Governor Brewer and Attorney General Goddard ...a couple of suggestions here...what do ya think?

It wasn't that long ago that Arizona's Attorney General, Terry Goddard was against the state's new immigration law...I believe he said something to the effect that he wasn't going to enforce the new law.  But along comes the Arizona State Legislature that passes another law which directs the Attorney General to do his job...

 See Keytlaw: "The Arizona legislature passed House Bill 2162 signed into law by Governor Brewer, which law orders the Attorney General to do his job and defend Arizona’s immigration law. "

Goddard then comes up with an attempt to look patriotic and says he will defend Arizona's law because he  remembers his oath of office...

“I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of Attorney General according to the best of my ability, so help me God.”  ...and that he believes in duty, honor & country.

Mr. Goddard, this is where we part company.  You were elected to do a job and refused therefor you should have been fired... and maybe went to prison!  And if it takes special legislation to remind you of where your allegiance is then you are a fake patriot...why don't you move to Mexico and become a real   patriota. ~ Norman E. Hooben

Now for Governor Brewer... Say there Governor Jan Brewer, you don't have to listen to that poor excuse for a judge, Susan Bolton.  In fact she never had jurisdiction in the case to begin with...not according to the following:

In a stunning development that could potentially send the nation into a Constitutional crisis, an astute attorney who is well-versed in Constitutional law states that the ruling against the state of Arizona by Judge Susan Bolton concerning its new immigration law is illegal. 

The attorney in question submitted her assertion in a special article in the Canada Free Press.  Her argument states in part, "Does anyone read the U.S. Constitution these days? American lawyers don’t read it. Federal Judge Susan R. Bolton apparently has never read it. Same goes for our illustrious Attorney General Eric Holder. But this lawyer has read it and she is going to show you something in Our Constitution which is as plain as the nose on your face.

"Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says: 

"In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction."

 

In other words, the Judge in the Arizona case has absolutely no Constitutional jurisdiction over the matter upon which she ruled.  As the Constitution makes abundantly clear, only the U.S. Supreme Court can issue rulings that involve a state.

This means that neither Judge Bolton nor the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, to which the case is being appealed, have any legal standing whatsoever to rule on the issue. 

Thus, U.S. Attorney-General Eric Holder filed the federal government's lawsuit against the state of Arizona in a court that has no authority to hear the case. Source: The Examiner.com  Read full story here

So my best advice to you is simply tell Eric Holder, Susan Bolton, and Barack Obama to go jump in the river...better yet, somebody ought to drop them off somewhere in the middle of the Arizona desert.  Just make sure that its close to the Mexican border so their friends might hear their cries of ¡Ayuda! ~ Norman E. Hooben

Shirley Sherrod...the flip side

"The mistreatment of black workers at NCI under the Sherrods is a matter of record..."

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The following courtesy of Mark Levin - Why don’t the media follow up on this story?

The Story of Annie Hawkins and New Communities, Inc.

The Other Side of Shirley Sherrod

By RON WILKINS

Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But it’s no illusion; this is fact.

The swirling controversy over the racist dismissal of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA post has obscured her profoundly oppositional behavior toward black agricultural workers in the 1970s. What most of Mrs. Sherrod’s supporters are not aware of is the elitist and anti-black-labor role that she and fellow managers of New Communities Inc. (NCI) played. These individuals under-paid, mistreated and fired black laborers–many of them less than 16 years of age–in the same fields of southwest Georgia where their ancestors suffered under chattel slavery.

When I first noticed the story of her firing and the association of Shirley Sherrod’s name with the rural black poor and concern for “black land-loss”, I wondered if the person being praised was the same Shirley Sherrod whom I knew. One piece posted on the July 23rd Alternet and captioned “Shirley Sherrod and the black Land Struggle” even claimed that she “devoted her entire life to economic justice”. The mistreatment of black workers at NCI under the Sherrods is a matter of record that contradicts this claim.

If confession is good for the soul, then Mrs. Sherrod took a first step toward her redemption by admitting the error of her ways in her earlier attitudes toward poor white farmers. Mrs. Sherrod says she began to see poverty as more central than race. So, should indigent black child farm laborers warrant less reflection by Mrs. Sherrod? What lessons does she have to share from her tenure as management when she had power over her own people working under deplorable conditions at the same New Communities, Inc.(NCI) identified in the current issue? Shirley Sherrod could have included this chapter of her history in the same confession speech. Justice and integrity require at least as much accountability from Mrs. Sherrod to the poor black farm workers of NCI as to the white farmers she came to befriend. This lack of full disclosure of the whole truth is a “sin of omission” that trivializes the suffering of poor black farm workers and exacerbates the offenses of NCI.

Shirley Sherrod was New Communities Inc. store manager during the 1970s. As such, Mrs. Sherrod was a key member of the NCI administrative team, which exploited and abused the workforce in the field. The 6,000 acre New Communities Inc. in Lee County promoted itself during the latter part of the 1960s and throughout the 70s as a land trust committed to improving the lives of the rural black poor. Underneath this facade, the young and old worked long hours with few breaks, the pay averaged sixty-seven cents an hour, fieldwork behind equipment spraying pesticides was commonplace and workers expressing dissatisfaction were fired without recourse.

The unfortunate story of Mrs. Annie Hawkins and her family in particular is instructive. Persuaded by NCI that their lot would be improved, the Hawkins family stole away from the Georgia plantation that they had called home. After suffering abuse meted out to them and others at NCI, Mrs. Hawkins sadly stated that, “We stole away from one plantation, but just ended up on another.” For her courageous role in demonstrations against the Sherrods and NCI management, Annie Hawkins and her family were fired and kicked out of the house that they were promised. My last encounter with an ailing Mrs. Hawkins took place several years ago in a nursing home where she resided.

Worker protest at New Communities eventually garnered some assistance from the United Farm Workers Union in nearby Florida in the person of one of its most formidable organizers, black State Director, the late Mack Lyons. The September 28, 1974 UFW newspaper El Malcriado, page two, reported on the worker’s strike (“Children Farm Workers Strike Black Co-op” www.farmworkermovement.org/ufwarchives) and the UFW stepped in to protect black farm workers from exploitation by NCI. Fearful of both UFW efforts to unionize NCI’s labor force and scrutiny by the Georgia State Wage and Hour Division, the Sherrods and NCI management hastily issued checks in varying amounts to strikers to makeup ostensibly for minimum wage differentials. It is bitter irony that the Sherrods have succeeded in being awarded $300,000 following a discrimination lawsuit, while Mrs. Hawkins and other impoverished NCI black laborers whom NCI exploited were never adequately compensated for their “pain and suffering”.

While it is true that loan discrimination and relentless creditors can be cited for the eventual demise of New Communities Inc. in 1985, NCI’s unfair labor practices and poor leadership, were equally, if not more, to blame. Ask Shirley Sherrod about this part of her history. I know this story well, for I was one of those workers at NCI.

Ron Wilkins is a former organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1974, under an assumed name, he hired-on at New Communities Inc. The Emergency Land Fund, an Atlanta-based black land retention organization, which shared oversight responsibility for NCI’s progress, wanted to know the basis for NCI’s continued poor performance. The author’s secondary purpose was to develop agricultural skills. For his role in organizing NCI’s workers, management eventually fired him from his $40 per week position, evicted him from the rent-free shack on NCI property and orchestrated his arrest, on bogus charges, by FBI agents and Lee County, Georgia Sheriff’s deputies in the midst of an NCI labor protest. The charges were later dropped. Presently he is an Africana Studies professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He can be reached at: rwilkins@csudh.edu

Grenade? Ahmadinejad? ...you mean someone is trying to bump him off; I wonder why

Smoke rises next to a vehicle transporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, as he arrives in the city of Hamedan, 204 miles (340 kilometers) southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. A conservative website said a handmade grenade exploded in Hamedan Wednesday near Ahmadinejad's convoy in an apparent assassination attempt, but Tehran state TV denied the report. (AP Photo/ISNA, Saman Aghvami)

 

Full story at MSNBC

Harry 'The Weasel" Reid Tries to Cover-up Kagan's Criminal Past

Source: RenewAmerica

Keyes files complaint against Kagan for 'conspiracy to defraud Supreme Court'

August 4, 2010
RenewAmerica staff

Dear Friend of RenewAmerica,

Recently, we received the following message from Alan Keyes' national pro-life organization — Declaration Alliance — appealing for support of a criminal complaint filed by DA and Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch alleging that Elena Kagan defrauded the Supreme Court by altering a scientific report on partial-birth abortion when she was an attorney for President Bill Clinton.

The complaint, which Declaration Alliance and Freedom Watch filed July 28 before the Supreme Court, demonstrates from court records that Kagan altered a scientific analysis — inserting her own words — and passed off the analysis before the Supreme Court as official scientific opinion, fraudulently influencing the court to overturn Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban in 2000.

The complaint seeks to have Kagan disbarred from practicing before the Supreme Court, as well as investigated for obstruction of justice.

Please read the appeal from Alan Keyes below and give this praiseworthy legal action your support.

Stephen Stone
President, RenewAmerica

Reid-Forced Vote Covers Up Kagan Conspiracy

Ben Nelson (D-Neb) is the first Democrat to oppose Kagan: "... I have heard concerns from Nebraskans.... Therefore, I will not vote to confirm Ms. Kagan's nomination."

Breaking News: Reid planned a vote THIS WEEK on Kagan's confirmation just days after Declaration Alliance retained noted corruption watchdog attorney Larry Klayman to file an ethics complaint seeking to have Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan disbarred from practicing before the court she aspires to join — and possibly subjected to criminal prosecution — for her role in an escalating scandal.

Please SELECT HERE to HELP US KEEP THE SUPREME COURT FREE OF CORRUPTION. Your special DONATION will assist the Declaration Alliance and STOP KAGAN in court, as well as defend America against the willful deception of the highest court in the land by those who desire to control it!

The Declaration Alliance complaint has put REID INTO A POLITICAL CRISIS, the pressure is getting to him and he is afraid to allow the debate of Kagan's record to be widely exposed to American voters. Democrats are wavering: Bennet, Boxer, Murray, Feingold, Lincoln, Tester, Begich, Webb, Baucus, Landrieu, Burris, Bayh, Dodd, and Specter — PLUS RINOs Lugar, Graham, Collins, and Snowe — are still being heavily lobbied to act like the CONSTITUTION STILL MATTERS, and your donations will be used to turn up the pressure.

The Cover Up Vote by Reid is a transparent attempt to hide the fact from Americans that Kagan conspired to fraudulently alter an official scientific report used as evidence by the Supreme Court. This report persuaded the justices to overturn bans on partial-birth abortion — and then, Kagan recently lied about her actions under oath during her SCOTUS confirmation hearings! Senator Jeff Sessions told The Hill that Reid's bum's rush "may be an attempt to compact the nomination so the American people aren't as able to be attuned to what's occurring. The nominee isn't particularly popular with the American people. So maybe they want to force it through. It's not good."

Ethics — Criminal Complaints Filed To Disbar Kagan

'She should not be a justice when she's defrauded the Supreme Court'

Kagan's political maneuvers while an attorney for President Bill Clinton led to language authored by her becoming fraudulently accepted as "official findings" of a medical "expert panel."

Kagan's inserted language misled the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, into upholding for nearly a decade legal protections for the heinous practice known as partial-birth abortion that 30 states had attempted to ban. Klayman, founder of the Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch USA public interest law groups, is bringing the complaint at the behest of Declaration Alliance, the national pro-life social welfare organization I founded in 1996.

Please SELECT HERE to HELP US KEEP THE SUPREME COURT FREE OF CORRUPTION. Your special DONATION will assist the Declaration Alliance and STOP KAGAN in court, as well as defend America against the willful deception of the highest court in the land by those who desire to control it!

The complaint alleges Kagan fraudulently altered an official scientific report used as evidence by the Supreme Court to persuade the justices to overturn bans on partial-birth abortion — and then recently lied about her actions under oath.

Select Here To Read The Entire Complaint
Dozens of pro-life organizations are already calling for a Senate investigation of Kagan's 1997 alterations to an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) expert report, which was then relied upon by the Supreme Court as medical, scientific justification for overturning Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban in 2000.

In her confirmation hearings, Kagan may have perjured herself during the course of Justice Committee questioning about her actions in having altered the report. She defended her participation in political meetings and editing of the report by stating, "My only dealings with ACOG were about talking with them about how to ensure that their statement expressed their views."

In light of detailed review and analysis by Americans United for Life Action and other groups of Kagan's contemporaneous documentation on these matters, there can be no doubt that this testimony is false and misleading. Kagan's amended language to the ACOG report was politically negotiated and strategized, and it dramatically changed the meaning of the ACOG statement. Court records show the ACOG report as altered by Kagan was passed off to the Supreme Court as official scientific opinion, even though the ACOG's panel of scientists never reviewed or approved Kagan's wording.

Declaration Alliance believes Kagan's behind-the-scenes work constitutes "conspiracy to defraud the Supreme Court," and in the public interest is urgently taking the evidence that has been compiled by pro-life groups and exposed in Kagan's confirmation hearings to file a complaint before the clerk's office of the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to have Kagan disbarred as a practicing lawyer in front of the Supreme Court.

And on advice of counsel, Declaration Alliance will not stop there.

States Klayman, "Then I'm going to ask the Supreme Court to refer the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation and possibly prosecution of obstruction of justice, because it was reasonably foreseeable that her altering that [ACOG] report would ultimately be used in court proceedings, including but not limited to the Supreme Court."

Even if Kagan is confirmed by a vote in the Senate, Declaration Alliance will not give up the fight. "If she is ultimately confirmed — and we can hope that she will not be — then we will go to phase two, which will be impeachment," stated Klayman.

Klayman concludes, "Elena Kagan should not be a justice of the Supreme Court when she's defrauded the Supreme Court. In fact, she shouldn't even be allowed to practice in front of the Supreme Court under these circumstances."

Declaration Alliance will pursue all recourse under law to ensure that justice prevails against Kagan's abuse of the public trust. Any pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution civic organization also desiring to uphold the ethical standards of American justice by aggressive pursuit of sanctions against Elena Kagan is invited to join in this effort. For more information, please call toll free 866-243-3172.

Please SELECT HERE to HELP US KEEP THE SUPREME COURT FREE OF CORRUPTION. Your special DONATION will assist Declaration Alliance and STOP KAGAN in court, as well as defend America against the willful deception of the highest court in the land by those who desire to control it!

Freedom is not free, but then, it's impossible to put a price on the sanctity of innocent life.

Together, we can preserve the God-given, unalienable rights our Founding Fathers enshrined in our nation's Creed, our Declaration of Independence, and codified in our Law, our Constitution! Our wise Founders intended that our people, and all humanity, should uphold and have forever these inviolable rights, from our Creator — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For more information about Declaration Alliance go to www.declarationalliance.org

Thank you. I know I can count on you. Please DONATE TO Declaration Alliance TODAY!

Keep Faith,


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Missouri Rejects Communist Insurance Policy...or should that be, "policies"

Source: Pat Dollard

We, The People Of Missouri Rebuke The Communist’s Revolution, 71% Vote To Prohibit Obama From Requiring Them To Have Health Insurance

August 4th, 2010 Posted By Pat Dollard.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections.
About 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it.
The Missouri law conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014.  ...Full story here