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		<title>Police Shootings &amp; Race, in an Age of Lies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the statistics really say. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247055" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/police-badge-263x350.jpg" alt="police-badge" width="234" height="311" /></a>In an era where public debate is replete with Big Lies, we are routinely treated to examples of shallow, insipid journalism dedicated to propping up the most nonsensical fictions imaginable. A case in point is a <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">piece</span></a> that appeared in the far-left periodical <i>Mother Jones</i>, titled “Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?” Purporting to explain the root causes of the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the article&#8217;s author, <i>Mother Jones</i> editorial coordinator Jaeah Lee, presents a smattering of statistics—utterly devoid of context or analysis—as evidence that “the killing of Michael Brown by police … was no anomaly.”</p>
<p>For instance, Lee cites a 2007 <a href="http://www.colorlines.com/archives/2007/11/killed_by_the_cops.html"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a><i> </i>which found that in ten major cities “there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims,” and <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&amp;tid=703"><span style="color: #011480;">another</span></a> which concluded that “black people are more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience a police officer&#8217;s threat or use of force.” To buttress these allegations, the author <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">quotes</span></a> Missouri ACLU official Jeffrey Mittman&#8217;s lamentation that “unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate,” and NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks&#8217; claim that a destructive “culture of policing” is “rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds” by targeting black people with “overwhelmingly major, often lethal &#8230; force.”</p>
<p>Apparently it never occurred to Ms. Lee, or to these other voices in her echo chamber, that there might be some significance in the fact that blacks, who are 13% of the U.S. population, themselves <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">commit</span></a> many more homicides than white and Hispanic perpetrators—<i>combined</i>. Young black males in particular commit homicide at nearly <i>ten times</i> the combined rate of their white and Hispanic counterparts. As Manhattan Institute scholar <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">Heather Mac Donald</span></a> explains, “That astronomically higher homicide-commission rate means that police officers are going to be disproportionately in black neighborhoods to fight crime, where they will more likely encounter armed shooting suspects.” Blacks nationwide are also dramatically <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43"><span style="color: #011480;">overrepresented</span></a> in the commission of other serious crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault—precisely the types of offenses most likely to trigger a confrontation with police that could result in a fatality.</p>
<p>In her <i>Mother Jones</i> piece, Ms. Lee devotes considerable attention to New York City, where “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men"><span style="color: #011480;">more</span></a> black people have been shot by NYPD officers &#8230; than have Hispanics or whites.” But this begs an obvious question: “So what?” The same principle that applies to the United States as a whole, applies also to New York: W<span style="color: #272727;">hile blacks constitute 23% of the city&#8217;s population, they <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0514hm.html">commit</a> </span>two-thirds of all its violent crimes, including nearly 70% of all robberies and 80% of all shootings. And whites, who are 35% of the city’s population, commit just 5% of its violent crimes and a mere 1.8% of its shootings. Thus, blacks are statistically far more likely to be involved in volatile situations demanding police intervention. It&#8217;s really not very complicated.</p>
<p>The <i>Mother Jones</i> article also presents a chart with a racial breakdown of those who were shot and killed by New York City police between 2000 and 2011. Yet remarkably, the author makes no mention of the glaring <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/393676/finding-meaning-ferguson-heather-mac-donald"><span style="color: #011480;">fact</span></a> that instances of police-on-Asian shootings are nearly invisible in this chart—indeed, <i>blacks, Hispanics, and whites alike</i> are far more likely than Asians to be shot in police encounters. What could explain this? If we were to apply Ms. Lee&#8217;s line of reasoning, we&#8217;d have no choice but to conclude that New York police officers, for some reason, feel less racial animus against Asians than they feel against everyone else. A more realistic explanation is that Asians in the city have very low crime rates and thus have comparatively little contact with police.</p>
<p>The most comprehensive information we have on the issue of police shootings and race in recent years comes from a 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a> that covers the period from 2003 to 2009. Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by law-enforcement officers during that time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic. Also during that period, blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes—i.e., the types of crimes most likely to lead to a potentially fatal confrontation with police. These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they suggest the exact opposite.</p>
<p>Funny how the real world rarely conforms to the certainties of the race-obsessed Left, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>Saul Alinsky Lives in Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama has implemented Alinsky's tactics of social revolution to tear a city – and a nation – apart. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Saul_Alinsky_271.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246727" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Saul_Alinsky_271-450x341.jpg" alt="Saul_Alinsky_27" width="355" height="269" /></a>If the late Saul Alinsky—the America-hating godfather of community organizing—had fathered a black son, he&#8217;d look like Barack Obama.[1]  Obama has embraced, revered, and employed Alinsky&#8217;s philosophy and tactics of social revolution <i>for decades</i>. Indeed, he even <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/behind-a-class-warfare-charge-the-shadow-of-saul-alinsky/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">taught</span></a> Alinsky&#8217;s <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/study-saul-alinsky-to-understand-barack-obama/article/243226"><span style="color: #0433ff;">methods</span></a> in community-organizing workshops and seminars in Chicago, when he was a much younger Marxist. As we witness the continuing racial unrest sparked by the shooting of Michael Brown and the Ferguson grand jury&#8217;s subsequent decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, it is vital to understand that <i>everything </i>the protesters/rioters are doing—in Ferguson and elsewhere—is straight out of Alinsky&#8217;s most famous publications, <i>Rules For Radicals</i> and <i>Reveille For Radicals</i>. And Obama has encouraged them, every step of the way.</p>
<p>Obama and Alinsky never actually met in person, as Alinsky died when Obama was just 11 years old. Happily for the future president, by that time he had already been introduced to the man who would mentor him throughout his adolescent years—the America-hating, pro-Soviet, pro-Stalin, Communist writer Frank Marshall Davis. Thus, when Obama eventually encountered Alinsky through the latter&#8217;s writings, the young community organizer was well prepared ideologically to soak up Alinsky&#8217;s message.</p>
<p>In his quest to cultivate the type of chaos that would spark social revolution against America&#8217;s capitalist system, Alinsky exhorted activists to constantly “rub raw the resentments of the people” and “fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression”—but to do this in measured tones, so as not to “scare off” middle-class Americans.</p>
<p>Thus did Obama dutifully and blandly call for “unity” and calm in the immediate aftermath of Michael Brown&#8217;s “heartbreaking and tragic” death, even as he repeatedly reminded us that: “police should not be bullying or arresting” anyone without cause; “in too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and left as objects to fear”; “there is no excuse for excessive force by police”; “the justice gap” between whites and nonwhites is unacceptable; “the criminal-justice system doesn&#8217;t treat people of all races equally”; and “too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement, guilty of walking while black, or driving while black, judged by stereotypes that fuel fear and resentment and hopelessness.” And when the grand jury in Ferguson subsequently chose not to indict Darren Wilson because the officer obviously had shot Michael Brown in self-defense, Obama pronounced the black community&#8217;s indignation to be “an understandable reaction.”</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s carefully chosen words—all delivered in the type of nonthreatening tenor advocated by Saul Alinsky—clearly communicated a single, foundational theme to African Americans: <i>In the racist cesspool known as the United States, black people are routinely treated like second-class citizens, if not subhumans. Oh, and by the way, please remain calm. Wink, wink.</i></p>
<p>Alinsky also taught that in some cases activists must be completely willing—for the sake of the moral principles in whose name they profess to act—to turn up the proverbial heat and watch society descend into chaos and anarchy; to “go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion.”<span style="color: #680900;"> </span>“Wherever possible,” Alinsky counseled, “go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.”</p>
<p>Mobs of shouting protesters can accomplish that objective quite effectively—even if, as in the present case, they are oblivious to the irony that the poster-child of their crusade is a multiple felon who tried unsuccessfully to murder a police officer. Such demonstrations tend to give onlookers the impression that a mass movement is not only well underway, but may actually be preparing to shift into an even higher gear at any moment. A “mass impression,” said Alinsky, can be lasting and intimidating. Thus did President Obama recently meet at the White House with Al Sharpton, his leading advisor on race-related matters, and other protest <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/17/obama-told-civil-rights-activists-keep-ferguson-staying-on-course/"><span style="color: #680900;">leaders</span></a> from Ferguson, urging them to “<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/obama-meets-with-ferguson-activists-says-hes-concerned-they-stay-on-course/"><span style="color: #680900;">stay on course</span></a>” with their activism.</p>
<p>Yet another highly noteworthy observation by Alinsky was this: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” “The threat,” he explained, “is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Thus, “if your organization is small in numbers,… raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does.”</p>
<p>This can be well achieved by orchestrating a host of simultaneous demonstrations in multiple cities or venues, exactly as the highly organized Gentle Giant crusade has been doing. The stature of these rallies is magnified by the fact that they receive lots of media attention, while scores of millions of ordinary Americans who view them with contempt and dread are busy quietly going about their lives, caring for their families, working at their jobs, and pursuing their personal aspirations as they see fit. Such people are many thousands of times more numerous than the perpetually aggrieved rabble-rousers of the Left, but Alinsky understood—as Obama understands today—that a spraying skunk inevitably gets all the attention when it intrudes unexpectedly upon a picnic.</p>
<p>The America-hating Alinsky also taught that activists, in order to cast themselves as defenders of high-minded principles, must theatrically convey “shock, horror, and moral outrage” whenever any of their demands—however inconsequential—are not met. And no one conveys such emotions more convincingly than Obama&#8217;s aforementioned racial “advisor,” Al Sharpton, who vows to continue the Michael Brown/anti-police brutality crusade until the end of time if necessary. Alinsky understood quite well that even <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a pathetic moral degenerate</span></a> like Sharpton can be an effective revolutionary if he is skilled in the otherwise worthless arts of bluster and righteous indignation.</p>
<p>Lest anyone think there might be a way to bridge the gap between civil society and the revolutionaries in the vanguard of the current Gentle Giant Brigades, a dose of reality is in order: Alinsky emphasized that the overarching objective of any crusade is <i>never</i> to promote peace or reconciliation, but rather to be unwaveringly “dedicated to an eternal war” in which “there are no rules of fair play” and “no compromise” whatsoever; to mercilessly “pulverize” people with “fear”; and ultimately to “force their capitulation.”</p>
<p>We got a glimpse of this mindset recently when we <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393380/get-ready-super-bowl-outrage-ferguson-deroy-murdock"><span style="color: #680900;">learned</span></a> that two New Black Panther Party members were plotting not only to blow up St. Louis&#8217;s famed Gateway Arch, but also to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/ferguson-murder-plot-black-panthers-planned-killing-police-chief-prosecutor"><span style="color: #680900;">assassinate</span></a> Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson and the city&#8217;s prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch. And a shrieking Louis Farrakhan, for his part, has been busy <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urging</span></a> black Americans to throw Molotov cocktails at white people in order to fulfill a scriptural “law of retaliation”; condemning whites for allegedly “killing us” in large numbers; and warning that “we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”</p>
<p>Like all Marxists, Obama, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and the rest of their fellow revolutionaries seek to tear society apart by pitting the “races,” the “classes,” and the “genders” against one another—“rubbing raw” their respective “resentments” until hatred abounds in every person&#8217;s heart and mayhem fills the streets. Michael Brown&#8217;s corpse is merely a building block for these rabble rousers. They know that someday another African American will be killed by a white police officer and thus be anointed as their movement&#8217;s next martyred saint. Bit by bit, the inconvenient fact that Brown was a violent, abusive criminal whose death was brought about entirely by his own actions will be airbrushed out of public memory. And the grievance mongers of the “civil rights” movement will wistfully remember him as just another innocent black victim whose life was tragically cut short by white depravity.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky would be proud.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong><br />
[1] In March 2012, not long after the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, President Obama famously <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/obama-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439.html">said</a>: &#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon.&#8221;</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #12171b;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244989" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea-381x350.jpg" alt="141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea" width="335" height="308" /></a>It would be difficult to imagine any Attorney General nominee who could guarantee a more seamless transition from the Eric Holder years than Loretta Lynch, who has been the </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York since 2010. Her uncanny ability to detect phantoms of white racism lurking ominously around every corner is proof-positive of her fitness to serve as Holder&#8217;s successor in the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p>Lynch believes that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666">voter ID</a> laws are part of a racist effort to suppress minority turnout at the polls. “Fifty years after the civil rights movement,” she <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">avers</a>, “we stand in this country at a time when we see people trying to take back so much of what Dr. [Martin Luther] King fought for … and [to] reverse the [gains] that have been made in voting in this country.” Consequently, Lynch is eminently “proud” that the Justice Department has filed suit against states which have enacted voter ID laws “seek[ing] to limit our ability to stand up and exercise our rights as citizens.” <span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Lynch also <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php"><span style="color: #12171b;">supports</span></a></span> efforts<span style="color: #1b1b1b;"> to restore the voting rights of (disproportionately black) convicted felons who “have served their debt to society”—a measure that would “en[d] the chain of permanent disenfranchisement that visits many of them.”</span></p>
<p>By Lynch&#8217;s <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">reckoning</a>, school discipline policies that result in higher rates of suspension and expulsion for nonwhite children than for whites, are racist as well. “Zero-tolerance programs,” she told a mostly black audience in 2013, “are often used [to] take our babies, minority children, black children, Hispanic children, and they put them out of school before they have a chance to learn.” Building on this theme, Lynch praised the Justice Department for having “gone into the South, although we’re looking further, and brought the first &#8230; &#8216;school-to-prison pipeline&#8217; cases against school districts in Alabama.” The question of whether black youth exhibit disproportionate levels of disruptive behavior in the classroom—perhaps partially as a consequence of the black community&#8217;s high rate of father-absent households—did not spark Lynch&#8217;s curiosity in the least. The tidy, all-purpose explanation of racial insensitivity was sufficient for her purposes.</p>
<p>In April 2014, <span style="color: #000000;">Lynch participated in a <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-participated-controversial-race-panel/"><span style="color: #011480;">panel</span></a> titled “Strengthening the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color” alongside Eric Holder and none other than <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #011480;">Al Sharpton</span></a>, who has never been known to squander an opportunity to depict white police officers as trigger-happy bigots when dealing with black suspects. One of the panel&#8217;s “action items” stated authoritatively: “Remember that racial bias is pervasive. Research has shown that people who are not consciously mistrustful of African Americans or intentionally racist can still behave in a way that is influenced by racial bias.” In other words, even well-meaning whites in law-enforcement are little more than unwitting Klansmen.</span></p>
<p>Lynch recently <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php">spoke</a> about the need<span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">to “eliminate,” from the American criminal-justice system, all forms of “racial discrimination” against “the most vulnerable members of society.” Lamenting that the U.S. “currently … imprisons approximately 2.2 million people” who are “disproportionately people of color,” she emphasized the need to “reform &#8230; this aspect of our criminal justice system.” In particular, Lynch applauds the recently enacted “reduction in the sentencing <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1632">disparity</a>” that once existed between crimes involving crack cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">a drug most often used by poor blacks) </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">and powder cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">whose users are typically more-affluent whites). Conspicuously absent from Lynch&#8217;s assessment, however, is any mention of the fact that in 1986, when the strict, federal anti-crack legislation was first being debated, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7126"><span style="color: #680900;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a>—deeply concerned about the degree to which crack was decimating black communities across the United States—strongly <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_2_my_black.html"><span style="color: #680900;">supported</span></a> the legislation and actually pressed for <i>even harsher penalties</i>.</span></p>
<p>Lynch has long <a href="http://gotnews.com/read-lorettalynch-hates-death-penalty-leads-dead-blacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">opposed</span></a> capital punishment because of its alleged bias against blacks and Hispanics. “Apply the death penalty to securities fraud prosecutions [committed mostly by whites] and [you'll] wipe out [the racial disparity] just like that,” she said sarcastically during a 2002 roundtable discussion. But even if someone could convince Lynch that capital punishment could be applied without any racial bias whatsoever, she would nonetheless view it as immoral because of the disparate impact it would continue to have on nonwhites, who commit homicides—i.e., the crimes that are subject to the death penalty—at much higher rates than whites. “That, to me, has always been the problem with the death penalty,” says Lynch. “Because you can be as fair as possible in a particular case, but the reality is that the federal death penalty is still going to hit harder on certain groups.”</p>
<p>In recent years Lynch<span style="color: #272727;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/loretta-lynch-attorney-general_n_6058252.html">collaborated</a> with Attorney General Holder in a high-profile Justice Department investigation that ultimately forced Citigroup to pay a $7 billion fine for having made so many “subprime” mortgage loans with a high probability of default, thereby helping to trigger the 2008 financial crisis that, as Lynch puts it, “</span>devastated the nation and the world’s economies.” Content to depict corporate greed and insufficiently regulated markets as the principal causes of the economic calamity that struck six years ago, Lynch makes no mention of the various <i>government</i> policies<span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—most notably </span>the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=809">Community Reinvestment Act</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—</span>which, in the name of “social and economic justice,” required banks to knowingly lend money to underqualified borrowers, particularly nonwhite minorities, and thereby set the stage for crisis.</p>
<p>Myopic vision. Distrust of the free market. Obsession with race. This is Loretta Lynch, President Obama&#8217;s new Attorney General. It&#8217;s a job she was born for.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven disturbing voter fraud facts leftists pretend not to know. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/voting_booth.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244172" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/voting_booth-426x350.jpg" alt="Voting Booths" width="306" height="251" /></a>With a perfectly straight face, Barack Obama recently told Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network that “the <i>real</i> voter fraud is the people who try to deny our [voting] rights by making <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/203378-obama-decries-bogus-voter-fraud-complaints"><span style="color: #011480;">bogus</span></a> arguments about voter fraud.” Eric Holder likewise <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/eric-holder/2012/04/11/holder-instances-person-voter-fraud-are-extremely-rare"><span style="color: #011480;">contends</span></a>, without even a hint of a grin, that voter ID laws are merely “<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition"><span style="color: #011480;">political efforts</span></a>” designed to make it “more difficult” for nonwhite minorities to “have access to the ballot.” And Hillary Clinton, too, casually dismisses voter fraud as a “<a href="http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/08/hillary-clinton-calls-voter-fraud-phantom-epidemic/68253/"><span style="color: #011480;">phantom epidemic</span></a>” that exists chiefly in the imagination of conservatives. Democrat consultant Donna Brazile puts it more colorfully, calling charges of voter fraud “a big ass <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390893/james-okeefe-strikes-again-john-fund"><span style="color: #011480;">lie</span></a>.”</p>
<p>As they twist their faces into pained and pious countenances to give the appearance of passion and sincerity, these four individuals—along with all the other leading Democrats who invariably spout the same tripe—have only one significant thing in common: <i>None</i> of them actually believe <i>even a word</i> that they say about the rarity of voter fraud or the alleged injustice of voter ID requirements. In the privacy of their hearts, their efforts are devoted chiefly to refraining from laughing out loud at the absurd stupidities that they parrot ceaselessly—like Eric Holder&#8217;s claim that voter ID requirements are the equivalent of “<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/eric-holder-dubs-texas-voter-id-law-a-poll-taxes/"><span style="color: #011480;">poll taxes</span></a>.” If the Democrats were honest, they would simply say the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are moral crusaders who believe that the conservative vision of the world is evil beyond measure, and that <i>our</i> vision of an ever-expanding central government that controls the economy, regulates every aspect of people&#8217;s lives, and redistributes everyone&#8217;s wealth and property as <i>we</i> deem appropriate, is by far the better course. And because our objectives are so much better for humankind as a whole, we are resolutely committed to using any means at our disposal to achieve them. Thus we will deceive, lie, cheat, and steal <i>anything—</i>including elections. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re not at all ashamed of playing the role of imbeciles when we promote the vapid idiocies that we cite as reasons to oppose voter ID laws.</p></blockquote>
<p>But instead of making honest declarations like these, the Democrats instead pretend to be unaware of very well-known facts like the following:</p>
<p>•A 2012 <a href="http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/Pew_Upgrading_Voter_Registration.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">report</span></a> by the Pew Center on the States <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote"><span style="color: #011480;">found</span></a> that 24 million voter registrations—an incredible <a href="http://www.aim.org/video/john-fund-lets-make-it-easy-to-vote-and-hard-to-cheat-we-can-do-both/"><span style="color: #011480;">one-eighth</span></a> of all registrations nationwide—were either <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72830.html"><span style="color: #011480;">invalid</span></a> or <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-02-10/pew-study-inaccurate-voter-registration-rolls/53083406/1"><span style="color: #011480;">inaccurate</span></a>, including almost 3 million people who were registered in more than one state, and more than 1.8 million dead people who were still registered.</p>
<p>•A 2014 <a href="http://www.wncn.com/story/25145787/report-points-to-possible-voter-fraud-in-nc"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a> found that two years earlier, some 155,692 registered voters in North Carolina <i>alone</i> had first and last names, birth dates, and final four Social Security number digits that matched those of voters who were registered in other states.</p>
<p>•The same study also <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/126263-think-theres-no-voter-fraud-dead-voters-in-nc/"><span style="color: #011480;">found</span></a> that 35,570 people who had <i>actually voted</i> in North Carolina, had first names, last names, and birth dates dates that matched those of voters who had cast ballots in other states.</p>
<p>•On election day <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368234/voter-fraud-weve-got-proof-its-easy-john-fund"><span style="color: #680900;">2013</span></a>, undercover agents from New York City&#8217;s Department of Investigations (DOI) went to 63 different polling places and assumed the names of individuals who were ineligible to vote because they had either died, moved out of town, or been incarcerated. In 61 of the 63 instances, or 97% of the time, the agents were allowed to vote.</p>
<p>•In 2008, Democrat Al Franken <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots/article/2504163"><span style="color: #011480;">won</span></a> a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704518904575365063352229680?KEYWORDS=JOHN+FUND&amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704518904575365063352229680.html%3FKEYWORDS%3DJOHN%2BFUND"><span style="color: #011480;">highly</span></a> controversial U.S. Senate <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2010/07/20/al-franken-may-have-won-his-senate-seat-through-voter-fraud"><span style="color: #011480;">race</span></a> in Minnesota by just 312 votes. It was later discovered that 1,099 felons—all legally ineligible to vote—had nonetheless cast ballots in the election, almost exclusively for Franken. Consider this: Without Franken, the Democrats would not have had the 60 Senate votes they needed in order to pass Obamacare in 2010.</p>
<p>•A 2006 study found <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061029/NEWS01/610290381/1006/NEWS01&amp;nclick_check=1"><span style="color: #011480;">77,000</span></a> dead people listed on New York&#8217;s statewide database of registered voters, and many of them had somehow managed to cast ballots from the grave. One Bronx address in particular was identified as the home of as many as 191 of these registered voter-corpses.</p>
<p>•In Milwaukee in 2004, approximately <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/fund-voter-fraud-in-milwaukee-in-2004"><span style="color: #011480;">5,300</span></a> more ballots were cast than voters who were recorded as having shown up at the polls.</p>
<p>•In 2008, election officials nationwide had to discard at least <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/12/acorn-leader-avoids-prison-for-voter-fraud-conspiracy/"><span style="color: #011480;">400,000</span></a> bogus voter registrations submitted by ACORN, the infamous, Obama-affiliated criminal operation masquerading as a “community organization.” No one knows how many other invalid registrations were never detected.</p>
<p>•In 2011, a Colorado <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states"><span style="color: #011480;">study</span></a> found that of the nearly 12,000 non-citizens who were registered to vote in that state, about 5,000 had taken part in the 2010 general election.</p>
<p>•In ten Colorado counties in 2012, <a href="http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/04/colorado-counties-have-more-voters-than-people/"><span style="color: #011480;">voter</span></a> registrations <i>outnumbered</i> <i>the </i><a href="http://watchdoglabs.org/blog/2012/08/21/colorado-comparison-of-registered-voter-counts-to-census-voting-age-population/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>total</i></span></a><i> voting-age population</i> by between 4% and 40%.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #000000;">•In a forthcoming article in the</span> journal <i>Electoral Studies</i>, university prof<span style="color: #000000;">essors Jesse Richman and David Earnest</span> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/"><span style="color: #011480;">conclude</span></a> that a significant number of non-citizens—who support Democrats about 80% of the time—vote in U.S. elections, and that “their participation can change the outcome of close races.”<span style="color: #000000;"><br />
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<p>These examples represent only the barest tip of a colossal iceberg. And Obama, Holder, Hillary, and the rest of the Democrats <i>know all about it</i>, just like you and I know all about it. They really <i>aren&#8217;t</i> dumb enough to believe <i>any</i> of the things they say about voter fraud and voter ID. They&#8217;re just counting on voters being dumb enough to believe them. It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
<p><strong>For extensive information about &#8212; and examples of &#8212; Election and Voter Fraud, please see <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2143">here</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><i>Michael Bauer&#8217;s research was vital to the composition of this article</i>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown.jpg" alt="In-Missouri-Police-Officer-Named-Who-Shot-Michael-Brown" width="309" height="268" /></a>Sunday in New York City, Al Sharpton led at least 2,500 marchers in a <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/23/thousands-to-call-for-action-over-death-of-eric-garner-at-staten-island-march-and-rally/">rally</a> condemning “<span style="color: #18181a;">a society where police are automatically excused” for wrongdoing. At issue was </span>the recent death of Eric Garner, a black New Yorker who resisted arrest and subsequently died from what a <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Chokehold-Police-Custody-Cause-of-Death-Staten-Island-Medical-Examiner-269396151.html">medical examiner</a> described as an interplay between a white police officer&#8217;s chokehold and Garner&#8217;s multiple chronic infirmities<span style="color: #343434;">. </span><span style="color: #18181a;">A featured speaker at Sunday&#8217;s demonstration was t</span><span style="color: #272727;">he mother of Amadou Diallo, a black man who was killed in a 1999 shooting by four NYPD officers. “Police cannot judge our sons and execute them for no reason,” she declared. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Yesterday, Sharpton <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/michael-brown-supporters-line-funeral-article-1.1915903">spoke</a> at the funeral of Michael Brown, the b</span>lack teenager who was recently shot and killed by a white policeman in Missouri. Claiming that the police had callously treated Brown &#8220;like his life value didn&#8217;t matter,&#8221; Sharpton called on the congregation to help &#8220;change this country.&#8221; Indeed, Sharpton has <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/michael-brown-rally-we-have-had-enough-rev-al-sharpton-n182701">vowed</a> to turn Brown&#8217;s death into a <span style="color: #272727;">“defining moment on how this country deals with policing.” His contention is that too many African Americans are being unjustifiably killed in the streets by white police. If he&#8217;s correct, then we&#8217;ve got a monumental national scandal on our hands that surely deserves to be addressed. So </span>let&#8217;s examine the facts and see what they tell us.</p>
<p>The most comprehensive information we have on this issue comes from a landmark 51-page <a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ph98.pdf"><span style="color: #680900;">report</span></a> published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2001. This study examined incidents where police used deadly force to kill criminal suspects during the 23-year period from 1976 through 1998.[1]  The study did not distinguish between whites and Hispanics,[2] but instead categorized all members of those two demographics as “<a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publications/doj-report-policing-and-homicide-1976-98/">white</a>.” So, for the moment, let&#8217;s refer to this group as “W&amp;H” (Whites &amp; Hispanics) rather than “whites.”</p>
<p>During the course of the entire 23-year period examined in the study, 56% of all suspects killed by police were W&amp;H, and 42% were black.</p>
<p>Over time, W&amp;H constituted an ever-increasing percentage of those who were killed by police: In 1978, they accounted for 50% of all such killings. By 1988 that figure had climbed to 59%, and by 1998 it stood at 62%.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the trend for African Americans was moving in precisely the opposite direction: In 1978, black suspects were 49% of those killed by police. By 1988, that figure had fallen to 39%. And ten years after that, it stood at 35%.</p>
<p>Most cases where police killed suspects during 1976-98 were same-race incidents: When W&amp;H officers were the killers, the suspects were usually W&amp;H (63%). And when black officers were the killers, the suspects were usually black (81%).</p>
<p>In 1998 specifically, 3.2 out of every 10,000 black officers killed a black suspect sometime that year, whereas only 1.4 out of every 10,000 W&amp;H officers killed a black suspect.</p>
<p>Also in 1998, about 2.8 out of every 10,000 W&amp;H officers killed a W&amp;H suspect sometime that year—<i>double</i> the rate at which W&amp;H officers killed black suspects.</p>
<p>To fill in the data from more recent years, we must turn to a 2011 Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf">study</a> which covers the period from 2003 to 2009. Unlike the earlier study, this one <i>does</i> distinguish between whites and Hispanics.[3] Of all suspects who are known to have been killed by police during the 7-year time frame, 41.7% were white, 31.7% were black, and 20.3% were Hispanic.</p>
<p>It is also worth noting that during the 2003-2009 period—when blacks were 31.7% of all suspects killed by an officer—blacks accounted for about 38.5% of all arrests for violent crimes, which are the types of crimes most likely to trigger a confrontation with police that could result in a fatality.[4]  These numbers do not in any way suggest a lack of restraint by police in their dealings with black suspects. On the contrary, they suggest the opposite.</p>
<p>The bottom line is this: Evidence of systemic racism in police shootings simply doesn&#8217;t exist. Anywhere.</p>
<p>But Al Sharpton and his ideological ilk have no use for facts like these. For Sharpton, the corpses of Michael Brown and Eric Garner are merely props to be exploited for the purpose of advancing the singular agenda he has had for more than 30 years, which is <i>to convince as many people as possible that America is, and always has been, an inherently racist wasteland that needs to be fundamentally transformed—economically, politically, and socially</i>. The facts of any specific case are irrelevant to Sharpton. For him, everything is about the larger agenda.</p>
<p>Nor is this anything new for Sharpton. Way back when this utterly pathetic individual was immersed in his equally pathetic Tawana Brawley “rape” hoax, one of his closest aides, Perry McKinnon—a former police officer, private investigator, and hospital security director—revealed the following: “Sharpton acknowledged to me early on that &#8216;the [Brawley] story do sound like bullsh**, but it don&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you&#8217;ve got whites on blacks. That&#8217;s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people … and all [you've] got to do is convince them that all white people are bad. Then you&#8217;ve got a movement.&#8217;”[5]</p>
<p>A quarter-century later, nothing—<i>absolutely nothing</i>—has changed.</p>
<p><b>NOTES:</b></p>
<p>[1] All calendar years from 1976 through 1998 are counted, thus 23 separate calendar years are included in the study. All told, approximately 8,578 suspects were killed by police during those 23 years. The annual totals ranged from a low of 296 to a high of 459. Data for a small handful of states is missing from this study, but the vast majority of police killings nationwide were counted.<br />
[2] “Hispanics” is a broad and nebulous term referring, generally, to people whose heritage can be traced to Spanish-speaking countries. The term was concocted for political purposes in 1970 by the Nixon administration. For an excellent explanation of the term&#8217;s origins and its subsequent ramifications, <a href="http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-richard-nixon-invented-hispanics.html"><span style="color: #011480;">click here</span></a>.<br />
[3] The data in this study are not entirely comprehensive, because not every U.S. state reported its overall statistics in every year that was examined. Nevertheless, the ratios uncovered in the report are highly illuminating.<br />
[4] The annual violent-crime arrest statistics for 2003-2009, broken down by race, can be found here: <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2003/03sec4.pdf">2003</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/persons_arrested/table_38-43.html">2004</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html">2005</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_43.html">2006</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_43.html">2007</a>, <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/data/table_43.html">2008</a>, and <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html">2009</a>.<b> </b><br />
[5] Richard T. Pienciak, “6 Interviews That Shook Tawana Team,” New York <i>Daily News</i> (June 16, 1988), p.4.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239041" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1-437x350.jpg" alt="The Rev. Al Sharpton-  Washington, DC" width="295" height="236" /></a>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to finally concede that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and their fellow civil-rights crusaders have apparently been correct all along: <em>There is indeed a whole lot of racism in America</em> that just won&#8217;t go away. It may be time to admit that Sharpton is justified in so passionately condemning the recent police “execution” of Michael Brown in Missouri—calling it a “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">defining moment</a>” for our country, a moment where the nation itself, with all its weighty, racist baggage, “is on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">trial</a>.”</p>
<p>The numbers, after all, don&#8217;t lie. During the most recent five-year period for which single-offender, interracial crime statistics are available, whites committed, on average, 65,923 assaults annually against black victims.[1] To frame it another way, 33.5 of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. assaulted a black victim at some point during each of those five years.</p>
<p>Oh, sure, the nitpickers will point out that during the same five-year period, blacks in the U.S. committed, on average, some 327,900 assaults annually against whites—meaning that about 898 of every 100,000 blacks nationwide assaulted a white victim at some point each year. In other words, statistically the average black was nearly 27 times more likely to assault a white, than vice versa—898 versus 33.5 (out of every 100,000).</p>
<p>But <em>therein</em> is the heart of the problem, though you may have missed it: The white-on-black assault rate may be low, but it isn&#8217;t absolute zero. And as our modern-day civil rights leaders dutifully teach us, anything more than zero means, ultimately, that &#8220;we still have a long way to go&#8221; before we can finally get past our country&#8217;s &#8220;troubled racial past.&#8221; Any white-on-black incident—however rare it may be—automatically becomes the exception that proves the rule. Get it?</p>
<p>We find similar bountiful evidence of white racism in other statistics as well. During the same five-year period, whites committed, on average, 2,738 robberies annually against black victims. In other words, about 1.4 out of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. robbed a black victim each year.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 70,302 blacks annually robbed white victims—a rate of 192.4 per 100,000. Statistically the average black was 137 times more likely to rob interracially than the average white—192.4 versus 1.4 (out of every 100,000).[2]</p>
<p>Once again, we must bear in mind that any white-on-black crime total exceeding zero means that the hearts of too many whites still percolate with secret, racist longings to return to &#8220;the good-ol&#8217; days&#8221; of lynchings and Jim Crow. Make sense?</p>
<p>But if you really want your blood to boil, consider the stats on interracial sex crimes. During the same five-year period, black offenders were responsible for about 22,980 actual and threatened sexual assaults annually against white victims. By contrast, the number of white-on-black incidents of the same description were so infinitesimal that, in each of those five years, whites were estimated to have accounted for 0.0% of all sexual assaults—actual or threatened—against black victims in the United States.</p>
<p>Such a statistic, of course, runs the dangerous risk of persuading shallow thinkers to wrongly conclude that maybe America&#8217;s streets and alleyways <em>aren&#8217;t</em> filled with hordes of white racists poised to abuse black women whenever they get an opportunity. But thankfully, we have <em>deep</em> thinkers and keen-eyed social critics like Al Sharpton to shine the light of truth on white sex offenders, even where a white-dominated criminal-justice apparatus turns a blind eye.</p>
<p>Remember, for instance, how Sharpton helped us all become aware of Tawana Brawley&#8217;s brutal gang-rape at the hands of white supremacists in 1987? Oh sure, the nitpickers again will moan that the whole thing was one big lie. But don&#8217;t ever forget: The only thing that prevented young Tawana from actually being raped by a pack of Klansmen was the fact that … well, no one raped her or even attempted to. But apart from that, everything Sharpton said about the case was true.</p>
<p>We must also thank Mr. Sharpton for having alerted us all to the horrors of the “rich white boys” on the Duke University lacrosse team who gang-raped a black stripper in 2006. Sure, it turned out to be another hoax that dragged several innocent young men through a cesspool of pain and public humiliation—but hey, the noble quest for racial justice is bound to spit out a few collateral victims every now and then. No omelet can be made without breaking an egg or two.</p>
<p>Murder stats likewise bring into stark relief the white racism that continues to infest our nation. In 2012, for example, <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_1_murder_victims_by_race_and_sex_2012.xls">6,454</a> blacks in the U.S. were victims of homicide. Some <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls">91%</a> of those were killed by other blacks, and 9% were killed by everybody else, including whites. It&#8217;s unlikely that whites were responsible for any more than about 3% of all black deaths by homicide. But these were the most significant and troubling 3%, don&#8217;t ya know? The other 97% of victims can all rot in their graves, but these—ah, these—were the cream of the crop, just like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>In light of the numbers cited above, perhaps you can find it in your heart to be sympathetic to Al, Jesse, and similar proverbial skunks who are forever seeking out the next picnic where they can show up and spray the potato salad. They have to make the most of Ferguson, you see, because golden opportunities like that just don&#8217;t come around very often.</p>
<p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p>
<p>[1] All statistics are from <em>Criminal Victimization in the United States</em>, published annually by the Department of Justice Statistics.</p>
<p>[2] These assault and robbery statistics do not necessarily prove that black offenders are specifically targeting white victims. One reason why the multiples are so high (27:1 and 137:1) is because there are 5.4 times as many whites as blacks in the U.S. In other words, blacks, in course of their daily travels, are 5.4 times more likely to encounter whites—and thus, potential white vicims—than to encounter other blacks (and potential black victims). To correct for this difference in the respective sizes of America&#8217;s white and black populations, we must divide each of the multiples by 5.4. In the case of assaults, the 27:1 ratio becomes 5:1, meaning that the average black offender is 5 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim. And in the case of robbery, the 137:1 ratio becomes 25.4:1, meaning that the average black offender is 25.4 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/as000016517-300.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234411" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/as000016517-300.gif" alt="as000016517-300" width="288" height="191" /></a>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-described “civil-rights organization” <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/who-we-are"><span style="color: #011480;">committed</span></a> to “fighting hate and bigotry,” <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/anti-muslim"><span style="color: #011480;">says</span></a> that ever since <span style="color: #272727;">9/11 a host of “anti-Muslim hate groups”—exhibiting “extreme hostility” toward Muslims—have arisen across the United States. T</span>he current edition of SPLC&#8217;s quarterly <i>Intelligence Report</i> <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather"><span style="color: #011480;">names</span></a> <span style="color: #272727;">David Horowitz as “the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement.” The lead accusation in the report says: “For Horowitz, Muslim Student Associations &#8216;are arms of the </span>Muslim Brotherhood<span style="color: #272727;">, which is the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West.&#8217;”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Apparently SPLC deems it bad manners for anyone to notice that when t</span>he national Muslim Students Association (MSA) was established in 1963, its <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/01/expose-of-muslim-students-association/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=f05a1809c8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail"><span style="color: #011480;">three</span></a> principal <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=29105"><span style="color: #011480;">founders</span></a> were all members of<span style="color: #272727;">—you guessed it—</span>the Muslim Brotherhood. It is equally bad form, in SPLC&#8217;s view, to draw any conclusions from the fact that a Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf"><span style="color: #011480;">memorandum</span></a> explicitly names the MSA as one of the Brotherhood&#8217;s arms, and as an organization that could help the Brotherhood carry out a “grand Jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying … Western civilization from within.”</p>
<p>SPLC&#8217;s report also turns a blind eye to the fact that in recent years MSA members and guest lecturers in numerous venues have: <span style="color: #011480;">raised</span> <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13303"><span style="color: #011480;">money</span></a> for Hamas and Hezbollah; professed <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102"><span style="color: #0433ff;">support</span></a> for Islamic Jihad; <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2102"><span style="color: #0433ff;">called</span></a> for Islam to dominate “the halls of Congress”; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10203"><span style="color: #011480;">declared</span></a> that “the only relationship [Muslims] should have with America is to topple it”; extolled Islamic suicide bombers as noble “martyrs”; and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/category/tags/muslim-student-association"><span style="color: #011480;">chanted</span></a> “Death to Israel!” and “Death to the Jews!”</p>
<p>Moreover, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-muslim-student-associations-terror-problem/"><span style="color: #011480;">Patrick Poole</span></a>, an anti-terrorism consultant to law-enforcement and the military, notes “a rather lengthy list of top MSA leaders who have been arrested and convicted on a wide array of terrorism charges, ranging from material support of terrorist groups to being actively involved in terrorist plots.” One of the most famous was Anwar Al-Awlaki, who served as president of the Colorado State University MSA and later as chaplain of the George Washington University MSA, before migrating to Yemen where he became a high-ranking leader of al Qaeda.</p>
<p>But by SPLC&#8217;s reckoning, not even a shred of “hate” or “bigotry” is evident in any of this. Thus the organization directs its criticism not at the Muslim Students Association or the Muslim Brotherhood, but at the “Islamophobes” who brazenly dare to suggest that the MSA is in any way radical.</p>
<p>SPLC is also squeamish about anyone mentioning the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s connection to jihad and terrorism, even though the Brotherhood&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3003/muslim-brotherhood-political-terrorism-strategy"><span style="color: #011480;">credo</span></a> states <i>explicitly</i> that “jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations”; even though Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna himself <span style="color: #011480;">wrote</span> that “jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim”; even though al-Banna <span style="color: #011480;">emphasized</span> that “it is the nature of Islam to dominate [and] to impose its law on all nations”; and even though another Brotherhood leader, Ahmed Yassin, personally founded the jihadist group Hamas, which <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4297/muslim-brotherhood-ansar-bayt-al-maqdis"><span style="color: #011480;">proudly</span></a> identifies itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.” Mohammed Ayoob, Coordinator of the Muslim Studies Program at James Madison College, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tiqQb8_VHB0C&amp;pg=PA116&amp;lpg=PA116&amp;dq="><span style="color: #0433ff;">states</span></a> outright: “Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.” And Richard Clarke—who served as chief counterterrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council during both the Clinton and Bush administrations—<span style="color: #011480;">told</span> a Senate committee that Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are all “descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brothers.”</p>
<p>But none of this matters at all to SPLC, which simply views concern over these matters as the paranoia of hateful “Islamophobes.”</p>
<p>SPLC takes further <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather"><span style="color: #0433ff;">umbrage</span></a> at Horowitz&#8217;s depiction of Huma Abedin, <span style="color: #272727;">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s longtime closest adviser, as a “Muslim Brotherhood operative” who has managed to “penetrate” the U.S. government. Clearly, it is of no consequence to SPLC that Huma&#8217;s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2557"><span style="color: #011480;">mother</span></a></span> is a well-known advocate of Sharia Law, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s division for women, and a board member of a pro-Hamas <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7749"><span style="color: #011480;">Islamic Council</span></a> that is part of a larger, international <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7750"><span style="color: #011480;">terrorist</span></a>-abetting coalition led by the Brotherhood luminary <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=822"><span style="color: #011480;">Yusuf al-Qaradawi</span></a>. Nor does SPLC care that from 1996-2008, Huma herself was <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/09/our-government-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-my-speech-in-washington/?singlepage=true"><span style="color: #011480;">employed</span></a> by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7747"><span style="color: #011480;">Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs</span></a> (IMMA), whose agenda, as Andrew C. McCarthy <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/17/huma-abedins-muslim-minority-affairs-its-not-just-a-journal/?singlepage=true"><span style="color: #011480;">explains</span></a>, is “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West.” Neither does SPLC give a whit that for at least seven of those twelve years, Huma&#8217;s presence at IMMA <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/07/27/huma-abedins-brotherhood-ties-are-not-just-a-family-affair/?print=1"><span style="color: #011480;">overlapped</span></a> with that of the Institute&#8217;s founder, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure with ties to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>For SPLC, this is all mere trivia that occupies the minds of Islamophobes. Can&#8217;t everyone just leave poor little Huma alone?</p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">SPLC&#8217;s report also <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2014/summer/The-Godfather">brays</a> at Horowitz&#8217;s assertion that “no people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” and that “in the history of all mankind, there was never a people who strapped bombs on their bodies and killed innocent people.” Curiously, the report fails to prove Horowitz wrong by naming even one other society that likewise engages in such activity. Would you like to venture a guess as to why?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Presumably, all well-intentioned Americans should thank SPLC for its stalwart defense of the honor of the Palestinians, who have demonstrated their inherent good will by electing, in Gaza, a government run by the friendly chaps of </span>Hamas. Hamas, you might recall, is the group whose founding <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm"><span style="color: #011480;">charter</span></a> declares that jihad is “an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman”; that “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad”; that all peace negotiations are nothing more than a dreary “waste of time”; and that Muslims must heed the Qur&#8217;anic exhortation to “come and kill” the Jews.</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s not forget the even more genial Palestinian leaders of Fatah in the West Bank, who cheerfully profess their desire to <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2051"><span style="color: #0433ff;">achieve</span></a> the “complete liberation of Palestine,” meaning the “eradication” of the state of Israel, by means of “armed public revolution” that “will not cease” until “the Zionist state is demolished.”</p>
<p>One doesn&#8217;t usually find prose as inspiring as this anywhere outside of a fortune cookie. Oh, if only the Islamophobes that SPLC impugns could somehow be made to appreciate the Palestinians&#8217; good wiil.</p>
<p>Similarly frustrating for SPLC is the inability of those darned Islamophobes to stop being so uptight about the ongoing subjugation, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, and mass slaughter of Christians throughout the Muslim world. The “anti-Muslim” bigots also appear to be hypersensitive about <a href="http://www.opendoorsusa.org/"><span style="color: #255295;">Open Doors USA</span></a>&#8216;s recently published <a href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/?utm_source=opendoorsusa.org&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wwl&amp;utm_content=homepage-banner"><span style="color: #255295;">study</span></a> indicating that in 41 of the 50 nations worldwide where persecution of Christians is most widespread, the persecutors are Muslims.</p>
<p>But thankfully for all of us, SPLC&#8217;s <i>Intelligence Report</i> puts all this information in proper perspective, reminding us that only small-minded, hateful “Islamophobes” see any connection between Islam and jihad—and that if only they&#8217;d keep their mouths shut, everyone would get along a lot better.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/obama-health-care.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214646" alt="obama-health-care" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/obama-health-care.jpg" width="280" height="158" /></a>For all the attention Obamacare has drawn in recent weeks, few observers have noted that the law is having the unexpected, yet most welcome, effect of transforming scores of millions of Americans, virtually overnight, into generous benefactors of the less fortunate. A real-world example—representative of countless millions of similar situations—will make this crystal clear:</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say that you are a healthy, hardworking 54-year-old single adult in San Francisco earning $45,960 per year—the income level at which federal Obamacare subsidies from your fellow taxpayers are no longer available to help you pay your monthly health-insurance premiums. As a San Francisco resident, you are permitted to choose from among 16 separate Obamacare-compliant insurance plans. Four of these are so-called “Bronze” plans, low-level policies whose average premium will cost you $453 per month, or $5,436 per year. In exchange for those premium payments, a Bronze plan will cover 60% of your medical expenses—that is, <i>after</i> you meet the $5,000 out-of-pocket annual deductible. For this priceless peace of mind, you can thank Obamacare—the Democratic Party&#8217;s gift to a grateful America.</p>
<p>Let us contrast your case with that of Joe, another 54-year-old single individual in San Francisco, who happens to be an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/25/obamacare-policies-slam-smokers-could-backfire/">obese alcoholic and longtime drug abuser</a> with little ambition and no history of ever having held a full-time job for very long. Joe currently earns $15,860 per year, which is just above the income level that would have made him eligible for Medicaid. Because Joe doesn&#8217;t qualify for Medicaid, Obamacare stipulates that he must now purchase his own health insurance—thereby proving that, contrary to the shrill rhetoric of conservative naysayers, no one gets an undeserved free ride under Obamacare.</p>
<p>Like you, Joe can choose from among 16 separate plans that are available to San Francisco residents. But unlike you, he is eligible to receive federal government subsidies—money that other, wealthier Americans, such as you, magnanimously “contribute” toward the healthcare expenses of financially “disadvantaged” individuals. If he selects one of the four Bronze plans (whose average monthly premium is $453), Joe qualifies for $452 in average monthly subsidies—meaning that, regardless of which Bronze plan he chooses, he will pay a monthly premium of exactly $1. You read that correctly. The very same healthcare plan that would cost you $453 per month, is available to Joe for $1 per month—i.e., the cost of three oatmeal-raisin cookies at your local Subway sandwich shop. Over the course of a year, you will pay a total of $5,436 in policy premiums, while Joe, who sadly failed to qualify for <i>free</i> healthcare through Medicaid, will pay his own fair share of $12. This is all in the interest of social justice, you understand. And please, <i>don&#8217;t even think</i> about whispering that Obamacare might be some sort of “wealth redistribution” scheme, lest you expose yourself as a petulant reactionary who doesn&#8217;t give a damn about sick people.</p>
<p>Oh, imagine what a wonderful world it would be if we could somehow transfer this same brand of Obamacare-style fairness to realms other than health insurance. In such a utopia, for example, the $25,000 new automobile that you purchase would cost a deserving soul like Joe just $55. Your $100 nightly fee at a motel would be 45 cents for Joe. And the $25 hardcover book you purchase at Barnes &amp; Noble would set Joe back about a nickel. What&#8217;s that, you say? These items aren&#8217;t life-and-death necessities, like medical care, and thus don&#8217;t serve as useful analogies? Good point! Let&#8217;s stick with real necessities, such as food and housing: The same load of groceries that costs you $250 would cost Joe 55 cents. Your $1,200-per-month rent or mortgage payment would be available to Joe for about $2.65 a month. And the $250,000 home you seek to buy could be Joe&#8217;s for about $552. Yes, we&#8217;re talking about a veritable paradise of fairness!</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s return, for a moment, to the subject of healthcare in the here-and-now. Suppose you decide to opt for something substantially better than the aforementioned Bronze plan. As a resident of San Francisco, you can also choose from among four separate Silver plans, which each pay 70% of your medical costs (after a $2,000 annual deductible) and have an average monthly premium of $614. For Joe, these same four plans are available for an average of $38 per month—thanks to the marvelous, magical subsidies that are built into Obamacare. In fact, <i>one</i> of the Silver plans in particular would cost Joe just twenty nickels per month—a darned fair deal for someone needing healthcare, wouldn&#8217;t you say? And again, try not to view the disparity between <i>your</i> fee and <i>Joe&#8217;s</i> fee as some form of “wealth redistribution,” but rather as an opportunity for you to cultivate the fiscal virtue that our president terms “<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-s-tax-plan-based-neighborliness">neighborliness</a>,” whereby those who are “<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-s-tax-plan-based-neighborliness">sitting pretty</a>”—like you—extend a helping hand to the “<a href="http://seattlemedium.com/president-obama-help-our-less-fortunate-at-christmas/">less fortunate</a>”—like Joe. Yes indeed, think about how deliriously happy you&#8217;re making good-ol&#8217; Joe!</p>
<p>Now, if you&#8217;re feeling somewhat bold and are inclined to seek out even better coverage, you might opt to enroll in one of San Francisco&#8217;s four Gold insurance plans, which pay 80% of your medical costs (with no deductibles) and have an average monthly premium of $752. For Joe, the average cost of such a policy is $166 per month.</p>
<p>And then there are the top-of-the-line policies—the four Platinum plans—which will pay 90% of your medical expenses and will cost you, on average, $843 in monthly premiums. For Joe, by contrast, the cost of these plans will run about $258 a month.</p>
<p>So, let&#8217;s review: Joe can have <i>the very best</i> coverage available—the type of Platinum plan that our revered overlords in Washington have carefully secured for themselves—for roughly half the cost that <i>you</i> must pay for the most meager, bare-bones, low-end Bronze coverage in existence. Or, alternatively, he can have:</p>
<ul>
<li>a Gold plan for about one-third of what you pay for the Bronze;</li>
<li>a Silver plan for one-twelfth of what you pay for the Bronze; or</li>
<li>his own Bronze plan for <i>less than four-tenths of 1 percent</i> of what you pay for the same plan.</li>
</ul>
<p>And why is Joe able to do all this? Because you, my generous comrade, are largely buying his plan for him. Hooray for you! Hooray for advancing the vision that our president so eloquently laid bare just one month ago, when he identified the eradication of “inequality” as the motive that “drives everything I do in this office.” Ain&#8217;t it wonderful to be part of such a grand crusade?</p>
<p>And in case you seek additional cause for celebration, rest assured that Obamacare imposes the same type of fairness and equity on family plans as it does on individual plans. For instance, a 54-year-old San Francisco couple with two grown children (ages 19 and 20) living at home—and with a $94,200 household income (the income level at which subsidies are no longer available)—can enroll in a bare-bones Bronze family plan (with an annual deductible of $10,000) for an average monthly premium of $1,175. Meanwhile, an identically structured San Francisco family whose household income is $32,500—just above the level that would have qualified them for Medicaid—can obtain a Bronze plan for precisely $4 per month. Yes, the same plan that costs $14,100 per year for the first family, costs <i>$48 per year</i> for the second family.</p>
<p>The four Silver family plans, meanwhile, have an average monthly premium of $1,593 for the first family, and $81 per month for the second family. Annual outlays would be $19,116 for the first family, vs. $972 for the second family.</p>
<p>This, in a nutshell, is the exquisite beauty of Obamacare: It is redistribution … er, um, er … It is neighborliness on a scale never before seen in this country. And many millions of Americans are poised to reap its glorious benefits! As a form of shorthand, you can simply refer to these fortunate millions as “Democrats,” in honor of the party of benefactors that is, at this very moment, purchasing their eternal political allegiance with your dollars. Take pride in the fact that this wonderful arrangement is but one aspect of the “fundamental transformation” of America that our president is so faithfully pursuing, true to his word. At its essence, it is an arrangement designed to take from certain individuals according to their ability to pay, while giving to other individuals according to their need—a profoundly neat and elegant formula if ever there was one. It almost makes you wonder if anyone else has ever thought of anything like it before.[1]</p>
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<p>[1] A central principle of Marxism, popularized by Karl Marx himself, is this: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”</p>
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		<title>Obamacare: The Unimaginable Suffering That Awaits Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 04:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/article-0-002ADAD300000258-120_468x286.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209619" alt="Abortion clinic - picture posed  by model" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/article-0-002ADAD300000258-120_468x286.jpg" width="257" height="199" /></a>There is a vital reason for all Americans to take a close look at how, specifically, the various government-run, single-payer healthcare systems around the world have already affected the lives of the people living under them. This is vital because Barack Obama and the Democrats actually have their sights set on creating precisely such a system here in the United States. For them, Obamacare is, and always has been, nothing more than a stepping stone toward their ultimate goal of a single-payer leviathan administered entirely by the federal government. Indeed, they&#8217;ve been quite clear about their intentions:</p>
<p>• In early August, Senator Harry Reid was asked whether his goal was to eventually use Obamacare as a springboard to a single-payer system. “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes,” he <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/10/sen-harry-reid-obamacare-absolutely-a-step-toward-a-single-payer-system/">replied</a>. “What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever.”</p>
<p>• In late October, Rep. John Conyers <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/10/21/Conyers-Obamacare-Very-Small-and-Modest-Bill-Compared-To-The-Universal-Healthcare-Thats-Coming">stated</a> that Obamacare was just “a very small and modest bill,” and that Congressional Democrats were already contemplating ways to pass “universal healthcare for everybody, single payer.” “That&#8217;s what the new direction is,” Conyers affirmed, even as the supposedly “small and modest” Obamacare project was proving to be nothing more than a colossal lie administered with inexpressible incompetence.</p>
<p>• Nancy Pelosi, too, is on record <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/88476:final-health-care-bill-vote-due-as-early-as-next-week">stating</a>: “I have supported single payer for longer than many of you have been—since you&#8217;ve been born, than you&#8217;ve lived on the face of the earth. So I think, I have always thought, that was the way to go.”</p>
<p>• Kathleen Sebelius, the chief architect of Obamacare&#8217;s pathetic rollout last month, has candidly <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/12/flashback-sebelius-called-for-a-single-payer-system-eventually/">declared</a> herself to be “all for a single-payer [healthcare] system eventually.” On October 7, she <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/08/stewart-to-sebelius-on-health-care-law-am-i-a-stupid-man/">told</a> interviewer <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1939">Jon Stewart</a> that “if we could have perhaps figured out a pathway [to single-payer], that may have been a reasonable solution.”<br />
And of course President Obama himself has been unambiguous about his own views on this matter:</p>
<p>• At an AFL-CIO conference in 2003, Obama <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/10/29/Flashback-Obama-s-Campaign-to-Transition-to-Single-Payer-Health-Care-VIDEO">said</a>: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan&#8230;. &#8216;Everybody in. Nobody out.&#8217; &#8230; That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like to see, but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.”</p>
<p>• At an <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535">SEIU</a> Health Care Forum on March 24, 2007, <a href="http://sroblog.com/2009/08/04/shock-uncovered-obama-in-his-own-words-saying-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/">Obama declared</a>: “My commitment is to make sure that we&#8217;ve got universal healthcare for all Americans by the end of my first term as President&#8230;. But I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There&#8217;s going to be, potentially, some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out &#8230;”</p>
<p>• On August 4, 2007, Obama <a href="http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-and-single-payer-system.html">announced</a> that he planned to pass healthcare reform legislation and then “build off that system to … make it more rational.” “By the way,” he added, “Canada did not start off immediately with a single payer system. They had a similar transition step.”</p>
<p>• In the summer of 2008, Obama <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/19/obama-touts-single-payer-system">said</a>: “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.”</p>
<p>• And in June 2009, Obama <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35272">told</a> an American Medical Association audience that “there are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well.”<br />
So, now that we know definitively what Obama and the Democrats ultimately want, let us look at the track record of single-payer systems around the world, so that we can see exactly what is in store for us if we follow the counsel of these masterminds. A monumentally important 2008 <a href="http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-613.pdf">Cato Institute study</a> offers keen insights into those systems:<sup> </sup></p>
<p><b>Great Britain</b></p>
<p>Under Britain&#8217;s highly centralized National Health Service (NHS), some 750,000 ailing and desperate people are currently on waiting lists for admission to a hospital. More than half of all British patients must wait more than 18 weeks to receive care of any kind. For most specialties, only 30 to 50 percent of patients are treated within that time frame. For trauma and orthopedics patients, the figure is just 20 percent. Cancer patients must sometimes wait as long as eight months for treatment, and roughly 40 percent of them never even get to see an oncologist. Many who were considered treatable when first diagnosed are incurable by the time their treatment is finally made available. Indeed, this is the sad fate of nearly one-in-five Britons with colon cancer. In addition, many life-saving procedures such as kidney dialysis and open-heart surgery are subject to explicit rationing, and treatment is often denied altogether to patients who are judged too ill or too old for the procedures to be worth the costs.</p>
<p><b>Canada</b></p>
<p>Physicians and modern medical equipment (such as MRI units and CT scanners) are in short supply nationwide, and at any given time as many as 800,000 Canadians are awaiting necessary medical treatment. Across all specialties and all procedures (emergency, non-urgent, and elective), it takes an average of 17.7 weeks for a patient to go through the process of seeing his or her general practitioner (GP), getting a referral to consult with a specialist, and receiving final treatment. And that figure does not even include the time a patient must wait to see a GP in the first place. Canada&#8217;s longest waiting periods are for procedures such as hip or knee replacements and cataract surgery, which could arguably be classified as elective. According to the journal <i>Health Affairs</i>, a 65-year-old Canadian man requiring a routine hip replacement must wait more than <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2004/09/01/canadas-medical-nightmare">six months</a> for this surgery. In August 2006, then-Canadian Medical Association president Brian Day <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/international/americas/26canada.html?_r=0">lamented</a> that “this is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week, and in which humans can wait two to three years.”</p>
<p>There are likewise protracted waiting periods for more urgent procedures such as neurosurgery and vascular surgery, where delays can dramatically affect a patient&#8217;s chances of survival. A study published in the <i>Canadian Medical Association Journal</i> noted that 50 patients in Ontario alone had recently died while they were on the waiting list for cardiac catheterization. In an address to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, University of Ottawa Heart Institute cardiologist <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2004/09/01/canadas-medical-nightmare">Richard F. Davies</a> noted that in a single year, 71 Ontario patients had died before being able to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery, while another 121 had been “removed from the [waiting] list permanently because they had become medically unfit for surgery,” and 44 others had left the province to have their surgery performed elsewhere—usually in the United States.</p>
<p><b>Italy</b></p>
<p>Because cutting-edge instruments such as MRI units and CT scanners in Italy are in short supply as compared to the United States, Italian patients must wait, on average, 70 days for a mammogram, 74 days for an endoscopy, and 23 days for a sonogram. Moreover, the nation&#8217;s public hospitals are largely considered substandard, unsanitary, and overcrowded.</p>
<p><b>Spain</b></p>
<p>Because Spain has a severe shortage of primary care physicians and nurses, patients are not free to select their own healthcare providers. Rather, they are assigned a primary care doctor from a list of physicians in their local community, and if they need more specialized care, they must obtain a referral from that doctor. On average, Spaniards must wait approximately 65 days to get an appointment with a specialist—including, for instance, 81 days to see a gynecologist and 71 days to see a neurologist. Similarly, they must wait an average of 62 days for a prostectomy and 123 days for hip-replacement surgery. And a number of vital health services that U.S. citizens take for granted—such as rehabilitation, convalescence, and care for those with terminal illness—are virtually unavailable in Spain, where public nursing homes, retirement homes, hospices, and convalescence facilities are in limited supply.</p>
<p><b>Portugal</b></p>
<p>Portugal has only one general practitioner per 1,500 people in its population, and only about one-seventh as many MRI units per capita as the United States. Thus, despite guarantees of “universal coverage,” waiting lists are so long and so prevalent that the European Observatory on Health Systems says that they resemble “de facto rationing.” More than 150,000 Portuguese are currently on waiting lists for surgery, out of a population of just 10.6 million. Further, there is little freedom to choose one&#8217;s own doctor anywhere in the country; patients may change their GP only by applying in writing to the NHS and explaining their reasons.</p>
<p><b>Norway</b></p>
<p>Long and growing waiting lists are a serious problem in Norway, where citizens must consult a government list in order to choose a general practitioner who subsequently acts as a gatekeeper for whatever specialty services and providers they may need. On any given day, some 280,000 Norwegians (out of a population of just 4.6 million) are waiting for care. The average wait for hip-replacement surgery is more than four months; for a prostectomy, nearly three months; and for a hysterectomy, more than two months. Approximately 23 percent of all patients referred for hospital admission must wait longer than 90 days before they can be admitted.</p>
<p><b>Greece</b></p>
<p>Greece has fewer than one-eighth the number of general practitioners that would be required to meet the overall population&#8217;s demand. Patients routinely wait as long as six months for surgery, five months for an outpatient appointment with specialists in fields like hypertension or neurology, and 30 days for just a simple blood test. The country&#8217;s public hospitals are widely considered substandard; most suffer from severe staffing shortages caused, in large part, by low pay.</p>
<p><b>Cuba</b></p>
<p>Leftists revere Communist Cuba for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the government-run, universal healthcare system that was put in place by Fidel Castro. Many of these admirers—among the most notable of whom is the filmmaker Michael Moore—form their impressions of the Cuban healthcare system from its tourist hospitals, which are, by any standards, clean, well staffed, and of excellent quality. Indeed Cuba, in an effort to attract wealthy foreigners who are willing to spend their money on healthcare services, has pioneered the practice of so-called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism">health tourism</a>” through agencies such as <a href="http://www.haciendapublishing.com/articles/socialized-medicine-cuba-2002-part-ii-other-hidden-faces-cuban-medicine">SERVIMED</a>, which markets Cuban medical services abroad. Calling Cuba “the ideal destination for your health,” SERVIMED frankly admits to being “a tourist subsystem.”</p>
<p>But after providing for the needs of affluent foreigners (and of the country&#8217;s top government officials), the Cuban healthcare system has little left for the general public. Hospitals for ordinary Cubans are typically <a href="http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/socialized-medicine.htm">unsanitary</a>. Syringes are frequently used to inject multiple patients without any sterilization, and “disposable” gloves are likewise used and reused. Consequently, infectious diseases such an impetigo and hepatitis—and infestations such as scabies, lice and fungal diseases—are commonplace in the Cuban hospital population.<br />
Moreover, Cuban hospitals have serious <a href="http://capitalismmagazine.com/2003/04/bad-cuban-medicine/">shortages</a> of antibiotics, insulin, heart drugs, blood-pressure meters, disinfectants, and even clean water and soap.</p>
<p>It is noteworthy that in the pre-Castro years of the 1950s, the Cuban population as a whole had access to <a href="http://capitalismmagazine.com/2003/04/bad-cuban-medicine/">outstanding</a> medical care through association clinics (<i>clinicas mutualistas</i>) which predated the American concept of health maintenance organizations by decades, as well as through private clinics. At that time the Cuban medical system ranked among the best in the world, as evidenced by the fact that it had Latin America&#8217;s lowest infant-mortality rate—comparable to Canada&#8217;s and better than those of France, Japan, and Italy.</p>
<p>So the evidence is crystal clear. As the Cato Institute <a href="http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-613.pdf">puts it</a>, “In countries weighted heavily toward government control, people are most likely to face waiting lists, rationing, restrictions on physician choice, and other obstacles to care.” By contrast, “<a href="http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-613.pdf">those countries</a> with national health care systems that work better, such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, are successful to the degree that they incorporate market mechanisms such as competition, cost-consciousness, market prices, and consumer choice, and eschew centralized government control. In other words, socialized medicine works—as long as it isn’t socialized medicine.”</p>
<p>Yet socialized medicine is <i>precisely</i> the direction in which Obama and Democrats wish, beyond any shadow of a doubt, to steer the United States of America. What, then, does this tell us about the judgment and the motivations of these men and women?</p>
<p>Some questions simply answer themselves.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York votes to curb one of the most effective anti-crime policies ever implemented. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nypd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-195075" alt="nypd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nypd-450x252.jpg" width="315" height="176" /></a>In open defiance of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, New York&#8217;s City Council last week <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/06/nyc-council-passes-nypd-inspector-general-racial-profiling-bills-with-veto-pro">passed</a> two bills aimed at curbing the NY Police Department&#8217;s practice of “stop-and-frisk,” which has been among the most effective crime-fighting tactics ever employed. One of the bills mandates the appointment of an independent inspector general to monitor the department for evidence that its use of stop-and-frisk may be unfairly targeting blacks and Hispanics; the other opens the door to racial profiling lawsuits against the NYPD. Black Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Queens), who prides himself on being a strong voice against profiling, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/06/city-council-passes-inspector-general-and-racial-profiling-bills-with-veto-pro">says</a> that he himself was once “dehumanized” by the experience of being stopped and frisked as a teen, and thus wishes to spare other minority youth the same pain.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, the laws governing stop-and-frisk permit police to briefly detain a person upon reasonable suspicion of his or her involvement in, or intent to commit, a crime—even if there is not yet enough evidence to make an arrest. To justify such a stop, an officer must be able to <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&amp;vol=392&amp;invol=1">cite</a> “specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.” During detention, an officer may question the suspect and, if he deems it advisable, conduct a weapon search by frisking the suspect’s outer garments.</p>
<p>But civil-liberties and civil-rights activists nationwide—and in New York particularly—routinely charge that stop-and-frisk practices are racist because they target nonwhite minorities in disproportionate numbers. Manhattan Institute Fellow <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stop_frisk_facts_rVuSm8oyOMhFdNe0PzGksO">Heather MacDonald</a>, who has done immensely important work in researching the facts about stop-and-frisk and placing them in proper perspective, notes that in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stop_frisk_facts_rVuSm8oyOMhFdNe0PzGksO">2011</a> in New York City, African Americans, who constituted 23% of the city’s population, were fully 53% of all police-stop subjects. By contrast, whites were 35% of the city&#8217;s population but only 9% of stop subjects.</p>
<p>Left-wing outfits like the New York Civil Liberties Union and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6148">Center for Constitutional Rights</a> maintain that if the racial makeup of those affected by “stop-and-frisk” does not mirror the racial makeup of the surrounding <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0514hm.html">community</a> as a whole, we can deduce that racism and/or discrimination are at work. But these critics omit the most important facts of all from the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stop_frisk_facts_rVuSm8oyOMhFdNe0PzGksO">equation</a>: In New York City during 2011, black offenders were responsible for 66% of all violent crimes, including approximately 70% of robberies and 80% of shootings. Blacks and Hispanics, combined, accounted for an astonishing 98% of all shootings in the city. Whites, by contrast, were responsible for only 5% of New York&#8217;s violent crimes, and scarcely 1% of its civilian shootings.</p>
<p>These plain and inarguable facts explain <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stop_frisk_facts_rVuSm8oyOMhFdNe0PzGksO">precisely</a> why the residents of black and Hispanic neighborhoods seem to be “targets” of stop-and-frisk more often than residents of mostly white areas. In some cases, crime rates in minority neighborhoods are literally <i>dozens</i> of times higher than elsewhere.</p>
<p>The statistics above, it should be noted, raise a vital question that merits contemplation: If blacks constitute 66% of all violent offenders but only 53% of stop-and-frisk targets, and if whites are just 5% of violent offenders but fully 9% of stop-and-frisk targets, could it not be argued that it is actually whites, and not blacks, who are disproportionately “targeted” by stop-and-frisk?</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s another reasonable question that deserves an answer: While critics claim that stop-and-frisk policies “target” blacks and Hispanics in minority neighborhoods, why do they not <i>also</i> say that such policies, in another sense, selectively <i>favor</i> blacks and Hispanics by devoting a vastly disproportionate share of police manpower and city resources to <i>protecting </i>them and their communities? After all, it isn&#8217;t only the <i>perpetrators</i> in those places who are overwhelming black and Hispanic; the <i>victims</i> are mostly members of those demographics as well.</p>
<p>The role of stop-and-frisk in New York increased dramatically after Rudolph Giuliani replaced David Dinkins as mayor in 1994,and was one among a constellation of effective new strategies introduced by Giuliani. Others included so-called “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1633">broken windows</a>” policing, which clamped down on petty crimes as a way to also forestall more serious offenses, and the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompStat">COMPSTAT</a>, a computer technology tool that helped pinpoint specific high-crime neighborhoods geographically on a map. The results of Giuliani&#8217;s efforts were extraordinary, as evidenced by the fact that during his eight years in office, the incidence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_New_York_City_crimes_and_disasters#Murders_by_year">homicide</a> in the city fell from an annual average of 2,085 during the Dinkins administration, to just 649 by the final year of Giuliani&#8217;s tenure. From a statistcal standpoint, this was by far the most <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stop_frisk_facts_rVuSm8oyOMhFdNe0PzGksO">dramatic</a> crime drop in the recorded history of America, unrivaled by reductions in any other city. The positive trends continued under Giuliani&#8217;s successor, Michael Bloomberg, with total homicides in the city ranging between 471 and 597 during each of his first ten years in office.</p>
<p>Those who have <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVMurdockRappers799.html">benefited</a> most, by far, from the stop-and-frisk policies put in place by Giuliani (and later, Bloomberg) are the black and Hispanic residents of such traditionally high-crime areas as Brooklyn&#8217;s 75th Precinct, Bedford-Stuyvesant&#8217;s 81st Precinct, and Harlem&#8217;s 28th Precinct. Indeed, blacks and Hispanics have accounted for fully <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577579490354672410.html">79%</a> of the decline in homicide victims citywide since 1993. If, from 1993 forward, crime rates would have stayed at their Dinkins-era levels—rather than at the much lower levels brought about by the Giuliani/Bloomberg administrations—<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577579490354672410.html">more than 10,000</a> additional black and Hispanic males would have met an early death-by-homicide during the past two decades. Also <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cscity.pdf">during that period</a>, the number of rapes that occurred annually in New York City declined by 54.8%; robberies fell by 80.3%; felony assaults dropped by 57.8%; and burglaries were reduced by 84.6%. This means that many tens of thousands of black and Hispanic would-be victims were spared the anguish associated with those crimes as well.</p>
<p>Yet none of these facts matter in the least to our perpetually outraged champions of “civil rights” and “civil liberties,” wedded, as they are, to their quasi-religious conviction that white racism lurks menacingly around every corner and lies at the heart of public policies like stop-and-frisk. Thus do we see the spectacle of New York State Senator Eric Adams, a staunch opponent of “racial profiling,” <a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/09/3271979/gentleman-commissioner-why-nypd-controversies-never-seem-touch-ray-k">pining</a> for a return to the halcyon days of the Dinkins administration, when, according to Adams, even current police commissioner Raymond Kelly, who also served under Dinkins, was made of kinder, gentler stuff: “Kelly was one of the great humanitarians in policing under David Dinkins,” says Adams. “I don’t know what happened to him that all of a sudden his philosophical understanding of the importance of community and police liking each other has changed.” The “humanitarianism” that Adams wistfully longs to restore came at a dear price, however, and went a long way toward filling the graveyards of New York.</p>
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		<title>Toxic Government by Democrats: Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Progressive” policies turn Chicago into a cesspool of poverty and crime.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-chicago/chicago-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-184877"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184877" title="chicago" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chicago.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="360" /></a><strong>Editor’s note: The following is the third in a series of articles that will expose the misery of life in America’s poorest cities, all of which have one thing in common: they are controlled exclusively by Democrats. Each article presented by FrontPage will reveal how the production of mass urban poverty is much more than just a failure of leadership, but a means of political survival for the Left. To read the background pamphlet by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, “Government Versus The People,” click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/upload/pamphlets/government-vs-the-people.pdf">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The city of Chicago, Illinois has been led exclusively by Democratic mayors since 1931. Under the “progressive” policies of such notables as Richard J. Daley, Michael Bilandic, Jane Byrne, and Harold Washington, the city&#8217;s economic and social fabric decayed markedly during the 1960s, &#8217;70s, and &#8217;80s. These trends were accompanied by a steep <a href="http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/projects/population/cities/chicago.html">decline</a> in Chicago&#8217;s population, which fell from 3.62 million in 1950 to 2.78 million by 1990.</p>
<p>Under Mayor Richard M. Daley (1989-2011), Chicago <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_chicago.html">rebounded</a> a bit in the 1990s when it added some 560,000 new jobs and gained more than 100,000 residents. But in the first decade of the 21st century, these successes faded. Fiscal mismanagement by the Daley administration began to manifest itself in Chicago&#8217;s economy, causing <a href="http://www.cdobs.com/archive/crime/demography-and-the-shellacking-of-chicago/">7.1%</a> of the city&#8217;s jobs to dry up and disappear—more than any other large metropolitan area.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the city government was running an annual budget <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_chicago.html">deficit</a> of approximately $650 million. Contributing heavily to these shortfalls were ever-escalating expenditures on the lavish benefits of Chicago&#8217;s many public-sector union employees, whose pensions were, by mandate of the Illinois state constitution, permanently immune to cutbacks. By early 2012, each household in the city owed, on average, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/chicago-taxpayers-owe-635_n_882622.html">more than $63,000</a> in local government liabilities.</p>
<p>Chicago&#8217;s Democratic leaders sought to address the budget deficit by raising local property and sales taxes. This, coupled with Illinois&#8217; already-high state-tax rates, became a recipe for severe financial hardship in the Windy City. According to a March 2013 <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Chicagoans-Pay-Fifth-Highest-Taxes-194516951.html">report</a>, the state and local taxes currently paid by Chicagoans are higher than those paid by their counterparts in all but four other American cities. This oppressive tax climate has dealt a painful blow to Chicago&#8217;s small businesses.</p>
<p>Another factor harming small businesses in Chicago is the system of “aldermanic privilege” that dominates the city&#8217;s politics and serves as a fertile breeding ground for corruption. As urban-affairs analyst Aaron Renn <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_chicago.html">explains</a>, Chicago&#8217;s aldermen—i.e., city council members—have “nearly dictatorial control over what happens in their wards, from zoning changes to sidewalk café permits.” “This,” says Renn, “dumps political risk onto the shoulders of every would-be entrepreneur, who knows that he must stay on the alderman’s good side to be in business. It’s also a recipe for sleaze: 31 aldermen have been convicted of corruption since 1970.” According to a University of Illinois <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0215/Chicago-area-called-most-corrupt-in-US.-Why-Rahm-Emanuel-is-under-fire">report</a> issued in 2012, Chicago is the most politically corrupt city in the United States, having averaged 51 <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_corruption">public corruption</a> convictions annually since 1976. In such a political climate, failure to adhere dutifully to the demands of the mayor and his power structure typically spells doom for any business enterprise.</p>
<p>Entrepreneurs in Chicago are further handicapped by the byzantine regulations and <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_chicago.html">red tape</a> that make it very costly and complicated to run a business within the city&#8217;s confines. Violations of these complex rules commonly result in lawsuits. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-10/business/chi-legal-climate-clouds-business-in-illinois-4-other-states-20120910_1_survey-legal-climate-institute-for-legal-reform">described</a> the litigation environment of Cook County as “the most unfair and unreasonable” of any  jurisdiction in the United States.</p>
<p>Chicago&#8217;s fiscal woes are compounded by the poor economic conditions in <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1679">Illinois generally</a>, where egregious financial mismanagement has plunged a once-thriving state economy into virtual ruin. The state&#8217;s job-creation rate ranks a lowly <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-04/news/ct-edit-jobs-20100404_1_illinois-fewer-jobs-new-jobs">48th</a> in the U.S., and its $9,624 public debt per capita is second only to New York&#8217;s. Largely as a consequence of this runaway debt, two of the nation&#8217;s major credit-rating corporations, Moody&#8217;s and Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s, currently <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/31/illinois-downgraded-again/">give</a> Illinois the lowest <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/business/illinois-debt-takes-toll-on-services-study-finds.html?ref=us&amp;_r=1&amp;">credit rating</a> of any state in the Union.</p>
<p>Yet another reality that has had a major impact on life in Chicago is crime. Since the mid-1970s, the annual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago#Homicides_in_Chicago_by_year">homicide tally</a> within the city has ranged between 435 and 970, with the trends and fluctuations more-or-less mirroring those observable nationwide. Today Chicago ranks among the most dangerous cities in the U.S.  Blacks, who constitute roughly 35% of Chicago&#8217;s population, <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html">commit</a> 76% of all homicides in the city. By contrast, whites, who are 28% of the population, commit 4% of the homicides. Driving the trend of high crime rates in Chicago&#8217;s black community is a high incidence of single motherhood; between <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html">75% and 80%</a> of the city&#8217;s black children are born out-of-wedlock. Sociological research has demonstrated conclusively that growing up without a father is a far better <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1261">forecaster</a> of a boy’s future criminality than either race or poverty. As Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1261">notes</a>, “Illegitimacy is a major factor in America&#8217;s crime problem. Lack of married parents, rather than race or poverty, is the principal factor in the crime rate.”</p>
<p>In recent years, Chicago has been the scene of at least 50 incidents of black-on-white “flash mob” violence, as documented by the intrepid author <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/colin-flaherty/chicago-running-out-of-euphemisms/">Colin Flaherty</a>. One of the most recent cases occurred at the end of March, when some 500 blacks stormed the so-called Magnificent Mile, an upscale shopping area, assaulting innocent people and destroying property.</p>
<p>Chicago leadership&#8217;s response to this criminality has been largely ineffectual. For example, the city&#8217;s police culture has been far less assertive than that of New York, where Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police chief William Bratton in the 1990s instituted a proactive, aggressive, and highly successful anti-crime <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1633">strategy</a> that incorporated “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1629">stop-and-frisk</a>” policies and so-called “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1633">broken windows</a>” law-enforcement measures. Their approach was subsequently continued, to similar effect, by Giuliani&#8217;s Republican/Independent successor, Michael Bloomberg. By contrast, Chicago&#8217;s politicians, community activists, and religious leaders alike have largely eschewed the methods of Giuliani and Bloomberg. As a former Chicago deputy superintendent once <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_chicago-crime.html">observed</a>: “We’d marvel at how the NYPD was getting mayoral support” during Giuliani’s tenure in office. “Mayor Daley is not a cop supporter,” he elaborated. “It’s no secret that he rules the police department with an iron fist.”</p>
<p>Due to the social, economic, and crime-related challenges faced by Chicagoans, more than <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-02-15/news/ct-met-2010-census-20110215_1_census-data-collar-counties-population">200,000</a> people moved out of the city during the first decade of the 21st century—an exodus exceeded in magnitude only by the former residents of Detroit.</p>
<p><strong>Previous articles in the series:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-baltimore/">Toxic Government by Democrats: Baltimore</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-minneapolis/">Toxic Government by Democrats: Minneapolis</a>.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-baltimore/baltimorepoverty/" rel="attachment wp-att-184745"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184745" title="baltimorepoverty" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/baltimorepoverty-450x307.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="194" /></a>Editor’s note: The following is the second in a series of articles that will expose the misery of life in America’s poorest cities, all of which have one thing in common: they are controlled exclusively by Democrats. Each article presented by FrontPage will reveal how the production of mass urban poverty is much more than just a failure of leadership, but a means of political survival for the Left. To read the background pamphlet by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, “Government Versus The People,” click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/upload/pamphlets/government-vs-the-people.pdf">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The city of Baltimore, Maryland, which in the <a href="http://www.nathanielturner.com/robertmooreand1199union3.htm">1950s</a> was an employment mecca for a number of thriving industries, has been governed exclusively by Democratic mayors and city councils since 1967. William Donald Schaefer, who served as Baltimore&#8217;s mayor from <a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001489/html/msa01489.html">1971-87</a>, helped set the stage for economic decline in his city by championing an ever-expanding public sector coupled with extensive government regulation of private business enterprises. Moreover, he relied heavily on federal grants and city bonds to finance a host of development projects throughout Baltimore. As the <em>City Journal</em> <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">reports</a>: “[W]hen those monies proved insufficient, [Schaefer] &#8230; created his own city bank to seed development: the Loan and Guarantee Fund. The fund financed itself by selling city property and then leasing it back to itself, and by selling bonds that would stick future taxpayers with much of the bill.”</p>
<p>Rampant with corruption, Schaefer&#8217;s administration virtually made an art form of cronyism. Once, for instance, the mayor&#8217;s finance director, Charles Benton, successfully <a href="http://citypaper.com/news/saint-or-sinner-1.1144574">steered</a> $5.6 million in public money to a repair project on an apartment building owned by a Schaefer political supporter. On another occasion, Benton directed more than $4 million in taxpayer funds to the refurbishing of a hotel owned by a longtime friend of the mayor. Every penny of that money was wasted, however, as the hotel went bankrupt shortly after Schaefer&#8217;s mayoral tenure ended.</p>
<p>In 1986 the Brookings Institution <a href="http://citypaper.com/news/saint-or-sinner-1.1144574">reported</a> that “only projects that had been endorsed by [Schaefer] were funded, and only the neighborhoods that were most loyal to City Hall got community grants.” In dozens of cases, Schaefer&#8217;s administration took federal funds that had been earmarked for poor people and diverted them to other, more politically expedient, uses. As the Baltimore <em>City Paper</em> <a href="http://citypaper.com/news/saint-or-sinner-1.1144574">reveals</a>: “Fifteen million dollars from a program to provide rent subsidies to low-income families was used to build housing for the elderly (a reliable voting bloc). Another $15 million earmarked for disadvantaged schoolchildren was spent on other items, including the salaries of [politically influential] school bureaucrats.”</p>
<p>In the 1970s, Schaefer&#8217;s deputy public works director was <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">incarcerated</a> for rigging bids on city contracts. And in the &#8217;80s, the federal government shut down the city&#8217;s Urban Development Action Grants program due to its many abuses.</p>
<p>In 1987 Schaefer was succeeded as mayor by Kurt Schmoke, who continued his predecessor&#8217;s policy of extracting as much taxpayer money as possible from Annapolis and Washington, respectively. By 2001, such state and federal <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">subsidies</a> accounted for an incredible 40% of Baltimore&#8217;s operating budget.</p>
<p>Thanks to Schmoke&#8217;s <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">close ties</a> to Clinton administration officials, the federal gravy train, bearing large cargoes of cash to fund city programs, made frequent stops in Baltimore. One such program (bankrolled by a <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-2240408.html">$100 million</a> federal grant) was the <a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/011600/011606/html/schmoke.html">establishment</a> of an <a href="http://carnegie.org/about-us/board-of-directors/kurt-l-schmoke/">Empowerment Zone</a> that <a href="http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/2416/index.php">failed</a> miserably to achieve its stated goal of spurring job creation. That boondoggle, however, did not hurt Schmoke at all politically. Rather, the influx of (wasted) federal funds helped convince Baltimore voters to re-elect him in 1991, and again in 1995.</p>
<p>Like Schaefer before him, Mayor Schmoke was no stranger to corruption. In the mid-1990s, for instance, federal officials were <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">alerted</a> to the fact that Schmoke&#8217;s housing authority had squandered—via no-bid contracts, massive cost overruns, and blatant cronyism—some $25.6 million in <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD">HUD</a> funds that were intended for housing repairs.</p>
<p>Even as the nation flourished economically in the 1990s, Baltimore’s economy lost at least 58,000 jobs. The city&#8217;s <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">unemployment</a> rate was twice that of the rest of Maryland. Part of the problem was the fact that Baltimore&#8217;s property taxes were the highest in the state, causing many of the city’s leading private-sector firms to relocate in the more business-friendly suburbs.</p>
<p>While Baltimore&#8217;s industry and finance were in steep decline, crime was on the rise—thanks, in large measure, to Schmoke&#8217;s <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_can_mayor_omalley.html">ineffective</a>, soft-on-drugs policing strategy. By the end of the 1990s, the murder rate in Baltimore was six times higher than in New York (where a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1633">variety</a> of proactive policing <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1629">practices</a> had reduced violent crime dramatically). Three-fourths of Baltimore&#8217;s homicides were drug-related—symptoms of an ongoing, brutal drug-turf war that was engulfing many nonwhite neighborhoods. Police, meanwhile, were frustrated by the fact that the drug dealers whom they arrested were routinely released a short time later, free to resume their criminal activities on the streets.</p>
<p>Yet another Democrat, Martin O’Malley, won Baltimore&#8217;s 1999 mayoral race by campaigning on a law-and-order platform, but ultimately he was unable to fulfill his crime-reduction pledges. <a href="http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=12855">In 2005</a>, criminal-justice statistics for Baltimore indicated that 17.6 violent crimes were committed for every 1,000 residents—a figure almost 80% higher than America&#8217;s big-city average. Baltimore&#8217;s murder rate, meanwhile, was nearly three times higher than the big-city average—just as it had been when O&#8217;Malley first took office in 2000. Robberies and aggravated assaults (including shootings) had dropped slightly since 2000, but were still more than twice as prevalent as in other large American cities.</p>
<p>Baltimore&#8217;s economy also lagged under O&#8217;Malley. Between 2001 and 2004, the city <a href="http://www2.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=12855">lost</a> nearly 5% of all its jobs, including a quarter of its manufacturing jobs, 15% of its banking and finance jobs, and 5% of its retail jobs.</p>
<p>In 2007 O&#8217;Malley was succeeded as mayor by Sheila Dixon, who <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/former-baltimore-mayor-sheila-dixon-violates-probation">resigned</a> three years later when convicted of embezzlement and perjury charges. Replacing Dixon was city council president Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. By the start of 2013, Baltimore&#8217;s population stood at <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/06/city-baltimore-is-on-path-to-financial-ruin-report-says/">619,000</a>—a 35% dropoff from its peak of 950,000 six decades earlier, when it had been an economically and socially healthy city.</p>
<p>Baltimore&#8217;s experience has played itself out in many U.S. cities: Democratic tax-and-spend policies, coupled with toothless and ineffective approaches to crime, destroy the quality of life and leave people no choice but to uproot themselves and move away.<br />
<strong>Previous articles in the series:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-minneapolis/">Toxic Government by Democrats: Minneapolis</a>.</p>
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		<title>Obama: Let&#8217;s Start a New Financial Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/obama-lets-start-a-new-financial-crisis/fin/" rel="attachment wp-att-184454"><img class=" wp-image-184454 alignleft" title="fin" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fin.jpeg" alt="" width="256" height="192" /></a>File this under “Unbelievable.” We now <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html?tid=pm_pop">learn</a> from the <em>Washington Post</em> that the Obama administration, in its relentless quest for “social justice,” is pushing banks to make more loans to people with weak credit ratings. It seems that Obama and his “economic advisers” have concluded that the current “housing rebound” is “leaving too many people behind”—most notably, undercapitalized first-time homebuyers and nonwhite minorities with low credit scores. To remedy this putative disaster, the administration wants banks to rely less on the time-tested, race-neutral lending criteria that have served as reliable barometers of credit-worthiness since time immemorial—income, net worth, credit history, etc.  Instead, banks should “use more subjective judgment in determining whether to offer a loan” because, as Obama&#8217;s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) commissioner puts it, “there are lots of creditworthy borrowers &#8230; all the way down the credit-score spectrum.” And hey, if this policy ultimately causes borrowers to default on their loans, that&#8217;s no big deal. “Taxpayer-backed programs”—including those offered by the FHA—will magnanimously pick up the tab.</p>
<p>No, you aren&#8217;t in a time warp. This article wasn&#8217;t written ten years ago, before the housing-market crisis plunged the American economy into the proverbial sewer. Difficult as it may be to believe, the current president of the United States is actually prescribing <em>precisely the same practice</em>—government policies pressuring banks to lend money to unqualified applicants—that caused the crisis in the first place.</p>
<p>Let that sink in for a moment.</p>
<p>These types of government policies initially emerged the mid-1970s, when “progressive” Democrats in Congress began a campaign to help low-income minorities become homeowners. This led to the passage, in 1977, of the <a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&amp;sid=52a4960633093ddafec2727093859f12&amp;rgn=div5&amp;view=text&amp;node=12:1.0.1.1.23&amp;idno=12#12:1.0.1.1.23.1.9.1">Community Reinvestment Act</a> (CRA), a mandate for banks to make special efforts to seek out and lend to borrowers of meager means. Founded on the premise that government intervention is necessary to counteract the fundamentally racist and inequitable nature of American society and the free market, the CRA was eventually transformed from an outreach effort into a strict <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html">quota system</a> by the Clinton administration. Under the new arrangement, if a bank failed to meet its quota for loans to low-income minorities, it ran the risk of getting a low CRA <a href="http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/compliance/manual/pdf/XI-6.1.pdf">rating</a> from the <a href="http://www.fdic.gov/">FDIC</a>. This, in turn, could derail the bank&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n4/vmck4-94.pdf">efforts</a> to expand, relocate, merge, etc.  From a practical standpoint, then, banks had no recourse but to drastically <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10132008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/spreading_the_virus_133375.htm?page=0">lower their standards</a> on down-payments and underwriting, and to approve many loans even to borrowers with weak credit credentials. As Hoover Institution Fellow Thomas Sowell explains, this led to “<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=s3SVGKaLNukC&amp;pg=PA99&amp;lpg=PA99&amp;dq=%22Thomas+Sowell%22+and+“skyrocketing+rates+of+mortgage+delinquencies+and+defaults%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=g69i5P4qd-&amp;sig=1M1eN2q7s0TI1qjEEpfgLIzcFZQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=YaZdUbOrObGL0QGuk4DICg&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=&quot;Thomas Sowell&quot; and “skyrocketing rates of mortgage delinquencies and defaults&quot;&amp;f=false">skyrocketing rates</a> of mortgage delinquencies and defaults,” and the rest is history.</p>
<p>The CRA was by no means the only mechanism designed by government to impose lending quotas on financial institutions. For instance, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) developed <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n4/vmck4-94.pdf">rules</a> encouraging lenders to dramatically hike their loan-approval rates for minority applicants and began bringing <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp110.pdf">legal actions</a> against mortgage bankers who failed to do so, regardless of the reason. This, too, caused lenders to lower their down-payment and income requirements.</p>
<p>Moreover, HUD <a href="http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2008/07/13/who-are-fannie-may-and-freddie-mac.htm">pressured</a> the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest sources of housing finance in the United States, to earmark a steeply rising number of their own loans for low-income borrowers. Many of these were subprime mortgages—loans characterized by higher interest rates and less favorable terms in order to compensate lenders for the high credit risk they were incurring.</p>
<p>Additional pressure toward this end was applied by community organizations like the pro-socialist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968">ACORN</a>. By <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html">accusing</a> banks—however frivolously or unjustly—of having engaged in racially discriminatory lending practices that violated the mandates of the CRA, these groups commonly sued banks to <a href="http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_dangerous_pals_131216.htm">prevent</a> them from expanding or merging as they wished. Barack Obama, ACORN&#8217;s staunch ally, was strongly in favor of this practice. Indeed, in a 1994 class-action<strong> </strong>lawsuit against Citibank, Obama represented ACORN in demanding more favorable <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-suffers-amnesia-blaming-bush-for-economy/">terms</a> for subprime homebuyer mortgages. After four years of being dragged through the mud, a beleaguered Citibank—anxious to put an end to the incessant smears (charging <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/03/community-reinvestment-act-mortgages-housing-opinions-contributors-peter-schweizer.html">racism</a>) that Obama and his fellow litigators were hurling in its direction (to say nothing of its mounting legal bills)—agreed to settle the case.</p>
<p><em>Forbes</em> magazine puts it <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/03/community-reinvestment-act-mortgages-housing-opinions-contributors-peter-schweizer.html">bluntly</a>: “Obama has been a staunch supporter of the CRA throughout his public life.” In other words, he has long advocated <em>the very policies that already have reduced </em><em>the real-estate market to rubble</em>. And now he is actively pushing those very same practices <em>again</em>. The reason for this is not difficult to comprehend: The president of the United States is a socialist ideologue who reveres big-government interventionism and deplores the free market. For good measure, he also happens to be an economic illiterate who, in his pontifications about fiscal matters, has all the credibility of a pre-Copernican stargazer explaining precisely how the sun revolves around the earth.</p>
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		<title>Toxic Government by Democrats: Minneapolis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poorest cities in America have one thing in common: decades of monolithic control by the Left. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/toxic-government-by-democrats-minneapolis/child-poverty/" rel="attachment wp-att-184306"><img class=" wp-image-184306 alignleft" title="child poverty" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/child-poverty.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="176" /></a>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is the first in a series of articles that will expose the misery of life in America&#8217;s poorest cities, all of which have one thing in common: they are controlled exclusively by Democrats. Each article presented by FrontPage will reveal how the production of mass urban poverty is much more than just a failure of leadership, but a means of political survival for the Left. To read the background pamphlet by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, &#8220;Government Versus The People,&#8221; click <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/upload/pamphlets/government-vs-the-people.pdf">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota—whose <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27/2743000.html">population</a> is composed of 63.8% whites, 10.5% Hispanics, and 18.6% African Americans—has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Minneapolis">governed</a> exclusively by mayors from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party, the state affiliate of the Democratic Party, since 1978.</p>
<p>As of 2011, the poverty rate in Minneapolis was <a href="http://stats.metc.state.mn.us/profile/chartData.aspx?geog=02395345&amp;level=CTU&amp;chart=povertylevel&amp;commname=Minneapolis&amp;type=Population%20Below%20Poverty%20Level&amp;meta=Decennial_Census_SF3">23.5%</a>, more than one-and-a-half times the national figure of <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-12/record-u-dot-s-dot-poverty-rate-holds-as-inequality-grows">15%</a>. This differential is consistent with a longstanding, well-documented trend: Virtually all of America&#8217;s poorest cities <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/05/31/president-obamas-wealth-destroying-goal-taking-the-curley-effect-nationwide/">have been led</a> politically by Democrats for many years, even decades. In <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/who-controls-the-ten-poorest-cities-the-us">2010</a>, for example, not even one of the ten poorest large cities in the U.S. had elected a Republican mayor since the 1980s. In fact, 8 of the 10 cities had been led exclusively by Democrats for more than half a century.</p>
<p>The common thread running through each of these economically decrepit cities is a phenomenon that Harvard scholars Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer famously dubbed “<a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf">The Curley Effect</a>,” after its prototype, James Michael Curley, who served four non-consecutive terms as mayor of Boston between 1914 and 1950. This phenomenon, Glaeser and Shleifer <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/05/31/president-obamas-wealth-destroying-goal-taking-the-curley-effect-nationwide/">explain</a>, is the strategy of “increasing the relative size of one’s political base through distortionary, wealth-reducing policies.” <em>Forbes</em> magazine puts it <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/05/31/president-obamas-wealth-destroying-goal-taking-the-curley-effect-nationwide/">this way</a>: “A politician or a political party can achieve long-term dominance by tipping the balance of votes in their direction through the implementation of policies that strangle and stifle economic growth. Counterintuitively, making a city poorer leads to political success for the engineers of that impoverishment.”</p>
<p>This typically occurs when Democratic administrations adopt policies that redistribute wealth from the prosperous to the poor, causing the latter to become economically dependent upon their political patrons, and thus to become a permanently pro-Democrat voting bloc. At the same time, these redistributive policies cause the people harmed by them (i.e., those from whom wealth is extracted) to emigrate to other cities and states, thereby further solidifying the political power of Curleyist practitioners.</p>
<p>The beneficiaries of Curleyist redistributionism invariably become unable to perceive the connection between left-wing policies and their negative consequences. Instead, they view Democrats as the noble, last line of defense that stands between them and total destitution. As a result, their loyalty to Democrats persists, undiminished, regardless of how bad conditions may get—chiefly because they interpret the failures of leftist policies as evidence that those policies simply did not go far enough, probably as a result of conservative obstructionism. Thus do residents of Democrat-controlled cesspools of poverty and crime continue, in perpetuity, to elect Democrats to political office.</p>
<p>Prior to the permanent Democratic takeover of Minneapolis in 1978, the city&#8217;s poverty rate had been consistently <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/15/us/rise-in-poverty-is-grim-side-of-minneapolis-boom.html">lower</a> than the national average. Then, through most of the 1980s, the ripples of the Reagan economic boom delivered a positive effect to cities nationwide, including Minneapolis. Indeed, Minneapolis <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/15/us/rise-in-poverty-is-grim-side-of-minneapolis-boom.html">added</a> some 3,000 new jobs to its downtown area each year from 1981-87. In 1983, only 8% of the city&#8217;s metropolitan-area population lived below the poverty level, as compared to approximately 15% nationally.<br />
But by 1988, Minneapolis&#8217;s <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=53rmOMcKGZ8C&amp;pg=PA107&amp;lpg=PA107&amp;dq=#v=onepage&amp;q=">left-wing</a> Democratic mayor, Donald Fraser, had grown troubled by the stark contrast between those sections of his city that were thriving economically, and a number of African-American neighborhoods where crime, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency were widespread. Fraser believed that the proper remedy for these pathologies would be to implement a host of taxpayer-funded, government-administered social-welfare programs. “What is needed,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/15/us/rise-in-poverty-is-grim-side-of-minneapolis-boom.html">said</a> the mayor, “is a more thoughtful discussion, a rethinking of the city, of welfare support, and it should begin right here.” Specifically, Fraser held that federal and local agencies needed to focus more of their attention and financial resources on the economic and social problems confronting unwed mothers and their children. His successors as mayor, <a href="http://hpn.asu.edu/archives/2000-February/000103.html">Sharon Sayles Belton</a> and <a href="http://www.minnpost.com/two-cities/2013/01/q-minneapolis-mayor-rt-rybak-talks-about-accomplishments-tough-moments-and-his-fu">R.T.Rybak</a>, have shared this same perspective—a mindset that has fueled the decades-long trend of ever-increasing wealth redistribution and government subsidies for the poor, not only in Minneapolis but across the United States.</p>
<p>By no means is financial hardship in Minneapolis limited solely to low-income residents. Indeed, the city&#8217;s homeowners pay higher <a href="http://www.southwestjournal.com/node/17253">property taxes</a> than their counterparts in most other metropolitan municipalities. One study of 142 metro areas found that <a href="http://www.southwestjournal.com/node/17253">only 15</a> of them bore a heavier property-tax burden than Minneapolis as of 2010, and that was before Minneapolis raised its property taxes by 4.7% in 2011.</p>
<p>Just as Minneapolis residents face significant economic challenges, so must they deal with the city&#8217;s sizable crime problem. In the early 1990s, crime began trending downward in much of the U.S. for various reasons, including the decline of the crack cocaine epidemic, more aggressive policing strategies, and harsher punishments for criminal behavior. New York City, under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner William Bratton, led the way in this regard with their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompStat">CompStat</a> crime-tracking system and their use of the so-called “<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1633">broken-windows</a>” approach to crime-prevention. In comparison to other cities, Minneapolis was slow to adopt the new law-enforcement and criminal-justice strategies and thus lagged behind the national trend for several years. But once the city changed its ways (e.g., by <a href="http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2013/01/28/minneapolis-follows-national-lower-crime-trend-2012">incorporating</a> CompStat) in the late 1990s, it likewise experienced a noteworthy <a href="http://www.minneapolismn.gov/mayor/news/WCMS1P-102357">reduction</a> in crime.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding this positive downward trend, however, crime rates in Minneapolis remain far higher than statewide and national figures alike. <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/minnesota/minneapolis.html#.UVsZoGByFWM">For example</a>, in 2010 the violent crime rate for Minneapolis exceeded the corresponding <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/minnesota/">Minnesota rate</a> by 346.55%, and the overall <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/">U.S. rate</a> by 161.03%. Similarly, the property crime rate in Minneapolis surpassed the <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/minnesota/">Minnesota rate</a> by 84.44%, and the <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/">national rate</a> by 61.27%.</p>
<p>In a particularly ugly develoment, Minneapolis in recent times has been the scene of numerous incidents involving “flash mob” violence, usually by large groups of <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/black-on-white-link-found-in-minneapolis-violence/">black assailants</a> targeting white victims. For example, on <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/03/downtown_minneapolis_rocked_by_five_violent_flash_mobs_attacks_during_last_two_months.php">March 17, 2012</a>, a gang of some 20 young men inflicted <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/black-on-white-link-found-in-minneapolis-violence/">serious brain injuries</a> on one young man, just an hour after a large group of assailants had <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/black-on-white-link-found-in-minneapolis-violence/">beaten</a> an out-of-town couple in that same location. <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/03/downtown_minneapolis_rocked_by_five_violent_flash_mobs_attacks_during_last_two_months.php">Six days later</a>, without provocation, 15 to 20 suspects attacked and beat three cyclists, leaving one of the victims with a broken jaw. As Sergeant Steve McCarty of the Minneapolis Police Department <a href="http://www.kare11.com/news/article/969867/391/Flash-robs-hit-downtown-Minneapolis">observed</a>: “It&#8217;s just mainly to create mayhem, assault people and just whatever they can do. It&#8217;s a weird mentality I don&#8217;t think a lot of people can fathom or understand. Just to victimize people.” And <a href="http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/04/minneapolis_flash_mob_beatings_victim_details_sudden_attack_on_saturday_night_march_31.php">a few days</a> after that, four Minneapolis juveniles assaulted two men in quick succession, rendering one of the victims unconscious and inflicting serious injuries (including a broken arm) on the other.</p>
<p>It has long been commonplace for Democrat-led cities to have much-higher-than-average crime rates. As of 2011, for instance, America&#8217;s ten most dangerous <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article_112804.html">cities</a> were all strongholds of <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/americas_ten_most_dangerous_ci.html">Democratic political leadership</a>. Minneapolis&#8217;s experience, therefore, is par for the course.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Alinsky Tactics Go into Overdrive</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/obamas-alinsky-tactics-on-full-display/obama_alinsky/" rel="attachment wp-att-183831"><img class=" wp-image-183831 alignleft" title="obama_alinsky" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/obama_alinsky-450x300.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="180" /></a>In back-to-back interviews with a pair of Spanish-language television networks last Wednesday, Barack Obama expressed <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/28/obama-says-immigration-bill-could-pass-by-summer/">confidence</a> that an immigration-reform bill—i.e., a path-to amnesty for 10 to 20 million guaranteed Democratic voters—could be passed “certainly before the end of the summer.” The following day, Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/us/politics/obama-makes-impassioned-plea-for-gun-control.html">surrounded himself</a> with surviving relatives of the Newtown massacre victims and issued a renewed call for “common-sense” gun-control measures that purportedly would save many innocent lives. Also on Thursday, our busy-as-a-beaver president signed an executive order establishing a special commission “to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/us/politics/obamas-2013-state-of-the-union-address.html?pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print">improve</a> the voting experience in America,” particularly as regards such <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/28/obama-signs-executive-order-to-create-commission-to-address-voting-issues/">issues</a> as the voter-ID requirements which Obama and his Justice Department view as discriminatory measures designed to disenfranchise African Americans.</p>
<p>So many crusades, so little time. One day it&#8217;s voting rights; the next day, gun control and immigration reform; then health care; then student loans; then climate change; then oil drilling; then the coal industry; then gay marriage; then minimum-wage and living-wage laws; then a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/health/obama-brain-research/">brain research</a> initiative. And of course, every so often we are treated to presidential sermons about the need for tax hikes on the loathsome “corporate-jet owners,” “<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2009-12-13-obama-bankers-small-business_N.htm">fat-cat bankers</a>,” and “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-missing-facts-in-president-obamas-news-conference/2011/06/29/AGpQMPrH_blog.html">millionaires and billionaires</a>” who are “<a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/2008-09-08-2751442748_x.htm">sitting pretty</a>” at “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas">the very top</a>” of the economic hierarchy, largely as a result of their “<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas">breathtaking greed</a>.”</p>
<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon</em> notes precisely the same type of “<a href="http://freebeacon.com/organizing-for-millionaires/">hyperactivity</a>” in the daily doings of the new big-money, pro-Obama advocacy group, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7774">Organizing for Action</a>. “Not a day goes by without this grassroots organization inserting itself into another policy dispute,” observes the <em>Beacon</em>. “First it was the debate over gun control. Then Organizing for Action said it would become involved in the immigration debate. After that, the group banged the drum for legislation to reduce carbon emissions. And after that, Organizing for Action suddenly discovered a passionate interest in an obscure campaign finance battle in New York state that has nothing to do with the president’s agenda.”</p>
<p>So, what&#8217;s up with this merry-go-round of issues, crises, and calls-to-action? Above all, it is vital to understand that <em>none</em> of this “hyperactivity” is random or accidental. <em>Every single, solitary bit of it</em> has been carefully planned and orchestrated by Obama and his political allies, for the purpose of advancing the transformational change the president so zealously seeks to impose on America by means of the tactics taught by the late, famed godfather of community organizing, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314">Saul Alinsky</a>.</p>
<p>When Obama was coming of age as a socialist community organizer in Chicago, he was <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTY5ZTA5NmEwMGY4MTFhNDg2ZDg4NjU2MDkxOGYyYTE=&amp;w=MA==">mentored</a> by people who themselves had been trained at the Alinsky-founded <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7493">Industrial Areas Foundation</a>. Later on, Obama himself <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/31/The-Community-Organizer-In-Chief-Part-One-The-Alinsky-Ethics">taught workshops</a> on the Alinsky method. Alinsky was a communist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration that have become central to left-wing activism in recent decades. In the Alinsky model, “community organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution” promoting the systematic redistribution of wealth and power, and the radical transformation of America&#8217;s social and economic structure. But Alinsky&#8217;s brand of revolution is not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight changes. Rather, Alinsky advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of existing institutions such as churches, schools, media outlets, labor unions, and political parties—and to remake them gradually and incrementally, as insiders.</p>
<p>Foreshadowing Obama, Alinsky despised “the larcenous pressures of a materialistic society,” preferring instead a socialist alternative that would place “human rights far above property rights” while “fight[ing] conservatives” and all their “privilege and power.” Moreover, Alinsky exhorted left-wing radicals to help society “advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of human civilization,” where “the means of production will be owned by all of the people instead of just a comparative handful.”</p>
<p>Understanding the limits of the human attention span, Alinsky emphasized how vital it was for radical organizers to focus on multiple issues and adopt multiple approaches, just as we see Obama doing today. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag,” Alinsky wrote. “Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time … New issues and crises are always developing…” “Keep the pressure on,” he continued, “with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”</p>
<p>Toward that end, Alinksy advised radical organizers to be sure that they always kept more than one “fight in the bank”—i.e., a stockpile of varied crusades to which they could instantly turn their attention at a moment&#8217;s notice. These “fights in the bank” work synergistically, Alinsky explained, serving to prevent one another from going “stale” as a result of excessive public exposure. “Multiple issues mean constant action and life,” he said.</p>
<p>This, in a nutshell, is why Barack Obama is constantly shifting our attention from one issue to another, to another, to another, to another. The Alinsky disciple learned his lessons well. It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
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		<title>DC Democrats Sell Minority Students&#8217; Education Short</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/dc-democrats-sell-minority-students-education-short/dc011353024071/" rel="attachment wp-att-175164"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-175164" title="dc011353024071" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dc011353024071.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="191" /></a></em><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is the first in a series of FrontPage articles that will unmask the racial injustice of Democrat-controlled education by examining some of the nation&#8217;s worst (and most well-funded) school districts. Our first exposé features the Washington, DC public school system and will be followed by similar examples from across the country.</em></p>
<p>The Washington, DC <a href="http://osse.dc.gov/service/state-board-education-members-and-staff">State Board of Education</a> has come up with a novel plan to address the fact that a mere <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-schools-insider/post/dc-releases-high-school-graduation-rates/2012/11/08/3b3a4766-2a06-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_blog.html">56%</a> of students who attend the city&#8217;s non-charter public schools manage to graduate within four years, and that a large percentage of those who do earn a diploma are nonetheless functionally illiterate. Indeed, DC students nowadays score, on average, a paltry <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-09-14/local/35273262_1_composite-score-scores-drop-average-math-score">1220</a> out of a possible 2400 on the SAT exam—<a href="http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/2010-sat-scores-by-state">lower</a> than their counterparts anywhere else in the United States, and light years below the national average of <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171">1500</a>. As a “solution” to this educational disaster, the Board of Ed is now <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/23/d-c-public-schools-may-drop-u-s-government-requirement/">proposing</a> to eliminate its current requirement that students, in order to graduate, must take a civics class that teaches how the U.S. government is structured and how it functions. The Board&#8217;s logic is quite simple: Only a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/dc-schools-considers-drop_n_2535059.html">tiny percentage</a> of DC students earn respectable scores in the civics portion of the <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/">National Assessment of Educational Progress</a> test; thus, if schools will only eliminate their pesky civics requirement—and replace it with art, music, gym, and off-campus sports programs—test scores should rise.</p>
<p>It bears mention that this demeaning scheme—which treats the majority-black students of DC as incompetents who cannot be expected to achieve even the barest shred of academic mastery—was concocted by a Board of Education that is run almost entirely by <a href="http://osse.dc.gov/service/state-board-education-members-and-staff">Democrats and progressives</a>. In this regard, the DC schools have much in common with all the other failed, urban school systems that currently pepper the American landscape: As author Jonah Goldberg <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247989/liberalisms-greatest-failure-jonah-goldberg">points out</a>, Democrats and progressives have “controlled the large inner-city school systems for generations.”</p>
<p>In their effort to explain away the failures of the public schools in DC and elsewhere, progressives have predictably trotted out their one-size-fits-all mantra: insufficient funding. Former House Speaker <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1248">Nancy Pelosi</a>, for one, calls for greater “<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/16/pelosi-nothing-brings-more-money-to-the-treasury-than-education/">investment</a>” in education at every level. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a> member <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1264">Maxine Waters</a> <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/maxine-waters-president-must-be-bold">laments</a> that “educational systems &#8230; are failing” because “we don&#8217;t really invest” in them. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6398">Children&#8217;s Defense Fund</a> founder <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1531">Marian Wright Edelman</a> <a href="http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/7118-peter-haas-can-online-subscriptions-save-the-news-chris-anderson">suggests</a> that increased spending on education today would relieve society of the much greater burden of having to pay the costs associated with incarcerating uneducated prisoners later on. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511">Barack Obama</a>, pledging to “continue to make education a national mission,” has repeatedly <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-13/obama-requests-increase-in-u-s-education-spending-to-almost-70-billion.html">called</a> for increased educational expenditures. The highly influential <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709">Center for American Progress</a> urges “<a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/02/education_budget.html">continued investment</a> in education in order to grow our economy and rebuild the middle class.” And the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7657">Economic Policy Institute</a> has <a href="http://epi.3cdn.net/bb997c612d96e34be7_svm6bhj0f.pdf">derided</a> policymakers at federal, state, and local levels “for not devoting more resources to education.”</p>
<p>But the notion that the U.S. spends too little on public education is a blatant falsehood. American taxpayers already spend some <a href="http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/09f33pub.pdf">$600 billion</a> per year on public elementary and secondary schools, with average per-pupil expenditures nationwide currently at an all-time high of about <a href="http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/education/elementary_and_secondary_education_staff_and_finances.html">$11,000</a>—a nearly <a href="http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66">fourfold increase</a> (in constant present-day dollars) since 1961. But even this figure is dwarfed by the <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/25/d-c-public-schools-spend-almost-30000-per-student/">$29,400</a> per-pupil <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040402921.html">cost</a> of a public elementary and high-school education in Washington, DC. That astounding sum is nearly as much as the yearly cost of an undergraduate education at <a href="http://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k79903&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup125619">Harvard</a>. But as evidenced by the dismal academic performance of DC students, American taxpayers are getting essentially nothing of any value in return for their enormous outlays.</p>
<p>The failure of public schools in DC and other major cities to properly educate American students—particularly nonwhite minorities—can be attributed largely to the policies and priorities of the teachers unions. Most significant are the <a href="http://www.nea.org/home/1594.htm">3.2 million-member</a> National Education Association (NEA) and the <a href="http://www.aft.org/about/">1.5 million-member</a> member American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Devoted to promoting all manner of left-wing political agendas, these unions rank among the most powerful political forces in the United States. The NEA, for instance, employs a <a href="http://teachersunionexposed.com/blocking.cfm">larger number</a> of political organizers than the Republican and Democratic National Committees <em>combined</em>. Key among those organizers is a corps of directors, known collectively as UniServ, who assist local teachers unions with collective bargaining and the dissemination of the NEA&#8217;s political messages. UniServ has consistently been the NEA&#8217;s most expensive budget item.<em></em></p>
<p>Fortune magazine <a href="http://teachersunionexposed.com/dues.cfm">routinely ranks</a> the NEA among the top 15 in its “Washington&#8217;s Power 25” list of organizations that wield the greatest political influence in the American legislative system. The Association has earned that rating, in large measure, by making almost $31 million in campaign contributions to political candidates since the early 1990s. The AFT, for its part, has given more than $28 million to its own favored candidates. Of the $59 million in combined NEA and AFT campaign donations—which do not include expenditures on such politically oriented initiatives as television ads or get-out-the-vote efforts—more than $56 million (i.e., 95%) has gone to Democrats.</p>
<p>Even as students in DC and other big cities are condemned to a high likelihood of academic failure, teachers unions everywhere <a href="http://teachersunionexposed.com/meritpay.cfm">object</a> to proposed merit-pay <a href="http://www.northescambia.com/?p=67913">legislation</a> that would reward good instructors and punish bad ones, in some cases even filing suit to overturn such laws. Moreover, the unions have made it enormously expensive, laborious, and time-consuming to get any tenured teacher <a href="http://teachersunionexposed.com/protecting.cfm">fired</a>, no matter how incompetent he or she may be.</p>
<p>The teachers unions likewise oppose voucher programs that would enable the parents of children who attend failing, inner-city public schools, to send their youngsters instead to private schools where they might actually have a chance to succeed academically. Most noteworthy is the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP), a <a href="http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104018/index.asp">federally funded</a> voucher initiative that provides scholarships to help low-income students in Washington attend private schools of their choice. Not only does DCOSP produce far higher student-<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/07/dc-voucher-students-higher-graduation-rates-and-other-positive-outcomes">graduation rates</a> than the city&#8217;s public schools, but it does so for a small <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/25/d-c-public-schools-spend-almost-30000-per-student/">fraction</a> of the cost—$8,000 per K-8 student, and $12,000 per high-school student.</p>
<p>Like the teachers unions, progressive Democratic lawmakers—whose political lifeblood is oxygenated by union cash—adamantly oppose voucher programs on the theory that they siphon vital funds away from public schools. That opposition, however, does not prevent these same well-heeled politicos from sending their own children to the most elite, expensive private schools in existence. When former Vice President Al Gore, for example, was asked why he opposed school vouchers while sending his own son to a private school, he reluctantly <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/13/opinion/op-3539">acknowledged</a>: “If I was the parent of a child who went to an inner-city school that was failing, I might be for vouchers, too.” Similarly, Barack Obama, another longtime opponent of voucher programs, sends his two daughters to the prestigious <a href="http://www.sidwell.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/index.aspx">Sidwell Friends School</a> in DC, where annual tuition costs exceed $33,000. Meanwhile, a high percentage of DC&#8217;s other students—whose parents cannot afford to send them to Sidwell or anyplace like it—are forced to squander away more than a decade of their lives in schools where they learn nothing, and where rivers of taxpayer dollars are routinely flushed into a putrid cesspool of incompetence and unaccountability.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;People For the American Way&#8217; Smears Michele Bachmann</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/john-perazzo/people-for-the-american-way-smears-michele-bachmann/pfaw/" rel="attachment wp-att-173661"><img class="size-full wp-image-173661 alignleft" title="pfaw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/pfaw.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="178" /></a><strong>To read and order Frank Gaffney&#8217;s pamphlet, <em>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration</em>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Last June, Rep. Michele Bachmann and four Republican colleagues sent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/john-boehner-accusations-against-huma-abedin-pretty-dangerous/2012/07/19/gJQAeDT6vW_blog.html">letters</a> to the Inspectors General at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State, asking them to investigate whether the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386">Muslim Brotherhood</a>—the ideological wellspring from which such terrorist outfits as al Qaeda and Hamas first emerged—might be gaining undue influence over high-level U.S. government officials. One letter, for instance, noted that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18">Hillary Clinton</a>&#8216;s closest aide, her deputy chief of staff <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2556">Huma Abedin</a>, “has three family members … connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.”</p>
<p>A few days ago, when Bachmann was reassigned to the House Select Committee on Intelligence, the left-wing activist group, People For the American Way (PFAW)—which had originally launched an unsuccessful petition drive to have the congresswoman removed from that Committee last year—decided to revive that effort. By PFAW&#8217;s telling, some <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">178,000</a> people have signed the petition thus far.</p>
<p>According to PFAW president Michael Keegan, Rep. Bachmann&#8217;s warnings amount to nothing more than a “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-back-intelligence-committee-still-spouting-conspiracy-theories">smear campaign</a>” of “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">baseless conspiracy theories</a>” designed to ruin “the reputations of honorable public servants.” PFAW spokesman Drew Courtney accuses Bachmann of engaging in “<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/08/bachmann-intelligence-committee-congress/1818361/">reckless extremism</a>” aimed chiefly at “making headlines and pandering to the Tea Party.” And PFAW&#8217;s online strategy manager, Ben Betz, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/01/08/bachmann-intelligence-committee-congress/1818361/">derides</a> Bachmann&#8217;s “Islamaphobic fear mongering” and her “disregard for honesty.” These accusations are entirely consistent with PFAW&#8217;s <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-right-wing-playbook-anti-muslim-extremism#intro">previous claims</a> that “right-wing anti-Muslim activists,” filled with “anti-Muslim paranoia,” routinely “demoniz[e]” and “vilif[y]” members of the Islamic faith in an effort to stoke Americans&#8217; “irrational fears.” Such conservative activists, says PFAW, “sanction and encourage [the] persecution” of Muslims while aiming to “prevent” them from “freely worshiping and practicing their religion.”</p>
<p>These very serious allegations about a sitting Member of Congress raise a single, obvious question: Are Bachmann&#8217;s stated concerns about Huma Abedin and others associated with radical Islamic organizations unfounded or illogical in any way? The evidence suggests otherwise:</p>
<p>From 1996-2008, Ms. Abedin was employed as an <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/09/our-government-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-my-speech-in-washington/?singlepage=true">assistant editor</a> of a publication produced by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7747">Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs</a> (IMMA), a group founded and developed by her parents. As the intrepid journalist <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/huma-abedin-and-the-saudi-king’s-manifesto-1/print/">Walid Shoebat</a> has made <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Abedin_Affairs_with_Al_Saud_081312.pdf">plain</a>, “Muslim Minority Affairs” refers unequivocally to a calculated foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed to: (a) persuade Muslims who reside in non-Muslim lands to consciously refrain from assimilating into the cultures of their host countries; (b) advance an agenda based on fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings and Sharia Law; (c) gradually shift the demographic scales by means of Muslim population growth in the host countries; and (d) eventually reach a critical mass that tilts those societies toward majority-Muslim status and membership in the Muslim commonwealth. Key to this process is the influence of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and support groups like the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178">Islamic Society of North America</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175">Muslim Students Association</a>, and the IMMA.</p>
<p>But, according to PFAW, there&#8217;s nothing to see here, so don&#8217;t trouble yourself with any of this information; it&#8217;s really just an old-fashioned “smear campaign.” And, presumably, we are likewise expected to believe that only a delusional “right-wing” bigot could possibly feel even the barest shred of concern regarding <em>other</em> Muslim Brotherhood affiliates with similarly close ties to the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Consider Arif Alikhan, who <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=104597">joined</a> President Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2009.  Previously, Alikhan had helped <a href="http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/stealth-jihadists-2/">derail</a> the Los Angeles Police Department&#8217;s <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/26/want-to-know-just-how-close-the-muslim-brotherhood-is-to-the-obama-admin/">efforts</a> to monitor the activities of that city&#8217;s well-known radical mosques and madrassas (where some of the 9/11 hijackers, in fact, had received support from local residents).  Shortly prior to his DHS appointment, Alikhan <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=104597">participated</a> in a fundraiser for the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6177">Muslim Public Affairs Council</a>, an organization founded by <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313257/history-mpac-andrew-c-mccarthy">followers</a> of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirers of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a>. On another occasion, Alikhan <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html">spoke</a> at a California banquet/fundraiser alongside <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1136">Agha Saeed</a>, a Cal State professor who defended <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6448">Palestinian Islamic Jihad</a> leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671">Sami Al-Arian</a> during the latter&#8217;s prosecution on terrorism charges. But alas, PFAW wouldn&#8217;t want any of us to wade, unwittingly, into the murky waters of “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">baseless conspiracy theories</a>.”</p>
<p>Then there is Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based Islamic <a href="http://www.statesman.com/life/faith/many-muslims-quietly-working-to-head-off-radicalism-216850.html?cxtype=ynews_rss">cleric</a> who <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/11/01/great-moderate-muslim-hope-mohamed-elibiary-leaks-intel-documents/">joined</a>  President Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security in October 2010, even though he had previously <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/mccarthyism-and-mohamed-elibiary/">spoken</a> at a Dallas conference titled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary,” held in honor of none other than the late <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=670">Ayatollah Khomeini</a>. But before you jump to any conclusions about Mr. Elibiary&#8217;s ideological makeup, take a moment to unburden your mind of those pesky “irrational fears” that PFAW has painstakingly traced to the doorstep of “right-wing anti-Muslim activists.”</p>
<p>Along the same lines, who, other than an “Islamophobic fear monger,” would have any misgivings about Rashad Hussain, who has served the Obama administration as a deputy associate counsel and a special envoy to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7453">Organization of the Islamic Conference</a>, a 57-country coalition that seeks to outlaw any and all criticism of Islamic people, practices, legal codes, and governments? Sure, Hussain once <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">spoke</a> at a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=4&amp;ved=0CE0QFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amss.org%2Fpdfs%2F29%2FConference_Program_2000.pdf&amp;ei=tQJ3S8eFFaLJ_gbE19nZCg&amp;usg=AFQjCNHMz_VQcYBUVJBQ5go-DCNk7NnW8Q&amp;sig2=QR-kpP6CsmN7vtg7TvLkXg">conference</a> sponsored by a Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7418">front group</a> and headlined by numerous leaders of the global Brotherhood movement. And yes, he <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">participated</a> in a panel at an annual convention of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6146">American Muslim Council</a>, which was then headed by the Muslim Brotherhood leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1311">Abdurahman Alamoudi</a>—later convicted and incarcerated on terrorism charges.  And true, in September 2004 Hussain <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">took part</a> in a Muslim Students Association event where he denounced the “politically motivated persecution”  of the terrorist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=671">Sami Al-Arian</a>. And yes, in 2008 he <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=2173">published</a> a <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/08_counterterrorism_hussain/08_counterterrorism_hussain.pdf">paper</a> that contained a number of recommendations consistent with the agendas and worldviews of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. But hey, nobody&#8217;s perfect.</p>
<p>And what are we to make of Mohamed Magid, the Virginia-based Imam who was <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf">appointed</a> to Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security in 2011? <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1291">Claiming</a> that media references to <em>jihad</em> as “holy war” constitute an egregious “misuse” of that term, Magid currently serves as president of America&#8217;s largest Muslim organization, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178">Islamic Society of North America</a> (ISNA), which was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/275.pdf">founded</a> by U.S.-based members of … yes, you guessed it, the Muslim Brotherhood. Moreover, ISNA was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/275.pdf">named</a> as an unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of five officials of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6181">Holy Land Foundation</a>, the largest terror-financing trial in American history. Ah, but surely PFAW would wisely counsel us not to let “anti-Muslim paranoia” about such trivia spoil our day.</p>
<p>Another character of note is Ingrid Mattson, a Connecticut-based professor of Islam who <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33960">delivered</a> a prayer at the National Prayer Service, one of the events associated with President Obama&#8217;s 2008 inauguration. In <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson070909.php3">June 2009</a> she was invited by Obama advisor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418">Valerie Jarrett</a> to <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0709/emerson070909.php3">work</a> on the White House Council on Women and Girls.  Mattson, whose resumé features a stint as president of the Islamic Society of North America, has characterized Wahhabism—an extremist, intolerant form of Islam with close <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Spreading%20Saudi%20Fundamentalism.html">ties</a> to Saudi Arabia and terrorism—as “a <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/18/mattson.cnna/">reform</a> movement &#8230; analogous to the European Protestant Reformation.” If by any chance you were to find this troubling, PFAW would surely remind you to hold your tongue, lest you “sanction and encourage” the “persecution” of Muslims.</p>
<p>In April 2009, Dalia Mogahed, a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was <a href="http://islam.about.com/od/currentissues/p/mogahed.htm">appointed</a> by President Obama to serve on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, making Mogahed the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6274387/Obama-adviser-says-Sharia-Law-is-misunderstood.html">first</a> veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. She was also assigned to the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/287613/">advisory council</a> of Obama&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security. Prior to these appointments, Mogahed had <a href="http://www.gallup.com/consulting/worldpoll/26554/dalia-mogahed.aspx">co-authored</a> a book with Professor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2197">John Esposito</a>, an apologist for radical Islam and an <a href="http://www.imma.org.uk/editorialboard.htm">editorial board</a> member of the same Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs journal that employed Huma Abedin for a dozen years. In addition, Mogahed&#8217;s research <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=287613">provided</a> key data for a project by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2462">Feisal Abdul Rauf</a>, the New York City Imam who was associated with the proposed contruction of the “Ground Zero Mosque.” <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">According</a> to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Mogahed has <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">stated</a> that most Muslims view Sharia Law as a framework for achieving “a more just society” and the “protection of human rights.” Moreover, she has consistently <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">defended</a> and reached out to Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. In September 2008, she <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">stated</a> that it would be unfair for such groups to be “disenfranchised” by a “witch hunt” designed to “malign” them. If you find any of this problematic, you just might be one of those “reckless,” irresponsible “demonizers” whom PFAW deplores.</p>
<p>In February 2009, Eboo Patel was appointed to President Obama&#8217;s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.  This same Mr. Patel has <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/298017/">asserted</a> that “Muslim totalitarians” are hardly distinguishable from “the Christian totalitarians in America,” “the Jewish totalitarians in Israel,” or “the Hindu totalitarians in India.”  At the main <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/298017/">event</a> of a three-day convention held by the Muslim Students Association in 2011, Patel participated in a panel alongside <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1884">Tariq Ramadan</a> (grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1368">Hasan al-Banna</a>) and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=716">Siraj Wahhaj</a> (a former Islamic Society of North America vice president who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing).  And, for good measure, Patel has depicted <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406">Van Jones</a>, the revolutionary communist who served several months as President Obama&#8217;s “green jobs” czar, as an “<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/05/294821/">American patriot</a>,” a “faith hero,” and one of “the true giants of history.” But bite your tongue if you feel an impulse to “demonize” or “vilify” this esteemed presidential adviser.</p>
<p>In the final analysis, we must indeed be grateful for the existence of groups like People For the American Way—ever prepared to alert us to the menacing presence of “right-wing anti-Muslim activists” who would rather “make headlines” with their own brazen rhetoric, than show proper respect for devoted public servants whose only transgression is that they just happen to be supportive of an organization that gave rise to Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; an organization that seeks unequivocally to establish an Islamic caliphate spanning the entire globe; an organization that aims to dismantle all non-Islamic governments wherever they currently exist; an organization that advocates Islamic Law as the sole basis of jurisprudence everywhere on earth; and an organization that unapologetically embraces the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Muslim%20Brotherhood.pdf">credo</a>: “God is our objective, the Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, [jihad] is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.” Now, what reasonable person could possibly have a problem with any of that?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/john-perazzo/john-kerry-a-hate-america-veteran-reporting-for-duty/john-kerry-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-170595"><img class=" wp-image-170595 alignleft" title="JOHN KERRY" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/kerry44-450x296.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="207" /></a>When Barack Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/21/obama-to-nominate-kerry-for-secretary-state-friday-source-says/?test=latestnews">nominated</a> John Kerry to be America&#8217;s next Secretary of State Friday afternoon, he called Kerry the “perfect choice” to replace Hillary Clinton. Stating that “few individuals &#8230; grasp our foreign policies as firmly as John Kerry,” Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/us/politics/kerry-is-pick-for-secretary-of-state-official-says.html?_r=0">said</a> the Senator will not “need a lot of on-the-job training.” He then praised Mr. Kerry’s combat service in the Vietnam War and his subsequent tenure of service in the Senate, where Kerry has been intimately involved in “every major foreign policy debate for the past 30 years.”</p>
<p>Notably, President Obama made no mention of what occurred after Kerry&#8217;s military service and before his political career. Perhaps this is because what Kerry did during that time would be difficult even for an adroit wordsmith like Obama to summarize with just a pithy phrase or two of adulation.</p>
<p>The historical record informs us that not only has John Kerry been on the wrong side of every major foreign policy issue for most of his adult life, including Iraq, Nicaragua and most recently in Syria, but he has routinely engaged in deception to conceal his folly. What&#8217;s worse, Kerry has a clear record of giving aid and comfort to America&#8217;s enemies, all the while never missing an opportunity to viciously trash our brave forces fighting against them.</p>
<p>With Obama&#8217;s nomination of Kerry to head the State Department, therefore, a look back at Kerry&#8217;s &#8220;service&#8221; to this country becomes more pertinent than ever:</p>
<p>After being discharged from the Navy in early 1970, Kerry joined <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6351">Vietnam Veterans Against the War</a> (VVAW) and became a major figure in the so-called “peace” movement, whose hallmarks were a deep wellspring of hatred for the United States coupled with sympathy for America&#8217;s Communist enemy. In May 1970, Kerry, without government authorization, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200404231047.asp">met</a> personally with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris to discuss a list of “peace” proposals enumerated by Nguyen Thi Madame Binh, the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2004/10/26929/">top</a> Viet Cong delegate to the Paris Peace talks. In the aftermath of that <a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/20/91603.shtml">illegal</a> meeting, Kerry strongly <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">advised</a> the U.S. Senate to accept Binh&#8217;s proposals.</p>
<p>At that time, Kerry himself <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">acknowledged</a> that his visit to Paris was “on the borderline” of legality. Actually, it extended far beyond that “borderline.” A <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">federal law</a> known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice prescribed severe punishment (including, in some cases, the death penalty) for any person who “without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly.”</p>
<p>During the ensuing months, Kerry, with increasing stridency, continued to <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">exhort</a> the U.S. to accept the Viet Cong peace proposals. His radical VVAW comrades went so far as to sign a “<a href="http://www.davka.org/what/theleft/peoplespeacetreatyvietnam.html">People’s Peace Treaty</a>,” whose nine points were all extracted from a list of Viet Cong conditions for ending the war. Kerry fully <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">supported</a> this treaty.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/videodir/pacificaviet/kerry.pdf">April 22, 1971</a>, Kerry famously <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/investigate_the_winter_soldier.html">testified</a> to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that many U.S. servicemen in Vietnam had “<a href="http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/VVAW_Kerry_Senate.html">personally</a> raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war …” “We learned the meaning of free fire zones,” added Kerry. “Shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals.” Moreover, Kerry <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219129/serial-slamming/deroy-murdock">emphasized</a> that America&#8217;s “war crimes” in Southeast Asia were “not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.”</p>
<p>Army reports that were unearthed <a href="http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=Swett_CID">decades later</a> resoundingly discredited the claims of Kerry and his fellow VVAW members, proving those claims to be essentially a pack of lies. When Kerry was running for U.S. President in 2004, the publication <em>U.S. Veteran Dispatch</em> noted that Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony had “occurred while some of his fellow Vietnam veterans were known by the world to be enduring terrible suffering as prisoners of war in North Vietnamese prisons.” Similarly, retired General George S. Patton III <a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/20/131219.shtml">charged</a> that Kerry’s actions had given “aid and comfort to the enemy.” And the organization Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry <a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/20/131219.shtml">stated</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“As a national leader of VVAW, Kerry campaigned against the effort of the United States to contain the spread of Communism. He used the blood of servicemen still in the field for his own political advancement by claiming that their blood was being shed unnecessarily or in vain&#8230;. Under Kerry’s leadership, VVAW members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They dishonored America by marching in demonstrations under the flag of the Viet Cong enemy.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Yet today, this same John Kerry has been nominated to serve as Secretary of State for the same nation he trashed so relentlessly in the &#8217;70s. Only in America.</p>
<p>After graduating law school, working in a district attorney&#8217;s office, and serving a brief <a href="http://www.paperlessarchives.com/john_kerry.html">stint</a> as Massachusetts&#8217; lieutenant governor, Kerry was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. Just a few months later—on April 18, 1985—Kerry and fellow Democratic Senator <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1642">Tom Harkin</a> traveled to Nicaragua to <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml">meet</a> with President Daniel Ortega, whose Communist Sandinista government had strong ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba. Through Kerry and Harkin, President Ortega offered a cease-fire agreement on the condition that the Reagan Administration stop aiding the rebel Contras who were then at war with the Sandinistas. Reagan rejected the offer as a transparent “propaganda initiative” designed to influence an upcoming House vote on a $14 million Contra-aid package, but Kerry <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml">said</a>: “I am willing &#8230; to take the risk in the effort to put to test the good faith of the Sandinistas.” The House of Representatives ultimately voted against the Contra aid. The following day, Ortega flew to Moscow to accept a $200 million loan from the Soviets. Presumably this was one of the many “major foreign policy debates” in which, by President Obama&#8217;s reckoning, Kerry had so impressively distinguished himself.</p>
<p>Unchastened by the evidence of his own poor judgment, Kerry in 1986 supported a “<a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/John_Kerry">fast for life</a>” initiative by four U.S. military veterans protesting President Reagan&#8217;s “illegal and extraordinarily vicious wars against the poor of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.” Also in the 1980s, Senator Kerry <a href="http://keywiki.org/index.php/John_Kerry">hired</a> Gareth Porter, a former fellow of the consistently pro-Soviet <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991">Institute for Policy Studies</a>, as a legislative aide. And in 2002, Kerry sent his warm <a href="http://www.dsaboston.org/yradical/yr2002-09.pdf">greetings</a> to a major gathering of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428">Democratic Socialists of America</a>&#8216;s Boston chapter.</p>
<p>Kerry&#8217;s next opportunity to distinguish himself as a man of exceedingly poor character was furnished by the conflict in Iraq. Initially, Kerry voted to authorize the use of military force against Saddam Hussein, a position the Senator based on his firm conviction—which he publicly articulated on numerous occasions—that Saddam was aggressively seeking to develop weapons of mass destruction. During the weeks and months leading up to the March 2003 U.S. invasion, for example, Kerry made the following <a href="http://www.whosaiditiraq.blogspot.com/">statements</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>“It would be naive to the point of great danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will misjudge, provoke and stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world. He has as much as promised it.”</li>
<li>“If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community&#8217;s already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement &#8230;”</li>
<li>“Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal and murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. And we all know the litany of his offenses.”</li>
<li>“People have forgotten that for seven and a half years, we found weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]. We were destroying weapons of mass destruction.”</li>
</ul>
<p>But as the political winds shifted, Kerry and his fellow congressional Democrats began to portray, with ever-growing frequency, the Iraq War as a foreign-policy debacle that had been launched hastily and without justifiable cause.</p>
<p>In 2004, for instance, Kerry <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/John_Kerry_War_+_Peace.htm#Iraq_Criticism">charged</a> that President Bush had not only “misled the American people” about the threat posed by Saddam, but also had “arbitrarily” decided that the “time for diplomacy is over” and “rushed our nation to war.” During a presidential debate that October, Kerry said: “Saddam Hussein didn’t attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaeda attacked us.”</p>
<p>Not content to smear only the Commander-in-Chief, Senator Kerry also accused U.S. servicemen of “terrorizing” the Iraqi people. On December 4, 2005, he <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_120405.pdf">told</a> Bob Schieffer on <em>Face the Nation</em>: “And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women …”</p>
<p>For John Kerry, it was 1971 all over again.</p>
<p>In recent years, as columnist Arnold Ahlert has so aptly <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/john-kerry-assads-man-in-washington/">written</a>, Kerry “has been the federal government’s highest-ranking <a href="http://freebeacon.com/an-affair-to-remember/">apologist</a> for Syrian President Bashar Assad.” Indeed it was Kerry who repeatedly tried to undermine the Bush administration’s efforts to isolate the dictator. Under Obama, Kerry has <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j929Sp7dmwgsfZyG3wkUK4qtCbLQ">pursued</a> with renewed <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/generous-remember-john-kerrys-praise-of-syrian-dictator-assad/">vigor</a> his impulse to engage Assad. During a January 2009 visit to Damascus, for instance, the Senator <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/john-kerry-assads-man-in-washington/">listened</a> attentively to Assad&#8217;s admonition that Washington must “move away from a policy based on dictating decisions” to Syria. Kerry, in turn, said: “Unlike the Bush administration that believed you could simply tell people what to do and walk away and wait for them to do it, we believe you have to engage in a discussion.” In April 2010, Kerry again <a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/04/01/104671.html">met</a> with Assad and called Syria “an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-23/syria-death-tolls-climbs-past-40-000-mark-activists-say">Forty-thousand</a> dead bodies later, one tries vainly to reconcile John Kerry&#8217;s track record with President Obama&#8217;s glowing description of him as the “perfect choice” for Secretary of State. One can only ponder with trepidation what dark days lay ahead for America with this hate-America veteran taking the reins at the State Department.</p>
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		<title>Stanley Cohen&#8217;s New Client: Vandal and Jihad Apologist Mona Eltahawy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Perazzo]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/john-perazzo/stanley-cohens-new-client-vandalist-and-jihad-apologist-mona-eltahawy/cohen-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-168287"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-168287" title="cohen" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cohen.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>At <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/09/mona-eltahawy-arrested-for-assaulting-pro-freedom-blogger-while-defacing-afdi-pro-freedom-ad.html">12:42 PM</a> on Tuesday, September 25, the internationally known journalist Mona Eltahawy, a New York City-based Egyptian American who identifies herself as a “<a href="http://www.monaeltahawy.com/">proud liberal Muslim</a>,” posted the following message on Twitter: “Meetings done; pink spray paint time. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ProudSavage&amp;src=hash">#ProudSavage</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23FuckHate&amp;src=hash">#F&#8211;kHate</a>.” She then promptly armed herself with a can of pink spray paint and headed to a New York City subway station to deface a poster that she claimed bore a message offensive to Muslims. Produced by Pamela Geller&#8217;s and Robert Spencer&#8217;s <a href="http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/">American Freedom Defense Initiative</a>, that poster read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” While Eltahawy was busy spray painting over those words, freelance journalist and pro-freedom blogger Pamela Hall tried unsuccessfully to stop her. During the confrontation, Eltahawy also spray-painted Ms. Hall and ruined the latter&#8217;s reading glasses, camera, and clothing. She was arrested at the scene, and Hall <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/tag/pamela-geller/">pressed charges</a>.</p>
<p>Geller, for her part, made it <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/09/video-pamela-geller-on-abcs-up-close-subway-ad-debate.html">clear</a> that her ad was directed very specifically at jihadis, not Muslims generally.</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is no Islam in my ad,” she pointed out. “There is no Muslim in my ad. This is a city [New York] that was attacked by jihad on 9/11, not only on 9/11/2001 but [also] &#8217;93&#8230;. This is not against Muslims. I don&#8217;t believe that all Muslims sanction jihad&#8230;. It&#8217;s very clear. There&#8217;s no ambiguity in my ad. It&#8217;s jihad.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In an age where politically correct, mealy-mouthed euphemism typically dominates public discourse, it is indeed refreshing to hear someone, like Geller, speak her mind so forthrightly and unapologetically. When reporters later asked Geller whether she ought to have worded her ad more gently, so as not to run the risk of offending Muslims, she <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/23/anti-jihad-avage-ads-going-up-in-new-york-city-subway/">replied</a>: “I will not sacrifice my freedom [of speech] so as not to offend savages”—i.e., jihadis.</p>
<p>Nothing ambiguous there. But alas, Mona Eltahawy couldn&#8217;t deal with a plain talker. So instead, she caricatured Geller&#8217;s ad as an attack on <em>all</em> Muslims, while depicting her own act of vandalism as a courageous deed on behalf of freedom of expression. A highly significant sidebar to Eltahawy&#8217;s actions is the fact that in 2005 she was honored as a “Muslim Leader of Tomorrow” by the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7540">American Society for Muslim Advancement</a> (ASMA), the group that famously led an effort to construct a massive mosque/Islamic Center near Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan. ASMA&#8217;s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/ground-zero-mosque-financier-accused-of-fraud/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=e04e92d706-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail">co-founders</a>, you might recall, were <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2462">Feisal Abdul Rauf</a> (who said that “United States policies were an accessory to the crime” of 9/11) and Faiz Khan (a <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246335/meet-imam-raufs-partner-faiz-khan-9-11-truther-andy-mccarthy">9/11 conspiracy-theorist</a> who rejected the notion that jihadis played a role in the attacks on the World Trade Center).</p>
<p>Notably, Eltahawy has not always been a defender of jihad. During the Egyptian revolution of 2011 she was in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square, where demonstrators sexually assaulted her and broke bones in both of her arms, prompting the woman to characterize her attackers as “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-NFHgbtf8">beasts</a>.” (This, presumably, was a less offensive term than “savages,” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-NFHgbtf8">Robert Spencer</a> notes sardonically.) And in June 2012 Eltahawy wrote an <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_do_they_hate_us">article</a> in <em>Foreign Policy</em> magazine criticizing such widespread Islamic practices as wife beating, honor killings, and genital mutilation—an article for which she was harshly condemned as a “hater” by Islamists and media leftists. Robert Spencer theorizes that Eltahawy&#8217;s recent defacement of the anti-jihad poster in New York may have been motivated by a sort of Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological phenomenon that causes victims to express empathy, and even support, for their abusers. “I think that she went to vandalize our ad because she was tired of being shunned and criticized by her friends,” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-NFHgbtf8">says</a> Spencer, “&#8230; so she had to prove that she was on the right side again, and that she was on the anti-freedom, pro-jihad side of things. And so, this was how she did it.”</p>
<p>When Eltahawy appeared in court last week to face charges of “criminal mischief” and “making graffiti,” she was offered a plea deal but instead, citing her “<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/12/anti-muslim-hate-speech-mona-eltahawy">free speech right</a>,” chose to go to trial. “I actually look forward to standing trial,” she <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/29/mona-eltahawy-court-anti-muslim-poster?fb=native&amp;CMP=FBCNETTXT9038">said</a>, “because I acted out of principle and I&#8217;m proud of what I did and I will spray-paint that ad again in a second.”</p>
<p>In reaction to Eltahawy&#8217;s pronouncement, Pamela Geller stated: “&#8217;Yes, attacking people and destroying property is &#8216;right.&#8217; That&#8217;s rich. In attacking my free speech rights, she is carrying water for those who advocate a new genocide of the Jews and celebrate the murders of innocent civilians.” When Eltahawy&#8217;s attorney, Stanley Cohen, suggested that Pamela Hall, the blogger who tried to stop Eltahawy&#8217;s vandalism, was seeking restitution for the cost of her “Gucci sunglasses,” Geller again set the record straight:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mona Eltahawy attacked Pamela Hall, destroyed her glasses [that she sees out of, not 'Gucci sunglasses,' as Cohen claimed in a disgusting attempt to paint Hall as some kind of dilettante] and her camera equipment that she works with, and now postures herself as a hero instead of the big ugly bully that she is.</p></blockquote>
<p>It is highly significant that Eltahawy&#8217;s defense counsel is Stanley Cohen, a longtime Hamas defender who prides himself on representing only those clients whose politics he agrees with. “If I don&#8217;t support the politics of political clients,” he <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">says</a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t take the case.” Thus do we note, with keen interest, that Cohen&#8217;s client list includes such luminaries as the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211">al Qaeda</a>-affiliated Texas <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">Imam</a> Moataz Al-Hallak; the Oregon-based Imam and terror <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91141&amp;page=1#.UL4toGByFWM">suspect</a> Imam Kariye; the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6355">Global Relief Foundation</a> co-founder <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0110040341oct04,0,1127573.story?page=2">and</a> 9/11 co-conspirator <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=888">Hazem Ragab</a>; the bin Laden-connected <a href="http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/2001/010924.html">terrorist</a> Wadih el-Hage, who was convicted of conspiracy in the deadly 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa; <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-10-05/news/0310050304_1_grand-jury-abdelhaleem-ashqar-wiretaps">and</a> Hamas operatives <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1098">Abdelhaleem Ashqar</a> <a href="http://www.wrmea.org/component/content/article/198-1998-december/8756-muslim-american-activisms-vision-examined-at-amas-third-annual-convention.html">and</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28476-2004Aug24.html">Ismail Elbarasse</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">mid-1990s</a> Cohen also <a href="http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/2001/010924.html">helped</a> Hamas senior political leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=676">Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzook</a>—who co-founded the terrorist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6215">Islamic Association for Palestine</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6181">Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development</a>—avoid extradition from the U.S. to Israel, which wanted to try him for the role he and his organization had played in a number of bombings. Articulating his high regard for Marzook, Cohen has <a href="http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1522&amp;q=1">referred</a> to him as “my dear friend.”</p>
<p>Also in the 1990s, Cohen—a proud <a href="http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1522&amp;q=1">admirer</a> of Lenin—<a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/03/tonight.02.html">teamed</a> with fellow Communist attorneys William Kunstler, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=861">Lynne Stewart</a>, and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=781">Ramsey Clark</a> to defend <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1685">Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6211">al Qaeda</a>-affiliated <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6300">Islamic Group</a> leader who was prosecuted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. “Most of my clients [are] involved with struggle, many of them armed struggle,” Cohen <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">boasts</a>.</p>
<p>Yet another “struggler” whom Cohen would very much have liked to help was none other than the late al Qaeda kingpin himself. “If <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690">Osama bin Laden</a> arrived in the United States today and asked me to represent him, sure I&#8217;d represent him,” Cohen <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-09-25/news/homeland-terrorism/">told</a> the <em>Village Voice </em>in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. On September 22, 2001, Cohen <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">said</a>: “I don&#8217;t think this was an Osama bin Laden job at all. But I think for a lot of reasons the government would prefer it be Osama bin Laden. Because then there&#8217;s an identifiable bogeyman.” Speculating that “the government is going to use this [9/11] as a pretense … to go after those people who have stood up to Israeli interests and the pro-Israel lobby in this country,” Cohen added that he was “absolutely” certain that “this operation was assisted by ex-CIA, ex-Mossad [Israeli intelligence agency] officers.”</p>
<p>It is not at all surprising that Cohen would implicate Israel, which he has long <a href="http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1522&amp;q=1">depicted</a> as a “terrorist state.” In fact, in July 2002 Cohen filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the U.S. government stop giving financial support to Israel&#8217;s “program of killing, torture, terror and outright theft” targeting the Palestinians. The suit named President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, various Israeli military officials, and a number of American arms manufacturers—accusing them all of “genocide” and “<a href="http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1522&amp;q=1">war crimes</a>.” Claiming that “what Israel does is far more morally repugnant than what Hamas does,” Cohen affirms the Palestinians&#8217; “right” and “obligation” to “resist occupation … by any means necessary.”</p>
<p>Cohen is so confident in the valor of his cause, that he beams with pride when <a href="http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/2001/010924.html">recounting</a> such fond memories as when he once “had lunch with the alleged mastermind of the Achille Lauro ship hijacking,” a 1985 incident where Palestinian terrorists stormed a cruise ship and threw an elderly, wheelchair-bound American Jew overboard to his death; when he “spent a day with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=650">[Yasser] Arafat</a> in Ramallah on the West Bank” and was <a href="http://observer.com/2001/10/kunstler-protege-stanley-cohen-brings-american-rights-to-hamas/">treated</a> “like a head of state” by the most prolific Jew killer since Adolf Hitler; and when he was given a number of audiences with the late <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=803">Sheik Ahmed Yassin</a>, the Hamas “spiritual leader” whose favorite pastime was to order the slaughter of civilian Jews. Years later, in fact, Cohen proudly displayed, in his office, a <a href="http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1522&amp;q=1">picture</a> of himself seated alongside this same Ahmed Yassin.</p>
<p>In the final analysis, it would appear that Stanley Cohen and Mona Eltahawy—a pair of jihad defenders—personify the proverbial match made in heaven&#8230;..or hell.</p>
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