On Tuesday, the North Carolina Tea Party Patriots were holding a legal political protest against government bailouts. The Tea Partiers were demonstrating in front of Rep. Mel Watt’s (D-N.C.) Greensboro, NC office.

During what cops characterized as a peaceful protest, an enraged man, later identified as Governor Spencer began to shout vulgarities, disrupted the protest, argued with individuals and then became physically violent.

Governor Spencer then punched the Chairman of the Forsyth County (NC) Republican Party, Nathan Tabor, a North Carolina business owner and a former candidate for the U.S. Congress. 

Investigation reveals that Governor Spencer is a union organizer, a socialist and a black liberation activist. According to political activist Bill Gheen, Spencer led the Greensboro K-Mart protests of 1995 and mobilized families, communities, and “the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro, a coalition of progressive clergy, to commit acts of civil disobedience.”

“The punch to Nathan Tabor’s face in front of his wife and crying child was an assault on all Americans that value free speech and freedom to assemble. We call on President [Barack] Obama to publicly speak out against this violence conducted by one of his supporters against his political opposition,” said Gheen, the president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC).

“We also call on the US Justice Department to file charges against Governor Spencer for violating Mr. Tabor’s civil rights and violating the civil rights of all Tea Party supporters and Americans who wish to speak out against the President without fear of violent reprisals,” Gheen said in statement released today.

Following the assault — caught on videotape — Tabor went to the magistrate’s office with police and a magistrate issued an arrest warrant for Governor Spencer. 

However, a black magistrate rescinded the arrest warrant and issued summons to appear in court to both Governor Spencer and Nathan Tabor despite the fact the responding officer testified he had seen the videos and that Mr. Tabor had committed no assault. Both magistrates refused to view the videos.

“While the news media attempt to characterize Tea Partiers as violent racists who need to be watched, it is the leftists who are routinely used as goons by progressive organizations and create violence at peaceful protes

Source: Examiner

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Gen. Walt Natynczyk welcomed the new NORAD commander, U.S. Admiral James Winnefeld, who pledged the Americans’ full military support during the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.

NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defence Command, is a binational military organization established in 1958 by Canada and the U.S. to monitor and defend North American airspace.

NORAD monitors and tracks man-made objects in space and detects, validates and warns of attacks on North America by aircraft, missiles, satellites and space debris.

Speaking at a press conference in Ottawa Monday, Winnefeld told reporters he was interested in accomplishing two things during his tenure.

The first is to re-emphasize the importance of NORAD — which he called a “very, very important security relationship that is emblematic of the overall relationship between our countries.”

“It’s symbolic of the partnership between our two countries evidenced by our ongoing … international security force, forces in Afghanistan and also places like Haiti and the like,” he said.

The second thing Winnefeld said he wants to do “is really to listen and learn.”

“As the commander of NORAD, I not only work for the United States, I work for Canada and it’s very important for me to listen to the national security team in Canada, to discover what is important in Canadian minds so that it can influence what I do.”

continued at CBC News

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The Tea Party phenomenon has attracted a good deal of both good and bad attention in the media. Though it would perhaps be a stretch to describe it as a movement in that it has only limited organization and focus, it does tap into a genuine disconnect between the American people and the federal government in Washington. Most Tea Partiers claim to want smaller and cheaper government, less interference from Washington in their daily lives, and fewer programs that are intended to socially re-engineer the nation. So far, so good, but then comes the huge failure to comprehend that is as wide as the Grand Canyon. Most also want a strong, assertive national defense and are supporters of an aggressive foreign and security policy.

Tea Partiers have unfortunately been fed a line of hokum by politicians aided and abetted by the mainstream media. They fail to understand that it is precisely the interventionist defense and foreign policies that are driving the bad things they see in government. It is easy to forget that when Bill Clinton left office in 2000 there was a budget surplus. Ballooning defense and security spending since that time, all accomplished without raising taxes, has been the engine of growth for a $13 trillion national debt, a total that increases by $4 billion every day. The United States now accounts for 45% of the entire world total for military spending, euphemistically referred to as “defense.” The Pentagon budget has gone from $432 billion in 2001 to a projected $720 billion in 2011, not including the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Federal Government is twice as big as it was in 2001 and there has been the creation of major new bureaucracies at the Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence, neither of which can be regarded as a model of efficiency.

Fueling government growth is the fearmongering that has been artfully encouraged by Democrat and Republican alike. Fear of terrorists, fear of unruly foreigners, fear of the unknown. Fear that unless something is done and more money is spent, the United States will be destroyed by a nameless, faceless threat. The Tea Partiers should instead understand that terrorists will only tear down the United States if we Americans help them to do so. Irrational fear of a small group of men hiding in a cave in Asia is what drives larger government, the infringement of civil liberties, and more taxes and regulation. The United States is on a road that can only lead to ruin. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 in circumstances somewhat similar to the current American financial slide, a Russian politician joked that his country was somewhat like Upper Volta with nuclear armed ballistic missiles. At the time Upper Volta was the poorest country in the world and his point was that having the world’s greatest missile force did not make up for having a wrecked economy. For the United States to continue its imperialist foreign policy, and there is every sign that it intends to do so, will eventually lead to economic and social collapse.

So how can the Tea Party turn things around? It can only do so by realizing that the first thing that must be done to fix the government in Washington is for the United States to end its wars overseas and dramatically scale back on its international commitments. There is no good reason for Washington to serve as the world’s policeman and many good reasons why it should cease and desist from doing so. Reason number one should be that the US muscular foreign policy has actually been helping the terrorists achieve their objectives. In October 2004 Usama bin Laden said, referring to the economic damage the US economy has sustained in the wake of 9/11, “We are continuing in the same policy to make America bleed profusely to the point of bankruptcy.” The numbers alone demonstrate that bin Laden has succeeded, far beyond his wildest imaginings. Iraq alone has cost $1 trillion and counting, 4400 Americans have died together with as many as 650,000 Iraqis. Afghanistan and Iraq continue to run a tab at $12 billion per month, with 1,086 more American dead in Afghanistan, and global war is expanding, not contracting, as the Obama Administration contemplates increased direct involvement in Yemen, Pakistan, and the Horn of Africa.

US policies also propagate terrorism in the form of blowback. Every diplomat or intelligence officer understands that laws of physics apply in foreign affairs as much as they do in the natural sciences. When you get involved in a foreign country’s internal affairs and take action against individuals or groups the action will result in a Newtonian “equal and opposite reaction.” Push on one spot and something happens, sometimes half a world away. When a man attempts to blow up an SUV in Times Square or ignite a bomb in his underwear on board an airliner it is because the US is bombing and killing in places like Yemen and Pakistan. Stop one and you stop the other. As Ron Paul puts it, they are over here because we are over there. It’s that simple.

And when you put an end to the American empire you can stop writing a blank check every year for the Pentagon, you can stop borrowing money to fund the wars, and you can take sensible steps to reduce the size of government, making it again answerable to the people. As the memory of the overhyped terrorist threat fades, you can even begin to restore some of those civil liberties that have been stripped away by the Patriot Acts, the Military Commissions Act, and the assertion of state secrets privilege.

Is it unimaginable that the Tea Parties might turn in that direction? Perhaps not, though much depends on the extent to which the Republican Party and people like Sarah Palin are able to co-opt the movement. If they do, the revolt will fizzle out and turn into George W. Bush revisited. What is needed is a resurgence of traditional conservatives and libertarians to make the case that it is precisely the disastrous foreign policy that is driving virtually everything that ails the United States today. This might be referred to as shifting the narrative, turning it away from the sense that there is an amorphous threat out there that has to be dealt with and towards an understanding that America’s genuine security depends on a sane and cautious foreign policy that eschews meddling in other peoples’ affairs.

Source: Campaign For Liberty

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Colorado’s CD-5 Explodes in Controversey

The question is who lit the fuse that exploded on Norton when she attempted to address Colorado’s Fifth Congressional District Republican Assembly on May 21st, 2010? When was it lit, and why, and did it really need to be? Well, maybe the real question is: Will Colorado’s GOP insiders ever again attempt to ram something down the TEA Parties’ throats?

Friday’s 5^th Congressional was supposed to be typically uneventful and the emails preceding it indicated that.  We were to select our Representative to the U.S. House and Doug Lamborn was running unopposed and recently voted the most Conservative member of Congress.

We also had a candidate for the State Board of Education, Paul Lundeen, who was also running unopposed and endorsed by his predecessor.  As one contributor to a liberty oriented email list put it “I don’t see any reason to go to the 5th CD convention.  Unless you like rah, rah sessions.” but I was awake and had taken the time to get myself elected delegate so off I ventured to Loveland, CO.

First a little background, within days of the El Paso county Republican Assembly Jane Norton announced that she was pulling out of the Assembly process and going to get on the primary ballot via the petition process.  A move that would leave her unable to attend the Assemblies in an official capacity, display signage at the events, or address them as a candidate.

This move perplexed many as she had been anointed from on-high, the National Senate Republican Committee (NSRC), and was receiving considerable funding from the East coast establishment.  It is the NSRC that is used to bypass CO’s rules for candidates as the Party can’t support one until they are designated for the ballot or win the primary.  This usually happens at the State Assembly but if more than one candidate gets 30% or more of the vote then there is a primary (held in August) and candidates can’t be supported until after.  (For a more in depth expose of the NSRC see my previous article.)

The NSRC is the good ol’ boys’ back room of the 21^st century.  They are one of the main reason that the average person scratches their head in November and wonders how we got stuck with a particular clown.  I’m not sure what the Democrats call its counter part but I’m sure they have one as evidenced by some of those clowns.

Speaking with Robin Coran, Ken Buck’s El Paso county campaign coordinator, I discovered that her team had called almost all the delegates (I didn’t get a phone call but recently changed my number) and they were leaning almost 75% towards Buck.  Norton would need to get at least 30% at the State Assembly to get on the ballot.  Getting trounced by an upstart opponent when she is the party’s chosen one wouldn’t look too good.  Failing to get 30% would be worse, if that’s possible, as she wouldn’t get on the ballot at all (and it would be too late to petition on).  That is why she likely chose to go the route of petitioning on; after all you can always pay people to stand in front of China-Mart and collect signatures on your behalf.  I suppose that’s what you do when your grass-roots support is really only grass-trimmings: a claim made by someone with no depth of support.

El Paso county is conservative central in Colorado and if she can’t win here then she can’t win.  Boulder and Denver, CO are our counter weight and could be called progressiveville.  If a Democrat wants to win a state wide seat they must take Boulder and Denver by a significant margin.  If a Republican wants to win a state wide seat they must, likewise, take El Paso county.  Norton’s prospects must have looked much more bleak than any of the establishment media let on for her to opt for the petition route.  That said the stage was set for the Assemblies.

The doors to the 5^th CD opened for credentialing at 2:30pm and an agenda and proposed rule packet were handed out along with credentials.  Unnoticed to all but a few, or the one that spoke up, was a change in the rules allowing for a candidate to speak if another candidate for that office was also allowed to speak.  Ken Buck, heavily endorsed by the TEA Party movement, was of course going to be allowed to speak.  That opened the door for Norton to speak under the newly adulterated set of rules.  These nuances eluded me, and most of the delegation at the time, and only became clear after speaking with Kay Rendleman, former Chair of the El Paso county Republicans.

Kay actually attended a gathering of the Ron Paul Republicans back in 2008 and narrowly won the Chair in 2009 with the support of the Ron Paul Precinct Leaders and others voting.  She was an extremely fair and process oriented Chairperson with a depth of knowledge exceeding most members of the party.  Her recent resignation was to take the lead in Ken Buck’s campaign and show her colors, something that was never evident while she held the position of Chairperson.  I would like to thank Kay for taking the time to explain the technical details of Friday’s events to me as this article wouldn’t be complete without them and her insights and thoughts are interlaced with the events below.

As the Assembly got underway it built up momentum as there was no reason to even seat the alternate delegates as nothing was supposed to be contested.  A rah, rah event as mentioned above.  In fact the floor was never opened for discussion of the rules.  Point of Order came a cry from behind me.  I thought great, a chance to see Robert’s Rules of Order in action.

The point was made about discussion of the rules while I’m reading through them and talking to a delegate friend, Chris Nixon, sitting next to me and attending his first CD-5 Assembly.  I was completely wrong in my analysis at the time as I thought he was trying to weasel a speaking slot for Jane Norton.

The Assembly was stopped and the rules reviewed.  His point was soundly defeated.  Not because people wanted Norton to speak but because they didn’t.  At least those that respected the Assembly process.

In hind sight, and with the benefit of Kay’s insight, the mistake the objector made was not first calling for a Point of Information and explaining to the delegation exactly what was going on.  Had the delegation been aware of the rule change and the significance thereof he would have had much more support.

He then could have called for a Point of Order and would have probably been victorious.  Had the delegation been aware of the reasons then those supporting the CO Republican Party rules, and the Assembly process, would have supported him and defeated the rule change allowing Norton to speak.  And quite frankly this would have been preferable to what happened next when former Lieutenant Governor, not really an outsider, Jane Norton did get the microphone.

At this point the significance was crystal clear to many and soon to be to everyone.  A quick glance of confusion towards my newly minted active friend, Chris, he leapt to his feat calling for a Point of Order.  When Chris was ignored by Lisa Taskerud, Chairman 5^th Congressional District Republican Central Committee, he was no longer in participant mode as a delegate; he was on home turf as an agitator.

Chris is also a member of We are Change and quite comfortable taking on the establishment.  Having 30-40 other people in the room, me being one of them, screaming Point of Order at the same time didn’t exactly have a calming effect on Chris.  He looked at me and said “walk out?”  I saw the microphone being taken back by the chair, Ms. Taskerud, and raised my hand as if to say hang on a second to Chris.

When the first words out of Ms. Taskerud’s mouth were something about respect it was all over.  You see Scott McInnis had spoken a short time earlier and although he wasn’t a friend of the TEA Partiers he was shown the respect due a Republican that was going through the Assembly process.  This wasn’t about respect for the GOP by the radicals, it was about respect for the process by the members of the process.  Allowing Norton to speak was about disrespecting the process and back room maneuvering by the power players, those of whom had no respect for the rank and file nor the process.  I looked at Chris and simply said “Go!”

Chris and I turned and started walking towards the doors.  We were not alone.  I called a friend of mine (I think he might be hiding out with “Where’s Waldo?” Bruce somewhere) to explain what had just happened.  After laying out the details he asked how many people left.  “I don’t know, I was one of the first ones out the door.” was my reply.

At this point I realized the mixed blessing of the parking situation when Chris reminded me of the rather large bullhorn he keeps in the car.  The thought of him returning to the Assembly with a bullhorn and calling for a Point of Order is still entertaining me two days later.  That might not have ended well as the Sargent at Arms, I believe the Park County Sheriff, had removed the original protester from the reports I got later.  Then again, perhaps that would have made a better story as I’m sure that bailing Chris out of jail would have involved a camera crew and a hundred of his closest friends with many bullhorns and large signs.  Chris was out of his element inside the party process; standing outside of it and screaming is akin to his back yard.

On the drive home the emails and phone calls started coming in.  Initial reports were fully half of the delegation had walked out on Norton.  Surely keeping her mouth shut and not wielding the big money donors to get a last minute rule change would have been preferable to the events that transpired.  Later reports were as low as a third of the delegation but the statement was made and the effects can’t be repealed.  Norton may be the favorite of the donors but she is no favorite of those seeking to restore the Republican party to a place of honor and respect.

To Kay’s credit, even as someone that plays her cards extremely close to the vest, she thought the events were tacky.  To Ken’s credit, he has a chosen a consummate professional to help with his campaign.  And to Lisa Taskerud’s discredit, she chose to adulterate the rules accepted by the party by making a slight, and almost unnoticed, change to the letter of those rules to enable her, and the anointed one, to violate the spirit of those same rules, and completely disrespect the Assembly system.

I would love to have an insider’s report on the events that transpired prior to Crist’s abandonment of the Republicans, the events of Bennett’s defeat in Utah, and as an ultimate prize, the events that led to the absolute slaughter of Kentucky’s anointed one: Trey Grayson.  I am by no means an insider so let’s call this a participant’s views on the process.  Imagine being a fly on the wall when the power brokers of any of these states met to discuss their failures and the TEA Party’s successes.  Particularly in Sarah Palin’s dressing room.

You see, the rumor all day at the Congressional Assemblies was the purported endorsement of Jane Norton by the Grizzly-Mom, moose hunter herself: Ms. Palin.  All day the subject had come up.  The first day, Friday, was the Congressional Assemblies to be followed on Saturday by the state wide Assembly and Sarah was to speak that evening.  “Was it inappropriate for Sarah to steal the thunder of Colorado’s Assembly process by speaking hours after it ended?”  “Was she angling for a Presidential run and hoping for Norton’s big money donors?”  The questions and speculation flew all day long and the only real fact was that she was speaking.  Well Sarah Palin did speak and she did not endorse Norton.  I’ll leave any further speculation to the reader.

The Republican Party establishment is being exposed and called out at every turn by the TEA Parties so I’d like to conclude with a message for the Democrats:  You clean your house and  we’ll clean ours!

Source: GreenDragonTavern

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New York Mayor implies Tea Party conservatives behind Times Square car bombing despite arrest of Pakistani man authorities had been tracking as prime suspect for two days

Despite the arrest of a Pakistani-American who authorities have been trailing for two days as the prime suspect behind the botched Times Square car bombing, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wasted little time in smearing anti-Obamacare activists as terrorists during an appearance on CBS News last night, implying that the attack was the work of a Tea Party activist.

“If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that, somebody who’s homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something, it could be anything,” Bloomberg told Katie Couric.

Without knowing the full explanation behind the motivations of the man arrested in connection with the bombing, it seems unlikely to us that a man of Pakistani origin named Faisal Shahzad would have much to do with conservatives or Tea Party activists, which makes Bloomberg’s smear all the more insidious.

Authorities had been tracking Shahzad as the prime suspect for two days before his arrest at JFK Airport, after they discovered it was he who bought the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder from a Connecticut man about three weeks ago.

Bloomberg had to be aware of the fact that the prime suspect was a Pakistani and not a stereotypical white American anti-Obamacare activist, so why even invoke health care as a potential motivating factor behind the botched attack?

As Kurt Nimmo reported yesterday, before the identity of the culprit behind the bombing had even been hinted at, so-called “progressive” blogs and statist news websites staunchly pushed the explanation that the attack was planned by Tea Party conservatives and opponents of big government.

“It may be that the Pakistan-based Taliban, the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has quietly established a Connecticut franchise while we weren’t looking,” wrote The Nation’s Robert Dreyfuss. “That’s possible. But it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. Which actually exists in Connecticut, where, it seems, the car’s license plates were stolen.”

The white guy caught in a video and suspected of placing the “bomb” with its toy clock “looks like your typical Tea Party radical,” wrote Gather.

“General consensus is that the perpetrator was a white 40 year old male Christian card carrying member of the Tea Party crowd,” declared The Political Jungle blog.

Corporate media outlets incessantly hyped video footage of a white man in his 40’s removing his shirt near the scene of the incident, presumably to play up the contrived smear that Tea Party activists and conservatives are violent domestic terrorists. Now we learn investigators have “backed off” this lead to focus solely on a Pakistani connection. Expect the idiots who smeared peaceful Americans as terrorists on a whim to also back off quietly with their tails between their legs as their drivel is debunked by the fact the prime suspect likely has nothing to do with the Tea Parties.

Authorities were initially confident that there was no foreign involvement in the bomb plot, but the Pakistani connection now opens a window of opportunity for the Obama administration to not let a good crisis go to waste, as Rahm Emanuel would advise, and use the incident as propaganda for the war on terror and an expansion of predator drone attacks inside Pakistan which have already killed hundreds of innocent civilians each year, with Obama’s intensification of the attacks leading to 90 per cent of all fatalities being innocent men, women and childrenwith no connection to the Taliban or Al-Qaeda whatsoever.

Watch the CBS clip below.

Source: Prison Planet

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Tens of thousands of people across the Bay Area turned out in protest of Arizona’s tough new immigration law. The demonstrations went on all day and some stretched into the night.

In San Jose, thousands of marchers headed to an evening rally at city hall. In San Francisco, a separate demonstration wrapped up in the afternoon, but not without a bit of trouble.

Three people were attacked and at least two others were arrested. The people assaulted were part of the Minutemen demonstration, a group in favor of Arizona’s new immigration law.

They said a large group of immigrants’ rights supporters followed them to the BART station on Market Street and started punching and kicking them, and calling them names.

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Obama trekked to Quincy, Illinois, today to pitch his Wall Street shell game. Obama’s pitch is designed to coincide with the Goldman Sachs dog and pony show now dominating the corporate media.

The local Tea Party decided to greet the president but the local constabulary was having nothing to do with it — they sent out riot cops to intimidate the Tea Party protesters. It seems they were in cahoots with the Secret Service.

“In addition, the Secret Service told the Riot Police to ‘push the crowd back as far as you can, out of sight’… So, this is what your dear leader thinks of YOU America. He doesn’t want to even see your face or know of your existence if you don’t agree with his policy,” notes a blogger.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, pro-illegal alien demonstrators throw water bottles at cops and nothing happens. No riot cops are dispatched.
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From the Sharp Elbows blog:
11PM UPDATE from Gateway Pundit: We did everything the local police asked. We moved where they directed us. We moved when they asked us to. We double-checked that we were in an acceptable place on the street. We did not disobey the police and stand and sing God Bless America as some kind of protest. We stood on the corner and sang because we were told it was OK to stand on the corner and sing. That report is a complete whitewash for the Obama Administration’s overreaction to old ladies with American flags. And, if the Whig-Herald wants us to post video of the entire event…
Herald Whig: There were a few tense moments when the crowd moved west down York toward Third Street after the president’s motorcade arrived. A Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move back across the street to the north side. When the crowd didn’t move and began singing “God Bless, America” and the national anthem, Quincy Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer called for members of the Mobile Field Force to walk up the street.

Source: Prison Planet

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A recent ‘tea party’ rally showed lots of anger toward President Obama, but little consistent support for liberty in America.

Rockville, Md.

Many “tea party” activists staunchly oppose big government, except when it is warring, wiretapping, or waterboarding. A movement that started out denouncing government power apparently has no beef with some of the worst abuses of modern times.

Unfortunately, there is scant evidence that most tea partyers have studied the copies of the Constitution they generously hand out to bystanders.

At a Tax Day tea party in Rockville, Md., the speaking venue was draped with a huge banner: “Tired of Big Government?” Members of the “Tyranny Response Team” stood near the front of the rally with their official blue T-shirts. Giant American flags and ones with “Don’t Tread on Me” (with a coiled rattlesnake) were carried around by men with tri-corn hats. Political campaigns busily sold “9/11 Remembrance” bracelets.

And yet, the crowd of 300 seemed most outraged that the US government is not being sufficiently aggressive in using its power.

Ken Timmerman, the author of “Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America” and other hawkish books, declaimed that the US government must take every step to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Mr. Timmerman denounced the Obama administration for being soft on Tehran and urged support for legislation to impose harsh sanctions on Iran. Timmerman previously advocated a US naval blockade of Iran, which he claimed was planning a nuclear attack on the United States.

Running through a litany of President Obama’s greatest failings, Timmerman denounced him for forcing US agents to “stop using enhanced interrogation methods. Has that made us safer?”

“No!” the crowd hollered indignantly.

Jeffrey Kuhner, a local talk-show host, sneered that Obama “has found his inner Muslim” and raged against his bowing to foreign leaders and kings. He complained that Obama has “taken over college loans,” and warned that illegal immigrants could be “the shock troops of Obama’s socialist revolution.” The crowd ate it up.

One of the MCs gushed about how he and everyone else in the crowd loved the police. There was not a word spoken about the video released earlier that week showing a nearby horrendous police beating of an innocent University of Maryland college student.

The rally featured a string of Republican candidates praising fiscal responsibility and denouncing the national debt. One would have thought that it had been 50 years, rather than 15 months, since the Republicans controlled the White House.

There was almost no dissent from any of the 300 attendees. One 50-something man in a faded green T-shirt walked around with a handmade sign declaring, “Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – Bring Our Troops Home Now!” He told me that almost no one he’d talked agreed with his message.

Source: Christian Science Monitor

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Neocons hate the Tea Party almost as much as Democrats and liberals. And that is why the neocon and potential Republican presidential candidate New Gingrich called the Tea Party militant the other day.

The Tea Party movement, said Gingrich while speaking at an event in York County, Pennsylvania, is a “natural expression of frustration with Republicans and anger at Democrats,” which is “more likely to end up as the militant wing of the Republican Party” than a third party

MSNBC plays false right-left paradigm game with Newt’s comment.
Gingrich’s dismissal of the Tea Party as an irrelevant and hot-headed faction of the establishment Republican party arrives around the same time as Karl Rove’s preposterous claim that Libertarians and “Ron Paulites” decided to take over the movement. In fact, the Tea Party (orginally the Boston Tea Party) was founded in 2006 by a group of Libertarians and was subsequently infiltrated and hijacked by establishment Republicans, the exact opposite of what the weasel and war criminal Karl Rove claimed.
Gingrich and Rove are likely responding to a recent poll that indicates the Tea Party is more of an existential threat to the Republican Party than the Democrats.
In no sense of the word is Newt Gingrich a “conservative” or even a traditional Republican. He was a fellow at the neocon criminal organizations the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution. During the Bush regime he sat on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board with fellow neocon Richard Perle and representatives of the death merchants Bechtel, Boeing, TRW, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton. Rockefeller minion Henry Kissinger was also a member during the Bush years.
He was also a “distinguished” advisor at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, another neocon think tank that is closely linked with the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization that does today what was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA, as one of its founders, Allen Weinstein, admitted in 2000. In short, NED overthrows governments in disfavor by the elite and organizes color revolutions designed to replace democratic elections.

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (an Orwellian name if ever there was one) is a virtual rat hole of neocons including former CIA director James Woolsey, the senator from Israel, Joe Lieberman, Gary Bauer, Frank Gaffney, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Walid Phares, and a scattering of like-minded Democrats such as the gun-grabber Frank Lautenberg and Chuckie Schumer.

Gingrich is reputed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and to have ties to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research(founded by the late William J. Casey, Reagan’s CIA director who was largely responsible for creating the Afghan Mujihadeen that would later become the CIA asset al-Qaeda).

Newt has also attended Bohemian Grove where he rubbed elbows with occultists and male prostitutes. Newt has said he is not associated with worshipers of the Canaanite owl of Bohemia but he is a demonstrated liar (his photo appears on the pages of the Annals of the Bohemian Club).

Gingrich and Karl Rove and all the other neocons and bankster minions will soon become a historical footnote. During the upcoming November mid-term elections they will be swept into the dustbin of history as the Tea Party movement returns Congress to the American people. Newt will not be the 2012 Republican presidential candidate — or will Mitt Romney or any other establishment Republican, not unless the Republicans want to make their party completely irrelevant.

Newt and Karl are the militants, not the Tea Party. In fact, they are war criminals and economic terrorists responsible for murdering over a million Iraqis and working as handmaidens for a cartel of international bankers who are about to give us a “double-dip” economic depression.

Source: InfoWars

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Obamanoids “Crash” Tea Party, Claim Dear Leader Has Cut Taxes

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It is sad how the Tea Party movement is discussed these days… The entire movement has been usurped by republicans. How did we let this happen??

Claim that President has cut taxes for 95% of Americans is an illusion, while administration prepares $1 trillion tax hike over next 10 years, not to mention Obamacare

The smug leftist blog Talking Points Memo claimed yesterday that, “The loudest and most boisterous protesters at the tea party rally weren’t anti-Obama conservatives, but were instead Obama supporters who crashed the event with a huge banner reading “Thank You For Our Tax Cuts, President Obama.”

Really? These guys were louder and more boisterous than the thousands of tea partiers who attended yesterday’s event in DC? Watch the video and decide for yourselves, but to me it looks like a handful of Obamanoids shouting wildly inaccurate slogans at largely disinterested people.

TPM posted the video under a headline which read, “Obama Fans Storm Tax Day Tea Party In D.C.” Hardly a storm, I would argue, and more of a drizzle.

The Obamanoids’ argument that their dear leader has not raised taxes and has in fact overseen tax cuts for 95 per cent of Americans is a clever exercise in spin, and it completely ignores the fact that the administration is preparing to implement nearly $1 trillion in new taxes over the next 10 years, not to mention the colossal taxes that are contained within Obamacare.
As ABC News’ Jake Tapper (hardly a right-wing tea partier) reported shortly after Obama took office, “President Obama’s budget proposes $989 billion in new taxes over the course of the next 10 years, starting fiscal year 2011, most of which are tax increases on individuals.”
These include eliminating itemized deductions, hiking capital gains tax, as well as curtailing tax cuts already in place.
In addition, the beast that is Obamacare will help the administration to “spread the wealth” by “taxing the rich,” which in reality means the middle class, by hitting “higher earners,” ie anyone who can actually maintain a decent standard of living, with an array of tax increases which will further economically cripple Americans already laboring under the worst financial crisis since the great depression.
As Bloomberg News reported, analysis by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation revealed that the bill would generate $409.2 billion in additional taxes by 2019. Bear in mind, this is on top of the near $1 trillion in other new taxes that comprise Obama’s budget over the next 10 years.
In addition, the Congressional Budget Office states that the bill also levies almost $69 billion more in penalties for those who fail to meet mandates to buy insurance.
Obamacare will impose dozens of new taxes that will totally eviscerate any remaining disposable income of millions of Americans and in turn lead the economy to ruin. Read a run down of the details of just some of those new taxes here.
And what of the so-called “tax cuts” for 95 per cent of Americans that Obamanoids claim tea partiers should be thankful for?
As the Wall Street Journal outlined in October 2008, the Obama “tax cuts” are little more than a cynical ploy.
“It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut,” wrote the WSJ.
As the American Power Blog summarizes, the “tax cuts” for 95% is just a gimmick, Americans have not been allowed to keep more of what they earn, but have merely been offered seven “tax credits,” only one of which exclusively applies to people who actually pay any income tax.
“Here’s the political catch,” explains the WSJ. “All but the clean car credit would be “refundable,” which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer — a federal check — from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this “welfare,” or in George McGovern’s 1972 campaign a “Demogrant.” Mr. Obama’s genius is to call it a tax cut.”
So the vast majority of Obama’s “tax cuts” are merely transfers of wealth from taxpayers to those on low income and non-taxpayers, the kind of people who voted for Obama because they thought he would pay for their gas and mortgage.
As another video from one of yesterday’s tea party rallies reveals, Obamanoids are completely clueless when it comes to the gargantuan amount of new taxes that are in the pipeline, an assault which will completely devastate the middle class in America, the precise reason why millions of concerned Americans hit the streets across the country yesterday.

Source: Prison Planet

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