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Originally posted by jfj123
...Are you saying you don't like the obama administration because it's more transparent then the bush administration?
Originally posted by Riposte
Yet all you people can do is sit here and bicker amongst one another.
Originally posted by littlebunny
Also, I have read some reports that state the report was available to President Bush, yet I have also read reports that state that is simply not true. I am still searching for more facts about that statement, so please forgive me for not responding to that question just yet.
--Charles Marcello
— (U//LES) The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups.
Originally posted by jfj123
The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have joined extremist groups.
Originally posted by jfj123
If you did link to a falsified report, I'd appreciate a correction.
If you didn't, then we know that the bush administration DID have access to a 2008 report at the very least.
Originally posted by lunarminer
What I would like to see clarified by this administration is a list of groups that they consider to be "extremist". For all we know, the vets mentioned by the FBI may have joined the local chapter of the VFW or American Legion. If you think that I am exagerating, I am not.
Originally posted by littlebunny
Originally posted by jfj123
Also, that says it linked to a FBI report in 2008, not that this report was available in 2008, there is a difference.
Now, I did ask an honest question of you, I realize you haven't had a lot of time to formulate your response, so consider this just a friendly reminder, to you, and any other person who would choose to answer.
--Charles Marcello
[edit on 19-4-2009 by littlebunny]
Originally posted by littlebunny
...On paper I would agree that forced volunteerism is not a bad idea, but on paper only.... Let alone the fact the Federal Government has ZERO right to force that kind of law onto anybody. If you believe that is a good idea that must come to pass, then please point out where in the Constitution the Federal Government has the right to force that onto its citizens? Let alone the right to force States to comply?
I don't care if you are left or right, believe in or disagree with what President Obama is doing we must always question. Do you mean to say you don't question what is going on and why certain things are being said? Not only by President Obama's Administration, but also from state lawmakers, and now a Governor, and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Originally posted by littlebunny
reply to post by jfj123
Here are the questions I asked of you, or anyone who is willing to answer.
Originally posted by littlebunny
...On paper I would agree that forced volunteerism is not a bad idea, but on paper only.... Let alone the fact the Federal Government has ZERO right to force that kind of law onto anybody. If you believe that is a good idea that must come to pass, then please point out where in the Constitution the Federal Government has the right to force that onto its citizens? Let alone the right to force States to comply?
I don't care if you are left or right, believe in or disagree with what President Obama is doing we must always question. Do you mean to say you don't question what is going on and why certain things are being said?
Not only by President Obama's Administration, but also from state lawmakers, and now a Governor, and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Originally posted by jfj123
Not only by President Obama's Administration, but also from state lawmakers, and now a Governor, and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Well I can't answer this because you haven't posted evidence to suggest this is true.
Typically when making claims like this, many people on ATS including myself, will ask for sources. Just so you don't have to go back later and find them, my humble suggestion is that you post sources with comments that are claims of fact. Once this is done, I'll be able to more appropriately answer your questions.
Originally posted by littlebunny
I'm sorry, I am completely taken aback that you haven't heard of this either. This has been all over the news and ATS for several months now. Below are two very quick searches on Youtube.
and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Barrack Obama is no Abraham Lincoln, for that matter Abraham Lincoln was no Abraham Lincoln. The distortions of history tend to be kinder to some than others!
Lincoln was a tyrant in his day and pushed through his agenda ruthlessly.
When the United States of America was founded it was founded ostensibly as an experiment in government. There was a time during Andrew Jackson’s Presidency that a number of states wanted to secede and leave the Union and Jackson talked them out of it.
The premise still prevailed though that the nation’s government was experimental, and that if any state took severe objection they were free to go their own way.
Lincoln changed all that and turned some things that had long been written in sand into written and stone and other things he wiped clean as if they had never been there. Like the original 13th Amendment for one. The current version was quietly slipped into the Constitution during reconstruction and sealed the Nation’s doom in the process.
Lincoln turned a nation that had long leaned towards being an agrarian one into an industrial one and ushered in the era of modern warfare along with it. Lincoln began mixing religion with government like it had never been before in a foolhardy desire to garner as much Northern support for the war as he could and the religious right and left have never stopped trying to make greater inroads since then all to the nation’s at large detriment. Lincoln even threatened to jail the entire Supreme Court over their objection to one unconstitutional act after another. Lincoln’s use of Green Back fiat instrument of debt currency attached to nothing opened the door to Federal Reserve and a world wide system of fiat instrument of debt currency that plagues us to this day.
Abraham Lincoln in short was a diabolical and cunning remorseless ruler who inherited a whole intact experiment in Democracy and left it a shattered and battered entity forced to conform to a Federal Government that would never ever stop expanding its powers and authority.
All I can say is if Barrack Obama really imagines himself to truly be another Abraham Lincoln, I hope he deviates enough to go to Ford’s Theatre early in his term instead of at the end of it!
Originally posted by jfj123
The part I'm not familiar with is
and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Sorry for the confusion.
Originally posted by littlebunny
Originally posted by jfj123
The part I'm not familiar with is
and how they are going (and are trying) to force the federal government to verbally dismiss the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
Sorry for the confusion.
I guess there is a serious lack of understanding on my part as well. Because, if the States’ do in fact start to enforce their 10th Amendment Rights, and when the Federal Government passes laws that the States demand are not within the Federal Governments power, so therefore illegal, and completely ignore those laws... How do you think the Federal Government is going to respond?
Do you really think this a blind charge towards the Constitution, or could it be, that it is a well throughout showdown between the States and the Federal Government for a second time,
however this time it is the States fight with laws instead of bullets. Because the simple fact remains, not even a civil war can negate our Bill of Rights, or more accurately, a civil war did not revoke our protections from an over reaching Federal Government.
So I guess, if you understand what is going on with these states, how can you be confused by my statement? Isn’t my question/statement at least implied by the actions of these, 33, States’?
--Charles Marcello