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BEFORE JIHADIST'S OATH OF OFFICE 3, DEMOCRAT CROOKS, CLINTON DEAD
CROOKED PRESIDENT AND MURDERING SECRETARY OF STATE, ALL JEW HATERS, JESUS WAS A JEW, MEANS GENOCIDE, JEWS, CHRISTIANS
crooked democrats
Connecticut Senators and Congressmen See The World
by Matt Margolis :: June 28, 2006 1:26 PM
http://www.noagenda.org/
Looks like Connecticut Democrats get around... on special interests' dollars...
Lieberman and his staff took 130 trips, more than twice as many as any other member of the Connecticut delegation [between January 2000 to June 2005, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity],
democrap Mollohan Steered Millions In Federal Contracts To Family-Run Charity Donors
by Matt Margolis :: June 22, 2006 9:48 PM
Rep. Alan Mollohan is already in enough trouble... Adding this to the list doesn't make him look any better.
Representative Alan Mollohan helped funnel at least $179 million in U.S. government contracts over the last six years to companies that gave to the West Virginia Democrat's family-run charity, tax records and other documents show.
The money went to 21 companies and nonprofit groups that contributed $225,427 to the Robert H. Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation in 2004 -- almost half of the charity's revenue, according to the documents. The congressman, Alan Mollohan, an Appropriations Committee member whose finances are under federal investigation, is the secretary of the foundation, which is named for his father.
Appropriations Committee member, HE DECIDES WHERE MONEY GOES
well, HE LEARNED TO APPROPRIATE ALL RIGHT.
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Police Union Wants Ethics Probe of McKinney
WHO LOST REELECTION
by Matt Margolis :: June 19, 2006 11:16 PM
After a federal grand jury refused to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a police officer, local and national police unions are calling for the House ethics committee to investigate.
House ethics committee, HA HAHAHAH, lmao, roflmao,
“Although she was not indicted by the grand jury, we hope that members of Congress will review her actions in light of their own rules within the ethics committee,” said Andy Maybo, chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Fraternal Order of Police chapter.
OOH, SHE'S SCARED, HOUSE "ETHICS" COMMITTEE
Maybo said he plans to send a letter later this week to the ethics committee, known formally as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, requesting an investigation into the incident.
A spokesman for the ethics committee did not immediately return a call for comment.NO ETHICS? While it is unclear what House rule the FOP members believe McKinney violated, the first rule in the ethics manual states: “A Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”
“Congresswoman McKinney’s assault on Officer [Paul] McKenna was not only unprofessional for her position as a member of Congress, but we believe it puts out the wrong message across America, that it is OK to strike a police officer,” he said.
Congresswoman McKinney lost, ethically, lmao, hahahahA, BLEEP HOHO, HEHEHE, LOL, ROFLMAO
CASTRO HAS A CONVENTION FOR COMMUNIST DICTATORS, TERRORISTS, JIMMY CARTER'S STUPID GRIN IN THE PHOTO
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Person Loan To Jefferson Being Investigated?
by Matt Margolis :: June 15, 2006 8:37 PM
SHOULD THERE BE AN AMW DEMOCRATS LIST?
More trouble for Jefferson?
Person Loan To Jefferson Being Investigated?
Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, who is at the center of a federal criminal bribery probe (COLD HARD CASH, LMAO, IN THE FREEZER), received a personal loan from a satellite radio executive (AIR AMERICA?) who has had business before the federal government, financial records released Wednesday show.
LIBERAL RADIO, AIR AMERICA, STOLE MONEY FROM THE BOY'S AND GIRL'S CLUBS
Noah Samara, CEO of WorldSpace Inc., loaned Jefferson between $50,001 and $100,000, according to Jefferson's financial disclosure form for 2005.
The date of the loan is not given, but Samara's company was pressing the Federal Communications Commission to let it launch a new satellite last year.
$50,001 and $100,000
The annual financial disclosure report comes a day before House Democrats are expected to decide whether Jefferson, who has not been charged, should remain on the powerful Ways and Means Committee (HOW TO PAY FOR STUFF)
COMMIE KATIE COURIC CHEERING COMMUNIST OLYMPICS
In a press release following this report, Worldspace clarified that the loan was a personal loan from Mr. Samara to Rep. Jefferson (NEW JAG?)
, and claims it was not related to company business.
WORLDSPACE and Mr. Samara have cooperated fully with the Department of Justice's ongoing investigation of Congressman William Jefferson
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Patrick Kennedy Follows In His Father's Footsteps
by Matt Margolis :: June 13, 2006 11:18 PM
Patrick Kennedy Follows In His Father's Footsteps
Like his father Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy gets a slap on the wrist driving under the influence...
BUT A GIRL DIDNT DIE
Rep. Patrick Kennedy pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving under the influence of prescription drugs and was sentenced to undergo court-ordered drug treatment and a year's probation.
AND IF ONE OF US HAD GOTTEN A DUI?
Kennedy, D-R.I., also was ordered to pay at least $350 in connection with his middle-of-the-night car crash last month near the Capitol.
Two other charges against Kennedy were dismissed: reckless driving and failure to exhibit a driving permit. AH, AND THE LIBERAL ELITE CARE FOR "COMMON PEOPLE", HOW MANY "COMMON PEOPLE" GET drunk driving charges dismissed?
Kennedy calls this "suffering the consequences of his actions." (dismissed charges are suffering?)
NOT, TEN YEARS MAYBE...
WHOSE GRAND DADDY GOT RICH DURING PROHIBITION FOR SELLING ILLEGAL HOOCH!!!
But the truth is he got away with his crime in a way someone without his connections couldn't.
Under the terms of his plea deal, Kennedy must attend weekly meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and a recovery group facilitated by his physician, Dr. Ronald Smith.
ah, cruel, aa meetings
He must check in with Ramstad once a week and submit to random urine screenings.
Interesting that while he claimed (or admitted to) driving under the influence of perscription drugs, he's agreed to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. If he was under the influence of perscription drugs rather than alcohol, it seems to me he be ordered to attend a different kind of recovery group.
Don't be fooled. He has not paid for crimes, nor is he suffering the consequences of his actions. He has been given a $350 slap on wrist thanks to the Kennedy Machine.
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HOMOCRAT John Tierney Lacks Power In Congress, But Takes Plenty of Free Trips
by Matt Margolis :: June 10, 2006 9:37 AM
THEM MASSACHUSETTS BOYS...
The Salem News, the hometown paper of Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney, reported earlier this week on the excessive amount of free trips taken by the Democrat:
Congressman John Tierney has taken nearly $50,000 worth of privately funded trips in the past five years, including two visits to Cancun, Mexico (CHECKING THOSE BIKINI MISSILES, I'M SURE)
, a Valentine's Day stay in Jamaica and a 2005 trip to China that was among the most expensive taken by a member of Congress.
AH, A COMMUNIST/LIBERAL
Five of the seven trips were funded by the nonprofit Aspen Institute, which paid for travel, lodging and meals for both Tierney and his wife, Patrice. The institute flew the Tierneys to Mexico and Jamaica for conferences on education, to Finland for a conference on political Islam and to China for a conference on U.S.-China relations (COMINTEL).
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California Democrat Urges Illegals To Commit Voter Fraud
by Matt Margolis :: June 3, 2006 9:30 PM
THERE ARE CROOKED DEMOCRAT STORIEs BY THE DOZENS=
AND IN THE BEGINNING WAS... THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT Andrew Jackson, who lied to and betrayed american indians, caused tne "TRAIL OF TEARS" SET THE PRECEDENT FOR democrats to follow!!!
TRAIL OF TEARS, CAUSED BY DEMOCRAT, AND THEY SCREAM REPARATION FOR INDIANS? DEAD INDIANS
DEMOCRATS "The slave-owner party, now the communist, government slavery party"
THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, Abe Lincoln, freed the slaves.
LIBERAL= most popular on school bully's lists, they wouldn't fight, they'd run home to mommy, now they're older run to UN FOR SANCTIONS, still scared to fight
WELL, TOUGH, muslim invasion has begun, world's largest mosque is in detroit, how you gonna sanction them, when they have a knife at your throat?
gonna give em a blow job gay boy? new LIBERAL WARFARE, BLOW JOBS FOR TERRORISTS
Democrats across the country oppose Voter ID bills... which are commonsense laws that simply say you need to prove you are who you are when you vote in an election. Despite this opposition to what could be one of the most effective deterrents to voter fraud, they claim to hold the high ground on clean elections. They still try to convince themselves that Ohio in 2004 was stolen from Kerry, but anytime fraud on behalf Kerry or any Democrat for that matter is discovered, they claim a Rovian conspiracy or something. Well, the latest example that shows the Democrats' attitude towards voter fraud comes out of California, with Democrat Congressional candidate Francine Busby telling a largely Latino crowd “You don't need papers for voting.” (audio here and here)
Busby was advocating fraud. When someone who is not a citizen or a register voter is urged to vote despite the fact they legally cannot, that is fraud.
Moreover, this demonstrates why the illegal immigration is is causing so much controversy. Both parties believe that immigrant (be they legal or illegal) are a potential source of votes. I think President Bush and his advisors need to stop kidding themselves that these groups will become Republican voters. I'm not saying none will, but it won't be a net gain for the Republican Party. Even if it was, we shouldn't be rewarding illegal behavior with anything close to amnesty. The illegal immigration issue is the reason Democrats oppose Voter ID laws. Further, any efforts to legalize illegal immigrants only exposes our country to a greater risk of voter fraud, courtesy of the Democratic Par
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Barbara Boxer
That's One Heck of an Allowance
by Matt Margolis :: April 7, 2005 12:49 PM
It's nice when mommy has her own political action committee isn't it?
Disclosure statements also show that Senator Barbara Boxer, ... directed $15,000 from her political action committee in 2003 to a consulting firm run by her son.
Roll Call also reported in May of 2003 that "Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) funneled $115,000 last cycle to Douglas Boxer & Associates, a company run by her son, from PAC For A Change, her leadership political action committee."
mommy, got 115,000?
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CLINTON'S DEAD BUDDIES AND ASSOCIATES- SHORT LIST
Slick's Skeleton's list..,
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a48156.htm
I hope you come away as horrified as I did from it.
- Drive by shooting, day after Ron Brown's plane crashed.
2. Ron Brown 04/96 Plane Crash
3. Adm. Boorda - Chief of Naval Operations 1996 - Suicide?
4. Bill Shelton -06/94 Suicide ? Alledgedly shot himself at gravesite of fiancee, Kathy Ferguson, Alledgedly shot himself behind the left ear.
5. Kathy Ferguson - 05/94 Suicide ? Ex Wife of Ark. trooper Danny Ferguson, engaged to trooper who assisted Bill Clinton Alledgedly shot herself behind left ear.
6. Attorney for Dan Lasater -05/94 Suicide ? Alledgedly jumped out of a building to kill himself. He represented Dan Lasater, a close friend of Bill Clinton, who was indicted on drug charges and sent to prison.
7. Ronald Rogers 03/94 Plane Crash (Ark.) dentist for Clintons, killed on way to interview with a "London Sunday Telegraph" reporter to reveal info.
8. Hershell Friday -03/94 - Plane Crash Clinton attorney and fund raiser. Plane blew up.
9. Ed Willey -11/93- Suicide -Alledgedly shot himself in head in Virginia. Attorney and manager of Clinton presidential campaign finance committee.
10. Luther Parks - 09/93 -Murdered - Head of Clinton's security team in Little Rock, gunned down in his car outside of Little Rock. Home broken into before his death, dossier on Clinton stolen from his possessions.
11. Stanley Heard -09/93-Plane Crash Chair of Chiropatric Health Care Advisory Comm. for Clinton who had treated Clinton's mother, stepfather & brother. Killed when airplane crashed after reporting fire on board.
12. Steve Dickson - 09/93 Plane Crash - Counsel to Mr. Heard, killed in same crash. (see above)
13. Vincent Foster 07/93 -Suicide ? - Close friend of Clintons. Alleged possible affair with Hillary, tracked Clinton finances.
14. Paul Wilcher 06/93 Murdered - Wahington attorney, investigating federal corruption, including Mena and BATF assault on Branch Davidians. Found Dead on the toilet before meeting with Danny Casolaro's attorney.
NUMERO 15. John Wilson 05/93 Suicide ? Alledgedly hung himself. Involved in WhiteWater and was going to talk...
16. Sgt. B. Haney 05/93 Helicopter Crash - escort to Clinton on flight to Roosevelt
17. Sgt. Tim Sabel 05/93 Helicopter Crash - escort to Clinton on flight to Roosevelt
18. Maj. William Barkley 05/93 Helicopter Crash - escort to Clinton on flight to Roosevelt
19. Capt. Scott Reynolds 05/93 Helicopter Crash - escort to Clinton on flight to Roosevelt
DEAD, CLINTON'S ATTACHE
20. Gen. Robertson 02/93 Helicopter Crash -escort to Clinton
21. Col.W Densberger 02/93 Helicopter Crash -escort to Clinton
22. Col.R Kelly 02/93 Helicopter Crash -escort to Clinton
23. Spec. G Rhodes 02/93 Helicopter Crash-escort to Clinton
CLINTON/RENO DEAD, MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT WACO, AND...
24. Steve Willis 02/93 Waco Assault Killed in assault on Davidian compound. - Accidental Shooting? Gunshot to left temple
25. Robert William 02/93 Waco Assault Killed in assault on Davidian compound. Accidental Shooting? Gunshot to left temple
26. Conway LeBleu 02/93 Waco Assault Killed in assault on Davidian compound. Accidental Shooting? Gunshot to Left Temple
27. Todd McKeehan 02/93 Waco Assault Killed in assault on Davidian compound. Accidental Shooting? Gunshot to Left Temple
*** CLINTON'S DEAD BUDDIES AND ASSOCIATES-
Steve Willis, Robert William, Conway Lebleu, and Tod McKeehan were (see above) transferred from the Secret Service, where they were Clinton guards - to BATF prior to the assault - Killed by friendly fire. All died with gunshot wounds to the left temple.
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28. Jim Wilhite 12/92 Skiing Accident -Vice Chair. of Arkla, Inc. with ties to Clinton & Mack Mclarty, whom he called just hours before his death.
29. Paula Grober 12/92 Car Accident - no witnesses - he was a speech interpreter for deaf for Bill Clinton. Traveled extensively with Clinton from 1978 `til death.
30. Paul Tully 09/92 Murdered? -Democratic Nat'l Committee Dir. found dead in hotel. "Dear friend" of Clinton and a trusted advisor. Authored key strategies for Clinton and the Democratic party. - No autopsy performed.
31. Victor Raiser 07/92 Plane Crash - finance co-chair in Clinton organization who soured. His plane went down in Alaska on a fishing expedition.
32. Monty Raiser 07/92 Plane Crash Victor Raiser's son, killed in the same plane crash.
33. James Bunch ????? Suicide similar to Vince Foster. Texan w/"black book" of influential Texans & Arkansans who visited PROSTITUTES.
34. Stanley Huggins ????? Murdered -Partner in Memphis law firm - investigating Madison Guarantee. His 300 page report has never been released.
DEAD CLINTON CONNECTIONS
35. Florence Martin ????? Murdered Accountant subcontracted to CIA in the Barry Seal case. Dead of three gunshot wounds to the head.
DEAD CLINTON CONNECTIONS
36. Sue Coleman ????? Suicide - Had affair with Clinton while he was attorney general. Gunshot wound to the back of her head. Was pregnant.
37. Danny Casolaro 08/91 Suicide? Reporter investigating Whitewater, Mena, BCCI, & ADFA. About to receive info linking Iran-Contra to the Inslaw scandal when found in bathtub with wrists slit.
"We Know who killed these kids. The reason this case has been stopped ... is because it tracks to Bill Clinton being involved in the cover-up".
Six Ark. people who came forward with info about the death of 2 teens near the Mena operations. All killed before testifying. John Brown, reportedly solved the Richard Winters case and gave findings to FBI which sat on them. According to Brown, "We Know who killed these kids. The reason this case has been stopped ... is because it tracks to Bill Clinton being involved in the cover-up".
DEAD CLINTON CONNECTIONS
38. Kevin Coney - 07/88 - Died in a motorcycle accident - Came forward with info about the "Kevin Ives and Don Henry" Murders. Died before testifying.
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
39. Gregory Collins 01/89 - had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the face
40. Kieth McKaskle -11/88 Had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death
41. Jeff Rhodes -04/89 - He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body was found in a trash dump in He died of a gunshot wound to the head and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he was tortured prior to being killed.
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
42. Jordan Ketelson 06/90 had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
43. James Milam -??? had Info on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated - initially ruled death due to natural causes.
decapitated from natural causes?
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
44. Richard Winters - July 1989 - was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a "robbery" which was subsequently proven to be a setup.
45. Kevin Ives - 08/23/87. - Witness to Mena? - Offical cause of death falling asleep on railroad track. But apparently Kevin had died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks
46. Don Henry - 08/23/87 - witness to Mena? - Offical cause of death - falling asleep on railroad track... Later findings showed he had been stabbed to death before placed on the track.
47. Mary Mahoney died 7/97 - White House Intern for Bill Clinton. Shot to death in a starbucks coffee shop - in an alledged robbery attempt - but no money was taken.
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
48. Barbera Wise -11/29/96 Commerce Department Staffer Found dead in her locked office at the Department of Commerce, partially nude and covered with bruises. No cause of death has ever been announced. (ed. note- recently announced as alcohol poisoning)
DEAD CLINTON ASSOCIATES
49. Charles Meissner - Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy, immediate superior of John Huang. Died in same plane crash as Ron Brown.
50. ??????
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BEFORE JIHADIST'S OATH OF OFFICE2, DEMOCRATS CRASHED THE ECONOMY
DEMOCRATS TO CRASH ECONOMY IN TIME FOR ELECTION IT NEVER FAILS, DEMOCRATS CRASH ECONOMY IN TIME FOR ELECTION
SO THEY CAN BLAME IT ON A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, AH, BUT CONGRESS HANDLES THE MONEY, REPEAT, CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY. IT'S POLITICS FOLKS, DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN PROVE THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT US, "WE THE PEOPLE". AND YOU'LL KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT TIL YOUR JOB IS GONE. TEXAS WENT THROUGH THAT WHEN CARTER AND HIS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS PASSED THE "WINDFALL PROFITS TAX", CRIPPLING AMERICAN OIL, PUTTING THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK, AND STILL IDIOTS APPLAUD TAXES. IF YOU DON'T NEED YOUR MONEY SEND IT THIS WAY. I WAS ON OF 300 LAID OFF IN ONLY ONE ROUND OF LAYOFFS AT MY COMPANY, WE BUILT OIL REFINERIES. JIMMY CARTER ENDED MY CAREER AS AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER.
WELL, DIG YOUR OWN GRAVE, VOTE DEMOCRAT, OR ANY REPUBLICAN THAT HAS VOTED FOR HIGHER TAXES. OH, AND HILLARY IS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER "WINDFALL PROFIT TAX".....------------------FROM A NEWSMAX NEWSLETTER
Oil Prices Put U.S. Economy in 'Danger Zone' — Bodman
DEMOCRATS WILL CRASH ECONOMY IN TIME FOR ELECTION,
Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007 2:45 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy is in a "danger zone" because of near record-high crude oil prices and the world's producers must boost supply to prevent shortages, U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said Thursday.
Sustained U.S. crude oil prices near the $80 level could harm the U.S. economy, and both OPEC and non-OPEC producers should "look at what the facts are," Bodman told reporters."We're in a ... danger zone right now, so that's why I hope that both OPEC and non-OPEC nations will look carefully at the facts," Bodman told reporters.U.S. crude oil futures Wednesday hit a record intraday high of $78.77 a barrel, surpassing the previous peak of $78.40 set in July 2006."I am concerned that where we are operating, in the ranges that we're talking about now where you are approaching $80," Bodman said.© Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.
© 2007 NewsMax Media Inc.
All Rights Reserved
All of the things that We the People have worked for, fought for, and died for, are being destroyed by politicians who neglect their oath of office and trample upon the Constitution every day! The Read the Bills Act will stop this.
AND DEMOCRATS HAVE CONTROLLED THE FEDERAL RESERVE SINCE THE BEGINNING, SEE HISTORY, HYDE ISLAND, GEORGIA. AND WORKED WITH RUSSIA, CUBA TO DESTROY AMERICA.
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democrats, slave owners, civil war
democrats, "slave-owner's party, now communist, government slavery party"
famous arab-americans; kasey kasem; Barack Hussein Obama...........
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DEMOCRATS GOT CLASS, NOT
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=390686
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THIS FINANCIAL MESS IS SIMILAR TO THE EEOC, FORCING BUSINESS TO GIVE LOANS (JOBS) TO UNQUALIFIED APPLICANTS.
IF YOUR SPOUSE CAME HOME ONE DAY, SAID HONEY I BOUGHT A NEW CAR, WHEN YOUR BALANCE WAS TEN DOLLARS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? PROBABLY HEAD FOR DIVORCE COURT. WHY DO YOU KEEP ELECTING DEMOCRATS AND POLITICIANS WHO DO THE EXACT SAME, THING, DEMAND MORE OF OUR MONEY IN TAXES. THEY'RE GETTING SO MUCH OF OUR MONEY NOW, WE'RE ALMOST A COMMUNIST NATION.
THE TITLE REFERS TO DEMOCRAT HACKERS WHO GOT INTO SARAH PALIN'S PERSONAL EMAIL: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=390686
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BEFORE JIHADIST'S OATH OF OFFICE
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/oaths.html
The Oath of Office
REMEMBER NOW, OBAMA DIDN'T EVEN QUALIFY FOR A SECURITY CLEARANCE, BECAUSE OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL, RADICAL ACTIVITIES.
In the Federal Government, in order for an official to take office, he or she must first take the oath of office. The official reciting the oath swears an allegiance to uphold the Constitution.
The Constitution only specifies an oath of office for the President; however, Article VI of the Constitution states that other officials, including members of Congress, "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution."
The following includes oath information for high ranking officials from each of the three branches of Government.
President of the United States (Executive Branch)
According to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, a President's term of office begins at 12:00 p.m. (noon) on January 20th of the year following an election. In order to assume his/her duties, the President-elect must recite the Oath of Office. The Oath is administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The President-elect places his hand on the Bible, raises his right hand, and takes the Oath as directed by the Chief Justice. The Oath, as stated in Article II, Section I, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution, is as follows:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, NOT THE KORAN, NOT MARXIST PRINCIPLES
see more office oaths on page:
Page Name: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/symbols/oaths.html
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democrat theme song2
TAX EM TO THE LEFT
TAX EM TO THE RIGHT,
TAX EM IN THE MIDDLE WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT
TAX EM WHEN ALIVE
TAX EM WHEN DEAD
TAX EM TIL THE FAMILY HAS NOTHING BUT BREAD,
democrat theme song
BURN THE BIBLE, READ MARX, WORSHIP LENIN, AND STALIN,
DOWN WITH EVIL CAPITALISM, PUNISH ANYONE MAKING A PROFIT,
OUTLAW THE FAMILY, BUY STOCK IN VASELINE.......
go TO PRISON, JUST FOR THE SHOWER, GET BUTT REAMED
99 PROBLEMS WITH WOMEN ON THE WALL
99 PROBLEMS WITH WOMEN
TAKE ONE DOWN, PASS IT AROUND,
98 PROBLEMS WITH WOMEN ON THE WALL
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MORE TO REMEMBER WHEN THE COMMUNIST/JIHADIST ARAB TAKES OFFICE. GOOD MEN MUST FIGHT, LITERALLY, NOW.
DEMOCRAT PERVERTS OVER AMERICA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/200
8/09/29/BAVP137PGV.DTL&o=0
LAST YEAR THE SF "GAY" RIGHTS PARADE HAD A LARGE POSTER OF
THE LAST SUPPER WITH APOSTLES AND JESUS WEARING DOG COLLARS, LEATHER, BONDAGE STUFF
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DEMOCRAT PERVERTS OVER AMERICA
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/200
8/09/29/BAVP137PGV.DTL&o=0
LAST YEAR THE SF "GAY" RIGHTS PARADE HAD A LARGE POSTER OF
THE LAST SUPPER WITH APOSTLES AND JESUS WEARING DOG COLLARS, LEATHER, BONDAGE STUFF
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democrat andrew jackson; genocide; trail of tears
Was FIRST DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT Andrew Jackson one of the world's biggest mass murderers?
DEMOCRATCIDE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/772134/posts
First Democrat pRESIDENT Andrew Jackson did quite a number on the Cherokee, forcing them to relocate from as far as Georgia to what is now Oklahoma. Some have even accused Old Hickory of genocide, citing the thousands of Cherokee who died on the "Trail of Tears." What I want to know is, how does Jackson rank among practitioners of genocide?
Does he even make the all-time top-ten list? I figure he has to come in way behind Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, the Turkish triumvirate Talat, Enver, and Cemal (who orchestrated the Armenian genocide), and the recent Hutu leaders in Rwanda. Can you think of any others who rank ahead of Jackson? --Mike Skarplos, San Jose, California
HOWEVER, TODAY'S LIBERALS HAVE ABORTED 50 MILLION BABIES, TRAIL OF TEARS TO HEAVEN, liberal genocide, way beyond stalin or any other
Cecil replies:
Please. I don't want to minimize the cruelty of the Trail of Tears (1838-'39) or Jackson's culpability for it. But strictly in terms of body count, the forced removal of the Cherokee probably doesn't crack the top hundred instances of genocide, much less the top ten. The death toll most commonly cited is 4,000--mostly due to exposure, malnutrition, and disease. By contrast, in the 20th century, far and away the bloodiest period in history, state-sponsored slaughter of innocents averaged 5,300 victims worldwide per day --170 million in all. (That's a conservative total, too, compiled in 1987.)
These numbers come from R.J. Rummel, a political scientist at the University of Hawaii who studies mass killing. Rummel's genocide figures are more inclusive than some--in fact, he prefers the term "democide," which he defines as "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder." Genocide is killing due to ethnicity, religion, or other "indelible group membership," whereas politicide is murder for political reasons.
Democide excludes deaths due to war (36.5 million between 1900 and 1987) and reckless but not purposely murderous government policies--for example, the loss of over 20 million Chinese during the famine of 1959-'62, which was caused by the failure of the Great Leap Forward.
liberal communists in america : genocide of 50 million babies, compare to communist/dictatorships (democratcide?)
TRICKY NICKY LENIN, IF YOU CAN GET THEM TO HATE THE RICH, CLASS WARFARE IT'S A SHORT STOP TO GENOCIDE BY RACE OR RELIGION
Defining terms this way puts the Nazi slaughter in perspective. The following are Rummel's 12 most murderous regimes (from his article in the Encyclopedia of Genocide, 1999):
(1) USSR, 62 million deaths, 1917-'87;
(2) People's Republic of China, 35 million, 1949-'87;
BOTH LIBERAL SOCIALIST HEROES, and THEY WANT USSA!
(3) Germany, 21 million, 1933-'45 NAZI-NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY, LIBERALS;
(4) nationalist China, 10 million, 1928-'49;
(5) Japan, 6 million, 1936-'45;
(6) prerevolutionary Chinese communists ("Mao Soviets"), 3.5 million, 1923-'49;
(7) Cambodia, 2 million, 1975-'79;
MUSLIM LIBERAL HEROES
(8) Turkey (Armenian genocide), 1.9 million, 1909-'18;
MORE LIBERAL COMMIE MURDERS
(9) Vietnam, 1.7 million, 1945-'87;
(10) Poland, 1.6 million, 1945-'48;
but american commies strut about their 50 million dead babies
(11) Pakistan, 1.5 million, 1958-'87;
(12) Yugoslavia, 1.1 million, 1944-'87. Three additional "suspected megamurderers," are North Korea, 1.7 million deaths, 1948-'87; Mexico, 1.4 million, 1900-'20; and czarist Russia, 1.1 million, 1900-'17.
communist and fascist regimes accounted for 84 percent of democidal deaths during the period studied, BUT COMMUNISM IS COOL
Rummel goes on to identify the top nine killers: (1) Joseph Stalin, 43 million dead, 1929-'53; (2) Mao Tse-tung, 38 million, 1923-'76; (3) Adolf Hitler, 21 million, 1933-'45; (4) Chiang Kai-shek, 10 million, 1921-'48; (5) Vladimir Lenin, 4 million, 1917-'24; (6) Tojo Hideki (Japan), 4 million, 1941-'45; (7) Pol Pot,socialist 2.4 million, 1968-'87; (8) Yahya Khan (Pakistan), 1.5 million, 1971; (9) Josip Broz, better known as Marshal Tito (Yugoslavia), 1.2 million, 1941-'80.
communist and fascist regimes accounted for 84 percent of democidal deaths during the period studied, BUT COMMUNISM IS COOL, LIKE KILLING BABIES
What states murdered the most as a percentage of population?
The undisputed leader is Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, which killed more than 8 percent of its people per year between 1975 and 1979, and 31 percent of its men overall.
COMMUNISM IS COOL, LIKE WORMDIRT
Runners-up: the Ataturk regime in Turkey (which continued to murder Armenians), 2.6 percent annually, 1919-'23 (703,000); Yugoslavia (Ustasha regime in Croatia), 2.5 percent, 1941-'45 (655,000); Poland, 2 percent, 1945-'48 (1.6 million); the Young Turk regime in Turkey (the triumvirate you mention), 1 percent, 1909-'18 (1.8 million--domestic killings only).
The Soviet Union, just to give you a benchmark, killed 0.4 percent of its population annually between 1917 and 1987--if America did the same, at current population levels that'd be over a million dead each year. Because Rummel's compilation ends in 1987, it doesn't include ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo (probably around 10,000, 1999) and the massacres in Rwanda (800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, 1994).
Rummel observes that communist and fascist regimes accounted for 84 percent of democidal deaths during the period studied, leading him to comment, "Power kills, and absolute Power kills absolutely."
communist and fascist regimes accounted for 84 percent, Power kills, and absolute Power kills absolutely."
Interesting. I didn't know that. My main reason for posting this was the numbers on genocide in the 20th century from mostly communist regimes.
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Not all the Cherokee's left for OK. If you look at USGS topo maps of the area around Murphy and Andrews, NC, you can see small, rectangular blocks scattered across the area. These are federal reservation areas that have been held by the Cherokee since the 1800's and are separate from the main reservation at Cherokee, NC.
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As to the Indians and the trail of tears, I don't know about the Cherokee, but the Choctaws were sold out by their leaders. Many of the leaders received a lot of money and property for helping to force the Choctaws into OK. "Twas ever thus!!"
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I thought that this thread was going to remind us that Andrew Jackson, "TRAIL OF TEARS" was not only a Democrat, but that he is one of the more revered Democrats.
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BTW, with regard to the U.S.'s treatment of the Indians, it is interesting to note that during the Indian War Campaigns, a number of Indians that were serving in the U.S. Army were awarded the Medal of Honor (approx. 15 I believe). What is more, they kept their CMH's even after a large number of awardees had their medals revoked in 1915. U.S. Army Center of Military History
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As to the Indians and the trail of tears, I don't know about the Cherokee, but the Choctaws were sold out by their leaders. Many of the leaders received a lot of money and property for helping to force the Choctaws into OK. "Twas ever thus!!"
W.M.Thackery said: "Even as the ones who hates the Irish the most are the Irish, so too the greatest enemy of women are women."
So what happened to the Choctaws -- manipulated and betrayed by their so-called leaders-- has happened and still happens to every group of people. (Jesse Jackson, call your office)
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To add: The Cherokees are and were a very large nation because they conquered, absorbed many smaller tribes. They absorbed or killed many Creeks, Lumbee, etc.
The Cherokees fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, taking many Federal scalps. There are many still in the Blue Ridge, making nice money off stupid white men who gamble it away. As atrocities go, I think you have to see the whole of human history to mount a real criticism. The saddest thing about the Trail of Tears was having to leave the high, cool Cataloochee for the dry prairie.
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I believe there were state laws passed in Georgia that made it progressively more difficult for Cherokee to conduct business in their own lands there. Some of the laws were blatantly racist. There was lawlessness on both sides of the river-- land lotteries gave away many acres to political favorites, and the white masses were more or less encouraged to squat on Cherokee lands. This was eventually legalized by the state over the objections of the Cherokee (who after all had been previously lawful landowners).
Cherokee appealed to the Supreme Court, and waited while their lands continued to be taken over by hook or crook.
Some Cherokee crossed into Tennessee, where they set up a government in exile for a few years. (Tenn. was more friendly to Cherokee although they had nothing to lose by being so.)
Finally many Cherokee were rounded up and sent to military prisons in N. Georgia and S. Tennessee. IIRC there were many deaths at these camps before the start of the Trail of Tears.
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The only reason why the Left LOATHES Andy Jackson(who, ironically was the first Democrat president.) is because he shut down the National Bank.
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Well, Jackson wasn't such a prince. While I think the Trail of Tears saga functions with much exaggeration, Jackson enjoyed many years of help and alliance with the Cherokees, only to sell them down the Pigeon Forge River...
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"The native population of North America, as large as 15 million in 1500, had been reduced to less than 250,000 by 1890."
Wow...15 million native americans sounds like a lot for that time period, But I don't have any better numbers. Does anyone know the size of the Comanche population during the 1800's. They were as unimaginably cruel and murderous as these f#@kin islamic jihadist inbreds. Everyone hated them including other indian tribes. They killed pretty much everything that ever walked, crawled, flew or swam. Their favorite sport was to torture and mutilate their enemies (that's anyone that was not comanche) then barbacue them alive and upside down over a nice hot fire. I'm not sure they ever survived in very large numbers. The US army ended up having to kill most of them I think because of their unrepentent murderous nature. I'd be curious to know what the surviving comanche population is. It might be of some interest to our islamic jihadist friends as well since they are likely headed toward a similar fate.
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Are we at the final crossroads?
Are we at the crossroads of our Country and our World? We are Americans, we have always been the basic design for freedom in the world. We are same people who have fought and died for freedom all over the world, and to think we are ready to give up our basic beliefs and freedoms. Giving them up to people who believe that the world should be controlled by one government. Is that to be our fate, are our children and grand children going to be raised other than American? We have people right here in this country that feel that way and some of them are high up in our own government. The theorists of the Global Economy and those who are advocates of open borders are just the first wave. We are being sold out from within and the snow job has been so great that no one is even actively fighting it. It all sounds so ridiculous that I even hate to put my name to it, but if you look at the events of the last few decades and put them in order what do you come up with?
1. We have allowed the United Nations to locate here in America, and in doing so gave them total diplomatic immunity to our laws. Giving them a place to spy and gather information on us.
2. We slowly allow much of our Gross National Product to be shipped offshore in the form of jobs and allow the products to come back with little on no duty involved.
3. We add NAFTA to the mix and offer them duty free access to our country through Mexico. We even offer to build them a highway to the middle of our country to haul their goods.
4. Our government turns its back on the fact that we have at least 20 million illegal immigrants living among us, using up our medical facilities and placing huge demands on our schools and our public works.
5. We are told we do not have enough natural resources to support ourselves, so we import billions of barrels of oil from the Middle East giving them in return Trillions of our dollars. We do this when it’s well known that we have large resources available for drilling right here in our own area of the world.
6. We are being sold a ‘Bill of Goods’ about Global Warming, and how we must believe without proof that it exists. We are told that we can buy Carbon Credits and it will help our earth somehow. The only thing green about this scam is the money that is being made off of it. It has added huge cost increases to every product we make here in America, and who pays for it? We do.
7. This is not something that either political party is responsible for, this is far bigger than the Republicans and the Democrats here in America. This is a global push for control and if you want to find the source, find the money trail. It’s a private club that only the richest can join.
8. The Europeans were told that going to the ‘Euro’ would help their economy. What it has done is help the economy of the poorer nations in the area and depleted the richer ones treasuries. Who benefits from this, only the club members who bought into these third world countries and have made billions in the process. The same people who have dreams of controlling the world and have the money to do so. I’ll bet they have a few Carbon Credits to sell too.
Now I don’t want to sound like a total Whacko, but I’m afraid for our way of life. I don’t think every day Americans ever believed that this could happen here. I think this global financial crisis is just another step in the plan. Out of panic we allow ourselves to lose more and more freedoms. Freedoms that are sacred to our way of life. The United States Government buying into business and financial institutions is unheard of, it’s Socilaism, and it’s the first step towards total government control. What privately held company can compete with the government? Have you priced ammunition lately? It is getting scarcer and higher priced daily. Gee, do you suppose they don’t want us to have any?
I believe the start of this was when we allowed foreign countries to buy America. I know, it’s been going on for a long time but did you know how much money we have allowed China to invest here in America? Do you know how much money we have given the Saudi’s to buy our country with? This is money that we have given them because we have not allowed ourselves to be self sufficient in oil. It may be too late for us to drill for oil, maybe we should just drill into their bank vaults. Who owns our big companies and banks anyway, do we even know? How much of Citi Bank does China own?
For years we supplied the world with food, we were always known as the ‘Bread Basket of the World.’ Now we can barely afford to run our family farms and make a living. The government decided we should turn our corn into gasoline and what happened? They destroyed the corn market and raised food prices everywhere. We now have the Global Warmists in the government taxing the cattle ranchers, because their cows give off methane gas. If that was a real problem the plains must have been terrible in the 1800’s with those millions of Buffalo just wandering around passing gas. I guess old Buffalo Bill Cody and the boys who shot them for their pelts did the world a favor.
If I sound disgusted it’s because I really am. We need to somehow get back to reality in this country. The idea of the political correctness police running our country is appalling to me. I still believe we have enough people who believe in America, to get our country back. We don’t need to be isolationists but we don’t need to be globalists either. What ever happened to good old COMMON SENSE?
And that’s my opinion,
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In March 1999 Raitt was in HAVANA, CUBA to play at the Karl Marx Theatre along with a few other American musicians, including Peter Buck of R.E.M., another Vote for Change band. In Havana, Raitt met with and embraced Fidel Castro. On stage, she sang a new song she had composed in Castro’s honor titled “Cuba Is Way Too Cool!” Among its lyrics: “It’s just a happy little island!” and “Big bad wolf [a reference to the United States] you look the fool!”
BONNIE RAITT
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By Lowell Ponte
October 7, 2004
* Musician
* Former member of Vote for Change
* Supported the Communist Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua
* Composed a song to honor Fidel Castro titled “Cuba Is Way Too Cool!”
Bonnie Raitt is a blues and rock musician. In 2004 she was a member of Vote for Change, a coalition of musicians that raised money for America Coming Together in an effort to help John Kerry (BUY) win that year's presidential election. NOW HELPED OBAMA COMMUNIST/JIHADIST BUY THE WHITE HOUSE.
Raitt was born November 8, 1949 in Burbank, California, daughter of famed singer John Raitt, who starred in such Broadway musicals as Carousel and The Pajama Game during the 1940s and 1950s. She grew up in Los Angeles and New York City in “a politically active Quaker household,” was playing guitar by age nine, and developed a passion for political protest songs. She would later tell People magazine that in her teens, she “thought [protest folksinger] Joan Baez was just about God.”
During the early 1960s, Raitt attended what she would later describe as a “progressive Quaker camp … that had a lot of counselors from the East Coast colleges where a lot of interest in folk music and civil rights and the peace movement was mushrooming. ... So that kind of tied music and politics together for me.”
Raitt attended Harvard-affiliated Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, became radicalized through protests against the Vietnam War and other activism, and studied African culture with the goal of becoming a social worker in Tanzania. Instead, she told People, she began “hangin’ out with 70-year-old blues guys who drank at 10 in the morning. My parents were a little concerned.” She would learn her craft by playing with such blues legends as Howlin’ Wolf, Mississippi Fred McDowell and especially Sippie Wallace.
Raitt dropped out of Radcliffe College, and within a few months, at age 21, she signed with Warner Brothers Records, which released her debut album Bonnie Raitt in 1971. Warner would release eight additional Raitt albums between 1972 and 1986.
Alcoholic and overweight, Raitt was praised by critics but found relatively little commercial success during her first two decades in the music industry. Then at age 40, with renewed sobriety gained through the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, she made the 1989 career-saving album Nick of Time for Capitol Records that produced four Grammys and “overnight” stardom. In 1991 Luck of the Draw opened the way to three more Grammys.
As a political activist, Raitt has embraced a wide range of leftwing causes. In 1979 she co-founded the anti-nuclear power group M.U.S.E. (Musicians United for Safe Energy) with Graham Nash and Jackson Browne. At Browne’s urging, she performed in places like Tucson, Arizona to support the Sanctuary Movement through which local law-enforcement and other government agencies refused to cooperate with federal efforts to apprehend illegal aliens. Also active in environmental causes, she is a longtime supporter of the Rainforest Action Network.
Raitt was a signatory to a July 28, 2000 political advertisement in the New York Times calling for an immediate end to the economic sanctions against Iraq, charging that the United States was responsible for "killing … over one million Iraqis, mostly children under five." Fellow signers included Rosie O'Donnell, Thomas Gumbleton, Pete Seeger, Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, James Lawson, Ed Asner, Mike Farrell, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Martin Sheen, Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, and Noam Chomsky.
Raitt and a former producer for the Rolling Stones in 1996 were, according to one report, putting together an album “with high-profile rockers pounding out rhythms to back Chomsky’s lyrics.”
Raitt supported the Soviet-backed, Cuban-backed Sandinista dictatorship in Nicaragua during the 1980s. She performed at a concert to raise funds for the Christic Institute, which also supported the Sandinistas and spread blood libels against the U.S. military in Latin America.
In March 1999 Raitt was in HAVANA, CUBA to play at the Karl Marx Theatre along with a few other American musicians, including Peter Buck of R.E.M., another Vote for Change band. In Havana, Raitt met with and embraced Fidel Castro. On stage, she sang a new song she had composed in Castro’s honor titled “Cuba Is Way Too Cool!” Among its lyrics: “It’s just a happy little island!” and “Big bad wolf [a reference to the United States] you look the fool!”
While Raitt was in Havana, so was journalist David Corn, now Washington correspondent for The Nation. Corn witnessed Raitt telling Cuban journalists that it was “good to be here while Cuba is still not so under the influence of the West.”
In recent years, Raitt has donated money to the political campaigns of Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, James Webb, Claire McCaskell, Sherrod Brown, Keith Ellison, Barbara Lee, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Walter Mondale, Jim McGovern, Ralph Nader, John Kerry, Frank Lautenberg, Dianne Feinstein, and numerous others.
She has also contributed money to the Democratic State Central Committee of California, MoveOn.org, America Coming Together, the Green Party of the United States, the Democratic Party of Arkansas, the Texas Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of South Carolina, Voters for Choice, the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, the Progressive Politics Network, the Maine Democratic State Committee, the Missouri Democratic State Committee, Pax Americas, and others.
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By Lowell Ponte
October 7, 2004
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By Brent Bozell
August 16, 2004
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* Rock musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist
* Raised funds for the Sandinista Marxist-supporting Christic Institute
* Joined other musicians in 2004 Vote for Change anti-George W. Bush concert tour organized by leftwing MoveOn.org’s Political Action Committee
Bruce Frederick Springsteen is a rock musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist, and longtime leftwing political activist. In 2004 he was active in Vote for Change, an alliance of "progressive" musicians and bands coordinated by the political action committee of MoveOn.org.
Springsteen was born in 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey, the first child of Irish-American bus driver Douglas Springsteen and his Italian-American wife Adele Zirilli. "I didn't grow up in a very political household," Springsteen said in a 2004 Rolling Stone interview, recalling that when he was in grade school his mother told him: "We're Democrats, 'cause Democrats are for the working people."
"I was politicized by the Sixties," Springsteen elaborated. But a more revealing version of how this high-school dropout was radicalized comes from Dave Marsh in his 1987 biography Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s. "Springsteen grew up in a classically anti-intellectual environment," wrote Marsh. "When he signed his first record contract, he claimed the only two books he'd read were The Godfather and Tony Scaduto's biography of Bob Dylan. But after [Springsteen's manager] Brandeis-educated Jon Landau gave Bruce a couple of pushes in the right direction, the singer responded with the voraciousness of the born autodidact."
In 1975, the young Springsteen was simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek. He was being marketed as the next Bob Dylan, who was enamored of Dust Bowl folksinger Woody Guthrie (described by Marsh as "a Marxist disillusioned with the America of fable"). Springsteen soon identified himself with Guthrie, too.
Springsteen also began studying the History of the United States by Henry Steele Commager and Allen Nevins, two New Deal left-liberals who depicted the United States as a land shaped by racial bigotry and class warfare. "I'm thirty-one now and I just started to read the history of the United States," he told a cheering 1980 audience in Paris, according to Marsh. “I started to learn about how things got to be the way they are today, how you end up a victim without even knowing it. And how people get old and just die after not having hardly a day's satisfaction or peace of mind in their lives.”
In a music business run by leftists in New York City and Los Angeles -- and that markets its rock-and-roll product to rebellious adolescents -- the left ideology with which Landau programmed the working-class Springsteen helped both men climb the ladder of success and wealth. Landau introduced the musician to Bob Muller, who, like 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, had been an activist in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Springsteen's popular song, "Born in the U.S.A.," is written from the negative viewpoint of such a Vietnam veteran. When conservative columnist George Will persuaded President Ronald Reagan to praise the 1984 song as pro-American, Springsteen distanced himself from the compliments of Will and Reagan.
In 1979 Springsteen performed at the MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) anti-nuclear power concert, whence came the album No Nukes. This concert featured other leftist musicians who 25 years later were again with Springsteen on the anti-Bush, pro-John Kerry 2004 Vote for Change tour -- Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor. The MUSE concert was the first of many rock concerts organized to raise money and popular support for leftwing causes.
In 1990 Springsteen did a fundraiser for the Christic Institute, which claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency was flooding America's inner cities with cocaine to raise money for the anti-Marxist contras in Central America.
In June 2000 Springsteen debuted a song that referenced the fatal New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an illegal immigrant from Africa who the officers mistakenly thought was reaching for a gun. The song carried the provocative refrain of "41 shots, 41 shots.”
Springsteen over the years has also contributed his talents to raise funds for food banks, protest factory closings, support labor unions, bring attention to the Human Rights Now tour of Amnesty International, and many other concerns.
Another influence who has pulled Springsteen to the political left is childhood friend and on-again, off-again guitarist for his E Street Band, Steven ("Little Steven") Van Zandt, a Noam Chomsky acolyte who views the United States as the successor of Nazi Germany. Van Zandt persuaded Springsteen to perform the Artists United Against Apartheid song "Sun City."
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Opposition to Fidel Castro
Politics and government of
Cuba
Institutions
* Constitution
* National Assembly of People's Power
* Council of State
* Council of Ministers
* Supreme Court
* Provinces
* Municipalities
* Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
People and organizations
* President
o Raúl Castro
* First Vice President
o José R. Machado Ventura
* Vice President
o Juan Almeida Bosque
o Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
* Prime Minister
* Political parties
o Communist Party of Cuba
* Opposition
The opposition to Fidel Castro's Marxist government is largely unofficial and illegal within Cuba itself. Outside the country groups in the United States and elsewhere have pursued various means, both peaceful and violent, to challenge the Cuban government since the Cuban revolution in 1959. The most concentrated focus of opposition is amongst the Cuban-American exile community in the US, particularly in Miami, Florida, where historical ties to Cuba are strongest.
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Opposition groups and parties in Cuba
There are a number of opposition parties and groups that campaign for political change in Cuba. Though amendments to the Cuban Constitution of 1992 decriminalized the right to form political parties other than the Communist Party of Cuba, these parties are not permitted to engage in public political activities on the island. Whilst most of the opposition parties campaign for some form of democratic change in Cuba, the Christian Democratic Party of Cuba and several Social Democratic parties have been critical of the United States embargo against Cuba.
Other groups which attempt to bring change through the socialist political process include the "Proyecto Varela", led by Oswaldo Payá. The organization reported having collected more than 10,000 signatures for a referendum requesting freedom of the press, freedom to form political parties, and freedom to create private business. According to Amnesty International their methods were non-violent, and their philosophy was democratic. [1] The government responded with its own petition drive to make the socialist system "untouchable", for which the government claimed 99% voter approval.[2]
Oppositional Political Parties within Cuba
* List of political parties in Cuba
OFFICIAL PARTIES CASTRO, CASTRO OR CASTRO WITH TRIBUTE TO COMRADE JOHN LENNON OF THE BEATLES IN LENNON PARK.
Groups within Cuba
* Christian Liberation Movement--is a group of Catholics that was founded by Oswaldo Payá
* Ladies in White
* Lawton Foundation- An organization to promote the "study, defense and denunciation of human rights inside Cuba". The group was formed by Oscar Elías Biscet.
* The Assembly to Promote Civil Society--An organization headed by Marta Beatriz Roque that coordinates the efforts of numerous other opposition groups.
Opposition outside of Cuba
There is a large exiled Cuban-American population residing in the United States, especially in and around Miami, FL. Those who oppose Castro are represented in part by the Cuban-American lobby, which campaigns for the U.S. government to maintain the U.S. embargo against Cuba and to press the Cuban government for political change. Other Cuban-American groups, many of them also opposed to Castro, advocate different policies, opposing the embargo and favoring more cultural and economic engagement. The Cuban government alleges Miami-based exiles of organizing over 700 armed incursions against Cuba over the past 40 years such as Alpha 66's 1994 and 1995 machine-gun attacks on the Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel.
On September 8, 2006, it was revealed that at least ten South Florida journalists received regular payments from the U.S. government for programs on Radio Martí and TV Martí, two broadcasters aimed at undermining the brutal Cuban police state. The payments totaled thousands of dollars over several years. Those who were paid the most were veteran reporters and a freelance contributor for El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language newspaper published by the corporate parent of The Miami Herald. The Cuban dictatorship has long contended that some South Florida Spanish-language journalists were on the federal payroll.[3]
In November 2006, U.S. Congressional auditors accused the development agency USAID of failing properly to administer its program to promote democracy in Cuba. They said that USAID had channelled tens of millions of dollars through exile groups in Miami, which were sometimes wasteful or kept questionable accounts. The report said the organisations had sent items such as chocolate and cashmere jerseys to Cuba. Their report concludes that 30% of the exile groups who received USAID grants showed questionable expenditures.[4]
Incidents of violence in Cuba
Groups opposing the Cuban government have been linked with numerous acts of violence outside Cuba, many of which occurred in South Florida. Acts have also occurred in other U.S. regions and at least sixteen other countries.[5] A series of bombings in Miami in the mid 1970s led to hearings before a U.S. Subcommittee to investigate internal security.[6] Notable cases of violence targeting individuals include that of Luciano Nieves, who was murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba, and WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian who survived a car bomb but lost his legs after he publicly condemned Cuban exile violence.[5]
Bomb attacks continued into the 1990s, targets have included the Mexican Consulate in Miami, the Venezuelan Consulate, an American Airways Charter company which arranges flights to Cuba, and the Miami Cuban Museum of Art and Culture which was targeted after an auction of paintings by Cuban artists. In 1992 Human Rights Watch released a report stating that hard-line Miami exiles have created an environment in which "moderation can be a dangerous position."[5] The report also found significant responsibility by the U.S. government at all levels.[7]
Anti-Castro Resistances groups, WHILE NFL HAS PRO-CASTRO SPECTACULOR
* Abdala
* Alpha 66 - A paramilitary group formed in 1961. Have attempted several dozen unauthorized military infiltrations against Cuba.[1].
* Anti-Castro Commando
* Anti-Communist Commandos
* Condor
* Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU - includes Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles)
* Cuba Action
* Cuba Action Commandos
* Cuban Anti-Communist League
* Cuban C-4
* Movement Cuban Liberation Front
* Cuban National Liberation Front (FLNC)
* Cuban Power (el Poder Cubano)
* Cuban Power
* Cuban Representation in Exile
* Cuban Revolutionary Directorate
* Cuban Revolutionary Organization
* Cuban Youth Group International
* Secret Revolutionary United Cells
* JCN (expansion unknown)
* Latin American Anti-Communist Army
* Movement of Cuban Justice Movement of the Seventh (M-7)
* National Integration Front (FIN; Cuban Nationalist Front)
* Omega 7
* Pedro Luis Boitel
* Command Pedro Ruiz Botero
* Commandos Pragmatistas
* Scorpion (el Alacran)
* Second Front of Escambray
* Secret Anti-Castro Cuban Army
* Secret Cuban Government
* Secret Hand Organization
* Secret Organization Zero
* Secret Sneakys
* Young Cubans
* Youths of the Star
Other groups
* Cuba Democracy Caucus - A bicameral and bi-partisan congressional group that was created with the stated purpose of "promoting discussion and proactive policies designed to hasten Cuba's transition towards a free and democratic society."
* Brothers to the Rescue - A group of Cuban-American activists whose primary objective is to aid Cuban refugees and immigration seekers. The group have also attempted to distribute oppositional literature in Cuba via airdrops over Cuban territory.
* US-Cuba Democracy Pac - A special interest group that lobbies the United States Congress and White House with the stated goal of "promoting an unconditional transition in Cuba to democracy, the rule of law, and the free market." [2]
* Cuban Liberty Council - Lobbying group for Cuban-Americans in the United States.[3]
* Cuban American National Foundation - Lobbying group for Cuban-Americans in the United States. [4]
* International Committee for Democracy in Cuba Group headed by former Czech president Vaclav Havel aimed to coordinate the approach of European and western hemisphere countries towards Castro’s government. [5]
* Cuban Libertarian Movement - a loose network of collectives and individuals comprising the Cuban anarchist movement, which is anti-capitalist, anti-Castro, and seeks change along libertarian socialist/libertarian communist or similar lines.
* Vigilia Mambisa - A group of Cuban-American demonstrators headed by Miguel Saavedra and known for their street-theater tactics and their rapid response to calls for protest aired on Miami Spanish-language stations such as WAQI AM-710 (Radio Mambi) and WWFE 670-AM (La Poderosa).[8]
[edit] Historical events
* The Escambray Rebellion (1959 - 1965) - groups of Cubans that had fought side by side with Castro against Batista's government and many who did not want Cuban falling to a Communist Regime, began to take up arms against the new Communist regime, particularly in the Escambray Mountains region of Cuba. The Cuban government labeled them as bandits. By July 26, 1965 Fidel Castro claimed to have abolished "all the Bandits in Cuba."
* Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961) - The Brigade 2506, a military force of about 1,300 Cuban expatriates, with support of the US government, invaded the Giron beaches ("Ataque a La Playa Girón"). This is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This attempt to depose the Revolutionary Government ended in failure. After the Brigade had already engaged in battle, John F. Kennedy cancelled the order for air support, and despite fighting against superior numbers for three days, they surrendered only after their ammo was spent. Thousands of prisoners were taken by the Cuban government.
* The Cuban Project (1961 - 1962) - US President John F. Kennedy initiated a CIA operation on November 30, 1961 to "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime" aiming "for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962." The covert plan was intended to fuel anti-Castro sentiments provoking an overthrow of the government or assassination attempts on Castro. The Cuban Project played a significant role in the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The operation was suspended on October 30, 1962, but three six-man sabotage teams had already been deployed to Cuba, and on November 8, 1962, one six-man CIA team blew up a Cuban industrial facility without permission.
* Bombing of Cubana Flight 455. On October 6, 1976 two time bombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board. Evidence implicated several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban Exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP.
* Ibero-American Summit Dissidents (1999) - About a dozen opposition groups claiming peaceful opposition to Castro's one-party state urged Ibero-American leaders to back their cause. 40 dissidents planning the gathering were arrested in Havana before the Ibero-American Summit. [6]
[edit] See also
Cuba portal
* Cuba and democracy
* Human rights in Cuba
* Censorship in Cuba
[edit] References
1. ^ "Cuba - Massive crackdown on dissent". Amnesty International. August 28 2003. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250082003?op
en&of=ENG-CUB. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
2. ^ "Cuba backs permanent socialism". BBC News. 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2069057.stm. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.
3. ^ 10 Miami journalists take U.S. pay Miami Herald September 8 2006
4. ^ Cuba aid money 'wasted' by exiles, BBC News, 16 November 2006. Accessed online 18 November 2006.
5. ^ a b c The Burden of a Violent History Miami New Times. Apr 20, 2000.
6. ^ Terroristic Activity : Terrorism in the Miami Area Miami Public pages.
7. ^ Cuba Human rights watch report
8. ^ Have Bullhorn, Will Travel Miami New Times Dec. 7, 2000.
[edit] External links
[edit] General links
* International Freedom of Expression Exchange - Monitoring freedom of expression in Cuba.
* Human Rights Watch - Report from Human Rights Watch about Cuba.
* Letter from Cuba (Independent Press from Inside and Outside Cuba) Web site in Spanish and English with articles by Cubans inside of Cuba and outside. From San Juan, Puerto Rico.
* PDF document from the Carter Center - President Jimmy Carter announcing publicly in the Aula Magna the resting place of Félix Varela in University of Havana to the Cuban people about the existence of Proyecto Varela transmitted by the government's own TV station.
* Vitral - Vitral magazine published in English and Spanish from Cuba by Cubans independent of Castro's government; published by the Service of the Civic and Religious Education Center of Pinar del Río.
* The Cuban Revolution - A Critical Perspective by Sam Dolgoff Covers Cuba's long history of anarchist movements and the nature of the current Cuban system as seen from the radical left.
* Cuban Anarchism - The History of A Movement by Frank Fernandez Frank Fernandez's 2001 book on anarchism in Cuba. He writes extensively on many trends and schools of thought related to Cuba and its history, from colonial times to the present.
Opposition Groups
* Free Cuba Foundation - Official Web Site for the Free Cuba Foundation
* Cuban Liberty Council - Official Web Site for the Cuban Liberty Council
* US-Cuba Democracy Pac- Official Web Site for the US-Cuba Democracy Pac.
* Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) - Official Web Site for the CANF.
* Proyecto Varela - Official Web Site for Proyecto Varela.
* Movimiento Libertario Cubano - Official Web Site of the MLC (Cuban anarchist movement)
Escambray war
* The forgotten war - Fighting Against Castro in Cuba.
Bay of Pigs invasion
* ParaScope: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
* History of Cuba - Bay of Pigs Invasion.
* Brigada 2506 - Bay of Pigs Invasion; includes pictures of the fallen.
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URGENT, PLEASE READ AND FOLLOWUP. For the last two years I have been asking you all to get involved in the greatest injustice perpetrated on law enforcement. Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos have been locked up in Federal Prison long enough. The President has only a few days left to pardon these two Border Guards whose only crime was to shoot a drug smuggler in the rear end as he tried to escape capture. The man was carrying a large amount of drugs and was known to the Border Patrol as a mule for the cartels. I don’t know about you but I would rather have a drug smuggler with a bullet in his butt in prison than two guys who were defending my country. Federal Prosecutor, Johnny Sutton saw it differently and actually indemnified the smuggler so he could come here and testify. A few weeks later he was re arrested carrying more drugs to sell on our city streets. I guess he couldn’t get away so fast this time because he had a bullet in his butt. This travesty has gone on long enough. If anyone should be in prison it’s this prosecutor. Please take time right now to write to the White House and demand this pardon. This is a reprint of an article I posted several weeks ago and time is running out for these men.
REPRINT FROM NOVEMBER 12. 2008
One last time Mr. Bush, here’s your chance to redeem your self in the eyes of many. You have two Border Agents Compean and Ramos locked up in Federal Prison for doing what 90% of Americans wanted them to do. It’s in your power to commute their sentences and bring them back to their families. These men are hero’s to most Americans and are considered political prisoners by the Bush Administration. They should be released immediately and they should receive 100% of their back pay. Your Federal Prosecutor Johnny Sutton painted a picture of a poor itinerant Mexican just trying to make a living he met these two Border Agents who were on patrol in an area assigned to them to prevent smugglers and illegal aliens from entering the country. These two bullies shot this poor Mexican in cold blood in the rump as he tried to get away with his 700 pounds of dope. Come on Mr. Bush enough is enough. This Mexican who was shot was given immunity by Sutton to testify against these men and soon after was re arrested for smuggling even more dope into the country. If they had just aimed a little higher we would have less junk on our streets. These men have had to be placed in solitary confinement for their own protection as they are surrounded by Mexican drug smugglers in these prisons. It would be like you being placed in a prison with Al Qaeda prisoners who are sworn to kill you. What are you thinking Mr. President? What kind of deal with Mexico could you possibly have to keep these brave men incarcerated?
You have asked and received support from many of us for the war in Iraq. Actually we are embroiled in three wars Mr. President, Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on drugs which we are losing badly. We have documented cases of actual military incursions across our border where the Mexican Soldiers have guarded the escape of drug smugglers even firing their weapons in the process. All this and you let Sutton keep these two locked up in a living heii. I voted for you twice and I must say I am totally disappointed in your last term. Most of us were so proud of the way you took charge after 9/11 but you have failed badly in all areas of the domestic front. You have personally set back the Conservative Movement at least ten years. Please Mr. President I beseech you, release these men immediately and remove all stigma from their record. They and their families have suffered greatly at hands of your administration.
Ask the people of this Nation who they would call a hero, Scooter Libby whom you released immediately or Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean who are still locked up in prison. I guess if you’re not a Washington insider it just doesn’t count.
America it’s our fight now, we have do everything in our power to get these men released. They were doing their job trying to protect us when they were caught up in some insider event that I believe had nothing to do with what actually happened. The politics involved in this goes much deeper than just the wounding of a known drug smuggler. Cops shoot it out and wound drug dealers all the time and nothing ever is said about it, why then is this injustice still going on?
And that’s my Opinion,
Don
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Fishery Council Bans Commercial Salmon Fishing In OR, CA 10 Apr 2008 West Coast fisheries managers have voted to cancel all commercial salmon fishing off the California and Oregon coasts this year. Scientists and government officials are expecting this year’s West Coast salmon season to be one of the worst in history.THE SAME SCIENTISTS THAT MAD AL GORE RICH WITH HIS GLOBAL WARMING SCAM?
There was a fuss recently over legislation requiring a moment of silence in Illinois classrooms. But maybe we should consider a daily moment of silence - for the 200-some species going extinct every day.
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PERFECT-RACERS, DEMOCRATS
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE(HEARSE)'S MOUTH:
SEE BLACKGENOCIDE.ORG FOR DAMAGES
AMERICAN EUGENICS SOCIETY 1922-1994
Copyright Feb. 3, 1993 Katharine O'Keefe
(rev. December 8, 1993 ver. 6.8)
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EUGENICS, PERFECT RACERS
CONTENTS OF AMERICAN EUGENICS
This book documents the means by which eugenic goals have been introduced
into the mainstream of American intellectual and political life, and the
extent to which this mainstreaming has occurred.
Eugenics is a concept familiar to Americans as an overarching policy
consideration of the Third Reich. "Eugenics" subsumes such notions as
racial purity, racial superiority, and the heritability of intelligence,
virtue, or vice. Although Hitler is its most notorious proponent, eugenic
thinking has been a prominent strand in Western intellectual history since
the 1860's, when Darwin's disciple, Francis Galton, began to put about the
idea that the governing classes of England ought to take it upon themselves
to guide the development of the human genetic heritage. A good history of
these early days of eugenic thinking can be found in The Legacy of Malthus
by Allen Chase. A good short discussion of the early days of eugenics can
be found in Aristotle to Zoos by Peter Medawar, a member of the English
Eugenics Society. He quotes Galton, as follows:
"I do not see why any insolence of caste should prevent the gifted
class, when they had the power, from treating their compatriots
with all kindness, so long as they maintained celibacy. But if
these continued to procreate children inferior in moral, intellectual
and physical qualities, it is easy to believe the time may come
when such persons would be considered as enemies to the State, and
to have forfeited all claims to kindness." (Fraser's Magazine 7
[1873] quoted in Aristotle to Zoos., Peter and Jean Medawar, 1983 p.
87)
By the turn of the 20th century, such ideas were commonplace. Margaret
Sanger, a member of both the American Eugenics Society and the English
Eugenics Society, is a famous proponent of eugenics from that time; we may
recall any one of numerous examples from her writings. For example,
"Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly
... Funds that should be used to raise the standard of our
civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who should never
have been born." (from The Pivot of Civilization quoted in Margaret
Sanger. by Elsah Droghin.)
The eugenic ideas of Margaret Sanger and others have been the philosophy of
the major birth control groups from the beginning until now. For example,
"Race Building in a Democracy" was the topic at the 1940 joint meeting of
the Birth Control Federation of America and the Citizens Committee for
Planned Parenthood. The Federation then said: "We, too, [like Hitler's
regime] recognize the problem of race building, but our concern is with
the quality of our people, not with their quantity alone ... "It is
entirely fitting that 'Race Building in a Democracy' should have been
chosen as the theme of the ANNUAL MEETING of the Birth Control Federation
of America ..." (Birth Control Review, vol. XXIV, January 1940. See also
the entry in this book under Henry P. Fairchild)
One of the most influential opponents of eugenic thinking was G.K.
Chesterton, who wrote Eugenics and Other Evils. The rise of the
eugenicists to power in the mid-20th century in Nazi Germany is an oft-told
tale. Unfortunately, the moral generally drawn from this tale is that
flaws in the German character explain the Third Reich. It "all" happened
because Germans are too much in love with their own national heritage, or
too sentimental, or too docile before authority. These traits, combined
with antisemitism, "explain" the rise of Hitler. In other words, eugenical
thinking is supposedly a menace particular to German culture; the rest of
us need not examine our consciences except for German personality traits.
In truth, however, eugenical thinking has been spreading steadily in Western
culture throughout this century. Even after the German embarrassment,
the eugenicists kept right on pursuing the same goals they had always
pursued, the same goals that Hitler pursued. But the spread of eugenicism
after World War II in the United States is not well studied or documented;
hence this book.
The research presented in this book aims to further the study of post-World
War II eugenic influence in America. Earlier eugenicists, and foreign
eugenicists, are studied for the sake of the light they shed on the post-War
American context.
Eugenics in America
The conclusions drawn by the author from the data she has gathered are as
follows:
(1)Eugenical currents in England, America, and Germany were more similar
than different in the period 1922-1939. Thinkers in the three countries
were allied by friendship, by organizational ties, and by mutual reference
to each other's works.
(2)The American Eugenics Society is an important network of American
eugenicists connected with the English Eugenics Society (Galton Institute),
an important English/Commonwealth/ European eugenic network. The Society
survives and flourishes to the present day. Following a name change in
1973, it is now known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology.
The name change does not correspond to any alteration in the goals of the
Society.
(3)Eugenical thinkers in democracies presently use different tactics for
the implementation of eugenic goals than did the dictator Hitler. However,
democracy was and is, for eugenicists, merely a political obstacle course.
Eugenicists do not subscribe to the political culture of mutual respect
which corresponds to faith in democracy. This is shown by the employment
of systematic deceit as they pursue their goals in the political arena of
democracy.
(4)Eugenicists were embarrassed by Hitler. After the war, they instituted
various strategies to cover up the continued joint development of the
German, American, and English eugenic agendas. For example, they adopted
of the policy of "cryptoeugenics" or secret eugenics; and founded various
cover organizations such as the Population Council and the International
Planned Parenthood Federation. There is little evidence, however, that
American and English eugenicists learned any lesson from the German
debacle - except a lesson about public relations.
(5)The International Planned Parenthood Federation is one of a number of
organizations which (a) were wholly sympathetic with eugenic goals at the
time of their founding by eugenicists; (b) have carried out effective
eugenic programs since their founding; (c) present to the world a nominal
purpose which does not acknowledge a eugenic agenda. Shakespeare defined
the hypocrite as "the smiler with the knife" and "the smiler with the knife" is
wholly appropriate as a description of the hypocritical, eugenical
International Planned Parenthood Federation.
(6)The eugenic agenda is wicked and murderous, besides being presumptuous
and scientifically flawed. In pursuit of the illusion that they know how
to control and elevate human destiny by steering development of the gene
pool, eugenicists entertain methods of dealing with their fellows which
include murdering the weak, denying marriage to the "imperfect,"
discouraging the lonely and fragile from clinging to life, denigrating
romance and family life, and encouraging the denial of all human bonds of
mutual responsibility, care, and unselfish love.
(7)Eugenic leaders wish for secrecy with respect to their real agenda and
goals. This desire is probably based on a realistic estimate of their
support among their fellow men. It points up a weakness which can be
exploited by a eugenic watch. Nearly everyone revolts from eugenic ideas
once they hear the ideas clearly and accurately explained, and nearly
everyone objects to supporting the eugenic agenda, once they understand it.
The author's goal in writing this book is to lay out the institutions,
societies, and intellectual disciplines which have been founded by, governed
by or intellectually controlled by, members of the America Eugenics Society.
The object of this exercise is to encourage a healthy skepticism about the
likely purpose and effect of proposals put forth by these groups. For
example, Planned Parenthood is famous for its "efforts" to reduce teen
pregnancy, V.D., and the spread of AIDS. It is famous for its success,
however, only in reducing the number of live births to black and brown
parents. To know that Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicists, such
as Margaret Sanger and Medora Bass of Philadelphia, is to receive some
enlightenment as to why PP continues, year after year, to fail so
spectacularly at its stated goals, while succeeding equally spectacularly
at fostering a supposed side effect.
The author believes it will be helpful to the development of a deeper
understanding of the current American context to document in this way, the
strands of influence traceable to individuals who belong to the complex
network of the American Eugenics Society.
Organization
Chapter Two sets out the pre and post Hitler goals of the Society. Chapter
Three presents background information such as Society name changes,
Society journals and Society presidents, and an alphabetical list of
members. Known members of the American Eugenics Society (past and present)
and their known accomplishments are listed in Chapter Four. The next
chapter is an Index. Finally, there is an epilogue.
Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us.
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2. AMERICAN EUGENICS SOCIETY: GOALS
Pre Hitler Goal: Race building by conscious selection backed by force
-=1926=-
[sterilization could] "be applied to an ever widening circle of social
discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased and the insane,
and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings rather than
defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types" (from The Passing
of the Great Race by Madison Grant, co-founder American Eugenics Society)
Post Hitler Goal: Race building by "voluntary unconscious selection",
deception and manipulation
-=1956=-
"The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters ... We must ask
ourselves, what have we done wrong?
"I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost
universal and is very deep in human nature. People simply are not willing
to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character was formed
is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have
asked whole groups of people to accept this idea and we have asked
individuals to accept it. They have constantly refused and we have all but
killed the eugenic movement ... they won't accept the idea that they are in
general second rate. We must rely on other motivation. ... it is surely
possible to build a system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the
reasons advanced must be generally acceptable reasons. Let's stop telling
anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will
never agree. Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having
children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible
care, and perhaps our proposals will be accepted." (from "Galton and Mid
Century Eugenics" by Frederick Osborn, Galton Lecture 1956, in Eugenics
Review, vol. 48, 1, 1956)
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3. Background Information Tables
Names of the Society 1922-1993:
Society for the Study of Social Biology 1973-
American Eugenics Society Inc. 1926-1973
American Eugenics Society 1925-1926
Eugenics Society of the United States of America 1922-1925
*Eugenics Committee of the United States of America 1922-1926
International Commission on Eugenics Ad Interim Committee of the United
States of America or "American Ad Interim Committee" 1921
*Formally, the Eugenics Committee of the United States of America was
distinct from the Eugenics Society of the United States because the
Committee was appointed by the Second International Congress. The only
action we know the Committee to have taken is the organization of the
Eugenics Society of the United States, which became the American Eugenics
Society. The Committee was dissolved when the American Eugenics Society
was incorporated; and the Committee funds were then transferred to the
Society.
Addresses of the Society 1922-1991:
515 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 1991
Social Sciences Research Council 1989
230 Park Ave., Rm. 1522, New York, NY 1969-73
245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 1967-68
230 Park Ave., New York, NY 1951-1967
1790 Broadway, New York 19, NY 1943-50
RKO Building, Rockefeller Center 1940-41
50 West 50th St., New York, NY 1939
4 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven Connecticut 1935-39
185 Church St., New Haven, Connecticut 1922-35
Penn Terminal 1922
Notes on the addresses:
Yale University is in New Haven, Connecticut; 1790 Broadway was also the
address of the American Social Hygiene Association and the National
Committee for Mental Hygiene (1948); 230 Park Avenue is the Helmsley Hotel;
in the 80's and 90's the Society address given in the journal, Social
Biology, is the workplace address of the secretary. For example, when
Lonnie Sherrod was secretary, the address was the Social Sciences Research
Council where Sherrod worked.
Presidents:
Irving Fisher 1922-26 (Political Economy, Yale University)
Roswell H. Johnson 1926-27 (Cold Spring Harbor, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Harry Laughlin 1927-29 (Eugenics Record Office)
C. C. Little 1929 (Pres., Michigan University)
Henry Pratt Fairchild 1929-31 (Sociology, New York University)
Henry F. Perkins 1931-34 (Zoology, University of Vermont)
Ellsworth Huntington 1934-38 (Geography, Yale University)
Samuel Holmes 1938-40 (Zoology, University of California)
Maurice Bigelow 1940-45 (sex education, Columbia University)
Frederick Osborn 1946-52 (Osborn-Dodge-Harriman RR connection)
Harry L. Shapiro 1956-63 (American Museum of Natural History)
Clyde V. Kiser 1964-68 (differential fertility, Milbank Memor