Action movie star Steven Seagal teams with ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ to train armed school posse

Associated Press 

PHOENIX — The self-proclaimed “America’s Toughest Sheriff” is joining forces with action movie star Steven Seagal to train volunteer armed posse members to defend Phoenix-area schools against gunmen.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the controversial plan in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting in December.
The exercise is planned for Saturday at a closed school site. Sheriff’s officers will act as shooters, and 25 teenagers will play the part of students during mock scenarios involving up to three gunmen.
The sheriff’s office says Seagal, best known for his roles in movies such as Above the Law and Under Siege, will lead training on hand-to-hand defence tactics, among other techniques, drawing from his expertise in martial arts.

Arpaio’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment Friday, and Seagal representatives did not return telephone messages from The Associated Press.
Arizona Democratic House Minority Leader Chad Campbell called the plan to use Seagal as an instructor “ludicrous.”
“He’s making a mockery out of it. You’re having a movie actor train people how to protect schools?” Campbell said.

‘We’d like to think he would take something like this much more seriously’

Randy Parraz, president of Citizens for a Better Arizona, also a longtime Arpaio critic, said it’s unfortunate the sheriff, known nationally for his tough stance on illegal immigration, is using the Connecticut shooting to grab headlines.
“We’d like to think he would take something like this much more seriously,” said Parraz.
The patrols were launched at 59 schools in January. The sheriff announced this week he needs more members to continue the patrols, calling for 1,000 additional citizens to step up and volunteer.

The volunteers, dressed in uniforms and driving patrol vehicles, some authorized to carry guns after training, won’t go onto school grounds unless they spot danger, but will instead patrol around the facilities, Arpaio said.
Arpaio says other notable people also have joined his more than 3,000-strong volunteer armed posse, including The Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno and actor Peter Lupus of TV’s Mission: Impossible.
Arpaio has faced criticism and lawsuits claiming that his deputies racially profile Latinos during immigration patrols. Arpaio also made headlines last July when he said that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, released by the White House, was a fake.

Russian opposition leader put under house arrest

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, charged with plotting mass disorder in protests last year, was placed under house arrest by a Moscow court on Saturday.

The leftist was among several opposition figures charged with riots and violence against police during a protest against President Vladimir Putin last May on the eve of his inauguration for a third presidential term.
The Federal Investigative Committee, which answers only to Putin, had barred Udaltsov from travelling freely but said on Friday that he was not complying with that.
The court put Udaltsov under house arrest until April 6.
The shaven-headed Udaltsov has been repeatedly detained during opposition protests, in what his supporters say is a tactic intended to hamper his activism.
On Thursday, another opposition activist was arrested over the May protests. That brought to 12 the total number of people detained and awaiting trial. One person has already been convicted over the May unrest.
(Reporting by Nikolai Isayev and Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)

Obama to Congress: I’ll decide what’s constitutional

by: Chris Cox 

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Election season is here, and you might think President Obama would be going out of his way to show voters that he can be trusted with the powers of the presidency. But you would be wrong. Just a few days before Christmas, Obama served notice to all Americans that he will continue to abuse executive privilege by seeking new ways to vilify gun owners and further his anti-gun agenda.
Congress placed a provision in the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for 2012 designed to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from using any of its $30.7 billion taxpayer funds to “advocate or promote Gun Control.” However, upon signing the bill into law, President Obama issued a caveat of his own:

I have advised Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient.

In other words: “Congress may pass laws, but I decide which of its laws are constitutional and which I can simply choose to ignore.”
Of course, the Constitution doesn’t actually give the president this power, but Obama won’t allow a little thing like the U.S. Constitution get in his way. And in the present case, Congress is right to try to prevent him from using a federal health agency, not to mention our tax dollars, as a weapon in his ongoing war against the Second Amendment. As The Washington Times reports, NIH has wasted over $5 million since 2002 producing deceptive studies aimed at furthering gun control — including one study that tried “to prove that a home without firearms was essential to a child’s safety and well-being.”
Even more importantly, Congress knows that there is no scheme too radical, or dangerous, for the Obama administration when it comes to using federal agencies to push its anti-gun agenda.

Last month, email exchanges surfaced between employees at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) that show the administration helped illegally transfer guns to violent Mexican drug cartels in order to manufacture a case for gun registration. Now gun dealers in four Southwest border states must abide by a new gun registration requirement, courtesy of BATFE, that forces them to register the sales of any law-abiding American who purchases more than one semi-automatic rifle within five business days.
Congress never passed any law like this. Rather, Obama’s BATFE orchestrated the deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal to give cause for its unconstitutional gun-control edict. Given this, how hard is it to envision the Obama administration issuing a phony “health” study that maligns gun owners?

Obama may not have a majority in Congress, or the will of the people, behind his anti-gun agenda. But that isn’t stopping his administration from finding deceitful ways to evade Congress and build public support for gun bans, gun registration and other regulations designed to weaken and destroy our Second Amendment rights.
Chris W. Cox is the executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) and serves as the organization’s chief lobbyist.

Maxine Waters: Obama Has a Database on Everything About Every Individual

Here’s Maxine Waters. This was last Sunday on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin. Maxine Waters, Democrat from California. Her district is basically the Watts area of Los Angeles, and Roland Martin said, “The reality is like anything else, you’d better get what you can while Obama’s there because, look, come 2016, that’s it.” Now, what Roland Martin’s saying here is all of you who are looking for prosperity from the government, you better get it and get it now. Get it while you can, get it while Obama’s there, because come 2016, he’s not gonna be there, and then you’re gonna be on your own. You better get what you can get now. And here’s what Maxine Waters said in reply.
WATERS: Well, you know, I don’t know. And I think some people are missing something here. The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.
Continue Reading on www.rushlimbaugh.com ...

The So-Called Gun Show Loophole: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

There is a lot of misinformation circulating about background checks for gun ownership.
Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which created the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all federal firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This is to make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is prohibited from purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18 of the United States Code, which would include convicted felons, people who have been adjudicated to be severely mentally ill, and people who have been convicted of a domestic violence offense.
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), and scores of others have repeated the mantra that approximately 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted through private sales at gun shows and are not subject to a criminal background check. This has become known as the “gun show loophole.”
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Court file: LA ex-cop was disturbed, self-obsessed

OpEd: Jack
I Totally agree with: "Some people with the disorder are extremely thin-skinned and vengeful, said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a retired FBI profiler".....obviously the full field background investigation by the Navy and LAPD missed this subtle *Red Flag*


By GILLIAN FLACCUS 

ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A photo never tells the whole story, and that's especially true for Christopher Dorner. The images on his Facebook page are essentially the same: Dorner, smiling, seemingly loving life and all it offers.

But they accompany a rambling document where he portrays himself as a real-life Rambo, an expert in weapons, explosives and military tactics who will stop at nothing to avenge his 2008 firing from the Los Angeles Police Department.
It's incongruous and it underscores the complexity of the man who now is the most wanted in America, accused of killing three people as he carries out his vendetta.
Where Dorner sees himself as a warrior, others see someone much different. The 6-foot, 270-pounder is a physical hulk who — despite his size — seemed to battle deep-seated insecurities, lived with his mother and cracked under the pressures of police work.

Court and police files show that Dorner once began weeping while on duty in a patrol car, awkwardly flashed his police badge on a first date and told a girlfriend he kept his emotions bottled up.
Those who study the psyches of criminals said Dorner's aggressive and self-aggrandizing rant indicates a classic case of malignant narcissist personality disorder. Some people with the disorder are extremely thin-skinned and vengeful, said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a retired FBI profiler.
They may seem insecure, she said, but in reality their rages — and even tears — are extreme reactions to real or imagined criticisms because they have such grandiose visions of themselves.
"He's putting in his manifesto that he's going to use all the training he received as an LAPD officer and as a military officer to basically hold Southern California hostage, and to be there when you least expect it," she said. "Is he deadly? Yes. Of course he has killed people."
"But is he capable of taking on some 1,000 officers looking for him? That's someone with a personality disorder," she said.

Dorner, 33, is accused of killing a woman last weekend whose father had represented him as he fought to keep his police job, and the woman's fiance. On Thursday, police say he ambushed two officers, killing one, and then vanished, setting off a manhunt that put police on alert across the Southwest.
The search Friday focused on the mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. Police said officers still were guarding more than 40 people mentioned as targets in the rant.
The rambling manifesto was on a Facebook page that also includes smiling pictures of Dorner and critiques or politicians, musicians, and comedians. He also offers commentary on topics from gun control — he wants stricter laws for assault weapons — to sexual abuse by priests to the proper room temperature.
Court papers from 2006 show that Dorner requested a restraining order against a woman he had dated for six weeks after he said she posted his LAPD badge number and trash-talked about him on a website called dontdatehimgirl.com.
Dorner attached the lengthy posting he said was by his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Williams, as well as a handwritten note she apparently placed on his belongings when she returned them after they broke up.

In the web posting, Dorner is described as "severely emotionally and mentally disturbed," ''twisted" and "super paranoid." It also said he flashed his police badge on their first date, lives with his mother and hates himself for being black — at one point asking her to act more like a white woman.
"Just be careful because this guy is a police officer and he will probably think that he can get away with anything. ... If you value your sanity, stay away from this guy."
Dorner claimed Williams was harassing him and sent a threatening letter to his home. He asked that she also stay away from his mother and sister. In her response, Williams denied Dorner's allegations.
Records show Dorner did not show up at a hearing in November 2006 and the case was terminated. She could not be reached to comment. Her attorney, Stephen G. Rodriguez, did not return a call or email seeking comment.
In 2008, after Dorner was deployed to Bahrain with the Navy Reserves, he returned to the LAPD and began to patrol with his training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans. He had worked for just four months after his graduation from the academy before being sent overseas.

In internal police papers, Evans said Dorner repeatedly asked why he was being put back on patrol without reintegration training. On one occasion, he began weeping in the patrol car and demanded to be taken back to the police academy to be retrained, according to a summary of an interview with Evans contained in 2009 court documents.
Evans warned Dorner that she would give him an unsatisfactory rating and request that he be removed from the field unless he improved. A day after she followed up on her threat with a poor review, Dorner reported to internal affairs that Evans had kicked a severely mentally ill man in the chest and left cheek during an arrest.
A police review panel ultimately found the allegation untrue and Dorner was fired for making a false statement.
In the manifesto, Dorner said the LAPD destroyed his life, ruined his relationships with his mother and sister and harmed his military career.
Those types of statements don't surprise O'Toole, the former FBI profiler, who said narcissists feel intense shame and humiliation when outside events challenge their perception of themselves.
"He's somebody I call an injustice collector," she said. "When they respond to an injustice that they think is out there, their reaction is completely over the top."
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Associated Press reporter Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to the story.

Bloody hands: The Southern Poverty Law Center

by Matt Barber 

Long before homosexual activist Floyd Corkins entered the D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) with the intent to commit mass murder, I warned from the rooftops that the hard-left Southern Poverty Law Center’s anti-Christian “hate group” propaganda might spur such bloodshed. With a column headlined, “Liberal violence rising,” I wrote, “The SPLC’s dangerous and irresponsible (‘hate group’) disinformation campaign can embolden and give license to like-minded, though less stable, left-wing extremists, creating a climate of true hate. Such a climate is ripe for violence.”
Tragically, my deepest fears were realized.

Then, in August, days after Corkins was heroically disarmed by FRC employ Leo Johnson, whom Corkins shot in the arm, I penned another column titled “Fanning the flames of left-wing violence.” I plead with the SPLC to end its “dishonest and reprehensible” strategy of “juxtaposing FRC and other Christian organizations with violent extremist groups” in a transparent effort to marginalize them.
“I appeal to your sense of goodwill. This is not a game. Lives are at stake,” I implored. “I know you have good employees (I’ve met some) who believe they’re doing the right thing; so, please, validate that belief. It’s time to remove your metaphorical ‘hate group’ Star of David from mainstream Christian organizations before another of your ideological allies spills blood.”
I no longer believe the SPLC has a sense of goodwill. In fact, based on FBI evidence and the group’s own actions (and inaction), I and many others are left with no other inference but this: The SPLC – a left-wing extremist fundraising behemoth – may be intentionally inciting anti-Christian violence.
Just days ago, Corkins pled guilty to a number of charges, including domestic terrorism. FBI evidence revealed that he was both motivated by and utilized the SPLC’s “anti-gay hate map” to target and locate his intended Christian mass murder victims. Read More:

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/bloody-hands-the-southern-poverty-law-center/#qFLfGZVzYfhtXuDM.99

Gutless Liberals Don’t Spit On Vets Anymore; They Just Want Them To Die Off Quicker

byJohn DeMayo 

War may be wrong, but sometimes it is necessary. No words can do justice to the courage and bravery any soldier displays when they face the violent aggression of Americas enemies. Most Americans have never faced the challenge of shaking off the overwhelming monster called fear that can swallow a soldier faced with combat. Somehow our veterans found a way, without regret, to honor their oath to defend America and with that a spoiled liberal’s right to be callous, arrogant and careless with their words.
What I am speaking of, is the rarely revealed liberal disdain for the American war veteran. Our President, and his elite kind, may claim publicly, that they support our troops, but in their hearts lies the seldom articulated liberal axiom, that American military veterans are a waste of taxpayer’s money and the sooner they die off the better for liberal America.
The following is a recent quote from a self-described life-long Democrat, Ivy League educated, wealthy, aristocratic liberal reader, who regularly sounds off against conservative ideology on this blog. In the spirit of fairness, I included more than a single sentence of this reader’s long winded post, subsequently eliminating his anticipated claim of being taken out of context:

“The Teapublicans who are led by 55+ year old white males, don’t have the issues no less the votes. If you think the shrinking, right wing vets will help your cause get real. Today’s army is small, there are not millions of draftees, and 22 of its expensive and dwindling members are committing suicide each day. Professional armies, which teach nothing but killing, and farm out to the private sector everything else, will not create trained people to re-enter civilian life.”   -the “Truth Seeker”
Tens of thousands of our servicemen and women are dead, buried shoulder to shoulder in U.S. Veteran Administration Cemeteries across our nation. Hundreds of thousands have returned from indescribable combat experiences, torn apart, stitched back together and expected to set aside the trauma they endured for us, horrors and tragedies that will haunt them forever, as they struggle to find a place in a country they no longer recognize. A country ruled by incompetent cowards that have never given a genuine thought to the honor of military service and the respect it should command from all civilians.

Angry doesn’t even begin to describe my feelings about this reader’s surreptitious thoughts, flatulently released during an elite tantrum designed to chastise a fellow American for his conservatism. Yet I am also strangely pleased by his undisciplined and predictable display of liberal ideology. To those who believe that liberals “support our troops” as much as the next guy, think again. Make no mistake, liberals would gladly be standing on line at airports, to spit on returning soldiers, if only there was some way it would go unnoticed by the press. After all, war veterans are just an “expensive and dwindling” threat to the growth of liberal ideology and its desire to reshape our Republic.

A week ago, I bought a beer for a young Marine with no legs. His last “expensive” deployment to Afghanistan, in service to our country, cost HIM, both of his legs. Yet he wasn’t concerned about the fact that he was confined to a wheel chair while his replacement legs and feet were being tweaked. Instead, he asked me about the job market and what I thought about the United States’ economic mess. It was everything I could do to keep from breaking down in front of him. The bottomless courage that this young Marine maintained in the face of future and unknown adversity, after returning from combat with no legs, was awe-inspiring. And this week, I have to entertain the gutless musings of a snob with the constitutionally protected right to act like a braying ass.
For the liberals who troll this site looking for glory in the ideological war being waged on America’s blogs, I would offer the following: Any time you feel compelled to observe your unearned first amendment rights to degrade our veterans and military service, don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. And the next time you carelessly trivialize veterans suicides, I would recommend you that you consider clogging your obnoxious pie hole with a carefully selected firearm. Sounds like you all could benefit from a lesson in what it feels like to consider choosing the finality of death over the prolonged desperation found on liberal society’s chilly shoulder.

I would personally recommend to those great liberal minds, fueling the disastrous plans raping our nation’s prosperity, to remember that you owe an unserviceable debt to America’s veterans. Your haughtiness has been exposed and your vitriol is failing you. Generally you don’t deserve the dedication shown and the lives expended to protect you insensitive pontifications. Simply speaking, you just make me sick.

'Rove never worked for Reagan!'

Accused of misrepresentation
Following Rove’s appearance on O’Reilly’s show, detailed fact-checking has allowed various conservatives to accuse Rove of misrepresenting his background, by implying that he worked in Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign organization when the truth is that in 1980 Rove worked as executive director in a office organized under the Texas state Republican Party to support in Texas Republican candidates on the Texas ballot.
Today, publicist Craig Shirley, author of the 2009 book “Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America,” a history of Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, sent out a letter to thousands of conservative leaders and activists around the country charging Rove’s claims to have worked for Ronald Reagan were false.
“Last night on ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ Karl Rove stated that he was the director of the Texas campaign for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Since then, I’ve received several inquiries on this matter,” Shirley wrote.
“In the course of my research for Rendezvous with Destiny about the 1980 campaign, at no time did I come across Mr. Rove’s name in association with the Reagan campaign. Indeed, according to sources, he was with the George H. W. Bush campaign until he was fired for leaking to the media.”
Shirley’s letter made the following additional claims:

• In 1976, as chairman of the College Republicans, Rove supported Gerald Ford over Gov. Reagan, as did all members of the Republican National Committee at that time.
• Ernie Angelo ran the 1980 Texas campaign for Ronald Reagan; Rick Shelby was field director; and in 1980, Gary Hoitsma ran the media for Reagan in Texas.
• Rove’s own bio on his website says he was on Gov. Clements staff in 1980; Clements was not on board with Reagan until after Republican National Convention held that year in Detroit. Read More:

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/rove-never-worked-for-reagan/#mcsSrZsibAXH5YPP.99

Does Psycho Cop Mean Police Weapons Should Be Banned?

Yesterday, the headlines were buzzing about a former police officer who has now gone Adam Lanza in the LA area. The main difference is that this cop is not trying to cover his motives, but has published a twenty-page manifesto promising violence and “asymmetrical warfare” on all his enemies.
“Police are waging an intensive manhunt across Southern California for a former Los Angeles cop wanted in connection with a double murder and suspected of going on a revenge shooting spree. Overnight shootings in Riverside County that left one officer dead and two wounded have been linked to the former Los Angeles officer, Christopher Dorner, who was named as a suspect in the slaying of a young couple here Sunday. Across Southern California, digital traffic signs carried alerts urging motorists to report any sight of Dorner, believed to be driving a Nissan Titan pickup truck and considered armed and dangerous.”
So here is a man who, despite some kind of vetting process to serve on the police force, has gone “postal.” He has already murdered a couple because the woman was on the panel that recommended his termination. A cop has died in a shootout with him. Others have been wounded. He is promising to kill more.
So where is the anti-second amendment media? Shouldn’t they all be screaming about how American needs gun control and all police, or at least ex-police, need to be disarmed? Why isn’t Piers Morgan asking “Why does anyone need that much firepower.”

Well, as far as I can tell, the gun grabbers are remaining silent. They know that, in order to grab guns, gun grabbers need to be armed. And like all self-respecting people, no police officer is going to work willingly while being told he can’t be trusted. Nothing Dorner does will make it acceptable to treat all other cops as if they are obligated to prove that they are better than Dorner.

Read more: http://godfatherpolitics.com/

[Note: as I write this, the news keeps getting worse. I pray Dorner is stopped by the time you are reading this. Look for a continuation on this story tomorrow since there are even more tragic ironies developing in how the media reports on how the police do their job "protecting" us.]

Christopher Dorner PTSD ? or failure to Vet properly?

 
I am so growing weary of all this PTSD nonsense to justify why Veterans of the Military/LE go on rampages of self destruction...fact they were nut cases before they entered the Military/LE in the first place...a very  small number out of millions of Veterans of the Military and Law Enforcement later in life go on to do the unthinkable and turn their training on the general public at large...let's just call it like it is...they slipped thru the cracks on the initial full field background investigation...the proverbial 'Shit Happens'  thus applies!

I strongly urge all Veterans to avoid applying for PTSD counseling...this will only be used against you to take away your rights to own and posses a weapon after discharge from the military...this whole PTSD classification is a lie and pushed by the looney left Progressives to take you off guard with the guise of just wanting to help you...hello millions of Veterans suffered the consequencies of war... nightmares and feelings of not doing their best and coming home while some of their brothers in arms did not....99 % get over it with time and reflection the first year of discharge without the intervention of so called counselors ! Just a fact Jack! By all means help those with physical disabilities from wounds suffered..they need our help to be able to do normal functions of life...for those with 'real' emotional issues not just the immediate 'guilt trip' issues should be helped...but all should not be categorized as being PTSD related!

In the case of Christopher Dorner he brought  shame on all LE and Military...he was a nut from day one...he cannot justify his actions at all...he screwed up not the system...then again maybe the system is at fault...upward mobility for the sake of being  PC ? Let's overlook some issues in ones background for the sake of not wanting to appear being prejudice?

Fact he was passed over for promotion within the Navy Reserve Officers promotion system..any officer who fails to be promoted from Jr Officer to the Field grade  04 is dismissed...this has always been the case within all braches of the military...obviously he did not have what it takes...as was the case of his career in the LAPD short lived as it was! He slipped thru the cracks...now the result of such has come to the forefront!

I could go on and on addressing this issue but will digress for others to comment!

Muslim leaders in America are working to a Caliphate in America

Online exhibition

“Auction of Souls” or “Memorial of Truth” The poster of the film “Auction of Souls” “Ravished Armenia”, one of the first documentary memoirs of an eyewitness of Armenian Genocide was published in 1918, in New York. In this book Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, a girl from Chmshkatsag, Armenian populated town in the Ottoman Empire, gave a detailed account of the terrible experiences she endured during the genocide. At the age of fourteen Arshaluys was beaten and tortured in harems of Turkish officials and Kurdish tribesmen. The most traumatic of all, though, was the fact that she lost her parents, sisters and three brothers who were viciously killed in front of her eyes. After two years of those horrors Arshaluys Mardiganian, or Armenian Janna d’Ark, as she was called in America, resisted the conversion of her faith, escaped from the harem of Kemal Efendi, her Turkish lord. In the beginning of spring in 1917, after long-lasting wandering she reached Erzrum, which had already been occupied by Russian forces. There Arshaluys was sheltered by American missionaries. Later by the help of Armenian National Union and American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief she moved to Peterograd, Russia, then to New York USA and settled there. Despite all the sufferings Mardiganian stayed unbending. She had a mission to tell the world about the atrocities committed against Armenians in Turkey. The book “Ravished Armenia” was completed when American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief offered to create a film based on the scenario of the book. It was agreed that all the profit which reached $30 million would be given for relief purposes of 60.000 Armenian orphans gathered in the Near East. In 1918, at Metro Goldwin Mayer studio, director Oscar Apfel made a silent film “Auction of Souls”, which actually became the first genocide movie ever made. More than 10.000 Armenian residents of Southern California, including 200 deported children, participated in the scenes. The script of the film had 3 versions. First version consisted of 675 frames, and the last, restored one – 531. The frames were investigated by Viscount James Bryce, the President of American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, former ambassador of Great Britain to USA and Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to Turkey, from 1913 to 1916. All gentlemen gave high appraisal to all the frames. The film is especially remarkable due to the fact that Arshaluys Mardiganian was the author of the scenario as well as played the leading role. Her input regarding the accuracy of the costumes, characters, settings and backgrounds was incredible. Oscar Apfel the director of the film took into consideration the great political importance of the film and chose Mardiganian to play the leading role. Apfel was convinced that Mariganian’s participation would be appealing not only to one nation, but for entire humanity.  Continue Reading : http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_6.php

FBI email confirms claims by prostitutes about Senate Democrat Bob Menendez's involvement

by dBergeron

                                                                           Sen. Bob Menendez paid us for sex in the Dominican Republic ... <~Santo Domingo. - One of the alleged prostitutes in the scandal with New Jersey (D) senator and Foreign
A new FBI email reveals more details of involvement by New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez in underage prostitute scandal.

Colorado Proposes Liability Increase on Assault Weapons

Taking advantage of deadly mass shootings last year, Colorado lawmakers unveiled a package of bills Tuesday that would put owners and manufacturers of assault-style weapons on the chopping block. Democrats in Colorado, a state jolted by some of the fatal shootings, are seeking to make this group legally liable for any crime that involves a specific firearm.
While other states such as New York have pushed bans on military-style guns, Colorado would hold gun makers and sellers accountable for weapon violence if the bills become law. Owners of semi-automatic rifles would face strict liability for civil damages caused by their types of weapons, while state statutes that safeguard manufacturers and dealers from such liability would be abolished. Handguns, shotguns, and bolt-action rifles would be immune from the proposed law.
Specifically, one proposal would restrict the sale and ownership of ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds; another proposal seeks to enact more stringent background checks on weapon purchases, including sales between private owners.

Republicans and gun-rights advocates say the new liability standards translate largely into an assault-weapons ban. “By holding the manufacturers liable, they effectively ban the sale,” asserted Dudley Brown, the head of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. “We really don’t care what happens in this building; how many Gucci-loafered lobbyists come up and talk to politicians. We are going to go into their districts and tell gun owners, ‘This is what politicians are doing to your Second Amendment rights.’”
Brown argued that the bill would be equivalent to holding Corvette liable for accidents caused by speeding. Further, Republican Sen. Greg Brophy likened the bill to “holding Coors responsible for drunk driving.”
“Retailers will be afraid to sell these weapons because they won’t be able to purchase an insurance policy to cover their strict liability — that’s the highest standard,” Brophy explained. “So it effectively bans the sale of all semiautomatic rifles in the state of Colorado.”
Other critics contend that Colorado’s attack on assault weapons amounts to little more than an emotional response to the deadly mass shootings. But besides the constitutional violations regarding such bans, gun-control proponents omit the fact that assault weapons were tied to less than .012 percent of overall deaths in the United States in recent years.
Read More:  http://thenewamerican.com

Back in the USSR? Key Soviet document is missing

By YURAS KARMANAU 

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all — at least on paper.

Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich says a historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing from the archives.

Shushkevich discovered that the document was gone while working on his memoirs. He said he believes it was stolen — possibly by a former Belarusian official — probably with the intention of selling it to a collector.

"It's hard to believe the disappearance of a document at such a level, but this is a fact," Shushkevich told The Associated Press.

Officials with Belarus' government and the Russia-dominated alliance of ex-Soviet nations confirmed late Wednesday that they only have copies.

"We don't know where the original is," said Vasily Ostreiko, the head of the archive department of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which has its headquarters in Minsk, the Belarusian capital. "We have a copy of that document. It's certified in line with international standards, but it's still a copy." 

The document's disappearance reflects the chaos that surrounded the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union, a superpower of 300 million people that sprawled over nearly a dozen time zones and encompassed what is now 15 nations.

On Dec. 8, 1991, Shushkevich hosted Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk for secret talks at a government hunting lodge near Viskuli in the Belovezha Forest. The trio signed a deal declaring that "the U.S.S.R. has ceased to exist as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality" — defeating Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to hold the Soviet Union together.

The agreement also announced the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance joined by nine other Soviet republics that month.

Gorbachev resigned on Dec. 25, 1991, and the Soviet Communist empire that ruled with an iron fist for almost 70 years seized to exist.

Panetta To Recommend Troops Have Their Pay Cut

Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salaries next year. Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a 1% increase in 2014. The Pentagon has calculated that the Labor Department’s 2014 Employment Cost Index is expected to be above 1% but wants to still cut back on pay because of “budget uncertainties,” a department official told CNN. In 2013, a 1.7% increase was approved, based on the index, which has been the basis for military pay for the last several years.
Three Pentagon officials have confirmed details of the plan to CNN. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have also agreed to Panetta’s proposed pay plan. Final approval for the pay would come from Congress in the form of the 2014 budge

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Bruce Willis on Gun Control: Don’t Pick Apart the Bill of Rights

Actor Bruce Willis is speaking out against recent attacks on the Second Amendment and new gun control measures being batted around on Capitol Hill, a far cry from many of the people in Hollywood lately including hypocritical Rambo star Sylvester Stallone.
Bruce Willis says he’s against new gun control laws that could infringe on Second Amendment rights. The “Die Hard” star also dismisses any link between Hollywood shootouts and real-life gun violence.
“I think that you can’t start to pick apart anything out of the Bill of Rights without thinking that it’s all going to become undone,” Willis told The Associated Press in a recent interview while promoting his latest film, “A
Good Day To Die Hard.” ”If you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn’t they take all your rights away from you?”

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Lenny McAllister Conservative Candidate for Congress Chicago

Dear Fellow American, Like you, I'm sick of the "BS" in Washington. Congress and the White House are incapable of solving this nation's most pressing issues for one reason—they refuse to work together. As a result, you and I have suffered and our country is no longer the shining city on the hill. This special election to replace disgraced Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. will decide who holds the bargaining chips in Washington moving forward: Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their army of progressives, or middle class Americans like you and me, who believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, and family values. I don't have to tell you there's only one acceptable outcome. I'm running to restore in Washington the "let's work together" spirit of President Reagan and force both Republicans and Democrats to put the partisan bickering aside and do what it takes to put America first. But I need you on my team. Will you follow this link right now to contribute $25, $50, $100 or more to my campaign? I'll be frank with you. This race won't be easy. It's on the South Side of Chicago—the president's own back yard—and radical allies like Mayor Rahm Emanuel will go to great lengths to keep this seat in the Dem column. But the political climate is in our favor and we can win this race for three reasons: Turnout is lower than average in special elections, and Republican voters make up for in enthusiasm what they lack in numbers. There's a bloody 16-way primary for the Democratic nomination including former Congressman Mel Reynolds, a convicted felon who served 8 years in prison for sexually abusing a 16-year-old campaign volunteer. I offer a unique blend of conservative values and strong relationships within the community that make my campaign a force to be reckoned with. Winning this race will be a game-changer for Republicans. I am exactly what our party needs right now: a minority who stands for our conservative values, but understands the other side, and more importantly, is willing to work with the other side to get the job done for all Americans. But I can't reiterate to you enough that I cannot win this race without you on my team. That's why I'm urgently asking you to stand with me by contributing $25, $50, $100 or more to my campaign right away. Thank you in advance for your support. Sincerely, Lenny McAllister Conservative Candidate for Congress P.S. Everyone knows the Republican Party has a message problem—especially with minorities. That's why I'm their dream come true. I'm a true conservative, African American who's ready to reach across party lines to find solutions that benefit all Americans. But first I need to win the special election to replace Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Can I count on you to help? Please follow this link to contribute $25, $50, $100 or more to my campaign right away. Thanks — Lenny

Ok People let's get real..What does Obama Really want?

Your Heart?...Your Soul? Your Money? well he wants it all...that is what Satan does...How many times do I have to shake ya up before ya wake up?
Hello > http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/02/gun-control-and-taxationenough-is.html 

Cue the song...then run like hell Dudes and Dudettes :

http://youtu.be/kPEH8wBfYII

Gun Control and Taxation...enough is enough time to Rebel

We the people need to replace any and all Congressional  members as well as Senator's who voted for this latest attack on our freedoms and taxation without representation... we separated from England over these same issues...including Gun Control

Addendum:  Attention Progressive Liberals the Obama administration et al....get the 'F' out of our lives,wallets,freedom,religion,health care and all things that freedom allows...if you don't like our Constitution or way of life feel free to leave and join the third world countries like the Middle East  then you can enjoy all the control over your sorry collective asses you so desire...we don't want it...adios...keep it up and a severe ass whooping you will get from 'We the People'

Tax his land, tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.

Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, tax his drink.
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, tax his beers,
If he cries, then tax his tears

Tax his car, tax his gas
Tax his guns,
Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax all he has, then let him know That you won’t be done ’til he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers,
Tax him some more.
Tax him ’till he’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin, tax his grave.
Tax the sod in which he’s laid.

Put these words upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me to my doom.”
When he’s gone, do not relax.
It’s time to apply the inheritance tax

http://youtu.be/y8OgkjcW0g4

Boy Scout leader charged with sodomizing Scout

WND Exclusive
A former Boy Scout leader has been charged with sodomizing a boy in his troop who was under the age of 13.
News of the indictment Monday by a grand jury in Charlottesville, Va., comes as the Boy Scouts of America faces a vote tomorrow by its executive board that could reverse the iconic organization’s century-old policy of barring homosexuals from its ranks.
David Watkins, 49, was arrested Nov. 28 in Charlottesville, Va., where he works as CEO of Watkins Computer Services. Watkins founded Keswick Troop 1028 in 2002 and was its scoutmaster until 2008.
The abuse took place in 2005, according to court documents, but the victim, now an adult, waited several years before coming forward, reported WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Va.

The abuse took place in 2005, according to court documents, but the victim, now an adult, waited several years before coming forward, reported WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Va.
The BSA’s national executive board is expected to vote tomorrow on a proposal that would allow local Scouting organizations to form their own membership rules regarding homosexuals. WND reported yesterday that many Scout leaders, from the national organization to the troop level, have said they will resign if the proposal passes.
As WND reported last week, a major drop in corporate funding came last September after a gay-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
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Is the Department of Homeland Security Obama’s Gestapo?

by: da Tagliare 


When Adolf Hitler made his rise to power, he established the Secret State Police in 1934, headed by Heinrich Himmler.  The German name for them is Geheime Staatspolizei.  Taking the bolded and underlined letters from the newly formed entity you get the more familiar term, Gestapo.
The role of the Gestapo was to spy on the German people and identify any and all opposition to Hitler’s Third Reich.  They were given full authority to investigate and report or suspect cases of criminal attacks against the Nazi Party along with cases of sabotage, espionage and treason.  What made them so deadly and sinister was that they were also given authority to act without any judicial oversight.  They became the prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner of anyone that stood in Hitler’s way.
The Gestapo was given a sizeable budget and access to all the weapons, ammunitions and spying devices they wanted.  Once they established their dark reputation, they used all of those devices and weapons far too frequently.  Within a few years, no one dared to say or do anything that might be considered critical of the Nazi Party and its leaders.  If they did, the Gestapo or its sister agency, the SS (Security Service) moved in and took care of the alleged problem.

Eighty years later, Barak Obama talks about creating a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, strong and as well-funded as the US military.  In 2008, Obama talked about his desire to create his civilian army, but many of the references to that speech have mysteriously disappeared.

Joseph Farah of WND also points out that the concept of a civilian national security force seems to be the idea of Robert Gates, then Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush.  Using Gates’ idea for the civilian force, it was no surprise to some that Obama kept him on as his Secretary of Defense.
Under Obama’s supervision, the Department of Homeland Security has been purchasing thousands of assault weapons, over a billion rounds of ammunition, of which 450 million are hollow-points, bulletproof vests, riot gear, bullet-proof traffic stops and other equipment one would readily associate with an army.  Nearly 200,000 rounds of ammunition are specifically designed for sniper rifles.  There are also plans to place 30,000 drones in our skies to spy on us.
If that makes you nervous, the Obama administration has also given approval for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to purchase 46,000 rounds of .40 caliber hollow points.  Supposedly, they were purchased for NOAA’s Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement.
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'Oath Keepers' Operation Sleeping Giant

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February 8th 2013: Peaceful demonstration at every state capital for our 2nd amendment rights Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Founder

Oath Keepers Founder, Stewart Rhodes, will speak at the gun rights rally in Providence RI ~ On Friday Feb 8th 10:00 AM, at the Capital.  Attend a rally in your state! Rhode Islanders will join thousands of other Americans in a nationwide event being held at every state capital, on Friday,  10 a.m. (local time) to show support for our right to keep and bear arms. Oath Keepers are encouraged to attend any rallies held in their state. Across the nation, states are looking to create even more gun regulations. In January, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after violating the NY legal process and rushing the legislation through under dark of night, signed into law the New York Safe Act.  Essentially turning law-abiding American gun owners into felons overnight simply by possessing any magazines that hold more than 7 rounds.  On Sunday, January 6th, 2013, Staff Sgt. Nathan Haddad, a highly decorated combat veteran, was driving through Jefferson County New York when he was randomly pulled over for a vehicle check. Haddad, who had five 30 round empty magazines in his possession, was arrested by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department and charged with five felony counts. He is now facing 35 years in prison, seven years for each empty magazine. This attack on Hassad is seen for what it is, an attack on every law abiding citizen in America. The Second Amendment clearly states:  "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, "Shall Not Be Infringed."" We hope this rally will show public officials, that the community will support them when they uphold their oath to the Constitution and they will be held accountable if they choose to dishonor that commitment to their constituents." Among the many prominent speakers at the Providence, RI rally will be: Stewart Rhodes (The founder of the national Oath Keepers organization)  along with Blake A. Filippi, from the 10th Amendment Center (The 10th amendment Center has been instrumental in passing various Frearms Freedom Acts in over 16 states and counting). Join the national event page on FaceBook:  "Peaceful demonstration at every state capital for our 2nd amendment rights" Join the Providence event page on FaceBook:  "Providence peaceful demonstration for our 2nd amendment rights" If you think you have something more important to do this Friday "You Don't!" Comment Here: OathKeepers.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORT OUR BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN Placing billboards outside of military bases to remind service members of their oath SUPPORT OUR LIBERTY TOUR Free music concerts for the troops, with direct outreach to them about their oath You do not need to be prior service to join Oath Keepers. All Patriotic Citizens are invited to join as an Associate Member.    Please donate and support Oath Keepers mission, every little bit helps! Support Operation Sleeping Giant, Join Oath Keepers and get involved. Operation Sleeping Giant Join Oath Keepers Oath Keepers is growing FAST, but like General Patton, we are outpacing our own supply lines. Your donations are "fuel" for our advance! If you would like to support the Oath Keepers vital mission to teach the current serving about their oath and about the Constitution so they will stand firm and do what is right, and our second mission to remind veterans of their oath and obligations.: Please click the PayPal image below to donate.   If you would like to mail your donation: Make checks payable to: OathKeepers Mail to: Oath Keepers 5130 S. Fort Apache suite 215 Las Vegas, NV 89148

Acapulco tourists tied with bikinis, raped

OpEd: Jack
I see the Taliban and alQaeda are alive and well in Mexico...beheadings and now mass rape are running rampant down South in Old Mexico! Obviously the Cartels have aligned themselves with the terrorist crowd!
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By Umberto Bacchi:
A group of tourists have been raped by a masked gang who raided their holiday villa in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.

Local authorities said the armed men burst into the bungalow rented by 13 Spanish tourists, six women and seven men, and a Mexican woman, in Playa Bonfil, facing the Pacific Ocean, near the famous Punta Diamante area, local authorities said.
The attackers gagged and tied up the men with phone cables and then raped the women, who they had bound up with their own bikinis.
Police received an emergency call at 7am, five hours after the tourists' ordeal had started.
A number of credit cards and tablets and 7.800 pesos (£390) were also stolen from the tourists, who are reportedly all under 30 years of age.
Acapulco's state of Guerrero is experiencing a bloody turf war between drugs gangs between  the Michoacan Family and the Knights Templar.

The war led to a series of horrifying act of violence.The bullet-riddled bodies of 16 men, some of which naked and showing signs of torture, were found in an abandoned van beside a state road, a few months ago. However Acapulco is generally thought to be safe.
In October 2011 the Mexican government sent 7,000 troops in Acapulco in an attempt to keep the popular seaside town out of the conflict.  

NY Citizens Show Non-Compliance Resistance To New Gun Ban

by Tim Brown 


A question and answer session on New York’s new gun law took place last week with residents of Erie County, New York. Officials were on hand to “appear” to answer questions about the new NY Safe Act. However, it wasn’t long until it was apparent that they were not interested in hearing from the citizens. The meeting filled the small venue and there were people standing in the hall to hear what was being said. Even from the start of the meeting, it was apparent that the people were determined to be heard and their “non-compliance resistance” to the new law was evident. Trust me, you will want to watch this entire video segment!

http://youtu.be/Ol1SzjHPFGw 

 

Immediately following the first speaker, a second was introduced, but before he could get a word in one audience member asked that they recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States. When the speaker seemed unmoved by it, they began standing and reciting the pledge and the speaker finally joined in with them.
The crowd of people demanded transparency even as the State officials attempted to corral the media for private interviews. The State further persisted to keep questions brought forth by individuals private and not speak into the microphone so that all could hear the answers.
The questions covered non-compliance, penalties, jury nullification, 2nd Amendment profiling into domestic terrorists, government tyranny, police, sheriff, and more.

One of the questions posed to a policeman at the meeting was what his allegiance was to. When he responded “I took an oath to protect the people of the State of New York,” he was quickly corrected and asked, “what about the Constitution?”
This is extremely troubling to see so many take an oath and forgetting what their oath is. Policemen are not sworn to protect the people but to uphold the law and enforce it, particularly the Constitution of the United States and their State Constitutions.

Frustration was apparent. As WKBW reported,

One WNYer even said “You put a brown shirt on Mr. Cuomo and put him on television, he would look just like Hitler.”
Another chimed in, “Angry people get together, they form militias folks. This country, this WNY is prime for something like that!”
Western New York gun owners say they SAFE Act and its ban on assault weapons makes no sense.
One of the big concerns — who is footing the bill for making changes to guns that are now considered assault weapons. State officials told the crowd the gun owners are the ones responsible.
People in the crowd also had a lot of questions about the registration laws. One gun owner asked,”What is the penalty if you don’t register it? ‘Cause I guarantee there’s a lot of people that aren’t going to.”
At times, advocates felt answers were incomplete or political.

The entire issue centers around gun registration. You might recall that this is one of the things Adolph Hitler did prior to going after guns. The Act would better be titled the Treason Act, rather than the SAFE Act.
Michael Green, with the Division of Criminal Justice Services explained, “Any pump, lever or bolt action shotgun or rifle can’t be an assault weapon by definition and does not need to be registered.”
Other State officials claim that the SAFE Act will prevent another Aurora, Sandy Hook or Webster, while it protects Second Amendment rights. It does no such thing nor can they prove it will.
These officials also said they would be tracking ammunition sales, “So that folks in Aurora, Colorado don’t come up with six thousand rounds of ammunition.”

Sounds like a clear violation of the Second Amendment. By the way, did the alleged shooter in Aurora fire 6,000 rounds? Seems like it was quite a bit less than that. Let’s encourage these “officials” to deal in reality, not emotionally driven arguments like how many bullets a person can own or what types of weapons.
Many in the audience say the issues surrounding some of these shootings have much more to do with society being desensitized by violence more than it does any weapon. I agree with them.