“There is a sacred trust between a country and its leaders.” ——– Judge Airhead
Not anymore. Stop living in the late 1700’s.
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“When a leader violates that trust … the people have the inalienable right to remove him” —- Judge Airhead
No. The Declaration of Independence spells out our “certain unalienable Rights” which are, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ” Unalienable means undeniable or inherent. Yes, it also talks about getting rid of a government which violates these unalienable rights. Bit impeachment is not an “inherent” right … not along the lines of life, liberty, and happiness ….. it’s more a process that we can pursue under the right circumstances. The actual spelled out rights, life-liberty-happiness have no restrictions or qualifiers whatsoever.
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“You may agree or disagree with what I’m about to say; it’s not meant to be political.” ——– Judge Airhead
NOT political??? Are you fucking kidding me??? You lying sack of neocon manure. You’re gonna fuckin LIE to my face … and then tell me you’re not lying??? Go fuck a duck, you cumdumpster.
I stopped listening at that point. If you don’t wanna listen to her bullshit, you can quick read it in the next post.
Stucky
June 17, 2014 1:25 pm
Judge Cumdumpster’s rant ….
There is a sacred trust between a country and its leader, between a president and the people he leads. When a leader violates that trust, the people from whom he derives his power have the inalienable right to remove him.
You may agree or disagree with what I’m about to say; it’s not meant to be political.
Whatever the context, when you let things slide – one after another – the foundation deteriorates. Even water sliding down a rock begins to wear at it and break it down. And like that rock, our very existence is in jeopardy. Barack Obama has put us in that jeopardy yet again.
The latest: exchanging a man whose own platoon soldiers call a “deserter,” who voluntarily left his unit during combat – in itself a death-eligible crime – for five of the worst Taliban terrorists in Gitmo.
Obama sends out old faithful Susan Rice to say this of Bowe Bergdahl:
“He served the United States with honor and distinction.”
What? Even the White House had to re-spin that.
Now Susan, isn’t English your first language? Weren’t you briefed on what to say? And not for nothing, don’t you know that those Sunday morning talk shows are a danger zone for you? But then again, that despicable video lie got you moved up to national security adviser.
And ironically, the reason for the trade:
“What we did was ensure that as always the United States doesn’t leave a man or a woman on the battlefield.”
Pray tell, Susan, is it OK to leave some behind?
The trade surprised even Congress:
“It comes with some surprise and dismay that the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law.”
And that’s a Democrat!
Enter our president:
“We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about and we saw an opportunity and we seized it, and I make no apologies for that.”
But when key senators didn’t buy the “ill” excuse, a new narrative emerged: the Taliban would kill Bergdahl if you followed U.S. law and told Congress. Seriously?
Mr. President, my sources tell me you knew Bergdahl’s location for months. Why didn’t you send in SEAL Team 6? It would have made another great photo op. Why didn’t you send in those drones? Could it be, Mr. President, he was your excuse to release 5 Taliban terrorists from Gitmo? Those five men, the worst of the worst. Some wanted by the U.N. for mass murders, killing thousands, al Qaeda-connected, these are the guys who behead their enemies, including children. They hate America and everything we stand for. And you release them – knowing many return to the battlefield – because Arab country Qatar assured you that they do not pose a threat to us? And you’re good with that? You buy it? You think 12 years in Gitmo has softened their resolve to kill us?
Mr. President, you didn’t just release them, you unleashed them, and you and you alone will be responsible for the hell that will be unleashed on us. You have teed us up for death and destruction. And don’t give me this hogwash that they are prisoners of war who have to be freed when we leave Afghanistan. They are not prisoners of war. The Taliban is not a country. They are enemy combatants who can be held indefinitely and should have been tried for their crimes. And as much as you want to take terms like “Islamic extremists” and “jihad” out of our lexicon, the War on Terror is far from over.
You didn’t have to release them. And I don’t give a damn whether you try them at Gitmo, in a military tribunal or in a federal court. United States attorneys have prosecuted these dirt bags and convicted them time and again.
Here’s the bottom line: you negotiated with terrorists. You broke the very law that you signed. You have shown terrorists that they can win concessions by kidnapping Americans. In the history of this country we have never traded mass murderers for a deserter.
My father and grandfather fought in World War II. Ironically, you go to Normandy 70 years later – where my grandfather was injured – and make like you respect the military.
You call yourself a commander-in-chief. But what commander-in-chief doesn’t support a surge, but sends in 40,000 troops anyway? What commander-in-chief reduces benefits to to those in the military? Closes the Veterans War Memorial? Reduces the army to pre-World War II levels? Knowingly allows veterans to die in our hospitals, while replenishing the enemy in a time of war?
Mr. President: you are destroying this country. You have diminished us on the world stage. You have trampled on the very laws you swore to uphold. You are not a true commander-in-chief. We’ve impeached a president for lying about sex with an intern. Your actions, far more egregious, demand impeachment.
Winston
June 17, 2014 3:40 pm
Stucky
What a bunch of bullshit. She has not been anyone’s cumdunpster since the 90s. My God the makeup is holding her together like some “Joan Rivers wannabe”
We need to send her to DC and confront Obummer without her makeup. It will scare the bitch right out of him.
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June 17, 2014 4:35 pm
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June 17, 2014 4:37 pm
IN YOUR FACE!
Where the hell does Dear Leader get the audacity to honor illegals, let alone illegal activists in the White House today…hmm? Haven’t you had your fill of this entity in an empty suit yet? How much longer can this nation take the destruction that BHO has done and is doing daily? Will our nation survive his illegal actions before he leaves office?
Champion of change my rear-end! Dishonorable is more like it! I guess you can tell I’m hot under the collar, so I’ll get to the point with this report:
Over the past several years, Barack Obama and his administration have worked diligently to demonize, attack, smear, and in some cases prosecute those individuals and groups deemed to be his political enemies. Federal agencies and the White House itself targeted American citizens who the President of the United States thought would get in the way of his agenda. Now, as if to add insult to injury, this same president is set to do the unconscionable.
As the nation sees a never-ending stream of illegals crossing our southern border, aided and abetted by Obama officials who are sending them in droves to other states and giving them attorneys rather than sending them back home, Barack Obama will honor illegal aliens at the White House today. The Hill reports on this honor being bestowed on 10 young adults who are in this country due to the nation’s laws being broken. Each qualified for the program to defer deportation actions implemented by Obama via yet another abuse of executive orders.
Each person has qualified for the government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, which delays removal proceedings against them as long as they meet certain guidelines.
They will be honored as “Champions of Change,” the White House said in a statement Monday because they “serve as success stories and role models in their academic and professional spheres.”
They emigrated from Mexico, Colombia, Morocco, India, Taiwan and the Philippines and many of them work in professions related to immigration policy or have helped launch initiatives that promote reform.
The Daily Caller adds that two of those illegal aliens being honored work with the group Mi Familia Vota Education Fund.
Fernanda Zaragoza-Gomez, 19, a Colorado Mi Familia Vota canvasser, and Steven Arteaga Rodriguez, a Texas activist with the group, are both “DREAMers” who began their activism careers after applying for and gaining Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Obama to provide living and working status for undocumented young immigrants.
The activist group, which has offices in six states, works for the goal of “expanding the electorate” through “direct, sustainable citizenship, voter registration, census education, GOTV and issue organizing in key states.”
Barack Obama recently stated that the future of America is dependent upon those who are here illegally, or as he refers to them DREAMers. So, the president who is supposed to be represent and stand for the American people spends time, resources, and government offices to attack Americans, yet goes to great lengths to protect and hold up on a pedestal people who are here illegally. Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio icon, perhaps has the best hypothesis as to why Obama would make such a statement.
Excuse me? I want to make sure that I understand this. Obama’s at Worcester Tech, and he is speaking for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee. It’s fundraiser stuff. And he said, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids.” Mr. Snerdley, for those who do not know, what are DREAM kids? What are we talking about here? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Mmm-hmm.
Children brought here illegal from other countries who are allowed to stay as part of the DREAM Act. With total amnesty. All right, what is the DREAM Act? (interruption) But our future? Obama is saying our future rests on the success of these kids. What the hell? Now, nothing against these kids, but we have to define terms here. When Obama says, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids,” he’s not talking about America, folks.
He’s not talking about Main Street. He’s not talking about the United States. He’s talking about the Democrat Party. Make no mistake. This is at a Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at Worcester Tech in Massachusetts. When he says, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids,” he says, “These are our future voters. We want ‘em to succeed. We want ‘em to get here; we want ‘em to stay here.”
Meanwhile, the flood of illegals over our southern border continues with reports of them using ‘rehearsed answers’ to gain entry. Obama is using our military, border patrol agents, and tax dollars to accommodate and assist the efforts of these illegals and honoring illegals for their efforts.
It’s hard to pick, but I’ll go with dumbya. At least Obama can pronounce nuclear.
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The Most Destructive Presidencies in U.S. History: George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama
by Charles Hugh Smith • June 17, 2014
Powers once granted are almost impossible to take back.
When historians speak of failed presidencies or weak presidencies, they are typically referring to presidencies characterized by uneven leadership, petty corruption by self-serving cronies or in extreme cases such as the Nixon presidency, abuses of executive power.
But weak or failed presidencies are not destructive to the rule of law and the foundations of the nation. The failed president leaves office and the basic structure of the nation continues: the rule of law, the balance of powers and a free-market economy.
A destructive president weakens or corrupts these core structures in favor of executive-branch powers, and passes these unconstitutional powers to the next executive for further expansion.
The Bush and Obama presidencies have effectively dismantled the rule of law and the Constitution by invoking essentially unlimited executive powers in the name of “national security:” we the citizens of the U.S. can now be accused of violating secret laws, be indicted in secret, tried in secret and sentenced to life in prison based on evidence fabricated in secret, i.e. declaring unclassified documents classified after the fact to incriminate and imprison whistleblowers.
How is this any different from totalitarian fascist regimes?
This is absolutely contrary to basic civil liberties defined by the Constitution. Who benefits from this destruction of fundamental civil liberties? (Always start by asking cui bono–to whose benefit?)
The Big Lie is that this destruction of the foundations of the rule of law and civil liberties is for our own good: if the President and the National Security State don’t grab all these powers and deprive you of your constitutional rights, bad guys will destroy the nation.
This is of course the same old tired justification used by dictators and despots everywhere, and it is always a lie. The truth that must be hidden is that this wholesale expansion of executive powers at the expense of civil liberties, democracy, the rule of law and the balance of powers benefits the executive branch.
Every abuse of the law is now declared legal by executive order. Anyone questioning the legality of extra-legal abuses of power is told “this is legal because it was authorized by the President.” In other words, executive power is now unquestioned and cannot be challenged.
For a variety of unsavory reasons, the Supreme Court has enabled this expansion of essentially unlimited executive power. Congress has also rubber-stamped it as part of The Global War on Terror (GWOT), the unlimited war that justifies unlimited executive powers, unlimited secrecy and unlimited expansion of the National Security State, the Deep State that is impervious to changes in electoral government.
Presidents Bush and Obama have directed this expansion of the National Security State because it greatly enhances the power of the Presidency. This is how we get a president who is delighted to discover that he’s good at killing people remotely with drone strikes.
The expansion of secret programs and secret wars has engorged the Pentagon, the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., not just with funding but more importantly, with new powers granted by the executive branch and rubber-stamped by an impotent Congress and supine Supreme Court.
The president’s power is greatly enhanced by this expansion of the National Security State, and the self-serving “patriots” empowered by the essentially unlimited secrecy are free to do whatever they please under the umbrella of executive privilege.
True patriots attempting to defend basic constitutional rights are labeled terrorists by the phony patriots busy destroying the foundations of the nation. The Orwellian doublespeak is as unlimited as executive power: a citizen who releases unclassified material about the secret abuse of power can be accused of treason on the Kafkaesque basis that unclassified material can be considered classified if it exposes the abuse of executive power.
All of this is well-documented and has been in the public realm for years. There is nothing mysterious about the destruction of basic rights or the abrogation of the balance or power or the rule of law. It’s visible and painfully obvious to anyone who cares to read or watch a few interviews of whistleblowers who have been hounded and harassed by the Obama Administration.
For two examples of hundreds of articles and interviews, please read:
Senior NSA Executive: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002… In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance (washingtonsblog.com; I recommend the entire series of interviews)
“To me, there’s a psychology that’s not often written about: What happens when you have this much reach and power, and constraints of law and even policy simply fade into the woodwork.”
PBS Frontline Interview – Thomas Drake.
This destruction of the fundamental building blocks of the nation has been rubber-stamped by gutless Republicans and Democrats alike. Cowed by the threat of appearing “soft on terrorism,” left and right alike have scrambled to appear “tough on terrorism” by approving the wholesale transfer of power to the National Security State and the executive branch.
Of the dozens of books published on the abuses of executive power and the uncontrolled expansion of the National Security State, here are two worthy starting points:
The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
This destruction of the fundamental building blocks of the nation has been rubber-stamped by gutless Republicans and Democrats alike. Cowed by the threat of appearing “soft on terrorism,” left and right alike have scrambled to appear “tough on terrorism” by approving the wholesale transfer of power to the National Security State and the executive branch.
It is laughable to see so-called liberals and conservatives alike in Congress kow-tow to the National Security State while claiming they have effective oversight, even as the revelations of whistleblowers reveals them as clueless toadies with no real grasp of what is being done in the name of the American people they claim to represent.
Those abusing executive power in the Nixon administration knew they were breaking the law. Those abusing power in the Bush and Obama administrations simply declare their actions legal. In effect, any action taken by the president or the National Security State is legal in name if not in principle.
Powers once granted are almost impossible to take back. What president will give away essentially unlimited executive powers established as “law” by previous presidents? We don’t elect saints as presidents, we elect infinitely ambitious people desiring power. We should not be surprised that such people not only consolidate the power they inherit but actively seek more.
We should also not be surprised that all these power grabs by the executive branch and the National Security State are cloaked in secrecy, and that anyone who dares to reveal the power grabs and abuses of power to the public is declared a traitor and crucified.
A traitor to what? It’s a question every citizen should ask and answer for themselves.
This is a syndicated repost courtesy of oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith. To view original, click here.
flash
June 17, 2014 4:49 pm
a sacred trust the silly shrew sez’..LOL..must be an alternative dimension she speaks of..I’ll trust a bitch in a black robe as quick as one standing on a street corner covered in booger dust….the law…..ust another frrikkin racket for the oligarchy byt eh oligarchy.
Legalized fraud
Overturning centuries of English Common Law, false representation is now legal in the United States.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) won dismissal of a suit over $450 million in residential mortgage-backed securities, with a New York judge saying that the firms that bought the bonds should have done more research beforehand.
State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos dismissed the claims against Goldman Sachs today, saying the investors only reviewed data presented in offering documents for the securities and never asked to review files for the underlying loans.
“The true nature of the risk being assumed could, admittedly, have been ascertained from reviewing these loan files and plaintiffs never asked for them,” Ramos wrote.
In other words, it’s perfectly legal to present someone with a fraudulent document claiming to be selling them a pig in the poke, because if they don’t actually look in the sack to see that there is a dead rat, and not a live pig in there, it’s their own fault. This is another sign of the continued collapse of the rule of law in the USA.
Congratulations, Justice Ramos. You may have just destroyed the securitization market. Who in their right minds will ever purchase a loan security again? If you were going to review each and every loan and ascertain the risks involved, you would already be a mortgage bank.
Fortunately for Goldman Sachs, there should be enough con artists out there for the apex con artist to continue preying upon. But what sane and honest individual would ever choose to do business with them in light of their behavior here? And can you imagine if this standard were applied across the board? No one would ever dare to buy something in a box or order anything off the Internet ever again.
Indentured Servants , this is not a LAUGHING matter meathead. If this keeps going the it’s going China is going own Alaska and California. You had better get serious about life.Being fat ,drunk and stupid is no way to go through life according to ?
el Coyote
June 17, 2014 8:43 pm
Dean Wormer
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June 18, 2014 12:42 pm
Impeachment!
More bread and circuses to cover up our continuing, accelerating, destruction.
Question, with Dems holding a majority in the Senate, will BOTH halls of CONgress vote to impeach?
Magic 8 Ball says, “Doubtful, Outlook Cloudy.”
What a spectacular bit of drama impeachment would be. It would work to cover up today’s crimes, just as well as Clinton’s worked to cover up the evil he was doing (paid for by us in interest, opportunity and jobs).
I don’t know whom I hate more, Dems or NeoCon Repukelicans. Both want a Utopia that is hell on earth.
Misery for most of us seems to be a given no matter which philosophy you believe in.
“There is a sacred trust between a country and its leaders.” ——– Judge Airhead
Not anymore. Stop living in the late 1700’s.
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“When a leader violates that trust … the people have the inalienable right to remove him” —- Judge Airhead
No. The Declaration of Independence spells out our “certain unalienable Rights” which are, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ” Unalienable means undeniable or inherent. Yes, it also talks about getting rid of a government which violates these unalienable rights. Bit impeachment is not an “inherent” right … not along the lines of life, liberty, and happiness ….. it’s more a process that we can pursue under the right circumstances. The actual spelled out rights, life-liberty-happiness have no restrictions or qualifiers whatsoever.
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“You may agree or disagree with what I’m about to say; it’s not meant to be political.” ——– Judge Airhead
NOT political??? Are you fucking kidding me??? You lying sack of neocon manure. You’re gonna fuckin LIE to my face … and then tell me you’re not lying??? Go fuck a duck, you cumdumpster.
I stopped listening at that point. If you don’t wanna listen to her bullshit, you can quick read it in the next post.
Judge Cumdumpster’s rant ….
There is a sacred trust between a country and its leader, between a president and the people he leads. When a leader violates that trust, the people from whom he derives his power have the inalienable right to remove him.
You may agree or disagree with what I’m about to say; it’s not meant to be political.
Whatever the context, when you let things slide – one after another – the foundation deteriorates. Even water sliding down a rock begins to wear at it and break it down. And like that rock, our very existence is in jeopardy. Barack Obama has put us in that jeopardy yet again.
The latest: exchanging a man whose own platoon soldiers call a “deserter,” who voluntarily left his unit during combat – in itself a death-eligible crime – for five of the worst Taliban terrorists in Gitmo.
Obama sends out old faithful Susan Rice to say this of Bowe Bergdahl:
“He served the United States with honor and distinction.”
What? Even the White House had to re-spin that.
Now Susan, isn’t English your first language? Weren’t you briefed on what to say? And not for nothing, don’t you know that those Sunday morning talk shows are a danger zone for you? But then again, that despicable video lie got you moved up to national security adviser.
And ironically, the reason for the trade:
“What we did was ensure that as always the United States doesn’t leave a man or a woman on the battlefield.”
Pray tell, Susan, is it OK to leave some behind?
The trade surprised even Congress:
“It comes with some surprise and dismay that the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law.”
And that’s a Democrat!
Enter our president:
“We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about and we saw an opportunity and we seized it, and I make no apologies for that.”
But when key senators didn’t buy the “ill” excuse, a new narrative emerged: the Taliban would kill Bergdahl if you followed U.S. law and told Congress. Seriously?
Mr. President, my sources tell me you knew Bergdahl’s location for months. Why didn’t you send in SEAL Team 6? It would have made another great photo op. Why didn’t you send in those drones? Could it be, Mr. President, he was your excuse to release 5 Taliban terrorists from Gitmo? Those five men, the worst of the worst. Some wanted by the U.N. for mass murders, killing thousands, al Qaeda-connected, these are the guys who behead their enemies, including children. They hate America and everything we stand for. And you release them – knowing many return to the battlefield – because Arab country Qatar assured you that they do not pose a threat to us? And you’re good with that? You buy it? You think 12 years in Gitmo has softened their resolve to kill us?
Mr. President, you didn’t just release them, you unleashed them, and you and you alone will be responsible for the hell that will be unleashed on us. You have teed us up for death and destruction. And don’t give me this hogwash that they are prisoners of war who have to be freed when we leave Afghanistan. They are not prisoners of war. The Taliban is not a country. They are enemy combatants who can be held indefinitely and should have been tried for their crimes. And as much as you want to take terms like “Islamic extremists” and “jihad” out of our lexicon, the War on Terror is far from over.
You didn’t have to release them. And I don’t give a damn whether you try them at Gitmo, in a military tribunal or in a federal court. United States attorneys have prosecuted these dirt bags and convicted them time and again.
Here’s the bottom line: you negotiated with terrorists. You broke the very law that you signed. You have shown terrorists that they can win concessions by kidnapping Americans. In the history of this country we have never traded mass murderers for a deserter.
My father and grandfather fought in World War II. Ironically, you go to Normandy 70 years later – where my grandfather was injured – and make like you respect the military.
You call yourself a commander-in-chief. But what commander-in-chief doesn’t support a surge, but sends in 40,000 troops anyway? What commander-in-chief reduces benefits to to those in the military? Closes the Veterans War Memorial? Reduces the army to pre-World War II levels? Knowingly allows veterans to die in our hospitals, while replenishing the enemy in a time of war?
Mr. President: you are destroying this country. You have diminished us on the world stage. You have trampled on the very laws you swore to uphold. You are not a true commander-in-chief. We’ve impeached a president for lying about sex with an intern. Your actions, far more egregious, demand impeachment.
Stucky
What a bunch of bullshit. She has not been anyone’s cumdunpster since the 90s. My God the makeup is holding her together like some “Joan Rivers wannabe”
We need to send her to DC and confront Obummer without her makeup. It will scare the bitch right out of him.
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IN YOUR FACE!
Where the hell does Dear Leader get the audacity to honor illegals, let alone illegal activists in the White House today…hmm? Haven’t you had your fill of this entity in an empty suit yet? How much longer can this nation take the destruction that BHO has done and is doing daily? Will our nation survive his illegal actions before he leaves office?
Champion of change my rear-end! Dishonorable is more like it! I guess you can tell I’m hot under the collar, so I’ll get to the point with this report:
Over the past several years, Barack Obama and his administration have worked diligently to demonize, attack, smear, and in some cases prosecute those individuals and groups deemed to be his political enemies. Federal agencies and the White House itself targeted American citizens who the President of the United States thought would get in the way of his agenda. Now, as if to add insult to injury, this same president is set to do the unconscionable.
As the nation sees a never-ending stream of illegals crossing our southern border, aided and abetted by Obama officials who are sending them in droves to other states and giving them attorneys rather than sending them back home, Barack Obama will honor illegal aliens at the White House today. The Hill reports on this honor being bestowed on 10 young adults who are in this country due to the nation’s laws being broken. Each qualified for the program to defer deportation actions implemented by Obama via yet another abuse of executive orders.
Each person has qualified for the government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, which delays removal proceedings against them as long as they meet certain guidelines.
They will be honored as “Champions of Change,” the White House said in a statement Monday because they “serve as success stories and role models in their academic and professional spheres.”
They emigrated from Mexico, Colombia, Morocco, India, Taiwan and the Philippines and many of them work in professions related to immigration policy or have helped launch initiatives that promote reform.
The Daily Caller adds that two of those illegal aliens being honored work with the group Mi Familia Vota Education Fund.
Fernanda Zaragoza-Gomez, 19, a Colorado Mi Familia Vota canvasser, and Steven Arteaga Rodriguez, a Texas activist with the group, are both “DREAMers” who began their activism careers after applying for and gaining Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Obama to provide living and working status for undocumented young immigrants.
The activist group, which has offices in six states, works for the goal of “expanding the electorate” through “direct, sustainable citizenship, voter registration, census education, GOTV and issue organizing in key states.”
Barack Obama recently stated that the future of America is dependent upon those who are here illegally, or as he refers to them DREAMers. So, the president who is supposed to be represent and stand for the American people spends time, resources, and government offices to attack Americans, yet goes to great lengths to protect and hold up on a pedestal people who are here illegally. Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio icon, perhaps has the best hypothesis as to why Obama would make such a statement.
Excuse me? I want to make sure that I understand this. Obama’s at Worcester Tech, and he is speaking for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee. It’s fundraiser stuff. And he said, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids.” Mr. Snerdley, for those who do not know, what are DREAM kids? What are we talking about here? (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. (interruption) Mmm-hmm.
Children brought here illegal from other countries who are allowed to stay as part of the DREAM Act. With total amnesty. All right, what is the DREAM Act? (interruption) But our future? Obama is saying our future rests on the success of these kids. What the hell? Now, nothing against these kids, but we have to define terms here. When Obama says, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids,” he’s not talking about America, folks.
He’s not talking about Main Street. He’s not talking about the United States. He’s talking about the Democrat Party. Make no mistake. This is at a Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser at Worcester Tech in Massachusetts. When he says, “Our future rests on the success of DREAM kids,” he says, “These are our future voters. We want ‘em to succeed. We want ‘em to get here; we want ‘em to stay here.”
Meanwhile, the flood of illegals over our southern border continues with reports of them using ‘rehearsed answers’ to gain entry. Obama is using our military, border patrol agents, and tax dollars to accommodate and assist the efforts of these illegals and honoring illegals for their efforts.
Read more at http://angrywhitedude.com/2014/06/face/#KApPfYo9coFlXtsL.99
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It’s hard to pick, but I’ll go with dumbya. At least Obama can pronounce nuclear.
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The Most Destructive Presidencies in U.S. History: George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama
by Charles Hugh Smith • June 17, 2014
Powers once granted are almost impossible to take back.
When historians speak of failed presidencies or weak presidencies, they are typically referring to presidencies characterized by uneven leadership, petty corruption by self-serving cronies or in extreme cases such as the Nixon presidency, abuses of executive power.
But weak or failed presidencies are not destructive to the rule of law and the foundations of the nation. The failed president leaves office and the basic structure of the nation continues: the rule of law, the balance of powers and a free-market economy.
A destructive president weakens or corrupts these core structures in favor of executive-branch powers, and passes these unconstitutional powers to the next executive for further expansion.
The Bush and Obama presidencies have effectively dismantled the rule of law and the Constitution by invoking essentially unlimited executive powers in the name of “national security:” we the citizens of the U.S. can now be accused of violating secret laws, be indicted in secret, tried in secret and sentenced to life in prison based on evidence fabricated in secret, i.e. declaring unclassified documents classified after the fact to incriminate and imprison whistleblowers.
How is this any different from totalitarian fascist regimes?
This is absolutely contrary to basic civil liberties defined by the Constitution. Who benefits from this destruction of fundamental civil liberties? (Always start by asking cui bono–to whose benefit?)
The Big Lie is that this destruction of the foundations of the rule of law and civil liberties is for our own good: if the President and the National Security State don’t grab all these powers and deprive you of your constitutional rights, bad guys will destroy the nation.
This is of course the same old tired justification used by dictators and despots everywhere, and it is always a lie. The truth that must be hidden is that this wholesale expansion of executive powers at the expense of civil liberties, democracy, the rule of law and the balance of powers benefits the executive branch.
Every abuse of the law is now declared legal by executive order. Anyone questioning the legality of extra-legal abuses of power is told “this is legal because it was authorized by the President.” In other words, executive power is now unquestioned and cannot be challenged.
For a variety of unsavory reasons, the Supreme Court has enabled this expansion of essentially unlimited executive power. Congress has also rubber-stamped it as part of The Global War on Terror (GWOT), the unlimited war that justifies unlimited executive powers, unlimited secrecy and unlimited expansion of the National Security State, the Deep State that is impervious to changes in electoral government.
Presidents Bush and Obama have directed this expansion of the National Security State because it greatly enhances the power of the Presidency. This is how we get a president who is delighted to discover that he’s good at killing people remotely with drone strikes.
The expansion of secret programs and secret wars has engorged the Pentagon, the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., not just with funding but more importantly, with new powers granted by the executive branch and rubber-stamped by an impotent Congress and supine Supreme Court.
The president’s power is greatly enhanced by this expansion of the National Security State, and the self-serving “patriots” empowered by the essentially unlimited secrecy are free to do whatever they please under the umbrella of executive privilege.
True patriots attempting to defend basic constitutional rights are labeled terrorists by the phony patriots busy destroying the foundations of the nation. The Orwellian doublespeak is as unlimited as executive power: a citizen who releases unclassified material about the secret abuse of power can be accused of treason on the Kafkaesque basis that unclassified material can be considered classified if it exposes the abuse of executive power.
All of this is well-documented and has been in the public realm for years. There is nothing mysterious about the destruction of basic rights or the abrogation of the balance or power or the rule of law. It’s visible and painfully obvious to anyone who cares to read or watch a few interviews of whistleblowers who have been hounded and harassed by the Obama Administration.
For two examples of hundreds of articles and interviews, please read:
Senior NSA Executive: NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002… In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance (washingtonsblog.com; I recommend the entire series of interviews)
“To me, there’s a psychology that’s not often written about: What happens when you have this much reach and power, and constraints of law and even policy simply fade into the woodwork.”
PBS Frontline Interview – Thomas Drake.
This destruction of the fundamental building blocks of the nation has been rubber-stamped by gutless Republicans and Democrats alike. Cowed by the threat of appearing “soft on terrorism,” left and right alike have scrambled to appear “tough on terrorism” by approving the wholesale transfer of power to the National Security State and the executive branch.
Of the dozens of books published on the abuses of executive power and the uncontrolled expansion of the National Security State, here are two worthy starting points:
The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
This destruction of the fundamental building blocks of the nation has been rubber-stamped by gutless Republicans and Democrats alike. Cowed by the threat of appearing “soft on terrorism,” left and right alike have scrambled to appear “tough on terrorism” by approving the wholesale transfer of power to the National Security State and the executive branch.
It is laughable to see so-called liberals and conservatives alike in Congress kow-tow to the National Security State while claiming they have effective oversight, even as the revelations of whistleblowers reveals them as clueless toadies with no real grasp of what is being done in the name of the American people they claim to represent.
Those abusing executive power in the Nixon administration knew they were breaking the law. Those abusing power in the Bush and Obama administrations simply declare their actions legal. In effect, any action taken by the president or the National Security State is legal in name if not in principle.
Powers once granted are almost impossible to take back. What president will give away essentially unlimited executive powers established as “law” by previous presidents? We don’t elect saints as presidents, we elect infinitely ambitious people desiring power. We should not be surprised that such people not only consolidate the power they inherit but actively seek more.
We should also not be surprised that all these power grabs by the executive branch and the National Security State are cloaked in secrecy, and that anyone who dares to reveal the power grabs and abuses of power to the public is declared a traitor and crucified.
A traitor to what? It’s a question every citizen should ask and answer for themselves.
This is a syndicated repost courtesy of oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith. To view original, click here.
a sacred trust the silly shrew sez’..LOL..must be an alternative dimension she speaks of..I’ll trust a bitch in a black robe as quick as one standing on a street corner covered in booger dust….the law…..ust another frrikkin racket for the oligarchy byt eh oligarchy.
Legalized fraud
Overturning centuries of English Common Law, false representation is now legal in the United States.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) won dismissal of a suit over $450 million in residential mortgage-backed securities, with a New York judge saying that the firms that bought the bonds should have done more research beforehand.
State Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos dismissed the claims against Goldman Sachs today, saying the investors only reviewed data presented in offering documents for the securities and never asked to review files for the underlying loans.
“The true nature of the risk being assumed could, admittedly, have been ascertained from reviewing these loan files and plaintiffs never asked for them,” Ramos wrote.
In other words, it’s perfectly legal to present someone with a fraudulent document claiming to be selling them a pig in the poke, because if they don’t actually look in the sack to see that there is a dead rat, and not a live pig in there, it’s their own fault. This is another sign of the continued collapse of the rule of law in the USA.
Congratulations, Justice Ramos. You may have just destroyed the securitization market. Who in their right minds will ever purchase a loan security again? If you were going to review each and every loan and ascertain the risks involved, you would already be a mortgage bank.
Fortunately for Goldman Sachs, there should be enough con artists out there for the apex con artist to continue preying upon. But what sane and honest individual would ever choose to do business with them in light of their behavior here? And can you imagine if this standard were applied across the board? No one would ever dare to buy something in a box or order anything off the Internet ever again.
Labels: banks, decline and fall, law
http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2014/06/legalized-fraud.html
“Joan Rivers wannabe”
Now that is some funny shit!
At least Joan Rivers is amusing .
Indentured Servants , this is not a LAUGHING matter meathead. If this keeps going the it’s going China is going own Alaska and California. You had better get serious about life.Being fat ,drunk and stupid is no way to go through life according to ?
Dean Wormer
Impeachment!
More bread and circuses to cover up our continuing, accelerating, destruction.
Question, with Dems holding a majority in the Senate, will BOTH halls of CONgress vote to impeach?
Magic 8 Ball says, “Doubtful, Outlook Cloudy.”
What a spectacular bit of drama impeachment would be. It would work to cover up today’s crimes, just as well as Clinton’s worked to cover up the evil he was doing (paid for by us in interest, opportunity and jobs).
I don’t know whom I hate more, Dems or NeoCon Repukelicans. Both want a Utopia that is hell on earth.
Misery for most of us seems to be a given no matter which philosophy you believe in.