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From Mac Fuller at American Thinker. h/t to Scuba Dude for the heavy-lifting.
October 11, 2009
Ship of Fools: Obama’s Intimates and Advisors
By Mac Fuller
The following thumbnails describe a very small sampling of the locust horde of Leftist bureaucrats President Barack Hussein Obama has deliberately chosen to help him grasp the helm of America’s ship of state, strip it from the American people, and steer it hard to port.
The Obama Administration is plainly subverting democracy in America, wildly careening our previous 230-year history of democracy so dangerously Leftward that after a mere nine months we are in terrible danger of sinking.
In these thumbnails, three dominant themes of the Obama Administration emerge – fanatically uncompromising anti-capitalism, dangerous and blatant anti-Semitism, and the societal inculcation of dogmatic Leftist, Socialist “faith” through indoctrination of American school children beginning with the earliest ages – a practice instituted by Lenin in Communist Russia and now pounding its way into the American academic mainstream through the prolific efforts and influence of self-proclaimed Communist, Obama friend, and likely “autobiography” ghost writer, William Ayers, as well as Obama appointees like Charles Freeman and Kevin Jennings.
Make no mistake. These people are about Socialism, and they are about power. Their power.
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A sampling of President Barack Hussein Obama’s morally bankrupt White House “Brain Trust”
1. Valerie Jarrett
2. Patrick Gaspard
3. Eric Holder
4. Cecelia Muñoz
5. Samantha Power(s)
6. Charles Freeman
7. Scott Gration
8. Rahm Emmanuel
9. Ezekiel Emmanuel
10. Cass Sunstein
11. Van Jones
12. Carol Browner
13. John Holdren
14. Kevin Jennings
15. Chai Feldblum
16. William Ayers
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1. Valerie Jarrett – Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. Ms. Jarrett, a product of two decades in rough-and-tumble “Chicago way” politics, and a 17-year friend of the Obama’s, is described as “the other side of Barack Obama’s brain.” Born in Iran, Jarrett, who speaks Persian, moved to the United States as a child. A product of an elite, private, New England boarding school, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Jarrett served in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington (who, prior to his election, failed to file income tax returns for 19 years and during it maintained dubious Socialist ties) as well as in the scandal-ridden, current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Her step-father, Vernon Jarrett was associated with Frank Marshall Davis, the youthful Barack Obama’s mentor from age 10 until college – a Chicago Communist Party (USA) member who moved to Hawaii from Chicago. Frank Marshal Davis is now immortalized in President Barack Hussein Obama’s “autobiography” as “Uncle Frank” — conveniently with no mention of his last name nor who he was.
According to the Washington Post, Ms. Jarrett was for many years both Michelle and Barack Obama’s “tutor.” Virtually every mainstream media outlet has not only done an over-the-top puff piece on Valerie Jarrett (as they repeatedly have with Mr. Obama and his wife), but all agree that neither the President not Mrs. Obama makes a move without first consulting Ms. Jarrett. Ms. Jarrett was personally responsible for bringing self-described Communist Van Jones into the White House as President Obama’s environmental “Green Czar.” [1]
2. Patrick Gaspard – White House Political Director (this is the position Karl Rove held in the Bush Administration). Prior to coming on board as President Obama’s right-hand man, Mr. Gaspard was a registered federal lobbyist for the SEIU – the union members (thugs?) called-in by the Administration to run interference (sometimes violent) between Democrat members of Congress who support ObamaCare and their own constituents. Prior to that, Gaspard worked for ACORN - the community organizing front which Barack Obama worked for as a trainer, represented as a lawyer, helped as a politician, and funneled money to as a presidential candidate.
The President Obama is as much a product of ACORN as it is of him. He worked closely with the “community organizing” group for many years, represented them in court, and was a member of the board of Chicago’s Woods Fund at the time it funneled $200,000 to an ACORN affiliate. Mr. Obama praised the organization extravagantly both during and after his election, and his campaign “donated” over $800,000 to an offshoot group controlled by ACORN (Citizens Services, Inc.) – to “get out the vote.”
Gaspard worked directly for now-ACORN chief Bertha Lewis as her political director for the main ACORN office which is located in New York. ACORN is mired in long-standing as well as new and growing allegations of fraud, voter-registration fraud, corruption, and massive embezzlement of funds – ACORN operative organizations have received tens of millions of dollars in federal grants.
ACORN pledged $35,000,000 for voter registration drives in the 2008 election cycle.
In 2004, Patrick Gaspard served as National Field Director for America Coming Together (ACT), a group which was later fined $775,000 in civil penalties by the federal government. ACT hired felons – some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in Missouri and at least two other swing states, and also employed felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio. [2]
3. Eric Holder – Attorney General of the United States. A handpicked Obama/Jarrett selection, who earlier this year referred to the United States as “a nation of cowards” on race relations, Mr. Holder is a shiningly despicable example of everything wrong when politics and personal ambition dictate the parameters of American justice.
Prior to grasping the brass ring of the department where he’d toiled during the Clinton Administration, Mr. Holder was responsible for these widely-reported miscarriages of justice: (1) He streamlined the Clinton Administration’s pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich by steering Rich’s representatives to a former White House counsel, then helped lobby the President to pardon Rich (“an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges”). Holder did so for personal gain, later admitting he hoped this would help him become Attorney General in a Gore administration. Mr. Holder concealed the pardon negotiations from other prosecuting and investigative agencies to prevent their opposition. Mr. Rich’s wife was a generous donor to both President Clinton’s library as well as his legal-defense fund.
(2) “In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators. These pardons – of terrorists who even Holder has conceded had not expressed any remorse – were issued in the months after al-Qaeda’s 1998 U.S. embassy bombings…. The commutations were nakedly political, obviously designed by Clinton to assist his wife’s impending Senate campaign by appealing to New York’s substantial Puerto Rican vote.”
(3) Holder was also instrumental in the “stealth pardons” of two Weather Underground terrorists, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (both closely associated with President Obama’s terrorist friends, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn). Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. Again Holder helped circumvent the pardon process and evade objections from prosecutors regarding the terrorists’ jail terms.
Just this summer, now-Attorney General Holder dismissed prosecution of an obvious case (it was filmed) of voter intimidation by members of the New Black Panthers, while also instigating prosecutorial investigations into CIA interrogation techniques of terrorist combatants. Attorney General Holder is a strong advocate for the release of the Islamofascist enemy combatants currently held at Guantanamo Bay. [3]
4. Cecelia Muñoz – White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Prior to being summoned to the White House by President Obama, Ms. Muñoz was Senior Vice President of The National Council of La Raza. La Raza (literally, “The Race”) is the largest Hispanic lobbying organization in America, and is committed not merely to a socialist agenda, but, essentially, the return of California, if not larger portions of the American West, to Hispanics. It lobbies heavily for completely open borders with Mexico, as well as amnesty for all illegal aliens. In order to carry out this agenda, the U.S. federal government awarded over $15.2 million in grants to the organization in 2005 alone.
La Raza is intimately involved with the “the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.” Aztlan’s goal is the formation of a Chicano state. The closing two sentences of Atzlan’s motto are: La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada”: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.” Which ought to be as chilling as the idea of the U.S. government funding these people.
President Obama’s recent appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, has also long been deeply involved with La Raza – a fact which all Democrat Senators ignored during her confirmation hearing.
5. Samantha Power – Senior Director, Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council. Ms. Power, a professor of public policy at Harvard [who is married to President Obama's Leftist fringe academic Cass Sunstein, the Administrator of the White House Office of Administration and Regulatory Affairs] was only seemingly thrown under the Obama campaign bus for referring to Hillary Clinton as “a monster” during the 2008 Democrat primary. In 2009 President Obama, tapped her to occupy her senior White House foreign policy position.
Ms. Power, a “fierce critic of Israel,… was indisputably Barack Obama’s closest foreign policy adviser during the campaign. They go back years.” Ms. Power is a notorious acolyte of appeasement-challenged, Neville-Chamberlain-clone Zbigniew Brzezinski (former President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser) who recently stated that the U.S. should shoot down any Israeli planes which, out of self-preservation, might fly through Iraqi air space to destroy Iran’s developing nuclear facilities. Ms. Power agrees with the Charles-Freeman-published Walt-Mearsheimer-essay school of thought that America is run and being destroyed by a cabal of Jews. Power promotes the policies of disgraced anti-Semitic, Israeliphobic, pro-PLO, pro-Syria, Obama adviser Robert Malley who advocated not merely talking with Hamas, but funding the terrorist organization because he feels their policies and governance mirror that of Israel. The Obama Administration cut visible ties with Malley shortly after the election.
Power, who stridently criticized the invasion and “occupation” of Iraq, repeatedly calling for the removal of American forces from that nation, curiously advocates that America send armed military forces, “a mammoth protection force” and an “external intervention”, to impose a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. While giving the PLO, Fatah, Hamas and other obviously terrorist Arab state organizations a pass, Ms. Power views Israel, the only democratic and non-totalitarian, nation in the Middle East, as guilty of war crimes. She favors slashing, if not eliminating, United States aid to Israel – which is surrounded by several hundred million Muslims who daily pray for its total annihilation – and, apparently, giving the money to the Palestinians instead.
Ms. Power, and virtually all of her truth-through-force ilk ignore the fact that on the day Israel gained independence it was immediately attacked by the surrounding Arab neighbors who erroneously believed they could destroy the nascent country in a matter of hours. ”Palestinians” (there is no such country, nor has there been since Biblical times) who now form the “Palestinian problem” were not forced to leave Israel but instead chose to do so because Israel became a Jewish state. Hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish Arabs remained and now form a large core group of Israeli citizenry. The approximately 750,000 “Palestinians” who left, now number approximately 4,000,000. They constitute a “problem” because of all the Arab countries only Jordan has allowed them to become a part of its society. The other Arab countries bordering Israel keep the “Palestinians” in enormous desert internment camps. And they have done so to their Arab brethren for 60 years. Ms. Power and her comrades exquisitely fail to note that Jews were forced to leave Arab countries and relocate to the newly-formed Israeli state.
Like her pro-Arab “realist” co-religionists Charles Freeman, Robert Malley, Zbigniew Brzezinsk, billionaire George Soros (an influential Obama supporter), and others of their stripe, Powers opposes the “Israel lobby.” She, as they, adamantly rejects the participation of American supporters of Israel, including Christians, in foreign policy discussions of the Middle East.
For all Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s public visibility, it may not be much of a conjecture that her job has been outsourced to the alpha female who once referred to Mrs. Clinton as a “monster.” [5]
6. Charles Freeman – Nominated, but not confirmed, as Chairman of the (United States) National Intelligence Council – which is responsible for producing national intelligence estimates for the president and his advisors. Mr. Freeman has a distinguished résumé of long service in both the State and Defense Departments, however, his “distinctive political views and affiliations” include: troubling financial ties to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia who funds the Middle East Policy Council (formerly the American Arab Affairs Council) which Mr. Freeman heads; organizational support for professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s lengthy, controversial, and essentially anti-Jewish essay, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”; his stated viewpoint that “the primary reason America confronts a terrorism problem today is “the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation”; praise for the terrorist organization, Hamas, as the only “democratically-elected” government in the Middle East; and, bizarrely, unabashedly siding with the Chinese government over the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989 – Mr. Freeman criticized the Chinese government for being “overly cautious.”
Once Leftist liberal, New York Senator Chuck Schumer spoke against Freeman’s nomination, the gentleman withdrew – but not without “blaming his own disgrace on a Jewish conspiracy.”
During his Congressional investigation, Mr. Freeman was charged with “[p]romoting public schools textbooks which the independent Textbook League describe ‘a vehicle for disseminating disinformation, including a multitude of false, distorted or utterly absurd claims that are presented as historical facts. …[with] three principal purposes: inducing teachers to embrace Islamic religious beliefs; inducing teachers to embrace political views that are favored by the…Middle East Policy Council (formerly the American Arab Affairs Council)…; and impelling teachers to disseminate those religious beliefs and political views in schools.” [6]
7. Scott Gration – President Obama’s Special Envoy to the Sudan. His diplomatic policy is, quite literally the following:
“We’ve got to think about giving out cookies,” said Gration who was appointed in March, “Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement.”
As even that bastion of liberal blather the Washington Post noted, “U.S. diplomacy has remained mostly in the hands of Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, who is pushing toward normalized relations with the only country in the world led by a president indicted on war-crimes charges.”
While President Obama’s handpicked “Special Envoy” was tempting genocidal Muslim radicals with “cookies” and “gold stars,” marauding bands of guerrillas in the Sudan crucified seven Christians. [7]
8. Rahm (“dead fish”) Emanuel – White House Chief of Staff. Mr. Emanuel is the notorious hardball political player from Chicago’s North Side which he represented in Congress prior to his current incarnation as President Obama’s political henchman and myrmidon. The ironically named Mr. Emanuel (“God with us”) is “relentlessly partisan,” thereby quite succinctly putting the lie to Mr. Obama’s campaign claim to “post-partisanship.”
Nicknamed “Rhambo,” President Obama’s Chief of Staff – the highest ranking office of the Executive Branch of the President of the United States – is well-know for the following accomplishments:
(1) a casual conversation style addictively laced with the most outrageous profanities and gutter language at any and all times;
(2) sending a 2½ foot-long dead and decomposing fish to lobbyist Allen Secrest with whom he was angry;
(3) threatening then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair just prior to a joint appearance with then-President Bill Clinton: “This is important. Don’t f— it up.”;
(4) at dinner the night after Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992, “Rhambo” ranted about a long list of people who were the subject of his ire. As he shouted each “enemy’s” name, Mr. Emanuel punctuated his rage by forcefully stabbing the dinner table and screaming, “Dead!”
Outside of murdering a Congressional page, it is relatively difficult to improve upon these glowing characteristics of mental stability and leadership. [8]
Rahm Emanuel is Ezekiel Emanuel, “Dr. Death’s,” brother.
9. Ezekiel Emanuel – President Obama’s Special Advisor for Health Policy to the Office of Management and Budget. Nicknamed in the press “Dr. Death” after former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey pointed out Dr. Emanuel’s “healthcare” role assisting the White House in the preparation and administration of federal budget recommendations for guiding healthcare and healthcare initiatives, Dr. Emanuel (again, application of the absurdly ironic name, “God with us”) is a “bioethicist.” He is also hailed as President Obama’s “Rationer-in-Chief.” Generally, Emanuel’s idea of healthcare rationing is to greatly restrict many treatments, medicines, and procedures to anyone over 40 and more particularly to anyone over 65. Dr. Emanuel feels similarly about the newly born until they have attained several years of age at which time he begins to view them in Malthusian terms of potential communitarian utility.
As Lt. Governor McCaughey noted, “In numerous writings, Dr. Emanuel chastises physicians for thinking only about their own patient’s needs.” This is the man who was personally tapped to guide ObamaCare health initiatives – not only by President Obama and his Chief of Staff… but also by “the other side of Barack’s brain,” Valerie Jarrett.
Mr. Emanuel is yet another in a tedious yet frighteningly long line of unqueried, unquestioned, and unvetted Obama advisors and “czars” about whom nothing can be known until pulled from beneath labyrinths of liberal camouflage by interested citizens, conservative Internet bloggers, and the staffs of conservative talk shows. Mainstream media long ago forfeited its credibility as well as its societal role as the fourth estate.
Dr. Emanuel is a member of the President’s Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (curiously enough authorized under the dazzling rushed-through and unread by a single Congressman, American Recovery and Investment Act… “the Stimulus Bill”) which, if allowed, will make decisions about the validity, “relative strengths and weakness of various medical interventions” as well as give clinicians…information to make decisions that will improve the performance of the U.S. health care system. Not improve medical care much less your medical care, but the “system.” It’s called “rationing,” and it will very likely result in unnecessary and preventable early deaths. On a very large scale.
One final point. Due to the ambiguity of the relevant language in the Stimulus Bill as well as in the various ObamaCare “reform” proposals, there will not only be great latitude for interpretation of various laws’ meaning, but these interpretations will require being instituted, oversight, and, of course, regulation. The necessity of regulation allows President Obama’s Administrator of the White House Office of Administration and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein carte blanche to regulate whatever he likes.
Mr. Emanuel is the brother of White House Chief of Staff, and former North Side Chicago Congressman (5th District of Illinois) Rahm (“dead fish”) Emanuel. [9]
10. Cass Sunstein – Administrator of the White House Office of Administration and Regulatory Affairs. He is a Harvard Law School professor and newly-minted husband of President Obama’s Senior Director, Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council, the Israel-phobic Samantha Power (one of several husband-wife teams in the Obama White House). Mr. Sunstein’s belief structure could understandably be called “Leftist kook” or “fringe” if not downright lunatic. Herewith:
In a 2007 speech at Harvard, Sunstein called for banning all hunting in the United States. All. Everywhere.
He actually put in writing, in his 2004 book, Animals that, “Animals should be permitted to bring [law] suit, with human beings as their representatives….”
“[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture.”Mr. Sunstein, who openly argues for bringing socialism to the U.S. and even lends support to communism, wrote, “The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)…”“[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.”
Were Mr. Sunstein to succeed as President Obama’s head regulator of all things American, what might happen to those millions of hunting rifles and shotguns he doesn’t want gathering dust in your cabinet?
Mr. Sunstein is a reputed “1st Amendment scholar.” Having attended law school myself and actually practiced law for a quarter century rather than retreat to the head-swelling-brain-shrinking environs of academia, I can assure you that if he is, America is in very deep trouble. President Obama has made clear his White House Masterregulator is intended to regulate virtually every aspect of American’s lives – including the environment, healthcare, finance, and the economy – regardless of your feelings about such matters much less your freedom and liberty. Sunstein has argued in his prolific literary works (one bookstore tour de force was a whopping 84 pages) that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing. He went on to assert: [10]
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government… Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom’s name.
As WorldNetDaily noted:
“It’s hard to imagine President Obama nominating a more dangerous candidate for regulatory czar than Cass Sunstein….Not only is Sunstein an animal-rights radical, but he also seems to have a serious problem with our First Amendment rights. Sunstein has advocated everything from regulating the content of personal e-mail communications, to forcing nonprofit groups to publish information on their websites that is counter to their beliefs and mission…. If it were up to Obama and Sunstein, everything we read online – right down to our personal e-mail communications – would have to be inspected and approved by the federal government.”
11. Van Jones – President Obama’s former White House Environmental Adviser (“Green Jobs Czar”). Mr. Jones remains a self-defined Communist community organizer from the San Francisco Bay area (Oakland, California). He is also an Whites-hating racist with a criminal arrest record, as well as a “9/11 Truther” true believer. The 9/11 Truther organizations proselytize that former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Richard Cheney either planned or knew about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks conducted by 19 Islamofascist members of Al-Qaeda who, aside from slamming a passenger jetliner into the Pentagon, did the same in New York City totally destroying the Twin Towers and killing almost 3,000 Americans.
When Mr. Jones, an ardent racist and Communist, was hired into the White House by “the other half of Barack’s brain,” Ms. Valerie Jarrett, she expressed overflowing praise in the press and in video-taped interviews for Mr. Jones and his work, noting that “we have been watching him for a long time. [11]
12. Carol M. Browner – Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy. Ms. Browner is a Socialist sycophant of Al Gore’s conclusion that the earth is going to evaporate tomorrow. A former EPA director, Ms. Browner is married to Leftist lobbyist Thomas Downey and remains an ardent Socialist activist. She is one of 14 leaders of Socialist International’s, “Commission for a Sustainable World Society,” which calls for “global governance.”
As Van Jones was an admitted Communist, Ms. Browner is an admitted and very active Socialist. What more really need be said about her with reference to President Obama who has been fully informed of her moral relativity and anti-Americanism for years since she has hardly kept it secret from either her associates, the public, nor the press. [12]
13. John Holdren – Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Other than Mr. Holdren’s well known and oft repeated morally relativistic denial of American exceptionalism, one and only one thing need to be said here about President Obama’s “Science” Czar – he is Barack Obama’s twin on the matter of abortion and has advocated compulsory abortion. Here it is again: President Obama searched for, reached out, and chose as his chief “science advisor” a plasma physicist who advocates compulsory abortion.
As John Griffing wrote of Holdren in “Enough is Enough,” for American Thinker:
…for a true outrage, consider new Czar of Science, John P. Holdren, who, in a stunning display of unabashed evil, has actively advocated “compulsory abortion”:There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated…It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine, consider his words, “All the children who are born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the death of grown persons.” Let that sink in: an American official supports forced abortion and the death of “grown persons.” We know what that looks like. It has been official policy for years in Communist China.
President Obama quite literally has the single worst record of any elected official on the question of abortion. While in the Illinois legislature he single-handedly prevented that state’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act from leaving his committee much less being made into law. As a result, for three more years until legislator Obama became U. S. Senator Obama, Illinois hospitals and doctors were permitted to allow otherwise healthy infants who survived an abortion to receive no medical attention whatsoever until they died. They were simply, and quite literally, “shelved.” The evidence of Mr. Obama’s actions and callous disregard for the lives of infants is overwhelming. [13]
14. Kevin Jennings – President Obama’s Safe Schools Czar. Jennings is a former schoolteacher who has very successfully advocated promoting homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, unashamedly and vituperatively expressed his utter contempt for religion, and detailed an incident in which he did not report to authorities his knowledge that an underage student told him he was having sex with older men – Jennings instead counseled the boy to “use a condom. ” In 1990, as a teacher in Massachusetts, [Jennings] founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He has also published six books on gay rights and education….”
In the past, Mr. Jennings has praised Harry Hay, the frequent and vocal defender of NAMBLA – the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.
His organization, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, has successfully prodded some schools into making October the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Month, as well as established November 28th as “Transgender Day of Remembrance.”
None of this belongs in any school anywhere, any time, and the fact that the Obama Administration chooses to support such people with such goals and then put them in positions of great authority and power should make even the most dyed-in-the-wool middle-class liberal Democrats cringe at the depth of either their negligence, uncaring, or stupidity regarding the real Barack Hussein Obama.
And I bet all the teachers in America didn’t know this – according to Mr. Jennings (at a New York University “Education Policy Breakfast):
“… you cannot be an effective teacher if you are not aware of how [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] biases can influence how you interact with your students. Pure and simple.”
To which Mr. Jennings added,
“It should be impossible to graduate from NYU or any other school of education without coursework – required coursework – that address issues of [LGBT] bias in the classroom and how it might influence your teaching. [It] should be a graduation requirement.”
In 1999, Mr. Jennings wrote the foreward for an elementary education instruction book, Queering Elementary Education, the description of which states that it examines “five broadly-defined areas in elementary education: foundational issues; social and sexual development; curriculum; the family; and gay/lesbian educators and their allies. It seeks to provide scholarly insights, pedagogical strategies, and curricular resources for use in schools. At the core of the book is the belief that public school educators have the responsibility to affirm sexual diversity…” In elementary school?
It is Jennings himself, Obama’s “Safe-School Czar,” who coined the term “safe school” as a euphemism for “pro-homosexual” school. Children’s physical safety had nothing and has even less to do now with Mr. Jennings educational background, “expertise,” or agenda. “Jennings was obviously chosen for this job because of the safe schools aspect… defining ’safe schools’ narrowly in terms of ’safe for homosexuality’,” says Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.
“Safe school” is hardly the only word commandeered by Jennings and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to support propagandizing his model “safe school” into mainstream elementary education. Others include, and parents should be alert to “seemingly innocuous terms as ‘safe school,’ ‘anti-bullying,’ ‘safe space,’ ‘hate-free, ‘tolerance,’ ‘respect differences,’ ‘be an ally,’ ‘no name calling day,’ ‘be who you are,’ ‘free to be fully me,’ ‘day of silence,’ and so forth. If these terms are present [in school instructional materials], they are [probably] defined by Jennings, not Webster, and the accompanying curricular material will probably be objectionable. Jennings’ jargon and the mythical bullying epidemic even showed-up in the recent Presidential address to school children.”
The Obama Administration was certainly aware of these facts long before the President and Ms. Jarrett selected Mr. Jennings, just as they selected Van Jones, and all the other members of the Obama Administration discussed here.
This is the type of colossal lack of judgment the President of The United States has not merely chosen to surround himself with, but in fact personally displays every day.
15. Chai Feldblum - Obama nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who signed a manifest seeking, inter alia, to legalize polygamy (“to protect households in which there is more than one conjugal partner”). See, online petition entitled Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships. Feldblum is an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor. She is “co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described at [a] UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to change ‘the American workplace and revolutionize social mores. This is a war that needs to be fought,” Feldblum asserted, “‘and it’s not a war overseas where we are killing people in the name of liberating them.” [15]
16. William Ayers – Obama friend, neighbor, fellow board member, “respected” national educator, virulently anti-American, and dramatically unrepentant radical terrorist bomber. Mr. Ayers famously stated:
“I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ Communist…Maybe I’m the last Communist who is willing to admit it…. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me.”
Perhaps Mr. Ayers most notable statement was made to the New York Times in a story released on September 11, 2001:
“I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough,”
It has gradually come to light that Mr. Ayers, far from the casual acquaintance President Obama made him out to be during the 2008 election, is quite likely the real author of Mr. Obama’s “autobiography,” Dreams of My Father. [16]
Mr. Ayers approach to education is as authoritarian as is his approach to society as a whole – otherwise he would not have planted terrorist bombs in an effort to compel his personal beliefs upon the rest of society. As Sol Stern of City Journal wrote:
Ayers’s influence on what is taught in the nation’s public schools is likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other public buildings.….Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students. [17]
The Ayers-Obama Socialist-conversion mission carried out with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s $100,000,000 was a total failure, producing zero results in student learning, but succeeded in massive transfers of wealth to Leftist, Socialist, and even the Communist causes of long-time Ayers ally, Mike Klonsky, a former S.D. S. leader, college professor and Director of the Small Schools Workshop. However, neither Mr. Ayers nor President Obama have given up on their radical Leftist agenda. [18]
Ayers is married to unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bernadine Dohrn who was once jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating other Weather Underground members’ robbery of a Brinks truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed. Like her husband, she remains involved and influential in school programs.
For Mr. Ayers, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Chu, and President Obama’s Secretary of Education, yet another Chicagoan, Arne Duncan – and far too many others in the Obama Administration – education is solely about pursuing then mandating the radicalization of children through indoctrination in Leftist policies, “social justice” curricula, and Socialism itself in public schools.
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The Obama Administration is currently making thousands of federal bureaucratic appointments.
Make no mistake. These people are about Socialism, and they are about power. Their power.
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[5] “Look Who’s Going to be Looking Over Hillary’s Shoulder,” American Thinker, Jan. 29, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/look_whos_going_to_be_looking.html; “Samantha Power and Obama’s Foreign Policy Team,” American Thinker, Feb. 19, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html; “Zbig Brzezinski: Shoot Down Israeli Planes if They Attack Iran,” Arutz Sheva [Israeli National News], Sept. 21, 2009, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133515; “Will Samantha Power Have a Role in Giving Aid to Hamas,” American Thinker, Feb. 24, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/will_samantha_power_have_a_rol.html. Also see: “Obama and Israel,” American Thinker,” Jan. 28, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html; and “Barack Obama’s Middle East Expert,” American Thinker, Jan. 23, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obamas_middle_east_expe.html.
[6] “Obama’s Intelligence Choice: The President picks a China apologist and Israel basher to write his intelligence summaries,” Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123552619980465801.html?mod=djemEditorialPage; “Congressmen Question Saudi Lobbyist for Head of Intelligence Council,” American Thinker, Mar. 1, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/congressmen_question_saudi_lob.html; “Chas Freeman Pulls Out,” Politico,” Mar. 10, 2009, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19856.html.
[7] “U.S. Envoy’s Outreach to Sudan is Criticized as Naïve,” Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092802336.html; “Obama Foreign Policy Goes from Carrots to Cookies,” The Weekly Standard, Sept. 28, 2009, http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/09/obama_foreign_policy_goes_from_carrots_to_cookies.asp; “Christians Are Crucified in Guerrilla Raids, The Catholic Herald, Sept. 25, 2009, http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000648.shtml.
[8] “The Five Most Infamous Rahm Emmanuel Moments,” Foreign Policy, Nov. 6, 2008, http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/11/06/the_five_most_infamous_rahm_emanuel_moments; “Ten Facts You Need to Know About Rahm Emmanuel,” Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2008/top-10-facts-you-need-to-know.html.
[9] “Obama’s Healthcare Rationer-in-Chief,” Wall Street Journal, Aug. 27, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676.html; Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research Membership, accessed Oct. 8, 2009, http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html; “Death Panel is Not in the Bill … It Already Exists,” American Thinker, Aug. 15, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/death_panel_is_not_in_the_bill.html.
[10] “Cass Sunstein,” Wikipedia, accessed Oct. 6, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein; “U.S. Regulatory Czar Nominee Wants Net ‘Fairness Doctrine’,” WorldNetDaily, April 27, 2009, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96301; “Enough is Enough,” American Thinker, July 16, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/enough_is_enough.html; “Cass Sunstein’s Despicable Ideas On Regulating the Internet,” American Thinker, July 12, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/cass_sunsteins_despicable_idea.html; “Czar Seeks ‘Chilling Effect’ On Internet,” American Thinker, Oct. 6, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/czar_seeks_chilling_effect_on.html; ”Obama’s Regulatory Czar Defends Communism and Says America Too Racist for Socialism,” Gateway Pundit, Oct. 8, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/czar_seeks_chilling_effect_on.html ;
[11] “Valerie Jarrett’s Show,” American Spectator, Sept. 8, 2009, http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/08/valerie-jarretts-show; “Loudon: Why Was Obama’s “Brain” Valerie Jarrett So Happy to Hire Communist Van Jones? Was it Fate?,” RBO (therealbarackobama), Sept. 9, 2009, http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/loudon-why-was-obamas-brain-valerie-jarrett-so-happy-to-hire-communist-van-jones-was-it-fate/; “Van Jones: Truther Nut,” American Thinker, Sept. 4, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/van_jones_truther_nut.html; “Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama & Do-It-Yourself Vetting,” Michelle Malkin, Sept. 3, 2009, http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/; “Environmental Justice: The Van Jones Backstory,” Weekly Standard,” Sept. 29, 2009, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/942msdft.asp?pg=1 .
[12] “Carol Browner a Socialist?,” American Spectator, Jan. 12, 2009, http://spectator.org/blog/2009/01/12/carol-browner-a-socialist; “Obama Climate Czar has Socialist Ties,” Washington Times, Jan. 12, 2009, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/.
[13] “Enough is Enough,” American Thinker, July 16, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/enough_is_enough.html; “When Will We Admit the Truth About Barack Obama,” American Thinker, Apr. 24, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/when_will_we_admit_the_truth_a.html; “Obama’s Abortion Extremism,” Real Clear Politics, Apr. 2, 2008, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/caseys_endorsement_lacks_fathe.html.; “Why Jesus Would Not Vote for Barack Obama,” WorldNetDaily, July 19, 2006, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51121.
[14] “Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Hid Pedophilia,” Gateway Pundit, Sept. 24, 2009, http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamas-safe-schools-czar-kevin-jennings.html; “Obama’s ‘Safe Schools Czar’ Praised NAMBLA Founder, Too,” Gateway Pundit, October 2, 2009, http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamas-safe-schools-czar-praised-nambla.html; “Obama Appointee Lauded NAMBLA Figure,” Washington Examiner, October 1, 2009, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-appointee-lauded-NAMBLA-figure-63115112.html (The Examiner’s story was updated to reflect that Harry Hay was not an employee of NAMBLA, but rather a well-known booster); “VIDEO – Kevin Jennings: Every aspiring teacher should be required to take an LGBT course,” Washington Times, Oct. 7, 2009, http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2009/oct/07/video-kevin-jennings-every-teacher-should-be-requi/; “Kevin Jennings Twisted Terminology,” American Thinker, Oct. 8, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/kevin_jennings_twisted_termino_1.html; “The Long March of Kevin Jennings,” American Thinker, Oct. 6, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/the_long_march_of_kevin_jennings.html; “Critics Assail Obama’s ‘Safe Schools’ Czar, Say He’s Wrong Man for the Job,” Fox News, Sept. 23, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/critics-assail-obamas-safe-schools-czar-say-hes-wrong-man-job/; “Obama’s Connection to GLSEN,” Perspectives, Oct. 24, 2008, http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=297506.
[15] “‘Gay’ Sex Morally Good, Says Obama Pick,” WorldNetDaily, Oct. 5, 2009, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112003; ” Obama Nominee Praised Polygamy,” WorldNetDaily, Oct. 6, 2009, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112002; “EEOC Nominee Signed ‘Manifesto’ That Praised Polygamy,” Catholic News Agency, October 1, 2009, http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=34534.
[16] “On Bill Ayers and Small ‘c’ Communists,” American Thinker, Oct. 15, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/on_bill_ayers_and_small_c_comm.html; “Andersen Book Blows Ayers’ Cover on Dreams,” American Thinker, Sept. 23, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/andersen_book_blows_ayers_cove.html; “Who Wrote Dreams of My Father?,” American Thinker, Oct. 9, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html; “Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Dreams of My Father,” http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/evidence_mounts_ayers_cowrote.html.
[17] “Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem,” City Journal, Apr. 23, 2008, http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0423ss.html; “The Ed School’s Latest – and worst – Humbug,” City Journal, Summer 2006, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html;
In this lengthy article, Mr. Stern details how William Ayers “social justice” and “urban education” curricula not only undermine American education but prove to be a “cruel hoax” on disadvantaged inner city youth who don’t happen to live in the Ayers-Obama wealthy, ultra-liberal neighborhoods.
[18] “The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: Success, Failures and Lessons for the Future – Final Technical Report of the Chicago Annenberg Research Project,” August, 2003, by Mark A. Smylie, Stacy A. Wenzel, et. al., 138 pages.
Found at: http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/downloads/p62.pdf; “That ‘Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood’: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship,” Law Professor Steven Diamond’s blog, June 18 and updated June 23, 2008, http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood.html; “Another Communist in Obama’s Orb: Meet Michael Klonsky, Obama’s ‘social justice’ education expert,” National Review, Oct. 22, 2008, , http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTQzMDIxZjlmMTM5N2ZhNzlmY2IyZDYxMWQ5NjQ2NDM=; “Obama’s Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light,” American Thinker, Aug. 21, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_lost_annenberg_years_co.html; “Obama Dollars,” American Thinker, Sept. 23, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obama_dollars.html. Also see: “Ayers-Dorhn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed,” Pajamas Media, Oct. 6, 2008, http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ayers-dohrn-obama-tie-shouldnt-be-dismissed/.
Two steps forward, one step backwards? That is the situation illegal immigration been, since forced back into the spotlight Patriots and exceptionally American works can claim another small victory. The Senate had to finally give in to public pressure and pass a three year extension for E-Verify. A small but significant step in slowly, but surely removing illegal foreign workers out of the job market? But the insuring battle is far from over? Let us question the open border meddlers. Let’s just say for one minute–and this is a big IF, knowing the frustrated and angry mood of 15 million out-of-work Americans? If a comprehensive path to citizenship was to pass, how is our all-powerful government expected to halt the inflow of millions upon millions more illegal aliens at the border?
Without any doubt there will be a tangible effect of word-of-mouth spreading like searing magma across the border, the Pacific, Atlantic and other oceans of the world. Will the fraternity of corrupted legislators bring home our troops from different nations of the world and place whole commands along the intentionally poorly constructed border? Or perhaps they will direct the National Guard once again, to picket that national demarcation line the between the two countries? My thoughts are that a torrent, will materialize into a flood, then a maelstrom of desperate human beings will start a perilous charge to take advantage of health care, education and whatever California and other-SANCTUARY STATES–have been declared to have for free. This border fence was–NOTHING–like that originally planned? Rep. Duncan Hunter R-CA was the author of the planned border fence, which originality can be seen in San Diego, California. It is not what we view currently stretching from California to Texas? Hunters construction was two layer with a no-mans-land in between the two strands for Border Patrol use. Speeding vehicles had the capability of barreling along to any illegal incursion, on a two lane track Instead of illegal entrants only having to scale one steel barrier, they would likely be caught in between the fences and unable to negotiate the second fence before being apprehended?
Illegal access to America was never completed, because our Politicians corporate employers never intended to keep the majority of discount labor out the country. THINK ABOUT IT? IF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAWS WERE MEANT TO BE ENFORCED, THE COURTS WOULD HAVE MADE IT A SERIOUS FELONY. INSTEAD IT’S NOT EVEN A MINOR INFRACTION. You would think that the US Chamber of Commerce would be very potent, in fighting the government on behalf of the 15 million jobless workers. But they are already filing lawsuits to compromise E-Verify on behalf of Fed Contractor and subcontractors. In court they are stating that the government lacks the authority to make the voluntary program mandatory.
The US Chamber of Commerce, The ACLU, and Council for Foreign Relations–REAL AGENDA–is to completely eradicate any border, port or airline enforcement–to expedite the easy access of impoverished cheap labor. Randel Johnson, chamber senior vice president for labor, immigration and employee benefits stated, “Our main focus right now is to try and provide that the regulation, that does not require the re-verification of current employees.” But then any prudent person must realize that not only is federal contractors and subcontractors have unknown numbers of illegal workers holding American jobs? But anywhere in the job market illegal immigrants are likely shielded by thousands of employers, given refuge by churches, hidden in unions halls We should concentrate on the numbers of illegal foreign labor who have been informed upon by the companies own labor force.
In Los Angeles 1800 individuals were disclosed, working at a clothing factory on fraudulent documentation. In Postville, Iowa a lightening ICE raid detained 300 unauthorized workers. Today most of those jobs have been filled by legal black, white, brown or any other colored skin, but the usual suspects have complained that these are jobs, are jobs Americans won’t do? Take these numbers and calculate them by how many hundreds of thousands of businesses there are in the United States? If just those two large companies are anything to go by, the actual numbers of illegal labor working without–THE PEOPLE’S PERMISSION is absolutely staggering? My cousin’s grandfather picked fruit in Oregon, American kids mowed laws, flipped burgers, teens babysat small children, and unskilled cleaned toilets and made beds in motels and hotels? Now you’re lucky if you can find a US citizen, in the entertainment industry, janitorial jobs or hundreds of other low wage categories? All these jobs were slowly encompassed by illegal exploited labor, because they can be intimidated by employers who spin the word “El Migra.”? Always and forever, its about the profit and large copious bonuses, these executives are making using foreign nationals, instead of US workers.
First, the majority of these outlaw companies probably do not pay HEALTH INSURANCE? As I have repeated–over and over again–they either jettisons there injured charges, such as roofers, construction or any manual labor on the steps of the county emergency hospital? These companies are very knowledgeable of Federal law, because they and industrial organizations have subjected our Civil Servants in Washington to unceasing lobbying. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency health care treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. No language relates to reimbursement provisions in the act. As a result of the legislation, any patients needing emergency treatment can only be discharged under their own informed consent or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer care.
Nefarious companies are fully aware of this law that sick people who are low income can enter any emergency room and receive medical treatment and the companies are not held accountable for the hospital bills. They rid themselves of the responsibility onto the US taxpayer or the hospital to swallow the medical bill. Unlike citizens and legal resident not only are forced to pay for this in their taxes. If however they fall into the same quicksand of paying for medical bills for themselves and family they are literary hunted down by skip tracers and obnoxious debt collectors. Illegal foreign workers are almost exempt because they have no tracking ID papers, whereas the rest of the legal population are continually harassed by arrogant debt collectors. Many become victims of bankruptcy? Unlike industrialized nations who have for years benefited from Universal health care, this country has badly failed the American people and instead favored money grabbing private insurance. It does seem inconceivable thousands of Americans die each year, because they cannot afford the premiums for their families.
Whereas illegal workers are receiving free treatments, expensive dialysis and major surgery compliments of US taxpayers. GOOGLE–illegal immigrants–hospitals–health care for raw intelligence? As a example in April, University Medical Center, Nevada has been spending about $2 million per month providing emergency dialysis services to 80 illegal immigrants. WE SHOULD VIVIDLY REMEMBER THIS IS THE HOME OF SENATOR HARRY REID, WHOSE POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON, HAS INTENTIONALLY USED HIS POWER TO WEAKEN OR TRAMPLE ON ANY IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. HE AND HIS DEMOCRATIC FORCE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL EARLIER IN TRYING TO DERAIL E-VERIFY. One should consider he has a very large population of illegal foreign nationals settled in Nevada. He hopes to be re-elected next year? Legal residents and it’s citizens should watch for any kind of irregularities in the voting booth, specifically absentee ballots?
California–a stark reality of complete flagrant disregard of federal law, has instituted its own policy of a SANCTUARY STATE. Over the years it’s amassed a uncounted population of impoverished, poorly educated illegal labor and their families. It has become a very costly situation for Angelenos and Californians as a whole. With a Liberal-Socialist-Marxist assembly in Sacramento, the tax and spend hierarchy have driven the State into near bankruptcy. Estimated in just the Los Angeles the numbers of illegal immigrants is 3 million people. According to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS), an estimated 2,209,000 illegal immigrants
resided in California in 2000, up from 1,476,000 in 1990. Since then the numbers have accelerated to unbelievable numbers, which is owing to our border remaining intentionally limited security.
As usual the opponents of any kind of restriction on the illegal immigration, is playing the race card? It’s a forgone conclusion that the benefactors of promoting a mass invasion of our shores, such as religious groups, unions, ACLU, radical ethnic caucuses and even our own US Chamber of Commerce, will mouth epithets to any person group or other entity–IF–doesn’t benefit big business who advocate a continuous force of illegal cheap labor. Now they are really frustrated because their objection to E-Verify was thrown out of a Maryland Federal court. All federal contractors and subcontractors must adhere to the law as of September 30. They have conspired against the American worker and people for too long and now we are fighting back ourselves against corrupt politicians and other elected officials nationwide,
Rep. Joe Wilson was actually telling the truth at the time, and now Democrats have placed restrictive language in the Health care reform package as a reluctant afterthought by public demand. This was nothing to do about bigotry or racism, but the American workers and family survival? Business community who hire illegals pay generally below the national minimum wage or other benefits, which forces there employees to rely on the taxpayer to carry the financial load. The US labor force should not have to be in competition, with people from other countries? Businesses have already offshore American jobs, because it’s cheaper? Every illegal foreign national and family member should be exempt from government run health care, jobs and all the billions of taxpayer dollars secretly allocated to pay for their support. Twenty million plus illegal people compromised themselves, when they entered a sovereign nation without permission. The invasion of illegal immigrants into the state of California has much to do with its monolithic budget meltdown.
County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich in 2004 released new statistics from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services showing that Illegal Aliens collected more than $37 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in November 2008, up $3 million from September 2007. Illegal’s collected more than $20 million in welfare assistance in November and more than $16 million in food stamp allocations, for a projected annual cost of $444 million.
That is not the entire picture of the taxpayer burden. When you add in the cost of free Emergency Room services, free Public School education as well as public safety and free housing the annual cost is $3,000,000,000 a year and rising! In California they get a free lunch on the taxpayers in Los Angeles county compliments of Sacramento. That from 2007 welfare had increased $2 million over the previous two months. He also said that 25% of all welfare and food stamp benefits go directly to children of illegal aliens and that the projected annual cost in welfare and food stamps for illegal aliens would be $444 million. That is far from the entire picture of the taxpayer burden. That’s only the cost to taxpayers in Los Angeles County, how much is it costing the rest of the United States taxpayers? Is the cost $20 Billion, $30 Billion or $50 Billion annually? No one really knows, because most States refuse to ask the important question; “Are you a Legal Immigrant?”
My concern and thousands of other citizens and legal residents is how many—ILLEGAL ALIENS—are voting in elections, when no governmental ID is not needed to prove immigration status. Simply recognize that California is a—SANCTUARY STATE—and by removing millions of illegal immigrants and their families would assist on balancing the budget. E-Verification being continuously modified from its original success rate of 99.6 is now constantly on the minds of company executives. Now with a three year extension those Democrats had no choice, but to irritably approve because of public outrage. FIRST IT PROVES THAT BEYOND ANY SHADOW OF DOUBT PUBLIC EXPOSURE AND ANGRY CONTACT WITH THEIR POLITICIANS HAVE EXEMPLARY EFFECTS ON HOW THEY VOTE? THE THREE YEAR EXTENSION WAS A SMALL VICTORY CELEBRATION. BUT BE ASSURED WE HAVE TO KEEP A JAUNDICED EYE ON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. WE CANNOT LET GO FOR ONE MINUTE?
Since 2005 there have been announcements of the closure of the emergency rooms, this includes Elastar Community Hospital in East Los Angeles. Tracey Veal, a spokeswoman for the Northridge hospital, said, It is estimated that the hospital spent $13 million on so-called charity care in the fiscal year that ended on June 30. Four other emergency rooms have closed in the county in the last two years. The reason given is the high cost of treating uninsured people. The article also states that 70 hospital emergency rooms and trauma centers have closed in California since 1990.The county estimates the cost of providing them with health care is $340 million annually.
There are approximately 127 Sanctuary Cities in this country; this figure keeps rising every year. In in Pennsylvania.taxpayers footed a $25.3 million bill in 2007-08 to pay for emergency health care for non-citizens. Tax-funded subsidies of $2 million went to seven area hospitals. Florida Hospitals have to write off $100 million dollars in unpaid medical bills because of illegal aliens. The Florida Hospital Association says taxpayers pick up the tab. Austin — The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says. In a recent year in Colorado, the state’s emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers – average of $5,000 per baby. Those 6,000 births to illegal aliens represent 40% of the births paid for by Medicaid in Colorado. Those 6,000 babies immediately became U.S. citizens and qualified for full Medicaid services.
WASHINGTON — The IRS allowed foreign workers — many of them in the U.S. illegally — to improperly claim nearly $7 billion in child tax credits from 2004 to 2007, a government investigator said Thursday.
It’s estimated there may be over 300,000 anchor babies born each year in the U.S. Thus, illegal alien mothers now add more to U.S. population each year than immigration from all sources in an average year before 1965. These babies are called anchor babiesbecause they act as an anchor that pulls the illegal alien mother and a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. The instant citizenship of the baby, makes the mother favorable for low income housing and other less known government benefits?
FAIR estimates “there are currently between 287,000 and 363,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. This figure is based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 births per 1000) and the size of the illegal alien population (between 8.7 and 11 million). In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36 percent of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year.”
FAIR research shows that “the Urban Institute estimates that the cost of educating illegal alien children in the nation’s seven states with the highest concentration of illegal aliens was $3.1 billion in 1993 (which, with the growth of their population to 1.3 million, would be more like $5 billion in 2000). This estimate does not take into account the additional costs of bilingual education or other special educational needs.”
So vote—NO–on all propositions as you are supporting parasite businesses that hire illegal cheap labor. The Liberal Assembly in Sacramento has allowed foreign labor to settle here and now the Piper must be paid. US Taxpayers are unknowingly paying billions of dollars in State benefits to underwrite education, health care, housing, Public Safety and other benefits and now has the highest taxes in the nation? If we don’t draw the line now–the politicians will keep drawing more and more blood from us, in the form of raised taxes.
A national plan for dealing with insolvent states is to let the rogue businesses of that state that got the benefits of all the profligate spending bear the burden? It is unconscionable to spread the burden of asinine policy on those who neither supported it, nor received the benefits of it. IT’S ALL ABOUT CORPORATE WELFARE AND ACCESS TO THE POLITICIANS WHO SUPPOSEDLY PROTECT THE TAXPAYER.
Today the mechanism, which checks employee information from I-9 forms against Social Security and homeland security databases, is used voluntarily by more than 148,000 employers and growing. Whether this because the fear of criminal penalties or just being a good loyal American, I don’t know? Then groups such as the Society for Human Resource Management, US Chamber of Commerce and immigrant rights organizations have criticized the system for being inefficient, ineffective and unable to detect identity theft. They say that mistakes in government records could cause hundreds of thousands of legal workers are being declared ineligible. BUT INDIVIDUAL CAN EASILY RESOLVE THAT PROBLEM? THEY CAN ARRIVE WITH THEIR ID, TO THE LOCAL SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE? THOSE WORKERS NOT ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN AMERICA, WILL NOT ENTER THIS GOVERNMENT BUILDING BECAUSE OF CONSEQUENCES? IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT?
It would foolish to think that the major majority of the US populace are going to sit back and remain silent, if the automatons of the business–OUR LAWMAKERS–try to force AMNESTY through.
HERE IS A LIST OF THINGS RESIDENTS AND CITIZENS CAN DO, TO KEEP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BURNING IN THE MINDS OF AMERICANS. WE CAN ALL DO SOMETHING, SPECIALLY BECAUSE DISCUSSIONS ARE ALREADY UNDERWAY TO POUNCE ON US ANOTHER AMNESTY.
The most important is to keep “illegal immigration” on the front burner. Like me! VERY INTERESTING DIALOG FOUND ON THE NET?
“Letters to the Editor” about illegal immigration and how it affects the taxpayer and those who are in our nation illegally. When you read a “Letter to the Editor” or read a newspaper article about “illegal immigration”, respond to the newspaper article or the letter writer with facts are easily obtainable on the net. Become a Whistle-Blower are scrutinize work sites, day laborer pick up points, vans/trucks transporting workers and Record dates, times and places and other relevant information. Pass this information along to law enforcement and (ICE) Immigration and Customs service. REMEMBER! NEXT TIME IT MIGHT BE YOUR JOB ON THE LINE?
Keep pressure on city, county, and state legislators. Write letters, send emails, visit their offices, phone them and constantly harass their assistants. Attendance to public hearings that is sponsored by elected officials is a must. Don’t be afraid to speak your mind
contact talk show radio hosts, invite elected officials to come to the meeting to speak
Follow these instructions by TARGETOC
When reading about organization or groups with a tax exempt status investigate more? Explore those bringing a lawsuit against a city or county municipality, who has passed an ordinance against illegal immigration? Check to see if their tax exemption prohibits legislative activities. If so, you can contact the IRS and request that their
Tax exempt status be removed (this hurts the group in the pocketbook). IRS will keep your identity confidential if you so choose. Be prepared to send IRS documentation such as newspaper clippings of the organization’s or group, even faith groups and political activity other than the actual lawsuit. To verify the organizations/groups that are bringing about the lawsuits, go to their website: or you can contact the organization and inquire whether they are tax exempt?
Hold small group meetings on “Stopping Illegal Immigration”. Make up flyers, contact newspapers and send out newsletters. Contact talk show radio hosts, invite elected officials to come to the meeting to speak and request that they
Forward information about their officials meetings and email constituents who are interested in stopping illegal immigration. Then contact radios stations and ask them to broadcast the meeting place, dates, times, etc. Invite speakers such as law enforcement, ICE, elected officials, contractors who have been affected by illegal immigration, workers who were fired and whose employer hired illegal immigrants to replace such employee, people who live adjacent to illegal immigrant housing, health care workers who can tell you the diseases that illegal’s are carrying, school officials that can give you costs of educating illegal immigrant children and cost to print instructional materials, cost of hiring bi-lingual teachers/interpreters, etc.
Encourage local law enforcement to adopt the federal program, 287 (g). The 287 (g) programs gives law enforcement a data base in which to check for legal status of workers. This data base not only goes to ICE but it integrates into other federal data bases. Local sheriffs’ deputies can be trained by ICE to function as ICE agents in many ways on the local level.
Make sure that cities, counties, and states use the E-Verify (formerly Basic Pilot) verification system in awarding government contracts.
Call your U. S. Senators and Congressmen and demand the rapid completion of a fence along our southern border and urge legislation that will punish employment of illegals. All 535 congressmen and senators can be reached by calling the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or attend all meetings related to “stopping illegal immigration” and invite others to attend. When arrests are made of people of questionable legal status, contact law enforcement to make sure the suspect has been checked for legal status through ICE.
Attend meetings, such as city council and county council, speaking on the issue during public comment opportunities. Form networks of mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. to coordinate efforts. Stay focused, be patient, and try to remain positive.
Verify that those who work for you such as landscapers, housekeepers, painters, etc. are here legally before you engage them to do the work for you.
Do not support businesses which hire illegal immigrants, such as restaurants. Be sure to ask the business if they hire illegal’s. Tell the owner/manager that you will not do business with anyone who hires illegal immigrants.
CHECK FOR THE E-VERIFY NOTICE AS IN THE RESTAURANT “EL POLLO LOCO”
Participate in talk radio programs when the subject is on illegal immigration.
Encourage city and county elected officials to pass ordinances on illegal immigration. Support elected officials who are passing legislation/ordinances on illegal immigration. 22. Do all that you can do to support legislation for funding additional ICE agents by contacting your federal legislators?
American workers are under incessant attack by the open border insaneness. If the US worker who wants to save his job from overseas cheap labor, they must get involved with organizations that wish to reduce legal and illegal immigration. 1.5 newcomers enter America legally through the immigration green card lottery and at least 27 specialized visa applications. In many cases, these cheap rate labors from India displace computer programmers. Not only do they enter the job market this way, but US workers have to train them before they are given a pink slip? This is a very devious situation that is beneficial to employers, but utterly devious to those who end up jobless. One organization which has a reputable background is NUMBERSUSA.
Numbersusa has great resources in the chambers of Washington and state assemblies were information is quickly expedited to them. Investigate their website for their inner knowledge expands on the commencing discussions on giving the 20 to 30 million plus illegal squatters a path to citizenship. Read about E-Verify being extended to 3 years, instead of being once again being tabled by anti-sovereignty Senator Harry Reid?
That the Salvation army has disassociated itself from congregational religions and faith groups and does not endorse the National Association of Evangelicals’ recent lobbying for amnesty and for an increase in foreign labor importation. That Zogby International poll reveals that 56 percent of Mexicans believe that someone they know would try entering the United States illegally if the country was to offer legal status to illegal aliens. This just a few of the nasty arrangements our so-called politicians have in store for us. Another non-profit group is JUDICIAL WATCH with there main attention on political corruption in all levels of government.
Judicial Watch is a watchdog over our government, legal, and judicial systems, the site posts a summary of the court cases they are pursuing along with related news stories. Currently on there site is the ACORN controversy. JW Statement on Arizona Attorney General Refusal to Take Action against Phoenix Police Chief for Receiving Illegal Pension Benefits and so much it nearly asphyxiates the mind? Learn about the supposedly non-existent North American Union. Information about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Do you really think that JW, is going to ruin its spotless reputation over NAU as a will-of –the-Wisp? Relating to the illegal immigration, JW Sues DHS for Documents on “Reforms” to 287(g) what is the Obama administration’s response to the success of this program? How Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano decided to implement “reforms” to weaken it as part of her comprehensive “review” of all border security policies. Judicial Watch, of course, wants to know everything about how and why this incomprehensible decision was made?
In conclusion, be very aware of a—BLANKET AMNESTY—if enacted. Not only will millions more get past the border fence, but the costs cannot even be calculated with family unification-known as chain migration. A massive Armada of the old, young, mentally sick could be sponsored. The legalized sponsor in the majority of actions, never fulfill his financial commitment to his charges and they end up as a taxpayer’s expense. The CAPSWEB site is all about our rush towards OVERPOPULATION. The US Census Bureau have not denied that Americas population could climb now in its projections by a 50-percent increase in the domestic population by the year 2050, from 255 million to 383 million. The next 100 million will suffocate our ability, to maintain water, energy, food, communication, infrastructure and a balanced environment? It will lift out of reach any chance for a stable and sustainable population within the USA. It will also create horrific water shortages and exacerbate the energy and climate destabilization crises. My suggestion is GOOGLE keywords—not separated by comma’s, such as illegal immigration—costs—California and learn the frightening truth for yourself. Not the lies, propaganda that seems to permeate from the desks of Liberal editors?
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