemy, our OWN defeatism, for that is all that stands between us and generating policy moving numbers.
One need only observe how quickly Congress can move when there is real public outrage, like over the AIG bonus scandal, to realize that all we need to do is speak out in sufficient numbers to instantly have any policy change we want.
“devastating.” If Obama’s going to win this fight, he’s going to need all of us fighting with him.
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation calls on all of its member groups and individual supporters to join marches protesting U.S. spending on wars and occupations and calling for a new economy based on our country’s unmet domestic needs.
Over the next ten years, the United States is scheduled to provide Israel with $30 billion in military aid to maintain its illegal occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, and to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians living under this military occupation. During the Bush Administration, Israel killed more than 3,000 innocent Palestinian civilians who took no part in hostilities, often with U.S. weapons.
Cut off military aid to Israel, in fact Boycott Israel.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR (S)
SENIORS REMEMBER THE PAST
We are occupied by Israel just as the Palestinians are, but in a different way: Through bribes and pressure on every member of our government. No person can be president without the approval of AIPAC–the Israeli lobby.( The organized Crime syndicate )
Israelis and their American servants are trying to pass laws that would make saying anything critical of Israel or the Jews anywhere in the world, a criminal offense. Hate crimes laws are the beginning, and there are actually those in our government trying to shut down our freedom of speech as it has been shut down in most of Europe. What will Americans do then?
This foreign lobby (AIPAC) and the espionage involved with Israel puts the national security of the United States, in the gravest jeopardy, yet our government officials continue to take the bribes, listen to their think tanks, and continue appointments of members to important positions.—— Israeli engineers have developed much of the American military’s cutting—edge weapons technology in recent years, that in itself makes no sense. AIPAC is discredited in the eyes of the American public as a nest of spies, but our officials ignore our concerns.
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations,
the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” Dresden James.
Review and study political & religious beliefs of just 65 years ago, and compare it to the drastic change of propaganda & agendas of today.
Now is it any wonder neither have real support or loyalty from the people??
Ronald L. Waldron
48 Hammond Street
Jamestown, NY 14701
rwaldron@stny.rr.com
http://www.ronaldlwaldron.com
http://highfive4all.com PEACE 4 ALL
PERPETUAL WASHINGTON CORRUPTION: IT IS A TWO PARTY SYSTEM!
Wall Street, K-Street, J-Street, AIPAC, Congress, and the Media??????????
AUDIT THE FED….
PERPETUAL WASHINGTON CORRUPTION:
The depth of their corruption knows no limits.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a fifth-term senator from Kentucky. He is the minority leader in the 111th Congress and sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. He was included in CREW’s 2007, 2008 and 2009 reports on congressional corruption for exchanging earmarks for campaign contributions by clients of his former chief of staff.
A good-government group has cited Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, as one of the 26 most corrupt members of Congress, chiding the veteran lawmaker for directing federal funds toward political friends.
John Boehner admits to giving bribes from Big Tobacco on the House floor :
Boehner came under fire for distributing campaign checks from tobacco interests to colleagues on the House floor.
Last year, Rep. Boehner supported legislation that would benefit banks that make student loans and increase payments for millions of students. Banks and other institutions that provide loans to students donated nearly $60,000 to Boehner and nearly $70,000 to his leadership PAC, the Freedom Project.
Boehner Likes to Travel on the Dime of Special Interests:
A group of Washington lobbyists led by Richard Kessler under the umbrella of the Ripon Educational Fund and the Ripon Society has spent millions of dollars taking lawmakers to European capitals and U.S. resorts, thereby skirting congressional ethics rules that forbid registered lobbyists from paying for congressional travel. John Boehner took two trips costing a total of at least $13,920.
Boehner has Connections to the Abramoff Scandal:
John Boehner received $32,500 in political contributions from Indian tribes represented by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff, placing him in the top tier of lawmakers who got donations from the lobbyist or his clients.
Boehner and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) were the point men for former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) in communicating with corporate lobbyists. At one point, Boehner even convened a weekly meeting called the “Thursday Group” to huddle with K Street lobbyists.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) is a twentieth-term member of Congress representing New York’s 15th district. Rep. Rangel was included in CREW’s 2008 and 2009 reports on congressional corruption. Rep. Rangel’s ethics issues stem from (1) improperly leasing four rent-controlled apartments; (2) improperly using congressional stationary; (3) failing to report rental income from a vacation property; and (4) trading legislative assistance for contributions to the Rangel Center at City College. Rep. Rangel is awaiting trial by the House ethics committee.
On Feb. 25, 2010, in a separate matter, the House ethics committee admonished Rep. Rangel for his acceptance of corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean.
Harry Reid: The Most Corrupt of the Corrupt?
Nevada Senate 2010, Harry Reid racks up Republican endorsements:
INVESTIGATE NANCY PELOSI for CORRUPTION, ETHICS VIOLATIONS, and HER FAMILIES’ PROFITEERING from taxpayer extorted “Bailouts” billions!
IF Congresswoman Maxine Waters is charged, by the House Ethics Committee, with “improperly benefiting” from a “BAILOUT” loan the powerful Minority Congresswoman insisted by steered to save her own local, community bank back during the financial crisis of September 2008… then the House Ethics Committee should INVESTIGATE __EVERY__ member of Congress, to see how much THEIR stocks and pension portfolios have BENEFITED from the TRILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars the Pelosi 110th & 111th Congresses have dished out to “bail out” the big New York, Wall Street, Chicago, and San Francisco banks… ..INCLUDING the multi-million dollar investment holdings of SPEAKER PELOSI and HER own family members!
US Government seizure of the internet has begun; DHS takes over 76 websites
Over 75 websites were seized and shut down last week, and there is no indication that the government will stop such efforts. Right now, their focus is websites that they claim “violate copyrights,” yet the torrent-finder.com website that was seized by DHS contained no copyrighted content whatsoever.
Clearly the politicians don’t get it. America should NOT be about corruption. Americans don’t LIKE the corruption of the Halliburton, Blackwater, AIPAC, Zionist congress. Americans are getting tired of the Greedy Old Parties. Why are politicians so soft on corruption? Why do they seem to favor their MOST corrupt members rather than force them into line?
They all look for, and likely receive a piece of the PIE!
26 more Reasons for Ethics Reform
16 Republicans–10 Democrats, the list keeps growing.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL)
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA)
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA)
Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA)
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)
Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH)
Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
We need a third party, but certainly not the Tea Party. All ready heavily influenced by the republicans.
Remember this posting??
Responses to “ Welcome to the Conservative Party ”
# 1 Ronald L. Waldron Says:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:15 am
YES, I posted on Congress.org also. RLW
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Sarah Palin in 2012:
Sarah Palin could well be the next President of the United States.
The corruption, and foreign influence that has dominated both the Republican and Democrat parties could well be defeated by a third party candidate.
If Palin enters as the third party candidate. “Conservative Party candidate” the Christian-AMERICAN, moral values representative, a real reform PEACE candidate. She most likely will win.
Something we have been promised in the past, but no-one fulfills due to the corrupt influences that presently controls Washington.
We are occupied by Israel just as the Palestinians are, but in a different way: Through bribes and pressure on every member of our government. No person can be president without the approval of AIPAC–the Israeli lobby.( The organized Crime syndicate )
Israelis and their American servants are trying to pass laws that would make saying anything critical of Israel or the Jews anywhere in the world, a criminal offense. Hate crimes laws are the beginning, and there are actually those in our government trying to shut down our freedom of speech as it has been shut down in most of Europe. What will Americans do then?
This foreign lobby (AIPAC) and the espionage involved with Israel puts the national security of the United States, in the gravest jeopardy, yet our government officials continue to take the bribes, listen to their think tanks, and continue appointments of members to important positions.—— Israeli engineers have developed much of the American military’s cutting—edge weapons technology in recent years, that in itself makes no sense. AIPAC is discredited in the eyes of the American public as a nest of spies, but our officials ignore our concerns.
Ronald L. Waldron
48 Hammond Street
Jamestown, NY 14701
rwaldron@stny.rr.com
716 483-5583
From: Campaign for Liberty
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 5:41 PM
To: Ronald Waldron
Subject: Audit the Fed Now
December 2, 2010
Dear Friend of Liberty,
This week, the Federal Reserve released some of the details on its emergency lending programs.
Instead of full disclosure, however, we have just received another reminder of why we must keep fighting to thoroughly audit the Fed.
According to the Fed’s documents, in addition to trillions of dollars loaned to Wall Street firms, it also made trillions in loans to foreign central banks and even billions to companies including Harley-Davidson.
This release is just a small glimpse into what the Fed does everyday – devalue our money, create moral hazard, and put taxpayers on the hook. And we can only speculate on how much the Fed isn’t telling us, including information on individual securities that were pledged as collateral for over $800 billion in loans.
Let’s be clear – even this little insight would never have been possible without C4L members taking action.
So just imagine what we can do if we turn up the pressure!
Congressman Paul will reintroduce his Audit the Fed bill in the 112th Congress, and C4L is ready to fight to ensure its passage.
It’s time to permanently end the Fed’s shroud of secrecy. The American people should not have to wait years to find out what deals they’re being committed to – if they ever find out at all.
Unlike Washington’s most secretive institution, however, C4L can’t simply print money to finance its operations. We can only take as much action as your support allows.
If you are able, please chip in $10 today to help us thoroughly Audit – and ultimately End – the Federal Reserve.
We’ve come so far in the battle for transparency, but there is still a long way to go.
Together, let’s finish this fight.
In Liberty,
John Tate
President
P.S. We’ve got the Fed on the run, and we can’t afford to back down now. Please chip in $10 today so C4L can continue our push to completely Audit the Fed and restore sound money.
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First of many that should be dancing to that “TUNE” !
Fight back, before it’s too late:
I certainly thought I was helping. How-ever you removed me, and blocked me from any more postings. Ronald L. Waldron, http://highfive4all.com ; http://www.ronaldlwaldron.com ;
Author of: Final Report, Deception, What-If ? , Watch-Out , The House of Treason, and TRUTH COUNTS–Don’t count on getting it.
Why? all the Secrecy, with no connection to the co-conspirators (Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv) by anyone. (Alive that is.) BUT
First of many that should be dancing to that “TUNE” !
Dancing with the stars; Republican star Tom DeLay; convicted of money laundering charges: AUSTIN – After almost 19 hours of deliberations, a Travis County jury today convicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on felony charges of political money laundering. Delay faces two to 20 years in prison on a conspiracy charge and five to 99 years or life on a money laundering charge. DeLay remains free on bail, with sentencing tentatively set for Dec. 20 Charges were well known before he appeared on “Dancing with the STARS”, DeLay had been indicted five years ago on charges that he illegally funneled corporate money to help Republicans in Texas legislative races in 2002 First of many that should be dancing to that “TUNE” !
Will minimum mandatory sentencing apply in this case. Trial by jury, no plea bargain ?
Letter to the Editor
America, from the change we expected, to change by foreign influence.
Failure upon failure will continue if we do not set the stage, and demand the
reforms expected by we the “American” people.
From no child left behind, to no witness left behind. From strong leadership
to profiteering by foreign lobby, and privatization of government agencies,
values, and responsibility of government to corporate greed and fascism.
From United we stand, to division by FALSE prophecies, propaganda and
foreign agenda. From freedom of religious belief, separated from government.
To faith forced by government regulation and old testament teachings, rather
then that of the New Testament Era we live in, and 95% of Americans should
have faith in.
Merry Christmas watered down to retail profits, and all related issues watered
down also.
What should be one of the most wonderful spiritual times of year is full of
atrocities in the Holy land, and very disturbing destruction, with no concerted
effort for reform or true democracy any where in the lands of Palestine.
No one is or has been held accountable, but in time I certainly believe the
false prophecies will not go unpunished.
Gods people are the peace makers, not the takers.
It may not be political correctness to say Merry Christmas, but in the
Hearts & Minds of most Americans, we say Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. Hearts & Minds not changed by force or propaganda.
Was Christ born in Bethlehem? Is he the son of God? Who’s holy land
is it?
No government, Lobby, or legislation will change the hearts & minds
of we the people of America. Land of the FREE?
Ronald L. Waldron
48 Hammond Street
Jamestown, N.Y. 14701
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR GOVERNMENT, I BET 65 % OF AMERICANS pay no attention,& that is what destroys us.
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REMEMBER WHEN END THE WARS AND CREATE ENERGY JOBS WAS THE AGENDA?
What happened, just how did lobbies and profiteers continue to control government?
None of you pay attention, but wonder why we keep sliding down the tube of ill fate. Stay in denial that our congress is Israeli occupied, and such continues.
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Unemployment, and the coming elections 2012.
What can we, the average American, do to bring back our jobs and force
government to work for us?
First boycott the Republican party who gave tax cuts to corporations that
then out-sourced our jobs.
Boycott all products and merchandise imported from China, and other foreign
countries, until our
unemployment rate is at or below 7%. In fact a bill should be proposed for
such and made into law.
Demand tax reform, and drastic change in our foreign policies including
foreign aid to any state
that is violating international law and/or illegal occupation.
THE TOP TEN ISSUES FOR 2012
1. Audit the fed.
2. Total international investigation of 911, the actual facts, presently
undisclosed.
3. End ear marks, reform GOVERNMENT, and investigate all lobby activity.
4. End the occupation of Palestine and the Israeli atrocities.
5. Hold each and every elected
official accountable. Prosecute
corruption & criminal activity.
6. Tax reform, fair taxation for all. No exemptions.
7. End to private military & police agencies, paid by tax-payer monies.
8. All jobs paid by American tax-payers, shall be American citizens. No duel
citizenship employees at top security positions.
9. End the Wars now, bring home the troops.
10. Transparency, break up the media conglomerates controlling the News
received by the general public.
How important is our constitution and maintaining Democracy to you??
Will it take a third party to break the corporate hold on Washington ??
Go to: http://www.universal-peace.com
Google: Ronald L. Waldron
Instead of creating jobs and solving the problems of middle-class working
families, some state politicians are in a real state of denial. They’ve been
saying “thank you” to the corporate CEOs who financed their 2010 election
victories by pushing legislation to cut good jobs, lower wages, threaten job
safety and weaken unions.
In state after state, newly elected Republican legislators and governors
have been playing politics as usual by launching a coordinated attack on
working families designed to swell already-record-size corporate profits and
keep those CEO bonuses coming. These politicians aren’t offering up their
own pay or pensions—they want working families to bear the burden.
With Congress spending TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars and the
Federal Reserve literally creating money out of thin air, it’s never been
more important you and I force Congress to Audit the Fed.
Audit the Fed,a full-scale audit? Close all tax loop holes, no more exemptions.
“Audit the Federal Reserve”
Petition to the US Congress
END THE WARS, END THE WAR PROFITEERS.
I am writing to ask you to join Reps. Barney Frank, John Campbell, Rush Holt, Walter Jones, Gwen Moore and Ron Paul in calling on the President and the leadership of Congress to initiate a review of our worldwide military commitments with the outcome of significantly lowering expenditures so that we can reduce the deficit and meet the urgent needs of the American people.
They express the problem well: “We believe that making a substantial impact on these problems will require significant reductions in military spending, and doing this without harming American national security requires not only the elimination of waste and mismanagement at DoD, but also an honest and realistic assessment of current U.S. military goals. These strategies often involve outdated assumptions that leave the United States spending money on commitments as well as weaponry that are in fact relics of the Cold War era.”
Sixty-five years after World War II, nearly six decades after the Korean War, almost four since the end of the Vietnam War, and two decades since the Cold War ended our country continues to maintain a global military force structure that has not fundamentally changed (except to grow larger and obscenely more costly). Yet the world has changed dramatically!
Why do we maintain (and pay for) a mid-20th Century military in the 21st Century?
What is the justification for maintaining a global network of more than 1000 military bases at a cost in excess of $250 billion? Why do we still need bases in England, Germany, Italy, and Japan? Aren’t these nations capable of defending themselves?
Why do we cling to thousands of destabilizing nuclear weapons? Why does the president propose to spend $180 billion over the next ten years to “modernize” rather than eliminate these weapons of mass destruction?
This year U.S. military spending will constitute 43% of all military spending in the world – more than the next 14 countries combined. It’s been more than 20 years since the Chief Financial Officers Act was imposed on all federal agencies and departments, requiring the Pentagon to pass annual audits at the simplest level.
Why has the Pentagon gone unaudited while defense expenses have grown by almost 80% since 2001?
Sixteen percent of our people are unemployed or under-employed, 43 million live in poverty, 50 million are without healthcare, millions have lost their homes or are at risk of doing so, our nation’s infrastructure is dangerously degraded, climate change threatens our coastlines, food and waters supplies, firehouses are being closed, teachers, police and other public workers are being laid off, our social safety net is unraveling, and our cities and states are in fiscal crisis.
How can we justify these expenses in the face of such conditions?
We need a complete reappraisal of our priorities. We need a new definition of “national security.”
Please sign this letter and stand with those in Congress who recognize that our country must not continue down the road it is now on. (A copy of the letter is available at http://uslaboragainstwar.org/downloads/July%202011%20dear%20colleague.pdf.)
Boycott republicans first. Close watch on each Democrat voting against OUR interest.
Organized religion & Organized crime, partners of crime , corruption, and Deception under the umbrella
of the Republican party and their faith based corporate world.
Under the Bush administration and republican & (AIPAC) control. America lost 4.5 million jobs.
After the largest tax cuts for corporations & the very rich, none was re-invested in America, and
American jobs. Creating the largest reduction in revenue for the United States in history.
65% of corporations paid no income tax. Then on top of that many got thousands in tax returns.
Now they propose more tax cuts, and cutting major programs from the American People, giving
more to the rich. Remember 48% of the Billionaires are Zionist.
Many Americans would like to boycott the companies out-sourcing our jobs.
Where does such boycott begin. I would suggest boycotting the Republican party, and Israel products
first. (The War profiteers)
After which go to the list of companies that out-sourced the jobs to slave labor, and
inferior products. Adding to the national debt because of dropped revenue, putting our defense at
risk.
HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR GOVERNMENT, I BET 65 % OF AMERICANS pay no attention,& that is what destroys us.
Home [universal-peace.com]
Ronald L Waldron … Ronald L. Waldron has maintained a long-standing desire to express his views.
universal-peace.com[Found on Yahoo! Search, Bing]
Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT
Purchase Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT or any other title with 15% off with coupon code
Hurry …
REMEMBER WHEN END THE WARS AND CREATE ENERGY JOBS WAS THE AGENDA?
What happened, just how did lobbies and profiteers continue to control government?
None of you pay attention, but wonder why we keep sliding down the tube of ill fate. Stay in denial that our congress is Israeli occupied, and such continues.
Subject: Purchase “Truth Counts: DON’T COUNT ON GETTING IT”
http://www.universal-peace.com (Home)
Unemployment, and the coming elections 2012.
What can we, the average American, do to bring back our jobs and force
government to work for us?
First boycott the Republican party who gave tax cuts to corporations that
then out-sourced our jobs.
Boycott all products and merchandise imported from China, and other foreign
countries, until our
unemployment rate is at or below 7%. In fact a bill should be proposed for
such and made into law.
Demand tax reform, and drastic change in our foreign policies including
foreign aid to any state
that is violating international law and/or illegal occupation.
THE TOP TEN ISSUES FOR 2012
1. Audit the fed.
2. Total international investigation of 911, the actual facts, presently
undisclosed.
3. End ear marks, reform GOVERNMENT, and investigate all lobby activity.
4. End the occupation of Palestine and the Israeli atrocities.
5. Hold each and every elected
official accountable. Prosecute
corruption & criminal activity.
6. Tax reform, fair taxation for all. No exemptions.
7. End to private military & police agencies, paid by tax-payer monies.
8. All jobs paid by American tax-payers, shall be American citizens. No duel
citizenship employees at top security positions.
9. End the Wars now, bring home the troops.
10. Transparency, break up the media conglomerates controlling the News
received by the general public.
How important is our constitution and maintaining Democracy to you??
Will it take a third party to break the corporate hold on Washington ??
Go to: http://www.universal-peace.com
Google: Ronald L. Waldron
Instead of creating jobs and solving the problems of middle-class working
families, some state politicians are in a real state of denial. They’ve been
saying “thank you” to the corporate CEOs who financed their 2010 election
victories by pushing legislation to cut good jobs, lower wages, threaten job
safety and weaken unions.
In state after state, newly elected Republican legislators and governors
have been playing politics as usual by launching a coordinated attack on
working families designed to swell already-record-size corporate profits and
keep those CEO bonuses coming. These politicians aren’t offering up their
own pay or pensions—they want working families to bear the burden.
With Congress spending TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars and the
Federal Reserve literally creating money out of thin air, it’s never been
more important you and I force Congress to Audit the Fed.
Audit the Fed,a full-scale audit? Close all tax loop holes, no more exemptions.
“Audit the Federal Reserve”
Petition to the US Congress
END THE WARS, END THE WAR PROFITEERS.
I am writing to ask you to join Reps. Barney Frank, John Campbell, Rush Holt, Walter Jones, Gwen Moore and Ron Paul in calling on the President and the leadership of Congress to initiate a review of our worldwide military commitments with the outcome of significantly lowering expenditures so that we can reduce the deficit and meet the urgent needs of the American people.
They express the problem well: “We believe that making a substantial impact on these problems will require significant reductions in military spending, and doing this without harming American national security requires not only the elimination of waste and mismanagement at DoD, but also an honest and realistic assessment of current U.S. military goals. These strategies often involve outdated assumptions that leave the United States spending money on commitments as well as weaponry that are in fact relics of the Cold War era.”
Sixty-five years after World War II, nearly six decades after the Korean War, almost four since the end of the Vietnam War, and two decades since the Cold War ended our country continues to maintain a global military force structure that has not fundamentally changed (except to grow larger and obscenely more costly). Yet the world has changed dramatically!
Why do we maintain (and pay for) a mid-20th Century military in the 21st Century?
What is the justification for maintaining a global network of more than 1000 military bases at a cost in excess of $250 billion? Why do we still need bases in England, Germany, Italy, and Japan? Aren’t these nations capable of defending themselves?
Why do we cling to thousands of destabilizing nuclear weapons? Why does the president propose to spend $180 billion over the next ten years to “modernize” rather than eliminate these weapons of mass destruction?
This year U.S. military spending will constitute 43% of all military spending in the world – more than the next 14 countries combined. It’s been more than 20 years since the Chief Financial Officers Act was imposed on all federal agencies and departments, requiring the Pentagon to pass annual audits at the simplest level.
Why has the Pentagon gone unaudited while defense expenses have grown by almost 80% since 2001?
Sixteen percent of our people are unemployed or under-employed, 43 million live in poverty, 50 million are without healthcare, millions have lost their homes or are at risk of doing so, our nation’s infrastructure is dangerously degraded, climate change threatens our coastlines, food and waters supplies, firehouses are being closed, teachers, police and other public workers are being laid off, our social safety net is unraveling, and our cities and states are in fiscal crisis.
How can we justify these expenses in the face of such conditions?
We need a complete reappraisal of our priorities. We need a new definition of “national security.”
Please sign this letter and stand with those in Congress who recognize that our country must not continue down the road it is now on. (A copy of the letter is available at http://uslaboragainstwar.org/downloads/July%202011%20dear%20colleague.pdf.)
Boycott republicans first. Close watch on each Democrat voting against OUR interest.
Organized religion & Organized crime, partners of crime , corruption, and Deception under the umbrella
of the Republican party and their faith based corporate world.
Under the Bush administration and republican & (AIPAC) control. America lost 4.5 million jobs.
After the largest tax cuts for corporations & the very rich, none was re-invested in America, and
American jobs. Creating the largest reduction in revenue for the United States in history.
65% of corporations paid no income tax. Then on top of that many got thousands in tax returns.
Now they propose more tax cuts, and cutting major programs from the American People, giving
more to the rich. Remember 48% of the Billionaires are Zionist.
Many Americans would like to boycott the companies out-sourcing our jobs.
Where does such boycott begin. I would suggest boycotting the Republican party, and Israel products
first. (The War profiteers)
After which go to the list of companies that out-sourced the jobs to slave labor, and
inferior products. Adding to the national debt because of dropped revenue, putting our defense at
risk.