Constitutional Amendments

Obama’s Stasiland

Liam Scheff writes that President Obama’s putsch of socialized medicine has left many of us grabbing for the US Constitution, looking for the clause where the Federal Government is granted the right to force citizens to purchase a government product.

We can’t find it. Because it’s not there.

We’re asking, “How did this become law? Where are we headed?”

From the dreaded Wikipedia:

Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 persons in an effort to root out the class enemy. In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army, along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR and 1,553 informants in West Germany. In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany’s population between the ages of 18 and 60.10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.

What happened when the Berlin Wall went up? The private sector died. Government became the sole employer. And the function of government was to invade, infiltrate and control the lives of the people. How did they do it?

They made everyone collaborators – against each other. (Story here)

Wear Your Seatbelt!

Ethereal public service announcement from the UK.

ObamaCare: Soon We Will ALL Be AIDS Patients

Investigative journalist Liam Scheff examines ObamaCare and how it will negatively affect the healthcare of all Americans:

Soon every national medical emergency will be a personal emergency. Every government-produced mass vaccination plan will be pushed on you by your family’s government-approved physician. You’ll be getting the most up-to-date paranoia, right there in your doctor’s office, and you will be legally mandated to comply with her or his advice. Because it’s a matter of law. Because it’s science. And government science is never wrong.

In fact, you may discover that you now have a variety of diseases that you’d never been aware of. For example, Americans who have not yet taken the time to understand the criminal syndicate called the AIDS industry, are about to meet it face to face.

At present, it is only gay men and poor women who give birth in public hospitals who must turn over the intimate details of their sex lives and personal relationships to the state. But no longer. You are now an AIDS patient.

“But I’m not sick! I don’t have AIDS! I’m not HIV positive, and I never will be!” Practice saying it. It will help the officials diagnose you with “HIV dementia.” Soon, you will have AIDS, or SARS, or Bird Flu, or Swine Flu, or Screaming Monkey Virus – or whatever pandemic the WHO and CDC cook up to roil the American public and world markets into a panic so contagious, it will be solvable only by a massive influx of tax-payer-research-cash injected directly into experimental-but-mandatory-vaccines that will only cripple or kill a small-but-acceptable number of lucky recipients who are under the care of the ‘best medical system in the world.’

If this sounds far-fetched, check out how Sandi L. was affected:

Sandi, a 44 year-old mother of two young children (one pre-school and one pre-teen) in Southern California, was married to a man her junior by about a decade. Sandi had been told by her doctor at some point in the very early ’90s to take an HIV test as a matter of social responsibility. She did so and was thus informed that she was “HIV positive.” How could it have happened? She wasn’t promiscuous, she wasn’t a prostitute; it must have happened sometime in the mid-80s. Who could tell for sure?

Not being sick, and not wanting to start AZT, a “life-saving,” (said the advertisers) but nevertheless fatality-inducing “AIDS drug,” she decided to do nothing, except to take especially good care of herself. Her doctor agreed: ‘Take good care of diet, nutrition and health, and you may do better than these young men rushing into high-dose AZT, who are dying very quickly on this drug, and by the tens of thousands. We know so little about all of it, you’ll probably be better off going slowly and making decisions as they seem necessary.’ This is what she was told, and this is how she proceeded.

She met a man, told him all about it, got married, and had two children. She was a small woman – not much above 5 feet tall, and light, thin and wiry. She was funny, sweet, quite charming, and immensely trusting. When I met her, she was healthy and spry, and terribly interested in the controversy over HIV tests and the AIDS diagnosis.

She had discovered the hidden secret – the great open secret of medical science. Tests don’t work. They don’t test for what they’re advertised to show. To be fair, some tests are alright, some are pretty good. And some are criminally false.

Where do HIV tests fall? She had good reason to wonder. The medical literature pulls no punches. HIV tests have no standards. They do not diagnose infection with any particular virus. They react with proteins and genetic material produced by an innumerable and ever-growing list of medical conditions: Colds, flus, serious illness, endemic tropical diseases, drug and alcohol use, previous vaccination, and pregnancy. (Yes, pregnancy makes HIV tests “positive.”) So, how good are AIDS numbers?

They’re as good as HIV tests. They are HIV tests mathematically modeled into science fiction. Take a small group of pregnant women in any rural African clinic, and multiply your “positives” by a factor of a thousand. Not enough? Try ten thousand. Need more funding? 4,000 tests of young expecting mothers worried about syphilis can be multiplied into 5 million “HIV positives” with the flip of an algorithm at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters, where these important figures are calculated.

Sandi thought this was fantastic, amazing, important; she told her young husband all about it. How else could she explain her situation? Twenty years of being “positive,” no drugs, and no wasting, degenerative illness. What were the odds?

Her husband listened carefully. His wife didn’t believe in AIDS theory. She was an “AIDS denialist.” It was just the information he needed. He shared it with a friend of his – a younger woman he was carrying on a serious affair with, who he intended to leave his older wife for. It was a perfect out. Sure, he had married her knowing her “HIV” status – whatever it meant, whatever that test had actually indicated. He had two children with her. The older child, a pre-teen girl, was strong and healthy. The younger, a boy about 7, had chronic allergies and some digestive issues. The husband didn’t seem to worry about his own health, though. But when he wanted to leave Sandi, “HIV” was good enough.

And so he did. He filed for divorce, and made Sandi’s “HIV denialism” the center of a four-year battle to keep her away from her two young children. Though she had given birth to them, and been a devoted housewife and mother, and never had a complaint made against her as to the quality of her maternal care or instinct, the husband decreed that she was a danger to herself and others. After all, she didn’t “believe HIV tests.”

The court agreed. Pretty soon, she had to pay in order to see her children. A court-approved supervisor would watch her watch them, for the few hours a week she was permitted. She had to hire and then train attorneys to think critically about HIV testing. None could. The husband wanted to put one of the children on AIDS drugs. Sandi wanted to use dietary change, vitamins and other natural therapies. She allowed doses of pharmaceuticals to be used, but pushed for a more thorough examination of what looked like digestive problems and allergies, not like clinical, textbook “AIDS.”

And what is clinical, textbook AIDS, anyway? It’s a great question. The answer is – it’s anything the medical authorities want it to be. Eventually, Sandi would discover that too.

I began to lose touch with Sandi in mid-2008. She was sounding more and more distraught. She would talk for hours about what “they were doing to her.” I begged her to keep her distance from that fight. “But I’m their mother,” she said, as though such a statement mattered to government medical science. I beseeched her to not fight every slight and injury they paid her. To see her kids when she could. To strengthen her resolve to be there at the end, to get through the next five, or even ten years until the children were old enough to see her on their own. To support them from a distance, to make the time with them count. To pay her husband back with goodness where he was spiteful and petty. To trust in time, rather than justice.

Easy words to say. But she was their mother. She was torn apart by all of it. The doctor put in charge of her child’s case, an AIDS doctor in San Diego, whose name I will also reserve from exposure here, took an immense interest in Sandi.

He was certain that her distrust in the AIDS industry was a sign of her illness. An illness that had not manifested in some 20 years of HIV positivity, but an illness nonetheless. After all, medical science is never wrong.

He pressed her in endless private conferences with his petty bourgeois 'diagnosis.' Eventually, it seems he won. he convinced her that she was, perhaps, wrong. That perhaps she really did have a touch of…something. "HIV dementia," said the professionals. She didn't believe in her diagnosis. Therefore she was sick.

Sandi disappeared from my radar. Six months later, I received a note that she had gone on psychoactive drugs, as a means to get the doctor to give her time with her children. That soon she was pliable. Soon she was weak, soon she was falling all the way apart. That when the medical scientists next suggested her "HIV dementia" should be combated with stronger AIDS drugs, like AZT and its analogs, she relented. The note also informed me that she was dead.

She was small, light. Not a lot for a steady stream of "life-saving" fatality-inducing FDA Black-Box labeled drugs to work through. I'm still trying to get the details of her final days. (story here)

New Cato Study Show Educators Lie

(More info on LAUSD corruption here)

A Classic Retold: Obama at the Bat

"There is no joy in Congress... Obama has struck out!"

An old classic retold.

Mark Levin at the Reagan Library

As Jedediah Bila writes, Mark Levin’s speech at the Reagan Library on Friday, March 5, 2010, was exactly what (we) anticipated: intelligent and unapologetically conservative, with just the right amount of comedy. Simply put, he made Ronald Reagan proud. more here

Muslim Sheep Mentality

Like the other essays I've posted by Amil imani, this one explains what Mr. Imani calls the "sheep mentality" and how adherents rationalize their beliefs and are required to impose them on others. An excerpt:

A Muslim is, first and foremost, an Ummahist—a citizen of international Islam. It does not matter in what country they live or have become a citizen. First and foremost, they are Muslims. In other words, the law of the land means nothing to them, only the words of their holy book. So, when a Muslim takes the Pledge of Allegiance to serve in the United State military, he is either ignorant of the implication of his pledge or is lying willfully. What Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan did when he killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and hurt 30 others, did not feel any remorse; he only did what was asked of him by his holy book. Like many Muslims, Hassan was programmed from the moment he was born. What seems to be very scary is that we have other Maj. Hasans in our military establishment and also within the civilian community that can snap at any time.

Ignorance of the law is never a valid reason in a court of law, and lying in the process of applying for a federal job is grounds for denying the application and possibly even more severe consequences. Sadly enough, taqqeyh—lying, or dissimulation—is not only condoned, it is recommended to the Muslims in their scripture. Hence, a Muslim can and would lie without any compunctions, whenever it is expedient.

[5:77] Say, "O people of the scripture, do not transgress the limits of your religion beyond the truth, and do not follow the opinions of people who have gone astray, and have misled multitudes of people; they are far astray from the right path."

[5:78] Condemned are those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel, by the tongue of David and Jesus, the son of Mary. This is because they disobeyed and
transgressed.

The Muslim’s mind is imprinted with authoritarianism which starts with the supreme authority, Allah, through his one and only prophet, Muhammad, his Caliphs or Imams, and the high-ranking religious divines all the way down to the village clergy. A dangerous feature of the authoritarian personality is the relative lack of independent thinking. This deficiency makes the person highly amenable to manipulation. Islam, by its rigidly authoritarian make up, robs a Muslim of independent thinking to the extent that the believer blindly adopts it as his infallible system of belief. Hence, the religion of Islam is guilty of conditioning masses of people as easily manipulatable instruments in the hands of authority figures.

To Muslims, the goal is everything. As religious fascism, Islam condones any and all means to achieve its goals. The ultimate objective of Islam is the rule of the entire world under the Islamic Ummah—never mind that these life-in-hand soldiers of Allah disagree with one another regarding the Ummah itself and who is going to reign over it. That’s a “family dispute” that they will resolve by their usual favorite method—brute force. Each Islamic sect believes that it has the Prophet and Allah on its side and it will prevail over the other. For now they have to work diligently to achieve the intermediary goal of defeating all non-believers. (more here)

Steve Poizner a Hit in Hollywood

I first met Steve Poizner at the 2006 California Republican Convention and I've been a fan ever since.

Back then, Poizner was running for the job of Insurance Commissioner with the promise that he would streamline the agency and cut wasteful spending at the same time. After he was elected he made good on his promise.

Hollywood Gumshoe believes that this self-made inventor and entrepreneur would make an outstanding governor - especially if California voters are willing to dump the socialist legislators and RINOs who've turned our state into a banana republic that values the Sacramento smelt over residents and unions over taxpayers and their students. We can turn this state around and
Steve Poizner can help us make that happen - IMHO.

Liberal Pacifism VS Islamic Extremism

Amil Amani has written another excellent comparison/contrast between Islam and Christianity:

The Gospel writers have noted that Jesus called his disciples to a way of life in which any act of violence can be overcome by love. We must not return evil for evil, Jesus taught, but must return good for evil; we must not hate those who wrong us but must love our enemies and pray for those who hate us. The Qur’an never says this. Instead it explicitly declares that Allah does not love those who do not believe in him:

“For He loves not those who reject Faith” (30:45)

Although many Muslims become angry about anyone “insulting” their religion, but here is what the Qur’an says about Jews and Christians:

Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (9:30) See also Bukhari 8:427), one of the last things Prophet Muhammad ever said on his deathbed was "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians.”)

Drawing a distinction from the Gospel writers are a few brushstrokes suggesting ubiquitous and intrinsic Islamic extremism and also let us keep in mind that the basic difference between Islam and Christianity is that only Islam has a tradition and doctrine that sanctions war against unbelievers:

“Allah, deal with the Jews, your enemies and the enemies of Islam. Deal with the crusaders, and America, and Europe behind them, O Lord of the worlds.” Ahmad Abu Halabiya

Hadith says that Muhammad believed rats to be "mutated Jews" (Bukhari 54:524, also confirmed by Sahih Muslim 7135 and 7136).

“To push the enemy - the greatest kufr - out of the country is a prime duty. No other duty after Belief is more important than [this] duty. Utmost effort should be made to prepare and instigate the Ummah [community of Muslims] against the enemy, the American-Israeli alliance - occupying the country of the two Holy Places.” Osama bin Laden

(more here)