Category: The Opposition

Obama and the taxpayer money trail

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Your tax dollars: 

The article that caught my eye appeared first at World Net Daily on February 28th entitled, “Obama raised funds for Islamic causes,”  and then I saw some of the same information posted at Atlas Shrugs here.   The articles suggest that Senator Obama is a closet supporter of the Palestinian cause (not a surprise in light of his Reverend buddy) and thus may be connected with questionable characters in the terror world, but I can’t speak to that.    What interested me is the more mundane issue of taxpayer money flowing through the “community” organizations of Chicago.

Here are some of the quotes from World Net Daily that sent me searching tax returns.

Abunimah (Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based Palestinian-American activist) serves on the board of the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform, including providing driver’s licenses and education to illegal aliens.

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WND reported yesterday the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit on which Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist, provided $75,000 in grants to the AAAN.

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Obama’s advocacy on behalf of Palestinians comes after WND reported yesterday the presidential candidate served on the board of the Woods Fund alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombings against government buildings.

It’s a free country right, and groups can form and advocate for their causes all they want.  It is one of our great freedoms.   But, what if the taxpayers are funding some causes and not others.    The Woods Fund is a private foundation with assets of over $70,000,000 in 2006.   The fund owns pages and pages of shares in companies of every sort, but pays only a pittance in taxes because it gives some (around $3,000,000 in 2006) of its earnings to charities of its choice and hires people like Bill Ayers and previously Barack Obama to govern it. 

The Woods Fund gave grants to groups such as the above mentioned Arab American Action Network, Prison Reform, Latinos United, Inner City Muslim Action Network and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights to name a tiny fraction.    I was looking for groups like maybe Suburban Redneck Rights Coalition, or Nascar Fans United for Peace, or  Unemployed Conservative Trailer Park Citizens for Human Rights.   This community organizing B.S. that Obama brags about is really left wing political organizing couched in multicultural grievance language and paid for by us.

Maybe you are saying so what, it’s a private foundation.  But, get this!  The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) is getting direct government (taxpayer funded!) grants to work against you!   In the most recent Form 990 I could get for them (2004), they received $122,327 in government grants as part of their $394,687 income for the year.   That is about 31% of their budget to “organize” Chicago Arabs.   Lest you think they are running bake sales or pig roast fundraisers, much of the other “direct public support” they receive comes from grants from the likes of the Woods Fund.

Next I wanted to know what is this Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).  See what they do here.  And, while you are reading think about the fact that in 2005 you funded this group to the tune of $5,276,202 as part of an overall income of $6,779,751.  YOU are paying 78% of what they do.  To be completely accurate, if you live in Illinois you are paying much of this.

But, rest assured the ICIRR isn’t greedy, it doesn’t roll around in your money it passes it on to groups like Council of Islamic Organizations, Chinese Mutual Aid Assn.,  World Relief (Moline), Instituto Del Progresso Latino, Muslim Women Resource Center, Arab American Family Services, Bosnian-Herz American Community Center. and of course the Arab American Action Network ($82,000 in 2005) among 40 some other similar groups.

Funny I didn’t see any groups for people like me.

So, first Obama was busy getting these folks organized in the “community,”  then as a State legislator in Illinois (I’ll bet you a buck) he  made darn sure all his “community” groups got their fair share of your paycheck so they could keep organizing against you.  

Some racket, huh!

A crime so monstrous

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Check out Powerline blog today about a new book by Benjamin Skinner entitled:  “A Crime So Monstrous:  Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery.”   Skinner writes in Powerline about the horror stories then adds this:

And it is a living history of quiet heroism. John Miller, a former Republican congressman appointed to be America’s antislavery czar, zealously cajoled foreign governments—friends and foes alike—to bear their responsibility and free their slaves. At the same time, he battled State Department elites in an attempt to convince them that abolition mattered. Thanks to his efforts, the Bush Administration can boast of the most aggressive antislavery record since Lincoln.

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The research quickly shattered many of my internationalist preconceptions. Global abolition is part of the UN mandate. But the UN Human Rights Commission cottoned to genocidal regimes like Khartoum that demanded it expunge the word “slavery” from its lexicon, and certain UN peacekeepers actually participated in the slave trade in countries like Eritrea and Cambodia.

Well, so much for the UN Human Rights gestapo coming to the US to tell us how badly we treat “migrants.”  See Judy’s report on our lack of compassion here. 

Although come to think of it maybe the UN Human Rights gang should be called in to investigate groups like the International Institute of CT?   Thanks to Richard for the tip.   

Rohingya drums and Rambo

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You can hear the drumbeats, a little here, a little there.   We’ve told you about them before, Rohingyas are Burmese Muslims and the agitation has begun to bring them to America.   Take a minute and go back to my original post of a few weeks ago.  

Now comes another beat on the drum to find a “durable solution” in third country resettlement.   A Mr. Zafar Ahmad, President of Myanmar Ethinic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia wrote this past week to the Geneva head office of the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner on Refugees) with his “demands.”

We, Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Right Organization Malaysia
strongly demand on behalf of all that Frontier UNHCR’s Representative Head
Officer Dr.Volker Turk to tackle continuously and its recognized Rohingya
refugees may solve before his transfer . We Rohingya are forgotten
people on earth and well-founded fear of persecution subjected to Race,
Religion and Political opinion.

 Then Mr. Zafar Ahmad goes on to say:

This current situation pointing
that Rohingya have only a way of permanent solution to 3rd country
according to Refugees convention due to facing various as origin of the
persecution in the host.

That third country is going to be the United States, or some country in western Europe, maybe Australia.

I bet you are wondering how I have Rambo involved in all this.   Well don’t you know in his latest ‘blow ’em away’ flick he goes after the Burmese military junta to help save the Christian Karen people.   The Burmese Karen are one of the latest wave of refugees coming to America.   Rambo got guidance from the United Nations on his choice of human rights violators to film.   The UN will be slipping those Rohingyas by us as one more of Burma’s ethnic minority, just mark my words!

Incidentally there is speculation about why Rambo didn’t go after Al-Queda.    Actor Sylvester Stallone said in an interview I happened to catch that it was because he didn’t want to look tougher than our military men and women.  LOL, I will bet anything he didn’t want to be seen blowing Islamic radicals away, probably not good for his career (or personal safety).

Citizens for Walkersville, model for grassroots organization

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Recently we posted a couple of articles about how to get organized and get a movement going.  Here is an article written by Steve Berryman, Vice President and spokesman for Citizens for Walkersville, on his view to date of the hearings that took place last week and continue tonight in this small central Maryland town.   The work the citizens have done there to protect the culture and character of their town is a prime example of how we need to organize.

At this point there has been four days of the hearings – with 18 hours into it – at Walkersville Town Hall on Frederick Street. I have derived some observations from this.

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It amounts to a civics lesson in some ways, but in others it boils down to be a real-life “David vs. Goliath” story of asymmetric warfare between the interested parties.

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You could never have scripted this. The AMC [Ahmadiyya Muslim Community] is invested in a positive outcome to the tune of $100,000 in legal fees and related expenses and is still counting. Being an enormous multi-national corporation with millions in available funds and operations in over 180 countries worldwide, they stand to lose much more than that in terms of their international expansion efforts should they lose the decision. This proposition is easily supported by their web site.

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In the other corner are the people of the Town of Walkersville. Speaking as groups of home-owners associations and the grass-roots “Citizens For Walkersville” (CFW), resources were home grown and donated in a heart-felt fashion……

Read the rest of Mr. Berryman’s commentary here.   Read our earlier coverage here.     Here is the website for the AMC.   

They are really cranking up the “racist” labeling machine

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Update  January 22, 2008:  Here is FAIR’s response to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The extreme leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center last month gave one of its most distinguished awards for racism to The Federation for America Immigration Reform (FAIR) by placing this old established group on its “Hate groups” list.   (Hat tip:  Dennis)

Dec. 11, 2007 — The country’s leading anti-immigration organization — whose leaders have testified repeatedly before Congress and are frequently quoted in the media — has ties to known racists and a long track record of bigotry, according to a new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

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The SPLC today added FAIR to its list of hate groups operating in the United States.

I went to FAIR’s meeting this past fall, and no offense FAIR, but I thought it was populated by kind of a reserved,  old-line, well-connected group of men and women from a broad spectrum of America— even included some grassroots activists from the environmental movement.  I had no idea I was among a bunch of radical, xenophobic, hate-mongering racists.  Wow!     

Since we are talking about the “R” word, check out Jerry Gordon at the American Congress for Truth for the story on the Florida Seminole Chronicle calling the United America Committee (UAC) “racist.”    And, then the really funny thing is that the newspaper chickened out and took its comment section down when they started getting flooded with comments criticizing the newspaper for trying to silence people with the racist label.

If after you read the ACT post and wish to let the Seminole Chronicle know that the “racist” name-calling isn’t going to silence you e-mail  editor@SeminoleChronicle.com.    But, be polite about it!

I think I smell a rat!  The extreme leftwing thinks that it can silence us by that old name-calling tactic and they have obviously begun some sort of orchestrated talking points campaign.    If you are one of millions of Americans who want to see immigration policy reformed in this country, get ready to be called names.  Lets have a little fun with it.  I’m not very clever with names but lets have an award of sorts, maybe an honor roll.  If you or your group is called a “racist” in print (“bigot” will count too) send it to us and we will place you on the honor roll.    Suggestions for names for this distinguished award?