Eric Holder

If the Republican Party had one tenth the courage and determination of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, we might not be having this conversation.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to the media in Phoenix, after learning that he is to be sued by the US Justice Department.

Sheriff Joe has stood like a rock throughout attack after attack by the liberal Marxists, and never wavered in his determination to serve the people by whom he was elected. Joe is a gutsy, no-nonsense lawman who says just what he thinks and does what he says he’s going to do, which has been to incarcerate some 10,000 offenders, both domestic and illegal alien.

President Obama’s government has singled out Arizona for punishment, for being the first to stand against the statist tyranny of Washington. Eric Holder, at the orders of Barack Hussein Obama, initiated a lawsuit against Arizona’s anti-illegal alien legislation SB 1070, which had passed with overwhelming support from the people of Arizona. Gutsy Conservative Governor Jan Brewer stood against Obama’s hectoring. She told Holder to go pound sand and informed reporters that she was confident that the State’s argument would prevail.

In the meantime, it’s not like this is Joe Arpaio’s first rodeo with people who would love to see him dragged down. He’s faced them all and he’s still here. Now he’s become such a pain in the posteriors of the drug traffickers that they’ve put out an open contract on his head. Joe’s defiance has helped bolster the confidence of other border lawmen to stand up against an illegal rogue government that is obviously bent on the destruction of our society, at least as we know it.

Joe is an everyday American hero. There are heroes just like Joe all over the country. Look around. They’re your friends and neighbors… your family… your community. Keep at it Joe, we’re with you.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

by Lance Thompson

Sooner or later, the wolf in the sheepskin reveals its true character or, in the case of the Obamas, their lack of. Yes, we are speaking plural here… Michelle Obama is, if anything, a more strident racist than Barack Hussein.

NAACP President Ben Jealous has accused the Tea Party Movement of racism.

Meanwhile, out here in the real world… the one whose real unemployment rate is pushing 18%, where four out of five Americans can’t find enough work to feed their families and whose extended unemployment benefits have been curtailed by partisan bickering in the Senate, with DeMarxists insisting that unemployment be paid for as part of additional spending… some twenty billion dollars worth (big surprise).

Republicans, for their part, are not unaware of the urgency of the situation, as hundreds of thousands of unemployed have had their only source of income cut since June 12. They want the money to be paid for utilizing spending cuts. They have offered four separate compromises which have been uniformly rejected by the DeMarxists. So, while the Congress dithers and the Obama administration considers more ways and means to gin up racial tension in the country to rejuvenate their severely flagging base, far from uniting the country the Obamas have, by their every word and deed, shown themselves to be the basest of racists.

The crying shame in all of this is that it is so unnecessary. The Democrats and their race-pandering, welfare-peddling policies have tried, and in far too many cases succeeded, in placing minorities, in particular blacks, into the ‘new plantation system’. It is a dark and evil place, where the images of racism have got to be perpetuated in order to foster the requisite mental attitudes of victimization, helplessness and slavish dependence on government.

More than one million two hundred thousand American men have fought and died for freedom, from the Civil War to the present, to preserve and protect the very freedoms the race-haters take so lightly. Since Obama took office, the racial divide in this country has become more and more pronounced. From the institutional racists such as Eric Holder, Representative Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, to professional race haters such as the increasingly irrelevant Jesse Jackson and the never-to-miss-an-opportunity Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton. They crawl out of the woodwork at a moment’s notice, to stir the ashes of race and set them alight once more. It’s all they have. They’re a one trick pony and many minorities have come to see how empty their words, and how false the images they portray, are.

Barack Hussein Obama is a badly flawed and failed President with an administration in shambles. DeMarxist politicians are bailing out as fast as possible, to distance themselves as far from Obama as they can while they can. Americans won’t be duped any longer. Oddly enough, it’s been the racists themselves who have expiated the so-called white guilt. We’ve come full circle on the entire race issue now. We don’t owe you a thing. Have a great life.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

No news yet on efforts by the DHS to establish a National Fusion Center Program Office for the purpose of Congressional oversight, despite a March 19 report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) saying: 

"The establishment and operation of these offices will be of interest to Congress." 

According to the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), a purveyor of the President's Information Sharing Council  through which all 72 fusion centers in the nation are integrated, the Obama Administration moved the auspices of the ISE under Executive Office Control: 

In response to the 9/11 Commission's Recommendations, the Congress passed and the President signed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.. the law required the President to designate a Program Manager for the ISE and establish an Information Sharing Council to advise the President and the Program Manager on the development of ISE policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards, and to ensure proper coordination among Federal departments and agencies participating in the ISE.   

Under the Obama Administration, the Information Sharing Council has been integrated into the White House policy process through the Information Sharing and Access Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), so that the important work of the ISC will move forward under the auspices of the Executive Office of the President. 

One way to lure the program back under Congressional oversight: "sustainment funding": 

Currently, funds from the State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) and Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) are used to support state and local fusion centers. These grant programs are managed within DHS by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD). 

Apparantly, the $250 million allocated to fusion centers via Stimulus I won't last long.  

You can receive a chunk of that stimulus money, while the fusion centers are still officially off the Congressoinal Books and in the Executive Office pocket, by applying for a Category 8 "Fusion Center support" competitive National Information Sharing Initiative grant through the DOJ's Bureau of Justice.  

Call yourself a "local public and private entity, for-profit/commercial [sorry, no interns] org, nonprofit org, faith-based and community organization, institution of higher education, federally-recognized Indian tribal government, or a unit of local government that support national initiatives to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system,"  with the desire to "improve the functioning of the criminal justice system," through an "all crimes" approach and you're in.  

Your focus should be on developing a program: 

to enable fusion centers to improve support to smaller cities, towns, tribes, and rural counties in identifying public safety issues and providing information and analytical assistance to help the local law enforcement agencies more effectively prevent crime both within their community and across juridictional boundaries. 

[You] will support the development of a nationwide strategy for implementation and support for intelligence-led policing methods to enable collaboration between fusion centers and local, state, and tribal partners. Preference will be given to applicants that target and address the needs of smaller departments and those with limited resources. 

[Your]  program will focus on identification of fusion center and local law enforcement partnerships that will implement collaborative technology solutions, evaluate results, and then promote business practices and technology solutions that can be replicated by other fusion centers across the country.

In other words, if you're a fan of Law and Order and watch 24, well-connected, are a people-person who can talk with small-town folk and you've a pre-crime idea that can go national, you, too, can receive up to $750,000! 

Turning in your neighbor never looked so good .. in this economy.

Just about now, the spring 2010 Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC) has concluded their bi-annual meeting on global information sharing that begins at the local level.

The GAC met in October of last year.

Some of what was discussed included AG Eric Holder's commitment "in getting the Global message out," DHS's concern in sustaining funding for fusion centers (of which there is currently no Congressional oversight), and of particular note, the Nationwide SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) Intiative:

a historic partnership among local,state, tribal and federal agencies (including BJA, DOJ, DHS, FBI,and the US Department of Defense). The NSI establishesa national capacity to accomplish what law enforcement agencies have been trying have been doing for years --gathering information regarding behaviors and incidents associated with crime to, "connect the dots" -- and establishes a standardized approach to sharing information with the goals of detecting and preventing criminal activity, including terrorism-related activities .. [by] developing relationship among police, fusion centers, and the communities they serve (particularly immigrant and minority communities) to best address the challenges of crime control and prevention of terrorism. 

Additionally, with the same goal of informing and integrating the community in prevention efforts .. a video in support of the iWATCH, a community awareness program created to educate the public about behaviors and activities that may indicate terrorism [was shown].

 

Gathering information regarding behaviors.

Goals of detecting and preventing criminal activity including terrorism-related activites.

In ways to address crime control and prevention of terrorism.

You and I are participating in a massive social experiment at the behest of the Justice Deparment and the Executive Office.

Since the Obama Administration has declared there is no longer a War on Terror and has decided to ban the use of the terms "radical jihadist" and "Islamic extremist", will the newly defined threat to the state be thought of in terms of political and racial ideology? Political terrorism to replace what was once thought of as religious-based terrorism?

Why does the Department of Homeland Security continue to exist if the United States has eliminated the WOT?

And if there is no longer exists a hunt for terrorism, why are there information-gathering mechanisms in place to "control" and "prevent" crime? Is monitoring pre-crime their target? Pre-crime by whom? You and I?

Considering today's political environment, the tea party movement or other "homegrown radicalizations" surely would have been mentioned at today's GAC meeting.

Perhaps they discussed the methods of "new chatter" through social media, and how you and I may have inadvertantly incited a "flash mob" when we retweeted or updated our Facebook pages.

I look forward to reading about this in the New York Times.

Trasparency we can hope for, if Freedom of the Press still exists.

Time to double-check your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. 

If you ever RT or "liked" any sort of gathering, in the future, you may be pegged for being part of a flash mob, if that hasn't been done already. 

The DOJ is considering "the development of a flash mob training and technical assistance program" to monitor and investigate "near-spontaneous [gatherings] generated by invitations extended through social-network web sites and text messaging": 

BJA is seeking information from law enforcement agencies that have developed policies and procedures for handling flash mob incidents. For the purpose of this effort, BJA defines a "flash mob" as a sudden, near-spontaneous gathering generated by invitations extended through social-network web sites and text messaging. To date, most flash mobs were more quixotic than criminal, and other than precautions for safety, provided little need for direct law enforcement. More recently, however, some jurisdictions are reporting that thefts, assaults, and property damage have occurred during flash mob events. BJA is considering the development of a flash mob training and technical assistance program and is interested in hearing from law enforcement agencies that have flash mob response experience. 

Agencies are encouraged to contact Michael Medaris, BJA Senior Policy Advisor..

Think twice before you retweet this, lest you be reported for inciting civil unrest or worse.

He may not have closed Gitmo, but he is certainly adhering to his promise avoid the military tribunals and a court circus.

Silently letting our enemies free while the nation is riveted by a socialist takeover.    

This is worse than just underhanded politics, folks.     

This is evil mainifested by the power of the Executive Office.     

From the Wall Street Journal's Jess Bravin:     

"A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantánamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.     

Military prosecutors suspected Mr. Slahi of links to other al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004."     

The Weekley Standard's Thomas Joscelyn adds: 

The 9/11 Commission reported that at the time he was recruiting the Hamburg cell, Slahi was “a significant al Qaeda operative,” who was “well known to U.S. and German intelligence, though neither government apparently knew he was operating in Germany in late 1999.” 

... 

Slahi's detention at Guantanamo has been controversial because of the interrogation techniques used on him. Slahi is one of the few detainees held at Guantanamo who had a special, and harsh, interrogation plan approved for his questioning. 

Lt. Col. Stuart Crouch, the prosecutor who was charged with seeking Slahi's conviction by a military commission, decided he could not move forward with Slahi's prosecution because the evidence was tainted by these techniques. But this does not mean that Slahi is an innocent. Crouch himself told the Wall Street Journal in 2007: “Of the cases I had seen, [Slahi] was the one with the most blood on his hands.”  

That blood on Slahi's hands did nothing to keep Lt. Col Stuart Couch from adding himself to the roster of prosecutors who resigned in protest of the treatment of enemy combatants at Gitmo.  

Couch may very well be one of the 7 anonymous DOJ attorneys Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to identify.  

This would not be the first time Obama has employed his enemies and former cohorts, to keep them within arms distance .. compliant and silent.  

There's Hillary, Gates, and I include Former Campaign David Plouffe, who Obama rehired  after Plouffe came out with his campaign-tell-all  Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory (no, I'm not linking to that jerk's book, although I will link to Karl Rove publicly chewing Plouffe's logic for breakfast this past Sunday.)  

Continues Joscelyn: 

During his hearings at Guantanamo, Slahi denied many of the allegations levied against him. But in the context of those denials he also made some important admissions. Slahi admitted that he swore bayat (an oath of allegiance) to Osama bin Laden, and was trained in al Qaeda's notorious al Farouq camp. 

The Obama Administration has just released an avowed enemy of the United States back into the al Qaeda fold.  

Does this mean Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be expected to walk, especially given that our current President has already described waterboarding as torture and it is common knowledge KSM underwent 183 sessions. And does Obama's, Holder's and Gibb's "cart before the donkey"/ "judge and sentence now, convict later" statements guarantee enough of a tainted jury pool that the entire 9/11 group will be released? 

Whatever happens from here, should American troops end up in harm's way or American civilians be killed here in the States,  Obama will be the one with blood on his hands.

When reading about Eric Holder suggesting we read the Miranda warning to the corpse of Osama Bin Laden, an idea struck me.

When do Democrats think the Constitution really matters?

If a foreign national tries to bomb a plane out of the sky on behalf of Al-Queda, the constitution matters a great deal, since we will make sure he gets a full civilian trial.

If one of that guy's bosses is seized on an Afghan battlefield, why yes, let's give him a show trial at Foley Square.

Indeed, the best way to get a top job at the present Department of Justice is to have served as legal counsel to enemy terror detainees.

And locally, the two Chris's-- Chris Dodd and Chris Murphy-- have gone into fits of apolexy just thinking that Al Queda phone calls might have been tapped before a warrant was properly issued.

You see, when it comes to our enemies, the Constitution matters a great deal.

Now, as for this section of the Constitution  , well the Democratic Party seems to be a bit less adamant about protecting its provisions.

See, its sort of simple. If you want a bill to pass--especially one people care about--maybe the elected representatives of the people ought to cast a vote they can be accountable for. So, the people can decide whether or not they agree.  But not for our Nancy.

"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday about the reconciliation package. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Funny, the term "deem and pass" isn't in the Constitution. Mind telling me which penumbra its hiding behind?

The Constitution is a funny thing to the Democrats. The people who are trying to destroy the nation are entitled to its most expansive reading of protections.

But as to the taxpayers of the nation, and those members of the minority party whom they represent. Well, they are entitled to nothing as far as Constitutional due process. Nancy Pelosi, meet Judge Dredd.

Perhaps if Al-Queda opposed health care reform Nancy Pelosi would follow the Constitution?   

Mega kudos to Mark Levin for being all over this. By the way Mark, I’ll back-bench for you any day.

Our Justice Department has been taken over and suborned by radical ACLU types and radicals with direct connections to Islamo-fascist organizations with ties to terrorists. From the top down the Justice Department has become the classic fifth column operating against the interests of the country, our citizens and our national security.

Eric Holder

Our Justice Department has been stacked with leftist-leaning attorneys since the Clinton days and probably before that. George Bush, in a well-meaning but ill-conceived effort to ‘reach out to the other side’, left some holdovers from the previous administration in an effort to appear fair in view of the contested election results. Bad mistake. President Bush hadn’t had time to finish warming the seat in the oval office before they started stabbing him in the back. This is a lesson that should be remembered in 2012.

Eric Holder’s own law firm, Covington and Burling, has represented seventeen Yemenis confined at Guantanamo. Holder himself, as Deputy Attorney General, pushed for the release of sixteen violent FALN Puerto Rican terrorists. Another Obama appointee to the Justice Department was the ACLU attorney for John Walker Lindh, the so-called ‘American Taliban’, Attorney Tony West who was to head the Justice Departments Civil Division.

Tony West

With all respect, this whole thing smells like two week old fish. It’s difficult to see how our national security fits into this picture when the people in our Justice Department are operating diametrically in opposition to the principles of the Constitution of this country. Our Justice Department needs a thorough housecleaning along with both Houses of Congress.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

We’ve had some stunning successes recently in the international war on terror. US and Pakistani forces successfully put the snatch on the number two man in the Taliban chain of command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, considered to be their key military strategist. Much to the chagrin of Eric Holder and company he WAS NOT Mirandized, and in the hands of Pakistani interrogators is singing like a Hartz Mountain Canary. It’s safe to say he’s being interrogated for more than fifty three minutes.

Administration requests that Baradar be transferred to New York for trial have so far gone unanswered. Sound improbable? Well it is. There are real questions in many American minds just which side of this war on terror Barack Hussein Obama is really on. Our Marines and Army are being asked to fight with almost impossible constraints on their ability to respond to an enemy who can kill them at will. This is a direct reflection on the will of the Commander-in-Chief. No military in history, other than ourselves and the Israelis, go to more extremes to avoid citizen casualties and unnecessary collateral damage.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar

Obama hemmed and hawed for MONTHS giving our troops in-country the force multipliers they required, and then he permits one arm to be tied behind their backs while they fight what is probably the most important battle of the war in Afghanistan to date. Whether it’s troops in the field or terrorist trials at home, Obama’s whole approach to the prosecution of this war is CARTERESQUE at best. At worst it may be something entirely different and more sinister.

Obama’s close connections to the Islamic community, whether with wealthy Pakistani student Mohammad Hasan Shandu from Obama’s Occidental College days to his inexplicable fawning to Muslim leaders, there is much to wonder about. As the leader of a country in a war to the death with a fundamentalist Islamic philosophy which is no more than a cult of death and one which has the STATED aim of the destruction of our country and our way of life, his attitudes become even less understandable.

His recent appointment of Rashad Hussain as US Envoy to the Muslim world is also very suspect, given Mr Hussain’s proven connections with known terrorist sympathizers such as Sami Al-Arian, currently serving time in a federal prison for aiding terrorists.

With about 53% of Americans not even wanting Obama to run for re-election in 2012, and with the lowest approval ratings of any president in recent history I guess it’s time to ask…. Hey Obama, WHO’S SIDE ARE YOU ON? Better yet, WHO are you working for? What oath did you say you were going to abide by?

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010