User's Manual to Contempt of Congress

 

Note: US Attorney works for Holder.

 

 

"Contempt of Congress" sounds real impressive.

But look at the punishment, at least according to this article.

Nothing more than a misdemeanor punishment.

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http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/06/19/users-manual-contempt-congress

User's Manual to Contempt of Congress

by Chad Pergram | June 19, 2012

 

With the meeting scheduled at 5 pm Eastern Tuesday and a potential markup session on Wednesday to prepare the contempt resolution, here is a primer for how the process works:

1) The subpoenaed witness either refuses to show or refuses to answer a question.

2) The Congressional committee decides to hold him or her in contempt and takes a majority vote to do to that. They issue a "contempt citation."

3) The contempt citation is presented to the full House. A member of the House must then offer a privileged resolution directing the Speaker of the House to send the matter to a U.S. Attorney.

4) The House debates and votes to adopt the resolution by majority vote.

5) The Speaker directs the House Legal counsel to present the facts in a document and he certifies it and sends the fact document to the U.S. Attorney.

6) The U.S. Attorney must convene a Grand Jury.

7) The Grand Jury reviews the fact document and may want to call witnesses to testify before it.

8) The Grand Jury, after its proceedings, decides to indict the individual [or not indict.]

9) If indicted, the U.S. Attorney then mounts a prosecution of the individual in a court of law.

10) The statute [written in 1857] which still governs the contempt of Congress process today, requires that the following case be made for conviction:[a] The answers the individual refused to give to Congress must relate to a legislative purpose and [b] The answers must fall topically within the grant of authority made by Congress to that specific congressional committee.

11) The committee, through the prosecuting attorney, must make the case that their questions are pertinent.

12) The jury decides if the individual is guilty of contempt of Congress or not.

13) If the individual is convicted the statute sets out the mandatory punishment:
        [a] a fine of up to $1,000 but no more and/or
        b] a jail sentence of up to one year, but no more.

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/06/19/users-manual-contempt-congress#ixzz1yLRbFExD

 

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Admin discipline recommended for troops involved in Quran burning

 

They should all be given commendations!

 

Admin discipline recommended for troops involved in Quran burning

Pakistani students shout slogans during a protest rally against Quran burning in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar area on February 22, 2012.

Ahmad Sidique, Xinhua-Zuma Press/MCT

Published: June 19, 2012

Related

• Obama apologizes for Quran burning as protests continue
• US military struggles to teach troops to respect Quran

Up to seven U.S. troops will face administrative punishment—not criminal charges—as a result of the military investigation into the February Quran-burning incident in Afghanistan, according to The Associated Press.

While none of the recommended punishment decisions are final, it is believed that one Navy servicemember and six Army soldiers will receive "nonjudicial disciplinary actions" for the incident that touched off deadly protests and caused President Obama to apologize to Afghans.

According to the story, the punishment can amount to a letter in the servicemember's file, to lost wages or additional duties.

The holy books were taken from extremists at the Parwan Detention Facility because officials believed messages were being sent inside.

U.S. officials and the president have said all along that the servicemembers did not know what they were throwing into the fire pit.

"The error was inadvertent. I assure you that we will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible," Obama said in a letter at the time.

Several were killed and dozens injured skirmishes after the incident as the Islamic militia called for retribution and thousands took to the streets.

Source: The Associated Press

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Re: The Many, The Gay, The New Marines to Celebrate Gay Pride Month

EXACTLY what "right" don't they have that I do ??
---
to get married ... for starters

On Jun 20, 2:42 pm, Mark <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> they want the same rights ... not more rights
>
> EXACTLY what "right" don't they have that I do ?? This is one question no
> one on the pro Gay side has ever been able to answer...
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:45 PM, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> > If you think that I am some type of Bible thumping zealot, you are
> > very
> > much mistaken.
> > ---
> > did I imply that you are?
>
> > I find it somewhat humorous, but mostly disturbing that folks like you
> > get
> > your drawers all up in a wad over Christians,
> > ---
> > accusation noted and completely false
>
> >  and that we are pretty much
> > the majority in this Nation.  We don't make a big fuss about much;  we
> > don't have a lot of demands.....The far left mock us;  the secularists
> > like
> > yourself want to see us wiped from the history books;  and yet, we
> > continue
> > to "Continue On",  keeping a low profile, and having, "Faith".
> > ---
> > you are more than welcome to keep your faith
>
> > I have no objections to, or any problems with homosexuals, and
> > whatever it
> > is that they do.
> > ---
> > so, you don't believe that homosexuality is sinful like most other
> > christians, jews, and muzzies?
>
> >  It might be a wonderful thing for all I know, and their
> > lifestyle(s)  might truly be "Da Big Big Party"; again, I don't
> > know.   I
> > do know that when ANY group or organization starts clamoring for more
> > rights and privileges than you or I have, because of their behavior;
> > just
> > like when I smell horse hockey,  I usually say as much.
> > ---
> > they want the same rights ... not more rights
>
> > On Jun 20, 10:19 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Plain Ol,
>
> > > If you think that I am some type of Bible thumping zealot, you are very
> > > much mistaken.   I am a Christian, and have not a problem admitting to
> > > that, or being ashamed of my, "Faith",  (and I emphasize that "Faith"  is
> > > the operative word there).  I'm not, "Fishing For Men";  I'm not out on
> > the
> > > street corner handing out leaflets, nor do I go to folks houses on
> > Saturday
> > > mornings trying to get them to hear, "The Word".
>
> > > I find it somewhat humorous, but mostly disturbing that folks like you
> > get
> > > your drawers all up in a wad over Christians, and that we are pretty much
> > > the majority in this Nation.  We don't make a big fuss about much;  we
> > > don't have a lot of demands.....The far left mock us;  the secularists
> > like
> > > yourself want to see us wiped from the history books;  and yet, we
> > continue
> > > to "Continue On",  keeping a low profile, and having, "Faith".
>
> > > I have no objections to, or any problems with homosexuals, and whatever
> > it
> > > is that they do.  It might be a wonderful thing for all I know, and their
> > > lifestyle(s)  might truly be "Da Big Big Party"; again, I don't know.   I
> > > do know that when ANY group or organization starts clamoring for more
> > > rights and privileges than you or I have, because of their behavior;
> >  just
> > > like when I smell horse hockey,  I usually say as much.
>
> > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, plainolamerican
> > > <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > >  It's just a matter of time before the lid blows off of this whole
> > > > fraud.
> > > > ---
> > > > you're right ... the religious in the military need to be muzzled like
> > > > rabid dogs.
>
> > > > the military is going to say enough
> > > > ---
> > > > and American will tell them to stfu or get out.
>
> > > > DADT is the best that the religious in the military can hope for.
>
> > > > On Jun 20, 1:50 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > It's just a matter of time before the lid blows off of this whole
> > > > > fraud. The first Gay Pride parade, where folks are parading around
> > with
> > > > > their uniforms all "gussied"  up,  and/or there will be some "Gay
> > Drama"
> > > > > from the likes of someone like Lil'TommyTomTomForNews,  shit will
> > > > literally
> > > > > hit the fan,  and the military is going to say enough.
>
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:20 PM, plainolamerican
> > > > > <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > > > > only DADT stopped the enforcement of these policies.
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > as it should
>
> > > > > >  The tide
> > > > > > will soon turn and the complaints will start.
> > > > > > ----
> > > > > > warmongers are hardly concerned about gay rights
>
> > > > > > On Jun 19, 2:11 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > > Actually, Plainol... all the draconian laws that persecuted and
> > > > > > > prosecuted Gays before DADT was put in place are now back on the
> > > > > > > books... only DADT stopped the enforcement of these policies. The
> > > > tide
> > > > > > > will soon turn and the complaints will start.
>
> > > > > > > On Jun 19, 9:05 am, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > the US military, unlike the religious, does not persecute
> > > > homosexuals.
>
> > > > > > > > the grip that xians once had on America is gone ... free at
> > last!
>
> > > > > > > > On Jun 19, 10:02 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > Will they be celebrating "Ramitdown" next?
>
> > > > > > > > > **
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> > > > > > The New
> > > > > > > > > Marines to Celebrate Gay Pride
> > > > > > > > > Month<http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/05-972/>by
> > > > > > > > > Harold <http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/author/amcogore/>
>
> > > > > > > > > da Tagliare, Godfather Politics 6/19/2012 Source ..... For
> > years,
> > > > > > I've
> > > > > > > > > heard the ads for the US Marine Corps that said, 'The Few,
> > the
> > > > > > Proud, the
> > > > > > > > > Marines.'  During the same time, the US Army ran recruiting
> > ads
> > > > with
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > > slogan, 'To be the best you can be.'  I recall when I spoke
> > to
> > > > > > military
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Capitalism

 

http://capitalism.org/category/capitalism/

What is capitalism?

When I say "capitalism," I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. — AYN RAND

 

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Under capitalism the state is separated from economics (production and trade), just like the state is separated from religion.

Capitalism is the system of laissez faire. It is the system of political freedom.

What is the purpose of government under capitalism?

It is to protect rights that governments are instituted. A proper government's only responsibility is to protect the rights of the individual, by banning the initiation of force, thus making all relations between men peaceful, i.e., free from the threat of violence and fraud.

In a political context, freedom has only one specific meaning — freedom from the initiation of force by other men. By initiation I mean those who start the use of force to achieve their ends, i.e., a bank robber. Only the initiation of force against a man can stop his mind, thus rendering it useless as a means of survival. Only by the initiation of force can a man be: prevented from speaking, or robbed of his possessions, or murdered. Only through the initiation of force can a man's rights be violated.

 

Suggested Reading:

The Nature of Government by Ayn Rand

What is a capitalist?

An advocate of laissez-faire is known as a capitalist, e.g., novelist Ayn Rand is a capitalist; e.g., though economically Engels came from a wealthy background, politically he is recognized as a socialist/communist because of his ideas; e.g., billionaire Warren Buffet and George Soros are not capitalists as they do not advocate capitalism, but variants of statism. Soros like Ted Turner is a "socialist at heart."

What is the foundation of capitalism?

Politics is not a primary. Politics is the application of ethics to social issues. One's politics depends on one's ethics; and one's ethics depends on one's metaphysics (studies the nature of reality) and epistemology (studies the nature of grasping reality). In other words ones view of what is the proper social system for men to live together in, depends on how one views man, and the world he lives in — that is one's view of politics is shaped by one's underlying philosophy.

Capitalism is a political system that if based upon the wrong philosophical base, is like a towering skyscraper, built on quicksand.

A philosophy today that provides a proper foundation for capitalism is Ayn Rand's philosophy: Objectivism.

Suggested Reading:

What Philosophy Is, and How to Study It
by Leonard Peikoff

Historically, has a pure capitalist society ever existed?

No. A pure laissez-faire capitalist society has never existed. The closest any country has come to pure capitalism is 19th century America. Twentieth century America is not a pure capitalist country, but is a "mixed economy": a mixture of freedom and controls. i.e., crippled capitalism, i.e., a hampered market economy.

Isn't capitalism utopian (unpractical)?

Capitalism is not utopian, but it is entirely practical theory.

A utopia is some ideal which cannot ever exist in reality, i.e., it is too good to be true.

Capitalism is not a utopia — it is entirely something of "this world", based on facts observable in "this world".

The fact that laissez faire capitalism has never existed, does not mean it cannot exist, or that it will not exist in the future; laissez faire capitalism is a definite metaphysical possibility.

Isn't Capitalism a bad theory, that works in practice?

Capitalism is the best — the ideal — theory, because to the extent that it is allowed to work, it always works in practice.

Isn't Capitalism responsible for children working in factories?

Children working in factories was only a transitory stage between early feudalism and capitalism. Prior to working in factories, before capitalism, many of children (and their parents) used to die and starve, as evidenced by the high infant mortality statistics before capitalism. Observe that is was not until families left the "country" and went into the "cities" that they were able to produce enough food to eat. The clearest evidence of this is population and infant mortality statistics: population did not go up, and infant mortality did not go down, until the Industrial Revolution. If life was so great before capitalism in the "country", why was infant mortality so high and population numbers considerably lower before capitalism? Answer: because life was not so great until Capitalism.

Throughout history the parents of most families could not produce enough to support their families without having their children work also (such was the case of my father in India). It was the accumulation capital by the industrialists that made the labor of parents more productive, that children had to stop working in fields or factories. In poor non-capitalist countries they are still working in fields and factories.

Contrary to leftist rhetoric passing child labor laws in these countries will not solve the problem, but will only lead to mass starvation — which is why the "poor" themselves resist such laws (it is only to the benefit of the leftist "rich" "humanitarians" who cry out for them).

Isn't capitalism, which is based on individualism, opposed to man living in society?

Individualism is not opposed to a man living in society, so long as he is free from the initiation of force by others.

Individualism is only opposed to man living in society as a non-individual amorphous member of a collective, i.e., a slave. Individualism holds that it is much better for man to live on a deserted island, than to live in a society where he is nothing more than a pawn ready to be sacrificed to the altar of the "public good."

Why is capitalism so despised, maligned, and misrepresented by the intellectuals in our universities?

The intellectuals despise Capitalism because it is completely in opposition to their basic, philosophical principles.

Capitalism is the system of individual rights; the intellectuals on all sides are for some form of collectivism. Capitalism is the system of individualism, self-interest and happiness; the intellectuals are for altruism, self-sacrifice, and misery. Capitalism is pro-reason; the intellectuals are steeped in mysticism and subjectivism. Capitalism is is a social system for living in reality; a reality which the intellectuals despise, or whose existence they deny.

No wonder the bulk of the intellectuals who infect today's universities are against Capitalism — it represents the antithesis of everything they stand for. How could they not be?

 

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Re: What is Romney going to do

And all Mitt has to say is that his church for over 20 years had a
moslim membership and "God Damn America" was often preached there.

On Jun 20, 1:05 pm, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if O goes after the xian vote decrying the absurdity of mormonism?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=6QSvH-69GRA
>
> even more explicithttp://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=VEUih1Udlv8

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