Barack Obama -- April 24, 2009

April 24, 2009

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Obama once dressed as
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58% Say Obama Endangers National Security	Rasmussen Reports says that fifty-eight percent (58%) believe the Obama administration’s recent release of CIA memos about the harsh interrogation methods used on terrorism suspects endangers the national security of the United States. The latest national telephone survey found that 28% believe the release of the memos helps America’s image abroad. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters now believe the U.S. legal system worries too much about protecting individual rights when national security is at stake. But 21% say the legal system is too concerned about protecting national security. Thirty-three percent (33%) say the balance between the two is about right. This reflects a significant shift over the past couple of years. In several surveys conducted during 2008, Americans were fairly evenly divided as to whether our legal system worried too much about individual rights or too much about protecting national security. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of all voters say they have followed news reports about the release of the CIA memos detailing Bush administration interrogation techniques at least somewhat closely. Only six percent (6%) say they have not followed the reports at all.
It Just Doesn't Stop	The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright must be proud of his student, as Obama continues, his "God Damn America" campaign. On the heels of the firestorm over the release of Bush-era memos on CIA interrogation techniques, Obama agreed late Thursday to release 44 photographs depicting alleged abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush White House. The decision to release the photos was announced in a letter filed in a federal court in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2004. A "substantial number" of other images, will be released by May 28. The ACLU says making public additional images of detainee treatment is critical for helping the public understand the scope and scale of prisoner abuse as well as for holding senior officials accountable for authorizing or permitting such abuse. "These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib," said Amrit Singh, staff attorney with the ACLU. The images were part of the military's investigation of potential abuse of detainees by U.S. personnel at facilities other than Iraq Abu Ghraib, though the photos apparently aren't as shocking as those that set off a prisoner abuse scandal in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. Even so, Defense officials say they worry that the new release of photos could set off a backlash in the Middle East against the United States, the Times reports.
Obama's Star Chamber
Obama Wants To Limit Rights	Obama is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present. While Obama has reversed many policies of his Republican predecessor, the defendants' rights case is another stark example of the White House seeking to limit rather than expand rights. The case at issue is Michigan v. Jackson, in which the Supreme Court said in 1986 that police may not initiate questioning of a defendant who has a lawyer or has asked for one unless the attorney is present. The decision applies even to defendants who agree to talk to the authorities without their lawyers. Anything police learn through such questioning may not be used against the defendant at trial. The opinion was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, the only current justice who was on the court at the time. Obama's Justice Department, in a brief signed by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, said the 1986 decision "serves no real purpose" and offers only "meager benefits." The government said defendants who don't wish to talk to police don't have to and that officers must respect that decision. But it said there is no reason a defendant who wants to should not be able to respond to officers' questions. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and former FBI Director William Sessions are among 19 one-time judges and prosecutors urging the court to leave the decision in place because it has been incorporated into routine police practice and establishes a rule on interrogations that is easy to follow. "...defendants who don't wish to talk to police don't have to..." -- ha, ha, ha -- needless to say, these rules will only apply to Americans -- al-Qaeda terrorists, Taliban fighters and Mexican drug kingpins must be represented by the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the like.
Obama, Alinsky, and Scapegoats	"Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It." - Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals. That's what Barack Obama taught his ACORN followers in all his Community Agitator classes in Chicago. That slogan defines mob scapegoating. It is an exact prescription for whipping up mobs -- by race, by gender, by ethnicity, by religion. If you want to know how to whip a mob of Pakistani Taliban fascisti to whip a young girl for flirting with a young man in public, this is exactly what you do: Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personality It, and Polarize It. And notice that "the target" is no longer a human being. It becomes an "It." Try substituting the word "victim" for "target," and you see how it works. This is exactly what the Dixiecrats did to blacks in the Jim Crow South, and what Obama does today with capitalists who run General Motors and Wall Street. So the purported comedienne Janeane Garofolo interprets the anti-tax tea parties as obviously racist. You see, Garofolo can read minds, in spite of all the obvious decency of the tea party protesters. And Obama's Department of Homeland Security has now pinpointed our chief terrorist danger: It's "right-wing extremists," including Iraq War vets coming back home. In psychiatry, scapegoating is called "displacement of rage," and it is often said to be a low-level defense, one that comes easily to people who are already emotionally troubled or impaired. With mature adults scapegoating doesn't work very well -- not unless you can make them into insecure wrecks by destroying their incomes, for example. That's what happened to the German middle class in the Weimar Republic. It's what will happen in this country if the economy fails to recover. That is why it is so vital to keep the administration from its most extreme spending plans, which could harm the economy if the Democrats in Congress are foolish enough. Scapegoating is very simple, and very malevolent. It is the defining feature of human destructiveness. All the truly irrational actions in human history involve displaced rage. Pathological societies in the world are always torn by a search for new scapegoats. Scapegoating is a really effective manipulation for mobs that have long ago decided that their real enemy is... anybody. Because that overwhelming feeling of rising rage matters much more than whoever is the victim of the moment. That overwhelming tension is intolerable and seeks an outlet. Continue reading here . . . I would also urge right-thinking Americans to get a copy of "Rules for Radicals," and read it. To beat the Left, you need to know how they operate in order to expose and counter their despicable anti-American tactics.
A Military Marathon	I have watched the running of the Boston Marathon for over 60 years. I grew up a stones-throw from the Lake Street checkpoint. For the first time in 113 years, the National Guard deployed 400 Massachusetts National Guardsmen from the 126th Combat Support Battalion, "to keep the Boston Marathon race route clear" -- never happened before Obama's buddy, Deval Patrick -- sarcastically referred to a "Coupe Deval" -- was selected to govern by the progressives who control this single-party "commonwealth." The deployment is yet another example of the U.S. military collaborating with local law enforcement around the country. Under the Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, the federal uniformed services -- including the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces -- are prohibited from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. National Guard forces operating under the state authority are technically exempt from Posse Comitatus Act restrictions. However, with the passage of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, federal law was changed so that the governor of a state is no longer the sole commander in chief of their state’s National Guard, a direct violation of Article I, Section 10 and Clause 3 of the Constitution. Last year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a fiat accompli when ordered the Pentagon to conduct a "broad review" to determine if the military and the National Guard and Reserve can "adequately deal with domestic disasters," including "a catastrophic attack on the country." Gates "pressed officials to better integrate reservists into the modern day military and consider treating them on a more equal basis to the active duty troops," according to CBS News. Earlier this month, we reported on a joint checkpoint operation involving DHS, federal and state agencies, the Air Force, and local law enforcement in Tennessee -- another instance violating Posse Comitatus. Another example, the U.S. Army dispatching soldiers to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, after a rampaging gunman killed 10 people. Last June, D. H. Williams of the Daily Newscaster reported the deployment of 2,300 Marines in the city of Indianapolis under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Other instances of military deployment and collaboration with local law enforcement are too numerous to mention. The deployments and exercises have increased significantly since the U.S. military announced last year it will place 20,000 troops on the streets of America by 2011 under the control of the Northern Command. In October, the Department of Defense announced it was assigning a full-time Army brigade to be "on call' to facilitate military cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. A National Guard spokesman said the soldiers were in attendance to "safeguard" the public. However, this role is usually assigned to the police, not a combat support battalion. The military’s job is to break things and kill people during war, not protect civilians from participants in a marathon.
Obama Is Deaf To Israel's Security	Senior Israeli military circles are staggered by the discovery that Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the services of Turkish military instructors. This was taken as further proof that the Obama is deaf to Israel's immediate security concerns. Lebanese president Gen. Michel Suleiman has more than once threatened neighboring Israel. When he signed the arms deal in Ankara Tuesday, April 21, he once again pledged publicly to place the Lebanese army at the disposal of the Shiite terrorist Hizballah in any confrontation with Israel. If that happened, said one Israeli source, Israel could find itself under attack not just by Hizballah as in the past, but by a Lebanese army, well trained and armed by Turkey. He noted that more than 50 percent of Lebanon's fighting manpower are Shiites loyal to Hizballah. The conviction is growing in Jerusalem that Obama endorsed the transaction as a means of breaking up the long-standing military pact between Israel and Turkey, because it interferes with his Middle East objectives. Our sources note that neither Washington nor Ankara bothered to inform Israel of the transaction or its scope. After meeting Turkish president Abdullah Gul, Suleiman at the head of a large Lebanese military delegation signed the contracts for the sale and declared with deep satisfaction: "We reviewed the new [US] policies towards the region in the light of President Obama's recent visit to Turkey."