Quote: 

"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions" 

~ James Madison, National Gazette Essay, 1792  

'They're Harassing People': Family Misses Flight After TSA Comes to Gate to Rescreen Girl With Palsy 

While traveling from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Florida this week, Dina and her parents had to endure two separate screenings from TSA. Why two? Because after the agents had cleared Dina one time, they came back later to her gate and told her that wasn't enough and she was forced to endure it a second time.

"They make our lives completely difficult," her father, Dr. Joshua Frank, who is a pediatrician, told The Daily. "She's not a threat to national security."

The Daily explains the series of events:

With her crutches and orthotics, Dina cannot walk through metal detectors and instead is patted down by security agents. The girl, who is also developmentally disabled, is often frightened by the procedure, her father said.

Marcy Frank usually asks the agents to introduce themselves to her daughter, but those on duty on Monday were exceptionally aggressive, Joshua Frank said, and he began to videotape them with his iPhone.

"And the woman started screaming at me and cursing me and threatening me," he said.

TSA Pats Down 4-Year-Old Girl and Defends Themselves for Doing It 

WICHITA, Kan. (AP/The Blaze) - The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport says security agents forced her to undergo a pat-down, and even yelled at the child and called her an uncooperative suspect.

The incident has been attracting increasing media and online attention since the child's mother, Michelle Brademeyer of Montana, detailed the ordeal in a public Facebook post last week. The Transportation Security Administration says its agents followed proper screening procedures.

The child's grandmother, Lori Croft, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that mother and daughter initially passed through security at Wichita's airport without incident. But then the child ran to briefly hug Croft, who was awaiting a pat-down after tripping the alarm.

That's when TSA agents insisted the child undergo a physical pat-down.

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The Muslim Brotherhood 

presented by Frank Gaffney

Have you ever asked yourself why, despite more than ten years of efforts -involving, among other things, the loss of thousands of lives in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-over a trillion dollars spent, countless man-years wasted waiting in airport security lines and endless efforts to ensure that no offense is given to seemingly permanently aggrieved Muslim activists - are we no closer to victory in the so-called "war on terror" than we were on 9/11?  

Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Overview

 See More Here . . .

Fox News' Jesse Watters Catches Van Jones at Green Festival (& Gets Escorted Out!) 

Fox News' Jesse Watters is known for his comical and often telling on-the-fly interviews with prominent politicians and relevant sociopolitical figures. Recently, the "O'Reilly Factor" producer headed to the Green Festival in New York City, where he confronted former Obama administration Green Jobs Adviser Van Jones and spoke with countless conference participants.

The scenario ended with Watters being escorted out of the building (yes, literally).

OCCUPY were just trained to create confrontations at Tea Party events and rallies, nationwide!

In observing the OCCUPY activities over the past year or so, I surmised that their "first wave" was designed to serve as their learning curve, and that their puppet masters would then deploy them to mount "Wave Two", creating new and more vehement outrages, building on their experience.

That's now coming to pass.

Please relay this to other Tea Parties.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

From a reliable source:

Training for OCCUPY members & supporters was conducted around the U.S. this past weekend. We know of this because some Tea Party members infiltrated some training meetings and reported what they've learned 

The training was conducted in cities, towns and even smaller communities. Every trainer was equipped with a DVD, handouts and a training manual, and urged to recruit others. 

The training included specific instructions to attend Tea Party activities - meetings, rallies and town halls

At such Tea Party events, they were instructed to instigate confrontations and disruption. My source added, '... remember that they are well trained, well funded, extremely well organized and directed.  This is no longer the ragtag bunch of fools who are clueless about what they are there for - they are still ragtag but now they have marching orders and each group will have an even better trained leader(s)". 

My source also said, "...the OCCUPY movement has gone from semi-organic to fully supported and organized - and as I wrote before (and provided the links to prove this) - they are backed by the Communist and Socialist parties, UAW, SEIU, ACORN, myriad other communist/socialist organizations, Moveon.org, and of course, one of the key money people is George Soros.  This collection of 'sponsors' has no good intentions; moreover they are providing tents, food, water, sleeping bags, entertainment, drugs and more.  And they have insider's in key roles of leaders to incite and whip these people into a frenzy". 

How should Tea Party members handle any "situations"? My suggestions:

            1. For your upcoming events, contact your local law enforcement chief well in advance and appraise him or her of your           concerns.

            2. Share this heads up with your news media - print and broadcast outlets - in advance. Do not wait until stuff happens.

            3. Ask your members to have the phone number of the local law enforcement people on their speed dial

            4. Ask members to bring a video camera with sound

            5..At our weekly sidewalk rallies, I'll call the police first, but if things look bad, I'll instruct my members to leave as soon       as something starts. There's no use in engaging in a dispute with them because they will escalate it.

            6.If they crash a meeting, call the police. Police have a handy thing in their toolkit called, "Inciting to riot" which aroundhere is good for thirty days in the slammer.

7. One purpose of their disruptions will be to create "news", in which your Tea Party appears in headlines about violence or disturbances. The other purpose is the disruption itself.

8. Be aware that the date May 1^st,, ^­ May Day, is a traditional big day with lefties of all types, who know it as "International Workers Day".   I've seen a separate report that OCCUPY is planning "something big" for that date, but I have no other confirmation about it.

Regards,

Lou

P.S. If you have updates on this topic, send them to me and I'll redistribute to my fourteen state list.  Louis  <Louis@apo146.com>  

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PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHERS... There's safety in numbers...

Here's a way you can lend a hand with our continuing struggle to warn the sleeping world about the dangers of radical Islam.

Clarion films, which produced the block busters Obsession, The Third Jihad and Iranium is stepping up its efforts to get these films shown.  I remember how happy I was when Obsession was first released. At last I had a way to reach the people I was trying to educate into a post 9/11 awareness. I distributed as many of the DVDs as I could.

Now you can help Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst on FOX News Channel, educate more people about sharia and jihad. Ryan is with RadicalIslam.org, the Clarion Fund's website. He is spearheading a new grassroots initiative to show these important films to local communities such as churches, synagogues, GOP/DNC/Tea Party groups, national security conferences or any other venue that may be interested.

No speaker's fee is required but travel expenses and a small screening license fee are requested.

I'm sure you will pass this along to all your contacts so we can really make a difference in our country's willingness to protect itself against sharia and jihad.

Here is Ryan's contact info:

Ryan Mauro

ryan@radicalislam.org.

National Security Analyst, RadicalIslam.org / Clarion Fund
Founder, WorldThreats.com

Follow me on Twitter at Twitter.com/RyanMauro

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Friday April 27^h, 6:30pm

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2012 is truly the most important election year in our lifetime-perhaps, in our nation's history. Decisions are about to be made that will either secure America's future or hasten her decline. On April 27^th WNTP presents an evening with the true heavyweights of conservation talk.  Join Ann

Coulter, Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt as they look back of the past three years and ahead to what we can expect from an Obama second term

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An extremely important movie is coming this summer - Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

Dinesh D'Souza is author of many New York Times best sellers.  The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award Winning Schindler's List.

It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.

Watch this short informative video preview of this movie which came out only yesterday and share it with others.  It has already been seen by over 18,000 people.  Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions!  After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama.  Please take the time to hear this and pass it on.

Dinesh D'Souza - Obama & 2016

Constitution 101:
The Meaning and History of the Constitution

Available to you, your family, your friends,
and all Americans.

Weeks One & Two Now Available - Sign Up TODAY!

Dr. Larry P. Arnn

Over the years, many friends of Hillsdale, those who never attended college here, have said to me: "Dr. Arnn, I wish I could take Hillsdale's Constitution course!"

In response to these requests, this past year, for the first time ever, Hillsdale College offered the "Introduction to the Constitution" lecture series at no charge. Frankly, I wasn't sure what sort of a response a course like this would have.

That's why I was excited to see that YOU and almost 200,000 other people from all over the United States registered for "Introduction to the Constitution."

Thank you very much for registering and participating. I hope you learned a lot from the series.

I was thrilled, not only by the response, but at what it indicates: Americans are willing and eager learn about the Constitution and to defend the principles of liberty that made America so prosperous!

And this re-awakening of national interest in the Constitution comes not a minute too soon.

Now, for the first time ever, Hillsdale College is offering a no-cost 10-week online Constitution course based on the class Hillsdale College students must complete for graduation:

"Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution"

This course on the U.S. Constitution is available online at no charge to anyone who wants to understand and defend the timeless principles of liberty upon which our nation was founded!

I am proud to be teaching part of our NEW "Constitution 101" course and hope YOU will be one of my students again!

"Constitution 101" begins on February 20, 2012, and concludes the week of April 30. It will cover such topics as the Declaration of Independence and its connection to the Constitution, how the Constitution is structured to protect individual liberty and ensure good government, the crisis of constitutional government faced by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and modern challenges to the Constitution during the "Progressive" era.

It is my honor to teach the first class, "The American Mind," and the final class, "The Recovery of the Constitution." All of the classes will be taught by Hillsdale College professors - the top teachers in their field and the same ones who instruct our students here on Hillsdale's campus.

Classes listed in Blue have been posted on YouTube and can be viewed by clicking on the link for each class below. 

The U.S. Constitution

A Reader 

Editorial Note: Just received a couple of copies of the reader.   Not just a short course pamphlet this; with the heft of 'Atlas Shrugged', it is well worth getting whether or not you choose to take the course. 

Hillsdale College is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college with approximately 1,400 students. Founded in 1844, the College remains, in the words of its Articles of Association, "grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the presence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety" in our nation, and dedicated to "the diffusion of sound learning" that is "essential to the perpetuity of these blessings."

Hillsdale College is distinguished by its rigorous core curriculum, by its principled rejection of federal and state taxpayer funding, and by the pledge of its Board of Trustees to resists any attempts by the government to regulate its internal affairs.

Hillsdale College promotes the principles of liberty nationwide through its national speech digest, Imprimis, which has a monthly circulation of over 2 million, and through several outreach programs. In 2008, Hillsdale launched its Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C. The College will also launch the Hillsdale Graduate School of Statesmanship in fall 2012.

Breakfast with Congressman Pat Meehan 

RJC Philadelphia Chapter

Congressman Patrick Meehan (PA-7) recently returned from a visit to Israel, Jordan, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority and will provide the RJC with an update and overview of his visit.    Thursday, May 3 

Registration and breakfast at 7:30am  

Program will begin promptly at 8:00am

Crowne Plaza Philadelphia West

4010 City Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19131

Cost:
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$10 for Current RJC Members
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RSVP is Required.
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2011-2012 Speaker Series presented by:

Jessica & Eric Berger

Jill & Alan Miller

Cecilie & Eugene Block

Mindy & Bryan Rishforth 

Joan Carter & John Aglialoro

Adele & Harold Schaeffer

Amy & Steven Erlbaum

        Gerald B. Shreiber      

Vicki & Gary Erlbaum

         Beth & Craig Snider        

Gerry & Dick Fox

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About John Stossel

John Stossel joined Fox Business Network (FBN) in 2009. He hosts "Stossel," a weekly program highlighting current consumer issues with a libertarian viewpoint, which debuted. His first shows covered health care, global warming, the novel Atlas Shrugged, "food police", and the Road to Serfdom.

Prior to joining FBN, Stossel co-anchored ABC's prime-time news magazine show, 20/20. There he contributed in-depth special reports and recurring segments on a variety of consumer topics, from pop culture to government and business.

John Stossel's new book, "No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-but Individuals Succeed,"argues: "There ought not to be a law." Stossel explains how politicians promise to solve problems by passing laws, but the laws invariably make our problems worse.  

Why don't we learn? Because our brains don't intuit well about complex situations. After thousands of years of taking orders from tribal elders, after years of obeying our parents, we are programmed to think that anytime there is a problem, whether it's companies going bankrupt or schools keeping kids stupid, government action is the way to solve it. Using his decades of reporting, Stossel tackles how those intuitive, knee-jerk reactions lead us astray.

Central planning sounds right. It feels good. But it has nothing to do with the realities of economics and science. There is nothing that government can do that we cannot do better as free individuals - and as groups of individuals, working together voluntarily, not at the point of a gun or under threat of a fine.

May 31st The Patrick Henry Award will be Presented to Glenn Beck

From July 16 through July 18, 2012, Christians United for Israel will be holding its 7th Annual Washington Summit. We're going back to stand with Israel in our nation's capital. This year - more than ever - we need you to join us!

In the coming months, critical decisions are going to be made about Iran, Israel and the world. Finally, Washington is beginning to focus on the issue of a nuclear Iran. Many of our leaders want to confront this looming threat. But others want to keep kicking the can down the road. The debate is far from over.

• We know that when thousands of CUFI activists arrive in DC and on Capitol Hill, we can change the conversation.
• We can remind our leaders that a nuclear Iran is not only a threat to Israel, but to the US as well. And we can demonstrate to our elected officials that their constituents care enough about this issue to show up at their DC offices.
• We know that we can create a sense of immediacy that's otherwise lacking.
• We know that the more of us who show up and speak out -- the louder our voice and the greater our impact.

We stand at a critical juncture in history. Don't be silent! Don't miss your chance to make a difference! Don't pass up your opportunity to defend America and bless Israel!

Our leaders need to remember that we are watching them and we need to remember that God is watching us.

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The Case Against Obamacare: Health Care Policy Series for the 112th Congress

For Tea Parties, this can be used as basic ammunition for letters to the editor, columns for your local news outlet, handouts at public events, emailing the pdf to our elected reps as well as to members, friends and neighbors.

This appears to be an excellent resource; let's make use of it.

Lou Flanagan

The General Wayne Tea Party

RedState Morning Briefing

For April 26, 2012

1. A Nobody With No Audience Gets Noticed by Mitch McConnell

Yesterday on Laura Ingraham's radio show, she asked Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell about a recent Roll Call article that framed me as one of the loud leaders of conservatives opposed to Mitch McConnell. The Senator from Kentucky responded that he had never heard of me and I did not have an audience.

That sounds a bit like the child, when asked if he ate the cookie, replying that he had not and besides it did not taste good. If he'd never heard of me, how can he comment on my audience? If he states plainly I have no audience, how can he claim to not have heard of me? His remarks also came less than a day after I came out publicly against bronies, the adult male fans of My Little Pony. I hope that's just a coincidence.

Mitch McConnell's remark is just another example of him being vastly overrated as both a strategist and tactician. He claims to have advanced the conservative cause, but told Laura he has to be mindful that to govern Republicans must reach out to all Americans. Perhaps that is why in 2010, with the rise of the tea party, Mitch McConnell backed Arlen Specter against Pat Toomey, Charlie Crist against Marco Rubio (McConnell staffers went to Florida to help Crist), Robert Bennett against Mike Lee, and Trey Grayson against Rand Paul.

I grew up thinking Mitch McConnell was a right wing warrior. It turns out he's just a typical Washingtonian appropriator who has presided over a massive expansion of the welfare state doing not much more than issuing bold platitudes as he cuts deals to expand government spending and along the way made some major tactical and strategic blunders that groups like ACORN were able to thrive.

2. Planned Parenthood's Bad, Bad Night

An untold story today following Tuesday's Pennsylvania primaries is what a bad, bad night it was for Planned Parenthood.

In Pennsylvania's 134th House district, they spent an eye-popping $100,000 on a TV ad campaign trying to sink the candidacy of Republican Ryan Mackenzie by linking him to ultrasound legislation that was before the legislature.

As Politico noted, this was seen as a trial-balloon of sorts.

3. President Obama: 'encouraging'/planning to tax into oblivion start-up businesses.

Never mind the fact that Obama got yoghurt splashed on him last night - that's just an ongoing hazard of being a politician running for re-election in this country. The real story here is this: the President went to Colorado to, essentially, lie to a bunch of kids about how they can get themselves out of this mess that they're in. And it is a mess. 50% of college graduates are unemployed/underemployed; couple that with student loan debt levels that should really be frightening more people and we end up with a situation where millions of kids are getting out of college and staring DOOM right in the face. And while they are adults - and thus, responsible for their own fates - guess what? The people that connived to put them in this mess are adults, too. We expect twenty-somethings in this culture to make poor life choices, sometimes; what we don't expect is for the generations above them to so ruthlessly take advantage of that.

Anyway: Obama's answer in Colorado, last night? ...Entrepreneurship. That's what he was telling the kids. Start that restaurant! Develop that smartphone app! Make your own destiny! Get slammed with a tax hike on small businesses in the form of tighter restrictions on payroll tax exemptions!

Heritage Hotsheet

Experts on the Day's Hottest News

Items for April 26, 2012

U.S. Relaxes Drone Rules

The Wall Street Journal

Political battle over student loans heating up

Associated Press

High Court Skeptical of Obama's Use of Power as Campaign Starts

Trends in Jobless Claims, Earnings to Set Market Tone

CNBC.com

Latest Heritage Research:

BACKGROUNDER ON APRIL 25, 2012  Continuing the School Choice March: Policies to Promote Family K-12 Education Investment 

BACKGROUNDER ON APRIL 25, 2012  Fifty Terror Plots Foiled Since 9/11: The Homegrown Threat and the Long War on Terrorism 

ISSUE BRIEF ON APRIL 25, 2012

Promoting Human Rights in Russia Through the Sergei Magnitsky Act

Pick a fight with a liberal on Friedrich Hayek's birthday (May 8).  

Quote him: "The basis of [the classical liberal] argument is that nobody can know who knows best and that the only way by which we can find out is through a social process in which everybody is allowed to try and see what he can do." Exactly! This shows up the rottenness at the core of all liberal arguments: built into them is the assumption that liberals know what is best for us. But they don't. If they did, how do you explain the fact that we're now being run by the Obama administration?  

04/25/2012

What's the Senate Thinking? 

Featured Posts 

What Young Americans Should Really Fear 

Is the War on Terror Over? Are Islamists Now 'Legitimate'? 

Violence Against Women Bill Fails to Address Fraud 

College (Loan) Football: The Looming Interest Rate Hike 

Marriage Debate Moves to North Carolina 

QUICK HITS

Mitt Romney won all five presidential primary contests yesterday and claimed the Republican nomination, turning his sights toward President Obama and declaring, "It's still about the economy ... and we're not stupid."

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today on Arizona's immigration law. The Obama Administration challenged Arizona's efforts, arguing that states have a limited role in immigration policy.

The United Kingdom has slid back into recession. The country's gross domestic product shrank 0.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, with its economy weakened by a slump in construction and industrial production.

Apple Inc.'s quarterly profits nearly doubled thanks to strong sales of its iPhones and iPads, with shares gaining seven percent, topping out at $600.83.

Even as taxpayer-funded green energy companies are struggling to stay financially solvent, they're paying out large salaries and bonuses to their executives. Read more about it on Heritage's Scribe. 

As senator, Obama missed votes on student loan bill he now wants to extend 

In 2007, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama missed two votes on the student loan interest bill that he now wants Congress to extend.
 
Obama twice skipped the Senate vote on the College Cost Reduction and Access Act when the bill came to the Senate floor first in July and again in September of 2007, according to public records.
 
The bill, introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and signed into law by President George W. Bush, first cleared the Senate in July on a 78 to 18 vote, with Obama as one of only four senators who didn't cast a ballot. Obama did not cast a vote again in September, after the House and Senate had ironed out different versions of the bill. He was on the conference committee assigned to merge the House and Senate versions of the bill.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary L. Bauer


COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY: 195 DAYS TO THE 2012 ELECTIONS


Grand Slam, Governor!

After sweeping five state primaries yesterday, Governor Mitt Romney kicked off the general election campaign with a victory speech that put the 2012 election in very stark terms. I was cheering last night as the governor aggressively attacked Obama's failed record and brilliantly critiqued Obama's "fairness" claims. Here are some excerpts:

"Tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every American who knows in their heart that we can do better! The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it's not the best America can do! ...

"Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. ...What do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama? Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? ...Do you pay less at the pump?

"If the answer were 'yes' to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements...and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It's still about the economy, and we're not stupid. ...

"This president is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars. He's asking us to accept that Washington knows best -- and can provide all. ...

"This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; ... we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.

"In the America I see, character and choices matter. ...We'll stop the days of apologizing for success at home and never again apologize for America abroad.

"There was a time -- not so long ago -- when each of us could walk a little taller and stand a little straighter because we had a gift that no one else in the world shared. We were Americans. That meant something different to each of us but it meant something special to all of us. We knew it without question. And so did the world. Those days are coming back. That's our destiny.

"We believe in America. We believe in ourselves. Our greatest days are still ahead. We are, after all, Americans! God bless you, and God bless the United States of America."

Video: Is The United States Conducting Its Elections Like A Third World Puppet Government?

Bishop Who Compared Obama To Hitler And Stalin Under Attack From Fellow "Catholics"

Obama's War On Our Veterans

Video: "If I Wanted America To Fail"

Exclusive: Kagan's Handwritten Notes To Bell On Critical Race Theory

How Hawaiian Officials Helped Cover Up The Obama Forgery: Operation Sideshow Part Seven

Video: 'If I Had Two Sons, They Would Look Like Brian Terry And Jaime Zapata'-A Call To Action

Is Obama Dumbing Down The American Dream?

Video: Issa: Obama Admin Proving To Be "Most Corrupt In History"

Gingrich All But Concedes His Campaign Is Over

Situation For Senate RINOs Hatch, Lugar Worsening

Video: Occupy DC Demands Release Of Cop Killer [Explicit]

Former Planned Parenthood Official Now Flacking For Obama Administration

Obama Campaign Asks Unions To Help Cover Convention Costs

Video: Bill O'Reilly Lies Again To His Viewers About Obama's Felony Identity Document Fraud

Backward Banking

Three More Secret Service Agents Out, Two Others Cleared In Prostitution Scandal

Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona Immigration Law

Video: NRA President Keene On President Obama's Use Of Executive Powers

Rural Kids, Parents Angry About Labor Dept. Rule Banning Farm Chores

Video: Netanyahu Certain Of Iranian Nuclear Threat: 'We Know'

News from The Hill:

White House threatens to veto House's CISPA cybersecurity bill
By Brendan Sasso

The White House threatened to veto a controversial House cybersecurity bill on Wednesday, saying the measure would fail to protect critical infrastructure systems and would undermine Internet privacy.

WND EXCLUSIVE

Libel case against Obama's 'gay' accuser tossed

Larry Sinclair claimed president's campaign paid to rig polygraph

A federal judge has dismissed a libel case against a homosexual who claimed Barack Obama's 2008 campaign paid to rig a polygraph test regarding his sensational charge that he had sex and used drugs with the future president.

Larry Sinclair - who claims he twice engaged in sexual activity and used cocaine with Obama in 1999 when Obama was an Illinois state senator - was accused by Internet publisher Daniel Parisi of making false and damaging statements that led to the demise of Parisi's porn website, Whitehouse.com, in 2008.

The alleged defamation did not center on Sinclair's charges of sex and drugs with Obama but on Sinclair's claim in his 2009 book that the Obama campaign and top adviser David Axelrod had agreed to pay Parisi $750,000 to rig the results of a polygraph test.

Obama Tells Students To 'Google' A Congresswoman  

Have Democrats stopped talking about the alleged "GOP's war on women" in order to shift their focus onto student loans and the youth vote? It appears that might be the case. Watch President Obama tell a group of students to "Google" a GOP member of the House HERE.  

READ THIS  

'Rumors Of War III' - Tonight  

Do Islamic extremists still pose a mortal threat to the United States? That is the question that will be addressed tonight when the third installment in the "Rumors of War" documentary series debuts tonight on GBTV. Watch a preview HERE.   

READ THIS  

Beck After Black-On-White Attacks: 'Where's Sharpton?'  

People have been wondering why the media has not been covering the spate of violent beatings that appear to be retribution for the Trayvon Martin killing. Glenn Beck is also asking why Al Sharpton is missing in action. Watch him discuss HERE.   

READ THIS   

What Really Happens When You Swallow Your Gum?  

Your parents, teachers and friends all had theories about what happens to chewing gum when you swallow it. FINALLY, there is scientific evidence to explain what happens when we ingest gum. Learn the somewhat disgusting details HERE.   

READ THIS  

VIDEO: See The 'Impossible Shot Of The Year' (So Far) WATCH THIS

Dear Friend of FAIR (and America):

Just back from the Supreme Court steps and the scene there is both chaotic and invigorating. As is clear from the oral arguments in U.S. v. Arizona, the years of effort we've put into re-igniting a state role in U.S. immigration law enforcement are paying off.

Building on the favorable decision last year involving Arizona's "E-verify" mandate, many justices today were skeptical of the Obama Administration's arguments by the Solicitor General that Arizona's SB1070 is unconstitutional. Even Justice Sotomayor conceded that on the most volatile provision - the one requiring Arizona police to obtain legal status verification under certain circumstances - the Administration's arguments "weren't selling very well."

It appears to me that some of SB1070's most powerful provisions are likely to survive this Supreme Court review. We have much more on these arguments (today's arguments) on our website.

This is huge. Thanks to your support, FAIR and our legal affiliate IRLI have been able to carry on a long-term battle to ensure an effective immigration control framework for America - a framework that includes a strong, helping hand from affected states. Nothing is more important than forging the structure while keeping on the pressure. You have my word that we will continue to fight the FAIR fight for true immigration reform in the best interests of Americans, like yourself.

But there is much more to be done. Please consider standing by FAIR once again. We are proud of all we've done to support Arizona and all we plan to do. I encourage you to make a donation today. Any amount will help us in building on this success and moving forward with the enormous demands facing our small team of experts to deliver the expertise that "slays the dragon" opposing us every day. I know I can count on you.

My sincere thanks,

Dan Stein, President

Today's Headlines: Wednesday, April 25, 2012  

Hillary Clinton Says She's Running for President -- of Malta

Social Security Faces Unfunded Liability of $8.6T, or $73,167.83 Per Household

Interior Secretary: 'Not Even Harry Potter' Can Bring Down Gas Prices 

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State Senator: Arizona Immigration Bill Makes Latinos Targets of Criminals

Obama Again Reminds Voters He and First Lady 'Didn't Come From Wealthy Families'

Hoyer: Middle Class is Paying Price for Bush Administration, 'Where Much Was Spent and Little Was Paid For'

CAIR Sues U.S. Gov't Over Intrusive Religious Questioning - 'Psychological Torture' -- at Northern Border

Interior Secretary: 'Not Even Harry Potter' Can Bring Down Gas Prices

U.N. Chief Calls for Universal Access to Abortion and Contraception for Teen Girls

Romney Sweeps 5 More Primaries; 'A Better America Begins Tonight'

EEOC Says Transgenders Are Protected from Workplace Discrimination

Int'l Olympic Committee Urged to Honor Israeli Athletes Murdered 40 Years Ago

UNESCO Gives Saudi King a Medal for Promoting 'Dialogue and Peace'

Does Comedy Central Have a Right to Freedom of Speech?
By Terence P. Jeffrey
On Capitol Hill last week, several congressmen and senators held a forum to draw attention to their efforts to ratify a constitutional amendment that - at a minimum - strips corporations of freedom of speech. This is no joke.

Those Cheapened Pulitzer 'Prizes'
By L. Brent Bozell III
The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes looked less like an excellence-in-media competition and more like an exercise in leftist self-affirmation. No prize established this more strongly than the coveted National Reporting prize going to -- The Huffington Post!

Conservative Consumers: Stand Your Ground
By Michelle Malkin
Conservative consumers need to get informed, get active and stand their ground against free speech-squelching progressive activists who have demonized the American Legislative Exchange Council. This isn't just a battle over ALEC. It's a war against the left's shakedown artists taking aim at our freedoms of speech and association.

NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:

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In Liberty,

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Pennsylvania State Director

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Foundation

"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify." --Alexander Hamilton

Editorial Exegesis

Obama's October surprise is already on the table

"Re-electing President Obama is really important to President Obama, which isn't news. What is news are the out-of-liberal-character acts that his Administration is committing to serve this political goal. ... ObamaCare slashes about $145 billion from Medicare Advantage, the program that allows one of four seniors to escape the traditional entitlement and choose commercial plans. ... Medicare's budget counters estimate that ObamaCare's cuts in the Advantage program will result in enrollment falling by half. The cuts were scheduled to begin this year. ... So in November 2010 Mr. Obama's Medicare team announced a nationwide Medicare Advantage 'demonstration project' that would test if paying insurers bonus subsidies would improve quality over the next two years. Lo and behold, according to a new investigation by the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, the $8.35 billion pilot program is just enough to reverse 71% of the Advantage cuts that would have hit seniors in the run-up to November. And behold again, the demonstration project turns into a pumpkin in 2013. ... [M]r. Obama's Health and Human Services Department is allowed to spend unlimited taxpayer dollars as long it claims the money is going to 'demonstration projects' to fine-tune Medicare Advantage. The real game here is purely political -- to give a program that is popular with seniors a temporary reprieve past Election Day. ... Given the pre-election timing of this short-term Medicare Advantage pardon, the Federal Election Commission should bill HHS for giving Mr. Obama's campaign what amounts to an $8.35 billion re-election contribution." --The Wall Street Journal 

Upright

"If Obama can cobble together disaffected young people, greens, women, minorities and the poor ... then massive debt and deficits, high unemployment, sluggish growth and spiraling gas prices won't decide the election. Lots of presidential candidates have run by identifying such enemies of the people, rather than debating the general state of the nation -- sometimes successfully, sometimes not. But the problem with an us/them strategy is not just winning an election, but trying to put back together what was torn asunder." --historian Victor Davis Hanson

"The Pew Hispanic Center has a new report out finding that the growth in the Mexican immigrant population has stopped, and the total number has even declined a little. This was caused by the number of new arrivals (mostly illegal) in 2005-2010 dropping by half to about 1.4 million, while the number going home doubled, to just under 1.4 million. ... [M]ost Mexicans who've left have done so on their own. What's more, Pew estimates that those returnees took 100,000 American-born children with them. In other words, attrition works. But if illegal immigrants are going home on their own, why do we need an amnesty?" --columnist Mark Krikorian

"The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes looked less like an excellence-in-media competition and more like an exercise in leftist self-affirmation. No prize established this more strongly than the coveted National Reporting prize going to ... The Huffington Post. ... The prizewinner, 'senior military correspondent' David Wood, has been at The Huffington Post for about a year. He won the Pulitzer by reporting on the struggles of veterans and their families. It's a worthy subject but also something pretty much every other media outlet has tried to cover over the last 10 years. There's nothing here worthy of a National Reporting prize. What the Pulitzer Prize judges are doing is exactly what the Obama White House did right from the start -- mainstreaming the Huffington Post. ... A Pulitzer seals the liberal deal." --columnist L. Brent Bozell

Insight

"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual." --economist Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

The Demo-gogues

Double down: "I want clean energy to happen here in the United States. I want advanced batteries made here in the Unites States. I want electric cars made here in the United States. I want solar and wind power made here in the United States. We've been subsidizing oil companies with taxpayer giveaways for about a hundred years now. It's time to double down on clean energy that's never been more promising." --Barack Obama

Begging: "I gotta say to the women out there, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat or Independent, if you're a self-respecting human being, please vote for President Obama. And to the men who care about women, do the same thing." --Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

Pot and kettle: "[Republicans] continue to go down a path of asking middle income and lower income people to pay the price for the fiscal irresponsibility that was pursued in the last decade under the Bush administration, where much was spent and little was paid for." --House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

Poor Obama: "The fact is this president has been so respectful of the Republicans in Congress. He has given them every opportunity for the executive and the legislative branch to work together, to have a solution that has bi-partisan support. He's been criticized by some for taking the time that it takes to find out that they're never going to give him a break, which is a compromise." --House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Blame game: "The Republicans have fully embraced extremism and they have brought in two years almost no jobs legislation to this floor and not worked with the president on any legislation to help make sure that we can move the economy forward because their number one goal is political and that's to defeat Barack Obama." --DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) (Republicans brought at least 15 "jobs" bills to the floor.)

And boy is change ugly: "When you decide to support a candidate named Barack Hussein Obama, you know the odds are not necessarily in your favor. ... We knew it wasn't going to be easy. We knew the changes that we believed in wouldn't necessarily come quickly, but we understood that if we were determined that we could overcome any obstacle, that we could beat any challenge. And in just three years, because of what you did in 2008, we've begun to see what change looks like. We've begun to see it." --Barack Obama

Dezinformatsia

Race bait: "[Obama] now has a specific record of governing. A record that, I contend, because of his race will be held to a much higher standard than it would have been for a white incumbent." --MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry

Say what? "[T]he lowest price in the last six years, the nadir of gas prices at the pump, was the day of this president's inauguration in 2009. There has to be some connection between that being the least busy political moment of a president's career, where you're not going to -- you're not gonna hurt them, you're not gonna harm him that way, and the price of gas. There has to be an almost deliberate or at least a side-effect quality to that. There must be." --repeatedly ousted anchorman Keith Olbermann

Understatement of the century: "Many critics view The Times as constitutionally unable to address the election in an unbiased fashion. Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama's election in 2008." --New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane

Warmism: "A number of America's TV meteorologists and other broadcast weatherpersons have been accused by peer-reviewed climate scientists either of being greatly uninformed about the science of the basics of manmade global warming, or, at the very least, of shying away from any mention of it during broadcasts for fear of losing ratings by driving their audience away with worrisome news. Instead, complain these scientists, U.S. TV weather journalists, feeling the need to provide some explanation for the unusual weather, often escape into a simplistic nearest-cause answer, blaming the extreme weather on 'the jet stream,' while avoiding the science that connects the jet stream's behavior to manmade global warming ... as well as ignoring other larger global patterns that also project such extremes." --ABC's Bill Blakemore

Questions no one is asking: "Does America need an Arab Spring?" --New York Times foreign-policy columnist Thomas Friedman

Newspulper Headlines:

Rejected Obama Re-Election Slogans: "The Democrats Finally Give In to Despair" --DailyCaller.com

Shortest Books Ever Written: "McGurn: The 'Likable' Barack Obama" --The Wall Street Journal

Longest Books Ever Written: "How Obama Dropped the Ball" --NationalJournal.com

Breaking News From 2009: "Barack Obama's Re-Election Bid Is Already in Deep Trouble" --Daily Mail website (London)

More Bad News for Obama: "Saved From the Dinner Table: Activists Rescue More Than 500 Caged Dogs Destined for Restaurants in China" --Daily Mail (London)

Dog Bites Obama -- Now That Would Be News: "Obama Bites Dog" --DailyCaller.com

Bottom Story of the Day: "Poll: Obamacare Still Very Unpopular" --Washington Examiner website

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

Village Idiots

Non Compos Mentis: "[W]e do know that the country has been swinging, you know, in terms of the polarization on the Right to incredible kind of fundamentalist situation where you have people like -- we talked about Rick Santorum -- where, where actually they are virtually contradicting all the constitutional principles in their rhetoric. And so you say, 'Well look, okay, you can believe that, but you cannot equate that with this Constitution. That's not an interpretation issue. It means that you did not read the Constitution, and indeed you are anti-American.' I am very pro-American in the sense of a constitutional America, and I'm very pro-American in terms of a diverse America and one where we do reach out and understand that to be too mono-cultural is to limit ourselves and create the insecurity that we're currently facing." --actor Sean Penn

Explanations: "[The Tea Party] understood that people were sitting on a white hot stove out there, and if Democrats weren't gonna point at the financial elites, they were gonna point at the government elites. Somebody gotta get blamed [sic], and part of the problem with the president was by being so bipartisan and trying to not -- trying to be one country about everything, he let his opponents set him up." --Occupy Wall Street spokesperson Van Jones

Comparisons: "A lot of Republicans in Congress want to cooperate [on immigration reform], know better, but they are in the thralls of this reign of terror from the far right that has dragged this party to the right." --Obama senior adviser David Axelrod apparently comparing the Tea Party to French Reign of Terror figure Maximilien Robespierre

Free speech: "There's a difference between free speech and a campaign to deny the climate science with the goal of undermining international action on climate change. However, there's also responsibility that goes with freedom of speech -- which is based around honesty and transparency. Freedom of speech does not apply to misinformation and propaganda." --Ec0-group Greenpeace.org, seeking to deny free speech to "deniers"

Left-theology: "'Mother Earth' as a common cultural expression is supposed to mean the way in which the biosphere is the giver and sustainer of life. But, calling the earth by a female metaphor reveals how much the earth is subject to actions and policies that exploit rather than protect. There's a kind of 'war on women' that applies to the planet too." --leftists 'theologian' Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Tolerance: "We know who the active denialists are -- not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let's start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let's make them pay. Let's let their houses burn. Let's swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let's force them to bear the cost of rising food prices. They broke the climate." --climate alarmist Steve Zwick

Short Cuts

"CBS News reports that Greg Stokes, one of the agents fired in the Colombia prostitution scandal, 'was recently listed on the internet as the supervisor of the Canine Training Section of the Secret Service.' We hear they once asked Stokes to double as the president's food taster, but he had to turn down the assignment because it would be a conflict of interest." --Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto

"President Obama reacted angrily when asked about the Secret Service hotel scandal on Thursday. It presents him with a political problem. When his own bodyguards are refusing to pay their hookers how can he accuse the Republicans of waging war on women?" --comedian Argus Hamilton

"President Obama is gearing up for his presidential campaign. He's creating a new series of ads. The first ad boasts 'just last week my Secret Service created jobs for 11 Colombian women.'" --comedian Conan O'Brien

"During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.' So to be fair, he wants to take your silverware and spread it around." --Fred Thompson

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team

 New articles published for 04/25/2012

Formerly Catholic Notre Dame and far Left attack Bishop of Peoria for teaching Catholic doctrine

Apr 25, 2012 06:13 am | Coach Collins

By Kevin "Coach" Collins

The battle for the survival of the Catholic Church in America is heating up and the faculty at the formerly Catholic University of Notre Dame has lined up on the side of those who would keep Roman Catholic Bishops from teaching Church doctrine.

On April 14, Daniel Jenky the Catholic Bishop of Peoria Illinois delivered a homily that has stirred the resentment of Americans for Separation of Church and State, (ASCS) a rabidly leftist group who would extinguish 1st Amendment freedom of speech rights for Catholic priests.

Not content to merely complain about Bishop Jenky's comparison of Barack Obama Hitler and Stalin, ASCS has asked the Internal Revenue Service to take away the Diocese Peoria's tax exempt status.   

Speaking in his own church, Bishop Jenky said, "Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state ... Continue Reading:Formerly Catholic Notre Dame and far Left attack Bishop of Peoria for teaching Catholic doctrine

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American Minute April 24

Apr 24, 2012 06:13 pm | Coach Collins

By Bill Federer, staff writer

  Originally for legislators to do research, it began APRIL 24, 1800, with a $5,000 grant from Congress. The British set fire to it during the War of 1812, burning hundreds books.
Thomas Jefferson provided over 6,400 volumes to restock it.
The Library of Congress relocated to its present site in 1897 and is now the largest library in the world with over 118 million items on more than 500 miles of shelves.
The Library of Congress' Rare Book Division has 1,470 Bibles dating from the beginning of printing, including one of three existing copies of the original 15th Century Gutenberg Bible on vellum.
Inscribed on the walls of the Library of Congress are the verses:
"The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not" (John 1:5);
"Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and withall thy getting, get understanding" (Proverbs 4:7);
"What doth the ... Continue Reading:American Minute April 24

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RINO Orrin Hatch forced into first ever primary; Lugar's situation worsening

Apr 24, 2012 01:00 pm | Coach Collins

by Doug Book,  staff writer

After 6 terms in the United States senate, long time RINO Orrin Hatch will face his first primary battle after failing to attain the necessary 60% of delegate votes at Saturday's Utah Republican convention. After falling 32 votes short of the required total on the final ballot, Hatch will take on conservative Republican Dan Liljenquist on June 26th.

In 2010 Hatch watched nervously as Utah colleague Robert Bennett was removed from the Senate in his own primary contest, a victim of having too often sold-out the conservative Republican base. Concerned with mounting criticism of his own predilection for confirming Marxists to the Supreme Court from his seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, his perpetual votes to raise the debt ceiling and his vote in favor of TARP, Hatch has spent much of the past 3 years feigning the role of dedicated conservative and champion of the right.

He voted against ... Continue Reading:RINO Orrin Hatch forced into first ever primary; Lugar's situation worsening

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The United Nation's Useless Genocide Trials 

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 08:06 PM PDT

Last year I completed a pamphlet on 10 Reasons to Abolish the UN for the Freedom Center, which you can find at its online bookstore that explores the reasons why the United Nations is a threat to the United States and to freedom around the world. You can learn more about the pamphlet from this video and this excerpt below that discusses the failures of the UN not only at preventing genocide, but at trying those responsible.



How effective is the United Nations at tackling genocide? When it happens or is about to happen, its peacekeeping forces usually find a good reason to be somewhere else. And the Security Council and General Assembly find some pressing Israeli matter to concentrate on. But what about after the fact?

The United Nations boasts of leading the charge against genocide through its tribunals. Warlords and generals who commit mass murder are supposed to fear the wrath of the international community. But how much wrath is there to fear?   

Thirty years ago, the Khmer Rouge Communist Party carried out one of the bloodiest reigns of terror in the region causing the deaths of millions.

During the Cambodian Genocide, the UN Security Council did not issue a single resolution on it. But it did find time to issue a string of resolutions on Israel. While millions were dying, the UN occupied itself with condemning the Israeli expulsion of the Sharia judge of Hebron and the United States for allowing former members of the Rhodesian government to enter the country.

It was not UN action, but the Vietnamese invasion that finally put an end to the worst of the terror. But the United Nations, after being approached by the Cambodian government nearly two decades later, finally got down to the task of trying some of those involved for genocide.

That was 1997. An agreement to conduct the actual trials was signed six years later. Another three years after that, actual judges were finally approved to preside over the tribunal. It had taken nine years just to get to this point.

In 2007, the first indictment was issued against Pol Pot's second in command. Nuon Chea had been 70 when the UN was first approached. He was now almost 80. Today he is 84 and the trial is still going on. The odds are very good that he will die before it is all over.

So far the only man convicted of anything in the proceedings, whose origins date back to the 90's and have budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, is Kaing Guek Eav who ran the Tuol Sleng prison.

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal could hardly have sent a louder message of UN impotence in the face of genocide, demonstrating that even when there was no risk and the defendants were out of power-their trial would still become nothing more than another UN employment and fundraising opportunity. A forum for its officials to prattle about justice and law, while practicing it as little as possible.

Is the Khmer Rouge Tribunal exceptionally incompetent? The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been going on for 18 years. Slobodan Milosevic, its key defendant, died after being on trial for 5 years. Possibly of boredom. So did 16 other defendants. It might be reasonable to conclude that any court where defendants routinely die before the end owes a little too much to Kafka.  

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has been going on for 17 years. In 1998, Resolution 1165 urged "the organs of the International Tribunal for Rwanda actively to continue their efforts to increase further the efficiency of the work of the International Tribunal in their respective areas" and mentioned "an exceptional measure to enable the third Trial Chamber to begin to function at the earliest possible date." 

7 years later, citing a long string of previous resolutions, Resolution 1503, recalled and reaffirmed "in the strongest terms" a deadline to end all investigations in 2004, to end all activities at first instance in 2008 and to shut down by 2010. It's 2011 and the tribunal is still going strong. The latest deadline is 2014. Or 20 years after the actual genocide took place.

After 17 years, only 38 convictions have been completed with no appeal. That isn't even 2 convictions per year. 19 more cases are still pending appeal. 8 were acquitted. 10 cases are still going on.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has 25 judges and only 92 defendants over the course of 17 years. That's not even four defendants to a judge for a caseload stretching over nearly two decades. This may make the Tribunal the least efficient justice system in all of human history. The biennial budget for the tribunal is around 250 million dollars with nearly 700 posts. This is actually a reduction, as there used to be well over a 1000 posts. The total cost of the whole affair has long ago run into the billions. In 2005, some 15 million dollars alone was spent on the defense teams. There are entire countries with a smaller judicial budget than that. Half of Africa could have been fed with the money spent on the tribunal.

While the United States and its victorious allies had managed to begin the Nuremberg Trials less than half a year after the war in Europe, and end it on the next year... the United Nations was not able to act on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal without the consent of the Cambodian government almost two decades after the fact. And even then it set into motion, a long series of procedures that have been going on in one form or another for 14 years.

There is no comparison between the effectiveness of the United States and the United Nations approach in punishing genocide. The Nuremberg Trials sent a message. The Rwanda Tribunal and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal have sent a contrary one. It does not take a scholar of international law to determine which one tyrants fear the most.

And even the convictions are often farcical. Vincent Rutaganira was charged on eight counts, including genocide, extermination and murder. He pleaded guilty to one count of a Crime against Humanity, Extermination as an Accomplice by Omission. After three years of assorted hearings, it was decided that due to his "good behavior" and "advanced age of 60"-- that he should be released in three years time. And he was.

If such a short sentence for Crimes against Humanity from a billion dollar genocide tribunal was not ridiculous enough, the case notes make it clear that Vincent should probably never have been tried at all. Rather than being tried for perpetrating genocide, he was charged with failing to prevent it. A number of Tutsi survivors however testified that he had saved their lives, given them shelter and false identity cards.

The tribunal had arrested the Hutu version of Oskar Schindler and dragged him through the system and imprisoned him on what basis? For failing to prevent the massacres. And what was he supposed to have done?

According to the judgment, "the Chamber finds that the Accused had the power to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of the secteur to initiate and conduct discussions on the tragic events that were taking place in his secteur, in order to prevent participation in the massacres that occurred at the church, at least, by civilians."

With the conclusion being that, "Vincent Rutaganira's intervention saved some people who had been targeted by attackers. It can be inferred from such a finding that a similar intervention by the Accused against some civilians who participated in the attacks on Mubuga church would have had the same decisive effect in sparing human lives." Vincent's very attempts to save lives were used to indict him for not averting larger massacres.

Yet if a failure to prevent genocide is a cause for indictment, then why has the entire UN not been indicted?



(The full pamphlet 10 Reasons to Abolish the United Nations is available at the Freedom Center)

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 April 25, 2012

On Wednesday's Program  

GBTV TONIGHT: Can't miss documentary: Rumors of War III! Obama declares the War on Terror over while getting cozy with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Yeah, that's a major problem. TONIGHT live at 7pm ET, the truth you are not getting anywhere else - GBTV's latest documentary, Rumors of War III: Target U.S. Invite your friends and family over to watch one of the bravest hours in television today. Experts will join Glenn to answer your questions during the LIVE post-show directly following the premiere. Get all the details on how to watch.

Real News: Eight Supreme Court Justices will begin hearing arguments on the Arizona immigration law, known as SB 1070. Does AZ have the right to enforce federal immigration laws? Tonight on Real News from The Blaze we will discuss what's at stake in this case. Watch tonight - live at 6pm or on demand.

$5t Obama hilariously complains about debt
Yesterday, President Obama gave a speech to college students explaining that he knows what it's like to have college debt. Really, President Obama? You think you need to remind Americans that you "know what it's like" to have a lot of debt? Really? You thought your student loans were bad...how about $5 trillion dollars!   

Calling all conservatives - Stand YOUR ground: Michelle Malkin is challenging every conservative consumer to stand up to the progressive mobs who are using threats & intimidation to silence conservative voices. Check out her epic email confrontations with caving corporations in her must read article HERE.

War on Terror is over?
Hey! Great news from the Obama administration: the war on terror is over! Here's the translation: terrorists are still out there, we just think we can talk them into submission. That's why we're meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood all the time! Glenn reacts to yet another craptastic policy from Obama on radio today.

Which six people connected to White House have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?
On radio today, Glenn interviewed Frank Gaffney about the rise of radical Islam and the threat it poses to the United States. More importantly, he discussed the legal implications that any politicians and journalists could face if they were found to have knowledge of treason against the United States. WATCH.

Race, class warfare, and the American Spring
Buck Sexton, author of the new e-book  Occupy: American Spring and an editor for The Blaze, stopped by the radio show this morning to discuss the growing radicalism here in America. Check out the interview for details on  his investigation into "Occupy Wall Street" - and don't miss Sexton on tonight's post-show for Rumors of War III: Target US!  

Is May 1st the day Occupy wreaks havoc?
It is the day many on the left are targeting as the official kick off of the American Spring. VH1 has moved a documentary commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots back a few days in order to line the two up. Will the American Spring start off huge? Will it flounder? Glenn isn't sure - but he is sure how it ends.

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