Heads up, bitter clingers: The Department of Homeland Security is keeping an eye on your anti-Obama activities
Suspected “man-made disasters”:
Whatever they did…I’m sure it was our fault.
A few weeks ago, the Obama administration was signaling that the War On Terror was over. We weren’t using those words anymore to describe our fight against Islamic terrorism. “Overseas contingency operations” has taken its place out of respect for the sensibilities of our sworn enemies.
But it turns out, the War On Terror isn’t over after all. It’s just shifted focus.
A new report has been issued from from the Dept. of Homeland Security to be passed out to Police and Sheriff’s offices all across America. According to Obama’s DHS, those of us who don’t appreciate abortion, or illegal immigration, or high taxes, or the the gross expansion of government, and believe in the bill of rights, are potential “right wing extremists”.
In Obama land, there are no coincidences. It is no coincidence that this report echoes Tea Party-bashing left-wing blogs (check this one out comparing the Tea Party movement to the Weather Underground!) and demonizes the very Americans who will be protesting in the thousands on Wednesday for the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party.
…I looked at the DHS report on “right-wing extremism” myself, and it’s every bit as bad as she says, and as Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers first reported. The DHS fails to provide any specifics at all, preferring instead to smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government’s handling of the economy. As Eli Lake reports, the DHS has all but declared war on federalism, which used to be the founding concept of our republic…
The timing of this report is no doubt meant to depress turnout of the tea parties, but something tells me it will have the opposite effect.
Talk radio is all over it, this morning, too. Laura Ingraham centered her whole show on it, and now Rush, (the Obama administration’s public enemy #1), who is positively pissed!.
UPDATE:
This Ain’t Hell reports that the American Legion is not amused:
A friend of ours in the deep southland sends us the letter that the American Legion national commander, David K. Rehbein sent to Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano in response to the report that TSO wrote about yesterday which expressed an unwarranted fear of us right-wing veterans.
Just Checking: Are the various black-masked anarchists who periodically shut down cities and throw heavy rocks at police “leftwing extremists”?
No?
Funny how the inconvenient members of the left are never included in the ranks of the left. They’re just “nuts,” apparently, without any general political sympathies towards one more-respectable branch of political thinking.
Unlike skinheads and survival fantasists, who are definitely “rightwing.”
Take a look at this map, via Michelle Malkin. There’s virtually no excuse not to go to one, unless you live in the upper Midwest hinterlands….what’s the matter with those people?
The Tea Party Movement is merely a step in the right direction in the war against tyranny and socialism. Those of us working at the National level are under no delusion that we’re going to change the world on April 15th. To assume we believe such would be borderline absurd.
We do, however, understand that the original Boston Tea Party Protest only had a few hundred participants and set the movement on a path to ultimate victory against the King of England. We understand that it wasn’t “A-Listers” or “Top Shelf Speakers”. It wasn’t the usual “leaders” or well known faces. It was, instead, every day business owners and taxpayers who quietly met in pubs, taking the opportunity to network and contemplate collaborative strategy.
On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of Americans will gather in more than 360 cities across all 50 states to proclaim their lack of confidence in our Government. We the people will shake hands, network, share ideas, discuss our frustrations, let some steam out, and begin to develop new coalitions and citizen groups.
April 15th will be Historic in nature not because we instantly changed the world, but because we set in motion a machine that will counter out of control Government and eventually put it back in the hands of the people.
Don’t sign anything at tea parties unless you are absolutely sure what you are signing.
I don’t know if this is just rumor, but this has been circulating so I thought it needed attention:
“And for general information: ACORN is “gate busting” Tea Parties nationwide.
These far-left goons are attending them and misapprehending their allegiance.
They are getting petitions signed, misrepresenting them as opposition to the Obama agenda.
They are getting petitions signed, misrepresenting them as against Obama and taxes.
They explain something different than that written on the petition.
More fraud, and lies from Obama Acorn people.
Please be careful when signing your name to anything at these Tea Parties.
We are still not sure what these whackjobs are using the names for, these people are known for violent criminal acts,bullying tactics, fraud and harassment (just to name a few).
Again, please pass this on and GOD BLESS YOU, YOURS, OUR TROOPS, AMERICA, and HER PEOPLE.
Rob Shepherd
PS: Please feel free to check out my myspace profile, it’s myspace.com/moondog61
At Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday morning, party workers were loading minivans with Xerox boxes, each addressed to a different congressional office. It was a classic campaign canvassing operation — except that the next election is 19 months away. “Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release. CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
In fact, the canvassing of Obama’s vaunted e-mail list of 13 million people resulted in just 114,000 pledges — a response rate of less than 1 percent.
I think we can beat that on April 15.
Also:
A WARNING: “Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is warning of a third party mutiny in 2012 if Republicans don’t figure out a way to shape up.” It could happen. People think the Tea Party protests are pro-Republican, but they aren’t, really, and they could easily turn pro-third party if the GOP doesn’t live up to its small-government claims. And that’s not a living-up it’s been very good at in recent years.
The collision of the Tea Party movement and politics was always inevitable. It seems to be gaining some steam. Even Senators now have a chance to weigh in given this resolution.
Whereas taxpayers in the United States are expressing their opposition to high taxes and skyrocketing spending by the United States Government by organizing ‘‘Taxed Enough Already’’ parties, also known as ‘‘TEA’’ parties:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate designates each of April 15, 2009, and April 15, 2010, as ‘‘National TEA Party Day’’.
Excellent!
UPDATE II:
Just heard of one more tea party in the Kansas City area:
220 Se Green St Lee’s Summit, Missouri64063Get Directions
If you aren’t happy with the lack of fiscal responsibility in Washington. If you don’t like the accumulation of trillions of dollars of debt to (you)the taxpayer. If you don’t like the size of government and the new power it is attaining each day … Come join us and let your voice be heard. This is a Tax Day TEA Party … TEA is an acronym for Taxed Enough Already. This is a peaceful protest – to let our voices be heard. The event is open to the public from all areas.
Lee’s Summit: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Liberty Memorial 4:00pm – 5:30pm (will leave 1/2 hour early in order to get to Overland Park)…
Johnson County Community College: 6:00pm – 8:00pm.
William Lewis of Lee’s Summit
Former Congressional Candidate Jacob Turk
Mike Cierpiot
Additional Speakers to be announced
Live Patriotic Music by Steve McCollum
GREAT NEWS!!!! Our Tea Party to be aired on AM710 beginning Wednesday. Tune in to Chris Stigall in the morning on your drive in and Sean Hannity or Micheal Savage on your way home to “hear” about it!!
Awesome! I get to go to three tea parties in one day!
Join AFP activists and me at a taxpayer tea party on April 14th in opposition to wasteful spending at the federal and state levels. Bring your tea bags to “dump,” along with letters to be signed and delivered to Senator McCaskill’s office, and board the U.S.S. Porkulus to stand against reckless spending in Missouri.
We will also be visiting our state legislators to demand that stimulus dollars be used for one-time projects, not recurring programs.
What: AFP Missouri Taxpayer Teaparty
Who: Americans for Prosperity – Missouri
When: Tuesday, April 14, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where: South Steps, State Capitol, Jefferson City, Missouri
Best advice: Don’t agree to an interview unless you know you’re dealing with a reputable news outlet. Know your facts. Be ready to back them up. Be cheerful if you suspect that a provocateur is trying to trip you up. Don’t let them get to you.
The vast majority of these people have never participated in a demonstration in their lives, but have been insulted and provoked to the point that they are taking to the streets, organizing loosely – yes, often spontaneously on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.
We’ve been enduring one outrage after another, for the past several months, and frankly many Americans feel compelled to do something…anything before we wake up one morning and no longer recognize our country. We’ve been offended and horrified into action.
If the left really wants to know who the real organizer of these tea parties is, they should look no further than the Community Organizer in Chief, himself. He is our inspiration.
Meanwhile, an anti-bank counter-protest sponsored by Firedoglake’s Jane Hamsher, epically failed, with a mere 12 people showing up. Watch her scuttle away when asked by Ed Frank of Frank Strategies to back up her crackpot bull horn pronouncements:
See Michelle Malkin for more on lefty smear campaigns aimed at the tea parties.
UPDATE:
Great post about the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, over atAccuracy in Media, which sums up:
With that background in mind, it’s obvious that the left’s carping about the “phony populism” of anti-tax “tea parties” across America also is a case of projection. Liberal activists, and lefty bloggers in particular, are so skilled at manufacturing outrage that they can’t imagine a case of genuine grassroots anger.
Nailed it.
UPDATE II:
Still more thoughts on the conservative online insurgency from Donald Douglas at American Power blog.
The march is scheduled for April 17th, and doubles as a protest to the university’s decision to honor the radical pro-abort President, Barack Obama at commencement.
It cannot be said enough: Obama is easily the most radical, pro abortion President, this nation has ever elected, having voted 4 times against a bill to protect babies born as a result of botched abortions, while he was in the IL legislature.
Cardinal James Francis Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, criticized Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic.
He predicted a “time of trial” for Americans with the election of Obama.
The Vatican has said that Obama signing the Freedom of Choice Act (which he has promised to do) “would be the equivalent of a war.”
“November showed us that 40 years of American Catholic complacency and poor formation are bearing exactly the fruit we should have expected. Or to put it more discreetly, the November elections confirmed a trend, rather than created a new moment, in American culture.”
See The American Papist for a list of Catholic Bishops who have commented on the invitation; 32 thus far, as well as his post on ND Pres. Jenkins’s fumbling canon law defense.
The Vatican recently announced that The Shroud of Turin was hidden and venerated by templar knights for more that 100 years after the Crusades. Bill O’Reilly discussed this new development with Father Jonathan Morris on his show, earlier this week:
I’m a true believer like Father Morris.
More on the Shroud:
Related:
A very good article at Slate about the unseemliness of crucifixion as an execution for a Messiah.
See also, American Power for a powerful Good Friday video.
UPDATE:
I mentioned something about this in the comments, because I had seen a show about it on The Discovery channel, and now just by happy chance, I see that Hot Air Headlines has linked to a Daily Mail story about the scientist who changed his mind about the shroud:
…the Turin shroud was widely dismissed as a hoax in 1988 when scientific tests found it could not be more than 1,000 years old.
Now one of the scientists who first studied 12 foot-long sheet has spoken – from beyond the grave – of how he came to believe that it could be genuine.
A video made shortly before Raymond Rogers died in 2005 has been discovered, in which the U.S. chemist reveals his own tests show the relic to be much older – dating back to between 1,300 and 3,000 years ago.
Dr Rogers said: ‘I don’t believe in miracles that defy the laws of nature. After the 1988 investigation I’d given up on the shroud.
‘But now I am coming to the conclusion that it has a very good chance of being the piece of cloth that was used to bury the historic Jesus.’
Read the whole thing.
Also, I found this interesting video at YouTube about the scientists who studies the Shroud in 1978.
UPDATE II:
The Discover Channel will be broadcasting Dr. Roger’s video, The Turin Shroud: New Evidence on Easter night. Check your local listings for time.
UPDATE III:
Or not. I was going by the Daily Mail’s reporting on the special on Discovery. There was no show in the states.
Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on The Rachel Maddow show, and what a charmer he was, castigating the “hard right”, who still believe in an outdated Reagan philosophy of “{{{traditional values}}}”, and “{{{a strong foreign policy}}}”….Schumer cheerfully informed us all that that stuff is OVAH!
A new poll by Rassmussen shows that only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.
Investors by a 5-to-1 margin choose capitalism. As for those who do not invest, 40% say capitalism is better while 25% prefer socialism.
There is a partisan gap as well. Republicans – by an 11-to-1 margin – favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.
So…. who do we have to thank for this disgraceful outcome? The media? Higher education? Pop culture?
I would say all three. The MSM for constantly promoting it, the education system for teaching about the failed economic system in an (at best) values neutral environment, and the pop culture for its outright glorification of commie personalities and symbols.
The popularity of Che Guevara, and other Communist symbols in fashion trends should have been our tip off that a major sea change was occurring amongst the American populous:
“It wasn’t a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he’s taller than King Abdullah,” said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The evidence:
It is what your eyes are saying it is: A deep bow with only one hand going out to shake the king’s hand, not two.
And why the lies? Are we supposed to be that stupid? Is Obama so used to the media toeing his line, that he thinks that these unconvincing lies will end the questioning? He’s probably right, but that’s beside the point.
Some recent history could help shed some light on Obama’s fealty to the king of Saudi Arabia:
How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education?
The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans.
But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.
The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.
Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Prince Alwaleed, 53, is the nephew if King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia.
Here’s that interview:
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told Newsmax that Sutton’s account was “bogus” and a “fabrication that has been retracted” by a spokesman for the Sutton family.
He referred Newsmax to a pro-Obama blog published on Politico.com by reporter Ben Smith.
In a September 3 blog entry, Smith wrote that “a spokesman for Sutton’s family, Kevin Wardally” said that Sutton had been mistaken when he made those comments about Obama and Khalid Al-Mansour.
Smith suggested the retraction “put the [Obama/Al-Mansour] story to rest for good.”
Wardally told Smith that the “information Mr. Percy Sutton imported [sic] on March 25 in a NY1 News interview regarding his connection to Barack Obama is inaccurate. As best as our family and the Chairman’s closest friends can tell, Mr. Sutton, now 86 years of age, misspoke in describing certain details and events in that television interview.”
Asked which parts of Percy Sutton’s statements were a “fabrication,” LaBolt said “all of it. Al Mansour doesn’t know Obama. And Sutton’s spokesman retracted the story. The letter [to Harvard, which Percy Sutton says he wrote on behalf of Obama], the ‘payments for loans’ — all of it, not true,” he added.
Newsmax contacted the Sutton family and they categorically denied Wardally’s claims to Smith and the Politico.com. So there was no retraction of Sutton’s original interview, during which he revealed that Khalid Al-Mansour was “raising money” for Obama and had asked Sutton to write a letter of recommendation for Obama to help him get accepted at Harvard Law School.
Sutton’s personal assistant told Newsmax that neither Mr. Sutton or his family had ever heard of Kevin Wardally.
”Who is this person?” asked Sutton’s assistant, Karen Malone.
When told that he portrayed himself as a “spokesman” for the family, Malone told Newsmax, “Well, he’s not.”
Cpl. Aaron L. Seal
23 years old from Elkhart, Indiana
6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve
October 1, 2006
With sleet gushing from gunmetal gray clouds, some 30 Marines standing in three trim lines saluted the U.S. flag that four of their brethren used to christen a new pole.
A large engraved stone set at the base of the 38-foot pole explained the occasion: “In memory of Corporal Aaron L. Seal. Who gave his life for our country. 1982-2006.”
The Marines from Engineer Company B joined several dozen community residents and well-wishers at a ceremony Wednesday honoring Seal, the 23-year-old Elkhart reservist who died last fall in Iraq. Seal’s family also attended the 20-minute tribute at Elkhart Community Schools’ administration building adjacent to Memorial High School — the fallen Marine’s alma mater.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.
There does seem to be some validity to the reports that ACORN plans to send “paid pretend activists” to some of these tea parties that are taking place across the nation. Here are some tea party organizers, discussing the issue with Neil Caputo on his show:
They aren’t concerned because the participants of these tea parties are a very well behaved lot. But the potential for trouble is real.
Huffpo is getting involved by calling for “citizen reporters” to cover the events:
“The Huffington Post wants to have citizen journalists at as many of these events as possible,” Arthur Delaney wrote for The Huffington Post on April 7. “If you think you’d be interested in attending one of the Tea Parties and reporting back to us with dispatches, photos, or video, click here to sign up. We’ll contact you shortly with further instructions.”
If you sign-up, you receive an automated message from Matthew Palevsky, the Huffington Post’s associate editor of citizen journalism.
“Thanks for becoming a Tea Party Reporter,” the e-mail from Palevsky says. “This e-mail is just a quick confirmation that we have received your contact info and will email you our plans during the coming week. In the meantime, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Whether they be questions, suggestions or story ideas, share them with us at submissions+ideas@ huffingtonpost.com.”
Tea party goers should be very cautious about what they write on posters, leaving the more extreme sentiments at home. Also,having been to three tea parties so far, I’m not concerned about misbehavior of any kind (including littering) coming from the conservative participants of these events. But I am worried that the infiltrators will serve as provocateurs, eager to report negative reactions to their incitements, real or imagined. Mostly imagined. The best defense against any such attempts to incite, is laughter and ridicule.
Just a heads up. Be aware of your surroundings. Videotape confrontations if possible so there is a true record of what took place. Remember, lefties play by their own rules, and the truth is relative.
See First Conservative for an excellent checklist for your tax day tea party activities.
UPDATE II:
Some good advice from former lefty, Roger L. Simon on potential provocateurs:
Keep your eye out for the most extreme characters and then ask yourself: Is that real? Is that person who he or she says he is? Cui bono, who profits, here from what they are saying or doing? Draw your conclusions (carefully!) and then act accordingly and completely within the law.
Lots more good advice from commenters on Simon’s post.
RELATED:
Be prepared for media mockery in some quarters.
Newsbusters reports that the NYTs finally deigned to report on a local tea party. Check out its coverage:
They were a band of like minds bent on dire provocations seldom witnessed in the harborside hamlet on Long Island Sound. It was a day for brandishing signs, shouting imprecations and donning silly clothing: tricorn hats and breeches, bonnets and petticoats. A few carried pitchforks, the better to jab the message home. We good farm folk are fed up and will be silent no more.
Their enemy: a tyrannical government heedless of the people’s will and blind to its manifold injustices. Their tactic: a Boston-style tea party, a symbolic rebellion for times that once again are trying men’s souls.
Anyone else detecting the condescension?
Tea parties are a recent phenomenon, spawned in the red-meat districts of right-wing talk radio and cable TV. It was strange to see the rebels reach Northport, whose antiques ‘n’ potpourri Main Street, with a half-dozen empty stores, could use a little federal stimulus.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I listen to talk radio every day (unlike, no doubt, this reporter). I didn’t hear about the tea parties from “right wing talk radio”. I read about it online. Even now that the tea parties have caught on, I hear very little about them on talk radio. Also, isn’t it amusing that the idea that some Americans might not be interested in government hand outs, is totally foreign to this lefty?
But down at the park gazebo, the green lawn was rumbling with grass-roots anger. Actually, its grass-rootiness was highly debatable….Was this about Wall Street? Evil automakers? Greedy lenders who pillaged Long Island with predatory housing loans? No, no and no. It was not about fixing unbridled free-market capitalism, but ensuring its glorious restoration.Mostly, it was about tax cuts.
Look a little closer, buddy. The “grass-rootiness” is against redistribution of wealth. It’s about fiscal responsibility, free markets and free minds.
Nice job, NYTs. The paper that spiked the story on Obama’s campaign fraud with ACORN, jumps in with both feet on this story in order to characterize the tea party goers as silly, lazy, and greedy, right wing kooks.
Sixty-five percent of Americans believe that the nation’s founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation and 55% believe that the Constitution establishes a Christian nation.
(I believe respondents were thinking in broad terms - not that a Christian theocracy was intended or desired.).
Obama made waves last summer when he made a similar comment in an interview with CBN News:
Whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
There’s nothing wrong with celebrating our diversity. But the fact remains that the U.S. was built on strong Judeo-Christian principles, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that.
At any rate, when he makes pronouncements like this, maybe he should make it clear that he’s speaking for himself, instead of using the royal, “we”, because there are plenty of Americans who disagree with him.
MORE:
See Gateway Pundit for the video of Hannity’s show, last night, which dealt with this issue.
Still MORE:
An epic rant from the dramatic and notorious man-lesbian, Rosetta, at The Hostages.
