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The Silence of Libertarians & the ACLU is Deafening

06 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Comey, dossier, FISA, Fusion, Hillary Clinton, Libertarians, Memo, Obama, trump

Here is what we know as facts now and it should worry every American. A political party, the Democrat National Committee, and a Presidential candidate’s (Hillary Clinton) campaign paid a company Fusion GPS to put together a file of documents (referred to as a dossier) to be used to defeat the opposing Presidential candidate (Donald Trump). It has come to light that the Clinton campaign feed false information to Fusion which became part of the dossier. And we have learned that Christopher Steele, the person at Fusion GPS who put together the false dossier, leaked info to Yahoo news who reported it.

 Fusion initially tried to leak the details of the dossier to the media to harm the Trump campaign. Only a couple of outlets bit on the information. Even the main stream media, who were working had to take Trump out, passed on the information because they knew it was bogus. The dossier was later used by the Obama administration to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. The yahoo story was used to corroborate the dossier. So, the dossier was corroborated by the author.

 FISA warrants require renewals every ninety days. Then-FBI-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Signing on behalf of the DOJ were the Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of the Department of Justice.

 In December 2017, then FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe testified under oath that “no surveillance warrant would have been sought” from the FISA court “without the Steele dossier information.” So in another words the warrants were obtained under false pretenses.

This is chilling. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, signed into law in 1978, requires the government, when eavesdropping on communications on domestic soil for national security purposes, to obtain permission from a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The judge must agree that the target is probably an agent of a foreign power and will probably use the specific email accounts or phone numbers that the Justice Department wants to wiretap. The Patriot Act amended FISA and greatly expanded the scope of surveillance allowed under US law. Foreign intelligence information could now be gathered from both Americans and foreigners. Government agencies no longer needed to prove that a target is an agent of a foreign power. The maximum duration of surveillance and investigations were lengthened.

 Americans were generally ok with these processes because of the threat of terrorism. However, the risk of abuse is high and Libertarians and the ACLU opposed this because of this risk of abuse. Here and now we have experienced the abuse that many feared might happen. A sitting President knowingly used false information which was paid for by his Party to obtain warrants to spy on the opposing Party’s candidate. This is much more serious of a scandal than Watergate yet the media has suppressed this from half of America. This is expected. And the ACLU’s silence is expected as well. But why are the Libertarians silent?

 

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Thanks Obama

08 Thursday Dec 2016

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2016 Election, Democrat Party, Obama

There is little that we can thank President Obama for, he has done great harm to our country. However, America finally had enough and showed it in the voting booth. His legacy has been devastating to his own Party as well.  Below you can see the seats of power before and after.

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A Party in Denial

05 Monday Dec 2016

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2016 Election, Donald Trump, education, electroral college, Hillary Clinton, Obama

The Democrats are in a state of denial about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. They are so arrogant that they could not conceive of losing, thinking rather of a landslide victory. Hillary did not even prepare a concession speech so she had to go into hiding on election night. The main stream media are just as perplexed. By any measure when you look at all races, including State races, it was an overwhelming victory for the GOP. Below is a map that shows that with the exception of the two coasts the country is dominantly Republican.

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When you look at it by county it is even more illustrative.

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A look at the numbers is helpful.

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The press and many Democrats focus on the fact that Trump lost the popular vote, a totally meaningless metric. Trump did fall short of Clinton’s total by 1.3 million votes, but if you take out California votes Trump has a 2.1 million vote edge. This illustrates the brilliance of our Founding Fathers. They created a Republic, not a Democracy to avoid the tyranny of a few and to preserve the powers of the States. Sadly there are many Americans who are not aware of this fact because our schools no longer teach American history.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign blames the loss on the racism of the white population. This is so ridiculous and desperate. Barack Obama was elected twice as our President and attracted a high percent of white votes. Plus Trump won Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin, States that Obama won. Are they all of a sudden racist States? Hillary did not even campaign in Wisconsin. The Party just cannot accept the fact that they ran a terrible candidate who is now a two time loser. Clinton ran a campaign of “I’m with Her” rather than providing substantive proposals to help spur economic growth, protect our border and put back the record number of Americans that are out of a job back to work. The Democrats after the 2014 election felt that they did not need the white middle class voters. Her calling Trump supporters part of a basket of “deplorables” was very telling, and a slip made through arrogance.

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America’s Most Divisive President

14 Thursday Jul 2016

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Dallas, Ferguson, Obama, post-racial, race baitor, racism

obama & sharptonBarack Obama was hailed as the first post-racial President of the United States when he was first elected. He said that he would bring together all Americans. We were going to have a golden age of positive race relations. Obama’s words, however, were quite different after assuming office. He has a track record of condemning police involved in shootings that involve blacks before the facts of the case are in. This began with the 2009 arrest of Professor Henry Gates when he called the actions of the police as stupid. In 2012 he used the Travon Martin shooting to lecture America about being racist. Things really heated up in 2014 when Michael Brown was killed. This was the event that the protest group BlackLivesMatters (BLM) was born. The President and many race opportunists helped build BLM on the lie that Brown was shot after he put his hands up in the air. Obama condemned all police forces as being racist even though the officer was completely exonerated. He has used other incidents involving the police and blacks to further his divisive agenda. To make matters worse, his Attorney General Eric Holder began witch hunts and take overs of police forces because they he said that they were racist. He accused Americans of being “a nation of cowards” as far as race relations is concerned.

Gallup has conducted a poll to measure race relations each June/July since 2001. The results support the growing belief that public perceptions about race relations in America have taken a devastating hit since the election of Barack Obama. 75 percent of whites and 55 percent of blacks had a positive view of American race relations at the beginning of the president’s first term. In the last July, 2015 survey these numbers plummeted to 37 percent for whites and 31 percent for blacks.

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When the President constantly lectures America that we are racists, and that the police are racists then it makes sense that many Americans believe that to be true. The President’s divisiveness should not be a surprise despite his campaign promises. The Democrat Party must divide Americans to increase demand for their Party. They also do not want to solve problems like racial division because then they would no longer be needed. Ironically it is the blacks who have suffered the most from Democrat policies. They black family unit has been destroyed, most black babies are born out-of-wedlock, unemployment is much higher for blacks and earnings are lower. Abortion is used as a contraceptive by blacks and the Democrats see it as a way to manage entitlement spending. Yet despite all of this blacks overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Hopefully blacks will realize this trap and change their voting patterns.

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Brexit Bullets

25 Saturday Jun 2016

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  • Congratulations to the Brits for talking back their country.
  • The establishment politicians misread the desire and will of the people. They tried to manipulate the outcome just like the left does here. The media and polls all predicted that Brexit would fail. Supporters were called racists’ and dire financial consequences were guaranteed.
  • The Brits are proud people and wanted their country back.
  • President Obama shamefully tried to bully the Brits saying that the UK would be moved to the back of the queue if they vote to leave the EU. Hillary Clinton and ISIS were also supporters of the UK staying. Sort of validates the decision to leave.
  • Germany’s Prime Minister Angela Merkel’s decision to take unlimited Syrian and Middle East refugees was the tipping point for the Brits.
  • The Brits felt betrayed because of the loss of their culture resulting from the EU’s policies. Prime Minister Cameron campaigned on reforming the EU but failed. When such a bureaucracy is formed and allowed to consolidate power reform is nearly impossible.
  • Americans felt similarly betrayed with Obama’s illegal open border policies. That explains why Donald Trump became the Republican candidate and will become the Presidents.
  • Multiculturalism is a poison to a culture like cancer is a poison to our bodies. The US people welcome immigrants since we are a country of immigrants. But immigrants in the past assimilated into our culture. They learned our language; they went to our churches and lived in our neighborhoods. Today many immigrant groups want to live in their own areas, they refuse to learn the language nor become part of our culture. The Brits had enough of this and Americans have had enough as well.
  • The short term drop in the market demonstrated that financial leaders who run the market aren’t so smart. They bought into the establishment line and “priced in” a loss for Brexit. In the long run the UK will better off because their taxes will be lower and they will purge all of the EU’s regulations.


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