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Guest post by: Huckfunn!
AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY UNDER ATTACK BY U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
This is a topic that has gotten very little play in the media or blogosphere. On August 20th, the U.S. Statement Department issued a report to the U.N. which detailed the State Department’s view of human rights issues in the United States. While many countries around the world annually submit such a report to the U.N., this is the first time the United States has ever done so.
The entire report can be found here:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/146379.pdf
What initially brought this matter to my attention was Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s letter to the State Department demanding a retraction of this part of the report which discusses Arizona’s recent passage of S.B.1070:
“A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world,” the report says. “The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined.”
Governor Brewer wrote to Hillary Clinton:
“Simply put, it is downright offensive that the State Department included the State of Arizona and S.B. 1070 in a report to the United Nations Council on Human Rights, whose members include such renowned human rights ‘champions’ as Cuba and Libya.” Governor Brewer additionally stated, “The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a State of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional. Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in S.B. 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration.”
Governor Brewer’s entire letter can be found here:
http://www.azgovernor.gov/dms/upload/PR_082710_LetterSecretaryClinton.pdf
Of all of the obominations heaped upon our nation by the Obama regime (high taxes, huge deficits, record spending, endless apologies to the world, Obamacare, etc…), this has got to be one of the worst. The notion that the sovereignty of The United States, her laws and her people, could ever be subordinated to the dictates of the U.N., or any other law save the U.S. Constitution, is as close to treason as anything I have ever seen. However, the idea of transnationalism (or treason for that matter) coming from the democrats should come as no surprise to us. During the 2004 election campaign would-be POTUS John Kerry famously talked about the U.S. needing to “pass a global test” prior to taking pre-emptive military action against foreign threats. Further, in 1970 Kerry told the Harvard Crimson, “I’m an internationalist, I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”
Joe Wolverton, II of the New American says that following the submission of this report to the U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights, “U.N. Human Rights Council will conduct a final audit of the current state of the promotion of human rights in the United States. Then, it will recommend a slate of necessary reforms to the laws of the United States.” His article can be found here:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4411-state-department-submits-to-un-human-rights-review-for-the-first-time
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton submitted this vile piece of excrement to the U.N. Anyone who ever had the faintest idea that she is a “moderate” or “centrist” needs to get their mind right. When she runs for POTUS in the 2012 election this issue needs to be front and center.
-Huckfunn
Tags: Huckfunn, Human Rights, state department
Tranzis on the loose.
It’s time to dismantle the UN building brick by brick (and I don’t mean “brink”) and throw it all into the Atlantic. And return all its denizens whence they came. We can do it!
The UN needs to go.
I’ve been complaining about the UN since just about forever.
Maybe this will wake enough people up so that everybody will realize just how much of a menace the UN really is.
Not to mention the fact that we could save a TON of tax dollars by telling the UN to LEAVE US soil and getting out of it once and for all.
At the risk of repeating myself, I would remind people that “human rights” are, by their nature, antithetical to the concept of liberty as enshrined in the American Constitution.
“Human rights” are dispensations doled out by the government to the people. The “human rights” view of the world is that government is the source of, and grantor of, rights. What this means, in practice, is that the government can grant or withhold “human rights” at its pleasure, and may give “human rights” to those groups it finds worthy on the basis of the government’s own criteria.
The US Constitution is fundamentally different. It presumes that human beings have liberty—which is to say, citizens can do whatever they want except as their actions must be circumscribed by the government for the common good and maintenance of public order. To ensure that this circumscription is as minimal as possible, and that liberty is therefore as great as possible, the powers granted to the government are limited and enumerated—and civil rights, enforced by the rule of law, grant citizens rights against the government to ensure that the government does not exceed the limitations of its charter.
Thus, “human rights” presume that government is all-powerful, and grants rights to the people—or withholds them—at its will. The Constitution presumes that people are free, that government is limited, and that such restrictions on people’s freedom as are necessary are further limited by the safeguards of civil rights.
Any attempt to overlay a “human rights” model on the liberty and civil rights enshrined in the Constitution is an attack on the Constitution and the very idea of the United States.
Somewhat related. WLS Radio in Chicago just reported that the U.S
government does not think that the Muslim yoots flying from Chicago to Amsterdam were engaged in a terrorist dry run.
Dutch authorities disagree & continue to hold them.
Let me see, luggage checked into a flight that the initial yoot was
not flying on with three cell phones taped together.
Ok, the same yoot had on baggy clothes on a hot summer day concealing a cell taped to a bottle of Pepto.
The Obama administration is not even a little suspicious?
@ 1389AD:
Sí se puede! lol
Also see:
Screw the UN
Reject the UN
@ RIX:
Well yeah! Of tea partiers!
There is a lot to be concerned about at the State Department.
A long time peeve of mine has been its arabist bent, and the subsequent employment as lobbyists for same.
@ 1389AD:
UN Watch if anyone questions the reasoning.
Rodan wrote:
Along with the State department and Obama
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Neither the US government nor the UN seems interested in letting Christians have any ‘human rights’.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You keep saying something that needs to be repeated, until even the Progressives get a clue about their betrayal. And then keep on saying it, speaking truth.
I agree that the UN needs to go. More than a giant waste of money, it’s an animal house pigpen for every popcorn-fart tyrant on the planet to spew their filth and steal from the West. The real point that needs to be driven home is that the democrat regime, and in particular Hillary Clinton’s State Department, desperately want to put the U.S. under the thumb of the U.N.
m wrote:
They want to ‘reform’ it – I want it GONE!
Poll after poll after poll…
RIX wrote:
Suspicious of Talk Radio, bitter clingers to their Bibles and Guns, anyone that resists the Tranzi takeover of the US, yes. Of Mooslums, hell no.
@ 1389AD:
I think they’d be happy if it was gone too, LOL! But since it’s not someone had damn well better keep an eye on them!
as we discusses last night:
coldwarrior wrote:
@ m:
Which means Bloomberg and that Imam will ratchet up the rhetoric that demands the thing be built where planned, regardless of how the governed feel. Consent of the Governed be damned, they know better than us rubes.
@ m:
Hillel Neuer says on the floor of the UN what the American representatives should be saying!
m wrote:
Here’s where they can move the thing.
1389AD wrote:
I’m not sure what in particular you’re referring to, but if you are referring to the protection of Christians under the lawless regimes around the world where Christians are persecuted, the selective application of “human rights” concern merely confirms my point above; “human rights” are a fraudulent term for special rights granted or withheld by the government, meant to obscure that there is neither liberty nor rule of law in such places.
In our own country, “human rights”—whether used to apply to the building of footbaths to accommodate Muslims, to create a category of “hate crimes,” to apply to “desecration”, or to create other special rights for a favored constituency, are invariably special privileges sought from the government over and above the common freedoms we share.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Spot on! I’ll remind coldwarrior to pin a medal on one of your tentacles when he gets here.
This issue is about the sovereignty of the United States and her Constitution and shining the light on those who would give it away.
@ coldwarrior:
The problem is that we have to rely on a GOP that more and more only wants to get along so they get invited to all the cool Washington parties. It is a given that the Ds would condemn the TEA Party gatherings as collections of fringies, but now the Rs are increasingly echoing that sentiment.
coldwarrior wrote:
Amen bro! A medal for Buzz if you please.
@ 1389AD:
Nice! But you know, they’d just make us pay for some underwater scenic tubage to get’em there and back!
>:-[
US OUTTA THE UN!
UN OUTTA THE US!
@ 1389AD:
As long as we are discussing locations in the Atlantic, I nominate the South Atlantic.
Let’s say, Tristan Da Cunha, or Gough, Islands. Maybe the South Sandwich Islands. Or Kerguelen Island.
i already called my very vulnerable blue dog dem rep to make him explain this. sent an email as well…cant wait for the response!
make all dems answer for this!
At Least 8 Killed in Cancun Bar Attack
Hey how are the human rights in mexico?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
That’s what I’m talking about. Protecting the lives, property, and freedom of Christians against Islamic or other totalitarian persecution.
“Human rights” is indeed a fraud. It is specifically used as a club to beat Christians and Jews over the head with. Ask any Serb or Israeli.
@ m:
OH THAT THING! LOL! I’m still bitching about the UN…
/multitasking is not my forte
@ F:
i have already infiltrated my local party. the war is on
F wrote:
Only after the primaries however.
F wrote:
Anybody who worries about being accepted by the “cool kids” is a permanent loser. If you ever wonder whether you are “cool” or not, you are not and never will be.
@ Rancher:
What about if an incumbent loses in their primary ?
Sovereignty is the key issue. It can be eroded by neglect or, in the case of this bullshit human rights report, by willful malfeasance.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
THE BGGCC AWARD:
well done!!!
your comment gets a ‘well said’.
as the president of the Blogmocracy Golf Gun and Country Club and chair of the awards committee here at the BGGCC, i am pleased to inform you that your comment, that has reminded us to always be attuned to the differences between civil rights/liberties and the inherant evils of the illusion of ‘human rights’ has been awarded the “well said” award.
“well said”! hoorah!
the cc has spoken, as it were!
-coldwarrior
president, BGGCC
awards committee chair
Those Tea Party Grannies are not fooling Obama & Super Sleuth CJ.
They are the danger, not guys screaming Allah Akbar with bombs.
We have the most liberal immigration policies in the world, our border security is a joke. Just about anyone from a carrier of any disease imaginable to a foreign agent hell bent on destruction can get a visa if they are viewed as oppressed or dimished in any manner as humans by the leftist twat waffles in Foggy Bottom.
Our softness on this issue is a joke to officials of every nation on the globe, and that we the people and their States are being excortiated by our own federal government to gain points with their
Zero’s Kids From the Halls of Academia are making us out for the suckers that they are and showing our ass wide open to any neo feudal johns who want to see it.
If we don’t stop this in the next two elections we gonna be raped dry and hard by those old world leeches..
coldwarrior wrote:
Hope you’ll share that response. Who’s the rep and how vulnerable or safe is he?
@ huckfunn:
Thank you!
“Human rights,” and “human rights” language, have increasingly infiltrated domestic political discourse over the last 40-odd years.
It began when the Civil Rights Movement, having been hijacked by the Marxists, separatists and Islamists, began demanding rights over and above the civil rights that King and the original movement had been rightly seeking.
It continued when the gay-rights movement, which could not lay claim to “sexual preference or orientation” being a suspect classification under Constitutional law (as “race” was, and is), began demanding recognition, and concessions, on a “human rights” basis.
It has continued since the Islamist movement, which took its playbook entirely from the gay-rights movement (including adoption of the bogus “-ophobia” locution), began demanding special rights over and above the freedom of religion which everyone enjoys.
@ coldwarrior:
Aw, shucks.
O/T:
Spencer: Bloomberg’s Ground Zero Mosque dividend
coldwarrior wrote:
There needs to be some ‘splainin’ from more than a few RINOs as well.
State Department spokesgirlieman P.J.Crowley says on Fox interview that the US statement is to “set an example” for other nations to follow.
Of course, America is shrouded in mystery. The world at the UN does not know that America is a democratic republic. Why people flock legally and illegally to its borders must be a mystery to the Human Rights Commission.
Still, now that the US has modeled a confessional report, the State Department expects Iran to follow its example. Perhaps Iran will illustrate its report with photographs of an 8 year-old Iranian boy who had his arm crushed by a vehicle as punishment for stealing bread at a market.
huckfunn wrote:
altmire, pa-4. this district bounce from republican to blue dog often.
he is in trouble. sad thing is that he would be a better fit as a republican. too bad for him.
Rodan you here?
I have a dod idea for you!
OK update on the Muslm Yoots in Amsterdam story.
The U.S government admits that the luggage had three cells taped together, knives & box cutters & one kid had a cell on his person taped to a bottle of pepto.
And yeah his luggage was headed to a destination that they were not.
But wait, we are saying that the two were traveling seperately & just missed their flights & had to rebook.
Can’t make this up.
1389AD wrote:
Ah, thanks for posting that! I was having a Sr. moment, when commenting about that story earlier. I could not remember where I saw it.
huckfunn wrote:
It seems like people are finally understanding what Buzz has been saying for months.
We really have reached the point where the ruling elite do not give a rat’s ass that we don’t want their dangerous destructive plans implemented in this country.
80% of Americans were happy with their Health Care. So fcking what. 0-hole knew what was best for us.
71% of Americans do NOT want the imperialist mosk at GZ. Look how we are being called names. As the progs continue to support the aggressive insensitive jihads. Once again they know what is best.
This is a small minority of anti-American operatives who need to be bounced out of power everywhere in this country. They do not represent what is best for us. They have aligned themselves with the enemies of America. They are traitors.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
All this works if one believes in G_d.
“The US Constitution is fundamentally different. It presumes that human beings have liberty—which is to say, citizens can do whatever they want except as their actions must be circumscribed by the government for the common good and maintenance of public order. To ensure that this circumscription is as minimal as possible, and that liberty is therefore as great as possible, the powers granted to the government are limited and enumerated—and civil rights, enforced by the rule of law, grant citizens rights against the government to ensure that the government does not exceed the limitations of its charter.
It also helps if one has a belief in G_d. Except for the above,G_d is who I’m answerable to – not the UN or Hillary, my neighbor,the police or the White House. And my rights/liberty are G_d given. Did I get something wrong in grade school ??
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
As with everything else the dims throw at us; the “human rights” thing is not about human rights, any more than cap and trade is about the environment. All of those so-called “issues” are only about pushing a marxist, anit-capitalism agenda and the accumulation of power and control over the masses. BTW, that medal looks good on you.
PIMF – not even gonna bother….jeeeez, 4 hours sleep ain’t cuttin’ it.
@ m:
Obama said its his duty as President to defend Muzzies. Well he’s living up to that promise.
typicalwhitey wrote:
what is this idea?
4_Sticks wrote:
Helps what?
@ Overlook:
“Set an example”? Jezuz f’n Coyote, do they think they governments of the world are kindergarteners?
Rodan wrote:
Well put one in that column at least i guess
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m going to get an email to our commissar, Lloyd Doggett, and see where he stands on this issue. His seat is safe so he’ll probably send me some off-the-shelf bag o’ gas.
@ snork:
K through 12.
snork wrote:
I guess it takes something as agregious as the State Department report to get people to wake up and take a hard look at what these bums are up to.
@ huckfunn:
i mess with altmire on a few issues…just to keep him on his toes.
i wish he would come over top the gop.
RIX wrote:
This kind of BS makes me feel REALLY good about spending half an hour to an hour in line at the airport for “security”. My favorite thing is when the 93rd TSA type I’ve seen this month suddenly decides something I have been carrying for 5 years is a danger to society and confiscates it. A generic bottle (2 oz) with hair gel in it. He said (I shit you not) that “this item needs to be in a branded bottle” to which I replied (in my head or I’d be in GITMO) “Oh yeah – a terrorist would NEVER think to use a branded bottle”…
huckfunn wrote:
Yes. And thank you for the medal!
I have been vaporing on here at length, and have gone into some of the history of how “human rights” were interjected into our political discourse, because I have found that when I say in conversation that I utterly reject the concept of “human rights” people are shocked and disconcerted.
It is important to understand how fundamentally different the “human rights” concept is from the principles underlying the Constitution, and what some of the history is, to be able to—one hopes—sway others towards such an understanding.
911 Families for a Safe and Strong America
I’ve added it to my blogroll.
Rodan wrote:
And herel..
here.
Here.
LOL
@ m:
Chucky could care less that this puts him in the remaining 29% – in fact it only goes to prove that hes so ‘above’ the average dolt.
huckfunn wrote:
That’s threadworthy.
It looks to me like Mochelle has been busy buying furniture at Goodwill to bring the Oval Office up to standards
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Oval-Office-makeover-to-debut-in-Iraq-speech-638787.php
Have you all taken the “global test”? You can find it right here. Results are due into Shrillary’s office at State first thing in the morning.
@ Overlook:
To understand the concepts the founding fathers worked with.
Crashnburn01 wrote:
Grrr…
Drugstores even SELL generic 2-oz bottles to put your cosmetics in, so that you can get small amounts of cosmetics through the TSA check.
snork wrote:
Setting an example has always been an important plank of Obama’s foreign policy.
Bowing, apologizing, holding out hands, reducing arms, agreeing with enemies’ assessments of America, holding parties. “Smart power”.
1389AD wrote:
Run with it. I’ll cheer you from the gallery.
The argument that a large part UN is comprised of rogue, backwards states is as simple and elegant as it is true. I can’t for the love of God understand why it does not get through.
@ Scott Madsen:
There is no accounting for taste, of course. Shades of shit are considered “warm”. Does one take off one’s shoes in the Oval Office?
O/T:
For some reason, this old post from November 2007 on my blog is suddenly getting page hits. Dunno why…
It is time to punt Little Green Footballs
? ? ?
Another for you Rodan.
@ Overlook:
Ooops, really not having a good day here.Hit ‘Submit’ instead of PIMF – supposed to have included this:
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable (nontransferable) Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…”
(This is what I was referring to)
chickadee wrote:
You got that right.
By the Way ACE has the same thread up now as we do. Great Blogs think alike I guess
@ Overlook:
Don’t you think that if this is ones core belief,thinking/doing what the hilldabeast just did/wrote/submitted would not be possible if she was like minded ??
Oh dear Lord the world is coming to an end.
This white house is actually rallying people to honor our troops.
I’m stunned.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Thanks for the compliment! Thanks for your support, you’re one of my favorite posters on here! Your knowledge of National Security issues, is a great asset to the blog!
Plus you’re a Yankee fan!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
BTW, should have said ‘good one’.I woulda updinged ya if….ah,never mind
m wrote:
Yeah like they really mean it?
m wrote:
He’s doing it for his own reasons.
Rodan wrote:
Thanks. Was that $25 tip enough?
Likely Terror Attack ‘Dry Run’ Exposes Dangerous TSA Missteps (Updated)
Not sure why it knocks a hole in the “Dry Run” theory but the idea that you can clear one screening and then have access to your bag and not have to be rescreened is troubling. Am I reading this right?
4_Sticks wrote:
Sorry Charles, but I had to downding you, because you’re a fucking idiot, but it’s nothing personal, you see…
@ Nevergiveup:
Yeah, no… but still – it’s a good front and maybe some of that patriotism will rub off on the O’s.
Maybe?
Hopefully?
m wrote:
As much as I can’t stand to watch or listen to O-hole, I’ll listen to his bloviations to see if he has a word to say about the success of the Bush-Petraeas surge. I’ll bet he doesn’t offer an ounce of credit to Bush.
m wrote:
There’s an election coming up, and a whole hell of a lot of people running for office want their prior lack of support for the troops and for the Iraq war to be conveniently forgotten.
huckfunn wrote:
No you won’t, who in his right mind would take the other side of that bet?
@ Rodan:
He sides with the Muzzies against America. Just as his Open Borders policy is designed to destroy American Soverignty and cultural and territorial integration. He can’t be blind to the disaster in the Southwest. He isn’t stupid, whatever his other failings. He is getting exactly what he wants in Arizona. That is why he is suing the State of Arizona to keep them from interferring with what he is doing. Open the gates and let the Meth/coke/smack flow in! Why legalize it? That would take all the fun and profit out of it. Much better to have Mexico fall apart in Civil War. I think that is his goal for us as well.
@ m:
Wonderin’ if this was in the works prior to Becks rally or a post rally,last minute “hey guys – me too !!”. The latter would really be a tail waggin’ the dog moment.I’m sure its just coincidental – a little too cynical of me I guess….hmmmmmmmm.
Overlook wrote:
Foreign dignitaries will be wondering why they were invited to a confrence room at a cheap hotel intead of the White House
@ Nevergiveup:
Not me. I ain’t completely stupid. He isn’t going to credit the Surge or Petraeus, either. Success in Iraq is due to His Magnificance, so vote Democrat or you could find yourself back like you were under Bush.
With a job.
@ 4_Sticks:
For me, the self-evidentiality is the key idea. The original endowment of what the constitution protects – rights, including rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – is attributed to a divine entity to place ultimate authority for the nature of mankind out of political reach. Theology is not part of, and does not shape the civil compact. The polity agrees that these rights are the ones the polity is constituted to protect, being the rights of every individual, accorded to each individual by virtue of being alive, not by virtue of being a believer in any particular originator. Nothing is more self-evident than what is (no matter how it began.)
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Next thing you know, Obama’s going to become a Friedmanian. Until mid-November, anyway.
@ m:
The Obama’s are Patriotic to their nation. The Nation of Islam, that is…
Scott Madsen wrote:
Looks like the waiting room at your friendly local death panel office. There’s not even any magazines.
huckfunn wrote:
The magazines at the death panel office are over by the gun rack.
m wrote:
This is abt. o-hole. Period. He wants to look patriotic to benefit the dims.
He doesn’t honor the troops at all. In fact he has to grit his teeth to go through with this charade.
@ Scott Madsen:
Ha! A generic, international airport hotel. That is, in fact, a perfect visualization of the post-national world by a post-national president.
And talking of pretending to be demotic, how is that veggie patch doing at the White House? and that hideous swing-set? Do the girls ever use it?
@ Iron Fist:
Mexico is a Christian Country, so its in his interest for it to collapse. Then the effects spill over here which is what he wants. It’s a win win for him.
@ Rancher:
What it sounds to me is that maybe he intended to do something after Chicago, and then didn’t have access to his bags. Terrorist incompetance preventing a terrorist attack. It damn sure wouldn’t be the first time that happened.
@ Nevergiveup:
I think he actually might give Bush credit. It’s the smart thing to do politically at this moment in time. He can see november from hus house.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Too bad it had to take a private citizen (Beck) to stage a rally first.
This sound a bit too much like jumpin’ on the band wagon and a day late and dollar short to me.
Too bad Governor Brewer couldn’t have just written: “Go to Hell, you fucking cunt.”
Nevergiveup wrote:
Dang! I was looking for some easy money and was counting on you.
@ Rodan:
I don’t see Mexico going Mohammedan at least. But that wouldn’t stop Mohammedans using the Chaos to move through into the United States. I think the bigger threat there is simply everything in Mexico moving North. Certainly there are a lot more kidnappings in Pheonix now than there used to be. It is scary shit going on down there, and Obama is doing his damnedest to make it worse.
@ H:
I think he might too.
It will kill him but he will do what he must politically.
I guess you’ve already seen this?
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/08/drudge-is-giving-obama-hard-time-this.html
.@ H:
@ Iron Fist:
@ huckfunn:
The propblem is Iraq is not really a success. They have Sharaia Law, the parties are Pro-Iranian, China got the oil and the Christian population has been decimated. That’s not a success to me. It’s not a failure, but let’s not delude ourselves either.
By the way, I was reading an historical summary the other day which discussed the unrest on the Southern border when the Mexican Revolution broke out. There were a number of incursions into the United States by the Mexican rebels, and a number of Americans were killed.
President Wilson, despised here as a Progressive, sent General Pershing and his troops down to the border to harry the rebels and bandits, and secure the border; in fact, he also landed the Marines at Vera Cruz to protect the Americans there.
Progressives sure have diminished in 100 years, haven’t they?
huckfunn wrote:
Whoa-hoo! I scored -6900!
@ typicalwhitey:
Pretty lady! We’ll see. I’m not taking the bet, though.
Well who would think the Administration has a favorite team?
ReEducation secretary urged his employees to attend Sharpton’s rally
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Education-secretary-urged-his-employees-to-go-to-Sharpton_s-rally-651280-101839293.html#ixzz0yCGbYPAl
By: Lisa Gartner
Examiner Staff Writer
August 30, 2010
A Department of Education e-mail sent Wednesday encouraged workers to join Education Secretary Arne Duncan, above, at a rally led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. (AP file photo)
President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.
“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.
Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963.
The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan’s request.
Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.
“It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It’s highly inappropriate … even in the absence of a direct threat,” Boaz said. “If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that.”
Russ Whitehurst, director of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution’s Brown Center of Education Policy, said nothing like this happened when he was a Department of Education program director from 2001 to 2008: “Only political appointees would have been made aware of such an event and encouraged to attend.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Education-secretary-urged-his-employees-to-go-to-Sharpton_s-rally-651280-101839293.html#ixzz0yCijCHtX
@ Rodan:
100 percent correct.
@ H:
This suggests otherwise:
That is so bad even the MFM can’t stand the smell. I don’t think Obama cares about the election. He is letting himself go free of constraints, not worrying about the damage done to his Party so long as he can do the damage to this (not his) Country. A hung congress probably looks pretty good to him. He’ll just have HSS and the EPA mandate everything he wants done. Who can stop him?
@ H:
The umbrella should be a symbol of Obamacare – and all obama policy. Useless protection in the hands of an incompetent dolt.
Iron Fist wrote:
Justice Kennedy. Some of the time.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Progressives are like a dead body lying in the sun. They don’t age very well.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Yeah, but thattakes time. It is like the drilling moritorium. By the time the Supreme Court kicks it out (if it does), the jobs will be gone, and it will take years to recover. How many more times will Obama play that out over the next two years?
Rodan wrote:
One thing to remember. Saddam’s Iraq was a counter balance to Iran. One of the hard facts about our measured success in Iraq is that now Iran has a totally free hand to run amok as they please.
Overlook wrote:
See, I’m surprised he was carrying an umbrella at all. Isn’t it traditional for emperors and tribal chieftains to have someone walking behind them with an umbrella to shield them from the elements?
H wrote:
o-hole does well with hanging curtains.
Notice how the petulant dork is wearing mom jeans, riding a girl’s bike and looking like a moron in helmet while riding down a safe sidewalk.
Doesn’t our leader set a great example for us.
roflmao
@ Iron Fist:
I think it was a dry run to see what could be detected, whether you could get box cutters into the cargo hold and then retrieve them later without being rescreened and whether you can get baggage on one flight and switch flights without having your luggage switched. All of which seemed to have happened.
@ Rodan:
I agree with you there. There are positives: Saddam and crew are gone. Whatever Iraq becomes, it is likely to be less of a threat/disaster than that was. But I agree about Shari’ia law. That shouldn’t have been permitted, and something should have been done about the ethnic cleansing against the Christians.
H wrote:
Gibbs absolutely refused to even recognize the question when he appeared on FOX News this AM even after being asked 5 times
@ huckfunn:
Iran was the next target, but traitors in Congress and at the CIA kept that blow from falling. I believe that Bush intended to take Iran out.
@ Overlook:
“obamacare” is tricky. The general idea is one thing, the implementation another.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
She did.
H wrote:
Ain’t no trick about it. It is socialized Medicine which by definition means rationing and a lower quality of care
Iron Fist wrote:
I had always thought that, too—that the troops, “blooded” by their experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with secure bases there, were supposed to put Iran in a pincer, but that the sudden and continuing withdrawal of support prevented the plan from succeeding.
Bloody leftists and their need for gun control. I hope they lose big time come September (Canadian issue)
Iron Fist wrote:
I had hoped that he would have gotten that done between the election and Christmas and was disappointed that he didn’t.
@ Nevergiveup:
Yes, yes and not necessarily. I’m typing on a cellphone, so I can’t really expand on it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Progressively. Let’s follow the progression:
T. Roosevelt: Outright aggressive foreign policy.
Wilson: Pacifist who got the US into WWI.
F. Roosevelt: Prosecuted WWII successfully.
Truman: Korean stalemate.
LBJ: Fucked up Vietnam.
Clinton: Successfully bombed asprin plant.
Obama: no comment.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Overlook wrote:
The only fitting symbol for Obamacare is a Vaseline® jar full of sand.
Rancher wrote:
They were definitely up to some kind of terrorist activity. They are constantly checking for weak links in the system. For this to be dismissed as nothing is a mistake.
Also, every time these scum disrupt the happy flow of our lives, it is a win for them, They smile and praise allah.
The muzz will not stop trying to spread their disease.
Arizona has a message for B-HO and the UN.
BITE ME
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The top hat – or bowler – and the brolly were appurtenances of status throughout Africa.
Witch doctors wear stethoscopes round their necks. These are the magic objects of the West brought into superstitious service – just like bones through noses.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I can’t imagine a small, mean, vindictive, jealous, worthless, inept pos like 0-hole giving Pres. Bush credit for anything regarding Iraq and that is going to have serious blowback on 0-hole. He will sink lower in the muck of bad character, in the eyes of Americans who remember that o-hole voted against the Iraq war and against the surge. And he said our troops were over there air raiding villages and terrorizing women and children.
yeah, o-hole is a joke who prosecuted and won a war. lol
Maybe the war on America but not a war on the muzz.
@ Overlook:
Witchdoctor? That’s racist, so sayeth Teh Chuck!
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Lube?
Naw, an 18 grit carborundum sanding drum used as a dildo is more like it.
The Osprey wrote:
I wonder if the local tattoo shop has that available. Looks great!
@ Scott Madsen:
Too true. I was just trying to be polite.
@ huckfunn:
Come to Tennessee. I can hook you up!
Surely he will give Bush credit.
It he doesn’t, THAT will be the talking points in the media imo.
H wrote:
The general idea of the umbrella is to keep off the rain while you walk. If it is too big to get through an obstacle on your path, you have a choice: partially close it, thereby getting wet, but continuing to walk, or standing still in front of the obstacle staying dry until the rain stops. Progress with risk, or stasis without. The Obama uncertainty principle. Yes, ideas are one thing, implementation another.
The Osprey wrote:
It was the nose-bone that clinched it.
FIFY. That’s where the blame lies.
BTW, has anyone pointed out that the fat-ass pony-tailed douchebag totally ignored the terrorists arrested yesterday on that flight? Every thread at his shit hole is either Beck, Geller, or R.S. McCain. or the “bigots” opposed to the mosque.
I hate that asshole…
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
Well they’re not really a threat anymore. Come on Bob, get with the program.
@ Overlook:
We might be in agreement. I’m not sharpest spoon in the drawer, so I hope I got your reasoning right.
Now I oppose Obamacare, but for completely selfish reasons. They’re also probably not very well founded.
Nevergiveup wrote:
What gets me is there is a gold coin tax tucked in the hellcare bill.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/31/palestinian-kills-israelis-eve-peace-talks/?test=latestnews
Fox News 1359 hours EDT. 4 Israeli’s shot and killed in West Bank by Palestinian gunmen.
Checking in on the topic here … this is an absolute outrage. We’ve finally reached the day and age where we have an administration so spineless that they will drum up support anyway they can … AND AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Absolutely disgusting. We are America. We do not bow to anyone. We’ve earned that right by being the only legitimate superpower on the planet.
By putting this up for discussion at the “Human Rights” panel at the UN, you’re effectively giving every two-bit chickenshit hellhole like China, Cuba, Libya, Russia, and Saudi Arabia to take a shot at us.
I’d like to find one motherfucker that that has the guts to say in public they think this is a good idea. Just one.
They keep talking about how brilliant Obama is, but this just looks like a ‘running to mommy because I got my ass kicked’ move made at the expense of the American people, the very population that Fuckface is supposed to represent. Jesus Christ, am I pissed. I cannot wait until that son of a bitch leaves office. I will throw a party of a lifetime.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
And to think I used to go there for the latest news from around the world.
Good almost afternoon… Wow lot’s of new faces here…
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Funny how he chose to pick on McCain. It made McCain relevant, and LGF irrelevant. McCain is an ass though. Less so than CJ, but still an ass. A petite older lady’s ass.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yes, exactly. Our freedoms are guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Absolutely disgusting!
m wrote:
He actually views the general American public as the enemy.
@ H:
You are starting to grow on me H..
@ typicalwhitey:
Must be the ass.
H wrote:
Na, she has a rather nice little ass of her own, probably the content of your character.
MightyConservative wrote:
Hope that it is still true…
@ doriangrey:
I’m an ass? Heh.
This one’s for the romantically inclined:
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=-6Zi4AyzRC4
Formercorpsman wrote:
My bad. Sorry.
typicalwhitey wrote:
Antibiotics are good for that
H wrote:
Nope, not implying that at all, TW is a pretty good judge of character plus I was attempting something I am not particularly well known for.. I was trying to subtly state TW’s gender… TW is a GILF… (TW, please do not take that in the wrong way)
@ doriangrey:
Don’t know what a GILF is. I think I figured out the gender, unless GILF is a third gender previously unknown to me.
I’m a dude, btw. Insanely good looking & happily married.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Exactly. When Lib friends used to drop by and argue “why are we there (Iraq) ?” I used to bring them over to the world map I hand pinned on the wall and had them take a good look at the area. I’d tell them to ignore the borders – envision the entire damned area as one big battle field while keeping in mind Irans location. The usual response was: ‘But Bush isn’t saying this – he said its because Iraq has wmds”.
Thats when I’d do a fake ‘smack’ upset they’re pointy little head(s) (yes, more than one had this same line of sh*t) “Whats he supposed to do – announce it to the freakin’ world ?? Ever think he figured Americans were smart enough to figure this out ?? Ever hear of a ‘wink and a nod’ ?” If the Americans of WWII were as clueless we’d be eating with chop sticks or speaking German today.
@ H:
Know what a ‘MILF’ is ??
@ 4_Sticks:
I’m utterly ashamed to say that I do. Got it now. Whoa!
H wrote:
Genders are something that don’t translate very well in cyberspace, since I didn’t know yours but I did know her’s and since men seldom talk about their ass’s being attributes, rather than gamble on what your gender might have been, I tried using subtly to inform you of her’s.
Oh, and referring to TW as a GILF was suppose to be a 100 percent pure compliment. (which is why I put the tag on it please don’t take this the wrong way) TW loved to post pictures of her grandson, who is quite a character, and she is in a number of those pictures, TW is a very attractive and classy woman.
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