FBI files on boxing champion Muhammad Ali reveal that the famous
fighter was not the civil rights icon the media portrayed him to be.
Government watchdog organization Judicial Watch obtained the records on Ali after filing a Freedom of Information Act request.
Ali was known as Cassius Clay before converting to Islam
in the ’60s. His associations with the black activist Nation of Islam
group and its leaders leaders Elijah Mohammad and Malcolm X brought him
to the attention of the FBI, which at the time viewed the group as a
threat.
The files, which comprise more than 200 pages, revealed Ali as a
racist who referred to white people as “white devils” and “crackers” and
indicated that the Nation of Islam’s hatred for white people was
“violent.”
Ali told an audience at a mosque that “black women have the best sons
and daughters in the world,” that “the so-called negro is the original
man and is superior to the white devil” and that he would rather be with
his own people than “blue-eyed devil white people.”
Wow. It doesn’t get more racist than that. But there’s more:
The files also reported that the boxer said the American flag
“represented death and destruction” while the “Muslim flag” represents
“life and prosperity, justice for all black men.” According to Ali,
programs to achieve integration were “useless” and the 1964 Civil Rights
Act was a “swindle.”
He also said that he would rather die or go to jail than serve in the U.S. Army, the files said.
This image certainly isn’t the one the media presented when the
three-time heavyweight champion died last year, yet it deserves to be
known, especially as his family attempts to present him as a
civil-rights hero by launching a national campaign in his honor to
combat racial and religious profiling.
Those efforts seem to be misplaced, as it appears Ali was anything but a champion of racial tolerance.
H/T WND
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Judge Orders Text Of Clinton Emails On Benghazi To Be Released
"... the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film." By Jack Davis
The full contents of two Hillary Clinton emails about the Benghazi
attack will soon be brought to light in the wake of a federal judge’s
ruling Friday that the State Department
has to share with the American people the contents of two emails sent
two days after the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya.
The release of the information was secured by the watchdog group
Judicial Watch, which had sued the State Department through the Freedom
of Information Act.
“The full emails may reveal what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama knew about the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi,” Judicial Watch said in a statement.
The two emails, dated Sept. 13, 2012, consist of eight identical
paragraphs, Judicial Watch said, and bore the subject line, “Quick
Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt.”
The State Department originally released the emails to Judicial
Watch, but redacted the contents using what’s known as the “deliberative
process” exemption.
However, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson read the emails and said the exemption was not applicable.
Judicial Watch said the redaction was not a mistake but part of a
“deliberate effort by the State Department to protect Clinton and the
agency by avoiding identifying emails on Clinton’s unofficial,
non-secure email server as classified.”
The emails were shared with top Obama administration officials
including Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, Under Secretary of
State Wendy Sherman, Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan,
Special Assistant Robert Russo, and Deputy National Security Adviser
Denis McDonough.
The attack on the Benghazi compound resulted in the deaths of four
Americans. Clinton and the Obama White House offered the American public
a very different version of the cause than the one they expressed privately.
Clinton had said the administration was “working to determine the
precise motivations” of the attackers but that “some have sought to
justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at
our Embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material
posted on the internet.”
That material, the Obama administration claimed, was an anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube.
However, Clinton’s private comments were different.
“We know that the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It
was a planned attack — not a protest,” she said in a call to Egypt’s
prime minister. “Based on the information we saw today, we believe the
group that claimed responsibility for this was affiliated with al
Qaeda.”
On Sept. 14, 2012, White House spokesman Jay Carney, said, “We have
no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack. The unrest
we’ve seen around the region has been in reaction to a video that
Muslims, many Muslims find offensive. And while the violence is
reprehensible and unjustified, it is not a reaction to the 9/11
anniversary that we know of, or to U.S. policy.” What do you think?Scroll down to comment below.
oped: Alrighty then as I have been saying for many many moons..Bill Nye~The not so Science Guy~ is just plain and simple..."Bat shit Crazy"...a looney toons cartoon/comic book character who needs to just fade away...and save his family as well as the world at large... any more embarrassment! See: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2017/05/trans-species-man-spends-5000-month-to.html
Bill Nye apparently is using his Netflix platform to brainwash young
people into believing the freak flag he flies is science. The ‘science
man’ couldn’t care less about what your beliefs or opinions are about
your sexuality. Your choice is not his concern. Nye’s idea of what sex
should be is a lot like the ’60s: a world filled with loveless sex,
lust, and orgies. He unsubtly conveys this message to your children
featuring cartoon ice cream cones. According to the Daily Wire: In the
cartoon embedded below, the “Vanilla Cone,” is a Christian who believes
in monogamous heterosexual sex and converting those who do not. In the
end, however, it is Vanilla who is converted, who finally loosens up and
discovers true joy as a slut eager to have sex with everything and
everyone: Chocolate Chip Mint: Come on, Vanilla, nobody wants just one
flavor of ice cream.
Vanilla: I do. Chocolate Chip Mint: Haven’t you
ever wanted to be in a Neapolitan? Vanilla: [sweating] I, I, I can’t. I
can’t. Chocolate: Come on, it’s natural. … Vanilla: [prays] Big Ice
Cream In The Sky, help me. Then, as if his prayer is answered, Vanilla
licks Pistachio and exclaims, “It’s good!” The joyous ice cream orgy
then begins. It would be one thing if Nye’s message had a libertarian
tone where he was making the case to let people make their own choices.
And in all honesty, who cares about other people making their own
mistakes. But that wasn’t what he wanted to convey. He is hammering into
the minds of young people that monogamous heterosexual sex is
unnatural, immoral and…boring. Brainwashing them to embrace this
unhealthy and destructive lifestyle of ‘care free’ sex. From a free Click to see the original article
Jeb Bush entered the 2016 Presidential campaign as the establishment’s hand-picked candidate.
Then Donald Trump descended down the escalator of the Trump Tower and proceeded to stomp out Jeb’s globalist ideology.
But ever since Trump assumed office, Jeb and his establishment allies appear to be exacting their revenge.
#NeverTrump allies of Jeb Bush have managed to infiltrate the administration.
Helen Aguirre Ferre is now the White House Director of Media Relations.
But before she held that position, she advised Jeb Bush’s Presidential campaign.
Ferre was also a prominent #NeverTrump “Republican” who viscously attacked Trump during the campaign.
Breitbart reports:
“U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has chosen, as a new
department staff member, a former Indiana education official who also
worked for years at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s education foundation. Education media Chalkbeat reports Neil Ruddock has been working
for the federal education department since early February after four
years as regional advocacy director at Bush’s Foundation for Excellence
in Education (FEE), where DeVos also served as a board member and to
which she provided financial contributions…
… Other U.S. education department staffers who worked for Bush’s
pro-Common Core foundation and for the Indiana education department
include Andrew Kossack, who is listed as a “special assistant to the
secretary.” Kossack is an attorney who was appointed as Indiana
Department of Revenue commissioner under former Gov. Mike Pence. Prior
to that position, he served as general counsel to Indiana’s
ousted superintendent of education, Tony Bennett, who championed the
adoption of the Common Core standards in the state. Bennett then became
the Florida commissioner of education and was later investigated for
fraud and resigned after allegations that he intervened in the grading
system in Indiana to favor a charter school run by a prominent
Republican Party donor.”
Trump won the GOP nomination by rejecting the Bush legacy.
That included Jeb’s support for a federal takeover of education – which is Common Core.
But now Jeb staffers are sneaking into the administration.
Will they work to undermine Trump’s agenda?
by:Michael Snyder
If you think that your life could never be turned around because you are too far gone, this story is for you. According to her official website,
Crissy Outlaw “was molested at the age of 4…a pattern that would
continue through her childhood and teen years.” But since her alcoholic
father always threatened to kill anyone that touched her, Crissy always
kept the abuse secret. Her parents eventually divorced, and Crissy moved
in with her mother when she was 13. At the age of 17 she got pregnant,
and because she believed that she was going to marry her boyfriend she
decided to keep the baby. But when her boyfriend decided to break up
with her she ended up having an abortion, and she says that having that
abortion was one of the worst things that ever happened to her…
She described the aftermath of the abortion as “one of the most traumatic things that happened” to her. “I was fully awake and aware of everything going on during
the abortion and my heart was shattered while the life was literally
being sucked out of me,” Outlaw said of the experience. “It was awful … my school knew about my abortion and I lost all my friends.”
Following that abortion, a series of abusive relationships resulted
in Crissy being left in a very emotionally vulnerable state. After
submitting photos to a modeling site, she quickly began receiving offers
to do porn, and she eventually became one of the top stars in the
industry.
Between 2001 and 2006 she appeared in more than 50 adult films, and at one point she was earning more than $15,000 a month.
But she was deeply, deeply unhappy, and one night she “cried out to
God and asked Him to prove He was real”. The following comes from her official website…
Her ongoing search for love,
and little personal support, kept her in the porn industry. It was
something she never dreamed she would end up doing, but the doting
photographers and the affirming fans seemed to fill her heart’s empty
places. Willing to do anything for “love,” she sacrificed anything to
get it…even abuse. She met a man who took over managing her porn career
and pushed her to do more hardcore shoots. For three and a half years of
the seven years Crissy was in the industry, she was in a physically and
emotionally abusive relationship with a man who took all over her money. He was what people in the sex industry call a “suitcase pimp.”
After several suicide attempts, Crissy left that relationship
with the help of her personal assistant. One night, she cried out to God
and asked Him to prove He was real. Nothing she knew about God was what
she learned about in Sunday school as a child. She thought no one would
ever love a woman like her because she had made so many mistakes. She
felt dirty and alone. She prayed for God to send her a sign. He did. A couple of days later, He sent a new friend into her life who told her about Jesus. She knew without a doubt God has used him to help her break free. That day, Crissy left the porn industry and has never looked back.
You never know when something that you have to say is going to completely change someone’s life.
An article that was recently published by the Daily Mail has more details about what happened the next day after Crissy Outlaw cried out to God…
The next day, the then-31-year-old visited her boyfriend,
an actor on a movie set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During a break in
filming, she was hanging out with him, a couple of his friends and film
crew members. One of his friends began passing a photo of his topless
wife around the circle the group had formed while making lewd comments.
Crissy was embarrassed and angry, but a man who worked on the film set,
Chris, decided not to look at the picture and rather told the group he
would never show any pictures of his wife to anyone.
Simply by refusing to look at that nude photo, Chris made it clear that there was something very different about him.
Crissy was intrigued, and she continued to talk to him when everyone else returned to work. Here is more from the Daily Mail…
While the rest of the team got back to
filming, she continued speaking with Chris. During the conversation he
asked her what she did for a living; she eventually admitted she was in
porn. He then told her that her boyfriend had already told everyone
about her career and had passed around nude pictures of her to other
people on the set.
‘I put my head down because I was so ashamed,’ Crissy says.
But Chris asked her a question that reminded her of a prayer request she had made the night before: ‘Do you know Jesus?’
Crissy took that as the divine sign she’d asked for and was relieved God had answered her prayer. The pair prayed together and her life changed in that moment.
Today Crissy travels all over the country telling her story and warning about the dangers of the sex industry.
She is a shining example of the grace of God, and her story
demonstrates that nobody is ever out of the reach of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
So even after everything that she has been through, she can stand
proudly in front of large groups of people and share with them the extraordinary things that God has done for her…
At a fundraising event in California, Crissy Outlaw
stands at a pulpit wearing a glamorous billowing black mini with a pink
flower carefully lodged in her dark hair.
The all-American 41-year-old beauty begins her sermon simply with: ‘Hi, my name is Crissy and I used to be a porn star.’
If you are reading this article, and you would like to know how Jesus Christ can turn your life around, I would encourage you to visit my website for a detailed explanation.
God is in control, He loves you very deeply, and He wants you to have an amazing life filled with love, peace and joy.
If you will just reach out and surrender to Him, He will completely transform your life, but the choice is up to you.
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oped: Just *SMH* this whole LG (Lesbian/Gay) thing is totally out of control... went from LG to LGBT(bi-sexual/transgender to LGBTQ (queer) then they added (animal} LGBTQA and now (species) LGBTQAS....just waiting for the final shoe to drop and they add C (ChildLove) LGBTQAS et al is a #Fetish not worthy of "SpecialRights" nor *MarriageRights* < reserved for #1m1w a contract to pro-create and raise a family! I'm sorry but these people are in desperate need of psychiatric care not surgery,drugs ,hormone treatment and voice coaching! I am starting to think all this push for medical insurance via government intervention is to cover a very small population of society 1-3% for very expensive medical intervention for people with psychological issues via: plastic surgery,drugs,.hormone treatment etc! Thats my opinon and I'm sticking to it!
by:Michael Snyder If you could become an elf, would you do it? You might argue that elves
do not exist, but one man has spent thousands upon thousands of dollars
on surgeries, hair removal, creams, dyes and bleaches in a determined
attempt to transform himself into one. 25-year-old Luis Padron of Buenos
Aires, Argentina says that he “became obsessed with the world of elves,
angels and fantasy beings after being bullied as a child”. Now he is
spending about $5,000 a month so that he can permanently look like an
elf, and he has told the press that “I consider myself trans-species”.
Body modification has become one of the hottest global trends in recent
years, but is this a case where someone has taken it way too far?
When the world of fantasy becomes more important than reality to
someone, they can do some things that may seem really strange to the
rest of us. According to the Daily Mail, Padron has spent an extraordinary amount of money in order become the elf that he has always wanted to be…
He now has a £4,000-a-month ritual applying specialist creams, dyes, treatment and SPF 100 sunscreen.
He has almost spent more than £25,000 on surgery including
liposuction on his jaw, a nose job, full body hair removal and
operations to change his eye colour.
You would think that all of that would be enough, but Padron has even bigger plans for the future.
In addition to everything else he has done, he intends to have his ears cut and his jaw reshaped…
‘I have my own beauty ideal and want to achieve that no matter what.
‘I want to have my ears cut to become pointy like an elves, my jaw to
look more sharp like a diamond, a face-lift and an eye-lift to give my
eyes a cat-like shape.
‘I am also consider having muscle implants too.
‘There’s also a surgery to make you taller and I will
remove four of my ribs too, so that I can shape my waist to make it
thinner.’
What Padron doesn’t understand is that he didn’t need to make any of these changes to be worth loving.
God loves us no matter where we are from, what we look like, or what physical challenges we may be facing.
Part of becoming a person of great love is learning to love yourself,
and I have a feeling that Padron is going to feel empty no matter how
many physical modifications he makes to his own body.
That is because self-worth does not come from how others see us on
the outside. Rather, it comes from knowing that God valued us so much
that He sent His only Son to come and die on the cross for us.
So let us pray that Padron finds the Lord Jesus Christ soon, because
then he will finally discover what his heart has been searching for all
this time.
And if you would like to know more about how you can come to know the Lord Jesus Christ, I would encourage you to visit my website for a detailed explanation.
God loves you very much, and He wants to take the broken pieces of your life and turn them into a beautiful thing.
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You can’t make this stuff up. Over the
weekend, a suicide belt went off accidentally, causing a giant explosion
at a Syrian party—where terrorists were enjoying themselves with a
festive karaoke sing-along.
Video footage from Syrian TV, which was posted to YouTube and then
reported by U.S. media outlets like Fox and Friends, shows a group of
Syrian men singing in Arabic into a microphone.
Shortly after the start of the video, one of the men is seen reaching
down, possibly to adjust a suicide belt—and, immediately after, the
entire frame is filled with a deadly explosion.
The camera is knocked to the ground, but the
footage continues for another few seconds, depicting snippets of sudden
chaos: militants are screaming in pain, and other bystanders are seen
running over the camera.
It’s unclear how many of the terrorists were killed by the big blast.
According to Fox and Friends, the militants were members of a group
called Takfiri, which has claimed responsibility for several explosions
in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Takfiri has not yet claimed responsibility for the latest attack on their own party.
GHOST ships filled the rotting corpses of its North Korean crew have
been washing up on the Japanese coast in an eerie testament to the
oppressive and brutal regime.
The flimsy fishing
boats have been drifting across the sea of Japan for an unknown amount
of time, but long enough to see their crew so decomposed it is almost
impossible to determine a cause of death.
Haunting images and photos have emerged of the Japanese authorities hauling the decrepit, rusty wrecks from the ocean.
In
terrible conditions and in varying states of decay, the eerie vessels
still bear scraps of the North Korean flag they sailed under.
Faded
writing on the hull identifying the ships as belonging to the ‘Korean
People’s Army’, along with the remnants of the flags, are the only
indication of where these ships came from.
Japanese authorities have yet to establish a cause of death The flimsy fishing boats have been drifting across the sea of Japan
And aboard the remains lie the corpses of the crew who are thought to have met their fate at sea.
Autopsies conducted on the bodies found some had been dead for months.
But
despite ordering an investigation, Japanese authorities have yet to
establish a cause of death, with some remains so badly decomposed it was
impossible to discover what had killed them.
Orders issued by the portly dictator cannot be ignored under pain of death The bodies of the crews were all in civilian clothes
But the distance to South Korea is a
fraction of that to Japan, and would be the likeliest and shortest
destination for anyone trying to flee.
Another theory is that the
crew of the fishing boats are simply poor fisherman sent out to bring
in the daily catch but who got lost or ran into trouble.
The
primitive vessels - none of which are fitted with GPS or any modern
navigation tools - could have been manned by an inexperienced crew who
were overwhelmed by the complexities of sailing on the open sea.
The hermit kingdom is known to struggle with feeding its population, with previous famines killing thousands of people.
Tyrannical
leader Kim Jong-un is thought to have been putting pressure on the
fishing industry to meet impossible quotas to help feed the starving
millions, which could have seen ordinary folk sent out to sea.
The bodies of the crews, all in civilian clothes, could have tried their
hand at sailing into deeper waters to try and bring in a catch to meet Kim Jong-un’s demands.
The ‘ghost-ships’ are becoming a regular occurrence along Japan’s west coast
Orders issued by the portly dictator cannot be ignored under pain of death, no matter how impossible.
Jiro
Ishimaru of Asia Press, said: “When Kim Jong-un issues an order no one
can ignore it, even if he is asking them to do the impossible.
“That means inexperienced soldiers go out to sea, even in terrible conditions and with no idea what they are doing.”
It is believed the fate of the crew resulted from getting lost or being
caught in bad weather in the rickety boats, ill-equipped for rough
conditions, and the crew died from exposure or starvation after drifting
on the ocean.
Neil Gorsuch has been a justice of the Supreme Court for less than a month, but he’s already breaking precedent.
He has decided against joining the Supreme Court’s “cert pool,” a
shared team of law clerks that produce “pool memos” for each of the more
than 7,000 petitions seeking review annually. Justices who subscribe to
the pool make their decision on whether to hear a case based on the
recommendation made by the labor pool.
Gorsuch’s own team of law clerks will review the thousands of filed
petitions and will make recommendations directly to Gorsuch on the
roughly 75 petitions that should be considered by the nation’s highest
court each year.
Gorsuch joins Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. as the only other Supreme Court justice who is not part of the pool. Alito dropped out of the pool in 2008.
The pool was created to help ease the workload for Supreme Court Justices but has been criticized for giving too much power to the young law clerks of the pool.
“I’m convinced that when each of the justices had his or her clerks
read the cert petitions, you had nine sets of eyes,” said Duke
University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky.
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Chemerinsky noted that the number of cases heard each year by the
Supreme Court has dropped substantially since the cert pool became the
precedent.
“Now you only have one set of eyes, and that really decreases the
likelihood of cert being granted,” he said. “Also, it used to be that
clerks knew what their justices wanted and what they might be interested
in. You really lose that when you have the cert pool.”
In a 2007 article in the Texas Law Review, University of Minnesota
law professor David R. Stras examined every cert pool memo from 1984,
1985, 1991 and 1992. He found that the cert pool has a direct impact on
the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court.
“One of the things that the data did show was that consistently from
term to term, the cert pool is stingier in the number of grants it
recommends than the court itself,” Stras wrote in the article. “The
court ends up taking more cases than the cert pool recommends.”
“This explanation has considerable facial plausibility as some
justices, including the late Chief Justice [William H.] Rehnquist, have
admitted that they do not look at every petition for certiorari that is
filed with the court,” Stras wrote.
He added that the “stinginess has increased over time,” with the
Supreme Court’s caseload dropping from 159 in 1985 to just 114 in 1992.
Furthermore, notes University of Virginia law professor Stephen F.
Smith, clerks on the pool are incentivized against recommending cases
for Supreme Court review out of fear they will be dismissed by the
courts, otherwise known as a DIG.
“You want to avoid getting DIGs because it hurts,” said Smith, a
former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas in 1993. “You want the most
powerful justices in the country to think well of you.”
“You’re really putting your neck out on the line” by recommending a
case for Supreme Court review, Smith said. “And what if the court
disagrees with you? The incentive in the cert pool is to deny.”
“Your justice will
remember you, but not for how many grants you recommended. The other
justices will not remember at all whether you recommended a DIG,” he
added. “You sort of have this idea of self-importance that goes away
after you’re done.”
The result of the widespread use of the cert pool is the
“proliferation of long fractured opinions” on the Supreme Court,
wrote Douglas Berman of The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law
in 2007.
“Perhaps if the Justices spent more time personally reading cert
petitions and lower court rulings — and not just summaries from one
clerk in the pool — they might directly discover areas of the law in
need of extra attention and also might better appreciate the mess they
sometimes make by issuing fractured rulings.”
Gorsuch’s decision to opt out of the cert pool means he won’t be
subjected to its inherent faults. Gorsuch’s team will be subject to a
greater workload, but as a result, he will have much greater say in what
cases he believes should be heard by the nation’s highest court.
Under the past two administrations, there has been an official
celebration of Mexico’s Cinco de Mayo holiday at the White House, but
that tradition has come to an end under the current “America First”
administration of President Donald Trump. The Hill
reported that the 16-year-old tradition will instead be a much smaller
affair held somewhere other than the White House and will feature Vice
President Mike Pence as the host.
The reported modification of the White House celebration of the
Mexican holiday was initially revealed by Spanish-language media outlet La Opinion,
which noted that there had been no official announcement of any change
in plans and cited unnamed government sources. The White House did not
respond to requests for comment, according to The Hill.
Hispanic activists weren’t pleased. “The
decision of the White House to renounce the celebration of Cinco de
Mayo is another slap for many Mexican Americans and Latinos,” complained
Felix Sanchez, co-founder and president of the National Hispanic
Foundation for the Arts. “Instead of embracing our nation’s
multicultural heritage, we are deepening divisions, not looking for
common ground.” The tradition of hosting a big event celebrating Cinco de Mayo at the
White House began under former President George W. Bush and was
continued under his successor, former President Barack Obama, who
welcomed some 500 guests, a celebrity chef and popular Mexican band to
the celebration in 2016.
That occurred at the same time that then-candidate Trump posted his
now infamous “taco bowl” tweet in honor of the Mexican holiday, a tweet
that was criticized by many Hispanics, Mexicans and of course, the
liberal media.
Here is the tweet that drew so much condemnation and accusations of racism toward Hispanics, in case you had forgot:
As for the reported decision by the Trump administration not to hold a
Cinco de Mayo celebration on White House grounds this year, honestly
who can blame them? It likely would have sparked outrage and boycotts
and harsh criticisms, much like everything else the administration does.
Meanwhile, the only Cinco de Mayo celebrations that have been officially canceled
thus far are those held in various cities around the country by
Mexican-Americans, amid fears that immigration agents will monitor the
events and round up any illegal immigrants in attendance, according to a
report from The Washington Times. It is worth noting that the Cinco de Mayo holiday — which marks the
date in 1862 of the Battle of Puebla, during which the Mexican army held
off invading French forces — is typically only solemnly observed in
Mexico, with Mexican-Americans and others in the U.S. being the ones
treating the holiday as an occasion for festive celebration. (Mexico’s real Independence Day is Sept. 16.)
Though Trump-haters will
be upset at the lack of celebration at the White House, they would have
been upset regardless, so this move should be viewed less as an effort
to offend Mexicans and more likely an effort to either poke the liberal
media or simply not waste time on a non-American holiday that isn’t even
really celebrated in its country of origin.
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I for one have had enough of the Progressive Party USA...formerly known as the CPUSA as well as the Pink Swastika Party It is past time for congress to act as well as POTUS, the FBI and Justice Department. They need to be arrested,prosecuted and jailed under 18 USC 2384-2385 Sedition Conspiracy...No ands ifs or buts about it! See: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/02/barry-barack-obama-is-new-anthony.html
“[Dr. Mark Green’s] military awards include the Bronze Star, The Air
Medal, The Air Medal with ‘V’ device for valor under heavy enemy fire,
and numerous other medals for service. He also was awarded the Combat
Medical Badge, the US Army Ranger Tab, and The Expert Infantryman’s
Badge, among many others.” [Photo: MarkGreen4TN.com]
by: David Codrea “Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green (R), President Donald Trump’s nominee
for Army secretary, strongly believes that citizens should be armed ―
and not just with any ol’ guns,” HuffPost Senior Political Reporter and
Politics Managing Editor Amanda Terkel snarks.
“They should be able to possess whatever weapons the military has,
because an armed citizenry is the ‘ultimate checks and balances’ against
the federal government.”
It’s almost funny—a liberal arts major with experience limited to
leftist agitprop making fun of a man who … well, take a moment and read his professional qualifications for yourself.
He was a West Point Graduate with an economics degree, a Masters degree
in Information Systems from USC and a medical degree from Wright State.
He served his country on covert missions and received plenty of
decorations for being in harm’s way. He’s a successful businessman. He’s
a board member for humanitarian organizations “focused on caring for
soldiers and their families as they return with the unseen scars of
war.”
So Terkel’s needing to resort to Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule is understandable; it’s all she’s got. Compare her education, experience and achievements with
Green’s CV. And note she previously “served as Deputy Research Director
at the Center for American Progress and the Managing Editor of
ThinkProgress.org.”
“Think Progress is a ‘project’ of the American Progress
Action Fund (APAF), a ‘sister advocacy organization’ of the John
Podesta-led Center for American Progress (CAP) and CAP’s entities such
as Campus Progress. It also draws freely on the resources of the George
Soros-funded Media Matters website edited by David Brock.
Yes, that would be “spirit cooking” dinner invitee John Podesta…
And Terkel’s hoplophobia
is also understandable. After all, “She is a graduate of Colgate
University,” and that school just went on a four-hour meltdown over an art student with a glue gun.
What she’ll never admit—because she probably doesn’t know, is that
Green’s understanding of an armed citizenry is consistent with Founding
intent, as expressed by Tench Coxe:
“As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people
before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which
must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their
power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed
by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.”
(Tench Coxe in ‘Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the
Federal Constitution’ under the Pseudonym ‘A Pennsylvanian’ in the
Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789 at 2 col. 1)
“Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then,
that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have
no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible
implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…. [T]he
unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal
or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in
the hands of the people.” (Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb.
20, 1788.)
It’s also consistent with Supreme Court opinion. In Miller,
the court found a short-barrel shotgun could not be determined
protected under the Second Amendment because the court had no evidence
its possession had “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or
efficiency of a well regulated militia [or] that this weapon is any part
of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to
the common defense.”
That’s a key point. The function of the militia was — and is — to
field citizen soldiers. And these citizens bore arms that were suitable
for that purpose, “ordinary military equipment” intended to be taken
into “common defense” battles. The militia came with the intent to match
and best a professional military threat.
“[T]he citizenry should be allowed to maintain whatever weapon the
federal government has,” Terkel quotes Green, looking for another way to
point and laugh. “If they can have an aircraft carrier, I ought to be
able to have an aircraft carrier.”
Privateers, indeed, at one time operated vessels of war. And granting
Letters of Marque and Reprisal is still a Constitutional power of
Congress, even if it does ignore it, along with its power to “provide
for calling forth the Militia [and] for organizing, arming, and
disciplining, the Militia.”
As for the “private nuclear weapon” strawman, Green never argued for
that. While no specific power appears to have been delegated in the
Constitution to authorize forbidding such private ownership, it does
raise questions on how the purposes of the Preamble could otherwise be
fulfilled. I haven’t spent a lot of time mulling this over, but could a
case be made that Congress is the entity authorized “to raise and
support Armies,” and that would be the equivalent of an unaccountable
standing army? Another article seems in order to invite discussion on
that.
But the nuke issue is a diversion anyway, from Terkel’s main beef,
and the real reason “progressives” are outraged over Green. He dared to
repeat that the psychiatric establishment considered transsexuals to
suffer from Gender Identity Disorder.
That the American Psychiatric Association changed its position in 2012
had less to do with new research and discoveries than it did with
lobbying by “progressive” political advocacy groups. Also, the guy he’s
replacing, Eric Fanning, is openly gay, so that’s another “progressive strike against Green.
If Green is to be faulted, a better reason than his being considered
“mean spirited” by “progressives” would be because he misstated a point:
“The Second Amendment, while it allows citizens to protect themselves
from other citizens, goes well beyond just allowing us to defend
ourselves from a criminal,” Green said at a pro-gun rally in 2013. “The
men who penned and ratified this document gave us the right to keep and
bear arms as an ultimate checks and balances against the federal
government. When considering magazine size and weapon type, comments
like, ‘You don’t need a 10-round magazine to hunt deer’ completely
misses the point of the Second Amendment.”
They didn’t give us any rights, and Green no doubt understands that. That’s something even the Supreme Court understands:
The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly
recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it
“shall not be infringed.” As we said in United States v. Cruikshank, 92
U. S. 542, 553 (1876), “[t]his is not a right granted by the
Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument
for its existence. The Second amendment declares that it shall not be
infringed …
That Green misspoke about something he clearly understands (see video
below) can be fixed with a reminder that words have meaning. In the
mean time, the facts that he’s for the right of the people to keep and
bear arms – and that “progressives’ have their knives out for him – seem
like pretty good reasons to welcome his appointment.
It also may explain why John McCain is making noises that don’t, and why CNN is helping pile up on him for speculating on inconsistencies between evolution and his faith.
I guess they’d rather not have someone who understands the Constitution in any position of responsibility:
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I hate May Day.
I appreciate some of the early 20th century reforms that changed
labor practices in the Western world, but I despise the core beliefs of
many of those reformers. However, I can empathize with their fight
because the lives they lived were far different than our own today.
Unlike those reformers, I cannot stomach the liberal zealots who today
champion causes even farther to the left than those who came before
them. What problem could I have with these ridiculous liberals?
Unlike the reformers of the late 19th and early 20th century, today’s
liberal protesters have NOTHING to be protesting. In fact, today’s
protesters are reversing the gains of their forbears by fighting for
slavery. They fight to give powerful oligarchies (like union leaders)
and the government more power, to strip freedoms from the people, and to
hand over the rights of our children. Even worse, these liberal
malcontents are willing to trample the rights of anyone and everyone who
does not agree with their vicious, anti-freedom worldview.
They are violent (see Berkeley riots, or Seattle, or Portland, or…
well any of the other liberal riots), they are closed-minded, and they
are wholly intolerant of the beliefs of any who might think differently
from them. But the worst part is… they care very little for obeying our
laws, or our nations morality.
One small example of their lawlessness…. watch as they chant wishes of death on our President and Vice President.
I worked the Mexican Border as a Customs Patrol Officer 1975-1986 from San Diego Ca through El Paso Tx most was in the Yuma Arizona sector...a physical wall is not the answer it is expensive to build/ maintain and has very little impact...it just slows them down...the perps will just go over/under or through it... Just a fact Jack!
What is needed is a Vertual Law Wall...like enforcing the laws already on the books...cutting off all welfare benefits to illegals...stopping the crazy anchor baby crap...congress needs to enact a law requiring the parent/parents to be US citizens or have legal resident status in order for a child to be a US citizen not just born here (for those who came illegally and have the cost of birth paid for by medicaid)! Enforcing the verify Soc Sec system for employment... punish businesses who violate this law.
Stop complaining about breaking up illegal immigrant families by required immigration law...the kids can go home with the parents... they have dual citizenship... when they become adults they can move wherever their heart desires US or Mexico!
The amount of money that it would cost to build the wall would be better served by hiring more Border Patrol agents as well as immigration judges and electronic surveillance equipment to overtake the drug smugglers as illegal immigration would cease if laws were enforced, no jobs are available and benefits are cut off! And don't even go with 'they do jobs Americans won't do~ we need a program for these jobs'...hello one has been in effect for decades the old bracero program 1951-1964 then the (MICA card ) seasonal workers for the agricultural industry.
If the laws were enforced... jobs and benefits were cut off... illegals would self deport themselves at zero cost to the taxpayer...they would go home and work on improving their own countries problemos instead of causing problems for US workers,citizens and families!
