Looks like the US DOJ is learning from the speech police in Canada.
See here: Federal-attorney-warns-negative-posts-against-islam-could-get-you-prosecution-imprisonment
If you are wondering about the Canada reference, look up Mark Stein and his battle a few years ago for saying unkind things about Islamists.
Monday, June 3, 2013
United Nations: Arms Trade Treaty Signing
This week, John Kerry, US Ambassador to the United Nations, and eventually President Obama will sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty.
This posting discusses how that will be an act that eventually will destroy the 2nd Amendment. See here: What-if-obama-signs-the-un-arms-trade-treaty?
I personally consider that signing this Treaty is tantamount to treason, for both Kerry and the President.
Russia, India, China, and even Canada may not sign this treaty.
Update: What game is Obama playing? He is making sure no one notices. See here: UN-small-arms-treaty-may-be-signed-under-cover-of-darkness
Update for June 7: Kerry and Obama still on track to sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty despite a majority of the Senate saying, "Don't do it." See here: Obama-to-ignore-senate-sign-2nd-amendment-violating-u-n-gun-treaty
This posting discusses how that will be an act that eventually will destroy the 2nd Amendment. See here: What-if-obama-signs-the-un-arms-trade-treaty?
I personally consider that signing this Treaty is tantamount to treason, for both Kerry and the President.
Russia, India, China, and even Canada may not sign this treaty.
Update: What game is Obama playing? He is making sure no one notices. See here: UN-small-arms-treaty-may-be-signed-under-cover-of-darkness
Update for June 7: Kerry and Obama still on track to sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty despite a majority of the Senate saying, "Don't do it." See here: Obama-to-ignore-senate-sign-2nd-amendment-violating-u-n-gun-treaty
1984 Redux: Tracking Kids by Iris Scans
The government leviathan is growing more and more blatant each day.
In Florida, some schools seem to think the own the students. This is another in the long, sad saga of trading freedom for (supposed) security: Whos-tracking-your-children
And the even sadder part is that the school board members and teachers who should know better are complicit in the rush to regimentation.
I fear that few have any independent soul anymore.
In Florida, some schools seem to think the own the students. This is another in the long, sad saga of trading freedom for (supposed) security: Whos-tracking-your-children
And the even sadder part is that the school board members and teachers who should know better are complicit in the rush to regimentation.
I fear that few have any independent soul anymore.
IRS Scandal: Washington made me do it
From the Daily Caller:
Looks like we were told yet another lie in the IRS scandal.
TheDC's Caroline May reports:
In interviews with House Oversight Committee investigators, Cincinnati
IRS employees said that they believed that targeting of conservative groups
came from Washington, not from a couple of 'rogue agents.' Sunday the House
Oversight Committee released partial transcripts of Oversight Committee
investigators’ interviews with unnamed Cincinnati IRS employees, which
contradicts the line coming from the White House. 'It’s impossible,' an IRS
employee responded to an investigator’s question about the allegations that the
targeting of conservative groups was due to 'two rogue agents.' 'As an agent we
are controlled by many, many people. We have to submit many, many reports. So
the chance of two agents being rogue and doing things like that could never
happen.'"
Note especially the attitude of "just following orders" that seems to be prevalent, despite some "uneasy" feeling by employees.
California Debt: More, more, more...
A new report says California's debt for State and local governments is now about $850 Billion. For perspective, the annual budget is about $100 billion. Gee, only 8 years of no public spending to pay it off.
See here: Report-californias-actual-debt-set-at-848b-could-pass-1.11trillion
But here is some good news. It seems the general public has more smarts than our politicians: Poll-most-californians-favor-saving-budget-surplus-over-spending
See here: Report-californias-actual-debt-set-at-848b-could-pass-1.11trillion
But here is some good news. It seems the general public has more smarts than our politicians: Poll-most-californians-favor-saving-budget-surplus-over-spending
Control
This
post is about control. The control mechanism is gun control, but it
will be knife control soon, and then baseball bats and golf clubs and
who knows what else. It is about the vilification of a whole class of
citizens (you and me) who will have done nothing illegal, but who will
become criminals because of a long list of new anti-gun laws now being
passed in Sacramento. These laws will do nothing
to stop crime - they don't even pretend to. They are aimed squarely at
the 45% of Californians who believe in the 2nd Amendment and
self-defense as a human right. The majority politicians in Sacramento
don't believe in those things. Thus they are attempting to control you
and me with laws that will create new criminals. Because, it is true
that innocent people cannot be controlled, thus you must create
criminals.
Do you own a simple 60 year old Marlin Model 60 semi-auto .22 LR? If you do, soon that will be an "assault weapon" and you will be a criminal if you don't register it. After you register it, you can't loan it, or sell it, and it must be destroyed when you die.
Call your representatives and tell them to stop destroying your rights and confiscating your property. Call the Governor and tell him to veto all of these laws.
Do you own a simple 60 year old Marlin Model 60 semi-auto .22 LR? If you do, soon that will be an "assault weapon" and you will be a criminal if you don't register it. After you register it, you can't loan it, or sell it, and it must be destroyed when you die.
Call your representatives and tell them to stop destroying your rights and confiscating your property. Call the Governor and tell him to veto all of these laws.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
IRS Scandal: Some Interesting Numbers
I have not commented much on the current crop of scandals affecting the White House and the Administration. In terms of the health of the country, scandals are not desired. However, if funny business is going on behind the scenes, where the Constitution and the Law is being subverted, then scandals are necessary.
I commented extensively the past three years on Fast and Furious, the first of the extra-legal endeavors by the DOJ and ATF. I believe it reaches to the White House and certainly to Eric Holder. It progresses in Oversight Committee hearing and investigations.
Lately we have the Benghazi debacle where the President outright lied about the whole affair. I can forgive him and his staff of incompetency on the night of September 11, 2012, but not of the lying afterward.
And then there are the secret email accounts of Administrators like Lisa Jackson (Richard Windsor) of the EPA and Kathleen Sibelius (KGS2@hhs.gov.) of HHS. Sibelius' nom-de-crook even got commendations. Three years in a row, "he" was awarded a Certificate for Ethical Behavior, and was also given a certificate for completing cyber-security training courses. So much for the "most transparent administration." See here: US-Secret-Emails
Then came the James Rosen of Fox News scandal where DOJ has been reading his emails, listening to his phone calls and accusing him of being a co-conspirator in espionage. Rightly, this case has had a chilling effect on the nation's press corps, who already are scared to ask tough questions of the Administration.
Now we have the IRS scandal of abusing conservative groups who were seeking 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 status. This is the most chilling of all, since it deals directly with the practice of tyranny in arguably the most important government department, the IRS. And worst, it now appears that the impetus for the extra and biased scrutiny was coming from the Administration. This is my allegation and not proved yet, but the circumstantial evidence is mounting.
So, to the Interesting Numbers:
The Daily Caller has studied the White House visitor logs. Do they suggest complicity or at least opportunity to influence to you?
157 visits - IRS Director Schulman during entire Obama presidency
118 visits - IRS Director Schulman during years of enhanced IRS scrutiny, 2010 to 2012. (Includes two election cycles.)
90 visits - Deputy Director IRS during entire Obama presidency
100 visits - VP Joe Biden during entire Obama presidency
62 visits - AG Eric Holder during entire Obama presidency
<50 visits each - Treasury Sec Geitner and HHS Secretary Sibelius
1 visit - IRS Director during entire Bush presidency
Then it comes to light that not just conservative groups but also religious and educational groups. Where is the justification for the IRS to request the text of prayers that religious groups say? See here: Are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-christian?
Now, let's add to this the amazing coincidence of how some conservative groups and individuals have been audited by the IRS in the past few years.
For instance, Wayne Allen Root won a tax court case against an IRS audit in 2011. Five days later the IRS started another audit. Root was a classmate of Obama at Columbia, but never heard of or met the man. He is an outspoken commentator who appears to be targeted by the Administration. See here: why-is-the-leftist-media-going-after-the-irs-victims or Root's Story on Radio and especially Root's IRS Story
Through all of this I am reminded of the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. King George II eventually became exasperated with his bishop because he actually tried to be a bishop and serve the poor, among other transgressions against the King. George at one point famously said, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" It wasn't long before four knights took it upon themselves to kill Becket, perceiving a Royal edict. I am afraid Obama and crew operate similarly - expressions of wishes get carried out without direct orders being issued. Thus the President can say, "The first I knew of the IRS scandal was from the press reports." But all along the bureaucracy has been interpreting and executing those desires.
I commented extensively the past three years on Fast and Furious, the first of the extra-legal endeavors by the DOJ and ATF. I believe it reaches to the White House and certainly to Eric Holder. It progresses in Oversight Committee hearing and investigations.
Lately we have the Benghazi debacle where the President outright lied about the whole affair. I can forgive him and his staff of incompetency on the night of September 11, 2012, but not of the lying afterward.
And then there are the secret email accounts of Administrators like Lisa Jackson (Richard Windsor) of the EPA and Kathleen Sibelius (KGS2@hhs.gov.) of HHS. Sibelius' nom-de-crook even got commendations. Three years in a row, "he" was awarded a Certificate for Ethical Behavior, and was also given a certificate for completing cyber-security training courses. So much for the "most transparent administration." See here: US-Secret-Emails
Then came the James Rosen of Fox News scandal where DOJ has been reading his emails, listening to his phone calls and accusing him of being a co-conspirator in espionage. Rightly, this case has had a chilling effect on the nation's press corps, who already are scared to ask tough questions of the Administration.
Now we have the IRS scandal of abusing conservative groups who were seeking 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 status. This is the most chilling of all, since it deals directly with the practice of tyranny in arguably the most important government department, the IRS. And worst, it now appears that the impetus for the extra and biased scrutiny was coming from the Administration. This is my allegation and not proved yet, but the circumstantial evidence is mounting.
So, to the Interesting Numbers:
The Daily Caller has studied the White House visitor logs. Do they suggest complicity or at least opportunity to influence to you?
157 visits - IRS Director Schulman during entire Obama presidency
118 visits - IRS Director Schulman during years of enhanced IRS scrutiny, 2010 to 2012. (Includes two election cycles.)
90 visits - Deputy Director IRS during entire Obama presidency
100 visits - VP Joe Biden during entire Obama presidency
62 visits - AG Eric Holder during entire Obama presidency
<50 visits each - Treasury Sec Geitner and HHS Secretary Sibelius
1 visit - IRS Director during entire Bush presidency
Then it comes to light that not just conservative groups but also religious and educational groups. Where is the justification for the IRS to request the text of prayers that religious groups say? See here: Are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-christian?
Now, let's add to this the amazing coincidence of how some conservative groups and individuals have been audited by the IRS in the past few years.
For instance, Wayne Allen Root won a tax court case against an IRS audit in 2011. Five days later the IRS started another audit. Root was a classmate of Obama at Columbia, but never heard of or met the man. He is an outspoken commentator who appears to be targeted by the Administration. See here: why-is-the-leftist-media-going-after-the-irs-victims or Root's Story on Radio and especially Root's IRS Story
Through all of this I am reminded of the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. King George II eventually became exasperated with his bishop because he actually tried to be a bishop and serve the poor, among other transgressions against the King. George at one point famously said, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" It wasn't long before four knights took it upon themselves to kill Becket, perceiving a Royal edict. I am afraid Obama and crew operate similarly - expressions of wishes get carried out without direct orders being issued. Thus the President can say, "The first I knew of the IRS scandal was from the press reports." But all along the bureaucracy has been interpreting and executing those desires.
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