Freddie Mac CFO dead, but whodunnit?

As discussed earlier in this blog, Obama has declared war on the country’s world’s corporate executives and is deflecting rage towards them.  Angry mobs have risen from this rage to threaten the executives who’s companies have received taxpayer money.  Now the Freddie Mac chief financial officer has wound up dead.

First seen on local news networks and mysteriously not the major news stations, WTOP reports:

Sources tell WTOP Kellermann hanged himself.

“We were called from inside the house to come investigate an apparent suicide,” Jennings says.

“We’re not going to give you details of the condition of the body, except to say it was an apparent suicide.”

But details are now leaking out contradicting this story:

Asked if the death was a suicide, Caldwell said they were leaving that determination up to the county medical examiner. She wasn’t sure if the body had been removed yet or not when AHN spoke to her at 8:30 a.m.

“We were just called to respond to an unattended death and it’s under investigation,” Caldwell said.

Although Caldwell told AHN that police have not yet released the identity of the person who called them, she did confirm to AHN that there were other people present in the house at the time of the death and that there was a gun and a gunshot wound.

David Kellermann was with Freddie Mac for 16 years- a guy who started as a mere auditor and worked his way to the top.  He became the CFO in September 2008 when the economy began its collapse, the SEC and Justice Department began investigating, and his predecessor resigned- so yes, this was to be a stressful, high-pressure position.  But David Kellermann was apparently rich, well-liked by his neighbors, and had a family.  Did this man really commit suicide where his family would find him- at 4:48am?  Why the secretive, contradictory details?  And even if Kellermann did commit suicide, what does that say about Obama’s war on corporate executives?

Criminalizing Opinions

From Breitbart (h/t to Ace and Powerline):

 

President Barack Obama Tuesday refused to close the door on prosecuting authors of Bush-era legal rationales for terror suspect interrogations, after offering immunity to CIA operatives involved.

 

Now this won’t get very far, for the reason that there is absolutely no case to be made against those who offer a legal opinion.  It’s like criminalizing the act of writing a book report that you don’t agree with.

 

The point here isn’t to actually prosecute anyone (I think, it’s hard to tell with these clowns anymore), but to scare the hell out of the left’s opponents.  It gives pause to those that might serve in any future conservative administration by making potential candidates wonder, “Will I be prosecuted for my beliefs when democrats gain positions of power?”

 

Does anyone remember the hysteria the gripped the left when Bush fired some Federal prosecutors, who served at the discretion of the President?  Anyone want to guess how much hysteria that is mustered when the current president threatens to criminalize his predecessors legal memorandums?

Obama Signs GIVE Act (Hitler Youth, Brownshirts) Into Law

It’s done. Obama signed the bill, stating, “”It creates opportunities to serve for students, seniors and everyone in between.  And it is just the beginning of a sustained, collaborative and focused effort to involve our greatest resource — our citizens — in the work of remaking this nation.”

Make no mistake, the remaking of this nation is into that of communism.  This is government as the main employer of its citizens, employing people to do whatever it sees fit.  Here are excerpts from the bill itself for you to draw your own conclusions from:

Section 4.b; Items 4, 5, 6, & 7:

(4)Whether existing databases are effective in matching community needs to would-be volunteers and service providers.

(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.

(6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

(7) The need for a public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.

Tax Day Thoughts

Congratulations to all of those who made a genuine effort to protest the size and scope of the Federal Government during the tax day protests.  I applaud your efforts and I sincerely hope that it will do some lasting good.

 

Personally, I’ve been fairly skeptical that these protests would have any effect.  Not because I don’t believe the people protesting or the organizers are genuine, but rather I felt that the size and magnitude of the protests would be hidden by a media that is just an extension of the Democratic Party.  In the case of mass rallies, a tree that falls in a forest does not actually fall if there is nobody to hear it. 

 

So how did the media do?  Well, the AP covered the story by covering a tiny protest in Vermont where the protestors clamored for MORE taxes. 

Calling itself S.O.S., or Save Our State, the group held a small pro-tax protest in Montpelier, the national income tax-filing deadline, to drive home that taxes pay for needed programs and state employees perform necessary duties.

 

The NY Times put the tax day protests on page 16.  Both the Wall St Journal and the USA Today coverage was on page 3.

 

What about the White House?  Well, the White House claimed the president knew nothing about the tax protests on the day of the event!  Really?  Either he is the most shielded human being alive, or he is lying through his teeth. 

 

How did the other major news networks perform?  Here is an excerpt from CNN:

It’s hard to talk when you’re tea bagging

 

The other news networks did not perform any better.  What about our elected representatives?

Dem Leaders are passing around a document accusing the Tax Day Tea Party Protesters as “Neo-Nazis, Militias, Secessionists and Racists.”

 

Or the timely release of a DHS document which stresses the radicalization of right wingers. 

 

Remember when dissent was the highest form of patriotism, when paid democratic agitators burned Bush in effigy and soldiers overseas were labeled monsters?  Oh right, that was so 6 months ago.  Now, people protesting large government, excessive debt, and high taxes are the “Racists.”  Everything coming out of any news network not named Fox denigrated and marginalized the hundreds of thousands of people who came together to clamor for smaller government.  Elected representatives shamefully slandered these people in order to stifle their message.

 

Folks, the lines have been drawn.  “Progressives” play for keeps and the narrative in the media changes to suit their purpose.   You cannot win by fighting a traditional media battle because the game is stacked heavily against you.  The media and the democrats will use their power to discredit and marginalize anyone who does not toe the party line, if they decide to cover your cause at all.  While many of us conservatives warned about this before the election, many voters chose to believe the democratic media talking points that those we elected were really moderates who masqueraded as liberals for the primaries.  Well folks, is their any question now that those in power are leftist radicals, shielded and protected from scrutiny by their media operatives?

 

What do we do about it?  There is no easy answer here, no giant reset button that would instantly take us back to a true constitutional republic.  The road is difficult, and may even be barricaded when the current administration adds 20 million illegal aliens to the voting roles and lets Rahm Emanuel interpret the census which will be conducted by ACORN.  Our plight is not helped by the incompetent, leaderless ship that is the republican party which seems to spend more time pissing off its natural allies than in fighting for our causes.  What about a third party?  Well, building a coalition to form a third party would take decades and would cement one party democratic rule in the meantime as resources are plied away from the republicans.  Does anyone believe that the country would last 20 years under this current leadership, while we patiently build a foundation for a third party? 

 

In my option, the best near-term glimmer of hope lies in the states rights movement.  Conservatives and libertarians need to push for actual adherence to the 10^th Amendment at the state and local level using both the local media and the court system.  This will naturally increase tension between the state and federal governments, which will inevitably lead to federal pushback.  The key here is to drum-up as much anger and resentment to this pushback as humanly possible to increase the loyalty of the citizens to the state at the expense of the federal government.  The idea is to make Texans think of themselves as Texans first and Americans second, so that it is natural for the citizens to support the state over the federal government in the ensuing tug of war for power.

 

The second push that we need to make is for a Constitutional Amendment mandating a flat tax at the federal level.  No exemptions, no tax “credits”.  When 40% of the population pays zero income tax, you have a dangerous situation where they can clamor for more programs because it will never cost them a dime.  They are voting to have you pay for their programs.  If everyone is taxes at exactly the same rate, then a call for raised taxes and increased spending falls on everyone evenly.  What could be more fair than that?

 

The third push is to add a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.  This Amendment would allow the US government to run deficit spending only when a time of war exists, which would have to be ratified by 2/3 of  the states annually for the duration of the war.  The states vote is designed to prevent the Federal government from simply declaring a “war on obesity” and getting around the Amendment by clever use of language.

 

The little secrete here is, in the history of the world, I don’t know of a single civilization that descended into the tyranny that we now face from the federal government, and recovered without massive bloodshed.  It just doesn’t happen.  Once the elites gain control and find that they can wield the mob against their opponents, the flicker of liberty dies and the balkanization of a society begins.  Are we likely to follow the same course?  Probably.  Does that mean we shouldn’t at least attempt to slowly undo the damage being done to our civilization?  Absolutely not. 

 

The lines have been drawn, what side are you on?

 

 

Tax Day Tea Party: No Permission to Protest in DC

Protesters in Washington, DC were told today that they could not protest in front of the Treasury, even though they had the necessary permit:

[The event organizers] were told they had two permits. One before the Treasury Department so folks could speak directly towards the nice Secretary who need not pay taxes like the rest of us. The second at Lafayette Park.  When people showed up Obama’s secret service overrode the DC promised permit and claimed jurisdiction over Treasury, but not evidently over Lafayette.   We have never had a problem like this with previous white Houses… The organizers were told all was okay and then White House changed the rules.   Why this happened this year and not the previous 20?  Dunno.

The secret service, much like the Department of Homeland Security, must earnestly believe the attendees were dangerous right-wing extremists.  But violent?  No more so than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Adams, and other Founding Fathers- these were the clear idols of attendees.  The crowd- both protesters and speakers- seemed happy with the label and felt in good company among the country’s early history.  If a speaker wasn’t poking fun of the DHS report, the crowd would do it for him or her.

“Civil disobedience?  No, Constitutional obedience,” said one of the early speakers, Mike Church.  He got the crowd yelling in support with each reference to the US Constitution.

But that wasn’t the only major last-minute roadblock put up by the leaders in DC:

According to national tax day event organizers, a donation of one million tea bags didn’t make it in time to be included on the event’s permit. So after the tea was delivered police officers made organizers load the tea bags back onto a delivery truck and take them away.

Is this not a perfect example what the people were protesting?!  No permission to hold tea?  How over-regulated is our society that one needs permission to have tea?

Despite these two setbacks, 3700 people attended the event.  All of them were crowded around the small ancillary stage in Lafayette Park which was originally intended to be an open mic.  It wasn’t as crude as a bullhorn and a soap box, but it seemed that way among the large crowd of umbrellas and signs.  The grassy park became deep mud as the heavy rain began right on queue with the first speaker.  From a distance, all one could see is mass of umbrellas and posters, and you would never know there was a stage in its center if not for the crowd quieting to listen between cheers.

Laura Ingraham drew a lot of applause, while some less famous speakers got the crowd thinking.  Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform), Rachell Hoff (Young Republicans), and Tom Shatz (Citizens Against Government Waste) all made good points.  My favorite speaker may have been Ed Hudgins of the Atlas Society, who talked about the different types of failed socialism the world has already seen.  A portion of his speech on what “Going Galt” means- and yes, there were lots of signs referring to John Galt- can be found online here.

The event organizers, who have now formed Smart Girl Politics, looked like vanilla soccer-moms.  Clearly this was a grassroots movement, and the event had a rather non-partisan feel.  Everyone was unified on the subject of freedom; liberty is very popular!  Some speakers and attendees identified themselves as conservatives, but the overwhelming message of the event was support for the Constitution (as interpreted by the Founding Fathers).  The Constitution is not partisan.

This was just one of over 700 similar protests happening in cities around the United States (and even a few in Europe).  An estimated one million people attended a tea party today.

Bias in Media: So what does the NY Times say about today’s event?  It isolate the movement by calling it a partisan event “largely created by the clamor of cable news and fueled by the financial and political support of current and former Republican leaders.”

The only organization in Boston re-enacting the original tea party — the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender group — was not associated with the partisan movement.

And their coverage quickly became a reprint of Obama’s teleprompter, reminding America that the president claims to have, “Passed tax cuts that will help our economy grow.”  In a second article, the smear coverage continued to show woman with tea bags on her head.

Department of Homeland Security: Constitutionalists are Terrorists

Seen here, the Department of Homeland Security has followed the state of Missouri in taking guard against so-called “Rightwing Extremism”.  The full report from the Department of Homeland Security may be seen here.  From this gem of a document:

Prominent antigovernment conspiracy theorists have incorporated aspects of an impending economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like-minded individuals and to attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty.

The nation’s economic leaders, such as Ben Bernanke, have played a large part in creating the paranoia for a, “…global financial and economic meltdown.”  Even more than that, many renowned economists- even Nobel prize winners- are warning of an impending economic collapse.  This fear is very rational, however it is being used.  The unclassified document continues:

Conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of a failed economy.

Russia is anticipating martial law, based on their best intelligence.  And Obama was ignoring the Constitution before taking office.  So again, these fears- at least some of them- are very rational, and in some cases aren’t theories at all.  Suspension of the Constitution has happened in a great many ways already, and it is this very reason that conservatives- or constitutionalists, or whatever they shall be labeled- are rising in protest.

It’s fair to call these ideas extreme, but these are extreme times we live in.  The president put the taxpayer on the hook for more debt than the previous 43 presidents combined, cannot account for that money, and is placing blame on targeted individuals without due process.  Congress is voting for legislation overwhelmingly opposed by their constituents.  What connection do the people have to their elected leaders anymore?

Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunition stockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises.

Guns, ammunition, and paramilitary training exercises are necessary for creation of a well-regulated militia, which is what the second amendment protects and the Founding Fathers wished for.  The establishment of said militia protects the people from enemies foreign and domestic.  Thomas Jefferson said it best with:

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Thomas Jefferson was considered a radical, too.  He and his “radical” friends liberated America from the British and created one of the greatest civilizations in all of history.   Thomas Jefferson would be happy, then, that the government is fearful of its people.  The government is supposed to fear its people; that was the surest way to protect the freedoms granted by the Bill of Rights.

Even those who trust the current administration must wonder who will protect the people during an administration they do not trust.

Obama’s Brownshirts Target Tax Day Protests

According to this article, both ACORN and the HuffingtonPost are organizing efforts to infiltrate the April 15^th Tax Day Tea Parties. The reported goal is to make the tax protestors look like fringe radicals and groups of racists.

This is entirely in keeping with the Obama administrations campaign to attack their opponents, rather than refute their opponent’s message. During his campaign, Obama gave us glimpses of this behavior when his campaign orchestrated a political takedown of a private citizen, the now famous Joe the Plumber. Since assuming office, he has continued these political attacks on everyone from Rush Limbaugh, to Jim Cramer, to Rick Santelli.

The budding dictator even threatened bank CEOs, reportedly telling them “my administration is the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks”. Members of the Democratic Party have not escaped his attention, as he threatened Rep. Peter DeFazio with the words, “Don’t think we aren’t keeping score, brother”. This was in response to Rep. DeFazio voting against Obama’s massive “stimulus” programs.

The lesson is clear, stand in the way of Obama’s vision for American and you will pay a price. When law abiding citizens raise legitimate questions regarding the function and scope of their government, and the government’s response is to attack them personally, something is very wrong.

This brings us back to the original article. When a government sponsored organization such as ACORN attempts to undermine the peaceful organization of citizens who are protesting specific government actions, how is it any different than when Nazi brownshirts stifled free speech in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s? Let me rephrase, when a quasi-government funded organization acts as an extra-legal hit squad for an administration that has shown no restraint toward attacks on private citizens, the results cannot be good for open discourse and freedom within our nation. For the Obama administration, this is seen as a feature, not a bug of the present course.

Congress Creates Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) Program

The GIVE act was quietly passed by both the House and Senate, amongst a string of diversions towards “evil” CEO’s.  The summary by OpenCongress.org reads,

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act would dramatically increase funding for AmeriCorps and other volunteer programs, including those for seniors and veterans. It also establishes a goal of expanding from 75,000 government-supported volunteers to 250,000, and would increase education funding and establish a summer service program for students, paying $500 (which would be applied to college costs) to high-school and middle-school student who participate.

That sounds very politically correct.  But from the actual bill:

Sec.6104, (b)(6): “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

Mandatory service requirement to overcome civic challenges and strengthen social fabric?  So this clause permits mandatory camps for the purpose of getting America’s youth to pledge their loyalty to government or their chosen organizations. Mandatory service directly violates the 13th amendment, which outlaws such involuntary servitude.  Even scarier is the blatant conflict of interest from government taught social or civic issues.  Expansion of government requires the forfeit of individual liberties, which government only exists to protect!

Hitler knew the power of sculpting young minds, too.  He used these camps to instill beliefs of antisemitism, for the purpose of motivating soldiers to fight for the Third Reich.  Hitler’s youth camps mirrored the structure of his Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts), which is significant, because the structure of this law suggests that Obama may be looking for his modern-day Brownshirts to run these youth camps.  Again, from the GIVE act:

Sec.111, (b)(1)(A) providing training for teachers, supervisors, personal from community-based agencies (particularly with regard to the RECRUITMENT, UTILIZATION, AND MANAGEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS), and trainers, to be conducted by qualified individuals or organizations that have experience in service-learning.

This sounds innocent enough, but as was found in this report, an ammendment to restrict such qualified organizations to ones not actively involved in political advancement was shot down.

The U.S. Senate killed an amendment Thursday offered by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would have prohibited federal volunteer funds from going to the community group ACORN and its affiliates.

Vitter singled out the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nationwide community organization of low- and moderate-income people. He laid emphasis on the fact that group members have been arrested for fraudulent voter registration.

Vitter contended that no charitable group with a political arm should receive the volunteer funding. “At the heart of this debate is whether this new federal bureaucracy would, in effect, politicize charitable activity around the country, which we certainly do not want,” Vitter said.

The bill was not so kind to the Boy Scouts of America, as a clause banning religiously motivated groups was included.  Make no mistake, this means that groups like ACORN, LaRaza, LULAC, et al, will be in your child’s school teaching their methods of “service-learning”.  These are the same organizations that are use mob-rule scare tactics against anyone who denounces their leader, Obama.  Not only that, but these organizations will be paid for doing it.  The bill allocates $5.7 billion tax dollars to help finance such these teachings, which covers 80% of the funding initially, 50% for the next three years, and the rest comes from you directly.

So yes, parents could be required to pay for their children to go to camps or classes run by politically motivated groups who use mob tactics to denounce or scare opponents of Der Fuhrer the president.  There is even a provision in the bill for uniforms.

The Founding Fathers of this country created the 10th ammendment to prevent government from expanding its power beyond its enumerated powers, none of which permit programs of this sort.  Even those who naively believe in good government must wonder, why legalize the opportunity for authoritarian control over the country’s youth?

Obama’s Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts)

Crucial to Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920′s and 1930′s were his most militant, activist supporters, called the Sturmabteilung (translated: Assault detachment, but often called Brownshirts for the color of their uniforms).  These men brutalized anyone who did not support Hitler, including rival politicians, press, and voters.

Obama has found mob-rule the same way.  His political machine has been creating hatred for the social class he blames for America’s economic woes, and a class of debout Obama supporters has begun using scare tactics to create reprecussions for those Obama speaks against.  Here is his blame of AIG for fleecing Americans:

This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed. Under these circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at <AIG> warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay. I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?

Obama is attacking AIG for completing its legal contracts that were very specifically permitted by the law Congress itself passed.  These payouts represent one-tenth of one percent of the stimulus money AIG received, of which Congress has been unable to track, and the entire concept of which was not authorized by the Constitution.  To call the attacks on these executives a distraction from the real issue of a mismanaged grab at authoritarian power is an understatment.  But these thoughts would never occur to Obama’s loyal mob of brownshirts who want to crush anyone Obama paints as opposition.

How bad is it?  Bus tours are now visiting the homes of AIG executives.  What purpose could this serve other than to show angry mobs how to instill fear in- or worse, attack- the executives?

The Connecticut Working Families Party this weekend has organized a bus store that will make stops at Wilton, Connecticut, AIG office as well as the security-patrolled homes of AIG execs who are fearing for their lives.

Let’s be clear: the executives have not been accused of any crime.  None.  Obama doesn’t like them, and that’s it.  Yet, angry mobs are already forming outside AIG’s corporate buidings to crush the upper-class workers without any change for due-process.

This happened as Congress demanded AIG executives return their bonus money, or else Barney Frank would release the list of executives who received money to the public.  Again, this is pure mob rule without any due process of law.  The danger of such chaos is that it knows no bounds- it’s AIG, then GM- who will be next?  The precedent this sets is incredibly dangerous.

Worth reading is Jake DeSantis’ resignation letter to AIG, part of which follows:

I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment, nor am I being paid to do so. Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down.

…

The only real motivation that anyone at A.I.G.-F.P. now has is fear. Mr. Cuomo has threatened to “name and shame,” and his counterpart in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has made similar threats – even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts and not the press.

There you have it- rule by fear.  Coercion by fear.  No due process under law, for in fact Jake DeSantis broke no law.  Obama has succeeded in recreating and leading a new incarnation of Hitler’s Brownshirts.