Political Class Dismissed

Obama Should be Impeached Over Syria

Posted by James Ostrowski on June 17, 2013 07:32 PM

In a just world or a world in which a single member of Congress had any guts, Obama would be impeached and removed over his illegal war against Syria. With no declaration of war or connection to 9/11, this is an illegal and thus criminal war. Also, the expenditure of funds on the war are also illegal and criminal. Starting a war invites retaliation as George Washington taught us. Any Americans killed in retaliation for the illegal war are Obama’s responsibility.

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Since I am a tax and inflation slave, and I’m working the “day” job tonight, this post will be short.

Suffice it to say that when Carl Paladino appeared to join forces with the tea party movement in 2009-10, we were all thrilled and I welcomed him with open arms. Just a few months later, when he had eased various tea party folks, including me, out of his circle, I realized we had made a mistake.

Carl has done many good things for Buffalo, especially ridding us of the tolls on the 190, but he is not a libertarian and, as a former Democrat, has not left behind his progressive roots sufficiently to lead us to where we need to go–in the direction of radical change. I like Carl personally but personal charisma does not qualify one to lead a movement against the political class when he himself has been allied with the political class for many years and still is.

Carl inexplicably sided with the GOP machine against the tea party movement over the DiPietro-Domagalski race in 2010, causing a spit in the movement from which the movement never recovered.

Now, he is devoting his main political energies to making the progressive liberal government school system in Buffalo work better. On the contrary, government schools are what killed off the old America that was still viable in my youth but is now on life support.

I can never understand why conservatives want to rescue failed liberal programs instead of abolishing them.

If there is to be revival of the spirit of the tax revolt, it cannot be under Carl’s leadership or that of any of his lackeys.

The Muhammad Ali Of Golf

Of course there will never be another Ali in any sport. After Ali retired the mold was tossed away. I have seen many impersonators in my many years watching amateur and professional sports and unlike Ali, very few delivered on their guarantees. In America’s greatest golf tournament, a terrific drama has been set for the weekend. Can Tiger overcome his errant tee shots and injured elbow? Will Phil Mickelson’s exciting gambling tactics prevail or will the course known as Merion beat them all?

Out of the ashes has risen a budding star who may well overcome all of the obstacles before him. The brash and bold Billy Horschel is one to watch. He may not win this US Open, but his personality is second to none and his talent will win him many majors. At one point yesterday, he said: “I’m gonna make so many birdies, they’ll have to cover me”. Horschel proceeded to hit every green in regulation, a feat not accomplished in twenty years in this tournament. I’ll be watching this weekend to see all of the great potential drama, Horschel’s talent and perhaps more so hoping for another priceless Horschel one liner.

You already know that if you read this blog.

But, I have been seeing a well-known so-called tax revolt, tea party activist around county hall recently. The right hand man to one of the key people in the movement. He and his boss later sold out to the machine. What was the payoff? Well, the hacks don’t let me into their slimy deal rooms.

But now the guy has a cushy patronage job via the GOP machine. Draw your own conclusion.

The good news is both men are out of the movement (such as it is).

Good riddance hacks!

When you find out that virtually the entire government has been illegally spying on every American, what do you do?

The Liberty Movement is notoriously bad at strategy and tactics. So far, the response has been to condemn the practice in speeches and call for new legislation, possibly lawsuits. Since judges approved the spying, lawsuits will likely fail.

There has been surprisingly little talk of impeachment, the means the Founders provided to deal with just such abuses of power. The Congress can impeach anyone in the line of authority who knew about the spying. They would never impeach Obama obviously and Congress has rarely if ever impeached executive branch appointees. However, Congress can and has impeached judges.

It’s a principle of strategy to attack the opponent at its weakest point. In this case, that’s the judge who signed the order, Judge Roger Vinson.

Liberty Movement activists should advocate that the House commence impeachment proceedings. All the conventional means of getting this message out should be explored.

It’s beside the point that this will be difficult. Aside from open rebellion, this is the best pressure point to push at this particular moment.

(As I have said before in Direct Citizen Action, if there was a revolution at this time, most Americans, having been brainwashed in government schools, or currently living off government money, would support the Redcoats.)

The tax revolt has been largely inactive since the end of the Ron Paul campaign and illegal dismissal of the Pork Lawsuit.

Is it time to reactivate or are people just burned out beyond repair?

I know it can be depressing now that the Buffalo disease has gone national (as I warned in Political Class Dismissed).

Let me know, either here or via email to jameso@apollo3.com.

It would have to be a new, lean, mean vision and of course, without the hacks and compulsive office-seekers who helped destroy the movement a few years back.

Also, I believe in meeting at a private, profit-seeking establishment that serves food and adult beverages (not in a GOVERNMENT building as some alleged tax groups do). People are busy as tax and inflation slaves and may not have had time to eat before a meeting.

If anyone knows of a good place, let me know.

Cuomo’s latest scheme to make New York State appear to be business friendly is an act of desperation and insanity.

Dubbed “Tax-Free NY,” the plan would allow new businesses that locate on or around SUNY campuses to operate without paying income, sales, property or business taxes….Employees for businesses that open in the no-tax zones would also be exempt from income taxes.

This absurd effort will put a further strain on businesses already operating in the state by putting them at a competitive disadvantage, possibly driving them into the ground or another state.  The tax base will further erode and the burden will shift to the dwindling numbers, people and businesses, that are left.

Are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton involved, on top of it, leaders? If you ask their fans they would unanimously say, yes. Let’s face it, when “their” leadership succeeds as in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden they tape and advertise it with a bullhorn and then shove it down our throats, but when it fails as in Benghazi, the tape which surely exists, is suddenly missing and likely destroyed. Of the many scandals of the day of the Obama administration, it is Benghazi that stands out.  Furthermore it is Benghazi that actually predicts and makes the other scandals quite understandable.

Though Benghazi is still an open investigation, the  following, which the progressive left either doesn’t get or hopes the sheeple will not get, is crystal clear. The purpose for the organized lying campaign perpetrated by the Obama administration, post Benghazi, was to insure their re-election, using your tax dollars to execute the propaganda so that they could continue to steal your tax dollars and forward them to who they think deserves them. Once this worked by getting Obama re-elected it was only natural that the IRS was essential to the back end of the scheme to get you to be their willing dupes. Go to work and unwillingly give your taxes to your opponent to allow them to further abuse you. This is of course the antithesis of freedom, at least real freedom. Can there be any better reason to finally abolish this evil organization? The Obama administration has dozens of political agendas ready at your expense, but Benghazi is the master metaphor. Your government actively and aggressively pursued the ouster of Gaddafi, yet was unable to see that Al Qaeda was the beneficiary of their intrusion. If this fact got out, you would realize that the capture of bin Laden and therefore the destruction of Al Qaeda was a fraud  and their reign would end and thus their potential total control over your lives would also end. This is the problem with lying in general. Individuals lie to one another simply to facilitate stealing something from them, usually money.  If this fraud is allowed to continue, they will take your very soul and thus your freedom. The IRS is the ultimate sword of the Obama administration, cleverly used to force you to comply against your will. Obey them and it if you so choose.

The “Reverend Wright” was never so right about his famous quote. He was just five years too early. It is hardly shocking that when you anoint an ordinary, profusely overrated human being with a lofty status of unheard of proportions, that that teleprompter addicted goofball will attempt to expand his “brilliance” through an unprecedented series of unheard of abuses of power. This week we  have four scandals brewing that now officially make “Tricky Dick” look like an altar boy. Even that politically biased loudmouth Carl Bernstein is crying enough already. Carl Bernstein railing against Barry Soetoro? I never thought I’d see the day.

Just a couple of days ago I suggested that Obama and Hillary may have intentionally withheld aid to Ambassador Stevens in a lame attempt to get rid of an embarrassing and budding political problem whereby both were running arms from Libya to Syria, thus giving aid to Al Qaeda. I would have never imagined that in two days this now clearly mild reach has been thoroughly upstaged by three other scandals. Yes, that’s right, it is now a total of four terrible events in less than a week. We have Benghazi revived, setting the IRS upon political rivals, tapping the phones of reporters at the AP – more than 100 reporters – and my personal favorite that truly reveals the president’s real nature – His photo appearing next to “Dr. Kermit Gosnell” in nearly every front page article in the nation, on this convicted abortion murderer. It was the president’s “fine” work on fetal survival rights while an Illinois senator that paved the way for the behavior of “Dr. Gosnell”.

We are clearly a nation in decline. What matters most to most – the economy – is in such bad shape due to the president and his dupe Bernanke’s policy of quantitative easing, that we are on the verge of losing the dollar as the world’s currency reserve. If this happens and it may soon, we will remember these truly sad days as “the good old days”.  The phony pied pier has finally been exposed. Perhaps we still have time to repair the damage.

Last week a hearing has finally begun on what really happened at the Benghazi debacle.  Normally I would predict that the left ridden press and Democratic opposition would quickly brush away this inquiry, but this time the issues and evidence are far more troubling and voluminous. Almost simultaneously, United Nations lead investigator, Carla del Ponte on May 6th, 2013 declared that Syrian rebel forces, not Syrian government forces as proclaimed in US government propaganda circles, have used the deadly chemical weapon, sarin gas, in the battlefield.  How did Al Qaeda backed Syrian rebels suddenly get their hands on chemical weapons?  It is true that the Syrian government does possess chemical weapons, but it is generally accepted that this cache is heavily guarded. There is one other place in the region well known to harbor chemical weapons – Libya and the late Muammar Gaddafi. Inspectors have stated that these weapons that Gaddafi possessed were intact after the uprising that led to his downfall. Who was in control of these chemical weapons in Libya? It is undeniable that Ambassador Stevens, at the direction of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was  running arms through Libya to the rebels in Syria based on several articles including the New York Times. It is beyond any reasonable doubt, as proven in this instance, that elements controlled by Al Qaeda will promptly use the most deadly weapons available to them. Al Qaeda then in possession of nuclear weapons is a truly sobering thought. The fact that sarin gas was recently used in Syria by Al Qaeda is a deadly serious issue. Knowing the willingness of Al Qaeda to act quickly when given the right materials, calls into question the timeline of the death of Ambassador Stevens and the use of sarin gas in the battlefield only a few months later. Did Mr. Stevens possess or know where this sarin gas was being kept? The now well known arms running to Syria from Libya was beginning to be a political albatross for the president and his administration. In addition, the fact that the myth of the “Arab Spring” was clearly being co-opted by Al Qaeda was becoming apparent even to regular Americans. The bottom line is that shortly after the murder of Mr. Stevens, Al Qaeda is using chemical weapons in Syria, despite US government claims to the contrary.

I must credit Michael Savage and Maria Grever for the above title, but this title also relates to my earlier piece on the real background of Hillary Clinton.  Though the president has no trouble claiming credit for the apprehension of the “King of Al Qaeda’, Osama bin Laden and has executed many Al Qaeda operatives throughout the Middle East using drones, why did he give the order to stand down when a request was made by Mr. Stevens for help as Al Qaeda was attacking the diplomatic facility in Benghazi?  The evidence is clear that  Ambassador Stevens was killed and then shortly thereafter Al Qaeda used sarin gas in Syria.  It is a national security issue to get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen. Was the gun running using Mr. Stevens becoming a major liability? Was this the reason he was not given military help? In getting rid of  the evidence of their link to arms running from Libya to Syria, did Clinton and Obama unleash a pending chemical weapons war throughout the region? The question of whether this clear breach was a result of  incompetence or intentional evil overreaching  must be gotten to the bottom of.  Jerry Zeifman would likely conclude, it’s about time.

A few years ago, I handed Carl Paladino a copy of my book, Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids. I guess he didn’t read it since he launched a huge effort to take over the school board this year by running and sponsoring candidates.

Government schools are the primordial progressive institution, inspired by proto-progressive ideas even before there was a formal progressive movement.

I am always amazed at how hard conservatives like Carl work to make failed progressive programs like the schools work. They hate socialized medicine and want it abolished but they send their kids to socialized schools and complain when they don’t work. Duh!

I will explore the reasons if my new book on the subject ever gets written. Alas, there is little leisure time anymore in Obamerica.

Briefly, conservatism isn’t an independent coherent ideology like libertarianism. Rather, it’s a reaction to progressivism. Since this has been a progressive country for 100 years, most conservatives have subliminally absorbed many progressive ideas or instincts.

Thus, the notion that we can fix the evil institution of the daytime juvenile detention center run by liberal Democrat union members.

Good luck with that Carl.

Remember what old Ayn said, “A is A.”

Government schools suck big-time, always have and always will.

Forcing culture change

I didn’t write the opening phrase, it is taken from an article that appeared in the Buffalo News. The article outlines the heavy subsidization occurring to re-engineer life in Buffalo.

It is based on the heavily subsidized medical corridor, the heavily subsidized public transportation system and housing developments that no doubt benefit from subsidy/tax breaks.

Of course people will move there. Taxpayers will be subsidizing their housing, jobs and transportation. If people really wanted to live like this, taxpayer money would not need to be dangled like a carrot.

In my opinion, this whole article sounds like the Stepfordization of Buffalo. I pity the people who give up their freedom and live according to the whims of government. I also pity the people, most of us, who have to pay for it.

“This is how you force culture change,” Enstice said. “We’re actually doing it.”

That quote says it all.

Most of the action has moved to social media. I am very active on Twitter since it’s fast and free.

We are led to believe that without government, there would be no justice when disputes arise. However, it has never been shown that with government courts there would be justice. See my essay on the subject here. It is merely assumed that, because that is the stated purpose of government courts, they are capable of dispensing justice and do in fact do so. To call that a bad argument would be too kind since it’s not an argument at all but the absence of an argument.

One of the things I do in my law practice is represent defendants in post-conviction, post-appeal proceedings who have not been given justice in the government courts. There is little money in this work. The work is complex, time-consuming and usually ends in failure. One of my clients a few years back was Valentino Dixon, who filed suit in federal court for a review of his murder conviction in Buffalo in 1992. There were numerous good issues raised but the main one was that another man had committed the crime and in fact confessed to it. Unfortunately, thanks to the GOP Congress and Bill Clinton, the ancient right of habeas corpus was restricted in the late 90′s. A one year statute of limitations was added. Dixon was not able to file in time and the court dismissed his case.

Thanks to the new law, the case was never heard by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals either.

However, Valentino never stopped fighting to clear his name and he found a creative way to bring attention to his cause, drawing pictures of golf courses. Long story short, Golf Digest wrote about his case prompting the Golf Channel to take note. On Tuesday night at 10:30pm (ET), Jimmy Roberts’ new show In Play, will feature a segment about Valentino. This was a major production which involved two days of filming interviews inside Attica and a day interviewing witnesses and lawyers in Buffalo. DA Chris Belling and I were interviewed by Roberts a few months back.

I highly recommend this show if you get the Golf Channel. Watch it online later if not.

(Another segment involves an interview with Arnold Palmer.)

I want to talk today about some things they don’t teach in government school and that the lying progressive politicians won’t tell you.

The right to bear arms is a natural right of the individual. It wasn’t and isn’t granted by the government or the Constitution or some slimy politician any more than your right to breathe comes from the government. If you have the right to life, then you must have the means to defend that life against those who would stop you from breathing or who would turn you into a slave or a laboratory rat, which, judging from current trends, appears to be about where we are headed in this country.

We live under the most powerful government that ever existed and it’s getting stronger, bigger and more powerful every week as new laws are passed taking over more and more aspects of life that used to be free. There is no literally no aspect of life, no matter how trivial or formerly private that progressive politicians do not have designs on. Little League football, the size of soft drinks, or what you say on Twitter about your government school jailers.

These days, there is no aspect of your life, liberty or property or family life that is absolutely secure against this crazed progressive onslaught.

That is why we must resist this current gun grab by all means the Founding Fathers sanctioned in the Declaration of Independence including the right to alter or abolish a government destructive to our liberties. That’s right, Governor, abolishing this government is on the table.

Now, these days, those words in the Declaration are ignored or edited out when politicians quote the document. Rather, the phrase “all men are created equal” is offered up as some sort of Marxist balderdash about the state making us all equal. The meaning of that phrase is clear, however. We are all equal in natural rights such as liberty which precludes any form of progressivism, socialism or Marxism. Sorry Barack!

But consider this. Isn’t the right to bear arms implied in the right of revolution that is proclaimed in the founding document of our nation? Of course it is. Good luck fighting a revolution against a state that can send a drone to your house and make you disappear when all you have to fight back is a squirt gun.

Not only is the right to bear arms implied in our founding document, but the actual start of the revolution was an act of resistance against British gun control at Lexington and Concord. America was born when the Minute Men picked up their privately-owned muskets and formed a line of defense against government troops coming up the road to take their guns away.

They don’t teach this stuff in government school.

It is critical to realize that progressives never address the actual reason for the right to bear arms. Rather, they seek to confuse the issue by answering arguments for the right to bear arms that were never made. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, sport or target shooting, or collecting antiques and its main purpose is NOT to allow you to protect yourself from criminals although that is a secondary and important purpose. It is an undeniable historical fact that the central purpose of the right to bear arms is to allow the people to protect themselves against the government.

Now, why do progressives ignore or pretend not to know the true purpose behind the Second Amendment even though our side has been explaining it for many, many years? Two reasons. First, they cannot rebut the argument! History and logic both show that governments are dangerous to people when they get too much power, get too crazed in their ideologies and when the people are weak, disorganized and unarmed or disarmed. In the 20th century, 170 million people were murdered by their own governments according to historian RJ Rummel. The Soviets, a US ally, killed 62 million; the Communist Chinese killed 35 million. The Nazis killed 21 million. US ally Nationalist China killed 10 million. Japan killed 6 million, Cambodia killed 2 million and Turkey killed 1.8 million.

How can they deny obvious facts? Can they argue that Germans are so different from Americans—after all, they were an advanced Western, Christian nation—and after all, German is the largest ethnic group in America and has been for a very long time—that what happened there cannot happen here? That’s a bad argument. So they don’t make it. They could argue that the notion that the US state has never engaged in mass murder against its own citizens but we would say that’s a bad argument because our citizens have always been well-armed, so that proves our point. So that’s a bad argument they don’t make either.

So, instead of making bad arguments against the true purpose of the Second Amendment, they make good arguments against an imaginary Second Amendment that never existed. It’s extremely effective in a population short on critical thinking skills they never learned in government school. If government schools taught critical thinking skills, the first thing the students would ask is why the hell in a free country does the government have the right to kidnap children for 12 years, send them to daytime juvenile detention centers run by progressive Democratic union members and send their parents the bill, threatening to foreclose on their houses if they don’t pay up?

The second reason why progressives never confront the true reason behind the Second Amendment is even more interesting and even more important. The notion that a government with a monopoly of armed force could be an evil thing is abhorrent to them. It goes against the core of their ideology—that government guns pointed at peaceful citizens can create a utopia on earth. That can’t happen if the citizens are pointing guns back.

But progressives don’t want to admit that their ideology contains no room for privately-owned guns since there presently is too much support for the right to bear arms. So, again, they simply ignore the issue and try to confuse people by talking about hunting, target shooting and shot guns for home defense. By narrowing the scope of the purposes of gun ownership, they hope to be able to continually chip away at gun rights until all private guns are banned which is of course their actual goal. The more honest among them will admit, in response to our question—what do I do when a burglar tries to break the door down—call the police. Right, so they can draw a chalk line around your family’s bodies and call the medical examiner.

But that’s what they think. They really believe we would be better off if only the government had guns. That’s why they love to cite phony statistics that Professor Lott has refuted that allegedly prove that guns in the home are likely to be used, not for defense, but against one of the members of the family. They really think we’d be better off without any guns even though they won’t admit it. That’s why Cuomo’s treasonous gun law is not the end, any more than that weasel George Pataki’s gun law was the end in the 1990’s. Since progressives are utopians who wish to use the power of the state to make life perfect on earth, there is never an end to their efforts to grab power from us.

Here’s another thing you won’t learn in government school or out of the mouths of lying progressive politicians. Most crime in America is caused by failed progressive policies such as welfare, the war on drugs and government schools. By their very nature, progressives are unable to acknowledge the failure of their own ideology. So they use guns as a scapegoat to distract attention away from their failures and avoid having to change their policies. The data is clear. The rise of the welfare state led to the destruction of the family unit in minority communities. Fathers left the home and teenage boys joined criminal gangs as a perverted form of father substitute.

Government schools failed to provide what was missing at home and merely served as a recruiting ground for gangs and a distribution point for drugs. Local high schools in this area compete for the nickname, “heroin high.” The progressives’ war on drugs is an abysmal failure which merely sucks poor kids into a criminal and violent lifestyle once they realize that government school gave them no job skills and that progressive policies sucked all the economic vitality out of once bustling inner city neighborhoods.

Now, we don’t really know much about the cause of the latest school shooting—they are suppressing the lab report and other information. But we do know that several school shooters were bullied in government school and went back for revenge. Also, the politicians brag that they have made government schools gun-free zones, assuring mass killers of an easy target.

The state kidnaps your kids, bullies them, turns them into bullies, gives them dangerous psychotropic drugs, then leaves the students defenseless, and it’s the fault of the shotgun locked in your safe at home? That’s madness. School shootings are a failure of progressive policies. They invented the daytime juvenile detention center in the first place. Beyond school shootings, government schools are bad places for your kids for reasons I explained in a book and you should take them out anyway and soon.

I’m not going to argue statistics today but consider the fact that the folks in suburban and rural areas surrounding Buffalo are armed to the teeth but do not suffer from the decades-old crime wave and reign of terror criminals have imposed on the city of Buffalo. Case closed. Why should guns be confiscated from law-abiding people because progressives have unleashed a crime wave in America?

By the way, if you want people to accept your right to possess private property, guns, you better consider accepting the right of other people to possess private property, drugs, if they so choose. Liberty is seamless and does not allow for exceptions. Liberty is doing what you wish with what you own. Doing what you wish with what you own. In fact, the war on drugs has proved to be the major driving force beyond the war on guns. Same war, different name.

A couple more things they don’t teach in government school. Progressives don’t hate guns; they love guns. They love them so much they want to be the only ones who have any. They want a gun monopoly. Again, a progressive is a person who has this fantastic dream of creating a utopia on earth by threatening people with government guns if they don’t comply with their utopian schemes. The difference between progressives and us is this. They want to use guns aggressively, to make peaceful people do things they don’t want to do. We wish to use them only defensively, to stop a government that gets out of control and engages in mass murder, or systemically tramples the Bill of Rights.

The progressive state uses guns against us on a daily basis to impose their will on us. Yet, to my knowledge, not a single Patriot has fired a gun back. We have exercised remarkable restraint. So, again, the government schools, the politicians and the mainstream media lie. The true violent gun fanatics and gun lovers are the progressive gun grabbers, not us.

One last point before I close. I have seen very few African-Americans at these rallies. I don’t understand that. No group has suffered more under government tyranny than blacks. The federal government kept them in slavery for 75 years. Slavery is a form of slow motion, mass murder. After slavery, governments took their guns away and failed to provide police protection.

One of the purposes of the 14th Amendment was to allow blacks to own guns for protection. Blacks are more likely to be the victims of violent crime. Finally, if you study the history of the various mass murders perpetrated by governments, they very often are aimed at ethnic, racial or religious minorities as they were in Germany and Turkey. If I was a member of a racial minority in a hostile world, I would be a ferocious defender of the right to bear arms.

So those are a few points about the right to bear arms they don’t teach in government school and that you won’t hear from lying politicians or the state-controlled media.