The Patriot Post – Army Preps for Tea Party ‘Terrorists’

By Mark Alexander
The Patriot Post
http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/04/29/army-preps-for-tea-party-terrorists/

“The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will ‘preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.’ The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.” –Justice Joseph Story

A few months back, the commander in chief or our Armed Forces, that erstwhile community organizer Barack Hussein Obama, denigrated a large cross section of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement — those who advocate for Essential Liberty and Rule of Law. http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2009/09/03/essential-liberty-part-1/

Obama identified them as malcontents, “waving their little tea bags.”

Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants(http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/07/25/the-obamaphiles-baracks-leftmedia-sycophants/)have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.

In fact, Americans who attend Tea Party rallies are from all walks of life, as noted in the Patriot Declaration, Patriots who are peacefully and constitutionally petitioning their government for redress.

As I noted in my tax-day essay, Tea Parties are “not a call for revolution but for restoration — a call to undertake whatever measures are dictated by prudence and necessity to restore constitutional Rule of Law.”

However, Obama’s words do have consequences.

This week, I was contacted by a number of military personnel, enlisted and officer ranks, who expressed concern about a military exercise underway at Ft. Knox, the U.S. Bullion Depository. As with most such exercises, the Ft. Knox alert occurred in stages, as if real time intelligence was being provided at various intervals.

The first intel advisory was issued on Friday, 23 April 2010, and identifies the terrorist threat adversaries as “Local Militia Groups / Anti-Government Protesters / TEA Party.”

You read that right: “TEA Party”!

The alert states that plans for the demonstration may have been interrupted by “Federal and local law enforcement” raids on a “White Supremacists Organization,” but “TEA Party organizers have stated that they will protest at the Gold Vault at a future date.”

Further, the intel advisory states, “Anti-Government – Health Care Protesters have stated that they would join the TEA Party as a sign of solidarity.”

In accordance with the exercise, Ft. Knox post security is placed on high alert because, “these groups are armed, have combative training and some are former Military Snipers. Some may have explosives training / experience,” and “a rally at their compound / training area is scheduled.”

Another intel update was issued on Monday, 26 April 2010, noting that the “rally at the Militia compound occurred,” and “Viable threats … have been made.” The intel on the rally notes, “Many members were extremely agitated at what they referred to as Government intervention and over taxation in their lives. Alcohol use ‘fanned the flames.’ Many military grade firearms were openly carried. An ad hoc ’shoot the government agent’ event was held with prizes (alcohol) given for the best shot placement.”

The report states further, “Components of bomb making are reported to have been on the site. Some members have criminal records relating to explosive and weapons violations.”

In response to the “immediate threat,” the exercise stipulates, “local detention centers are being made ready for mass arrests.” Both the “QRF I and QRF II” are placed on two hour recall, and the “5-15 CAV” was ordered to “draw weapons from holder and store in most available arms room,” and “coordinate with MASA for immediate ammunition draw; have equipment readied for immediate use, i.e. vehicles staged and loaded IAW 5-15 CAV SOP; LMR’s charged.”

QRF refers to Quick Reaction Force. QRF I is the 16th Cavalry Regiment. QRF II is the 194th Armored Brigade.

The 26 April order gives specific instructions for the 5-15 CAV (a 16th Cavalry battalion) to have weapons, ammo, vehicles and communications at ready, and it places the other 2,200 members of the units on two-hour recall. In other words, these orders are to gear up for defending Ft. Knox against Tea Party folks and their co-conspirators who oppose nationalization of our health care sector.

Now, for almost 30 years I have participated in the development and implementation of small and large scale military exercises within the U.S. and around the world.

Such exercises are critical to the readiness of our forces, and the standard for the real time intel reports in these drills requires thinly veiled references to assets of existing or collateral threat vectors such as communist regimes such as China and real terrorist networks such as al-Qa’ida, etc.

Perhaps the writers of such exercises today should focus on response plans for, say, an Islamic terrorist who attacks a post. (See Ft. Hood / Major Nidal Malik Hasan.)

The Ft. Knox exercise is not only amateurish in its construct, but also sets an ominous political precedent.

The military officers and enlisted personnel with whom I spoke are all dedicated uniformed Patriots who are loyal, first and foremost, to their oath to “support and defend” our Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Their concerns about this exercise mirrored my own. As one put it, the exercise “misrepresents freedom loving Americans as drunken, violent racists — the opponents of Obama’s policies have been made the enemy of the U.S. Army.”

They were equally concerned that command staff at Ft. Knox had signed off on this exercise, noting, “it has been issued and owned by field grade officers who lead our battalions and brigades,” which is to say many Lieutenant Colonels saw this order before it was implemented.

It’s not likely that Ft. Knox Commanding General James Milano or Deputy Commander Col. David Teeples, or even the regimental and brigade commanders for the 16th Cav and 194th AB, actually read the exercise scenario, but that doesn’t absolve responsibility for such an egregious example of political exploitation of U.S. forces.

One officer insisted, “The American people should require greater accountability of their commissioned officers, that they abide by their oath and never allow politically motivated propaganda like this exercise on any post or base again.”

Another observed, “Whether this is complacency by officers who do not see such orders as a problem, or worse, officers who recognize the problem but do not insist the orders are changed, this is a serious problem. We are discussing the training of American citizen soldiers in the use of potentially deadly force against a specific group of political dissenters. There is never a time in an officer’s career in which he does not have a duty to apply critical thought to the orders he is given and asked to give. It is my opinion that any officer that has allowed these orders to persist, to reach the level of junior officers and soldiers, has demonstrated a lack of judgment or apathy towards what his duty requires of him. Either way, we should demand more of the commissioned officers, who we as a nation empower to lead our sons and daughters into battle.”

Indeed, and at best, the blatant malfeasance on the part of the individuals who composed this exercise reflects poorly on the uniformed services.

The antidote to this patent misrepresentation of peaceable Patriots is to expose it with the Light of Truth. As our motto Veritas vos Liberabit affirms, the Truth shall set you Free!

http://patriotpost.us/petition/declaration/
http://patriotpost.us/reference/fort-knox-exercise/
http://www.knox.army.mil/school/16cav/
http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2008/11/14/our-sacred-honor-to-support-and-defend/

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Video of My Speech Debt at the 2010 Rochester NY Tea Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCgp96UGvYI

My 2010 Rochester NY Tea Party Speech woot

Hi and Good Afternoon, I am Chaplain Ayesha Kreutz you know one of those angry racist tea partiers that the liberal media loves to hate.
In March of this year, during a victory interview the socialist congressman John Dingel from the late Great state of Michigan, home of recently nationalized Government Motors, had something very revealing to say about the health care bill and why it doesn’t get its claws fully in control of our flesh until 2014. He said: “The harsh fact of the matter is that when you are going to pass legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways. It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps to put the legislation together to control the people.” Did you get that?
He was saying that it will take some time to get the bureaucracies in place that will control the people.
I’m not sure what country he’s from or what country the president’s from, but I don’t remember the people of the United States crying out that they wanted the government to control them.
Do you want to be controlled by the government? Me neither. I don’t want to be controlled.

It actually seems to me that everything the Obama regime and his team of power-hungry Social Democrats does and plans to do in the future is about getting control of the people. As we all know, the Health care take over is nothing more a scheme to eliminate the insurance industry through regulation, then take it over by putting everyone on Medicare and Medicaid- the largest deniers of health care and then controlling every aspect of our lifestyle by threatening to withhold healthcare from those who don’t live properly. Me, I like salt and tasty foods and hey if you want to have a cigar and a glass of wine so be it. All I know is I don’t want to be controlled.

Another thing that’s on deck is the Cap and Tax bill, which will use junk science as an excuse to impose tens of thousands of taxes and regulations on energy exploration and consumption. If this passes, it will devastate us. Our dollar, already under pressure from the trillions of borrowing to fund the Obama Regime, will become even more devalued as the cost of oil is purposely increased. Oil, being a component in the cost of anything we buy or use will cause hyperinflation when its price skyrockets, and the value of the fixed incomes of our retired folks will decrease due to this resulting hyperinflation.

President Reagan often reminded us that it was Lenin who used to brag that government-caused inflation was the easiest way to increase taxes.

But that’s not enough for the Obama Regime. They want to accelerate this hyperinflation by using some global warming junk science to demand more taxes on these already high priced commodities. Increasing the cost of oil will only cause us to use less of it, and the result will be less travel, colder homes and an inevitable decrease in lifestyle. The Obama regime wants to control how much energy we use. Me, I don’t want to be controlled.

Speaking of man made global warming, what a joke. The Obama regime wants us to believe that farting cows and Carbon Dioxide causes the atmosphere to warm. It doesn’t. Water vapor in the atmosphere causes the air to hold heat and it doesn’t take a genius to know that. That’s why you hook a humidifier to your furnace and not something that pumps out Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. Instead it is one of the main ingredients in plant photosynthesis. Carbon Dioxide, Water, sunlight and Chlorophyll yield Oxygen for us to breath and plant sugars for us to eat. It’s an absolute necessity in the cycle of life. Yet the liberals who run the government-run education system- if you can still call it that- want our children to fear and hate Carbon Dioxide as if it were Mother Nature’s kryptonite. It is all just another way to regulate and control everyone. They want us to believe Government is our God.
Me, I don’t want to worship government and I won’t be controlled.

Now I believe a good education creates exceptional citizens intelligent enough to live in a free country. Education is the ultimate eradication tool for poverty and financial illiteracy. Any government responsible for this government-run school system boondoggle should have too much shame to even suggest they should be in charge of our health care system. Think about it, we have put more money after more money after more money into this joke, and all we ever get is lower test scores and complaints about how class size needs to be smaller and that there isn’t enough money. How about this. Try something different. Test the teachers ability to teach, fire the ones that aren’t good and make class size larger, only keeping the most capable teachers, and return to the mentor system. Maybe children could then get an education.
As it stands, we get graduates who are functionally illiterate and who have to take remedial courses once they get to college. The unspoken secret is that they want graduates to be functionally illiterate because those who know how to read and actually do read, end up becoming conservatives. But Liberal illiterates are easier to control. Me I don’t want to be controlled.

On top of that the Obama regime has nationalized the college student loan system. As Senator Lamar Alexander noted, the government will borrow money from China for 2.8% interest, lend it to American students for 6.8% interest, and use the 4% difference to fund his healthcare takeover. This plays right into the previously passed Give Act HR 1388, which creates mandatory service for our youth who get student loans from the government, which is now the only way for them to get a student loan. His goal is to create a domestic peoples army of community agitators that work for the president directly. With both Health Care and Student loans nationalized, do not think for a second that Obama’s drive towards totalitarian Fascism slash communism isn’t breaking the speed of sound. He wants to control the beliefs and actions of students whose families aren’t fortunate enough to have the money to pay the ever-increasing costs of Big Education. Me, I don’t want to be controlled, and I don’t want my daughters being controlled either.

All of these things just equal Big Government and Deficit Spending So STOP SPENDING!

If we let this nonsense stand, and if we go quietly into America’s Sunset without fighting to stop this, the government will then legalize the illegal aliens, turn the United States into a one party welfare state, take our guns, slam us a with huge value added tax and control us absolutely.

That we are standing here athwart history yelling “STOP” is what Ronald Reagan would call Morning in America.

Lets each commit to finding a person, anyone, someone you know or a random stranger, and from now until November, educate them on the facts. Tell them about socialism and communism, and their common consequence of totalitarianism that they share. Totalitarianism is what it takes to make a socialist command economy work. But it only works until it collapses. This country does not want or need anymore bailouts or giveaway programs We want FREEDOM! And we will hold you all accountable and not vote for any person party or program that continues to tax us and enslave us. Me I am yelling STOP now. I’m sick of a big government that wants me to be controlled.


Let me leave you with one last thought. It comes from Patrick Henry. During the revolutionary days he said: “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

Star Parker : Time for a New Generation of Black Americans - Townhall.com

Star Parker : Time for a New Generation of Black Americans - Townhall.com

Time for a New Generation of Black Americans

By Starr Parker

Black History Month 2010 is not a great time for a party. Unemployment at almost 10%, and well over 16% among blacks, doesn’t make for much of a festive mood.

But if the mood is not festive, shouldn’t it be reflective?

Certainly, there’s reason for pride in black achievement in the forty plus years since the Civil Rights movement. We’ve now got a couple black billionaires and a black president. The percentage of blacks with college degrees is three times greater now than in 1970.

But black household income is still just 62% of white households. And the black poverty rate, at twice the national average, has hardly budged since the late 1960’s.

Blacks should be asking hard questions when, over this period of time, many immigrants from different backgrounds have come to this country with little and moved into the middle class in one generation.




The accumulation of considerable black political power – black mayors, governors, a 42 member Black Congressional Caucus, and now a black president - has made hardly a difference. It should be clear that black economic distress is not a political problem.

Studies show that it’s family and education that produces success in America. Income correlates with education and education correlates with family background.

Now consider that in 1970, 62% of black women were married compared to 33% today. In 1970, 74% of black men were married, compared to 44% today.

Or that in 1970, 5% of black mothers were never married compared to 41% today.

The Civil Rights movement was, of course, a religiously inspired and led movement. It made liberal use of the biblical imagery of the Exodus of the Israelite slaves from Egypt.

Taylor Branch called his trilogy about Dr. King and the movement he led “Parting of the Waters”, “Pillar of Fire”, and “At Canaan’s Edge.”

To the misfortune of blacks who put great hope in the redemptive powers of that movement, their leaders prematurely closed their bibles.

The story of the liberation of the Israelite slaves did not end with their release from their Egyptian taskmasters. That was the beginning. They then proceeded to the mountain in the wilderness to receive the law to take with them and live by in the Promised Land.

When it was clear that the former Egyptian slaves were not up to the task, they were condemned to wander for forty years in the wilderness so that a new generation would arise, enter the land, and build the nation.

Let’s recall that the law they received was about family (honor your parents), about property and ownership (thou shalt not steal), and about being concerned about building your own and not what your neighbor has (thou shalt not covet).

Rather than seeking redemption through this law, post-Civil Rights movement black leaders sought redemption in politics. The welfare state, entitlements, transfer payments, and the politics of differences and envy. Should we be surprised by the result?

The New York Times recently reported that from 2004 to 2008, the political and charitable arms of the Congressional Black Caucus raised more than $55 million from corporations and unions. According to the Times, most of these funds were “spent on elaborate conventions…a headquarters building, golf outings,…and an annual visit to a Mississippi casino resort.”

More was spent on the caterer for the Caucus’s Foundation annual dinner - $700,000 – than it gave out in scholarships.

It’s now over forty years since the Civil Right movement. Enough wandering in the wilderness.

It’s time for a new generation of black Americans to step forward. A generation to turn to the truths that will rebuild black lives, black families, and lead blacks to the freedom that Dr. King and all blacks have dreamed about.

http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2010/02/22/time_for_a_new_generation_of_black_americans?page=full

Big Business, “Organized Crime”, and Real Prosperity

I had a fellow state to me that Republicans are for big business and don’t care about the black community. He went on to spew forth how they (the government) should tax the rich and provide tax breaks to the people at the bottom. He seemed to blame the deficient economy and the state of the black community on capitalism and the Republicans. Thus, he voted Democrat.

When street thugs rob at gunpoint to pilfer possessions from another person it is another example of misguided hoodlums who feel that they cannot ---and will not--- compete for a share in our economy. They believe that they must deprive others of their material goods in order to gain an economic advantage. Armed robbers must continue to commit crimes because their income will only resume through swindle. Lacking the intellectual capital and patience to participate in the free market, they cheat and steal from those who possess wealth.

Time after time the media reports this kind of action and it is justified by shifting the blame to a legacy of slavery, racism, fiscal predicament, or capitalism.

Political speeches about taxing the rich and redistributing their wealth are no different than a robbery that hasn’t yet turned bad. When liberal socialists go after companies who make an honest living and attempt to redistribute their wealth (communism) they are stealing. If big business fails, there are no employees to provide with a tax break because they will lack employment.

As a Republican I understand that businesses manufacture a product that consumers purchase. Therefore, a fair exchange takes place. When those consumers turn around and accuse business owners of making too much money, this is nothing short of envy and wanting to “buy” the cake, eat it, and then want your money back. Also, such folks elect government officials who will penalize companies for being successful by taxing them severely; this is nothing short of criminal ---- professional stick-ups that results in loss of capital that translates into unemployment and higher prices.

Entrepreneurs did not become wealthy by swindling citizens out of money. Companies satisfied the consumer by providing a product or service. When General Motors mass produced the automobile, the Ford Model T, they provided a manufactured good that pleased the world. We bought it. The Fords got rich. In the process, GM created a middle class who put in the work. In 1913 Henry Ford paid his employees at a rate of $5.00 per day! The highest wage in manufacturing at that time! Profits were good until competition, coupled with collective bargaining agreements, entered the picture. Vehicles were priced too high and were less efficient than the competition.

Pathetically, now the government (under Democratic control) wants to borrow money from me (the taxpayer) to “invest” into companies “too big to fail”. Rather than provide me with a dividend (at least a discount), they want to sell me the product I help build. That’s like borrowing my car to burglarize my home only to turn and sell me my stuff back.

It doesn’t matter if Obama is president. The community (especially the black community) will still suffer because the problems are self inflicted. Those black folks who voted for Obama just because he’s black are racists and no different from the Southern Democrats who initiated the poll tax to keep white candidates in office and poor blacks from voting despite the possible economic advantage.

He will not “change” the 50 percent school drop-out rate among African-Americans, or the 70 percent illegitimacy rate regarding two parent households in black communities; and he will not transform the high murder rate (over 50 percent) committed by black males in this country.

If blacks do not save, there will be check cashing centers in predominantly black neighborhoods with a five dollar fee rather than commercial banks. There will be corner stores and clothing outlets rather than grocery stores and malls. If the police are too busy, Wal-Mart will never open a store within the city limits.

The same candidates who say that they will create jobs are promoting the very policies that cause businesses to lay off employees and slow production. The same candidates who are soft on crime are the same ones who “prevent” businesses from opening in certain communities.

Governments do not create jobs. Citizens generate employment by starting businesses constructing products that benefit society. They hire the labor to bring this innovation to pass. The government’s job is to supervise fair enterprise----not socialize. The proper role of supervision is to create an atmosphere for growth. This involves cutting taxes to free up reinvestment capital for business owners; improving public safely, and prohibiting business regulatory fees implemented to raise money.

Time will tell how many government robberies will bring about the fatal wound to our financial prudence. In other words: time will tell which straw will finally break the camel’s back.

Tommy Davis, A.R.E., Th.G., Th.B., DDCS