Born in Czechoslovakia, I experienced the realities of life very early. My family and I cheated death many times, from being bombed during World War II to dodging snipers in South East Asia.
To escape from communist treachery my family and I crossed borders through muddy fields, barbed wire, and armed guards.
At the age of nine I arrived in New York City. Two weeks in a new country I was immersed in the NYC school system, the best thing that could have happened to me.
I learned English quickly without forgetting Czech or German.
I immediately picked the political party that I would support, the Republican Party. That’s right; I knew where I belonged even at the age of nine.
I was a musician with my own band, worked with various promotional groups, started an out sourcing business for assembly of small manufacturing items, a computer company marketing hardware and software.
I served in South East Asia in Military Intelligence, held several positions in various fraternal organizations, worked on the U. S. Bicentennial Celebration, and now doing my best to strengthen the Republican Party.
Thirteen
people have been apprehended in Pakistan for reportedly participating
in the vicious honor killing of a 16-year-old girl.
The teenager was burned alive on April 29 in the village
of Donga Gali, about 30 miles northeast of Pakistan's capital city,
Islamabad, according to Reuters. A group of 15 members of a local tribal
council, called a jirga, allegedly participated in the killing
in retaliation for the girl's role in helping a couple from the nearby
village of Makol elope.
The victim, only known as Ambreen, was taken from her home to an
abandoned home where she was drugged and placed unconscious in the
backseat of a parked van. Her hands were reportedly tied to the seats to
prevent escapeIt turns out President Trump's budget has $2 trillion error in it:
The teen's burned body was found by authorities last week. District
police arrested 13 of the 15 individuals involved in the killing May 5.
The 13 people arrested, which include the victim's mother and brother, will be tried in an Anti-Terrorism Court.
Two weeks ago, Ambreen assisted a local couple elope and
leave Makol for the Pakistani city of Abottabad. When the members of
the jirga realized the couple was missing, they called a 6-hour
meeting April 28, during which they agreed to kill the girl as
punishment for damaging the village's reputation.
Doug McKelway joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in November 2010 and serves as a Washington-based correspondent.
A failure of imagination" is how some experts described the intelligence community's inability to foresee and interrupt the 9/11 plot. But it might as well describe America's apparent disinterest in preparing for a potentially bigger threat - an EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, a nuclear capability that North Korea is believed to be pursuing.
An EMP is a short burst of electromagnetic energy, specifically gamma rays, that all nuclear explosions produce to varying degrees. A large EMP triggered over the United States from a ballistic missile or a satellite orbiting at the right altitude could fry unprotected electronics from coast to coast, rendering electric grids, cellphones, banking and financial institutions, automobile computers, railways, air traffic control, and airplanes themselves, useless. Food would rot in refrigerators and in farm fields, with no means of transporting agricultural products to population centers.
But for all the Mad Max predictions that a EMP strike would cause, there are some who dismiss the threat.
"It's not real and it's something out of a James Bond movie," says John Tierney, the executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. "The general consensus is it's not a real threat imminent by any stretch of the imagination."
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, chief of staff for the Congressional EMP Commission, vehemently rejects that assessment. "We're constantly cleaning up after these guys," he said.
"We have information, data from actual high altitude nuclear detonations that were conducted by us and the Russians back in the 1961-62 time frame, that did things like knock the lights out in Hawaii," Pry said. "But most dramatically what the Russians did when they triggered a series of high altitude EMP tests that destroyed electric grids and critical infrastructure at Kazakhstan, then an industrial area, an area larger than Western Europe."
Pry describes what he calls a nuclear "taboo" that allows the United States and many of its Western allies to cavalierly dismiss the threat.
"In the West, we have for generations believed that a nuclear war would be unthinkable. And for Western democracies, that is understandable, because democratic states derive their legitimacy from the people," he said.
"But for totalitarian and authoritarian states, where a nation would be willing to sacrifice itself for an ideology, in the case of Iran or North Korea, the use of nuclear weapons is not unthinkable. In their open source military doctrine, they've written for years about being able to win a nuclear war,” Pry said.
Adding to EMP worries -- North Korea's recent successful test of a solid-fueled ballistic missile. Solid fuel missiles need less preparation, meaning less warning time for those targeted.
In addition, North Korea has at least two observation or weather satellites whose orbits take them routinely over the U.S., at precisely the altitude that is ideal for an EMP attack.
For at least 15 years, Congress has struggled with many bills designed to harden the nations electric grid against an EMP attack. But none have made it out of committee. Special interests often intervene, fearful of the cost that hardening the electric grid would impose on utility customers, a fear heightened by the ongoing dispute over whether an EMP attack would be as destructive as hardening proponents proclaim.
The Maute group confronting the Philippine army in Marawi City
is no longer considered a local terrorist organization as it has been
reinforced by jihadists of Malaysian, Indonesian and “other
nationalities,” the country’s authorities have announced.
“Before
it was just a local terrorist group. But now they have subscribed to
the ideology of ISIS. They want to make Mindanao as part of the
caliphate,” Solicitor General Jose Calida told a news conference, according to Reuters. READ MORE: Russia & Philippines sign defense cooperation agreement, reaffirm unity against terrorism He
added that Indonesians and Malaysians are among the Islamist radicals
who are fighting the army. Meanwhile, an army spokesman said six
foreigners were killed in Mindanao on Thursday, including militants of
Malaysian, Indonesian and "other nationalities."
“What’s happening in Mindanao is no longer a rebellion of Filipino citizens” but “has
transmogrified into an invasion by foreign terrorists who heeded the
clarion call of the ISIS to go to the Philippines if they find
difficulty in going to Iraq or Syria,” Calida added, as cited by InterAksyon news.
On Thursday, Philippines’ Western Mindanao Command (WESMINCOM)
announced that, since Tuesday, at least 31 fighters of the IS-linked
Maute group were killed in
“As of this report, 31 terrorists were already neutralized and 6 high-powered firearms were recovered by the troops,” said Brig. Gen. Rolly Bautista, head of Joint Task Force ZamPeLan.
At least 13 government troops and police officers lost their lives since Tuesday.
“Our
troops are doing deliberate operations in areas we believe are still
occupied or infested with the terrorists’ presence. I specifically
ordered our soldiers to locate and destroy these terrorists as soon as
possible,” Bautista added. On Tuesday night, President
Rodrigo Duterte placed the entire island of Mindanao under martial law
for 60 days after battles between government troops and the Maute in
Marawi escalated. On Wednesday, Duterte warned that he will not hesitate
to declare martial law throughout the entire country if terrorism
spills beyond Mindanao.
Kurd militias are essential to the US-led coalition’s campaign to
defeat Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq. The Kurds are
also taking part in the battle of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are trying
to force IS militants from their major stronghold.
24 May, 2017 Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence from Baghdad appears to be only a matter
of time, presenting a tremendous challenge to Iraq’s future, according
to the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency.
Once Mosul is liberated and the Islamist ‘caliphate’ defeated, the widening rift between Iraq’s Shiite Arab majority and Kurds will still be there, Steward noted.
“Once
ISIS is defeated in Mosul, the greatest challenge to the Iraqi
government is to reconcile the differences between the Shia-dominated
government, the Sunnis out west, and the Kurds to the north,” said the chief of military intelligence. Iraqi
Kurdistan has long sought to secede from Iraq, arguing that the Kurds
have an inherent right to self-determination after suffering decades
under the heavy-handed rule of Saddam Hussein and his predecessors. Led
by long-time Kurdish leader and president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud
Barzani, the autonomous region’s political parties have worked out a
roadmap for a future referendum on Kurdish independence.
Kurds, the leaders say, have their own ethnic identity, which does not fit in well in present war-torn Iraq. “We
are not Arabs, we are our own Kurdish nation... At some point, there
will be a referendum on the independence of Kurdistan, and then we will
let the people decide,” Iraqi Kurdistan’s prime minister (and the
president’s nephew), Nechervan Idris Barzani, told German Bild newspaper
last October. In the meantime, Iraqi Kurdistan’s president
maintains that Iraq has no future as a viable entity. In early March, he
predicted that Iraq faces the prospect of being split into two or more
independent states, following the example of Czechoslovakia – a former
socialist country that split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in
1993.
On the other hand, the Iraqi government says the secession is not in Kurdistan’s best interests.
In
neighboring Turkey, Kurdish communities are being subjected to a
government crackdown sometimes involving armed force. Meanwhile, Syrian
Kurds are now fighting Islamic State after seeing their people mass
murdered in areas previously controlled by jihadists.
Iraqi
Kurdistan has its own military, known as Peshmerga, which prevented
Islamic State militants from capturing the oil-rich region of Kirkuk in
2014. The Kurds have long claimed sovereignty over Kirkuk, which is also
inhabited by Turkomans and Arabs.
The autonomous region is
determined to build up its military capabilities in a bid to become a
sustainable independent state. On Monday, a Peshmerga official told
Kurdistan24 news outlet that Kurdish leaders are considering the
purchase of combat aircraft to establish a Kurdish airforce. “Resolving
the Kirkuk oil field and the revenues associated with the oil fields,
resolving the ownership of the city of Kirkuk, will be significant
political challenges for the Iraqi government,” General Stewart said, warning that Baghdad will face dire consequences if it fails to come to terms with the Kurds.
“Failure to address those challenges, coming up with a political
solution, will ultimately result in conflict among all of the parties to
resolve this and going back to what could devolve into a civil strife
in Iraq,” the DIA head said.
January 28, 2017 The list is might long, and is a striking record of Obama’s real legacy —
the one the media pundits and Democrats will not tell you about:
“The
Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently
ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money,
and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel,” the New York Post reported.
“Let that sink in: After months of pretending that ‘Fast and Furious’
was a botched surveillance operation of illegal gun-running spearheaded
by the ATF and the US attorney’s office in Phoenix, it turns out that
the government itself was selling guns to the bad guys.”
Even more shocking, President Obama authorized a shipment of guns to the Syrian opposition, a.k.a. ISIS-linked militants, on the exact same day he demanded more gun control in response to the Oregon shooting.
“…The
President also emphasized to his team that the U.S. would continue to
support the Syrian opposition as Russia enters the war-torn country,”
CNN reported in October. But virtually all of the rebels in Syria have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State since at least 2013.
“The
Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council, the vaunted bulwarks
of the moderate opposition, only really exist in hotel lobbies and the
minds of Western diplomats,” Journalist Ben Reynolds wrote
in November. “There is simply no real separation between ‘moderate’
rebel groups and hardline Salafists allied with al-Qaeda.”
2) Attempting to shut down gun stores outside of law In
a classic case of criminal racketeering, the U.S. Department of Justice
was pressuring banks to refuse service to gun stores in a program
entitled Operation Choke Point.
Under the program started in 2014
if not before, the DOJ was attempting to shut down legal gun dealers by
coercing financial institutions to close the bank and merchant accounts
associated with their businesses. In 2012, Bank of America told a
gun company, McMillan Group International, that because the company was
expanding into firearms manufacturing, the bank no longer wanted McMillan’s business.
“We
have to assess the risk of doing business with a firearms-related
industry,” the bank’s representative told operations director Kelly
McMillan.
3) Spent tax dollars to re-settle illegals inside U.S. U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol has been purchasing bus tickets and vouchers
for illegal immigrants in order to ship them deeper into the country at
taxpayers’ expense, according to a McAllen, Texas city official.
“They’re
not bringing them here, they’re bringing them to our bus terminals
because that’s where the Border Patrol understands that they have
transportation to go to the interior,” McAllen, Texas City Attorney
Kevin Pagan said in an interview with Infowars. “So
they’re dropping them off and it’s our understanding that they were
dropped off with tickets or with vouchers for tickets, but it turns out
that some of them tonight didn’t have their tickets or their vouchers
for tickets, or like I said their buses are tomorrow, so they have no
where to stay.” Several months earlier, Obama ordered the Border Patrol to stand down from protecting the border and enforcing immigration laws.
“We
are simply being ordered to stand down and stop tracking and trying to
apprehend the criminals,” Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National
Border Patrol Council, told Breitbart.
4) Using executive action to restrict Second Amendment Obama decided to use his “pen and his phone” to enact gun control without Congressional approval. “Without
a Democratic majority in Congress, and faced with a GOP that is firmly
against any form of gun control measures, Obama has repeatedly warned
that he would act on his own,” Zero Hedge reported.
“The
action, officials explained, would include guidance on how the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will now determine who is
“engaged in the business” of selling firearms under federal law and,
therefore, who is required to obtain a license to sell firearms,” the
Washington Free Beacon reported.
Additionally,
numerous law-abiding Americans have been wrongly placed on the No-Fly
list due to false information, clerical errors or political persecution.
“The
U.S. government maintains a massive watchlist system that risks
stigmatizing hundreds of thousands of people – including U.S. citizens –
as terrorism suspects based on vague, overbroad, and often secret
standards and evidence,” the ACLU reported.
“The consequences of being placed on a government watchlist can be
far-reaching; they can include questioning, harassment, or detention by
authorities, or even an indefinite ban on air travel.”
5) Illegally targeted conservative groups via IRS Obama’s IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups for additional “reviews” of their tax status applications. Organizations with the phrases “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were singled out for harassment, such as requiring them to provide information about their family members, their social media posts and a list of donors. Obama
had met with a key IRS official who was involved in the targeting just
two days before the key official told his colleagues how to target
conservative groups. The Daily Caller reported:
The
Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS
targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days
before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize
tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
IRS
chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight
testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in
the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the
Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins’ boss,
then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive
Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor
logs.
On April 25, 2012, Wilkins’ office sent the exempt
organizations determinations unit “additional comments on the draft
guidance” for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications,
according to the IRS inspector general’s report.
During Obama’s first four years as President, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman made 157 visits to the White House.
“This is more visits
to the White House – by a very large margin – than any other cabinet
member during Obama’s first term,” Journalist Tim Brown revealed. “By
comparison, during the four years that Mark Everson was IRS commissioner
when Bush was president, Everson made only one visit to the White House.”
6) Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press journalists
In May 2013, Associated Press reported: “The
Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of
reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news
cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented
intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The
records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for
the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP
office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main
number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery,
according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also
included incoming calls or the duration of calls. In all,
the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone
lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The
exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period
is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone
records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and
other matters.”
Obtaining these phone records required approval from former Attorney General Eric Holder. 7) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval Obama violated the Constitution when he launched military operations in Libyawithout Congressional approval. 8) Expanded Bush’s unconstitutional government faith-based programs
Obama actually expanded the federal government’s faith based programs which had been started by President George W. Bush. 9) Supported Bush’s unconstitutional Patriot Act Obama renewed the Patriot Act in 2011. 10) Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
Obama signed an unconstitutional bill that gave the U.S. government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without any charges being filed or any trial taking place. 11) Supports unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping President Obama is a huge supporter of warrantless wiretapping.
12) Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process Obama had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process, to which then-U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) said was an impeachable offense.
13) Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees After
Boeing hired 1,000 new employees to work at its new factory in South
Carolina in 2011, the Obama administration ordered the company to close it down because the factory was non-union.
14) Stole money from retired teachers and police officers During
the Chrysler bankruptcy, Obama violated the Fifth Amendment and more
than 150 years of bankruptcy law by illegally treating secured
creditors worse than unsecured creditors.
“Upsetting
this fixed hierarchy among creditors is just an illegal taking of
property from one group of creditors for the benefit of another, which
should be struck down on both statutory and constitutional grounds,”
according to Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at New York University
School of Law.
15) Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama’s friend had embezzled government funds
Obama fired Inspector
General Gerald Walpin in 2009 after Walpin accused Sacramento mayor
Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, of misusing AmeriCorps funding to pay
for political activities.
Later on, a bipartisan group of 145 current and former public officials and legal scholars signed a letter stating Walpin’s firing was politically motivated.
16) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said: “No
matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the
American people… If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to
keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter
what.”
But once it was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said Obamacare would cause at least seven million people to lose their insurance.
17) Lied about the cost of Obamacare Before Obamacare was passed, Obama promised: “I
will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or
in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit,
now or in the future, period. And to prove that I’m serious, there will
be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more
spending cuts if the savings we promised don’t materialize.”
However, not long after Obama signed it, the Washington Post reported it would add over $340 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.
18) Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for “green energy”
In 2009, the Obama administration gave $535 million to green-energy company Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs, but the company soon went bankrupt.
It was later revealed the company’s executives had made substantial donations to Obama’s campaign and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House officials.
19) Had “off the record” meetings with lobbyists In June 2010, the New York Times said the
Obama administration officials had held hundreds of meetings with
lobbyists at coffee houses near the White House to avoid the disclosure
requirements for White House visitors. 20) Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican President Obama had an armed SWAT team raid the Gibson guitar factory and seized guitars and other property from the factory – without any charges being filed.
Obama’s so-called justification
for the raid was that Gibson had broken environmental laws from India
regarding the imported wood that Gibson had been using, but C.F. Martin
& Company, Gibsons’s competitor, had used the exact same imported
wood.
The difference? Henry E. Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson, was a Republicandonor, whereas Chris Martin IV, the CEO of Martin, was a Democraticdonor.
21) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees Late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat, expressed concerns
that Obama’s dozens of czars appointed in 2009 might violate the U.S.
Constitution because they were not approved by the U.S. Senate. Another Democrat, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, shared a similar sentiment.
22) Tried to outlaw family farms The Obama administration wanted to eradicate family farms in 2012 by trying to prohibit farm children under 18 from working in various farm-related activities.
23) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands Obama nominated Timothy Broas to be U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands after Broas donated at least $500,000 to Obama’s 2012 campaign.
24) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush Under
the Obama administration, the TSA has been giving very invasive
pat-downs on young children which would otherwise constitute child
molestation.
25) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request The Obama administration demanded the Goldwater Institute pay nearly $79,000before it would share public records via the Freedom of Information Act.
26) Stole money from retired Delphi employees Obama eliminated the pensions of 20,000 retired Delphi employees in 2009.
27) Used “off the books” funding for military interventionism Anti-war activists who helped elect Obama accused him
of using the same “off-the-books” funding as his predecessor George W.
Bush when the president requested over $83 billion from Congress for the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
28) Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts The Obama administration pressured the Ford Motor Company to stop criticizing Obama’s bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler in a TV ad.
29) Tried to silence video on YouTube Obama actually asked a Jewish singing group to take down its video from the Internet in 2011.
30) Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare Obama gave some of his favorite organizations an exemption from some Obamacare requirements. Many
of these organizations were unions that had supported the passage of
Obamacare, but then afterwards wanted exemptions from the very same law
they forced on everyone else.
The Constitution, however, requires the law to treat everyone as equals.
“Selective
enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government
empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of
law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the
best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to
corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of
law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is
tyranny.” “The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new
waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So
far, seven entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other
institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the
administration’s friends and allies and, of course, those who have the
best lobbyists.”
“More than 50 percent of the Obamacare
waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union
members account for less than 12 percent of the American work force. The
same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the
last two elections and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the
government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare
is not their problem.”
31) Defended Bush administration’s unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device
The
Obama administration opposed the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling against
the Bush administration over the installation of a GPS tracking device
on someone’s car without a warrant.
32) Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts
33) Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs
The Obama administration tried to shut down a mom-and-pop bed-and-breakfast because some if its guests had used illegal drugs.
34) Made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess
Obama violated the Constitution by making four recess appointments when Congress was not in recess in Jan. 2012.
A federal appeals court later ruled that Obama’s appointments had violated the Constitution. 35) Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else
President Obama signed a 2013 bill providing armed guards for himself and his wife for the rest of the lives. But when Obama was an Illinois state senator in 2004, he voted againstcitizens keeping guns in their own homes to protect themselves and their families.
36) Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship
Obama once gave 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt while it was under a Sharia dictatorship.
37) Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support
Obama’s 2012 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws.
38) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
The New York Times said Obamacare “sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment.” In
response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, many businesses and even
colleges switched some of their employees from full time to part time.
Leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE penned a 2013 letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi stating that Obamacare will “destroy
the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the
American middle class… the law creates an incentive for employers to
keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers
have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this obligation.”
39) Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush’s when it came to honoring requests under the Freedom of Information Act, Obama’s record was far worse than that of George W. Bush.
40) Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant Obama’s Justice Department once argued in favor of installing hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant.
41) Accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign citizens During an experiment, a non-U.S. citizen attempted to make two $5 donations to both Obama’s campaign and Mitt Romney’s campaign.
While the Romney campaign rejected both donations, the Obama website accepted them cheerfully.
42) Lied about the Benghazi attack After four U.S. citizens were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, in Sept. 2012, the Obama administration falsely claimed the attack was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video at YouTube. Even more, the Obama administration took an entire week before it acknowledged the attacks as terrorism. And although the Obama administration made a dozen revisions to its versions of the incident, then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carneyfalsely claimed that only a “single adjustment” had been made.
43) Complained to YouTube about an anti-Muslim video The Obama administration actually phoned YouTube in 2012 to complain about an anti-Muslim video.
“It does make us nervous when the government throws its weight behind any requests for censorship,” Ben Wizner of the ACLU said.
44) Falsely said that Fast and Furious was started when Bush was President Obama lied when he said Fast and Furious had “begun under the previous administration” in 2012. Fast and Furious actually began around September 2009, months after Bush left office.
45) Illegally refused to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated campaign finance laws Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, was caught violating campaign finance laws in 2012, but despite federal law requiring Obama to fire her over the illegal activity, he refused to do so.
46) Gave special access to people who raised or donated $500,000 People who raised or donated at least $500,000 to Organizing for Action,
a pro-Obama political group, would be given “the privilege of attending
quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the
White House.” 47) Adopted harmful new restrictions on prescription painkillers – even though the House had already voted against them The Obama administration ignored the House’s rejection of new restrictions on prescription painkillers by adopting them anyway.
48) Illegally refused to submit a budget on time during four of his first five years Despite being legally required to submit a budget by the first Monday in February, Obama broke this law at least four times.
In contrast, since 1921, no President had missed this deadline more than once.
49) Fined UPS $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs Obama forced UPS to pay $40 million in 2013 because some of its customers had used the company to ship illegal drugs.
50) Added 20,000 extra pages to Obamacare without Congressional approval After Obamacare was passed, Obama added 20,000 extra pages to it even though those extra pages were not voted on by Congress.
51) Waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules The New York Times reported in 2013: … even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected.
… the Obama administration didn’t want to release unpopular rules before the election.
Everything is turning out to be more complicated than originally envisioned.
A
law that was very confusing has become mind-boggling… Americans are
just going to be overwhelmed and befuddled. Many are just going to stay
away, even if they are eligible for benefits.
53) Put someone in jail for making an anti-Muslim video Politico reported in 2013: “Nakoula
Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first
person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy
laws.”
“You won’t find that anywhere in the charges
against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows
that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video
crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad.”
“In the weeks
after the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi that killed Ambassador
Chris Stevens and three others, the Obama administration claimed the
terrorist assault had been the outgrowth of a demonstration against the
Nakoula video. The administration ran public service announcements in
Pakistan featuring President Barack Obama saying the U.S. had nothing to
do with it. In a speech at the United Nations around this time, the
president declared – no doubt with Nakoula in mind – ‘The future must
not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.’”
54) Rewarded one of his biggest campaign fundraisers by nominating him for the ambassadorship to Canada Obama nominated Bruce Heyman to be the ambassador to Canada in 2013after Heyman raised more than $1 million for Obama.
55) Asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts Obama asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on federal contracts in 2011.
56) Falsely accused a law abiding news reporter of being “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator” in a criminal investigation The Obama administration falsely labeled
Fox contributor James Rosen as “an aider and abettor and/or
co-conspirator” in a criminal investigation when it applied for a
warrant to read his emails.
The New York Times reported: With
the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible
“co-conspirator” in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama
administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to
threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.
Leak
investigations usually focus on the source, not the reporter. But, in
this case, federal prosecutors also asked a federal judge for permission
to examine Mr. Rosen’s personal e-mails, arguing that “there is
probable cause to believe” Mr. Rosen is “an aider and abettor and/or
co-conspirator” in the leak.
Though Mr. Rosen was not
charged, the F.B.I. request for his e-mail account was granted secretly
in late May 2010. The government was allowed to rummage through Mr.
Rosen’s e-mails for at least 30 days.
The Washington Post also said: “The
Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything
done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to
silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.
To
treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job – seeking out
information the government doesn’t want made public – deprives Americans
of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights
are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can’t
speak out, you can’t defend those rights, either.
Beyond
that, the administration’s actions shatter the president’s credibility
and discourage allies who would otherwise defend the administration
against bogus accusations such as those involving the Benghazi “talking
points.” If the administration is spying on reporters and accusing them
of criminality just for asking questions – well, who knows what else
this crowd is capable of doing?” 57) Asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself for lying under oath
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under
oath when he said he had nothing to do with monitoring the emails of
Fox reporter James Rosen, even though his own signature on the search
warrant.
In response, Obama asked Holder to investigate himself!
58) Used Obamacare to illegally give the IRS additional powers without approval from Congress The Washington Post reported in 2013: [Obamacare]
allows the Department of Health and Human Services to set up federal
health exchanges in the holdout states. But the statute makes no mention
of the IRS providing credits and subsidies through federal exchanges. The
IRS resolved this conundrum by denying its existence. In a May 2012
regulatory ruling, it asserted its own right to provide credits outside
the state exchanges as the reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous
law. But the language of the law is not ambiguous. And health scholars
Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon, in an exhaustive recent analysis,
find no justification for the IRS’s ruling in the legislative history of
Obamacare….
So: The IRS seized the authority to spend about $800 billion over 10 years on benefits that were not authorized by Congress.
59) Illegally solicited donations from health insurers In May 2013, Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius illegally solicited donations from health insurers to help pay for Obamacare.
60) Proposed military interventionism in Syria Obama proposed the U.S. oust the Syrian government in 2013 by military action.
61) Refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees who illegally used their IRS credit cards for their own personal use Obama refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees illegally used their IRS credit cards for personal purchases.
62) Had the Secret Service visit a law abiding citizen who had criticized his policies on Twitter Obama ordered the
Secret Service to visit the home of Tom Francois, a law abiding citizen
who had criticized Obama’s policies on Twitter in 2013.
The Secret Service later admitted that Francois had not made any threats against the president.
63) Had the IRS grant special, illegal favors for his brother’s so-called “charity” The Daily Caller reported the
IRS had taken the “unprecedented” step of approving a non-profit
application within just one month from the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a
so-called “charity” which was headed by Malik Obama, Barack Obama’s
brother.
Additionally, the IRS illegally gave retroactive approval for the organization’s tax exempt status and had illegally solicited tax deductible donations even though it did not have legal approval to do so.
64) Illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate In July 2013, Obama delayed the employer mandate part of Obamacare until January 2015, even though Congress set it to begin a year prior.
Obama effectively rewrote a law without approval from Congress, which is highly illegal.
65) Illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships to close, which destroyed 120,000 jobs Obama cost 120,000 people their jobs by illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships to close in 2009. 66) Gave 23,994 tax refunds worth a total of $46,378,040 to illegal aliens who all used the same address The IRS gave nearly 24,000 tax refunds worth a total of nearly $47 million to illegal aliens in 2011 using the same address in Atlanta, Ga.
67) Used tax money to pay federal employees to organize protests against George Zimmerman Obama actually used tax money to pay federal employees to organizeprotests against George Zimmerman in 2012.
68) Illegally continued giving foreign aid to Egypt after it had a coup The Obama administration said it would illegally continue giving foreign aid to Egypt after its coup.
69) Broke promise to end Bush’s surveillance of U.S. citizens who were not suspected of committing a crime Obama lied when he said he would end Bush’s illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens not suspected of committing a crime.
70) Falsely guaranteed that people could keep their doctor Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said: “Here is a guarantee that I’ve made… If you’ve got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor.” This was a complete lie.
71) Illegally seized a privately owned gun from a law abiding citizen After a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty, the Obama administrationannounced it would seize his gun anyway, a violation of both the double jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Fifth Amendment.
72) Illegally prevented individual employees of small businesses from choosing their own plan during the first year of Obamacare Obamacare requires that
individual employees of small businesses be allowed to choose their own
insurance plan during the first year of Obamacare, but the Obama
administration kept them from doing so.
73) Illegally avoided enforcing the required income verification of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges The Obama administration refuses to verify the income of people whoreceive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges. 74) Illegally delayed the caps on out of pocket health care payments without Congressional approval Obama once again illegally rewrote Obamacare by delaying payment caps for one year.
75) Falsely said the NSA review was being conducted by an “independent” body Obama
assigned National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who had falsely
testified to Congress that the NSA was not collecting information on
U.S. citizens, to establish an “independent” investigation of NSA surveillance. The list doesn’t need to end at 75:
76) Nominated a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama fundraiser to head the FCC Obama nominated former
cable TV lobbyist and Obama fundraiser Tom Wheeler to head the FCC in
2013. Wheeler had previously been the head of the National Cable and
Telecommunications Association, which is a lobbying organization for the
cable TV industry.
77) Tried to violate defendants’ right to a fair trial In August 2013, Reuters reported: “A
secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling
information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a
massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation
to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although
these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed
by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to
conceal how such
investigations truly begin – not only from defense
lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The
undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate”
the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information
originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s
Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an
investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources
of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment,
mistakes or biased witnesses.”
78) Threatened internet service providers with contempt of court if they did not install surveillance software The Obama administration had pressured internet service providers to install surveillance software in 2013 so that it could monitor internet traffic without a warrant, a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.
The ISPs who refused were later threatened by the administration with contempt of court. — We’d
like to give Claire Bernish of TheFreeThoughtProject.com a special
thanks for compiling this list of Obama’s criminal actions, which have
now been recorded for all future generations see. Make sure to pass this along on Facebook and Twitter!
