Daily Archives: February 19, 2011

02/19/11

In Loving Memory of Joshua Goldberg…

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Never in my life have I read or heard a more moving eulogy for a loved one who has moved on.

What Jonah Goldberg wrote in tribute to Josh’s passing shows an incredibly deep and abiding love and respect for his brother. I know Josh and his Dad are looking down with love in their hearts and a smile for Jonah, Lucianne, Chantal and his other loved ones. Only separated by this thin veil we call life. Waiting for just a little while until they will reunite.

I miss Joshua. I miss him with all my heart. Though I only met him through blogging, he was my friend. And I have a gift of knowing a good soul when I come across them. Thank you Joshua – you made my life and my blog better. You were always there with a kind word. I will miss you each and every day.

In your absence, I send my love to your family who are some of the finest people I have ever known. We’ll help them – we’ll take care of them. With tears in my eyes and running down my cheeks, I say goodbye and take care my friend…

If you want to read Josh’s eulogy, click here. Better have a hanky handy though. Jonah, your brother would have said, well done…

02/19/11

Union Answer to the Budget Deficit

Jesse Jackson Speech (Madison 2/18/11) Part 1

Exclusive: Right Network Interviews Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

Figures. Dems Urge Wisconsin Fleebaggers to Plan Conjugal Visits While Skipping Work

Bloggers For Peace Flotilla Reaches Rockford… No Sign of Fleebaggers

Bloggers For Peace Flotilla Arrived In Madison…SITUATION TENSE…UPDATE: Thousands of Walker’s Supporters Are Here!

The United States Is Under Attack

DISGUSTING!! Barak Obama’s OFA/SEIU Calls to Bloody the Tea Party in Madison (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

ONE OF THE MAIN STRONG ARM ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY-WISCONSIN IS THIS THE BEGINING? (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

02/19/11

Alarm Bells – Radical Union Leader Appointed to Important Trade Post

By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal

President Barack Obama has appointed a far left labor unionist to a security sensitive U.S. trade post.

Bob King

On February 16, 2011, Obama announced the appointment of United Auto Workers president Bob King to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

As U.S. trade positions and data are always key targets of foreign intelligence services, one would think that appointments to such a body would be subject to thorough scrutiny.

Either this was not done in King’s case, or affiliation with far left organizations is no longer considered any sort of danger to national security in today’s Washington.

As a long time leader of the U.A.W., King would have to be closely linked to America’s largest Marxist organization, Democratic Socialists of America. Many of U.A.W.’s leading officials in recent years have been D.S.A. members or sympathizers, including King’s long time fellow union Vice Presidents Elizabeth Bunn and Richard Shoemaker.

U.A.W. leaders have, over several years, placed (presumably paid) advertisements in D.S.A.’s Democratic Left magazine, praising the publication as a “strong voice for social and economic justice.”

Bob King, Elizabeth Bunn, Richard Shoemaker and many other U.A.W. leaders have signed these ads.

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It is worth remembering that former D.S.A. National Political Committee member Kurt Stand is currently serving 17 years imprisonment for spying for East Germany and the former Soviet Union. Many D.S.A. members have ties to Cuba and the organization also works closely with the Communist Party USA and other foreign affiliated radical groups.

Of even more concern is King’s affiliation with the Detroit based Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center.

Named after the famed communist U.A.W. lawyer Maurice Sugar, the Center is openly affiliated with the communist founded National Lawyers Guild and with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Once a well documented Soviet front, the I.A.D.L. is still run by communists, mainly from Cuba, India, Palestine, Vietnam and former East Bloc nations.

I.A.D.L. president Jeanne Mirer serves on the board of the Sugar Law Center, as does her I.A.D.L. board member colleague and N.L.G. leader Marjorie Cohn.

Other “Sugar” board members include Cuban “sympathizer” Debra Evenson and former endorsers of the Communist Party offshoot Committees of Correspondence, Julie Hurwitz and Bill Goodman.

Evenson, Hurwitz and Cohn, all signed an October 2008 statement in support of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers – then under attack for his close associations with Barack Obama.

In November 2010, Bob King welcomed to Detroit another well known Obama associate – “former” communist and ex-“Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones.

The Sugar Law Center presented Jones with its annual “Maurice Sugar Voice for Justice Award.”

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Bob King served on the Sugar Center’s honorary host committee alongside D.S.A. member David Elsila, ultra-radical Detroit City Council member JoAnn Watson, Communist Party affiliate and pro-Palestine activist Hasan Newash and retired Detroit judge and life long communist “sympathizer” Claudia Morcom.

In his new position, Bob King may well be privy to some very sensitive U.S. trade data – which if it got into the wrong hands could severely damage U.S. economic, strategic and security interests.

Given his associations, is Bob King the kind of man to be entrusted with such information?

02/19/11

Confiscation

By: Garry L. Hamilton

In response to Pierre Legrand’s post on the registration of gold ownership: Washington State Republicans Betray The Ideals Of Personal Freedom and Our Right To Privacy…We Need A Third Party!

Confiscation.

After the fashion of previous firearm confiscation programs.

First, you get people to register sales/transfers.

Then you get people to register the fact of ownership, regardless of duration.

Then, when you have “enough” records to track “enough” of whatever commodity or contraband you mean to interdict, you issue the appropriate edict or declaration, or pass the required legislation, or enact the desired regulation declaring that all of [whatever] must be turned in.

An amnesty period is established, during which a “no questions asked” policy is in force.

At the end of that period, anyone found still in possession of [contraband] will be held in violation of [relevant law/directive/edict/regulation] and subject to whatever defined penalties.

This is a time tested pattern.

First comes registration, then confiscation.

Want to have a little fun? Try telling the people involved that registration leads to confiscation. You’ll be labeled a conspiracy nut. For people involved in the preservation of gun rights, this pattern is all too familiar.

Now, the reasoning behind the confiscation depends on the subject. In this case, it’s precious metals and stuff like that. Presumably the theory is that all wealth belongs ultimately to the state. Kind of along the lines of real estate — once you understand that “real” hasn’t anything to do with reality, but everything to do with royalty (yes, “real” is Spanish for “royal”) — it all “belongs to the king.”

I could be wrong. That happens a lot. But I think that’s the framing that best explains this.