Note to : Senator McCain (R) and Senator Kyl (R) and ALL AZ Congressional Representatives (R) and (D) to Congress:

“Arizona Governor Jan Brewer angrily demanded yesterday that the White House withdraw their report to the UN Human Rights Council that singled out Arizona’s law as a cause for concern about the American track record on human rights. Calling such a reference “downright offensive” in her letter to Hillary Clinton, Brewer also called the entire report “internationalism run amuck.”

 (Ed Morrissey: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/28/brewer-blasts-obama-over-submission-to-un-specifying-az-immigration-law/)

Every single citizen of Arizona has been smeared as racist, human rights abusers to the United Nations HRC by our current President, Barack Obama (D), through his appointee, Hillary Clinton (D) as Secretary of State. One cannot recall a single instance when a sovereign government has EVER issued a condemnation of its OWN people to the United Nations. The Obama Administration initiated the international smear by instructing the State Department through Hillary Clinton and her deputy to introduce Arizona as a human rights abuser to the Chinese a few months ago, “Brought it up early and often.” Not a peep from our elected representatives then, now Obama jacks this cynical campaign against Arizona to the United Nations.

This also follows a recent obnoxious scene when Nancy Pelosi (D) as Speaker of the House provided Congress as the venue for a pulpit and a tacit stamp of approval for Mexico’s President to spew falsehoods and outrageous complaints against lawful Arizona state governing , and Arizona’s people. Before the entire nation, the Democratic Party literally applauded the whines of a foreigner against American citizens. Before the entire nation, Arizona’s elected representatives have been mute.

Arizona apparently has no representation in the Senate or in the House of Representatives. The silence is inexcusable. Our elected representatives should be in 100% in unison regardless of political party in public, and in unrelenting condemnation, and in demanding accountability on the Senate and House floors to protest the complete abuse of our national governance against the state of Arizona and the American citizens of Arizona they were elected to represent.

It goes far beyond Republican or Democrat, to the national integrity of our country, yet the elected officials Arizona has sent to represent this state in Congress are silent. There is no Congressional mobilization of the Constitutional checks and balances to control this executive branch abuse, thanks to the abandonment by our legislators of their sworn duties to the PEOPLE.

Governor Jan Brewer is a Republican. Where are her fellow Republican elected officials standing with her as she rightly objects to this unheard of act of the government in Washington DC going to an international body to pressure a U.S. State to accept a radical, corrosive and extra-legal domestic political agenda? Senator McCain, where are you? Senator Kyl where are you? Are you (R) busy defending the PEOPLE or (R)INO busy enabling the Democrats by co-drafting amnesty for favored status of foreigners who’ve broken our laws, over lawful citizens?

This is not only a national disgrace, a complete travesty, but a terrible abrogation of national sovereignty. We sure don’t hear any murmurs of concern about this coordinated Democratic Party disgusting action against a fellow Republican elected official who currently represents this state.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has been considered a travesty of its own, usually stocked with the world’s worst human rights offenders on the planet: Cuba, with journalists starving to death in squalid Cuban jails, China which harvests organs from prisoners, Saudi Arabia which beheads religious apostates, amputates people’s hands for crimes like theft, and shelters slavery within its kingdom’s borders, all of which have prisoners who would literally give their right arms to be taken care of by Sheriff Joe Arpaio instead.   

It’s been a bad joke and just got worse. The committee members know very well Arizona is paradise compared to what they and scores of other countries routinely dish out to their citizens. Not a single other country would tolerate for a nanosecond ANY illegals entering their own nations, but many are happy to play along with the Obama Administration’s little political maneuvering stunt and condemn Arizona anyway, so this takes bad theatre down to a lower level of basement decrepitude.

What happens next?  Will Arizonans be  subject to arrest while innocently traveling abroad?  Not likely?  How preposterous is the fact that the “”problem of Arizona” is now on the UNHRC’s agenda?  It’s ridiculous, but there it is, thanks to Obama. By forcing this issue into the United Nations, all sorts of consequences are now possible.  Will the ultimate cynical ploy be realized by a gloating and gleeful White House?  Governor Jan Brewer indicted as Sudan’s Bashir was for “crimes against humanity”?  President  Bashir presided over Darfur atrocities, Brewer presides over …  SB1070, which the Obama Administration evidently is arguing is on some sort of bizarro par with Bashir’s Darfur policies.  Our POTUS is destroying the protections ALL American citizens are entitled to as stated in the Constitution.  Yet, our representatives are AWOL.  Instead of standing up for us all, they are hiding from us.

by Nick Dranias
Goldwater Institute

Last week, the Goldwater Institute filed a formal appeal to the Supreme Court to strike down matching funds once and for all. The appeal follows the Court’s decision on June 8, 2010, to suspend temporarily the distribution of matching funds to taxpayer-funded “Clean Elections” candidates.

Matching funds seek to “level the playing field” between taxpayer-funded and privately-funded candidates by showering taxpayer-funded candidates with matching subsidies for every dollar that an opposing privately-funded opponent raises or spends above a specific spending limit.

Imagine if this concept were applied to the media in general, news websites that get “too many” visitors could trigger subsidies to bail out failing newspapers. To provide “balance,” talk shows with ratings that spike “too high” could spawn access to tax dollars for their struggling competition.

Sounds pretty far-fetched, right. The Federal Trade Commission recently published a report urging more funds to public broadcasting, creation of a government program to pay reporters and fund local news, and taxes on electronic devices and online news aggregators. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger wrote this summer in the Wall Street Journal that there is nothing to fear from government subsidizing the media – highlighting China’s CCTV and Xinhua news as examples of unbiased journalism.

If these ideas gain momentum, the government could easily shape the marketplace of ideas through triggered subsidies. Stopping the government from silencing candidates with the threat of massive subsidies to their political opponents is a necessary step to preventing the government’s wider expansion of fiscally-engineered censorship.

Nick Dranias holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair for Constitutional Government and is Director of the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government at the Goldwater Institute.

by Clint Bolick

The federal health care bill is one of the most sweeping invasions of individual liberty in American history. Two weeks ago, the Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit to bring down the law and restore your right to make your own health care decisions.

The lead plaintiff is Nick Coons, who owns a small computer sales and repair business in Tempe. Mr. Coons pays his health care expenses out of his own pocket, so that he can invest every possible dollar in expanding his business. When he gets older, Mr. Coons plans to purchase a high-deductable health insurance policy that would cover a catastrophic accident or illness.

Neither of those options is allowed under the new federal law. Starting in 2014, Mr. Coons will be forced to purchase government-approved health insurance – covering far more than he needs. If he refuses, he will have to pay a stiff penalty to the IRS every year.

Our lawsuit, Coons v. Geithner, argues that forcing Mr. Coons to buy government-mandated health insurance violates his constitutional rights and exceeds the limited powers of Congress.

Joining Mr. Coons in this lawsuit are 29 state legislators and three members of Congress who are prevented by the health care bill from providing meaningful oversight or voting solely in the best interest of Arizona citizens. I’ll explain more about those issues in future articles.

The title of my most recent book, David’s Hammer, depicts the judicial gavel as a force that can be wielded by ordinary Americans to bring down government oppression. If ever we needed that hammer, it is now.

Clint Bolick is director of the Goldwater Institute Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation.

 Arizona Although a number of Arizona citizens decided to fight back against San Diego’s boycott of Arizona, Rick Romley chose to spend a few days at the posh Hotel del Coronado in San Diego for a lawyer’s lovefest from July 14 – 17th last month. Romley is now stonewalling records requests from several media outlets seeking to scrutinize whether Romley attended “CLE by the Sea” on the dime of the Maricopa County taxpayer. If Romley drove, the cost to taxpayers is $360 in travel mileage per diem (720 miles @ .50 per). If he flew, air travel is about $150. The room was anywhere from $885 – $1775 in room rates, and then there’s the $659 program cost. All told, Romley’s high falutin’ ways total up to anywhere from $1694 to $2774 at a time when county officials seem to have a hard time watching how they spend our tax dollars.

What makes the situation worse is that Romley could have attended a training conference hosted by the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys Advisory Council (APAAC) for a fraction of the cost with virtually no expense to Maricopa County taxpayers. The Arizona option was held at the Westin La Paloma resort in Tucson from August 4 – 6. While maybe not as cool or posh as the Hotel Del, Romley would have paid only $60 in the program fee and APAAC would have picked up the rest!

Show us the records Rick. After all: “character matters.”

By Jane 001

American people don’t want more stimulus from Capital Hill. We can’t be more clear about our disdain for stimulus bills and our desire for government spending to go on lock-down. Nevertheless, the U.S. Senate advanced another $26 billion jobs stimulus bill on Aug 5. GOP Senators had been successful with a filibuster until Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine did their usual dance across the aisle.

The U.S. Senate is advancing spending bills with the speed of a runaway freight train. Although, there’s at least one seasoned GOP veteran in that body who could rally perennial defectors like Snowe and Collins. Some say he’s so effective, no other living Arizonan can be trusted with the job. Despite being tagged as a political tactician, John McCain’s lack of influence with his colleagues is glaring. We can’t count the number of times the Snowe-Collins script has been played. A true tactician would have solved this riddle by now and performed the statesman-like magic in his possession. But there is no magic; and neither are there results.

Maybe John McCain does his best work with Democrats. It’s fine if he enjoys crossing the aisle. But what good is it for someone to cross the aisle when he can’t go across the hall and secure a couple of votes!

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Monday, August 9, 2010

Horne trying desperately to hide his pro-amnesty record

Resorts to suing Arpaio to try and shut down powerful television

Breaking news….we have just heard that liberal Republican Tom Horne has filed a complaint against Sheriff Joe Arpaio over this television ad we sent out earlier today to try and get it taken off the air. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, do it now. Horne’s record on amnesty and other issues can be found at the website http://www.thetomhornetruth.com/ According to the site,

The East Valley Tribune reported on February 14, 2007 that Horne has a “plan” to grant American citizenship to illegal immigrants who meet certain educational requirements.  According to the Tribune, “Horne has a plan that would reward high school graduates with citizenship. All they would have to do is pass a test. “If there’s a standardized test that confirms it, that the student does well and learned, I would have no objection to that” Horne said.

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Real Conservative Rich Davis fights back!

press release

Last week Adam Driggs sent out a mail piece that was full of half-truths, distortions and even some outright lies, demonstrating that Driggs’ campaign is desperate and that Adam is no statesman.

When this race began, Driggs was the front-runner, leading in the polls.  Over the past few weeks that appears to have changed.   As a result, Driggs will likely continue his desperate attacks and mudslinging for the next two weeks.
 
On the positive side, since the Driggs attack piece, Davis has received an outpouring of support from people who were turned off by the dishonest campaigning.  It seems that people are disgusted by Driggs’ approach and it is backfiring against him, particularly amongst undecided voters.  In this political climate, people want to replace incumbents with new leadership and Driggs is reminding them why.

Here are some of Drigg’s falsehoods:

• One of Rich Davis’ most compelling qualities is the time he spent as an advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and later as the Director of Terrorism Prevention at The White House. Driggs tries to undercut this by quoting from an article that has nothing to do with Rich Davis and which hints that everyone at the Department of Homeland Security is some sort of unqualified political crony. Driggs ignored Davis’ senior position and ignored Davis’ promotion to The White House. There is something pathetic about a politician who mocks those who serve our nation in an effort to score cheap political points. Adam Driggs may not think too much of our national security, as his open-borders voting record will attest to, but as a husband and a father, he owes a real debt of gratitude to the men and women who serve our country and keep him and his family safe. Attacking that service is shameful.

• Driggs intentionally deceived people by implying, on one side of the mailer, that Rich Davis lives in Washington DC. He used a paperwork error (which has already been rectified) in the District of Columbia to try and create doubt in the minds of people about where Rich Davis lives. Of course, on the other side of the same mailer Driggs refers to Rich Davis’ Arizona home. And Rich Davis is on the ballot right here in Arizona, a fact that we’re sure Adam Driggs is fully aware of each and every day. So why lie and try to confuse voters? Driggs knows exactly where Rich Davis lives on one side of his mailer and is just playing dumb on the other.

• Driggs claims that Rich Davis made up his job as Chancellor and claims that it was a school of 80 students. The role and title of Chancellor was established by the school system’s Board of Trustees, and Driggs only used the population of the smallest school to create the false perception that Davis was embellishing his resume. The embellishment was Driggs’, because he ignored the other schools in the system.

• Driggs tries to portray Rich Davis as a Washington, D.C. insider and says that his Washington D.C. contributions show that Rich has no interest in representing Arizona. Rich Davis’ campaign finance reports show a measly eight contributions from Washington, D.C. By comparison, Driggs gets over 61% of his money from PACs, lobbyists, their families and associates. Most of Davis’ money comes from Arizona and he has not taken money from PACs or special interest groups. So if we believe Driggs that where your money comes from indicates who you are going to represent, then Rich Davis will be representing the people while Adam Driggs will be representing the lobbyists. Probably not the point Adam Driggs was hoping to make.

• Driggs attempts to minimize the work of ARTIS Research (one of Davis’ companies) because the statutory address on the corporate documents is Rich Davis’ home. ARTIS works to reduce violence emanating from conflict zones. ARTIS researchers, including Rich Davis, go into harm’s way to improve understanding about terrorism and insurgencies in an effort to save lives and reduce the threat of violent actors reaching the United States. ARTIS personnel includes some of the great minds in the world, like Lord John Alderdice, the man who led the IRA and Great Britain to the Good Friday Accords and Robert Axelrod, who is on the short list for a Nobel Prize for his work. ARTIS employs people in four states and has consultants in even more. So why paint a false picture based on a statutory address? Maybe Adam Driggs just doesn’t want us focusing on his record anymore?

Adam Driggs continues to try and take credit for SB1070 in spite of working against the bill so long and so hard that its author, Russell Pearce, endorsed Rich Davis for this race. Adam ignores his open-borders record and Rich Davis’ endorsement from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He ignores his record on the budget because he has used the very same accounting gimmicks he campaigned against. Adam Driggs continues to reveal himself to be just another desperate politician trying to hang on to elected office in spite of his job performance.

So we have to tell the truth for him. To each of our friends and neighbors. Driggs and his buddies have a lot of money, and they’re going to keep on repeating their lies for the next two weeks. We have to continue to spread the truth and trust that God knows what is going on and that He will prepare people’s eyes and ears for what they need to see and hear.

Feel free to pass this along to your friends in the district and thank you for doing your part to elect real, honest leadership to the State Senate.

ABOUT RICH
• Rich Davis is a business man and owns two companies – ARTIS Research (a research company that studies human behavior and cognition in Conflict Zones) and Davis Energy. Previously his background includes:

• Director of Terrorism Prevention, The White House under George W. Bush
• Advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security
• Director of an educational development non-profit
• School Administrator and Teacher
• Education – M.A. Naval War College; M.P.A. Harvard University; M.A. Azusa Pacific University; and B.A. Hope International University.

By Steven Robinson

Recently US Senate candidate Jim Deakin’s home went into foreclosure.  Anyone aware of our nation’s tremendous financial problems can understand and even sympathize with Jim’s financial plight.  No one wants to see anyone go through that painful process.  However, in this case you must take a closer look to understand, that IN SPITE of his ‘conservative rhetoric”, Jim Deakin spends money just like the US government he is so fond of criticizing.  That is to say, he borrows with the “promise to pay in the future” SO he can spend it today!!  In this case, Jim does it with government underwritten  loans. You only have to look at the public records to discover Jim and Adonia Deakin’s spendthrift habits.

Many people who obtain loans do so with the intent to pay down the mortgage and in time, own the home free and clear.  Their goal is to have a home that is debt-free, with no monthly payment.  In theory the federal government would ALSO operate this way, keeping the debt in check, allowing for some valid reasons to borrow, such as war.  However, we know that our federal government has borrowed so much money over the last 40 years to finance outrageous spending, guaranteeing re-election by ‘buying’ support of the voters and the companies to whom they dole out this money. (The Taxpayers future earnings)

So let’s get back to Mr. Deakin. As Jim has stated, he bought his current residence in 1995.  He paid, $148,659 with a VA loan for just over $141K, was for a very nice home in North Phoenix.  Unfortunately Jim endured a divorce and he refinanced the home into his name. The new loan for $164,400 closed in August 1999, borrowing  $25,000 more equity, perhaps used to buy out his ex-wife.  Nothing unusual with this loan.

In 2001, Jim married Adonia, and just one year later, in August 2002, Jim and Adonia obtained a $20,000 Home Equity loan (HELOC) in both their names. Again, there is nothing unusual about this loan; people have used their equity for a variety of purposes.  There is one interesting note: Adonia’s home on East Sequoia Drive was paid off two months later.  We don’t know whether these funds were used to pay off Adonia’s loan, just that the loan was paid off.  More on that later.

However, less than 18 months later, in January 2004, Jim again refinanced, borrowed an ADDITIONAL $32,000 more, with a $216,000 loan.  More significant about this loan is that Jim obtained financing as a “Single man, his sole and separate property”!  NOW the financing activities are getting curious; after all, isn’t Jim married!?

Then, in May, Jim obtained another equity loan (HELOC), THIS time for $54,000, and again as “his sole and separate property”.  Weren’t  Jim and Adonia married?  It’s Confusing, to be sure.  Yet the critical point is that again, Jim is borrowing on his ‘future ability to pay’; and with another $54K to spend.

In May 2005 Adonia sells the home on East Sequoia Drive, she had originally purchased in 1997, and had refinanced in 2000.  This is the loan that was paid off in 2002.  So, when the home sold, a very nice home at that, Adonia cleared over $100,000 at the sale, perhaps more.

Then, in June 2007, Jim and now Adonia, refinanced again!  This time the loan is a WHOPPING $376,000!! After paying off the existing liens, Jim borrowed an additional $106,000!  Again, it’s based on Jim’s ‘future ability to pay’.

So here is the situation, In FIVE short years, beginning in August 2002 through June 2007, Jim and Adonia borrowed an total of additional $212,000.  Furthermore they received another $100K from the sale of Adonia’s original home.  NOW, after MORE THAN DOUBLING the mortgage loan balance, Jim Deakin NOW tells us HE and Adonia are “upside down” in their mortgage!?  Well no wonder! They’ve spent over $300,000 in FIVE short years; by borrowing most of these funds, based on Jim’s ‘future ability to pay’!  This is a 130% increase in his debt over five years.  When you contrast  this with the National Debt over the same time period, the  is ONLY a 10% increase!  Yet Deakin wants to lecture the Congressman about spending? I guess Jim knows how to better manage our country’s finances.

Yet, JUST WHO does Jim Deakin blame for HIS financial difficulties?  In his first press release to Fox10 here is what Jim says: “Small businesses have been struggling because of the burdensome taxation and regulation implemented by both of my opponents.”  What? How did taxation and regulation cause Jim to borrow and spend so much?  He then says, “HUD amendments enacted by my opponents and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act allows greedy bankers to create the derivatives market resulting in the crisis we have all experienced since 2008.”  SO THE ‘GREEDY BANKERS’ made him do it!?

No, Mr. Deakin looks for sympathy as he seeks to walk away from his obligations. His home is in foreclosure, NOT because of the economy; BUT due to his irresponsible borrowing!

One thing is for certain; Jim understands and shares the Democrats’  HUGE appetite for debt!  Clearly he borrows and spends money like, well like “like a drunken sailor”; or rather “like a drunken Congress” to coin a phrase!  IS ANYONE beginning to question Jim Deakin’s claims of being conservative?

This begs the question; will Jim Deakin add insult to injury and avail himself of Obama’s government programs to get “Free Money” with subsidized interest and a lower monthly payments, defer part of the principle balance, partial loan forgiveness, or some other taxpayer subsidy?  Is this what Deakin means when he calls himself an “individualist”?  Is THIS why Jim let his mortgage get so far behind in the first place?  Does the term “Huckster” come to mind? ‘Inquiring minds’ want to know.

H.R.5741 — Universal National Service Act (Introduced in House – IH)
HR 5741 IH
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5741
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 15, 2010

Read the bill in its entirety: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5741:

A brief background: This bill has been introduced twice before. Rep. Charles Rangel (D) introduced it in 2003, expanding the draft to females, with the age parameters set at 18-26. With a Republican Congressional majority, it went nowhere; actually, not nowhere, but back in Rangel’s desk drawer. Rangel, with newly minted Senator Hillary Clinton singing its praises, and Democrats back in control, pulled it out in February 2006, as HR 4752, with a greatly expanded age range of 18-42, to encompass far more of the adult American population. But, the Democratic majority wasn’t quite major enough to pass it. It went back into Rangel’s top desk drawer.

Rangel evidently sees a new opportunity. He reintroduced it a few days ago, as the Universal National Service Act: HR 5741.

With Obama urging a “National Civilian Corps” and the Democrats firmly in control of both the Congress and Senate, and the leadership of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who thinks nothing of hiding the contents of the power-grabbing bills she promotes from the public, “We’ll have to pass it before you find out what’s in it,” Rangel’s HR 5741, in this session, has the best chance ever of being passed and signed into law. It should have had a wooden stake driven through it and burned.

Behind the façade of “National Service,” which sounds okay enough and has a sly suggestive appeal of getting idle youth off the streets, and ‘push-up’ them into a discipline their parents were too lazy to instill in their progeny, and seems to ignore that the National Guard is already tasked with “the furtherance of the national defense and homeland security,” the Democrats are proposing a sweeping and devastating crushing of our individual liberties, of our fundamental unalienable rights as stated in the Constitution of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The military does NOT want a draft. They are on record as opposing one. It’s doing just fine with an all-volunteer military. They like the self-selecting aspect of it; that those who don’t want to be in the military don’t apply, saving the military endless headaches from dealing with sullen and recalcitrant inductees. The military can achieve more with a smaller, but better trained and more motivated force comprised of men and women who have a natural inclination for military work. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

But this isn’t about making the military better, but WORSE. Rangel’s motivation was to make military service onerous and unwanted, to discourage American military activity.

   “Ironically, in previous discussion leading up the bill, Rangel’s initiative to restore the draft was described as “an anti-war tactic” … “Rangel opposes war with Iraq and seeks to make the point that many soldiers are volunteers from low-income and minority families. Political leaders, his reasoning goes, would think twice about sending into war the sons and daughters of a more complete cross-section of America.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2535

It’s a toxic inspiration for a truly vile piece of legislation, based on what has been proven to be no more than a phony urban, class warfare legend. The majority of our current all-volunteer military is not derived from poor and minority volunteers, but from the “white,” middle and upper middle class. The bill proposes seizing control of the lives of all males and females 18-42 for one of three demands of government:

1) National Service: ‘uniformed services’ or ‘civilian service’
2) Universal male-female Draft in time of war
3) For other purposes

    “The bill applies to both US citizens and non-citizens, to men and women. There does not appear to be a provision which would exempt women who are pregnant and/or caring for infants/children in a young age… The bill also supports Big Brother. Those who are not sent overseas to the war theater would… be inducted into the civilian homeland defense corps and other civilian duties, including the Citizens Corps, the “Neighborhood Watch Teams” and the “Volunteer Police Service …” http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2535

Evidently, these two categories are not quite enough, so the third provision, “for other purposes” is the lock on the shackles. This trifecta would establish a modern form of slavery, engineered by the Democratic Party, the same political party that was responsible for plunging the nation into civil war rather than give up slave labor, and jacks the executive branch power of Commander-in-Chief of the military, to Totalitarian in Chief of all the people. We can expect that Obama, being human, would be warm to this, in a self-promoting way, since he would be the first POTUS in American history to be able to exploit absolute power.

The consequences will be devastating. If anyone between the ages of 18-42, the most productive segment of our society can be yanked out of their professions, training or schooling to perform busywork for the government, then it’s the death of private enterprise in America. The societal hardships will be enormous. The government will be able to redirect work to favored partisan priorities and away from out of favor production and services. The burden on families would be worse than for singles as BOTH parents could be ordered away from their children, punishing marriage and child-raising with uncertainty, disruption and enormous emotional stress, businesses will be in a constant state of artificial disarray, dealing with unexpected employee absences, training staff only to suddenly lose them.

This “Universal National Service Act” isn’t about warfare needs, but about government totally controlling people; no one will be able to predict when they would be called up. And from what money tree is financing supposed to come for this? Taking people away from producing work to forcibly perform non-producing activities destroys personal and national wealth-creation.  People working long hours will suddenly have “volunteering” work or as it is becoming known as: “volun-TOLD,” to add to their work load.

Rangel’s perverse vision for this bill is that it is to undermine our fighting capabilities. With that as its fundamental premise, it will be easy to engineer infuriating and shocking outcomes for maximum public outrage – by cynically sending women to war, while men are sent to clean toilets at public schools.

The decision to assign a draftee to one of the three named services will be made by politically-appointed draft boards, and there the potential for great mischief will manifest itself. Political enemies get sent to military service, or harassed with random forms of “deployment,” political favorites to picking flowers in national parks, or to nice urban offices to drink coffee and roam the hallways or snoop on neighbors, reporting them for “un-patriotic” activities, a system developed by the Communists to control every single person in the society.

The undefined, “any other purpose” leaves citizens totally at the mercy of the whims of political hacks. Bribery will be rampant and blatant as people bargain the price out of hardship. Prison will be the punishment for “National-Service-Dodging.”

Where is the media? They are AWOL. Perhaps they are confident their political connections will allow them exemptions that lesser mortals will not get. Because of their failure to alert the public, most Americans are not aware that this bill even exists, much less that it’s been re-introduced in the House.

It’s hard to conceive of the duplicity of the many minds, all Democrats, which produced and support such a monstrosity, but the PEOPLE of the United States will be made chattel in their own country if this Universal National Slavery Act is allowed to pass.

Contact ALL your elected representatives to oppose this hideous bill, HR 5741, and to make sure it never is seen in any form, again, ever. Do not vote for ANY politician who does not in word and deed reject completely not just this piece of abusive legislation, but also this abusive legislative mindset.

Spread the word, show people the bill. Demand the Democratic Party explain this travesty, it is being sheltered and promoted by Democrats. Our elected officials should be publicizing this outrage to the American People to expose the despicable quality and devious goals of those in the Democratic Party who are misusing their majorities to establish not governance of the People, but lordship over us.

Start in November 2010. If a candidate has DEMOCRAT by his or her name, consider what the Democrats have in store for all of us if they retain any semblance of a majority and consider the corrosive enabling effects of any candidate (I) or (R) who colludes in any way with these exploitative and totalitarian aspirations.

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Tuseday, August 3, 2010

The Obama administration and their allies in the media are celebrating Clinton appointee Susan Bolton’s temporary injunction against SB 1070.  I sure hope she gets that 9th Court appointment, she has earned it.  The New York Times called it “Warning to Other States.”  Some patriots are becoming discouraged.

In reality, SB 1070 is a warning to illegal aliens and their allies in the federal government respect our laws and Americans have reason to celebrate.

As of July 29, Sanctuary/Catch & Release policies in this state are illegal under state law.  Citizens, you remember the term, “We The People?” Well, We The People can sue our government for failure to enforce our laws and will and that will be a up to $5,000 per day for any policy that restricts or limits the enforcement our federal law to the full extent permitted by law.  State officials are required to report illegal aliens.  There are still increased penalties for hiring illegal day laborers.

SB 1070 is already working. CNN reported that even though SB 1070 “now heads for higher courts…some of the estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants in Arizona are leaving the state.”

Judge Bolton’s temporary injunction against parts of the law is minor setback, but Arizona will fight this in court until we prevail just as we did when a judge issued an injunction against Proposition 200.

The citizens of the United States are standing with Arizona.  According to a July 19 Quinnipiac University Poll, Americans oppose the Justice Department’s lawsuit against SB 1070 by a margin of over 2-1 and in another national poll support SB1070 by 66%, again by over 2 to 1.

Most know that illegal immigrants are, well, you know illegal.  Barack Obama does not.

The basis of the Justice Department’s complaint is not that SB 1070 interferes with federal immigration law, but rather that it interferes with the Obama administration’s “discretion in enforcing the provisions of the federal immigration laws” that means his priorities of NON enforcement over ours of enforcement.

This discretion means they only will go after illegal aliens who are also “engaged in or suspected of terrorism or espionage; aliens convicted of crimes, with a particular emphasis on violent criminals, felons, and repeat offenders; certain gang members; aliens subject to outstanding criminal warrants; and fugitive aliens, especially those with criminal records.”  He means they must commit another crime and have another victim before they will do anything and then maybe.  What is another homicide, molestation, home invasion, kidnapping, of job taken from an American bread winner to getting those future votes or the cheap labor the profits over patriotism crowd is demanding.

All this while the Mexican drug wars are flooding across the border into Arizona with home invasions and kidnappings becoming commonplace.  Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of America.  15 police officers have been shot or maimed by illegal aliens in Phoenix alone.  During the debate over 1070, my friend and 5th Generation Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz was murdered by illegal alien drug dealers.  Days after the law passed, a police officer was shot by other illegal alien drug smugglers.  I have a son who is a Deputy Sheriff who was shot and critically wounded while serving Homicide warrants on illegal alien suspects.

Illegal immigration also strains the economy of Arizona.  The non-partisan Federation for American Immigration Reform recently released a study that found illegal aliens cost Arizona Taxpayers 2.6 billion dollars a year.  Before Arizona passed the Legal Arizona Workers Act to keep employers for hiring illegal aliens, 9.8% of our workforce as illegal.

Arizona’s stand against illegal immigration is not just about States’ Rights, it’s about a State’s Responsibility.

When I assumed office, I put my hand on the bible and solemnly swore to “support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

SB 1070 is the law of the State of Arizona.

Article IV Section 4 of the US Constitution states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”  The flood of illegal aliens—many of whom are terrorists, violent drug dealers, and gang members—is nothing short of an invasion.   I swore to protect the Constitution as the founders intended it, not the political agenda of a left wing activist judge and administration.

By siding with lawbreakers and undermining the Democratic will of the American people, I’m tempted to call the Obama and his lackeys domestic enemies.   At the very least he is more concerned about what America’s enemies think about SB 1070 than the American people.  Obama’s Deputy Secretary of State issued an affidavit against SB 1070.  Among his justifications was Venezuela’s outrageous accusation that the law “could lead to the legitimization of racist attitudes and the latent risk of violence.”

That’s right, Obama’s state department is using slander by anti-American Socialist Dictators like Hugo Chavez as an excuse to overturn the democratic process in Arizona!

I do not take my oath of office lightly.  It is my duty as a public servant and an American citizen to ensure that SB 1070 is enacted and enforced.  The people of Arizona will not rest until this happens.

WHERE are our sitting US Senators, McCain and Kyl, all our Arizona Congressmen and Congresswomen, publically and vociferously defending Arizona and Arizona local law enforcement on the floor of the Senate and the House and through every and all media outlet, against the Obama Administration’s cynical and toxic approval of coordinated campaigns to dishonestly smear our police, sheriffs and deputies as racists, agitating street violence by bussing in professional protestors with radios and scanners to harass, interfere with, abuse and exhaust local law enforcement officers?  WHERE are they denouncing all Unconstitutional actions to destroy domestic tranquillity by divisive and damaging boycotts against Arizona and Arizonans?

AZ law enforcement is under siege and our two senators are AWOL; AWOL for Federal enforcement actions, border security and AWOL for addressing local AZ state hardships. Aren’t they sent to Washington by the citizens of this state to advocate and use all their political skills to insure that Federal border responsibilities are met for the protection of Arizonans, and by that, all Americans? Pick a random agitator from one of “32 unions” advertised as rolling into Arizona this past week from out of state, and ask what party they vote for: DEMOCRAT. Pick a random boycotting-voting LA City Council member, what party are they of: DEMOCRAT. A California city mayor decreeing a rupture of city business with Arizona: DEMOCRAT. A random pick of a boycotting non-governmental organization voter from say, La Raza: DEMOCRAT. An Arizona-elected Congressman encouraging a boycott of Arizonans for wanting to enforce the laws of our nation: DEMOCRAT. An Arizona city mayor disparaging the men and women in the police and sheriff’s departments who keep him safe: DEMOCRAT.  Given that partisan behavior, how much credibile action to preserve our domestic tranquillity can we expect from ANY of our representatives who belong to the Democratic Party?   NO respresentative, Democrat or Republican should have anything to do with such corrosive tactics, but evidently the Democrats perceive too much politican gain to listen to reason or to refresh their oaths to preserve the Constitution. 

It’s more than a disgrace that this is falling along partisan political lines when the threat to our domestic tranquility – our local, state and national security – will negatively affect everyone, no matter the political party or ideology. With the Democratic Party loyalties of the overwhelming majority of the agitators, on the streets, in the courts, in the media, and in Congress, and nothing but divisive rhetoric coupled with willingness to act on boycotting from the Democratic Party, we look to the Republican Party to bring this back to reason, rationality and self-preservation of the nation.

So, where are the REPUBLICANS who are DENOUNCING this injustice? Arizona sent not one, but TWO Republican Senators to Washington. Where are the photos of them standing shoulder to shoulder with Governor Jan Brewer, or with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, or the deputies of Maricopa county, or the police of Nogales and Tucson, or relentlessly on national media insisting that freedom to speak one’s mind politically, and peaceful marches is one thing, but blocking traffic, making physical obstructions so that citizens can’t get to work on time, defacing and damaging public and private property, engineering chaos so that businesses can’t reach their customers, anarchist mobbing and banging at the county jail gates as part of a plan to harass and overwhelm policing,” is quite another thing. So is inexcusable silence from ALL our elected officials as Arizonans are smeared nationally by the Democrats in the administration, the Congress, the national media, and internationally by our State Department, hypocritically employing what they claim they are against,  massive group stereotyping and profiling, as “racists.”

“Hispanic” is a precise term in linguistics, but a very mushy and undefined one in international terms, encompassing people from over a dozen countries – on three continents, with many accents, dialects and cultural differences. Does this “Hispanic” favoritism extend to the Spanish of Spain or the West Africans of the Spanish Western Sahara or is it really code for a specific country, favored even over its own “Hispanic” neighbors? With “brown people” invoked even more frequently by Democrats now than “Hispanic,” then surely the Hispanics of Africa’s Equatorial Guinea are far browner than ANY Central or South American could EVER aspire to be, so by the reasoning, shouldn’t then Equatorial Guineans get to be head of the line for a freebie to definitely prove to everyone that Americans or specifically Arizonans, are not racists?

If the oft-invoked, yet actually undefined “Hispanic” community succeeds in unlawfully forcing capitulation to allow “Hispanic” foreigners of a specified geopolitical zone, to jump the queue of legal applications for US citizenship, before all others, then who’s the NEXT group who will try mob rule to get what they want?  If it works, then it’ll become the “process.”  How many people doing it by the book will throw down their two-three-four-five years of applications, paperwork and fees with a, “The hell with this!” in disgust?

Arizona is already host to organized crime expanding out of its base in Mexico.  That the average Arizonan citizen doesn’t see much of it is a testimony to the effectiveness and diligence of our LOCAL law enforcement in confronting and containing this violent and dangerous foreign-based criminality.  WHERE are our elected officials publically thanking our law enforcement, showing solidarity, and assuring them and the public, in word and in deed, that they back every single man and women in law enforcement in Arizona?

Actions have consequences, long term consequences, sometimes irrevocable consequences. Degeneration and decay take far less energy and effort than advancement and improvement.  A loss of trust is nearly impossible to restore.  A failure to uphold fair application of laws will lead to rampant lawlessness in all levels of society.  An unwillingness to defend, by representatives who were elected by their constituents, who are the PEOPLE of the Constitution of the United States, is a failure and especially in this case, that has long-term local, state and national ramifications, none of them positive.  The People, as voters, have the responsibility to chose their representatives wisely, take personal responsibility to become informed, to be active, and to hold their representatives accountable.

Perhaps Americans have to live through a period of chaos and destruction before they truly comprehend what they had, and squandered … but with little hope then of ever recovering it.

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Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Sunday, August 1, 2010

 

The Rick Romley story is creepy enough for spiders, but in a lot of ways, it’s like the “spaghetti” tangle under your computer. All those wires, and you can hardly ever find which one is attached to what. Learning about Romley is like trying to follow those wires. The big question: who is this guy?

 

What we have found out so far is that there seem to be two Romleys – one is the debonair, suave, smiling politician who looks like a cardboard cutout from central casting – the quintessential champion of the people. Dudley Doright if you will. This Romley tells us he is a conservative running in the GOP primary to be the next Maricopa County Attorney. The other Romley is really something else, and he is not made of cardboard.  He is made of something much more sinister.

 

This other Romley wants to be our County Attorney, but he opposes SB 1070and asked the governor to veto the bill. Gee, thanks Rick. If you think that’s something, wait till you see who his friends are. The infamous Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appointed him Acting County Attorney.

 

This is the very same bunch that is in charge of what is called the worst run county in the United States. Romley’s supervisor buddies are developing a Taj Mahal county courthouse and locked up all the records pertaining to it so we can’t see who got paid off. This is the Board of Supervisors with known criminal friends like who themselves have been under indictment. Mr. Stapley’s good friend Mr. Wolfswinkle was actually convicted of a felony and we won’t get into the rehashing of hair plugs and Hawaiian vacations Stapley took.  If you want to know someone’s character, look at their friends. Romley wants to prosecute criminals, but look who he hangs with.

 

It gets more complicated. We all remember Charles Keating and his “love affair” with John McCain. The two were intertwined like Medusa’s hair, snakes and all. Well it was “Mr. cross-the-aisles, McAmnesty” himself, John McCain, who recruited Romley for his current gig. What does that tell you? Maybe Rick is running on the wrong ticket.

 

It could be. Romley used to openly work for Democrats. There was anti-SB1070, Terry Goddard, our beloved Attorney General. Terry is a Democrat. He worked for the Mr. Bean look-alike, Mayor Phil Gordon. Phil is a Democrat. Romley endorsed Dan Saban for Sheriff. Dan is a Democrat. Romley supported Chris Cummiskey for Secretary of State over our own Jan Brewer.  Chris is a Democrat. We think Romley is too, don’t you?

 

No matter which wire we trace to Rick Romley, it leads to a dark place filled with creepy, crawlies. However, there is a bright side to all this. Come Election Day, we have a choice.  Support a true man of honor.  Support Bill Montgomery

 

PHOENIX – Forty candidates running for state office in Arizona have promised their constituents that they will protect their individual rights. Incumbents and challengers from almost every county and legislative district also promised to vote only for budgets that are balanced and to reject policies that benefit just a handful of people or businesses.

“The Arizona Constitution opens with the plain language mandate that the purpose of government is to protect and maintain individual rights,” said Starlee Rhoades, vice president of external affairs at the Goldwater Institute. “The candidates who signed this pledge have publicly declared they will fulfill their primary duty to the constitution and the people of this state.”

In 2008, the Goldwater Institute asked candidates for elected office to sign a pledge to open the hidden recesses of government to public view. Over the past three years, the Arizona Legislature has passed laws requiring state and local governments to post their spending checkbooks online. The laws passed in recent sessions, drawn from Goldwater Institute recommendations, will make Arizona governments some of the most transparent in the nation.

The Institute’s new pledge encourages elected officials to focus on their core responsibility of protecting the individual rights of citizens and respecting the boundaries given to the government in the Arizona Constitution. On July 1, the Goldwater Institute asked every candidate for state or county office in Arizona who will appear on the ballot in the primary election to sign the Individual Rights Protection Pledge. Approximately 15 percent of all candidates running for governor, the Legislature and other state offices have signed the pledge so far.

Only a handful of candidates who have signed the pledge are incumbent officeholders. Ms. Rhoades said this reluctance to support the principles of the state constitution reflects what has happened in recent years at the state Capitol. “Many of our current elected representatives have shown they are unwilling to govern based on the principles in the Constitution, like balancing the budget without gimmicks and treating all taxpayers equally,” Ms. Rhoades said.

To read the Individual Rights Protection Pledge and see who signed it, go to: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/individualrightspledge2010.

The Goldwater Institute is an independent government watchdog supported by people who are committed to expanding free enterprise and liberty.

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Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Follow up to Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s July 9, 2010 Media Conference

Date: July 10, 2010

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Officials to Disclose Criminal Evidence in Move to Protect Taxpayers’ Money

interim county attorney violating ethics and possible quid pro quo to obtain appointment

(Phoenix, AZ) To protect Maricopa County taxpayers, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office will disclose investigative findings of criminal probe of Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and senior county managers.

Sheriff’s investigators will hand over all investigate records on all claimants, county officials and others involved in high profile cases to Maricopa County Risk Manager Peter Crowley, but demand that non-conflicted,  out-of-state risk manager be appointed by a judge, to review all evidence, and investigative materials.  Since Risk Manager Peter Crowley has refused to recognize the current state of conflicts, the evidence will presented to Crowley and the assigned risk manager to protect the interests of Maricopa County taxpayers and deputy sheriffs involved in these serious investigations.

The County Board of Supervisors have sought to circumvent the judicial process by creating a highly suspect dispute resolution process the which will not recognize the alleged wrong doings of claimants against the County.

Under legal regulations, the dispute resolution process voted on by Supervisor Andrew Kunasek should be held null and void.  Kunasek, in violation of conflict of interests rules, illegally voted, while knowing of his pending criminal investigation by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

Interim county attorney Rick Romley having full knowledge of Kunasek’s pending criminal investigation, and Kunasek’s participation in a free-talk with his criminal attorney and the assigned prosecutor, has unethically  allowed Kunasek’s illegal vote to go uncontested.  Romley’s inaction clearly violates his ethical duties as interim county attorney, and seriously calls into question what deals may have been made to obtain support for Romley’s appointment.  Romley has been repeatedly asked assign an outside conflict free prosecutor when this criminal investigation of Kunasek and others was returned by Gila County Attorney Daisy Flores; Flores noted the case was not within the scope of her engagement.  After Romley’s denial of repeated requests for his office to reassign the criminal case to another Arizona county attorney’s office, or engage County Attorney Flores to prosecute the case, he proffered a meaningless suggestion to turn the case over to the United States Department of Justice, full well knowing that a theft of public money in the amount of only $15,000.00 will never reach the prosecutorial threshold of the United States Department of Justice and the use of the resources of the United States government .

Sheriff’s officials have noted the County that the assigned County Risk Manager, Rocky Armfield, violated his ethical duties to the Maricopa County Trust, and that he intimidated the Sheriff’s assigned legal counsel, and his subordinate risk manager to settle claims, stating the Board of Supervisors are gods and that under no circumstance can the board be deposed.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, Armfield asked the Office’s attorney, Maria Brandon, to pull punches should she depose Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, during potential litigation.

Included with this media release is the text of correspondence between Chief Deputy David Hendershott and Mr. Peter Crowley, below.

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Distributed by C O M M O N  S E N S E , in Arizona

Saturday, July 3, 2010

RESOLUTION

Concerning the Maricopa County Attorney 2010 Republican Primary Election

Whereas, Bill Montgomery has a proven record of prosecutorial success at the County Level, and

Whereas, Republican Candidate Bill Montgomery has vowed to vigorously prosecute those arrested under SB1070, and

Whereas, Bill Montgomery commands the respect of all agencies to which he must interact as County Attorney including Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Board of Supervisors, and

Whereas, Interim Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley has endorsed numerous Democrat Party Candidates for office, even when in direct violation of Maricopa County Republican by-laws (e.g. 2002 Democrat Candidate for Secretary of State Chris Cummiskey, 2008 Democrat Candidate for Maricopa County Attorney Tim Nelson, and 2008 Democrat Candidate for Maricopa County Sheriff Dan Saban), and

Whereas, Rick Romley has abandoned his lawful responsibilities as County Attorney and refused to prosecute illegal immigrants under Arizona’s human smuggling law, which has a 94% prosecution success rate under former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and

Whereas, just today, Rick Romley pulled $700,000 of funding for Employer-Sanctions enforcement from the County Sheriff’s office further obstructing efforts to identify, arrest, and prosecute perpetrators of identity theft, the gateway crime of illegal immigrants, and

Whereas, Rick Romley in his previous 16 year career as County Attorney failed to aggressively defend Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, resulting in millions of dollars in losses to Maricopa County in civil judgments, and

Whereas, the second of three Republican candidates and Chandler Mayor, Boyd Dunn has no prosecutorial experience whatsoever, and

Whereas, Mayor Dunn has traveled to Washington, D.C. as recently as 2008 to defend Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and

Whereas, Mayor Dunn has prohibited Chandler Police from inquiring about the immigration status of someone arrested for a misdemeanor offense, enforcing a de facto Sanctuary City Policy,

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Executive Guidance Council of the Maricopa County Republican Committee endorses Bill Montgomery for Maricopa County Attorney in the upcoming Primary Election to be held on August 24, 2010.