Obama Orders Eric Holder to “transcend partisanship” by overturning a Supreme Court decision

The Obama regime and Holder’s InJustice Department again decides it will ignore laws and rulings it does not like – and enforce their own.

Every day – it’s yet another incredible upheaval into dictatorship from what was a Republic.  Obama cannot have his machine of corruption not have any claws into how a state decides to carry out it’s elections.  Such would limit the amount of fraud Obama and his MarxoFascist Democrats need in order to “win” elections.  Can’t have any of that, even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the states.

As always with Holder and Obama – they will enforce only those “laws” and rulings they agree with that furthers their agenda – and ignore or punish those laws and rulings they disagree or halt their agenda.

It will be interesting to see whether or not Texas folds or fights on this issue – and it has the portent to illustrate the kind of tyranny that most Americans do not yet understand they have been subjugated to.

Perhaps it will take armed troops and combat squads from DHS to impose Obama’s decision.  Then perhaps, Texas might see need to secede from the county – which I would hope opens the floodgates for other states in the country to turn their backs on Washington D.C. and declare it the enemy that it truly is.

This entry from Coach Is Right.

Eric Holder will “transcend partisanship” by overturning a Supreme Court decision

by Doug Book,  editor

“This issue transcends partisanship, and we must work together,” said AG Eric Holder in a speech before the National Urban League in Philadephia a week ago.  The “issue” Holder referred to was the overthrow by the Supreme Court of the preclearance requirement–Sections 4, 5–of the Voting Rights Act. Thanks to the ruling in Shelby County v Holder it will no longer be necessary for selected states and jurisdictions to have all proposed changes to voting procedure approved (precleared) by the Department of Justice or the DC District Court.

And how has the Attorney General decided to “transcend partisanship” and “work together”? By filing a “Statement of Interest” in the District Court for the Western District of Texas, claiming the state has displayed a “history of pervasive voting-related discrimination against racial minorities” and demanding the federal court impose a preclearance requirement against the state for the next 10 years. In short, the Attorney General hopes to effectively rescind the Supreme Court ruling by demanding the voters of Texas are once again placed under the fair and equitable scrutiny of his own Department of Justice–the most thoroughly political and scrupulously biased Department in the nation’s history.

Naturally, this was the same Department which nixed the proposed Texas Voter ID law prior to the 2012 election even though it mirrored an Indiana ID law which the Supreme Court found constitutional by a 6-3 vote in 2008.

Can the Attorney General do this…legally, that is? Yes. Left untouched by the Supreme Court is Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act. Under Section 3 rules, suit may be brought against states or jurisdictions alleged to be actively discriminating against minority voters. Should the court agree, the defendant jurisdiction may be “bailed in,” that is, subject to the same preclearance rules effectively vacated last month by the Court.

However, in order to succeed the Justice Department or any plaintiff must prove intentional discrimination on the part of the defendant. The burden of proof switches around completely and states are no longer required to prove their innocence, as was the case under Section 5 rules.  Obviously this represents a major difference as “offending” jurisdictions are no longer presumed guilty.

New York University professor Richard Pildes sums up Holder’s scheme: “If this strategy works, it will become a way of partially updating the Voting Rights Act through the courts.” “The Justice Department is trying to get the courts to step into the role the Justice Department played before the Shelby County decision. The Voting Rights Act has always permitted this, in some circumstances, but this strategy wasn’t used much. If this approach works, it will help update the Voting Rights Act even without Congressional action.”

So as usual, the Obama Administration is in search of a judge who will see things their way regardless of the law or the facts. Good vibrations, amity and simpatico in order that yet another issue may be legislated from a left-leaning bench.

Texas will be the Regime’s test case. If successful, the DOJ will also file against North and South Carolina–every state covered during the past 50 years by the now defunct preclearance rules of the Voting Rights Act. Courts will continue to be the new Congress. What a way to transcend partisanship.

 

Obama’s Regime Waging Psychological Warfare On Americans

The Obama Scandals from Benghazi to the IRS; not due to inept leadership, but a concerted effort being waged to soften Americans up for what is to come.

I had written on this subject last week, and contended that Obama is waging war on America.  Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow observes that every scandal and issue that is related to Obama’s direct actions, is not incompetence and inept leadership, but rather he contends it is a concerted war effort aimed at the American mind.  A psychological Psy-Ops designed to dispirit a people that their cause and country are unjust, and get a population to accept surrender to something ‘new’.

While the good Dr. is limited to focusing on the mental war being waged by Obama – I contend it is far more than just psychological.  History shows us that whenever such Leftist ideologues engage in the same exact type of efforts Obama’s regime is currently engaged, it is not long before the dispiriting war becomes a violent and despotic war against the enemies of the state.

The bombardment on our national psyche is nearly constant.  This softens up the entrenched opposition so that an actual assault against them is able to be conducted with little resistance.

Is Obama waging psychological warfare on Americans?

By Dr. Keith Ablow

I believe that the Obama administration is conducting psychological warfare on conservative Americans. Not only that but it is also waging this war on all Americans who previously viewed themselves, their country, their Constitution and their overwhelming belief in God as a force for good in the world.

The psychological warfare began with an apology tour in which President Obama publicly “confessed,” presuming to speak for all of us, for the shortcomings of America and our supposed contributions to tyranny and all manner of evils around the world.

This confession planted in the American mind the notion that our values and beliefs might not be in line with freedom and truth.

*snip*

…deep inside the American psyche, something more malignant could have been planted—the seeds of self-hatred and self-doubt.  And I no longer believe that those seeds were planted unintentionally by people as smart and capable as the president and first lady.

*snip*

…The techniques are often combined with black ops strategy, in which covert initiatives seek to dispirit, disempower and confuse adversaries.

The psychological warfare has continued, I believe, with other opportunities the president has had to make American’s question their individual freedoms and autonomy.

This has included misrepresenting horrific crimes, such as the one which unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut, as evidence of the need for gun control measures, when they clearly evidenced a need for revamping our mental health care system.

Gun rights are inextricably entwined in the American psyche with freedom to defend oneself.  Attacking gun rights, I believe, is an element of the psychological warfare on the American belief that force is justifiable when confronting evil.

My belief that psychological warfare is being deployed on Americans by this American president and his administration has been solidified as news has come out of the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS.

*snip*

…Seen through the lens of psychological warfare, the failure to defend our embassy in Benghazi need not be understood simply as a screw-up. It could reflect an actual strategy on the part of the administration to reinforce the notion that homicidal violence born of hatred toward America is understandable—even condonable—because we have generated it ourselves and are reaping the harvest of ill will we have sown.  In other words, we should take our punishment.

The president said as much when he blamed the murder of our Ambassador to Libya on a film that criticized Islam.

This misstatement may disclose not just incompetence and may not just be evidence of a cover-up, but may be evidence of exactly what I am theorizing here: that the president, with the help of his administration, is attempting to conduct psychological warfare on Americans who value autonomy and free will and free markets and small government, by convincing them that they are wrong-minded, prejudiced and pathological and should deeply question their beliefs—including some ensconced in the Constitution.

The wiretapping of journalists would be, then, just another black ops technique in an ongoing war against our freedoms.

*snip*

…I assert that this administration is engaged in a coordinated attempt to dispirit, disarm and disenfranchise large portions of the American population and to weaken our founding principles through what is best understood as psychological warfare.

Read the full essay at Link

 

Senator Dick Durbin Says First Amendment Is “Out Of Date”

Thinks Bloggers and Twitter Users do not have First Amendment Rights. Suggests Government has the right to silence those who are ‘not approved’ journalists.

In answering the charges made against the Obama Regime’s targeting and seizing of private phone records of AP reporters and employees, AND the criminal targeting and intimidation of Fox News reporter James Rosen by Obama’s INJustice Department, Little Dick Durbin defended Obama’s actions by in-essence stating the Constitution is out of date in regards to journalism.  He suggested to Chris Wallace of Fox News’ that he believes certain people should not have First Amendment Rights, and then went on to say that the Constitution is out of date in 2013.  He asks if the Constitution applies to Bloggers and Twitter Users;  “Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection? We need to ask 21st century questions about a provision that was written over 200 years ago.”

So in Durbin’s feeble MarxoFascist mindset, only Government-approved entities in the press should be allowed the freedom of press and speech.

Here’s more vía the Daily Caller:

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said that it was too early to call for a special counsel to look into the Justice Department’s monitoring of journalists.

Instead, Durbin said he backed a “media shield law,” but was not sure if such a law would protect bloggers or “someone who is tweeting.”

Durbin asks “What is a journalist today in 2013? We know it’s someone that works for Fox or AP, but does it include a blogger? Does it include someone who is tweeting? Are these people journalists and entitled to constitutional protection? We need to ask 21^st century questions about a provision that was written over 200 years ago.”

Ed Morrissey of Malkin’s Hot Air adds some more thoughts:

Does First Amendment apply to bloggers, Twitter?

Thanks to the Obama administration’s attacks on the Associated Press and its representation in federal court that Fox News’ James Rosen is a spy for asking questions, one has to wonder whether the First Amendment applies to anyone in the Age of Hope and Change.  Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Senator Dick Durbin whether Barack Obama’s promise to have Eric Holder look into cases of abuse that he personally approved represents a conflict of interest, but Durbin dodges that question and talks instead about the shield law proposed repeatedly over the last few years as the appropriate Congressional response to the scandal.  However, Durbin asks what exactly “freedom of the press” means in 2013, and wonders aloud whether it would include bloggers, Twitter users, and the rest of the Internet media

Here’s what the First Amendment actually says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  Press at the time would certainly have meant newspapers, which were the high-tech information revolution of the day. It would also have included pamphleteers, perhaps even more than newspapers, as pamphleteers helped drive revolutionary sentiment.  Their modern-day analogs would arguable be bloggers and Twitter users, those who reported news and proclaimed opinions outside of the establishment press.

However, Durbin’s asking the wrong question.  The question isn’t who gets protected, but what.  Journalism is not an identity or a guild, but an action and a process — and anyone engaged in that activity must be treated equally before the law.  A shield law based on membership via employment in privileged workplaces or certified by guilds doesn’t protect journalism, it becomes rent-seeking behavior that ensures that only the large players get protected, as I wrote ten days ago.

Durbin’s question isn’t even the biggest non-sequitur in this argument.  The biggest non-sequitur is the shield law itself, which wouldn’t have even addressed the Rosen or AP situation.  And considering that the Obama administration ignored existing statutes in both cases, why should we believe they would obey a shield law when it got in their way?

What we have here, is a MarxoFascist regime and it’s sycophants like Durbin, TRAITORS ALL – attacking the First Amendment directly.  They have attacked Christians in their right of Free Exercise, they have attacked TEA Party groups, Conservative groups, anti-Abortion groups by using the IRS to attack them.  They are waging war to abolish the Second Amendment, they already ignore the Fourth and Tenth Amendments, and now finally they think they are powerful enough to attack the Press and decide whom can and whom cannot ask questions of this regime, or whom is allowed freedom to speak.

What’s the purpose of intent behind Durbin’s public comment?  REGULATING the First Amendment.  Demanding government decide who is and who is NOT a journalist.  Perhaps some kind of licensing scheme – and in the process (and argument that you cannot yell “fire!” in a crowded theater) they will say, speech and the press are weapons that must be regulated to demand “responsible” speech and press.  After all, this same bunch is currently arguing that Americans support giving up their Second Amendment Rights for “common sense” gun control.  Soon I imagine they will be saying that we must give up our first Amendment rights for ‘common sense’ press regulations.

This is not just about politics either.  It covers regulating speech about Islam.  Obama just last week warned Burma against persecuting Muslims – yet in his term of office, NOT A WORD about Islam persecuting Christians, the slaughter of Christians in Egypt or Sudan.  Who arrested a man for posting a Youtube video making fun of Islam.  Who told the world  that “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet Mohammed”.

We’re now in a full blown tyranny that if left intact, will not be satisfied by stripping us of what remains of our birthrights.  They will never be satisfied.  History shows that these same people, with this same ideology, do not rest until they exterminate their opposition in legally-sanctioned genocide.

Because that is where all of this goes folks.

Prelude To The End of America

Radical Islam and today’s progressive, postmodern leftists–led by the current President of the United States, sadly-share the same philosophical premises as any run of the mill suicide bomber.

Kudos to Dr. Sanity for stating the only sane thing that can be said when taking the events of the past week, and this Regime’s actions into consideration – and arriving at a sum of where it is all going to end up.

Reblogging her blog, because the truth needs to be read by as many as possible, if for nothing more – than as a witness.

PRELUDE TO THE END OF AMERICA

I never thought I would see the day that Liberty itself was crucified on the altar of political correctness; but I can now see the outline of the cross on the horizon:

On a day when Egypt is appeasing its mob by issuing arrest warrants for the people responsible for the film (a capital offense there, do note), this is what’s running in the biggest paper in Los Angeles. Turns out the author, Sarah Chayes, is a former assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is no surprise. As Matt Welch notes, lately the strongest pressure on private citizens to limit their criticism of Islam has come from the top of the Pentagon. Bob Gates called Terry Jones when he first threatened to burn a Koran to ask him to stand down, then Martin Dempsey called him again a few days ago when the Mohammed movie broke big. Not content with asking citizens not to make Islamists mad, Chayes wants to blow a hole through the First Amendment using Supreme Court precedent so that they can be compelled to shut up.

The disgusting and fundamentally anti-American article from the LA Times referenced above, follows Administration thugs coming in the middle of the night to bring the blasphemer in for questioning; as a General in the U.S. Military calls some pastor to discuss his tendency to burn Korans.

Those of us who have noted over the years the cozy, ideological relationship between the political left and radical Islam are not surprised by this behavior (see here and here as only two examples–and there are many more on this blog). It makes perfect metaphysical, epistemological and ethical sense, since Radical Islam and today’s progressive, postmodern leftists–led by the current President of the United States, sadly-share the same philosophical premises as any run of the mill suicide bomber. Only their behavior has not yet escalated to the violence of the bomber, since they do not yet have to resort to violence to achieve their sharia.

Make no mistake, however, this is the prelude to the end of America. A prelude to the end of the precious IDEA that is America.

In less than 4 years, the Bill of Rights is well on its way to being supplanted by Islamic blasphemy laws with the purpose of restricting free speech; while at the same time all the President’s men and women are intent on limiting the rights of Christians to practice their religion in the public sphere; and turning a blind eye to Iran’s dream of a world without Israel or the Jews.

The progressive dream of a “living, breathing Constitution” that can change with the whim of a future dictator can now be seen to personify that document so that it can once and for all be distorted, maimed and even murdered by the postmodern elite.

Mitt Romney is excoriated by a Rodeo Clown Media because he dared to speak several Truths (about dependence on government by almost half of the US population; and the unremitting Palestinian and Arab hatred of Jews and Israel) that no one in the medial or on the left wants to hear.

When Truths are gleefuly proclaimed as gaffes; when Islamic terrorism in Egypt and Libya and around the globe is treated as if it were a criminal matter, instead of a matter of national security; when speaking out against Islam in the United States of America is treated as a possible crime by our own government; when our “free” media thinks the big story is Mitt Romney’s daring to criticize Supreme Leader Obama when our Libyan Ambassador and others are murdered and the black flags of Al Qaeda fly over US embassies around the world; when you have a privileged, entitled jackass like Sandra Fluke (who demands that you pay for her birth control) highlighted and celebrated by a major political party–then you know that the American idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is coming to a catastrophic an end, not with a bang, but a whimper.

The very essence of America is what is at stake this November.

It may already be too late to turn things around. I hope not. Four years ago, I would never have thought it possible, but now I think that it is more than probable. We have been dragged to the edge of a moral, political, and economic cliff.

If Barack Obama were running against a dishrag, I would vote for the dishrag.

New DHS Study Lists People Who Believe in Individual Liberty As Terrorists

Since right after Obama was elected in 2009 – the Federal Government has made as it’s policy under his direction, to view Americans who are Conservative; who worry about expanding government power; who distrust the federal government; who are veterans; who hold the bible sacred; who oppose abortion or homosexual marriage – as domestic terrorists.

Sounds like crazy tinfoil right?

Nope.  Documented Fact. Documented fruits of words and action by this regime in power that should more than alarm any thinking American with a shred of logic about what Obama and those in power in Washington think of you and the bulk of Americans in this country.

In April of 2009, Obama commissioned the DHS Terror assessment, which warned that Right Wing Terrorism is the nation’s greatest threat.  Not Jihad.  Not militant Islam.  But “Right Wing Conservatism”was a larger threat.    There is not ONE mention of Islam or the War on Terror in it’s pages.  That Assessment for all intents and purposes was a blueprint for how the Obama regime would view those it considers a threat to the country and itself.  The Assessment was sent to law enforcement across the country.  Not only has the rhetoric from it’s pages spewed from the mouth of Obama and his cabinet officials and representatives in the Democrat party in myriad speeches and admonitions given to the people since, it is clearly seen in the selective implementation (or lack thereof) of justice by Obama’s regime.

Recall that Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder REFUSED to prosecute Black Panthers who were blatantly breaking the law by intimidating voters at Philadelphia polling places with nightsticks while dressed in combat fatigues.  He had said that all the attention on an obvious violation of law was “demeaning to MY people” and his department dropped the charges after the case was won and sentencing was scheduled.  These leaders of the Black Panthers now call for the killing of Whites and threaten violence – but nothing is done about blatant calls to incite violence upon whites and Conservatives at the RNC – but TEA Party Americans and those upset with this Regime in power – the Federal Beast has been working hard to criminalize you and make that narrative stick.

That Obama and the cabal now in power view we Americans as terrorists should not be surprising.  After all it was Eric Holder who said that they should “brainwash” Americans into discarding their cherished views of the Second Amendment and change how we view guns.

They went so far as to implement the insidious plot of Fast & Furious and ‘walk’ guns from U.S. gun stores into the hands of drug cartels in Mexico for the purpose of having them used on innocents and on Americans to justify new gun bans they sought to impose.

This week reveals that again behind the scenes, the Obama regime and the DHS have continued their push to make lists of ‘domestic terrorists’.   A new study that was completed in January funded by the Department of Homeland Security lists people who are reverent of individual liberty as “extreme Right Wing Terrorists“.

The study says right-wing extremists are “groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent.”

Further, right-wing extremist groups “believe in the need to be prepared” by taking part in “paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism.“ Groups may also be ”fiercely nationalistic“ and ”suspicious of centralized federal authority.”

Right-wing extremism also involves a belief in “conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty,” the study claims.

There is a pattern from history that is at play here, and it is one that YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION TO.  There is no deviation of this pattern and of course Satan sticks to what works.

The pattern is this: every single despotic regime, tyrant or dictator that exterminated parts of it’s own people and population ALWAYS begins by demonizing the selected group it wants eliminated.  When a government begins to demonize and suggest that a group of people are a threat to the security of the state – it ALWAYS leads to draconian and genocidal acts against those same targets. Such efforts lead to establishment of institutionalized persecution under the guise of ‘limiting’  damage to the nation by those the government has decreed to be an enemy.  From there it is a short trip towards criminalizing them which leads almost immediately to their enslavement/imprisonment and extermination.

Just making this observation from history and pointing it out as being practiced by the current regime in power will make most people roll their eyeballs and think of this warning as evidence of crack pottery or justification for the narrative the regime is currently painting on those who believe in individual liberty.  But history does not lie, and the lessons of history are always repeated by a people who choose to ignore them.

The history of Marxists  never changes from a century of such ideologues in the seats of national power.  Their legacy is ALWAYS slavery, gulags, mass genocide of it’s own people.

Look at all the evidence, all the signs are there to let us know where all of this is going to lead.  History is repeating and the targets are listed above in both DHS documents linked to above.

Everything Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao did to criminalize and exterminate large portions of their population, was done LEGALLY, by laws passed against them or decrees made that the public was willing to accommodate.  This happens right after such groups are demonized, vilified and decreed to be a national security threat.

Those who love individual liberty in America are about to be criminalized and then acted against by this government as terrorists.  The one solace we can take from these facts is this: our Founding Fathers were also considered and branded as criminals and terrorists by the Crown of England – who sent their entire military against them for the purpose of subjugating them and crushing the idea of individual liberty.

The question remains that when history repeats and they make that last mistake and come against their own people – will we follow in the footsteps of our forbears and throw off such evil oppression by the hands of the former lawful and legal authority over us – or bow in chains to our evil masters who make themselves as God over us?