Tea Party Sign Of The Day
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May 112009
Suspect Detained Over ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Bumper Sticker
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May 082009
Get yours today; The Official Don’t Tread On Me Outfitters!
A Louisiana driver has been stopped and detained for having a “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper sticker on his vehicle and warned by a police officer about the “subversive” message it sent, according to the driver’s relative.
The situation developed in the small town of Ball, La., where a receptionist at the police department told WND she knew nothing about the traffic stop, during which the “suspect” was investigated for “extremist” activities, the relative said.
It followed by only a few weeks the release of a Department of Homeland Security “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” report, which prompted outrage from legislators and a campaign calling for the resignation of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The report cites individuals who sport certain bumper stickers on their vehicles as suspect, and it was delivered to tens of thousands of local law enforcement officers across the nation.
WND is withholding the driver’s name and the relative’s name at their request.
However, the situation was described on the American Vision blog, too.
According to the relative, the situation happened this way:
Her brother-in-law was driving home from work through the town that has a local reputation for enhancing its budget by stopping speeders and ticketing them. He was pulled over by police officers who told him “he had a subversive survivalist bumper sticker on his car.”
“They proceeded to keep him there on the side of the road while they ran whatever they do to see if you have a record, keeping him standing by the side of the road for 30 minutes,” she told WND.
Barney Frank Interrupted by People Singing in the House Gallery
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May 062009
I can’t really tell what they are singing but I’ll bet it’s probably something like “It’s Raining Men” or “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener” or “Dancing Queen” by ABBA or “YMCA” by the Village People.
Barney Frank is interrupted by people singing in the House gallery while he is trying to address the floor.
Apr 272009
In the spirit of our founders, modern day Patriots gathered at Valley Forge this past weekend.
A hundred or so people gathered around the Arch in Valley Forge to continue the newly minted tradition of a “Tea Party”. One participant spoke on the difference between astroturfing, a technique perfected by dem activists and true grassroot activities, like the nationwide Tea Party:
Prosecuting Patriots
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Apr 232009
It’s funny how Barack Obama (D-Kenya) denounces America’s humane interrogation techniques as “illegal torture” and yet he laughs it up with his new pals Chavez, Noriega, and Castro who all have long records of very real and brutal torture.
WITH the ugly sanctimony of those who never had to make hard decisions, the American left demands show trials of those who kept us safe after 9/11. Wrapping themselves in repugnant self-righteousness, the MoveOn.org set wants political prosecutions. Should President Obama acquiesce, he won’t be furthering the rule of law, but dismantling it.
Show trials have long been popular with leftists. Those who don’t conform to each jot of doctrine become “enemies of the people.” From Stalin down to Putin, and from Mao to Castro, vengeance disguised as law has been a mega-hit.
Those on the left don’t want justice. If they did, they’d be protesting the murderous torture prevalent in Iran, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela and Russia. Instead, our leftists want us to show the leaders of those terror states more respect.
The left is out for revenge. It always is. Hatred of those who think differently is the left’s unifying principle. Leftists don’t need God, but they see devils everywhere.
When President-for-Life Hugo Chavez called President George W. Bush “el Diablo,” our leftists agreed. Hatred of the last administration grew so irrational that any terrorist, no matter how monstrous, became no more than a victim of Bush-Cheney.
Now the left wants an Inquisition for heretics who failed to share its worldview. Men and women who, in their capacity as public servants, wrestled with difficult legal issues in the course of our battle with terrorists are now to be tried and shamed because the left disagreed with their legal opinions and actions. No matter that most Americans wouldn’t view the methods of our interrogators as torture when applied to hardened terrorists (despite the media’s ceaseless effort to convince us otherwise). No matter that foreign leaders championed by the left use vastly more brutal techniques.
No matter that interrogators differ on the utility of “harsh” methods or that the information gleaned indisputably saved American lives. No matter that our system of government functioned as it was designed to.
The left just didn’t like the results the system produced. Law has nothing to do with this cry for vengeance. This is purely about political differences. During the Bush administration, leftists warned repeatedly that actions they didn’t like put our country on a “slippery slope.” Well, once we initiate show trials of government officials who did their best to protect us, we’ll have skipped the slippery slope and leapt to the bottom.
If Obama agrees to any form of show trial, he and his own team will live to regret it. His party won’t always be in power, and he’ll have set a hideous, un-American precedent.
If the Obama administration fails to keep us safe and our citizens are attacked at home or abroad, shall we then prosecute those who dismantled our safeguards and gutted our intelligence effort?
As countless leftists learned in the course of the 20th century, today’s witness for the prosecution is tomorrow’s enemy of the people.
The rule of law is paramount. When we pervert the law for political ends, we attack our deepest foundations. Where would such show trials stop? Will we try Supreme Court justices for issuing legal opinions with which a future administration disagrees?
There are plenty of genuine crimes worth prosecuting in Washington, DC. Corruption abounds. Not a few members of Congress — from both parties — should be in jail. But corruption isn’t taken seriously. Politics are.
If the left gets its People’s Court to destroy the lives of patriots who did their human, imperfect best to defend us (and who succeeded in that effort for seven years), we will do more damage to the United States than all the dictators our president longs to embrace could do together.
The left has nothing against torture. It just wants to choose the victims.
Meanwhile, that great bogeyman beloved of left-wing propagandists and Hollywood (sorry for being redundant), Sen. Joseph McCarthy, is grinning from ear to ear in hell: He’s become the left’s new role model.