Thursday, October 31, 2013

Immigration

Where Libertarians Go Wrong
on Immigration

by Nelson Hultberg on October 31, 2013     Print This Post Print This Post
Libertarians and conservatives agree on many issues and are allies in the fight against statism. But there are several areas where they disagree quite vehemently. One of them is immigration.

The libertarian refrain goes something like this: Isn’t a policy of “open borders” the only approach consistent with freedom and individual rights? Besides, policing the borders and restricting immigration requires still another government bureaucracy. And for pete’s sake, we have enough of those already.

The conservative answers that capturing criminals, defending the nation, and engaging in foreign relations require bureaucracies also. But they are necessary bureaucracies. Immigration policy is no different. It is a legitimate function of our government – to defend the borders and preserve the freedom and order of society.
The question is not, should we as a nation allow for “open borders,” or endeavor to “close down our borders.” The question is: what level of immigration is conducive to preserving the American culture of ordered liberty? Closed borders (permanently) would asphyxiate us; open borders would balkanize us. Ever since the 1965 Immigration Act, we have been hell-bent to balkanize ourselves. With the stratospheric rise in illegal immigration over the past 30 years, the balkanization process is now firmly imbedded in our culture and spreading its ruin at an accelerating pace.

Yes, America has always been a nation of immigrants. But never has she been a nation of unrestricted immigration. From the beginning of their formation of America into a nation, the Founders were acutely aware of the need to lay down rules for entrance into the country and the acquiring of citizenship.

The Founders’ View
The Founders realized that the eternal verities such as our basic individual rights do not change from the past to the future, but immigration rules are not eternal verities; and basically they have nothing to do with the issue of individual rights. They are matters of public policy that will always be subject to both quantitative and qualitative revision with the passage of time.

In other words, entrance into a country is not a “right.” It is a “privilege” granted by the citizens of the country involved. If those citizens decide their country would be better off with a small, selective stream of immigrants instead of a large and indiscriminate stream, then it is their right to bring about such a border policy. There is no such thing as a right to enter any country one chooses, no more than there is a right to trespass on the personal property of one’s neighbor, or enter his house uninvited.

As the Supreme Court rightly ruled in the latter 19th century, “It is an accepted maxim of international law, that every sovereign nation has the power, as inherent in sovereignty, and essential to self-preservation, to forbid the entrance of foreigners within its dominions, or to admit them only in such cases and upon such conditions as it may see fit to prescribe.” [Nishimura Ekiu v. U.S., 142 U.S. 651, 659 (1892).]
The Founders certainly agreed with this. George Washington told his contemporaries that, “The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.” [Writings of George Washington, Government Printing Office, 1931-44, 27:254.]

Political philosopher, Thomas G. West, points out that “Washington’s openness to common citizenship with those who were neither Protestants nor descended from Englishmen did not…lead him to favor unlimited immigration. He believed that immigrants of the wrong sort and in the wrong quantity would endanger American liberty….

“Whenever he discussed immigration, Washington linked his ‘liberal’ vision of multinational and multireligious America with a ‘conservative’ concern about the character of those who would become Americans.” [Vindicating the Founders,1997, pp. 150-151.]

Jefferson also covered the issue of immigrant quality in Notes on the State of Virginia. He felt strongly that there are certain “regime principles” that need to be thoroughly grasped and ingrained into one’s character, such as natural reason, inalienable rights, equality of rights, the virtues of self-reliance, independence, self-government, etc., which will make one into a citizen who favors liberty. Without a thorough grasp of these principles and the presence of these virtues in one’s character, the result will be disintegration of the special uniqueness of America as a nation. [Erler, West, and Marini, The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration, 2007, pp. 19-22.]

So the Founders were obviously very cognizant of the special “way of life” upon which their new nation was structured. They readily grasped that no country can ever afford totally open borders. There are always undesirables that must be excluded from entrance to a country. And even “desirables” must be allowed in sparingly.

Since the same principles and concerns that built America are needed to sustain her, we in the modern day too must be concerned with both the quality and the quantity of immigrants that enter the country. With the world’s and the country’s populations increasing relentlessly, America hardly needs to be adding millions of newcomers from outside our borders. Our population is growing steadily on its own.
Thus if our nation can be said to possess a culture or a certain “way of life,” then any immigration policy we adopt must be geared toward preserving that way of life. Reason demonstrates quite clearly that unlimited, indiscriminate immigration is a dire threat to our way of life.

The Libertarian Flaw: Bad Ideology
Unfortunately libertarians cannot properly confront this dire threat because the great bulk of them believe in “open borders” for all nations. They don’t believe in the nation state concept as it has evolved over the centuries. They want to form a borderless world where all humans are allowed to migrate wherever they wish. The anarcho-capitalist libertarians want to do away with all government itself. Thus in any public debate over illegal immigration, libertarians self-destruct in the public’s eyes. They come off as blind utopians divorced from reality who would destroy America and her political principle of “federalism,” which is the only way to make freedom work in the real world. I discuss this problem of libertarianism extensively in my book, The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values.

There will never be a world without nations because there will never be a world without human nature, which is very concerned with ethnicity. It is born into us. To try and legislate humans into apathy about ethnicity is like trying to breed tigers into turtles. Reality does not allow such nonsense. Ethnic solidarity is one of the major reasons why nations come into being. Humans wish to gather among their own ethnic kind.
Robert J. Samuelson writes in the Washington Post, “People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of ‘diversity,’ it’s sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship with those who have similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations, and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It’s human nature.” [August 6, 2008.]

Even America, a country formed upon ideological principles, was still largely shaped by ethnic European origins. Patrick Buchanan, writes brilliantly about this in Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025. Chapter 7, “The Diversity Cult,” is a blistering demolition of multiculturalism and the primitive incomprehensibilities with which it is saturating the American mind.

This, of course, doesn’t mean that a nation must be all one ethnic group. But it must remain primarily its original (or dominant) ethnic group. Multiculturalism was one of the primary reasons for the fall of Rome. It has wreaked savagery and chaotic cruelty throughout the modern day Balkan States. It is lethal to the maintenance of a free and stable society. This is why conservatives espouse “ordered freedom.” Freedom cannot exist devoid of tradition and slow, minimal immigration.

Byron M. Roth, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Dowling College, says multiculturalism “denies historical and scientific evidence that people differ in important biolgical and cultural ways that makes their assimilation into host countries problematic. It is also extreme in the viciousness with which it attacks those who differ on this issue. These attacks are accompanied by….claims that a collective guilt should be assumed by all Europeans (whites) for the sins of their forebears.” [The Perils of Diversity, Washington Summit Publishers, 2010, p. 594.]

Revered political scientist, Samuel P. Huntington, criticized multiculturalism heavily in his 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Even the liberal, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., criticized the concept of multiculturalism in The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.

Patrick Buchanan writes, “We are attempting to convert a republic, European and Christian in its origins and character, into an egalitarian democracy of all the races, religions, cultures and tribes of planet Earth. We are turning America into a gargantuan replica of the U.N. General Assembly, a continental conclave of the most disparate and diverse peoples in all of history, who will have no common faith, no common moral code, no common language and no common culture. What, then, will hold us together?” [World Net Daily, November 7, 2011.]

Libertarians need to reread Friedrich Hayek and his emphasis on tradition as a filter for the evolution of a free and rational society. They need to abandon the disastrous approach of pure libertarianism that the anarchists and moral neutralists have dumped into their brains. They need to examine the Founders’ ideas on immigration. As we saw in the above, immigration is not a “natural right.” It is a “privilege” granted by the citizens of the country involved.

Tossing Freedom in the Trash
The first step toward getting on the right side of this polarizing controversy is to grasp that all nations possess cultures that are delicate sociological balances of long-standing traditions, mores, and metaphysical views. In nations that lean toward freedom, their cultures are especially dependent upon these balances not being upset in a sudden and irresponsible fashion. Freedom is like an orchid. It is fragile and prone to being tossed in the trash by obtuse mobocracies that have not been taught to value it.

The illegals streaming into our country today have no grasp as to what freedom and its requisites are. To make matters worse, many of them are brazenly anti-American with an arrogant sense of entitlement already built into their personalities. They are bringing with them the political and cultural assumptions of their country of origin. And those assumptions are that the state is meant to take care of them. Unlike earlier America, we now have a state that will cater to those assumptions. This is the flaw in the rationale of open border advocates. The quality of immigrants that flows to a welfare state country will not be the same as that which flows to a laissez-faire country. For this reason alone, any influx of immigrants to our nation must be severely restricted.

But as the Founders knew, even in a laissez-faire country immigration must always be restricted. Today’s unbridled welfare state merely makes restriction all the more mandatory. In fact it makes restriction a matter of national survival.

The flippant libertarian retort to this dilemma, that “all we need to do then is just get rid of the welfare state,” is naïve and irresponsible. Open borders is not a rational policy even for a free, laissez-faire country. Moreover, the welfare state will require 50-100 years to phase out. If present immigration trends continue, in a half-century Mexicans and Central Americans (and their socialist assumptions) will have overrun the entire southwest and much of the midwest. They will be the majority voting block in the country. Thus all libertarians do with their flippant advocacy is confuse the populace, which allows collectivist bureaucrats and corporatists to continue bringing in larger and larger swarms of illegals. Rationality is needed here, not flippancy.

Here lies our danger. Because of Republican greed for cheap labor and Democratic greed for new party members, Washington is opening up the nation’s doors to millions of legal and illegal immigrants from Third World cultures who have no respect for Jefferson’s “regime principles” of individualism, self-reliance, and equal rights under the law. To compound the problem, our welfare state schools are teaching all today’s immigrants the precise opposite of these Jeffersonian principles.

The vision of America launched by the Founding Fathers is flagrantly smeared throughout our schools today. Our textbooks openly denigrate the Founders as “aristocrats” and “elitists,” and depict Western civilization and capitalism as evil, exploitative, racist, and criminal. Our professors teach that the country must be transformed into a collectivist society. Success, security, and health are no longer personal responsibilities; they are to be granted to us by the all-powerful State via massive redistribution of earnings.

It therefore comes as no surprise that millions of immigrants now swarming into America view themselves as rightful recipients of an ever-increasing array of privileges, quotas, subsidies, and handouts. Incredibly this view extends even to the illegals.

The Demopublicans’ Default
Naturally establishment politicians have constructed appropriate spin to avoid facing this pink elephant that sits in their ideological living room stinking up the future of our country. But none of the objections from the liberal multiculturalists and the conservative corporatists hold water in face of what should be our ultimate concern – the preservation of a sovereign America with our distinctly American culture of ordered freedom under the dictates of objective law.

Our solons on the Potomac are selling out our birthright to the globalists in pursuit of regional government and the end of American sovereignty. It is the most craven and short-sighted sell out in our history. Both Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with the illusions of multiculturalism. Both are poisoned with altruistic guilt concerning the poverty of the Third World. Both are blind to the balkanization morass into which they are driving America.

Despicable indeed. But a nation gets the politicians it deserves, and we have reaped an assortment of quislings that now slither around in the most fetid of Machiavellian muck.
Our stand as patriots must be a restoration of the pre-1965 immigration accords and a return to a far more selective process in the qualitative requisites needed to enter the country. In addition, we must steadfastly insist on legislation that 1) mandates English as the official language of America, 2) closes the anchor baby loophole, 3) denies welfare services to illegals, 4) enacts E-Verify, and 5) prosecutes the present laws on the books about hiring illegals.

Will E-Verify threaten us with a national ID? No more than we already have with our Social Security number. E-Verify merely opens up the data base to all private employers so they can easily verify an applicant’s citizenship.

The above five policies remove the attractiveness of illegally entering the country. If we do not remove the lures that bring the illegals here, they will continue coming. For soft and squeamish Americans, such policies will seem cruel. For tough minded patriots, they are just and necessary if we are to save the country.
Libertarians among the freedom movement will have to reexamine their policy of “open borders.” It is not a policy that any rational American can afford to adopt. The Founders’ wisdom and the vast experience of mankind over the millennia must become the basis of our policy again on the vital issue of immigration.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Progress for the Family in WA State

 Progress

 


Today in Olympia, 50 concerned citizens just like you are in Olympia taking part in Olympia 101 learning how to "Maximize the March for Life."  As they make the transition from demonstrators to advocates, they will learn to leaders people form the steps of the Capital into the offices of those who represent us, where the change really happens.

Tomorrow, 50 pastors from all over Washington State will come to Olympia to participate in Olympia 101 for Pastors and church leaders.  These pastors will develop a better understanding of how to serve those who serve in the public square and discuss how they can equip those in their churches to stand for truth in the public square.

These two days of training are just a small sample of the progress being made every day.

We off these trainings free of charge because of friends like you.


We are making consistent progress toward our initial goal of connecting with 100,000 voters and 4,000 churches.  That foundation will change this state.

Today we make progress.

 ABOUT FPIW

The Family Policy Institute of Washington  
is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting public policy that recognizes the significance and sanctity of the family in Washington State.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

UN MRAPS Deployed to US

United Nations Deploys Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles in Michigan FEMA Camp Preparing for Civil Unrest. 

Bob Powell, former Marine and journalist for “The Truth Is Viral”, interviews a trucker who claims that 100 UN marked MRAPS were deployed in Michigan.
Watch this video and take it for what you want.
A call has come out from a person calling himself Truth Is Viral. Traveling at night, on off roads, in the cover of darkness, he comes with a video of 100 UN Marked MRAPS on Deploy to Camp Grayling, Michigan. Meanwhile FEMA is preparing at great links for Civil Unrest.
What is causing this mass unrest they are preparing for could be a number of different things. One major factor that could cause mass panic are reports like the one we at freepatriot.org brought you of the Federal Government cutting off EBT out of spite for the fowl ups in the operating systems, caused by the President Obama Cabinet pulling the plug on the system during the shutdown. This would mean that thousands of people in the lower poverty level states to be without needed food and supplies. Not counting the list of the ones that don’t work that can, an estimated 8 million, and the illegal aliens that get WIC, EBT, HUD Housing and other support due to children born in the US, there are literally millions of disabled Americans that would be without resources. Would that not be enough to cause this?
There are also rumors of the UN moving in due to the treaty for small arms and a report that President Obama is once again thinking of Executive Order to once again circumvent the Second Amendment. Recently a a Navy Seal came forward, who not only confirmed self outed ex-CIA member Dr. Jim Garrow on the litmus test, that the second question asked is if you would disarm American Citizens. Over 51 Senators voted to oppose the UN treaty saying that it would kill the Second Amendment and sent a letter to President Obama calling him just shy of violating Article 3 of the Constitution. If the Federal Government does not think this would cause a riot of mass proportions and deadly violence they obviously have not been paying attention to their own State Ran Media.
Then you have the entire Obamacare fiasco. We have people telling Town Hall meetings that DHS is building an army and asking “is everybody blind!” Several factors could cause the riots that they are seeking, it is more become making the public aware so they don’t fall for the trap.
Meanwhile, the DHS equivalent of tanks with UN stickers move in position under our noses.  You can watch the video here:
SOURCE: BOBPOWELL.BLOGSPOT.COM AND FREEPATRIOT.ORG

Number 57


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ALERT: Lawmakers support Constitutional amendment to force those in government to live under the law! Take Action and Blast Faxes to Congress!

American Conservative,

In Federalist Number 57, James Madison wrote that Congress "can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society."

As wise an idea as this was, Madison and the other Framers failed to expressly incorporate such a limit on government within the Constitution itself.

With lawmakers today passing laws while exempting themselves, their families, and their friends - think: Obamacare - it's clear that we need to codify the principle of Federalist No. 57 into law.

Like Madison, we believe that law applies to all of society -- not just certain parts -- and think it's high time to force those in government to live under the law, not their own "rules"!

It's time to end the double standards and the special privileges -- rally lawmakers now!

Take action and blast faxes to U.S. Representatives and Senators urging them to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION and FORCE GOVERNMENT TO LIVE UNDER ITS OWN RULES! We need a TWENTY-EIGHTH AMENDMENT!

** Sign the petition and message your U.S. Rep/Sens here.

A Twenty-Eighth Amendment

The good news is: several lawmakers in both houses of Congress are getting behind the idea of a twenty-eighth amendment.

Right now, Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Matt Salmon (R-AZ) are sponsoring a constitutional amendment that would prevent lawmakers from exempting themselves from their own legislation.

"Members of Congress are servants of the people, not a ruling class separate and distinct from the people," says Rep. DeSantis. "Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens. A twenty-eighth amendment is needed to hold Congress accountable and to restore principles of proper constitutional government."

Rep. Salmon argues, "A government of the people, by the people, for the people should live under the same rules it passes for the people."

Senator Rand Paul agrees. Just last week he introduced S.J. Res. 25 "proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to applying laws equally to the citizens of the United States and the Federal Government."

This said, we need to tell every lawmaker to join in with Desantis, Salmon, and Paul and run with the idea of a Constitutional amendment to subject government to its own laws!

Take action and blast faxes to U.S. Representatives and Senators urging them to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION and FORCE GOVERNMENT TO LIVE UNDER ITS OWN RULES! We need a TWENTY-EIGHTH AMENDMENT!

** Sign the petition and message your U.S. Rep/Sens here.

It's Natural

It's only natural that the government should live under its own laws - such is the American Way.

Our founders based the Constitution upon natural law or "the law of Nature and Nature's God." Natural law says that there is one law to govern all, not one law for the People and a separate law for those in government.

Is this not still true today?

We need to rally our lawmakers to amend the Constitution to declare "Congress shall make no law" applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to those in government!

The Constitution was last amended in 1992 - let's see that it is amended again!

Take action and blast faxes to U.S. Representatives and Senators urging them to AMEND THE CONSTITUTION and FORCE GOVERNMENT TO LIVE UNDER ITS OWN RULES! We need a TWENTY-EIGHTH AMENDMENT!

Fax Now

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Never Forget

BENGHAZI  

Precious Metals

Precious Metals Market Update
   Falling dollar
October 28, 2013 – The precious metals markets are on the move, responding mainly to new weakness in the U.S. dollar.

After two years of surprising strength, the dollar index, which compares the dollar to other paper currencies, closed below key support at 80 for the second consecutive week. The outlook for the greenback now looks grim – both from a technical point of view as well as fundamentally. A break below 79 could result in fireworks.

Investors are now expecting Federal Reserve officials at Wednesday's FOMC meeting to table all serious talk of scaling back monetary stimulus – opting instead to continue creating $85 billion in new bank reserves each month, and possibly print money at an even faster clip at some point soon.

After all, Chicago Fed Governor Charles Evans just admitted publicly on CNBC that there is NO LIMIT to how much money creation could take place. "We can go as long as necessary," he concluded.

The reason investors suspect the Fed is throwing in the towel on its "taper" talk is because we've seen some lousy economic data as well as the official nomination of a major stimulus supporter – Berkeley leftist Janet Yellen – to replace Ben Bernanke as Fed Chair in January.

The bullion markets have quietly moved up over the past few days, but bullishness among the public has not yet taken hold. Some prospective buyers may be waiting to see if last week's gains will be sustained.

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Spot Prices
Friday's Close
(Weekly Gain/Loss)
Monday Morning
(Gain/Loss from Friday's Close)
Gold $1,354 (+2.7%) $1,352 (-0.1%)
Silver $22.63 (+3.0%) $22.67 (+0.2%)
Platinum $1,460 (+1.1%) $1,465 (+0.3%)
Palladium $748 (+0.4) $746 (-0.3%)  

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Pro-LIFE News



LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report

Sunday, October 27, 2013
For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.
Current Headlines 

Top Stories
• Millions of Americans are Losing Their Current Health Care Policies Under Obamacare

• Pro-Life Movie “Doonby” Will Hit Theaters on November 1
 Scientists Show Unborn Children Begin Anticipating Touch in the Womb• Your Tax Dollars Will Fund Abortions and Planned Parenthood Under Obamacare, Here’s How

More Pro-Life News
• Obama’s Abortion Pill Mandate is Currently Losing in Court 32-5
• 13 Reasons Why Life Is Beautiful

• Are You Subsidizing Abortion Coverage Under Obamacare?
• Abortion Activists Complain About Baby Sidewalk Counselors Save From Abortion
• 67% of Babies With Down Syndrome Die in Abortions, What Else Should You Know?
• False: Pro-Lifers Care About Babies Before They’re Born, Not After

• Support for Pregnancy Centers Considered a Scandal by NARAL
• The Miracle of Human Development: Life Begins Long Before She’s Born
• Michigan Must Fight to Opt Out of Paying for Abortions

 Abortion Activists Tell Women Negative Feelings After Abortion Aren’t Legitimate

Primer on Prayer.

TLBC: Primer on Prayer. LJK.

Sunday afternoon service audio clip.

Riches and Poverty.

TLBC: Riches and Poverty. LJK.

Sunday morning sermon audio clip.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Women

A Woman's Place . . . .


WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR  PLACE

Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict.  She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned  to Kabul  and observed that women still walk behind their husbands.  Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem  happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms Walters approached one of the  Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?'  The woman looked Ms  Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation said, "Land  Mines."
 
Moral of the story: no  matter what language you speak or where you go, behind every man there's a  smart woman.

Plain Talking the Federalist

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Plain Talking the FederalistPlain Talking the Federalist by R E Bridwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Plain Talking the Federalist.  By R.E. Bridwell.

Bridwell does a good job of bringing a modern rending of past expressions.  The Federalist Papers were a series of articles published in Colonial America’s Newspapers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, under the pen name of Publius, to argue for support of the proposed product of the original Constitutional Convention.  Bridwell uses Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language instead of 2013 definitions of the founder’s words.  This avoids the danger of historical revisionism and insures that we can know the intentions of our founders and better understand the sacrifices they made for us.  When Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, some one asked him, “What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?”  He answered, “We have given you a republic, if you can keep it.”  Publius makes strong and reasonable arguments for the Union of the States rather than a mere confederacy.  He shows the superiority of a republican form of government over all other forms and addresses the checks and balances of the three main branches of our Federal Government and the relationship of the Federal Powers to the State’s Rights.  In dealing with factionalism among the States and the demand by some for a perfect document, Publius expressed some frustration on page 275 saying, “Where do we find perfection?”  I think the author, Rick, answered this question when he signed my copy of this book, “For Pastor Larry Killion, Only Christ is perfect government – Rick B.”


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Friday, October 25, 2013

Army Dysfunctional...

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Increasing clouds and thunderstorms for climate alarmists
Science-based analyses are gaining ground, despite bureaucratic tricks. It’s about time.

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Reacting to the Republican cave in on the shutdown of the government and the defunding of Obamacare, Rush Limbaugh, in a nine minute diatribe on his radio show which was republished by WND (World Net Daily), complained bitterly that Republicans had been “hoodwinked” by various political tricks played by Democrats and by the media. Hoodwinked? Really?

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Is Secession’s Time Coming Again?
Pat Buchanan recently wrote an intriguing column titled, “Is Red State America Seceding?” His column clearly reveals that an independence/secession movement is spreading globally. Pat rightly observes that in just the last few years some 25 nations have broken free of mother countries and formed their own independent states.

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secure borders

AMNESTY ACTIVISTS' 'WEEK OF
ESCALATION' HAPPENING NOW
TAKE ACTION – STOP GOP BETRAYAL
"Comprehensive Immigration Reform"
MUST NOT HAPPEN
URGENT ALERT: THIS WEEK illegal immigration activists funded by none other than REPUBLICAN mega-donor Paul Singer AND Obama bankroller George Soros in a "bipartisan" AMNESTY alliance are turning up the heat!
They are DETERMINED to force Congress to PASS AMNESTY, AKA "comprehensive immigration reform" by the New Year!
Their specific targets include: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and 26 other House Republicans representing districts with a considerable number of minorities…
They are even staging acts of "civil disobedience" – well known to us as the pity party of MORE PHONY ARRESTS – in their endeavors to FORCE Amnesty on America!
With the help of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's New American Economy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us group, they hope well orchestrated AMNESTY activism and TONS of political theater carried by an obliging mainstream media will get the job done!
We MUST take swift action NOW and PUSH BACK against the status quo corporate interests colluding with the socialist Democrats to SELL OUT our own American workers. MAKE OUR VOICES LOUD and STRONG – TELL CONGRESS TO SECURE OUR BORDERS AND PUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST!
The House GOP is reportedly ALREADY planning to go to conference with the Harry Reid Senate where border security provisions can be crushed and amnesty and foreign visas expanded – just as Nancy Pelosi has been maneuvering for all along!
Remember, 90,609,000 Americans are NOT in the labor force, another "record" for the Obama administration. This means that there are currently 9 million more Americans no longer working or looking for work since Obama became "president."
Amnesty plans in the works would bring in 33 million foreign workers WHILE giving green cards and our jobs to the 12 million+ (who really knows how many?!) illegal immigrants already here!
That's not to mention the number of American citizens UNEMPLOYED (implausibly estimated by Obama's BLS at an ever-constant 7.9% or 11.3 million) or the UNDEREMPLOYED (ObamaCare part-timers, line up here) actively LOOKING for work instead of resigning themselves to Obama's socialist dole…
On Monday, October 28, American citizens sick-and-tired of having our concerns put second to those of ILLEGAL ALIENS will be flooding the phone lines of Congress – regardless of party affiliation – demanding secure borders and the rule of law.
Help us send the message: NO "COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM"! NO AMNESTY SELL OUT!
While grassroots, Facebook-mobilized working Americans participate in a advocacy "March on Washington Against the Illegal Alien Invasion" day next Monday, WE need to do our part and push back against GOP betrayal NOW!
YOU can help by blast-faxing your petition for border security to our elected officials NOW AND EVERYDAY THIS WEEK.
Make them take notice on Capitol Hill, and we will PILE IT ON while the phone lines are jammed on Monday, Oct. 28!
STARTING TODAY we MUST demand of Peter King and the GOP 'Moderates' like House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte:
Will they betray us on AMNESTY like they did on OBAMACARE?

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The Benghazi Boys

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10/25/2013
Dear Larry,
Obama appears to be staging a coup d'état against the US from within the 
 military by replacing honorable, patriotic generals with his own hand-picked 
rainbow officers.
In addition to the more than 20 senior officers discussed yesterday, two very important military leaders - an Army General and a Navy Rear Admiral - were 
fired for disobeying Obama's orders in the Benghazi debacle.  We refer to 
these to patriots as the "Benghazi boyz" to match the parlance of the White 
House today.
The "Benghazi boyz" wanted to launch a rescue mission to save our embassy personnel from being murdered by Obama's Muslim 
Brotherhood compadres.
NOTE:  Why do we call the islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood the compadres of Obama?  Remember the sequestration?  Obama 
stopped the White House tours to save money... while he was 
sending hundreds of millions in cold hard cash to the Muslim 
Brotherhood running Egypt at that time.  The murderous rein of the 
Muslim Brotherhood - where no dissent was tolerated and Chrisitans 
were slaughtered by the hundreds - so revolted the Egyptian people 
they revolted en masse and overthrew it, outlawed the Muslim 
Brotherhood, confiscated its property and put the leadership in 
prison.  Just before the overthrow took place, Obama sent another 
couple hundred million to these Muslim murderers.  We in America 
should do the same thing to our Muslim Brotherhood White House leadership that Egypt did.
Now, back to our issue:  Obama sacked both of the Benghazi boyz 
for trying to do the right thing.

It is obvious that Obama doesn't want honorable men commanding 
military units.  He wants jack-booted thugs who are willing to kick in our 
doors, aim machine guns at us and search our houses, just like he did to 
the citizens of Boston after the marathon bombing.
He wants officers who are willing to snuff out American lives on his orders, 
not officers who are willing to come a fellow American's aid in times of crisis.
We have to begin undoing the damage that Obama has done to our military and that starts today.
The Benghazi boyz need to be reinstated!
Obama thinks that you and I are stupid and that we don't see through his transparent actions. We can start to unravel his plans by demanding that Congress give these men back their jobs.
Please send FaxGrams to the Armed Services Committees today and tell them to reinstate the leaders who were fired as part of Obama's Benghazi cover-up.
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While Obama may be the commander-in-chief, he is not the dictator-in-chief.
The two men we are referring to as the Benghazi boyz are Major General 
Carter Ham, the US head of Africa Command (AfriCom), and Rear Admiral 
Charles Gaouette, commander of the USS John C. Stennis strike group.
Here is what the Washington Times reported on October 29, 2012 
regarding the events during the Benghazi attack:
"General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and 
communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready."
"General Ham then received the order to stand down [from Obama]. 
His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 
seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in 
command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now 
relieved of his command."
Admiral Gaouette reportedly backed Ham's decision, so both of them were 
fired.
Obama won't allow any dissenters in what he now refers to as "his" military 
in speeches.
So now, Obama's decision to leave Americans fighting for their lives against 
Muslim Brotherhood symps means we have a gutless military that will follow 
this coward-in-chief.
These men did the honorable thing, which they had been trained to do.  
They tried to save lives when Americans were being threatened by 
Imam Obama's associates in the Muslim Brotherhood.