Archive for January 2010

Statement from James O’Keefe

by James O’Keefe

The government has now confirmed what has always been clear:  no one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office.  Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines.  Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.

As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetuated by ACORN.  For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.

I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill.  When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.”  I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken.  In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.

On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.  The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator.  We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.

It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story.  MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.”  The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public.  The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me.  And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting.  The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.

The government has now confirmed what has always been clear:  No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office.  Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines.  Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.

As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetrated by ACORN.  For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.

I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill.  When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.”  I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken.  In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.

On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.  The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator.  We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.

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The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school, according to research released on Tuesday.

Teenagers have found it significantly harder to get a job since the recession began in late 2007, with black youths and young people from low-income families faring the worst, wrote Andrew Sum of Northeastern University in Boston, a employment researcher commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network.

“Low-income and minority youth, who depended on part-time jobs as a significant stepping stone to future employment, have been forced out of the job market and economically marginalized,” Herman Brewer of the Chicago Urban League said in a statement.

Overall, 26 percent of American teenagers aged 16 to 19 had jobs in late 2009, said the report, which was based on U.S. Census Bureau data. That figure is a record low since statistics began to be kept in 1948, the researchers said.

Employment counts the number of people with a job as a percentage of the entire work force. By contrast, the unemployment rate — which stood at 10 percent in December in the United States — does not include people who have grown discouraged and stopped looking for work.
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Yesterday, Brent Cool (YWC’s VP) and I posted YWC flyers all around campus, hoping to attract like-minded right wingers for YWC. We are still currently small in numbers (around 7) and were hoping that our flyers would attract the few more we need for school recognition. Looking at other campuses across the nation, what strikes me about Auburn is its tranquility. It is a VERY conservative campus with an overall conservative staff. Sure, every now and then you see the scraggly hippie sporting a Che Guevara shirt, but the leftists at Auburn seem to be in hibernation. We don’t see them often, and it seems like they stick to their own. Driving down college street at night, occasionally you can see a large gathering of them at Cambridge Coffee or flooding into the obscure bars around town. Every now and again, I can smell them as I walk past they Haley center- where the Liberal Arts department is. Mostly, however, they are quiet. When conservative/right-wing speakers come to Auburn, the leftists do not act like their Ilk at UNC-chapel hill do when someone presents a “controversial” viewpoint- they simply ignore it. When the pro-life club has its “graveyard” for abortion victims, the leftists don’t harass the members and vandalize the tombstones- like I have seen on other campuses. But, when our club speaks out against Illegal Immigration, socialism, and radical multiculturalism, it apparently drives them wild.

Walking to class today, right when I entered Lowder business building, I immediately noticed that all of the YWC flyers I had posted the previous day had been torn down. Some were still on the floor. One leftist left a few choice words for me on one of my flyers, leaving it hanging. I was astounded- how a simple flyer (see picture) with a call for patriots could make these people so angry. It is apparent that the leftists don’t like our message, and seek to silence us.

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Gina Diorio

by Gina Diorio

One would hope the President of the United States would know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in last night’s State of the Union Address, President Obama said:

We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….

Um, wrong founding document, Mr. President. It is in our Declaration of Independence that we read:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

As a Facebook friend of mine quipped, “So, does he blame the speechwriter or Bush?”
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Santa Clarita councilman says he is a `proud racist’

In a heated speech at an anti-illegal-immigration rally, a Santa Clarita city councilman called himself a “proud racist” — a comment that has outraged some residents and political opponents.

Bob Kellar, who has served on the Santa Clarita council for 10 years, made the remarks at a Jan. 16 rally in Santa Clarita, attended by anti-illegal immigration groups and posted on YouTube.

Kellar stood by his remarks in an interview, saying they reflected his frustration with illegal immigration, but weren’t intended to express animosity against nonwhites.

“It doesn’t mean I’m going to saddle up the horses at midnight,” he said.

At the rally, Kellar first referred to a statement from President Theodore Roosevelt that says the United States only has room for one flag and one language. He said he had quoted it at a past City Council meeting. “The only thing I heard back from a couple of people was `Bob, you sound like a racist.’

“I said, `That’s good. If that’s what you think I am because I happen to believe in America, then I’m a proud racist. You’re darn right I am.”‘

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UNION CITY, CA (KGO) — The NAACP joined several families in filing lawsuits Monday against Union City Police and school officials claiming they do not do enough to protect African American teens from gang violence.

Part of the suit stems from the December 2007 shooting death of 14-year-old Vernon Eddins outside of Barnard-White Middle School.

Nobody has been arrested for that crime.

The lawsuit claims a Hispanic gang called the “Decotos” has targeted black youths for several years.

Eddins’ mother, Alvette Fobbs, is one of the people suing Union City police and the New Haven Unified School District.

“Our kids are living a horror movie. They’ve had to live this life for three years. An innocent life has been taken, attempts on others, and still nothing is being done,” says Fobbs.

“The Union City Police Department and the City of Union City have a long-standing record of being responsive to the supporting and defending the rights of all members of our diverse community,” says police department Capt. Kevin Finnerty.
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The Tea Party anti-big government, anti-tax, anti-some-other-stuff folks are sinking their ideological roots into the Golden State rather quickly — and deeply.

Hmm, and there’s a midterm election for every House seat, a third of the Senate and dozens of governors’ chairs this coming November.

A new Field Poll out this afternoon finds that 28% of the state’s voters identify with that protest movement while nearly two-thirds already know about them. California support for these protesters is concentrated among Republicans and conservatives, whose energy, money, online muscle and motivation played significant roles in some recent elections, fed, according to other polls, by growing concerns about federal spending and record deficits.

The Ticket described some internal Tea Party convention turmoil here this morning.

Meanwhile, the same new Field Poll asked about the long-simmering controversy over Barack Obama’s birth and whether he is a real American-born citizen and, therefore, constitutionally allowed to be president.
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The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government. Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions.

But what can Obama do other then spout more rhetoric?

The Democrats were destroyed as an independent party by jobs offshoring and so-called free trade agreements such as NAFTA. The effect of “globalism” has been to destroy the industrial and manufacturing unions, thus leaving the Democrats without a power base and source of funding.

Obama and the Democrats cannot be an opposition party, because Democrats are as dependent as Republicans on corporate interest groups for campaign funding.

The Democrats have to support war and the police state if they want funding from the military/security complex. They have to make the health care bill into a subsidy for private insurance if they want funding from the insurance companies. They have to abandon the American people for the rich banksters if they want funding from the financial lobby.
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By Debbie Schlussel

Not long after 9/11, two illegal alien Muslim teens–one of them a Paki and another from an Arabic country–snatched two young American women from a Pontiac, Michigan dance club.  They raped and severely beat them, ran them over with cars, and left them for dead on a road in nearby Waterford.  One of the women survived.

“Religion of Peace”: Islamic Teen Rapist Balal Khan

It’s not news that there are many cases of young Muslim men and teens raping Western women just for the heck of it.  Anyone who expects Greater Arabia savagery to be moderated by artificial, unenforced Western borders or Levi’s and IPhones simply hasn’t been paying attention.  In far too many cases, you can take the Muslim out of the lands of Islamic violence, but you can’t take the violence out of the Muslim . . . even with the most generous opportunities in the West.  If Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Nidal Malik Hasan aren’t Exhibit A of that for you, you’re blind and beyond lost.

Now, there’s the case, in the UK, of Balal Khan, a 13-year-old Paki Muslim, who raped a 2o-year-old woman in front of his friends, then called the woman’s boyfriend on her cellphone and bragged about it to him.  This is NOT a child.  It’s a monster who knew exactly what he was doing and whose society teaches males that this behavior, especially against Infidel women, is okay.  Anyone who says I’m generalizing, has, again, NOT been paying attention.  There’s a reason honor suicides–where raped Muslim women kill themselves before their brothers and fathers and uncles beat them to it–are consistently on the rise in places like Turkey.  Yes, “moderate” Turkey, which actually hasn’t been moderate in quite some time.
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The French called Hitler a revanchiste — a Kaiser soldier of World War I aching to avenge his old defeat. Hitler made no secret of his desire for revenge. He made it a Nazi slogan. Well, you can have ideological revanchisme as well — for instance, a Marxist determination to take revenge for America’s victory against worldwide Communism in the Cold War.

The word “Marxist” is now used as a kind of a sly boast in academia; I just talked with a professor who calls himself a “Marxist historian” and smiles to himself when he says it. He obviously thinks he’s a hero by being a Marxist in America. But according to Marxist historians themselves, Red regimes killed at least 100 million people in “crimes, terror and repression,” with still more dying today in North Korea. That’s not even counting the dead and wounded in wars fought by Communist regimes.

Obama’s early life indicates that young Barry may have been brought up as a Red Avenger against America. We know that he talks like an anti-capitalist and an anti-Constitutionalist, and that he compulsively apologizes for American actions during the Cold War. The Cold War was not something we started — it was started by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other totalitarian mass murderers long before the Korean War and the Vietnam War, our two hot proxies in the Cold War.

What we haven’t understood is how deeply Obama was indoctrinated from childhood onward in the war against America. But every intelligence agency in the world has to have figured it out, because it’s all in the public record. Leftists around the world have also known it from day one, and that includes leading Democrats. Obama was not an unknown to Democrat Party apparatchiks. Or the media. Only the American people were kept in the dark. The media and the Democrats are still doing their Obama cover-up today and hoping they will get away with it.
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