Shocked and Appalled [add-ons, updates]

First off, I would much rather be writing about something else today. However, an incident that happened yesterday is still on my mind and after receiving an email letter from Jay Sekulow (below), about the awful DHS report, I felt the need to get this off of my chest.

Yesterday, while visiting two acquaintances, I brought up (uncharacteristically of me) how shocked and appalled I was that Obama met with Hugo Chavez and shook the commie dictator's hand. Then, I mentioned the DHS report and shared how awful I thought it was for Napolitano to target our vets and label "right wing extremists" as more worthy of being labeled as more dangerous than radical Islamic terrorist groups and cells like al-Qaeda!

The gentleman is a retired military officer. The woman is currently working for the government as a civilian. Our discussion started out because we were sharing how it becomes more difficult to sleep through the night (without taking any medication - which I refuse to do) as we get older. Then I mentioned about my worries regarding the direction that this new administration is taking our country. The woman seemed to agree, but we didn't get into details because the phone rang. Her husband mentioned that perhaps the DHS is looking back towards the Vietnam war where returning vets were disenfranchised, didn't get any respect upon returning, and all the rest including the lack of services for health, housing etc. I thought O.K. He's in the military so he would know far more about it than I. However, that wasn't the real subject of the conversation (I thought while standing there listening.) In fact, both admitted to not paying that close attention to the news lately and they didn't know much about this memo.

People - that's the problem. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people who either get their news only from the Media of Mass Deception (and don't watch Fox News Channel), or, they don't watch the news at all, or, they work hard during the day and use computers so the last thing they feel like doing is going on the computer in the evening. I can't blame them, of course. I can certainly understand and sympathize. In fact, I have several friends who actually told me that they rely on me for the latest information! These are people who don't follow any of the news on blogs, websites, and/or message boards that would inform them of what is REALLY going on in our nation today! This tells me that we need to get busy and inform them! Email your blogposts to everyone you think may not have the time to do research on the Internet.

Jay Sekulow's interview is quite the eye opener!

Watch the Fox News interview via ACLJ - CLICK here.

With that said, I will share Jay Sekulow's email:

Quote:

Dear Christine,

I was skeptical. Now I'm outraged. You should be, too.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has labeled you, a member of the pro-life community, THE MOST DANGEROUS DOMESTIC TERRORIST.

The DHS warning entitled: ''Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment'' is so troubling that at first, I actually didn't believe that Homeland Security could issue such a document.

But it's true. We've verified it. And make no mistake, this unconstitutional report raises serious questions about the leadership and direction of the agency charged with protecting Americans in the ongoing battle against terrorism.

Why would the Department of Homeland Security single out groups like pro-life supporters when they should be focusing on identifying and apprehending the real terrorists - like al-Qaeda - groups that have vowed to destroy America?

This characterization is not only offensive to millions of Americans who hold constitutionally-protected views opposing abortion - but also raises serious concerns about the political agenda of an agency with a mandate to protect America.

I encourage you to watch my interview on FOX News to find out more about this troubling issue ... you won't believe how the government has singled out conservatives, Christians - and even our veterans - as dangerous to our country.

And stay tuned ... we're not going to take this lying down! Listen live to my radio broadcasts this week and next week as we discuss the scope of this finding by the Department of Homeland Security - as well as its dangerous precedent.

Next week, I'll let you know how you can engage this issue ... and personally get involved in this fight for the sake of your First Amendment rights.

Thank you for your membership in the ACLJ and for supporting and defending our rights. God bless you. /quote


Now that people are absolutely furious about Janet Napolitano's stupid assessment (if there ever was someone SO TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED - IT'S HER!!) she is trying to spin the details and backtrack from what was originally stated.

Sorry Janet - YOUR ATTEMPT AT SPIN DOCTOR IS NOT WORKING. You REALLY stepped in it this time. I hope that more people will step up, like Michael Savage did - and call for her resignation, immediately!!

Hat Tips:

American Center for Law and Justice

Fox News

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Just one more big reason to be shocked and appalled by the dumb antics of our Usurper in chief:

How Obama actually delayed pirate rescue
SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement

Note this comment on a Fox News blog about the incident:
[The term "raggies" was used instead of "pirates" by the author.]
FOX News blog.
Does it seem authentic?

April 18th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Having spoken to some SEAL pals here in Virginia Beach yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, I got the following:
1. BHObama wouldn’t authorize the DEVGRU/NSWC SEAL teams to the scene for 36 hours going against OSC (on scene commander) recommendation.
2. Once they arrived, BHO imposed restrictions on their ROE that they couldn’t do anything unless the hostage’s life was in “imminent” danger
3. The first time the hostage jumped, the SEALS had the raggies all sighted in, but could not fire due to ROE restriction
4. When the navy RIB came under fire as it approached with supplies, no fire was returned due to ROE restrictions. As the raggies were shooting at the RIB, they were exposed and the SEALS had them all dialed in.
5. BHO specifically denied two rescue plans developed by the Bainbridge CPN and SEAL teams
6. Bainbridge CPN and SEAL team CDR finally decide they have the OpArea and OSC authority to solely determine risk to hostage. 4 hours later, 3 dead raggies
7. BHO immediately claims credit for his “daring and decisive” behaviour.
[Update: Also see Defend Our Freedoms for a post about this information. In addition, Defend Our Freedoms adds:

So per our last email thread, I'm downgrading Oohbaby's performace to D-. Only reason it's not an F is that the hostage survived. Read the following accurate account.


Philip's first leap into the warm, dark water of the Indian Ocean Bainbridge in range and a rescue by his country's Navy possible, Philips threw himself off of his lifeboat prison, enabling Navy shooters onboard the destroyer a clear shot at his captors and none was taken.

The guidance from National Command Authority the president of the United States, Barack Obama had been clear: a peaceful solution was the only acceptable outcome to this standoff unless the hostage's life was in clear, extreme danger.

The next day, a small Navy boat approaching the floating raft was fired on by the Somali pirates and again no fire was returned and no pirates killed. This was again due to the cautious stance assumed by Navy personnel thanks to the combination of a lack of clear guidance from Washington and a mandate from the commander in chief's staff not to act until Obama, a man with no background of dealing with such issues and no track record of decisiveness, decided that any outcome other than a "peaceful solution" would be acceptable.

After taking fire from the Somali kidnappers again Saturday night, the onscenecommander decided he'd had enough.

Keeping his authority to act in the case of a clear and present danger to the hostage's life and having heard nothing from Washington since yet another request to mount a rescue operation had been denied the day before, the Navy officer's unnamed in all media reports to date decided the AK47 one captor had leveled at Philip's back was a threat to the hostage's life and ordered the NSWC team to take their shots.

Three rounds downrange later, all three brigands became enemy KIA and Philips was safe.

There is upside, downside, and spinside to the series of events over the last week that culminated in yesterday's dramatic rescue of an American hostage.

Almost immediately following word of the rescue, the Obama administration and its supporters claimed victory against pirates in the Indian Ocean and [1] declared that the dramatic end to the standoff put paid to questions of the inexperienced president's toughness and decisiveness.

Despite the Obama administration's (and its sycophants') attempt to spin yesterday's success as a result of bold, decisive leadership by the inexperienced president, the reality is nothing of the sort.

What should have been a standoff lasting only hours as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location became an embarrassing four day and counting standoff between a ragtag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship.

DESPICABLE INCOMPETENCE, FROM A FASCIST, PRO-MUSLIM, ANTI-CHRISTIAN 'PRETENDER' IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

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Obama Sham = Obama SHAME!

Alan Keyes: Another Obama sham event

HT: World Net Daily

Excerpt:

Though in the blogosphere this contrivance has received the attention and outraged criticism it deserves, Obama's media claque has portrayed the sham as though it were an authentic display of respect and enthusiasm from the front lines. To me, however, the fake enthusiasm is in reality far less repugnant than the open abuse of our troops – officially asking that they declare their political allegiance and giving preferential treatment to those who declare their support for Obama. Whatever the complexities of life at the higher echelons where politics and personal relations must inevitably play their role, inviting and exploiting open displays of political loyalty in the ranks, and even worse at the front lines, shows reprehensible disrespect for a tradition important not only to the integrity of our troops but of our military and our nation as a whole. Whatever show Obama's people wanted to put on, what their reported actions show beyond doubt is their ruthless disregard for the honorable tradition of non-partisan service that has helped America to avoid the shabby fate of so-called "banana republics" whose constitutions proved as susceptible to rot as the fruit for which they are named.

No wonder Obama hates the military and the DHS targeted veterans with that AWFUL SHAMEFUL MEMO!!!

Dear Lord, please save us from these terrible people!!!

Update at 1:55 p.m. PT

Got another email from The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF.org)with the following information:

Quote:

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano MUST BE FIRED!

And just so it's perfectly clear, we aren't talking about her resigning (either gracefully or in disgrace). And it's way too late for backhanded apologies, like the 'slap-in-the-face' she already gave the brave men and women who have wore a uniform and proudly served this country.

Janet Napolitano must be FIRED... and it should have been done yesterday!

You see, the problem is not just that Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put together a so-called anti-terrorism security assessment that targets mainstream Americans as dangerous extremists.

We're talking about millions of people who believe that our government is too large and taxes us too much, like those who participated in the TEA Parties on tax day. We are talking about everyday Americans who believe that the 2nd Amendment actually gives people the right to bear arms; people who are pro-life; the millions of people who believe that our nation's immigration laws should be strictly enforced.

And the problem is not simply that this so-called security assessment targets patriotic Americans - and they are talking about YOU - as "right wing extremists," or, as Peter Kirsanow with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights put it:

"That DHS report warning about all manner of 'right-wing extremists' could be considerably shortened if it simply alerted law-enforcement officials to be on the lookout for people from 'small towns (who are) bitter (and) cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment.'"

The problem is that this is the same Janet Napolitano who just recently told us that horrendous, unspeakable acts committed by actual terrorists, dead set on destroying our country and killing Americans, should be called "man-caused disasters."

Specifically she told Der Spiegel:

"In my speech, although I did not use the word 'terrorism,' I referred to 'man-caused' disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."

So... when it comes to actual acts or threats of terrorism against mainstream Americans, we should move beyond the "politics of fear."

But patriotic Americans like YOU -- who exercise your Constitutionally-protected First Amendment rights -- pose a threat to the government.

Is it actually possible that Napolitano and Barack Obama and even some within the Obama Administration are so twisted as to believe that Islamic Terrorists are the good guys and that you are the bad guys?

Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin in Thursday's Washington Times wrote:

"What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism, or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You."

If what is contained in this leaked DHS security assessment does not bring you to the realization that it is time for all patriotic Americans who love freedom to stand up and shout that we're not going to take it anymore... it is quite possible that nothing will.

So, here's what we're going to do. We're going to make it very clear that we want drastic action. We're going to make it very clear that Janet Napolitano needs to go. We're going to make it very clear that we want her FIRED - PERIOD... no resignations will be allowed... no meaningless apologies will be accepted.

We're going to bang this issue like a gong.

Let's get to work.


The DHS Report Targets All Of You Bitter People Out There Who Cling To Guns And Religion.


Malkin is not alone. Syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Reagan went so far as to ask the following:

"Have we really come to this? Has Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels been reborn and recruited by the Obama administration to scare the heck out of the American people with absurdities such as this whacked-out document?"

Lance Fairchok writing for AmericanThinker.com hits the nail squarely on the head.

Calling this so-called security assessment "a shot across the bow" he plainly states that DHS is NOT simply referring to individuals living on society's fringe.

The assessment is, in fact, referring to YOU and patriotic Americans like you.

Moreover, Fairchok believes this assessment was hastily and sloppily written in order to fit a sick and disgusting preconceived notion:

"This 'assessment' is not an analysis of a national trend or an examination of existing evidence or even recent radical literature; it is targeting those whose politics fall within the broad insinuations contained within its pages, namely mainstream conservatives."

Judge Andrew Napolitano with FOX News essentially says the same thing:

"The summary contains few proper names, has no footnotes of any significance, lists very few sources, and is drafted with a prejudice against anyone who criticizes the role of the federal government in our lives today. It lumps together in its definition of 'rightwing extremism' hate groups, anti-government groups, and single issue groups 'such as opposition to abortion or immigration.'"

Let's state it more plainly. As far as Janet Napolitano's DHS is concerned, if you are pro-life or believe in strict enforcement of our immigration laws, or if you attended one of those TEA parties, you're the same as a neo-Nazi, or a member of the KKK. You are dangerous and pose no less a threat than the real terrorists trying to destroy our great country. Is it possible that when Barack Obama spoke of bitter people from small towns who cling to God and their guns that he was not just simply being derisive?

Is it possible that pointing out that Barack Obama sat in a Church for years listening to a lunatic pontificate, "Not God Bless America... God D___ America" WAS relevant after all?

There's only one way to find out.

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.


What purpose can be served by a document that classifies mainstream Americans as "extremists" who pose a clear and present danger to our nation's security?

Fairchok again:

"It is a manipulative information tool intended to paint the loyal opposition as reactionary kooks who are prone to violence and a danger to the country. ... This is part of a more widespread ongoing information campaign to plant and reinforce critical themes into the American official, and broader public psyche, a continuation of the 'clinging to guns and religion' message so frequently found in the rhetoric of President Obama and his acolytes."

And Fairchok concludes by issuing a very somber warning.

"And we ain't seen nothin' yet."

But what is even more disturbing is that DHS NEVER intended the public to see this so-called security assessment. It was a secret.

Reagan again:

"Obviously recognizing that public knowledge of the nonsense alleged in this document is very undesirable, the weirdoes who prepared it did not want you to see it. ... They warn: 'No portion of the LES (Law Enforcement Sensitive) information should be released to the media, the general public, or over non-secure Internet servers.'"

Judge Napolitano again:

"The document itself cautions the reader that the document is 'not to be released to the public, the media, or other personnel who do not have a valid need-to-know without prior approval' of the DHS. The document refers to itself as one of a series of intelligence assessments intended to 'deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks against the United States.'"

But there's even more.

Are you ready for this?

The portion of this so-called security assessment that was leaked is only a SUMMARY.

The bulk of it remains CLASSIFIED. We have no idea what's in it.

Judge Napolitano continues:

"The summary (unclassified) document is terrifying. One can only imagine what is contained in the classified version. This document runs directly counter to numerous U.S. Supreme decisions prohibiting the government from engaging in any activities that could serve to chill the exercise of expressive liberties. Liberties are chilled, in constitutional parlance, when people are afraid to express themselves for fear of government omnipresence, monitoring, or reprisals. The document also informs the reader that Big Brother is watching both public and private behavior."

But whatever else is in there... it cannot be pretty.

Judge Napolitano yet again:

"My guess is that the sentiments revealed in the report I read are the tip of an iceberg that the DHS would prefer to keep submerged until it needs to reveal it. This iceberg is the heavy-hand of government; a government with large and awful eyes, in whose heart there is no love for freedom, and on whose face there is no smile."

There is no time to lose, we must act now.

Yours In Freedom,

Jeffrey Mazzella /quote

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Update:

Here's a shocker of a post!

Lame Cherry: Another Banner Obama Weak

Hold onto your hat! It's quite the rant!! But so often, this author over at Lame Cherry hits us hard with the truth and details about ObamaFRAUD's faux pas and antics of weakness....to say the least!