Monday, May 20, 2013

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"A NATION OF SHEEP WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES"

JUDGE MUZZLES SPEECH OF CHRISTIANS - BUT ARAB FESTIVAL VIOLENCE IS OK

Law enforcement officers intervened, but instead of arresting anyone in the mob they warned the Christians to cease their activities or be arrested.

The judge ruled that the mob violence justified the intervention by the officers against the Christians. See the WorldNetDaily story below (highlights added).

In other words, because the Muslim mob reacted angrily with violence, the officers had a duty to muzzle the speech rather than stop the violence.

Stunning.

The message is loud and clear: If you are a Muslim, and you object to speech you don’t like, you can react with violence, because government authorities will reward your violence by muzzling the speech you don’t like.

	Please join us in fighting back to defend our First Amendment right to freedom of speech by signing our open letter to Congress and the state legislatures. We’ve declared September 25^th to be “Freedom of Speech Day.” September 25^th is the 224^th anniversary of congressional passage of the Bill of Rights. Find out more about “Freedom of Speech Day” activities and how you can host a “Freedom of Speech Day” event in your community.

WND EXCLUSIVE

JUDGE GOES OFF DEEP END TO SHUT UP CHRISTIANS

Suppression of speech fine if Muslims threaten violence

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/judge-lets-muslim-violence-silence-christians/

A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message.

The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought by a team of Christians who were badgered, bullied and targeted with garbage thrown by Muslims who disliked their message at last year’s Arab Fest in Dearborn, Mich.

Officials with American Freedom Law Center, who have been arguing the case on behalf of the Christians, also said the judge denied AFLC’s motion requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting the Christian evangelists from displaying their banners and signs on the public sidewalks outside of this year’s Arab Festival.

It is scheduled for June.

In his ruling, Duggan said, “The court finds that the actual demonstration of violence here provided the requisite justification for [the Wayne County sheriffs'] intervention, even if the officials acted as they did because of the effect the speech had on the crowd.”

The case had been filed by the AFLC after several Christian evangelists were violently assaulted by a hostile Muslim mob while preaching at the festival last year in Dearborn, which has the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.

The lawsuit, which will be appealed to a higher court, alleged the county, sheriff and deputies refused to protect the Christians from the attack, and they threatened to arrest the Christians for disorderly conduct if they did not halt their speech activity and immediately leave the festival area.

Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said, “The First Amendment was dealt a severe blow today as a result of this ruling. Indeed, this ruling effectively empowers Muslims to silence Christian speech that they deem offensive by engaging in violence. And pursuant to this ruling, the Christian speakers are now subject to arrest for engaging in disorderly conduct on account of the Muslim hecklers’ violent response to their speech. In short, this ruling turns the First Amendment on its head.”

David Yerushalmi, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, added: “This fight for our fundamental right to freedom of speech does not stop here. We have filed an immediate appeal of this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While Judge Duggan may have been the first judge to rule on this issue, he won’t be the last. Indeed, we are prepared to take this case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary because it is imperative that our free speech rights not be subject to mob rule. This is the United States, not Benghazi.”

WND previously reported on the case several times.

The violence developed at the 2012 events when Christian evangelists walking on public sidewalks surrounding the event while carrying signs with biblical messages were assaulted with stones, bottles and debris by attendees of the festival.

The signs that brought on the attack included “Know the God of the Bible” and “Trust Jesus.”

Several of the Christian demonstrators walked away bruised and bloodied from the attack. Ruben Israel, the leader of the group, pleaded with law enforcement officials to intervene so that the demonstration could continue peacefully.

However, the officer refused and demanded the Christians leave the premises or face arrest for disorderly conduct.

Shortly after, Israel contacted AFLC, which filed a federal lawsuit against Wayne County and several officials from the Wayne County sheriff’s office. AFLC charged that the officers failed to uphold their constitutional duty to protect the Christians.

A video has been released of the 2012 confrontation that explains authorities not only failed to protect the Christians, they ordered them to leave the Arab festival under threat of arrest for “disorderly conduct.”

However, not one Muslim was arrested for the attack, which left several members of the Christian group injured, the video says.

The video, and a related complaint, showed the crowd – reminiscent of a rock-throwing “intifada” scene from the Middle East – hurling a dizzying barrage of objects at the Christians, who were standing passively with their signs.

WND later learned that the Christian crowd had been carrying a pole with a pig’s head attached to the top, further angering the Muslim crowd. At the beginning of the video, Christian street preachers shout, “God is good, and God is not Allah!”

A the 2:17 mark of the video, the mob can be heard screaming: “You want to jump ‘em? C’mon, let’s go!”

One boy yells, “Let’s beat the sh-t out of them!”

A girl shouts, “Go home! Do you understand English?!”

Despite the attacks the Christians endured, a man identified in the video as Deputy Chief Dennis Richardson of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office tells them, “You’re a danger to the safety right now.”

Officers claim they don’t have the manpower to protect the Christians at the festival.

“Your safety is in harm’s way. You need to protect everybody,” said Deputy Chief Mike Jaafar of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office. “You do have the option to leave. I just want to make that clear.”

Israel replied, “You have the option to stand with us” as Jaafar walked away, leaving the Christians to the mob.

When police leave, the crowd continues harassing the Christians and screaming profanities.

Then police begin escorting the Christians away from the crowd.

Richardson tells Israel: “We have the responsibility of policing the entire festival, and obviously your conduct is such that it’s causing a disturbance and is a direct threat to the safety of everyone here. Someone could get hurt. You already have blood on your face. One of the festival people, one of my officers, anybody can get hurt. Now we’re going to escort you out.”

Israel explains that the mob throws things and becomes more aggressive when police leave the scene.

“Part of the reason that they throw things on someone is because you tell them stuff that enrages them,” Richardson argues.

AFLC said the Christians were wearing shirts with Scripture quotes and Christian messages.

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SCYTL/SOROS TO COUNT OUR VOTES AGAIN - SEE WHO THEY MAY HAVE ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY? THERE'S MORE INFO IN THE BLOG FROM LAST YEAR

WND Exclusive

Foreign vote-count firm expands U.S. reach

Touts ability to conveniently 'manage' electoral roll on Election Day

Published: 1 day ago

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The foreign-headquartered company that recently purchased the leading U.S. electronic voting firm has just announced its technology will be deployed at more jurisdictions ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
A SCYTL company news release boasted that its “electronic pollbook solution recently achieved a significant milestone by eclipsing the 100th implementation in the United States.”

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“This number continues to grow with many jurisdictions planning to implement electronic pollbook technology ahead of the 2014 election cycle,” continued the release.
The electronic pollbook reportedly allows U.S. election officials and poll workers to manage the electoral roll on Election Day in an efficient and convenient manner.
SCYTL’s electronic pollbook solution will be utilized in small and large election jurisdictions throughout the nation, including in Washington, D.C.; Galveston County, Texas, along with 50 other Texas counties; Kane County, Ill.; and the city of Peoria, Ill.
“We are very excited that our superior platform and unique solution have earned the trust of more than 100 election jurisdictions who have successfully utilized our electronic pollbook in major elections,” said Marc Fratello, CEO of SOE Software.
“We also look forward to expanding our offering to other election jurisdictions across the United States,” added Fratello.
In January 2012, SCYTL, based in Barcelona, acquired 100 percent of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. The sale garnered national attention after it was spotlighted by the popular Drudge Report.
Soros ties
Last week, WND exposed how SCYTL recently acquired the software division of a non-profit election organization tied to George Soros’ Open Society Institute.
SCYTL said it is purchasing the software division of Gov2U, described as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting the use of technology in the fields of governance and democracy.
A SCYTL press release says: “Gov2U created its software division in 2004 and, since then, it has developed a wide array of innovative award-winning eDemocracy solutions that have been implemented in multiple countries across Europe, Africa and America at the local, regional and federal government levels.”
The Spain-based company says the “main purpose of these tools is to engage citizens in participatory processes through the use of online and offline platforms, bringing more transparency and legitimacy to decision-making processes.”
Gov4U is currently partnered with Soros’ Open Society to support and develop a group called the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness.
The group runs a website, OpeningParliament.org, which says it is a forum “intended to help connect the world’s civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries’ parliaments and legislative institutions.”

NDI and the Open Society, for example, worked together to push for electoral and legislative reform in Romania. Aside from receiving financial support for Soros, NDI has co-hosted scores of events along with Soros’ Open Society. The two groups work closely together.
NDI boasts that with Open Society Institute funds it conducted a political leadership training series for Romanian activists to “bring tangible improvements to their communities.”
NDI describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization working to establish and strengthen political and civic organizations, safeguard elections and promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government.
NDI previously stated it was founded to draw on the traditions of the U.S. Democratic Party.
WND found that NDI is also listed as the only U.S.-associated organization of Socialists International, the world’s largest socialist umbrella group.
NDI was originally created by the federally funded National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, which itself founded joint NDI projects with the Open Society. Another NDI financial backer is the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.
U.S. elections, national security concerns
With the purchase of SOE Software, SCYTL increased its involvement in the U.S. elections process. SOE Software boasts a strong U.S. presence, providing results in more than 900 jurisdictions.
In 2009, SCYTL formally registered with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as the first Internet voting manufacturer in the U.S. under the EAC Voting System Testing and Certification Program.
Also that year, SCYTL entered into an agreement with another firm, Hart InterCivic, to jointly market its pollbook.
SCYTL’s ePollBook already has replaced the paper precinct roster in Washington, D.C.
In the 2012 presidential election, SCYTL was contracted by the states of New York, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Mississippi to provide the overseas ballots.
During the midterm elections in November 2010, SCYTL successfully carried out electoral modernization projects in 14 states. The company boasted that a “great variety” of SCYTL’s technologies were involved in the projects, including an online platform for the delivery of blank ballots to overseas voters, an Internet voting platform and epollbook software to manage the electoral roll at the polling stations.
The states that used SCYTL’s technologies during the midterms were New York, Texas, Washington, California, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Just prior to the midterm’s however, the new electronic voting system in Washington, D.C., was hacked.
As a program security trial, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics reportedly encouraged outside parties to find flaws in its new online balloting system. A group of University of Michigan students then hacked into the site and commanded it to play the school’s fight song upon casting a vote.
It’s not the first time SCYTL’s systems have been called into question.
Voter Action, an advocacy group that seeks elections integrity in the U.S., sent a lengthy complaint to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in April 2010 charging the integration of SCYTL systems “raises national security concerns.”
“Foreign governments may also seek to undermine the national security interests of the United States, either directly or through other organizations,” Voter Action charged.
The document notes that SCYTL was founded in 2001 as a spinoff from a research group at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, which was partially funded by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
Along with Barcelona, SCYTL has offices in Washington, D.C., Singapore, Bratislava and Athens.
Project Vote noted that in 2008, the Florida Department of State commissioned a review of SCYTL’s remote voting software and concluded in part that:

The system is vulnerable to attack from insiders.
In a worst case scenario, the software could lead to 1) voters being unable to cast votes; 2) an election that does not accurately reflect the will of the voters; and 3) possible disclosure of confidential information, such as the votes cast by individual voters.
The system may be subject to attacks that could compromise the integrity of the votes cast.

Voting through Google, Apple?
As WND reported in May 2012 the company announced the successful implementation of technology that allows ballots to be cast using Google and Apple smart phones and tablet computers.
SCYTL unveiled a platform that it says encrypts each individual ballot on a voter’s Google or Apple mobile device before the ballot is then transmitted to an electronic voting system.
Using this technology, “Scytl is now able to guarantee end-to-end security – from the voter to the final tally – not only for computer-based online voting but also for mobile voting,” stated a press release by the company.
“By leveraging its pioneering security technology with Google and Apple’s mobile device platforms, Scytl has become the premier election technology provider to offer an online voting system that guarantees the highest standards in terms of both voter privacy and ballot integrity both on personal computers and mobile devices,” said Gabriel Dos Santos, Scytl’s vice president of software engineering.
The U.S. currently does not utilize voting platforms using mobile devices. SCYTL sees such methods as the future of electronic voting.
With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott

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POLL: 1 IN 4 DEMOCRATS WANT OBAMA IMPEACHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poll: 1 in 4 Democrats Want Obama Impeached

20 May 2013 / 5 Comments

In the wake of a flood of scandals rocking President Barack Obama’s ivory tower, Wenzel Strategies conducted a telephone poll last Thursday. Their results surprising and encouraging. It revealed that a growing number of Americans believe that President Obama should be impeached.

Fritz Wenzel, President of Wenzel Strategies summed up the poll results, saying:

“It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it.”

“Half or nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama should be impeached for the trifecta of scandals now consuming Washington.”

When they broke it down to the individual scandals, the results still indicate that Obama’s popularity is changing from hero to villain. Poll results for the Benghazi scandal indicated that 50.1% of Americans say that Obama should be impeached. Perhaps the most surprising result was 27.6% of Democrats that responded to the poll on Benghazi said that the president should be impeached.

When asked about the IRS scandal that only became public less than 2 weeks ago, 49% said that Obama should be impeached and again, 24.4% of Democrats responding said Obama should be impeached because of the scandal.

The third scandal covered by the poll involved the Obama administration’s invasion of the AP reporter’s telephone records. On this scandal, 48.6% said they believe Obama should be impeached and 26.1% of Democrats also responded in favor of impeachment.

Wenzel commented further on the results, saying:

“What is clear from the data is that Obama is at risk of losing his base. On each of these questions, about one in four Democrats said they agreed Obama should be impeached. What could be more alarming to the White House is that it appears that most of America is tuned in to these issues now, as 93 percent of registered voters said they get at least one news update on these issues every day.”

“Of the three issues now in the news, the one that has been there the longest, and the only one that has to do with the death of American citizens, is seen as the most important to Americans. While 49 percent said the Benghazi murders of U.S. diplomatic personnel is the most serious issue, 26 percent said IRS harassment was most serious, and 25 percent said the seizure of AP phone records was most serious. With news still breaking on all three fronts, it is impossible to know which of the three scandals will ultimately be the most damaging to the Obama administration. These findings clearly show Americans are concerned about what is going on in Washington.”

“What could be most concerning to the White House is that the Democratic Party effort to retake the U.S. House of Representatives next year may be at risk because of these issues. Asked whether they would lean to vote for the Democrat or the Republican in their own congressional district based on what they know about these three situations, 46 percent said they would lean toward voting for the Republican, while 39 percent said they would lean toward voting for the Democrat. Another 16 percent said these issues make no difference in their congressional vote.”

“The appetite is growing for impeachment proceedings. It is too early to say it is time for those proceedings to start, but it’s now possible to see that day on the far horizon.”

Sunday, May 19, 2013

JOE DON - INTELLECTUAL FROGLEGS - JAIL TO THE CHIEF

http://conservativevideos.com/2013/05/jail-to-the-chief/

KELLY CLARKSON - PEOPLE LIKE US

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STATE DEPT. ANNOUNCEMENT THAT US WILL SIGN ARMS TRADE TREAT - THANKS TO THE MUSLIM DICTATOR, HILLARY, AND HER DEAR FRIENDS...WILL SHE DON A BURQA AND RUN AWAY WITH HUMA?

http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/state-department-announcement-that-us-will-sign-arms-trade-treaty/

Saturday, May 18, 2013

DO YOU KNOW WHO BEN GHAZI IS? IGNORANT MORON LIBERAL CHICK ASKS THE QUESTION

http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/05/video-amazing-video-entire-audience-at-nj-gun-hearing-disobeys-senators-orders-recites-pledge-2451248.html

[Video] Amazing Video – Entire Audience at NJ Gun Hearing Disobeys Senators Orders, Recites Pledge | Obama

WHY OBAMA WILL SURVIVE EQUIVALENT OF 5 WATERGATES... BEASTLY.

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VIDEO ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

OBAMA USES COMMUNIST CONVERSION TECHNIQUE TO ACCOMPLISH MASS HYPNOSIS AND MIND CONTROL - IT'S CALLED STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

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Friday, May 17, 2013

THE IRS ACTS AS THE BROWN SHIRTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM - LOTS MORE AT THE FEDERALIST BLOG TONIGHT AND WELL WORTH THE VISIT

The IRS acts as the Brown Shirts of National Socialism

Posted: 17 May 2013 01:00 AM PDT

"Corruptus in Extremis"

Both parties promised you a Socialist IRS, a Marxist re-distribution of the wealth and a centralized police state . . . They have kept their promises to you.

By Gary;

The Police State - From day one the Income Tax was created to be used as a political class warfare weapon against the "evil" rich (the job creators). The tax would steal their money and re-distribute that wealth to buy the votes of those not paying the tax.

The ever growing tax code was and is used to reward or punish the friends and enemies of both the Democrats and the Republicans. Everyone from Republican farmers to Greenie Solyndra Democrats gets to stick their snouts deep in the trough of the re-distributed wealth of America.

The political hacks have thug-like extorted the business class by saying, "Give us campaign money and we won't fuck you as hard at tax time."

So it should come as no surprise that IRS agents are morphing into the very Fascist Brown Shirt enforcers of the All-Powerful Marxist State that they were meant to be.

Political Attacks - This oppressive IRS Marxist-Fascist hybrid has exploded in the public eye this week.

From Obamacare down to the smallest local level the IRS State wants to control your every move.

One small story caught my attention. A Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.

'Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,' the IRS demanded. 'Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material,' reports the UK Daily Mail.

That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey, founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.

'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' he asked MailOnline.

It's 'an impossible question to answer fully and truthfully,' he said.

There is a solution. Abolish the income tax. But the politicians will never do that because they would lose their power to control your life.

"Soak the Rich."
Republican William Howard Taft and a GOP Congress brought Marxism, the re-distribution of the wealth and class warfare to the U.S. by passing the income tax amendment to the Constitution.

In 1909 Republican President William Howard Taft urged a Congress with heavy Republican majorities to pass the income tax 17th Amendment and make the Marxist re-distribution of wealth the law of the land.

In an act of naked Marxism and class warfare the GOP promised to "tax the rich" and re-distribute that wealth to others in society with "needs." Never mind the nation had been doing just fine since 1776 without an income tax.

The Republican political hacks said not to worry. Only the very, very top earners would have to pay. Another lie to the simple minded who then sold their votes in return for the chance to legally steal other people's money.

To this day we are still waiting for the "small government" GOP to pass a flat income tax. It will never happen because the Republican Party are the ones who made the progressive, soak the rich income tax the law of the land in the first place.

Anti-EU "Alternative for Germany" takes on Conservatives

Posted: 17 May 2013 12:05 AM PDT

A delegate of Germany's anti-euro party "Alternative fuer Deutschland" (Alternative for Germany) waves
a German flag during the first party congress in Berlin.

Merkel's "Conservative" Christian Democrats are in trouble with real Conservatives

Voters are frustrated when they vote for Conservatives on election day only to end up with "moderate" big spending Socialists.

With less than five months to go before parliamentary elections in Germany, a new political party that is calling for an end to the European currency union is gaining strength.

The party, Alternative for Germany, held its first formal party congress on Sunday at a Berlin hotel. It has emerged as a wild card ahead of the September elections and poses a potential threat to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s re-election prospects.

Chancellor Angela Merkel
just another big spending Socialist

The new party is driven by a collection of elites, not a groundswell from the streets, starting with Bernd Lucke, 50, a Hamburg economics professor.

Lucke, along with many of the new party’s supporters, previously belonged to Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union before the Greek bailouts forced him to reconsider reports the New York Times.

“We want to put an end to the flagrant breach of democratic, legal and economic principles that we have seen in the past three years, because Chancellor Merkel’s government said there is no alternative,” Lucke told more than 1,500 supporters on Sunday. “Now it is here, the Alternative for Germany.”

Lucke says the euro is dividing Europe rather than uniting it, as the single currency was meant to do. He has the support of a group of fellow academics who filed a case before Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court against the bailouts.

'Euro dead, stop the surgery' - Alternative for Germany Party
Anti-euro sentiment is going mainstream in Germany - with the launch of a new party dedicated to pulling the plug on the struggling single currency. The group - called 'Alternative for Germany' - says it has already received thousands of membership requests.

Alternative for Germany Party
Right-of-center voters are tired of phony big spending "Conservatives" like
Merkel and Britain's David Cameron.

For months, the Conservative CDU and the Free Democrat Party have sought to ignore the Alternative for Germany in the hopes that it would simply disappear as so many anti-euro movements have in the past. Instead, though, the party has quickly grown. Earlier this month, it surpassed the 10,000 member mark -- just seven weeks after its official founding -- and it has attracted widespread interest among the German electorate.

More worrisome, significant elements within Merkel's CDU have grown uncomfortable with massive bailouts of heavily indebted euro-zone member states, with several conservative lawmakers either abstaining or voting no on aid packages in German parliament last year. While no parliamentarians have yet abandoned the CDU, the Alternative for Germany has proven adept at attracting lower-ranking CDU and FDP members. Just last week, a state lawmaker with the FDP in Hesse named Jochen Paulus switched parties reports Der Spiegel International.

Many see the AfD as a political home representing what German conservatives used to stand for, before Merkel moved the CDU to the center in recent years. And before the euro crisis forced Berlin to embark on the expensive path of saving the common European currency. While most Germans remain favorable toward the euro, a significant number are not -- and many of them are political conservatives.

The fact that AfD head Bernd Lucke is a professor of economics, with many of the other founders working as economists, academics, lawyers or business leaders, has also helped. For one, it lends the party the aura of respectability and expertise. For another, it has helped the party to quickly navigate the various bureaucratic obstacles for establishing a party and getting on the ballot.

Furthermore, even as there have been some complaints that the party has not done enough to clearly define its right-most boundary. Party leadership has also been careful to keep a tight rein on the kind of cranks who often plague new political movements, even if that has meant strict limits on grassroots influence on strategic decisions.

FROM MY FRIEND, PETE BLOME, LIBERTARIAN...IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT POLITICAL PARTIES...

Northwest Florida Libertarian Party

The Party of Principle – Individual Rights, Free Markets, and Limited Government

Special Guest at the Next NFLP Meeting 19 June! Mr. Jerry Couey, activist, media host and all around font of knowledge about Panhandle politics. Location to be determined…stay tuned

Come on out and ride the NFLP float in the Billy Bowlegs Parade, 30 May, 6 PM, downtown Fort Walton Beach. Get to know fellow Libertarians, throw beads, and have a good time! Please call 850-217-6590 if you will attend…

IRS – You’re surprised?

The blatant targeting by the IRS of groups opposed to the President clearly deserves prison time for those responsible. The odious revelations that the power to tax was used to hinder free expression for partisan purposed rightfully shakes public confidence that the government protects the Bill Of Rights. The IRS can, and should, be abolished. But I must ask, why are so many surprised when this kind of abuse happens?

I would not be exaggerating if I said every day there are examples of even worse abuses by government. It has routinely conducted warrantless searches of American citizens. For a long time it was a crime to tell anyone that a warrantless search had been committed. In Boston we saw the fourth Amendment thrown to the winds for tens of thousands of citizens in the pursuit of two armed men. The mortgage scandals, the LIBOR scandal, and the apparent immunity of big bankers, such as John Corzine, who blatantly steal investor funds but never come to trial, leaves the public with puzzled looks on their faces about the rule of law. Worst of all, American Presidents have executed American citizens overseas without trial, or even without public evidence. And this is the short list!

To Libertarians none of this comes as a surprise because we know big government is bad government. It’s a pity so many of our fellow citizens cannot see the dingy forest of government abuse until their particular tree is chopped down.

Pete Blome, Chair, Northwest Florida Libertarian Party

A response to a pst on the Libertarian Solutions for Florida Facebook Page 1 May: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lpfsolutions/permalink/483790348343601/

Bill Wohlsifer A tough choice between two of our finest LPF members. Pete Blome was instrumental in helping re-organize a libertarian movement in the Big Bend region. He is my closest geographical candidate. But at-large means at large (and we attorneys tend to stick together). My vote, as of May 1st (the day that the Brits traditionally defame capitalism) would be for Jared Grifoni.

Yesterday at 7:38am · Like · 2
Dear Bill,
I’ll ask you to reconsider your vote, since I would best to represent the LPF At-Large.
It is clear to me that the purpose of a political party is to put people and money together to elect candidates and that is what I’ve wholeheartedly pursued.
At-Large implies an ability to be everywhere and do everything that the LPF is involved in. Although I wish this were possible all the time, I took a more realistic approach and concentrated my efforts on establishing an organized and reliable libertarian presence in a manageable area, roughly from Tallahassee to Pensacola (200 miles).   Nowhere in Florida is the potential for actually electing a libertarian to office greater than in this Panhandle region, where relatively small efforts in the past have garnered the best libertarian election results. This is despite the fact there were no LPF Region 5 or Region 6 reps for most of my tenure, or any organized affiliates in the area. What the north lacked, and what I supplied, was an organized and reliable Libertarian presence to tell all liberty loving and free market respecting citizens that what they want is not to be found in the Republican or Tallahassee dominant Democrat Party, but with us. It is working, and I seek to grow our success throughout Florida as far as my strength and resources will let me.
As you well know, it is easy for others to forget that there is another distant part of Florida called the Panhandle. I live 140 miles to the west of Tallahassee, 475 miles from Tampa, and a full 745 miles from Miami. It is difficult for libertarians up here to participate in the many events going on in the southern part of the state (such as conventions), but that does not mean we are inconsequential. Few people anywhere have the time and the means to meaningfully travel the length and breadth of the state in the pursuit of LPF goals, but I made a commitment to myself and other Libertarians to participate in every convention, join in the LPF booth at the Florida State Fair, dial in in every LPF phone conference I could, and in 2012 even walked the halls of the State House Capitol handing out LPF position papers on issues to Panhandle legislators. State geography is a fact we have to live with, and given the distances involved, an at-large rep here clearly makes sense, and benefits local libertarians, the LPF, and yourself.
Distance has another effect in that it is obvious you, and others, do not know what I’ve been doing for the Party. I began the work of the LPF in my own County, Okaloosa, even before I was elected At-Large Rep. Okaloosa was the local center of support for the Snitker campaign in 2010, and led the State in voter turn-out for him. It is the same story for the Johnson Campaign. I am constantly seeking out talented and motivated people willing to work with the Northwest Florida Libertarian Party (NFLP) and the LPF, and have been privileged to find so many. Under my suggestion, the Northwest Florida Libertarian Party (formerly the LPOC, Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County) changed its Constitution to allow full participation by people in six neighboring counties that do not have the dedicated libertarians or resources to create their own affiliates. This does not mean the NFLP would not fully support any libertarian who wanted to create an affiliate in another county. On the contrary, our change brought together libertarians who would otherwise have nothing, and provides a basis for others to build on and grow around here. In order to seek out even more potential libertarians, I’ve encouraged participation in civic and activist groups formerly the exclusive domain of the major parties. As a result, the NFLP and the LPF are a known, and respected, feature in the Fort Walton Beach Tea Party, The Panhandle Patriots Tea Party, the Santa Rosa Tea Party, the Escambia County Tea Party, the Walton County Tea Parties (North and South), the Destin Chamber of Commerce (of which the NFLP is a member), the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, the Pensacola Rotary, the Okaloosa Island Condominium Association, and the Fort Walton Beach Kiwanis. We even showed up at a local Democrat Party hootnanny. For the same reasons, we are active in government. NFLP members have spoken before their respective County Commissions.   I am a regular speaker at Okaloosa County Commission meetings, state representative ensembles, and the rare public appearances by our Congressman Jeff Miller, where I am a well-known voice of the opposition on a wide range of topics from official corruption, to unaccountable government in the Mid Bay Bridge Authority, to using public money to improve private property, to most recently, opposition to the state law that allows County government to pass secret tax breaks for particular businesses that the public, by law, may never know.   I am a familiar name to local politicians, to all the Okaloosa candidates for Sheriff, as well as to State Representative Matt Gaetz, his father Senate President Don Gaetz, and Senator Greg Evers . Past Republican candidates for the State House, Mike Hill, and for Congress, David Scholl, were classmates of mine long ago. I’ve gotten to know who runs the major parties in the Panhandle, and by such associations the libertarian message is getting out, in the opposition camp, that there is an alternative to the major parties. Our message of individual rights, free markets, and limited government is both real and something the major parties constantly betray to the detriment of their supporters.   People around here have come to know libertarians can be leaders, to like what they hear, and that we are here to stay.
My efforts on behalf of the LPF do not end there.    Since 2009 I’ve written at least 60 opinion pieces published by the media, been on TV twice, and made numerous radio talk show calls advocating the libertarian position. I’ve also written papers for the express benefit of the LPF, such as the Convention Hotwashes, or surveys that recorded what went well and what went poorly. I’ve made hundreds of phone calls, and written thousands of emails, to registered libertarians keeping them informed, asking them to get involved, and inviting them to events.   I’ve made my lists of contacts, media sources, and positions papers freely available to anyone working with the Party, including you, if you remember. I’ve given speeches at April 15^th tax day rallies, the Fort Walton Beach Tea party, and the Eglin Air Force base Retirees Association, and the Escambia Teacher’s Union.   For the sixth year in a row libertarians will construct a parade float to be in the Fort Walton Beach Billy Bowlegs Parade seen by thousands (kind of a Mardi Gras event) advertising our candidates. Local libertarians have operated a booth representing the LPF at the Northwest Florida Fair (5000 attendees), the Santa Rosa County Fair (20,000) and the Pensacola Interstate Fair (250,000+). The April meeting of the NFLP attracted attention in that we had Ms. KrisAnne Hall as a guest speaker, who can be added to the list of past speakers including Lawrence Vance (of von Mises), Kerry Bowers (of the FairTax) and Karl Denninger (of the Market Ticker), and Paul Rubin (Senior Economist under Reagan) . I also maintain the NFLP website, libertarianpoc.org. As you can see, I seek out and try to take advantage of opportunities as I come across them.
Of course, I must make special mention that I was also campaign manager for Calen Fretts for Congress in the First District of Florida. It is difficult to describe what it takes to run a Congressional campaign without it sounding like hyperbole, but it is an effort which takes hundreds of hours of continuous effort, and occupied my time for a full year. There had not been a libertarian campaign in the Panhandle since 1994. The who, what, where, whens and whys of a Federal campaign had to be immediately learned and were successfully applied by me. A libertarian had never been on the Congressional ballot in this District before Calen Fretts, and it was only through persistence and planning that Calen achieved that milestone using the petition method. This was something even his Republican opponent could not boat of, though he tried. Despite the lack of affiliates and a regional LPF rep, I found and organized 33 working libertarian volunteers covering an area of 5200 square miles. In the end, although he lost the election, his campaign spread lasting respect for Calen Fretts and Libertarians throughout the District, and it has raised serious questions in the minds of many Republican voters about the efficacy of reelecting the incumbent to office year after year. The Libertarian Party in Florida is stronger for the Fretts campaign. You might remember that I sent a complete Hotwash of the Fretts campaign to all LPF Executive Committee members, for their benefit, something I do not think any other campaign did.
It is clear these activities take money, lots of money, which has heightened my concern over the lack of fundraising by the LPF. The NFLP had $2000 in donations in 2012, and already we have $3000 for 2013, but we are a relatively small organization. The Fretts Campaign gathered about $15,000 in contributions ($1000 of which came from the LPF), but the Libertarian State Party can only boast of a $25,000 war chest for the whole state. Lack of funds is the single greatest limit on our effectiveness as a political party, and we must fix that.   To do so I propose the LPF concentrate on three areas. The first is our message. People want to be in control of their own lives and money, and we need to better present how a libertarian in government would be in the voter’s self- interest. We must show how this puts money in their pockets without government handouts. Next is fundraising. I will continue seeking out politically active people and donors in the Panhandle and use better techniques to persuade them that it is in their own interest to ditch the major parties. It is easy to spend money, and it is frequently necessary to further our cause, but spending without means to recoup what is spent is a plan for disaster. The last part is candidates. Finding candidates is hard, but it is easier when we present an attractive message, and have donors that can support a candidate who wants to win. That is what people who run for office want to do, win. Of these three goals the most important is fundraising and that will be, for me, the major priority that the LPF should pursue in the future.
Being a lawyer is a skill worth having in these litigious times we live in, but I am not a stranger to applying the law to policy. My undergraduate degree is in political science from the United States Air Force Academy, where I also took classes in law, and my graduate degree is in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma. I was the political advisor for the United States Forces in the Azores and had daily contact with Portuguese, Department of Defense and Department of State officials, including their lawyers, over matters related to administering the only bilateral treaty for the stationing of United States troops in Europe. This treaty covered everything from the passage of military forces through Portugal to the hiring of local workers. I performed the prep work for renegotiating this treaty. I’ve represented the United States before Ambassadors, under Secretaries of State, and foreign militaries including a guerilla army when I served with the United Nations. I read the law, and still believe an average citizen, like me, can navigate the legal rocks with prudence and foresight. I was the first to point out and take action almost two years ago over how the LPF was not in compliance with several parts of the Florida statutes FS97-106. I learn more every day how the law is stacked against third party participation in the political process, and increasingly think we must fight this trend for the sake of the Republic. Furthermore, northwest Florida has a concentration of military interests unlike the rest of the state. The Cradle of Naval Aviation is based in Pensacola, there is a Navy flight training center in Escambia County, and the Eglin Range is the largest Air Force Base in the U.S., spanning three counties. I’ve seen three wars, and my career as a pilot and officer assigned to Special Operations, and experience flying the Predator drone, lends me credibility in circles that the Libertarian Party needs to court.
I hope I get your vote. Let’s work together to make a stronger Libertarian Party.
Regards
Pete

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