By Timothy Sweezy

As the American people grow more and more disenchanted with both Republicans and Democrats, could the Independent Party be looking at its first real chance to make a move? Scott Brown recently ran a successful campaign in Massachusetts proclaiming to be an “independent” Republican to shock many Democrats. The question for all politicians to begin asking themselves is, “Was Brown’s success due to anger at Democratic policy, or the draw to a candidate that sort of separated himself from both parties?”

As the 2010 elections draw closer, it would not be a surprise for some strategists to begin steering their own candidates in a similar direction. A growing Independent base has proven to be the difference in most all recent elections, including the most recent in Massachusetts. It is obvious that the American public has an increasing disdain for both Republicans and Democrats. They are tired of the playground antics of the party in charge being the bully, and the other party being the whining kid that is being picked on. What the American people truly want is candidates that will go to Washington and act like adults and actually serve the people that voted them there. This will no doubt be a focus in the upcoming elections this coming fall.

Politicians are all about riding the wave of current trend to victory. Scott Brown seized on this by declaring the Senate seat he was running for as the “People’s Seat”. He furthered his quest by saying he was not the typical Republican, but more of an independent one. This distancing from either party could prove to encourage more candidates to do the same. It would not be a shock to see candidates ripping the “D” and the “R” from their status in the near future, to replace it with an “I”.

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By Joseph Stutzman

On Tuesday, January 19, the Democrats suffered an unexpected defeat when Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat once occupied by the late Ted Kennedy. Democrats had anticipated an easy win for state attorney general Martha Coakley, for whom both President Obama and former President Clinton campaigned. Brown’s win now eliminates the Democrats’ 60-seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. So what happened?

Perhaps the Republicans simply had a stronger candidate. While Brown ran a smooth campaign, Coakley’s was mired in gaffes. For instance, she infamously referred to Curt Schilling, a former Red Sox pitcher, as a Yankees fan. Brown presented himself as an independent man of the people; most of his campaign signs lacked any mention of his party affiliation. Massachusetts has more independent voters than Democrats and Republicans combined, so clearly this worked in his favor, especially since the tide of popular opinion has swayed against Obama and the Democrats in recent months.

The economy and healthcare reform were two hot-button issues that helped to decide the outcome of the race. Although voters who cited these issues as most important were fairly split between the two candidates, Democrats are perceived as being responsible for the current problems, as least in the minds of Massachusetts voters. Thus, it appears that the dialogue over healthcare in particular, one of Ted Kennedy’s lifelong passions, favored the Republicans.

Democrats will continue to examine the reasons for this epic loss in the coming months as they rethink their strategies for the mid-term elections. They will also struggle to move forward with their healthcare agenda as the wave appears to have turned against them. Is America’s love affair with Obama truly over? Only time will tell.

Joseph has been writing articles online for nearly 5 years now. Along with watching the news, he enjoys writing articles about families and gardening, check out one of his favorite web sites Garden Harvest Supply which offers one of his favorite items, asparagus plants.

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By Steve Mustanski

The Obama administration recently trumpet their new “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee”. This new tax will apply to the nations largest 50 banks regardless if they participated in TARP or not. They will also be slapped with Obama’s new Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee even if they have paid back any bailouts plus interest.

One of the facts that many Americans do not realize is that many banks were “encouraged” by federal regulators to take bailout money. Think of it as similar “encouragement” that Tony Soprano may have applied to get his way from time to time. Some banks needed funds, others did not. Most of those banks paid back those funds as soon as the government allowed them even paying interest on the money the received.

Interestingly enough, this tax will not apply to profits, but to liabilities. The following example should help those not versed in the ins and outs of balance sheet accounting:

Assume you and your neighbor both have car loans at bank A. Times get tough and your neighbor asks for a home equity loan to help cover expenses. Worried about everyone in your neighborhood, bank “O” in its infinite wisdom gives you and all your neighbors home equity loans, even though you don’t want it.

After some time, your bank allows those people in your neighborhood who can afford to, pay back their home equity loans (with interest).

Later that month, bank “O” realizes that you have enough money to go on vacation and even tip the teen that mows your lawn. Bank “O” then starts charging you interest on the balance of your car loan that you have at bank A. In the words of the president of bank “O”, it was your and your neighborhood’s fault that you all took on risky car loans that caused many of you to face financial crisis.

So even though you didn’t want the home equity loan and have paid it back, bank “O” wants to teach you a lesson and get money from you to help pay for the money your neighbor still owes to bank “O”.

The Obama administration also hopes that its new Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee will discourage banks from taking on risky behavior by adding liabilities to their balance sheets. Liabilities are often the life blood that allows businesses to expand and grow.

The Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee is also forcing healthy banks to pay a fee to help support less health banks. As Marx said, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.

Marx would indeed be proud.

Steve Mustanski blogs about politics and current political events. Visit http://conservativepatriothq.com to read more in-depth articles and political commentary government from a conservative view point. In addition to in-depth articles about politics, you can post comments on articles which often lead to some great debates. Conservative Patriot HQ also maintains a conservative reading list with recommended books that will keep you informed and will educate you in many facets that shape today’s political landscape.

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2010 the Year of Reckoning

By Michael Bresciani

Trying to keep up on current events is hard enough but trying to keep up with the latest fabulous falsehoods, fickle phantasms, feints, fibs, fabrications and flip flops of the far left, Dem’s and liberals who now follow the President in metered step is completely exhausting.

The task of following the lies is daunting so I thought I’d just jot down every lie or flip flop that only the President made since he began to run for office. I couldn’t keep up with that either. To my surprise I found a few websites that were already engaged in cataloging those lies. One site has a list of over 150 specific lies the President has told in slightly less than two years.

Unfortunately one or two little websites on the backwaters of that vast informational ocean we call the internet doesn’t draw very much attention from anyone. With only one TV news agency that still endeavors to tell the truth (Fox) and the other half dozen major outlets doing most of their reporting from the hip pocket of the President, most of America it could be said, is walking in the dark.

Even more disturbing is the fact that many of them prefer to take the walk down liar’s lane rather than cutting through the barrage of rhetoric, exaggeration, hyperbole, deviance and political baloney. Who wants to cut through a thick jungle if there’s a nice clean paved road to the same destination? The trouble with that easier PC road is that it doesn’t always lead to the place a person or a nation wants to be.

Americans who are dedicated to the truth find themselves frantically swimming back to the lighthouse each time another politician, educator, news anchor or mindless minion wrecks yet another ship in this grand old fleet called the United States of America.

If we named our years like the Chinese then 2009 might be called ‘the year of the lie.’ Those sick of witnessing national shipwrecks have already begun to name 2010 the ‘year of reckoning.’

Perhaps it is what caused actor Ben Stein to say recently that he thought President Obama is unconsciously wrecking America all the while he believes he’s doing what is good for us all. Perhaps it is the same unconscious drive that brought over a million people to the inauguration of the President in Washington DC, even though not one of them was actually formally invited.

The only way to gather a million people anywhere is to give something away. There is never an empty seat in the audience of the Price is Right or the nightly broadcast of Wheel of Fortune or the venues where Oprah gave away cars to some of those in the audience. The promise made on the day of the Obama inauguration was that ‘change’ was about to begin. In order to give change a chance, something had to be given away, to the astonishment of those now carefully following Obama’s antics, appointments and approbations it seems he is prepared to give the whole country away.

It is said that people who don’t want to face the apparent truth simply deny what they see. That may work fine for the simple follower but leaders are straddled with the task of creating an alternate truth for the remaining folks who still want the real answer and for the record itself. Here is where a leader creates a truth to substitute for real events in real time. Sounds like double speak, so let’s see if we can find one prime example.

After the attempt to blow up a Detroit bound flight on Christmas Eve the suspected terrorist was taken to hospital and security agencies scrambled to piece together what went wrong. With access to the reports of every major intelligence agency, several days on the beaches of Hawaii to collect his thoughts and an entire nation waiting in the wings for a chance to hear the assessment of the events and what could be known of the suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, here’s what we got. Mr. Obama labeled him as an “isolated extremist” and returned to the lavish beaches of Hawaii. This is an alternate truth from what looks like an alternate universe.

We all accept the whimsical notion that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ but has the extreme political correctness of the day finally put truth under the same maxim? Is truth only in the eye of the beholder? In fact some things are just plain ugly regardless of who is doing the beholding. The truth is just like that; it stands on its own with or without anyone’s support or recognition. It’s OK to see Mr. Abdulmutallab as a terrorist even as we wait for the President to catch up to the truth.

The ugly truth is that we now know that Mr. Abdulmutallab had strong ties to Al Qaeda and should not have been allowed so much as a chance to fly a kite over the United States much less to board an airplane bound for one of our major cities.

The nation seems to be splitting into two camps, one I call the Pontius Pilate crowd and the other is the band of faithful that think truth not only can be known but it was incarnated in the person (Jesus Christ) who said he was the truth (Jn 14:6) Those in the other camp make box office history by attending movies about vampires and avatars then sit around in college classrooms, discussion groups and TV punditry spectacles debating the old Pontius Pilate nonsensical and dishonest retort of “what is truth?” (Jn 18:38)

If someone never knew the truth or if they still need to ask the question of what it is, doesn’t it seem that this would be the last person we would want to elect to public office? Not today.

Truth is never relative and it is not born of convenient similitude. Al Gore’s inconvenient truth is one such example. In spite of serious dissent from the scientific community, doctored scientific evidence and a biblical promise that global warming will not be what brings down the rise of man it still looks that way, so why give it up?

Cronies of Darwinism fare no better. If we look like monkeys we must have come from monkeys the millions of missing links notwithstanding. The Darwin scheme has seen its better day since the advent of creation science but why give it up?

If we insist on discovering truth by loose associations and mere appearances then what is the difference between Bernie Madoff’s robbery of billions of dollars and Barack Obama’s nine trillion dollar debt bequeathed to our grandchildren. If it looks like a Ponzi scheme then who should we put in jail, can we say for sure? If we followed the same protocols we did for Darwinism and global warming then we must conclude that if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck then it must be a duck.

Just when we are nearly convinced that we have a duck, we hear a zipper and out of the duck costume steps a man who says just because it looks like socialism, just because it looks like a Robin Hood complex, don’t worry it’s not socialism or her nasty twin communism, it’s really something called ‘change.’ Here is where we might want to hear someone say amen but we could even settle for a duh if there’s a teenager in the house.

The other truth about those who can’t seem to identify the truth is that they are never true to much of anything with the exception of their own personal interests.

It is recorded no less than eight times in the four gospels that Jesus said “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” It is puzzling only because almost everyone he spoke to had perfectly good ears. The mystery vanishes when it is seen that all that is heard that has any lasting value was said to come from revelation. The best example is when Jesus asked his disciples who men thought he was. They offered a few answers but then he asked them who they thought he was. Peter answered that he was the Son of the Living God.

Christ said he indeed was correct but then he said “Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” (Mt 16:17) Truth was not relative to what surrounds it or what speculations accompany it. According to Christ rather than being relative it was revelational.

When something is revealed it is God breathed and it passes out of the normal spectrum of time. It is not just an old thing from the past or a piece of the future somehow made known in the present. It is from the realm of the eternal. Such truth will withstand every test of time, it will outlast everything cast against it and when all lesser truths become moth eaten memories long since forgotten, the truth of God will be seen to establish a kingdom that will never end.

The last but equally important thing about truth that comes from revelation is that it is always applied truth. It is never general proverbial wisdom or mere ‘take it or leave it’ moral-isms and pious platitudes. It speaks to one person, a nation or the entire world and does not require the assent of the hearer to be true. It is never truth in the eye of the beholder. Because it is from eternity it crosses generational lines and there is never a time when it is not true, it applies in every moment of time, past, present and future.

Here is one of those truths. Be it president or pauper the Lord hates lies. The source of lies (Jn 8:44) has not changed since the days of antiquity; the result of lies is always the demise of the liar and those who believe those lies.

America was not founded on lies, it has for a time followed a few crafty pied pipers but not for long. It is this great nation that produced great minds like that of Abraham Lincoln. He addressed the business of piping an alluring song to the people to misguide them. Yes, we have all read it at some time or another but let’s look at it once again as we start the new year of 2010.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

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By Steve Mustanski

Everyone remembers President Obama declaring that public insurance options would not cover illegal immigrants and Rep Joe Wilson shouting “You lie!”

There have also been numerous attempts by House and Senate Republicans to add amendments to the bills with specific language denying public finance insurance for illegal immigrants. All of those attempts have been defeated by the Democrats. The congressional research service has stated that HR 3200, the basis of most of the health care bill’s language, would cover illegal immigrants.

You can probably expect to see some language make it into drafts of final bills excluding public dollars to fund insurance for illegal immigrants as most voters are against providing it even if they are for some form of public option. Which does not explain the Democrats insistence that no such language is in the various bills or President Obama declaring that his plan would not cover those people in the country illegally.

Once language is inserted into the bill, then Americans do not have to worry about providing publicly funded insurance to illegal immigrants right?

Wrong!

In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that benefits offered to the general public could not exclude certain groups of people even people in the country illegally.

Texas had a law that denied funds for public education to children in the country illegally. The Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that the Texas state law was in violation of the constitution stating that “as illegal immigrant children are people “in any ordinary sense of the term”, and therefore had protection from discrimination”.

The President is either trying to mislead the American people or is ignorant of the fact that in Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court insured that the legislature would not be able to stop illegal immigrants from getting free or subsidized insurance if it is offered to the public in general.

This alone is enough reason to oppose any public option to be included in healthcare reform.

The next time you hear a politician say that illegals will not be covered under a public option, feel free to shout out either “You lie!” or “You are ignorant!”. However, shouting out “You are ignorant” is probably closer to the truth.

Steve Mustanski blogs about politics and current political events. Visit http://conservativepatriothq.com to read more in-depth articles about politics and government from a conservative view point. In addition to in-depth articles about politics, you can post comments on articles which often lead to some great debates. Steve also maintains a conservative reading list with recommended books that will keep you informed and will educate you in many facets that shape today’s political landscape.

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By Derek Nelson

Of course there are many people in America who are looking to the government for the help to get through these tough times, because the government is like a father to them. If you need, the government will provide. Unfortunately, this is not what the American government is supposed to do, it is supposed to protect us from outside threats and keep other governments from any hostile actions. In fact it is supposed to keep a watchful eye on the charters of corporations, protect the people, print currency and maintain good fiscal policy. Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’

When did the government make the transformation into a police station of the country? Are all Americans that bad, that they need to be supervised that much? Nowadays the police harass people so that the local governments can extract funds from them. As of 2005 2.2 million Americans were in prison with a population of approximately 300 million (the most in the world), compared to 1.5 million in China with a population of approximately 1.33 billion. There are a few bad eggs out there, and those could easily be handled by the states and their respective county or city governments, isn’t that the way it is supposed to be? Yet people are divided by Democratic and Republican party lines so that they fight amongst each other instead of keep an eye or an ear open to the goings on in their government. A good tactic for keeping the masses busy while pundits stuff their pockets with loads of cash given to them by corporations who want laws changed in order that they might do business more profitably without regard to the well being of citizens.

Aside from the two-party system Americans have been led to fear their government. People have to be careful not to speed, drive without our papers, to not have insurance, to park on the wrong side of the street, to yell at a police officer, no getting mad in public at your kids either, question the government, say anything that could be considered terrorist-ic (but who even really knows what a terrorist is, and as far as the home grown terrorist act that was passed is concerned it could be anyone). Fearing the government will produce a few long-term scenarios, one of which will be dissent, another will be societal enslavement.

JFK, Lincoln, Washington and a few others warned us about the possibility of this occurring within our government. Americans fought a revolution to escape the persecution of English taxes and oppression. Americans fought to overcome the rule of a monarchy and became free. The constitution is necessary to maintain a free society. America’s politicians are taking advantage of people, now the people are being led into a pen, so maybe patriots need to take control of their flock and lead them away from this terrible pen they are being led into. If the American people would read the historical tactics that Nazi’s used to sway the public and implement their evil, they would be cautious and would not allow this current government to continue without supervision.

American people were once in control of their government, the American government is now in control of the people. Apathy is the quickest way to tyranny.

DN

I, Derek Nelson born 1970, have spent the past eight years studying global economics and global politics. I believe that the current global community needs truth and a media outlet that is not built on politics or owned by large corporations. Truth in news can only create a larger and more advanced society built on the reality of what is, rather than built on what corporations what you to buy. Talk to your neighbors and begin a dialog of what you deem to be important. Question your government, it is your duty.

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It just doesn’t matter…”

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When it was discovered that his grandparents were strong Socialists & sent Obama’s mother to a Socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to a young Obama, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, people said “It just doesn’t matter…” .

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” regarding the Palestinian issue, people said “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he traveled to Pakistan after college on an unknown national passport, people said “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist Party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach Black Liberation Theology, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When Palestinians in Gaza set up a fundraising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn’t matter. When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Muammar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said, “It just doesn’t matter…”

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro-government control over everything and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn’t matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn’t matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.

When his first act as President, literally within 5 minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489 that sealed his own records, people said it didn’t matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, people said it didn’t matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxists and Communists, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter. When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and Socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor and she’s an avowed Socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse-Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on ‘Cap and Trade’ as the nation’s largest tax hike in history, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn’t matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter. When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , people said it doesn’t matter.

When he upset our European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn’t matter. When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he forced the takeover of insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn’t matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy resources in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn’t matter.

When he announced he was returning the masterminds of 9/11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals — not war criminals — and thus allow them the benefits from our system of jurisprudence, the mainstream media loved it and the people said it didn’t matter.

(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF, NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center 9/11/2001 and see if it matters!!!)

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up, but it was too late as Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society.

All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily.

If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that you have elected a president who is a ’socialist’. There is simply no debate about these facts.

We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.

Please, find the truth, it will set you free. Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things.

Wake Up America! There’s still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think , “It just doesn’t matter…”

I happen to think “it does matter.”

Daniel King

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Let’s all take a moment to be thankful for what we have and not worry about what we don’t …

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By Scott Spiegel

Perhaps it’s not surprising that President Obama would think nothing of subjecting Manhattan to the spectacle of a civilian court trial against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. This is the administration that thought having an F-16 trail Air Force One around Ground Zero on a workday morning was a good idea.

On the other hand, perhaps we should view KSM as Obama’s consolation prize for failing to secure the 2016 Olympics on U.S. soil. (How much tourism revenue will KSM’s trial bring to lower Manhattan?)

To try KSM and his four co-conspirators in federal court, New York will have to create a de facto Guantanamo Bay-one that is smaller than but as secure as the real thing. The city will need to spend millions of dollars ensuring extra protection for the courthouse, the densely populated neighborhood-indeed all of downtown-including shipping in hundreds of U.S. marshals from other jurisdictions. They will have to make special efforts to protect the judge, prosecutors, jury, federal agents, and witnesses, all of whom will receive death threats and will need armed protection.

As Rudy Guiliani noted, trying those who planned 9/11 in a civilian court in lower Manhattan is like trying those who planned Pearl Harbor in a civilian court in Hawaii.

The trial will drag on for years and New York will face extra, unnecessary risk during every day of the circus. Manhattan will be placed in the international spotlight and become a prominent stage for jihadists to stage a suicide or car bombing. Would-be attackers won’t have to do it right in front of the courthouse-anyplace in Manhattan would capture headlines and give encouragement to the Islamist cause worldwide.

Defenders of Obama’s decision claim that isolated individuals are unlikely to engage in a spectacular attack in Manhattan without long-term planning and financial support from an embedded terrorist cell. Tell that to soldiers lining up for eye exams who survived Nidal Hasan’s shooting spree at Fort Hood last week.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and other city officials all assure us that New York’s Police Department can handle any potential disruptions.

Let’s see: in 2000, in the same court in which KSM et al. are to be tried, bin Laden aide Mamdouh Salim, awaiting trial for his role in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, blinded a prison guard by squirting hot sauce in his face, then plunged a comb sharpened into a dagger deep into the guard’s eye, nearly killing him and causing permanent brain and sight damage. Salim’s plan, later discovered in notes stored in his prison cell, involved taking hostages and helping co-defendants escape.

Another al-Qaida suspect, Wadih El-Hage, pounced on the judge during the middle of a pre-trial hearing and had to be wrestled to the ground by federal marshals. El-Hage got to within several feet of the judge, who had shielded himself with his chair.

Zacarias Moussaoui’s hearing in lower Manhattan was enough of an exhibition, and that was just a six-week sentencing trial. His initial prosecution in Virginia took four years, mostly due to wrangling over rules of evidence, and ended only because he finally confessed his role in the 9/11 hijackings. In addition to being verbally abusive to those involved in the proceedings, shouting curses at the jury, and gloating aloud when he didn’t get the death penalty, Moussaoui had demanded that captured al-Qaeda members appear as witnesses in his trial, a request prosecutors could not deny according to the rules of the game they had agreed to play.

Even if the terrorist suspects bring no physical attack to fruition, a trial in civilian court in Manhattan would be, as Charles Krauthammer labeled it, “the second half of the terror attack,” in which the perpetrators loudly justify their ideology and actions to the world and delight in the suffering of their victims.

If the prospect of welcoming KSM and company to the Big Apple isn’t enticing enough, there’s also the little matter that these terrorists have no right to a trial in civilian court-in fact, they have no rights at all. Only U.S. citizens and resident aliens have constitutional rights, such as the writ of habeas corpus, because only they have sworn to uphold the ideals of the Constitution and abide by its rules. Not only do radical foreign Islamists not support the Constitution, they actively use it against us to shield themselves from the consequences of atrocities they commit. As Tim Sumner and Debra Burlingame noted in a letter to the president, “It is incomprehensible… that the same men who today refer to the murder of our loved ones as a ‘blessed day’… should be the beneficiaries of a social compact of which they are not a part, do not recognize, and which they seek to destroy: the United States Constitution.” As Neil Cavuto noted, the 9/11 terrorists used our planes as weapons against us; now they plan to use our justice system for the same purpose.

The ridiculous thing about all of this is that the only reason Obama wants to try KSM in New York is to further his goal of shutting down Guantanamo Bay. Had he not made such a promise and signed an executive order to enforce it on the first day of his presidency, even Obama might have been sane enough not to bring these terrorists to a courthouse four blocks from Ground Zero. As noted by Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush’s Attorney General, “What’s followed [from Obama’s campaign promises] has seemed in many instances to be a system in which policy is fashioned to fit and proceed rhetoric rather than being thought out in advance with arguments then formulated in support of it.”

Supporters of the president’s decision counter, “Of course New York can handle these trials-New Yorkers are tough! New York courts handle all kinds of dangerous defendants.” The question isn’t whether New York can put up with this, but why New York should have to put up with this.

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