Redefining the Lines

Every where you look today there’s a “special rights” group that is trying to change the rules of polite society. I’ve tried to be the good Christian and looked the other way – love the sinner while hating the sin. But you can’t do that, because just like errant children, when you give a “special rights” group an inch they will demand a mile. Give in to them in the slightest, and they want everything their way. So today I’m redefining the lines and suggesting ways for society to get back to some sense of sanity and decency. Let’s see how many special interest groups I can pee off in this one post……

Hate speech is an opinion and everyone is entitled to it. Really, this shouldn’t even be a part of our legal system today. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, regardless of how crass and upsetting it is. It is an opinion – deal with it! People have opinions about everybody and everything and it’s okay if some of those opinions are bad. They shouldn’t be crucified because they believe something. Opinions should be allowed as long as they aren’t acted on or single out a specific individual as a target. Society needs to drop the whole ‘politically correct’ crap and let people have their opinions without fear of being arrested for hate speech.

If you don’t mess with my right to believe in Christ then I won’t mess with your right to not believe. Seriously people! This country was founded on a belief in God and Christ. Therefore, it is the inherent right of the citizens of this country to openly believe in God and Christ. I’m sorry if you don’t believe that, but it is the truth – stop trying to change it. How would you like it if Christians demanded, based on the Constitution, that atheism be outlawed? By definition, atheism denies people their First Amendment rights. And guess what? You have no Constitutional rights in which to silence my beliefs because atheism – by its very definition – is not a religion but is instead a lack of religion.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

This means that you are entitled to your opinion (as mentioned above), but to take God out of the history books rewrites the history of this nation; to take God of our money denies the foundation on which our banks were created; and to take God out of our government is to turn our backs on the very foundation of this nation.

Stop changing the definition of ‘normal’. This is where I really get to pee people off……GAY is NOT normal. TRANSGENDER is NOT normal. HOMOSEXUALITY is NOT normal. Stop trying to change the core values and beliefs that this country was founded on in order to make special interest groups feel better about themselves. News flash – they’re NOT normal!!!! And I’m not sprouting opinion here, I’m stating FACT. Research using FMRI scans has shown that LGBT individuals have different brain scans and even different brain structuring than other individuals. So…stop teaching kids that “alternative” lifestyles are normal. Stop insisting that we change society to cater to their needs. And guess what? Suing someone for not doing business with an LGBT individual because it violates their religion is a direct violation of the First Amendment and you, my friend, are guilty of religious discrimination. Does this mean that LGBT individuals don’t deserve to be protected from discrimination? Absolutely not. They deserve to be protected from discrimination just as people of a different color, a different sex, or with a mental illness deserve to be protected. Everyone deserves to be protected from discrimination and harm, but if society catered to every difference then there would be no normal and chaos would reign (which is pretty much where we almost are).

Quit rewriting history. The beliefs and doctrines that this nation was founded on are the only ones that should be taught to young children in the public education system. Teaching that these values are antiquated, outdated, or no longer pertinent undermines the value of this nation and everything that it stands for. If parents want to teach their children differently, they have the right to do so at their own expense. And while I’m ranting about public education, keep politics out of the classroom. I pulled my kids out of public school when my 3rd grader told me that if I didn’t vote a certain way in an upcoming election then the school’s funding would be cut and they wouldn’t get the new playground that everybody wanted. Kids are there to learn, not be used as pawns!

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” does not equal free handouts! Our Constitution guarantees you the right to live, to live free, and to live your life pursuing your desires. No where in the Constitution does it guarantee you free food, free housing, free money, free cell phones, or free health care. Those items are gifts….from tax payers who work hard to earn the money that the government then takes in order to provide you with those things. You’re dang right you should have to pass a drug test to be able to get them since the taxpayers had to pass a drug test to earn the money to provide them. And you know what? While beholden to the taxpayers you should not be able to vote. Patients do not get to vote on the managing of hospitals and consumers don’t get to vote on the managing of companies. If you are not contributing then you don’t get a say. There are exceptions to this – if you are retired or disabled then you should have unlimited access to resources and still be able to vote.

So there they are…..the lines redefined. Remember, it’s not hate speech. It’s my opinion and I’m entitled to it.

ObamaLaw – coming to a police department near you! – Wrapping it up

This is the final part of my analysis of the Interim Report filed by the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing (a). This blog post is going to analyze the “Implementation” section of the report and then I’m going to wrap all of this up in a nice, neat, little package of truth and top it off with a bow of reality. Liberals and Obama-llama ding dongs are not going to like it. Tough crap. As a fellow patriot keeps reminding me, we’re way past the point of sugar-coating things.

Quick recap….the Task Force was created last December by way of Obama’s ‘pen and phone’ in direct response to the unrest in Ferguson. If you have read any of the other blog posts (b) you know that my biggest gripe with this whole issue is that they’re trying to fix something that isn’t broken while ignoring the real issue. Our police departments don’t need to be reformed – as evidenced by the fact that Officer Darren Wilson was acquitted of any wrong-doing and even Holder’s DOJ couldn’t find grounds on which to indict him. However, some populations today have a glaringly obvious and open contempt for authority and place no value on life or property. This population is what needs to be fixed, not the police departments trying desperately to deal with it. That makes the Interim Report complete and total bullshit except in use as liberal propaganda.

‘Implementation’…..

7.1 RECOMMENDATION: The President should direct all federal law enforcement agencies to review the recommendations made by the Task Force on 21st Century Policing and, to the extent practicable, to adopt those that can be implemented at the federal level.

Federal law enforcement agencies? Most of the recommendations in this report were aimed at local law enforcement agencies…so does that mean that local is soon to be federal?

7.2 RECOMMENDATION: The U.S. Department of Justice should explore public-private partnership opportunities, starting by convening a meeting with local, regional, and national foundations to discuss the proposals for reform described in this report and seeking their engagement and support in advancing implementation of these recommendations.

I wonder if this would be done in much the same way that Pearson was used to implement Common Core into the education system. For those of you who may not have done the research, Pearson develops the curriculum and the tests that are now “mandatory” in public schools. If you look at Pearson’s political donations over the last several years, you’ll find that the Democratic Party and individual Democratic party members have received sizable sums of money from Pearson and its employees.

7.3 RECOMMENDATION: The U.S. Department of Justice should charge its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) with assisting the law enforcement field in addressing current and future challenges.

Translation: We don’t like how law enforcement is being handled at the local level so the federal government is going to help…or takeover.

In support of this translation, look at some of the bullet items listed underneath Recommendation 7.3….

• Create a National Policing Practices and Accountability Division within the COPS Office.
• Establish national benchmarks and best practices for federal, state, local, and tribal police departments.
• Provide technical assistance and funding to national, state, local, and tribal accreditation bodies that evaluate policing practices.
• Provide technical assistance and funding to state training boards to help them meet national benchmarks and best practices in training methodologies and content.
• Prioritize grant funding to departments meeting benchmarks.
• Support departments through an expansion of the COPS Office Collaborative Reform Initiative.
• Work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to ensure that community policing tactics in state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies are incorporated into their role in homeland security.

Create a national policing division….establish national standards…..prioritize grant funding to departments that comply with national standards…..support departments through expansion of government reform….incorporate homeland security into local law enforcement. Folks, if you were reading this without any other context you would think that you were reading a report about Nazi Germany. Speaking of which…..

About the time I hit “pillar” five I was beginning to wonder if the path that Obama has put us on with our police departments is in any way similar to the path that the Nazis took in gaining control over Germany. It’s common knowledge to anyone who has studied history that the Nazi party was welcomed in on their foundation of “change” since the country’s job markets and economy had been in such dire straits for so long. I began doing research – using only reputable sources, of course. I was a little hesitant at first because I’m as tired as the Democrats are of hearing the “Obama is another Hitler” rhetoric. I didn’t want to add to that, but at the same time I was desperate to know whether history is in the process of repeating itself.

Let the history lesson begin….

Germany in 1914 may as well have been the United States of two decades ago. Germany had a gold-backed currency; was expanding their world leadership in optics, chemicals, and machinery; and the German Mark was equal in value to the British shilling, the French franc, and the Italian lira (c). In 1919, after a brutal defeat in WWI, Germany was forced to make reparations following the signing of the Versailles Treaty. These reparations, coupled with the collapse of Germany’s over inflated economy, resulted in disaster for many German citizens. By 1923 Germany’s economy had crashed such that the previous ratio of four or five Marks to each American dollar became one trillion Marks to each American dollar. Does this over-inflation followed by a catastrophic crash sound familiar? Like maybe the housing market crash in 2012? The similarities don’t end there. Read this paragraph from PBS and tell me if this doesn’t sound like you…or most of America.

Ordinary citizens worked at their jobs, sent their children to school and worried about their grades, maneuvered for promotions and rejoiced when they got them, and generally expected things to get better. But the prices that had doubled from 1914 to 1919 doubled again during just five months in 1922. Milk went from 7 Marks per liter to 16; beer from 5.6 to 18. There were complaints about the high cost of living. Professors and civil servants complained of getting squeezed. Factory workers pressed for wage increases. An underground economy developed, aided by a desire to beat the tax collector.

Have many Americans not already done this by taking jobs that pay “under the table”? Or scouring every IRS law to find the loophole that will let them out of paying taxes? Back to the history lesson…

As a result of the very unstable state of the nation, a new political party was founded in 1918 – the German Worker’s Party (d). The platform of the German Worker’s Party was very simple – build a strong nationalist, pro-military, party made up of working class people (e). The party was contemptuous of democracy and stressed racial theories. This political view very closely matched Hitler’s, so Hitler joined. In 1920 the party changed its name to the National Socialists German Worker’s Party (d).

Okay, is this party starting to sound like another political party we’re familiar with? It’s nationalistic in that it thinks it’s better than other parties and other governments. It’s contemptuous of democracy and has violated our country’s Constitution repeatedly – even flaunting their disregard of it in news stories (like when Obama said he did not need Congressional approval to declare war). And it stresses racial theories. Yes, it may claim that it wants equal rights for all races, but it’s fighting for rights of one specific race by taking them away from another. It creates bias and prejudice where there is none except on the part of the very party that is crying victim. That is why the Task Force was established and why this Interim Report was published….even though the Officer that was supposedly racist was cleared of any wrong-doing. Explain that one.

So, at this point we have an apples-to-apples comparison. Germany’s National Socialist Party (aka Nazi Party) = USA’s Democratic Party. Where did Germany go with the Nazis?

In 1921, the Nazi Party formed the SA (Sturm Abteilung), also known as Stormtroopers (i). These Stormtroopers were recognized as the party militia. In essence, these were community groups who were responsible for carrying out the government’s orders in a strong-arm fashion. They also doubled as spies and turned in anyone not loyal to the Nazi party. Let’s see if Encyclopedia Brittanica’s (j) description of the SA jogs any memories of recent events.

SA men protected Party meetings, marched in Nazi rallies, and physically assaulted political opponents

Let’s see…..sound anything like…oh, I don’t know…maybe….the New Black Panther Party?!

The Southern Poverty Law Center (k) describes the New Black Panther Party as:

The New Black Panther Party is a virulently racist and anti-Semitic organization whose leaders have encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law enforcement officers. Founded in Dallas, the group today is especially active on the East Coast, from Boston to Jacksonville, Fla. The group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement

In all fairness, the Black Panthers of the ’60s have denounced the new group and recognize them for the hate-baiters that they are. Still though, does this or does this not sound like Hitler’s SA? And the New Black Panther Party isn’t working alone….in 2008 a voter intimidation case was brought against them for intimidating voters outside of a Philadelphia voting precinct (l). Guess what happened to the case against the Black Panthers? It was thrown out. By who? Eric Holder. Since then, we’ve had race-baiters such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and – of course – Eric Holder take center stage. These individuals decry the loss of a black life – even if it was the black’s fault – but stay frighteningly silent when the life lost belonged to a white person. Eric Holder himself helped incite the riots of Ferguson by undermining the decision of the Ferguson courts and launching a federal investigation into Officer Wilson’s behavior. It goes one step beyond that though. The White House, i.e. Obama, sent government representatives to attend Michael Brown’s funeral (m) but failed to send anyone to Major General Harold Greene’s funeral (n). Greene and 15 others were ambushed outside of Kabul….he was the highest ranking military officer to have been lost in combat since Vietnam and not a word from the White House. Considering the topic, it should be noted that Michael Brown was black and Maj. Gen. Greene was white. Go figure.

The other frightening thing to consider is a theme that was repeated frequently in the Interim Report that spawned these blog posts. In each “pillar” it talks about the need to get the community involved in policing efforts. Now, on the surface, this sounds great and I even commented in one of my blog posts that it was a good idea. But then I got to thinking….what if Obama enacted laws that violate my beliefs? What if he took over and made the country totalitarian and I spoke out against him? At that point, my neighbor, the cashier at the grocery store, or even you reading this blog could report me to the authorities and have me arrested. Increased law enforcement is great when the law is fair, but what about when it isn’t? And this president has a track record of not being fair.

So…where are we? Let’s see….Nazis = Democrats. SA/SS = New Black Panther Party/”black power” public figures. Got it. Moving on.

In 1923 Hitler led a revolt that failed and it damaged the Nazi Party’s image greatly (d). He and other Nazi Party leaders were arrested and imprisoned for treason. Hitler was sentenced to five years but was released after 10 months (i). By 1932, the Nazi Party was the biggest political party in Germany. I’m going to stop here for a moment because I’d like to draw a connection between a current event and this piece of history. In a speech last week at a town hall event in Cleveland, Obama said that he would endorse making voting mandatory (f). According to Gallup polls, the Democratic Party is traditionally the larger of the two parties in the country (g). However, it took a big hit in the November elections primarily – according to the Democrats – due to lack of voter turnout. If voting became mandatory – according to Obama – “it would completely change the political map in this country” (f). Check out what else Obama said (q):

“The people who tend not to vote are young, they’re lower income, they’re skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups,” Obama said. “They are often the folks who are scratching and climbing to get into the middle-class. They’re working hard.” “There’s a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls,” Obama added. He said that making voting compulsory would be a short-term solution. “Long-term I think it would be fun to have a constitutional amendment process about how our financial system works,” he said.

“Fun” and “constitutional” should never be used in the same sentence with one another, especially by someone as lawless as this man.

Democrats prey on voter ignorance. Rather than educate the public about issues, they would prefer to simply tell them how to vote. Congresswoman Corrine Brown of Florida is a great example of this “teach them and they’ll vote for you once; feed them and they’ll vote for you forever” mentality. Congresswoman Brown has made headlines in the past by offering free meals to early voters (o). Now she’s making headlines for handing out mock ballots that tell people how to vote (p). Just like the Nazis. And why would the people vote for anybody else if there’s no one else to vote for?

Hitler became chancellor of the Nazi party in 1933, and the other political parties either dissolved or were suppressed into nonexistence (f). Again, sound familiar? The Tea Party and Constitutional Republicans have been trying to fight the Democrats since Obama came onto the scene and all have been suppressed, though not as successfully as the Democrats would like. Evidence of support for the nation’s Constitution can be seen in Overpasses for America events, Tea Party rallies, the Million Vet March on the Memorials, and a plethora of individual efforts (such as this blog) to spread the truth about the dirty leadership of the Democratic government. Apples-to-apples.

In April of 1933, Hitler introduced the Gestapo, or Nazi secret police, and took over local governments (i). Hmmm….in April 2015 Obama initiated a pilot program of federalizing six police departments (t). More apples-to-apples.

Many things happened in 1933 that set Germany up for Hitler to take control. Some of these things haven’t happened yet for us, but some have. In 1933, trade unions were banned (i). Any political party except the Nazis were banned (i). Germany withdrew from the League of Nations (i). Any media that was “un-German” was banned (i). The “un-German” media is frightening because this is one executive order away from happening now that the FCC controls all forms of media except book publishing.

When Germany’s President Paul von Hindenburg died in 1934 Hitler quickly stepped in and made Germany a totalitarian state with himself as the leader (f). The Nazi party held a vote and overwhelmingly declared Hitler as sole leader of the entire country. This is exactly the kind of take-over that most ‘aware’ citizens are fearing might be coming. The Democratic Party has already shown their unwillingness to work with Republicans and Obama personally has vetoed every bill that has made it to his desk since the Republicans took the majority. He vetoes bills that the American people want passed and then uses executive order to do what he wants. He uses any means necessary to get his way, even if it means lying to a federal judge (h). His actions are those of someone who believes himself to be above the law. That’s a very dangerous mindset to have.

Most people know the history that follows from this point. Hitler’s government cracked down on the rights of anyone not German and eventually 11 million Jews, Christians, Polish citizens, and other nationalities who were unlucky enough to fall within his grasp were murdered (r). It boggles the mind to think that such an atrocity could happen here and our gut reaction is to say that the American people would never be blind enough to let that happen. However, many Germans didn’t know about the atrocities being carried out by their own government in their own country (s).

To prevent non-Jews from attempting to enter the ghettos and from seeing the condition of daily life there for themselves, German authorities posted quarantine signs at the entrances, warning of the danger of contagious disease. Since inadequate sanitation and water supplies coupled with starvation rations quickly undermined the health of the Jews in the ghettos, these warnings became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as typhus and other infectious diseases ravaged ghetto populations. Subsequent Nazi propaganda utilized these man-made epidemics to justify isolating the “filthy” Jews from the larger population.

Remember that the next time you hear a story about a FEMA camp being setup in a mock exercise to control some highly contagious disease from further outbreak.

The bottom line to all of this is that we currently have a government out of control and it is a danger to the citizens of this great country. If you have trouble coming to terms with this then ask yourself this: what would the government have to take over in order to control the people? Now, answer that question.

Education – Common Core.

Media – FCC.

Public health/ Medical care – Obamacare.

Police/public law – ObamaLaw/COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services)

What more does he need to take over before we no longer have the ability to fight back? I didn’t write this to create or spread propaganda. I wrote this to try to bring more people to see the truth. And I hope I’ve succeeded. Please…I urge you. Trust nothing that comes out of D.C. Do your own research. And help spread the truth.

Thanks for reading.

(a) http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/taskforce/Interim_TF_Report.pdf

(b)  https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-one/

https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-two/

https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-three/

https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-four/

https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-5/

https://realizationsruminationsandlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/obamalaw-coming-to-a-police-department-near-you-part-6/

(c) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ess_germanhyperinflation.html

(d) http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/national-socialist-german-workers-party.htm

(e) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/joins.htm

(f) http://allenwestrepublic.com/2015/03/18/obama-calls-for-mandatory-voting-in-u-s/

(g) http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

(h) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/5/obama-lawyers-misled-federal-judge-in-amnesty-case/?page=all

(i) http://www.historyonthenet.com/chronology/timelinenazigermany.htm

(j) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/514736/SA

(k) http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/new-black-panther-party

(l) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/14/AR2010071405880.html

(m) http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/25/obama-sending-white-house-aides-to-attend-michael-browns-funeral/

(n) http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/08/06/obamas-silence-on-death-of-maj-gen-harold-greene-comes-under-fire/

(o) http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-11-01/story/brown-campaign-offers-free-meals-early-voters

(p) http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/pastor-blames-quick-picks-early-voting-brawl/nkSb6/

(q) http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/19/obama-says-he-would-like-to-make-voting-mandatory-video/

(r) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/NonJewishVictims.html

(s) http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007822

(t) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/six-cities-racial-bias-pilot-program_n_6859160.html

ObamaLaw – Coming to a police department near you! – Special: The people of the Task Force

This blog post is going to look specifically at the people that comprise the “ObamaLaw” Task Force. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I urge you to read the original blog post about this topic so you can get caught up.

In the processing of writing Part Three of my analysis of the Interim Report I did some brief research on the person who was chosen to co-chair the executive-ordered Task Force. The history that I read about Charles Ramsey was terrifying. If you’ve read Part Three of my analysis, you know the danger this man represents. If you haven’t, pay attention. If this man is responsible for overhauling the nation’s law enforcement agencies – and succeeds – the US is going to look like Nazi Germany in no time. I’m glad that I found this information, though, because it alerted me to the fact that we don’t know who these people are, what they’ve done, or what they stand for. It seems to me that if these are the people who are going to shape the future of law enforcement it might behoove us to know their platforms and action history. I’ll be getting my information from a variety of sources and will list them at the conclusion of this post.

According to the Fact Sheet: Task Force on 21st Century Policing (a) released by the White House on December 18, 2014:

The Task Force will be chaired by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who also serves as President of the Major Cities Chiefs Police Association, and Laurie Robinson, professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and former Assistant Attorney General for DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs.

This is what the Task Force posted a bio for Ramsey:

Charles Ramsey, Appointee for Member and Co-Chair, President’s Task Force on 21^st Century Policing
Charles Ramsey is the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD), a position he has held since 2008.  Since 2010, he has served as President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the Police Executive Research Forum.  Commissioner Ramsey began his law enforcement career in 1968 as a cadet with the Chicago Police Department (CPD).  Over the next thirty years, he held various positions with CPD, including Commander of the Narcotics Division, Deputy Chief of the Patrol Division, and Deputy Superintendent, a role he held from 1994 to 1998.  In 1998, he was named Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC), where he served until early 2007.  In 2007, Commissioner Ramsey served on the Independent Commission on Security Forces of Iraq, leading a review of the Iraqi Police Force.  In addition to his current role at PPD, he also serves as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.  Commissioner Ramsey received a B.S. and M.S. from Lewis University.

This is what the fact sheet didn’t tell you:

In 2008, Charles Ramsey made The Washington Post when his department began doing safety stops and collecting demographic information on the drivers and occasionally even their passengers.(b) This information was then put into a police database. These were people who had committed no crime nor were they suspected of having committed a crime. On September 27, 2002, the police – under Ramsey’s orders – surrounded Pershing Park and arrested over 400 people that were allegedly protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings.(c) Many of the people arrested weren’t even protesters but were instead media and pedestrian traffic. The problem with the arrests was that the police had not warned anyone to disperse and had actually prohibited people from leaving the park. Following the arrests, the booking procedures of the detainees included such demeaning things as being told to “strip naked, bend over, and cough”. I strongly urge you to read the full article here for a complete description, including first-hand accounts, of the acts that Ramsey and his force committed. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled on January 13, 2006, that the arrests violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the individuals and that Ramsey could be held personally liable for the violations. Ramsey’s escapades cost the city officials of Washington one million dollars that was paid out to more than 120 of the protesters, not including, not including other settlements reached by the D.C. government (one settlement in excess of $640,000). None of this includes the $1.3 million in legal fees that was paid for Ramsey’s legal representation.

Next on the Fact Sheet’s list is Laurie Robinson. Here’s the bio provided for her:

Laurie Robinson, Appointee for Member and Co-Chair, President’s Task Force on 21^st Century Policing
Laurie Robinson is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, a position she has held since 2012.  She served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2012.  Prior to that, Ms. Robinson served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OJP and Acting Assistant Attorney General for OJP.  Previously, she was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team.  From 2003 to 2009, Ms. Robinson was the Director of the Master of Science Program in Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.  From 1993 to 2000, she served her first term as the Assistant Attorney General for  OJP.  Before joining DOJ, Ms. Robinson spent over twenty years with the American Bar Association, serving as Assistant Staff Director of the Criminal Justice Section from 1972 to 1979, Director of their Criminal Justice Section from 1979 to 1993, and as Director of the Professional Services Division from 1986 to 1993.  She is a Senior Fellow at the George Mason University Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, and serves as co-chair of the Research Advisory Committee for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.  She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Vera Institute of Justice.  Ms. Robinson received a B.A. from Brown University.

Laurie was an interesting one to investigate. Her previous titles and positions read like the who’s who of justice. Being more on he “book” side than the implementation side, she’s never been involved in any altercations or lawsuits. However, if you believe in the old adage of “guilty by association” then she is as sunk as the rest. Laurie served served as assistant attorney general in the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) during the Clinton administrations.(d) One week after obama was brought into office, Laurie began serving as acting assistant attorney general and principal deputy assistant attorney general of OJP. She held these positions until she was nominated to take over the leadership of the office. If you’re like me and prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, her associations probably aren’t enough to condemn her to scrutiny. Most of what Laurie has represented in the past has been fair and good, but her borderline-liberal views of key topics could be pushed in the realm of liberalism under the current administration. Robinson has been active on boards for organizations that advocated for the rights of illegal immigrants. (e) She believes that there are a disproportionate amount of blacks and Latinos in American jails because the system is biased, not because these populations are committing more crime. Vera, for whom she was a board member from 2001 to 2009, states on their website: “Vera helps officials in criminal and juvenile justice systems to reduce the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in those systems.” Laurie has also orchestrated several meetings between her professional associates and Attorney General Eric Holder, during which meetings Holder got the ideas for several of his programs.(f) Laurie is a stubborn advocate for what she calls “Justice Reinvestment”, a bipartisan effort through which legislators and policymakers come together to determine how to reallocate resources to both save money and reduce recidivism.(g) Laurie raved about Kentucky legislation which, based on a Justice Reinvestment analysis, reserves prison beds for the most serious offenders and re-focuses resources on community supervision, probation and parole systems, and evidence-based programs. Basically, what they’re saying, is that unless you are an extremely violent individual, you should be allowed to stay in society. Laurie went on to state that Kentucky “is projected to reduce its prison population by more than 3,000 inmates over the next 10 years and save some $422 million as a result of the new law.”. I don’t know about you, but I’m not entirely comfortable with that.

Moving on in the list, next is:

Jose Lopez, Appointee for Member, President’s Task Force on 21^st Century Policing
Jose Lopez is currently the Lead Organizer at Make the Road New York (MRNY), a Brooklyn-based non-profit community organization focused on civil rights, education reform, and combating poverty.  He became Lead Organizer of MRNY in 2013.  Mr. Lopez began his career in 2000 as Youth Organizer with Make the Road by Walking, which later merged with the Latin American Integration Center to form MRNY in 2007.  He continued to serve as Youth Organizer with MRNY until 2009, when he became Senior Organizer.  Since 2011, Mr. Lopez has represented MRNY on the steering committee of Communities United for Police Reform, a New York City organization advocating for law enforcement reform.  From 2001 to 2004, he was an active contributor to the Radio Rookies Project, an initiative of New York Public Radio.  He received a B.A. from Hofstra University.

For those of us who are fighting desperately for AMERICAN rights over illegal immigrant rights, this guy’s achievements are a direct slap in the face. MRNY’s facebook page posted this statement on December 14, 2014: “MRNY Lead Organizer Jose Lopez was among the leaders who met with President Obama today to discuss policing. Latinos are a key part of this urgent conversation. Read the ‪#‎FergusonAction‬ statement.” Reading the action statement was about as pleasant as swallowing a mouthful of razor blades. It stated that the Ferguson Action group’s demands included “the federal government using its power to prosecute police officers that kill or abuse people” and “defunding local police departments that use excessive force or racially profile. Instead of having the Department of Justice (DOJ) wholesale giving more than $250 million to local police departments annually, DOJ should only fund departments that agree to adopt DOJ best practices for training and meaningful community input.”. This last line brings up a very interesting choice of wording – “should only fund departments that agree to adopt DOJ best practices”. As a mom who has been fighting Common Core for two years now, I can tell you that this is EXACTLY how the education system was federalized. The federal government tied state funds to accepting Common Core – they could either go the way of the feds or they could go broke. Common Core has turned out to be disastrous, resulting in a plethora of negative results. For example, elementary-aged kids are now being diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders as a result of high-stakes testing, ADHD diagnoses have skyrocketed as a result of recess being cut out to make room for test prep, and children are actually learning less because they’re only being taught what’s on the test. The other thing about Common Core, is that if you trace the money you will find Pearson Education and other educational companies provided a significant amount of funds to the Obama Administration. I would be willing to bet that if you followed the money for the “best policing practices” it would also lead back to the administration. Jose Lopez’s MRNY is also responsible for stopping deportations through legal intervention and lobbying to change immigration law. According to their website, their 2012 victories include: “launched an immigration law practice serving thousands with Deferred Action applications and hundreds more with deportation defense, permanent lawful status, and immigrant services fraud prevention”; “mobilized 20,000 new voters on Election Day as part of our new Campaign for Respect & Dignity, after registering 12,000 voters of color in NYC and Long Island and, with the Center for Popular Democracy, an additional 7,000 in Pennsylvania”. Folks, if that doesn’t scare you I don’t know what will.

There are eight more Task Force members that I’m going to save for later posts (4 tomorrow, last 4 Tuesday) since this post is already so long. The members so far – a known Constitutional rights violator (Ramsey), a prisoner rights advocate (Robinson), and an illegals-before-Americans advocate – are proving to be fairly impressive…..if you live in a communist country. Wake up, America, and look at the areas of federal over-reach. Health care, education, internet, and now our police departments. These are key areas that have to be taken if you’re planning to overthrow a nation’s system of government and take control of its people. It’s not too late, but we have to get this under control. Contact your legislators, your representatives, your Congressmen, your police chiefs….and don’t stop contacting them until they begin to hear us.

(a)  http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/fact-sheet-task-force-21st-century-policing

(b) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100848_pf.html

(c)  http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/25398/boss-hogtie

(d) http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/office-of-justice-programs-who-is-laurie-robinson?news=841747

(e) http://www.vera.org

(f) http://nij.ncjrs.gov/multimedia/video-nijconf2010-opening-robinson.htm

(g) http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-laurie-o-robinson-speaks-international-community-corrections

(h) http://fergusonaction.com/white-house-meeting/

ObamaLaw – Coming to a police department near you! – Part Three

Today we’re delving into the third “Pillar” of the DOJ’s  President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Interim Report. If you’ve been following along, thanks for continuing to put up with sarcasm. If you’re just now joining in, you may want to consider reading Part One and Part Two to fully catch up to where we are.

“Pillar” Three of the interim report covers “Technology & Social Media”. As evidenced by the plethora of cyber attacks the government has suffered recently, this is obviously a topic that the government needs help with. Just today the CIA announced that it was branching out in to cyber security, to which many [intelligent] Americans said “about time!”.

The first part of “Pillar” Three talks about the pros and cons of police officers wearing BWCs (body-worn cameras). The report makes the obvious statements about the benefit of evidence and documenting the officer’s perspective, but ended with the concern that BWCs violate the public privacy. This is almost laughable coming from the same government that has subpoenaed usernames and passwords from web tech companies, has admitted to using illegal wiretapping on its civilion population as well as foreign dignitaries, has forced the government into private healthcare, uses the IRS as a prejudiced bully, and has most recently made a power-grab to take over the internet. And they’re worried about violating our privacy with a small camera that a police officer wears? What a joke! We have no privacy under this administration and any concern they have about privacy is merely a smokescreen for something they don’t want us to know. The only way we can try to see through this bluff is to answer the question of why it wouldn’t be a good idea for cops to wear BWCs. So, why wouldn’t it? Well, let’s see. It could dispel any false claims of violence should there be another Trayvon Martin incident or another Ferguson. That would be a good thing, though, right? So….why wouldn’t the government want cops wearing BWCs? It could provide evidence that a cop used excessive violence….no wait, that’s something they’re trying to document if/when it happens. Right? Or is it? The only time the government doesn’t want something recorded is when they know they’re doing something wrong and don’t want to get caught. It’s the same philosophy that prompted the Dems to request a private, closed-door meeting with Netanyahu prior to him addressing Congress and the same reason Hilary Clinton used her personal email during her stint as Sec of State. The Dems didn’t want the Reps to know the contents of the meeting with Netanyahu and Hilary didn’t want it on record that she committed murder by completely ignoring our Benghazi Embassy’s pleas for help, resulting in the deaths of four Americans. The government not wanting something documented or observed is the equivalent of your teenager asking to shut the door to their room when they have friends over – you know they’re up to no good. What kind of no good would the government be up to that they would be incriminated by BWCs?

I want you to take a moment and think back to what I said in the last blog post about when the police respond to protests. Remember the wording that was used to describe the response to a protest? It was implied to be a “military operation”. That’s dang close to martial law. If martial law were implemented by a president who has been known to target Conservatives would the government really want its actions documented? No. The only reason the government would shy away from the use of BWCs is if they didn’t want something recorded that would incriminate them. It has absolutely nothing to do with public privacy.

Getting into the recommendations and action alerts, let’s take a look at 3.1…..

3.1 RECOMMENDATION: The U.S. Department of Justice, in consultation with the law enforcement field, should broaden the efforts of the National Institute of Justice to establish national standards for the research and development of new technology. These standards should also address compatibility and interoperability needs both within law enforcement agencies and across agencies and jurisdictions and maintain civil and human rights protections.

The problem I have with this recommendation is the vast ambiguity of it. It is so vague that it could mean almost anything. For example, they want to “establish national standards for the research and development of new technology”. Ok, what technology? Are we talking about technology that would interfere with witnesses’ ability to record police confrontations with their cell phones? Or technology that would allow the police to eavesdrop on phone conversations, or maybe even track you with the GPS in your smartphone or car? There’s just too much room for them to ‘fill in the blanks’ later for me to be comfortable with this recommendation. This concern is multiplied exponentially if you look at the last sentence…..”…address compatibility and interoperability needs both within law enforcement agencies and across agencies and jurisdictions…”. This means that whatever technology is developed for the police, they want to be able to use it for the military, FBI, or any other agency/jurisdiction that the federal government thinks should be in on the action.

3.1.1 ACTION ITEM: The Federal Government should support the development and delivery of training to help law enforcement agencies learn, acquire, and implement technology tools and tactics that are consistent with the best practices of 21st century policing.

Just like the recommendation above, the vagueness of this is terrifying. What technology? What tactics? And what exactly are the “best practices” of 21st century policing? Once again there’s too much “loose wording” to make me comfortable with this.

3.1.2 ACTION ITEM: As part of national standards, the issue of technology’s impact on privacy concerns should be addressed in accordance with protections provided by constitutional law. Though all constitutional guidelines must be maintained in the performance of law enforcement duties, the legal framework (warrants, etc.) should continue to protect law enforcement access to data obtained from cell phones, social media, GPS, and other sources, allowing officers to detect, prevent, or respond to crime.

“…..the legal framework should continue to protect law enforcement access to data obtained from cell phones, social media, GPS, and other sources, allowing officers to detect, prevent, or respond to crime.” Uh huh. Cell phones? Social media? GPS? And what are “other sources”? The sad thing about all of this is that the danger comes not in application, but who it’s applied to. If this were applied to suspected criminals it would be great. But what about when it’s applied to people that haven’t committed a crime but that the government doesn’t like? Or – worse yet – what if disagreeing with the government becomes a crime? This is when this kind of thing becomes very, very dangerous. While I too am tired of hearing the obama regime compared to Hitler, it bears mentioning that Austria’s people welcomed Hitler’s agenda of “change” and thought he would turn the failing country around. We see what kind of change he brought with him.

3.2 RECOMMENDATION: The implementation of appropriate technology by law enforcement agencies should be designed considering local needs and aligned with national standards.

Here we go again with ‘national standards’. Folks, law enforcement is not a one-size-fits-all scenario. What works for one city may not work for another. You can’t force police work into a cookie-cutter mold designed by a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington. It’ll look great on paper and fail miserably in implementation….kind of like the national healthcare standards and, oh yes, let’s not forget the national education standards known as Common Core. Current evidence dictates that anytime you see something being conformed to “national standards” you may as well go ahead and accept sight unseen that it’s going to fail, but not before horrifically complicating our lives.

The report goes on to talk about how important it is to get the community’s feedback on any new technology, and that doing so will increase acceptance and positive response. It’s worth pointing out that no where does it say that community input would actually be used for anything except allowing community engagement and feedback, nor would the community have a say in which technology is used. In essence, we’re being spoon-fed medicine while being told that it’s candy so we’re more likely to swallow it. Aggravating, but not surprising. However, Recommendation 3.3 got my attention in a hurry.

3.3 RECOMMENDATION: The U.S. Department of Justice should develop best practices that can be adopted by state legislative bodies to govern the acquisition, use, retention, and dissemination of auditory, visual, and biometric data by law enforcement.

Some of us may instantly know what this is saying, but others may need it broken down for them to fully understand the fear that this statement should put in their hearts.

Acquisition, use, retention, and dissemination….this means that they can get it, use it, store it, and share it in any way they like. Auditory and visual data…..sound recordings and video. This could be anything from an intercepted cell phone conversation to video captured with a traffic camera. Here is the scary part….biometric data. According to Dictionary.com:

1. biometrics definition. The measuring and analysis of such physical attributes as facial features and voice or retinal scans. This technology can be used to define an individual’s unique identity, often for security purposes.

Again, this could be a good thing if you’re talking about tracking violent criminals. But what about if you’re tracking an every day citizen who has committed no crime? Think it won’t happen? Let me share something with you….

The task force that obama created by way of executive order is chaired by none other than Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey. You may or may not remember him from some prominent news stories he was involved in. Let me refresh your memory…..

In 2008, Charles Ramsey made The Washington Post when his department began doing safety stops and collecting demographic information on the drivers and occasionally even their passengers. This information was then put into a police database. These were people who had committed no crime nor were they suspected of having committed a crime. These were innocent individuals going about their daily business when they were stopped by the police and questioned. For what purpose? What useful information could possibly be garnered from innocent people going about their day-to-day business?

As if that info on Ramsey wasn’t bad enough let me ask you this – do you remember the Pershing Park arrests in 2002? Demonstrators had gathered in Pershing Park to protest the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. On September 27, 2002, the police – under Ramsey’s orders – surrounded the park and arrested over 400 people. Many of the people arrested weren’t even protesters but were instead media and pedestrian traffic. The problem with the arrests was that the police had not warned anyone to disperse and had actually prohibited people from leaving the park. Following the arrests, the booking procedures of the detainees included such demeaning things as being told to “strip naked, bend over, and cough”. I strongly urge you to read the full article here for a complete description, including first-hand accounts, of the acts that Ramsey and his force committed. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled on January 13, 2006, that the arrests violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the individuals and that Ramsey could be held personally liable for the violations. Ramsey’s escapades cost the city officials of Washington one million dollars that was paid out to more than 120 of the protesters, not including, not including other settlements reached by the D.C. government (one settlement in excess of $640,000). None of this includes the $1.3 million in legal fees that was paid for Ramsey’s legal representation.

So, the same guy that is talking about collecting biometric data has already been caught and convicted of infringing on Constitutional rights and harassing law-abiding citizens. Is this someone we can trust? Absolutely not. By the way, as a result of the information that I found on Ramsey, I’ll be doing a special blog post tomorrow where I’ll research and discuss all of the members of the task force. So far I’m not impressed with obama’s choice of leadership here, though at least he’s consistent in choosing people with poor ethics.

Skipping on down….here’s one I’ve never heard of before.

3.7 RECOMMENDATION: The Federal Government should make the development and building of segregated radio spectrum and increased bandwidth by FirstNet for exclusive use by local, state, tribal, and federal public safety agencies a top priority.

So, let me get this straight, they’re wanting to create a secure internet just for the police to use….and we’re supposed to trust them to keep it secure. This is a joke, right? And I’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the government’s recent FCC rulings governing the internet. Open your eyes, America – we’re being played.

Here again is the link to the interim report so that you can read it for yourself and do your own research. Reminder – I’ll be doing a special blog post tomorrow about the people behind these recommendations. Please share this with others that can either use this information or that you feel need to be educated about the dangers of ObamaLaw.

Remember, remember the eleventh of September…..

Here’s to the Heroes

Unfortunately, I didn’t get the inspiration for this in time to have it ready for the 4th, but that’s okay because I believe that freedom and sacrifice should be appreciated every day. To all the service men, women, and yes even canines….THANK YOU!

I am Common Core

I was talking about Common Core with my kids the other day and I realized that the description of it sounded familiar….very familiar. When I finally realized what it sounded like I couldn’t resist throwing a video of it together. While the details provided are just as factual, I did not include this video in the Project Constitution folder because it just doesn’t feel like it should be. This one is more my  own personal take on Common Core. If you’re a Star Trek TNG fan, though, you’ll appreciate the analogy.

Common Core Explained

For those of you who wanted a simplified explanation of Common Core, here it is:

 

* Photo not my own, received on Facebook.*

Project Constitution – Common Core

I have 3 kids, 2 of which spent their elementary school years in public schools. When my oldest child was in 4th grade she brought home math homework and I was STUNNED to see that she was working out of the SAME book that my 3rd grader was. I called the principal of the school to ask why my 4th grade student was doing 3rd grade work. The response I got?

“Some of the 4th graders were having trouble understanding the information so we scaled back the curriculum to make it easier for them.”

WHAT?!

The following year my oldest child was in gifted classes. I picked her up from school one day and she was BAWLING. I asked her what was wrong and after much begging, pleading, and cajoling on my part to try to understand what was wrong I discovered that her teacher had called her a “freak” in front of the ENTIRE class because she was gifted. The teacher then refused to give her the homework assignment, saying “If you’re so smart you should be able to figure it out!”.

At this point I pulled my kids out of public school and they have been home-schooled (with the help of FLVS) ever since. Now my youngest is getting close to school age and my husband and I were trying to decide whether to trust the public school system with him. After doing research on Common Core we have decided that – should Florida adopt it – we will home-school the youngest as well and none of our children will ever again be in the public school system.

If you have children in a public school, I urge you ~ please ~ do your research about what your child is being taught. Are they contradicting at school the values you’re trying desperately to teach at home? Are they more concerned with how you vote than what your child learns? Pay attention. Ask questions.

And don’t forget that these are YOUR kids. You might be surprised to find that many in charge of education do not share your belief in this fact.

 

Giving up rights….

Has anyone read the news story about the 4th grader in Jacksonville, FL who was told to write that he was willing to give up Constitutional rights in order to be safer?

I live in Jacksonville. I’m a parent. And I’m madder than hell over this. So mad, that I finally got off my ass and took action. If this irritates you half as much as it did me, take 2 minutes to watch this video and then please click the link below the video to sign the petition. Thanks.