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Dershowitz: Drop George Zimmerman’s murder charge

by huckfunn ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Elections 2012, government, Headlines, Racism at May 18th, 2012 - 8:58 am

SANFORD, FL - APRIL 12: George Zimmerman (C) appears for a bond hearing with his attorney Mark O'Mara (R) at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility April 12, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was charged yesterday with second degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin who died February 26, 2012. (Photo by Gary Green/The Orlando Sentinel-Pool/Getty Images)

Yesterday’s release of the Trayvon Martin autopsy report lends further credence to George Zimmerman’s claim of self defense in the shooting of Martin. The only injuries to Martin’s body were the fatal bullet wound to the heart and abrasions on his knuckles. There is no evidence that Zimmerman landed even one blow on Martin while the injuries sustained by Zimmerman included 2 black eyes, a broken nose and cuts to the back of his head. Most of that evidence was known to the police on the night of the incident yet State Attorney Angela Corey withheld that evidence from the affidavit charging Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder. Alan Dershowitz claims that by withholding known evidence, Corey has acted unethically, unlawfully and unprofessionally and the charge against Zimmerman should be dropped.

A medical report by George Zimmerman’s doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting. If this evidence turns out to be valid, the prosecutor will have no choice but to drop the second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman — if she wants to act ethically, lawfully and professionally.

There is, of course, no assurance that the special prosecutor handling the case, State Attorney Angela Corey, will do the right thing. Because until now, her actions have been anything but ethical, lawful and professional.

She was aware when she submitted an affidavit that it did not contain the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. She deliberately withheld evidence that supported Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. The New York Times has reported that the police had “a full face picture” of Zimmerman, before paramedics treated him, that showed “a bloodied nose.” The prosecutor also had photographic evidence of bruises to the back of his head.

But none of this was included in any affidavit.

Now there is much more extensive medical evidence that would tend to support Zimmerman’s version of events. This version, if true, would establish self-defense even if Zimmerman had improperly followed, harassed and provoked Martin.

The entire article can be found here. 

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Professional Courtesy: Eric Holder May Release Russian Arms Trafficker Back to Russia

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Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Headlines, Politics at May 17th, 2012 - 3:11 pm

Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer known as “the Merchant of Death”, was captured in Bangkok and extradited to the U.S. in 2008. He was convicted of selling weapons to terrorists (specifically Columbia’s FARK) in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Now it seems that Attorney General Eric Holder wants to return Bout to his native Russian so he can serve out his term in the Motherland. Just one hitch; the Russians have always contested the charges against Bout and his conviction in a U.S. court.

Attorney General Eric Holder told Russian news outlets that the U.S. may return convicted arms dealer and terrorist Viktor Bout, the infamous “Merchant of Death,” to Russia to serve out the remainder of his 25-year prison term related to his terrorism conviction in the United States.

In 2010 Holder called Bout “one of the world’s most prolific arms traffickers.” He has also labeled the Russian ”a source of concern around the globe for decades.” But Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported that Holder moderated his tone from those prior statements.

Bout, 45, was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 and extradited to the United States. He was found guilty in 2010 of arms smuggling conspiracy and sentenced to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release. Additionally, he was fined $15 million for his role in conspiring to sell artillery and missiles to the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. After spending more than a year in solitary confinement, Bout was transferred to a prison in Brooklyn where he awaits another move, to a maximum security prison in Colorado.

The Russian government has contested Bout’s trial, calling the evidence “too thin to make far-reaching accusations.”

In 2010, the Daily Beast alleged ties between Bout and the Russian intelligence service. The 2005 film “Lord of War” is allegedly based on Bout’s experience as a veteran arms dealer with major roles in numerous international conflicts.

Hmmm… “One of the world’s most prolific arms traffickers”? I wonder how Viktor Bout would compare to  the ringleader of an international gunrunning enterprise known as “Fast and Furious”?

The entire article can be found here.  Hat tip The Daily Caller.

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MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD EXPOSÉ SET TO ROCK WASHINGTON

by huckfunn ( 15 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Censorship, Crime, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Free Speech, government, Marxism, Politics, Polls, Progressives, Socialism, Special Report, Unions at May 9th, 2012 - 9:03 am

Polls are turning against the Regime, Obama’s favorability ratings are declining and his policies are failing on all fronts. Yet the Regime seems to be confident of winning the November election. Here’s why.

The Left’s National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed

“This report reveals the Left’s vote fraud strategy for the 2012 elections. Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multi-faceted and redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.

The Left seeks fundamental structural change to our entire form of government. In keeping with their amoral, means-justifies-ends philosophy, they will register any voters, dead or alive, legal or illegal, who will then vote as many times as possible, in order to establish a “permanent progressive majority.” As two New York Democrats recently caught in a vote fraud scandal told police, “voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections…”

Obama’s ace in the hole in stealing the election is Eric Holder’s Department of Just Us which is doing everything it’s power to invalidate Voter Id laws recently passed in 6 states. Despite being a millstone around Obama’s neck, Holder is being kept on the bus in order to deliver the margin of fraud in November.

“Alabama – Alabama’s new photo ID law has a 2014 effective date. Alabama has not yet applied for pre-clearance.

Arizona – 9th Circuit upheld ID requirement of new law; struck requirement that voter prove citizenship.

Mississippi – A Voter ID amendment was approved by voters with a 62 percent margin in 2011. A bill to implement the amendment passed April 10, 2012. Requires preclearance. No word yet from Justice.

South Carolina – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law in December 2011. State filed for reconsideration.

Texas – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law. Texas filed suit with three-judge panel seeking pre-clearance; DOJ asked court to postpone trial.

Wisconsin – State judge ruled Wisconsin’s voter ID law unconstitutional (read the opinion). State will appeal.

The Wisconsin case is an example of independent groups working to sabotage reform efforts. In a suit brought by the League of Women Voters, the NAACP and others, the judge found ID laws “unconstitutional to the extent they serve as a condition for voting at the polls.” This was a bizarre ruling. Wisconsin’s Constitution clearly allows mechanisms to establish voter eligibility.”

The Cloward Piven Strategy

ACORN is the face of vote fraud, but its intellectual foundation is the Cloward Piven Strategy. Sociology professors Richard Cloward (Columbia University) and Frances Fox Piven (CUNY) were founding members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Cloward died in 2001 but Piven lives on.

In 1966 Cloward and Piven penned an article forThe Nation magazine titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” They posited that if the poor were organized into street armies to demand all welfare benefits available to them, they could overwhelm and crash the system.

It became known as the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” and is credited with expanding welfare rolls 151 percent between 1965 and 1974 and bringing New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975.

A Textbook Case: Houston Votes

In July 2010, a newly-formed voter registration group named Houston Votes (HV) announced it intended to register 100,000 Houston, Texas area voters in a few months. Catherine Engelbrecht, Leader of True the Vote (TTV) and King Street Patriots (KSP), was skeptical. Her group checked about 1,000 HV registrations. The number of erroneous registrations submitted by HV andDemocracia—a group targeting unregistered Hispanics—was, she said, “off the charts.”

They brought their results to Harris County Registrar, Leo Vasquez, who reviewed HV registrations. He found that of 25,640 submitted, only 7,193 were “apparently new voters.” On August 24, Vasquez held an unprecedented press conference, announcing:

Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization is conspiring in a pattern of falsification of government documents, suborning of perjury and a deliberate effort to over-burden our processing system with thousands of duplicate and incomplete voter registration applications.

He raised concerns that HV was, like ACORN, paying employees based on the number of applications they turned in, and cited specific examples of problematic registrations:

3,531   No match for SSN or driver’s license number

1,597   Multiple apps for the same person

1,014   Pre-existing voters

1,030   Incomplete apps

25        Non-citizens

325      Minors

129      Ineligible felons

1,133   No ID

1,323   Filed past deadline

Three days later, a massive warehouse fire destroyed Harris County’s 10,000 voting machines. The fire’s timing bred suspicions, fed almost exclusively by the Left, which sought through innuendo to implicate KSP. A Huffington Post headline two days later was typical: “Possible Arson and the Right’s Texas Voter Suppression Effort.” This theme was repeated ad nauseam in the liberal media echo chamber. The Houston Fire Department later cited “an unspecified electrical short” as the cause, an explanation that satisfied no one.[iv]

HV held a press conference the day of the fire, calling Vasquez’s allegations “reckless and false” and “an apparently coordinated, partisan effort to suppress voter registration and to intimidate citizens into not voting…” They demandedthe Justice Department investigate.

HV dismissed mistakes with the familiar ACORN refrain, blaming a few low-level employees who were fired when errors were discovered. However, Vasquez specifically cited 180 erroneous registrations turned in by Directors Sean Caddle and Neil Hudelson—more errors than usually submitted in total by traditional voter registration drives.

HV boasted their group was “non-partisan” but an attentive blogger quickly proved otherwise. One of the people training volunteers for Houston Votes wasMaria Isabel, an Obama operative made famous by the photo of her office sporting a poster of Che Guevara.

BarackObama.com advertised HV’s “volunteer” deputy training. Participating groups included, Atascocita Texas for Obama, Houston For Obama, Houston Obama Leadership Team, Houston Women For Obama, and other similar groups.

HV Directors Hudelson and Caddle were quickly discovered to be long-time Democratic activists. At last notice they had returned to Caddle’s home state of New Jersey, working for Democratic Jersey City Council-at-Large candidate Sue Mack. She lost.

A little more digging revealed Houston Votes to be part of America Votes, a Soros-funded organization tied to ACORN, SEIU, and a universe of other leftwing groups.

America Votes specifically targeted Texas in its 2010 Redistricting Control Project. With 38 electoral votes, Texas is only exceeded by California’s 55. Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in Texas, not coincidentally home to thesecond largest illegal immigrant population in the U.S.

One quarter of Texans reside in the Houston metropolitan region and there are 25 state house seats in Harris County. Prior to the 2010 elections, Republicans held a slim majority of three seats in the Texas House. Winning in Houston had the potential to flip the House, giving Democrats control over redistricting. They wanted to “turn Texas blue.”

The Advisory Board of HV’s parent organization, Texans Together Education Fund, included a number of prominent left-wing Democrats. One was Grande Dame of Texas politics, Sissy Farenthold, who worked with the radical left Institute for Policy Studies in the 1980s. Another was Democrat Kristi Thibaut, a state legislator trying to hold her District 133 seat. She had worked for ACORN and was under investigation by the Texas Ethics Commission. Yet another was Sue Schechter, running for Harris County Clerk. Not only was HV extremely partisan, but plainly the Texas arm of Soros’s project.

America Votes failed in 2010. Republican control of the Texas state house increased by 44 seats in a nationwide sweep that brought Republican control to statehouses not seen since 1928. America Votes is targeting Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2012.

But the Left still wasn’t finished in Texas. The Texas Democratic Party sued the Harris County Registrar’s office, the Registrar and other employees.

Harris County had settled another suit with the Democrats in 2008 stemming from 67,554 rejected applications, mostly submitted by ACORN. Democrats had charged “voter suppression” then too, over registrations rejected for incomplete or inaccurate information—the kind ACORN excels at.

Because Texas is a preclearance state, redistricting maps must be approved. This year’s maps were challenged in court by Latino groups. This delayed the primary, neutralizing any impact Texas may have had on the Republican presidential primary process.
Voter Intimidation

KSP organized approximately 1,000 poll watchers for the 2010 elections. This outraged the Left, unused to having its inner city monopoly threatened. Texans Together Education Fund sued the King Street Patriots, True the Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht and her husband. On the first day of early voting, the Texas Democrat Party also filed a suit, a move characterized by KSP’s legal team as a naked effort to intimidate KSP-trained poll watchers.

Throughout the 2010 electoral cycle, the Left hurled accusations of “voter suppression” and “voter intimidation” at Catherine Engelbrecht, TTV, KSP and the volunteer poll watchers they trained. This narrative was promoted uncritically by the local press. Blogger Ann “Babe” Huggett, writing for EmergingCorruption.com, reported:

  • ABC Channel 13 quoted Democrats suing KSP that KSP leaders could see jail time for voter intimidation. ABC’s own video, however, shows otherwise.
  • Channel 26 reporter Isiah Carey asked repeatedly if the King Street Patriots hadn’t created a hostile environment. KSP offered witness testimony that it was “the other side” doing the intimidating.
  • New Black Panther leader, Quanell X, threatened that his men would “protect” people from the TTV-trained poll watchers.
  • Emails from communist Van Jones’ Color of Change circulated through liberal circles, charging poll-watcher voter intimidation.
  • Local radio station Magic 102.1 FM repeated bogus charges about assaults on black voters… including spitting and physical assault… on black grandmothers.

But it was actually poll judges, poll workers and Quanell X’s Houston Black Panther group, who did much of the intimidating. Assistant County Attorney Douglas Ray disclosed after an investigation that Harris County poll workers and election judges had committed the violations blamed on KSP. He was silent on the Panthers.

Poll Watchers submitted 763 incident reports, detailing over 3,000 violations, to Harris County. These included intimidation, harassment and illegal voter assistance conducted by poll judges and workers. To date there has been no response from the County. Three poll watchers were willing to be identified by name and spoke to reporters at a KSP press conference. KSP invited the Justice Department to witness what was happening. Justice never responded.

Independent of KSP, poll judge Carmen Cuneo gave compelling video testimonyabout how the chief judge had her removed and threatened with arrest after she confronted Quanell X about his group’s activities at the poll.

True the Vote and the Wisconsin Recall

Union groups used the swarming method earlier this year in a recall petition of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. They reportedly submitted one million petitions, needing only 540,208. The Democrat-controlled Government Accountability Board (GAB), responsible for verifying petitions, flatly refused to do so.

In an astonishing, heroic effort, True the Vote joined an effort called Verify the Recall and developed a method to verify recall petitions online. They built a nationwide network of 14,000 volunteers almost overnight, who checked 92 percent of the petitions in 22 days. The findings were stunning:

819,233 records (not 1 million)

534,685 verified legitimate (65 percent)

In addition to numerous bogus “Donald Duck” petitions, signers included:

  • 29 Wisconsin judges—one who later issued a restraining order against Walker’s Voter ID law.
  • A deputy DA, 19 attorneys and dozens of other DA employees. Some had been working on a heavily criticized “secret” John Doe investigation of Governor Walker at the time.
  • 25 Gannett News journalists
  • Several members of WTMJ-4 news staff
  • School board members
  • Four University of Wisconsin regents and the university’s chief spokesman.
  • A Democratic activist charged with seven felony ID theft counts and two of felony vote fraud. He signed up family members and neighbors, including a deceased man, without their knowledge or consent.

The GAB refused to consider VTR’s work and certified 900,000 petitions, but it was clear that Walker opponents had committed extensive vote fraud. The fraud would have gone undetected if not for the work of TTV.”

National Popular Vote

The National Popular Vote bill seeks to effectively abolish the Electoral College by enacting state laws that give all electors from those states that have passed the bill to the winner of the national popular vote. Direct elections would become universal when enough state legislatures have passed legislation to make up a majority of the electoral vote (270 of 538). Eight states and the District of Columbus, totaling 132 electoral votes, have passed NPV laws. The Electoral College was created to ensure that less populous states would not be overlooked in presidential elections. If successful, this effort will make vast swaths of our nation completely irrelevant to presidential candidates, as they would then focus all their efforts on large population centers.

Felon Voting

Project Vote disingenuously argues that rights should be restored to formerfelons. Almost every state has provisions to restore voting rights to former felons. ProCon.org claims about 5.2 million felons are “disenfranchised.” But only current prisoners have no recourse—about 1.4 million. They exaggerate the problem for unclear reasons. The “wise Latina,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,favors felon voting.

Same Day Voting

Same-day voter registration in Ohio led to ACORN’s permanent expulsion from that state. Then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, an alumna of George Soros’s Secretary of State Project (see below), announced a “Golden Week” for same day registration and voting. ACORN submitted thousands of bogus registrations, including the notorious case where one man was paid to register 73 times.

Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold proposed a nationwide same-day voting law in 2009, but his state’s experience with it has been disastrous. An investigation into the 2004 elections by the Milwaukee Police concluded the only way to prevent widespread fraud is to discontinue same-day voting. A 2011 study found errors in one-third of same-day voter registrations in Milwaukee County.

Nine states currently have same day voting laws.

Hat tip… Breitbart TV


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Obama’s New Campaign Slogan “Forward” Has Long Ties to Marxism and Socialism

by huckfunn ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, government, Headlines, Marxism, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at May 1st, 2012 - 11:25 am

It should come as no surprise that the new Obama campaign slogan “Forward” has roots in Marxism and Socialism.

There have been at least two radical-left publications named “Vorwaerts” (the German word for “Forward”). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It still publishes as the organ of Germany’s SDP, though that party has changed considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names associated with that publication.

East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC Vorwaerts Frankfort).

Vladimir Lenin founded the publication “Vpered” (the Russian word for “forward”) in 1905. Soviet propaganda film-maker Dziga Vertov made a documentary whose title is sometimes translated as “Forward, Soviet” (though also and more literally as “Stride, Soviet”).

Read the Washington Times article here.

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Supreme Court casts doubt on Obama’s Arizona immigration law claim; Kagan recuses herself due to conflict

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Headlines, immigration, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at April 25th, 2012 - 1:08 pm

Looks like yet another SCOTUS loss for the Obama regime and his incompetent Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Even the libturd justices are skeptical of the regime’s claim that it can legally stop Arizona from enacting and enforcing its tough immigration law.

Interestingly, Elena Kagan has recused herself from this case for a conflict of interest because she was the Obama administration’s solicitor general in 2010, when the law was being debated in Arizona. Yet she was also the “point-person” for the regime when Obamacare was being debated, and she didn’t recuse herself then from that case when the court heard arguments last month, like she should if she had an iota of ethics.

She seems to want to pick and choose which cases she believes she has a conflict of interest in and which she can judge fairly and without bias, and undoubtedly the regime is much more worried about saving Obamacare than they are about stopping Arizona from enforcing the laws the regime refuses to enforce.

Supreme Court casts doubt on Obama’s immigration law claim

Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administration’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument Wednesday that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them.

The court was hearing arguments on Arizona’s immigration crackdown law, which requires police to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally, and would also write new state penalties for illegal immigrants who try to apply for jobs.

The Obama administration has sued, arguing that those provisions conflict with the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy, but justices on both sides of the aisle struggled to understand that argument.

“It seems to me the federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s here illegally,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said at one point.

The Arizona law requires all police to check with federal officials if they suspect someone is in the country illegally. The government argues that is OK when it’s on a limited basis, but said having a state mandate for all of its law enforcement is essentially a method of trying to force the federal government to change its priorities.

Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. said the federal government has limited resources and should have the right to determine the extent of calls it gets about possible illegal immigrants.

“These decisions have to be made at the national level,” he said.

But even Democratic-appointed justices were uncertain of that.

“I’m terribly confused by your answer,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who went on to say that the federal government can always decline to pick up illegal immigrants when Arizona call.

The Obama administration was on its firmest ground when it argued Arizona should not be allowed to impose state penalties such as jail time against illegal immigrants who try to seek jobs.

Federal law chiefly targets employers, not employees, and Mr. Verrilli said adding stiffer penalties at the state level is not coordination. He said Congress’s 1986 immigration law laying out legal penalties was meant to be a comprehensive scheme, and Congress left employees untouched — and Justice Sotomayor seemed to agree.

“It seems odd to think the federal government is deciding on employer sanctions and has unconsciously decided not to punish employees,” she told Mr. Clement.

Only eight justices were present for the arguments. Justice Elana Kagan recused herself from the case, presumably because she was the Obama administration’s solicitor general in 2010, when the law was being debated in Arizona.

Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the measure into law, was present for the arguments, as were members of Congress who follow the immigration issue: Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House immigration subcommittee, and Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican who has fought for an immigration crackdown.

Outside the court, supporters and opponents of the law rallied, while the line for observers snaked around the court building more than an hour before the argument began.

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If I Wanted America to Fail…

by huckfunn ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Business, Climate, Cult of Obama, Economy, Elections 2012, Energy, Environmentalism, government, Headlines, Marxism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, taxation, unemployment at April 24th, 2012 - 11:30 am

This powerful add spells out exactly how Obama’s energy and environmental policies are destroying our economy.  Be sure and spread this around. Submitted without further comment.

Transcript:

If I wanted America to fail …

To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream.

I would start with energy.

I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy. I couldn’t take it by force. So, I’d make Americans feel guilty for using the energy that heats their homes, fuels their cars, runs their businesses, and powers their economy.

I’d make cheap energy expensive, so that expensive energy would seem cheap.

I would empower unelected bureaucrats to all-but-outlaw America’s most abundant sources of energy. And after banning its use in America, I’d make it illegal for American companies to ship it overseas.

If I wanted America to fail …

I’d use our schools to teach one generation of Americans that our factories and our cars will cause a new Ice Age, and I’d muster a straight face so I could teach the next generation that they’re causing Global Warming.

And when it’s cold out, I’d call it Climate Change instead.

I’d imply that America’s cities and factories could run on wind power and wishes. I’d teach children how to ignore the hypocrisy of condemning logging, mining and farming — while having roofs over their heads, heat in their homes and food on their tables. I would never teach children that the free market is the only force in human history to uplift the poor, establish the middle class and create lasting prosperity.

Instead, I’d demonize prosperity itself, so that they will not miss what they will never have.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would create countless new regulations and seldom cancel old ones. They would be so complicated that only bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists could understand them. That way small businesses with big ideas wouldn’t stand a chance – and I would never have to worry about another Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Jobs.

I would ridicule as “Flat Earthers” those who urge us to lower energy costs by increasing supply. And when the evangelists of commonsense try to remind people about the law of supply and demand, I’d enlist a sympathetic media to drown them out.

If I wanted America to fail …

I would empower unaccountable bureaucracies seated in a distant capitol to bully Americans out of their dreams and their property rights. I’d send federal agents to raid guitar factories for using the wrong kind of wood; I’d force homeowners to tear down the homes they built on their own land.

I’d make it almost impossible for farmers to farm, miners to mine, loggers to log, and builders to build.

And because I don’t believe in free markets, I’d invent false ones. I’d devise fictitious products—like carbon credits—and trade them in imaginary markets. I’d convince people that this would create jobs and be good for the economy.

If I wanted America to fail … For every concern, I’d invent a crisis; and for every crisis, I’d invent the cause; Like shutting down entire industries and killing tens of thousands of jobs in the name of saving spotted owls. And when everyone learned the stunning irony that the owls were victims of their larger cousins and not people, it would already be decades too late.

If I wanted America to fail … I’d make it easier to stop commerce than start it – easier to kill jobs than create them – more fashionable to resent success than to seek it. When industries seek to create jobs, I’d file lawsuits to stop them. And then I’d make taxpayers pay for my lawyers.

If I wanted America to fail … I would transform the environmental agenda from a document of conservation to an economic suicide pact. I would concede entire industries to our economic rivals by imposing regulations that cost trillions. I would celebrate those who preach environmental austerity in public while indulging a lavish lifestyle in private. I’d convince Americans that Europe has it right, and America has it wrong.

If I wanted America to fail … I would prey on the goodness and decency of ordinary Americans. I would only need to convince them … that all of this is for the greater good. If I wanted America to fail, I suppose I wouldn’t change a thing.

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China Slows Solar and Wind Projects Undermining White House Green PR Strategy

by huckfunn ( 46 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Business, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Energy, Environmentalism, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Science, Socialism at April 15th, 2012 - 5:00 pm

The Obama Regime energy policy is primarily about driving up the cost of fossil fuels to the point that they are no longer affordable so that we will have no choice but to turn instead to the so-called “green” or “alternative” energy sources of wind, solar and biomass. To that end they have tried to sell the idea that we must move quickly to convert to these alternative energy sources so that we won’t lose our competitive edge to China. Oh, yes; and think of all of the green jobs that will be created.

Much to the disappointment of the O-Regime, the Chinese government announced that it  “would stop expanding its wind and solar industries, choosing instead to focus on nuclear, hydroelectric and shale …. as the energies of the future.”  How about them apples?! Obama has been telling us that fossil fuels are the energy of the past and wind, solar and algae are the fuel sources of the future. As I’ve said in the past, I have yet to fill up my gas tank with wind, sunbeams or seaweed as Dr. K-Hammer quipped.

“It is getting tougher and tougher for the Obama administration to argue that somehow we’re in this big race for green power worldwide when the rest of the world seems to have decided that the race isn’t worth winning,” Daniel Kish, the senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller.

President Barack Obama, whose administration has held up solar and wind energy while stunting shale and snubbing hydroelectric, has deployed nationalist lingo, holding the specter of global Chinese green technology dominance as a driving motivation behind the administration’s expensive and embattled green energy subsidy programs. In his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama said, “I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.”

By halting wind and solar industry expansion, Kish told TheDC, “China’s just doing what every other country in the world other than the United States is doing. Years back, the president used Spain as an example [of green energy competition] … then Germany, then China.”

Spain’s green energy subsidies were found to have a cost of 2.2 jobs for every one created; and in Germany, the government announced this year that it is scaling back its subsidies. “It’s too damn expensive,” Kish explained, “and someone’s got to pay for it.” 

Read the whole article here. Hat tip Rain of Lead.

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Two Legal Opinions on the Criminal Charges Against George Zimmerman

by huckfunn ( 18 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Crime, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, government, Hate Speech, Political Correctness, Progressives, Racism, Special Report at April 13th, 2012 - 11:04 am

Here are two legal opinions by two high profile lawyers who happen to reside at opposite poles of the political axis. Mark Levin and Alan Dershowitz opine on the affidavit of probable cause which spells out the criminal charge of 2nd degree murder against George Zimmerman. Both of them come to the same conclusion that the evidence cited in the affidavit is very weak and doesn’t meet the definition of Florida’s statute for 2nd degree murder. Dershowitz even goes a step further saying that the charge of 2nd degree murder is an unethical “overcharging” by the special prosecutor in order to entice the defendant to plead to a lesser charge. Herewith are the video/audio of Dershowitz and Levin:

Dershowitz

 

Levin. I couldn’t embed this one as it isn’t in Youtube format. If anyone knows how to embed it, please do so.

http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-zimmerman-affidavit-doesnt-support-probable-cause-for-2nd-degree-murder/

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The first post-racial President? It’s black and white: Obama to blame for increased racial violence

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 113 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, government, Hate Speech, History, Marxism, Media, Politics, Progressives at April 12th, 2012 - 8:00 am

Remember when we were all told that the Marxist occupying the White House would be the first post-racial President and would bring all Americans, regardless of their skin color, together?

GMAFB! We all knew that was a load of crap, just like everything else the mainstream media official propaganda department of the Obama regime and the dumocrat party tried to tell us would happen if this Marxist was elected. What we have is the most racist administration regime in over 100 years.

I saw this coming when the Regime’s Department Of Justice Injustice refused to prosecute the new black panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia on election day, 2008, and when the racist Attorney General, the disgraceful Eric Holder, said he didn’t want to prosecute “our people”, even if they committed a crime.

This regime and Obama himself are more like that racist anti-Semitic dirtbag Calypso Louie Farrakhan than Martin Luther King Jr.

All the proof we need is the fact that for over 20 years, Obama sat there in the pews of that POS Jeremiah Wright’s church and listened to Wright’s racist, hate-filled, anti-American, and anti-Semitic sermons every Sunday. And if’s that’s not bad enough, he also allowed the preacher racist hatemonger to marry him and Moochelle, and to baptize his daughters.

OBAMA TO BLAME FOR INCREASED RACIAL VIOLENCE
Exclusive: Roger Hedgecock notes that president is ‘encouraging payback mentality’

Too many white Americans voted for Barack Obama for president in 2008 because they wanted to prove they weren’t racists. They believed Obama’s promise that his election represented a triumph over racism. Those white Obama voters have been betrayed.

Then and now, opponents of Barack Obama are routinely labeled racist. Hillary supporters found that out in 2008. Nothing’s changed. The president, who promised a post-racial presidency, has played the race card ever since.

From “the Cambridge police acted stupidly” to “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” Obama has deliberately fanned the flames of racial resentment among black Americans.

The racial divisions in American society are worse now than when Obama took office.

When the black woman coming out of an Obama Miami campaign rally in 2008 proclaimed, “He’s gonna take care of my mortgage; he’s gonna buy my gas,” the stage was set for sky-high expectations and crushing disappointment for black Americans.

Today, blacks suffer the highest unemployment, most crime and highest dependency on government assistance of any group of Americans.

Obama maintains black-voter support by signaling that white racism is holding him back, preventing him from accomplishing everything he promised. It’s the oldest excuse for black failure. And it is the gateway to the “payback time” mentality of too many young black males – a mentality that is claiming lives all across the U.S. today.

In a horrible crime reported only in the Tulsa World, the U.K. press and some blogs on March 14, a 20-year-old black man named Tryone Woodfork led an invasion of the North Tulsa, Okla., home of Bob and Nancy Strait, ages 90 and 85.

He and his friends beat the old white couple and shot Bob in the face with a BB gun. Tyrone beat and raped Nancy Strait until she died. Bob is still in the hospital, suffering from a broken jaw, severe bleeding and broken ribs.

Tyrone and friends got away with $200, an old Plymouth Neon and a TV. Tyrone was arrested the next day.

Bob was awarded the bronze star as a World War II paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division. He and Nancy had been married more than 65 years. They raised six kids and were blessed with 18 grandchildren and 50 great and great, great grandchildren.

When told Nancy was dead, he murmured, “I loved her. I loved that old woman.”

If Bob had defended his home by shooting Tyrone, the national media would be all over this story; Al Sharpton would be leading protests in Tulsa. Apparently, when whites are the victims of black crime, it isn’t news.

Anger over this crime has boiled over in Tulsa. Someone described as white driving a pickup truck is randomly shooting blacks walking in the streets. These shootings have been reported all over the national media.

In another horrible example, two black teenagers followed a younger white teenager home from school. They caught him the porch of his house, doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire as one of the black teenagers said, “This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.”

No national media (except Fox News) reported the story.

The “payback time” mentality was expressed by Attorney General Eric Holder when he refused to prosecute Voting Rights Act violations by the New Black Panther Party, whose members were intimidating white voters outside Philadelphia polling places in 2008. According to Department of Justice lawyers, Holder believes that only whites can violate the Voting Rights Act.

In schools, in colleges, in courtrooms and in too many workplaces, white Americans are feeling the “payback time” attitude of too many black Americans.

Obama has tolerated and even encouraged black triumphalism, played to the black grievance culture and encouraged the “payback time” mentality.

American voters pinned their hopes for racial healing on Barack Obama. They got Louie Farrakhan instead.

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BREAKING: Special Prosecutor Reportedly Will Charge George Zimmerman in Fatal Shooting of Trayvon Martin.

by huckfunn ( 434 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Fascism, government, Hate Speech, Marxism, Progressives, Racism at April 11th, 2012 - 2:31 pm

After a month of investigations which showed there was not enough evidence to charge Zimmerman with a crime, a Florida special prosecutor will bow to pressure from race pimps  Jackson, Sharpton, Holder and Obama and charge him with something… what we do not know.

WaPo has the story right here:

George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official say

It was not immediately clear what charge Zimmerman will face.

Martin, 17 and unarmed, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by Zimmerman, who said he was acting in self-defense. Police in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting took place, did not charge Zimmerman, citing the state’s “stand your ground” law.

Corey told reporters Tuesday night that she would hold a news conference about the case within 72 hours. A news release from her office said the event will be held in Sanford or Jacksonville, Fla.

Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Martin family, said this week that Corey’s office had asked where Trayvon’s parents would be each day this week. They arrived Wednesday in Washington for a civil rights conference organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, where they are scheduled to speak.

The announcement of a charge against Zimmerman would come a day after Zimmerman’s attorneys withdrew from the case, citing their inability to contact Zimmerman.

Lawyers Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig on Tuesday expressed concern about Zimmerman’s emotional and physical well-being, saying he has taken actions without consulting them. They also said they do not know where Zimmerman is.

“You can stop looking in Florida,” Uhrig told reporters. “Look much further away than that.”

Corey said Monday that she would not bring the case before a grand jury, which was expected to convene this week. She said her decision to forgo the grand jury should not be viewed as a factor in determining whether charges will be filed.

Corey has indicated in recent weeks that she might not need a grand jury to bring charges against Zimmerman.

The lawyers said they stand by their assertions that Zimmerman acted in self-defense when he killed the 17-year-old, who was unarmed, but they acknowledged that they formed their impressions without meeting Zimmerman.

HT: Rodan

 UPDATE:  The following 3 audios are of the 911 calls received by the Sanford PD from the time Zimmerman called 911 up though the time a witness calls 911 and tells of a disturbance outside her apartment. Zimmerman’s screams for help can be clearly heard followed by a gunshot.

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