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How Fox Could Make Obama Pay

June 1, 2013 By Larry Klayman Leave a Comment

A week ago, it was disclosed that Attorney General Eric Holder – conjuring up false claims that Fox News reporter James Rosen had aided and abetted a State Department employee in disclosing national security information concerning North Korea – ordered the Department of Justice to secretly obtain through a judicial warrant the phone and email records of Rosen and a host of other Fox journalists and management. To his great credit, Roger Ailes, the CEO of Fox News who made it the powerhouse that it is today, then sent an open letter to Fox employees protesting the “criminalization” of journalism by Holder (and by implication his master, President Obama.) Here is what Ailes said in large part:

The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a federal judge as a ‘co-conspirator’ in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: Why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they should not have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.

Indeed, the lawlessness of Holder’s and Obama’s actions in violating the sanctity of the press is unprecedented in American history. It was perpetrated by a tyrannical administration that knows no bounds; and in the case of Holder and Obama, this lawlessness hides behind their minority status to seek to deflect from any scandal that may come their way. Holder and Obama have become the equivalent of “protected species,” understanding that because of their leftist “blackness,” the Republican Party will not push too hard – lest it be politically smeared as “racist’ – to have them both removed from office. Holder and Obama also realize that the generally leftist American press will also not push too hard to see that justice is done. Indeed, the other news networks, which are all left-leaning and generally Obama supporters, have already begun to diminish this huge scandal, with only sparse reporting. That is why the strong and principled statement of Roger Ailes takes on so much significance. But actions speak louder than words. Now, it is time for Ailes and Fox News to also pursue the issue in court. Here is why:

When it suited the administration for political purposes, the president, vice president, and other executive branch officials and surrogates leaked highly classified national security information to bolster Obama and Biden’s re-election prospects (and to thwart an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities) in the months leading up to the 2012 elections. As set forth in the indictment I asked a Citizens’ Grand Jury in Ocala, Fla. to issue on Oct. 29, 2012, Obama and Biden, boasting of their success in killing Osama bin Laden, publicly disclosed that Navy SEAL Team 6 special ops forces were responsible for bin Laden’s assassination. This illegal disclosure – the likes of which never before have occurred with any administration – put a virtual target on the backs of SEAL Team 6 forces serving in the Afghan theater. Sure enough, just a few months later on Aug. 6, 2011, a Chinook helicopter carrying 22 SEAL Team 6 members into battle was shot down by Taliban terrorist jihadists in obvious retaliation for the death of bin Laden. In effect, due to the release of the identity of SEAL Team 6, the deaths of these brave servicemen were the result of the crime of “involuntary manslaughter” by Obama and Biden. They were indicted for these crimes and will be tried in Ocala before a Citizens’ Court ironically after the July 4 holiday.

But the shameless and criminally-minded Obama and Biden did not stop with these politically motivated leaks of highly sensitive national security information concerning SEAL Team 6. In the months and days leading up to the Nov. 6 election, they also had disclosed classified national security information about American cyber warfare against Iranian nuclear facilities and U.S.-Israel war plans – should the two allies have to take on the mullahs in Tehran. They thus compromised the national security of the United States and Israel.

While James Rosen and Fox News did nothing wrong in reporting on North Korea, Obama and Biden both committed actual crimes in releasing classified information that resulted in the death of 22 SEAL Team 6 special ops forces and harmed U.S.-Israeli military operations and war plans concerning Iran. For this, they both should be tried, convicted, and thrown in prison.

That being said, it now behooves Fox News to now file its own civil lawsuit under the precedent of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), to “hold” Holder and Obama accountable for large monetary damages based on their unconstitutional acts. Making Holder and Obama pay up big time, and in effect bankrupting them, would be a nice complement to also having them thrown in prison, where they belong.

Now, that is justice!

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Filed Under: Featured Stories, Floyd Reports Tagged With: Eric Holder, Iran, Israel, Osama Bin Laden, Republican Party, Taliban

Winning In 2016: How Republicans Can Do It

June 1, 2013 By F. Peter Brown 5 Comments

If you listen to the standard line in the mainstream media, the Republican Party is losing because it is not moderate enough. As has been noted by some, the Republicans have run moderate candidates in the last two elections without success. The problem is not insufficient moderation.

The key is taking a more libertarian perspective. The costly wars abroad, diminution of civil liberties at home, and rampant spending are all important reasons why the Republican Party is not as successful as it could be. The question is: is it possible? Is it possible to be what I call a Republiterian (Republican and libertarian at the same time)? Ron Paul and his son Rand have made it so that this question is a viable one in a way it would not have been ten years ago.

The fact is, there is a tremendous disconnect between the Republican establishment and grassroots Republicans. Grassroots Republicans dislike the Republican establishment almost as much as the Democrats. The establishment loathes libertarianism, as it would cut back on their powers. The establishment hated Ron Paul. Here is a person people got genuinely excited about, and they try their hardest to make sure he is not nominated. Instead, they nominate Mitt Romney, who we all know bored the heck out of the base. If the party can move away from instead of toward the Republican establishment (which almost no one likes), then it has a real chance of winning back the White House in 2016. It is by heading toward liberty that the Republican Party has any chance of differentiating itself from the Democrats. Whether or not it will remains a big question mark.

F. Peter Brown is an Associate Editor at the Western Center for Journalism. He edits the Sound Money Institute website. Follow him on Twitter.

Filed Under: Floyd Reports Tagged With: Mitt Romney, Republican Party

Don’t Blow The Opportunity Obama Has Handed Us

May 24, 2013 By Steve McCann 5 Comments

It appears the Republican Party establishment and some conservative commentators have come up with another mistaken tactic to woo the low information and undecided voters. With the avalanche of scandals swirling around the Obama administration and the Democratic Party, the political message promoted by these politicians and pundits is that these scandals are the outcome of a government that has grown too large to control and should therefore be dramatically cut back.

The Republican Party landscape is littered with the carcasses of failed strategies and this approach will also not succeed. First, it is nearly impossible to explain in simple and easily understood terms why the government is too large and how that aided in creating the scandals and economic difficulties the nation faces. Particularly when the largely uninformed target audience is either dependent on government or has been led to believe government is the ultimate arbiter of prosperity. Second, while there is no question that government must get smaller, the exponential growth of government is not the cause of the scandals. Rather it too is an end-product of a process whose origin is basic and easily grasped.

The American founding fathers understood that government expands and becomes tyrannical not because it is inherently corrupt, but government, because of its unique role in the affairs of a nation, can easily be transformed into an overwhelming instrument of oppression and self-aggrandizement. That transformation occurs over an extended period of time primarily as a consequence of political and national leaders who are devoid of character, honor and integrity seeking to amass power and ego gratification, regardless of the long-term implications to the well being and future of the country.

This process, while slowly evolving over the past eighty years, has hit the crisis point with the most corrupt and ideological administration in American history, coupled with the massive infiltration of government agencies and the mainstream media by those motivated by ideology, greed and narcissism. Thus the scandals presently monopolizing the headlines are not the direct result of out of control government but the near total lack of ethics, honesty and integrity among those in government and increasingly throughout society in general.

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Filed Under: Coachisright, Floyd Reports Tagged With: Republican Party

Sheriff Joe To Congress: Investigate Obama’s Eligibility

May 20, 2013 By Breaking News 6 Comments

Hey, while Congress is investigating the use of the IRS to harass conservative activists, is trying to find out what the Obama White House covered up about Benghazi and is looking into why the Justice Department went after reporters’ phone records, why not include a check into Obama’s eligibility, too?

That’s an idea confirmed in an affidavit filed with a legal case pending before the Alabama Supreme Court. It was brought by attorney Larry Klayman on behalf of 2012 Constitution Party presidential nominee Virgil Goode and Alabama Republican Party leader Hugh McInnish, who are seeking to force Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman to verify that all candidates on the state’s 2012 ballot were eligible to serve.

The case, dismissed at a lower level, is now before the Alabama Supreme Court, where strict constitutionalist Roy Moore was elected chief justice last November. The case becomes all the more intriguing because Moore is on record previously questioning Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president.

The affidavit comes from Mike Zullo, the chief of a special Cold Case Posse assembled by Maricopa, Ariz., County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to look into the question at the request of his constituents, who were concerned they were being defrauded by having an ineligible candidate on the 2012 election ballot.

Last year, Arpaio held a press conference at which he and Zullo outlined their findings.

Census Bureau Surprises In 2012 Presidential Election Final Report

May 13, 2013 By Breaking News 1 Comment

The Census Bureau’s final report on the 2012 presidential election which was just published last week contained enough surprising information to draw delight from liberals and dire warnings from conservatives. Although the total voter participation rated declined only slightly between 2008 and 2012, from 63.6 percent to 61.8 percent, the voting rate by blacks exceeded the voting rate by whites for the first time since the bureau started reporting presidential election results in 1996. Another surprising note: The actual number of white voters declined for the first time, from 100 million to 98 million.

The Washington Post said the report “produced another demographic milestone” in how changing voting patterns among whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics are impacting presidential elections and what the implications are for future elections between the Democratic and Republican parties. The combination of higher turnouts among Hispanics and blacks and reduced turnout by whites was sufficient to reelect the president in 2012.

In 2012 white voters represented 73.7 percent of the total vote while blacks and Hispanics represented almost 22 percent. In 1996 white voters represented 82.5 percent of the total vote while blacks and Hispanics combined represented just over 15 percent. Even though just 39 percent of whites voted for the incumbent in 2012, 71 percent of Hispanic voters and 93 percent of black voters did, more than enough to give President Obama a decisive victory over his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. The participation rate by blacks surprised Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who said: “They persevered. This [was] an important time for them. They were very much responsible for reelecting Barack Obama.”

Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan, a candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1992 and 1996, noted with distress the decrease in the number of whites who voted in 2012:

America’s white majority, which accounts for nine in 10 of all Republican votes in presidential elections, is not only shrinking as a share of the electorate, but it is declining in numbers, as well…

This is the crisis of the Grand Old Party.

Read More at The New American . By Bob Adelmann.

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How Fox Could Make Obama Pay

Winning In 2016: How Republicans Can Do It

Don’t Blow The Opportunity Obama Has Handed Us

Sheriff Joe To Congress: Investigate Obama’s Eligibility

Census Bureau Surprises In 2012 Presidential Election Final Report

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