No 661
“En mi opinión” Mayo 16, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño
Editor
bENGHAZI
Amenper: LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN
De todas los
atributos de Dios, quizás el que más aprecio es la libertad, y por consecuencia
la libertad de expresión. Simple y llanamente, por la falta de libertad de
expresión me fui de Cuba, el negocio de la familia no había sido intervenido,
en el 1960 había todavía los residuos de la economía de mercado y nunca sufrí
otra escases que no fuera la escases de poderme expresar.
Por eso puedo
detectar la supresión de la libertad de expresión cuando la veo, y no pueden
hacerme cuentos de caminos.
El mes pasado la
Universidad de Bandeis prohibió a la feminista Somalie Ayaan Hirsi Ali como
disertante en la ceremonia de graduación porque las expresiones de Ms. Hirsi
Ali tenian un record que violaba los "valores fundamentales" de la
universidad.
¿Que hizo Ms.
Hirsi Ali para violar los "valores fundamentales de Bandeis? Simplemente
ha contado la historia de sus desgracias desde su niñez bajo el Islam en
Somalia, las torturas, la opresión la vida denigrante de una mujer bajo el
Islam. ¿Cuales son entonces los "valores fundamentales "
de Bandeis? ¿Son apoyar la opresión de la mujer?
Pero Bandeis va
más allá, tampoco permite que una persona que sea un fundamentalista cristiano
presente una disertación de sus ideas.
Esto es algo que
hace un rato largo que viene pasando, pero los colegios y universidades de
Estados Unidos finalmente han caído en la locura de la corrección política
socialista.
Sólo pueden hablar
en las universidades los que tengan ideas "progresistas" léase
comunistas, los otros son tratado como trataban a los heréticos de la
inquisición, no tienen derechos son quemados en las hogueras de la censura.
Estamos leyendo en
el Wall Street Journal que esta semana la inquisición ritualistica se extendió
a dos ceremonias de graduación en Smith College y Haverfordo College.
El lunes, Smith
anunció la cancelación del discurso de Christine Lagarde, la jefa francés del
Fondo Monetario Internacional. ¿Y cuál podría ser el problema con la señora
Lagarde, considerada una de las mujeres más exitosos del mundo? Una petición en
línea firmada por unos 480 dijo que el FMI ofende a los Smithies porque
se asocia con "sistemas imperialistas y patriarcales que oprimen y
maltratan a las mujeres en todo el mundo." Con ironía francesa
inconfundible, la Sra. Lagarde retiró su presencia "para preservar el
espíritu de celebración" del la graduación de Smith College..
Birgeneau de
Berkeley Sr. Birgeneau es famoso por ser un ardiente defensor de los
estudiantes de minorías, la comunidad LGBT y los inmigrantes ilegales
indocumentados. ¿Qué podría estar mal con este tipo hablando en Haverford???
Haverfordians estaban molestos de que en 2011 la policía de Berkeley utilizaron
"la fuerza" contra los manifestantes de Occupy en Sproul Plaza.
Dijeron que el Sr. Birgeneau podía hablar en Haverford si aceptaba nueve
condiciones, incluyendo su apoyo a la reparación de las víctimas de la
violencia de Berkeley.
En una carta, el
Sr. Birgeneau respondió: "Como activista de los derechos civiles de toda
la vida y firme partidario de la no violencia, no respondo a los ataques
verbales falsos y violentos."
Presidente Smith
Kathleen McCartney se sintió obligado a afirmar que ella está
"comprometido a liderar un colegio donde los diferentes puntos de vista
pueden ser escuchadas y debatidas con respeto." Y el presidente del
Haverford, Daniel Weiss, escribió a los estudiantes que sus demandas "leen
más como un jurado emitiendo un veredicto que como una invitación a una
discusión o una solicitud para el aprendizaje compartido."
Hace años, cuando
la izquierda académica comenzó a condenar al ostracismo a los profesores
identificados como " conservador", los administradores universitarios
hicieron a un lado o eran cómplices . La izquierda académica adoptó una noción
desposada en aquel entonces por una " nueva izquierda " . No recuerdo
el nombre, pero recuerdo que un filósofo alemán que enseñó en Brandeis , no por
casualidad - dijo que muchas ideas conservadoras eran inmorales y
merecían ser suprimida.
No puedo entender
este concepto que la supresión de ideas, que la supresión de la libertad de
expresión a todos quepa en el siglo XXI en una universidad.
Este rechazo y el
aislamiento de los docentes "conservadores " por sus colegas de
izquierda (con muchos liberales silenciosos en señal de conformidad )
debilitaron las ideas fundacionales de American universidades - la libertad de
investigación y de los derechos de expresión de la Primera Enmienda.
No importa .
Rectores de universidades , decanos, jefes de departamento y los consejos de
administración , vistos o aprobaron la erosión de su marco intelectual original
. La capacidad de los profesores agraviados y sus alumnos para confeccionar
comportamiento, ideas y palabras que violaban la corrección política se puso
tan descabellado que la frase en sí se convirtió satírico - aunque no tan
gracioso para profes negado la tenencia bajo sospecha de incorrección . Libros
ofensivas fueron prohibidas y los textos de historia reescritos para
conformarse.
Uno podría
concluir : A quién le importa ? Los padres están empezando a ver que esto es
una estafa los 65.000 dólares al año que suponían que sería el salario inicial
de sus hijos si se graduaban de una universidad de renombre, ya no existe en
una economía que quiere habilidades de cuantificación . Los padres y los
estudiantes cada vez huirán los politizados chiflados inscribiendo a sus hijos
en escuelas técnicas o MOOC (Curson en linea) o las pocas universidades que se
mantienen apolíticas para recibir una educación apolítica. .
Aún así, es una
tragedia. Los locos están convirtiendo en la cara pública de algunas
universidades una vez reverenciados –
McCain: 'People Should
be Going to Jail' in VA Scandal. By Greg Richter
Sen. John McCain says it matters whether Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric
Shinseki resigns over the waiting list scandal, but, he adds, there is a bigger
issue.
"If these allegations are true people should be going to jail, not just resigning their positions," the Arizona Republican said Thursday on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
Shinseki is under fire because of multiple allegations across the country of VA hospitals creating off-the-books waiting lists for veterans to hide the fact that doctors weren't seeing patients for weeks or months past the 14-day guideline.
Shinseki testified before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee earlier Thursday, saying he is "mad as hell" over 40 critically ill veterans who died awaiting treatment.
McCain was unimpressed.
"If he doesn't give a better answer, then I'm not sure how he wouldn't have to do anything but resign," he told Van Susteren. He added that he believes the matter eventually will be taken up by Attorney General Eric Holder.
Story continues below the video.
Holder said on Wednesday his office has no plans to probe the VA, and is awaiting an inspector general's report.
"This is shameful under any circumstances," McCain said. "It is 10 times more shameful because it's being done to the men and women who have put their lives on the line for us." http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/eric-shinseki-veterans-scandal-jail/2014/05/15/id/571642/?ns_mail_uid=19554269&ns_mail_job=1569413_05162014&promo_code=xl3wuhze
"If these allegations are true people should be going to jail, not just resigning their positions," the Arizona Republican said Thursday on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
Shinseki is under fire because of multiple allegations across the country of VA hospitals creating off-the-books waiting lists for veterans to hide the fact that doctors weren't seeing patients for weeks or months past the 14-day guideline.
Shinseki testified before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee earlier Thursday, saying he is "mad as hell" over 40 critically ill veterans who died awaiting treatment.
McCain was unimpressed.
"If he doesn't give a better answer, then I'm not sure how he wouldn't have to do anything but resign," he told Van Susteren. He added that he believes the matter eventually will be taken up by Attorney General Eric Holder.
Story continues below the video.
Holder said on Wednesday his office has no plans to probe the VA, and is awaiting an inspector general's report.
"This is shameful under any circumstances," McCain said. "It is 10 times more shameful because it's being done to the men and women who have put their lives on the line for us." http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/eric-shinseki-veterans-scandal-jail/2014/05/15/id/571642/?ns_mail_uid=19554269&ns_mail_job=1569413_05162014&promo_code=xl3wuhze
ENRIQUE
ENRIQUEZ: ESTO ES
INCREIBLE Y NO SE DEBE DEJAR QUE PASE…
LA GENTE ESTA INDIGNADA COMO DEBE SER Y
SE NOTA EN SUS COMENTARIOS, QUE DEBERIAMOS HACER LLEGAR AL CONGRESO. ADEMAS ESA
ES OTRA PRUEBA MAS DE LA COMPOSICION DE MUCHOS DE LOS ILEGALES QUE CRUZAN
LA FRONTERA SIN NINGUN TIPO DE
SUPERVISION Y LA TREMENDA PROPAGANDA QUE EXISTE EN FAVOR DE LA LEGALIZACION
MASIVA DE ESTOS QUE TRAERIA UNA DESTRUCCION SOCIAL Y ECONOMICA A ESTE
PAIS Y QUE NI LOS POLITICOS, NI LOS MEDIOS DE PRENSA SE ATREVEN A CO-
MENTAR POR TEMOR DE PERDER EL VOTO
DE LOS INMIGRANTES EN PERJUICIO DE PERDER SU PROPIO PAIS, COMO YA LO
ESTAN PERDIENDO,
POR COBARDIA Y FALTA DE PATRIOTISMO.
Feds released
hundreds of immigrant murderers, drunk drivers, sex-crimes convicts
(Washington Times) – Immigration officials knowingly
released dozens of murderers back into the U.S. in 2013, according to Obama
administration statistics detailing all of the criminal convictions of the more
than 36,000 immigrants released from custody last year.
The numbers show that the criminals released by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement had amassed more than 15,000
drunken-driving convictions, 1,317 domestic violence convictions and even four
that the statistics listed as “treason, sabotage.” There were also convictions
for homicide, another 43 for negligent manslaughter, 14 convictions of
voluntary manslaughter and one classified as “homicide-willful kill-public
official-gun.”
The immigrants were in deportation proceedings,
meaning ICE was trying to remove them from the country and could have held them
in detention, but released them anyway, according to the Center for Immigration
Studies, which obtained the numbers and published a report Monday morning. The
Washington Times also obtained the statistics.
Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the
center, said the numbers undercut the Obama administration’s own argument that
it’s trying to keep its enforcement efforts targeted at dangerous criminals.
“We keep hearing from the administration that they are
focused like a laser on enforcement against the worst of the worst, convicted
criminals, as their top priority. On the other hand, they are releasing, at a
rate of about 100 a day, aliens from their custody with criminal convictions,
and many of them are serious criminal convictions,” she said.
ICE didn’t respond to a request for comment Monday
morning.
Some of the immigrants were likely released in
response to an old court decision that said if a home country won’t take
immigrants back, the U.S. must release them. But Ms. Vaughan said most were
likely released on the decision of ICE officials. They are supposed to be
subjected to other methods such as monitoring, bond or their own recognizance.
The details on criminals released comes even as ICE
has told Congress it doesn’t need to hold as many immigrants in detention. In
its budget request this year, ICE asked that Congress only fund slightly more
than 30,500 detention beds a day, or down from the 34,000 set in current law.
“This funding level of beds will allow ICE to detain
the current mandatory population, as well as the higher-risk, non-mandatory
detainees,” ICE Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale testified in March.
But Ms. Vaughan said that rings hollow if the
administration is already releasing murderers and other serious criminals even
with 34,000 detention beds.
The 36,007 criminal aliens counted in the data had
more than 87,000 convictions among them: 9,187 convictions for what ICE labeled
“dangerous drugs,” 2,691 assault convictions, 1,724 weapons offenses and even
303 convictions for “fight escape” — a category that would seem to make them
bad candidates for being released back into the country. There were 647
convictions of traffic hit-and-run, 426 sexual assaults, 727 other sex-crimes
convictions and 228 kidnapping convictions.
The immigrants are in addition to the 68,000 other
immigrants that ICE officers came across but didn’t put into deportation
proceedings.
Last year, ICE came under fire for releasing thousands
of immigrants and blaming it on the sequester budget cuts. Among those released
were 622 criminals — including 24 with repeated major felony convictions so bad
that the administration had to go recapture them.
Officials later said it wasn’t the sequester, but
rather the regular budget process that caused them to have to release the
immigrants. They said they’d been running above the 34,000 detention level for
too long and would have had to cut detention to average out the numbers.
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Obama Caught Helping Illegals To Kill Americans
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ICE Ordered to Stay Silent on Release
of 36,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens
http://www.alipac.us/ice-ordered-stay-silent-release-36-000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-2902/
Lamar Smith Calls ICE Release of 36,000 Criminal Illegals a President-Sanctioned Prison Break
http://www.alipac.us/lamar-smith-calls-ice-release-36-000-criminal-immigrants-president-sanctioned-pr-2901/
GOP Reps: ICE Release of Illegal Immigrant Criminals 'Incredibly Alarming,' Hearing Planned
http://www.alipac.us/gop-reps-ice-release-immigrant-criminals-incredibly-alarming-hearing-planned-2899/
ICE Doc Details 36,000 Criminal Aliens Released in 2013
http://www.alipac.us/ice-released-murder-sexual-assault-kidnapping-convicts-2013-2898/
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http://www.alipac.us/ice-ordered-stay-silent-release-36-000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-2902/
Lamar Smith Calls ICE Release of 36,000 Criminal Illegals a President-Sanctioned Prison Break
http://www.alipac.us/lamar-smith-calls-ice-release-36-000-criminal-immigrants-president-sanctioned-pr-2901/
GOP Reps: ICE Release of Illegal Immigrant Criminals 'Incredibly Alarming,' Hearing Planned
http://www.alipac.us/gop-reps-ice-release-immigrant-criminals-incredibly-alarming-hearing-planned-2899/
ICE Doc Details 36,000 Criminal Aliens Released in 2013
http://www.alipac.us/ice-released-murder-sexual-assault-kidnapping-convicts-2013-2898/
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Scandalous: New Seedy Details of IRS Scandal Just
Revealed, Obama Admin Working Behind the Scenes with Lerner
Could the IRS do anything to make itself more unpopular?
Apparently, things are far from over with the agency’s targeting of
conservative political groups.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch and released yesterday indicate that the
Obama administration lied when it tried to pin the scandal on IRS employees in
an Ohio branch office. In fact, the Washington, D.C., office of the IRS was
coordinating with the employees to hold up tea party groups’ applications for
nonprofit status and subject them to extra scrutiny.
At the heart of the controversy is Lois Lerner, who
was head of the division that approved nonprofit applications at the time.
“This latest revelation by Judicial Watch showing that
the IRS targeting of conservative organizations was being run by its Washington
office demonstrates that the House acted correctly when it held Lois Lerner in
contempt,” said Heritage legal expert Hans von Spakovsky.
The House voted last week to hold Lois Lerner in
contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about the IRS scandal.
But it’s up to Attorney General Eric Holder to take any action – the first step
of which would be forcing her to testify – and that hasn’t happened.
Von Spakovsky said:
Lerner claimed that
this problem originated in the Cincinnati office of the IRS, so it is pretty
clear she was misleading the public and congressional investigators. The
contempt citation needs to be enforced and if the Justice Department refuses to
do so, it will be another example of unethical behavior by a law enforcement
agency that has repeatedly failed to adhere to its duty to enforce the law on
an objective, nonpartisan basis.In other words, the odds aren’t great that Lerner will
face real consequences. Read more at http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2014/05/scandalous-new-seedy-details-irs-scandal-just-revealed-obama-admin-working-behind-scenes-lerner/#dXMPvr9cD9QxGJmi.99
SAMITIER:
Increible…
Pero Cierto…
Las Empresas MILLONARIAS
Son Las Primeras En Ser “PRECIONADAS” Por El Gobierno A Reconocer…
Los Musulmanes y Dar Mayor Participacion De Su Porcentaje A Los Negros…
Esta Es Una Politica Oficial
DESCRIMINATORIA Contra Los Blancos…
Asi Vemos Diariamente En la
TV Mas Anuncios Hechos Por Modelos Negros y Hasta El New York Time A Nombrado
Un Negro Director…
Home Depot SUCUMBIO Primero
a Los Homosexuales
Y Ahora A Los Musulmanes… Aqui
Tienen La Noticia…
Home Depot Rolls out the carpet for Sharia
Law. Posted on 13 May, 2014 by AmyElizabeth
By Amy Elizabeth
A Home Depot in Dearborn MI was the latest victim succumbing to the
demands of an organization that shouldn’t be in existence in the United States
of America. An American company the home depot gets over powered by the Muslim
Brotherhood terror linked organization CAIR (Council on American Islamic
Relations) has cast. The employees will be subjected to cultural awareness
training. The CAIR states this will help them accommodate the religious
sensitivities of the Muslim employees and customers. Corporate and Managers gain
a better understanding of Muslims and are taught Islam.
AMENPER: Puerto Rico, ¿Independencia
o Dependencia?
No creo que ni
Betances ni Muñoz Rivera estarían contentos con el estado actual de Puerto
Rico. Los dos próceres tenían una visión diferente sobre el futuro
de la nación. Pero ambos amaban profundamente a su patria y querían lo que
consideraban que era lo mejor para ella. Ninguno de los dos puso sus ambiciones
personales por encima de la patria.
Prevaleció Muñoz
Rivera, y personalmente creo que el Estado Libre Asociado es una condición que
ha sido mejor para Puerto Rico que la independencia o que la estatidad.
Pero lo que no
creo que hubieran querido ni Betances ni Muñoz Rivera es un estado que ha
evolucionado a una dependencia total del gobierno federal de Estados Unidos con
sus políticas socializantes que los ha convertidos en cada día
más dependiente y menos independiente de los Estados Unidos.
La libertad que
ofrecía el Estado Libre Asociado ha desaparecido con la dependencia de los
beneficios y el "mantengo" que han socializado a la isla. Se
pudiera cambiar el nombre a Estado Licencioso Agregado. Así le
quedarían aunque sea las siglas de ELA, y seguirían agregados pero con las
siglas que fueron el sueño de Muñoz Rivera.
El socialismo
nunca es la respuesta, la dependencia de un estado paternalista nunca es bueno
para una nación. Pero cuando el estado paternalista depende para
mantener su condición de una nación extranjera, la situación es todavía más
denigrante.
Lo aberrante de
esta situación, es que los que dicen que quieren la independencia para Puerto
Rico, son los que más usan y abusan el estado de dependencia y los sucesores de
Muñoz Rivera y Muñoz Marín, también proponen la dependencia a nombre del
bienestar social..
Puerto Rico debe
de ser independiente, pero no con una independencia como la que piden los
independentistas que la convertiría en una nación del tercer
mundo. Puerto Rico puede ser independiente económicamente si se
mantiene una economía de libre mercado dentro del Estado Libre
Asociado. Eso era lo que soñaba Muñoz Rivera, y todavía Puerto Rico puede
hacerlo, si no hace caso a los vientos socialistas que ahora soplan también del
norte.
What Trey Gowdy Says At The End Of This Interview
Should Shock Every American…
He
doesn't even seem to want to say it, but he does. PATRICK BROWN
Jake Tapper of CNN’s “The Lead” had Rep. Trey Gowdy on to talk about the Benghazi investigation try to poke holes in any Benghazi
investigation.
Tapper played video of the former deputy director
of the CIA, Michael Morrell, testifying that the CIA did believe that the video
could be involved. He obviously thought that this negated any need for an
investigation by Trey Gowdy and the special committee and proceeded to ask
Gowdy to comment on the CIA director’s comments.
Trey Gowdy has a great response. But what he says at
the end should shock every American. If its truly this bad, then this
investigation is going to bring a lot of people down.
“OPERACION
AMERICAN SPRING”
WE
THE PEOPLE COMING TO WASHINGTON TODAY
Today Is Marching On Washington To Remove Obama From Office B. CHRISTOPHER AGEE
Freedom
is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it…
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/millions-expected-coinciding-protests-d-c-bunkerville/#5LzZPLhjoiqdhG4f.99
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/millions-expected-coinciding-protests-d-c-bunkerville/#5LzZPLhjoiqdhG4f.99
Operation
American Spring: Militias promise to oust Obama, Boehner, top officials this
Friday
A retired United
States Army colonel expects as many as 30 million like-minded individuals will
descend on Washington, DC this week and demand that President Barack Obama and
other members of his administration be booted from office.
Those are just some of the demands that Col. Harry
Riley, founder of “Operation American Spring,” said he’ll ask the Obama
administration to adhere to when militia members and patriots of all sorts
arrive in the nation’s capital on Friday and begin demonstrating against a
government the group considers to be in violation of the principles established
by the founders of the country.
“We are calling for the removal of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Holder as a start toward constitutional restoration,” Riley told the Before Its Newswebsite during an interview earlier this year.
“They have all abandoned the US Constitution,” he said, and “are unworthy to be retained in a position that calls for servant status.”
Riley told Before Its News in January that he expects his Operation American Spring movement will provoke anywhere from 10 million to 30 million Americans to mobilize this week and arrive in DC, where they will participate in a “massive, gigantic effort as a last stand before America moves into a more devastating condition.”
“For more than five years, ‘we the people’ have been writing, calling, faxing Congress, the media, screaming in town halls, marching, rallying, demonstrating, petitioning, all to no avail,” he said. “Every branch of government looks at ‘we the people’ whom they have taken an oath to serve, as ‘pests,’ interfering with their political agenda, cramping their self-serving, greedy agendas. We have no faith in the ballot box any longer, as many believe this sacred secret box has been compromised.”
To bring about that change, Riley says he hopes his group succeeds at shutting down the federal government. Whether or not all 29,999,999 of his compatriots will follow through, however, remains yet to be seen — a similar protest against Pres. Obama’s administration arranged last year by a fleet of truck drivers fell well short of making the dent that that group hoped to make.
“Last October,‘10,000’ truckers were reportedly on their way to literally clog the Beltway and shut down traffic in protest of Washington politics,” Abby Ohlhiser wrote for The Wire on Thursday this week. “In reality, about 30 truckers showed up, and they caused no delays worth mentioning.”
Should Riley succeed in wrangling up 30 million Americans, Ohlhiser added, then he’ll have garnered the support of around one-tenth of the US population.
And though that goal — or the substantially smaller 10 million figure — is unlikely to be met, some individuals are already claiming on the official Operation American Spring forums to have arrived in the DC area ahead of Friday’s planned demonstration: on Thursday morning, one member of the message board wrote that his truck had already finished the 2,750 mile haul to the DC region in around 50.5 hours and had set up a base at a compound 27 miles outside of the city in rural Virginia.
“Camp is up and we have been meeting the other state camps. Good solid folks all the way around,” he wrote in another post.
According to other posts on the page, fellow Operation American Spring participants planned to meet at Arlington National Cemetery a stone’s throw from the District of Columbia on Friday morning, then march to the capital and stay there for days. Others on the forum have been attempting to arrange travel accommodations from as far away as Tucson, Arizona, Des Moines, Iowa and southeast Texas, and have been debating on the website where to camp in the DC area or whether or not to bring firearms along for the ride.
On a separate page linked from the forums, Col. Reid wrote that “One million or more of the assembled 10 million must be prepared to stay in DC as long as it takes to see Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi and Attorney General Holder removed from office.”
“We must appeal to ten million and more American patriots to come and stay in Washington, DC to stop the White House and Congress from total destruction of the United States. It’s now or never. God help us,”he wrote.
“We are calling for the removal of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Eric Holder as a start toward constitutional restoration,” Riley told the Before Its Newswebsite during an interview earlier this year.
“They have all abandoned the US Constitution,” he said, and “are unworthy to be retained in a position that calls for servant status.”
Riley told Before Its News in January that he expects his Operation American Spring movement will provoke anywhere from 10 million to 30 million Americans to mobilize this week and arrive in DC, where they will participate in a “massive, gigantic effort as a last stand before America moves into a more devastating condition.”
“For more than five years, ‘we the people’ have been writing, calling, faxing Congress, the media, screaming in town halls, marching, rallying, demonstrating, petitioning, all to no avail,” he said. “Every branch of government looks at ‘we the people’ whom they have taken an oath to serve, as ‘pests,’ interfering with their political agenda, cramping their self-serving, greedy agendas. We have no faith in the ballot box any longer, as many believe this sacred secret box has been compromised.”
To bring about that change, Riley says he hopes his group succeeds at shutting down the federal government. Whether or not all 29,999,999 of his compatriots will follow through, however, remains yet to be seen — a similar protest against Pres. Obama’s administration arranged last year by a fleet of truck drivers fell well short of making the dent that that group hoped to make.
“Last October,‘10,000’ truckers were reportedly on their way to literally clog the Beltway and shut down traffic in protest of Washington politics,” Abby Ohlhiser wrote for The Wire on Thursday this week. “In reality, about 30 truckers showed up, and they caused no delays worth mentioning.”
Should Riley succeed in wrangling up 30 million Americans, Ohlhiser added, then he’ll have garnered the support of around one-tenth of the US population.
And though that goal — or the substantially smaller 10 million figure — is unlikely to be met, some individuals are already claiming on the official Operation American Spring forums to have arrived in the DC area ahead of Friday’s planned demonstration: on Thursday morning, one member of the message board wrote that his truck had already finished the 2,750 mile haul to the DC region in around 50.5 hours and had set up a base at a compound 27 miles outside of the city in rural Virginia.
“Camp is up and we have been meeting the other state camps. Good solid folks all the way around,” he wrote in another post.
According to other posts on the page, fellow Operation American Spring participants planned to meet at Arlington National Cemetery a stone’s throw from the District of Columbia on Friday morning, then march to the capital and stay there for days. Others on the forum have been attempting to arrange travel accommodations from as far away as Tucson, Arizona, Des Moines, Iowa and southeast Texas, and have been debating on the website where to camp in the DC area or whether or not to bring firearms along for the ride.
On a separate page linked from the forums, Col. Reid wrote that “One million or more of the assembled 10 million must be prepared to stay in DC as long as it takes to see Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi and Attorney General Holder removed from office.”
“We must appeal to ten million and more American patriots to come and stay in Washington, DC to stop the White House and Congress from total destruction of the United States. It’s now or never. God help us,”he wrote.
JORGE A VILLALON: May 15, 2014
The Cuba that the tourists do not see
Silvio Canto, Jr.
We
wrote last year about JZ going to Cuba and walking around with a cigar and a
Che shirt. It was disgusting.
Michael
J Totten has just written an article that every tourist to Castro's Cuba should read.
It makes points worth sharing with all AT readers: Cuba's two
economies. It is the Cuba that the tourists do not see:
"Outside
its small tourist sector, the rest of the city looks as though it suffered a
catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami. Roofs
have collapsed. Walls are splitting apart. Window glass is missing. Paint has
long vanished. It’s eerily dark at night, almost entirely free of automobile
traffic. I walked for miles through an enormous swath of destruction without
seeing a single tourist. Most foreigners don’t know that this other Havana exists,
though it makes up most of the city—tourist buses avoid it, as do taxis
arriving from the airport. It is filled with people struggling to eke out a
life in the ruins."
A
friend in Dallas went to Cuba 3 years ago and told me the same thing.
His
next point is one that I've heard from my parents and those who lived in
pre-Castro Cuba:
"Cuba
was one of the world’s richest countries before Castro destroyed it—and the
wealth wasn’t just in the hands of a tiny elite. “Contrary to the myth spread
by the revolution,” wrote Alfred Cuzan, a professor of political science at the
University of West Florida, “Cuba’s wealth before 1959 was not the purview of a
privileged few. . . . Cuban society was as much of a middle-class society as
Argentina and Chile.” In 1958, Cuba had a higher per-capita income than much of
Europe. “More Americans lived in Cuba prior to Castro than Cubans lived in the
United States,” Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, author of a series of books about
Castro and Guevara, tells me. “This was at a time when Cubans were perfectly
free to leave the country with all their property. In the 1940s and 1950s, my
parents could get a visa for the United States just by asking. They visited the
United States and voluntarily returned to Cuba. More Cubans vacationed in the
U.S. in 1955 than Americans vacationed in Cuba. Americans considered Cuba a
tourist playground, but even more Cubans considered the U.S. a tourist
playground.” Havana was home to a lot of that prosperity, as is evident in the
extraordinary classical European architecture that still fills the city. Poor
nations do not—cannot—build such grand or elegant
cities.
But
rather than raise the poor up, Castro and Guevara shoved the rich and the
middle class down. The result was collapse. “Between 1960 and 1976,” Cuzan
says, “Cuba’s per capita GNP in constant dollars declined at an average annual
rate of almost half a percent. The country thus has the tragic distinction of
being the only one in Latin America to have experienced a drop in living
standards over the period.”"
Then
there is something that Michael Moore did not understand:
"As
for the free health care, patients have to bring their own medicine, their own
bed sheets, and even their own iodine to the hospital. Most of these items are
available only on the illegal black market, moreover, and must be paid for in
hard currency—and sometimes they’re not available at all. Cuba has sent so many
doctors abroad—especially to Venezuela, in exchange for oil—that the island is
now facing a personnel shortage. “I don’t want to say there are no doctors
left,” says an American man who married a Cuban woman and has been back dozens
of times, “but the island is now almost empty. I saw a banner once, hanging
from somebody’s balcony, that said, DO I NEED TO GO TO VENEZUELA FOR MY
HEADACHE?”"
What
happens when you open a business in Cuba? The answer is that you
are participating in the exploitation of Cuban workers:
"The
government contracts with Spanish companies such as Meliá International to
manage Havana’s hotels. Before accepting its contract, Meliá said that it
wanted to pay workers a decent wage. The Cuban government said fine, so the
company pays $8–$10 an hour. But Meliá doesn’t pay its employees directly.
Instead, the firm gives the compensation to the government, which then pays the
workers—but only after pocketing most of the money. I asked several Cubans in
my hotel if that arrangement is really true. All confirmed that it is. The
workers don’t get $8–$10 an hour; they get 67 cents a day—a child’s allowance."
A
workers' paradise? I don't think so.
Finally,
Cuba has two economies, one for the elites and one for the rest of Cubans:
"Cuba has two economies now: the
national Communist economy for the majority; and a quasi-capitalist one for
foreigners and the elite. Each has its own currency: the Communist economy uses
the Cuban peso, and the capitalist bubble uses the convertible peso. Cuban
pesos are worth nothing. They can’t be converted to dollars or euros.
Foreigners can’t even spend them in Cuba. The convertible pesos are pegged to
the U.S. dollar, but banks and hotels pay only 87 Cuban cents for each one—the
government takes 13 percent off the top. The rigged exchange rate is an easy
way to shake down foreigners without most noticing. It also enables the state
to drain Cuban exiles. A million Cuban-Americans live in south Florida, and
another half-million live elsewhere in the United States. They send hundreds of
millions of dollars a year to family members still on the island. The
government gets its 13 percent instantaneously and most of the remaining 87
percent later because almost every place that someone can spend the money is
owned by the state."
I don't
like to tell people where to go for vacation. However, it would help the
Cuban people if you would stay away from Cuba and tell your congressman to keep
the embargo in place.
Bringing
the Castro communist dictatorship down is the best thing you can do for the
people of the island.
P. S. You can hear
my chat with Brian Lloyd French, Canadian author, about understanding Cuba & follow me on Twitter @ scantojr.
We
wrote last year about JZ going to Cuba and walking around with a cigar and a
Che shirt. It was disgusting.
Michael
J Totten has just written an article that every tourist to Castro's Cuba should read.
It makes points worth sharing with all AT readers: Cuba's two
economies. It is the Cuba that the tourists do not see:
"Outside
its small tourist sector, the rest of the city looks as though it suffered a
catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami. Roofs
have collapsed. Walls are splitting apart. Window glass is missing. Paint has
long vanished. It’s eerily dark at night, almost entirely free of automobile
traffic. I walked for miles through an enormous swath of destruction without
seeing a single tourist. Most foreigners don’t know that this other Havana
exists, though it makes up most of the city—tourist buses avoid it, as do taxis
arriving from the airport. It is filled with people struggling to eke out a
life in the ruins."
A
friend in Dallas went to Cuba 3 years ago and told me the same thing.
His
next point is one that I've heard from my parents and those who lived in pre-Castro
Cuba:
"Cuba
was one of the world’s richest countries before Castro destroyed it—and the
wealth wasn’t just in the hands of a tiny elite. “Contrary to the myth spread
by the revolution,” wrote Alfred Cuzan, a professor of political science at the
University of West Florida, “Cuba’s wealth before 1959 was not the purview of a
privileged few. . . . Cuban society was as much of a middle-class society as
Argentina and Chile.” In 1958, Cuba had a higher per-capita income than much of
Europe. “More Americans lived in Cuba prior to Castro than Cubans lived in the
United States,” Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, author of a series of books about
Castro and Guevara, tells me. “This was at a time when Cubans were perfectly
free to leave the country with all their property. In the 1940s and 1950s, my
parents could get a visa for the United States just by asking. They visited the
United States and voluntarily returned to Cuba. More Cubans vacationed in the
U.S. in 1955 than Americans vacationed in Cuba. Americans considered Cuba a
tourist playground, but even more Cubans considered the U.S. a tourist
playground.” Havana was home to a lot of that prosperity, as is evident in the
extraordinary classical European architecture that still fills the city. Poor
nations do not—cannot—build such grand or elegant
cities.
But
rather than raise the poor up, Castro and Guevara shoved the rich and the
middle class down. The result was collapse. “Between 1960 and 1976,” Cuzan
says, “Cuba’s per capita GNP in constant dollars declined at an average annual
rate of almost half a percent. The country thus has the tragic distinction of
being the only one in Latin America to have experienced a drop in living
standards over the period.”"
Then
there is something that Michael Moore did not understand:
"As
for the free health care, patients have to bring their own medicine, their own
bed sheets, and even their own iodine to the hospital. Most of these items are
available only on the illegal black market, moreover, and must be paid for in
hard currency—and sometimes they’re not available at all. Cuba has sent so many
doctors abroad—especially to Venezuela, in exchange for oil—that the island is
now facing a personnel shortage. “I don’t want to say there are no doctors
left,” says an American man who married a Cuban woman and has been back dozens
of times, “but the island is now almost empty. I saw a banner once, hanging
from somebody’s balcony, that said, DO I NEED TO GO TO VENEZUELA FOR MY
HEADACHE?”"
What
happens when you open a business in Cuba? The answer is that you
are participating in the exploitation of Cuban workers:
"The
government contracts with Spanish companies such as Meliá International to
manage Havana’s hotels. Before accepting its contract, Meliá said that it
wanted to pay workers a decent wage. The Cuban government said fine, so the
company pays $8–$10 an hour. But Meliá doesn’t pay its employees directly.
Instead, the firm gives the compensation to the government, which then pays the
workers—but only after pocketing most of the money. I asked several Cubans in
my hotel if that arrangement is really true. All confirmed that it is. The
workers don’t get $8–$10 an hour; they get 67 cents a day—a child’s
allowance."
A
workers' paradise? I don't think so.
Finally,
Cuba has two economies, one for the elites and one for the rest of Cubans:
"Cuba has two economies now: the
national Communist economy for the majority; and a quasi-capitalist one for
foreigners and the elite. Each has its own currency: the Communist economy uses
the Cuban peso, and the capitalist bubble uses the convertible peso. Cuban
pesos are worth nothing. They can’t be converted to dollars or euros.
Foreigners can’t even spend them in Cuba. The convertible pesos are pegged to
the U.S. dollar, but banks and hotels pay only 87 Cuban cents for each one—the
government takes 13 percent off the top. The rigged exchange rate is an easy
way to shake down foreigners without most noticing. It also enables the state
to drain Cuban exiles. A million Cuban-Americans live in south Florida, and
another half-million live elsewhere in the United States. They send hundreds of
millions of dollars a year to family members still on the island. The
government gets its 13 percent instantaneously and most of the remaining 87
percent later because almost every place that someone can spend the money is
owned by the state."
I don't
like to tell people where to go for vacation. However, it would help the
Cuban people if you would stay away from Cuba and tell your congressman to keep
the embargo in place.
Bringing
the Castro communist dictatorship down is the best thing you can do for the
people of the island.
P. S. You can hear
my chat with Brian Lloyd French, Canadian author, about understanding Cuba & follow me on Twitter @ scantojr.
bENGHAZI
“FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”
<IN GOD WE TRUST>
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