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beebop2| 2.25.12 @ 6:47PM
okay? this is the ultimate lazy .... can't even summarize the article? Seriously .... why would one bother with spectator?
RJ| 2.25.12 @ 7:13PM
Let's start a list of reasons why the American public should vote Obama out of office in November.
To start things off, I view Mr. Obama as making the Federal government more corrupt and dictatorial, while seriously damaging the economy with governmental restrictions. Some examples, in addition to the actions of the DOJ as referenced in the Pajamas Media article, are:
Stimulus - billed as helping the economy, it did not perform as advertised. It looks more like a slush fund for Obama supporters and put us deeper in debt.
Obama Care - The government increases its control over the health care industry, requires each and every citizen to pay to insure according to its mandates and ultimately controls what health care options are available. It will establish government controlled rationing of health care and opens the door to government regulating your daily conduct on the grounds of reducing health risks. Our government is supposed to serve us, not tell us what to do in the management of our own lives.
Spread the Wealth Around - As stated to "Joe the Plumber" during the campaign, the Obama Administration likes redistributing wealth and has a spending deficit of over $1 trillion dollars a year. This is unsustainable and is leading us to bankruptcy. This week it was admitted that the Obama administration has no plan for ending the deficit and the Senate is now in its third year of neither passing nor proposing an annual budget. Almost half of the American public do not pay federal income taxes, while Obama rallies his supporters that those paying the bills should pay more. Mr. Obama's policies remind one of Hughie Long and Juan Peron. They are not the stuff of sound economics for a prosperous nation. Throw in crony capitalism with loans to companies like Solyndra and you have the corruption of Chicago Ward politics on a national scale.
Chrysler Bond holders - Their legal rights were run over by this administration. Who says we are a society of laws? And no wonder employers facing an increasingly hostile and restrictive government are reluctant to expand their businesses and hire new employees.
War in Libya - The Obama administration committed US troops into battle without an imminent threat to the United States nor approval by Congress. It is beyond the President's Constitutional authority to do so. It resembles the act of a dictator. God help us with the escalating risk of a Middle Eastern war involving Iran.
Energy - The US is exporting its wealth to foreign nations to pay for energy. At the same time, the nation has a rich reserve of available energy which is kept off the market by the government. Obama closed drilling in the Gulf and did not approve the Keystone pipeline. Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon and the world's supply is threatened by a potential war in the Middle East. We need to develop our our energy resources.
I am sure that American Spectator readers can improve and expand upon this list. America is again a nation divided. Much of our freedom, well-being and prosperity has been lost in recent times. It will not be restored by moderating our values. Accommodating the excesses and abuses of government merely authenticates the policies of those hostile to personal freedom. We must offer a clear contrast and choice.
albert constantine jr.| 2.25.12 @ 8:18PM
The attorneys from the Bush White House who were asked to provide legal guidance as to what constitutes torture have been hounded and harassed by the left since then. There have been attempts to have them disbarred and denied employment, because of ideological disagreement with the administration for which they worked and a belief that their work in determining how far interrogation techniques could go before they were not legal was unworthy of a legal professional.
Unfortunately, the same zeal with which the left pursues imaginary violations of the Eighth or other amendments is also applied with vigor to deny those with whom they disagree their First Amendment rights and other constitutional protectin.
On the right, it is likely past time to consider using the left’s own techniques in responding to the clearly demonstrated misconduct by its attorneys, who are not only giving legal advice, but controlling the arrest and punishment apparatus of the federal government found in the USDOJ, and using it to punish those with whom they disagree on political issues.
albert constantine jr.| 2.25.12 @ 8:21PM
"constitutional protectin"
normally I would spell that "protection".
Oldefarte| 2.25.12 @ 8:57PM
I wholehearted agree with Quin's conclusions of this US Justice Dept in the totality of its actions since 11/3/08. The UN-Justice Dept is obviously a political enforcement tool of the white house [ie Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, S.Carolina, Louisiana etc and that is a proven fact. That said, i do not however agree with the actions of this protestor at the W.Palm abortion clinic, nor do I agree with similar actions in any other situations. To me this is simply civil disobedience that is no different to OWS's camping out on public property creating a public disturbance that requires the misuse of public service officials [police etc]. What is the difference here between this situation and OWS or labor unionists protesting at bankers' neighborhoods? Are we only one step away from the street protests seen within the middle east etc? There is only a inch difference in some cases of legality between the non-violence of this West Palm protestor and say similar protestors who previously resorted to murder/violence of physicians and abortion clinic personnel in order to prove their point. Do citizens have the right to protest? Of course they do, but that is why the Almighty created governmental representatives/agencies and voting booths. If someone want to protest in a civil and dignified manner, the proper forum for ame would be to contact their governmental representatives [city councilmen, state senators/representatives] or private concerns [chamber of commerce, consumer protection services etc. There is no need to attempt to imitate the lawlessness and thugishness of the Acorn, OWS, Black Panthers, NOW etc segments of our radical segment of our population with our public disagreements with governmental policy. If one wishes to protest, IMHO the proper venue is not the labor unionist thuggery demonstrated by occupying Wisconsin's state capitol buildings and disrupting the civil workings of government, but instead to proclaim their protest by letter writing/phoning their elected representatives, defeating same at re-election times etc. We are a civil society supposedly, and although some members of our group do NOT act according to the rules of same, the very reason why we distinguish ourselves from say the bomb throwers of the middle east is because we are CIVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quin| 2.26.12 @ 10:01AM
Oldefarte, my friend: I always appreciate your comments (and your frequent compliments). Not to disagree, but just to explain the difference: The protesters discussed at the abortion clinic are not doing ANYTHING to interfere with the operation of the clinic, and they are not breaking the law. They are merely exercising their rights to free speech, without ANY interference or any threat of coercion. That's why they are different from the Occupiers, and why they should be defended.
Oldefarte| 2.26.12 @ 12:01PM
Quin, I appreciate [as noted above] your always intelligent, informative and rational editorials; but IMHO to respectfully disagree with your viewpoint, yes the protesters DO INTERFERE with the operation of the clinic. They do so by their indication of visual disagreement with a LEGAL BUSINESS OPERATION [if same was illegal then the government agencies should invade, investigate, prosecute and shut down same for violations of existing [legislative passed] laws [which to my knowledge have not done same]. An abortion/medical clinic is a licensed, legal business that pays taxes, fees etc that support police, fire, school etc community governmental services. As a going business concern, this abortion same does not deserve to have their business interfered with, disrupted etc from having some over-the-top/excessive anti-abortionist stand in front of their doorstep holding a protest sign and scaring their patients/customers run off for their selfish/self-centered attitudes/opinions. Again, the same scenerio existed in Pansacola, Florida years ago when a kook/nutball with a shotgun killed/MURDERED an abortion doctor as I recall, and again there is only an ounce difference between your stated mild/meek woman protestor and another infiltrated insane nutjob integrating her protests with a weapon. Thanks again for your opinion, but I just disagree with street protesting which is a form of anarchy!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 2.26.12 @ 12:37PM
PS: Finishing my thoughts, this situation is a typical divorce between the supreme NATURAL LAW and MAN'S LAW [which is suppose to follow and be guided by the former but does not always do so as you know as a fellow ST. CHARLES AVE. WOLFPACKER], but again, that is not the clinic-business's fault [as they are following the letter of the latter supposedly; otherwise they would be closed by the legal authorities]. If this woman protestor was outside a Walmart with a sign protesting their prices etc, it would likewise run of/INTERFERE with their legal right to freely operate with such interference. Her [any civil human being] proper course of action SHOULD BE to invoke her protest/disagreement with the abortion clinic's activities by writing her congressmen, activating her fellow agreeing anti-abortionists etc into demanding that their government CHANGE THE CURRENT LAWS TO PROHIBIT ABORTIONS, thereby civilly disrganizing/eliminating said abortion clinics althogether from operating. Again she interferes with this clinics operation by scarring away their customers/patients just as the OWS crowd does with citizens wishing to partake the occupied parks/streets where they are encamped [and which they pay taxes to financially support its maintenance/upkeep]. The clinic has a legal right NOT TO BE SO INTERFERED WITH, and until the law is changed legislatively, they should have the right not to have this woman outside their front doors with a picket sign in her hands. In one respect, her possible sign message could possibly be construed as FALSE ADVERTISING if the wording of same is not legally true. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one no doubt. Cheers and GO SAINTS!!!!!
Oldefarte| 2.26.12 @ 1:03PM
PSII: '....Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry neither condemned nor condoned anti-abortion violence, but he did lead public prayers that an abortion provider would "[convert] to God" or that "calamity [would] strike him".[57] Terry added that he hoped the "baby killer" would be tried and executed "for crimes against humanity".[57] The doctor targeted by Terry's prayers said to the press, "He's clearly inciting someone, anyone, to kill me."[57]....While still rejecting anti-abortion violence, a few pro-life leaders have tempered their condemnation of anti-abortion violence by suggesting that the harm created by crimes against property is small in comparison to the harm of abortion. Joseph Scheidler observed that "for the sake of proper perspective" he wanted to note that "no amount of damage to real estate can equal the violence of taking a single human life" through abortion.[58]......Pro-choice organizations have responded to anti-abortion violence by lobbying to protect access to abortion clinics. The National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation collect statistics on incidents of anti-abortion violence. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was passed in 1994 to protect reproductive health service facilities and their staff and patients from violent threats, assault, vandalism, and blockade.[59] State, provincial, and local governments have also passed similar laws designed to afford legal protection of access to abortion in the United States and Canada.....' [re:Wiki]!!!!!
Teaghan| 2.27.12 @ 8:28AM
Those patients should be scared. That's why the protestors are there, to change a mind in order to save a child. It is their right to be there and I'm stunned that be believe otherwise.
Oldefarte| 2.27.12 @ 2:22PM
Those patients would NOT BE THERE if they were SCARED. They are there because they are scared of not being able to fulfill their parental responsibility in financially raising the future child. Furthermore, the employees of that clinic are scared that some religious nutball with a shotgun will be amongst the street protesters out side and will come into the clinic and shoot the physicians and possibly them also. The public citizens outside that are on the street and not involved in the protesting [possibly shopping at a nearby business or taking their children to school are scared that these nutball-protesters possibly with a gun will shoot at their intended victims and instead wound them as innocent bystanders. These physicians of the clinic, the owners of the clinic etc have EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW TO NOT BE SUBJECTED TO THE POLITICAL NUTBALL POLITICAL TACTICS OF THESE PROTESTERS; AND THE NUTBALL PROTESTERS HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY [EQUAL TO THEIR RIGHTS OF PROTEST] TO DO THEIR PROTESTING IN A CIVIL, RESPONSIBLE MANNER [IE CONTACTING THEIR LEGISLATORS, COUNCILMEN ETC IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE A REPEAL/CHANGE IN THE CURRENT LAWS WHICH MAKE IT LEGAL TO OWN/OPERATE AND WORK AT ABORTION CLINICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bill| 2.25.12 @ 10:18PM
Eric Holder should be in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice.