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- Germans compare Obama to Stasi Communist Secret Police
- Democrats to let non-citizens "help" you vote
- NAACP: "Take down Robert E. Lee's painting."
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 12:30 AM PDT
“It
is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information
won’t be used. This is the nature of secret government organizations.
The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the
government to collect their information in the first place.”
Even Schmidt
Former Commander, East German Stasi
Communist Secret Police
BERLIN - Wolfgang Schmidt was seated in Berlin’s 1,200-foot-high TV tower, one of the few remaining landmarks left from the former East Germany. Peering out over the city that lived in fear when the Communist Party ruled it, he pondered the magnitude of domestic spying in the United States under the Obama administration. A smile spread across his face. “You know, for us, this would have been a dream come true,” he said, recalling the days when he was a lieutenant colonel in the defunct Communist country’s secret police, the Stasi. In those days, his department was limited to tapping 40 phones at a time, he recalled. Decide to spy on a new victim and an old one had to be dropped, because of a lack of equipment. He finds breathtaking the idea that the U.S. government receives daily reports on the cellphone usage of millions of Americans and can monitor the Internet traffic of millions more reports McClatchy News.
East Germany’s Stasi has long been considered the standard of police state surveillance during the Cold War years, a monitoring regime so vile and so intrusive that agents even noted when their subjects were overheard engaging in sexual intercourse. Against that backdrop, Germans have greeted with disappointment, verging on anger, the news that somewhere in a U.S. government databank are the records of where millions of people were when they made phone calls or what video content they streamed on their computers in the privacy of their homes. Even Schmidt, 73, who headed one of the more infamous departments in the infamous Stasi, called himself appalled. The dark side to gathering such a broad, seemingly untargeted, amount of information is obvious, he said. “It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used,” he said. “This is the nature of secret government organizations. The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the government to collect their information in the first place.”  German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, tried to provide an out for President Barack Obama, offering as a possible explanation for the sweeping nature of the U.S. collection efforts that “the Internet is new to all of us.” She was roundly mocked for that statement, and her administration appeared far less forgiving more recently, when similar spying charges were leveled against the British government. “Everyone knows that gathering so much information is bullshit,” said Reinhard Weisshuhn, a political activist and foreign policy adviser. “It’s a total breach of trust by the government. This is how a society destroys itself.” For 15 years, the Stasi tracked Weisshuhn’s every move and conversation. His Stasi file, which he, like many other Stasi targets, reviewed after the Berlin Wall collapsed, ran to 9,000 pages. He was shocked, and he’s quick to stress that the United States shouldn’t be compared to the totalitarian East German state.
'Yes We Scan' Anti wiretap activists protested Obama's visit to Germany
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 12:15 AM PDT
Democrats turn over California
to non-citizens
For the fucking we are about to receive
let us be truly grateful.
The People's Republic of California - The People's State Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to "assist" American citizen voters in properly casting their ballots. I can see it now. Tens of thousands of "non-citizens" (translation - citizens of foreign nations) will be combing the nursing homes, retirement communities and low income areas to help voters "correctly" fill out millions of absentee ballots. America is truly fucked. Our own politicians have sold out American citizens to foreigners. The measure from Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, would allow for up to five non-citizens to serve at a particular polling site. Those poll workers must be permanent U.S. residents who legally entered the country.
Those residents could provide much-needed help to voters with limited English skills, said Sen. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, who presented Bonta's bill. There are 2.6 million eligible California voters who are not fully proficient in English, reports the San Jose Mercury News. "These individuals have the absolute right to make fully informed voting decisions on Election Day," Torres said. More than three dozen organizations involved in elections and immigrant advocacy have signaled their support for AB817. The California Association of Clerks and Election Officials wrote in a March letter to lawmakers that the measure would help counties recruit bilingual poll workers and deputy registrars. The Senate passed AB817 on a party-line vote of 22-10, with Republicans in opposition. It heads back to the Assembly, which must adopt minor changes made by the Senate. The measure cleared an initial Assembly vote in May. During that floor debate, several Republicans who opposed the bill said serving as a poll worker is a responsibility that should be reserved for citizens.
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Posted: 10 Jul 2013 09:28 AM PDT
NAACP - Take down Robert E. Lee's painting.
Yes, do it, but put up the painting of his hero father, General
Light Horse Harry Lee in its place.
The president of an NAACP branch in Florida has petitioned members of the Lee County Commission to take down a painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee, calling the former Confederate leader a historic symbol of racism. The painting of Lee has been up since 1929. So one could say that the NAACP is looking to create an issue just for the sake of creating an issue. Be that as it may, personally, I have no problem with taking down Lee's painting. Sorry to any readers from the South, but Lee was a traitor and an oath breaker. He swore to protect the Constitution and instead raised armies to kill those who kept their oath to the Constitution. One can debate if Lee is a symbol of racism or not. But there is no doubt he was a traitor.
But James Muwakkil, of the Lee County chapter of the NAACP, said the painting, which has hung in the county commission’s meeting room for years, divides the community. “That painting is a symbol of racism. It’s a symbol of divisiveness, and it doesn’t unify Lee County. It divides Lee County,” Mr. Muwakkil said in a letter, the News-Press reported. County Commissioner Larry Kiker said the commission would have to hold a public meeting on the issue. “I would be looking for thoughtful conversation based upon the historical value and why it was put there to begin with, mainly because I don’t know too much about it,” he told the News-Press reported. The painting hails back decades. The county’s commissioners in 1929 asked Virginia lawmakers to help them get a portrait of Lee, the paper reported. (Washington Times)
Henry Lee - The painting that should be
hanging in Lee County.
.What would Robert E. Lee's father have thought about his son actively making war against the very nation and Constitution he and fellow Virginian George Washington created? . With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Lee became a captain in a Virginia dragoon detachment, which was attached to the 1st Continental Light Dragoons. In 1778, Lee was promoted to major and given the command of a mixed corps of cavalry and infantry known as Lee's Legion, with which he won a great reputation as a leader of light troops. . It was during his time as commander of the Legion that Lee earned the sobriquet of "Light-Horse Harry" for his horsemanship. On September 22, 1779 the Continental Congress voted to present Lee with a gold medal—a reward given to no other officer below a general's rank—for the Legion's actions during the Battle of Paulus Hook in New Jersey, on August 19 of that year. . Lee was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was assigned with his Legion to the southern theater of war. Lee's Legion raided the British outpost of Georgetown, South Carolina in January 1781 and helped screen the American army in their Race to the Dan River the following month. . Lee united with General Francis Marion and General Andrew Pickens in the spring of 1781 to capture numerous British outposts in South Carolina and Georgia including Fort Watson, Fort Motte, Fort Granby, Fort Galphin, Fort Grierson, and Fort Cornwallis, Augusta, Georgia. They conducted a campaign of terror and intimidation against Loyalists in the region, highlighted in Pyle's Massacre.
Henry Lee and his legion also served at the Battle of Guilford Court House, the Siege of Ninety-Six, and the Battle of Eutaw Springs. He was present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown. . During the infamous Whiskey Rebellion, Lee commanded the 13,000 militiamen sent to quash the rebels. . On July 27, 1812, Lee received grave injuries while helping to resist an attack on his friend and fellow Federalist, Alexander Contee Hanson, editor of the Baltimore newspaper, The Federal Republican. Hanson was attacked by a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican mob because his paper opposed the War of 1812. . Lee and Hanson and two dozen other Federalists had taken refuge in the offices of the paper. The group surrendered to Baltimore city officials the next day and were jailed. Laborer George Woolslager led a mob that forced its way into the jail, removed the Federalists, beating and torturing them over the next three hours. Lee was left partially blinded after hot wax was poured into his eyes. . All were severely injured, and one Federalist, General James Lingan, died. |
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