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Website Reveals Recallers Owe $17 Million in Back Taxes
| Posted in News | By MacIver Institute | Posted May 10, 2012 10:18 AM

MacIver News Service | May 10, 2012
[Madison, Wisc...] After refining the dataset created by Verify the Recall, a Wisconsin man began running it against other public records and discovered 571 tax delinquents signed Recall petitions.

His findings? The total in back taxes owed by petitioners is more than $17 million. The list of individuals can be found through the website, www.putwisconsinfirst.com

The creator of the site told the MacIver News Service, his databases should be considered to be tools and not definitive source documents. The source documents are from the State of Wisconsin and the Verify the Recall effort and can be found through links on the site, all he’s done is connected the names and addresses together.

That being said, the site’s creator said he had to throw a lot of names out, to be sure his tables are as accurate as possible. Misspelled and nicknames signed on the petitions were removed. That means the actual number of tax delinquents could be three times higher than the 571 listed.

Before Put Wisconsin First began releasing its databases, petition signers initially tried to convince the Government Accountability Board not to release copies of the recall petitions to the public at all. Signers then criticized Put Wisconsin First and Verify the Recall for creating searchable databases of the petitioners’ names. Now that Put Wisconsin First is running their names against other public records, they really aren’t happy. The site has received plenty of hate mail.

“They had every right to do this (sign the petitions), and I have every right to match them up. They have every right to not like it, and I have every right not to care,” the site’s creator said.

Put Wisconsin First’s database was assembled using refined data from Verify the Recall’s effort.

“I took that database and ran every address through the GAB’s web site here: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx What this does is return a corrected address and a ZIP+4 for all addresses the GAB thinks are ‘good’,” he explained.

Using VTR’s datasets, Put Wisconsin First actually beat them in getting a searchable database up by a couple of days. That was possible because VTR had posted the unsearchable datasets to its website after they had initially uploaded a searchable database.

Put Wisconsin First’s creator noticed although the names and addresses still needed to be cleaned up after VTR’s first pass, the zip codes, which were simpler to enter, seemed to be usable. From that he was able to create a stopgap searchable database, hoping to buy VTR more time.

Once VTR made multiple additional passes to clean up data entry mistakes on names and addresses, Put Wisconsin First was able to create a more extensive and accurate database of its own.

The site’s creator plans to continue running the petitioners against other public records, and releasing his findings. He has chosen to remain anonymous so angry petitioners cannot launch red herring attacks against him, and are forced to focus on his site. So far they’ve only been able to send him angry emails demanding he stop running his analyses.

“Why do I want everyone to know everything about every recaller? I guess, why wouldn’t we want to know who they are, what businesses they run, what things they did in their past,” he said. “I didn’t make the rules The rules are, we get to see who demanded to stand against Walker, they demanded to be heard. They asked to have their names public. I didn’t force anyone to sign a public document!”

UN Agenda 21 – Poison Pill For America

Obama’s New Green World Order

TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION – SEND FAXES TO ALL 100 SENATORS – NOW!

I have to be honest with you.

This is the most disturbing email I have ever written. I am frightened for our country. I am frightened for its freedom-loving citizens. But most of all, I am frightened for the future of America. Obama supports beating up the U.S. Constitution and we must not let it be replaced by United Nations Agenda 21.

The UN is ruthlessly advancing a new plan that will make America a HOSTAGE to the United Nations. While Obama and the liberal media ignore gas prices streaking to $5/gal. and England is already paying $10/gal.

UN Agenda 21 could…

Wipe private property off the face of the earth.
Force you and your family to live in a single-family energy efficient home.
Confiscate private farms and farmland.
Snatch away private landholdings.
Ban individual ownership of cars.

Tell The Senate To REJECT All Attempts To Implement UN Agenda 21!
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Sound too outlandish to be true? The scariest part is… IT IS TRUE! So what exactly is Agenda 21? I’ll tell you in a minute. But first, I’ll give you some background information that is critical to understanding how this anti-freedom scheme came about.

In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was held in Rio de Janeiro to discuss global initiatives. 172 governments attended and 108 sent their heads of state. And about 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) showed up for the “GLOBAL FORUM.”

Tell The Senate To REJECT All Attempts To Implement UN Agenda 21! Support the U.S. Constitution – SEND FAXES TO ALL 100 SENATORS – NOW! and We will send you the book Black and Blue: How Obama and the Democrats are Beating Up the Constitution and our GET HOPE-Fire OBAMA Sticker!

This group of POWERFUL world leaders and environmentalists spent their time discussing typical green movement hogwash like alternative energy, the phony science of climate change and “deadly” car emissions. Back in 1992, most people dismissed this conference as a green rant fest.

However, that was a huge mistake…

…Because the politicians came up with a plan for a centrally ruled global society. They called that plan Agenda 21. The plan’s contract would make governments around the world a SLAVE to the every wish and whim of the United Nations.

We cannot make the same mistake with Agenda 21!

UN Agenda 21 would also dictate…

Where we live
What we eat
How and what we learn
Where and when we can move (if at all)

Here’s how the UN describes it:

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”

Tell The Senate To REJECT All Attempts To Implement UN Agenda 21!
Support the U.S. Constitution – SEND FAXES TO ALL 100 SENATORS – NOW!

It’s already happening right now.

Obama, who has vowed to “fundamentally transform America,” is pushing to implement this freedom-grabbing plan UNDER THE RADAR.

On June 9, 2011 he signed EXECUTIVE ORDER 13575 and established the White House Rural Council (WHRC). This new administrative body is responsible for federally coordinating and implementing sustainable and green development locally.

Here is an excerpt from EO 13575:

Section 1. Policy- Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competitiveness in the years ahead.

“Sustainable” became a buzzword at the UN’s 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil (where Agenda 21 was created).

Sustainable = Agenda 21

Mike Opelka of The Blaze reports,

“Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase “sustainable rural communities” came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America.”

UN Agenda 21 is a transnational attempt to erode property rights, destroy freedom and make America submissive to foreign bureaucrats.

That’s why we need to act QUICKLY.

We don’t have much time to waste before this TOTALITARIAN TREATY BECOMES LAW OF THE LAND!

THIS IS NOT A FIGHT WE CAN AFFORD TO LOSE

1. Select Below – Tell The Senate To REJECT Attempts To Submit America To The UN.

Tell The Senate To REJECT All Attempts To Implement UN Agenda 21!
Support the U.S. Constitution – SEND FAXES TO ALL 100 SENATORS – NOW!

2. Send this Alert to EVERYONE you know and every like-minded friend on your personal email list who wants to STOP the UN from encroaching on your God-given rights! We need to get HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes delivered to EACH AND EVERY Senator. It’s time the Senate gets the message – LOUD & CLEAR!

3. Keep calling your Senators today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE! Demand the Senate STOP Agenda 21 DEAD IN ITS TRACKS.

4. CALL President Obama, 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your disdain and ABSOLUTE REJECTION of the UN plan. Tell Obama that you DO NOT SUPPORT destroying personal property rights, confiscating private land and banning private ownership of cars.

5. Print this copy and pass it around where normal working class Americans gather who care about the future of our country. Polling data reveals that Americans treasure their Constitutional rights and personal freedoms. They DO NOT want to be controlled by DESPOTIC rule and CONCEDE to foreign leaders.

DO NOT BE SILENCED – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!

NOTE: We need TENS OF THOUSANDS of faxes and PHONE CALLS and EMAILS delivered TO ALL SENATORS RIGHT AWAY!

Your voice can be heard — we need your urgent help at AmeriPAC.

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Defend America,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman, AmeriPAC

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BEST VIDEO YET ON ILLEGAL MEXICANS
Watch, and Let this sink in! The person in this video is a professor (Ph.D.) at Yavapai College in Prescott , Arizona . He puts a different spin on what Obama is doing to Arizona must be why he’s rated highly by his students – 3.8 on a 4.0 scale. This may be the best video produced on the illegal alien problems that are being experienced. Watch the video, it is short and makes a lot of sense. Forward the email to at least ten people you know. We need to get the word out.

Comments.
So now this piece of human garbage gets free legal representation and trial, health care, housing, food, color tv, legal library, weight room, and clothes on our dime. Maybe, in prison, he will get a sense of the pain and trauma he inflicted on the 85 year old woman when he raped and beat her to death. Al Sharpton, Jackson and Obama have nothing to say about this because they side with the Black Panthers who want to kill crackers and their cracker babies. N
Yah, typical. So many of those Black Panthers down there are just waiting for the excuse to run rampage. The ones inciting the mobs should be held accountable. None of them would give a hoot about this poor old couple. Jut saying….. J
We moved on from racist behavior. It has been replaced by reverse-racist behavior in the mainstream media…

See if we can forward this to some of the Commie Main Stream Media Outlets like MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Slimes, etc.

Story.
A week ago, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black kid named Tyrone Woodfork severely beat an elderly couple, a Mr. & Mrs. Strait, who had been married for 65 years. Tyrone RAPED Mrs. Strait, and she died of injuries received at his hands. Mr. Strait served in the 101st Airborne during WWII. NO national media carried the story. Tyrone was arrested yesterday.
I supposed that if Mr. Strait had shot Tyrone, the whole country would know about the story. As it is, only Mrs. Strait died, so it’s not of interest to Brian Williams and the rest of the main stream media.

Think about it. After 65 years of marriage. After serving our country. After 90 years of life, Mr. Strait has lost his wife to a rapist/murderer. NO ONE in the national media gives a flip. They’re interested in their wonderful hero, Trayvon Martin.
Man charged with murder in deadly home invasion Tyrone Woodfork, arrested on murder complaint for beating death of 85-year-old Nancy Strait. Her husband, Bob Strait, 90, was also severely beaten. Tyrone Woodfork, arrested on murder complaint for beating death of 85-year-old Nancy Strait. Her husband, Bob Strait, 90, was also severely beaten.
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
Published: 3/26/2012 4:53 PM
Last Modified: 3/26/2012 4:53 PM
A man accused of assaulting an elderly couple this month was formally charged Monday.
Tyrone Woodfork, 20, was charged in Tulsa County District Court with felony first-degree murder, two counts of robbery with a firearm and first-degree burglary.
Bob and Nancy Strait were assaulted March 14 in their home in the 3300 block of East Virgin Street. Nancy Strait died March 15 from injuries related to the assault. She was also raped. Bob Strait is still recovering from multiple injuries and has been re-admitted to a hospital.
Woodfork was arrested March 15 after witnesses reported seeing the couple’s stolen 2001 Dodge Neon in the 3500 block of East Fourth Street. He remains in the Tulsa Jail without bond.
By JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer

(By the way, If Obama had a son, would he look like Tyrone Woodfork? Just asking….)

The killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman is showing how liberals – especially blacks – care more about getting the political upper hand than affecting long-term change in black communities. Blacks are used as props to raise political capital. The shooting deaths of two British students — James Cooper and James Kouzaris — murdered last April in Florida by a black youth received no attention by black leaders or President Obama. Three letters were sent to the President that never received a reply. “It would perhaps appear,” friends of the victims said, “that Mr Obama sees no political value in facilitating such a request or that the lives of two British tourists are not worthy of ten minutes of his time.”
Why no national attention to the two Chicago men who were wearing hooded sweatshirts (“hoodies”) and were involved in a shooting that left one dead and five injured. This happened in the same congressional district represented by former Black Panther Bobby Rush (D-IL). This is the same Bobby Rush who wore a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out.
The goal of people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Maxine Waters is to build up political capital. Fixing the problems of black communities is not their goal. They need bad neighborhoods, escalating crime, and high unemployment so they can use these as political and economic clubs to extract votes and money.
It was Al Sharpton who said that Herman Cain was not “authentically Black.” What did he mean? Cain didn’t have the usual markings of a poor, disadvantaged, ghettoized, welfare-raised black man because he succeeded in business. Cain could not be used as a poster child or neglect and need for the guild-laden white community to donate to liberal black causes and to get them to vote Democrat.
Jesse Jackson has made millions by “shakedown” tactics to extract money from corporations. Willie Ellis expressed his frustration with Jackson: “Open your eyes: Jesse Jackson is for Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson only. He stole from the people long enough. It’s time the people know the true man Jesse Jackson is. He has rode on black peoples’ coattails long enough.” Harold Davis said Jackson “is a shakedown artist, and nobody holds him accountable.”
Jackson is “worth $40 million dollars … and Martin Luther King died broke,” Davis went on to say. Jackson ignores the needs of his hometown of Chicago, “In Chicago, the kids’ reading scores were the worst in 13 years; [Jackson] ain’t opened his mouth. Why? Because he don’t fight in his backyard when he sees a reason to go fight somewhere else,” Davis said.
While Sharpton and Jackson are making their money, black communities across America are disintegrating. Welfare policies pushed by liberal do-gooders have created a perpetual dependent class – good for winning elections but bad for the overall health of black families.
While the killing of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy, there are daily tragedies in black neighborhoods. For example, the unemployment rate for black males is at 18% while black youth unemployment was at 46.5% in late 2011. Who’s to blame? Whites? The rich? Are whites and the rich to blame for dramatic school drop-out rates? Are whites to blame for the way many black young people dress when they show up for job interviews?
Who should we blame for out-of-wedlock births? Welfare has led to the disintegration of the black family similar to how slavery affected the black family structure. Welfare family disintegration is worse than slavery because politicians and so-called black leaders believe that welfare is a right that is due blacks because of slavery. The welfare has done more to harm poor people than slavery ever did.
Who’s to blame for black-on-black crime? Here are some statistics from the Black on Black Crime Coalition:
While African Americans comprise 13.5% of the U.S. Population, 43% of all murder victims in 2007 were African American, 93.1% of whom were killed by African Americans.
The U.S. Justice Department provides a breakdown of homicides by the race of both the victim and offender. Looking at the data for 2005 (the latest year available), we find that whites committed 48.0% of all murders and blacks committed 51.2% of all murders. However, whites outnumber blacks in the population. In fact, non-Hispanic whites are about 69% of the population and blacks are about 13%. These statistics alone, shows that blacks are 13% of the population, but commit 51.2% of the murders, indicate that blacks commit a seriously disproportionate number of murders.”
None of this is to indict all blacks. There is a developing black middle and upper class in the United States. Their rise came about despite economic hardships, prejudice, bigotry, and outright racism. They didn’t use these as excuses to explain failure in the black community. They fought against it.
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Maxine Waters are political opportunists. Their comments end up inflaming many in the black community and creating resentment among whites. Do blacks benefit? Yes. Some of them do. Ask Jesse and Al.

Roger Hedgecock is a former mayor of San Diego and now host of a syndicated radio talk show.

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CALIFORNIA IS OBAMA’S DREAM

Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

I live in California . If you were wondering what living in Obama’s
second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now.

California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat Left
enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions. The unemployment rate is 12%.

California has more folks on food stamps than any other state, has
added so many benefits and higher rates to Medicaid that we call it
“Medi-Cal.” Our K-12 schools have more administrators than teachers,
with smaller classes but lower test scores and higher dropout rates
with twice the per-student budget of 15 years ago. Good job, Brownie.

This week, the once and current Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown had to
confess that the “balanced” state budget adopted five months ago was
billions in the red because actual tax revenues were billions lower
than the airy-fairy revenue estimates on which the balance was predicated.

After trimming legislators’ perks and reducing the number of cell
phones provided to state civil servants, the governor intoned that
drastic budget reductions had already hollowed out state programs for
the needy, law enforcement and our schoolchildren. California
government needed more money.

Echoing the Occupy movement, the governor proclaimed the rich must pay
their fair share. Fair share? The top 1% of California income earners
currently pays 50% of the state’s income tax.

California has seven income tax brackets. The top income tax rate is
9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a
year. Income of more than $1 million pays the “millionaires’ and
billionaires’” surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.

Brown’s proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000. A million-
dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%. And that’s just for the state.

Brown also proposed a one-half-cent sales tax increase, which would
bring sales taxes (which vary by county) up to 7.75% to as much as
10%. Both tax increases would be on the ballot in 2012.

The sales tax increase proposal immediately brought howls of protest
from the Left (of Brown!). Charlie Eaton, a sociology grad student at
UC Berkeley and leader of the UC Student-Workers Union, said, “We’ve
paid enough. It’s time for millionaires to pay.”

At least five other ballot measures to raise taxes are circulating for
signatures to get on the 2012 ballot in California . The governor’s
proposals are the most conservative.

The Obama way doesn’t end with taxes.

The governor and the state legislature continue to applaud the efforts
of the California High Speed Rail Authority to build a train
connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco . Even though the budget is
three times the voter-approved amount, and the first segment will only
connect two small towns in the agricultural Central Valley . But hey,
if we build it,they will ride.

And we don’t want to turn down the Obama bullet-train bucks Florida
and other states rejected because the operating costs would bankrupt
them. Can’t happen here because we’re already insolvent.

If we get into real trouble with the train, we’ll just bring in the
Chinese. It worked with the Bay Bridge reconstruction. After the 1989
earthquake, the bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was
rebuilt with steel made in China . Workers from China too. Paid for
with money borrowed from China . Makes perfect sense.

In California , we hate the evil, greedy rich (except the rich in
Hollywood, in sports, and in drug dealing). But we love people who
have broken into California to eat the bounty created by the
productive rich.

Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free
medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of
course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Nothing’s too good
for our guests.

To erase even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the
California Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty.
Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative
that would bar deportation of illegals from California .

Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a
federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce
federal immigration laws he won’t enforce, what will the President do
to a California law that exempts California from federal immigration
law?

California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of
deindustrialization.

After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly,
for example), air and water regulators and tax policies are now
driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies
that were supposed to be California ‘s future.

The California cap-and-trade tax on business in the name of reducing
CO2 makes our state the leader in wacky environmentalism and
guarantees a further job exodus from the state.

Even green energy companies can’t do business in California . Solyndra
went under, taking its taxpayer loan guarantee with it.

No job is too small to escape the regulators. The state has even
banned weekend amateur gold miners from the historic gold mining
streams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains .

In fact, more and more of California ‘s public land is off-limits to
recreation by the people who paid for that land. Unless you’re
illegal.

Then you can clear the land, set up marijuana plantations at will,
bring in fertilizers that legal farmers can no longer use, exploit
illegal farm workers who live in hovels with no running water or
sanitation, and protect your investment with armed illegals carrying
guns no California citizen is allowed to own.

The rest of us only found out about these plantations when the
workers’ open campfire started one of those devastating fires that
have killed hundreds of people and burned out thousands of homes in
California over the last decade.

It’s often said that whatever happens in California will soon happen
in your state.

You’d better hope that’s wrong.

Roger Hedgecock is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.

RADIO STATION 600 AM, SAN DIEGO

http://itsworkingwisconsin.com/

ORGANIZED ELECTION FRAUD: recall walker organizers coming in from OHIO to take advantage of “28 day” residency requirement

by Vicki McKenna on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:34pm

I attended the Democrat Recall Walker Planning Session held in Jefferson, WI – recently – Fri. Oct. 28th.. There were about 125 in attendance and about 60 of them were the “hard-core” registered members of the Jefferson County Democrat Party..

At the opening of the session, the Main Facilitator Person ask the crowd, “Who’s all here for the “Recall Scott Walker Planning Meeting, – show of hands..??” Practically everyone raised their hands while looking all around to see if everyone else had also raised their hands “in mass lemming-like obedience.”

She then bluntly stated admonishingly, “I know that some of you are not here for that purpose and are here just to spy..” – - “If you are NOT here to plan this Recall, we want you to please – LEAVE NOW..!!” There was a long Pause as everyone looked around to see if anyone was actually going to leave.. – no-one left the meeting…

The Facilitator then repeated with some anguish, – “I know that some of you are just here to spy, but we are going ahead with the meeting anyway, – - we’ll just be more careful what we say and how we say it..”

There were 4 facilitator-speakers that coached the crowd on the overall re-call plan.. Their speech was full of nasty invectives every time they made reference to a Republican..

They emphasized “secrecy” in their neighborhood signature gathering, (meaning, – No Media contact) – and very tight co-ordination with Local Headquarters for covering all neighborhoods with emphasis on setting up “sign-up stations” at every busy roadway intersection of the County – and at all entry points to large supermarket parking lots..

They mentioned that EVERY County in Wisconsin has a similar Petition plan and that many thousands of helpers “FROM OUT OF STATE” will be here after the Tuesday Elections in Ohio

They mentioned that they wish to vastly “exceed” the 504,000 signatures legally needed, – and hoped to secretly gather at least 750,000 signatures before needing to turn them over to the Government Accountability Board, – to gain a maximum & immense publicity IMPACT on the Public and on the Media..

THIS PART IS VERY IMPORTANT:

They mentioned that there are “Thousands of idle Union & Unemployed” still down there in Ohio helping to change the union labor Laws back from Gov.John Kasics Plan, and that after Tuesday’s Ohio Elections, they will ALL be here in Wisconsin to start “Our Recall Walker.” She mentioned that several thousands of them will be here in Wisconsin (put up by & supported by local registered Party “activist” Democrats in their homes,) – further mentioning “slyly” that they needed to be here in Wisconsin for only 28 days before the re-call election date to be fully eligible & qualified to VOTE in the Wisconsin election..

The Facilitators also stated that thousands of students would be coming in from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, & Michigan to help gather all the signatures needed for the Re-call of Gov.Scott Walker.. Members of the Audience then excitedly asked again, “You say, – they only need to be here in Wisconsin for 28 days to be eligible to vote…???”

Do you get the Impression that Wisconsin is being set up for another Massively Fraudulent Election Orchestrated by the Radical Democrat Party, the Big National Labor Unions, the Obama Administration, the George Soros Organizations, the Student Unions, – the Socialist-Communist Party, & others we have yet to discover…???

What do you think? This is only one car of the Government Gravy Train. It’s time to put all of them on the side track.

http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/01/20/house-gop-lists-25-trillion-in-spending-cuts

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
Save America ‘s Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings..
Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1..3 billion annually.
U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.
Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings. WHAT IS THIS?
Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1..15 billion annual savings.
Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing payments to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings. WHAT IS THIS!
Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.
Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).$93 million annual savings.
Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.
Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
HUD Ph.D. Program.
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act
TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, “WHAT THE HELL is all this crap doing in the budget in the first place???”

Is there anything listed here you cannot do without? O must go!

YES! WE DID IT!

Yes, The Tea Party made those politicians spend us into a lower credit rating. We were sleeping and they took advantage of the REAL Americans. They will keep blaming The Tea Party until some stupid people will believe it. It’s in the press already. The only problem is the real Americans can see their plan to discredit The Tea Party and Christianity. Real Americans will vote O out of office in 2012. Real Americans will stand up and organize the biggest opposition to government wild spending the world has ever seen. All it takes is getting 10 people that will get ten people etc., to vote O out. His only job was community organizing. The Tea Party can do that too. Only we won’t be promising the poor that they will get handouts or minorities citizenship and unions payoffs for their votes. Ten times ten times ten etc. will be the most powerful defense Real Americans will ever have at practically no cost. O is spending millions already to ensure his re-election. Can you find ten people that are tired of seeing our country being destroyed? Can each of them find ten people? The power of The Tea Party has no limits. Mom and Pop Power will win.
O must go!

This putting the whole debate in real life terms that everyone can relate to.

By DENNIS CLAYSON wcfcourier.com

If you have trouble following the debate about federal spending, don’t feel bad. The feds and the politicians have made it as difficult as possible to wrap your mind around what they are doing.

So, I offer an example scaled down to human size. I am using estimates of government spending for 2011 as my base. All the figures in the following are in direct proportion to projected federal spending. In other words, if your household was run like the federal government, these numbers would be accurate.

Suppose you wanted to live on a take-home salary of $5,000 a month. Unfortunately, your monthly net income is only $3,300, so instead of cutting spending you go out and borrow $1,700 every month. You are currently paying $330 a month just on the interest on money you borrowed previously. Your lenders are threatening to not give you more money.

Not only will you not reduce spending, but you have also been dishonest in the past. Grandma gave you money when she was working so you could take care of her after her retirement. You spent the money as it came in so you would not have to borrow so much. Now granny’s medical care is coming to around $650 (Medicare) and her other costs are currently at $960 (Social Security) per month and increasing. Your house mortgage sucks out another $980 (Defense) per month.

You are now within less than $400 of the money you bring home without borrowing, and you haven’t paid any other bill; no food, clothing, automobile or anything else.

Since you don’t want to change your lifestyle, or tell granny that you spent her money, you go to your employer and ask for a raise. Your boss is not interested in giving you a 52 percent increase in salary. In fact, he is not interested in giving you any increase at all.

Your wife suggests that you cut spending. You and she engage in a fight that goes on for weeks. You finally agree to cut spending by 50 cents a month. (This is the actual real amount hammered out last year on the budget compromise between Republicans and Democrats adjusted to this scale).

Previously, your wife and you agreed firmly not to borrow over $1,700 monthly, but looking down the road, you realize that there are things you want that will cost over $5,000 per month. So you propose that you raise the amount of money you will borrow.

Your wife objects, and tells you that you will have to cut spending. You tell her that you must increase the amount borrowed or you couldn’t pay the interest on the money you have already borrowed. You would default on your loans. Actually, this is not quite true. You could continue to pay the interest if you refused to increase spending, or if you decreased spending, but you feel that maybe you could frighten your wife into going along with your new spending plans.

If that doesn’t work, you have a plan to arbitrarily tell her that next year’s budget will be $5,500 a month, but you are willing to make $400 in cuts. That will allow you to increase actual spending while placating your wife if she buys into it.

You know that this can’t continue, but you don’t want to face reality. You tell people that the local economy is going to boom and your employer will raise your salary. You don’t want to think about how you will pay down the past loans even if your rosy projections are somehow realized.

You think that maybe you will be OK. Granny is stuck with you. No one else is going to give her money back to her. Your kids are all right with all this as long as you keep buying them what they want and keep them in the dark about your financial obligations.

Your wife is thinking of leaving you.

And this is what we have created. Need to fire all our politicians and start over. No country can survive with more than 50% of the working class on public hand outs. To add taxes to the 1% that are rich would only make things worse, if that’s possible.

You have to watch this video of Judge Judy before it’s removed from You
Tube – it’s actually a guy from St Paul, MN.

It will tick you off especially after our government has been shut down.
Unbelievable.

This is why our taxes should be raised??? Come on…

Free Lunch…But not for you!
900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District . They are $650,000 over their annual budget.

The following English teacher helps to explain one area that looms large over California ‘s educational crisis.

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS
POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE.
This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet.

This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent
From a California school teacher – - -

“As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park , etc.. where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America ..
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” (whores ) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won’t have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “political correctness ” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressmen and Senators.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don’t want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return,
he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps..

He qualifies for free (no deductible), no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills…

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense .

He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills AND his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. ‘AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!’

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS
POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE

When will Obama crack in public? This article is well-worth the time to read and I applaud Mr. Massie’s blunt, truthful comments.

When will Obama crack in public?
by Mychal Massie

At a time when many Americans can barely afford Burger King and a movie, Obama boasts of spending a billion dollars on his re-election campaign. Questioned at a recent appearance about the spiraling fuel costs, Obama said, “Get used to it” – and with an insouciant grin and chortle, he told another person at the event, who complained about the effect high fuel prices were having on his family, to “get a more fuel-efficient car.”

The Obamas behave as if they were sharecroppers living in a trailer and hit the Powerball, but instead of getting new tires for their trailer and a new pickup truck, they moved to Washington . And instead of making possum pie, with goats and chickens in the front yard, they’re spending and living large at taxpayer expense – opulent vacations, gala balls, resplendent dinners and exclusive command performances at the White House, grand date nights, golf, basketball, more golf, exclusive resorts and still more golf. In the 1950′s they called it acting (NIGGER RICH)

Expensive, ill-fitting and ill-chosen wigs and fashions hardly befit the first lady of the United States . The Obamas have behaved in every way but presidential – which is why it’s so offensive when we hear Obama say, in order “to restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice – but we don’t have to sacrifice the America we believe in.”

The American people have been sacrificing; it is he and his family who are behaving as if they’ve never had two nickels to rub together – and now, having hit the mother lode, they’re going to spend away their feelings of inadequacy at the taxpayers’ expense.

Obama continues to exhibit behavior that, at best, can be described as mobocratic and, at worst, reveals a deeply damaged individual. In a February 2010 column, I asked, “Is Obama unraveling?” I wrote that it was beginning to appear the growing mistrust of him and contempt for his policies was beginning to have a destabilizing effect on him.

At that time, I wrote that not having things go one’s way can be a bitter pill, but reasonable people don’t behave as he was behaving. He had insulted Republicans at their luncheon, where he had been an invited guest. I had speculated that was, in part, what had led him to falsely accuse Supreme Court justices before Congress, the nation and the world, during the 2010 State of the Union address.

It appeared, at that time, as if he were “fraying around the emotional edges.” That behavior has not abated – it has become more pronounced. While addressing the nation, after being forced to explain the validity of his unilateral aggression with Libya , America witnessed a petulant individual scowling and scolding the public for daring to insist he explain his actions.

But during an afternoon speech to address the budget/debt, he took his scornful, unstable despotic behavior to depths that should give the nation cause for concern. Displaying a dark psychopathy more representative of an episode of “The Tudors” television series, he invited Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to sit in the front row during his speech and then proceeded to berate both Ryan and Ryan’s budget-cutting plan. Even liberal Democrats were put off by the act. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough questioned the sanity of Obama’s actions.

Today, criticism is coming from all sides. A senior Democrat lawmaker said, “I have been very disappointed in [Obama], to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him. It’s so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?” (“Democrats’ Disgust with Obama,” The Daily Beast, April 15, 2011)

Steve McCann wrote: Obama’s speech “was chock full of lies, deceit and crass fear-mongering. It must be said that [he] is the most dishonest, deceitful and mendacious person in a position of power I have ever witnessed” (“The Mendacity of Barack Obama,”AmericanThinker.com, April 15, 2011).

McCann continued: “[His] performance was the culmination of four years of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and political class who are loath to call [him] what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud. That he relies on his skin color to intimidate, either outright or by insinuation [against] those who oppose his radical agenda only add to his audacity. It is apparent that he has gotten away with his character flaws his entire life, aided and abetted by sycophants around him. …”

With these being among the kinder rebukes being directed at Obama, and with people becoming less intimidated by his willingness to use race as a bludgeon, with falling poll numbers in every meaningful category and an increasingly aggressive tea-party opposition – how much longer before he cracks completely?

The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life, who is becoming increasingly more contumelious?

Mychal Massie is chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21 – a conservative black think tank located in Washington, D.C. He was recognized as the 2008 Conservative Man of the Year by the Conservative Party of Suffolk County , N.Y. He is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. A former self-employed business owner of more than 30 years, Massie can be followed at mychal-massie.com.

Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with the collective bargaining for teacher’s unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. Why? It seems that the insurance company that provided all the “so-called” benefits to the teachers, was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher’s union. Since they were guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers and the State had to pay for it, and not the teachers, they were increasing the annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the insurance company was donating millions and millions of dollars to their favorite democrat politicians, who when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the unions outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company was a “pass through” for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the democrat politicians.

Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away. Now that the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bid, and lo and behold, they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc., etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don’t have to pay more taxes to fund the union’s political ambitions.

If you weren’t aware of the reasons why Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem the Republican Party has. Outside of one or two, none of them know how to speak up and explain properly what the problem was. We could sure use a Ronald Reagan now, someone who could explain things for people to understand, since we know that people don’t like to read anymore.
More.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district

TRUE STORY!

You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
Half-awake, nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.

At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside..

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless.

Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

“What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.
“Only ten-to-twelve years, “he replies, as if that’s nothing.

“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them.

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day’s headline says it all:

“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters.

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up, then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you’ve been critical of local police for their lack

of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven’t been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you.

Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a
license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of “gun control”, demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, “We cannot have people take the law into their own hands.”

All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities..

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply.

Police later bragged that they’d taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.

Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. ” –Samuel Adams

If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.

You had better wake up, because our idiot president is going to do this very same thing over here if he can get it done.

And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.

Most women in Afghanistan are unaware of their own legal rights, and lack judicial support when trying to defend them.

Noorjahan Akbar Last Modified: 08 Jul 2011 19:02
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Some 90 per cent of Afghan women face some form of domestic violence – many are forced into early marriage, kidnapped, or raped with no hope of justice [GALLO/GETTY]

In December 2010, in a small house located in Sarbande Chakush village in the Juzjan province of Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl named Aziza was abruptly awakened by loud banging on the front door in the middle of the night.

A group of armed men, headed by Haji Daadullah, one of the most influential and powerful figures in her village, awaited Aziza’s father as he opened the wooden door. The men attacked her father, entered the house and kidnapped Aziza.

Her family was warned that if anyone dared to report the kidnapping, they would pay with their blood.

After twenty days, local police forces became aware of the incident and brought in Aziza’s family for questioning. Aziza’s father, Mohammed Qul, used the investigation as an opportunity to file an official complaint and finally bring Aziza home.

The security forces eventually brought Daadullah and the others involved in the kidnapping to the police station.

During the investigation, the kidnappers said that another village girl, named Rajab Gul, was married to a man named Abdul Rahman, but on the wedding night, Abdul Rahman accused the girl of not being a virgin – an accusation that can lead to the stoning of a woman in Afghanistan.

Immediately afterwards, Rahman informed Daadullah, who decided to take matters into his own hands instead of reporting the accusation to the police. Daadullah declared that Rajab Gul had lost her virginity to a young man named Shah Nazar – Aziza’s brother.

Therefore, Daadullah and many allied armed men entered Shah Nazar’s house that night, kidnapped his sister and married her to Abdul Rahman. They did all of this without fulfilling the legal Islamic rite of nekah [marriage], carrying out divorce requirements or getting Aziza’s consent. The kidnappers argued that they had held an Islamic nekah ceremony for Aziza and Abdul Rahman – but the religious leader they claimed completed the ceremony had already left the village.

They also brought Rajab Gul to Shah Nazar’s house and left her there.

Justice?

The preliminary court decided to give sentences of one to five years to each of the men involved in the kidnapping, illegal marriage and divorce.

However, within twenty days the criminals – who had both money and connections – used their resources to organise a second court hearing. Following this, all but one of the criminals were granted their freedom. Aziza and her family, on the other hand, were humiliated and placed under judicial investigation by government officials to ensure their silence.

Despite all of the risks, and the humiliating failure of the justice system in Juzjan, the brave girl and her family sold their belongings so that they could afford to appeal the case.

After the case was announced resolved by the court in Juzjan, Aziza brought the case to the Kabul Attorney General’s office. In Kabul, Enayatullah Kamal, the Attorney General’s assistant (who had ties with Daadullah) argued that the case had already been resolved and left Aziza and her family hopeless until members of Young Women for Change went with her to the Independent Human Rights Commission, where an attorney was selected to follow-up the case. With pressures from the Commission, the case was brought to the Supreme Court, where the case has been delayed with no progress in the past four days, due to neglectful and dismissive officials.

By this point, Aziza’s family was desperate for help and even thought of contacting the Taliban in order to solve the case – which is ironic given that the Taliban are usually the violators of human rights. But it was the only option left for the family, besides leaving Afghanistan – but with what recources and to where?

Aziza is part of a small minority of women who gather the courage and resources to report violations of their rights. The vast majority of women who are married by force, raped, kidnapped or subject to domestic violence never find the resources or the will to file complaints.

They are silenced by traditions that require them to accept their fate.

Silence and honour

Most of the time, survivors of rape are forcibly married off to their violators to protect the family’s honour before the community. Despite the 2009 “Law Against Violence Against Women”, domestic violence is not recognised as a problem among most people – it is simply silently accepted.

Given that nine out of ten women in Afghanistan face some kind of domestic violence, it is considered normal by men and women who are unaware of their rights.

Brave women like Aziza who are willing to go to court and make their cases public not only raise awareness about other women and the violations of their rights, but also empower other women to seek justice.

However, justice is only possible when these women are provided with support and information during the legal process. Aziza’s case is a testimony to the fact that even courageous women like her can fail because of the dismissive, neglectful and corrupt measures taken by governmental officials.

And unfortunately, Aziza is not alone in her battle.

The rights – and bodies – of hundreds of women in Afghanistan are violated on a regular basis. Yet they are provided with little support from the government during the judicial process and even less information about their basic legal rights or how the process of seeking justice even works.

One of the main reasons for the lack of judicial support for women is the small number of women involved in the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s office. According to the 2010 annual report from the Supreme Court of Afghanistan and Attorney General’s Office, only five per cent of judges, six per cent of prosecutors, and six per cent of attorneys are female.

The serious lack of female staff makes it difficult for women to even think about entering the government in Afghanistan – a place where gender apartheid is a significant part of the custom.

Another reason that Aziza’s case was dismissed so quickly is that neither her male attorney nor the male security forces involved in the case feel sympathy towards women. Her attorney was so disconcerted by the details of Aziza’s case that he rarely even came to the court meetings and never had a real conversation with her to hear her side of the story.

According to UN Human Rights Council, 90 per cent of Afghan women face domestic violence and 70 per cent of all marriages are early and forced. Given that, there is an undeniable need to train judges, prosecutors, attorneys and even security forces to be more gender sensitive. They should also be trained on the rights women were granted by the constitution and international conventions signed by the Afghan government.

Women who report violations of their rights must be provided with the support that they deserve – there needs to be a source of pressure that will ensure legal support from the government throughout the process of seeking justice.

Domestic and international media can be this source of pressure and advocacy – and Aziza is fully aware of that.

When she came to the office of Young Women for Change, an organisation working for women, Aziza requested that her voice be heard because she had gone through the legal process and failed in her quest for justice.

Publicity of this case will encourage more women to seek legal assistance. It will also ensure that such inhuman and misogynistic crimes are not quietly accepted, that criminals are not encouraged and protected, that justice is implemented and defended – and that such unbearable violations are prevented in the future.

Noorjahan Akbar is is currently teaching Afghan children in orphanages to write creatively under a project called Stories to Heal. Noorjahan is also the founder of women’s advocacy organisation Young Women for Change and a member of Hadia- Afghan Youth Volunteer Group for Social Reform.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

Raped Afghan women have no hope of justice

Most women in Afghanistan are unaware of their own legal rights, and lack judicial support when trying to defend them.

Noorjahan Akbar Last Modified: 08 Jul 2011 19:02
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Some 90 per cent of Afghan women face some form of domestic violence – many are forced into early marriage, kidnapped, or raped with no hope of justice [GALLO/GETTY]

In December 2010, in a small house located in Sarbande Chakush village in the Juzjan province of Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl named Aziza was abruptly awakened by loud banging on the front door in the middle of the night.

A group of armed men, headed by Haji Daadullah, one of the most influential and powerful figures in her village, awaited Aziza’s father as he opened the wooden door. The men attacked her father, entered the house and kidnapped Aziza.

Her family was warned that if anyone dared to report the kidnapping, they would pay with their blood.

After twenty days, local police forces became aware of the incident and brought in Aziza’s family for questioning. Aziza’s father, Mohammed Qul, used the investigation as an opportunity to file an official complaint and finally bring Aziza home.

The security forces eventually brought Daadullah and the others involved in the kidnapping to the police station.

During the investigation, the kidnappers said that another village girl, named Rajab Gul, was married to a man named Abdul Rahman, but on the wedding night, Abdul Rahman accused the girl of not being a virgin – an accusation that can lead to the stoning of a woman in Afghanistan.

Immediately afterwards, Rahman informed Daadullah, who decided to take matters into his own hands instead of reporting the accusation to the police. Daadullah declared that Rajab Gul had lost her virginity to a young man named Shah Nazar – Aziza’s brother.

Therefore, Daadullah and many allied armed men entered Shah Nazar’s house that night, kidnapped his sister and married her to Abdul Rahman. They did all of this without fulfilling the legal Islamic rite of nekah [marriage], carrying out divorce requirements or getting Aziza’s consent. The kidnappers argued that they had held an Islamic nekah ceremony for Aziza and Abdul Rahman – but the religious leader they claimed completed the ceremony had already left the village.

They also brought Rajab Gul to Shah Nazar’s house and left her there.

Justice?

The preliminary court decided to give sentences of one to five years to each of the men involved in the kidnapping, illegal marriage and divorce.

However, within twenty days the criminals – who had both money and connections – used their resources to organise a second court hearing. Following this, all but one of the criminals were granted their freedom. Aziza and her family, on the other hand, were humiliated and placed under judicial investigation by government officials to ensure their silence.

Despite all of the risks, and the humiliating failure of the justice system in Juzjan, the brave girl and her family sold their belongings so that they could afford to appeal the case.

After the case was announced resolved by the court in Juzjan, Aziza brought the case to the Kabul Attorney General’s office. In Kabul, Enayatullah Kamal, the Attorney General’s assistant (who had ties with Daadullah) argued that the case had already been resolved and left Aziza and her family hopeless until members of Young Women for Change went with her to the Independent Human Rights Commission, where an attorney was selected to follow-up the case. With pressures from the Commission, the case was brought to the Supreme Court, where the case has been delayed with no progress in the past four days, due to neglectful and dismissive officials.

By this point, Aziza’s family was desperate for help and even thought of contacting the Taliban in order to solve the case – which is ironic given that the Taliban are usually the violators of human rights. But it was the only option left for the family, besides leaving Afghanistan – but with what recources and to where?

Aziza is part of a small minority of women who gather the courage and resources to report violations of their rights. The vast majority of women who are married by force, raped, kidnapped or subject to domestic violence never find the resources or the will to file complaints.

They are silenced by traditions that require them to accept their fate.

Silence and honour

Most of the time, survivors of rape are forcibly married off to their violators to protect the family’s honour before the community. Despite the 2009 “Law Against Violence Against Women”, domestic violence is not recognised as a problem among most people – it is simply silently accepted.

Given that nine out of ten women in Afghanistan face some kind of domestic violence, it is considered normal by men and women who are unaware of their rights.

Brave women like Aziza who are willing to go to court and make their cases public not only raise awareness about other women and the violations of their rights, but also empower other women to seek justice.

However, justice is only possible when these women are provided with support and information during the legal process. Aziza’s case is a testimony to the fact that even courageous women like her can fail because of the dismissive, neglectful and corrupt measures taken by governmental officials.

And unfortunately, Aziza is not alone in her battle.

The rights – and bodies – of hundreds of women in Afghanistan are violated on a regular basis. Yet they are provided with little support from the government during the judicial process and even less information about their basic legal rights or how the process of seeking justice even works.

One of the main reasons for the lack of judicial support for women is the small number of women involved in the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s office. According to the 2010 annual report from the Supreme Court of Afghanistan and Attorney General’s Office, only five per cent of judges, six per cent of prosecutors, and six per cent of attorneys are female.

The serious lack of female staff makes it difficult for women to even think about entering the government in Afghanistan – a place where gender apartheid is a significant part of the custom.

Another reason that Aziza’s case was dismissed so quickly is that neither her male attorney nor the male security forces involved in the case feel sympathy towards women. Her attorney was so disconcerted by the details of Aziza’s case that he rarely even came to the court meetings and never had a real conversation with her to hear her side of the story.

According to UN Human Rights Council, 90 per cent of Afghan women face domestic violence and 70 per cent of all marriages are early and forced. Given that, there is an undeniable need to train judges, prosecutors, attorneys and even security forces to be more gender sensitive. They should also be trained on the rights women were granted by the constitution and international conventions signed by the Afghan government.

Women who report violations of their rights must be provided with the support that they deserve – there needs to be a source of pressure that will ensure legal support from the government throughout the process of seeking justice.

Domestic and international media can be this source of pressure and advocacy – and Aziza is fully aware of that.

When she came to the office of Young Women for Change, an organisation working for women, Aziza requested that her voice be heard because she had gone through the legal process and failed in her quest for justice.

Publicity of this case will encourage more women to seek legal assistance. It will also ensure that such inhuman and misogynistic crimes are not quietly accepted, that criminals are not encouraged and protected, that justice is implemented and defended – and that such unbearable violations are prevented in the future.

Noorjahan Akbar is is currently teaching Afghan children in orphanages to write creatively under a project called Stories to Heal. Noorjahan is also the founder of women’s advocacy organisation Young Women for Change and a member of Hadia- Afghan Youth Volunteer Group for Social Reform.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

Source: Al Jazeera

 

Bullion ban by federal .gov/6th circuit court upholds obamacare

Gold & Silver BAN by Federal Government

ALL Trading Outlawed After July 15, 2011

This is NOT a Conspiracy Theory! (i.e. hucksterbee can’t call it a glennbeckian “boogerbear”).

This is NOW LAW!

Discover How the New Government Ban will affect all Financial Markets, the U.S. Dollar, ETF’s, Stock Market, etc.

Read the New Amendments and Sections to the New Commodity ACT; which Prohibits certain Cash (check & wire) and Retail Gold & Silver Transactions, For ALL Consumers.

Discover What Government Officials and Agencies are Involved.

Plus, the Hidden Plot behind it.

This New Government BAN is NOT a “Bill”, It is Now LAW!

http://www.goldworth.com/townhall.html

Bullion Will Now Be Illegal for ALL U.S. Residents

The Over the Counter (OTC) Bullion Market, will be Banned for ALL U.S. Residents and corporations as of July 15, 2011.

Many OTC Precious metal Dealers have already begun to Unwind their Bullion Retail businesses; including one of the world’s largest, Forex.com

The New Law will initially Ban Tangible Bullion that is purchased or sold on Finance, Leverage, and Margin… for now!

Purchasing Gold & Silver and taking personal delivery or having it delivered to a Depository is Exempt from this New Ban… Thanks to GOLDWORTH FINANCIAL and other dealers, who were able to lobby Congress for this Exemption.

The Ban on Physical/Tangible Bullion trading is set forth by the Dodd-Frank Reform and Consumer Protection Act, specifically section 742 and the newly amended section 2(C)(2)(D), dealing in Retail Commodity Transactions. As well as, section 2(C)(2)(E) of the Commodity Exchange Act, which refers to Spot Retail Transactions.

The New Law will NOT Regulate Spot/Cash Market Transactions, But rather make such Transactions Illegal!

Why?

Is it to Protect “Consumers” from Leverage, and Financed purchases of Gold & Silver?

Perhaps…

There’s certainly A Lot of “Consumers” Losing money with Bullion Dealers who sell metals on a Margin basis.

But!… Why not Regulate Bullion trading Firms, much like the Feds Regulate Series 3 Gold Commodity trading Firms?

If “Client” protection is their Goal…The Feds are NOT doing such a great job.

Statistics show as much as 92-96% of Clients Trading with “Regulated” Series 3 Commodity Brokers Lose their Money!… Futures & Options are High Leverage-High Margin positions.

So, could the Only reason be “Government Regulated” Precious Metal Brokers… Transact in “Paper” Gold? While… OTC-Dealers Transact in Real Gold Bullion?
We can only start connecting the dots.

We recently saw a Drop in Gold & Silver, Due to the highly Publicized Increase Margin requirements by the Comex-Mercantile Exchange.

The Exchange was “Encouraged” by a Government Agency, The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to Increase margin Numerous Times to keep “Volatility” Down.

Well, the Only Thing that was Brought Down was the price of Gold, especially Silver; which dropped from $50.00 to $32.00 per oz.

Now, ask yourself,

Was this Government Agency (CFTC) protecting “Consumers” from the Rising price of Gold & Silver?

OR!

Was this Agency Protecting what little value the U.S. Dollar has Against Gold & Silver?

The answer is obvious…

Consumers were NOT being hurt by the Rise in Gold & Silver.

The Only victim was the Value & Reputation of the “Paper” U.S. Dollar! (Gold trades Against the Dollar)

Nevertheless, The Government tactic worked!

The Margin Increase, Squeezed out Most small & mid size investors; leaving an Open Field for Large Institutions like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
The Trillion Dollar Questions are…

Will the Government go after Your Physical Gold & Silver?
Does the Government want to Ban and make ALL Gold & Silver Bullion Illegal?

If the following is Any Indication of their Ultimate Plot…We should ALL be Afraid!

The CFTC (Gov. Agency) pushed Congress to Outlaw All Bullion that is NOT deliverable to Retail “Consumers” within 48 hours.

That would Shutdown 95% of All Retail Dealers…. Overnight!

No Matter how Large a Dealer maybe,… No Dealer sits on ENDLESS amounts of Inventory.

The Dealer would eventually have to Order Inventory from Mints such as U.S., Canada, Austria, South Africa or Directly through the Exchange. Nonetheless, delivery takes 3-14 days.

Which does NOT complete the process, the product would still need to be shipped to the Retail Investor…

A 48 Hour Delivery Mandate is Ultimately Impossible.

Ultimately, making ALL Bullion transactions Illegal by DEFAULT!

This is Exactly what CFTC (gov. agency) pushed for.

So, ask yourself…

Is the Frank-Dobbs reform and Consumer Protection Act,

about “Consumer Protection” Or Government Control?

History has taught us…

First comes Government control, then comes Government Ban/Confiscation!

Remember,…Who or “What” controls the Money, controls Everything!