It’s REPRESSION AMERICAN STYLE, but repression just the same

Washington Examiner:

Dems on FEC target conservatives, vote to punish maker of anti-Obama movie

The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed for free his latest work, Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.

Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, owner of Highway 61 films, has produced several independent politically-themed movies and sent Dreams out to millions of voters in key swing states prior to the 2012 election.

While he acted on his own, and with no ties to political groups or parties, an FEC complaint was filed claiming he violated reporting rules, prompting him to seek the standard media “exemption." 

But despite giving the same exemption to liberal movie makers like Michael Moore and Daily Kos, the Democrats recently voted against Gilbert in a February action, reviving their bid to punish conservative media, a campaign initially targeting online news outlets like the Drudge Report.

Lucky for Gilbert, the three Republicans on the FEC also united to vote to give him the exemption. The tie vote blocked any action, and was followed by a unanimous 6-0 vote to close the file. Had he lost, Gilbert would have been required to report who helped fund the anti-Obama movie.

R E P R E S S I O N

Make no mistake

Time for it to END

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Defend a Hero; Stop Child Sexual Abuse, SGT MARTLAND

From ACLJ

The ACLJ continues our multi-faceted campaign for Sergeant First Class (SFC) Charles Martland – the Green Beret war hero facing expulsion from the Army for saving a young Afghan boy from sexual abuse.

Fox News even picked the story up late last week:

A decorated Army sergeant who protected an Afghan boy from a child molester could find out any day whether his actions will end his career in the military.

Sgt. First Class Charles Martland, a Green Beret with an 11-year Special Forces career, was stationed in Afghanistan in 2011 when the boy’s mother came to him and said she’d been beaten and her son raped by a local police commander. Martland and another soldier summoned the police official and, when the man laughed at them, threw him off the base. Martland and Daniel Quinn were both disciplined for their actions.

Last year, amid military cuts, the Army Human Resources Command recommended Martland be discharged in part based on his disciplinary record, but an official decision by U.S. Army brass is expected by March 1.

We have been fighting for SFC Martland for months. We have heard from more than 300,000 Americans who are demanding that the U.S. military act to stop sexual child abuse on our bases and exonerate SFC Martland. We’ve also sent legal letters to President Obama and top military officials on SFC Martland’s behalf.

We are also working to elevate this important story – sending letters to nearly 20 veterans groups alerting them to this problem and rallying them to SFC Martland’s cause to ensure justice is served and the U.S. Military does the right thing.

At the same time, we continue to work with Members of Congress on this issue. We’re delighted to see that a bipartisan, bicameral group of 93 Members of Congress has now demanded an investigation into the reports that the U.S. Military told our troops to ignore Afghan soldier’s sexual enslavement of young children.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) – a Pentagon watchdog – recently announced the formal inquiry.

Fox News featured our petition and our fight in its coverage:

One year ago, the Army conducted a “Qualitative Management Program” review board and called for Martland - among thousands of other soldiers with prior disciplinary issues - to be “involuntary discharged” by Nov. 1, 2015.

Martland appealed the decision and a final ruling on his discharge has been delayed until now. With the deadline rapidly approaching, other legal advocates have come to his aid, and even garnered over 300,000 signatures in a petition calling for the decision to be overturned.

As I told Fox News, "After acting to protect a child from sexual assault from an Afghan commander, SFC Martland was punished and could be kicked out of the military at any time. … What’s equally disturbing are reports that the military has allowed Afghanistan forces to sexually abuse young children on U.S. bases.”

That’s why we are aggressively advocating on Capitol Hill and demanding the Obama Administration address these atrocities.  We are also submitting critical legal documents and testimony at the United Nations to end the abuse of young boys.

What is happening to SFC Martland is a true travesty. We’ve made it clear that SFC Martland acted properly when he took decisive and forceful action to stop the repeated rape of a young Afghan boy at the hands of a corrupt Afghan leader. In the words of SFC Martland: ‘We felt a moral obligation to act.’

Here’s the bottom line: SFC Martland acted in compliance with U.S. and international law and should not face punishment – and ultimately expulsion – from the military. He should be commended – not castigated – for his brave actions.

The fate of a U.S. war hero is at stake.

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SSDD, and at Stanford ..Nuremberg Laws, HERE WE COME

A member of Stanford University’s Student Senate argued that it is “not anti-Semitism” to claim Jews control “the media, economy, government and other social institutions.”

No doubt this person is on the Kevin McDonald ‘it’s reasonable to make pure antisemitism sound fine if you cherry pick facts and present them in a normal forum’ Scholarship (no doubt this will be featured in the next piece of evidence of Jew control, Zoolander 3.

Gabriel Knight, a junior, made the remark at a Student Senate meeting Tuesday addressing a proposed resolution on anti-Semitism, according to the Stanford Daily, the main campus newspaper. Knight also said, “Questioning these potential power dynamics, I think, is not anti-Semitism. I think it’s a very valid discussion.”

He apologized later in the meeting after Jewish community leaders and a Jewish student accused him of anti-Semitism.

“I will apologize for when I supposed that [the clause] wasn’t anti-Semitic,” said Knight. “It wasn’t right for me to say that Jewish people can’t be offended by that. What I meant to say is that it’s still making a political statement, which is my problem with the clause — it’s an important conversation we should be having.”

Knight’s remarks came during a debate over language in the proposed resolution, which offers guidelines for defining anti-Semitism and calls on the student governmental body to oppose anti-Semitic activities and fund anti-discrimination education.

Many will wonder if Jew control began with Jack Warner, or Sam Goldwyn, or Darryl Zanuck, or that famous Jew Chet Huntley (yeah, I know, but he MUST be a Jew, right?), but the precise moment of facile control of the media by Jews can easily be pinpointed in time by the accession of the secret plan to disrupt American culture forever.

Gabriel Knight, you are BORING. Go back to school and take engineering,, then you can follow the distinguished footsteps of Arthur Butz

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“Israel launched indiscriminate attacks against the residents of Gaza in 2014, resulting in  more than 10,000 Palestinian civilian deaths”

Bernie Sanders

ELIMINATED

In an incredible NY Daily News interview with their editorial board:

“Anybody help me out here, because I don’t remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does that sound right?” Sanders said. When told that the figure was “probably high,” Sanders replied, “I don’t have it in my number…but I think it’s over 10,000.”

“My understanding is that a whole lot of apartment houses were leveled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed,” he added. “So yeah, I do believe and I don’t think I’m alone in believing that Israel’s force was more indiscriminate than it should have been.”

According to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2,251 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza war — including 1,462 civilians (65 percent). In its own report on the war, the Israeli government said that 2,125 Palestinians were killed, with at least 44 percent of them confirmed to have been armed members of Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Based on both the Israeli and U.N. estimates, Sanders inflated the Gaza conflict’s total Palestinian death toll about fivefold and its Palestinian civilian death toll at least sevenfold.

When asked what he would of done differently than Israel during the Gaza war, Sanders said he is not qualified to answer that question, but still called Israel’s attacks against Gaza “indiscriminate.”

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My Grandmother used to call it a ‘yiddishe cup’ and Bernie, where is yours?

DEFS

‘ The Jews are known for their intuitive genius in getting out of a pickle. With their long history of persecution, they’ve developed a knack for escaping seemingly hopeless predicaments: when your back is against the wall, you learn to think fast. Centuries of reasoning and interpreting the Holy Scriptures have also contributed to the Jews’ skill in solving the most puzzling problems. This astute way of thinking is known in Yiddish as yiddishe kop , literally “Jewish head.” ‘

Bernie Sanders Calls For Shutting Down New York Nuke Plant

The Nuclear power pant at Indian Point, well …the plant produces about a quarter of the electricity used by New York City and neighboring Westchester County

Of course, nuclear power pushes no CO2 into the environment

Sanders doubles down: Climate change causes terrorism

“Well what happens in, say, Syria… is that when you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops, they’re going to migrate into cities,” Sanders said.

“And when people migrate into cities and they don’t have jobs, there’s going to be a lot more instability, a lot more unemployment, and people will be subject to the types of propaganda that al Qaeda and ISIS are using right now,” he added.

“So where you have discontent, where you have instability, that’s where problems arise, and certainly, without a doubt, climate change will lead to that.”

Trump, Cruz, Kasich, Clinton, Sanders?

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“We shouldn’t make it legal to engage in transactions just to avoid taxes”

B Obama, todaay

Gee, I wonder what GE which has an ENTIRE division whose job it is to minimize tax payment thinks?

Here is the full context:

“We shouldn’t make it legal to engage in transactions just to avoid taxes,” he added, praising instead “the basic principle of making sure everyone pays their fair share”.

Spoken just like someone who has never held a commercial job, instead taking every check from taxes paid.

Who determines what a fair share is?

If other nations tax less, and their fair share is lower, are you contemplating BLOCKING companies from moving there and enforcing lower competitiveness, as the NLRB tried with Boeing moving to South Carolina?

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Iran: US trying to hinder its economic recovery

Because $158bn in cash and lifting of sanctions is just not enough

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“After all those years in Washington, I was naïve”

Robert Gates describing his reaction to the results of Obama promising him there would be no further changes in the defense budget after Gates had cut hundreds of billions.

Gates was then told to cut hundreds of billions of dollars MORE from the defense budget after already having slashed it. 

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Obama: Iran not following ‘spirit’ of deal

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Why I have little hope for a republican convention….

If Redstate calls Trump voters..well…

‘Everything that’s wrong with that particular brand of rabid racist scumbag Trump supporters’

Then doesn’t THIS  make the relentless unthinking inquisitors of Cruz supporters all antisemitic, and therefore racists as well?

Hillary and Bernie are out there waiting to see WHICH kind of racists succeed so they can ensure the American people understand they will either vote for NOT-RACISTS or RACISTS in place of ‘it’s the economy, stupid’. And that’s your election.

The issue has now gone far beyond the candidates. The issue is among those for whom this system does not function (calling all Bernie supporters) and will not go along AGAIN, vs those to whom their idea of ‘conservative’ is a purity which must be maintained.

It should be clear now that at the least a very large plurality will either stay home (and part vote for Bernie should he succeed), OR a large plurality will stay home after the ‘republican party’ elite decides they will allow Trump to carry the banner alone and face a polite shunning at best from his own party.

The only other alternative is a selection on some later ballot.

  1. Who is out there right now that could satisfy both wings of this party?
  2. Who is out there that could end the damages of free trade and not harm that ‘conservative principle’?
  3. Who is out there that could satisfy the corporate, hedge fund, big business ‘needs’ for legal and ILLEGAL immigration and be serious about a secure border?
  4. Who is out there that has the mind and nerve to kill ISIS, navigate among China and Russia, manage NATO, and uphold our values in the world while satisfying the wings of ‘America should stay home and mind it’s own business’ and ‘American leadership is a GOOD THING and without it the world has caught fire’
  5. Who is out there that recognizes the ravages the POLITICAL CLASS has now wrought on the people, intended or not, ignorant or not, inimical or not, and garner the support of an integral part of that same class?

NO ONE.

Anyone out there fails one of the wings on issues of principle which are fundamental to that wing.

Especially on the last issue, it should be clear the Republican party is either finished, or a sullen population will conclude IT’S OVER OVER HERE. I choose the death of the Republican party. EASILY.

And I’m not so sure the Democrats are not facing the same thing.

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I think I finally understand Donald Trump

He is not grotesque

He is not a misogynist

He is not vindictive

He is not a bully

We are simply using the wrong set of criteria to render judgment.

He just is the guy who has an instinct for what it takes to win, and that includes (must include, among other things) a beat down of the competition until deterrence is achieved.

This is the only issue in his mind

There are no standards of behavior.

There is no such thing as decency.

There is no such thing as gallantry.

There are no good guys.

There are no bad guys (Thanks, Dave Mason)

Everyone is equal before his consideration.

If you are not an ally you are under suspicion as an enemy (I mean, you are not an ally)

If you are an enemy you must die and be seen to be killed.

This process goes on until no one is left.

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The one where the problem of Election 2016 intensifies

Trump: When will you learn to shut your goddamn mouth?

You have identified the problems: CHECK

You have at least SOME clue about solutions: CHECK

You might be a charlatan: CHECK

You herald extreme damage to the political class: CHECK

High visibility supporters (along with me are), throwing up their hands like Newt, Coulter..who said you are ‘mental’

Domestic policy grade: 85%

Foreign policy grade: 65% (Putin is not some goddamn biz competitor. Don’t make LBJ’s mistake)

Cruz: You can’t do anything about your voice

Flat Tax/No IRS: CHECK, CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK

McConnell a liar: CHECK CHECK CHECK

You herald extreme damage to the political class: CHECK

You can’t get out of the gutter and respond to every stupid bait:UNCHECK

Domestic policy grade: 90%

Foreign policy grade : 75%

BUT…

UGH

It’s just antisemitism dressed up in New Testament clothing, and now I can’t vote for you. PERIOD

Domestic Policy deduct 105%

Kasich: Full believer in TPP. Now I can’t vote for you. PERIOD. No need to look further

Shrieking Harridan: You lie so much, and do it as a cost of doing business, I truly beleive you don;t even know when you are lying, dissembling, effecting a charade, or telling the truth in a way harmless to you.

Corrupt without even being able to identify corruption: CHECK

Bernie: How can you be so accurate in identifying the main issue and so ridiculous about the solutions?

Sees TBTF, rigged economy and therefore political system: CHECK

Recognizes Free Trade as much as Trump and Cruz as killing USA:CHECK

Foreign Policy advisers from J Street: No CHECK, but a big WTF?

M-W:

Full Definition of socialism

1:  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a :  a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b :  a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3:  a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Bernie, this nation gave $370bn PRIVATELY last year and that is not socialism.


Foreign Policy Grade: 30% (climate change and terrorism, really?)

Domestic Policy Grade: 20% (break up TBTF, but SOCIALISM..the ULTIMATE TBTF>>>>US GOVT)

You know what? I think maybe we should start over

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