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Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, is one of the most destructive forces against the rule of law in our nation, including being the man responsible for the DoJ dropping charges against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia during the last presidential election. (If you want to understand more about just how bad this man is, read “Injustice” by Christian Adams.)
Perez appeared before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Constitution (glad to know we have one of those!) which is a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) chairs that committee, and the congressman posted a clip of the questioning to his YouTube page with the following introduction:
In a Constitution Subcommittee hearing yesterday, Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) questioned Assistant Attorney General, Thomas Perez, over the Administration’s commitment to 1st Amendment rights. Franks’ questions were prompted by a Daily Caller article from late last year in which Perez was quoted as warmly embracing the proposals of Islamist advocates in a meeting at George Washington University, among them a request for “a legal declaration that U.S. citizens’ criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.”
Perez’s refusal to answer Franks’ question
suggests a further dangerous inroad by Islamists into the
policy-making of this administration (by which I do not mean that
Perez is a Muslim, but rather that he is sympathetic to any force,
such as Islam, which runs counter to the rule of law in this
country.)
One has to wonder whether the rational questions by Rep. Michele Bachmann and others — despite the weak-kneed response of Republican “leaders” like John McCain — about the infiltration of Islamists into the Obama administration (and to be sure the reprehensible smiling photos of prior presidents with some terrible characters) will become a campaign issue.
Frank Gaffney has put together an online course about “The Muslim Brotherhood in America” which contains more than its fair share of eye-opening information (and rather dramatic music), though I have no easy way to validate what is true and what isn’t…particularly when it comes to the ongoing fued between Mr. Gaffney and Grover Norqust, president of Americans for Tax Reform, known best to Americans as a champion for low taxes. Chapter 8 in particular relates to Islamists and the Obama administration.
Discussion of Huma Abedin, the key advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who has become such a big part of the Bachmann-initiated discussion in DC, begins at 6:55 of Chapter 8. To be sure, essentially all of the questions about Ms. Abedin relate to her family ties to radical Islam. While there is little evidence about Huma Abedin directly, it is nevertheless reasonable to wonder whether a child is likely to be very different from her parents and other family members when it comes to political views. It is also reasonable to wonder whether a hard-core Islamists, as some are suggesting Huma Abedin might be based on her family and other associations, would marry a Jew as Ms. Abedin did…though her particular choice of husband (former Congressman Anthony Weiner) might add to questions of her judgment.
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Libertyinfinite| 7.29.12 @ 11:13AM
The American People have created a nation of severe despotism. & nothing is going to change anytime soon. The American People can no longer self govern. We have a entire nation of people who are completely in the dark about most of what all of their governments are doing. Why?
Mitt Romney can't help us, We the people must rise as a nation, or these despots that we made, will swallow us whole.
Occam's Tool| 7.29.12 @ 11:35AM
You are insulting Weaselidae, particularly my favorite animal--- Gulo Gulo, a magnificent predator.
JP| 7.29.12 @ 11:56AM
Concerning secutiy access, when doing background investigations the FBI usually looks for the potential for divided loyalties between a person, his family, and his nation. Abedin's case is nothing unusual. During the Cold War, children of Eastern Block immigrants were often denied security clearances - especially if their paretns were once members of the Communists Party. The government never wants to put a person in a position of chosing between his nation and his family.
If Huma was anything but a Friend of Bill and Hillary, she would have been denied any clearance above Secret or Confidential. Her situtation poses problems on several fronts: her parents and brother are\were members of the Muslim Brotherhood; she spent several years living in Saudi Arabia amongst Wanahbists and Sharia clerics and scholars (her mother being one of them); and the MB itself makes Al Qaeda look like tin-horms. The MB has been around for decades. They've behind behind both political assasinations (see Anwar Sadat), and terrorisim (see the Luxor massacre of European tourists). Mohammed Atta was first initiated into the world of terrorism when he joined the MB.
This is a no-brainer. Why is Huma being treated with such kid gloves.
Oldefarte| 7.29.12 @ 12:49PM
Again, Huma to me is not the issue of importance. What is more critically pertinent is the person now sitting inside the Oval Office. Was he not exposed to similar things as a child, and do we truly know who/what he is/isn't? The people of this nation were naive, stupid and asinine when they voted on 11/4/08, and hopefully before a price for same can be extracted, they will remedy their prior mistake on 11/6/12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
squalis| 7.29.12 @ 1:04PM
The Constitution is an inanimate piece of very old paper. It only has life to the extent we, as a nation, give it life. It appears to me that those now in power relentlessly run roughshod over it, and the rule of law. Many criticisms of this practice have been registered, yet no person or institution is stopping this out of control, and seemingly unstoppable, train. Is it that the means to stop these transgressions does not exist, or is it that the political will needed by those in a position to curtail these acts does not exist? In either case, the Constitution is reduced to an empty symbol, and this country ceases to be what its Founders intended.
Oldefarte| 7.29.12 @ 4:11PM
No person or institution can stop this runaway train.....only the people can do so [and they must do so in November, or we and this country will die]!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 7.29.12 @ 4:18PM
The Constitution is only an instrument of the people, and it is ONLY the people who possess the ability to repair these wrongs:
".....We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America....."
squalis| 7.29.12 @ 7:32PM
If what you say is true, if there are no means to compel adherence to the Constitution, then the Constitution, in fact, does not exist. The rest is just noise.
Oldefarte| 7.30.12 @ 11:09AM
What I'm saying is that the Constitution is an inanimate object, and can only become effected by people. If the people feel that the Constitution is being abused, then they should cuase that Constitution to be applied by means of their vote. The Constitution was written by and for people, and therefore it requires the people to make it become effective!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 7.30.12 @ 11:11AM
PS: The "adherence" is compelled by means of the actions of the people!!!!!!