The Truth Has No Agenda… That Is Why It Will Set You Free

Beck drew up an anti-violence pledge after the horrific events in Tucson last weekend – the shootings of 16 people which included Congresswoman Giffords, a Federal Judge and a nine year old girl.

Glenn Beck Issues Challenge/Pledge of Non-Violence

Video:  Glenn Beck Anti-Violence Pledge to Congress

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Here goes that crazy guy spouting off his crazy nonesense again...
Read this in its entirety here.

This was written in response to the Tucson shootings. There's about 5 paragraphs before the quote begins. The quoted bit is the challenge/pledge and its intro. That's where I'd like to focus. Please don't spin this into a Glenn Beck hate echo chamber just because Beck's name is on it. Please focus on the content itself.

Originally Posted by Glenn Beck

Turning these horrific events into an opportunity for a political attack is a very childish response to a very grown-up problem. This is not about winning a political blame game. Atheists are not to blame. Those who hate George W. Bush are not to blame. Those who don’t believe in space travel are not to blame. Jared Lee Loughner is to blame. Period.

This tragedy should not be used as an opportunity to try and bend reality to retroactively place a madman on the other side of the aisle. It should be a time to pray for the victims and their families, a time that we can all come together and state that violence is off limits for all sides in a Republic. It’s a time for us to state with a unified passion that we won’t accept anyone who threatens or actually carries out violence.

Denouncing violence from all sides including your own does not make your movement any less just. To quote Martin Luther King:

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

I challenge all Americans, left or right, regardless if you’re a politician, pundit, painter, priest, parishioner, poet or porn star to agree with all of the following.

• I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation.
• I denounce anyone, from the Left, the Right or middle, who believes physical violence is the answer to whatever they feel is wrong with our country.
• I denounce those who wish to tear down our system and rebuild it in their own image, whatever that image may be.
• I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle, who call for riots and violence as an opportunity to bring down and reconstruct our system.
• I denounce violent threats and calls for the destruction of our system – regardless of their underlying ideology – whether they come from the Hutaree Militia or Frances Fox Piven.
• I hold those responsible for the violence, responsible for the violence. I denounce those who attempt to blame political opponents for the acts of madmen.
• I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle that sees violence as a viable alternative to our long established system of change made within the constraints of our constitutional Republic.

I will stand with anyone willing to sign that pledge. Today I make a personal choice. I urge leaders of both sides and all walks of life to join me as all Americans joined hands on 9.12.2001. I believe that we must change ourselves to hold on to our republic. That’s why I have been talking about e4. Enlightenment. Education. Empowerment. Entrepreneurship. It’s a personal solution for all of us to become the people we were born to be, not the people we’ve allowed ourselves to become. I have called for a personal revolution; change ourselves in order to change the world. Those who live with honor and are responsible to themselves and their families will be the key to the future of our Republic, not those playing political games.

A rather stark contrast from the other responses to the Tucson shootings, no?

Who here's willing to sign that pledge? I am. Are you? Who out there in the public, the media, and other places is? Let's see if we can keep track of who here, in the public, and in the media, says yes to this, and who dismisses it in cloud of Beck hate. That will be very telling about those people.

Again please focus on the CONTENT of the challenge/pledge and not Glenn Beck. Since I'm starting this thread, I'm going to openly call for the deletion of any random comment about Beck, i.e. "Glenn Beck is a hypocrite. Now he's calling for non-violence, but where was he when Palin made her crosshair map?", that does not focus on the content of this challenge/pledge. I hope the Mods here will support me with that. This isn't about Beck. This is about the challenge/pledge and ONLY the challenge/pledge. Please keep it to that.

Beck and his staff contacted almost all the Senators and Congressmen’s offices to ask them to sign the Pledge.  After 2-days only 14 had signed as of yesterday’s show.  Out of 100 Senators and 535 people in Congress. (The 111th Congress of the United States has 535 members consisting of 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 members of the Senate.)

only 14 had signed as of yesterday’s show.

Video:  The Truth Has No Agenda… and Will Set You Free!!

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Palin Releases Facebook Video in Response to Shooting  and she was immediately attacked again by the vicious left.  Joe Dirshowitz (sp?)immediately came to Palin’s Defense.  Liberal Rep. Clyburn again attacks Palin:  Rep. Clyburn: Palin “Attractive’ Bit ‘Intellectually’ Incapable of Understanding Arizona Shootings  This coming from this libelous liberal fool?

A Conspiracy Against the Mind, Against Life, Against Man and the Virtue of Sarah

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Glenn made a very good point in his talk radio show yesterday. He wondered this question aloud during a break, and then it spilled over into the radio show. Here's that excellent commentary; it contains a warning. We are literally fighting for our future lives, and those of our children and grandchildren! If we fail to keep Talk Radio and the Internet telling us the truth, we'll fall for anything. If there is no real opposing voice, we'll be dependent upon our OWN efforts, including time, while we do our best to provide for, educate, and raise our families. And let's face it, not all of us can afford a 40-person research staff to ensure we're getting our facts straight each day.

Then there's the Internet. Let's not even go there. That's another discussion entirely. Here's the story from Glenn Beck's website:

Will talk radio survive the year?

Video:  Will Talk Radio Survive 2011

Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:13 AM EST
With all the attempts to blame Glenn, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and other conservative voices for the Arizona shootings, one starts to wonder if talk radio will survive the year. Pat asked Glenn that very question during a break, and the radio guys addressed the issue on the program.

Pat said he doesn’t think talk radio will continue after 2011. “Yeah, I mean, the way it’s going. It doesn’t look like it to me. I don’t know how we do. How do we survive the year? You’ve already got Clyburn calling for the Fairness Doctrine, you’ve already got Al Sharpton who started last year and wants to call Rush before some Senate committee hearing,” Pat said. “I mean, they are using a situation that has absolutely nothing to do with us, without a shred of evidence that he ever listened to anybody on the right, or the left.”

Glenn added that the slow regulation of the media is the textbook definition of progressivism. “It is bit by bit, step by step, it is progress,” he said.

When the Fairness Doctrine was in place decades ago, it nearly killed talk radio. “When the Fairness Doctrine was in force in, what, the Eighties, the way they did it was you’d have a conservative in the morning, then you’d have a liberal in the midday. Then in the afternoon there’s a conservative. Then at night there’s a liberal. And it kind of went like that on just about every station. And so you never knew what you were going to get when you tuned in unless you knew the schedule really well,” Pat said.

Glenn said that when they start applying the Fairness Doctrine to other industries, then maybe you can come to talk radio. “When there is the Fairness Doctrine in the universities, you let me know and you come to talk radio. When you have to have someone with the other opinion standing in front of your children, you let me know. See, they know exactly the power. They know exact ‑‑ they know. And they know the power of total indoctrination.”

“And if you don’t think this can happen, you’re fooling yourself. If you don’t think that they’re going to regulate the Internet, you’re just uninformed. And here’s why: They already did it December 21st. They’re now writing the regulations for the Internet. And nobody seems to care. Man has never been freer to speak his mind but yet there are so many of your friends that just think, ‘Well, this will always be this way.’”

Source": Glenn Beck - Survival of Talk Radio Decided in 2011?

From Tuesday’s show:  Video:  Solutions and Targets

Watch the Other Hand – Part III

Bill Ayers, communist provided Arizona shooter's curriculum?

High school part of learning community funded jointly by Obama and domestic terrorist

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Posted: January 10, 2011
9:59 am Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2011 WorldNetDaily  -  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=249429

Bill Ayers

Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting, attended a high school that is part of a network in which teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded by Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and funded by President Obama, WND has learned.

The group, Small Schools Workshop, has been led by a former ‘top communist activist’ who is an associate of Ayers.

Obama provided the group with funds in the 1990s when he worked at an education reform group alongside Ayers.

Loughner attended Mountain View High School, which is part of Arizona's Marana Unified School District.

Since 2003, Mountain View has been part of what is known as the Smaller Learning Community, a network of schools that have been restructured to create a more personalized learning environment where students often have the same teachers and fellow students from grade to grade.

Mountain View was part of the Smaller Learning Communities throughout Loughner's entire attendance there, from 9th grade until he withdrew without graduating before his senior year.

The high school received grants to research the concepts of Smaller Learning Communities and work to implement them.

Ayers himself is considered one of the fathers of the Smaller Learning Communities, often providing lectures to schools on the subject. For example, a 2001 lecture at Lewis & Clark College featured Ayers at a workshop entitled, "A Simple Justice: Building Smaller Learning Communities to Know Our Youth."

Smaller Learning Communities had its conceptual genesis in 1991, when Ayers founded a group, Small Schools Workshop, which provides training and resources to teach schools on how to implement the Smaller Learning Communities.

Small Schools Workshop is a recommended agent for how to implement smaller schools curriculum, including at Loughner's alma mater, Mountain View.

Ayers' Small Schools Workshop has the stated goal of providing support for teachers who want to create smaller learning environments. Ayers reportedly recruited a radical activist, Mike Klonsky, to head the Workshop. Klonsky still serves as director.

The Small School Workshop originally was associated with the University of Illinois in Chicago, where Klonsky previously taught in the education department alongside Ayers, who retired from the university last year. The group was headquartered for a time inside the university's department of education building.

In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few years.

Ayers was on a working group of five that originally founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Correspondence shows Ayers was instrumental in recruiting Obama to serve as the CAC's first chairman.

Ayers served as co-chairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one of the two operational arms of the CAC.

Klonsky served with Ayers and Ayers' wife, former Weatherman terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, in the Students for a Democratic Society group, a major leftist student organization in the 1960s that later splintered, with Ayers and Dohrn leading a more activist approach with the Weatherman. Klonsky reportedly favored less aggressive tactics, promoting the philosophy that young workers possessed the potential to be a revolutionary force to overthrow capitalism.

In the 1970s, Klonsky became a top communist activist and leader of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party.

He reportedly identified as a Maoist, and traveled in 1977 to Beijing, where he held friendly meetings with the Chinese leadership.

In a book, "Revolution in the Air," author Max Elbaum, himself a former Maoist activist, recounts that in Beijing, Klonsky toasted the Chinese Stalinist leadership who, in turn, hailed the formation of his Communist Party group as "reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people," effectively recognizing Klonsky's organization as the all-but-official U.S. Maoist party.

In a brief conversation with WND in September 2008, Klonsky would not state whether he is still acommunist. He did not deny his associations with Ayers or his communist activism in the 1970s.

Loughner, meanwhile, posted on his YouTube channel a number of books he listed as his "favorites."

The books read more like a high school curriculum. They include Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill A Mockingbird, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and some unsavory titles such as The Communist Manifesto and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

WND was the first to report Caitie Parker, who went to high school,collegeand was in a band with the gunman, labeled Loughner as "quite liberal" and "more left" on her Twitter account.

In her Twitter postings, Parker wrote of Loughner, "As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal and oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy."

She also described him as "more left."

With research by Danette Clark and Brenda J. Elliott

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Feds sneaking around Congress to regulate firearms - Updated

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Originally Posted: December 23, 2010 -  9:15 pm Eastern  © 2010

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF, has a long history of excess and overreaching … and they're at it again.

Using exaggerated reports of gun smuggling from the U.S. into Mexico as their justification, the agency has filed for an emergency regulation requiring gun dealers to keep track of their customers and file special reports to ATF whenever a customer purchases more than one semi-automatic rifle within any 5-day period. Such special reporting is already required for multiple sales of handguns and has proven to be thoroughly useless as a law enforcement tool.

ATF's requested regulation – which is unconstitutional, violates a statutory prohibition against firearms registration schemes and was obviously filed as an "emergency" simply as a means of bypassing Congress – would be "temporary," meaning that it would have to be renewed in four or five months, and is said to only apply to gun dealers in states bordering Mexico, though the regulation, as submitted, seems to be missing that specific limitation.

At this point the proposed regulation is awaiting approval from the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Political observers will recall that OIRA is headed by President Obama's old friend Cass Sunstein, who famously advocated for the abolition of all hunting and for the extension of legal rights – including the right to have a court-appointed attorney – to animals.

While Mr. Sunstein is an attorney and college professor specializing, in part, in constitutional law, his record shows that his Constitution does not include the Second Amendment. It is expected that Sunstein's office will approve ATF's Emergency Regulation by the first week of January unless there is immediate and vehement objection from members of Congress and the public.

In the late '70s, shortly after my late father, Neal Knox, took over the NRA's lobbying efforts, ATF leaders attempted to expand their power by implementing a regulatory scheme requiring that gun manufacturers add a government-defined 13-digit serial number to every gun and that dealers report detailed information, including that new serial number, to ATF for every sale. Records of those sales, guns, and purchasers were to be stored in ATF computers. It was gun registration, pure and simple. The scheme might have slipped through had it not been for the heightened visibility of ATF due to Dad's efforts and his immediate sounding of the alarm when the proposal was introduced.

Congress had upon numerous occasions debated the idea of a federal gun registration law and had rejected the idea on each occasion. For ATF to decide to bypass Congress and implement such a registration scheme via regulation was rightly perceived as an affront by many members of Congress, and their indignant response was to remove some four million dollars from the agency's operating budget (the amount ATF said they expected to spend on the scheme.)

That overreach, along with egregious abuses of honest gun dealers by the ATF led to the introduction of the McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act to repeal some of the more onerous and confusing sections of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

It is to be hoped that current members of Congress will have a similarly indignant response to ATF's overreaching in this instance, as here again the agency is trying to implement by regulation something which the Congress has considered and rejected in the past.

Rights opponents will argue that rights activists like me are overly sensitive and unyielding in our positions and that we reactively oppose any firearms regulations regardless of how benign or effective they may be. There will be an inclination to accept ideas like this and then place the burden of proof upon rights advocates to explain why it's a bad idea.

Really, the burden of proof belongs to those who wish to interfere with our rights. It is up to ATF to show the legal authority to institute this proposed regulation and that it does not violate the spirit or intent of any existing law. It is also up to the ATF to show that their proposed regulation will be effective and productive as a means of fighting illegal gun trafficking.

The fact is that ATF can present no such evidence in support of their idea, just the suggestion that the proposal sounds reasonable and might be of use. That's not good enough.

It is overreaching for an agency to follow after Congress and enact regulations where Congress has refused to enact laws, especially where Congress considered and discarded those exact actions.

It is extra-legal for an agency to ignore statutory limitations barring the collection or archiving of information about gun purchasers, not to mention limitations under the Paperwork Reduction Act forbidding unnecessary increases in paperwork burdens.

The multiple-sales reporting scheme claims to be aimed at keeping guns out of Mexico, but it fails on that point as well.

First, it will have little effect on gun smuggling in Mexico, for smugglers familiarize themselves with the laws they are breaking. They will easily avoid ensnaring themselves in such an obvious trap.

Second, while the actual number of guns that arrive in Mexico from the USA is impossible to determine, we know that the number being reported is inflated since the ATF only traces those guns selected by the Mexican authorities. There is strong evidence that American civilian gun shops are only one of many sources of guns in Mexico, and a minor one at that. Pictures of confiscated arms in the Mexican press routinely include grenades, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns, arms that aren't in the U.S. civilian inventory.

Finally, the proposed multiple-sale scheme places a significant burden on dealers and puts them at increased risk of prosecution for clerical errors if they fail to detect a repeat buyer in a timely fashion.

You can tell the ATF and Congress that you oppose the ATF's overreach through any − or all − of the following ways:

1. Call the Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulation Affairs, Department of Justice, desk officer at (202) 395-6466
2. E-mail Barbara A. Terrell, ATF, Firearms Industry Programs Branch at Barbara.Terrell@atf.gov
3. Call your senators and representative through the United States Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

There is no such thing as reasonable infringement on liberty.

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Jeff Knox is a second-generation political activist and director of The Firearms Coalition. His writing can regularly be seen in Shotgun News and Front Sight magazines as well as here on WorldNetDaily.

Is there anyone else out there that just finds the timing on this and the shooting in Arizona by a left-wing nut job, just little too convenient??

· Something very, very, very strange!!  -  Sunday, January 09, 2011 6:04:14 PM · by djf · 49 replies

Here is Gabrielle Giffords YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/giffords2 Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and look on the left under Subscriptions (2) See Classitup10??? Guess who that is!!! As I said on another thread, this whole deal reeks of weird mind control MK-Ultra black-ops stuff... Are the hairs on the back of anybody’s necks standing up yet???

Watch the Other Hand – Chaos Being Pushed on the Left and the Right – Part l

Watch the Other Hand – part ii:  Dems, Media Blame Tea Party, Palin for Shooting; Yet Shooter Linked to Left-Wing Politics

· Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Gifford’s Shooting For Fundraiser!

An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to try and squeeze donations from its supporters. Some might think the action of 21st Century Democrats is itself a crime — a crime against decency.The email blast sent out Sunday morning to its supporters tells members...

Watch the Other Hand part II: Dems, Media Blame Tea Party, Palin for Shooting; Shooter Linked to Leftwing Politics

Sunday, 09 Jan 2011 11:20 AM

As U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fights for her life after a mad gunman shot her on Saturday, some Democrats and major media have moved to pin the blame for her attack on the tea party movement and conservatives like Sarah Palin, despite the fact that the shooter was both deranged and fascinated by leftwing politics.

Giffords' Democratic colleague, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, told Mother Jones magazine within hours after the rampage that the “political tone and tenor” created by Palin and the tea party movement had set the stage for the shooting.

Grijalva said Palin's “apparatus” had put Giffords' and his own life at risk.

“Both Gabby and I were targeted in the apparatus in that cycle [saying] these people are ‘enemies.’” He added: “The Palin express better look at their tone and their tenor.”
The liberal New York Times was not far behind Grijalva, publishing a lead story headlined "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics."

The Times insuated that conservative criticism of President Barack Obama and his policies may have been at the root of this weekend's violence, noting "... it was hard to separate what had happened from the heated nature of the debate that has swirled around Mr. Obama and Democratic policies of the past two years."

The paper even suggested tea party criticisms of  Obama's healthcare plan, the debate over Arizona's new rules on police handling of illegal immigrants and even the fact Giffords was Jewish could have played a role. The Times also claimed that the fact Palin's political action committee had targeted Giffords for defeat may have played a role.
But tea party figures and conservatives have assailed such characterizations.

Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, noted on his website that  Giffords is “a liberal,” but added, “that does not matter now. No one should be a victim of violence because of their political beliefs.”

Indeed, the profile of the accused shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, that continues to emerge is that of a deranged young man whose mind was deeply distubred, but who also tinkered with both anarchist ideas and leftwing politics.

ABC News reported Saturday night that Loughner had identified among his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and the fiction classic "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- hardly the reading list of a Palin supporter.

Other clues have emerged about Loughner's persona from Arizona press reports:

• He is "described by friends and former classmates as a loner, prone to dressing in black regalia of boots, trench coat and baggy pants even on the hottest days."
• He was removed from Pima Community College "for causing disruptions in classrooms and the library, college officials said. His dispute with college officials led him to post a bizarre YouTube video declaring the college illegal under the U.S. Constitution and culminated in his suspension from campus."
• His rants against the government that have surfaced on the Internet don't suggest he had a conservative perspective on big government. Instead Laughner's MySpace featured a photo "showing a close-up picture of an automatic handgun sitting atop a book or paper titled 'United States History.'" Another video shows a masked man burning the American flag.
• "I can't trust the current government because of fabrications," Loughner wrote in a YouTube slideshow. "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
• Loughner suggests that he was rejected from entering the U.S. Army to which he applied because he was offered a "mini Bible" during the recruitment process, but that he declined to "write a belief on my Army application and the recruiter wrote on the application: None."

Source: Newsmax

Watch the Other Hand – Chaos Being Pushed on the Left and the Right – Part l

CPUSA – laying a Foundation for Revolt

Report: Giffords’ Gunman is ‘Left Wing,  Quite Liberal’ yet if true Cloward and Piven and Alinsky style the left almost immediately began attacking and blaming the tea party, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh

Palin, McCain, Boehner and Other Respond to Deadly Arizona Shooting

‘That’s Creep’: Geraldo Freaks Out on Suggestion Fox Is Responsible for Shooting  -  Geraldo and Al Sharpton, both leftists, went way off the deep end  (not shown in this video) on Geraldo’s show on Saturday night.  Al Sharpton is one of the most divisive speakers and leaders is the United States for the left, but always is the first to give the right the advice that he himself does not heed.

Some thoughts to remember as we are being bombarded by the leftist media bias: Columbine Remembered – What a great speech!  by the Father of a Columbine Victim.

Just this week Frances Fox Piven, surviving half of the infamous Progressive Cloward and Piven duo has said violence is okay if it’s a ‘big part of your strategy’, just as violence and chaos are a part of the Saul Alinsky’s tactics in his book and the Progressive Bible: Rules for Radicals.  Also, Uncovered: New Calls for the Updated Cloward-Piven Strategy to Overwhem America’s Financial System from Frances Fox Piven with SEIU and Berthe Lewis Coordination

The 13 Main Alinsky Tactics (Please Scroll Down for Newer Posts)

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

1. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
5. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
7. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
9. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
11. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
13. Keep the pressure on with different tactics, and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
15. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

WATCH THE OTHER HAND!!

Watch the Other Hand – Chaos Being Pushed on the Left and the Right

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton – the Noisy Room

‘Unspeakable tragedy’: U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, space shuttle astronaut Mark Kelly, in an undated photo. Mrs. Giffords is fighting for her life in an Arizona hospital after being shot in the head at point blank range. – Mail Online

As most of you know, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona and others were shot earlier today at a “Congress on Your Corner” in front of a Safeway store in Tucson, AZ. Mrs. Giffords just came out of surgery (she was shot point blank in the head) and is responding to her doctors. This is nothing less than a miracle since only 5% of head shots survive. Others were not so fortunate. According to AP reports, a 9-year-old girl and U.S. District Court Judge John Roll have been killed. We are hearing here that up to 6 have died. We are also hearing 20 or so were shot and wounded. 3 of her staffers were shot as well. Our thoughts and prayers are with all that were hurt today.

It turns out the shooter is Jared Lee Loughner. A clean cut, 22 year old and an apparent communist. But you wouldn’t know it by listening to the media – they are pushing he was a veteran. When I mentioned at the onset of this, that an anarchist/communist was likely the shooter, no one believed me. Proof’s in the pudding I guess. Here is some of his favorite reading material:

I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver’s Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.”

He is definitely not a tea partier… Check out his favorite video on YouTube:

America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!

Authorities stated they believe Loughner had sent out a video saying that he expected Saturday to be his last day and had written on his MySpace page several “final thoughts” that included rants on illiteracy and the failure of U.S. currency to be backed by gold.

He is clearly disturbed and he looks like an anarchist to me. He is an extreme leftist and is part of Van Jones’ plan to get the people “out in the streets.” Too bad AZ State Senator Linda Lopez is already blaming the Tea Party per Fox News. She should look to her side of the aisle and the extremists in her midst. Top down, bottom up, inside out…

Giffords is a blue-dog Democrat and a good person. She is considered a moderate and was at one time, a Republican. She is very strong on border issues, pro-second amendment and for fiscal responsibility. She was also pro-healthcare and I vigorously disagree with her on that. But that is just politics. What Loughner did is revolutionary and highly provocative, not to mention violently insane.

But before you start screaming that I am only laying blame at the feet of the left, I have to say that I am horrified after reading comments from both sides on numerous sites today. The left is blaming Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, Michelle Malkin, the Second Amendment, the Tea Party and everyone on the Right. The Right is blaming the Left and some are saying hang them high. Stop it! All of you are being manipulated for a political agenda that is meant to foment chaos and bloodshed to benefit the powerful elite. Don’t let this become an Archduke Ferdinand moment. Don’t let Americans be manipulated into the streets and used as a weapon of the Marxists. Violence is not the answer, so back off.

Feel, mourn and pray for the people and families that were hurt today. Lay off the incendiary rhetoric and recognize Loughner for the lunatic he is. Watch the other hand…

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An Unsung Hero of the Arizona Tragedy

By now most folks with internet or radio or TV News probably know that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot this morning in Tucson at a community event at a Safeway grocery store. Current reports have at least 13 people wounded in this tragedy and 6 dead. Among the dead, a 9 year-old child and a federal judge.

What is not in the news yet is that among the dead is Dorwin Stoddard who threw himself in front of his wife Mavy to keep her from being shot. She was wounded in her legs. Dorwin was a member of the Church of Christ.

Today, in Arizona, we saw what can happen when one deranged individual takes it upon himself to resort to violence in response to what he considered to be a wrong. The Senator who was shot could just as easily have been a Republican, although her party is not important. Just a few days ago she was standing on the floor of the House of Representatives, reading from the Constitution of these United States of America, our Constitution. She is a conservative and is without a doubt a patriot as was the federal judge who was killed in the same tragic event. There are changes that need to be made. Obama and his progressive (liberal) minions must be removed from power, but not with violence and guns. We have every right to protect ourselves from our government or any others who would attempt to enslave us.

Our founders were faced with this situation and responded appropriately. They did not possess the power of the ballot box, so they had to resort to the cartridge box. They left us a better option. “We the People” are the ultimate authority in America and we have the right to legally remove those who would seek to destroy this great nation of freedom. If we are attacked, we have every right to defend ourselves, both as individuals and as a nation. This is true even if the attacker is our own government. But, unless that happens, we must use legal means to accomplish our goals. Today, six people died for no justifiable reason, including a very conservative Senior Federal Judge and a young and innocent 9 year-old girl, plus a number of others. There can be no reason which could ever justify this in the mind of any reasonable patriotic person.

I hope the lesson we take from this is that nothing is accomplished by turning to unreasonable violence to accomplish our goals. We are better than that and any action of that type would be condemned by every person who has ever served and fought for this great nation, from the signing of our Declaration of Independence until this day.

By: Wayne Leeper  -  A Land Called America

Democrat Congress-Woman Giffords in Critical Condition After Being Shot

photo from The Blaze

I will be writing a post on this as soon as we have all the facts. For now, here are the links where you can read up on this:

Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Head at Event: 5 Dead

Arizona Congresswoman Fatally Shot in the Head at Public Event

Mass shooting took place Saturday AM in Tucson at event hosted by Rep. Giffords [D]

Gunman ‘in custody’

At least 12 injured

Congresswoman known for cracking down on illegal immigration

BOEHNER: ‘An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve’

NATION SHOCKED: CONGRESSWOMAN SHOT IN AZ

Federal Judge John M. Roll Among Victims in Arizona Congresswoman Shooting

First off, our prayers and condolences go to all who were shot in this tragedy and their families. Mrs. Giffords is in critical condition, NOT DEAD. She is in surgery. Also killed, were six others including a child. 19 were shot last count. And all sane Americans are concerned and saddened by these events!  Let us all pray for Representative Giffords, her family, the families of those who have died including Federal Judge John Roll, and for both the victims and families of all those fighting for their recovery and lives.

From all accounts, I understand Mrs. Giffords is a good person and she is married to a Navy Captain who is a Navy Pilot and a NASA astronaut. She believes in locking down our borders (a survival trait in AZ) and reducing our debt. She supports health care which I do not. She is a blue dog Democrat who was once Republican. And Representative Giffords is also a strong second amendment, pro-gun advocate as well as a gun owner. Congresswoman Giffords is also a strong advocate of securing our borders and that it is the responsibility of the Federal government.

“Politics don’t matter here. What matters is that some nut or someone with a political agenda shot all these people. The shooter was in his late teens or early twenties. I have never in my life seen the hate and vitriol in comments out there from BOTH sides that I have seen today. What is wrong with all of you? Palin had nothing to do with this, neither did Jan Brewer. The right and guns should not automatically be blamed. Neither should the left be lynched.”  THM at the Noisy Room

“Let us remember that every time there is an incident using a gun the anti-second amendment crazies rise to cease the moment for their cause, even though we all know that from study after study that areas with strict control legislation in place have higher incidents of violence and crimes in general.  We have also heard that the shooter probably used an automatic weapon which is illegal in Arizona and as in most places, proving that criminals will always get and have guns, no matter what the law.  Please pray for the victims and do your best not to become a psychological victim of the anti-freedom left.”  Ask Marion

Think about what you are being manipulated into here… 

More to come… on both sites

THM from the Noisy Room and Ask Marion from Knowledge Creates Power

Some thoughts to remember as we are being bombarded by the leftist media bias:  Columbine Remembered – What a great speech!  by the Father of a Columbine Victim.