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I am not hopeful for an... "American Spring." It didn't happen overnight. It won't end overnight. The last attempt at a 'clean-up' or codification of divided beliefs ended with nearly 800,000 dead and lingering bitterness.
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We had ONE civil War (Nothing "Civil about it).
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People who write this stuff look at the civil war romantically. Hundreds of thousands will die. With the period of lawlessness the criminals will go wild, imagine New Orleans without the water. People in the Ukraine are suffering. They will be for many years to come.
We don't need an American Spring. What we need is for our leaders to start acting like leaders and adults. To start acting like responsible people.
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We've had more than one civil war. The first one ended in the 1780's with Loyalists being robbed, imprisoned & then kicked out of the new USA. Negotiations between the new USA and Great Britain included how to compensate those who were expelled.
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We must not play into Champ's hands. Civil unrest will bring about a declaration of Martial Law. The constitution will be set aside, as will all elections, and Champ will 'rule' indefinitely. We must be careful that this does not happen.
But in order to achieve this American Spring, those who favor a diminished state must exercise discipline and kindness as never before. They should avoid internal rectification campaigns (shooting their own, looking for ideological perfection that doesnt exist). We are not communists. Thats what they do.Those already convinced of our cause small-government conservatives, Tea Partiers, libertarians should put aside their squabbles for now, join together and seek to be as inclusive as possible. Ideological purity, indeed ideological terminology itself, is inherently exclusionary and often obfuscating. Gloating of any sort is also counter-productive, possibly terminally. Instead, we must patiently explain, even to our most intractable adversaries, why our proposals for limited government are for their benefit as well as our own. We must do this in the face of a troglodytic and reactionary media and entrenched bureaucracies and interest groups from over a century of statism. We cannot stop or give up.
And we must always point out that what people were and are fighting for on the streets of the Ukraine and Venezuela is human freedom. They are not fighting for more government programs. Its even farcical to think so.
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President Yanukovych was caught totally unprepared. To his credit, he was openly aligned with the regional communist hegemony. He had taken steps to militarize his police force and stockpile millions of rounds of ammunition. His police sniper training program was second to none. Important oversights however, would soon became apparent.
When the early protestations began, Yanukovych had failed to gain total sovereignty over the media and news outlets. He had not yet extinguished the Rule of Law through a subversion of the Ukrainian equivalent of our Department of Justice. Ukrainian judges and courts had yet to be supplanted with his selected agents. He had not organized counter-demonstration cells. He had failed to fully integrate police sleeper cells and agent reporters within the ranks of the protestors. Due to funding shortfalls, Yanukovych was unable to spend his way into a subservient electorate via social welfare and give-away programs.
Yes, it is easy to see why Viktor Yanukovych failed. Another term in office might have saved him.
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The government was broke and weak. I sensed several in the police barricades did not want to push the protesters too hard. The Special Police did at the last minute but that outraged the public. As the fires raged in front of the barricades, I saw only one fire hose which was woefully inadequate. It seemed that the official response was half hearted, almost to the point that the police wanted the protesters to get rid of the idiot President. They would storm a building, take it over, then when their 8 hour shift was over, they would vacate for the protesters to walk right back in.
It was clearly not Tiananmen Sqaure where protesters were up against a full blown military presence.
As President Obama offers asylum to "minor" terrorists providing "limited" material support to terrorism, he's slamming shut the door on thousands of Christians fleeing terrorism in Muslim lands like Egypt.
In another end-run around Congress, President Obama has unilaterally eased immigration requirements for foreigners linked to terrorism. He ordered the State Department and Homeland Security to ignore a post-9/11 law barring entry to those giving political or charitable aid to Hamas and other known terrorist groups.
How exactly does ordering a government agency to "ignore the law" square with the constitutional responsibility for the executive to "faithfully execute" the law?
A dozen years after the horrific attacks on our nation by foreign Islamic terrorists, the Obama administration has decided a little support to foreign Islamic terrorists is OK.
Treasonous as it sounds, the president is following through on a little-noticed overture he made to Muslims in his Cairo speech of 2009, when he suggested he'd relax enforcement of material support laws involving "zakat," or Islamic charitable giving. He basically apologized for the Bush administration's locking up the founders of the largest Muslim charity in America for sending millions to "zakat committees" linked to Hamas.
Such as the "Widows Ammunition Fund"...
Of course, his move weakens, yet again, America's security. By exempting five kinds of limited material support for terrorism, Obama instantly purges more than 4,000 suspects from the U.S. terror watch list and opens our borders up to both them and their families.
Not to worry, Homeland Security says, it'll run additional security checks before letting them in.
Then why bother to remove them from the watch list in the first place?
Oh? Like the checks run on the Tsarnaev family, who also got into the country on asylum claims? Those security checks?
Forgive the survivors and the families of those who died in the Boston bombings if they're not reassured.
Taking a chance on foreign nationals already suspected of aiding and abetting terrorists only puts Americans at greater risk. Yet the president is ordering immigration authorities to ignore red flags.
He suggests too many innocent Muslims seeking a better life here, including Palestinian "refugees," have been "unfairly" excluded by Draconian post-9/11 immigration laws. Says who? Islamist lobbyist groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who claim Palestinian terrorists are "freedom fighters"?
At the same time Obama opens the floodgates to them, he's closing our borders to Christians fleeing persecution by Muslims in Egypt, Iraq and other Mideast countries.
Displaced Palestinians have plenty of places they can resettle in the Mideast.
The options for Christians, on the other hand, are limited. The U.S. may be their best chance for refuge from violence and for religious freedom.
It's not like they'll get a chance for a new life in Mauritania...
Yet the State Department has rejected virtually all of the 20,000 asylum applications from Coptic Christians trying to escape Egypt since the toppling of its pro-American regime.
Meanwhile, it's welcoming terrorist supporters pushed out by Cairo's renewed military crackdown on the Brotherhood. Thanks to Obama's new rule, these escaping Islamist troublemakers will be able to set up shop inside America and practice their jihadism with virtual impunity.
If the president doesn't like rampant rumors he's a "secret Muslim," or that he's doing the bidding of his Muslim Brotherhood-tied brother Malik, he should stop making sympathetic gestures that feed them.
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#1
How exactly does ordering a government agency to "ignore the law" square with the constitutional responsibility for the executive to "faithfully execute" the law?
Well the Kenyan POS has proven time and time again that no (R) has the stones to stand up to him and numerous court challenges by 'the people' have been dismissed for 'no standing.' What's to keep him from continuing to do as he wishes????? not even a total Dem disaster in 2014 will slow him since I don't see anybody on the right doing anything but huffing and puffing, but not blowing his house down.
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It will be interesting, as the voting rolls get cleaned out, to discover how many imaginary, illegal, and cloned voters helped put Mr. Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012. ACORN and its descendants were very, very busy registering people who lived in parking lots and the middle of the Ohio River here in Cincinnati...
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It will be interesting, as the voting rolls get cleaned out, to discover how many imaginary, illegal, and cloned voters helped put Mr. Obama over the top in 2008 and 2012.
Don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen. I wish these practices would go away along with Obummer himself but I don't believe they will.
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And what America REALLY needs is to have the US Military CUT back to pre WW2 levels...and think of all that money in the no debt ceiling Administration budget "saved" for BETTER things.
Obama is the Messiah. yeah. Think of all that PEACE breaking out....just about everywhere.
#3
If Richard Nixon could have duped the populace into thinking he was the first black President, he might have swept Watergate under the rug. Alas, I thought we were going to read about where Hillary and Obama were at 3:00 a.m. the morning after the Benghazi attack, what Stevens' meeting with the Turk rep was all about, and why the Christians in Action had a large presence in Benghazi, and how the Administration dreamed up the cover story about some schlocky video. Oh well, don't want the citizens to get all stirred up do we? "What difference does it make?" anyway?
#4
We can hope Benghazi will dog Hillary all the days of her campaign--doubt the Pubs are up to it. They tend to pull their punches after landing a couple of good punches. They don't have that "go for the jugular" that Pub strategist Lee Atwater had.
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