Eight Republicans Help Confirm a Hard-Core Gun Banner -- And how to keep Senators from "spinning" their support for gun control Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org "Too much work [was] left undone. After a few sleepless nights, I wrote for myself a list of issues on which I needed to do more in the years ahead. One of those issues was global regulation of small arms." -- Harold Hongju Koh (2001) Friday, June 26, 2009 Imagine that. The Senate confirmed this week, by a vote of 62-35, a gun banner who stays up at night thinking of ways to impose more gun control upon American citizens. Harold Koh is that gun grabber, and he was confirmed yesterday to be the Legal Adviser at the State Department. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans attempted to kill the Koh nomination with a filibuster -- until eight of them crossed the aisle to help Democrats confirm Koh. The back-stabbing Senators are: Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Richard Lugar (R-IN), Mel Martinez (R-FL), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and George Voinovich (R-OH). Once the filibuster was thwarted, Koh's nomination passed easily. The vote on final passage can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/m4m2f5 Koh is eager to assume his post at the State Department, having lamented that there is only so much that can be done from the outside to push gun control treaties, and that ultimately we need people like him in positions of power. The chief lawyer for the State Department is just the position someone like him needs to push more gun control through international treaties. GOA will continue watching for any attempt by the Obama administration to foist an international gun control treaty upon the citizens of the U.S. Please stay tuned. Don't Let Your Senators Escape the Heat of the Spotlight! If you have been watching the news, you have no doubt seen stories on the health care debate. This is the topic de jour on Capitol Hill, and Congress is ramping up to vote on a bill in a few weeks. Last week, GOA alerted you to the fact that the whole health care issue has become a Trojan Horse for gun control, among other things. However, there are detractors who claim that the current health care debate will have nothing to do with guns. For example, GOA has been "informed" that a search of the TeddyCare bill does not turn up the word "guns," and that the word "database" is seen only a few times. Hmm, if your Senator's office gives you that as a response, then tell them not to be so lazy and naive. One needs to do more than type in a word search in order to analyze legislation. The database was set up under section 3001(c)(3)(i) of the stimulus bill. But the Kennedy bill allows for sweeping new regulations, which make it potentially impossible for any doctor to refuse to enter your records under the current section 13112 exemption. Many things you tell your doctor in the privacy of his office could affect your right to own a firearm. And just because anti-gun zealot Ted Kennedy doesn't notify us up front of his anti-gun intentions doesn't mean they don't exist. Frankly, we got this same garbage in connection with the Veterans Disarmament Act (officially known as the NICS Improvement Act), where the anti-gunners took away the guns of 150,000 veterans through language which was not explicit. Before the bill was signed into law last year, some detractors even claimed that because the NICS bill did not mention the word "veterans," we must have been wrong to suggest that the bill would disarm vets! Well, guess what? The disarmament which was already occurring before President Bush signed the legislation into law last year is now occurring with a vengeance under the Obama administration. (In fact, GOA members should be looking for an upcoming mailing which will give you postcards to send in support of an important bill -- introduced by Sen. Burr of North Carolina -- which will protect veterans from the fangs of the Veterans Disarmament Act.) The point is, no Senate staffer should ever give you an opinion on a bill unless he has read the entire code that the bill will be amending. Nor should they ignore the potential for an Obama administration to abuse any particular piece of legislation. Remember how the RICO Act, originally enacted to help combat the Mafia, was later used to crack down on legitimate banks and peaceful pro-life protesters? The original RICO Act never used the word "abortion," but that didn't stop overzealous prosecutors from going after the non-violent protestors. And who would have thought, when the original Brady law was passed in 1993, that it would be used to keep people with outstanding traffic tickets... or couples with marriage problems... or military vets with nightmares from buying guns? After all, the Brady law never mentioned those people groups, and yet the law has been used over the past 15-plus years to deny gun rights to those very people. Reading legislation is not a job for the timid or the lazy. If staffers in your Senate offices aren't willing to read current bills IN THE LIGHT OF EXISTING LAWS -- and to do the research necessary to compile this information -- then politely encourage them to get another line of work. **************************** The Infamous "Rosie" T-shirt A photo of a man wearing a particular GOA T-shirt has been circulating around the internet in recent months, resulting in record sales. Check out this unique shirt, featuring a GOA logo and the message: If guns kill people, then... -- pencils miss spel words. -- cars make people drive drunk. -- spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat. Only $15.50 at http://gunowners.org/merchandise.htm (plus shipping and handling). ****************************
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Gun Banner Confirmed — And The Truth About Legislation
June 27, 2009Obamacare leads to no where…
June 26, 2009Amidst all the various sad stories being splashed across the Internet and airways having to do with the supposedly sad state of health care in America something has gone by the wayside. That something is called freedom and liberty. The freedom to choose what sort of coverage that you want, and the liberty to decide if you do,in fact, want or need any coverage at all.
Brought to you by our good friends at The Independence Institute in Golden, Colorado is a presentation addressing exactly this issue.
The New Mafia..?
June 25, 2009Big Cowboy Hat Tip to none other than Texas Fred for this one.
Seems we have gangsters in our midst. Usually when I write about gangsters it’s referring to, oh… MS 13, or Crip’s, Blood’s and those sorts of people.
Not so this time. Our very own government is engaging in what looks an awful lot like extortion if not outright theft. Further, since said government and or it’s agents are armed with dangerous and or deadly weaponry? Well folks, that’s called robbery, first degree or armed robbery.
Well, a lot of people in this not so United States wanted change. They are getting change alright. Along with one healthy dose of corruption. Oops! I mean Chicago style politics.
Now, the youtube that follows is pretty to the point. I do not agree with it though. There are in fact many fine individuals serving in the Senate and Congress. Perfect? Nope, and I dare anyone to show me a perfect person. But at least many from places like Texas, Utah, and Wyoming are doing their level best to actually uphold the oath that they took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Not just to make a buck, or inflict their values on everyone else…
Judicial Indiscretion; Dogs running wild
June 21, 2009Human, and by extension their pets, sometimes come into conflict with wildlife. Recently coyote attacks have been in the news quite a bit. That, however is not what today’s living with wildlife post is about. It does however tie in directly with another post having to do with hierarchy in the law.
Most states have laws about domestic canines worrying cattle or wildlife. In most situations, lethal force is authorized. I have always been fortunate in that the few times that I’ve seen things like this hazing of some sort convinced the dog (s) to find another amusement to satisfy their instincts. That certainly is not always the case though. I have a friend that left E.M.S. and became a Sheriffs Deputy in Weld County. While on patrol he came across a dog that was attempting to chew on a claf that was being born. He tried to frighten it away with his lights and siren, then with a warning shot. All to no avail. He ended up shooting the dog. That’s a legal shoot folks.
So then where am I going with this? Well, it seems that Ron Wedow witnessed a dog attacking a doe after having just killed the doe’s fawn. This was in unincorporated Douglas County, Colorado. Both the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department and the Colorado Division of Wildlife responded and determined that the shoot was indeed legal. It is in fact authorized by state law. Some time later though, County Animal Control came along. They decided, as a matter of policy, to charge Mister Wedow. Now he has mounting legal fees, for doing his civic duty.
This is clearly Judicial indiscretion on the part of the Douglas County District Attorney’s office. They need to flat drop the charges and even reimburse Ron Wedow for his legal expenses.
Read about this miscarriage of justice HERE.
H/T to Charlie Meyers of The Denver Post.
Second Amendment: GAO Blames U.S. for Mexican Gun Violence
June 20, 2009Well, it seems that even after being totally debunked the administration just keeps on ramming falsehoods at we the people…
“A new study by the Government Accountability Office says most firearms recovered in drug violence in Mexico come from the U.S., a finding that will likely fuel the politically charged debate over the U.S. government’s efforts to stem gun trafficking across the border,” reports The Wall Street Journal. As we have pointed out before, however, the data is flawed right from the beginning. According to the Journal, in 2008, Mexican law enforcement seized 30,000 weapons, but only 7,200 were submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for tracing. Rather than look at the complete facts, of course, anti-gun demagogues pounced on the report. “The availability of firearms illegally flowing from the United States into Mexico has armed and emboldened a dangerous criminal element in Mexico, and it has made the job of drug cartels easier,” said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY). “It is simply unacceptable that the United States not only consumes the majority of the drugs flowing from Mexico, but also arms the very cartels that contribute to the daily violence that is devastating Mexico.”
Blaming law-abiding U.S. citizens for drug violence in Mexico makes little sense, other than as a justification for more gun control. In anticipation of a renewed effort by the Obama administration to reinstate the so-called “assault weapons” ban, 23 state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, saying, “We share the Obama Administration’s commitment to reducing illegal drugs and violent crime within the United States. We also share your deep concern about drug cartel violence in Mexico. However, we do not believe that restricting law-abiding Americans’ access to certain semi-automatic firearms will resolve any of these problems.”
SOURCE followed up by…
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report this week entitled, “Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges.”
Among other things, the report asserts that Mexican officials consider illicit firearms the number one crime problem affecting their country’s security; that about 87 percent of firearms seized in Mexico and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) in the last five years originated in the United States; and that these firearms are increasingly more powerful and lethal, including “high-caliber and high-powered” AK-47 and AR-15 type semi-automatic rifles. The report further contends that the country’s law enforcement agencies are insufficiently organized, and that Mexico has a history of corruption at the federal, state and local levels.
With regard to the “87 percent” statistic, the report’s figures make clear that BATFE only traces a fraction of the guns seized. Those firearms are not selected randomly, but are likely selected because they are the guns most likely to have come from the U.S. Trace data reveals nothing about the large number of guns that are not traced.
The report also states “According to U.S. and Mexican government officials, these firearms have been increasingly more powerful and lethal in recent years. For example, many of these firearms are high-caliber and high-powered, such as AK and AR-15 type semiautomatic rifles.” The report, however, states that about 25 percent of firearms traced were of that type, which works out to only eight percent of all firearms seized. Also, the report does not indicate what percentage of murders is committed with various types of firearms, but it does note, “The majority of the casualties have been individuals involved in the drug trade in some way.”
The report further states that, “The U.S. government faces several significant challenges in combating illicit sales of firearms in the United States and stemming their flow into Mexico.” These include “restrictions on collecting and reporting information on firearms purchases, a lack of required background checks for private firearms sales, and limitations on reporting requirements for multiple sales” and even the fact that the U.S. government is prohibited by law from maintaining a national registry of firearms.
But as we know, the gun control measures indicated would not be effective against purchasers who can pass instant background checks. As the report noted, “Firearms [purchases] at gun shops and pawn shops for trafficking to Mexico are usually made by ‘straw purchasers,’ according to law enforcement officials. These straw purchasers are individuals with clean records who can be expected to pass the required background check and who are paid by drug cartel representatives or middlemen to purchase certain guns from gun shops.”
Finally, the report noted that, “Another significant challenge facing U.S. efforts to assist Mexico is corruption among some Mexican government entities. Government officials acknowledge fully implementing these reforms will take considerable time, and may take years to affect comprehensive change.” And, “According to Mexican government officials, corruption pervades all levels of Mexican law enforcement — federal, state, and local. For example, some high ranking members of federal law enforcement have been implicated in corruption investigations, and some high publicity kidnapping and murder cases have involved corrupt federal law enforcement officials.”
Obviously, Mexico has a huge problem with rampant corruption that clearly cannot be blamed on the U.S. At the same time, Mexico has extremely prohibitive gun laws, yet has far worse crime than the U.S.
More evidence of what is truly happening in Mexico was brought out in a series of hearings held earlier this year. During those hearings, three representatives of U.S. law enforcement, one each from BATFE, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), made it clear that the increase in violence in Mexico is being misinterpreted by the media and politicians. They testified that the increase in violence is a direct result of the actions taken by Mexican President Felipe Calderon to take on the cartels. The cartels, they testified, are being pressured more than ever before and are fighting back in desperation, resulting in casualties. (If you wish to view the hearings, please use the following links: House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere: “Guns, Drugs and Violence: The Merida Initiative and the Challenge in Mexico” , and Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs: “Law Enforcement Responses to Mexican Drug Cartels”)
For American gun owners, the battle will be to make sure that politicians who see an opportunity to advance their gun ban agenda do not use Mexico as an excuse to sacrifice our Second Amendment rights.
Obama Care, Teddy Care, and so on…
June 20, 2009I don’t know about you, but the more I am hearing about “health care reform” the more skeptical I become. From making gun control into a health care issue to deciding who gets what care, and when?
This entire issue is becoming a Trojan Horse from the looks of things. Here’s a thought though. On another thread a person argued in favor of a complete ban on mentally ill people from owning firearms. Alright, that sounds reasonable prima facie. In many places those will mental illness are also banned from voting. Therefore, those afflicted with the mental illness of Hopolophobia will be forever banned from voting, or owning weapons! Fat chance that will happen in this day and age of political correctness.
Obamacare Takes Center Stage
ABC News is lending itself to the Obama administration for the night of Wednesday, June 24, for a live broadcast of ABC World News Tonight from the Blue Room of the White House. This will be followed by an hour-long primetime special entitled “Prescription for America,” which will advocate the Obama health care plan. The Republican National Committee noted that with the absence of opposing views, the programming amounts to little more than a campaign commercial — one that should rightly be paid for by the Democratic National Committee.
ABC predictably took offense and claimed that it will have complete editorial control over the content of the program. Or at least as much control as the White House wants them to have. As columnist Cal Thomas observes, “By the way, guess who’s the new director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform. It’s former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass, who left journalism last year to join the Obama campaign.” How convenient.
The network claims it will have “thoughtful” and “diverse” perspectives on the plan, but one noteworthy absence is “20/20” anchor John Stossel, who will not be participating. A pity, too, for if anyone at ABC has the requisite “thoughtful” and “diverse” perspective, it’s Stossel. (See his 2007 health care report for more.)
Obama’s reason for taking to the airwaves is that his proposal is facing stiffer opposition than anticipated. First, his estimate of $634 billion over 10 years is wildly optimistic. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the plan will cost $1.6 trillion over 10 years and “result in a net increase in the federal budget deficits of about $1 trillion,” despite Obama’s reassurance that his reform (read: takeover) “will not add to our deficit over the next 10 years.” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) promised to cut $600 billion from the proposal and to pay for it with tax increases, spending cuts and other offsets. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) said the plan includes $600 billion in tax hikes and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.
Furthermore, the CBO estimates that 23 million Americans will lose the insurance they currently have, contrary to Obama’s key promise that no one will lose insurance. “[T]he number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million,” the report says.
Obamacare only tastes good after the alcohol kicks inThe CBO estimate is so ugly for Democrats, The Hill reports, that “lawmakers are talking about changing the chamber’s normal accounting procedures,” substituting estimates from the White House Office of Management and Budget for those of the CBO. So much for “transparency.”
Considering the whole of Obamacare, one Patriot reader declared, “I haven’t heard health care advice so laughable since Lucille Ball flogged Vitameatavegamin on TV. ‘It’s so tasty too. It’s just like candy.’ Has our president been hitting the Vitameatavegamin bottle himself? Not to worry, though. Even though socialized medicine has proven an abject failure in every venue trying it, the United States is such a big country that, like Lucy and Ethel selling homemade salad dressing below the cost of their ingredients, no doubt ‘We’ll make it up in volume.'”
The BIG Lie
“Let me also address an illegitimate concern that’s being put forward by those who are claiming a public option is somehow a Trojan Horse for a single-payer system. I’ll be honest: There are countries where a single-payer system works pretty well. But I believe — and I’ve taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief — that it’s important for our efforts to build on our traditions here in the United States. So when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They’re not telling the truth.” –President Barack Obama to the American Medical Association
When asked which countries’ citizens enjoyed their socialized medicine, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs later admitted, “I don’t know exactly the countries. … I assume Canada, Britain, maybe France.” Not the examples we’d pick to bolster Obama’s case.
On Cross-Examination
“It’s hard to know whether President Obama’s health care ‘reform’ is naive, hypocritical or simply dishonest. Probably all three. The president keeps saying it’s imperative to control runaway health spending. He’s right. The trouble is that what’s being promoted as health care ‘reform’ almost certainly won’t suppress spending and, quite probably, will do the opposite.” –Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson
This Week’s ‘Alpha Jackass’ Award
“I do not want the government to run things. I’ve got enough to do.” –President Barack Obama, attempting the equivalent of a Jedi mind trick: “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
Making Money in hard times: Go into politics
June 20, 2009In all honesty I cannot remember when we were not having “hard times.” At least according to this or that salesman. Right now it’s hard times on many fronts, and you are either a part of some down trodden group blaming others for your misfortune. Or you better buy now because tomorrow it will not be there, or illegal!
Now, having said all that there appears to be one field that never suffers from the effects of the economy. What might that be you ask? Why, politics of course! Read on…
Congressional Democrats came to power after the 2006 elections on the heels of a campaign that bashed the GOP for a “culture of corruption,” but it seems the shoe has shifted to the other foot. Two more examples came out this week.
First, it seems that Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Countrywide) has been a shrewd investor in Irish property. A vacation home that Dodd’s 2007 financial disclosure report valued at between $100,001 and $250,000 is now worth $660,000 according to his most recent disclosure filed last week. In 2002 the cottage was appraised at $190,000; however, Dodd has also renovated the cottage heavily during the last several years, making the accuracy of Dodd’s disclosures questionable at best.
Also interesting is the former owner who sold his two-thirds interest to Dodd in 2002. William Kessinger is an associate of Edward Downe Jr., who with Dodd’s assistance was pardoned by President Bill Clinton on his final day in office. Downe served as a witness to the legal documents for the property sale. All in all, it’s a nice quid pro quo.
The same can be said for insider trading information. Also coming to light last week were some timely stock transactions by another Democrat, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. On September 18, 2008, Durbin was briefed by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. The next day Durbin sold over $40,000 worth of mutual funds and bought a similar amount of stock in Berkshire Hathaway, a company controlled by billionaire Democrat contributor Warren Buffett. All told, by early October Durbin had dumped $116,000 of stock, investing over $98,000 of the proceeds into Berkshire Hathaway. While Buffett’s company hasn’t been immune from recent market trouble, it has not suffered as much as the rest of the market.
Naturally, the Leftmedia has shown no interest in these questions of impropriety. The letter “D” after one’s name shouldn’t serve as a free pass.
Going Swami on us…
June 20, 2009Is Gunny Bob at 850 KOA radio going swami on us, or might there be something to all this? The situation in Iran has been heating up for quite some time. This didn’t happen overnight and no President can be applauded or blamed for whatever does happen there after things follow the course.
However, as the Iranian’s like to point out on occasion. Who taught them how to fight? I happen to know that many Iranian’s attended several of the various schools and such here in America. Including different War Colleges, and the School of the America’s. One has to believe that many of those people are still alive and well in Iran. While it would be pure speculation on my part to think that those same people may be operating there it just might be the case. If so, will that be a valid criticism of the United States, as in international meddling yet again? Or might there be more to this than meets the eye? Did Gunny Bob get out a crystal ball? Read on…
GUNNY’S ANALYSIS OF THE IRAN RIOTS: THIS IS NO HOME-GROWN WANNABE REVOLUTION
Long ago, the Gunny was sent to a school that taught students how to overthrow foreign governments. Interesting instructors came from elsewhere to teach the course. In the course, students learned how to destablize a government using provocateurs and other assets to exploit certain domestic situations. Students also learned how the U.S. government has a long history of this sort of activity. And students learned how to recognize “funny business” when they saw it.
Now let’s look at Iran.
(1) Obama has stated that he can not allow the Iranians to have nukes.
(2) Obama knows the Jews will conduct a pre-emptive strike if they deem it necessary.
(3) Obama will not support the Jews if they make such a strike.
(4) Obama knows the Iranians are getting very close to a nuke.
(5) Obama knows the Jews know #4.
(6) Obama knows what will happen to him politically if he allows the Iranians to get nukes.
(7) Obama knows many American targets are well within range of many Iranian weapon systems.
Now, if you were Obama and your CIA told you that they can help arrange riots and massive civil unrest in Iran while allowing you to have culpable deniability that could be reinforced with clever public statements from you, and they said that with some luck the government could fall and thus possibly end the Iranians’ nuke program, would that not be an option you would seriously consider?
The Gunny was just thinking that the situation in Iran right now sure looks a lot like a scenario out of that school he went to long ago.
Judge in California tosses recruiter ban
June 20, 2009A lot has been going on as of late with regard to local control (or state for that matter) verses Federal. It appears that activist’s, admittedly such as myself, cherry pick the things that they approve of and ask for Federal control over this or that issue, or the other way around.
Perhaps it is my upbringing, or my inferior public education but I was raised to understand that there was indeed a hierarchy of law. That Federal Law superseded State law, which superseded county or local law, and so on.
Not so say many. It usually deals with a “blue law” such as hunting on Sunday’s or some other such thing. Lately gun control is the gorilla on this block, but there are other issues as well. This time, the Marine Corps and America won one.At least for now…
Three cheers for the good guys!
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge Thursday struck down two Northern California city ordinances banning military recruitment of minors, finding the laws violated the U.S. Constitution.
Voters in Arcata and Eureka passed identical Youth Protection Acts in November with 73 percent and 56 percent approval, respectively. They ordered military recruiters to refrain from contacting people younger than 18 or face a fine.
But the Justice Department promptly sued, arguing that they interfered with the government’s ability to raise an army and protect the country.
U.S. District Judge Saundra Armstrong in Oakland agreed Thursday with the federal government and invalidated the laws, saying they violated the clause of the Constitution that establishes the Constitution, federal statutes and treaties as the supreme law of the land.
Government attorneys argued in written statements that the law is clear: Recruitment for the military clearly falls under the purview of the federal government, which cannot be regulated by state and local governments.
A spokesman with the Department of Justice said the government is pleased with the judge’s decision.
Armstrong also tossed out a countersuit by Arcata and Eureka that claimed government employees violated the constitutional rights of some city residents.
Lawyers for the cities and advocates who worked to pass the ordinances said they expected the judge to rule against them, but wanted a chance to present their arguments in court.
The judge canceled the oral arguments that had been scheduled, and ruled instead based on written briefs.
“We’ve been ruled against, without our day in court and with no evidence that the judge heard or considered our arguments,” said David Meserve, a former Arcata City Council member and proponent of the ballot measure. “It leaves us with the impression that she never heard our case.”
Attorneys for the cities are reviewing the decision and deciding whether to appeal.
Meserve is also working with the city council, which is considering a measure that could achieve the same goal of restricting military access to minors while skirting the judge’s objections.
Iran… How times change
June 19, 2009I happen to be from that part of America that didn’t know about all the Tom Foolery that was engaged in by my nation and the Shaw of Iran. I am however very well aware of when our embassy was seized, and as the MSM at the time called it; “America held Hostage.”
I also remember the “Coward in Chiefs” utter failure as a leader in responding to the threat. I remember gross inflation, and the government telling us that unemployment was only six percent, when in fact it was a lot closer to twenty…
Now, an incident occurred in the Denver area. Some Iranian expatriates were assaulted, and treated pretty badly. One of the people that encouraged and approved of what had happened screamed about the “Damned Muslims…” Want to know the really sad part about this? They were Iranian refugees that were Christians that had escaped from Iran. From “Arab Muslim” persecution according to Rani. These were not illegal immigrants, not at all.
The United States of America is a nation built upon beliefs and people. The beliefs are the same, and the peoples are many. We come from Ireland, and Scotland, England and Africa, China and Viet Nam, and anywhere else you could choose to look.
Now, while even Pravda has pointed out where America is heading, the people of Iran are rising up.
How times change…
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