Blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.

The definition above, from an old Webster’s dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors — Alger Hiss among them. But when the HUAC turned its attention to Hollywood writers, directors and actors, civil libertarians cried foul. The American Civil Liberties Union and others insist those on the “Hollywood blacklist” were unfairly persecuted for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and speech.

Now there’s a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today’s political correctness test. Retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, a highly decorated special operations soldier with 36 years of service in uniform, is the newest name on the roster. The silence from the “civil liberties lobby” is deafening.

It often is said that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines serve to “protect our freedoms” and “defend our liberties.” All true. Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point — an institution responsible for training young men and women to protect America from those who mean us harm. West Point cadets take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Many West Point graduates will deploy to fight radical Islamists who commit acts of terror against Americans and our allies.

Read the entire column here.

I expressed my disgust, as politely as I could, here.  Organizations like CAIR and the ACLU are working overtime to destroy a once great, and Godly, nation.  Unless we reverse this trend, there will be no United States of America.  The erosion of our 1st Amendment rights may provoke the use of our 2nd Amendment rights!

A board of county commissioners in North Carolina is asking the Supreme Court for help: Its members don’t believe they should have to forbid volunteers from mentioning the name of Jesus in prayers offered before their meetings.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit court decision that states even “a solitary reference to Jesus Christ” in invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners’ meetings could do “violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that are a defining feature of American public life.”

Furthermore, wrote Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals majority opinion, legislative invocations offered in Jesus’ name are inherently “sectarian” and thus should be censored lest they make some attendees feel “uncomfortable, unwelcome and unwilling to participate in … public affairs.”

I’m quite confused. I looked up Judge Wilkinson, and from what I read, this sort of ruling seems quite out of character for him. As a Reagan appointee, he has, or at least had, made common sense, constitutional rulings, as best I can tell. So, why the change? I’m sure he’s quite aware of the 1st Amendment, and the history.  The Constitution puts limits on the government, NOT the people.  Judges are sworn to uphold the Constitution, not deny the people their God given rights.

Organizations like the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Freedom From Religion have twisted the Constitution, with the aid of unscrupulous judges with an agenda. What is that agenda? Well, apparently, it’s the same as the Communists.

Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television.

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”

Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Sound familiar? Many of these same things have been happening during my lifetime. I’ve watched the changes, and the results. Not an attractive scenario. This isn’t the country that was envisioned when the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787.  The Freedom From Religion Foundation apparently is completely unfamiliar with the history of this nation.  Thanks to them, and groups like them, it’s no longer being taught in our tax payer funded public schools.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Where do blessings come from? Surely, these organizations can’t believe blessings come from the government, do they? If so, then, I’m afraid there is no hope for them, or our nation. Using a phrase written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association has been taken so out of context, it has turned a God fearing nation into a nation full of destructive perversions.

In England, you belonged to the established church.  Otherwise, you caught hell.  Henry VIII pulled a few verses out of the Bible and asked the Pope to dissolve the marriage. The Pope said no, which of course, pissed off the king. He broke with the Roman Catholic Church, declaring himself the head of the Church of England, so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon, a very Catholic lady.  Their daughter, Mary, would be declared a bastard, because in Henry’s twisted logic, the marriage wasn’t legitimate because Catherine was his brother’s widow.  Henry married Anne Boleyn, had a daughter, Elizabeth. He then whacked off Anne’s head so he could marry Jane Seymour, and it continued till the dude died. Mary, the first daughter, took the crown, brought back the Roman Catholic church, and burned about 300 people at the stake, which earned her the name “Bloody Mary”. When she didn’t produce an heir, she was basically forced to name her half sister Elizabeth, an Anglican protestant, as her heir. She brought back the Church of England. So, what we had were people escaping from the oppression of forced religion by the state. In the colonies, they established their own rules for the practice of faith. When Independence was declared from England, it was the intent of the Founders to allow communities to establish their own rules and regulations concerning religion. And they did.

The United States was NOT founded as a secular nation, contrary to what these modern day organizations may want you to believe. It is ONLY Congress who is prohibited from establishing a state religion, not the communities. Saying the name of Jesus is NOT unconstitutional. The actions of the ACLU, Freedom From Religion, and Judge Wilkinson are unconstitutional.

A complaint made by American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee on behalf of three Sumner County families accuses the Sumner County Board of Education of promoting Christianity and violating the U.S. Constitution.

And, once again, the ACLU is wrong.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I don’t know why, but there have been so many who have twisted this one sentence, this First Amendment to the Bill of Rights, to suit their own purposes.  For a much better understanding of the clause, I’d point the ACLU, and anyone else who has problems with reading comprehension to Publius Hudlah, who has a wonderful knack of putting things in plain English, even the ACLU should be able to understand.

What is an “established religion”?  I will show you how judges on the supreme Court changed the historical definition of that term so that they could eradicate the Christian religion from our public square and eliminate speech they don’t like.  We will begin by finding out what “establishment of religion” actually meant when the Constitution was ratified.  To do so, we must consult English history, American colonial history, and writings of our Founders.

There is a great deal of information, and should be read thoroughly for a better understanding.  It is CONGRESS that is restricted from establishing any state religion.  Not the communities, not the schools, no one but Congress does NOT have the right.

Way too many people these days have been convinced, through various means, that the Constitution give powers to the government.  Quite the contrary.  The document explicitly restricts such powers.  Although, you couldn’t tell it by today’s congress!  They truly have overstepped their bounds, and have violated that most important document, on a regular basis.

After reading this article, I have come to the conclusion that there are some parents who do not want their children to learn moral behavior.  To me, that’s not only sad, but criminal.  Perhaps those parents should take a gander through that Book they are so afraid of….they might actually learn something.

Surprise! Canadian travellers to the United States are now subject to having high school dropouts touch their breasts, penises and vaginas as part of “airline security.”

Sorry, do the words penis and vagina make you uncomfortable?

They certainly make the U.S. Transportation Security Administration uncomfortable.

The TSA can’t even bring themselves to use those words when describing their new “enhanced pat-down” procedure.

You will find them nowhere on their website, including their section on advice for travellers.

They have pages about how to pack your toothpaste.

But they don’t tell you that you will stand in line while a stranger touches you in places that, if done by anyone else, would lead to sexual assault charges.

Oh, by the way: Their touching of penises and vaginas isn’t limited to adults.

They grope children, too. In the past two weeks, the Internet has been flooded by videos taken by passengers on their cellphone cameras, filming their own screaming children being fondled by uniformed officials.

So what’s the new rule for parents to teach our children?

Don’t let strangers touch your privates—unless they say they’re allowed to?

Unless they are in a position of authority? Unless Barack Obama says it’s OK?

Read the rest here!

The last time we flew anywhere was to Jamaica last January, before they started the sexual assaults.  Having a pace maker, I was advised not to go through the metal detectors.  Going down, no problem.  The TSA folks just waved me through….the metal detector.  I didn’t set anything off, but I always show the card anyway.  Coming back, however, was a completely different story.  I got the pat down, which, needless to say, was a tad uncomfortable, but nothing I couldn’t handle.  Although, truth be told, if I had to go through one more, I was going to demand dinner first!

Now, the whole process is much more invasive.  You’re either seen stark naked by total strangers, or you are seriously groped by total strangers.  Ever been sexually assaulted?  The nightmares of such an act, the emotional toll it takes, lasts for years.  Under normal circumstances, such people would be facing a judge and jury.  We condemn pedophiles to life on a registry.  But yet, we have a federal government who has now decided such assaults are ok, except maybe for those who object on ‘religious’ grounds.  Well, I object on religious grounds too!  My faith doesn’t allow for such contact with someone who is NOT my husband either!  It’s called adultery!

What about the children?  In the Muslim world, it’s ok to assault (and even murder) children.  Here it is not!  But that doesn’t stopped the government from doing it!  Did they learn from the Qu’ran?  I’d suggest we send some officials over to Israel, to learn from the BEST, how to conduct safety checks in the airports.  While we’re at it, we should probably learn from them, how to secure our borders, as well.  Having been through Israeli security, I can tell you, they are EXCELLENT at their job!

It’s not the blue eyed, blonde haired child with a teddy bear that is a threat to the safety and security to passengers on an airplane.  While he/she might get on the nerves of fellow passengers, it’s quite doubtful that said child is a suicide bomber.  No, it’s typically the Muslim male, somewhere in the age range of 18 to 45, who is out to murder in the name of allah and the murderous pedophile mohammed.  So, why is a 3 year old child being groped?  Well, so no one gets offended, that’s why!  Well, we ARE offended!

Want to take a common sense approach?  I think Daniel Pipes has a real good idea:

We could end 99 percent of the threat of terror by shutting down every mosque and deporting every first and second generation Muslim immigrant from this country. And every convert.

But as he also says, “that would be un-American”. Might as well ask the sun not to rise in the east as to expect any common sense from the federal government.  It’s also un-American to violate the U.S. Constitution, but that doesn’t stop them, does it.

4th Amendment – The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I don’t see anyone presenting warrants at the airport!  While the ACLU is quick to jump on anyone who violates the rights of pedophiles and actual terrorists, they sure seem slow on this one.

I can assure you, we won’t be doing any flying any time soon.  If we really want to take a vacation, we’ll be driving, or taking a cruise, but, thanks to Obama and the Dems policies, we can’t afford to do much of anything.

H/T: Gail via Facebook

The American Civil Liberties Union called on Gov. Phil Bredesen Monday to veto a bill that requires Tennessee jailers to notify federal authorities of the arrest of any person found to be in the U.S. illegally or whose status cannot be determined.

The ACLU of Tennessee charged that the bill — sponsored by two West Tennessee lawmakers and one of the most contentious measures of the 2009-10 legislative sessions — effectively requires people to carry immigration documentation at all times.

So, the ACLU aids and abets criminals? Because that’s exactly what they are….criminals! I thought these yahoos were suppose to be lawyers.  Do they not know the law?

United States Code: TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VII > § 1304

(e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

The people aren’t asking for a whole lot, just enforcement of the LAW.  Is it really so difficult to comprehend?  The bill is quite simple, only one page:

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, relative to certain arrested persons.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40, Chapter 7, Part 1, is amended by adding a new section thereto:
§ 40-7-123.
When a person is arrested for any offense and is confined, for any period, in the jail of the county or any municipality, a reasonable effort to review documents in the possession of the prisoner shall be made to assess the citizenship status of the person so confined. If the keeper of the jail or other officer cannot determine the lawful status of the prisoner from the documents in the possession of the prisoner or if it is determined that the person is not lawfully present in the United States, pursuant to the federal Immigration and Naturalization Act, compiled in 8 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq., the keeper of the jail or other officer shall notify the United States department of homeland security by facsimile transmission or other appropriate means.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009, the public welfare requiring it.

Damn skippy the ‘public welfare’ requires it! We are fed up with illegals running roughshod over the country, and the  LEGAL citizens. I don’t give a flip where you came from, you damn sure better have followed the rules to get here! Otherwise, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME!  If you don’t have legal documentation, proving that you came here LEGALLY, then you need to have your sorry ass sent home!  At YOUR expense!

I STRONGLY urge Gov. Bredesen NOT to veto this bill!  It was passed by a legislature that is doing what the LEGAL citizens of the state desire.  I’d also STRONGLY urge Gov. Bredesen to tell the ACLU to shove it where the sun don’t shine!

Distortions and blatant lies have been written by liberal “experts” who are ready to tar and feather the SBOE for “revising our American history”, leaving Thomas Jefferson out, and “bringing religion back into the schools”. It’s doubtful whether these self proclaimed experts have read the curriculum standards, which are available online to the public.

It’s also doubtful they have ever read any of our original founding documents, relying instead upon the works of revisionist historians who long ago altered our American history to fit their Progressive ideology.

I would say the author of this column is quite correct. When we have a Congress, the majority of whom violate their oath of office on a regular basis, it seems that many in positions of power, from the President of the United States, down to those who set the education agenda have ignored some of the most important documents ever written, after the Bible.

Reality is that “qualified” educrats have created mass damage to our public school system. They have dumbed down the curriculum and used student centered methodology to such an extent that 42% of those entering college require remedial work.   These intellectual elites have thrown our American values to the winds.  As an unelected review panel they have been responsible for ridiculous changes to our standards including the removal of:

• • Christmas
  • Albert Einstein
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Veterans Day
  • Independence Day
  • Religious heritage language
  • And much more……

Independence Day? Seriously? It it weren’t for the actions of those brave men on 4 July 1776, these SFB wouldn’t have a country to bash. They would be still be subject to the whims of a British Monarchy, or something even worse!

Since the SBOE pretty much sets the standard for textbooks used across the country, why was no one watching when “Asking About Life” was being shoved into Knoxville classrooms?

Zimmermann added: ‘What keeps being missed is, it’s not about me. Students brought this forward. What they’ve done is they’ve ruled against the students.’

Zimmermann noted that it was his son and several other students who first noticed the book’s definition of creationism and brought it to his attention.

He said he would likely bring another appeal, adding, ‘This probably isn’t over.’

Before the vote, Zimmermann told board members that to keep the book in the classroom would be a violation of at least three of their policies that prohibited belittling or demeaning religious views.

It’s become quite obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes, and a set of ears, that those types of rules don’t apply to the Jewish, or Christian faiths.  “Belittling or demeaning” is just fine with school boards across the country.  Just don’t insult Muslims!

I can understand this father’s concern.  Perusing the book in question, I came across this tidbit:

The law prohibiting the teaching of evolution – passed by the Tennessee legislature in a moment of boredom – was never intended to be enforced.  It nonetheless attracted the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) which believed the law violated the First Amendment right to free speech.  Eager to test the law in a federal court, the ACLU advertised in the Chattanooga News for a teacher willing to be arrested.  Dayton boosters jumped at the chance to liven up their sleepy town with some national attention.

John Scopes agreed to be arrested.  An affable high school physics teacher and athletic coach, Scopes had never actually taught evolution, but he’d once substituted for a biology teacher who was ill and assigned the textbook pages that covered evolution.  For this crime he was arrested.

Even then (1925), the socialist organization, ACLU, was working diligently to “change” the country.

Reason #5 from Stop the ACLU:

The ACLU is anti-Christian. The list is endless on this one. Under the guise of “separation of Church and State”, the ACLU have made a name for their self on being rabidly anti-Christian. This is one area where they are most hypocritical. They oppose tax exemptions for all churches, but fight for them for Wiccans. They are against Christianity in school, but oddly remain silent as our children are taught to be Muslims. Whether its baby Jesus, ten commandments, or tiny crosses on county seals, the ACLU will be there to secularize America, and rewrite our history.

Just in case you aren’t aware, the words “separation of church” and state appear NO WHERE in the U.S. Constitution.

It is on Page 299, not Page 319, as Mr Zimmerman originally asserted, where the words the students found to be offensive were located:

In the 1970s and 1980s, antievolutionsts in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana passed identical bills calling for “equal time” for teaching evolution and creationism, the biblical myth that the universe was created by the Judeo-Christian God in six days.

Our nation has turned it’s back on its creation, and its Creator.  Unless we are able to reassert our authority on our children, and grandchildren, nothing we do will matter.  We can march, protest, gather in groups to discuss how to “take back our country”, but unless we are able to decide the course of our children’s education, I fear our once great nation will end up as a footnote in some future textbook.

A leading Muslim scholar, in the United States for the first time in six years after the Obama administration lifted a travel ban on him, says he will not shy away from criticizing the president whose policies finally allowed him to visit.

Gracious sakes. A travel ban on a “muslim scholar”. What could that be all about? Better question: Who would lift such a ban?

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lifted the ban on Ramadan in January.

I’m sure she did this all on her own, right? And D’Bama had nothing to do with it, what so ever!  Wonder when they are going take the bounty off Osama/Usama bin Laden’s head?

So, what’s the big deal about this guy? Danial Pipes clued us in back in 2004:

He is Islamist royalty – his maternal grandfather, Hasan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood, probably the single most powerful Islamist institution of the twentieth century, in Egypt in 1928.

Ok, but just because your grandfather was fairly evil, does that mean you followed in his footsteps?

A DHS spokesman, Russ Knocke, later explained this had been done in accord with a law that denies entry to aliens who have used a “position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity.”

What would make the Bush administration think this guy would have anything to do with terrorism? Perhaps it had something to do with his donations to a group called Association de Secours Palestinien? Do a Google search on this organization and you’ll come up with an entry from the U.S. Treasury – Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

Background: Commite de Bienfaisance et de Secours aux Palestiniens (CBSP) and Association de Secours Palestinien (ASP) are primary fundraisers for HAMAS in France and Switzerland, respectively. Founded in France in the late 80s/early 90s, like other HAMAS-affiliated charities, CBSP acts in collaboration with more than a dozen humanitarian organizations based in different towns in the West Bank and Gaza and in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. ASP, a subsidiary of CBSP, was founded in Switzerland in 1994. The group has collected large amounts of money from mosques and Islamic centers, which it then transfers to sub-organizations of HAMAS. Khalid Al-Shuli (designated under Executive Order 13224 on August 22, 2003) is the president of CBSP and ASP.

AKAs:
Association for Palestinian Aid
Palestine Relief Committee
Palestinian Aid Council
Palestinian Aid Organization
Palestinian Relief Society
Relief Association for Palestine

I’m a little confused. Although, perhaps, I shouldn’t be, considering who is in the White House now.  The man contributed to a front group for terrorists, and everything is honky dory now?

“I have been in a peaceful mind for the last six years because I knew my record was clear,” Ramadan said. “Now this story is over. The Bush administration is over, so is my case.”

Yep.  Now that Bush is out of office, no doubt, we’ll be seeing all kinds of terror supporters just invited right on in.

“In the United States of America, I’m an academic. I shouldn’t have to say who I am going to speak to and what I am going to speak about,” he said.

‘Academic’ these days doesn’t mean a whole lot, IMHO. It just means that someone can go make a speech at some so called institution of higher learning, and spew the most vile condemnation of the U.S., and the young minds, full of mush, will cheer.

The American Civil Liberties Union championed Ramadan’s case as part of a pattern of scholars being excluded due to unwarranted or unspecified U.S. national security grounds.

What a shocker! The ACLU, completely misnamed, works real hard to undermine the security of the nation. Seriously, why would an organization, supposedly working for AMERICAN’S civil liberties, be so concerned with a terror supporter?

Extra reading for your edification – MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S ISLAMIC WAR AGAINST THE WEST

In case you are wondering…..

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If you aren’t offended by the actions of one feckless man and that trash bunch from the ACLU, then I would invite you to get the hell out of my country! I am so utterly sick and tired of this garbage! This country was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Don’t like it? Tough shit! I’m fed up, and so are a lot of other people! This is a memorial to those who fought and died to keep your sorry ass free to be a jackass. If you can’t honor them without being a total dick, then I’d suggest they let you know, if the bad guys come for you, they are needed, and WANTED, elsewhere, by people who actually appreciate the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make for us, and SHUT THE F**K UP!

Oh, by the way, can you tell I’m a tad pissed? Good!

From Stop the ACLU:

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Atlanta – “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.

“This process is critical to protecting the integrity of our elections. We have evidence that non-citizens have voted in past Georgia elections and that more than 2,100 individuals have attempted to register, yet still have questions regarding their citizenship. Further, the Inspector General’s office is investigating more than 30 cases of non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a Henry County non-citizen who registered to vote and cast ballots in 2004 and 2006.

“It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.

Whoa! WHOA! FREAKIN’ WHOA! I can NOT be reading this right! The justice dept is basically saying it’s just peachy for NON citizens to vote in our elections? I must be mistaken. Could anything with the word ‘justice’ in it’s name be so blatantly ignorant of the law?  I won’t even get into the fact that the ACLU is constantly undermining the law, and with this action, you are being told you, as a legal citizen of the United States of America, obeying the law, mean NOTHING!

Amendment XV

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Citizens!  Not visitors, not sneaky little bastards who broke the law get in the country…..C-I-T-I-Z-E-N-S!  We no longer prohibit people from voting, unlike some of the old Southern Democrats did prior to the Voting Rights Acts.  Yes, please notice it was the DEMOCRATS that prevented legal aged people of color, from voting.  Now, those same types of Democrats not only claim the black vote, they also want possible illegals to vote for them too?

In 1975, the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act were extended for another seven years, and were broadened to address voting discrimination against members of “language minority groups.” (source)

Language minority groups?  You mean people who don’t have a working knowledge of the language in which the majority of this country runs?  I have issues with this.  If you don’t understand the language, how can you make a reasoned, well thought out decision for whom to vote?

The federal government, once again, is stepping in where it has no business stepping.  The state of Georgia has been doing exactly what ever other state SHOULD be doing….verifying the legal status of its voters.  This is not difficult to understand.  If we are a land of laws, then shouldn’t we obey those laws?  This includes making sure that people who vote in our elections, are LEGALLY eligible to vote!

(all extra emphasis mine)

Huge H/T: Texas Fred’s Read his take on the subject here.  You WILL learn something!

Members of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP want the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway, and they will meet Thursday to decide whether to boycott a NASCAR race slated there for November.

Debra Toomer, the branch’s chairwoman of press and publicity, said a planning session has been scheduled to decide on a course of action regarding the display of the flag at the Nov. 20-22 event, as well as its presence at city-sponsored events like last year’s Veterans Day parade.

“The concern is there,” Toomer said of Confederate flags. She declined to comment further before the meeting.

Just how much idiocy are people going to put up with? I want all symbols of Africa banned at NAACP events! Oh, but wait…that’s a freedom isn’t it? Hmmm…. There are no Confederate flags on any of the cars, none of the uniforms, none are sold at the concessions, so what’s their problem? I guess it’s ok for some folks to show pride in their heritage, but not others, right?

“… we don’t regulate the lawful behavior of our fans or prohibit free speech and expression of our guests,” Gray told FOXNews.com. “We can’t tell people what to wear. Where do you start? Where does it end, as far as individual expression?”

Evidently, there are some who believe freedom of speech only applies to them, eh? Tell you what….ban every single flag that is NOT the U.S. flag, and we’ll talk. No African, no Mexican, no Irish, no Italian, etc. NONE! Anywhere! EVER!

Brandon Hensler, a spokesman for American Civil Liberties Union’s Florida chapter, said bringing a Confederate flag to the race or any public event would be protected speech.

“If someone wants to show up with a shirt like that, there’d be no legal recourse for that,” Hensler said. “Unless there’s a specific threat, all speech is protected.”

Well, there’s a shocker. One of the few times the ACLU gets it right!

“Any time somebody starts talking about that, of course there’s cause for concern,” McMichael told FOXNews.com. “The bottom line is I don’t think they should ban [Confederate flags] because there’s nothing wrong with them. It’s just people showing pride in their heritage.”

As a proud daughter of the south, I know there are many people who do not understand our love for the Confederate flag, especially those in the north. We don’t look at that flag as a racial division, as most folks down here don’t have issues with anyone, but criminals, no matter what their color. That flag doesn’t represent slavery! It represents freedom from oppression from a tyrannical central government. It really chaps my hide that there are a few groups who have turned it into something else, but I have no control over that, and so far as I know, stupidity isn’t against the law.

H/T:  Blue Collar Republican and American and Proud

Davidson County Election Commission workers will launch the painstaking process of verifying 12,503 signatures today, ultimately deciding whether an English-only measure makes the Nov. 4 ballot.

Metro Nashville Councilman Eric Crafton dropped off signed petition postcards Thursday, well before Saturday’s deadline and with what he said is enough margin of error to account for unqualified voters or signatures that can’t be verified. Crafton’s measure needs 10,103 valid signatures to be included.

A good start! I’m really disappointed there weren’t even more signers. Is anyone up there in Nashville paying attention???

The measure would prevent city business from being done in any language other than English. But exactly how it would be carried out — if at all — upon passage is up for debate.

How it would be carried out? Does stupidity run rampant? You speak English. You do business in English. How hard is that to figure out? You don’t print ballots, or gubmint information in any language but English. If an immigrant, LEGAL one, wants to live in the U.S., he/she should be able to speak the language. If they’re ILLEGAL, they can go the hell home!

President Bill Clinton signed an order in 2000 that made reasonable translation services a protected civil right to prevent discrimination based on national origin. Governments must publish ballots in other languages, and any program that accepts federal dollars must work with people who aren’t English-proficient.

Contrary to what the Dhimms would like to believe, Bill Clinton was NOT the best president we’ve ever had. Let’s face it, he started a great divide, and the Dhimmis have continued the push!

Even some of the biggest proponents of English-only initiatives say enforcement is tough

I will repeat. Print all information in English. It’s really quite simple, and it would save a ton of money to the tax payer. If you’re going to live here, as a law abiding citizen, SPEAK THE FREAKIN’ LANGUAGE!

The American Civil Liberties Union in Nashville indicated that it would closely examine the constitutional questions raised by the measure. And Crafton said he would do what he must to see that the law would be enforced.

This “problem” could easily be resolved, and the ACLU could go back to harassing Christians, if the feckless weasels in D.C. would amend the Constitution to include an official language…..ENGLISH!

“To me, these cards represent thousands of voices crying out to be heard on this issue,” Crafton said. “The citizens are not going to be held hostage by the threat of lawsuits.”

Pfft! So many cities have caved to the “immigrants rights” yahoos, it totally makes me sick! But I’m hoping that the folks up in Nashville will stand strong. It will set a precedent that is seriously NEEDED across the entire country. I won’t include California in that statement. As far as I’m concerned, they’re already a ‘foreign country’. Sorry, Bushy, Jenn, etc.. Come to the REAL American.

Some of the signed petition cards included messages like “Councilman Crafton, thank you!” and “Thanks for helping us take our country back.” Others were returned unsigned with obscene messages, including, “Go (expletive deleted) yourself Crafton.”

Very classy. Nothing like profanity to prove the point of ignorance! Was it written in English, or did it have to be translated?

The Metro Council also overwhelmingly approved last week a measure calling on voters not to sign the petition cards or support the measure if it appears on the ballot.

This tells me quite a bit about the yahoos supposedly representing the LEGAL citizens of Nashville. They aren’t putting THEIR city, state, or country FIRST! Bowing to illegals is NOT a good way to win friends and influence people. Well, unless, of course, they ARE the illegals, and their supporters.

“There is a pretty strong divide as I am sure there is in the Democratic Party on this,” said Tom Lawless, Davidson County Republican Party chairman. “So it is probably going to be difficult for us to take a position as a party.”

Are they freaking kidding me??????? One more reason I’m no longer a Republican! My country comes second, ONLY to God. When the Pubbies started pandering to illegals, they lost me, AND my money! Grow a spine ya twits! Stand up for YOUR COUNTRY! Support ENGLISH ONLY…….NOW!

Cross posted at The Tennessee ConserVOLiance.