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It is a must watch!
Obama threatens reporters for — reporting! **Updated***
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by Matthew Vadum
April 29, 2011
It is so typical of Saul Alinsky-inspired thugs to lash out and threaten reporters when information they don’t like gets reported.
The Obama administration did exactly that and punished San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci when she dared to release a video of protesters interrupting an Obama speech at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel. Obama’s people kicked Marinucci out of the reporting pool for doing her job and threatened other pool reporters.
Although radical leftists like Obama relish ridiculing their adversaries, they cannot tolerate it when the same is done to them.
Read more about the brutal tactics of Alinskyites in my upcoming book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers
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***Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn’t
April 28, 2011
Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.
Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:
Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.
The Chronicle’s report is accurate.
If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.
I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward’s statement.
Messy ball now firmly in White House court.
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The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights.
White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.
The Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci – who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times -shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.
She was part of a “print pool” – a limited number of journalists at an event who represent their bigger hoard colleagues – which White House press officials still refer to quaintly as “pen and pad” reporting.
But that’s a pretty Flintstones concept of journalism for an administration that presents itself as the Jetsons. Video is every bit a part of any journalist’s tool kit these days as a functioning pen that doesn’t leak through your pocket.
In fact, Carla and her reporting colleague, Joe Garofoli, founded something called “Shaky Hand Productions” – the semi-pro, sometimes vertiginous use of a Flip or phone camera by Hearst reporters to catch more impromptu or urgent moments during last year’s California gubernatorial race that might otherwise be missed by TV.
The name has become its own brand; often politicians even ask if anyone from Shaky Hand will show at their event. For Carla, Joe and reporters at other Hearst newsrooms where Shaky Hand has taken hold, this was an appropriate dive into use of other media by traditional journalists catering to audiences who expect their news delivered in all modes and manners.
That’s the world we live in and the President of the United States claims to be one of its biggest advocates.
Just the day before Carla’s Stone Age infraction, Mr. Obama was at Facebook seated next to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and may as well have been wearing an “I’m With Mark” t-shirt for all the mutual admiration going back and forth.
“The main reason we wanted to do this is,” Obama said of his appearance, “first of all, because more and more people, especially young people, are getting their information through different media. And historically, part of what makes for a healthy democracy, what is good politics, is when you’ve got citizens who are informed, who are engaged.”
Informed, in other words, through social and other digital media where videos of news are posted.
The President and his staffers deftly used social media like Twitter and Facebook in his election campaign and continue to extol the virtues and value. Except, apparently, when it comes to the press.
So what’s up with the White House? We can’t say because neither Press Secretary Jay Carney nor anyone from his staff would speak on the record.
Other sources confirmed that Carla was vanquished, including Chronicle editor Ward Bushee, who said he was “informed that Carla was removed as a pool reporter.” Which shouldn’t be a secret in any case because it’s a fact that affects the newsgathering of our largest regional paper (and sfgate)and how local citizens get their information.
What’s worse: more than a few journalists familiar with this story are aware of some implied threats from the White House of additional and wider punishment if Carla’s spanking became public. Really? That’s a heavy hand usually reserved for places other than the land of the free.
But bravery is a challenge, in particular for White House correspondents, most of whom are seasoned and capable journalists. They live a little bit in a gilded cage where they have access to the most powerful man in the world but must obey the rules whether they make sense or not.
CBS News reporter, Mark Knoller, has publicly protested the limited press access to Obama fundraisers, calling the policy “inconsistent.” “It’s no way to do business,” wrote Politico’s Julie Mason, “especially [for] a candidate who prides himself on transparency.”
A 2009 blog by the White House Director of New Media states that “President Obama is committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history.”
Not last week.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978#ixzz1L0euKlEd
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**UPDATE #2!***
White House, Newspaper Clash Over Protest Video
[White House says newspaper reporter 'broke rules' when she videotaped protest at Obama fundraiser]
April 30, 2011
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White House officials say that breached the terms of her access, which stated Marinucci was to provide a print-only report.
“The San Francisco Chronicle violated the coverage rules that they — and every other media outlet – agreed to as part of joining the press pool for that event,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “If they thought the rules were too restrictive they should have raised that at the beginning.”
Editor Ward Bushee said in the Chronicle’s story Friday that the paper acted within its rights to cover the newsworthy incident. [Emphasis added]
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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Samuel Adams”
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Krauthammer: It’s Funny to Hear Liberals Talk About How Awful it is to Delegitimize a President After What They Did to Bush
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By Noel Sheppard | April 29, 2011
Charles Krauthammer on Friday perfectly elucidated the media’s hypocrisy concerning their avid defense of Barack Obama against attacks from Donald Trump and the birthers.
As the discussion on PBS’s “Inside Washington” turned to the President finally revealing his birth certificate, and liberals on the panel including the Washington Post’s Colby King expressed disgust about how the White House resident was being treated, Krauthammer marvelously replied, “I think it’s somewhat amusing to hear people on the left talking about how awful it is to delegitimize a president when they spent half a decade saying that George Bush stole the election” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think it’s somewhat amusing to hear people on the left talking about how awful it is to delegitimize a president when they spent half a decade saying that George Bush stole the election. The bumper stickers “Reelect Al Gore,” and questioning the legitimacy of his victory in 2000. So, on that issue there’s a double standard and hypocrisy.
Two of the liberals on the panel clearly weren’t pleased by this comment:
COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: Not quite.
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: That’s not personal.
KING: Consider the people who were doing it.
KRAUTHAMMER: You guys have spoken for about eight minutes. Let me have one minute here.
That’s not personal? The attacks on George W. Bush throughout his eight years in office weren’t personal?
Oh, that’s right. When liberals mercilessly attack a conservative, it’s well-reasoned. But when the shoe is on the other foot, it’s personal.
Any questions?
***POSTED by Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters.com***
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Paul Ryan protesters: grassroots, or groupies?
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Astroturf, Groupies (thought that died long ago) or grassroots?
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From Redstate.com
Friday, April 29, 2011
USA Today has the funniest thing I’m going to read today, I think:
At the last of four events on Rep. Paul Ryan’s “listening tour” of his district Thursday, he called on a man in the front row of a high school auditorium, then instantly recognized him.
“You changed clothes!” Ryan told Steve Jozefczyk. The 54-year old salesman from Franklin, Wis., had asked Ryan several critical questions from the front row of an event six hours earlier in Waterford, when he wore a shirt and tie. In Greenfield, it was a black “Faux News” parody T-shirt.
Josefczyk admitted trying to trick Ryan into calling on him again. But Ryan listened anyway.
(Bolding mine) Wow. Paul Ryan has Democratic groupies. Ones that follow him around from town hall to town hall. That’s so cool.
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ALLEN WEST/PAUL RYAN 2012
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Enlightenment
Education
Empowerment
Entrepreneurship
Be Part of the Flash Mob of KINDNESS
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An idea started by Glenn Beck and has evolved into part of the Tea party Patriot Movement.
To be part of the Flash Mob of Kindness; think of those that need help be it someone in your parrish, someone you see on the street or grocery store, or even “donating” your time if you live near one of the communities affected by the recent storms.
Having purchased gift cards from my local grocery store, these are kept with me continually and refreshed as needed. Be observant. Walking about your own grocery store you will see those that look at an item, then check the price and ultimately put it back.
Having witnessed this personally, especially at the meat section, watch for those that pick up packages, look them over for a period of time, then put them back. Walk up, pick up that exact package, place a gift card on top of it and hand it back to that person. Tell them that you are praying for them and not to give up.
Make sure to FILL OUT the gift card
To: YOU
From: The FlashMob for Kindness of the Teaparty Patriots.
There is no “expiration” date for this movement. Make it part of your daily thoughts and actions.
***Note: For those living close to the communities affected by the recent storms: Donate slightly used clothing, donate your time to help in clean up efforts, donate canned (non-perishable) food items, etc.***
**Another idea: When your grocery store has “Buy One get one free”, buy the items or when they have a “Special” like 10 cans of soup for 10.00, buy them. Then make up your own food “baskets” and give to those in your parrish that need a “gentle hand” to help guide them through tough times. YOU know WHO these people are.**
If you meet a person without a smile…….GIVE them one of YOURS.
Laus Deo
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Enlightenment
Education
Empowerment
Entrepreneurship
While YOU Weren’t Paying Attention America: New US Passport Form, Violence Increasing on Southern Border, Etc. QUIT Being Distracted From What is REALLY Happening
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Part #1:
**Warning: Not for the faint-hearted**
Responsibility to Protect: No such thing as a sovereign border anymore.
Worrying about Middle East instead of our own Southern Border: 35,000 people murdered since December 2006 (When Felipe Calderon took office) Killings jumped 60% in 2010.
Forget BULLETS……use SLEDGEHAMMERS
ZETA’s growing……..
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Part #2:
Responsibility to Protect: Do Americans have a Responsibility to Protect FELLOW AMERICANS?
What is our Administration and DOJ doing about the 230+ cities within America? Obama’s interpretation of illegals.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Obama use Executive Powers to bypass system.
Is America ASKING for a DICTATOR?
ATF scam about illegal guns used to attack gun dealers in America? And eventually abolish the 2nd Amendment of the US?
New Way to Fill Out Questionnaire to obtain Passport?
5 Pages of questionnaire to obtain a Passport.
Go here for further information: http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/04/26/why-doesnt-gov-want-you-to-have-a-passport/
The forms are here!
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Part#3:
Federal Reserve System cause of increase in oil prices?
Fed to Hold Press Conference, first in 97 Years, to explain why we are where we are: surplus or deficit?
“Velocity of Money”
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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Samuel Adams”
What Did Elena Kagan Tell Her Deputy About Winning the Health-Care Case?
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From CNSnews.com
What Did Kagan Tell Her Deputy About Winning the Health-Care Case? DOJ Won’t Say
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
(CNSNews.com) - To an ordinary American it might seem like an obvious question with an obvious answer.
President Obama introduces Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House on Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
When Solicitor General Elena Kagan–whose job was to defend the administration’s position in federal court cases–assigned her top deputy to handle the anticipated legal challenges to the health-care bill that President Barack Obama was pushing through Congress in 2010 did she indicate to that deputy that the administration should defeat those challenges?
Common sense might say: Of course.
But if the common sense answer were in fact the true answer, then the plain sense of the law governing recusals by Supreme Court justices would seem to require Kagan to recuse herself from judging the legal challenges to President Obama’s health-care law.
In the questionnaire she filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation process, Kagan said she would abide by the “letter and spirit” of 28 U.S.C. 455 in determining whether she needed to recuse herself from any case as a Supreme Court justice.
This law says that any “justice … shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be reasonably questioned.” It further says any justice “shall also disqualify himself … [w]here he has served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceedings or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy.”
If Kagan indicated to the subordinate she assigned to handle the health care case that the administration should win it, might it not then be reasonable to question her “impartiality” when that case comes before her on the Supreme Court?
If Kagan discussed the “merits” of the health care case with the subordinate she assigned to it, would it not be in keeping with the “letter” of the law–not to mention with its spirit–for her to recuse herself?
But Kagan told the Senate Judiciary Committee, in writing, that she never was asked and never offered her views on the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation–including the health-care reform law signed by President Obama–and that she never was asked nor offered her views on the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from any proposed health care legislation.
The Justice Department will not respond to similar questions CNSNews.com has posed to Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal–citing as its reason for not answering ongoing litigation over a CNSNews.com Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that seeks records relevant to whether Kagan ought to rescuse herself from the health-care case.
On Jan. 8, 2010, then-Solicitor General Kagan personally assigned Katyal, then the principal deputy solicitor general, to be the person in the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to handle the expected legal challenges to the health care bill. That same day Katyal had indicated in an email to DOJ colleague Brian Hauck—who worked in the associate attorney general’s office—that he hoped they would “crush” the legal challenges to the health-care bill.
Katyal also wrote Hauck that day that “Elena would definitely like OSG to be involved in this set of issues” regarding the expected health-care litigation and that Katyal would “bring in Elena as needed.”
Katyal has now signed legal briefs representing the Obama administration in the lawsuits brought against Obama’s health-care law by Florida and Virginia.
Among the questions CNSNews.com has put to Katyal that the Justice Department will not answer are:
–“Did you personally speak at any time that day [when Kagan assigned him to handle the expected legal challenges to the health-care bill] to Solicitor General Kagan about what the Justice Department viewed as the inevitable challenges to the health-care proposal or the department’s need to plan to defend against them?”
–“If you did speak to Solicitor General Kagan that day about the inevitable challenges to the health care proposal or the Justice Department’s need to start planning the administration’s defense against them, what did you say to her and what did she say to you?”
–“How did you know on that day that Solicitor General Kagan ‘definitely’ wanted her office involved in planning the administration’s treatment of the ‘set of issues’ involved in the inevitable challenges to the health-care proposal?”
–“Did you follow through on your statement in the email to Brian Hauck and ‘bring Elena in as needed’ in planning the administration’s treatment of the ‘set of issues’ involved the administration’s defense against the inevitable challenges to the health care proposals?”
–“Did you ever in any way communicate to Solicitor General Kagan, as you did to Brian Hauck in your Jan. 8, 2010 email, your desire to ‘crush’ or otherwise defeat the challenges to the health-care proposal? If so, how did Solicitor General Kagan respond?”
–“Did Solicitor General Kagan ever communicate to you a desire on her part for the administration to succeed in its defense against challenges to the health-care proposals?”
–“Did Solicitor General Kagan ever communicate to you a desire on her part for the administration to fail in its defense against challenges to the health-care proposals?”
–“Did you at any time communicate to your colleagues or subordinates in the Solicitor General’s office, or persons elsewhere in the administration, about what Solicitor General Kagan wanted them to do, or would like to see happen, in regard to legal challenges to the health-care proposals?”
The bases for these questions are facts revealed in a series of internal Justice Department emails the department released last month to CNSNews.com in partial response to the FOIA request CNSNews.com had filed in May 2010.
On Dec. 24, 2009, the Senate passed the health-care bill that President Obama later signed. A week later, the New York Times published an article reporting that Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum was considering a lawsuit to challenge the bill if it became law and that there were “nearly a dozen other states who have also threatened to sue over the mandate.”
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal (Wikimedia Commons photo)
On Jan. 8, 2010, Brian Hauck, senior counsel to Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, emailed Neal Katyal, principal deputy solicitor general, to tell him that Perrelli wanted “to put together a group to get thinking about how to defend against the inevitable challenges to the health care proposals that are pending.” On receiving that email, Katyal immediately emailed back to Hauck, saying: “Absolutely right on. Let’s crush them. I’ll speak to [Solicitor General] Elena [Kagan] and designate someone.”
Katyal, who was Kagan’s top subordinate, then forwarded Hauck’s email to Kagan and said, “I am happy to do this if you are ok with it.” He also offered his colleague Deputy Solicitor General Ed Kneedler as a possible candidate for handling the health-care issue, or the two of them together.
Kagan instantly assigned Katyal. “You should do it,” she said by return email.
That email exchange took place at about 11:00 am on a workday. About two hours later, shortly after 1:00 pm, Katyal emailed again to Hauck in the associate attorney general’s office ostensibly to inform him of his boss, Elena Kagan’s, determinations.
“Brian,” Katyal wrote, “Elena would definitely like OSG to be involved in this set of issues. I will handle this myself, along with an Assistant from my office [name redacted] and will bring in Elena as needed.”
At this time, Kagan’s job as solicitor general was to represent the administration’s position in federal court. Her boss, President Barack Obama, had just seen his signature legislation, the health-care bill, squeak through the Senate. States were already threatening law suits to stop it. Kagan, according to the questionnaire she filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee, would not be informed by the White House until March 5, 2010 that the president wanted to consider her for a possible Supreme Court vacancy.
On March 23, the day President Obama signed the health-care law, Florida and Virginia filed suit against it in federal court. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, whom Kagan would eventually replace, did not announce his retirement, or formally inform President Obama of it, until more than two weeks later on April 9, 2010. And Obama did not inform Kagan he wanted to nominate her to replace Stevens until May 9, 2010, publicly making the announcement of her nomination the next day.
On Jan. 8, when Kagan assigned her deputy Katyal to handle the expected lawsuits against the health-care bill, she was fully engaged as Obama’s full-time solicitor general–and she would not recuse herself from her duties as solicitor general for another four months. When Katyal emailed back to his colleague Hauck in the associate attorney general’s office that January day that “Elena would definitely like OSG to be involved in this set of issues,” and that he would be bringing “in Elena as needed,” there was no reason for Kagan not to be involved in the issue.
There also was no apparent reason on that day that Obama’s solicitor general and her top deputy–expecting lawsuits against the health-care bill–should not have felt free to discuss the legal and constitutional issues those lawsuits would raise.
But Kagan informed the Judiciary Committee that she never discussed these issues with anyone.
There should have been no apparent reason for Kagan not to expect—and want—the subordinate she assigned to handle the expected legal challenges to President Obama’s health-care bill to work aggressively to defeat those challenges.
But the law says Kagan cannot sit in judgment of a case on the Supreme Court if her “impartiality might be reasonably questioned”—or, if, as a government employee, she ever expressed her opinion on its “merits.”
In July 2010, during her confirmation process, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Kagan in a letter: “Have you ever been asked about your opinion regarding the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation, including but not limited to Pub. L. No. 111-148, or the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to potential litigation resulting from such legislation?”
They also asked: “Have you ever offered any views or comments regarding the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any proposed health care legislation, including but not limited to Pub. L. No. 111-148, or the underlying legal or constitutional issues related to any potential litigation from such legislation?”
Kagan’s answer to both questions was: “No.”
When CNSNews.com initially sent a series of questions to Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on March 25 asking him about his conversation and contacts with then-Solicitor General Kagan about the health-care issue, the Justice Department responded with a brief emailed statement.
“During her tenure, former Solicitor General Elena Kagan did not play any substantive role in litigation challenging healthcare reform legislation, and the documents that have been released reflect that,” said Tracy Schmaler, deputy director of the Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs.
When CNSNews.com followed up with an email asking if that was “the totality” of what the Justice Department wanted to say in response to the questions submitted by CNSNews.com, Schmaler responded: “Yes—given the subject is matter of ongoing litigation.”
(See the full set of questions CNSNews.com sent to Katyal on March 25 here.)
Continue reading here……..
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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Samuel Adams”
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Will America SEE and STAND for a New “West-Winger”? **UPDATE on Heckler***
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Anyone the Lefties/Progressives/Socialists/Communists HATE…….Americans should EMBRACE for Presidential Run in 2012.
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From THE BLAZE
HECKLER HANDCUFFED AT ALLEN WEST TOWNHALL IS FORMER AIR AMERICA HOST
April 27, 2011
by Scott Baker
FORT LAUDERDALE — U.S. Rep. Allen West’s first town hall meeting since voting for a controversial Medicare proposal saw three hecklers removed — one in handcuffs — from a generally supportive crowd of about 500.
The Tuesday night meeting was West’s first meeting with constituents since his April 15 vote for a Republican budget that includes a revamping of Medicare.
West was less than a minute into his remarks tonight when two or three men began shouting from the audience.
“How about our Medicare that you’re stealing?” shouted one.
“How about allowing questions from the audience?” shouted another man, apparently dissatisfied with West’s decision to answer written questions submitted by audience members before the meeting.
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Police were ultimately forced to removed one of the hecklers from the event. When the hecklers refused to stop their harassment, West stated, “You’re not going to intimidate me.”
Minutes later, a woman sitting behind West’s wife , who had been acting in a disruptive and combative manner by yelling at the Congressman and even harrassing his wife, was asked to leave and was escorted out of the event by Fort Lauderdale Police.
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During the meeting, West had responded to a question about Medicare when Nicole Sandler of Coral Springs, a former radio host on the liberal Air America network, began shouting from the audience.
Other audience members began shouting at her and a police officer led her out.
“This is supposed to be a town hall meeting. That means back-and-forth,” Sandler said as she exited.
Sandler argued with a Fort Lauderdale police officer in the lobby who told her to leave the building. After she yelled at the officer for placing his hand on her, she was arrested for “trespassing after warning” and led away in handcuffs.
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More here…….
**From Comment Section…….
Good news for Colonel West. Our “Prez for 2012 Poll” ended earlier this evening with the good Colonel running away with it. Out of 3,521 individual votes were made, he got a whopping 2,853 of those votes, that’s an incredible 81% of the total. Nobody even came close. Sarah came in second with 186 votes. We will have the complete breakdown posted later today. And we set up this poll so there could be no cheating, and we even went so far as have our site host look into the possibility of Bots being used when we saw the Colonels numbers on Saturday. They gave us a clean bill of health!
Anotherwords… this is for real.
Prez Poll Ended… West Wins Big…
http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
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***UPDATE***
April 27, 2011
‘MISOGYNISTIC TEABAGGER:‘ LIB RADIO HOST’S ANGRY ALLEN WEST RANT HOURS BEFORE BEING ARRESTED
Brian Maloney over at Radio Equalizer turned up a very interesting piece of audio. As he notes below, the liberal heckler arrested at an Allen West town hall event yesterday is more than just a “former” liberal talk radio host — she’s actually a regular fill-in host for many progressive radio shows. And yesterday she went on an angry Allen West rant:
Just hours before her arrest, the libtalker who disrupted Tuesday evening’s town hall meeting with a Florida congressman took to the airwaves to rail against the freshman incumbent, looking to pack the event with fellow “progressives”.
Misidentified by the media as simply a “former Air America Radio host”, Nicole Sandler does regular fill-in work for Premiere Radio Networks, syndicator of the Randi Rhodes Show, as well as hosting her own online show, Radio Or Not.
Two things worth mentioning:
1. Every time you hear the term “teabagger,” you now know that there are many out there who use it knowing full well that it is a vile sexual reference.
2. Allen West was not kicked out of the military. He retired. And although there was some controversy surrounding the end of his career, “Ninety-five members of Congress signed a letter to the secretary of the Army supporting the colonel.” Read about it here.
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Allen West : “A Man Must Stand for Something or He Will Fall For Anything!”
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Allen West: Honor In Iraq
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“If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through Hell with a gasoline can . . . There is not a person in this room I would not sacrifice my life for.” -Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Allen B. West
Colonel Allen West Answers a Marine’s Question
***Listen CAREFULLY starting at 1:36 mark***
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LTC Allen West on Illegal Immigration
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Lt. Col. Allen B. West speaks on Second Amendment
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“West Winger” for Allen West for President 2012
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Is George Soros a Communist Agent?
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Don’t be too quick to say pshaw (or yeah right) about this. Read this post, think and then rethink this once again.
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by Trevor Loudon
April 20, 2011
Many American and Western patriots view financier and George Soros as almost the devil incarnate.
An inveterate funder of leftist causes around the world, and paymaster of the US Democratic Party, Soros is often seen as the puppet master of the Obama Administration and responsible for many of the problems that beset the West.
While I have no doubt that Soros is every bit as malevolent as his opponents paint him, I think it is dangerous to assume that he is at the top of the of the anti-American food chain.
It is important to know if Barack Obama works for George Soros, but even more vital to understand who George Soros may work for.
There is no doubt that Soros has heavily promoted communist and socialist causes in several countries. Is that because Soros hates America so much, that he is willing to fund its enemies? Or is it because Soros himself is part of a very much alive, but low profile communist apparatus?
Let’s look at that possibility.
Commentators have pointed out that in order for George Soros to have achieved what he did in his early days, he must have been favored by the communists. The following observations have been made by prominent Czech former dissident leader Petr Cibulka.
George Soros as a young man traded currencies on the black market during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Soros lived there until 1946 when he left the country as it was under Soviet occupation and he, without money and at age of 16, ended up in London, U.K. in 1947. According to claims Soros has made, he left his native Hungary because of the Soviet occupation.
Simply said, this must be explained to the American public because these facts are not possible to be true under any normal circumstances. Soros admits to trade currencies on the black market, but that was always punishable by death during the Nazi era in any occupied country. Also what is important is the allegation that the Soros family collaborated with the Hungarian Nazi regime during WW2.
That would make the whole family [no doubt] a target of reprisals from the victims of the Nazi regime and the occupying Soviet forces would treat Soros’ family very harshly [most of the high level Nazi collaborators were hanged]. The only way out of this would be an agreement to co-operate with the GRU Soviet [Russian] military intelligence or perhaps also with the NKVD [later KGB] espionage.
Young George was able to leave the country, he was able to make it through countless Red Army check points, without a passport that would be valid, without a Soviet approved permit to leave the country, without money and without any outside help.
Soros was not only able to “pass through” these check points, but he was able to cross the border to Austria, where the Red Army was also present at the time, and Soros was able to get through the Red Army check points in Austria and “defect” to the West all the way to London, U.K. Un-parallel achievement and because of my personal experiences as a political refugee who had to go through some difficulties escaping the communist oppression, I know what I’m talking about.
I don’t know how this Soros’ “life story” sounds to anybody, but this is impossible to happen unless George had a permit and proper Soviet approved passport, because if he was so brave to try to run these check points, he would’ve been shot dead on the spot by the communists.
His stay in the U.K. and his 1947 enrollment to London School of Economics, and to be able financially to support himself during that time, with no mentioned substantial help or financial backing and to be able to graduate in 1952 at that young age, this all gives me chills where I missed my own opportunities and how come I wasn’t able to be so “fortunate” and to have such “miraculous achievements” in my life.
Soros, after a brief period of working in financial services in Britain, was able to start his own financial institution. What an achievement again. No money at all from the beginning and after just a few years he’s got his own financial company.
That requires starting capital, these expensive ventures don’t come easy, these are not hamburger stands, but virtual banks with lots of money inside – who supplied the money to Soros or has he won a huge jackpot in Britain?
In his “Opening the Soviet System,” Soros recollects about his 1989 Prague meeting with communist Czechoslovakian leader Marian Calfa and says the following:
Together with Prince Karel Schwartzenberg we went to see Marian Calfa, who was then acting president. It was meant to be a courtesy visit but it turned into a moving occasion. Calfa opened his heart. He said that the last three weeks had really shaken his view of the world. He had not realized how far out of touch his party was with reality.
He had had an intimate conversation with Jiri Dienstbier, the former political prisoner and newly-appointed Foreign Minister, and that is when he found out that dissidents’ children had been regularly denied the right to be educated in Czechoslovakia. (Dienstbier’s daughter had managed to get to Switzerland.)
He was deeply ashamed and determined to establish democracy in Czechoslovakia. We all agreed that it was imperative to have Vaclav Havel elected president by the present rubber-stamp parliament; to organize a plebiscite would delay matters and create uncertainties.
Havel as president would consolidate the “gentle revolution.” Unfortunately, the leaders of the party do not agree with me but, as acting president, I have certain prerogatives and I intend to use them,’ he said. He sounded genuine and we were impressed.
It was an unbelievable situation: the head of an apparatus of repression which only a few weeks ago hit students on the head voluntarily abdicating in favor of a dissident without an organization who would have trouble winning a plebiscite.
According to Cibulka and Allan, Calfa was never a president, but a Prime Minister. He changed positions after he was for some years the Deputy PM in communist Czechoslovakia. The authors also make some interesting claims about Dienstbier:
Jiri Dienstbier – during the 1950?s and 1960?s, alleged KGB or directly GRU cadre, as communist journalist he was able to travel around the World during the communist era in Czechoslovakia. Between 1958-69, he worked as foreign political commentator and editor for Czechoslovak [communist] Radio. Between 1964-67, Dienstbier was the CZ Radio correspondent for the Far East and was in Jakarta, Indonesia at the time when there was [thank God unsuccessful] a communist coup.
In 1968-69, he worked as foreign correspondent in the United States, possibly for communist party newspaper Red Right [Rude Pravo]. A CPCZ member since 1958 till 1970, Dienstbier is a founding member of Charter 77, a speaker of Charter 77 in 1979 and later in 1985. After the “collapse of communism” in Czechoslovakia, he became Czechoslovak Government’s Deputy Prime Minister in a government of PM Marian Calfa and Dienstbier later became CZ Foreign Minister. While in his post as Foreign Minister, Dienstbier was involved in various scandals regarding appointing various “former” communists and STB agents [STB foreign espionage section mostly] as Czechoslovak Ambassadors around the World.
Cibulka also comments on Soros’ later ties to communist regimes and movements:
Circa 1978, Frantisek Janouch, “former” Czech communist and nuclear physicist, and George Soros were key financial backers of the Charter 77 Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. It was asserted that the foundation was an “anti-communist” group, however it was sending funds to communist Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel and company. Janouch claims that Soros supplied 1/3 of the total amount of these funds.
On Dec. 14, 1989, Soros was present at the meeting in Prague on December 14, 1989 where he, Janouch, Karel Jan Schwartzenberg (later to become Vaclav Havel’s Chief of Staff) met with Czechoslovak newly appointed Prime Minister, a communist and allegedly KGB and STB agent, Marian Calfa. Calfa thanked Soros for everything he had done for Czechoslovakia.
Soros was also the main financial contributor to the Polish Labor Union called Solidarity. Its leadership had to be made up of members of the Communist Party, or of communist agents.
It is strange that Soros was allowed to set up his Open Society Institutions in the communist Hungary in 1984 and later in the Soviet Union in 1987. Such ventures were only possible for communists or communist agents and not for an American businessmen like Soros. The agreement between Soros and the communist government in Hungary had to be approved by the Communist Party General Secretary Janosz Kadar. Kadar was during the 1950s personally involved in torture and murders of anti-communist opposition members in Hungary.
Soros’ involvement in South Africa, followed a similar pattern.
Soros has been involved in financing organizations in South Africa since 1979, though most of the money he made came from his British Pound scheme in 1992. Much of the money went into communist dominated South African Unions and also to Cape Town University where Soros financed people who are today involved in the African National Congress/South African Communist Party government.
In 1986, Soros attempted to set up his Open Society Foundation in communist China.
I went to China [in 1986 - ed. note] with Liang Heng, who became my personal representative, and set up a foundation on the Hungarian model with Chen Yizi’s institute as my partner. Boo Tung, Communist party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang’s principal secretary, cut through the red tape and approved the foundation on the spot.
Both he and the foundation got into a lot of trouble as a consequence because his political enemies tried to use the foundation as a vehicle for attacking him. They prepared an elaborate dossier which claimed that I was a CIA agent and anti-Communist conspirator.
Boo Tung counter-attacked and presented voluminous information about my other foundations to prove my good faith. That was not too difficult because I had always been very open about my intentions and by 1987 I had also established a foundation in Moscow.
Nevertheless, some high party council decided to liquidate the foundation and refund the money. It took the personal intervention of Zhao Ziyang to rescind the decision. He arranged for Chen Yizi to resign as co-chairman and for the International Cultural Exchange Center, whose chairman turned out to be a high official in the security service, to take over as our host organization.
Cibulka asks exactly how George Soros, could prove, as an American citizen and therefore enemy of the communists, that he was NOT a CIA spy and anti-communist?
How is it possible, that the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party fixed the problem for Soros – “this wouldn’t happen unless (UNLESS) Soros is a communist agent himself and is involved in communist operations – otherwise they would never allow Soros inside the country nor would they allow him to open as much as a hot dog stand in a Beijing (or Moscow).”
All of this is circumstantial. There is no smoking gun that Soros was ever recruited by the Soviets or Chinese, only a pattern of association that should raise alarm bells.
It is bad enough that George Soros spends vast sums backing enemies of American Western freedom.
Even worse would be to find that Soros is part of an East vs West war, that most Westerners thought died in the dawn of the 1990s.
Who does George Soros work for? Himself, or as yet unidentified masters?
The answer to that question, is vital to the future of the West.
For our KeyWiki file on George Soros, go here.
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Thoughts to ponder:
George Soros and Hillary Clinton have a VERY close working relationship.
a. George Soros fully backed Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign.
b. WHY didn’t Hillary Clinton challenge the delegate count at the DNC convention and basically forfeited her candidacy for President to Obama?
c. WHY did Hillary Clinton readily accept the position of Secretary of State instead of doing a power play for the VP selection? Would this be for Hillary to be able to travel the world under the auspices of her accepted position as basically Master Negotiator of all world rulers/dictators/Presidents/Prime Ministers? Think about this: Hillary has a higher popularity rating than Obama.
Both Soros and Hillary are involved in the Shadow Party.
Both Soros and Hillary are involved in the Center for American Progress.
Therefore if one wonders who sent George Soros; you then have to add WHO sent Hillary Clinton? Hillary is/was involved with TWO Charismatic speakers……Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Both Soros and Hillary Clinton LOVE the United Nations and basically its view and ideology of Socialism World-Wide.
Will Hillary Clinton step down as SOS and make a run AGAINST Obama in 2012? Stay tuned.
Be careful what you wish for America.
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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
-Samuel Adams”
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Can’t Account for 10 Libyan Men It Caught and Released Inside U.S.
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From CNSnews.com
Friday, April 22, 2011
By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) - Even as President Barack Obama continued the U.S. military intervention in Libya’s civil war–with armed Predator drones beginning patrols over that North African country on Thursday–U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing immigration laws, could not account for 10 Libyan men it had caught and released inside the United States since July 2009. [Emphasis added]
After two weeks of inquiries about the Libyans from CNSNews.com, ICE finally responded on Thursday afternoon that it had already released to CNSNews.com all the information that was “available” on these Libyans and that the agency had “nothing more to add on the matter.”
ICE describes itself as “the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government.” It says its “primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade, and immigration.”
The information about the unaccounted-for Libyans derives from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that CNSNews.com filed with ICE on Dec. 1, 2010. This FOIA request asked for records about non-Mexican foreign nationals processed by ICE in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
On Jan. 28, 2011, ICE responded to the FOIA request by providing CNSNews.com with two Excel spreadsheets including information about 286,769 non-Mexican foreign nationals processed by the agency over the two years. One Excel spreadsheet contained information on 143,543 non-Mexican aliens processed by ICE in fiscal 2009, and another Excel spreadsheet contained information about 143,206 non-Mexican aliens processed by ICE in fiscal 2010.
The Excel spreadsheets did not include the names of the aliens, but did include eight columns of information about them. These columns included: 1) the “book in” date on which the alien had been detained, 2) the “book out” date on which the alien had been released from detention, 3) the ICE geographical “area of responsibility” in which the alien had been detained, 4) the alien’s “case status,” 5) the alien’s “case category,” 6) the alien’s date of birth, 7) the alien’s gender, and 8) the alien’s country of citizenship.
In all 286,769 cases, ICE had redacted the unnamed alien’s date of birth from the version of the database released to CNSNews.com citing the (b)(6) and (b)(7)(C) exemptions under FOIA. As ICE explained in a letter to CNSNews.com, these exemptions allow the government to withhold information from a FOIA response if releasing it would be an “unwarranted invasion of privacy.”
Generally, the spreadsheet entry for an alien detained by ICE included information in each of the other seven columns. For example, the first alien listed in the database is a 1) female, 2) Nicaraguan, 3) booked in by ICE on Oct. 29, 2008, 4) in the St. Paul, Minn. area of responsibility, 5) who was booked out on Nov. 19, 2008, 6) whose “case category” was “[8C] Excludable / Inadmissible–Administrative Final Order Issued,” and 7) whose “case status” was “8-Excluded/Removed–Inadmissibility.”
The spreadsheets also generally indicated when an alien had been granted some form of relief or given permanent resident status in the United States. For example, a Honduran man detained in the San Antonio area on April 8, 2009 and held in custody until Sept. 16, 2009, was marked as having a case category of “Excludable/Inadmissable,” but after his case was adjudicated by an immigration judge, his case status column was marked “L-Legalization–Permanent Residence Granted.”
The spreadsheets included a total of 27 citizens of Libya who were processed by ICE in 2009 and 2010. All 27 were men.
The spreadsheet entries for 15 of these 27 Libyan men had information in all seven columns, showing when they had been booked in, when they had been booked out, and what had happened to their cases.
The spreadsheet entries for another two of the Libyan men do not make clear if they were ever booked out. One of these two, who was booked in by ICE on July 25, 2009, in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, had a five-digit number –“40050”—in his “Book Out Date” column. His “Case Category” and “Case Status” column were left blank.
The other of these two, who was booked in by ICE on Sept. 30, 2009 in the Denver, Colo. area, had a blank in his “Book Out Date” column as well as blanks in his “Case Category” and “Case Status” column.
The remaining 10 Libyan men were shown in the database as being both booked in by ICE and booked out–but what happened to their cases after they were booked out was not indicated. Their “Case Category” and “Case Status” columns were blank.
What happened to these men? Where did they go? How did the U.S. government resolve their cases? ICE is saying it has provided the information that is “available” on these Libyans and has “nothing more to add on the matter.”
Eight of these 10 Libyan men were detained in states that border on Canada or Mexico—two in Seattle, Wash.; two in San Diego, Calif., two in Houston, Texas; one in Detroit, Mich.; and one in Phoenix, Ariz. [Emphasis added]
The other two were detained in cities that are home to major international airports—one in Newark, N.J. and the other in Miami, Fla.
Between April 7 and April 21, CNSNews.com repeatedly asked ICE in writing and by telephone to fill in the blanks on these 10 Libyans who–according to the spreadsheets ICE provided to CNSNews.com–had been caught and released by the agency in 2009 and 2010. Could ICE say what had happened to them?
CNSNews.com also asked ICE whether the Libyan man arrested on Sept. 9, 2009 in the Denver area was still in custody considering that the “Book Out Date” in ICE’s spreadsheet was blank in his case.
In an April 21 e-mail, ICE Spokesperson Ernestine Fobbs responded for the agency, saying: “What we released in our FOIA is what is available. We have nothing more to add on the matter.”
The day before, on April 20, Fobbs had told CNSNews.com by e-mail: “We are working to get you a response today. We should definitely have something in the morning.”
CNSNews.com had first asked about the missing information in the spreadsheets on the Libyans in an April 7 e-mail to Fobbs and ICE Spokesperson Gillian Brigham. That afternoon Fobbs responded by email to say ICE was working on getting answers but would not have them ready for a deadline that day.
The next day, Friday, April 8, Fobbs sent an email stating that ICE was “in the process of working on your request. We estimate a response time of five working days. You will be notified when the response is ready.”
On April 13, Fobbs informed CNSNews.com via email that “we are still working on your request” and asked CNSNews.com to provide the “cover sheet” that ICE had mailed to CNSNews.com when it originally provided the Excel spreadsheets in response to CNSNews.com’s FOIA request.
On April 18, Fobbs sent an email to CNSNews.com saying she had received the cover letter and that CNSNews.com would be notified “as soon as I receive a response.”
On April 20, Fobbs e-mailed CNSNews.com that ICE was working on a response and would contact CNSNews.com “immediately” when it was ready. Later on April 20, Fobb sent the e-mail saying ICE was “working to get a response today. We should definitely have something in the morning.”
On the afternoon of Thursday, April 21, 2011, Fobbs e-mailed CNSNews.com that ICE was “still working on your response.”
Also on Thursday afternoon, CNSNews.com spoke by telephone with ICE Spokesperson Brigham and asked her why ICE could not answer the questions over the course of two weeks about what had happened to the 10 Libyans. Brigham told CNSNews.com that ICE had “thousands” of requests for information from the press.
When asked why CNSNews.com should not publish a story reporting that ICE could not say what had happened to the 10 Libyans, Brigham responded that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Office (ERO) was “still researching” the information to respond to CNSNews.com.
Later Thursday afternoon, ICE Spokesperson Fobbs responded via email to CNSNews.com’s questions about the caught-and-released Libyans.
“What we released in our FOIA is what is available,” said Fobbs. “We have nothing more to add on the matter.”
The 10 Libyans in question include:
–A Libyan man booked in on July 7, 2009 in the Newark, N.J, area and booked out on July 17, 2009.
–A Libyan man booked in on Dec. 28, 2009 in the Seattle, Wash., area and booked out on Dec. 31, 2009.
–A Libyan man booked in on Dec. 28, 2009 in the Seattle, Wash., area booked out on Dec. 31, 2009.
–A Libyan man booked in on March 25, 2010 in the Detroit, Mich., area booked out on March 26, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on May 14, 2010 in the Phoenix, Ariz. Area booked out on May 18, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on May 18, 2010 in the Miami, Fla., area booked out on June 4, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on May 21, in the Houston, Texas, area booked out on May 21, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on June 2, 2010 in the San Diego, Calif., area booked out on June 2, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on Sept. 13, 2010 in the San Diego, Calif. Area booked out on Sept. 13, 2010.
–A Libyan man booked in on Sept. 21, 2010 in the Houston, Texas, area booked out on Sept. 21, 2010.
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**Written and posted by Penny Starr**
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Yet……DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano says America is safer than it has ever been?
Okay then Janet Napolitano…….WHERE are these 10 Libyan Men released within the U.S.?
Consulting with Obama in the White House? (sarc)
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