With Liberty and Justice for All?

I have heard stories of the poor being penalized in the United States. Stories such as the one here ,outrage the social justice freak in me. However, I read a story today that has taken the cake. While our government hands failing banks trillions of tax payer dollars, while this economy is creating homeless families in numbers not seen since the Great Depression, while jobs are being lost at an explosive rate, and the Fed can’t account for 9.7 trillion dollars of OUR money–while the government is evicting Americans from tent cities forcing them to shelters, New York has decided that charging the homeless rent is a good thing.  That’s right. Taking advantage of homeless people and families who are working and trying to save to get out of shelters are now being charged up to half of their income as rent. This only applies to the poor who are actually trying to make a better situation for themselves by finding and keeping jobs. The people who do not work, of course are not being forced to pay anything. (story link here)
The policy of rent for shelter was enacted in 1997, but never enforced until this month. I guess in a failing economy, when a city does not have the privilege of printing money out of thin air like Washington does, the appropriate course of action to get more money is to squeeze it out of every citizen who can cough it up. Usually this money grabbing scheme is carried out in tax hikes, or police ticketing for speeding at 3 whole miles over the speed limit. Somehow though, the sudden enforcement of this law is particularly disgusting and smacks of tyranny.

Lets get something straight. There are those who are a “soak” on tax payer dollars. Drug addicts who are homeless, those who will not support their children, drunks who can’t hold a buck in their pocket longer than it takes to buy a bottle from the corner liquor store are people who line up for shelter and food every night of the blessed year, and they are not ever turned away or forced to spend a single cent for it. Charging those who are working to get a leg up in an economy that keeps knocking them down, is only forcing them to stay in homeless shelters longer. Then again, this is what the Mafia would consider a “deal”. Protection for dollars. It’s a deal that never ends. It’s the same logic – pay, and you stay. Except the paying families will no longer be able to save for an apartment to get out. The more money they make, the more money government takes. Maybe they should all quit and collect welfare for life, because it seems as if that’s what the government would prefer.

WTF
has our country come to when we shovel billion upon billions upon more billions of dollars on big banks
then force the working homeless to shell out half of their wages to sleep in a cot in a room shared with 20 other people??

The Declaration of Dependance

This guest post by: Mike (SirDoc)

In Congress, July 4, 2009.
A Declaration
By the Representatives of the
United Socialists of America,
In general Congress assembled

To The Citizens of the Former united states.

When in the course of human events, through years of subversion by anti-American professors, liberals, politicians and left-wing radicals, it has become possible for a People to dissolve the free form of government which had made Amercia so successful, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth,  Socialist Tyranny equal to few which have ever existed, to which we feel we are entitled to.  A total lack of Respect to the Opinions of the Average American emboldens us to declare the causes and methods we will use to burn the old America to the ground.

Therefore we, have as a direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

We shall destroy all Christian Laws, even the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

We forbid the State Governors to pass any Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless our Assent should be obtained .

We will  refuse to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People; unless those People would relinquish their Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right they no longer need.

We will call together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of your public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing you into Compliance with our Measures.

We will dissolve any Representative Houses for opposing with manly Firmness our Invasions on the Rights of the People.

We will not honor the results of contested elections but will cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, can be assured to work in our favor, regardless if the State remains in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

We will endeavour to Populate the States with illegal aliens; and for that Purpose obstruct the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refuse to pass others to discourage their Illegal Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands for natural Citizens, while lowering them for the Illegals.

We will obstruct the Administration of Justice, by refusing to recognize States Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

We will make Judges dependent on our Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

We will erect a Multitude of new Offices, and send hither Swarms of ACORN Officers to harass your People, and eat out your Substance.

we will keep among you, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies of Lawyers, and Activists, without the consent of your Legislature.

We will render the Military incapable of protecting this country. We will create a National Police force (Gestapo) which is equipped the same as or better than the military, and make it  independent of and superior to the Local Civil Power.

We will combine with others to subject you to a Jurisdiction foreign to your Constitution, and unacknowledged by your Laws; and give our Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

We will  quarter large Bodies of Armed ACORN thugs among you:

We will protect them, by mock Trials, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of the States:

WE will  cut off your Trade with all Parts of the World to bust your budgets:

WE will  impose taxes on you without your Consent:

WE will deprive you, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

WE will transport you beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

WE will abolish the free System of English Laws in any neighbouring Province which resists, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule in the States:

WE will take away your Charters, abolish your most valuable Laws, and alter fundamentally the Forms of your Governments:

WE  will suspend your own Legislatures, and declare themselves invested only with such Powers to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

WE will delclare your State Government void, out of Federal Protection and wage War against you.

WE will plunder your Accounts, ravage your Coasts, burn your Towns, and destroy the Lives of your People.

WE are, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally worthy for your  Heads of State.

WE will constrain your fellow Citizens take them Captive on charges of high treason and make them bear Arms against your Country, to become the Executioners of your Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

We will excite domestic Insurrections among you, and will endeavour to bring on the Gangs of the Drug Lords, the merciless terrorist Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions you may Petition for Redress in the most humble Terms: But your repeated Petitions will be answered only by repeated Injury. Our party, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, may be unfit to be the Ruler of a free People,  but then you are no longer FREE.

You may be inclined to seek help from your British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time about Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of your Demise. We have appealed to their native fears and threatened them with activisim, and we have reminded them of the Ties we have with Islamic Fundamentalists in their country and have urged them disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, celebrate in the Reality that we can denounce them  and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, Enemies in Peace.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United SOCIALISTS of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Socialists, Communist, and Facist Governments of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of Barrack Hussein Obama, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United States are, and by our Direction ought to be, SOCIALIST and ENSLAVED States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, to all other Democratic and free peoples of the world, and that all political Connection between them and the new United States, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as SOCIALIST and ENSLAVED States, they no longer have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And to support this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and the Iranian Regime, etc. we mutually pledge to take each of your Lives if necessary, all of your Fortunes, and to crush your sacred Honor.

I’m an Extremist, She’s an Extremist, Wouldn’t You Like To Be an Extremist too??

Disclaimer:

I’m not a Bush supporter. I’m not a Republican.
I am a Libertarian, a strict Constitutionalist, and a Blogger for Liberty.

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Remember the days when us wing nuts told you that the Obama administration would be worse than the Bush era? I’m an equal opportunity basher when it comes to the NO common sense policies that interrupt the common good of all my American fellow citizens. I have no issue beating a dead horse, especially if I think it still contains a wisp of life, a last breath, or postmortem flatulence, I don’t care. (PETA, don’t mail me). All you people who voted for Obama, did so without any record to point to that said he was the man for the job. Not only has he gaffed in ways that would’ve made Bush blush, and would’ve had blood shooting out of the eyes of liberals back in the Bush days of old–his worst gaff yet was appointing a Homeland Security Secretary who thinks that labeling all Americans, including veterans as extremists and potential terrorists is appropriate.

Meet Janet Napolitano.

She is so PC that the government is no longer “allowed” to call Islamic Terrorists, “terrorists”. The correct term under the Obama administration to describe actual terrorists are “man made disasters”. That is of course, unless you’re an American, then you may be labeled a terrorist, and that is my friends, politically correct under the Obama list of common sense protocol. According to the “”Domestic Extremism Lexicon” you are an extremist. YES YOU. I will exclude you of course if you are comatose, a droid, a mannequin, or if you’re effectively brain dead. Otherwise, you will fall into one of the categories below

In my best Red Neck twang, I submit to you by a preponderance of proof provided by PC Janet Napolitano

You Might be an extremist if :

• You listen to or read alternative media sources that portray significant events differently than that of the mass media outlets.

• you are anti-illegal immigration

• you are a Cuban and /or anti Castro ( of cuba? ya know, a communist government?)

• you and your friends are individuals who pursue shared ideological goals (to be fair the rest says—->through tactics of leaderless resistance independent of any larger terrorist organization (can anyone say Bill Ayers? Tony Rezko?)

• you believe in civil disobedience to change laws ( can anyone say Martin Luther King?) or you protest (dang tea bagging protesting rednecks! Gahh!)

• you oppose most federal and state laws, regulations, and authority, particularly firearms laws and regulations.

• you are a  Christian patriot, or are affiliated with  patriot groups, or Constitutionalists

• you’re a Christian who believes that following God is above all and refuse to follow all other government laws that may compromise your faith

• you believe the tax code is the equivalent to theft

Notice two things when you investigate the link to this latest proud display of our tax dollars at work. 1) Your government does not want you to know that they are profiling you. The warning states : It contains information that may be exempt from public release under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). It is to be controlled, stored, handled, transmitted, distributed, and disposed of in accordance with DHS policy relating to FOUO information and is not to be released to the public, the media, or other personnel who do not have a valid need-to-know without prior approval of an authorized DHS official. State and local homeland security officials may share this document with authorized security personnel without further approval from DHS. (so much for the Obama promise of transparency)

and notice how I didn’t say “I told you so!!” 

Domestic Extremism Lexicon : http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/04/30/-hsra-domestic-extremism-lexicon_165213935473.pdf