Jan 21-Times Sq: Global Day in support of Egyptian Revolution ( vid and pics)

January 21, 2011 at approximately 12:30 PM. Times Square   Decided to check out the Egyptian Revolution Rally taking place just after the first light snow of the winter season. Their stage was late, so sans amplification the rally leaders were chanting and attempting to kept the crowd busy until their errant truck/stage arrived. It was a small crowd comprised of familiar Leftists, “Palestinians” and Islamist protestors. Usually, I’m called a Zionist, a Racist, a Nazi and a hate-monger but today, I was lectured, told outright HOW I was to write about the rally or else LEAVE because ( you see) ” I’m an Islamophobe who WORKS for Pamela Geller.” Policing me was Marxist/Fakestinian agitator, Andy Pollack. Andrew Pollack of   Al-Awda NY who loves to press his hulking mass into my space while proudly declaring that I had to stop filming. He kept his little soldiers busy infringing on my freedom of speech and assembly by attempting to block my camera with flags and bodies. Nice, huh? The games Lefties play…. Two young women in the rally were ‘alerted’ by Pollack to not speak with me because  I “WORK for Pam Geller”. One of those girls was Micha (Michelle)Balon of the STAGED #OWS marriage (arranged to please the easily duped MSM.) But, Micha doesn’t seem to be ‘married’ anymore. Her face book page says she interested in MEN and makes no mention of a ‘husband’ My other critic was Nada Elmansy (in light blue hijab) She said I can’t be trusted to write appropriately about Muslims!” However, I appreciate that she took a moment on camera to actually express why she was there. Some more pictures of the signs…. Socialist yearning for bread, dignity and ….”Social Justice”! Socialists…Revolution…. Freedom…Justice For All! Anti-Israel ( lots of kuffeyas ) and Anti-America…. It wasn’t just a rally about those martyred in Tahrir Square… The VIDEO: Facts are the Muslim Brotherhood and the Sharia compliant government is antithetical to a  a free society, to a democracy. “The Islamist parties have won 72 percent of the seats in the lower house…the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square were disgraced at the polls and exposed as an insignificant social and political force…The Muslim Brotherhood (and its fellow jihadists in the Salafist al-Nour party) will control Egypt’s internal affairs.” Yet there were no signs criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood. If there were Christians at this rally ( as they claimed) WHERE were the signs supporting the Copts. This election is “.. bad news for women and for non-Muslims. Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been under continuous attack by Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist supporters since Mubarak was deposed…The military massacred them when they dared to protest their persecution.” I heard nothing protesting  the attacks and murders of the Copts, martyred in Egypt because they are CHRISTIANS. Will the Muslim Brotherhood and the Sharia compliant government be any better? (crickets chirping) Is Egypt a country on the verge of a real Democracy? Were those killed in Tahrir Square fighting to live under Sharia? ” …the Islamic fundamentalists now in charge of Egypt ( who) don’t need a constitution to implement their tyranny. All they require is what they already have – a public awareness of their political power and their partnership with the military.” Leaving no doubt that this was also a protest in opposition of Israel. “...the new regime ( in Egypt) which allows Sinai to be used as a launching ground for attacks against Israel and as a highway for weapons and terror personnel to flow freely into Gaza; clear signs that the peace with Israel is already dead – treaty or no treaty. “..the depth and breadth of America’s losses, consider that on January 25, 2011, most Arab states were US allies to a greater or lesser degree. Mubarak was a strategic ally…In Egypt, it was clear that the Muslim Brotherhood would emerge as the strongest political force in the country.” Keeping the Revolution alive in Syria, in Libya, in Tunisia, in Yemen (in Egypt)… and in ‘Fakestine’… FREE FREE etc etc etc etc …. Reminding us that America is:   “…looked upon with increasing contempt and disgust throughout the Arab world.” After all,  Ramsey Clark and his International Action Center was promoting, organizing , supporting this rally.  His organization is not just critical of America it is ANTI- America. No Old Glory flying along side the flag of Egypt. Just signs, signs and more signs blaming America and praising Socialism. Their “Hope and Change” for a democracy is just an excuse to build another  Saudi Arabia; another Iran compliments of the Muslim Brotherhood.  ********

Global Day to support the Egyptian revolution on Saturday, Jan 21st. 2012 Egyptian & Egyptian Solidarity Groups Rally to Support Egyptian Revolution’s Demands on the Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution Global Event: The Struggle Continues New York City, NY— During the 18 days from Jan 25th to Feb 11th, 2011, the whole world witnessed millions of Egyptian protesters marching in the streets of Egypt and protesting in Tahrir Square, demanding their basic human rights: dignity, freedom, and social justice. After decades of patience and suffering, Egyptians finally spoke out loudly and peacefully demanding the fall of a police-based authoritarian regime, the end of Mubarak’s dictatorship, and the establishment of a civilian, democratic state. www.iacenter.org ********* This was as much an anti-America rally as it was a pro- Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood Rally) The protestors in Times Square may protest the SCAF but they say nothing against the Muslim Brotherhood…. “…the military junta…has made its peace with the Muslim Brotherhood. The generals and the jihadists are negotiating a power-sharing agreement.”   And Anonymous…of course… was there with this pithy thought: “Beneath this mask is an idea and ideas are bullet-proof”

‘The Third Jihad’ Producers Reply to New York Times – 2012

BROKEN LINKS HAVE BEEN REPAIRED

‘The Third Jihad’ Producers Reply to New York Times ArticlesDocumentary recently pulled from NYPD counterterrorism training;Times articles filled with innuendo and inaccuracies

January 25, 2012 WATCH THE FILM FREE (Please scroll down) and for more background on the NY Times Holy War on “The Third Jihad”, go to  Pamela Geller .

The New York Times has sharply criticized the New York Police Department for using the critically-acclaimed documentary The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America in counterterrorism training.

The New York Times has published two news articles (http://tinyurl.com/nyt-ttj1,http://tinyurl.com/nyt-ttj2), as well as an editorial entitled “Hateful Film” (http://tinyurl.com/nyt-ttj3) in the past 48 hours.

In response, film producer Raphael Shore has issued the following statement:

“We regret that the film has been taken out of the counterterrorism training program of the NYPD.  The New York Times stories are proof positive that the Clarion Fund’s high-quality and impactful documentaries touch very sensitive nerves.

Those that have blasted the film are attempting to stifle an important debate about the internal state of the Muslim community in America, and whether politicized Islam and indoctrination pose tangible security threats.

We hope that individuals will acknowledge the inaccuracies presented by the New York Times, and the effects that organizations like CAIR have on the fine line between political correctness and honest debate.

We invite the general public to watch and judge the documentary for themselves.  The Third Jihad is now being made available for free viewing online at http://www.thethirdjihad.com.”

According to the New York Times, nearly 1500 officers, “from lieutenants to detectives to patrol officers” reportedly were shown the film during a period of between three months and a year.

The story of the film’s usage by NYPD was first reported by the Village Voice a year earlier, and police stopped using the film when pressure was asserted by local Islamic organizations.  Pressure continued until the New York Times propelled the year-old story to front-page news yesterday.

CAIR is taking credit for the “investigation” which led to the New York Times’ coverage, with a press release (http://tinyurl.com/nypd-cair) demanding that the NYPD install Muslim-sensitive materials in their training curriculum to offset what they consider to be an ‘Islamaphobic’ film.

Innuendo

What CAIR and the New York Times failed to clearly address, is that The Third Jihad is narrated by a devout Muslim, who has a significant record of serving the United States of America, as a medical officer in the US Navy and as an attending physician to the US Congress.

The beginning of the film states in bold letters that, “This is not a film about Islam.  It is about the threat of radical Islam.  Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical.”

The film’s message urges the Muslim community to look within itself to root out the indoctrination that affects a minority of Muslims.

The documentary is founded on credible evidence presented by the FBI of a “Manifesto” published by radicals calling for the implementation of extremist ideology-both violent and politicized-within the United States.

It is no surprise that CAIR does not like the content of the film.  CAIR is singled out in the film for its direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, open support for Hamas, and links to terror financing.

CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest ever terror-financing trial in US History.

As a result of these designations, the FBI has formally ceased all ties with CAIR-as should the NYPD and New York Times.

The NYPD is well aware of the threats that emanate from Islamic radicals.

In the preface to a landmark 2007 NYPD Intelligence Division Report entitled “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly writes, “New York City continues to be the one of the top targets of terrorists worldwide.  Consequently, the NYPD places a priority on understanding what drives and defines the radicalization process.”

The Third Jihad takes an in-depth look at the process of radicalization and indoctrination taking place on American soil.

It is clear that senior members of the NYPD saw value in the film, as did employees of the Federal Homeland Security department, who first gave the DVD of the film to the NYPD.

Inaccuracies

The Third Jihad features exclusive interviews with some of the nation’s leading counterterrorism experts including former Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey, former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

According to the New York Times, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman said, “that filmmakers had lifted the [Kelly] clip from an old interview.”

This is the first of several inaccuracies to appear in the New York Times’ account.

The makers of The Third Jihad conducted a nearly 90-minute exclusive interview with Commissioner Kelly specifically for the film on March 19, 2007.  Previously unreleased bonus clips of Kelly’s interview are currently available at http://www.thethirdjihad.com.

Responding to a letter by film producer Raphael Shore, Browne then corrected the record in the New York Times follow-up article.  “I recommended in February 2007 that Commissioner Kelly be interviewed,” he said.

Browne recalled that the film’s interviewer, “asked to speak to the commissioner for a cable film on ‘foiled terrorist plots and the current threat matrix.’”

Several other inaccuracies appear in the article.   For example, the New York Times notes that the film includes a doctored photo of the White House with an Islamic flag atop.  But the photo is one of many pieces of documented footage from Islamist sources.  Yet the New York Times implies that the filmmakers were the ones to manipulate the photo.

The New York Times also inaccurately quotes the film by stating: “‘This is the true agenda of Islam in America,’ a narrator intones.”  But the actual quote from the film is: “This document shows the true agenda of much of Muslim leadership here in America.”

The article intentionally omits that this narrator is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim.

The rest of the New York Times’ coverage focuses on character assassination.  While CAIR and others label the film Islamophobic, it is ironic that the film’s detractors continuously point out that the film’s producer has ties to Jewish organizations.  The article inaccurately claims that Raphael Shore simultaneously works for Aish HaTorah.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioned the judgment of that those who permitted the usage of the film.  However, Bloomberg’s predecessor Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is also interviewed in the film, has praised the documentary calling The Third Jihad, “a wake up call for America.”

CONTACT:

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Is islamic Sharia Law Coming To America and Should We Care? (video)

September 26, 2011.

This panel was presented by The NY City Lawyers Chapter and the International and National Security Law Practice Group and The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies in NYC .

Videos are complete audio with pictures ( in six parts) total is approximately 80 minutes.

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PART ONE - opening statements by Marc Schuman, secretary of the NY Chapter of The Federalist Society and the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan, District Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY, who was moderator for the evening.

Schuman then introduces the panel.

Prof. David Forte, (Constitutional and Sharia Law). Forte teaches Islamic Law and Originalism in the class-room and  Daniel Mach (Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief). He turns the mic over to the moderator, Richard J. Sullivan.

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PART TWO - opening presentation of  guest speaker, David Forte, Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law. In the classroom he teaches Constitutional Law and Originalism . He also teaches Islamic Law. 

Some excerpts from audio in Part 2:

(Forte) mentions Islamic Law and Constitutional Originalism.  Mentions Egypt, Mubarak and Tahrir Square. War on West is from within. Qaradawi and fatwas against Jews. Kill the Jews. Divine punishment (sharia).

( In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving “Islam a bad name.”)

Forte says Qaradawi’s Sharia not Classical Sharia. His Sharia not the REAL Sharia. Discrimination against women was NOT permitted in Classical Sharia. The tyranny of Qaradawi (his ideology).

Qaradawi warns Muslims to not be immigrants, be COLONIZERS. Examples: European NO-GO Zones and the Sharia quasi-legal systems in England, France, Rome; replicated though-out Old Europe. (In England, five formal Sharia Courts and 80 informal) In Belgium, a parallel Legal Court; a SHARIA Court (in Brussels).   

In early Islam, they were Rationalists til 55 years later, then Legalists. Sharia formed by Jurists, recognized by Imperialists (Caliphs).

 Saladin changed substance of Sharia (there was no torture) Could not torture innocents (now you  can)  He was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria .

A thousand years of Islamist history enforced only by Caliph. He could enforce or throw anything aside in the entire Islamic Empire. Caliph must support Sharia (STATE LAW) of the Islamic State (Empire).

8th-9th c Sharia: Legalists vs Rationalists (like Greeks)…Sharia was formed by Jurists… an Equity Court.   Islam identified with The Law.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are “Perfectly Islamic”. What changed. Torture was not originally part of Islam. They changed Sharia from a system of beliefs for righteous living before god into an ideology.  A religion into a POLITICAL ideology.

Warned to practice perfect Islam or else you are an apostate. This form of Islam, this Sharia, is an abomination

Forte says, Radical Islam “changing Believer into Ideologue-Apparatchik of a totalitarian regime.” He concludes, “THAT is what we should oppose as a threat (THAT type of Islam)

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PART THREE - opening presentation of guest speaker, Daniel Mach, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Excerpts from Part 3:

Mach’s specialty is First Amendment Law, Church and State. He’s in-the-trenches and litigates in areas of Church and State.

Mach begins with, ” NO, Sharia Law is not  ‘Coming-to-America’”

Admits that ,”Dangerous Religious extremists do exist.”

In Sharia, no religious tenets were to be imposed or decided by courts.

There’s NO Take Over by Sharia Law. It’s Just Not Happening..

 In Oklahoma, they’ve banned Sharia Law. Something that hasn’t happened ONCE. Lists of Sharia examples don’t withstand scrutiny.

Our courts don’t put the right–to-pray up-for-a-vote

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PART  FOUR (Forte and Mach respond to Moderator, Richard Sullivan’s  questions)

Excerpts from Part 4:

David Forte refers to Wahhabis (is interrupted by audience member) re 80% mosques and Imams under Saudi influence

Judge in NJ upheld a Sharia judgement. NJ judge didn’t ‘get’ difference. Foreign Law (aka Sharia Law) not okay if it violates U.S. Constitution or State Law 

Dan Mach stresses Christians have rights to exercise faith so he questions passing laws to isolate Sharia as a specific threat. Asylum cases have been denied to people who fear torture … says a problem in a handful of cases

Forte – Honor killings are tribal custom, NOT Sharia

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In parts 5 and 6 – questions from the audience with responses from the speakers. These are just a few excerpts…

PART FIVE ( Questions from audience) 

Excerpts from Part 5:

QUESTION: re Sharia Finance:  “Is it a cover?”

Forte  Re Sharia Finance. Mutual Funds. Check where funds are going. What’s the interest. Too harsh to say no Sharia Finance

WHY “no-interest” loans? Financing (Fiqh )deals with the observance of rituals, morals and social legislation in Islam. (no-interest loans)

Usury ( Middle Ages) was RENTING money ( like a horse) Loans rented. During Ottomans (up to 10 %) always had interest. This prohibition is a 20th-21st century creation. Fundamentalism is a perversion

FORTE claims Classical Sharia is different from what we are criticizing. Women. Minorities. Islamic State Law. It must be in CONTEXT. Classical Sharia women had protections/Radical Islam they do not

Ottoman enforced punishment for theft, apostasy but NO capital punishment in Classical Sharia. There were protections. RADICALS do torture (not in Classical Sharia)

Made a JOKE about the need for the four upright males (false accusation) ; theft (two upright males) Not easy to find as there is also a punishment for false testimony. TRIBAL CUSTOM (culture) has caused the harsh punishments not Islam.

MACH responds. Thought and expression not criminalized in U.S. Defends t-shirts that criticize Islam/burn Koran (he defends these) BUT if you violate … commit a criminal act…then NO defense…

FORTE . Okay with Warrior Prophets. He admires Mohammed . Treatment of women, unbelievers, etc. He continues that Mohammed emancipated women (greater rights in marriage) Mentions the RESPECT Mohammed had for wives. Yes, he married a 6 year old. Not uncommon. It was okay in that culture

Protected monks, freedom of religious beliefs. Says Mohammed was responsible for legal influence of Arabic Society reforms.

What distorted Mohammed’s trajectory?  “Law. Tribes. Empire” (The Ottoman Empire.) He is not a believer but admires Mohammed

Q – What has Mohammed done that was extraordinary? Why so violent? Justifying murder/extermination?

Forte: Violence in Bible much worse. in comparison, the Koran is WHIMPY. Islam should have been the FIRST to free slavery, instead it was the LAST. Should have been the first to observe Laws of War.

Forte re violence in O.T. Difference is HOW Jews interpret. What came after. How Muslims handle it (the text) How each dealt with what was written. Re Koran. Contextualize reference to treatment of unbelievers. It’s all in the interpretation. It was the Koresh Tribe Mohammed was referring to.

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PART SIX :  Final statements from Forte and Mach

Excerpts from Part 6:

Question - People are afraid to speak up because they fear punishment. “See something say something” could place them in jeopardy with mosque (sharia). “Don’t they feel that make the mosques a security risk?”

Forte: We should investigate where money comes from, the newspapers should investigate. The Saudi influence.

Mach: Government should not tell us where or how to worship. Not worried about prisons. There all all types of prison checks to control influence.

Q. What about last 10 years.  What’s going on in Europe.. No-Go Zones…

Mach: I’ll defend your right, if denied access to street.  (the audience member mentions Dearborn) The moderator and  panel do not respond….

Q- How can we think this is a Great Religion based on history?

Forte – Look at what Moderate Muslims are saying about Islam. There is a seed in all religions of recognizing each other as equals.

Mach : Government should not be in business of telling anyone where they can build a house of worship. You own the property, you can build.

Moderator: How to promote the Classical version of Sharia and not the Radical

Forte: STOP multi-cultural baloney in schools that support Radical Version of Islam (which should be minimized) 1910-1930 example: Italian immigrant educators assimilation was encouraged.

Multi-culturalism is GOVERNMENT imposed. The worst thing we can do as far as assimilation.

Mach (ACLU) questions Forte’s  criticism of  multi-culturalism. Sees great benefits in Public Schools teaching about other cultures.

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By coincidence, found this article in American Thinker by Jamie Glazov 

“Islamism at UCLA Law School”

” …the belief system and values under girding Sharia Islam are the antithesis of American/Western beliefs and fundamental values, and therefore Dr. Fadl’s scholarship relentlessly sanitizing sharia was “deceptive and dishonest.”…. it is one thing for a legal scholar to cause controversy and debate by taking an unpopular position; it is quite another when the scholar obfuscates rather than clarifies a subject of study by engaging in subpar scholarship and outright deception (known by the sharia as taqqiyah…”

Nov 6, 2011 was National Remembrance Day for Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens (video)

On November 6, 2011, at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, American activists met to acknowledge a National Day of Remembrance in honor of those murdered by illegal aliens.

Gerard Perry of American Rattlesnake and fellow members of NY-Ice met to honor the American victims of illegal alien crime.

Joanna Marzullo, President of NY-Ice (New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement) said :

People in our Movement have worked hard to have a day designated where we remember those who have been victims of illegal aliens. November 6th is that day.

I know what our predictable opposition will say about this Day. They will say “most illegals aren’t violent criminals. Can’t ‘the rest’ stay?” To which my answer is: No. We, the People of the U.S., are ALL victims of illegal aliens. Illegal aliens who aren’t committing *additional* violations are still illegally here, and leeching and detrimental in countless ways, including: our schools are overcrowded, our hospitals are closing, our jobs are undercut and lost, and much more.

                                         Members of NY- ICE

 VIDEO

More than 50, 000 Americans have been killed by illegal aliens since 9/11.

More than 6,000 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since that same date. But nearly ten times that number have been killed right here at home as a consequence of the Federal government’s failure to secure our borders and protect its citizens, in direct violation of the Constitution’s Article IV Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

More than 50,000 dead as a direct result of this violation. Yet the media ignores the victims. And politicians don’t recognize the loss of tens of thousands of families.

But today We The People remember.

Today is National Remembrance Day for Americans Killed By Illegal Aliens.

A coalition of groups fighting against illegal immigration, including Stand With Arizona, the FIRE Coalition,and Congressmen Steve King (R-IA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) joined together to recognize this day in honor of the victims.

The Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011

Remembering the American Victims of Illegal Alien Criminals

F.I.R.E. Coalition, in partnership with the Tea Party Immigration Coalition and the Foreign National Crime Information Center, will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C. Thursday November 3rd to designate November 6th as The National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Illegal Aliens and to support Congressman Walter Jones’ (NC-3) H.R. 3168, The Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011. And we thank Congressman Steve King (IA-5) for introducing a Resolution naming November 6th as The National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Illegal Aliens.

“November 6th is the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act

Amnesty,” said John Stahl, Chairman of the Tea Party Immigration Coalition. “One legacy of the IRCA amnesty is millions of illegal aliens who continue to invade our country expecting another amnesty and some of them are violent criminals. It is appropriate that November 6th be the day that we observe a moment of silence, remembering the tens of thousands of unnecessary victims of illegal alien crimes. They are ‘unnecessary victims,’ because if the federal government did its job, secured our borders and enforced our immigration laws, we wouldn’t have illegal alien criminals victimizing innocent American citizens and legal immigrants.”

Tea Party Immigration Coalition supports H.R. 3168, The Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act of 2011. “We don’t know the exact number of victims of illegal alien criminals,” Stahl observed. “The GAO report on Criminal Alien Statistics only hints at the problem. Honest reporting of illegal alien crime is essential for us to know the breadth and scope of the problem so we can convince our elected officials to enforce the law and protect our country and citizens. Mr. Jones’ legislation can provide us a more accurate accounting of how many Americans are being hurt by illegal alien criminals.”

The Foreign National Crime Information Center’s Victim’s of Illegal Alien Crime Memorial (VOIAC.org) has a data base of victims of illegal alien criminals that can be viewed and added to. “Tea Party Immigration Coalition is pleased to work in partnership with F.I.R.E. Coalition, The Foreign Crime Information Center and all Congressman and patriots who desire to make America safer by forcing our government to secure our borders and enforce our laws. We remember these victims in the hope of preventing future American victims of illegal alien criminals.”

For more information please contact: Joanna Marzullo, President

NY ICE (New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement) progressrose@yahoo.com

EMPact America Press Conference “Standing Up to Ahmadinejad” (2011) VIDEO

EMP 

Electromagnetic Pulse. 

It could End American Civilization as we know it.

Prepare. Protect. Recover.

A Press Conference was presented by EMPact America in NYC (Sept 23, 2011) by an organization for citizens concerned about protecting the American people from a nuclear or natural electromagnetic (EMP) catastrophe.

         EMPactAmerica                   EMPactRadio                    EMPactTV

Our vulnerability increases daily. Are we prepared for the single greatest threat to America’s infrastructure? From EMP’s? 

That’s why we NEED the SHIELD ACT.

The SHIELD Act

(Secure High-Voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act)

WHY WE NEED IT

• Contemporary U.S.Society is not structured, nor have the means, to provide for the needs of nearly 300 mil Americans without electricity

• Current strategy for recovery from an electric grid failure leaves us ill-prepared to respond to a man-made or naturally occurring EMP.    
• Consequences of the loss of electrical power system for substantial period of time likely to be catastrophe with casualties in excess of 60% of population

• Occurrence of severe geo-magnetic storms inevitable. Only a matter of WHEN.

WHAT IT DOES

• Encourages co-operation between government and industry to address current shortcomings & vulnerabilities of electric grid from major EMP event

• Passed by House; stalled in Senate, due to additions regarding cyber-security threats (SHIELD Act omits that language,to be address in a separate bill)

• EMP ( Electro-magnetic pulse) is a high-intensity burst of electro-magnetic energy. It can be caused by a natural event ( like a solar storm) or a malicious act (such as a high-altitude nuclear burst)

• Consequences of either event could be long-lasting and continent-wide, crippling the U.S. electricity- dependent infra-structures. They are highly vulnerable and largely unprotected. Paralyzed, perhaps, beyond recovery.

• The infrastuctures include:  power, communications, transportation, banking, finance, food & water; all that is required to sustain a modern civilization

Terrorists acquiring nuclear materials, rogue nations such as Iran and NoKo, could achieve an EMP effect by launching a low-cost short-range missile from a freighter just 12 miles off the US coast. There is no early-warning system that would provide enough time to react.

Deterrence is no-longer an option when we face a determined adversary, with no state-affiliation, who can  can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high-level of sophistication. All they require is one or two relatively unsophisticated missiles armed with nuclear weapons. 

Our pervasive use of and dependence up on electronics continues to grow, leaving our society and military vulnerable and open to critical damage. It invites and rewards an attack. That’s why we MUST:

STAND UP TO AHMADINEJAD!

Military and National Security Policy Experts, and First Responders Call on President Obama to Confront the Iranian Threat. 

VIDEO presentation (with pictures) of the complete audio  (there were some very brief moments in the panel where audio drops out)

The speakers (in order of appearance) began with opening remarks by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum and president of EMPACT America .

Lt. General Thomas McInerny, retired Air Force and member of the Iran Policy Committee  [7:34 -11:21]

Reza Khalili, Ex – CIA Spy in the revolutionary guards of Iran and the author of the award winning book, A Time to Betray; instructor at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy of the Department of Defense  [12:01- 16:46]

Ken Timmerman, CEO of Foundation for Democracy of Iran; author, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Iranian Nuclear Showdown. [17:28 - 22:45]

Chet Nagel, former CIA, author of  Iran Covenant [22:59 -24:56]

Brigadier General Kenneth Chrosniak, U.S. Army War College, Bronze Star recipient [25:12 - 28:51]

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, U.S. Army, retired, Bronze Star recipient and Senior Intelligence Officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency [29:38 - 35:11]

Clare M. Lopez, strategic policy and intelligence expert on national defense, Islam, Iran, and counterterrorism issues [35:30 - 45-16]

Peter Huessey is President of GeoStrategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland, a defense and national security consulting firm, who has written extensively on Iran and nuclear issues [45:41- 55:12]

Tim Brown, is a retired, decorated 20-year FDNY firefighter, and a 9/11 survivor. He was a first responder to the 1993 terrorist attack on the WTC and the 1995 terrorist attack on the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. [55:43 - 59:53]

What followed next was an equally engaging Q and A.  Dr. Pry began the Q and A by showing us this Planning Guide:

Then the panel answered questions from the audience.

We also heard brief remarks from Cynthia E. Ayers, former NSA Visiting Professor to Center For Strategic Leadership, U.S.Army War College, VP EMPact America

And  Henry Schwartz, Founder of EMPact America, was acknowledged

 VIDEO Play list of the Q and A  (1st of the 5 videos is the Panel) Q and A begins with 2nd video in the Play List:

More information on H.R. 668 Shield Act to harden our electric grid against EMP attack:

http://www.shieldact.com/

http://www.empactamerica.org/

Slide Show of Pictures:

You can voice your opinion through EMPact’s online advocacy campaigns at www.GuardTheGrid.com

Read more on the Press Conference here

Leftist “Raging Granny Brigade” OCCUPY Toys-R-Us Christmas 2011

And WHO are these loveable Grannies- of-the-Left who OCCUPIED Toys-R-US on December 16th?

On October 1, 2011 the militant Grannies marched to Brooklyn Bridge with #OWS. They love to get arrested so a few of them were surely amongst the 700 taken to jail for obstruction.

On October 13, 2011 (just before the aborted hosing-down of Zuccotti) the ‘Grannies’ were seen scrubbing the filth left by the OWS squatters and defending the anarchists ‘rights’ to squat.

The Progressive Grannies seemed to prefer Zuccotti-ville:

Not Zuccotti Park as it was intended….pictured below (thanks to Urban Infidel for the update – Dec 26, 2011)

On October 15, 2011, the Gray-Haired Grannies joined the Castro-loving Code Pinkos and #OWS chums in Times Square where Grannie, Jenny Heinz, walked around screaming “YOU are the 99 %”

Flash- Forward to December 16, 2011, back to Times Square, Toys-R-Us and the Protest Grannies had come-a-caroling…

These “ladies” never met a leftist/marxist/progressive/socialist event they couldn’t support. TIME-WARP GRANNIES.

…..serenading the shoppers with rude, propaganda “Christmas” Carols

The GRANNIES walked around TOYS-R-US with their War Banners singing twisted WAR-TOY carols until they were escorted OUT by TOYS-R-US security (and continued the assault outside)

Poor guy from the Salvation Army, they planted themselves beside him and even put money in his bucket

But, he finally moved away from the ‘peaceful grannies’ since their lyrics were inappropriate, having NOTHING to do with Christmas….

The Marxists Gray-haired Grannies. Anti-Christmas. (Anti-Israel.) Anti-America.

VIDEO

Whether RAGING Grannies are marching in the #OWS REVOLUTION or singing twisted Christmas Carols (during a Christian Holy Season) they also support terrorists and despots (like Castro and Chavez) and anything Islam. But, America? She is BAD, very bad cause…  ‘We Buy WAR TOYS!      ‘

 ”The actual Christmas message of “Peace” and “Goodwill towards men” seems to threaten their very existence as they RAGE AGAINST WAR-TOYS”

Everybody sing now!!

Slide Show of a few pics

N17 Unions surround Occupiers at Foley Sq Block Party (Part 2 vids/pics)

It’s been insanely busy these past few months. Only just realized I never posted Part 2 of the infamous N17 Re-Occupy Protest of #OWS. So before 2012 comes roaring in….

RE CAP: It began at 7 AM. Billed as  #OWS ‘International Day of Action’ to crush NY Stock Exchange.

Even though the squatters had been evicted from Zuccotti Park, the scruffier, younger contingent of the  headed to Wall Street itching for a fight. They did everything they could to make life miserable for the 99% who live and work in the Wall Street area, but the police did a stellar job and the bell was rung in the Stock Exchange! Defeated, the insurgents went back to Zuccotti: Strike One.

Photo © C.S. Muncy/csmuncyphotography.com

LUNCH was  MIC CHECK as they explained their strategic Subway locations. The plan was to Shut Down” the Subways ( also, to get the PEOPLE to join them at Foley Sq.) Strike Two!

(That non-event is posted here.)

Moving right along to PART 2 of my post and the VIDEOS of the Evening of N17. (pics are screen grabs from video-cam night setting)

At 5 PM I observed union members, lots of union members,  arriving at City Hall where they headed over to Foley Sq. This was billed a one Giant BLOCK Party.

I have a 5 short videos of the “Block Party” at Foley. (Play List includes video from Subway action earlier in the day for a total of 6 vids)

BTW- Still trying out this idea (the play list) wish player fit blog screen better. You can click thru to You Tube if screen is obstructed.

VIDEO PLAY LIST:

I seriously question the claim that they pulled in 30,000 people to Foley Sq. Walking with-in the park, behind the lines of people crammed against the railing, reveals wide open spaces. The park was not jammed. sections were quite empty

The “stage” at the South end of the Square is where many attendees were jammed, listening to the faux gospel and rap music.

The SEIU table was there with their usual astro-turf signs

The North end of the park was the younger crowd. Students and no, perhaps their professors? Probably.

They even had their own marching band with the drums, drums, drums and the clergy:

Thought the Mic Check gospel song to be pretty funny followed by the rap! Taking the city back “block by block, by block” and the demands from the rappers for the police to Stand Down.

Amazing. (Arrogant)

No matter what the sycophant media implies, this was an in-your-face UNION protest, not an occupation. The Re-Create Block Party in Foley Sq: Strike Three

Left before they marched on to Brooklyn Bridge. Had enough Union mania. But, whether it’s unions or OWS, come Spring they have BIG PLANS to take this city and our country down. It ain’t over….

 

slide show of the pics:

#OWS Anarchists Attempt to Occupy Duffy Sq (12-17-11) vids and pics

D17: #OWS plans to OCCUPY (again and again) Saturday, December 17, 2011

The #OWS Mobsters said this was their THREE MONTH ANNIVERSARY of Occupy Wall St. They also celebrated the birthday of (TRAITOR) Bradley Manning (thanks to Urban Infidel for the picture)

And insinuated it was the “One Year” anniversary (actually January 4, 2012)  of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi - the act that sparked the questionable “Arab Spring”.

It was a day so glorified (in their own minds) that they ultimately called it “a Day of Faith and Re-Occupation”.  More from the  OWS Press Release (www.occupywallst.org
)

Vast resources sit unused while people are in need: in need of homes, schools, jobs and public places to gather and empower communities. Duarte Square is one of New York City’s many uninhabited spaces. The non-residential lot is owned by the third largest real estate owner in Manhattan, Trinity Real Estate, the corporate arm of Trinity on Wall Street. This vacant lot has sat empty for the past 3 years, and is not slated for development for at least another year; similar to the hundreds of bank-owned, foreclosed homes in East New York, one of which was re-occupied by a displaced family on December 6th, the OWS National Day to Occupy Foreclosed Homes, with home re-occupations in over 30 U.S. cities.

While the event may include a reoccupation the event itself is a broader celebration and expansion of Occupy Wall Street as we continue to draw attention to the issues facing the 99%, occupy the nation’s imagination with art and culture, as well exercise our first amendment rights. Through on-site performances and a special radio broadcast on WBAI, we will introduce the people’s amp, a guerrilla sound system to give voice to the people’s movement.

Occupy Wall Street is part of an international people powered movement fighting for economic justice in the face of neoliberal economic practices, the crimes of Wall Street, and a government controlled by monied interests. #OWS is the 99% organizing to end the tyranny of the 1%. 


They began the festivities at 10:00 AM with Clergy and Friends gathered together for prayer at  OCCUPY FAITH

• After prayers, they headed for Duarte Square, where at Noon, the clergy ‘proudly’ lead the insurgency against the police.

• Plan A to re-occupying an empty lot owned by the Leftist loving Episcopal Church-USA

• Plan B to set up a NEW encampment.

• BUT apparently the historical Trinity Episcopal lost its nerve After encouraging the occupation of Zuccotti Park:

The CHURCH said NO to an occupation of their own property!  (NIMBY)

Bryan Smith for News

The “CHILDREN”, so enraged by this rejection, threw one huge temper-tantrum of a party at the Re-occupation of this empty lot. It was ultimately one big  FAIL.

Bryan Smith for News

#OWS “wanna-be squatter” reacting to “NO”!

“Peaceful Protestors” (NOT)  Police: AWESOME

Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images

About 55 anarchists chose arrest and the others eventually dispersed (or so it seemed) Unfortunately, the insurgents surprised the NYPD by ‘spontaneously’ marching up 7th Avenue.

Day marched into night as I caught up with them at 36th Street. They were walking IN the traffic…. up 7th Ave….Their new destination: Times Square.

VIDEO PART 1: Marching Up 7th Avenue

Military Island (in front of the Recruitment Center)

Mic Checks and Temperature Checks ( & wiggle fingers)

Anti-Israel (Fakestinian) agitators

Anti-Capitalists preaching “Spread the Wealth”

And Castro-loving NYC Councilman, Ydanis Rodriguez , who supports open borders  and unfettered illegal migration

Next they left Military island and marched two blocks to Duffy Sq

VIDEO- Part 2- March to Duffy Sq

Intending to OCCUPY the red steps for a G.A. (the PEOPLES General Assembly).

The police were ready and waiting for them at Duffy Square.

As soon as the ‘Occupiers”  hit the square there was dancing, chanting, singing and drum(s)

They also ‘entertained’ the tourists with silly testimonials of “WHY I OCCUPY” (caught a few of those in the videos)

This obnoxious woman (below) stood in front of the officers, who blocked the red steps, and obsequiously repeated over and over, “Why won’t you let us sit on the steps? Why won’t you answer me?”  When another woman responded with, “We all know why, cause you’ll never leave!” She smirked and walked away.

As  the Occupiers prepared to drift back down town, noticed this floppy, snarky sign:”NYPD, most dangerous Gang in NY”.

Insurgents. Revolutionaries. Anarchists insisting, “We are a  ‘Peaceful” Movement” ( yeah…right…)

Eventually the Occupiers went back to 60 Wall Street for a General (Peoples) Assembly. They have lots and lots of plans

Next up,  December 24-25, 2011:

OCCUPY CHRISTMAS AT ZUCCOTTI (like Brookfield would say ‘yes’).

Their plans were announced in the Village Voice  here>>

We will host a 24-hour prayer vigil in Zuccotti Park (or Liberty Square, as we prefer to call it) that will open with a midnight service on Christmas Eve, and continue throughout the day, closing with a ceremony at midnight on Christmas Day. We invite congregations and leaders from faiths and Churches throughout the city to design the way in which they would like to come together with the Occupy community, by creating a service that reflects the unique beauty of their own community

And more info of future Occupations:

In Washington, DC, Benjamin Chavis, another icon of the Sixties’ Civil Rights movement, announced the creation of Occupy The Dream, which is demanding federal grants for university education, an immediate halt to home foreclosures and the creation of a $100 billion fund from Wall Street institutions for new jobs and investment in neighborhoods.  

Chavis is no stranger to organizing. A colleague of King’s, he organized a one-million person march on Washington in the 1960s with a coalition of African Americans, progressive white liberal groups, and organized labor. ‘That is what we have to rebuild,’ he announced.

On January 16, Martin Luther King’s birthday, Occupy the Dream plans its first actions at Federal Reserve Bank locations around America and thereafter every 30 days, and Chavis’ has special plans to marshall the gigantic African-American faith community.

The work has already begun with The Occupy Homes National Day of Action last week, where in more than two dozen cities across America, the occupiers helped evicted residents reoccupy their foreclosed homes, disrupted bank actions and blocked eviction of victims of toxic mortgages and unconscionable mortgage ‘insurance.’

Come Spring, their DRUMS of War will drone on and on and on insisting,  “We’re doing this for YOU.”

You have been warned….

slideshow of pictures

PRO-ISRAEL ANTI-DEMOLITION DEMONSTRATION Pics & Vids

AFSI’S ANTI-DEMOLITION DEMONSTRATION was held in front of the Israel Consulate on a chilly Sunday morning, December 11, 2011.

The protestors gathered to support and speak of their love of Israel. 

 

AFSI explains why:

The protest was triggered by the recent destruction of the synagogue at Givat Aryeh, and the confiscation of the Torah scrolls. We also protested additional planned demolitions about which we have been informed: in Givat HaUlpana in Bet-El, Givat Assaf, Amona, and additional demolitions of homes in Migron. The AFSI Chizuk group saw three demolished homes there on our recent November visit.

The uplifting story of the creation of Givat Aryeh by a group of young, Jewish pioneers, led by YEDAYA SHOHAM, in response to the brutal butchery of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar, descends into a tragic tale of demolition and disgrace. AFSI was privileged to be part of the joyous creation of the synagogue, and the dedication, on Nov. 15, 2011, of a Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust.

On Dec. 1 we learned of the Israeli government’s betrayal of its purpose and its people when it sent in a Destructo squad, including Arabs, to demolish the modest tent homes and the synagogue on the hilltop.

From Helen Freedman, Executive Director of AFSI:

It is with a sense of disbelief and shock that we continue to hear about the program being conducted by the Bibi/Barack demolition crews in Israel. In the middle of the night, Destructo crews are sent in to small, hilltop communities, the inhabitants are thrown out of their beds, out of their homes, and into the cold night. Total disregard is paid to babies, nursing mothers, children, the elderly, and adults. Synagogues have been destroyed, private possessions thrown broken and littered along the ground, and lives are left in limbo.

Just two weeks ago, we celebrated the dedication of a new Torah scroll that was presented to the residents of Itamar and Givat Aryeh in the Shomron by its sponsor, AFSI member Jack Ross. Now we are totally disheartened to learn that the destruction of this community was orchestrated by a decision of the Netanyahu/Barak government.

Teenagers who should be enjoying the carefree years of youth, are left embittered and bewildered by the scenes of the IDF, the police, and Arabs, destroying their homes. The love and trust placed in one’s parents and government is shattered. Where does one turn for security and protection? The disillusionment and despair is devastating.

 Freedman informed us that:

“I had invited many rabbis and mainstream Jewish leaders to attend this demonstration. Many refused; saying that they didn’t believe in criticizing Israel in public. I responded by saying, “If your beloved is about to walk off a cliff, wouldn’t you reach out to restrain him?”

Protesting AGAINST Israel was something none present took lightly but the current policy of destruction and demolitions must stop. We must not remain silent witnesses to this disgrace.

THE VIDEOS are each uniquely powerful statements. I’m posting all 14 in a Playlist on You Tube.  The video playing will go automatically to the next video OR you can click thru to YOU TUBE to see the whole page.  There were FOURTEEN (14) short videos of all the speakers.

(I’ll post each video individually if feedback is negative on the playlist)

Helen Freedman ( Exec. Dir. AFSI), Pastor James David Manning of the ATLAH World Missionary Church

Radio Personality and long-time Jewish activist, Charlie Bernhaut and  Raanan Isseroff, a representative of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement

 

AFSI members Bob Unger and Jack Ross (who had recently dedicated the Torah Scroll that was confiscated).  David Jacobs now lives in Israel with his family and spoke of the anguish he felt seeing the synagogue destroyed (in Gush Katif) where his daughter held her Bat-Mitzvah.

 

Brooklyn resident Robin Ticker, Manhigut Yehudit spokesman Rob Muchnick and veteran AFSI volunteer Charlotte Wahle.

A slide show of all the pictures:

For a  report on the Destruction of Givat Aryeh, please go here > >

There are two fine reports on the protest; one from Fern Sidman and, also, Raanan Isseroff, from whom I chose some parting thoughts:

In keeping with the theme of Chanukah, speakers pointed out the hard fight that the Maccabees had against the “political Jews” of that time. Jews who put their faith in the Greek nation first. Much like today, where Jews around the world look to the nations of the world for the very survival of Israel. Nations who historically caused the Holocaust.  Yet from them, they seek salvation. And like the political Jews of days of old, this faith in the nations was to such an extent, that it was not beyond them to put Jews in danger and even joined the Greek legions in fighting against those heroes, the Maccabee’s.

While this seems romantic looking back, we are each left with the question of whose side are we really on today?

Have we unwittingly aligned ourselves with the “Political Jews”, those Greek Jews of the Chanukah story against the very hero’s we so revere?

Today, the situation is so similar.  It will only be with those people who are the “small jar of pure oil”. Those who feel the sacred mission of the Holy Land and its Jewish place in the destiny of the world, that Israel will again please G-d, regain its senses and begin to once again put the safety and necessity of Israel’s Jews first.

More from AFSI: Who they are and suggestions on what YOU can do to help.

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI has been in the forefront protesting against the inhumane, pointless, self-abasing destruction of Jewish synagogues and homes in the Shomron by the Israeli government. Our message has continuously been that destroying the lives and livelihood of Jews who are adhering to the biblical injunction to inherit the land and to settle in it, is a violation of all the trust and purpose inherent in the creation of the State of Israel. We plead with PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, as well as the Israeli Supreme Court justices, to end this disastrous program immediately.

AFSI has been reporting on the Israeli Destructo squads continue their dirty work undeterred by logic and common sense. Wouldn’t it seem natural to suspend all demolition orders while Israel’s citizens are under rocket attack from Gaza, and the threat of rocket attack from the north? These matters seem to be unrelated. The demolitions continue regardless of the fact that they ignore the realities on the ground.

Arutz Sheva (www.israelnationalnews.com) reports on the destruction of homes in Mitzpe Yitzhar. The heartbreaking photos of this useless, unwarranted, self-abasing, cruel and inhumane action are here>>. Other communities are also threatened. Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan sent a letter to all of the ministers and MKs, noting that 150 homes, housing 1,000 Israelis who have lived in their homes for over ten years, are scheduled for destruction in the near future: Givat Assaf, Ramat Gilad, Migron, the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El, and Amona are all on the list.

Emails should be sent protesting against this despicable program.

Write to:  PM Netanyahu: memshala@pmo.gov.il,

bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il, pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il

 Defense Minister Ehud Barak: pniot@mod.gov.il

Unions & Leftists Protest American Voting Laws (12-10-11) Pics and Vids

DECEMBER 10 2011  : HUMAN RIGHTS DAY at the UN

(Video of the March from 44th st and Park to Dag Hammarskjold)

( scroll down for video of some speeches)

The UNIONS and MARXIST CHUMS took to the STREETS.

PROTESTING the STEALING OF AMERICA VOTE BY VOTE

It was Human Rights Declaration Day (Is that just plain CREEPY, or what?)  

Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, UFT’s Michael Mulgrew, 

City Council member Letitia James and Imam Al-Hajj Talib

Abdur-Rashid  filled the air with cries of Racism. Envy. 

Greed and Fraud.

 WHAT COUNTRY TO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY LIVE IN?

 

(Cuba? Saudi Arabia?)

They have a bizarre dream …

Posting their propaganda announcements here along with the pictures and video I took, seemed the best way to illuminate their HYPOCRISY

10 December 2011– On this day in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has become a universal standard for defending and promoting human rights. Every year on 10 December, Human Rights Day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration. It is celebrated around the globe that “All human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms”.

This year thousands of people decided the time had come to claim their rights. They took to the streets and demanded change. Many found their voices using the internet and instant messaging to inform, inspire and mobilise supporters to seek their basic human rights.

Social media helped activists organise peaceful protest movements in cities across the globe—in Tunis, in Cairo, in Madrid, in New York, and in cities and towns across the globe—at times in the face of violent repression.

It has been a year like no other for human rights. Human rights activism has never been more topical or more vital. And through the transforming power of social media, ordinary people have become human rights activists.

Human rights belong equally to each of us and bind us together as a global community with the same ideals and values. As a global community we all share a day in common: Human Rights Day on 10 December, when we remember the creation 63 years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .

On Human Rights Day 2011 we pay tribute to all human rights defenders and ask you to get involved in the global human rights movement.

Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=937

5 Million and Counting – Rally Dec. 10 to Protect Voting Rights

Imagine if everyone in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx suddenly lost the right to vote.That’s about the number of people — 5 million and counting — affected by changes already adopted or currently pending in state legislatures around the country. When all is said and done, millions more could lose the right to vote.

On Saturday, December 10 — Human Rights Day — more than 100 civil, labor, and human rights organizations from across the country — including the New York Civil Liberties Unionand the ACLU — will take a “Stand for Freedom” in New York City to protest the attack on voting rights. The march and rally will begin at the Manhattan headquarters of leading voter suppression funders, the Koch brothers, and will conclude outside the United Nations.

This year, legislatures in 34 states were pressed to pass laws that would undermine voting rights. Fourteen states have passed such laws. Early voting, Sunday voting and same-day registration are under attack. Unfair restrictions on the formerly incarcerated will strike tens of thousands from the voting rolls. Photo ID requirements represent the greatest barrier to voting since the poll tax.

More than a century ago, extremists attacked voting rights to help establish segregation. Now they’re attempting to suppress voter turnout among groups that typically cast ballots in favor of social justice and civil rights. This tightly coordinated effort targets the voting rights of the elderly, the poor, students and people of color.

Myths about widespread voter fraud are used to justify barriers to voting, but study after study has shown that voter fraud is extremely rare. The limited fraud that occurs typically involves absentee ballots, which photo ID requirement do not address. It is important to protect the integrity of the election process, but not at the cost of disenfranchising eligible voters.

(The infamous NY City Councilman, Charles Barron)

Saturday’s march will assemble at 10 a.m. at 61st Street and Madison Avenue, near the Koch brothers Manhattan offices.  Starting at 11 a.m., we will march to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th Street and 2nd Avenue) for a noon rally.

Come march with ACLU Executive Director, Anthony Romero.The right to vote is at the heart of our democracy. Help us protect it.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/author/Donna%20Lieberman%2C%20Executive%20Director%2C%20New%20York%20Civil%20Liberties%20Union

HEADS UP! Friend G.Perry at American Rattlesnake, covered the Anti-Koch Press Conference HERE>>

Union 150+ Rights Groups Rally To Protect Minority Voting Rights on Dec. 10, UN Human Rights Day

Several thousand protesters are expected to attend the Stand for Freedom March and Rally in New York City on Saturday, December 10, the United Nations Human Rights Day. The Rally will be led by a coalition of over 150 civil rights and community organizations in response to the recent national sweep of proposed voter identification laws that are likely to disenfranchise votersof color.

MinKwon Center excerpt from mission statement, “Our goals are to educate community members about issues that are impacting immigrant communities, including the Korean American community; to increase Korean American civic participation and to promote immigrant rights through long-term organizing, advocacy and education programs; to serve the marginalized members of our community through various social service programs; and to preserve our cultural roots by involving members of our community in projects that promote our ethnic and cultural heritage.”

“After monitoring elections for over two decades, we have seen how Asian Americans are disenfranchised by voter identification laws, anti-Asian bias at poll sites, and poor enforcement of the Voting Rights Act’s language assistance provisions,” said Margaret Fung, Executive Director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). “At a time when Asian Americans are more politically engaged than ever, we need to ensure that all Americans, especially new citizens, are able to exercise their fundamental right to vote.”

Fung will join NAACP President Ben Jealous, 1199SEIU President George Gresham, NAACP LDF President John Payton, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Executive Director Barbara Arnwine, and other civil rights leaders in a press conference before the march and rally on Saturday at 10:30am.

The march will begin at 61st Street and Madison Avenue at the NYC headquarters of Koch Industries and culminate in a rally across from the United Nations. Busloads of protestors from Maryland, Rochester, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut, Buffalo, and several other places are expected to join.

“We hope New Yorkers will join us in standing up for freedom on Dec. 10,” said Fung. “If these proposals are not defeated, Asian Americans and other communities of color will face new discriminatory obstacles to voting.”

STAND FOR FREEDOM MARCH TO PROTECT MINORITY VOTING RIGHTS

DATE:               Saturday, December 10, 2011
TIME:               Press Conference begins at 10:30am
WHERE:         61st Street and Madison Avenue

SPEAKERS:    Benjamin Jealous, President and CEO, National NAACP
George Gresham, President, 1199SEIU
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel
Rev. Al Sharpton, Civil Rights Activist/Founder of National Action Network
Margaret Fung, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
John Payton, President, NAACP LDF
Michael Mulgrew, President, United Federation of Teachers
Dr. Hazel N. Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference
Marc Morial, President, National Urban League
Judith A. Browne Dianis, Co-Director, The Advancement Project
Anthony Romero, Executive Director, ACLU
Barbara Arnwine, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Center for Community Change
Lillian Rodríguez López, Executive Director, Hispanic Federation
Melanie Campbell, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Chung-Wha Hong, Exec. Director, The New York Immigration Coalition

http://aaldef.org/press-releases/press-release/150-rights-groups-rally-to-protect-minority-voting-rights-on-dec-10-un-human-rights-day.html

http://beyondoccupy.blogspot.com/2011/12/5-million-and-counting-rally-dec-10-to.html

SLIDESHOW OF PICTURES:

Remembering, this is UN Human Rights Day all they could they complain about was the ‘human rights abuses’ the NY City Council.

Sen Chuck Schumer ( D-NY) started out praising himself because he rode his bike to the Rally. Then he trashed our Voter Laws and said how important it is to keep our VOTES CLEAN and HONEST.

“No to DISENFRANCHISEMENT” “Our Military FOUGHT for the Right To Vote” (But, it was the Dems who made sure our men and women in uniform COULDN’T VOTE!)

ACORN, EX-Felons and our very own REP from the Islamic Leadership Council of NY (and the Muslim Brotherhood.)

The Imam (starting at approx 4: 38) Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid of the Islamic Leadership Council of NY trashed our American Voting Laws while he praised our “membership” as citizens of One World, One People….

http://www.nymajlis.org/news.php?news_id=49

VIDEO OF SCHUMER AND THE IMAM:

The Imam gave praise to  himself and his faith (not his Country… AMERICA) Did any in that crowd see thru his lies. Or, MAYBE those are the folks who stayed away in DROVES….There were lots of UNUSED signs…

More than 100 civil, labor, and human rights organizations from across the country — including the New York Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU — insisting they  “Stand for Freedom” and protesting what they CLAIM to be an attack on MINORITY voting rights.

Found this info … and map……claiming to PROTECT the INTEGRITY of our Right To VOTE as CITIZENS of the United States

Restrictive voting laws on rise across country

by Michael Hirsch | published November 24, 2011

In 2011, legislators in seven states — Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin — rewrote voting laws to require voters to present state-issued photo identification, while a voter-ID ballot question passed in Mississippi on Nov. 8. 

Florida and Ohio cut nearly in half the number of days for early voting and eliminated Sunday voting. Florida also will impose penalties for minor infractions on third-party voter-registration drives, prompting the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters to cease voter registration in the state.

The Maine Legislature eliminated same-day voter registration — until voters overwhelmingly rejected the law in a referendum on Nov. 8.

In all, Republican lawmakers in 23 states have passed, tried to pass or are attempting to pass laws toughening voter registration and voting requirements [see map, below] in what critics call the most concerted effort to roll back voting rights in decades. (?)

Critics from the NAACP to the AFT call it voter suppression: a blatant effort by states run by Republicans to tamp down on voting by low-income and minority voters in next year’s presidential election.

http://www.uft.org/news-stories/restrictive-voting-laws-rise-across-country

American Civil Liberties Union

“States where restrictive laws have already passed represent 63 percent of the electoral votes needed to win the presidency,” says the Advancement Project, which tracks  election laws.

The “right-wing” billionaire Koch brothers are big proponents of these new laws.  The American Legislative Exchange Council, funded heavily by them, prepares model voter-suppression legislation.

(hmmm….ANY WORD ON THE SOROS FUNDED PROJECT VOTE THAT ENCOURAGED EVERYONE TO VOTE TWICE in 2010??)

Critics call the new laws a modern-day version of the Jim Crow-era poll taxes and literacy tests — which are no longer limited to the South or African Americans. 

Please READ THE REST of the article AND PREPARE TO CHALLENGE THESE LIES AND PROPAGANDA AT YOUR LOCAL LEVEL…

“There is once again a quiet but systematic movement that would deny many African Americans and other American citizens the ability to vote with 21st century versions of old exclusionary practices,” said Marian Wright Edelman, the president of the Children’s Defense Fund, in an article in the Huffington Post.

“The generations ahead of us had to face Jim Crow,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton at the Nov. 8 press conference to launch the “Stand for Freedom” campaign. “We face his son, James Crow Jr., Esq.”

The Republican supporters of these laws say they prevent widespread voter fraud. 

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, however, found incidents of individuals falsely claiming to be voters accounted for less than one-thousandth of 1 percent of all votes cast. Adds the American  Civil Liberties Union: “Multiple studies have found that almost all cases of in-person voter ‘fraud’ are the result of a voter making an honest mistake.” 

Studies show that laws requiring voters to present official photo IDs, such as a driver’s license or a passport, have a disproportionate impact on poor, minority and young voters. The Brennan Center found that 11 percent of citizens, or 21 million people, don’t have a current photo ID — including 15 percent of low-income eligible voters, 18 percent of young eligible voters and 25 percent of black eligible voters.

Critics say the restrictions on Sunday voting target African Americans who vote after church. In the 2008 presidential election, a majority of those who cast early votes did so for President Barack Obama.

Election law changes in states with a history of discriminatory voting practices must get approval from the U.S. Department of Justice to ensure they do not violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The new voter-ID laws in Texas and South Carolina are being reviewed by the Justice Department. Mississippi will have to submit its plan for review as well.

The stakes in this battle are high. As he signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act in the company of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights leaders, President Lyndon Johnson said, “This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.”

CHALLENGE the Marxist/Leftist Assault on our Freedoms.

EXPOSE their FAKE Patriotism.

Take Back America! VOTE BY VOTE BY VOTE!