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Eric Holder: Unfit

Attorney General Eric Holder pointed his finger at Congressman Louie Gohmert during a recent hearing and threatened "Don't Go there buddy".  In this infuriating show of disrespect Holder has demonstrated that he is unfit to represent the dignity of our Department Of Justice.

I know plenty of judges who would have thrown a lawyer even of Holder's stature in the clink for such contemptuous behavior.

Maybe it is Holder who should be wearing a pair of bracelets, courtesy of the US Marshall's service of course.

 

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Democrat Gun Control Legislator Indicted On Gun Running

From FoxNews:

[California] State Sen. Leland Yee, an outspoken Democrat who is a gun control and open government advocate, was arrested Wednesday on charges he conspired to traffic in firearms and traded favors in Sacramento for bribes. He was allegedly taking bribes from men who turned out to be FBI agents.

Yee is the third Democratic senator to face charges this year. Sen. Rod Wright was convicted of perjury and voter fraud for lying about his legal residence in Los Angeles County, and Sen. Ron Calderon has been indicted on federal corruption charges. Wright and Calderon are taking a voluntary leave of absence, with pay, although Republicans have called for them to be suspended or expelled from the Legislature.

Court documents say [Yee] was just one of more than two dozen people caught up in the five-year federal probe. Initially, agents were interested in going after Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a notorious gangster who ran a Chinese criminal organization with ties to Hong Kong.  

According to the FBI’s 137-page complaint, Chow and five other defendants laundered $2.3 million for undercover agents between March 2011 and December 2013. According to the FBI, the defendants were told the money came from crimes like illegal gambling, drug dealing and marijuana growing.

In 1992, Chow was among more than two-dozen people indicted on racketeering charges for their alleged involvement in crimes ranging from teenage prostitution to an international drug trade mostly involving heroin.

He was later convicted of gun charges and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He spent 11 years in prison and was released in 2003 after he cut a deal with the government.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California issued a statement in 2012 recognizing Chow as a former offender who had become an asset to his community, the Sacramento Bee reported. Chow was also praised by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee for his "willingness to give back to the community," the Bee reported.

Now don't forget.  California has 53 of the 435 members of Congress.  Kentucky has only 6.

Dr. Gary Shearer Found Dead

Gary Shearer had his office raided by federal officials investigating the overdose and deaths of a number of his patients.  The Kentucky Medical licensure board suspended his license due to his methods of prescribing pain medication.  Last night it was reported that he was found dead.  Rumors are that it was suicide.

Gary was well known in Northern Kentucky as one of the most perceptive doctors around.  He was a master at making the correct diagnosis from a detailed examination of symptoms.  He had many, many loyal patients who were not, as the press might have you think, going to his office just to get pain medication.

As a lawyer who comes into frequent contact with doctors in handling injury cases, over the years I found Gary to be one of the more compassionate and approachable family practitioners in the profession.

After two years of investigation without a record of any criminal charges, his death is a tragedy.

Russia Matters

Vladmir Putin may be losing his grip on reality says German Chancellor Merkel.  Hillary Clinton compares Putin to Nazi Germany.  Putin timed his threats over the Ukraine to coincide with a pre-announced launch of an inter-continental ballistic missile.  He sent a warship to Cuba, is patrolling very close to our maritime borders, supports Iran and is making deals with Communist China.  Russia matters.

Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld both said the same thing within the past week.  Our president has conducted himself in a way that has given the rest of the world the clear impression that we are weak economically, weak morally, weak militarily and have a weakened political system that is weak on threats to democracy.  In other words, Obama has made America more vulnerable in direct contravention of his first and foremost job, protecting the security of our nation and defending our Constitution.

Now, having diagnosed the very serious condition in which we find ourselves, what do we do to heal these problems and how much time do we have to get back on our feet?  The answer is: we have precious little time and we need radical change.

Impeachment takes too long and it would get hung up in the Senate.  Obama's term in office isn't up until January 2017.  So how do we rid ourselves of this sickness?

We must take back the majority in the Senate, increase our seats in the house and move swiftly to remove him from office or at the very least deny him any power over our future.

If you really think that the world is just awash with enthusiasm over Obama then let's assume you are right.  Why would they be?  Is the rest of the world thrilled that we have enjoyed so much prosperity?  Do they celebrate our successes?  No.

The rest of the world is like a pack of wolves at our doorstep, living off the scraps we throw into the yard but waiting patiently for the one opportunity to exploit our weakness to come inside, take all the food and eat us in the process if possible.

Why does Russia matter?  Because they have just demonstrated for the rest of us how totally inept and dangerous the Obama administration really is.

Why We Need To Calm Down: Police Shoot Teen In Own Home

The nation is red lining.  For those of you who drive cars with tachometers or who plan to watch NASCAR this weekend you know what I mean.  Things are getting to the point where our engine is about to explode.  Social pressure, economic pressure, distrust, fear, conspiracy theories, spying, all add to the problem.

Glenn Beck says it is being done intentionally.  He says that those who want to USA to collapse are adding pressure from up top (our dictator in chief and his executive orders) and pressure from below (the clamoring masses of unemployed about to lose everything) and from the sides (the incessant bickering between R's and D's) and that eventually the plan is for the whole thing to explode.

Some say the purchase of ammunition and military like vehicles by homeland security and local police departments evidence the concern of law enforcement that some sort of civil war is about to break out.

Add to that the continued increase in gun purchases around the country and you have a fairly decent body of evidence from which to conclude that we are all getting wound way too tight.

Now this.

Christopher Roupe, 17, was a ROTC student at at Woodland High School in Georgia who dreamed of serving his country in the Marines. That dream came to an end when he answered a knock on the door of his trailer home. He found himself face-to-face with Euharlee police officers who promptly shot him to death. An officer said that she saw a weapon in his hand.  It turned out to be a Wii controller. [Turley]

Add to that the story of a few days ago of an 80 year old man being gunned down in his own bed.  And add to both of these recent horrors the number of similar tragedies going on all around the nation.

Don't think for one minute that you won't be a victim of some person, a civilian, a police officer, or even a federal agent wound up to the snapping point about to "red line" on you.

We need to calm down.  And quite frankly, we need to say "no" to every single thing that this current administration wants to do.  We need to stand behind the folks who refuse to let this administration and his democratic cronies around the country get by with adding any more pressure.  We need to patiently wait for his term to end, and then ease our way back into normalcy.

In the meantime, remain situationally aware at all times.  Arm yourself and stand your ground.

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? ...The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -Patrick Henry

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What Happens In California Comes Here In .....

No doubt you've heard it said that what happens on the west coast happens here in the heartland 10 years later.  Well let us hope and pray that what is happening in Los Angeles county never happens anywhere else.

Residents are complaining that the police, dressed in military armor, have a pattern of behavior "oppressive" to the people they are supposed to be serving.  And as in this case, many times the police raids are based upon "anonymous" tips.

You will recall how law enforcement behaved after the Boston Marathon bombings.  Now, in this video, you will see how an innocent 80 year old man was gunned down in his bedroom.

I've asked these questions of you before, but now you need to be asking yourself again, when will we take back our country?  What will you do?

Here's the 7 minute video that should wake you up.  It is very hard to do damage control once the flood breaks out of its banks.

 

Prosecutors To Enjoy Immunity No More?

Immunity is a withering vestige of the privileges of Kings.  In fact today we still refer to the immunity enjoyed by governments as "Sovereign" immunity.  Immunity has been extended to various offices connected with government, including judges, lawyers, police officers and prosecutors.  But those days may be over.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that prosecutors do not enjoy absolute immunity in every case.  The decision arose out of the prosecution of a man, sentenced to death row who spent 17 years in prison until after his appeals and a new trial he was acquitted.

[The] Seventh Circuit has ruled that a prosecutor is not protected by immunity for allegedly coercing false testimony that sent a man to death row 17 years ago. Two prosecutors were accused of egregious misconduct: Lawrence Wharrie and David Kelley. The new opinion from the Seventh Circuit is Fields v. Wharrie, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 1333.

The matter went to a Seventh Circuit panel, which included conservative icon, Richard Posner. Writing for the majority, Posner held that it would be absurd to allow such prosecutors to claim immunity in such cases.

In discussing the Supreme Court’s 1993 decision in Buckley v. Fitzsimmons, 509 U.S. 259 (1993), Posner added that “A prosecutor may not shield his investigative work with the aegis of absolute immunity merely because, after a suspect is eventually arrested, indicted, and tried, that work may be retrospectively described as ‘preparation’ for a possible trial; every prosecutor might then shield himself from liability for any constitutional wrong against innocent citizens by ensuring that they go to trial.” [Turley] [italics added]

When the government acting through its agents does wrong and the agents are then shielded from liability, they certainly enjoy a benefit that does not exist among the general public.  We may be seeing the day come when the last vestige of royal privilege is finally removed from the American system of justice, for all.

Does Rand Paul's Support Come From The "Hate America" Crowd?

Representative Peter King of New York had this to say about Rand Paul:

The New York Republican accused Rand Paul of “lies” and “misperception” :

“So Rand Paul does not know what he’s talking about. And, Rand Paul is really spreading fear among the American people. And, he also today, I understand on the show, he was also was comparing General Clapper to Snowden. To me, he’s either totally uninformed or he’s part of that hate America crowd that I thought left us in the 1960s. In any event, he doesn’t deserve to be in the United States senate for spreading that type of misperception and absolute lies to be honest with you.“ [Gateway Pundit]

What he was referring to was a comment by  Rand on the  Sunday shows discussing his lawsuit against the NSA over illegal snooping.  In some of those comments he had this to say:

"I don't think Edward Snowden deserves the death penalty or life in prison; I think that's inappropriate, I think that's why he fled, is that's what he faced," Paul, a possible 2016 contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said on ABC's "This Week." "Do I think it's OK to leak secrets and give up national security [information] that endangers lives? I don't think that's OK, either. But I think the courts are now saying he revealed something the government was doing that was illegal."

Paul, who's pushing a class-action suit against the National Security Agency over its data collection tactics, has said that Snowden and Clapper should "share a prison cell," charging that Clapper lied to Congress.

"It is a grand tradition," he said. "Part of that tradition is, you pay the consequences. If you break the law because your conscience says you have to, you stand trial." [POLITICO]

So the question I have for readers today is this: Does some part of Rand Paul's support come from the "hate America" crowd that Congressman King mentioned?

Let's take a look.

Clearly there is a portion of the Obama support group that one could argue hates many things about America.  Dinesh D'Souza has made the argument that Obama is out for revenge over what his father hated which is "colonialism", the kind of attitude he attributed to the United States participation in "raping" third world countries of their riches to make Americans rich.

In addition Obama has aligned himself with radicals and domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers who clearly hate many things about America.

So, is Rand Paul courting those folks?  I think not, but on the other hand he might find some support among the less militant among the remaining sixties liberals who like his stance on personal freedom and pot and the kind of things Richie Havens and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were singing about.

But who among the GOP crowd might be pegged as part of the modern day "hate America" crowd?  Well, that depends upon which America you are talking about.

The "big business" America which has become the controlling interest in most legislation and regulations over the past thirty years has its share of supporters.  They don't hate America.

But the small business, ultra conservative TEA party crowd does have its share of "hate America" folks.  At least they seem to hate the incumbent elected officials who they view as ruining America.  They see America headed in the wrong direction.  And some of them even hate many of the institutions of America such as party politics, checks and balances and the orderly interpretation of the Constitution through the court system.

Some of the more militant among this last bunch seethe with contempt for the "mainstream", which of course is the American mainstream and tend to lean very far toward the very liberal philosophies of Libertarianism and even anarchy.  They hate that America won't let them steer the ship of state, are angry about it and do in fact pose some threat to our national security.

And then out there on the real fringes are those who are systematically plotting against America, the true enemies of our way of life, whether driven by religious extremism or a desire to consume our resources even if it means war.  They are the ones who stir up civil unrest, engage in acts of terrorism to disrupt society and take advantage of every opportunity to destroy America because they truly, to their core, hate us.

Obviously Rand Paul is not courting the support of any of the fringe or the near fringe.  But, and I say this with obvious respect for Senator Paul, the razor's edge he walks in order to build his own constituency on his way to a 2016 run for the White House is a topic of frequent discussion in the media.  Clearly any divergence from the hard line of the TEA party gets him nailed by its members.  Any time he leans toward a more moderate position his TEA party friends try to pull him back.  And then he goes and tries to win them over again by standing firm on issue after issue of greatest concern with them, like his lawsuit against the NSA.

I'd like you to weigh in on this, but in my humble opinion, Rand Paul does in fact get some of his support from those who hate the way America has been run, who hate the excesses of our government and hate the fact that they seem to be fighting the very people they entrusted with the reins of power.  Is this what Peter King was referring to?

Those of us who have been standing up for civil liberty, freedom from government overreach, demanding accountability and honesty from our elected officials for as long as I have don't consider ourselves as hating America, but rather loving all that is good about America and hating that those are the very, most precious things about the America we love which we seem to be losing.

Rand has the chance to stand very tall in this fight, but he needs to be very careful not to give in to the other forces at work on the fringes and in the shadows.  The closer he becomes with what can be labeled "extreme" positions the more frequently he will have to face accusations like those of Peter King and though his TEA party friends might rush to his defense he will have to work that much harder, and spend that much more money to discredit people like King than he needs to.

The Creep Of Communism Into Society

In the USSR people could be arrested and never heard from again on any pretext the government wanted.  It kept the people living in fear, which was a method of control.  This story out of Ohio isn't quite that bad, but it seems to have the muffled sounds of Communism's fear factor creeping into our society.

A man was arrested and charged under an Ohio law that makes it illegal to have a "secret compartment" in your vehicle.  He had no illegal drugs, or weapons or other contraband at all, but was charged solely with having added a compartment to his vehicle that officers found after a routine stop.

As Jonathan Turley points out, this constant criminalization of conduct that isn't inherently illegal is a very bad trend.

Lt. Michael Combs said that the officers stopped the car and then noticed “components inside the vehicle that did not appear to be factory.” That led to a full search and arrest. Combs insisted “The law does help us and is on our side.” I am sure that it does. But giving police a myriad of ways to charge citizens hardly helps society. It encourages pretext stops and allows for full searches if police spot things that “do not appear to be factory.” We have previously discussed the problem of such pretextual stops. For a prior column, click here.

Was Obama At Risk In South Africa?

You have no doubt by now heard about the fake sign language interpreter who stood near President Obama in South Africa and made up hand gestures as he went along, none of which meant anything.  Now it turns out he is a man who gets violent, frequently and says he was hallucinating there next to the President.

The man accused of faking sign interpretation while standing alongside world leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's memorial service said Thursday he hallucinated that angels were entering the stadium, has schizophrenia and has been violent in the past.

Thamsanqa Jantjie said in a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press that his hallucinations began while he was interpreting and that he tried not to panic because there were "armed policemen around me." He added that he was once hospitalized in a mental health facility for more than one year. [cbcnews]

Wow!  That's scary.