NSC Senior Director Samantha Power - "when we have a credible administration again"

NSC Senior Director Samantha Power - "when we have a credible administration again"

Long sentences warning

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Samantha Power for a discussion of her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello"

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2009/01/30_power.html
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/samantha-power

NSC senior director for multilateral affairs Samantha Power personifies the inspirational bankruptcy of the Obama administration and it's arrogance. Here she is inspired by fighting genocide - great. But does she has to mock Bush and his entire foreign policy as if his administration hindered the UN from fulfilling it's mission or did nothing to help prevent genocide? Meanwhile the Obama administration she is now an NSC director for has failed miserably with Russia in the Middle East (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024953.php) and in China (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/025004.php), created the largest monetary deficit in history http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/24/obama-shatters-spending-record-year-presidents/, proposed yet more public debt in ObamaCare, proposed a crippling Cap & Trade policy based on scam science (East Anglia emails http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/025011.php), continued Hank Paulson's, Chris Dodd's and Barney Frank's corporate takeovers and bailouts and Bernanke's Federal Reserve actions sure to anger the world community more than any action of Bush, employs an AG (Eric Holder) who refuses to prosecute Black Panther voter intimidation and gives the 9/11 mastermind a forum in our civil justice court from which to reveal CIA techniques and appeal to those who share their sick ideology all the while needlessly risking the loss of the case on technicality, employs a homeland security head (Janet Napolitano-
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024919.php) who, after the Fort Hood slaying of 14 by a radical Islamist, in the words of Mark Steyn, "professed to be most worried about an “anti-Muslim backlash” from the knuckledragging bozo citizenry she has the forlorn task of attempting to hold in check", and probably precipitated a collapse of the dollar at the end of 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7l9yDbDNXM


At 54 minutes ...

... 70k protesting Darfur - not one had ever met anybody from Darfur!
the extent of the moral imagination that has taken hold in the last 3 or 4 years (Harry Kreisler nodding head significantly) around the issue of genocide prevention is staggering and for me and someone who haswrote it/hoped it, I never dreamed it [would come true]. so i think thats something to point to not just because what it WILL mean to darfur when we have a credible administration again and once were responsibly out of iraq and you know if the day comes when we can rehabilitate our foreign policy, that's all important but I also think the movement is reflective of this yearning that Obama has also tapped in his campaign ; that the next president will have to make use of ;as we set about the business of getting our house in order ; there's something happening in the United States and with a little leadership I think it can be channeled in very constructive ways ; it's not without it's dangers ; messianism; and the perils of beleiving that your intentions are so good that you don't need accountability and so forth.
so one has to be very careful but it is a post 9-11 desire to be part of the solution and not merely the lament.

NASA to be sued

Sharmuta, Charles Johnson's online "snark assistant", lived in the metro during
the Bush years.
She helped maintain an online "corporate culture", if you will, at the comment
section of littlegreenfootballs.com which included the unwritten rule that some
topics like abortion should NOT be discussed. The premise that an online
"corporate culture" can be maintained by doing anything more than the major
metro paper's requests - no profanity, abuse, defamation etc, is ridiculous.
Banning topics and positions in the belief that they reflect ignorance or an ideology is a suspect approach to New Media. Below demonstrates why. Mistakes are easily made.
Charles Johnson is clearly wrong in his assumption,reflected in his sarcasm,
that the quote below reflects anti-science.
What it reflects is a belief that the left is consistently trying to supplant
the Christian political voting block with a secular left voting block based on
deceptions like a hijacked young Climatology field of science revealed in the
Climategate emails, and whatever other self serving "causes" they may find.
Charles Johnson and Sharmuta need to realize Climategate is not a right-wing
delusion but the unraveling of a billion dollar public policy scam which would
have damaged significantly public governance throughout the world.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35222_Drudge_and_the_Deniers

It’s not science, it’s the religion of the left… Science has never had one
thing to do with it. It is simply about destroying the very concept of God and
replacing it with MASSIVE government! All hail his royal F-CKTARD COWARD, Barack
Obama!

Where would people ever get the idea that the right wing is anti-science?

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/24/climate-gate-development-cei-f

For a government agency like NASA to be involved in a scam like Climategate would be significant and the taxpayers should know. All public policy affected by Climategate - including the proposed Cap & Trade, should be considered harmful to public governance and reviewed skeptically. The people pushing the harmful policy - James Hansen - should be shown the door especially if collusion with East Anglia University (the UEA) or Al Gore's carbon credit enterprise is demonstrated.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

Race injected into Mayoral campaign; Photo ID effort educates poplace

Race was injected into the 2009 St. Paul MN Mayoral contest by Steiner Liquor patron 11/3/09
"She's not going to make it. This is an Irish town. No Chinese will win." Disgusting.
This is the worse St. Paul has to offer to public discourse. Shameful.
We have much to teach.
Similarly, in the 2010 St. Paul Photo ID campaign recently on Victoria and Grand, a prospective petition signer stated "I'm a liberal Democrat and believe everyone should vote".
This belies a belief that preserving integrity in elections contradicts the freedom of everyone to vote. It is a very important principle which is preserved in the verbiage of our petition.
More info at http://www.mnvoters.org/PhotoID.htm

Elect Eva Ng Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota Tuesday November 3 2009

Vote for Eva Ng for Mayor of St. Paul November 3 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjkhStpI5s

Change is painful for the conservative democrat of St. Paul. It is painful for them to embrace Eva's disciplined limited government beliefs, an understanding of tax, the difference in governance and private household leadership, and fiscal responsibility. I have faith the residents of St. Paul will embrace Eva Ng as Mayor and her fresh jobs-encouraging ideas for St. Paul. It is what we need!

After you VOTE FOR EVA, Celebrate victory at Fabulous Ferns Tuesday November 3 at 7:30 PM.
The address is 400 Selby Ave 55102 in the west rear of the building by the parking lot.

Vote for Eva Ng for Mayor of St. Paul November 3 2009

http://www.evaformayor.com/

Search this site on "Eva" for more info.

For school board vote for:
John Krenik, Pat Igo, and Chris Conner

http://saintpaulschoolreform.com/
http://krenikforschoolboard.com/

These conservatives need our help! Please vote November 3.

Submit your address to see the sample ballot:
http://xnet.co.ramsey.mn.us/elections/precinct_finder

To volunteer as a poll judge look up your precinct and submit your name and intentions to your local MN GOP BPOU (Basic Political Organizational Unit) Chair:
http://pf.mngop.com/

If you are in downtown St. Paul 65B like me it is John Gilmore. Here is his blog!
http://conservativeminnesotans.blogspot.com/
You may also email me at Jamie.Delton@gmail.com

New York Democrats attack ACORN-supported Working Families Party with ballot fraud!

A disturbing yet funny Dog-Bites-Man story on MichelleMalkin.com -

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/20/tried-steal-election-ny-voter-fraud-case-heats/

Republican conservative Bob Mirch,
http://www.rensselaercounty.org/Biographies/Mirch%20Biography.htm
the majority leader of the Rensselaer County legislature, wants info on absentee ballots submitted fraudulently by Democrats who, through the fraud, gained advantage over ACORN-based Working Family Party candidates up until some fraudulent ballots were thrown out.

"Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out -- enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats."

Hilariously, the WFP party officials refuse comment. I'll bet the WFP candidates get a big warm fuzzy from the party's response - NOT! It almost sounds like the WFP is the accused.

"We welcome the investigation," says former Working Families Party County Chair Pat Pafundi. WFP officials would either not return our calls or comment about the investigation, but Pafundi, a current party member, was clear. While she believes the political tactics engaged by Mirch to run candidates on the WFP line undermine the party, she admits "it looks like there has been some kind of fraud" regarding the questionable absentee ballots.
"For six years, we've gone door to door to work hard to do this the right way," she told Fox News. "Good government includes elections held with integrity and that is the way we have conducted ourselves and we hope the Democrats and Republicans would do the same also."

Big Government Republican Dede Scozzafava, supported by Newt Gingrich, sought successfully the support of the ACORN-supported WFP.
http://biggovernment.com/tag/dede-scozzafava/

McCain versus The Internet Pioneers

http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20091023/fcc-approves-net-neutrality-rule-making-republicans-not-convinced-id-1088384.html

Senator John McCain, Republican from Arizona, introduced a bill yesterday to block Genachowski’s proposal. McCain branded the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules a "government takeover" of the Internet that will depress an "already anemic" job market in the United States

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000625.html

We believe that the existing Internet access landscape in the U.S. provides inadequate choices to discipline the market through facilities-based competition alone. Your network neutrality proposals will help protect U.S. Internet users' choices for and freedom to access all available Internet services, worldwide, while still providing for responsible network operation and management practices, including appropriate privacy-preserving protections against denial of service and other attacks.

We believe that the vast numbers of innovative Internet applications over the last decade are a direct consequence of an open and freely accessible Internet. Many now-successful companies have deployed their services on the Internet without the need to negotiate special arrangements with Internet Service Providers, and it's crucial that future innovators have the same opportunity. We are advocates for "permissionless innovation" that does not impede entrepreneurial enterprise.

Net neutrality is the concept the an internet or internet2 access provider is neutral and provides a consistent product across all users on which innovators can rely and develop services. The concept is limited to technical engineering and some terms are misuses like "freedom". However, caution is in order since even the Net Neutrality people might screw up and try to give control of the internet to a foreign entity, or over-regulate beyond what is sufficient for innovative application development.

Not Evil Just Wrong Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMOEVRysWE

Not Evil Just Wrong
3rd floor Solera 900 Hennepin Ave Mpls MN Oct 18 2009
The section of Not Evil but Wrong minimizing the legitimate Mad Cow disease crisis that killed 200 people and lumping it with Rachel Carson's 1960's mistaken evaluation of DDT as harmful (it is not harmful in the modest agricultural doses necessary to fight malaria - in fact it saves lives) and her mistaken claim DDT was not ever used in the US (it was in the 40's and 50's) is my only criticism of the movie.
The rest of the movie was very good, providing info on Canadian mathematician Steve Mcintyre in his fight against Michael Mann's deceptive or flawed hockey stick chart and James Hansen's minimization of the flawed or deceptive data presentation. Another flaw revealed was the identification of the hottest year on record which Al Gore and others used in congressional testimony and elsewhere to argue that warming is recent when in fact the hottest year was was 1934.
The movie centered on the quest to receive a response from Al Gore from a young Kentucky couple dependent on a coal burning factory job who oppose coal being shipped out of the US (exported) and foreign oil being shipped in (imported).

Al Gore looks like a selfish cynical hypocritical globalist exploiting a) a young climatology profession, b) an apparent need among Democrats for some kind of catholic (meaning universal or commonly understood) political rhetoric, and c) childrens' love of polar bears, which, we are told by Al Gore's disciples, are being killed by Global Warming. The movie shows a polar ice cap expanding, contrary to the global warming contentions.
Al Gore presented a case before Judge Burton in Britain in 2007 where he sought to distribute his work among schools. The judge said his work was flawed and not true and that several corrective points had to be disclosed to every student who viewed the film.

Patrick Moore, former Greenpeace founder, is in the movie saying the Greenpeace agenda is now "anti-human".

The earth is cooling, not warming. Warming would not be a bad thing and will probably occur as part of a cycle yet to be identified more clearly. Man-made carbon dioxide is not dangerous to the life cycle (oxygen emitting plants thrive in CO2) and may not account for climate warming. Carcinogens and other pollutants formerly emitted are no longer emitted by US coal burning plants complying with modern standards - just look at the color of the smoke from the smoke stacks.

Al Gore stands to profit from carbon-credit trade created by Democrat congress's Cap & Trade legislation at the exclusive expense of US power plants and US citizens who use US power. His European based operations are not accountable to the US SEC which would probably prosecute him for a fraudulent prospectus according to Lord Monckton in a separate appearance on the Chris Baker show last week.

Cap & Trade will destroy the US economy.

Net Neutrality; Eva Ng; ACORN/ Mark Ritchie; Obama's growing threat to our freedoms

Net neutrality is NOT a Democrat issue - opponents such as former eBay head Meg Whitman among many others are Republicans.
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2009/10/future-of-music-sen-al-franken-weighs-on-net-neutrality.html

Franken joked that he isn’t really qualified to determine what the best way would be to distinguish what constitutes digital infringement, in an era when file-sharers have been assessed millions of dollars in fines in court cases.
It’s troubling that Franken didn’t really take a stand on the issue ...

http://franken.senate.gov/press/?page=news_single&news_item=Remarks_on_Net_Neutrality

So rest assured, even though Sen. Stevens is no longer here to lend us his “tube” expertise, I will be standing ready to work with knowledgeable leaders in Congress -- Sen. Dorgan, Sen. Snowe, Congressman Markey, and Congresswoman Eshoo -- to make sure we get it right.
For the first time, it looks like we might actually do this. The FCC is on board, and so are critical leaders in Congress.

Further stronger evidence ACORN sought to influence Ohio race in 2008 down to local state house level.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2009/10/acorn_had_plan_that_critics_sa.html

local ACORN-installed Mark Ritchie's peace coffee, run by an ACORN-style quasi non-profit company whose product was sold in the Unitarian Church I attended:
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/225

Paul on Limbaugh:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024722.php
The problem with Paul's strategy of conservative boycotts and market activism is it doesn't acknowledge, in the marketplace of ideas and to an extent, in actual markets, the Democrats' weakness for self-serving, anti-marketplace, communist rhetoric such as that inspired by Soros, Moore, Letterman, some Democrat politicians and others.
These people will gladly subvert any market or government if they are persuaded to do so by the enemies or competitors of that market or government, or by narrow self-interest. The appeal to maintain the market or government itself out of honor and pride is lost to some.

Limbaugh slandered
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024707.php

Moderate liberal Juan Williams offended by those backing an anti-Rush effort to oust Rush from an investment group:
http://www.looktruenorth.com/culture/media/10011-making-up-the-news.html

ACORN probe!
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2009/10/senate_gop_want.shtml

More on ACORN:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/09/28/did-acorn-elect-al-franken.aspx

Very likely, alleged ACORN scam:
http://wrightrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/09/acorn-allegations-multiply.html

How can you advise people to save when the value of the dollar is falling at 10% / 3 months?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/dollar_loses_reserve_status_to_yen_hFyfwvpBW1YYLykSJwTTEL;jsessionid=65E301CF47ED50D15170F8D6530791C5

Hardy Boys unwholesome?
http://books.google.com/books?id=30UEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA47&dq=%22hardy%20boys%22&as_pt=MAGAZINES&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q=%22hardy%20boys%22&f=false

poorly written, untrue to life, sensational, foolishly sentimental and consequently
unwholesome for the children in your community.
And your point is?

Inflation induced by over-regulatory government policy that abuses tax
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bigtvs14-2009oct14,0,4908205.story

Gore engineers Google searches
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/15/al-gore-advised-google-about-its-search-quality

National debt breakdowns
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024701.php

lists of blogs
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/10/12/100-best-professors-who-blog/

Neat rc video
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51c_1255307475

hilarious cnn hoax vid
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=022_1255305893

Have the democrats no shame? Hit piece on St. Paul school board candidate: http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/63975677.html
I left comment 29:

How many Winston Tuckers are being protected with taxpayer money by the district?

I'm shocked.
The district chose to protect Winston Tucker from public scrutiny and paid off Krenik to not fulfill his reporting duty as union steward.
How many other allegedly abusive employees, such as Mr. Tucker, are the district protecting at the expense of the taxpayer?
Ms. Johns should disclose the means by which this mutual non-disclosure contract was broken.
She is as guilty as the source who gave her the info.
John Krenik has nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of.
John Krenik is a better person than the 3 Democrat school board members running against Krenik for the privilege of sitting on St. Paul's school board. At the very least, John Brodrick, Tom Goldstein and Elona Street-Stewart should condemn the article and make clear they were not involved in this attack on Krenik or the disclosure of district information. There should be an investigation into who disclosed district info to the StarTribune and the district's categorization of the payment to Krenik. Where is this type of payment in the school budget?
Is it routine practice in the school district to protect allegedly abusive employees, such as Mr. Tucker, in this manner?
Is it routine to then violate the terms of non-disclosure agreements designed to protect employees like Mr. Tucker, by leaking the files of employees who oppose him in the election season?

Eva Ng and Chris Coleman invited Thurs Sept 10 to debate with moderator Alan Miller - but wait! - where's Chris Coleman?

Eva Ng , candidate for St. Paul Mayor on September 15, gave an extensive interview to Alan Miller of Burnsville/Eagan Community Television.
Chris Coleman was a no-show at a debate to be moderated by Alan Miller at Heimie's Haberdashery on 400 St. Peter in downtown St. Paul (zip code 55102) September 10 2009.

Alan Miller is probably the most informed liberal one-on-one interviewer in the Metro.
See from the pictures how Eva handled the awkward situation presented by Coleman not being present to debate.
Here is Alan's website:
www.AccessToDemocracy.com

They talked about the city budget, the city code, how to REALLY do more with less, and other things.

Vote for Eva Ng for St. Paul Mayor Tuesday September 15!

http://mn-stpaul.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=2756

http://www.municode.com/Resources/gateway.asp?pid=10061&sid=23

St. Paul Codifies non-cooperation with Federal Immigration enforcement yet decries citizen Healthcare objections

St. Paul's liberal mayoral administration codifies non-cooperation with Federal Immigration enforcement as it's Democrat allies decry citizen federal healthcare objections.

What are they thinking?
Cooperation with existing law is penalized!!

http://www.municode.com/Resources/gateway.asp?pid=10061&sid=23

http://www.bordc.org/detail.php?id=528

http://www.legal-ledger.com/notices/index.cfm?fuseaction=html&id=127

http://www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/LocalLaw/locallaw-limiting-tbl-2008-12-03.pdf


Title III OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Chapter 21. Officers' Qualifications
Chapter 22. Surety Bonds
Chapter 23. Collective Bargaining Process
Chapter 24. Code of Ethics
Chapter 25. Reserved
Chapter 26. Mandatory Retirement--Uniformed Division of Fire Department
Chapter 27. City Residency for City Employees
Chapters 28--30. Reserved
Chapter 31. Workers' Compensation--Officers
Chapter 32. Salaries--Elected Officials
Chapter 33. Reimbursement for Car Expense
Chapter 33A. Parking Reimbursement for City Employees
Chapter 34. Clothing Allowance--Bureau of Fire Protection
Chapter 35. Uniform Allowance--Police
Chapter 36. Clothing Allowance--Plainclothes Officers
Chapter 37. Uniform Allowance--Police Radio Maintenance Unit
Chapter 38. Severance Pay
Chapter 39. Payroll Deductions for Nonprofit Entities
Chapter 40. Relocation Reimbursement for City Employees
Chapter 41. Solicitation by Employees
Chapter 42. Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter 43. Oaths for Officials and/or Persons Holding City Offices and Positions
Chapter 44. Employee Authority in Immigration Matters
Chapter 45. City Lobbyists and Legislative Agendas
Chapters 46--50. Reserved



Chapter 44. Employee Authority in Immigration Matters

Sec. 44.01. Purpose and policy statement.
This chapter clarifies the communication and enforcement relationship between the city and the United States Department of Homeland Security ("homeland security") and other federal agencies with respect to the enforcement of civil immigration laws. The city works cooperatively with homeland security, as it does with all state and federal agencies, but the city does not operate its programs for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws. Homeland security has the legal authority to enforce immigration laws in the United States, in Minnesota and in the city. It is the policy of the city to respect the role of homeland security by avoiding pro-active enforcement of civil immigration laws. This chapter is not intended to limit the proper enforcement of generally applicable laws. It is the policy of the city that all residents are equally entitled to protection and that all residents should be able to access city services to which they are entitled, without regard to their immigration status under federal law.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.02. General city services.
(a) To the extent permitted by law, in determining eligibility for, and providing general city services, city employees shall be governed by the following requirements:
(1) City employees are to carry out their regular duties for the purpose of administering general city services and program. Employees may complete I-9 forms, may question a person regarding the I-9 form and documents supporting the I-9 form, and may allow homeland security to audit the I-9 forms as allowed by law. With the exception of inquiries allowed by law or as necessary for law enforcement purposes, no St. Paul city officer or employee should inquire into the immigration status of any person or request any documents or information verifying the immigration status of any individual. Employees shall comply with any properly issued subpoena for the production of documents or witnesses, even if related to immigration issues or issues of homeland security.
(2) City employees shall follow general city, state and federal guidelines to assess eligibility for services. City employees shall only solicit immigration information or inquire about immigration status when specifically required to do so by law or program guidelines as a condition of eligibility for the service sought. City employees may require evidence of a person's identity and may ask to see a person's personal identifying documents only when specifically authorized and required to do so by the employee's work duties. Information about immigration status in the possession of or known to city employees and representatives, however received, shall not be maintained or recorded except as otherwise specifically required by law. The confidentiality of such information shall be maintained to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the United
States and the state, including the obligation to maintain the confidentiality of personal information under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. City employees shall not discriminate against any current or potential service users on the basis of any of the protected categories listed in the city's human rights ordinance, Legislative Code Chapter 183.02(5), or on the basis of immigration status.
(3) Other than complying with lawful subpoenas, city employees and representatives shall not use city resources or personnel solely for the purpose of detecting or apprehending persons whose only violation of law is or may be being undocumented, being out of status, or illegally
residing in the United States (collectively "undocumented").
(4) Where presentation of a state driver's license is customarily accepted as adequate evidence of identity, presentation of a photo identity document issued by the person's nation of origin, such as a driver's license, passport, or matricula consular (consulate-issued document), or of a
photo identity document issued by any Minnesota county, shall not subject the person to an inquiry into the person's immigration status. This paragraph does not apply to I-9 forms.
(b) General city services defined. General city services shall mean all city services excepting those services specifically listed as public safety services in section 44.03
(c) Supervisors of general city services employees shall include information regarding the city's policy and expectations as set forth in this chapter in the orientation of new employees and as part of their employees' on-going in-service training.
(d) City attorney's office. Civil division employees may investigate and inquire about immigration status when relevant to potential or actual litigation or an administrative proceeding.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.03. Public safety services.
(a) To the extent permitted by law, in providing public safety services, employees of the police and fire departments, and the city attorney's office - criminal division, (collectively, public safety officials), shall be governed by the following requirements:
(1) Public safety officials may not undertake any law enforcement action for the sole purpose of detecting the presence of undocumented persons, or to verify immigration status, including but not limited to questioning any person or persons about their immigration status.
(2) City attorney's office - criminal division employees shall be permitted to:
a. Inform persons of the possible immigration consequences of a guilty plea.
b. Question and conduct cross-examination of a witness or defendant regarding immigration status.
c. Inquire about immigration status for purposes of bail or conditional release.
d. Investigate and inquire about immigration status when relevant to the potential or actual prosecution of the case or when immigration status is an element of the crime.
e. Take immigration status and collateral effects of possible deportation into consideration during discussions held for the purpose of case resolution.
(3) Public safety officials may not question, arrest or detain any person for violations of federal civil immigration laws except when immigration status is an element of the crime or when enforcing 8 U.S.C. 1324(c).
(4) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit public safety personnel from assisting federal law enforcement officers in the investigation of criminal activity involving individuals present in the United States who may also be in violation of federal civil immigration laws.
(5) Nothing in this chapter prohibits public safety personnel from adequately identifying criminal suspects or assessing the risk of flight of criminal suspects.
(6) Where presentation of a state driver's license is customarily accepted as adequate evidence of identity, presentation of a photo identity document issued by the person's nation of origin, such as a driver's license, passport, or matricula consular (consulate-issued document), or of a
photo identity document issued by any Minnesota county, shall not subject the person to an inquiry into the person's immigration status.
(b) All such use of city public safety personnel under 44.03(a)(3) and (a)(4) shall be documented, including any applicable homeland security mission statement and operational guidelines, the reason for the dispatch of personnel, the name of the homeland security agent in charge, and the
name of the officer authorizing the use of city personnel.
(c) Supervisors of public safety officials shall include information regarding the city's policy and expectations as set forth in this chapter, in the orientation of new employees and as part of their employees' on-going in-service training.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.04. Complaints and discipline.
(a) An employee of the city who violates this chapter may be subject to disciplinary action, such as oral reprimands, written reprimands, suspension without pay, and discharge, under the appropriate union contract, civil service commission rules, or department work rules.
(b) Complaints of a violation by an employee of the city police department shall be received and investigated by the police internal integrity assurance unit and forwarded to the police civilian review commission. Complaints of a violation of this chapter by an employee of any other city department shall be received and investigated by the director of the office of human resources. The results of any such investigation shall be provided to the complainant in writing within ninety (90) days of receipt of the complaint. Complainants and witnesses shall not be asked to
provide their immigration status at any point during the complaint process, and no investigation of the immigration status of the complainant and witnesses shall be made by any city personnel in the investigation of such a complaint or thereafter.
(c) It shall not be a violation of this chapter to require the completion of I-9 forms .
(d) The city office of human resources, in consultation with the police civilian internal affairs review commission and affected communities, shall prepare and file in April of each year with the city council and the mayor an annual report and recommendations regarding the implementation
of this chapter.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.05. Subpoena.
Nothing in this chapter prohibits city employees from responding to a properly issued subpoena.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.06. No intent to create private cause of action.
Nothing in this chapter is intended to create a private cause of action for violations of this chapter.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

Sec. 44.07. Severability.
If a section of this chapter is found to be invalid for any reason, the remaining sections of the chapter shall continue in full force and effect.
(C.F. No. 04-316, § 1, 5-5-04)

http://www.dhs.gov/files/immigration.shtm

Obama Lies; Access Dies

Obama Lies; Access Dies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZDhkoZ1Ug

Obama said no illegals will drawn bennies but Congress voted in JULY down PARTY LINES not to verify recipient status.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_illegals_healthcare/2009/07/19/237484.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/09/politics/main5299229_page2.shtml

There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.

short version
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/CartoonPopUp.aspx?id=333232530356809

http://www.freedomdogs.com/news-archive-mainmenu-2/1-latest/4048-big-government-bravado.html

Kevin
http://www.eckernet.com/2009/09/rebutting_obamas_fairytale_speech.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_fact_check
OBAMA: "There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage."
THE FACTS: Obama time and again has referred to the number of uninsured as 46 million, a figure based on year-old Census data. The new number is based on an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, which concluded that about two-thirds of Americans without insurance are poor or near poor. "These individuals are less likely to be offered employer-sponsored coverage or to be able to afford to purchase their own coverage," the report said. By using the new figure, Obama avoids criticism that he is including individuals, particularly healthy young people, who choose not to obtain health insurance.

http://www.youtube.com/members?s=mv&t=m&g=0&c=25

"We know these things to be true"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIthDjT7L8s

unbelievable.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/09/politics/main5299229.shtml

But know this: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than to improve it. (Applause.) I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what's in this plan, we will call you out.
(Applause.) And I will not -- and I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.
In it, he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife, Vicki, his amazing children, who are all here tonight. And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform -- "that great unfinished business of our society," he called it -- would finally pass. He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that "it concerns more than material things." "What we face," he wrote, "is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country."

I've thought about that phrase quite a bit in recent days -- the character of our country. One of the unique and wonderful things about America has always been our self-reliance, our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government. And figuring out the appropriate size and role of government has always been a source of rigorous and, yes, sometimes angry debate. That's our history.

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky - Notes

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky - Notes

http://vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html

According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility.

Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”

The problem is trust IS whether you engage in these tactics or not.

Rules for Radicals

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

2 and 3 are self-defeating to the party (you or the opponent) that has a limited experience.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Not if everyone is aware of your tactic.

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Don't be infuriated.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

"threat more terrifying ..." - Responsibility for the action lies with ghetto group not whoever the ghetto group chose to be their "target" to be "frozen". This is extortion - a shake-down of the tax-payers.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

In other words, penalize anyone in government willing to help you. Penalize and attack those who seem most responsible.

3 politicians, Obama, Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd, Clinton, and a non profit executive, Gary Delgado, internalized and drew inspiration from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

Perhaps they (like Obama's employer Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC), a group that aimed to convert the black churches of Chicago's South Side into agents of social change) also sought to legitimize and establish in the culture a moral premise and justification for churches to allow politics, and support and manage government dependence.

To do this they needed to remove the stigma of federal dependence (an ACORN goal), and foster church-state cooperation.

Missing from the Alinsky method (Clinton's term) is any guidance on being a government official with custodial responsibility for programs created by the Left. This confuses officials elected by the Right.
Part of the governance philosophy of some people is to leave the advocacy for new programs and program expansion to outsider community organized groups trained in the Alinsky method. All concepts of responsibility by goverment officials in charge of social welfare programs are ignored. In the Alinsky method as it has been adapted by some, the only role of an official in charge of a government program is to create justification for increased budgets.

For example perhaps Rule 11 is meant to be guidance on what a government official should do when an assault (such as an extortion attempt or shake-down - the din and threat of Rule 1 and 9) on tax-payers occurs. In other words we should use Rule 11 against those who would use Rules 1 and 9 against the government.

Caremark precedence should be applied to government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caremark_court_decision

The questions below are never asked.

Is there sometimes extortion against the tax-payers? Yes.
Are there sometimes shake-downs of the tax-payer? Yes.
If you are the government official confronted with such an assault on the tax-payer, what is the best thing to do? Refer to rule 11?
What if the assailant of government tax-payers is supported by a church?
Until the 60's, did social stigma alone defend the interests of government tax-payers? Apparently.
What is an election mandate (not insurance mandating you buy un-needed coverage)?
Can leaning on institutions damage them? Yes.
Should the personal prosperity of a government official reflect excessive leaning on the government he is entrusted with? No. The success of a government official should reflect bravery in defending the interests of government tax-payers and competence in sustaining government with as little confiscatory tax as possible.
Does federal largess discourage competitive excellence? Yes.
Do we disrespect institutions by driving up costs with pandering promises, deceptive math-oriented justifications for budget increases, or setting to budgets artificially high cost-of-living or inflation increases? Yes.
Which programs are important and which are not needed or unconstitutional?
How can we sustain important social program and best meet the interests of tax-payers?
Should we audit non-profit recipients of federal and state money more? Yes.

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/10/hillary-clinton.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_alinskys_rule.html

Daughter-in-law to Saul Alinsky thinks the Left's Alinsky-tactic accusation against the Right is real. She thinks the Right would ever adapt her father-in-law's amoral tactics and assumptions voluntarily.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23alinsky.html

Joanne Linowes Alinsky
Medfield, Mass., Aug. 26, 2009