Political Jackass

Take a look at Ron Paul’s resume. I know it’s fashionable to love Ron Paul, but many who support him have no idea who they really support. Besides this list here, Paul would like to get rid of all middle class subsidies. Guess someone should let Mr. Paul know that the middle class is what makes the American economy what it is. Without their spending power, America is as good as dead. Take away what makes them middle class and you take away the middle class.

Paul introduced The Sanctity of Life Act of 2005, a bill that would have defined human life to begin at conception, and removed challenges to prohibitions on abortion from federal court jurisdiction. Defining embryos and fetuses as persons would make abortion murder and outlaw fetal stem cell research and some contraception and fertility treatments. In 2005, Paul introduced the We the People Act, which would have removed “any claim based upon the right of privacy, including any such claim related to any issue of … reproduction” from the jurisdiction of federal courts. If made law, either of these acts would allow states to PROHIBIT ABORTION.

Ron Paul’s bill to provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.
http://tinyurl.com/yuo3ta

Ron Paul’s bill to prohibit any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity.
http://tinyurl.com/2h6y7w

Ron Paul’s bill to limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
http://tinyurl.com/2sts73

Ron Paul was the only member of congress to vote against a bill (HR 180) to prohibit spending federal tax dollars on companies doing business with genocidal warlords in Darfur.
http://tinyurl.com/2cazda

Ron Paul voted against establishing Bill HR 5252 Amendment 987(Jun 2006)[169], which would have legally protected network neutrality.
http://tinyurl.com/27xg44

Ron Paul failed to vote against the FISA amendment that legalized warrantless wiretapping of US citizens.
http://tinyurl.com/2p3t65

Ron Paul believes that all federal taxation should be eliminated.
http://tinyurl.com/yuvdk2

Ron Paul wants to eliminate the federal reserve and replace the U.S. dollar with a currency based on the gold standard.
http://tinyurl.com/2dhx28

Ron Paul wants to amend the constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship.
http://tinyurl.com/2gh52n

Ron Paul wants to end US membership in the UN
http://tinyurl.com/yoajxb

Ron Paul wants to build a 700 mile wall between the U.S and Mexico.
http://tinyurl.com/2yunzn

Ron Paul opposes universal health care.
Ron Paul is a fundamentalist born-again Christian who believes there is a war on Christmas being waged by the secular left.
Ron Paul supporters seem to be composed largely of people who oppose the war in Iraq, but for some reason believe they have no choice but to support a Republican over any Democrat (in addition to the smaller number of hard-core true believers). These casual supporters need to be aware that the vast majority of his views are bizarre and extreme.

Ron Paul is the candidate backed by the White Supremacists…
http://tinyurl.com/36k9rw

… to the point they even arranged to have supporters bussed to the straw polls in Iowa…
http://tinyurl.com/32kwtb

…and extensively cover anything Ron Paul, see e.g….
http://tinyurl.com/2mfyvq

Ron Paul has reciprocated the love from the White Supremacy groups by giving interviews to David Duke.
http://tinyurl.com/2jqhan

The 9/11 Truth movement also endorse Ron Paul, see e.g….
http://tinyurl.com/399wqb

Ron Paul authored a newsletter in which he made the following racist statements (among many others):
RP Quote: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”
RP Quote: “Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions”
RP Quote: “Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal”
RP Quote: “we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”
RP Quote: “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”
RP Quote: “What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”

He wants to ban abortion, legalise the teaching of creationism and remove the separation between church and state. His politics stink of Christian fundamentalism and to believe otherwise is a fantasy.

A vote for Ron Paul endorses irrationality, dishonesty, bigotry, racism, fundamentalism, obscurationism and an incredibly retrograde and backwards world view. If you vote for Ron Paul, you are voting for these things. You don’t get to pick and choose and claim that your vote endorses a “balanced budget” and not “a 19th century style deportation project estimated to cause over a hundred thousand deaths”.

From Reuters: U.S. State Department investigators looking into the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad last month offered immunity deals to Blackwater security guards, The New York Times reported on Monday.

The investigators from the agency’s investigative arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, did not, however, have the authority to offer such immunity grants, the newspaper said, citing U.S. government officials.

The offers represent a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute Blackwater employees involved in the incident, the newspaper said.

The officials, who were not identified, said Justice Department prosecutors, who do have the authority to offer such deals, had no advance knowledge of the arrangement, the newspaper said.

Most of the Blackwater guards who took part in the Sept. 16 incident were offered what officials described as limited-use immunity, the report said.

Limited-use immunity means the private security guards were promised they would not be prosecuted for anything they said in interviews with the authorities as long as their statements were true, the Times said.

North Carolina-based Blackwater has about 1,000 employees in Iraq who protect U.S. diplomats and other officials.

The FBI took control of the investigation from the State Department early this month.

A Justice Department spokesman had no comment. A State Department official said the department does not comment on ongoing investigations and referred questions to the FBI.

Foreign contractors in Iraq are immune from prosecution under Iraqi law under a decree issued by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in 2004.

A private watchdog group is asking the White House to show immediately that it has not destroyed archives of at least 5 million e-mails that were improperly deleted from internal servers. So far, the Bush administration has refused to provide such assurances.

A motion filed Friday by the National Security Archive seeks to compel the White House to hand over records that show it has maintained backup tapes of the deleted e-mails, as required by presidential record-keeping laws. A nearly identical case from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, another watchdog, seeks similar assurances that the Bush administration has not permanently erased the millions of e-mails exchanged among scores of White House aides.

“What we want is to find out what e-mails have been saved, and what e-mails are missing and how we can recover the e-mails that are missing from the backup tapes,” Meridith Fuchs, general counsel for the Security Archive, told RAW STORY. “They have every interest in delaying, we have every interest in speeding it along.”

As President Bush nears the end of his second term, the groups say it is vital that the White House demonstrate precisely what archives it has and be prevented from destroying any more records that will prove invaluable to historians studying how the administration operated.

“We need information so we can take steps to preserve all possible sources of e-mails deleted from the White House servers,” Fuchs said in a news release.

So far, the White House has told the groups only that it is preserving any records it had in its possession as of September of this year, when the cases were filed. Justice Department lawyers, representing the administration, have argued against court orders that would open the possibility of contempt proceedings if the records were destroyed; the administration also has refused to document how long its archives go back.

A lawyer familiar with the proceedings told RAW STORY that the NSA and CREW proceedings are “totally on the same page,” and are expected to be combined into a single court case.

A federal magistrate recommended that a federal judge order the White House to preserve all its e-mails, and the judge’s recommendation could come as soon as this week, the lawyer said. Feuch’s called the magistrate’s recommendation “encouraging,” but she said it wouldn’t affect the archives’ case unless or until the two are combined.

The lawsuits are not seeking the contents of White House e-mail exchanges, rather they demand that the White House Office of Administration provide general information about what was archived over what period of time.

from Webware.com by Anne Broache

If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content.

Affixing his signature to federal Net neutrality rules would be high on the list during his first year in the Oval Office, the junior senator from Illinois said during an interactive forum Monday afternoon with the popular contender put on by MTV and MySpace at Coe College in Iowa.

Net neutrality, of course, is the idea that broadband operators shouldn’t be allowed to block or degrade Internet content and services–or charge content providers an extra fee for speedier delivery or more favorable placement.

The question, selected through an online video contest, was posed via video by small-business owner and former AT&T engineer Joe Niederberger, a member of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. He asked Obama: “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open Internet principles like Net neutrality?”

“The answer is yes,” Obama replied. “I am a strong supporter of Net neutrality.”

He went on to explain the issue briefly: “What you’ve been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you’re getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web sites…so you could get much better quality from the Fox News site and you’d be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites,” he went on. “And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet–which is that there is this incredible equality there.”

Obama added that companies like Google may not have gotten started without a “level playing field” and pledged to make sure Net neutrality “is the principle that my FCC commissioners are applying as we move forward.”

Obama’s revelation wasn’t exactly jaw-dropping. After all, when debate over enacting Net neutrality laws was raging in earnest last summer, he devoted a podcast to touting the need for regulations and denying the Bells and cable the ability “to change the internet as we know it.” He also signed on as a cosponsor of legislation proposing Net neutrality regulations for broadband providers.

He’s also not the only presidential candidate to voice support for the rules. On the Democratic side, so have Sens. Joe Biden (D-Del.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), former Democratic senator John Edwards, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), and Democratic New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

Among the Republicans, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has also reportedly given a thumbs up to the idea, although some opponents of Net neutrality laws contend he was blindsided in a conference call with bloggers and questioned whether he was familiar enough with the issue to take a real stand. With only a few exceptions, however, Republicans have generally rejected proposals for Net neutrality regulations, arguing the market should be left to sort out complaints of discrimination and that new regulations will stifle investment in new broadband networks.

If nothing else, Obama’s remarks are noteworthy because they seem to affirm that Net neutrality is alive and well as a political issue. His decision to promise “concrete steps,” as MoveOn.org called them, at a public forum could create a ripple effect, eliciting similar pledges (or opposite ones, as the case may be) from rivals and becoming a defining issue in the campaign.