Thursday, January 17, 2013
Choices our elitist, hypocrite president makes for his children are fair target for scrutiny
The NRA has gone beyond the pale by dragging President Obama's children into the gun control debate, or so claim his leftist supporters and such RINOs as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
I disagree.
If Malia or Sasha Obama should miss a homework assignment, get in trouble at school, or break up with a boyfriend, that's a private matter. But the choices politicians make for their children are a matter of public concern, particularly when these politicians are able to make choices for their children that are denied to most Americans.
For example, Malia and Sasha attend an exclusive private school, Sidwell Friends School. The public schools in Washington, D.C. are pretty dreadful for bright children, and I don't blame the president for sending his children elsewhere.
But I do blame the president for making choices for his children that are denied to most Americans. Obama has consistently opposed efforts to provide vouchers so that all Americans, regardless of income, can enjoy the same choices that he has made for his children. No, vouchers won't gain admittance to elite schools for dull, disruptive children, but they will ensure that every bright, well-behaved child in America can get a decent education.
You see, Obama is a typical liberal elitist. He prattles on about how wonderful public schools are, but he doesn't send his own children to public school. Yet when ordinary Americans seek the same opportunities, Obama slams the door in their face. For him, it's far more important to keep the teachers unions happy than it is to provide a decent education for America's kids. And if huge swaths of American society receive sub-par educations as a result, why should he care? He's got his!
Obama and other liberals initially pooh-poohed the idea of having armed guards in our schools, even as the Sidwell Friends Schools has an 11-person security team. These aren't Secret Service employees; they work for Sidwell, albeit in shifts. Not all of these employees are licensed to carry weapons, but some are policemen who presumably are armed.
So once again Obama is happy to enjoy a benefit for his own children while seeking to deny the same rights to ordinary Americans. It's wrong and it's a fair target for public comment. If there are errors in the ad, complain about the errors, not the ad itself.
The Obama administration is now coming around to the idea of encouraging schools to have "resource officers;" presumably such officers will be armed. But when NRA Executive Direct Wayne LaPierre made this suggestion three weeks ago he was treated like a nut.
In any event, the president and his family are certainly entitled to a little bit of privacy. But that curtain of privacy deserves to be raised when the president makes choices for his family or his children that aren't available to ordinary Americans.
Many thanks to the NRA for producing an outstanding advertisement. If the president doesn't like it the solution isn't to stop running these types of ads. The solution is for him to stop being an elitist hypocrite.
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To Jane and Anderson on those "30 possums in a barn."
And Jason Alexander says there no humor in Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ykEdzR_lM
And who'd ever believe that Ben once aspired to lead the States Rights Party back in the 50s. He and Mark Lane are cut from the same cloth. Ben, as does Hodding Carter, knows much about the Kingfish's assassination that they're not telling. Come clean, Ben!
If the Governor really wants to make an international "cause celebre" of State sovereignty, let him refuse to commit Major General Collins and the Mississippi militia troops to Obama's intervention in North and Central Africa. The 155th is allegedly set for an African[Somalia/Uganda] deployment in 2014.
A Belgian MP reveals the real aims of Obama's AFRICOM and NATO in Africa. It's all about mineral rights...not human rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9kWe3MI-M&feature=player_embedded#!
A more accurate translation at this link.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/powerful-belgian-mp-exposes-war-on.html
I surprised that you haven't injected the name of Tom Woods into the discussion on nullification over at Tom's Place? The zombies seem to "cluster" over there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5hMiTS2dg
If Pike gets his wishes to have Chism and Smith hauled before the courts and prosecuted, could the people decide their fate through jury nullification? I came across the included link that was posted on Tom's blog by Ben, the former candidate for the States Rights Party. Unfortunately, Mississippi is the only State that does not permit juror's questions in either criminal or civil cases...Texas allows juror's questions only in civil cases. Juror nullification is the last resort of the people against malicious prosecutors and a corrupt judiciary. The James A. Traficant trial in Cleveland and the second OJ trial in Vegas come to mind. And closer to home, the malicious prosecution and judicial misconduct in Lowndes county in the prosecution and life imprisonment of Mary Sue Shields.
Check out the Ed McKown "verbose" comment FOR judicial nullification.
http://blog.bennettandbennett.com/2008/03/guest-post-jury-nullification-a-prosecutors-view.html
Maybe Ben, Tom, Anderson, Pike, etal., should define "crazy."
http://www.levellers.org/jrp/orig/jrp.jurquotes.htm
That should read "jury" nullification, not "judicial."
Pike over at Tom's blog declares that state officials that refuse to cooperate with FBI or ATF agents are in violation their sworn allegience to aid in the enforcement of US laws. If the FBI/ATF commits an illegal act, are State agents sworn to cooperate? FBI agents provocateur operate worldwide now in the White House phony war on terror.
A case in point.
It is a proven fact that FBI and ATF agents in the 1960s planted evidence(dynamite) in cars owned by citizens that had been targeted for alleged violation of civil rights laws. The FBI would then threaten state law enforcement officials to arrest the suspects and charge them with the federal crime of transporting explosives. FBI SA William Stringer(now deceased) went on record and provided a written affadavit that the FBI SAs broke into Byron De La Beckwith's car while it was parked in front of the Mayflower Cafe in Jackson, and planted the "ticking time bomb" that New Orleans PD "found" when he was pulled over on a phone "tip." A federal jury acquitted Beckwith, but the State of Louisiana prosecuted and imprisoned him at Angola after a jury of five black females found him guilty. The LA State Supreme Court later vacated the sentence on the grounds that a jury of five black females "did not constitute a jury of his peers."
Representative Smith responds to House Bill 490:No hint of illiteracy that I have gleaned from his response.
http://blogs.clarionledger.com/samrhall/2013/01/28/rep-jeff-smith-responds-to-coverage-of-house-bill-490-sovereignty-commission-comparisons/
I've found it best not to argue with Pike. He clearly reads the Constitution differently from me.
Colonel~ Could you add PressTV to your suggested viewing list? It provides the best worldview of events in the Middle East, IMHO.
Independence, secession, insurrection and nullification are in the air, worldwide. It seems that P.B. Pike's passion for a kind of Utopian racial "plurism" in Mississippi doesn't seem to be working elsewhere in the world;especially, in his precious Judenstaat.
Quebec and Scotland on secession:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/30/286399/referendum/
That should read "pluralism."
It is interesting to note that the new poster girl for "gun control" was also an Israel First member of the Congress... supporting the bulldozing of Arab homes and cemeteries, which is always accompanied by Palestinian home owners being killed and maimed by gunfire from US-supplied M-16s during protests. After a personal tour of Jerusalem by then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Gabby gave her thumbs up to this universally-condemned razing of Palestinian villages and homes to make way for Israeli interlopers from the Caucasus, LA, NYC and Miami Beach.
More on Gabby's "hypocrisy."
http://forward.com/articles/134641/giffords-s-jewish-journey-from-israel-to-servic/
The Mississippi State Prsss Association' President Jim Prince suggests that making the right to possess and carry a concealed weapon the "default Status," rather that creating legislation to seal public records of those possessing such permits;thus protecting both the first and second amendments. Keep'em guessing.
http://www.cdispatch.com/opinions/article.asp?aid=21913&TRID=1
Colonel~
I see that "Ali" just nailed Pike, Anderson and Ben to that proverbial "cross." And he did without the vitriol, hatred and foul-mouth ad hominem attacks that these modern-day Bolsheviks have heaped upon Smith and Chism.
Pike called 'Ali" "punch drunk." I wonder if that was Pike's limp attempt at humor at the expense of Muhammed Ali's sufferings from Parkinson's disease?
Pike, Anderson and Ben should expect no help from their Peoples Front SS(suicide squad).
From Monty Python's Holy Grail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8
Correction:
Of course that was Python's Life of Brian. The two "Judean People's Front scenes were censored in the film as it was seen in the US.
The remainder of film would have ended up on the cutting-room floor had it not been for the intervention of the Beatles' George Harrison who put over a million British pounds to finish the filming.
I woke up this morning to view the verbose response from Pike to Ali's posting the Sovereignty bill.
His silence is deafening.
Pike brings up General Pickett at Gettysburg. H.L. Mencken nailed Lincoln and his worshippers on his "address."
The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.
Colonel~
I assume that you have seen the letters of correspondence between General Lee and Lord Acton--revealed in 1917--on the issues over State Soverignty versus the absolutism of the Republic, and Lee's prophetic warnings of the consequences of the "consolidation of the States into a vast Republic, surely to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home"...
And now, 150 plus years later, the President of this vast Republic, born in Africa, will soon unleash Dixie Thunder upon the hapless peoples of colonial Africa from Timbuktu to the heart of the "Belgian" Congo.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/acton-lee.html
The comment by Charlie Ali on the CIA in the Mississippi's Governor's mansion is in reference to Barbour, IMHO. You don't meet with the CIA's "capo de tutti capi" for diner to discuss Bab's short skirt. The following appeared in 2003 edition of the Columbus Packet. Wil Colom is a local Columbus tort lawyer with connections to the central African country of Tanzani.. a staging area for AFRICOM's covert operations in Obama's land of birth.
{SNIP}
A $250-a-plate fundraiser will be held at Old Waverly next Tuesday (June
17) for GOP gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour.
We neglected to mention that last month (May 15) Wil Colom flew
Haley to Houston, Tex. in his Citation jet for a fundraiser sponsored by
former President George Bush. Wil's daughter, Niani, went, and
Haley's wife Barbour. The dinner was at a private residence and only ten
couples were at table, including George and Barbara Bush and the
Barbours. When we asked Wil what a plate cost, he replied, "Let's
just say you definitely weren't paying just for the meal."
Wil said Barbara Bush was wearing a blue suit with a short skirt.
He told her, "I love you in that blue suit," and she replied that she
bet he liked the length too. He said he did. She told him, "George
likes it. I wear it all the time."
Wil said that Niani and George hit it off, sitting together and
talking about France, where she lived before coming to Columbus last
year.
"It was a way for the former president to do something for Haley
in Houston," Wil told us. "I'm sure he'll do a bigger one if Haley wants
it."
It occurred to us that the Citation had crashed Mississippi would
have lost both its biggest champion of tort reform and its biggest
class-action lawyer.
My last post on the Supremacy Clause.
And more on Charlie Ali's claim of the CIA in the Mississippi Governor's mansion.
In 2011 Barbour attended the Herzliya conference in Israel where he was a guest speaker, along with NATO Secretary General Andres Rasmussen and retired NSA advisor under Obama, (ret.) Marine Corps General James Jones. I suspect that the "liquidation" of Libyan President Khaddafi and his family was planned at this conference.
So, whose hat was Haley wearing at the 2011 conference? Check out the speakers at that event.
Jimmy Carter will speak at this year's 2013 conference in March, where he will be schmoozing with the likes of Alan Dershowitz.
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/?CategoryID=459
Pugnacious,
You are certainly true to your name this week!
I had heard of the Lee-Acton exchange and forgotten about it. Might be worth looking into.
I'm not sure who this Pike person is, but he clearly hates me. I once lightheartedly suggested that a restaurant was misnamed and he got all up in arms about that.
I think that "P.B.Pike" may be a moniker of Alan Dershowitz. If not, Dershowitz has surely met his match in Pike!
Have You ever noticed the genotypical resemblance and speech mannerisms of Alan Dershowitz to that of the late Irgun terrorist leader, Menachem Begin? I'd like to be a fly on the wall at that Herzliya Conference in Israel where both Alan Dershowitz and Jimmy Carter are featured speakers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDJvJJsVsU
Mike Gravel does Tehran.
http://presstv.com/detail/2013/02/04/287235/fbi-stops-malcolm-x-grandson-trip-to-iran/
Your comments on the Sage of Baltimore being right..
Under your hypocrisy byline and from your JP link I found evidence that not is all well for the indigenous peoples of Palestine
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