Can America Fall From Within? [Video]

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Think You Know Obama? Bet You Didn't Know This!

UPDATED! A VERY DISTURBING PICTURE!

Posted by Tom

I have never been one to believe in conspiracy theories, etc., but I am beginning to see an incredibly disturbing trend developing within this Country.  I'm going point out some facts and situations which individually may mean very little, but collectively should give any Freedom loving American cause for concern.  History is replete with examples of how his this very same model has been used and abused by Governments to create oppressive, totalitarian regimes.

I realize this is a long article, but I think you'll find it filled with information you're probably not aware of.  The sum of which has the potential for GRAVE IMPACT upon the American People.  

Please share this with others, Americans need to WAKE UP! 
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THE PATRIOT ACT:

Originally enacted under the Bush administration in response to 9/11, on May 27, 2011, President Obama, over widespread bipartisan objections, approved a Congressional four year extension of controversial parts of the Patriot Act that were set to expire. In March of 2010, Obama signed a similar extension of the Patriot Act for one year. These provisions allow the government, with permission from a special secret court, to seize records without the owner’s knowledge, conduct secret surveillance of suspicious people who have no known ties to terrorist groups, and to obtain secret roving wiretaps on people.

Wiretaps for oral, electronic or wire communications, approved by federal and state courts, are at an all-time high. Wiretaps in year 2010 were up 34% from 2009, according to the Administrative Office of the US Courts.  There are at least 72 fusion centers across the US which collect local domestic police information and merge it into multi-jurisdictional intelligence centers, according to a recent report by the ACLU. These centers share information from federal, state and local law enforcement and some private companies to secretly spy on Americans. These all continue to grow and flourish under the Obama administration.

In July 2010, the Washington Post released “Top Secret America,” a series of articles detailing the results of a two year investigation into the rapidly expanding world of homeland security, intelligence and counter-terrorism. It found 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence at about 10,000 locations across the US. Every single day, the National Security Agency intercepts and stores more than 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications. The FBI has a secret database named Guardian that contains reports of suspicious activities filed from federal, state and local law enforcement. According to the Washington Post Guardian contained 161,948 files as of December 2009. From that database there have been 103 full investigations and at least five arrests the FBI reported. The Obama administration has done nothing to cut back on the secrecy.

The Bay Area Transit System, in August 2011, hearing of rumors to protest against fatal shootings by their police, shut down cell service in four stations. Western companies sell email surveillance software to repressive regimes in China, Libya and Syria to use against protestors and human rights activists. Surveillance cameras monitor residents in high crime areas, street corners and other governmental buildings. Police department computers ask for and receive daily lists from utility companies with the addresses and names of every home address in their area. Computers in police cars scan every license plate of every car they drive by. The Obama administration has made no serious effort to cut back these new technologies of spying on citizens.

The Patriot Act even allows the Government to get records from your local Library, to see what books you're reading.  It also allows for the WARRANTLESS search of your emails more than 150 days old, without justification or oversite.  These concrete examples document a sustained assault on domestic civil liberties in the United States under the Obama administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DATA MINING:

DHS Directive 110-01 specifically identifies information to be gathered from Social Media Sites on U.S. Citizens, amongst others.  This includes, but is not limited to: Name, addresses, relatives, pictures, internet service provider information, account numbers, employment, education and lots more!  In short, nothing is private to the DHS.  DHS Data mining is also certainly not limited to Social Media sites, but from any available databases, including commerial sites specializing in it's collection.  

Data-mining programs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are not fully reviewed by the agency for their effectiveness and, in some cases, for their compliance with privacy protection mandates, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The DHS has not completed privacy impact assessments for two of the six data-mining programs the GAO reviewed, the report said.  In addition, DHS violated its own privacy rules by sharing information from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Pattern Analysis and Information Collection (ICEPIC) program with state and local law enforcement agencies, said Representatives Brad Miller of North Carolina and Donna Edwards of Maryland, both Democratic members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

One of the "most disturbing findings" by the GAO was that ICEPIC rolled out its law enforcement sharing component before it was approved by the DHS privacy office, Miller and Edwards said in a press release. The program violates the DHS privacy impact assessment created for the program, the GAO report said.

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NEW NSA DATA CENTER BEING BUILT IN UTAH:

The Utah Data Center is a data storage facility being built for the NSA and is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes.  It is alleged to capture "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'," though its precise purpose is secret.^[1] The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years. The bill extends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which granted retroactive immunity for wiretaps and email monitoring under the Bush Administration.^[3]

>HERE IS A VIDEO THAT GOES MORE INTO THE FACILITY<

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STINGRAY DEVICES: 
A federal court judge in Arizona next month will decide if the Department of Justice overstepped the 4^thamendment when it used a device called a “stingray” to collect evidence against David Daniel Rigmaiden, a 30-year-old Arizona man accused of leading a massive identity theft ring from 2005 to 2008.  Stingrays look like cell towers but are used to collect cell information (even when the phone is not in use) from everyone within reach of the device. Law enforcement officials say the tool is used in a targeted way to search for terror suspects. the defendant in this case says his fourth amendment rights were violated.  READ HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS..

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DHS EMERGENCY POWER EXTENDED, INCLUDING PRIVATE TELECOM SYSTEMS:

The Obama administration has given the Department of Homeland Security powers to prioritize government communications over privately owned telephones and internet systems in "emergencies."  An executive order signed June 6 gives DHS the authority to seize control of telecommunications facilities, including telephone, cellular and wireless networks.

When President Obama inked his name to the Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions Executive Order on July 6, he authorized the US Department of Homeland Security to take control of the country’s wired and wireless communications — including the Internet — in instances of emergency. The signing was accompanied with little to no acknowledgment outside of the White House, but initial reports on the order quickly caused the public to speak out over what some equated to creating an Oval Office kill switch for the Web. Now the Obama administration is addressing those complaints by calling the Executive Order a necessary implement for America’s national security.

Former White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden insists that “The [order] does not transfer authorities between or among departments,” but the order does indeed allow the DHS to establish and implement control over even the privately owned communication systems in the country, including Internet Service Providers such as Time Warner, Verizon and Comcast, if the administration agrees that it is warranted for security’s sake. (everything justified by "Safety")

Immediately after last week’s signing, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said the order allowed the DHS "the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications." This is essential for any Government taking control of it's Citizens.

  

 

RETURNING WAR VETERANS LABELED AS "DOMESTIC TERRORIST THREAT."

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.  “This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans - including war veterans,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.  The FBI has also characterized returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as a major domestic terrorist threat.  FBI documents show the bureau was working with investigators inside the nation's uniformed services "in an effort to identify those current or former soldiers who pose a domestic terrorism threat." The other agencies working with the FBI are the U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.  Freedom of information Act requests have revealed that the majoirty of  DHS "intelligence" has been provided by none other than the "Southern Poverty Law Center."

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LICENSE PLATE READERS - DESIGNED TO TRACK YOUR MOVEMENTS:

Today, tens of thousands of LPRs are being used by law enforcement agencies all over the country.  The system's unchecked, and largely unmonitored, use raises significant privacy concerns. License plates, dates, times, and locations of all cars seen are kept in law enforcement databases for months or even years at a time. In the worst case, the New York State Police keeps all of its LPR data indefinitely. No universal standard governs how long data can or should be retained.

 

The country's largest such company, Federal Signal Corporation (FSC), which sells LPRs under its PIPS brand name, says it has sold 20,000 mobile systems across North America and another 15,000 fixed devices across the United States and the United Kingdom.  "We work with the 25 largest cities in the United States, over 100 cities in the US.  Tim O'Leary, a company vice president, in an interview with Ars said, "We think the market is growing at 8 to 10 percent, adjusted growth rate, annually."

Various agencies, in particular the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and Customs and Border Protection have issued Millions of dollars in Federal Grants to local law enforcement to buy the hardware.

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RECENT MILITARY "TRAINING" ACTIVITIES IN MANY U.S. CITIES:

HOUSTON:  Following reports of a military exercise occurring in Miami this week, KTRK-TV shot video of military-style helicopters roaming the skies in Houston, Texas. There have also been several reports of gunfire in the area.  The U.S. Army tells KTRK-TV that they are overseeing a “multi-agency training drill” at the old Carnegie High School on Houston’s south side. There were reportedly armed men in fatigues, a lot of firearms and what many believed were real live rounds.  The Army did not give any additional details regarding what the training is all about or why it is being conducted in Houston.

MINNEAPOLIS: 

Just as Chicagoans saw Black Hawk helicopters with “heavily armed men” hanging out of them in April this year and were told it was part of a routine training exercise, so too are the residents of Minneapolis being alerted to an upcoming urban training.

WCCO (via CBS Local) stated Monday that residents are not to be alarmed if they see a similar scene of low-flying military helicopters. It reported the U.S. Special Operations Command would be conducting exercises from now through the beginning of September.

What scenarios could the military be trying to make as real as possible?  Glenn Beck has some ideas and it makes sense.  Either a massive change in military training has taken place OR the government is preparing for “something big,” such as a civil breakdown.

MIAMI: Police sent out a warning [last] Monday that multiple police agencies would be providing support for a joint military training exercise somewhere over Miami and elsewhere in the county. The exercise will include the use of military helicopters.  But those who don’t read the papers were terrified at the sight of soldiers rappelling onto rooftops, as what sounded like machine gun fire echoed off the high-rises.  Josh Epperson, an artist who was visiting Miami during the drill, said “I heard the machine gun fire and then I hit the deck…I didn’t know what to expect, and it was one of the loudest things I’d ever heard.”  One local resident, Frances Jerrals, didn’t understand what was happening when she saw military helicopters flying over her southeast Houston neighborhood.

“When you see this, you think the worst. When you hear this, you think the worst,” Jerrals told KTRK-TV.  “I felt like I was in a war zone…It was nonstop. I was terrified,” she added.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND OTHER AGENCIES ORDER HUGE QUANTITIES OF AMMUNITION:  These various agencies have ordered more than

1.6 BILLION rounds of ammunition! when you add up all the contracts.  This ammunition is designated for use here in the continental United States!  The question begs, is the Government stockpiling ammunition to be used against the American People?  Furthermore, future purchases are now be hidden from the American People by new Government policies.  Why?

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DHS PURCHASES 2700 ARMORED VEHICLES FOR USE IN THE UNITED STATES:

The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

 

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DHS ORDERS ORDERED $2 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF "NO MORE HESITATION TARGETS" These targets depicted pregnant women, children, and elderly gun owners in residential settings as “non-traditional threats,”

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R.I.O.T. SOFTWARE, DEVELOPED FOR DHS, TRACKS SOCIAL MEDIA USERS:
In this video obtained by the Guardian, Raytheon's 'principal investigator' Brian Urch explains how the Rapid Information Overlay Technology (Riot) software uses photographs on social networks. These images sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within so-called 'exif header data'. Riot pulls out this information, analyzing not only the photographs posted by individuals, but also the location where these images were taken.



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HOMELAND SECURITY GIVEN GREEN LIGHT TO MONITOR AMERICAN JOURNALISTS - JANUARY 9, 2012:

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”

>CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION<

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GENIA PRODUCTS CREATED FOR DHS:

Genia products specializes in the development of lasers, capable of conducting laser scans from 164 feet.  Lasers are capable are even capable of detecting gun powder.  Imagine a suitable vehicle equipped in front of your home conducting such a scan.  Are you over the "Government Limit" of storing ammunition? 

That could cause you to be classified as a "Beligerent" under the NDAA and permit your indefinite  detention, without the writ of Habeus Corpus. Some of their information has been removed from their site, but here is >GENIA PRODUCTS< ______________________________________________________________________________ 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY REPORTING:

It has been reported that Department of Homeland Security has issued memo's to suppliers of MRE's to Report any "large purchases" made by individuals.  Certain books, which are deliberately NOT being named here, also flag individuals to the Department of Homeland Security.

Do you still have doubts?  Here's a COMPLETE LIST OF ALL THE DHS MEMOS for "SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTING FLYERS"

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DR JAMES GARROW ALLEGES PRESIDENT OBAMA ASKING TOP GENERALS IF THEY'LL FIRE ON U.S. CITIZIENS, IF ORDERED TO DO SO:

It has also been reported that members of the 28th Infantry Division, the Pennsylvania National Guard, have also been asked if they would obey orders to forcibly confiscate guns from law abiding citizens.
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http://brian-therightperspective.blogspot.com/2013/02/government-wants-new-national-id-card.html

This new National ID would utilize a computer chip and biometric features that would permit Radio Frequency ID signals (RFID) to monitor the movements of American Citizens along roadways, bridges, tunnels, office buildings and even any doorway with a sensor.  Not to mention the ability to store every detail of your personal, private information, including your medical records and anything else deemed "important."

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>>Supreme Court Rules Government can Spy on Americans <<

Read here to see just how your Phone, Computer and even GPS unit can now be searched and exactly how it's done!


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THE 2ND AMENDMENT - THAT WHICH UNDERPINS ALL OTHER FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION:  We now have the greatest, sustained assault on the Second Amendment that this Country has ever seen.....Including continued threats from various Government entities of  additional, potentially unconstitutional, Executive Action and by some, even proposals confiscation.

Unconstitutional Official Acts

16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256:

"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.....

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the land it is superseded thereby.  No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."

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Americans need to WAKE UP and understand the almost daily, incremental loss of their Liberties.  History is replete with examples of how his this very same model has been used and abused by Governments to create oppressive, totalitarian regimes.

Anyone who is NOT concerned simply doesn't understand history and is therefore doomed to repeat it.

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MUST SEE! Rabbi Jonathan Cahn At 2013 Inaugural Breakfast

Author of the NY Times bestseller "Harbinger", Rabbi Jonathan Cahn gives one of the most inspirational, honest assessments of the state of the American culture that I have ever heard.
Giving a searing rebuke to the Obama Administration for forcing the withdrawal of Pastor Louie Giglio's Inaugural appearance due to a sermon he gave years ago condemning homosexual marriage, Rabbi Cahn laments a culture turned upside down, where "good is evil" and "evil is good".
The video is thirty-five minutes long, but is well worth watching every minute and every word.
The only question I have is how Rabbi Cahn was able to get to get an invite to be the keynote speaker, as he speaks out against everything that Barack Obama and the leftists stand for.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, ON EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLET THAT YOU CAN.

THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL BEFORE IT IS REMOVED! (It's already been taken down once)

The Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast... MUST SEE!! PLEASE SHARE!

"WE MUST PRAY ACCORDING TO THE TRUTH AND WE MUST NOT BE AFRAID TO SPEAK THE TRUTH. WE MUST GIVE VOICE TO WHAT MUST BE SPOKEN. WE MUST SOUND THE ALARM THAT MUST BE SOUNDED. WE MUST ADDRESS WHAT MUST BE ADDRESSED. AND SO THE MESSAGE NOW WILL NOT BE POLITICALLY CORRECT. NOR WILL IT BE POLITICAL. IT WILL BE BIBLICAL. IT WILL BE TRUE. AND WHERE EVER IT FALLS LET IT FALL. I WILL NOT HOLD BACK. AND IF I OFFEND YOU, I APOLIGIZE THAT I CAN NOT APOLIGIZE FOR OFFENDING YOU.  WITHOUT TRUTH THERE IS NO LOVE."
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn

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GOP's Dilemma: Constitutional Conservatism, or Permanent Minority Status

Posted by Brian
Americans Believe In Conservative Principles, Distrust Big Government 

If, as the headline says, that Americans are essentially conservative, how is it that Mitt Romney and the Republican Party got their asses handed to them on Tuesday?
The problem isn't that the GOP is "too conservative", as the establishment Republicans (think Karl Rove) like to say, it's that the Republican Party is not seen as trustworthy to be the standard-bearers of conservatism. They're pretenders.
"Compassionate" Conservatism
After eight years of George Bush and Republicans being Democrat-lite on spending, immigration, and foreign and domestic policy and trade, who can blame voters for rejecting them?
The problem is that for too long, moderates in the Party have told us that we need to compromise with liberal Democrats, and that Americans just want us to "get along".  But, it's amazing that compromise, in their vernacular, means that we as conservatives need to move the ball to the liberal side of the line, but rarely if ever vice-versa. Compromise to them is accepting a decrease in the amount of increase in the budget, which is seen as a "cut" in Washington-speak.
DO What You Say
The public indicates that it agrees with much of what Republicans say, but feel betrayed by what they actually do.  Cutting spending and shrinking the size of government reverberates as a message and as a platform, but when all we ever see is more spending, and the government expanding year after year, people are going to become tired of these "promises".  And we are.
A huge part of the problem with the GOP is that there is nobody in the leadership who is both capable of communicating, and then actually willing to carry out, a coherent, conservative message and principles.  There are rank-and-file conservatives that are capable, but they are relegated to being foot soldiers, while the "establishment" Republican leadership limply gets rolled over by the hard-core leftists of the Democrat Party.
GOP Leadership Is Flaccid

Another huge problem for Republicans is that they are reactive versus the Democrats being pro-active.  The Democrats rarely, if ever, are caught flat-footed by the GOP, while for the Republican leadership is in a constant state of being on defense. Whether on taxes, immigration, foreign policy, a national tragedy, or natural disaster, when the Democrats politicize the issue, the Republican leaders have the deer-in-the-headlight look, and seem unable to articulate a coherent thought.  The sad thing, at least for many of us out here watching this, is that it is not rocket science as to what the Democrat response is going to be on any given issue.  They've been recycling the same memo for forty years.  You would think that they could send out someone to not only respond to the Democrats, but to blow them out of the water with answers based on conservative principles which every American could easily understand. Someone like Marco Rubio comes to mind, not because he is Latino, but because his conservatism isn't based on the latest poll or focus group.  It is who he is.  Part of the reason that Americans are suspicious of Republicans is that they have people like John Boehner weepily trying to explain something that is not in their heart and mind.  Their answers are calculated and driven by the latest poll, as they try to straddle some imaginary ideological fence, so as not to "offend" anyone.  What is offensive is that we have these leaders who think we can't see this, and are constitutionally incapable of articulating a coherent answer based on sound conservative principles and/or the Constitution.
Social and Economic Issues

IF the GOP doesn't find candidates who can tackle issues like immigration, gay rights, the made-up "war on Women", and the class warfare fraud, with some level of competency, the GOP as a party will go the way of the Whig Party.  The issues are not as complicated as the GOP would have everyone believe. The problem is that they have let the Democrats and leftists dominate the discussion with lies and half-truths while offering up feckless responses.
One challenge is that the future GOP are going to need to be teachers as well as politicians,  The 2012 election is a glaring example of how ignorant a large portion of the electorate is on many of the issues that are out there.  The Democrats were able to get away with a campaign of smears and lies precisely because of this ignorance.  The whole war on women meme was driven by outright lies!  "Republicans want to deny you contraception".  "Romney will overturn Roe v. Wade."  The fact is that Romney and the Republicans couldn't do either.  The contraception issue was settled in the 1972 case of Eisenstadt vs. Baird. Both are settled law.  Romney could no more deny women contraception or abortion than he could walk on water. But this didn't matter.  There was literally no one on the Republican side to make this rather simple case:  The contraception issue was not to deny women the right to contraception, but whether other people should be required to pay for the sexual behavior of others.
The left has been able to smear the GOP as being anti-"Immigration".  Yet no one, no one(!), from the GOP challenges the Democrats on the fact that the issue is not about "immigration", but IS about allowing individuals to enter the U.S. "illegally", and at will.  The Democrats have been able to steer the debate as an "anti-Latino" issue, when in fact it is a law and order issue, as well as a national security issue.  It is well known at this time that jihadist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are exploiting the lax security at our southern border to move people across, and that it is only a matter of time before many of the major drug cartels savagery spills across the border into California, Texas, and the other border states.  Some of it already has.  Even though over one-third of  Americans believe that securing the border is more important than "comprehensive reform", John Boehner is already out there talking about comprehensive reform, and how to work with the Democrats to make it happen.  And he thinks this will get Latinos to come to the GOP?  It won't. History proves it.  What is going to get any group to the party is to bring them together around common ground and a common message.  We know that the Dems are going to try to keep the country divided along every line that they can.  The challenge for conservatives is show how their individual success is intimately intertwined with the success of the nation as a whole. There are many successful people today because of the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ray Kroc, and countless others.  Because of Berry Gordy and Motown, many others became successful beyond their wildest dreams.  Success needs to be celebrated, not demonized.  Yet there are few on the conservative side who are out there trumpeting success. Worse, the GOP leadership is more likely to try to find common ground with the Dems in punishing success to make them seem "compassionate".
Diversity

GOP Convention Speakers (Clockwise) Haley, Sandoval, Davis,
Fortuno, Cruz, Love

We hear a lot about "diversity", but what is diversity really? To liberals, diversity is the cynical notion that there has to be a certain number of blacks, a certain number of Hispanics, whites, etc. How those people think is of no import.  Only what they look like. To a conservative, diversity has nothing to do with color.  It has to do with diversity of thoughts, opinions, viewpoints, regardless of skin color. If I am a businessman, I want the best person for a position, regardless of what they look like.  I am interested in the ideas that they bring to the table which is going to help my business be the most successful that it can be.  The same goes for who I want running my country.  This notion, from the likes of Chris Matthews, that I oppose Barack Obama because he's black, is laughable on its face.  I would argue that Chris Matthews is racist because he is obsessed with all things racial.  He has some kind of Aryan guilt complex which has manifested itself into this ridiculous notion that any critique of Barack Obama is ultimately based on the fact that he is black.  This is true in the way that liberals, in general, look at and perceive blacks. The whole "affirmative action" concept is racist.  But, contrary to common perception, it's not racist against whites, but against minorities.  The whole idea is that without affirmative action, blacks are incapable of making it on their own merits.  This is hogwash.  The sad thing is that it starts at a young age, where minority children are taught that the deck is stacked against them (a favorite Obama phrase). It is, to steal a phrase, the "soft bigotry of low expectations".  And the liberals are masters at it.  They are great at telling you what you can't do, or what you are incapable of, all because of the unfairness of life.  You are just a loser in life's lottery.  They counter that, of course, with the promises of those things that they can provide you,  while erecting a multitude of the very roadblocks, in the form of regulations, red tape, and mandates, which hinder every step you take. As conservatives, we need someone to articulate to everyone, regardless of race/orientation/gender, that each one of us has it within themselves to do great things, and that the role of government is not to provide cradle to grave security, but to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of  opportunities which await you if you are willing to work for them.

If the GOP is going to be viable in the future and not go the way of the Whig Party, the answer is not to become more like the Democrats, but to be the antithesis to their agenda.  The GOP needs to give the people a stark choice of ideology, not the milquetoast one we have offered up the last 6 elections.  The John McCain's, Lindsey Graham's, and the influence of the Bush's in the Republican Party need to be culled, and replaced with the DeMints, Rubio's, Scott Walker's, and other solid Constitutionalists.  It needs to start taking place at the town, county, district, and state levels, all the way up to Congress and the Presidency.  The American people say time and again that they believe in conservative principles and distrust big government.  It is up to us to find those leaders who can articulate and govern by those principles, and get rid of those who can't or won't. It needs to start now, or this great country is in for some very dark days ahead. (And no Chris Matthews, that isn't a racial reference).

BREITBART/JUDICIAL WATCH POLL: A WARNING AGAINST COMPROMISE

The Breitbart News Network/Judicial Watch post-election survey released today is a warning to those who have argued, in the wake of the 2012 election, that the way for the Republican Party to broaden its appeal is to compromise on core principles of limited government and the rule of law.
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MUST VIEW! Daniel Hannan -- A Letter of Warning to America

A journalist and author, Daniel Hannan has been a British member of the European Parliament since 1999. He first came to wide notice in the United States when he made a speech on the floor of the European Parliament addressing the then-prime minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown, about his disastrous economic policies. Hannan's latest book is A New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America.

Amplifying on his new book, Daniel Hannan warns that the United States is Europeanizing, with all the inherent dangers that come with the expansion of the welfare state. "This expansion doesn't just reduce economic growth, it tends to squeeze out personal morality." Hannan, who connects the decline of the European family and society with the rise of cradle-to-grave welfare in Europe, has a special warning about the dangers of Obamacare "Once politicians assume responsibility for health care, they find that they have made an almost irreversible decision." Hannan concludes that this drift to Europeanization is not inevitable if Americans honor the genius of the Founding Fathers.

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Study: Anti-Semitism On Rise In U.S.

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Hate Crimes At Queens Libraries and Jewish Temple

Survey Finds Anti-Semitic Attitudes Rising
Updated: Friday, 04 Nov 2011, 7:19 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 04 Nov 2011, 7:11 PM EDT
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MYFOXNY.COM - Swastikas were found painted on the facades of the Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst branches of the Queens Library and on the door of Congregation Tifereth Israel on Thursday.

The Anti-Defamation League today condemned the anti-Semitic graffiti. The ADL says there were 133 anti-Jewish incidents reported across New York City in 2010.

A nationwide ADL survey released just yesterday found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen in America.
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