Fla. Sheriff Plays The “Hussein” Card At Palin Event; Campaign ...
Oct 6, 2008 ... Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott took the stage moments ago as one of the introductory speakers at a rally here for Sarah Palin.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/06/politics/fromtheroad/entry4504484.shtml
Lee sheriff under federal investigation for stumping in uniform ...
Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott’s now infamous appearance at Republican vice ... rally (one that was televised locally at that), in uniform, taking the stage ...
Feds to look into Lee County Sheriff Scott's 'Hussein' Obama comment at Palin rally
A federal investigation is being opened into the actions and comments of Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott at a rally for Gov. Sarah Palin in Estero on Monday.
Erica S. Hamrick, senior attorney at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, said her office will be investigating under the Hatch Act, which governs political activities of certain elected officials.
The complainant stated the sheriff violated that act because the sheriff’s office receives federal money, engaged in political activity while on duty, engaged in political activity while in uniform, wore political buttons while on duty and used political influence or authority to interfere with an election. The U.S.
Office of Special Counsel addresses the Hatch Act as it pertains to local officials on their Web site, which states the following:“The Hatch Act applies to executive branch state and local employees who are principally employed in connection with programs financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States or a federal agency.
Employees who work for educational or research institutions which are supported in whole or in part by a State or political subdivision of the State are not covered by the provisions of the Hatch Act.
“Employees of private nonprofit organizations are covered by the Hatch Act only if the statute through which the organization receives its federal funds contains language which states that the organization shall be considered to be a state or local agency for purposes of the Hatch Act, e.g., Headstart and Community Service Block Grant statutes.
“An employee’s conduct is also subject to the laws of the state and the regulations of the employing agency. Additionally, employees should be aware that the prohibitions of the Hatch Act are not affected by state or local laws.”
Maybe this might help explain things.
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 1: An expose of Ray Nash
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 2: PDI Unmasked
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 3: A backdoor for dominionists
Uncommon Friends Foundation
We recognize and support the need to teach and model positive character traits ..... Mike Scott – Lee County Sheriff Elinor Scricca, Ph.D. – Board Member
http://www.uncommonfriends.org/news.html
A federal investigation is being opened into the actions and comments of Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott at a rally for Gov. Sarah Palin in Estero on Monday.
Erica S. Hamrick, senior attorney at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, said her office will be investigating under the Hatch Act, which governs political activities of certain elected officials.
The complainant stated the sheriff violated that act because the sheriff’s office receives federal money, engaged in political activity while on duty, engaged in political activity while in uniform, wore political buttons while on duty and used political influence or authority to interfere with an election. The U.S.
Office of Special Counsel addresses the Hatch Act as it pertains to local officials on their Web site, which states the following:“The Hatch Act applies to executive branch state and local employees who are principally employed in connection with programs financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States or a federal agency.
Employees who work for educational or research institutions which are supported in whole or in part by a State or political subdivision of the State are not covered by the provisions of the Hatch Act.
“Employees of private nonprofit organizations are covered by the Hatch Act only if the statute through which the organization receives its federal funds contains language which states that the organization shall be considered to be a state or local agency for purposes of the Hatch Act, e.g., Headstart and Community Service Block Grant statutes.
“An employee’s conduct is also subject to the laws of the state and the regulations of the employing agency. Additionally, employees should be aware that the prohibitions of the Hatch Act are not affected by state or local laws.”
Maybe this might help explain things.
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 1: An expose of Ray Nash
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 2: PDI Unmasked
Gothard cult's infiltration of law enforcement, part 3: A backdoor for dominionists
Uncommon Friends Foundation
We recognize and support the need to teach and model positive character traits ..... Mike Scott – Lee County Sheriff Elinor Scricca, Ph.D. – Board Member
http://www.uncommonfriends.org/news.html
A followup article on the audit showed that quite a lot of the money embezzled by Nash ended up going straight to Gothard's coffers.
It seems that, again, the Charleston Post & Courier reveals that the end result of the audit shows that Nash himself engaged in more than a bit of nepotism and embezzlement:
Notice if you will.
CHARACTER EDUCATION We recognize and support the need to teach and model positive character traits to all children. Character Education is an product of Bill Gothard.
You might want to glance at the Board members and staff.
Liberty Youth Ranch
LEE COUNTY SHERIFF MIKE SCOTT JOINS LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH, BOARD OF ADVISORS ... - -Secretary Jerry Regier, Florida Department of Children and Families ...
LEE COUNTY SHERIFF MIKE SCOTT JOINS LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH, BOARD OF ADVISORS ... - -Secretary Jerry Regier, Florida Department of Children and Families ...
TALLAHASSEE — Children and Families director Jerry Regier is using his fundamental Oklahoma roots to make employees of Florida’s embattled agency participate in mandatory character-training sessions.
Regier has contracted with Oklahoma City-based Character Training Institute. The nonprofit company, with direct ties to evangelist Bill Gothard, is providing the curriculum for some 1,750 agency workers in the Orlando region, which also includes Brevard County.
Regier made the material available to former Oklahoma deputy and current Orlando chief David Dennis.
George W. Bush and Ken Blackwell Gothard cult members, too
Education Reform or This is Their Education
This brings up the questions of how the mavericks plan on reforming the do nothing big spending Bush administration while keeping attachments to programs designed by those that would seem less than desired . Taking his money collected by his administration as well.
Both McCain & Palin talk of not knowing Obama trying to spread fear and distrust .
This is real very real. Bill Gothard EXPOSED! Review the other links here.
Sarah Palin, who has attacked Alaska Native Languages and Alaska Tribal Sovereignty, gave a speech at the Master's Commission on September 2nd, 2008,
Read dogemperor's "Sarah Palin used AK tax dollars to fund dominionist churches"
It has only one mission, to throw defeat in the face of the Devil and see God's people freed.
and the Master's Commission has a branch that Christianizes Alaskan Natives. Source
It has only one mission, to throw defeat in the face of the Devil and see God's people freed.
and the Master's Commission has a branch that Christianizes Alaskan Natives.
Although the Native Reservations of the lower 48 states may be off the beaten path, these tribes are easily accessible compared to the Native tribes of bush Alaska. Forgotten? Not by God! But the reality is reaching the indigenous people of this state is very difficult and very expensive!
Let's look at the speech and how she's attacked Alaska Native Languages and Alaska Tribal Sovereignty after briefly looking at the history of Missionary work in Alaska. Then, we'll look at "Palin's Pipeline"the TransCanada gas pipeline. The Master's Commission that Palin spoke to is continuing the old practice of Christianizing Indigenous People, and more than one denomination has proselytized Alaskan Natives since 1867. Source
Russian missionaries remained most successful among he Aleuts, although with the sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867, the status of the church suddenly changed. Its missionaries continued to work among the Native people of Alaska even after it became a foreign land, but their influence declined in the late nineteenth century, as other denominations began proselytizing. http://books.google.com/books?...
Intellectual snobbery has a price attached to it, and what it may cost with the Military Commissions Act as law and a Dominionist Vice President, are the peaceful yet firm measures needed to prevent that rise to power.
Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she (Palin) exhorted the congregants
Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview
But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God. And that's going to be your job. As I'm doing my job, let's strike this deal, your job is to going to be to be out there reaching the people, hurting people throughout Alaska, and we can work together to make sure that God's will be done here.
- snip -
So all you Master's Commission students and all of your supporters...and thank you so much for dedicating your lives to Jesus Christ! Thank you!
Text Transcript of Sarah Palin's Speech of June 8, 2008 at Master's Commission of Wasilla, Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 22 (Reuters) - Alaska's House of Representatives voted late on Tuesday to allow TransCanada Corp.(TRP.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to build a massive pipeline to tap the vast natural gas resources of the state's North Slope region.
The chamber voted 24-16 in the state capital of Juneau for a bill backed by Governor Sarah Palin that would grant TransCanada a state license for a 1,700-mile (2,700 km) pipeline to bring the gas to North American markets.
- snip -
Palin, a Republican, has endorsed TransCanada's plan to build the pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to an existing hub on the Alberta-British Columbia border, shipping 4 billion cubic feet a day. She argues the company, as an independent pipeline operator, would free the state and the North Slope from the dominance of the major oil producers there -- BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), ConocoPhillips (COP.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Exxon Mobil (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz).
Why doesn't she mention it's the TransCanada Pipeline?
Alaska House approves TransCanada gas pipeline
Alaska Natives have lost all fishing rights and all hunting rights, "Alaska Native peoples are among the only Indigenous peoples in all of North America whose Indigenous Hunting and Fishing Rights have been extinguished by federal legislation." Remember, "But the reality is reaching the indigenous people of this state is very difficult and very expensive!" Expensive to who?
Attorneys: Gov. Palin's record on Alaska Natives
Palin opposed subsistence preference.
"When asked about hunting and fishing rights, Palin said she did not want to amend the state constitution to allow preferences for certain Alaskans. 'I'm pro subsistence for all Alaskans,' she said, adding that she would seek to manage resources to provide 'abundance.'" Source
Palin has refused to accord proper respect to Alaska Native languages and voters by refusing to provide language assistance to Yup'ik speaking Alaska Native voters.
As a result, Palin was just ordered by a special three-judge panel of federal judges to provide various forms of voter assistance to Yup'ik voters residing in southwest Alaska. Nick v. Bethel, No. 3:07-cv-0098-TMB (D. Ak.) (Order entered July 30, 2008).
Citing years of State neglect, Palin was ordered to provide trained poll workers who are bilingual in English and Yup'ik; sample ballots in written Yup'ik; a written Yup'ik glossary of election terms; consultation with local Tribes to ensure the accuracy of Yup'ik translations; a Yup'ik language coordinator; and pre-election and post-election reports to the court to track the State's efforts.
Palin said, "your job is to going to be to be out there reaching the people, hurting people throughout Alaska, and we can work together to make sure that God's will be done here." Are we to take that to mean that Christianizing Native Alaskans, that attacking Alaska Native Subsistence Hunting, that attacking Alaska Native Languages, that attacking Alaska Tribal Sovereignty, and that attacking Alaska Native Subsistence Fishing is to have an international gas pipeline and to drill for oil? She needs to be asked who the "hurting people throughout Alaska" are that she was referring to.
If it was the following, the question would be answered in the affirmative.
Headlined on 9/11/08: An Alaska Native speaks out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska
I am writing this letter to raise awareness about the ongoing colonization and violation of human rights being carried out against Alaska Native peoples in the name of unsustainable progress, with a particular emphasis on the role of Sarah Palin and the Republican leadership. My hope is that it helps to elevate truth about the nature of Alaskan politics in relation to Alaska Native peoples and that it lays a framework for our path to justice.
Ever since the Russian claim to Alaska and the subsequent sale to the United States through the Treaty of Cession in 1867, the attitude and treatment towards Alaska Native peoples has been fairly consistent. We were initially referred to as less than human "uncivilized tribes", so we were excluded from any dialogues and decisions regarding our lands, lives, and status.
The dominating attitude within the Unites States at the time was called Manifest Destiny; that God had given Americans this great land to take from the Indians because they were non-Christian and incapable of self-government.
Over the years since that time, this framework for relating to Alaska Native peoples has become entrenched in the United States legislative and legal systems in an ongoing direct violation of our human rights.
Let me get specific about what is at stake and how this relates to Palin and the Republican leadership in Alaska and across this country.
To this day, Alaska Native peoples are among the only Indigenous peoples in all of North America whose Indigenous Hunting and Fishing Rights have been extinguished by federal legislation and yet we are the most dependent people on this way of life.
Seems to me I've read some where on a important Document we have rights to the pursuit of happiness.
"Most of our villages have no roads that connect them to cities" many live with poverty level incomes, and all rely to varying degrees on traditional hunting, fishing, and harvesting for survival.
One might ask where the bridge to no where was going when most other villages have no roads to connect them to cities?
This has become known as the debate on Alaska Native Subsistence.
"Hurting people throughout Alaska" is an all inclusive statement, and it's nothing new
Capitalism, Calvinism and Chauvinism
It's no coincidence that capitalism and Protestantism ascended simultaneously. Jean Calvin theologically discredited the feudal system in 1541, paving the way for an upwardly mobile merchant class to replace the landed aristocracy.
The genius of Calvin, observed sociologist Max Weber in 1904, was the creation of a new concept of God. Prior to this crucial paradigm shift, surplus wealth--i.e., capital--was expected to be donated to the Church.
Essentially, Calvinism was a variation of the chosen-race myth. Its key element was a spiritual "elect" whose elevated position is preordained. The only way one can know if he or she is among the Elect is by his or her level of worldly success[8]-- in other words, if you're rich, it's because God loves you.
The Puritans of Plymouth Bay were staunch Calvinists and their legacy remains powerful. "American culture, in particular, is thoroughly Calvinist...At the heart of the way Americans think and act, you'll find this fierce and imposing reformer. Source
Is this to be the type of reforming Palin's after?
At the same time, Christianity was forced on the Native Peoples by the missionaries. Indeed, it took a special act of Congress, the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), to affirm religious freedom for the Native nations. The law...
Palin said in her speech to the Master's Commission, whose goal is "to throw defeat in the face of the Devil and see God's people freed," "your job is to going to be to be out there reaching the people, hurting people throughout Alaska, and we can work together to make sure that God's will be done here."
This seems to be the stance she has taken during her campaging .
In addition, she has attacked Alaska Native Subsistence Hunting, attacked Alaska Native Languages, attacked Alaska Tribal Sovereignty, and attacked Alaska Native Subsistence Fishing while saying an international pipeline is God's will.
Consequently, that pipeline will run through sites that are sacred, but then again it's "God's will." The Master's Commission has a specific branch that Christianizes Alaskan Natives; we can safely assume that is also under her umbrella of "God's will."
To summarize, christianizing Indigenous People destroys the identity of that people so that their land can be stolen; and, that's easier on the consciences of the predators
PERMANENT FORUM SPEAKERS SAY VIOLATION OF LANGUAGE RIGHTS 'CULTURAL GENOCIDE', CALL FOR CONCRETE PUBLIC POLICY TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
Missionary Conquest By George E. Tinker
Our understanding is certainly deficient if we overlook the relationship between missions and the Euroamerican economic interests. It was the interest of the fur trading companies, for example, to support the missionary enterprise, since the missionaries contributed to the pacification of Indian Nations, thereby aiding and abetting the companies exploitation of Indians, Indian lands, and Indian resources. Sarah Palin: Alaskan Pipeline is "God's Will"
http://cj.ttsns.com/cj1/index.php/article/stock/2008-10-10/5944.html
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.
By MATT APUZZO (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated PressOctober 09, 2008 11:40 PM EDT
Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe Note the dte and time.
This comes into play promoting issues as fact before the real facts our released.Much like Bush did as weapons of weapons of mass destruction to involve us in a war.
President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
President Bush Monday provided a comprehensive assessment of the threat ... Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who has ...
Bush Vindicated: Weapons of Mass Reduction and Grass Destruction ...
Bush Vindicated: Weapons of Mass Reduction Found in Iraq! ... Though not formally classified as weapons of mass "destruction," Defense Secretary Donald
The real report due out today. Link will be posted here.
Sensitive Palin ethics report kept secret, for now
Update:
Latest Insanity: Palin Complains That She Wasn't Interviewed In Troopergate Investigation
http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20Nickolas/blog/&blogId=4717
A bombshell is coming out of the Alaska investigation into Troopergate, the scandal where Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is alleged to have committed abuses of power by using her office to try to fire her sister’s ex husband, an Alaska State Trooper.
The New York Times reports here http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/10trooper.html that the Alaska State Legislature’s bipartisan investigation is unearthing evidence that Sarah Palin and her aides pressed then Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire Trooper Wooten repeatedly and when he refused, he was fired. According to the Times:
an examination of the case, based on interviews with Mr. Monegan and several top aides, indicates that, to a far greater degree than was previously known, the governor, her husband and her administration pressed the commissioner and his staff to get Mr. Wooten off the force, though without directly ordering it.
In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.
“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.
Ms. Peterson, a 31-year veteran of state government who retired 10 days before Mr. Monegan’s firing, said she received about a dozen calls herself.
In all, the commissioner and his aides were contacted about Mr. Wooten three dozen times over 19 months by the governor, her husband and seven administration officials, interviews and documents show.
“To all of us, it was a campaign to get rid of him as a trooper and, at the very least, to smear the guy and give him a desk job somewhere,” said Kim Peterson, Mr. Monegan’s special assistant, who like several other aides spoke publicly about the matter for the first time.
Ms. Peterson, a 31-year veteran of state government who retired 10 days before Mr. Monegan’s firing, said she received about a dozen calls herself.
“It was very clear that someone from the governor’s office wanted him watched,” she said.
The Times goes on to talk about how Monegan’s successors were also pressured to take action against Wooten.
Yesterday, according to this AP article in Yahoo http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate , Palin and the McCain campaign desperately tried to get around the upcoming findings of the investigation by, amazingly, issuing its own report on what happened without performing any real investigation.
So, who needs official investigations and criminal trials? Just issue a report declaring yourself innocent!
When viewed against the McCain campaign’s efforts to attack and derail the investigation into Troopergate, the new revelations raised by witnesses are dynamite and raise additional questions.
When viewed against the McCain campaign’s efforts to attack and derail the investigation into Troopergate, the new revelations raised by witnesses are dynamite and raise additional questions.
Did McCain and his campaign obstruct justice, or conspire to obstruct justice because they knew that Palin was guilty of these abuses of power?
Here is what we know about the McCain campaign’s role in the investigation. According to this article http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9840_palin_troopergate_mccain_green_ocallaghan_lyda-green.html :
Alaska Republican State Senator Lyda Green … believes the McCain-Palin campaign has undermined the rule of law in the Last Frontier.
She says she has watched with outrage as McCain-Palin operatives have flown into her state and interfered with the so-called Troopergate investigation--the official, approved-by-the-legislature inquiry into whether Palin dismissed her public safety commissioner because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister.
Calling herself a "raging Republican," Green says, she is "absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed" by the McCain-Palin campaign's intervention in the Troopergate probe.
Over a week ago, McCain campaign aides began handling the investigation for Palin.
The campaign dispatched Edward O'Callaghan, who recently had been a terrorism prosecutor in the Justice Department, to Alaska to oversee Palin's legal strategy.
O'Callaghan then declared she would not cooperate with the inquiry.
(Before becoming the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin had repeatedly vowed to cooperate. At one point, she said, "I'm happy to comply, to cooperate. I have absolutely nothing to hide.") And last Thursday, O'Callaghan announced that Palin's husband, Todd, would not heed a subpoena to appear before a state legislative committee to testify about his role in Troopergate....Ever since the McCain operatives became involved, the pushback against the investigation has been fierce.
Five Republican legislators filed a lawsuit to stop the investigation, which had been unanimously endorsed by a bipartisan council of the state House and Senate. They claimed the probe was "a 'McCarthyistic' investigation" and was compromised because Democrats who supported the investigation were Obama backers.
A Texas-based conservative legal outfit called the Liberty Legal Institute has been representing these lawmakers. Six Alaskan residents filed a similar but separate lawsuit.
And the Republican Speaker of the House, John Harris, stepped back from his previous endorsement of the investigation.
If you examine the laws concerning obstruction of justice and witness tampering, it looks like the McCain campaign and the operatives it sent to Alaska may very well be guilty of these felonies. They did everything they could to impede the Alaska state legislature from performing its duties in investigating possible wrongdoing by Governor Palin.
If you examine the laws concerning obstruction of justice and witness tampering, it looks like the McCain campaign and the operatives it sent to Alaska may very well be guilty of these felonies. They did everything they could to impede the Alaska state legislature from performing its duties in investigating possible wrongdoing by Governor Palin.
What is coming to light in the Troopergate investigation may also explain why McCain and Palin are throwing so much mud at this stage of the campaign. They are hoping that attacking Obama will blunt the impact of the Troopergate findings.
There are many sins the American people will forgive, but abusing the power of your office to carry out personal vendettas is not one of them.
Obstructing justice in these investigations is also not something the people are likely to forgive.
An independent Federal Counsel should be named to investigate the actions by the McCain campaign in the Troopergate scandal, people should take a close look at these actions by the McCain campaign, and decide if actions like these undertaken by Palin and McCain and the rest of the campaign show the character worthy of the highest offices in the land.
If the video embed doesnt work, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFMSCvBuFJ4
LATESTED UPDATE:
Legislative Panel: Palin Abused Authority
Page 2
The facts a bit different than that put out by McCain/Palin's campaign.
No comments:
Post a Comment