Sunday, December 22, 2013

#THISisLGBTIran


  • Iran’s execution of two men last week for homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution of gay men that stands in stark violation of the rights to life and privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. (2005)
  • Mehdi P., from Tabriz; Moshen G., from Shiraz; and Nemat Safavi, from Ardebil, were accused in separate cases of committing homosexual acts when they were under age 18.  No date has been set for their execution yet, but the lawyer representing two of the men fears that it could happen any day. (2009)
  • "The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran's Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds," the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying. (2011)
  • The four men -- identified by the Human Rights Activist News Agency in Iran as Saadat Arefi, Vahid Akbari, Javid Akbari and Houshmand Akbari -- are set to be hanged after their guilty verdict was approved recently by high court judges. (2012)
  • Iran's revolutionary guards have announced the arrest of "a network of homosexuals and satanists" in the western city of Kermanshah, close to the country's border with Iraq, prompting fresh alarm over the treatment of gay people in the Islamic republic. (2013)

source:
Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct - Human Rights Watch - November 22, 2005
Three Men Await Execution for Alleged Homosexual Conduct When Children - Human Rights Watch - November 4, 2009
Iran executes three men on homosexuality charges - by Saeed Kamali Dehghan - The Guardian, Wednesday 7 September 2011
Iranian Gay Men To Be Hanged For Sodomy: Report - Huffington Post - Posted: 05/14/2012
Four Iranian men sentenced to death by hanging for sodomy - by Dan Littauer - LGBTQ Nation - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Iran arrests 'network of homosexuals and satanists' at birthday party - by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The Guardian, Thursday 10 October 2013

Monday, December 9, 2013

#THISisRaceOnRaceMurder


  • 44,406 black-on-black murders - 2000-2010
    • 4,441 average per year
  • 36,419,434 black population - 2000
  • 42,020,743 black population - 2010
    • 39,220,088 average black population
  • 11.32 black-on-black murders per 100,000 people per year

  • 37,345 white-on-white murders - 2000-2010
    • 3,735 average per year
  • 216,930,975 white population - 2000
  • 231,040,398 white population - 2010
    • 223,985,686 average white population
  • 1.67 white-on-white murders per 100,000 people per year.

source:
Black-on-black murders - 2000-2010 - WSJ By Rob Barry, Madeline Farbman, Jon Keegan, and Palani Kumanan. Source: FBI. Data collected 12/9/2013
White-on-white murders - 2000-2010 - WSJ By Rob Barry, Madeline Farbman, Jon Keegan, and Palani Kumanan. Source: FBI. Data collected 12/9/2013
The White Population: 2010 Census Briefs
The Black Population: 2010 Census Briefs

Friday, December 6, 2013

#THISisLaborParticipation


Series Id: LNS14000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate
Labor force status: Unemployment rate
Type of data: Percent or rate
Age: 16 years and over
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPresident
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.0 5.0 5.3 5.55.7Republican
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.3 8.7 9.0 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.8 10.0 9.9 9.9Democrat
2010 9.8 9.8 9.9 9.9 9.6 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.3
2011 9.1 9.0 8.9 9.0 9.0 9.1 9.0 9.0 9.0 8.9 8.6 8.5
2012 8.3 8.3 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.1 7.8 7.9 7.8 7.8
2013 7.9 7.7 7.6 7.5 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.3 7.0



Series Id: LNS11300000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Labor Force Participation Rate
Labor force status: Civilian labor force participation rate
Type of data: Percent or rate
Age: 16 years and over
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPresident
200167.267.167.266.966.766.766.866.566.866.766.766.7Republican
200266.566.866.666.766.766.666.566.666.766.666.466.3
200366.466.466.366.466.466.566.266.166.166.166.165.9
200466.166.066.065.966.066.166.166.065.865.966.065.9
200565.865.965.966.166.166.166.166.266.166.166.066.0
200666.066.166.266.166.166.266.166.266.166.266.366.4
200766.466.366.265.966.066.066.065.866.065.866.066.0
200866.266.066.165.966.166.166.166.166.066.065.965.8
200965.765.865.665.765.765.765.565.465.165.065.064.6Democrat
201064.864.964.965.164.964.664.664.764.664.464.664.3
201164.264.264.264.264.264.064.064.164.264.164.164.0
201263.763.963.863.663.863.863.763.563.663.863.663.6
201363.663.563.363.363.463.563.463.263.262.863.0


source:
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey - Unemployment Rate
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey - Labor Force Participation Rate
Data extracted on: December 6, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

#THISisVetoTheFix

"[Any] health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the individual market as of January 1, 2013, may continue after such date to offer such coverage for sale during 2014." - H.R. 3350

"The Administration supports policies that allow people to keep the health plans that they have. But, policies that reverse the progress made to extend quality, affordable coverage to millions of uninsured, hardworking, middle class families are not the solution."
"If the President were presented with H.R. 3350, he would veto it." - President Barack Obama

source:
Text of H.R. 3350: Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013 (Introduced version) - GovTrack.us
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY - H.R. 3350 – Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013

Monday, November 4, 2013

#THISisShibboleth

While writing my book, Alphabetical, about the history of the letters we use, I discovered that debates about power and class surround every letter – and none more so than the letter H.
Is it 'aitch' or 'haitch'? Photograph: Alamy
The alphabet is something not to be argued with: there are 26 letters in as fixed a sequence as the numbers 1-26; once learned in order and for the "sounds they make", you have the key to reading and the key to the way the world is classified. Or perhaps not.
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story
by Michael Rosen
Actually, in the course of writing my book about the history of the letters we use, Alphabetical, I discovered that the alphabet is far from neutral. Debates about power and class surround every letter, and H is the most contentious of all. No other letter has had such power to divide people into opposing camps.

In Britain, H owes its name to the Normans, who brought their letter "hache" with them in 1066. Hache is the source of our word "hatchet": probably because a lower-case H looks a lot like an axe. It has certainly caused a lot of trouble over the years. A century ago people dropping their h's were described in the Times as "h-less socialists." In ancient Rome, they were snooty not about people who dropped their Hs but about those who picked up extra ones. Catullus wrote a nasty little poem about Arrius (H'arrius he called him), who littered his sentences with Hs because he wanted to sound more Greek. Almost two thousand years later we are still split, and pronouncing H two ways: "aitch", which is posh and "right"; and "haitch", which is not posh and thus "wrong". The two variants used to mark the religious divide in Northern Ireland – aitch was Protestant, haitch was Catholic, and getting it wrong could be a dangerous business.

Perhaps the letter H was doomed from the start: given that the sound we associate with H is so slight (a little outbreath), there has been debate since at least AD 500 whether it was a true letter or not. In England, the most up-to-date research suggests that some 13th-century dialects were h-dropping, but by the time elocution experts came along in the 18th century, they were pointing out what a crime it is. And then received wisdom shifted, again: by 1858, if I wanted to speak correctly, I should have said "erb", "ospital" and "umble".

The world is full of people laying down the law about the "correct" choice: is it "a hotel" or "an otel"; is it "a historian" or "an historian"? But there is no single correct version. You choose. We have no academy to rule on these matters and, even if we did, it would have only marginal effect. When people object to the way others speak, it rarely has any linguistic logic. It is nearly always because of the way that a particular linguistic feature is seen as belonging to a cluster of disliked social features. Writing this book has been a fascinating journey: the story of our alphabet turns out to be a complex tug of war between the people who want to own our language and the people who use it. I know which side I'm on.

source:
Why H is the most contentious letter in the alphabet | Science | The Guardian

Friday, October 11, 2013

#THISisDebtCeilingKabuki

Obama’s Statement on Debt Ceiling as a U.S. Senator
“Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is ‘trillion’ with a ‘T.’ That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

"And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on. Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead, interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans—a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”

–Senator Barack Obama (March 16, 2006)

source:
Obama's Congressional Record - Budget

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

#THISisBuyingUnionRemorse

Dear Leader Reid and Leader Pelosi:

When you and the President sought our support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat. Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable fix, the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.

Like millions of other Americans, our members are front-line workers in the American economy. We have been strong supporters of the notion that all Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. We have also been strong supporters of you. In campaign after campaign we have put boots on the ground, gone door-to-door to get out the vote, run phone banks and raised money to secure this vision.

Now this vision has come back to haunt us.

Since the ACA was enacted, we have been bringing our deep concerns to the Administration, seeking reasonable regulatory interpretations to the statute that would help prevent the destruction of non-profit health plans. As you both know first-hand, our persuasive arguments have been disregarded and met with a stone wall by the White House and the pertinent agencies. This is especially stinging because other stakeholders have repeatedly received successful interpretations for their respective grievances. Most disconcerting of course is last week’s huge accommodation for the employer community—extending the statutorily mandated “December 31, 2013” deadline for the employer mandate and penalties.

Time is running out: Congress wrote this law; we voted for you. We have a problem; you need to fix it. The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe. Perverse incentives are already creating nightmare scenarios:

First, the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this obligation, and many of them are doing so openly. The impact is two-fold: fewer hours means less pay while also losing our current health benefits.

Second, millions of Americans are covered by non-profit health insurance plans like the ones in which most of our members participate. These non-profit plans are governed jointly by unions and companies under the Taft-Hartley Act. Our health plans have been built over decades by working men and women. Under the ACA as interpreted by the Administration, our employees will treated differently and not be eligible for subsidies afforded other citizens. As such, many employees will be relegated to second-class status and shut out of the help the law offers to for-profit insurance plans.

And finally, even though non-profit plans like ours won’t receive the same subsidies as for-profit plans, they’ll be taxed to pay for those subsidies. Taken together, these restrictions will make non-profit plans like ours unsustainable, and will undermine the health-care market of viable alternatives to the big health insurance companies.

On behalf of the millions of working men and women we represent and the families they support, we can no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans.

We believe that there are common-sense corrections that can be made within the existing statute that will allow our members to continue to keep their current health plans and benefits just as you and the President pledged. Unless changes are made, however, that promise is hollow.

We continue to stand behind real health care reform, but the law as it stands will hurt millions of Americans including the members of our respective unions.

We are looking to you to make sure these changes are made.

James P. Hoffa
General President
International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Joseph Hansen
International President
UFCW

D. Taylor
President
UNITE-HERE

source:
Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

#THISisFilibustering

The longest U.S. Senate filibusters since 1900, when the Senate began keeping precise records, the senators who spoke for hours on end, the issues and the years:
  • 24 hours, 18 minutes: Strom Thurmond, (D-S.C.), civil rights bill, 1957.
  • 23 hours, 30 minutes: Alfonse D'Amato, (R-N.Y.), military bill, 1986.
  • 22 hours, 26 minutes: Wayne Morse, (R-Ore.), Tidelands oil bill, 1953.
  • 18 hours, 23 minutes: Robert La Follette Sr., (R-Wis.), currency bill, 1908.
  • 16 hours, 12 minutes: William Proxmire, (D-Wis.), debt increase, 1981.
  • 15 hours, 30 minutes: Huey Long, (D-La.), industrial recovery, 1935.
  • 15 hours, 14 minutes: D'Amato, (R-N.Y.), tax bill, 1992.
  • 14 hours, 13 minutes: Robert Byrd, (D-W.Va.), civil rights bill, 1964.
  • 12 hours, 52 minutes: Rand Paul, (R-Ky.), use of drones against American citizens, 2013.
  • 8 hours, 39 minutes: Harry Reid, (D-Nev.), protesting a Republican-led filibuster, 2003.
  • 8 hours, 37 minutes: Bernard Sanders, (I-Vt.), extension of tax cuts, 2010.

source:
The Longest US Senate Filibusters - ABC News

Monday, September 23, 2013

#THISisDreamVote

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary
Question: On Passage of the Bill (S. 744 As Amended )
Vote Number: 168
Vote Date: June 27, 2013, 04:11 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Bill Passed
Measure Number: S. 744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act )
Measure Title: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---68
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chiesa (R-NJ)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Cowan (D-MA)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---32
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

source
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress

Thursday, September 5, 2013

#THISisArabInvasionByProxy


Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.

"With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes," Kerry said. "They have. That offer is on the table."

Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.

"In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost," Kerry said. "That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done."

source:
The House’s Syria hearing: Live updates - The Washington Post - by Aaron Blake on September 4, 2013

Friday, July 26, 2013

#THISisMyFort

The use and meaning of forte and fort are pretty simple. It's the use and meaning of forte and forte that cause problems.

We have in English three words that came to us from the same ultimate source by different routes. The word fort, which means 'a location occupied by troops and surrounded by defensive works' or more broadly 'any permanent army post' or figuratively 'any strong position that one defends', comes from Middle French and is derived from Latin fortis 'strong'. Fort is pronounced the way you think it is and nothing about the word is complicated.

There are two different (but etymologically related) words forte. One is a musical term, meaning 'loud; with force' or in other parts of speech 'loudly' and 'a loud passage', all of which are contrasted with piano. This word, which is pronounced FOR-tay, is from Italian, ultimately from the same Latin fortis mentioned above.

The other forte is from French fort, the same source as the fort meaning 'defensive military location' we just discussed. The French word is fort, masculine, not forte; the -e is a false feminine ending, by analogy with such words as morale and also by confusion with the Italian forte. Its original meaning is 'the part of a sword or foil blade between the hilt and the middle, stronger than the foible', but the common sense is 'one's strong point; an ability or role in which one excels; specialty'.

The pronunciation of forte 'strong point' is a subject of much debate. The most common pronunciation--by far--in America is FOR-tay, the same as the Italian musical term. Conservative usage writers usually insist that this pronunciation is wrong, and only the pronunciation FORT (identical to the word fort 'defensive military location') is acceptable. The rationale is that the French word forte should be pronounced like fort in English; people who pronounce is FOR-tay are either confusing it with the Italian musical term or are assuming that it's spelled forté, which would be pronounced FOR-tay. (In fact, the word is occasionally found in print in the forté spelling, confirming that people do make that mistake.)

There are several problems with this argument. First, the French word is simply not forte, it is fort, so the forte spelling is wrong from the start. Second, the correct French word fort is pronounced FOR, without a "t." Thus, anyone claiming that the FORT pronunciation is correct because of any connection with French is simply wrong. Another factor is that French words can be Anglicized however we see fit--Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage points out that the punctuation mark (') is pronounced uh-PAHS-tro-fee in English, even though it "should" be pronounced ah-pahs-TROPH, since it's from French. Finally, there's the point that the FOR-tay pronunciation is so common that most people now have never heard of the FORT pronunciation and will think it's wrong.

None of this, of course, makes FOR-tay a correct pronunciation; it comes from a mistake of one kind or another. But there is no pronunciation of forte 'strong point' that is etymologically acceptable, so it comes down to a question of choosing which error you want to go with. FORT is favored by the more conservative, but is much less familiar; FOR-tay is far more common but is thought to be wrong by people who bother expressing opinions on such matters. The choice is yours.

source:
The Mavens' Word of the Day - forte and fort

Monday, July 8, 2013

#THISisVaginaGun

"If my vagina was a gun, you would stand for its rights,
You would ride on buses and fight all the fights.
If my vagina was a gun, you would treat it with care,
You wouldn't spill all its secrets because, well, why go there.
If my vaginas was a gun, you'd say what it holds is private
From cold dead hands we could pry, you surely would riot.
If my vagina was a gun, its rights would all be protected,
no matter the body count or the children affected.
If my vagina was a gun, I could bypass security,
concealed carry laws would ensure I'd have impunity.
If my vagina was a gun, I wouldn't have to beg you,
I could hunt this great land and do all the things men do.
But my vagina is not a gun, it is a mightier thing,
With a voice that rings true making lawmakers' ears ring.
Vaginas are not delicate, they are muscular and magic,
So stop messing with mine, with legislation that's tragic.
My vagina's here to demand from the source,
Listen to the voices of thousands or feel their full force."
-Katie Heim

source:
LIVEBLOG: Texas Senate committee hears abortion legislation | The Daily Texan

Friday, June 28, 2013

#THISisDOMASenate1996

H.R. 3396 (104th): Defense of Marriage Act (On Passage of the Bill)
Sep 10, 1996 (104th Congress)

Democrat Senators voting YEA on passage of DOMA
  1. Max Baucus (D-MT)
  2. Joseph Biden Jr. (D-DE)
  3. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
  4. John Breaux (D-LA)
  5. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
  6. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
  7. Thomas "Tom" Daschle (D-SD)
  8. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
  9. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
  10. Bob Graham (D-FL)
  11. Thomas "Tom" Harkin (D-IA)
  12. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC)
  13. Herbert "Herb" Kohl (D-WI)
  14. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
  15. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
  16. Carl Levin (D-MI)
  17. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT)
  18. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
  19. Patty Murray (D-WA)
  20. Harry Reid (D-NV)
  21. John "Jay" Rockefeller IV (D-WV)
  22. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
  23. Richard Bryan (D-NV)
  24. Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
  25. William "Bill" Bradley (D-NJ)
  26. Dale Bumpers (D-AR)
  27. James Exon (D-NE)
  28. Wendell Ford (D-KY)
  29. John Glenn Jr. (D-OH)
  30. Howell Heflin (D-AL)
  31. John Johnston Jr. (D-LA)
  32. Samuel Nunn (D-GA)

source:
H.R. 3396 (104th): Defense of Marriage Act (On Passage of the Bill) -- GovTrack.us

#THISisVoterIDKeyna

Civil society and independent media play a critical role in any vibrant democracy. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the United States supports efforts to ensure civil society organizations and independent media can organize, advocate, and raise awareness with governments and the private sector to improve political processes, transparency, and government performance. Examples include:
  • In Kenya, the $53 million Yes Youth Can program empowers nearly one million Kenyan youth to use their voices for advocacy in national and local policy-making, while also creating economic opportunities. In advance of Kenya’s March 2013 general elections, Yes Youth Can’s “My ID My Life” campaign helped 500,000 youth obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration, and carried out a successful nationwide campaign with Kenyan civic organizations to elicit peace pledges from all presidential aspirants.

source:
WH applauds use of ID cards for voter registration – in Kenya - BizPac Review
FACT SHEET: U.S. Support for Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Rule of Law, and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa - Whitehouse.gov

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

#THISisMobRules

When normal democratic procedures would not give the pro-abortion side a win in Texas’ conservative senate, liberal state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Ft. Worth) filibustered for 13 hours. When that was about to fail because she repeatedly broke the rules, they resorted to mob behavior.

In the end, mob rule delayed procedures enough to kill the bill, for now. It passed, but at 12:03 AM, which was past the deadline by three minutes.

After the legislature determined that the bill had failed due to the hour it passed, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst issued a statement:
  • "I am furious about the outcome of the final day of this Special Session, when an unruly, screaming mob using 'Occupy Wall Street' tactics derailed legislation intended to protect the health of Texas women and their babies. An unconscionable series of delaying actions by the minority party and their allies placed SB 5 in direct jeopardy of death-by-filibuster upon its arrival in the Senate. Pushing every parliamentary procedure to its limit, we passed SB 5 19-10, but the deafening roar from the gallery drowned out any possibility of adjourning with a signed bill. I pledge to Texas one thing: this fight is far from over."

source:
The PJ Tatler » Pro-Abortion Mob Creates Chaos, Preserves Late-Term Abortion in Texas (For Now)

Sunday, June 16, 2013

#THISisChicagoStyleFraud

A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

“This is a bitter sweet moment for free and fair elections," observed Ryan Nees, the Indiana born Yale University senior who first exposed the scheme in the independent political newsletter, Howey Politics Indiana and South Bend Tribune.

Nees previously told Fox News that the fraud was clearly evident, "because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting," and that nobody raised any red flags "because election workers in charge of verifying their validity were the same people faking the signatures."
Officials found guilty in Obama, Clinton ballot petition fraud | Fox News:

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

#THISisTheFourthAmendment

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." - United States Constitution; Bill of Rights; Fourth Amendment

Edward Snowden - Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation
"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
"That the NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."


source:
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' | World news | guardian.co.uk

Thursday, May 9, 2013

#THISisDemocratTactics

According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is a registered Democrat. He was also the alleged leader among the three Castro brothers, who were arrested this week, and the owner of the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., where the three abducted local women had been kept in captivity for over a decade.

Why is this important? Whenever a crime or a scandal captures national attention, the pattern in the mainstream media is to either identify the culprit as a Republican or hold silence -- in which case we can rest assured that the culprit is a Democrat.

When the identity or the party affiliation is yet unknown, the pattern is to speculate publicly about the possibility of the criminal being a conservative, Christian, white, Republican, and a Tea Party member -- and never that he could be a Hispanic Democrat voter playing bass in a meringue band.

In today's divisive climate, the identity of a perpetrator is always a political issue, especially when a crime is committed by men against women. According to the Daily News, "What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help."

If any of the brothers were a Republican, this news would have been trumpeted by the mainstream media as tangible proof of the Republican War on Women -- a narrative invented by Democrat strategists and maintained by the media in a successful effort to defeat Republican candidates in the 2012 election cycle.

source:
Articles: Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnapper, Is a Registered Democrat

Monday, April 29, 2013

#THISisThePurposeOfTheSolution

WOMAN: Okay. So I mean like, if it did, if you had to put it in that jar or whatever--
CLINIC-3: Mhm.
WOMAN: Like, what if it was like, like what if it was like twitching or like something like that? Like?
01:33:00
CLINIC-3: The solution will make it stop.
WOMAN: Okay. Okay.
CLINIC-3: [Laughter] It’s not gonna be moving around in the jar.
WOMAN: Oh okay, the solution would make it like--
CLINIC-3: Yeah. That’s the whole purpose of the solution.
WOMAN: Okay. So like if it looked like it was breathing or something like that--
CLINIC-3: It will automatically stop. It won’t be able to breathe anymore. Not in the, not with the solution.

COUNSELOR: And then tomorrow you get medication by mouth that you place in your cheeks, you let dissolve, and that helps to soften that area as well. So the two things together make the process where we can open up your cervix. But this is a very high risk pregnancy termination because you’re placing something foreign into the body and you’re taking medication. And what happens is the doctor does your termination inside the body because if that pregnancy comes out alive he has to do whatever he can to resuscitate it and bring it to the hospital. So what happens is when you do a second trimester pregnancy it is done inside the body and then removed tissue and pregnancy parts outside the body.

source:
Live Action's Latest Abortion Clinic Undercover Video A Bust Blog
By SIMON MALOY - April 28, 2013
http://www.liveaction.org/inhuman/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Bronx-NY-Transcript.pdf#page=12
http://www.liveaction.org/inhuman/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Bronx-NY-Transcript.pdf#page=22

Monday, April 1, 2013

#THISisCesarChavezDay

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2012, as Cesar Chavez Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate service, community, and education programs to honor Cesar Chavez's enduring legacy.

source:
Presidential Proclamation -- Cesar Chavez Day, 2012 | The White House
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Friday, March 29, 2013

#THISisBornAliveAbortion


"So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief," said Rep. Jim Boyd. "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”

"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Snow.

source:

Video: Planned Parenthood Official Argues for Right to Post-Birth Abortion | The Weekly Standard

Monday, March 25, 2013

#THISisBlackOnBlack


On his show, Touré said this of Carson:
Carson is a brilliant medical thinker but he's got intellectual tumors like a flat tax, which is regressive, and ignorant in the face of wealth inequality where the top 1% own 35% and the bottom 60% own 2.3%. I doubt Jesus would tax them equally. Just as I doubt the GOP would entertain a white non-politician with unserious ideas. But Carson has joined the GOP's version of affirmative action, where blacks that can speak conservative game get raced to the front of the line because then people get to put a bumper sticker on their car that say, 'How could I be racist? I would have voted for Carson!' Which would fit nicely over the bumper sticker saying, 'How could I be racist? I would have voted for Cain?' Which fit nicely over the bumper sticker saying, 'How could I be racist? I would have voted for Allen West!'

Yes, any black friend will do, no matter how far outside the political system they emerge from and no matter how unserious their ideas are. Because it's all make believe. None of them will ever get a nomination for the Presidency, just as the GOP will never get black votes, because the only thing they care about is winning and not the economic or social needs of black people. But in the meantime, imagine away you guys.

At CPAC Carson said, 'Let's say you magically put me in the White House.' But, my brother, no magic is required to accomplish that. As soon as the sequester ends, you could take a White House tour.


The 'Uncle Tom-ing' of Ben Carson Begins

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

#THISisInfanticide

ABSTRACT
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3)adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled

"After-birth Abortion. Why Should the Baby Live?", Journal of Medical Ethics, Online first 23 February 2013 | Alberto Giubilini - Academia.edu

#THISisPersonhood

Abstract
In this paper the permissibility of stem cell research on early human embryos is defended. It is argued that, in order to have moral status, an individual must have an interest in its own well being. Sentience is a prerequisite for having an interest in avoiding pain, and person hood is a prerequisite for having an interest in the continuation of one’s own existence. Early human embryos are not sentient and therefore they are not recipients of direct moral consideration. Early human embryos do not satisfy the requirements for person hood, but there are arguments to the effect that they should be treated as persons nonetheless. These are the arguments from potentiality, symbolic value and the principle of human dignity. These arguments are challenged in this paper and it is claimed that they offer us no good reason to believe that early human embryos should be treated as persons.

Stem cell research, personhood and sentience | Lisa Bortolotti - Academia.edu

Monday, March 11, 2013

#THISisMissleDefenseless

'I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Carney added that "our recent success in returning to testing of the upgraded version of the so-called GBI (ground based interceptor), or the CE2 missile, will keep us on a good trajectory to improve our defense capability against limited ballistic missile threats such as those from North Korea. But let's be clear, we are fully capable of dealing with that threat."

The operative word here is "returning," for what Carney did not say is that candidate Obama campaigned on gutting missile defense and carried out that pledge in his first term, along the way betraying our allies and caving in to Russian demands that we limit our missile defense capabilities.

In a campaign video shown to the far left group, Caucus for Priorities, a month before the January 2008 Iowa caucuses, candidate Obama pledged, "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space." And he kept his word.

President Obama's 2010 defense budget cut $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency's budget. The cuts included scaling back the Airborne Laser boost-phase program, terminating the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor, canceling the expansion of those same ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, and delaying funding for interceptor and radar sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.

President Obama betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic, abandoning plans for ground-based interceptors and missile defense radars, needed to defend against Iranian missile launches.

An open microphone at a photo-op between President Obama and outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after a meeting in Seoul, South Korea, at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit caught Obama saying to Medvedev, "On all these issues, particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him (past and future Russian President Vladimir Putin) to give me space."

source:
Obama Says Missile Defense He Opposed Can Handle North Korea - Investors.com

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

#THISisSequesterPunishment

In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official Charles Brown said he asked if he could try to spread out the sequester cuts in his region to minimize the impact, and he said he was told not to do anything that would lessen the dire impacts Congress had been warned of.

“We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be,” Mr. Brown, in the internal email, said his superiors told him.


source:
Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - March 5, 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

#THISisRapeDebate

“And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like you’re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop … pop around at somebody.
- Colorado State Representative Joe Salazar (D-Thornton)


source:
FEEL LIKE YOU’RE GONNA BE RAPED? MAYBE YOU WON’T - Revealing Politics

Friday, February 8, 2013

#THISisDornerManifesto


From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648
To: America
Subj: Last resort
Regarding CF# 07-004281
I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports
that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and
shocking actions in the last couple of days. You are saying to yourself that this is
completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he
was seen. I know I will be villified by the LAPD and the media. Unfortunately, this is a
necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to
occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the
Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never
have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers
involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to
supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions.
The question is, what would you do to clear your name?
Name;
A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or
referred to.
Name Synonyms;
reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute.
A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. It’s your life, your legacy, your
journey, sacrifices, and everything you’ve worked hard for every day of your life as and
adolescent, young adult and adult. Don’t let anybody tarnish it when you know you’ve
live up to your own set of ethics and personal ethos.
In 8/07 I reported an officer (Ofcr. Teresa Evans/now a Sergeant), for kicking a suspect
(excessive force) during a Use of Force while I was assigned as a patrol officer at
LAPD’s Harbor Division. While cuffing the suspect, (Christopher Gettler), Evans kicked
the suspect twice in the chest and once in the face. The kick to the face left a visible
injury on the left cheek below the eye. Unfortunately after reporting it to supervisors and
investigated by PSB (internal affairs investigator Det. Villanueva/Gallegos), nothing was
done. I had broken their supposed “Blue Line”. Unfortunately, It’s not JUST US, it’s
JUSTICE!!! In fact, 10 months later on 6/25/08, after already successfully completing
probation, acquiring a basic Post Certificate, and Intermediate Post Certificate, I was
relieved of duty by the LAPD while assigned to patrol at Southwest division. It is clear as
day that the department retaliated toward me for reporting Evans for kicking Mr.
Christopher Gettler. The department stated that I had lied and made up the report that Evans had kicked the suspect. I later went to a Board of Rights (department hearing for
decision of continued employment) from 10/08 to 1/09. During this BOR hearing a video
was played for the BOR panel where Christopher Gettler stated that he was indeed kicked
by Officer Evans (video sent to multiple news agencies). In addition to Christopher
Gettler stating he was kicked, his father Richard Gettler, also stated that his son had
stated he was kicked by an officer when he was arrested after being released from
custody. This was all presented for the department at the BOR hearing. They still found
me guilty and terminated me. What they didn’t mention was that the BOR panel made up
of Capt. Phil Tingirides, Capt. Justin Eisenberg, and City Attorney Martella had a
signigicant problem from the time the board was assembled. Capt. Phil Tingirides was a
personal friend of Teresa Evans from when he was her supervisor at Harbor station. That
is a clear conflict of interest and I made my argument for his removal early and was
denied. The advocate for the LAPD BOR was Sgt. Anderson. Anderson also had a
conflict of interest as she was Evans friend and former partner from Harbor division
where they both worked patrol together. I made my argument for her removal when I
discovered her relation to Evans and it was denied.
During the BOR, the department attempted to label me unsuccessfully as a bully. They
stated that I had bullied a recruit, Abraham Schefres, in the academy when in reality and
unfounded disposition from the official 1.28 formal complaint investigation found that I
was the one who stood up for Abraham Schefres when other recruits sang nazi hitler
youth songs about burning Jewish ghettos in WWII Germany where his father was a
survivor of a concentration camp. How fucking dare you attempt to label me with such a
nasty vile word. I ask that all earnest journalist investigating this story ask Ofcr. Abraham
Schefres about the incident when Ofcr. Burdios began singing a nazi youth song about
burning jewish ghettos.
The internal affairs investigation in the academy involving Schefres was spurned by a
complaint that I had initiated toward two fellow recruit/offifcers. While on a assigned
patrol footbeat in Hollywood Division, Officers Hermilio Buridios IV and Marlon
Magana (both current LAPD officers) decided that they would voice their personal
feelings about the black community. While traveling back to the station in a 12 passenger
van I heard Magana refer to another individual as a nigger. I wasn’t sure if I heard
correctly as there were many conversations in the van that was compiled of at least 8
officers and he was sitting in the very rear and me in the very front. Even with the
multiple conversations and ambient noise I heard Officer Magana call an indivdual a
nigger again. Now that I had confirmed it, I told Magana not to use that word again. I
explained that it was a well known offensive word that should not be used by anyone. He
replied, “I’ll say it when I want”. Officer Burdios, a friend of his, also stated that he
would say nigger when he wanted. At that point I jumped over my front passenger seat
and two other officers where I placed my hands around Burdios’ neck and squeezed. I
stated to Burdios, “Don’t fucking say that”. At that point there was pushing and shoving
and we were separated by several other officers. What I should have done, was put a
Winchester Ranger SXT 9mm 147 grain bullet in his skull and Officer Magana’s skull.
The Situation would have been resolved effective, immediately. The sad thing about this
incident was that when Detective Ty from internal affairs investigated this incident only (1) officer (unknown) in the van other than myself had statements constistent with what
actually happened. The other six officers (John Carey, Gary Parker, Jacob Waks,
Abraham Schefres and names I have forgotten) all stated they heard nothing and saw
nothing. Shame on every one of you. Shame on Detective Ty (same ethnicity as Burdios)
for creating a separate 1.28 formal complaint against me (Schefres complaint) in
retaliation for initiating the complaint against Burdios and Magana. Don’t retaliate
against honest officers for breaking your so called blue line. I hope your son Ryan Ty,
who I knew, is a better officer than you, Detective Ty.The saddest part of this ordeal was
that Officer Burdios and Magana were only given 22 day suspensions and are still LAPD
officers to this day. That day, the LAPD stated that it is acceptable for fellow officers to
call black officers niggers to their face and you will receive a slap on the wrist. Even
sadder is that during that 22 day suspension Buridios and Magana received is that the
LAPPL (Los Angeles Police Protective League) paid the officers their salaries while they
were suspended. When I took a two day suspension for an accidental discharge, I took
my suspension and never applied for a league salary. Its called integrity.
Journalist, I want you to investigate every location I resided in growing up. Find any
incidents where I was ever accused of being a bully. You won’t, because it doesn’t exist.
It’s not in my DNA. Never was. I was the only black kid in each of my elementary school
classes from first grade to seventh grade in junior high and any instances where I was
disciplined for fighting was in response to fellow students provoking common childhood
schoolyard fights, or calling me a nigger or other derogatory racial names. I grew up in
neighborhoods where blacks make up less than 1%. My first recollection of racism was in
the first grade at Norwalk Christian elementary school in Norwalk, CA. A fellow student,
Jim Armstrong if I can recall, called me a nigger on the playground. My response was
swift and non-lethal. I struck him fast and hard with a punch an kick. He cried and
reported it to a teacher. The teacher reported it to the principal. The principal swatted Jim
for using a derogatory word toward me. He then for some unknown reason swatted me
for striking Jim in response to him calling me a nigger. He stated as good Christians we
are to turn the other cheek as Jesus did. Problem is, I’m not a fucking Christian and that
old book, made of fiction and limited non-fiction, called the bible, never once stated
Jesus was called a nigger. How dare you swat me for standing up for my rights for
demanding that I be treated as a equal human being. That day I made a life decision that i
will not tolerate racial derogatory terms spoken to me. Unfortunately I was swatted
multiple times for the same exact reason up until junior high. Terminating me for telling
the truth of a caucasian officer kicking a mentally ill man is disgusting. Don’t ever call
me a fucking bully. I want all journalist to utilize every source you have that specializes
in collections for your reports. With the discovery and evidence available you will see the
truth. Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That’s what this is about,
my name. A man is nothing without his name. Below is a list of locations where I resided
from childhood to adulthood.
Cerritos, CA.
Pico Rivera, CA.
La Palma, CA.
Thousand Oaks, CA.Cedar City, UT.
Pensacola, FL.
Enid, OK.
Yorba Linda, CA.
Las Vegas, NV.
During the BOR an officer named, Sgt. Hernandez, from Los Angeles Port Police
testified on behalf of the LAPD. Hernandez stated for the BOR that he arrived at the
location of the UOF shortly before I cuffed the suspect. He also stated that he assisted in
cuffing the suspect and that’s old the BOR he told me to fix my tie. All of those
statements were LIES!!! Hernandez, you arrived at the UOF location up to 30 seconds
after I had cuffed Mr. Gettler. All you did was help me lift the suspect to his feet as it was
difficult for me to do by myself because of his heavy weight. You did not tell me to fix
my tie as the BOR members and everyone else in the room know you lied because the
photographic evidence from the UOF scene where Gettler’s injuries were photographed
clearly shows me wearing a class B uniform on that day. A class B uniform is a short
sleeved uniform blouse. A short sleeved uniform blouse for the LAPD does not have a tie
included. This is not Super Troopers uniform, you jackass. Why did you feel the need to
embellish and lie about your involvement in the UOF? Are you ashamed that you could
not get hired on by any other department other than port police? Do you have delusions
of grandeur? What you did was perjury, exactly what Evans did when she stated she did
not kick Christopher Gettler.
What they failed to mention in the BOR was Teresa Evans own use of force history
during her career on the LAPD. She has admitted that she has a lengthy use of force
record and has been flagged several times by risk management. She has a very well
known nickname, Chupacabra, which she was very proud to flaunt around the division.
She found it very funny and entertaining to draw blood from suspects and arrestees. At
one point she even intentionally ripped the flesh off the arm of a woman we had arrested
for battery (sprayed her neighbor with a garden water hose). Knowing the woman had
thin elastic skin, she performed and Indian burn to the woman’s arm after cuffing her.
That woman was in her mid-70’s, a mother and grandmother, and was angry at her
tenants who failed to pay rent on time. Something I can completely understand and I am
sure many have wanted to do toward tenants who do not pay their rent. Teresa Evans was
also demoted from a senior lead officer rank/position for performance issues. During my
two months of working patrol with Teresa Evans, I found her as a woman who was very
angry that she had been pulled from patrol for a short time because of a domestic
violence report made by Long Beach Police Department because of an incident involving
her active LAPD officer boyfriend, Dominick Fuentes, and herself. Dominick Fuentes is
the same officer investigated for witness tampering. She also was visibly angry on a daily
basis that she was going to have to file for bankruptcy because her ex-husband, a former
LAPD officer and not Dominick Fuentes, who had left the department, state, and was
nowhere to be found had left her with a tax bill and debt that she was unable to pay
because of a lack of financial means. Evans, you are a POS and you lied right to the BOR
panel when Randy Quan asked you if you kicked Christopher Gettler. You destroyed my life and name because of your actions. Time is up. The time is now to confess to Chief
Beck.
I ask that all journalist investigating this story submit request for FOIA with the LAPD to
gain access to the BOR transcripts which occurred from 10/08 to 2/09. There, you will
see that a video was played for the BOR members of Mr. Christopher Gettler who suffers
from Schizophrenia and Dementia stating that he was kicked by a female officer. That
video evidence supports my claim that Evans kicked him twice in the upper body and
once in the face. I would like all journalist to also request copies of all reports that I had
written while employed by LAPD. Whether in the academy, or during my 3 years as a
police officer. There are DR#’s attached to each report (investigative report) that I have
ever written so they all exist. A FOIA request will most likely be needed to access these
at Parker center or at the Personnel/Records. Judge my writin/grammar skills for yourself.
The department attempted to paint me as an officer who could not write reports. Even
though Sgt. Joel Sydanmaa a training officer who trained me stated for the BOR panel
that there was nothing wrong with my report writing and that I was better than all
rookie/probationer officers he has ever trained. Officer David Drew stated the same but
refused to testify as he did not want to “get involved” with the BOR’s. Contact Sgt.
Donald Deming ,(now a Captain at Lompoc PD), Sgt. Thaddeus Faulk, and Sgt. Ed
Clark. All will state that my report writing was impeccable. I will tell you this, I always
type my reports because I have messy handwriting/penmanship. I never had a single
kickback/redlined report at Southwest division and Sgt. Faulk and Sgt. Clark can testify
to that. I never received an UNSATISFACTORY on any day or week. The same can be
said within the U.S. Naval Reserves. All commanders will state that my report writing
was always clear, concise, and impeccable. Even search my AAR (after action
reports),chits, Memorandum’s, IIR’s (Intelligence Information Reports) which were
written in the Navy. All were pristine.
I had worked patrol at LAPD’s Harbor Division from 2/06 until 7/06 when I was
involuntarily recalled back to active duty (US Navy) for a 12 month
mobilization/deployment to Centcom in support of OIF/OEF. I returned back to LAPD’s
Harbor division on 7/07 and immediately returned to patrol. I worked at Harbor division
until 11/07 where I then transferred to Southwest Division. I worked At Southwest
division until 6/25/08 when I was relieved of duty.
I have exhausted all available means at obtaining my name back. I have attempted all
legal court efforts within appeals at the Superior Courts and California Appellate courts.
This is my last resort. The LAPD has suppressed the truth and it has now lead to deadly
consequences. The LAPD’s actions have cost me my law enforcement career that began
on 2/7/05 and ended on 1/2/09. They cost me my Naval career which started on 4/02 and
ends on 2/13. I had a TS/SCI clearance(Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized
Information clearance) up until shortly after my termination with LAPD. This is the
highest clearance a service member can attain other than a Yankee White TS/SCI which
is only granted for those working with and around the President/Vice President of the
United States. I lost my position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces
reserve unit at NAS Fallon because of the LAPD. I’ve lost a relationship with my mother and sister because of the LAPD. I’ve lost a relationship with close friends because of the
LAPD. In essence, I’ve lost everything because the LAPD took my name and new I was
INNOCENT!!! Capt Phil Tingirides, Justin Eisenberg, Martella, Randy Quan, and Sgt.
Anderson all new I was innocent but decided to terminate me so they could continue
Ofcr. Teresa Evans career. I know about the meeting between all of you where Evans
attorney, Rico, confessed that she kicked Christopher Gettler (excessive force). Your day
has come.
I’m not an aspiring rapper, I’m not a gang member, I’m not a dope dealer, I don’t have
multiple babies momma’s. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a
military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the
system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious
man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my
shoreline and true North. I didn’t need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and
Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It’s in my DNA.
Luckily I don’t have to live everyday like most of you. Concerned if the misconduct you
were apart of is going to be discovered. Looking over your shoulder, scurrying at every
phone call from internal affairs or from the Captains office wondering if that is the day
PSB comes after you for the suspects you struck when they were cuffed months/years ago
or that $500 you pocketed from the narcotics dealer, or when the other guys on your
watch beat a transient nearly to death and you never reported the UOF to the supervisor.
No, I don’t have that concern, I stood up for what was right but unfortunately have dealt
with the reprocussions of doing the right thing and now losing my name and everything I
ever stood for. You fuckers knew Evans was guilty of kicking (excessive force) Gettler
and you did nothing but get rid of what you saw as the problem, the whistleblower.
Gettler himself stated on video tape ( provided for the BOR and in transcripts) he was
kicked and even his father stated that his son said he was kicked by Evans when he was
released from custody. The video was played for the entire BOR to hear. Tingirides,
Eisenberg, and Martella all heard it. You’re going to see what a whistleblower can do
when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!
Look what you did to Sgt. Gavin (now lieutenant) when he exposed the truth of your
lying, racism, and PSB cover-ups to frame and convict an innocent man. You can not
police yourselves and the consent decree was unsuccessful. Sgt. Gavin, I met you on the
range several times as a recruit and as an officer. You’re a good man and I saw it in your
eyes an actions.
Self Preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on
1/2/09. I was told by my mother that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I
refuse to accept that.
From 2/05 to 1/09 I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a
police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the streets of LA. It was in the
confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA
are not the citizens and suspects, it’s the police officers.People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a
fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize
that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing,
omitting, and obscuring is your forte.
Chief Beck, this is when you need to have that come to Jesus talk with Sgt. Teresa Evans
and everyone else who was involved in the conspiracy to have me terminated for doing
the right thing. you also need to speak with her attorney, Rico, and his conversation with
the BOR members and her confession of guilt in kicking Mr. Gettler. I’ll be waiting for a
PUBLIC response at a press conference. When the truth comes out, the killing stops.
Why didn’t you charge me with filing a false police report when I came forward stating
that Evans kicked Mr. Christopher Gettler? You file criminal charges against every other
officer who is accused and terminated for filing a false police report. You didn’t because
you knew I was innocent and a criminal court would find me innocent and expose your
department for suppressing the truth and retaliation, that’s why.
The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence,
PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to
stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period. There is no negotiation. I am not the
state department who states they do not negotiate with terrorist, because anybody with a
Secret or TS/SCI has seen IIR’s on SIPR and knows that the US state department always
negotiates by using CF countries or independent sovereign/neutral country to mediate and
compromising.
This department has not changed from the Daryl Gates and Mark Fuhrman days. Those
officers are still employed and have all promoted to Command staff and supervisory
positions. I will correct this error. Are you aware that an officer (a rookie/probationer at
the time) seen on the Rodney King videotape striking Mr. King multiple times with a
baton on 3/3/91 is still employed by the LAPD and is now a Captain on the police
department? Captain Rolando Solano is now the commanding officer of a LAPD police
station (West LA division). As a commanding officer, he is now responsible for over 200
officers. Do you trust him to enforce department policy and investigate use of force
investigations on arrestees by his officers? Are you aware Evans has since promoted to
Sergeant after kicking Mr. Gettler in the face. Oh, you Violated a citizens civil rights?
We will promote you. Same as LAPD did with the the officers from Metro involved in
the May Day melee at MacArthur Park. They promoted them to Sergeant (a supervisor
role).
No one is saying you can’t be prejudiced or a bigot. We are all human and hold
prejudices. If you state that you don’t have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on
it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern.
For you officers who do the job in the name of JUSTICE, those of you who lost honest
officers to this event, look at the name of those on the BOR and the investigating officers from PSB and Evans and ask them, how come you couldn’t tell the truth? Why did you
terminate an honest officer and cover for a dishonest officer who victimized a mentally ill
citizen.
Sometimes humans feel a need to prove they are the dominant race of a species and they
inadvertently take kindness for weakness from another individual. You chose wrong.
Terminating officers because they expose a culture of lying, racism (from the academy),
and excessive use of force will immediately change. PSB can not police their own and
that has been proven. The blue line will forever be severed and a cultural change will be
implanted. You have awoken a sleeping giant.
I am here to change and make policy. The culture of LAPD versus the community and
honest/good officers needs to and will change. I am here to correct and calibrate your
morale compasses to true north.
Those Caucasian officers who join South Bureau divisions (77th,SW,SE, an Harbor) with
the sole intent to victimize minorities who are uneducated, and unaware of criminal law,
civil law, and civil rights. You prefer the South bureau because a use of force/deadly
force is likely and the individual you use UOF on will likely not report it. You are a high
value target.
Those Black officers in supervisory ranks and pay grades who stay in south bureau (even
though you live in the valley or OC) for the sole intent of getting retribution toward
subordinate caucasians officers for the pain and hostile work environment their elders
inflicted on you as probationers (P-1′s) and novice P-2’s. You are a high value target.
You perpetuated the cycle of racism in the department as well. You breed a new
generation of bigoted caucasian officer when you belittle them and treat them unfairly.
Those Hispanic officers who victimize their own ethnicity because they are new
immigrants to this country and are unaware of their civil rights. You call them wetbacks
to their face and demean them in front of fellow officers of different ethnicities so that
you will receive some sort of acceptance from your colleagues. I’m not impressed. Most
likely, your parents or grandparents were immigrants at one time, but you have forgotten
that. You are a high value target.
Those lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the
sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade
male officers. You are a high value target.
Those Asian officers who stand by and observe everything I previously mentioned other
officers participate in on a daily basis but you say nothing, stand for nothing and protect
nothing. Why? Because of your usual saying, ” I……don’t like conflict”. You are a high
value target as well.Those of you who “go along to get along” have no backbone and destroy the foundation
of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as
guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore.
Citizens/non-combatants, do not render medical aid to downed officers/enemy
combatants. They would not do the same for you. They will let you bleed out just so they
can brag to other officers that they had a 187 caper the other day and can’t wait to accrue
the overtime in future court subpoenas. As they always say, “that’s the paramedics
job…not mine”. Let the balance of loss of life take place. Sometimes a reset needs to
occur.
It is endless the amount of times per week officers arrest an individual, label him a
suspect-arrestee-defendant and then before arraignment or trial realize that he is innocent
based on evidence. You know what they say when they realize an innocent man just had
his life turned upside down?. “I guess he should have stayed at home that day he was
discovered walking down the street and matching the suspects description. Oh well, he
appeared to be a dirtbag anyways”. Meanwhile the falsely accused is left to pick up his
life, get a new, family, friends, and sense of self worth.
Don’t honor these fallen officers/dirtbags. When your family members die, they just see
you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter. Why would you value their
lives when they clearly don’t value yours or your family members lives? I’ve heard many
officers who state they see dead victims as ATV’s, Waverunners, RV’s and new clothes
for their kids. Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for
your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck
for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will
accrue. They take photos of your loved ones recently deceased bodies with their
cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with
officers from other divisions. This isn’t just the 20 something year old officers, this is the
50 year old officers with significant time on the job as well who participate.
You allow an officer, Thaniya Sungruenyos, to attempt to hack into my credit union
account and still remain on the job even when Det. Zolezzi shows the evidence that the IP
address (provided by LAPFCU) that attempted to hack into my account and change my
username and password leads directly to her residence. You even allow this visibly
disgusting looking officer to stay on the job when she perjures (lies) in court (Clark
County Family Court) to the judge’s face and denies hacking into my personal credit
union online account when I attempted to get my restraint order extended. Det. Zolezzi
provided the evidence and you still do nothing.
How do you know when a police officer is lying??? When he begins his sentence with,
“based on my experience and training”.
No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything I’ve ever was. As
a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found
that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch. It is the officer who was hired on to the department (pre-2000) before polygraphs were standard
for all new hires and an substantial vetting in a backround investigation.
To those children of the officers who are eradicated, your parent was not the individual
you thought they were. As you get older,you will see the evidence that your parent was a
tyrant who loss their ethos and instead followed the path of moral corruptness. They
conspired to hide and suppress the truth of misconduct on others behalf’s. Your parent
will have a name and plaque on the fallen officers memorial in D.C. But, In all honesty,
your parents name will be a reminder to other officers to maintain the oath they swore
and to stay along the shoreline that has guided them from childhood to that of a local,
state, or federal law enforcement officer.
Bratton, Beck, Hayes, Tingirides, Eisenberg, Martella, Quan, Evans, Hernandez,
Villanueva/Gallegos, and Anderson. Your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just
individual are over.
Suppressing the truth will leave to deadly consequences for you and your family. There
will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep. I will utilize ISR at
your home, workplace, and all locations in between. I will utilize OSINT to discover your
residences, spouses workplaces, and children’s schools. IMINT to coordinate and plan
attacks on your fixed locations. Its amazing whats on NIPR. HUMINT will be utilized to
collect personal schedules of targets. I never had the opportunity to have a family of my
own, I’m terminating yours. Quan, Anderson, Evans, and BOR members Look your
wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to
why your children are dead.
Never allow a LAPPL union attorney to be a retired LAPD Captain,(Quan). He doesn’t
work for you, your interest, or your name. He works for the department, period. His job is
to protect the department from civil lawsuits being filed and their best interest which is
the almighty dollar. His loyalty is to the department, not his client. Even when he
knowingly knows your innocent and the BOR also knows your innocent after Christopher
Gettler stated on videotape that he was kicked and Evans attorney confessed to the BOR
off the record that she kicked Gettler.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants-TJ. This quote is not directed toward the US government which I fully support
100%. This is toward the LAPD who can not monitor itself. The consent decree should
not have been lifted, ever.
I know your TTP’s, (techniques, tactics, and procedures). Any threat assessments you
you generate will be useless. This is simple, I know your TTP’s and PPR’s. I will
mitigate any of your attempts at preservation. ORM is my friend. I will mitigate all risks,
threats and hazards. I assure you that Incident Command Posts will be target rich
environments. KMA-367 license plate frames are great target indicators and make target
selection even easier.I will conduct DA operations to destroy, exploit and seize designated targets. If
unsuccessful or unable to meet objectives in these initial small scale offensive actions, I
will reassess my BDA and re-attack until objectives are met. I have nothing to lose. My
personal casualty means nothing. Just alike AAF’s, ACM’s, and AIF’s, you can not
prevail against an enemy combatant who has no fear of death. An enemy who embraces
death is a lose, lose situation for their enemy combatants.
Hopefully you analyst have done your homework. You are aware that I have always been
the top shot, highest score, an expert in rifle qualifications in every unit I’ve been in. I
will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance, and survival training
I’ve been given.
Do you know why we are unsuccessful in asymmetrical and guerrilla warfare in
CENTCOM theatre of operations? I’ll tell you. It’s not the inefficiency of our combatant
commanders, planning, readiness or training of troops. Much like the Vietnam war,
ACM, AAF, foreign fighters, Jihadist, and JAM have nothing to lose. They embrace
death as it is a way of life. I simply don’t fear it. I am the walking exigent circumstance
you created.
The Violence of action will be HIGH. I am the reason TAC alert was established. I will
bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or
off duty. ISR is my strength and your weakness. You will now live the life of the prey.
Your RD’s and homes away from work will be my AO and battle space. I will utilize
every tool within INT collections that I learned from NMITC in Dam Neck. You have
misjudged a sleeping giant. There is no conventional threat assessment for me. JAM,
New Ba’ath party, 1920 rev BGE, ACM, AAF, AQAP, AQIM and AQIZ have nothing
on me. Do not deploy airships or gunships. SA-7 Manpads will be waiting. As you know
I also own Barrett .50′s so your APC are defunct and futile.
You better have all your officers radio/phone muster (code 1) on or off duty every hour,
on the hour.
Do not attempt to shadow or conduct any type of ISR on me. I have the inventory listing
of all UC vehicles at Piper Tech and the home addresses of any INT analyst at JRIC and
detachment locations. My POA is always POI and always true. This will be a war of
attrition and a Pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself. You may have the resources and
manpower but you are reactive and predictable in your op plans and TTP’s. I have the
strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving. Do not
waste your time with briefs and tabletops.

source:
http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/616/02/616_1360213161.pdf
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/599208/christopher-dorner-manifesto.pdf
http://laist.com/2013/02/07/christopher_dorners_manifesto_in_fu.php

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

#THISisDeathPanels

"Death panel and sales taxes is how we [pay for government programs]." - Paul Krugman


Source:
"Paul Krugman calls for 'death panels' to cut healthcare costs"
By Clay Walker - 2/6/2013 - Lifenews.com

Saturday, February 2, 2013

#THISisConspiracySkeet

President Obama boards Marine One to depart for Camp David from Andrews Air Force Base, August 4
The image released Feb. 1, 2013 was captioned by The White House as follows: President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

#THISisOverreaction

Melody Valentin was given the “paper gun,” which amounted to little more than a sheet of A4 paper with a corner torn off, by her grandfather before she put it in her pocket and forgot all about it.
When a school administrator found the piece of paper, Valentin was verbally chastised in front of the whole class and, according to her mother, even threatened with arrest. Valentin was also searched as the other children looked on.
Last week, a 5-year-old girl from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania was interrogated for three hours, forced to undergo psychological testing and suspended by school officials after she was accused of making “terroristic threats” for joking about shooting her friends with a pink Hello KItty bubble gun.
Earlier this month a 6-year-old boy was suspended from his elementary school in Maryland for making a gun gesture with his hand and saying “pow”.
Days later another two 6-year-olds in Maryland were suspended for pointing their fingers into gun shapes while playing “cops and robbers” with each other.
In Oklahoma, a five-year-old boy was also recently suspended for making a gun gesture with his hand.
A 13-year-old Middle School seventh grade student in Pennsylvania was also suspended for the same hand gesture.
A Long Island high school was also placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.

source:
Elementary School Girl Threatened With Arrest Over ‘Paper Gun’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! by Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars.com - January 23, 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

#THISisHomeProtection

Raymond owns an AR-15 which is a military style rifle.

Raymond estimated that just five seconds passed until the door started to open. It was one of the intruders.

"By the time I had it out and ready, one of the men came at my door, slowly opened it, saw that there was a barrel on the other side and from there backed out," Raymond said.

The two men fled the apartment.

Nothing was taken and no shots were fired.

The rifle was not loaded at the time of the home invasion, according to Raymond.

"They decided this place was a good place to rob, just a wrong decision on their part," Raymond said.

source:
RIT Students Accosted By Gunmen In Their Home
Reported by: Evan White - Published: 1/23

Thursday, January 24, 2013

#THISisWhatMatters

The fact is, we have four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and to prevent it from ever happening again.
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, January 23, 2013

source:
Hillary Clinton's Fiery Moment at Benghazi Hearing
ABCNews ABCNews on YouTube