tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57015097091517777742024-03-19T03:47:32.033-05:00We the people...We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.comBlogger2198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-64327690593786970792013-05-12T19:52:00.000-05:002013-05-12T19:53:45.582-05:00Islamic Compounds in America are Training for Jihad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town council members. None of them are elected, of course.</div>
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They even boast that their “town” provides departments of education, medical, finance and land development services.</div>
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This Islamic compound has truly become a city-state. Though not recognized as a legitimate township by the City of Hancock, this Islamic community nevertheless enforces its own laws on the “citizens” within its borders. They do so by using the iron fist of Sharia law.</div>
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I interviewed a member of this camp, which sits deep in the Catskills Mountains of upstate New York. The Islamic group that has established this camp is part a network known as Muslims of the Americas (MOA), which has documented links to Al Qaeda.</div>
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MOA has established similar villages in nearly three-dozen locations nationwide, with other prominent camps found in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, California and Tennessee.</div>
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The man I interviewed, Ali Aziz, painted a shocking picture of what life is like to live inside these camps and how many of their members engage in terrorist training activities. Aziz, an Egyptian Muslim, worked as an undercover informant for eight years for the New York Police Department (NYPD). During that time, he lived on MOA camps and worked closely with MOA leadership, all the time supplying the NYPD with information about illegal activity on the camps—including guerilla combat training.</div>
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Aziz was drawn into the life of an informant after police arrested him years ago on a passport violation. Aziz was fluent in both English and Arabic, and he had been an Olympic Judo athlete.</div>
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“I knew the martial arts,” he said, “which (MOA) liked. I could teach them Arabic. I could teach them how to read the Quran.” He was welcome with open arms by MOA members and its leaders.</div>
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I have visited the outside of the Hancock compound a couple times and flown over it once. It’s typical of virtually every other MOA camp. It’s in a heavily wooded area off the beaten path, with mostly battered trailers and homes and a couple of newly constructed buildings thrown into the mix. It has dirt roads lined with old cars, new cars and junk cars. Wooded debris, discarded scrapings and demolished buildings can be seen throughout the area, giving it an unsightly appearance from above.</div>
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It has its own graveyard, similar to those found on other camps. And the property has a couple of small lakes which have been used as “open areas” to shoot their weapons across. Not surprisingly, Hancock also has a guard shack to intercept unwanted visitors.</div>
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By all accounts, Hancock—which now calls itself “The Town of Islamberg”—is the camp that houses the leaders of MOA and makes decisions for the rest of the camps throughout the United States.</div>
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Aziz provided this shocking information: MOA has created a secret jihadist army, similar to a guerilla-trained militia, that is ready to attack American citizens “at one word” from their leader, Sheikh Gilani.</div>
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One of the main purposes of the camps is to provide guerilla training for the young men—and in some cases the women—to be prepared for jihad. A videotape that I obtained exclusively shows MOA members being trained on the Hancock camp, shooting guns, pretending to attack with knives, practicing slitting throats, and strangling victims. This chilling video is proof that MOA compounds have been used to train Islamic terrorists for combat.</div>
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Aziz confirmed that the camps have stockpiles of illegal weapons.</div>
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Aziz also confirmed what my research had already shown: That the MOA’s policy was to encourage members to collect as much public assistance as possible, and the more children they had the more assistance they received, much of which is returned to Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan.</div>
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Aziz explained that the residents of the MOA believe that their top leader, Sheikh Gilani, is able to travel through space and time, and that he spies on them at all times. This fear helps keep them from disobeying the strict laws of MOA and the “town” leaders.</div>
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“They think Gilani will turn them into a monkey,” he said.</div>
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MOA members are to follow Gilani’s orders blindly and without questioning. Gilani teaches his followers that “jihad” is their purpose in life. Aziz confirms that four generations of MOA members have been brought up on these camps—taught from birth to distrust Americans and to prepare for jihad. The young men are trained to be criminals. Aziz calls them “modern warrior slaves.”</div>
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For some in the MOA camps, they’ve never known any other life, said Aziz. Their schooling, where there is schooling, is laughable, possibly even criminal. In the York, South Carolina, MOA compound children are taught in a storage shed. Local authorities are fearful of even discussing how these children are taught and what they are being taught.</div>
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The most vulnerable and emotionally abused on the camps are women. “They are insecure,” Aziz said of the women. “They don’t know anything. They don’t know about the outside world. They depend on everything from a man.”</div>
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Many of the women are forced into polygamous marriages at very early ages, marriages that take place inside the camps. Aziz calls them “silent” weddings. Though such “silent” weddings are standard throughout all the villages, not all marriages are illegal.</div>
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More than 90 percent of the women are on state benefits, Aziz claims, with a portion of this money going back to Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan. “They have so many kids,” he said of the women. “Eight kids. Nine kids. They have to raise them and they don’t have a lot.”</div>
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Not a lot of money. Not a lot of housing. Frequent brutality from their husbands. And a lot of kids. That’s a woman’s fate on the camps.</div>
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Because of their seclusion, lack of education, forced marriages, fear of beatings, dependency on men and their religious slavery to Sheikh Gilani and his male lieutenants, women in the camps are stripped of any independent desire to flee. “After four generations,” Aziz said, “they are living in their comfort zone.”</div>
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Discipline on the camps is ruthless, and is executed as both punishment and to intimidate followers from ever leaving.</div>
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“This is one thing I want you to really believe,” Aziz told me in one of his most distressed moments during the interview. “If somebody breaks a command, you could be tied to a tree and hit with sticks. This is crazy.”</div>
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Members are beaten for such violations as cursing, disobedience to the leaders, lying, using birth control or even watching programs on TV they’re not supposed to watch.</div>
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“Sometimes they do a crime,” Aziz said, explaining that a “crime” is doing something forbidden by Sheikh Gilani. “Sometimes they do a crime like that and they lash you. I gave the NYPD some tapes of evidence of kids getting beat, women tied to trees, stuff like that. That put me in a bad situation because I exposed these abuses.”</div>
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“I saw a 50-year-old woman tied to a tree and getting beaten … This is what I think is the biggest disgrace, the abuse. The only thing is, nobody on the camps says anything. Of course they’re afraid.”</div>
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“Some people are there because they’re scared,” Aziz said. “They don’t know what to do. They have their children there. They’re scared of the wrath of Gilani. … They are so controlled, so brainwashed. It’s crazy.”</div>
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Welfare fraud is rampant. Aziz said that children on the Hancock compound learn at an early age that it’s OK to commit crimes against non-Muslims and engage in scams. “A lot of them do welfare fraud. They do all kind of scams.”</div>
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Drug dealing is also common and is used as a source of income for MOA. “The drug money goes back to Gilani,” Aziz said, referring to their terrorist leader who rules them from Pakistan.</div>
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“I gave the NYPD enough information to shut the camps down,” he said.</div>
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That evidence included: The sexual abuse of women. The physical abuse of children. The failure to educate girls. Such criminal activity as drug running, welfare fraud and illegal weapons. And worse.</div>
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Ali said, “I would get into trouble if I told you everything I was providing the NYPD. It would violate my immunity. I was providing information to the NYPD about people who committed some very serious crimes. I’m talking about…” And then he stopped and asked, “What is worse crime you can commit?”</div>
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Ali never answered that open-ended question, riffed with imaginative answers. But he left no question about the goal of MOA and their city-states that they are forming across America.</div>
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“The ultimate purpose,” Ali said, “is to be ready when the time is right.”</div>
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“You walk up to them and ask them, ‘What do you want to do?’ ‘I want to fight for Gilani.’ That’s what they want,” Ali said. “It’s not good.”</div>
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<i>Martin Mawyer is the Founder and President of Christian Action Network, a non-profit public advocacy and education group based in Lynchburg, Virginia. He began his career as a freelance journalist and has authored several books, including “Silent Shame,” “The Pro-Family Contract With America,” “Pathways to Success,” and his most recent, “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamic Terrorist Training Camps Inside America.” He has produced a number of documentary films, including Homegrown Jihad, Islam Rising, Sacrificed Survivors and America’s Islamic Threat. Mawyer has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Larry King Live, Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, NBC’s Today Show, Entertainment Tonight and Fox and Friends. His latest book, “Twilight in America,” co-authored by Patti A. Pierucci, details the activities of Islamic terrorist training camps scattered throughout the United States. It can be purchased at <a href="http://twilightinamerica.com/">TwilightInAmerica.com</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon.com </a>in book or Kindle version.</i></div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-47335341024583376902013-05-11T11:42:00.000-05:002013-05-11T11:42:23.635-05:00Why Obama Hid the Truth of Benghazi?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-7384398140845508382013-05-10T15:05:00.000-05:002013-05-10T15:05:22.122-05:00Take Action to Support CSCOPE Accountability Bill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The important CSCOPE Accountability Bill, SB 1406, is currently sitting in the House Calendars Committee and must be voted out of the committee to go to the House floor for a vote. The bill has already received significant bipartisan support having passed the Texas Senate by a vote of 29-1.</div>
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SB 1406 would clamp down on CSCOPE by bringing the curriculum under the oversight of the elected State Board of Education. The curriculum has been exposed as an attempt to circumvent oversight and accountability and to indoctrinate Texas children with radical progressive views. Just a few shocking examples of the curriculum include: a downplaying of Christianity and promoting Islam, calling the Boston Tea Party a terrorist attack, and promoting communism by encouraging students to make a flag for a new communist nation. Further, taxpayers paid for the creation of CSCOPE. This gives the state of Texas a responsibility to take control of the content and to have continual oversight.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-36570402059136883282013-05-06T09:45:00.004-05:002013-05-06T09:45:52.529-05:00The Gulen Movement: Indoctrinating For Jihad In Charter Schools <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The “Turkish Khomeini,” Fethullah Gulen, lives in Pennsylvania. From there he runs a $25 billion international network. He is a prime mover behind the rapid Islamization of Turkey, and he urges Muslims to build schools to indoctrinate an entire generation. He is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools right here in the United States. (Texas alone has 36 of these Gulen charter schools.)</div>
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I recently heard from a teacher at a Gulen Movement school. “There are so many ethical violations occurring here every day,” he told me, “that it is hard to know where to start.” And worse, there is open support for jihad: When news broke of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings, several students defended the attack and expressed concern for the well-being not of the victims, but of the bombers. “They have also,” said the teacher, “expressed theories that 9/11 was a hoax and that Americans and the West are Islamophobic.”</div>
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Beyond that, the educational standards and priorities are abominable. “This school cares little for education and more for PR,” says the teacher. The administration, he says, doesn’t appear to have any background or training in either education or leadership. “Our vice principal has no idea what he is doing; this is evident in the fact that no one can ever find him, and he does not seem to know even basic information about mission statements, curriculum, standards, etc.” The dean of academics “does not even know what is in our curriculum, and he has frequently asked teachers to go easier so that students can get good grades.”</div>
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That could be said of many schools. But in this Gulen school, “as far as curriculum goes, the priority is Islam, not education. Evolution and Darwin are forbidden in biology, and literature classes are censored in order to ensure no one talks about relationships. In fact, ‘Persepolis’ was pulled from the classroom because it spoke poorly of veiling (despite being written by a woman who lived through the Iranian Revolution) and because the writer was ‘the wrong kind of Muslim.’ In addition, students asked to see the film ‘The Great Gatsby’ in junior year, as they read the novel in class (obviously). It was forbidden because it was ‘too sexual.’ The movie has not come out yet, of course, but is rated PG-13; the decision was made based on a preview.”</div>
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The school doesn’t have a library, teacher evaluations are nonexistent, and “the cheating here is rampant – and encouraged. Students have broken into teachers’ rooms; they not only steal tests but they also think that the entirety of the building exists for them alone.” Not only that, but “in the dorms, the students are ‘chaperoned’ by several young Turkish men who do not speak English. The chaperones are tasked with ensuring that the students adhere to Islam, and they have meetings in the dorms to pressure kids into practicing their faith. School days are planned around Islamic prayer (Fridays are shortened, for example; during the winter months, there is a 90-minute break in the middle of the day for lunch and prayer). The school is registered as nonsectarian, yet every student is Muslim.”</div>
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When all of the teachers were fingerprinted and had background checks per state law, the chaperones were not required to do so. It will come as no surprise that the finances of the school are suspicious at best. Staff is paid sporadically, and there have been numerous occasions this year when they were not paid on time.</div>
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The teacher concludes: “There are so many things that are happening here that this is only the tip of the iceberg. What amazes me is that they are still in business. They seem to have local politicians in their pockets. In addition to the ethical problems this school poses, I am also concerned with the real reason for its existence. Clearly academics are not important, but is this simply a moneymaking scheme? Is it a visa factory to bring in more and more Turkish nationals? Or is it something more sinister, an attempt to guarantee that Islam is being followed in America as well as overseas?”</div>
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Whatever the truth may be, it needs to come out. Gulen Movement schools in the U.S. must be investigated.</div>
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Read more: <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/the-gulen-movement-indoctrinating-for-jihad-in-charter-schools/#ixzz2SWXbAFlH">http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/the-gulen-movement-indoctrinating-for-jihad-in-charter-schools/#ixzz2SWXbAFlH</a></div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-76530699205497575702013-05-06T09:42:00.001-05:002013-05-06T09:42:06.054-05:00Democratic state senator blocks Texas bill to permit concealed carry campuses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A bill that would have allowed students and faculty to carry concealed handguns on college campuses in Texas will likely fail in the state Senate due to one Democratic senator who refused to allow the legislation to come up for a vote in the committee he controls.</div>
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A state senator in Texas is blocking legislation that would allow for the concealed carry of handguns on college campuses.</div>
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Sen. John Whitmire, who is the chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee, has declined to take up the legislation, calling it “very divisive” and citing the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook as a reason the bill shouldn’t be considered by his committee at this time.</div>
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"I don't think there is any question that the tragedies around the country, most recently at Sandy Hook, put a chilling effect on broadening the right to carry on campuses and other venues," Whitmire told The Houston Chronicle last Wednesday.</div>
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Brandon Waltens, a student at Baylor University and a state leader of the Young Conservatives of Texas, said he was frustrated with the decision to block the bill.</div>
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“It’s an abuse of committee power,” said Waltens. “It’s unfortunate that he’s deciding to use his power as chairman of the committee to block the Senate from hearing such an important bill.”</div>
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Waltens believes that students have the right to carry their concealed firearm on campus if they have the license to do so. His group garnered 600 signatures for a petition to support the bill back in March.</div>
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Another piece of legislation to allow faculty and students to store firearms in their vehicles on campus appears to have a brighter future in the Texas legislature, however.</div>
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The State Senate passed a bill that would allow guns in vehicles on Wednesday morning in a 27-4 vote.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-47300799379694255362013-05-01T10:11:00.004-05:002013-05-01T10:11:49.685-05:00Pentagon: Religious Proselytizing is Not Permitted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Religious liberty groups have grave concerns after they learned the Pentagon is vetting its guide on religious tolerance with a group that compared Christian evangelism to “rape” and advocated that military personnel who proselytize should be court martialed.</div>
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The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling on the Air Force to enforce a regulation that they believe calls for the court martial of any service member caught proselytizing.</div>
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President Mikey Weinstein and others from his organization met privately with Pentagon officials on April 23. He said U.S. troops who proselytize are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished – by the hundreds if necessary – to stave off what he called a “tidal wave of fundamentalists.”</div>
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“Someone needs to be punished for this,” Weinstein told Fox News. “Until the Air Force or Army or Navy or Marine Corps punishes a member of the military for unconstitutional religious proselytizing and oppression, we will never have the ability to stop this horrible, horrendous, dehumanizing behavior.”</div>
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Perkins, president of the <a href="http://www.frc.org/alert/pentagon-consultant-no-gospel-witness-for-chaplains"><strong>Family Research Council</strong></a>, told Fox News he was stunned that the Pentagon would be taking counsel and advice from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.</div>
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“Why would military leadership be meeting with one of the most rabid atheists in America to discuss religious freedom in the military,” Perkins said. “That’s like consulting with China on how to improve human rights.”</div>
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<a href="http://www.frc.org/alert/pentagon-consultant-no-gospel-witness-for-chaplains"><strong>The FRC has launched a petition</strong></a> drive urging Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel to protect the religious freedom of troops “and not to proceed with the purge of religion within the ranks called for by anti-Christian activists.”</div>
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Pentagon officials met with Weinstein and his group were to discuss a policy called “Air Force Culture, Air Force Standards,” published on Aug. 7, 2012.</div>
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Section 2.11 requires “government neutrality regarding religion.”</div>
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“Leaders at all levels must balance constitutional protections for an individual’s free exercise of religion or other personal beliefs and the constitutional prohibition against governmental establishment of religion,” the regulation states.</div>
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Military leaders were admonished not to use their position to “promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates or to extend preferential treatment for any religion.”</div>
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Weinstein said it’s time for the Air Force to enforce the regulation – with zeal.</div>
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“If a member of the military is proselytizing in a manner that violates the law, well then of course they can be prosecuted,” he said. “We would love to see hundreds of prosecutions to stop this outrage of fundamentalist religious persecution.”</div>
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He compared the act of proselytizing to rape.</div>
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“It is a version of being spiritually raped and you are being spiritually raped by fundamentalist Christian religious predators,” he told Fox News.</div>
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He said there is a time and a place for those in uniform to share their faith – but he took issues with fundamentalism that he says is causing widespread problems in the military.</div>
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“When those people are in uniform and they believe there is no time, place or manner in which they can be restricted from proselytizing, they are creating tyranny, oppression, degradation, humiliation and horrible, horrible pain upon members of the military,” he said.</div>
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Perkins said the military regulations have “Weinstein’s fingerprints all over it.”</div>
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“It threatens to treat service members caught witnessing as enemies of the state,” he said, referring to a Washington Post article highlighting Weinstein’s meeting with Pentagon officials. “Non-compliance, the Pentagon suggests, even from ordained chaplains could result in court-martialing on a case-by-case basis.”</div>
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The Pentagon confirmed to Fox News that Christian evangelism is against regulations.</div>
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“Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense, LCDR Nate Christensen said in a written statement. He declined to say if any chaplains or service members had been prosecuted for such an offense.</div>
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“Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome in specific cases,” he said.</div>
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Ron Crews, the executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, warns that the Air Force policy would “significantly impact the religious liberties of Air Force personnel.”</div>
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“Saying that a service member cannot speak of his faith is like telling a service member he cannot talk about his spouse or children,” Crews said. “I do not think the Air Force wants to ban personnel from protected religious speech, and I certainly hope that it is willing to listen to the numerous individuals and groups who protect military religious liberty without demonizing service members.”</div>
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In an interview with the Washington Post, Weinstein called proselytizing a “national security threat.”</div>
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“And what the Pentagon needs to understand is that it is sedition and treason,” he told the newspaper. “It should be punished.”</div>
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Perkins said it was troubling the Obama Administration would place so much trust in someone like Weinstein.</div>
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“Unfortunately, it appears our military is on a forced march away from the very freedoms they are sworn to protect,” he said. “This language from Weinstein that Christians who share their faith or offer comfort to others from their faith in Jesus Christ is “sedition and treason” is a treasonous statement in and of itself.”</div>
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But Weinstein said they count thousands of Protestants among their ranks – and said they are simply going after fundamentalists.</div>
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“As soon as we find a fundamentalist Muslim, atheist, Jewish person or anybody else, we will be happy to fight them – but so far they have been few and far between,” he said.</div>
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Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, an executive vice president with the <a href="http://www.frc.org/alert/pentagon-consultant-no-gospel-witness-for-chaplains"><strong>Family Research Counci</strong></a>l, told Fox News that he’s deeply concerned by what he call a pattern of attacks on Christianity within the military.</div>
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“Mickey Weinstein has a very visceral hated of Christianity and those who are Christians,” he said. “He’d like to see it eliminated from the military entirely.”</div>
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If the Air Force policy is implemented, Boykin said Christians who speak of their faith “could now be prosecuted as enemies of the state.”</div>
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“This has the potential to destroy military recruiting across the services as Americans realize that their faith will be suppressed by joining the military,” Boykin said.</div>
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In the meantime, Weinstein and his group said they will continue to push for the Pentagon to fully implement its ban on proselytizing.</div>
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“There is a time, place and manner in which proselytizing is not only allowed, but it’s something we support among our Christian clients,” Weinstein said. “However, you can’t scream fire in a crowded theater and you can’t scream Jesus in a crowded theater at certain times, places, and in certain manners.”</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-15974837007940948712013-04-30T13:37:00.002-05:002013-04-30T13:37:44.093-05:00CSCOPE Hearing Today in Texas House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This afternoon, the Texas House Committee on Public Education will have an
important hearing on CSCOPE legislation (SB 1406, which has already passed the
Texas Senate). The bill would bring oversight to CSCOPE by bringing the CSCOPE
curriculum under the oversight of the elected State Board of Education. CSCOPE
is a K-12 online educational curriculum that is used in 80 percent of school
districts in Texas.</div>
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The curriculum has been exposed as an attempt to circumvent oversight and
accountability and to indoctrinate Texas children with radical progressive
views. Just a few shocking examples of the curriculum include a downplaying of
Christianity and promoting Islam, calling the Boston Tea Party a terrorist
attack, and promoting Communism by encouraging students to make a flag for a new
communist nation. Texas Values will be testifying in support of this important
legislation.</div>
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Public Education Committee and encourage them to quickly pass the bill out of
committee</a>.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-71625798751973388382013-04-30T13:34:00.002-05:002013-04-30T13:34:54.873-05:00Texas A.G.: Domestic Partnerships Violate Texas Constitution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday saw an important victory for marriage and the rule of law in
Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott released an official <a href="https://web-satx.mail.mil/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">attorney general opinion</a>
concluding that the Texas Constitution “prohibits political subdivisions from
creating a legal status of domestic partnership and recognizing that status by
offering public benefits based upon it.”</div>
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Currently, several local governments, including Pflugerville ISD have given
legal recognition to domestic partnerships and/or same-sex couples, in violation
of the Texas Constitution. Austin ISD is attempting to be the second school
district in Texas to give legal recognition to domestic partnerships. Late last
year, Senator Dan Patrick, Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, submitted
a formal AG Opinion request on this issue and <a href="https://web-satx.mail.mil/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">Texas Values issued a brief in support</a>, arguing that these
local governments were clearly violating the Texas Constitution.</div>
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This opinion now makes it clear, Pflugerville ISD and other local
governmental entities in Texas are in clear violation of the Texas Constitution.
Pflugerville ISD and Austin ISD are teaching their students a terrible lesson
about the importance of following the law if these rogue school districts don’t
immediately end their unconstitutional policy. This issue highlights the need
for accountability and enforcement of the Texas Constitution.</div>
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HB 1568, by Rep. Drew Springer, is on the move in the Texas House and
provides for specific accountability and enforcement measures against school
districts that violate the Texas Constitution. <a href="https://web-satx.mail.mil/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">Contact your representative</a> to support HB 1568 and <a href="https://web-satx.mail.mil/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx" target="_blank">contact the Calendars Committee</a>
and encourage them to pass the bill out of committee and onto the House floor
for a vote.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-31819551850071696052013-04-29T18:37:00.000-05:002013-04-29T18:37:11.539-05:00Perry Wants Texas Gun Firms to Sidestep Fed Oversight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Amid his recent high-profile effort to draw firearms manufacturers to relocate to Texas, Gov. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/">Rick Perry</a> is also expressing an interest in amending state law to allow Texas-based firms that only sell guns to Texans to sidestep federal regulations.</div>
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Perry raised the idea this week during a tele-town hall hosted by Empower Texans while answering a question about various bills filed this session in response to gun control measures proposed in Congress after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults.</div>
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"One of the interesting things is we're having the conversation with [the] attorney general and with constitutional lawyers about whether intrastate manufacturing, intrastate development of weapons and/or ammunition could be regulated by the state of Texas if it's just used for this state," Perry said.</div>
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Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/directory/greg-abbott/">Greg Abbott</a>, said Abbott does not discuss private conversations with state leaders.</div>
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"General Abbott strongly supports policies that free Texas from overreaching federal regulations regarding firearms and accelerate Texas' strong economy," Bean said. "Limiting law-abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional right to own firearms has no place in Texas and General Abbott will continue his fight to protect Second Amendment rights."</div>
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Several other states have considered similar measures related to intrastate gun manufacturing and use. The concept has drawn<a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/news/house-bill-aimed-at-removing-texas-guns-from-us-re/nT5YZ/">criticism</a> from some legal experts. A <a href="http://www.cato.org/blog/guns-commerce-clause-way-supreme-court">Montana law</a> is currently the subject of a federal lawsuit.</div>
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In Texas, state Reps. <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/directory/matt-krause/">Matt Krause</a>, R-Fort Worth, and <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/directory/jodie-laubenberg/">Jodie Laubenberg</a>, R-Parker, have both filed bills that would exempt intrastate manufacturers of firearms from federal laws or regulations.<a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB00627">House Bill 627</a> and <a href="http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB00872">House Bill 872</a> were the subject of hearings by a select House Committee on Federalism and Fiscal Responsibility in March. Neither bill has been voted out of the committee yet.</div>
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"We feel like wholly intrastate commerce is an area where Texas can frame its own debate," Krause said at the hearing.</div>
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John Harrington, founder of Shield Tactical, a firearms retailer,<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShieldTactical/posts/532718476751145">announced</a> earlier this year he is moving his company from California to Texas, in part out of concerns about gun-control efforts in California. He testified last month in favor of Krause's bill.</div>
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"I'm glad to set up my company here and if it comes down to it and my wares can only be sold to the 19th largest economy in the world, I can live with that," Harrington said.</div>
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Texas passed a law in 2011 allowing light bulb manufacturers in the state that sell only to Texans to avoid federal regulation phasing out the sale of incandescent bulbs. <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/future-dims-for-incandescent-bulb-despite-texas-un/nTkkP/">As of January</a>, no light bulb manufacturers had taken up Texas on the offer.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-17302258400147233932013-04-25T17:04:00.002-05:002013-04-25T17:04:48.770-05:00President Obama To Ban Importation of Ammo, Magazines and Gun Accessories Without Congressional Approval<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the course of the last month, while Americans were distracted with the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the devastation wrought by the Boston bombings, President Obama was quietly working behind the scenes to craft laws and regulations<span id="more-16018" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>that will further erode the Second Amendment.</div>
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Congress, and thus We the People, may have unequivocally rejected federal legislation in March which aimed to outlaw most semi-automatic rifles, restrict magazine capacity, and force national registration, but that didn’t stop the President from <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/04/un-arms-trade-treaty-passes-by-overwhelming-vote/" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ceding regulatory control over firearms</a> importation to the United Nations just two weeks later. What the UN Arms Trade Treaty, passed without media fanfare by 154 counties, would do is to restrict the global trade of, among other things, small arms and light weapons. Opponents of the treaty argue that loopholes within the new international framework for global gun control may make it illegal for Americans to purchase and import firearms manufactured outside of the United States.</div>
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To further his gun-grabbing agenda, however, President Obama and his administration didn’t stop there.</div>
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Now they’re taking another significant step against Americans’ right to bear arms – and they’re doing it through Presidential Executive Action, a strategy that, once again, bypasses Congressional oversight and the legislative process.</div>
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…it appears that the <a href="http://www.survivalblog.com/glossary.html#BHO" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BHO</a> Administration is taking executive action on firearms importation. Take a few minutes to read this: <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/after-senate-setback-obama-quietly-moving-forward-with-gun-regulation" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">After Senate setback, Obama quietly moving forward with gun regulation</a>. Here is the key portion of the article:</div>
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“The Importation of Defense Articles and Defense Services — U.S. Munitions Import List references executive orders, amends ATF regulations and clarifies Attorney General authority <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“to designate defense articles and defense services as part of the statutory USML for purposes of permanent import controls</strong>,” among other clauses specified in heavy legalese requiring commensurate analysis to identify just what the administration’s intentions are. Among the speculations of what this could enable are concerns that importing and International Traffic in Arms Regulations [ITAR] may go forward to reflect key elements within the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.”<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[Emphasis added.]</strong></div>
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Depending on how it is implemented, the implications of this change could be huge. With the stroke a of a pen <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and without the consent of Congress</em>, ATF bureaucrats could make <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ANY</strong> gun part or accessory (including magazines) or ammunition that were originally manufactured or perhaps even those <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">designed </em>for military use <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">no longer legal for importation for civilian use</strong>. That might mean <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">no more milsurp parts sets. No more milsurp magazines. No more milsurp ammo. No more milsurp optics. Perhaps not even spare firing pins.</strong> This could be ugly.</div>
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I strongly recommend that you <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">stock up on magazines, ammunition and spare parts for any of your imported military pattern guns</strong>, as soon as possible! Once an import ban is implemented, prices will skyrocket.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Source: James Rawles’ <a href="http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/04/here-come-the-first-of-the-executive-actions.html" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Survival Blog</a> via <a href="http://www.prepperwebsite.com/" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Prepper Website</a></strong></em></div>
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Just five days ago the President vowed to push forward on <a href="http://youtu.be/2JqXwCDJg_A" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gun control without Congress</a> and Nancy Pelosi argued that no matter what Congress says, <a href="http://www.thedailysheeple.com/un-arms-trade-treaty-passes-by-overwhelming-vote_042013" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">gun control is inevitable</a>.</div>
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This latest round of Executive Actions is what they meant.</div>
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A direct on attack on the second amendment is difficult if not impossible, so they are trying to slither their way in through the backdoor by restricting international trade so we can’t import new firearms, by restricting access to accessories and gun parts, by heavily<a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-government-initiative-to-circumvent-second-amendment-targets-ammunition-not-guns_02222012" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> taxing ammunition</a> and gun purchases, by mandating policies like forcing gun owners to have liability insurance, and of course, by identifying potentially dangerous gun owners and simply <a href="http://www.infowars.com/veterans-guns-confiscated-after-forced-psychiatric-evaluation/" style="color: #2970a6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">taking their firearms because of public safety concerns</a>.</div>
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The President recently suggested that the American people have spoken, and that they want guns to be restricted, banned and heavily regulated.</div>
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If that’s so, then how is that a bipartisan Congress overwhelmingly rejected the President’s bid to restrict and outlaw private ownership of millions of weapons and gun accessories?</div>
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Going through the United Nations and now implementing Executive Actions to bypass America’s Constitutionally mandated system of checks and balances is an act of desperation.</div>
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Those who would take our rights have been left with no choice but to try and force their agenda upon us through dictatorial means.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-4881816263108867392013-04-25T10:18:00.001-05:002013-04-25T10:18:05.997-05:00Official: Arming teachers cheaper than hiring security<a href="http://kdhnews.com/news/official-arming-teachers-cheaper-than-hiring-security/article_4828670a-ad5f-11e2-ae46-001a4bcf6878.html#.UXlJG6PnPEQ.blogger">Official: Arming teachers cheaper than hiring security - The Killeen Daily Herald: News</a>We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-8419264277465707322013-04-25T09:21:00.001-05:002013-04-25T09:21:48.862-05:00Yet Another Liberal Domestic Terrorist... And Yet It's Us Conservatives Who Are the Dangerous Ones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Think this will be reported by CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS or ABC?</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-70955258695290553732013-04-22T09:07:00.001-05:002013-04-22T09:07:56.163-05:00Video of the Day- The "Also Product of the Day" Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-20265812257818177492013-04-22T09:04:00.001-05:002013-04-22T09:04:07.639-05:00Quote of the Day- The "Hyphenated American" Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-58801367165419651212013-04-17T07:19:00.001-05:002013-04-17T07:19:12.660-05:00A Follow Up to April 3rd's Story- Local Soldier Says Police Violated His Guns Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Listen carefully to what this fine specimen of an officer says...</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-14569846885252805712013-04-16T14:05:00.002-05:002013-04-16T14:05:38.955-05:00"Anti-Gun Legislation," is Exactly What Reid Said.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-60214926182002940222013-04-16T08:13:00.000-05:002013-04-16T08:13:12.194-05:00Are You An Enemy of the State?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What are America's biggest threats? Hamas? Al Qaeda? According to recent
statements by U.S. military officials--including an Army briefing on "religious
extremism," the military should be just as concerned with Evangelical Christians
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In another example, it was discovered that Lt. Col. Jack Rich of the U.S.
Army highlighted FRC and American Family Association (AFA) as specific groups
who do not share "our Army Values." Rich warned his subordinates "When we see
behaviors that are inconsistent with Army Values--don't just walk by. Do the
right thing and address the concern before it becomes a problem." The 14-page
email goes on to smear FRC and AFA by name, lumping us in with the real
extremists of the Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, and neo-Nazis--as labeled by the
anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which was connected in court
to the terrorist shooting at Family Research Council's headquarters on August
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This type of inflammatory rhetoric is not isolated. As Fox News correspondent
Todd Starnes reported this week, these incidents follow a long line of recent
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<li style="text-align: center;">A Fort Leavenworth War Games scenario identified Christian and Evangelical
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National Day of Prayer service
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A number of lawmakers, led by Congressman Doug Lamborn (R- Colo.) are
demanding answers. In a letter to the Secretary of the Army, he and other
Members of Congress are calling on the Army to apologize for attacking
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<strong><a href="http://www.frc.org/alert/are-you-an-enemy-of-the-state">Join us in standing by these lawmakers by co-signing the letter to the military and show these officials that Evangelicals and Catholics should not be marginalized as "extremists."</a></strong></div>
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Big Democratic donors are setting their sights on Texas amid expectations that it might be up for grabs as early as the 2016 US presidential election because of its rapidly changing demographics, potentially creating a Texas-sized problem for the Republican party.</div>
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Steve Mostyn, the Texan trial lawyer who was one of Barack Obama’s biggest financial supporters in 2012, said it was not only wealthy Texas donors who were intent on turning the red Lone Star state blue. For the first time, rich Democrats across the country were ready to begin pouring money in to try to create the kind of organisation and political infrastructure that the Obama campaign machine built in battleground states like Ohio.</div>
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2. If you have to get your parents permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book, but not to vote, … you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt, you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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5. If, in our largest city, you can buy "two" 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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6. If an 80-year-old woman and 3 yr old child can be stripped searched by the TSA, but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is cute, but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, … you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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10. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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11. If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor buys iPhones, TVs and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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12. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more safe according to the government,… you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-7538801199429843702013-04-09T13:37:00.000-05:002013-04-09T13:37:00.949-05:00I Hope They Go to Prison, I Hope They Get Eviscerated While There<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Gay Connecticut couple accused of raping adopted children will face trial</b></div>
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George Harasz, 49, and Douglas Wirth, 45, of Glastonbury, withdrew a deal with prosecutors that would have given them suspended prison sentences and probation, according to reports. The surprise move comes as new allegations by three more adopted children surfaced Friday.</div>
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial.</div>
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Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault.</div>
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But in a surprise turn, the couple’s attorneys pulled them out of the plea in a bid to fully clear their names, according to CBS affiliate WFSB-TV.</div>
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If Harasz, 49, and Wirth, 45, had continued with the deal, they would have been given suspended prison sentences and probation, WFSB-TV said.</div>
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But more allegations came to light Friday in the explosive case, and prosecutors said they also want to go to trial.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-52646544867060441152013-04-05T07:56:00.001-05:002013-04-05T07:56:50.099-05:00Sharia in America: Florida-DISABLED PURPLE HEART VETERAN, EMBARRASSED AT LOCAL BUSINESS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am a disabled combat veteran. I served in Iraq and worked in Afghanistan. I took an IED because my country asked me too, and I was injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. I have a Purple Heart and an ARCOM with Valor. I fully expect to be treated differently when I am visiting another country - when I am in America I expect equality and toleration; but what I experienced today is something that I never would have thought I'd have to go through in my own country. The country I fought for!</div>
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I am a skydiver with around 300 jumps under my belt. I've done jumps from 30,000 feet, helicopters, hot air balloons, wingsuit skydives and so forth. So with that being said I travel around doing this sport quite a bit. Today was my second time at a dropzone called "Florida Skydiving Center / Skydive Lake Wales". </div>
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Coincidentally there are soldiers from the country of Qatar being trained there. </div>
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The only two women to participate in the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course (IOC) failed ongoing tests to determine which infantry positions should be available to women, according to the Marine Corps Times:</div>
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The women failed the introductory Combat Endurance Test, a punishing test of physical strength and endurance, officials at Marine Corps headquarters said Tuesday. The latest class began March 28 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., with 110 lieutenants participating. Ninety-six men passed the initial endurance test. Twelve men and two women — the only female Marines taking part — failed.</div>
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The Marine Corps’ commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, said he’s aware of concerns from infantrymen, and wants to ensure standards are not lowered because of the policy change. In a letter distributed to his general officers the same day the Pentagon announced the policy change, Amos said the plan that he and the other joint chiefs developed calls for a three-year research period before the top officers in the Corps and Army make recommendations to civilian leaders in 2016. He stressed that no decisions have been made, including in the infantry, recon and spec-ops communities.</div>
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-76690143965773719072013-04-03T10:45:00.000-05:002013-04-03T10:45:09.280-05:00Local Soldier Says Police Violated His Guns Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We the people...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04048557662091724206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701509709151777774.post-1314273163522891642013-04-02T12:56:00.002-05:002013-04-02T12:56:38.553-05:00Alert: Gun News :Alert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday signed off on a sweeping, first-of-its-kind treaty to regulate the international arms trade, brushing aside worries from U.S. gun rights advocates that the pact could lead to a national firearms registry and disrupt the American gun market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The long-debated U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) requires countries to regulate and control the export of weaponry such as battle tanks, combat vehicles and aircraft and attack helicopters, as well as parts and ammunition for such weapons. It also provides that signatories will not violate arms embargoes, international treaties regarding illicit trafficking, or sell weaponry to countries for genocide, crimes against humanity or other war crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced the legislation last month with eight other Democrats, she boasted that it is “the first bill to require liability insurance of gun buyers nationwide.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gun control advocates in Sacramento are putting a new twist on an old NRA slogan: "Guns don't kill people -- bullets kill people."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Democratic lawmakers are pushing like never before to regulate or tax ammunition sales. They say the logic is simple: A firearm is nothing but an expensive paperweight without ammunition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We regulated gun sales because of our concern about safety, (so) by logical extension we should do so with bullets," said state Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, whose AB48 will be heard Tuesday by the Assembly Public Safety Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lawmakers in the state of Connecticut will vote on a sweeping set of gun restrictions, including a ban on new high-capacity magazines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The proposal requires background checks on all gun sales and expands the state's assault weapons ban.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It comes as new federal gun measures appear to have stalled in Congress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Debate over US gun laws was reignited after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at a Connecticut primary school in December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tighter gun restrictions also passed in New York and Colorado in the wake of the shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Connecticut state lawmakers came to an agreement Monday on what they said will become some of the nation’s toughest gun control laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As CBS 2′s Lou Young reported, the deal included a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, such as the one that was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre in Newtown. The deal also calls for a new registry for existing high-capacity magazines, and background checks that would apply to private gun sales.</span></div>
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<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/01/connecticut-lawmakers-reach-deal-on-gun-control-laws/"><span style="font-size: large;">http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/01/connecticut-lawmakers-reach-deal-on-gun-control-laws/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With an announcement of sweeping proposals to curb gun violence, Connecticut lawmakers said they are hoping to send a message to Congress and other state legislators across the country: A bipartisan agreement on gun control is possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Legislative leaders on Monday revealed proposals spurred by the Dec. 14 Newtown school shooting following weeks of bipartisan, closed-door negotiations. A vote is expected Wednesday in the General Assembly, where Democrats control both chambers, making passage all but assured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting at a school in Newtown. Some highlights from the proposal:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/2013/04/01/conn-proposals-guns-other-items-after-newtown/0Qn1nJQI3223inrmQWfMFI/story.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.boston.com/news/education/2013/04/01/conn-proposals-guns-other-items-after-newtown/0Qn1nJQI3223inrmQWfMFI/story.html</span></a></div>
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While many Americans were paying attention to things other than politics on Good Friday, Maryland's Democrat delegates were ramming through Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun grabbing legislation S.B. 281. </div>
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This measure is an "assault weapons" ban which is so draconian that it punishes law-abiding gun owners whose guns are stolen from their homes. In this way, the legislation not only bars the procurement of new "assault weapons" but also turns ownership of weapons acquired before the ban into a risky proposition. </div>
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Republican delegate Mike Smigiel offered an amendment that would have changed the language in S.B. 281 so as to protect gun owners by punishing criminals who steal guns instead, but Democrats mounted a push keep Smigiel's amendment from passing. </div>
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Former Secret Service Agent and 2012 candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland Daniel Bongino spoke to Breitbart News and described the antics behind the defeat of Smigiel's amendment:</div>
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Political cowards in the Maryland legislature scheduled a gun hearing on Good Friday to avoid media attention after a massive public outcry against this overreaching legislative firearm grab. Then...they broke their own parliamentary procedures in order to punish legal firearm owners and protect criminals.</div>
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Republican delegate Mike Smigiel introduced a common-sense amendment to Gov. O'Malley's S.B. 281--an amendment that would have punished criminals who steal guns from the homes of their owners. The original bill only punished the firearm owner for having his or her home broken into, but contained no punishment for the actual criminal. Smigiel's amendment passed on a proper committee vote. But the committee Chair then took the unprecedented step of ordering a new vote. The Chair was then able to use bullying tactics to force two Democrats to change their votes which, in turn, killed the amendment. </div>
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The day before the vote on S.B. 281 took place, the NRA used similar language in warning of Gov. O'Malley's "deceptive tactics and political bullying."</div>
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