There's a segment of the population of this country which holds the belief that revenge should be gotten on white people for the Bad Old Days of legally-enforced racial oppression. Such people also believe that the ascent of the Head Sower of Discord into the White House indicates that "this is the moment" to fulfill the dreams of vengeance.
UPDATE: One wonders whether President Obama will publicly chide Officer Cheeks for "acting stupidly."
UPDATE (August 29, 2009): Thanks for the birthday Instalanche, Glenn.
Some new visitors seem to think that I'm pulling the Racial Discord charge out of thin air. For those who do, either you haven't been paying close attention or you don't want to believe what's happening.
Be that as it may, I'll walk you through it in a bit, using my own posts and other sources. Be patient and assume good faith.
[T]he [Enhanced Interrogation
Techniques] program was thoughtfully developed, carefully circumscribed,
briefed to Congress, and yielded information crucial to disrupting al Qaeda.
But alas! Nancy Pelosi did indeed know about the EIT program, even
though she lied
about it in order to smear the CIA.
The IG report belies House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi’s claims that she wasn’t told about all this. “In the fall of
2002, the Agency briefed the leadership of the Congressional Intelligence
Oversight Committees on the use of both standard techniques and EITs.
What is likely is that, in the manner of a person with
dementia—or an incredibly stupid person—the Speaker of the House doesn’t
remember what happens from one minute to the next, much less an event that
occurred seven years ago, even if that event did concern the national security
of the USA in the immediate wake of the worst terror attack on American soil.
However, what is even more likely is that the Speaker didn’t even
bother to try to remember any such
briefing nor did she bother to instruct her staff research congressional
briefings of CIA programs for that year.Why not?Because when you’re
trying to demonize a person or an organization, you will ignore the truth and
automatically assume bad faith.
For the Left, its enemies are always wrong, and when the enemy’s assertions and/or actions are
correct, they are to be ignored.If
that’s impossible, the Left will twist such assertions or actions into an
unrecognizable shape.Need an
example?See how the Left has
characterized those citizens who are against Healthcare/Health Insurance Reform
and those who vocally redress said grievance before their U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators in
Town hall meetings across this nation.
Back to the CIA; that organization is indeed and enemy of
the Left, no matter how many leftists work at Langley.It and all the other organizations who have had some measure of success
at defending America and the American way of Life against Socialists,
Communists, Islamists, etc. must be brought low and obliterated if
possible.
The reason is a simple one. Such organizations stand in the way of the unimaginable
power that Leftists like Nancy Pelosi—and like Barack Obama—want to be able to
wield over you.And over me.Once you accept this, the Left’s actions
become totally predictable.
...while the Wolves watch and wait. "A 'furious' Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a 'disgraceful' Eric Holder for [re-]opening an investigation of CIA interrogators [regarding the interrogation practices] and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
"'It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on,' he said of the attorney general's move, which he described as a 'declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense.'"
John
Hinderaker: "Having read the CIA report in its entirety, I am struck
once again by how humane our treatment of captured terrorists was intended
to be, and generally was. The handful of incidents highlighted by press
accounts of the report came to light precisely because they were reported
as deviations from the treatment of detainees that had been authorized by
DOJ lawyers."
Is this
torture? “[CIA] interrogators threatened to kill the children of 9/11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.” If Khalid is the good Islamist
that his reputation indicates, he should have been happy that the CIA
interrogators would offer to do him such a favor—have his children
martyred by infidels so they'd be assured of Paradise. Right, multiculturalists?
“Another Colby.” Panetta exacerbates
the problem(s).
UPDATE: "A few weeks ago, Eric Holder saw nothing wrong with Black Panthers using billy clubs to intimidate voters. Today, he thinks intimidating terrorists with [cigar smoke] is a crime. Holder is the one who should be answering tough questions under oath."
President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House. [snip]
[Deputy White House press secretary Bill] Burton said the unit will include "all these different elements under
one group," and it said that it will be situated at the FBI
headquarters in Washington. The unit would be led by an FBI official,
with a deputy director from somewhere in the government's vast
intelligence apparatus, and members from across agencies. It will be
directly supervised by the White House.
This is...wrong.
UPDATE: I guess this endeavor ties in with this story:
WASHINGTON — As President Obama
tries to turn around a summer of setbacks, he finds himself still
without most of his own team. Seven months into his presidency, fewer
than half of his top appointees are in place advancing his agenda.
Of more than 500 senior
policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent
have been filled...[snip]
While career employees or holdovers fill many
posts on a temporary basis, Mr. Obama does not have his own people
enacting programs central to his mission. He is trying to fix the
financial markets but does not have an assistant treasury secretary for
financial markets. He is spending more money on transportation than
anyone since Dwight D. Eisenhower
but does not have his own inspector general watching how the dollars
are used. He is fighting two wars but does not have an Army secretary.
No one will convince me that this state of affairs isn't purposeful. He don't need no stinkin' delegation of authority, the way an experienced manager would.
He can do it all. Or let the Interrogation Czar do it.
If that phrase doesn't chill your blood, nothing will.
The only way to get mandatory universal coverage is conversion to a single-payer system, which Congress also doesn’t have the power to do without amending the Constitution.
UPDATE: In case some aren't familiar with the slogan "keep your laws off my body," it's a rallying cry for pro-abortionists--like the president, for example--who claim that a woman has a right to do what she likes with her own body even if someone else lives inside of it.
President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.
The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtownPhiladelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.
On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns:"A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns."Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.
The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at GuantanamoBayaboutwhether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
It isn't enough to claim, as President Obama has done, thatAfghanistan's vital to our national security. It isn't. Neither he nor his befuddled advisers can explain convincingly what the payoff will be for investing more blood and treasure.
If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products. [SNIP]
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Three words: Black Liberation Theology. "Voters wanted Martin Luther King, Jr., and are hearing more an Al Sharpton."--Victor Davis Hanson
It's Marxism with a racial pride tinge to it, if you’ll pardon the pun. Remember the assertions of its founder James Cone about the god he would choose to serve.
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the Black community. If God is not for us and against White people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of Black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the Black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.
And that conjured deity is the same one which President Barack Obama seems to serve--his actions, especially regarding the DOJ and the New Black Panthers are right in line with this I-deology. However, there is nogod but an inconveniently not-black and Jewish and quite dead Karl Marx and Obama is his messenger.
But, as a matter of fact, it doesn't matter since the projected and desired end would be the same. Oh sure, the president wants to set white against black--and, with some, he doesn’t have to work too hard. This isn't a policy, however; it's merely an old Marxist tactic. Black Liberation Theology, which invites its adherents to adopt it as a whole way of leading life, is itself, merely an elaborate tactic designed to appeal to the racial vanity of some and to the racial anger/revenge fantasies of others.
Here's what the actual policies of this administration are--and yes, there are only two real ones: to foment chaos—the type of chaos which would require a little-s savior—and to reduce escape options. And the subsequent policies of that savior--the ones not yet evident; the ones which we can only guess at--will indeed stop the chaos from progressing.
While we don't know what these policies are yet, there is one thing that we can be pretty sure about: this savior’s yet-unknown policies would clamp down on big-LLibertyso tightly that none of us would recognize theUnited States in which we live at present. At that leads us to theraison d'etre, the ultimate goal:the seizure of absolute power. And that is the objective, the long-term goal. All else is secondary.
The means to that end, however, are once again,to foment chaosandreduce escape options.
Remember that these people—Leftists--have had plenty of practice at inflaming emotions and some of the most easily inflamed are those who hold race up as their totem of self-worth (it’s because they have so few other totems from which to choose.) Our president is a very well-trained Leftist and he will use this tool to stir up old grievances and imagined insults. Heck, he already has.
Don’t fall into the trap that thisSower of Discordhas set for you. Don’t allow yourselves to be herded. That means you, black people…and you, white people…and all the rest of you.
(Thanks to Andrew Breitbart, David Horowitz and Glenn Reynolds)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday.
We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.
(Emphasis mine.)
See, I'm thinking that the clergy at TrinityUnitedChurch
of "Christ" never talked about the story of the Tower of Babel when
President Obama was a regular congregant.
Oh wait. What am I saying? It wouldn't matter if they had since
the president sat in the church for twenty years worth of Sundays without
noting the content of the sermons.
Interesting that he would choose to make this hair-raising
assertion to one thousand rabbis.
I'm sure that most of my readers are aware of the Obama birth certificate controversy in which some believe that by not making his Certificate of Live Birth public, it is indicated that the president may be hiding his birthplace. (The birthplace is assumed to be Kenya.)
Now there's a new Obama birth "scandal" about which the butt-planted classes--of which I am one--are making a big deal. In this one, a MySpace page exists listing the president's age as 52 rather than 48. It is alleged that such would make a difference as to the president's citizenship eligibility even if he were born in Hawaii because Hawaii was not yet a state in 1957.
Leave aside the error and the ridiculousness of the assertion. If it were true that that Barack Obama Jr. were four years older than he claims to be, that would mean that Barack Obama Sr. could not be his biological father since the latter came to America via the Mboya Airlift on the same airplane as my father in the Year of Our Lord 1959.
This would also make the COLB/birthplace issue a moot point. Just saying.
White House Director of Media Macon Phillips writes in a blog post that the irony is that the website, which tried to clear up misinformation caused by “fear-mongering” has now become the subject of the same beast.
“An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo," Phillips writes.
Does anyone in this Administration think past the tip of his/her own nose? Forget I asked.
Here's the fun reason: it is certain that the sheer numbers of polite messages along the lines of "Bite me, you socialist race-baiter" were overloading even the White House's servers.
And here's the stupid reason: By soliciting electronic information from citizens, the White House inserted itself into the proverbial rock and hard place--by gathering this information, this White House made itself appear more sinister than it already does. But at the same time, the Administration is legally prohibited from putting such information into the virtual shredder by the Presidential Records Act (thank you, President Nixon).
So the program is down the flusher, but all you folks that got reported or reported yourselves, Big Brutha is still watching you…and, yeah, me too in all likelihood.
My great-aunt is 88-years-old. Today some sort of representative from her Medicare-assigned HMO called her and asked her a boatload of questions, including things like whether she has ever considered suicide. When I found out about the call, I was apoplectic. She has a few ailments and she is becoming less and less mobile due to a very bad back.
This company has never done anything like this before.
My aunt says that they want to come look around the house but they didn't make an appointment. No flocking way if I have anything to say about it. What do you think I should do?
[Edited for accuracy]
BACKGROUND: Aside from the invasive questioning and the taking advantage of a trusting senior, this is why I'm outraged--and apprehensive--about the call.
This week, President Obama’s health care overlord launched a taxpayer-funded initiative to recruit an Internet Snitch Brigade that will combat “disinformation about health insurance reform.” As the White House explained in a special online bulletin:
“These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag[-at]whitehouse[-dot-]gov.”
What will health care czar Nancy DeParle do with this information? Where will it be stored? Who has oversight of the czar’s powers, budget, and personnel? Concerned citizens, alas, will have a hard time tracking down the “Office of Health Care Reform” created by executive order in April. There is no central website for the office, no direct channel for transparency, and no congressional accountability.
At least one member of Congress has started asking questions. Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn sent a letter to President Obama demanding that he disband the Internet Snitch Brigade immediately: “By requesting citizens send ‘fishy’ emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email, addresses, IP addresses and private speech ofU.S.citizens will be reported to the White House,” Sen. Cornyn wrote. “You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program.”
By take the authoritarian action of asking others to rat out their friends and acquaintances and enemies merely for having a different opinion than he does, President Obama has put himself in a bind. Stemming from the debacle that was Watergate, it is illegal for any agency of the federal government to maintain personal data on personswho are merely exercising their God-given (not government-given) rights.
(e)Agency Requirements.—Each agency that maintains a system of records shall—…
(7)maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity;
However, since Drop-a-Dime was implemented days ago, the White House has likely been gathering countless bits of data on countless citizens and guess what? It is also illegal for the White House to dispose of correspondence data.
Well. Now that I think it through a bit more, the White House isn’t in such a bind after all. See, it should be obvious by now that this Administration can, has and will override law and protocol without having to brave the protest of the institutions designated to constrain it, Senator Cornyn notwithstanding.
Because our leaders have failed us or have been rendered nearly powerless, it has been up to the People to push back against the Great Burglary of theU.S.economy, its latest incarnation being Healthcare Reform or Health Insurance Reform or whatever it’s being called today. But like any other thief, these Thieves get angry when you don’t just allow them to mug you or snatch your purse. They will try to beat you down.
Kenneth [Gladney] was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting inSouthSt. LouisCounty. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an [Service Employees International Union] representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.
Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted toSt. John’sMercyMedicalCenteremergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.
Krav Magahere I come. The Israelis always make good stuff.
A physical attack by Union thugs may seem vastly different from the collection and holding of data about peaceful dissenters by the highest government official in the land but the difference lies only in scope. The two concepts spring from the exact same ideological origin: the origin of entitlement. The Obama Administration is entitled to all the power that it can gather and wield, the will of the People be damned and the law of land be damned. Oh and God-bestowed rights? Well "god-d*mn them" too.
Is it clear to all what we’re dealing with here? No, I don’t think that it is. But one day, sooner than anyone can imagine, no one will be able to deny what’s been right in front of their eyes all along.
UPDATE: "I don’t want the folks who created the mess [sic] to do a lot of talking" --President Barack Obama
With all due respect, Mr. President, when it comes to the redress of grievances by American citizens to their government, what you want is irrelevant. These questions remain, however: what will you do and how far will you go to get what you want--in this and all other matters of gaining and holding onto power?
Haven’t you all figured it out by now? It’s been six months of Groundhog Day with a twist: everyday we wake up to some new piece of jaw-dropping news regarding the short-term tactics and/or long term strategies of this Administration with all having one objective in common.
There have been strategies like
The Stimulus—ballooning the national debt to ten trillion dollars.
Cap and Trade—making it more expensive for energy companies to use coal, which, in turn, will make it more expensive for individuals to use energy;
President Obama’s decision to insert himself in Cambridge,Massachusetts police business and further stir the racial pot.
And the last two examples have occurred in only the past few weeks. President Barack Obama’s January 20, 2009 Inauguration found an America that was financially staggered by a slow-acting congressionally-induced poison called the Community Reinvestment Act and, since that date, the Democrat president, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate and Democrat-controlled House of Representatives have done everything in their power—and some things far outside of their scope of power--to slip America its death blow.
Oh, you don’t believe that? You think that I’m talking out my nether regions, right? After all, why would anyone hate this country enough to want to destroy it—especially those who are in charge of running it?
This is why. It is obvious that the Left hates freedom and the choices inherent in the concept of freedom—the freedom to chronically lose.
As I’ve said before (heh), losers cannot behave like winners even when they win. They still covet those God-given blessings with which winners are endowed and still must make winners pay for ever having won—for there being such concepts as ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ in the first place. For such people—for President Obama--the God-blessed America is the ultimate villain. ("Naw, naw, naw...God-d*mn America!!!")
I receive an email yesterday from the president’s old campaign site, the title being “This is the Moment.” (Hmm, is there an echo in here?) It is President Obama’s moment indeed: to see if the will of the people can be overridden and if direct access to a blood vessel of the American economy can be opened up by government; direct and legislated access to your money and mine, direct access to our very lives—in order to bleed us.
And if the we the people resist being jacked by the government, if we speak out, we will be ignored first (April 15 and July 4 Tea Parties), then ridiculed with particularly crude sexual references, then demonized. Then come the threats. What will come after that?
Know this: this government wants to control everything about the lives of all American citizens. All of us. And it has set forth the means to do this in all of the legislation that has come before the Senate and the House in this session. (I’m guessing that many of these schemes had long been composed while the authors waited for the right climate to dust them off.) The HealthCare/Health Insurance “Reform”— ObamaCare--is the crowning jewel of government-sanction larceny, however. That’s why the president and his allies in the legislative branch are trying to get it done so fast.
But too many American citizens are objecting to having their pockets picked for this government’s taste. All over the country, people are very vocallyobjecting to—and even laughing derisively at-- proposed thievery and government-sanctioned tyranny and doing so via more Tea Parties and in Townhall meetings in the face of their shocked Democrat congressional representation and at least one executive branch honcho, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
How dare the serfs not hand over our money and our lives without backtalk!
And, as a result of the vocal assertion of the First Amendment Right to redress the government for grievances, the government has taken its most chilling step yet—at least for today. The White House has created a special informant email address: flag-at-whitehouse-dot-com. About whom are correspondents to inform? Why, about all those who publicly oppose government-run health care and who transmit oppositional information via email or via blogs--which covers almost all Republicans and, judging from the polls and from some videos of townhall meetings, not a few Democrats. See, many of the latter draw the line at their own pockets as well.
I guess what I’m wondering is this: what is the White House going to do with all of the information it gathers from the informants?
What comes next?
(Thanks to Instapundit, to Hot Air and to Jim in Fremont)
The Obama administration is considering an overhaul of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would strip billions in bad loans and create a new home-loan organization, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Government officials told the Post that the firms' bad debt would be given to new government financial institutions that would then be responsible for collecting on the debts.
It's the Community Reinvestment Act Revisited. If you're not convinced that Barack Obama is trying to destroy the US economy, you will be. Here's hoping that it isn't too late.
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