GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK

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Posted here for 7-26-10

"Critics say a bill pending in the U.S. Senate would do for Americans' food supply what 'Obamacare' is doing to the nation's supply of health-care resources. [. . .] Steve Green on the Food Freedom blog, quoting Shiv Chopra, a Canada Health whistleblower, concluded that S.510 'would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.'"
-- "New 'Safety Plan' Would Control What You Eat," Whistleblower magazine, June 2010, pages 46-47. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"A study released on Canada's socialized medical system reveals that the average patient spends over 16 weeks -- in some cases more than twice as long as doctors deem 'reasonable' -- waiting for health-care treatment, costing both estimated thousands of dollars per year per patient and, potentially, lives."
-- "Government Health Care Is a 4-Letter Word: W-A-I-T," Whistleblower magazine, June 2010, page 47. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"After years of defying a deportation order issued by a federal court, Zeituni Onyango was granted political asylum by a federal immigration judge on May 17. Onyango's case attracted international attention because she is President Obama's aunt, but is most noteworthy because it provides a textbook example of how our asylum policies can be abused."
-- "Obama's Aunt Gets Political Asylum," FAIR Immigration Report, June 2010, page 1. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.

"Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children, by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminists' demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated allegations. The principal tactics in this racket are domestic violence accusations and court-issued restraining orders."
-- "Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, June 2010, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"The Fourth Amendment guarantees U.S. citizens the right to be 'secure in their persons, house, papers, and effects.' But each year, restraining orders are issued against at least two million men without proof or even evidence, forcing innocent men out of their homes. In 33 states, fathers can be thrown in jail for even a technical violation of a restraining order, such as sending a child a birthday card or telephoning a child on an unapproved day. [. . .] Too often, the restraining order serves no legitimate purpose, but is just an easy way for one spouse to get revenge or the upper hand in a divorce or child custody dispute. Once a restraining order is issued, it becomes nearly impossible for a father to regain custody or even get to see his own children. This is the result even though the alleged domestic violence (which doesn't have to be physical or proven) did not involve the children at all. [. . .] It seems elementary that husband[s] and fathers who are accused of crimes by their wives or girl friends should have the same constitutional rights accorded to any criminal, but they do not in family courts. They are routinely denied equal treatment under law, the right to a fair trial, the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the right to confront accusers, and a court-appointed lawyer when they can't afford to hire an attorney."
-- "'Gamesmanship' of Restraining Orders," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, June 2010, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

QUICKIES

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Posted here for 7-26-10

"In the interest of 'fairness' and 'selfesteem,' a children's soccer league in Ottawa, Canada has decided that any team that wins a game by more than five points will automatically lose by default. [. . .] League director Sean Cale defends the rule, which he says was suggested by 'involved parents' to ensure 'sportsmanship' and make games more 'fair.'"
-- "Sign of the Times," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, July 2010, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"There is renewed alarm about the possibility of an EMP attack -- electromagnetic pulse -- on the United States because of Iran's work on a multi-stage Space Launch Vehicle [. . .] [E]xperts forecast if such an attack were a success, it effectively could throw the U.S. back into an age of agriculture. 'Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead, because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers and the like without electricity,' said Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy. 'And that is exactly what I believe the Iranians are working towards.'"
-- "EMP Could Leave '9 Out of 10 Americans Dead'," Whistleblower magazine, June 2010, page 46. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"There are 57 Muslim countries. But not one Muslim government has denounced Iran's call to wipe Israel and America from the face of the earth. That tells me, as a Jew and American, that fearing Islam is a prudential caution. Muslim organizations too are silent in the face of their co-religionists' holy war against the rest of us and are unwilling to stand up and oppose Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. So far, the Muslim Students Association, the largest Muslim student organizations in America has failed to do just that."
-- "the Islamic Jihad on Campus: My Night at USC," by David Horowitz, FrontPageMag.com, (late 2009 or early 2010), page 3. Address:David Horowitz Freedom Center, PO Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, California 91499-1964. Phone: 818-849-3470. Website.

"According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, in 2008, one of every seven marriages -- 15 percent -- crossed racial lines. That is six times the intermarriage rate of 1960. Of all 3.8 million adults who married in 2008, 31 percent of Asians, 26 percent of Hispanics, 16 percent of blacks and 9 percent of whites married a person of a different race. [. . .] Black-white parings remain the least common -- about 1.6 percent of all marriages, but up sharply from the 0.1 percent in 1960, when such marriages were illegal in many states."
-- "Miscegenation on the Rise," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, July 2010, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.