http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Poughkeepsie Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:48:51 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Poughkeepsie Mon, 13 May 2013 18:07:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5eb_1368482615 dfaugust Democrat officials convicted of making up names for qualifying petition Two Democrats in Indiana have been found guilty of submitting unauthorized names on the petition that placed then-Sen. Barack Obama on the 2008 presidential election primary ballot, meaning he likely did not qualify. Fox News reports the jury in South Bend found guilty on all counts former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Party chairman Butch Morgan Jr. and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe. The two faced accusations of petition fraud and forgery, as well as falsely making a petition. The verdicts raise anew questions about election fraud by Democrats, a subject that was analyzed after the 2012 election. Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. The report found vote fraud occurred in the 2012 presidential election and cumulatively was likely enough to decide the outcome. "In reality, although no single instance or aspect of vote fraud was likely enough to tip the election for Obama, the aggregate of their corrupt activities - including illegal campaign donations, taking advantage of states without voter ID requirements, military ballots delivered too late ... may well have been," the analysis said. Fox News reported that two former Indiana elections board officials who pleaded guilty said Morgan told Democrat officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Hillary Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Prosecutor Stan Levco told Fox, "I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system. Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections." Affidavits citing the testimony of former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett said the scheme was created in January 2008. Burkett reportedly was aboard the plan at first but later dropped out. Fox News reported he waited three years to reveal the scheme. Fox News notes that if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged at that time. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time could have been removed from the ballot. State law in Indiana requires candidates to have 500 signatures from each of the nine congressional districts to qualify. But in St. Joseph County, Obama qualified with only 534. Prosecutors alleged that nine of the Obama petition pages apparently were forged, and each contained up to 10 names, bringing doubt on up to 90 names. Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. "If faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify," Fox News reported. Fox reported it was told by "numerous voters" they did not sign their names, nor did they authorize their names to be used. "That's not my signature," said Charity Rorie, a mother of four. "It's scary, it's shocking. It definitely is illegal." Added Robert Hunter Jr., "I did not sign for Barack Obama." WND's extensive report on fraud in the 2012 race looked at claims that Obama, in some districts, got 100 percent of the vote, questions about absentee ballots and efforts by Democrats to prevent poll watchers from observing the election. Some of the issues that were uncovered: o Seventy-five GOP vote inspectors were ordered to leave Philadelphia poll locations by Democrat poll judges. One judge was caught on audio. A court order sent them back but it's unknown what happened when they were gone. These poll locations were all within the 59 precincts where Romney received no votes. o In Philadelphia, the Community Voters Project, an ACORN clone that employs some former ACORN workers, shredded Republican voter registrations. It's not the first time they have been in trouble. o The Florida AFL-CIO threatened True the Vote and Tampa Fair Vote with legal action for submitting voter registration challenges. o Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings issued a highly publicized threat against True the Vote and Election Integrity Maryland just for checking voter rolls. EIM found 11,000 questionable registrations, including 1,566 dead voters. The Maryland Board of Elections took no action. o Cummings also attacked the Ohio Voter Integrity Project with the same baseless claims. o Think Progress falsely claimed True the Vote was "under investigation" by Rep. Cummings, when in fact he has no legal authority to do so. o Despite overwhelming nonpartisan public support for voter ID laws, Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department and liberal jurists have delayed, emasculated or defeated ID laws in Texas, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Arizona and Pennsylvania. o Holder has vowed to fight voter ID laws as restricting voters' rights. o The Obama administration "spiked investigations" of eight states that had major voter roll problems. o The Holder Justice Department conspired with Project Vote on National Voter Registration Act (aka Motor Voter) enforcement lawsuits, which force state and local agencies to become, essentially, low income voter registration drives. o In 2009 DOJ announced to its attorneys that it would not enforce voter roll maintenance laws because it wouldn't increase voter turnout. The report also found the election rolls nationwide in shambles. Pew Research Center published a report revealing election rolls in a shambles nationwide. It found: o 24 million invalid or inaccurate voter registrations o 1.8 million deceased voters o 2.75 million registered in multiple states. The WND report also focused on the mechanics of the election: voting machines. There were a number of complaints about electronic voting machines that tallied votes for Democrats despite a Republican vote and a few instances of the opposite case. o Voters in Pueblo County, Colo., complained that their votes were being changed to Obama, reported local NBC affiliate KOAA. o Maryland congressional candidate and veteran investigative journalist Ken Timmerman reported many voters claiming this happened to them, lodging complaints with vote judges. Timmerman has requested to see voting machine records. o Maryland Delegate Kathy Afzali and Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild have requested the FBI impound two electronic voting machines suspected of switching votes based on complaints from other voters, including a state official. o Robert Ashcroft, a Republican poll watcher in Allentown, Pa., reported that about 5 to 10 percent of electronic votes would "change the selection back to default - to Obama." o EVM problems were also reported to have occurred in Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas. o A 2008 Fox News report showed how electronic voting machines can be infected with a computer virus to change votes. A Princeton University study in 2006 found the same thing. And the fraud didn't go unnoticed. A few of the higher-profile cases: o Patrick Moran, son of longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, was caught on video by James O'Keefe's Veritas Project, telling an undercover journalist how to commit vote fraud. o Other Veritas videos showed Obama campaign officials in Texas, New Jersey and New York providing multiple forms to journalists posing as voters so that they could vote in two or more states. o On Election Day, Veritas reporters recorded poll officials on camera telling voters not to vote for Romney. o The Obama campaign continues to accept illegal donations from other countries. WND's Aaron Klein proved it by donating to the Obama campaign twice under the name "Osama bin Laden" using a Pakistani web address. o WND has filed a complaint with the FEC demanding an investigation of overseas donations to the Obama campaign. o In 2008, the Obama campaign accepted almost $30,000 from Palestinian donors. o A Korean interpreter in Flushing, N.Y., directed Korean voters to vote Democrat. He was expelled from the poll. o Two cases of forged votes were reported in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., by Republicans who discovered their votes had already been made. o Non-citizens were charged with voting illegally in Austin, Minn. o Cases of double voting in Ohio are being investigated. o Non-citizen allegedly voted in Iowa o Double voting is being investigated in North Carolina o NBC reported dead voters voting in California o Mentally disabled were coaxed to vote for Obama in North Carolina o Widespread absentee vote fraud is being investigated in South Texas o A non-English-speaking, under-18 youth reported he was "told he can vote." o Many other cases Contribute to the battle to uncover wrongdoing in America's elections, and put them back on the right path. ________________________________________ Here is how Democrats were preparing to "Rob the Vote." ROB THE VOTE: Obama's secret strategy for staying in power The Obama administration is widely regarded as the most lawless in U.S. history. This much you already know. Not enough votes to pass Obamacare? Bribe senators. Don't like the Defense of Marriage law? Refuse to defend it in court. Congress won't pass the "Dream Act" granting amnesty to a million illegals? Do it yourself by executive fiat. Don't want to defend America's borders? Sue states that do. Don't like congressional inquiries? Ignore their subpoenas. Click here to read more about the Whistleblower issue "Rob the Vote." Click here to read more about a Whistleblower subscription. Obama's violations are so blatant and manifold that nine states have joined together to sue the federal government for its rampant lawlessness. So, now comes election time - and guess what the Obama administration's approach is to America's most sacred and fundamental civic institution. Right: Utter lawlessness. The actions and intentions of Team Obama, if distilled into words, would be this: To hell with "the law." We're using every means possible to retain power and establish a permanent progressive voting majority in this country. Incredibly, in today's America, voter fraud has become an essential component of how Democrats win elections. This largely unreported national scandal is laid out with jaw-dropping clarity in the August issue of WND's monthly Whistleblower magazine - titled "ROB THE VOTE: Obama's secret strategy for staying in power." As "ROB THE VOTE" documents, Obama's reelection strategy - besides bribing his core constituencies in hopes of cobbling together a winning voting coalition - is to encourage, enable and empower widespread abuse of America's election system in a multiplicity of ways. After all, non-citizens, illegal aliens, felons, multiple-state voters, dead people and other ineligible voters constitute a vital Obama constituency. And make no mistake, the left's get-out-the-illegal-vote campaign is in full swing. Highlighted in one "ROB THE VOTE" report is the most disgraceful of all abuses of America's election system - the consistent suppression, disqualification and mishandling of votes cast by America's soldiers (who statistically lean Republican) who are deployed overseas while protecting their nation. Believe it or not, for the November 2010 midterm election, less than 5 percent of military voters "were able to cast an absentee ballot that counted," according to data released by the federal Election Assistance Commission. In another in-depth report in this issue, researcher James Simpson sums up the left's campaign to corrupt America's election system thusly: "Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multifaceted and redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the community-organizer-in-chief, Barack Obama." Democrat officials convicted of making up names for qualifying petition http://superstore.wnd.com/SUBSCRIPTIONS/2010-2008/Whistleblower-Single-Issue-August-2012 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5eb_1368482615 dfaugust Jury: Fraud put Obama on '08 ballot obama, democRATs, lioars, thieves, voter fraud Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:46:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c4_1366911440 OnlyLiarsBlock So who is really sexualizing their young children....america or third world countries. with things like whats in this post and in this one: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=34f_1343745425 <---non featured post with over 130,000 views....probably one of few on LL to get that many views as a non feature post Outraged parents say a New York middle school instructed young female students to ask one another for a lesbian kiss - and boys learned how to spot young sluts - in an anti-bullying presentation on gender identity and sexual orientation, according to Fox News' Todd Starnes. According to Starnes' Report, the children attended a special April 11 health class taught by college students at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, N.Y. Parents say they were not notified of the presentation. The students were introduced to terms such as "pansexual" and "genderqueer." Some of the young female students said they were told it was common for 14-year-old girls to have sex and their parents couldn't stop them. Mandy Coon, a mother of an eighth-grade student said, "I am furious. I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it's OK for her to have sex?" According to Fox News , Coon said her daughter was distressed by the presentation and wondered why she'd been required to ask another girl to kiss her. "She told me, 'Mom, we all get teased and picked on enough - now I'm going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her,'" Coon said. According to the mother, the school said the lesson was meant to "teach girls boundaries and how to say no." "They also picked two girls to stand in front of the class and pretend they were lesbians on a date," Coons said. The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that Red Hook Central School District Superintendent Paul Finch said the class focused on "improving culture, relationships, communication and self-perceptions." Finch said it is mandatory that the middle school teach those issues in accordance with the state's Dignity for All Students Act. Parent Tara Burns told Fox News, "The school is overstepping its bounds in not notifying parents first and giving us the choice. I thought it was very inappropriate. That kind of instruction is best left up to the parents." Parents of middle-school boys were outraged by the school's lessons on condom usage and determining whether a girl is a slut. "I was absolutely furious - really furious," said one parent of a 13-year-old boy. "They were teaching the boys how to decipher if a girl is a slut." According to the parent, who wished to remain anonymous, boys were told to determine whether girls are promiscuous by the way they dress or the number of boys they date. "We don't judge people like that in our family," she said. "We don't call women names because of what they wear or who they date." The Journal reported that Principal Katie Zahedi wrote in a Facebook forum for parents that the exercise was "not to pretend to be gay" but to practice saying "no" to unwanted advances: "In planning the discussion, we made it clear that absolutely no discussion of any sexual acts is appropriate to middle school, and they used the examples of a kiss. It was a separate activity for boys and girls and ultimately about respect and safety." According to Fox News, the anonymous parent also said boys were instructed to always carry condoms in their wallets. "These are just kids," she said. "I'm dumbfounded that they found this class was appropriate." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c4_1366911440 OnlyLiarsBlock Teachers Force Middle Schoolgirls to Kiss Each Other as part of Anti-Bullying Class america, american, teachers, NY, force, middle, school, girls, kiss, lesbian, slut, sex, sex ed, bully, WTF Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:30:37 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=57e_1360178896 dcmfox To be read in the voice of Paul Harvey. And on the eighth day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need someone who can flip this for a quick buck." So God made a banker. God said, "I need someone who doesn't grow anything or make anything but who will borrow money from the public at 0% interest and then lend it back to the public at 2% or 5% or 10% and pay himself a bonus for doing so." So God made a banker. God said, "I need someone who will take money from the people who work and save, and use that money to create a dotcom bubble and a housing bubble and a stock bubble and an oil bubble and a commodities bubble and a bond bubble and another stock bubble, and then sell it to people in Poughkeepsie and Spokane and Bakersfield, and pay himself another bonus." So God made a banker. In this Super Bowl ad, Chrysler pays tribute to the American farmer. God said, "I need someone to build homes in the swamps and deserts using shoddy materials and other people's money, and then use these homes as collateral for a Ponzi scheme he can sell to pensioners in California and Michigan and Sweden. I need someone who will then foreclose on those homes, kick out the occupants, and switch off the air conditioning and the plumbing, and watch the houses turn back into dirt. And then pay himself another bonus." God said, "I need someone to lend money to people with bad credit at 30% interest in order to get his stock price up, and then, just before the loans turn bad, cash out his stock and walk away. And who, when asked later, will, with a tearful eye, say the government made him do it." God said, "And I need somebody who will tell everyone else to stand on their own two feet, but who will then run to the government for a bailout as soon as he gets into trouble - and who will then use that bailout money to help elect a Congress that will look the other way. And then pay himself another bonus." So God made a banker. Brett Arends is a MarketWatch columnist. Follow him on Twitter @BrettArends. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=57e_1360178896 dcmfox So God made a banker god, made, banker Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:04:31 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=380_1352170777 BekasKhan Rediff.com Vicky Nanjappa in Bengaluru Vanni Cappelli, an expert on Afghanistan from Poughkeepsie in New York state, is the president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association and a freelance journalist. In an interview to rediff.com 's Vicky Nanjappa, Cappelli says that in the absence of America coming to its senses, India, together with Russia, would have to shoulder the military and economic burden of shielding Afghanistan from Pakistani aggression. What are your thoughts on the situation in Afghanistan today? The situation is critical. Afghanistan is under attack from proxy militants who are beholden to the military-security services complex based in Rawalpindi that rules Pakistan. Since it remains a devastated land that is being destabilised by a much larger neighbour, it cannot withstand this pressure. The United States, which had a duty to shield the country from foreign aggression, is at least publically in denial of this, and seems determined to have done with the drama. The prognosis is for many more years of war. Has the situation in Afghanistan deteriorated post September 11? After a few relatively stable and hopeful years following the overthrow of the Taliban, Rawalpindi took advantage of America's absolutely unnecessary war against Iraq and the massive military assistance it received from Washington to relaunch the Taliban insurgency against the Kabul government. The situation has been deteriorating steadily since 2005, with the "surge" having only a temporary impact in certain areas. Click NEXT to read further... Image: Afghan border policemen with a detained suspected Taliban fighter near the town of Walli Was in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan. Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters Tags: Rawalpindi , Vanni Cappelli , Afghanistan Foreign Press Association , Vicky Nanjappa , America http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=380_1352170777 BekasKhan 'Afghanistan under attack from Paki's terrorist Punjabi ISI proxy militants'; 'The prognosis is for many more years of war' Afghanistan Occupation by US NATO Taliban Pakistan terrorist Punjabi ISI Al Qaeda Iran Intel India Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:12:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=062_1278399349 Songun A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than thirty days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. Often, a sexual element is involved with the killings. The murders may have been attempted or completed in a similar fashion and the victims may have had something in common; for example, occupation, race, appearance, sex, or age group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer 1. Matthew Emanuel Macon (Murdered and Raped 5 White Women in Lansing) 2. Jimmie Reed (Murdered his wife and his 2 month old daughter and set them on fire) 3. Shelly Brooks (Murdered 7 prostitutes in Detroit Cass Corridor) 4. Justin Blackshere (Stabbed two white cooks at Cheli's Chili downtown Detroit) 5. Jervon Miguel Coleman (Murdered three people.) 6. Donell Ramon Johnson (Murdered a mother and a daughter) 7. Brian Ranard Davis (6 women known murdered by *****) 8. Paul Durousseau (Seven women) 9. Mark Goudeau "The Baseline Killer" (Eight women and a man in 2005-2006) 10. Coral Eugene Watts (Found Guilty of Killing 11 women in TX & 1 in MI. Suspected of Murdering Over 100 Women) 11. Anthony McKnight (Five girls and young women) 12. Derrick Todd Lee (8 Women) 13. Charles Lendelle Carter (4 known murders; admits to 'hunting' Atlantans for 15 years!) 14. The Zebra Killings (71 White people) 15. Chester Turner (L.A.s most prolific killer 12 women killed.) 16. Lorenzo J. Gilyard (Kansas City, MO.-13 victims) 17. Eugene Victor Britt (Gary, IN.-3 known murder/rapes.) 18. Reginald and Jonathan Carr (The Wichita Massacre-6 Whites murdered) 19. Ray Joseph Dandridge and his uncle, Ricky Gevon Gray (Richmond, VA.-Murdered 7 people in 7 days, including an entire White family.) 20. The Tinley Park Murderer (Suspect hasn't been found but has been described as black - murdered 5 women in a store.) 21. Henry Louis Wallace (Raped and strangled 5 women to death.) 22. Charles Johnston (Murdered 3 unarmed white men in hospital) 23. Craig Price (Brutally murdered 3 women) 24. Harrison Graham (Brually Murdered 3 women) 25. Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton (Murdered 6 Whites at the Kirkwood, MO. city council. ) 26. & 27. Darnell Hartsfeld & Romeo Pinkerton (Abducted and Murdered 5 from a restaurant) 28 &29. John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo (Sniped 11 people from a car in DC, 9 died.) 30. George Russell (3 women, WA state) 31. Timothy W. Spencer (5 killed, Arlington, VA and Richmond, VA) 32. Elton M. Jackson (12 gay men killed, Norfolk, VA area) 33. Carlton Gary (3 killed in Columbus, GA) 34. Mohammed Adam Omar (16 women, Yemen. Omar is Sudanese.) 35. Kendall Francois (8 women, Poughkeepsie, NY and surrounding areas.) 36. Terry A. Blair (8 women, Kansas City area) 37. Wayne Williams (33 many of them children!, Atlanta, GA) 38. Vaughn Greenwood (11 killed in LA) 39. Andre Crawford (10 killed in Chicago - southside) 40. Calvin Jackson (9 killed possibley more in NY) 41. Gregory Klepper (killed 8, Chicago - southside) 42. Alton Coleman (Killed 8 in the Midwest) 43. Harrison Graham (killed 7+ in N. Philadelphia) 44. Cleophus Prince (6 killed in, San Diego 45. Robert Rozier (7 killed in, Miami) 46. Maurice Byrd (killed 20 + in St. Louis) 47. Maury Travis (17 and rising, St. Louis and possibly also Atlanta) 48. Hulon Mitchell, a.k.a. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (killed 20+ in Florida) 49. Lorenzo Fayne (killed 5 children in East St. Louis, IL) 50. Paul Durousseau, (killed 6, two of which were pregnant women, Jacksonville, FL; Georgia.) 51. Eddie Lee Mosley (killed 25 to 30 women, south Florida) 52. Henry Lee Jones (killed 4 in, south Florida; Bartlett, TN) 53. Richard "Babyface" Jameswhite (15 killed in, New York; Georgia.) 54. Donald E. Younge, Jr. (killed 4), East St. Louis, IL; Salt Lake City, UT. 55. Ivan Hill (killed 6 in Los Angeles area). 56. Michael Vernon (Bronx, NY. Killed at least seven people - ) 57. Chester Dewayne Turner (12 women killed in, Los Angeles http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=062_1278399349 Songun The Psychology of Serial Killers Psychology of Serial Killers,crime,Psychology , Serial Killers,ghetto,african american pride,ghetto crime,political correctness,sociopath,obama supporter,media blackout,wikipedia Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:16:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84b_1270249883 HydrogenEconomy RNC morally bankrupted and infiltrated by Libs..he was a (D) who ran as an (R) to win NYC election. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/30/bloomberg-sends-stern-let_n_518551.html Bloomberg Sends Stern Letter To Obama Demanding Gun-Control Action First Posted: 03-30-10 11:53 AM | Updated: 03-30-10 12:45 PM digg Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us What's Your Reaction? Amazing Inspiring Funny Scary Hot Crazy Important Weird Read More: Bloomberg Gun Control, Bloomberg Obama, Gun Control, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Michael Bloomberg, Obama Gun Control, Obama Gun Policy, Thomas Menino Guns, New York News 150351 views3,088 Get Breaking News Alerts Share Comments 3,088 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- who at one point was considered an Independent ally of the White House but has proven to be a somewhat reliable critic -- is going hard after the president, accusing Obama of dragging his feet on gun control. In a letter sent earlier this month from his coalition -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns -- Bloomberg comes intriguingly close to assigning blame for ongoing gun violence to the Obama administration. The mayor and his co-signer, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, point to a separate report they sent the administration in early August 2009, which laid out 40 recommendations to "improve enforcement of existing gun laws" that simply required enforcing existing statutes. That report was apparently given only a perfunctory response from the Department of Justice and little tangible political action -- prompting a harsh follow-up letter from Bloomberg and Menino. "We appreciate the Department's consideration of the report, but this is an urgent matter: further delay will almost certainly result in the needless loss of innocent lives, including many children. Mr. President, the time has come for action," the mayors write. "Over the past six months, approximately 6,000 Americans have been gunned down in intentional acts of violence. The 40 recommendations in our Blueprint, many of which could be enacted immediately, offer the best hope we have for making our country safer over the next six months - and the years ahead." The authors go on to point to specific recommendations that they argue could have proven invaluable in preventing or stemming some of the recent cases of gun-related violence -- such as the shooting of two Pentagon police officers earlier this month. Specifically, they cite the need for better information-sharing methods for law enforcement units and "proactive enforcement and undercover operations" by the ATF. "Had been implemented," Bloomberg and Menino write. "ATF would have undertaken proactive enforcement and undercover operations to identify problematic gun shows and the sellers who break the law at those shows." The White House did not immediately return a request for comment. In all, the letter is telling as much for what it says about the president's somewhat frayed relationship with Bloomberg (who was sought out for advice on both health care reform and civilian trials for 9/11 terrorists -- both of which he ended up opposing), as for what it says about the White House's approach to the gun control debate. Story continues below The president and his team have made what appears to be a tacit decision to keep their distance from Second amendment issues -- undoubtedly wary of how politically divisive it can be. And while the strategy has helped dispel the always-erroneous notion that Obama was hell-bent on taking away people's guns, it's also earned the administration a host of critiques from editorial boards to gun-control advocates -- who argue that the political will is there for basic but important reforms. "In your recent State of the Union Address, you reminded Congress, rightly, that the American people sent you to Washington to take on the tough issues - to worry about the next generation, not the next election," writes Bloomberg and Menino. "But not all issues that are controversial in Washington are controversial in the rest of the country." "We respectfully request a meeting with you and the Attorney General to discuss how these reforms can be implemented over the next several months." ================= March 3, 2010 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: Six months ago, Mayors Against Illegal Guns submitted to you and key members of your Administration a "Blueprint for Federal Action on Illegal Guns," which set out 40 recommendations to improve enforcement of existing gun laws - without any change in existing statutes. If implemented, these recommendations would dramatically improve efforts to cut down on gun trafficking and reduce the crime and murder that it fuels. Representatives of the coalition subsequently met with officials from the Department of Justice and have learned that the Department and its subdivisions are reviewing the recommendations highlighted in the Blueprint. We appreciate the Department's consideration of the report, but this is an urgent matter: further delay will almost certainly result in the needless loss of innocent lives, including many children. Mr. President, the time has come for action. Over the past six months, approximately 6,000 Americans have been gunned down in intentional acts of violence. The 40 recommendations in our Blueprint, many of which could be enacted immediately, offer the best hope we have for making our country safer over the next six months - and the years ahead. Lack of Data Sharing: In 2005, 67,713 prohibited purchasers attempted to buy guns, yet only 135 or less than 1% were ever prosecuted. If the status quo prevails, the next six months will see more than 50,000 prohibited purchasers - including murderers, rapists, and car-jackers - attempt to buy guns, yet face no legal consequences. Most of these rejected applicants will commit a felony by knowingly lying on their Form 4473 in order to purchase the firearm. Even more disturbing is the fact that there is no system in place to share this information with state and local law enforcement. In Colorado alone, over the most recent six months, rejected applicants included 6 murderers, 14 sex criminals, and 295 fugitives. Had Recommendations 1 and 2 been implemented, the FBI would have shared information with state and local police on all prohibited purchasers who attempted to purchase guns, and the Justice Department would have investigated and prosecuted the most dangerous of these people for their illegal attempts to purchase guns. Gun Show Lawlessness: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has identified gun shows as one of the top two sources of guns trafficked illegally in the United States and into Mexico. In the last six months, there were roughly 2,500 gun shows around the country where hundreds of thousands of guns were available for sale without background checks. And while most Americans who participate in gun shows are responsible law-abiding citizens, an undercover investigation by the City of New York of seven gun shows in three states showed a disturbing disregard for existing firearms laws. Thirty-five out of 47 sellers (74 percent) approached by undercover investigators illegally completed sales to people who appeared to be criminals or straw purchasers. Had Recommendations 10, 11, 12 and 13 been implemented, ATF would have undertaken proactive enforcement and undercover operations to identify problematic gun shows and the sellers who break the law at those shows. If the status quo prevails, crime gun trace analysis and sharing among law enforcement will remain weak, joint enforcement operations by ATF and local police will remain understaffed, Mexican gun-running will remain rampant, and the federal government will continue to risk failing to connect the dots about terror suspects who purchase guns. The 40 recommendations made by our bi-partisan coalition offer constructive steps forward in each of these areas - and all of the steps can be taken administratively, without any change in existing statutes. In your recent State of the Union Address, you reminded Congress, rightly, that the American people sent you to Washington to take on the tough issues - to worry about the next generation, not the next election. But not all issues that are controversial in Washington are controversial in the rest of the country. As a recent poll of gun owners and NRA members confirms, taking basic steps to crack down on illegal guns is both good politics and good policy. For example, 96% of NRA members and 94% of gun owners agree that criminals who possess, use and traffic in illegal guns should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. We recognize that even the strongest law enforcement cannot stop every murder, but we also see - every day - how lax enforcement of existing gun laws contributes to the murder of innocent Americans, many of them children. We are asking for your help to tackle illegal trafficking and gun crime. The federal government must enforce the laws on the books, and give ATF and state and local law enforcement the resources they need to ensure public safety. We respectfully request a meeting with you and the Attorney General to discuss how these reforms can be implemented over the next several months. Sincerely, Thomas M. Menino Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor of Boston Mayor of New York City Coalition Co-Chair Coalition Co-Chair Enclosures cc: The Honorable Joseph Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States The Honorable Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to the President of the United States The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, United States Department of State The Honorable Eric Holder, Jr., Attorney General, United States Department of Justice The Honorable Janet Napolitano, Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security The Honorable Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigations The Honorable Kenneth Melson, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives The Honorable Peter Orszag, Director, Office of Management and Budget The Honorable Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States The Honorable Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Adviser to the President of the United States and Director of the Domestic Policy Council The Honorable Cecilia Munoz, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, The White House The Honorable Gary Grindler, Acting Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice The Honorable John Morton, Assistant Secretary, Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Honorable Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Department of Homeland Security The Honorable Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Mayor Samuel L. 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Deiss, West Bend, Wisconsin Mayor Larry Nelson, Waukesha, Wisconsin http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84b_1270249883 HydrogenEconomy Repukeagain "RINO" Sends Stern Letter To Obama Demanding Gun-Control Action bloomberg,nyc,gun,control,rnc,republican,obama,mayors,against,illegal,guns Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:33:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c4d_1224095609 Hypnojive Posted by DJ Drummond Published: October 15, 2008 I have said and will say again, that the opinion polls this year are simply wrong. They have fiddled with weighting and wording and various pieces of the demographics to create a false impression. You can either believe them or not, but as I have shown in the numbers for weeks now, believing the polls would be na"ive at the very least. But if the polls have been so biased, one may reasonably ask why that is so. I myself have commended groups like Gallup for a very professional job over many years, and even though I strongly disagree with the conclusions published by groups like CBS News, I applaud their open way of reporting at least some of the significant internal data. In fact, it is CBS News which reveals how this bias is operating, and how even well-intentioned pollsters can make major blunders in their assumptions. I disagree with CBS News because of how it weights its respondent pool. And lately, what I have seen is a trend, verging on the ridiculous, of far too many Democrats in the pool to make any sense at all. This has been happening in both national polls and in state polls. For national polls, I mentioned some weeks back how Gallup managed to show Obama declining or staying steady in every political affiliation group over a week while McCain was steady or gained in every such group, yet Gallup's headline claimed Obama was gaining support overall, a mathematical impossibility without manipulating the proportionate weights. For the states, Survey USA's polls also show a strong pro-Democrat bias, as shown in the following states (2004 and 2006 DRI splits come from actual elections, SUSA's 2008 split is arbitrary): Ohio - 2004 DRI split was 35%/40%/25%, 2006 was 40%/37%/23% SUSA in 2008 is using 46%/33%/20% North Carolina - 2004 DRI split was 39%/40%/21%, 2006 was 39%/40%/21% SUSA in 2008 is using 42%/37%/18% Virginia - 2004 DRI split was 35%/39%/26%, 2006 was 36%/39%/26% SUSA in 2008 is using 39%/30%/25% Pennsylvania - 2004 DRI split was 41%/39%/20%, 2006 was 43%/38%/19% SUSA in 2008 is using 54%/35%/10% Florida - 2004 DRI split was 37%/41%/23%, 2006 was 36%/39%/25% SUSA in 2008 is using 40%/42%/16% Survey USA is using weights which have no historical validity whatsoever in their state polling. "Garbage" is not too strong a word to describe their published results. So what's the deal? Something is happening to skew the polling groups' perception of how they think voters will turn out, and in publishing invalid conclusions as they have, they are - intentionally or not - misleading the public about the election conditions. Since the reputation of the polling group is essential in attracting future business clients, it hardly seems reasonable to consider these blunders to be deliberate. Although I have written that polls fall into the unethical habit of selling a roller coaster story which they know is not accurate, polls do try to stay close enough to be plausible. One must conclude that they have come to believe their own hype, forgetting Heisenberg's warning that observing a behavioral event not only influences the event, but also affects the observer as well. So, in looking around for a cause, I found something all major polls have in common. Look at their headquarters locations: Poll Headquarters ABC News 77 W 66th St, #13, New York City, New York CBS News 524 W 57th St, New York City, New York FOX News 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York Gallup 901 F St NW, Washington DC Hotline 88 Pine St, 32nd floor, New York City, New York IBD 12655 Beatrice St. Los Angeles, California LA Times 202 W 1st St, Los Angeles California Marist 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie, New Jersey Mason-Dixon 1250 Connnecticut Ave #200, Washington DC Newsweek 251 W 57th St, New York City, New York NY Times 1 City Hall, New York City, New York Pew 1615 L St NW, #700, Washington DC Quinnipiac 275 Mount Carmel Ave., Hamden Connecticut Rasmussen 625 Cookman, #2, Asbury Park, New Jersey Reuters 3 Times Square, New York City, New York Survey USA 15 Bloomfield Ave., Verona New Jersey TIPP 690 Kinderkamack Rd, Oradell, New Jersey WaPo 1150 15th St NW, Washington DC Zogby 901 Broad St, Utica, New York All of them deep in "blue" territory, many packed together up on the northeast corner of Obama territory. The only non-east-coast member of this group is the LA Times, located in the most liberal section of California, also solid blue in perspective. This is not a coincidence, all of the major polling organizations are based in locations where liberals are strongest and conservatives weakest, where 'democrat' and 'republican' take on meanings wildly different from the rest of the country. As a result, it is obvious that the prevailing culture in this limited part of the country has an undue influence on the focus applied by these polling groups. Democrats, especially liberal democrats, are over-represented in the poll reports because the culture of New York and Northeast America over-represents liberals. Republicans, especially conservative republicans, are suppressed in the poll reports because the culture at the polling groups' headquarters suppresses republican opinion. I learned long ago, that when a manager displays certain personality traits, they are soon reflected by the employees at that company. A relaxed manager who is confident tends to improve the mood of his staff, while a tense micro-manager creates the same attitude in his employees. Knowing this, it's not at all hard to imagine the conversations between headquarters and the staff at these polling groups. They like Obama and expect him to win, so - what a surprise! - the polls they control reflect that same attitude. Polls are useful for investigating trends and movement within a specific demographic, provided the polling group is ethical enough to publish its internals. But trusting them for an honest topline report amounts to trusting Obama's campaign to honestly report how the election is really going. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c4d_1224095609 Hypnojive One Obvious Reason the Polls Are Biased poll numbers,distortions,biased polls