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I've had two of my busiest weeks in recent memory. So much so, that I
missed writing one essay last week, and resumed writing just
yesterday. During that busy time period, I watched about 1/4th of
each of Glenn Beck's TV programs, rather than my usual 75%. I kept
hearing mention of the 8/28 Washington Rally, but heard few if any
particulars. Beck had called attention to the fact 'his' rally had
reached the… 40 days-away point. "40 days" is significant,
Biblically.
Obviously, Beck sees 'power' in numbers, as evidenced by his failed
effort to get 56 "refounders" of our country. 56 is the number of
"founders" who had attended the Constitutional Convention. So, 56 is
associate with the writing of a NEW constitution. *** Beck has never
realized this fact: After 221 years, all that is needed to turn our
country around is, simply, to "found" another NEW Constitution! There
is no need for him to find the sought-after 56 "insiders" to reveal
the oh-my-gosh Washington corruption. There is only ONE refounder
needed to pen and polish a 'New Constitution of the United States of
America'. That person is yours truly! And my New Constitution, like
Ivory Soap, is "99 and 44/100% pure", or completed; "it floats!"
I was greatly disappointed to realize that Glenn Beck has gone-back-on-
his-word to "wear combat boots" until government is, once again, in
the hands of the People. Yesterday, Beck was wearing his most
childish 'black and white tennis shoes', while he discussed frugal
President Calvin Coolidge. Most of his TV viewers have probably
noticed that Beck has wide schizophrenic swings in personality,
including: whistle-blower, history teacher, philosopher, pacifist,
fatalist, alarmist, humorist, preacher, egotist and would-be savior of
this country. The latter role is Beck's most delusional. Though he
is frequently subject to attack by Obama and the CRIMINAL left, Beck
doesn't understand that his being right up there with Oprah in public
influence, does NOT qualify that man to lead a Revolution.
I was even MORE disappointed to learn that on 8/28 Beck will be…
'preaching' on the subject of "honor". He is adding "honor" to his
LAME "Faith, Hope, and Charity" mantra, which has absolutely ZERO
CHANCE OF INSPIRING THE WINNING OF A REVOLUTION!! "Honor" is a word
of SUBMISSION! I repeat: "Honor" is a word of SUBMISSION! Are
hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans expected to stand in the
broiling sun to hear a sermon on… "honor"? I certainly hope no one
will be going there just for that!
Throughout history, leaders have emerged because of the confidence the
people have in them. George Washington was able to command so well,
because his followers saw him as strong and properly motivated. In
Glenn Beck's case, his "authorization" to lead comes from his own ego,
or as he sometimes explains, from his (Oral-Roberts-like) message from
God to put his emphasis on… "Faith, Hope, and Charity." Beck says,
'Pray, Folks, and our government will magically get all better.'
Well, I say, "Bull Shit!"
Martin Luther King, Jr., wisely, chose to make the fight for civil
rights for Blacks "nonviolent". If Blacks had resorted to violence,
they would have been on the losing end. It's now apparent to me that
Glenn Beck wishes to emulate King. He has selected 8/28 to preach his
own PACIFIST, crying sermon. But there's a huge difference between
King's position representing the Black minority, and the Tea Party
position representing the clear MAJORITY!
When King spoke, Blacks had little power. He had to appeal to the
goodness in the hearts of whites and others. In contrast, anti-
government sentiment is shared by close to 70% of Americans, of all
races and groups. Such a number is more than enough to ratify my New
Constitution and thus kick-out all of the bastards! Glenn Beck,
wrongly, is identifying with and emulating those who did not have the
POWER. Actually, the People, collectively, HAVE the power to arrest
Pelosi and Reid on 8/28! *** If there is an obvious consensus among
the People for doing the right things, the Secret Service and the
Capital Police will not stand in the way. If they do so, those police
officers will be committing TREASON against the USA.
Dozens of movies have had themes in which corrupt police captains
expect the blind loyalty of their police employees. In the final face-
down between a good guy and a corrupt police captain, the latter
orders one of his employees to… shoot the good guy. After a fraught
pause, a gunshot rings out. The camera pans the floor to show the
corrupt police captain with a bullet hole through his head. When push-
comes-to-shove, honest police employees will side with the good guys,
not the bad. But because of the Spirit of the Corp, few police
employees want to be seen as the… 'first' to desert the command
hierarchy to be supportive of the good guys. Here is what my New
Constitution says:
"All local, state and federal officer holders and employees—upon
taking office or assuming employment—shall take the following oath:
"I, (Name), promise to serve and be deferential to the People, and to
be unbiased toward any group with a pro democracy, pro fairness
ideology. I swear to honor and uphold the full civil rights of the
citizens, as guaranteed by the Constitution, and I shall expect my
coworkers and superiors to do the same. I understand that my
employment in or by government is conditional upon my adherence to
this oath." No employee nor office holder shall be sanctioned for
making complaints against another office holder, employee or
superior. No government employee nor office holder shall be coerced
into wrongdoing, immoral action or non action, or illegality by a real
or implied threat of the loss of one's job, promotion or benefits, nor
by any bribe or promise of promotion or benefits. Making such a
threat, bribe or promise is a felony carrying a minimum ten year
prison sentence—and if part of a pattern—making such threats, bribes
or promises is treason. Acquiescing to such is a felony. Government
officials, agents or employees who become aware of corruption in
government or in any of its departments shall notify the Executive
Branch and the courts; willful failure to do so is a felony. With
impunity, a government officer(s) or employee(s) shall enforce no law
nor perform any order or directive which violates their personal moral
conscience or their oath."
In international dealings, such as in Afghanistan, our military
leaders fault telling the enemy 'when' we will withdraw the troops.
Talking a withdrawal date lets the enemy lay-low until our troops
leave, then, they take over, again. Similarly, by 'preaching'
"Honor" (submission) the criminals in Washington feel safe from the
'target practice' of concerned Americans. In fighting a revolution,
the ENEMY—Barack Obama and his TREASONOUS leftist cohorts—shouldn't be
allowed to get the idea that the hundreds of thousands of unhappy
Americans who attend the rallies are all pacifist wimps. Glenn Beck,
who has taken off his COMBAT BOOTS, is a God Damned Pacifist Wimp!
Don't pray for him, LAUGH him off of the podium!!
Concerned Americans please do this: *** If you plan to attend the 8/28
rally in Washington, take along dozens of yellow ribbons, about 8"
long, and dozens of small safety pins. Talk to those around you about
"refounding" America via ratifying my New Constitution. If those
people are open-minded or sympathetic, ask them to wear a single-
looped yellow ribbon pinned to their RIGHT upper shoulder. The more
yellow ribbons that show up in the crowd at the rally, the greater are
the chances that my New Constitution will be ratified soon.
ADDITIONALLY, if you are anywhere is the USA, and you have one of
those small American Flag lapel pins, clip the flags UPSIDE-DOWN to
your shirt or coat. Upside-down flags are an internationally-
recognized distress signal. And, man, is our country ever in
distress!
Remember this: Being Patriots, who fight to save our country, isn't a
crime. Nor is it a crime for Patriots to shoot and kill treasonous
outlaws wherever they be found. Be it known: No blood needs to be
shed, IF, as I have repeatedly asked, one or more state governors or
attorneys general will simply begin arresting leftist, socialist/
communist Democrats as soon as they set foot in those states! The
domino-effect of starting those arrests, will STOP our runaway
government in its tracks! And the governors can immediately appoint
new members of congress so that all needed government functions can
continue. Do the above, and socialism nor communism will ever raise
their ugly heads in this country, again!
I suggest that the following signs be waved at the 8/28 Washington
rally:
"ARREST the TREASONOUS BASTARDS!"
"Sarah Palin should do her target practice in Washington!"
"Use our COMBAT BOOTS to stamp-out Progressives!"
"Let us pray… and 'pass the ammunition'!"
"A 'New Constitution' or BUST! We're already BUSTED…"
"To win a Revolution, we must first RESOLVE to win!"
"Loyalty to the PEOPLE, or to the politicians? YOU decide."
"Cops who give aid and comfort to the ENEMY are guilty of treason."
"'I have a dream…' 'Fair play and democracy shall have supremacy in
the USA!'"
As always: "United we stand; divided we fall." May we all unite to
SAVE the USA!
Respectfully submitted,
— John A. Armistead — Patriot
AKA NoEinstein on Google's sci.physics news group
>
On Aug 13, 4:04 pm, NoEinstein <noeinst...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Cowards can't win our Revolution!
>
> In two weeks there will be a big rally in Washington on the
> anniversary of the historic and poignant Martin Luther King "I have a
> dream…" speech. This time, the Lincoln Memorial and the adjacent mall
> areas have been reserved for Glenn Beck and for perhaps a million Tea-
> Party-sympathizing Americans who wish to win back the control of our
> runaway government. Most of those people who attend the rally will be
> motivated to change government—not because of racial "hatred" for a
> just-happens-to-be Black "president"—but because of near total disdain
> for government over-spending, and for government's under-regard for
> the opinions of the voters. Effectively, our runaway government is
> ENSLAVING generations of American's. That's for paying-off the
> trillions of dollars of debt voted upon us by several hundred
> illegitimate, treasonous bastards in Washington. Glenn Beck likes to
> call the latter "progressives", but I prefer to call them leftist
> socialist/communist Democrats, and crossover Republicans.
>
> A wonderful word like 'Progress' shouldn't be preempted by a group
> bent on destroying America. Three decades or so ago, another
> wonderful word, 'gay', got preempted as a more 'socially acceptable'
> alternative to… homosexual. The word 'gay' is associated with smiles;
> and smiles imply acceptance. Jay Leno, and other comedians, also,
> associate gays with humor. If people laugh, everything is OK; right?
> Since 'gays' are a large minority group, deserving of rights, then
> they should be entitled to have nuptial contracts just like
> 'straights'; right? Yes. But 'gays' should NOT be allowed to preempt
> another wonderful word: Marriage. For centuries the latter word has
> been associated with heterosexuals bonding contractually, and in most
> cases, producing offspring. The "contract" portion is fine, but the
> use by 'gays' of the word Marriage is unacceptable! Here is what my
> New Constitution says:
>
> "Marriage (married) is a contractual heterosexual union; gaygement
> (gayged) is a contractual homosexual union." With the latter
> distinction required by law, no married couple will have their sexual
> orientation be subject to question. Nor should 'gays' wrongly be
> considered to be straight because they say they are married. It's the
> WORD marriage that must not be corrupted. Few fair-minded Americans
> would deny to anyone the right to have mates of their own choosing.
>
> Glenn Beck says he will keep wearing "combat boots" until government
> is back in the hands of the people. A few weeks ago Beck acknowledged
> that we no longer have a "Republic" form of government, i.e., where
> elected officials carry out the Will of the People. Progressives have
> taken-over our government and are working tirelessly to destroy
> America. Any and all elected officials who have disregarded the Will
> of the People and worked tirelessly to destroy America—while at the
> same time enslaving tens of millions of Americans to pay-off debt they
> never wished to be saddled with—are guilty of capital TREASON! ***
> Simply by starting to arrest those anti-Constitution squatters in
> public offices in Washington, the stage will have been set to reverse
> every single "law" supposedly enacted by Barack Obama and his criminal
> band of 'progressive' congressmen. Folks, please realize this fact:
> Electing more "good people" in government won't automatically reverse
> the "laws" enacted during the Obama administration. The guillotine
> was a cure in France's revolution. Similarly, the gallows can be our
> cure in the present Revolution.
>
> Last night, Juan Williams of NPR, who is a frequent guest on Fox News
> Network, substituted for Bill O'Reilly. That show ran a video of a
> political ad made by the son of former V. Pres., Dan Quail. The
> younger Quail, apparently, is running for a US senate seat for
> Arizona. He was shown in unflattering dim lighting explaining how
> Barack Obama "is the worst President in US history." Juan Williams
> was pleasantly incredulous that Obama is the worst. But how can Obama
> not be? He has pushed this country way over-our-heads in debt;
> expanded government to the detriment of our survival; and bribed tens
> of millions of Americans into, supposedly, voting for progressives in
> 2010, and for him in 2012, all without ever considering the
> consequences of his actions. Obama's latest BRIBES will have the
> federal government paying tens of billions of dollars of must-be-spent
> money to the states to prevent the layoff of a single teacher, police
> officer or firefighter. Effectively, Barack Obama—THE most hurtful
> man to our nation, ever—is enslaving generations of Americans, of all
> races, to guarantee that no government can ever be downsized, and made
> efficient. Obama's theory is: Give enough people… "entitlements" and
> they will keep voting TREASONOUS Democrats back into office. It's
> apparent that Barack Obama is fulfilling "Atlas Shrugged" single
> handedly.
>
> Where is 'The Lone Ranger' when we need him? Where is that one person
> who stands for fairness and for justice who will do the prudent and
> most expedient things to make our country better? I've "only" penned
> and polished a New Constitution for the United States over the past 15
> years. I'm not a celebrity nor a public figure who can spark the
> needed change simply by calling the progressives in Washington
> TREASONOUS criminals, who should be arrested, tried and hanged! If
> revolutions need bodies, let the bodies be those of Barack Obama, his
> advisors and henchmen, and his congressional hey-boys like Charles
> Rangel. At Rangel's 80th birthday celebration, he was as carefree as
> a kid. And why not? The Rev. Al Sharpton considers Rangel to be an
> OK guy, simply because Rangel has done numbers of good things for
> Blacks in the past. The message: Do "good" things, and Blacks, at
> least, are willing to 'overlook' the bad. A jury of Rangel's peers
> (Blacks) would… certainly get him off scot-free. Bet on it.
>
> I suggest that the following signs be waved at the 8/28 Washington
> rally:
>
> "ARREST the TREASONOUS BASTARDS!"
>
> "Sarah Palin should do her target practice in Washington!"
>
> "Use COMBAT BOOTS to stamp-out Progressives!"
>
> "Let us pray… and 'pass the ammunition'!"
>
> "A 'New Constitution' or BUST! We're already BUSTED…"
>
> "To win a Revolution, we must first RESOLVE to win!"
>
> "Loyalty to the PEOPLE, or to the politicians? YOU decide."
>
> "Cops who give aid and comfort to the ENEMY are guilty of treason."
>
> "'I have a dream…' 'Fair play and democracy shall have supremacy in
> the USA!'"
>
> In addition to signs such as the above, I recommend that those of you
> who will ***pin a small yellow ribbon to your right shoulder (not your
> left shoulder!). Yellow ribbons will show that the wearer considers
> the decline in our government to be justification for the "instant
> fix" that my New Constitution can provide following its ratification.
>
> "United we stand; divided we fall." May we all unite to SAVE the USA!
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> — John A. Armistead — Patriot
>
> AKA NoEinstein on Google's sci.physics news group
>
>
>
> On Jul 31, 1:01 pm, NoEinstein <noeinst...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Masochists can't win our Revolution!
>
> > Arizona Governor Jan Brewer expresses resolve to take her state's
> > immigration law issues all the way to the Supreme Court to get…
> > justice. This week, such justice was denied by a lower court on the
> > grounds that the Federal Government preempts the states on laws
> > regarding our national borders. Commentators believe that such ruling
> > was a victory for the White House—a victory to continue to do nothing
> > to secure our border with Mexico.
>
> > The White House sees illegal Hispanics as potential voters, who, if
> > given amnesty, will tip-the-scales to allow leftist, socialist/
> > communist Democrats to win the war to control the future of the USA.
> > I'm pleased that dozens of states, besides Arizona, are taking up the
> > cause of demanding that our borders be secured. Nebraska was one of
> > the first to publicly support Arizona. Because Nebraska is a farming
> > state, thousands of illegals work in the fields, there, doing jobs
> > that out-of-work citizens need in these depressed economic times.
>
> > While there may be perceived strength in the growing support for
> > Arizona regarding illegal immigration, there is little actual value in
> > having unity on that or any issue. That's because we no longer have a
> > Representative Republic in this country, as our Founding Fathers
> > mandated in the Constitution. The White House—with its czars and
> > executive orders—is effectively controlling everything, without the
> > voters having any say-so. Polls show that from 52% to 65% of
> > Americans believe our government is a failure. Only 20% still have
> > confidence in the US Congress. Folks, those numbers show that we have
> > passed the threshold necessary for this country to kick-the-rascals-
> > out. But we should do so, not by winning any more impotent elections,
> > but because the offenses of every single elected official who has
> > voted to destroy the USA are criminal and TREASON!
>
> > Gov. Jan Brewer mentions a WEB site where contributions can be made to
> > a fund to aid Arizona in preparing their legal arguments. That money
> > will go to god-damned lawyers to "fight" for justice. In the USA our
> > tolerance for anything done by lawyers always borders on masochism.
> > Obviously, we must love the P A I N. Governor Brewer sure loves pain
> > of any kind. *** The legal authority of the Federal Government over
> > the people, as well as the authority of the entire
>
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Fresh clashes between government forces and protesters have left several people injured in Indian-administered Kashmir as a new wave of violence sweeps the valley. Security sources said hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to protest strict curfews in the Muslim-majority region. Police used teargas and live ammunition to disperse the stone-throwing demonstrators. "At least 20 protesters and 10 policemen were injured in clashes in more than two dozen locations across Kashmir," AFP quoted a regional police officer as saying. The violence comes a day after government troops opened fire on protesters in the troubled valley, killing at least four demonstrators. The killings came as Kashmiris marked the first Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Police have expanded a curfew and imposed security restrictions in the region's main city and summer capital, Srinagar. "We have enforced a curfew across Srinagar to maintain law and order," said chief district magistrate Meraj Kakroo. Police sources said the curfew had been extended to other parts of the Himalayan region as well. The unrest also comes as India prepares to mark the country's 64th Independence Day on August 15, the day which separatist leaders observe as "Black Day." Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a Muslim cleric and an influential moderate separatist, has led thousands of Srinagar residents to protest against Indian rule. "The protests will continue until India withdraws troops from civilian areas, repeals tough security laws, releases all the prisoners and ends human rights violations in Kashmir," Farooq said. At least 55 people have lost their lives in clashes with Indian forces over the past two months. Most of the protesters killed have been young men. Kashmir lies at the heart of more than 60 years of hostility between India and Pakistan. Both countries claim the region in full but have partial control over it. |
The Obvious Message of Jerry Brown’s Pension
Posted By Roger L Simon On August 13, 2010 @ 2:46 pm In Uncategorized | 50 Comments
A kerfuffle surrounding a clandestine Jerry Brown pension is generating a lot of Drudge action on this lazy August Friday. Servers at the Watchdog blog [1] of the Orange Country Register that broke the story are bogging down. Keep clicking on it. The report is amusing. In fact, it’s a bit more than that….
It seems California’s one-time and now aspiring governor Jerry Brown has been drawing down a healthy pension from the state — perhaps double-dipping — causing a mild embarrassment to Jerry that could grow into something more than mild. At the moment he is locked in a tight race with Meg Whitman.
What’s troubling in all this is not that Brown makes a good pension — or even than there may be some discrepancy about how much he makes versus how much he deserves. It is that the whole thing is SECRET! (rare use of caps and exclam very deliberate).
Let’s think this through for half a second. At a time when pension funds are bankrupting or potentially bankrupting states all across the country, when aging populations are forcing the reconsideration of all sorts of social security programs on practically every country on Earth (countries that have them, anyway), and when the state of California — the sixth, or is it seventh, biggest economy in the world — is about to, once again, pay its employees with vouchers because it’s got zippity-do-dah in the bank, some officials of that state are receiving pensions whose size and identity we do not know and are not allowed to see.
Yes, there are secret state pensions in California. (Sounds like Novosibirsk, doesn’t it?) And we the citizens of that state are paying for them!
There is only word for this: criminal.
This mysterious fund whose beneficiaries you are not allowed to know about (even though you are paying for them) is called the Legislators’ Retirement System [2]. It was supposed to have been reformed, but evidently it wasn’t. Who’s responsible for that little oversight, I’d like to know.
If Jerry Brown were a public official worth re-electing, not only would he completely disclose everything about his pension at this point, he would also call for a new law that makes all — and I mean all — publicly-financed pensions totally transparent.
We’re paying for them. We have a right to know who is getting them and how much they are getting. It’s so laughably obvious, it’s astounding there isn’t such an ironclad law already.
It will be interesting to see if Jerry does this. Although a cool guy on the surface, with all the best Zen moves of an aging-Boomer, in the crunch he has almost always shown himself to be a coward and to behave and act in the tradition of the hack liberal pol, pandering to interest groups and preserving the status quo ante.
Only in this case the status quo ante is a disaster. I am reminded of the lyrics of Woody Guthrie’s classic “Do Re Mi”:
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.
Well, right now most of us don’t got the do re mi, not just those poor migrants Woody was writing about. The whole state is on the brink of collapse — from the redwood forests to the Whiskey a Go Go. Pension transparency is just the tip of the iceberg of what needs to be reformed. But pension transparency is a good place to start, because if we are to avoid permanent bankruptcy, a number of these pensions are going to have to be cut substantially. There’s no other way I can think of.
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Posted by Ben on August 13, 2010 ·
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Floyd Reports
When Missouri voters attempted to stop ObamaCare at the ballot box via the initiative process, the national news media took notice. In the August 3 vote, 7 in 10 voters in the "Show Me State" supported Proposition C, which overturns government mandates requiring health insurance. Proposition C actually bars penalties against people who pay their own health bills without insurance.
On August 2, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled against a U.S. Justice Department request to throw out a lawsuit brought by Virginia against ObamaCare. Virginia is arguing in the lawsuit that the U.S. Congress had unconstitutionally exceeded its powers by forcing individuals to buy insurance.
Hudson wrote, "While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate — and tax — a citizen's decision not to participate in interstate commerce…"
Hudson continues by saying there is, "some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side's position." Hudson's decision sets up the opportunity to have appellate and eventually the Supreme Court decide these issues.
But our personal favorite of the many lawsuits challenging ObamaCare is from Arizona. Yes, the land of immigration enforcement could also be the site of a major constitutional battle about ObamaCare. The citizens of Arizona are restless with their Washington, D.C. overseers.
The Goldwater Institute, a public policy outfit named for Arizona's most famous son, is taking a different swing at the question.
Representing a local business owner, Nick Coons of Tempe, Ariz., the Goldwater Institute has built an intriguing legal strategy which will shake up the debate: "Mr. Coons pays for all of his medical care out of his own pocket and he wants to continue making his own health care decisions. Under the federal health care bill, Mr. Coons will face significant fines from the IRS if he doesn't buy a health insurance plan that has been approved by the government by 2014."
In announcing the lawsuit Coons complained, "The government is making me spend money on something that I don't want. Is a stranger who works for the government in some other part of the country really going to know what I need? I am the best qualified to make these decisions for myself."
The Goldwater Institute's lawyer is well-known constitutional litigator Clint Bolick. Bolick argues, "The new federal law also violates Mr. Coons' medical privacy by forcing him to disclose his medical records to an insurance company, and those records could be accessed by the federal government and others without his permission."
We have always been disturbed by the arrogance of government officials that seem to believe they have a right to know the most intimate details of your discussions with your doctor. ObamaCare will violate the sanctity and privacy of the relationship you have with your physician.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution would be shocked by the manipulation we have recently experienced at the hands of Congress, Obama, and out-of-control federal judges. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sums it all up when he said of ObamaCare's attempts to regulate the behavior of doing nothing: "Even the king and the parliament acknowledged they didn't have this power back before the Declaration of Independence."
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· August 13th, 2010 8:17 pm
Beheadings are as common in Mexico as they are in radical Islamic regions of the world.
Photo: American Post
Mexican officials faced with growing crime and a quasi-insurgency by drug cartel thugs are seeking to replicate a program embraced by President Bill Clinton and his minions in the 1990s: a Mexican version of Midnight Basketball.
For those unfamiliar with Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill, among the multi-billion dollar, pork-barrel laced provisions was $40 million for the much-publicized midnight basketball leagues. In these leagues, each team had ten players (from areas with high percentage of kids in public housing and a high percentage of HIV positives in the population) and each league must have eight teams.
Other provisions provided $100 million for Rep. John Conyer's "ounce of prevention program." This was free money for mayors to spend on virtually any purpose tangentially related to crime, including the building of swimming pools. Another $630 million was earmarked for "child-centered activities." This was money for arts and crafts, dance programs, recreational activities, nutrition training, and so forth.
"No matter how many times nor how aggressively congressional supporters of the crime bill tried to justify this avalanche of new social welfare spending, their efforts have proved futile: the vast majority of Americans living outside of Washington, D.C. simply don't believe that dance classes, arts and crafts programs, more education spending, and olympic swimming-sized pools are going to do much to prevent crime," said Stephan Moore of the Cato Institute during his testimony before the House Ways & Means Committee in 1995. Moore was one of many who wished the crime bill to be reformed sans the pork-barrel projects and earmarks.
On Thursday, during a segment on Fox News Channel's top-rated Your World with Neil Cavuto, the host interviewed Arizona Republican State Senator Frank Antenori about the threat of Mexican drug gangs and Mexico's own attempt at what critics call "touchy-feely" crimefighting.
According to State Sen. Antenori, Mexican officials and President Barack Obama's U.S. advisors have come up with a $270 million dollar program to fight the treacherous and deadly Mexican drug cartels.
The rationale for this latest anti-cartel initiative is that the thousands soldiers and cops based in Juarez, Mexico aren't effective enough to stop the bloodshed that's seeping into the United States.
However, instead of tough enforcement and increased police and military resources, the Mexican plan to solve the crime and violence epidemic is to create programs such as youth orchestras, physical fitness programs, free concerts, student breakfasts, etc.
Antenori said he is outraged and asked if there is any "wonder AZ is doing all it can to defend its borders."
"This will surely create fear and horror in these gangsters. Students doing a Mexican hat dance will stop the cartels in their tracks," quipped former New York narcotics officer Charles Santiago.
Unlike most of the Obama -- and Bill Clinton -- minions, Antenori served more than 20 years in the U.S. military and most that time in Special Forces. Most recently he served in Iraq and told Cavuto that during Operation Phantom Fury, the U.S. was able to secure Fallujah, Iraq with about the same number of soldiers.
He stated that he doesn't understand how 10,000 Mexican soldiers are unable to get these cartels under control, citing possible leadership problems in Mexico.
He also said he'd like to know "who the U.S. advisors are that advised the Mexican government to spend money on these social projects."
"We have a national security issue here and Mexico is unable to deal with this 'insurgency' of cartels within its own borders," said Antenori
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.
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Islamic prayers every Friday in the Capitol building. Ramadan feast Friday night at the White House. Wasn't building a shrine to conquering America mosque at Ground Zero supposed to be a local issue? Ever the opportunist, Obama chose his Islamic feast with Muslims at the White House celebrating the month of jihad to endorse the [...]
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