A list of pro-active things we can do to stop S.1959

If we all had to choose the most important issues to focus on, out of the many which currently face us, I suggest that there are no two more important matters to focus our energies on than to a) stop the passage of S.1959, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act, and b) push for impeachment of Cheney first.

Here is a letter that I have sent to one of my Senators:

Dear Senator Bayh,

I am as pensive writing you on this issue as I was in my email to Representative Joe Donnelly on HR 1955. Our country is changing and I am afraid that it is not for the better.

I am in a quandary on how to broach my disappointment that a bill such as S1959 has come before the Senate. Will I be in violation of this bill; should it become law, by doing so? I know that the last section of the bill, "`SEC. 899E. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.", outlines (hopefully) that the bill cannot be enforced if doing so would violate constitutional rights, subject to an audit of the circumstances surrounding the charge. In light of other “laws”,( NSPD-51, HSPD-20 & HR5122 ), that have "stretched" rights and taken power not granted by the Constitution in the interests of "security" please understand my concern.

Since the bill doesn't specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done, in my opinion, to cripple the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially it has defined violent radicalization as thought crime.

To see that such a huge majority of The House voted for HR1955 is disturbing. That all but one Representative from Indiana voted to pass this is nothing short of a call on how out of touch they are with what the people they are suppose to represent actually feel. I am hoping against hope that the Senate does not follow suit.

I, myself, have been at fault for not voicing my opinions earlier. Like so many I have sat back and hoped that those I helped to elect into office were going to do what was best for us. I can see the fallacy of these thoughts now. I just hope that others do also.

From your time as Governor of my state I know that you are a good and a fair man. I know that you and your Dad before you have always tried to do what is best in the interest of those that you represent.

Senator Bayh, I believe that S1959 is a bad thing, and I truly am afraid that if it becomes law those in power will not hesitate to abuse the same.

I’m glad for the chance to voice my opinion and I hope that all of us will continue to have that right in the future.

Earnestly,

David M. McDougle

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S. 1959 and the Great Social Divide

When a family member of mine sat in a public cafe in then-Iron Curtain-controlled Budapest, she mentioned the word "government" and our friends immediately jumped all over her: "SSShhhhHHHH!" And this, my friends, came as a result of neighbor being recruited as spy against neighbor. That's a hint: "Fear Ye thy 'Terrorist' American Neighbor!"

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Just some Christmas cheer

Going to post a few Christmas songs in the hope that they will cheer or elicit comments.



Mary's Boy Child


Nuttin' For Christmas


Zat You Santa Clause

My open letter to Indiana Congressman Joe Donnelly

Below is a letter that earlier today I sent to my congressman Joe Donnelly representative of Indiana's 2nd District. It concerns the passage in the US House of H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.

I hope that you will take the time not only to become aware of what our elected representatives are doing but to contact them and let them know how you feel on the issues. Do it while you can folks. I really believe that it is going to get alot worse before long.


Congressman Donnelly,

I am in a quandary on how to broach my disappointment of your support of HR1955. Will I be in violation of this bill; should it become law, by doing so? I know that the last section of the bill, "`SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.", outlines (hopefully) that the bill cannot be enforced if doing so would violate constitutional rights, subject to an audit of the circumstances surrounding the charge. In light of other “laws”,( NSPD-51, HSPD-20 & H.R. 5122 ), that have "stretched" rights and taken power not granted by the Constitution in the interests of "security" please understand my concern.

Since the bill doesn't specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done, in my opinion, to cripple the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially you in your support of HR1955 have defined violent radicalization as thought crime.

To see that such a huge majority of congress voted for this is disturbing. That all but one Representative from Indiana voted to pass this is nothing short of a call on how out of touch they are with what the people they are suppose to represent actually feel.

I, myself, have been at fault for not voicing my opinions earlier. Like so many I have sat back and hoped that those I helped to elect into office were going to do what was best for us. I can see the fallacy of these thoughts now. I just hope that others do also.

I’m glad for the chance to voice my opinion and I hope that all of us will continue to have that right in the future.

David McDougle

Help I'm Becoming a Cliche'

For years there has been the Stereotype of the "older" man bitching and complaining about how people drive. That they go too fast, too slow, don't use proper signals...you get the idea. I've become "that guy". It happened sometime after my 45th birthday and has followed a sad but predictable path.

It's been a subtle change, at first it was just the occasional damn, hell or ID10T hollered after the offender after they had nearly ended mine or their own life by doing something stupid like, pulling into oncoming traffic at 60-70 miles an hour in a no passing zone. This was rational and the anger faded in a couple of minutes.

After a few months I then "graduated" to making obscene gestures at the miscreant, along with the above mentioned hollering; sometimes questioning if possibly their mother had not actually known who their father might be. Alto not entirely rational this could still be defended if the act had threatened my children with their disregard for the laws of safety and the road. I did take a little longer to cool down, couple hours the max.

I knew I had crossed some kind of line when I found that after one of these encounters I was still going on hours later about how I was sorry I had ever impugned their mother's good name by suggesting that she hadn't known the offenders father. How could she not know her own brother, ( or father if I was really upset).
I find myself now railing to any who will listen, such as yourself dear reader; on how the police are never around when someone does things like these people do, or how I imagine coming upon an accident caused by one of these simians and filling in all who will listen how they had just blew past me doing 90 on a blind curve.

So please drive careful I really am a very nice guy.

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Couple of songs today...enjoy

Harry Potter Holiday

I am, like a huge number of the population, in the midst of devouring the newest and last of J.K. Rowlling's Harry Potter series. Not going to have much time for a proper blog the next couple of days so I am going to just post a couple of songs.

I hope that someone out there is reading and / or listening to my offerings and maybe getting something from them.




Remember that all thing are not always as they seem

The Sellout of America or, How I stopped worrying and learned to be afraid.

I hadn't planed on posting large amounts of material from others here but I found an article that sums up alot of my angst with the United States stand on securing its boarders and with the current administration's lack of action.
I do promise that I will post a song at the end today tho, so read on.

"North American Union would be terrible mistake

D.A. King

“There shall be open borders”

- A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America”.

- Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami.

As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders - Sept. 11, 2001, be damned - is natural enough: “Why?”

Why would the president - and a large part of Congress - refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and ten million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?

Why is there no effective and enforced removal program in place to ensure that visa holders leave the country when their visas expire? Visa overstays represent more than 40 percent of the more than 20 million illegal aliens in the same nation in which the president issued the call for us to “be vigilant” in November 2001.

The partial answer to the “why?” question is that the president is kneeling before the American business lobby, which is unwavering in its demand for continued access to the taxpayer subsidized illegal labor from Mexico. Others in elected power view the uncaught undocumented border crossers as willing future constituents - and the corporate funded, increasingly militant far-left ethnic lobby howls “racism” in a calculated and successful offensive defense of the uninterrupted supply of resentful victims of geography needed to expand the entitlements and political power on which it feeds.

These well-funded interest groups benefit from our virtually open borders and would profit significantly and quickly from a repeat of the path to citizenship granted to illegal aliens in 1986. They would all suffer from a return to a nation governed by the rule of law defined by well-defended borders and a common language.

It is past time that the readers of this space begin to hear about the rest of the answer: A larger plan and goal to create an EU-like North American Union by “integrating” the economies and the infrastructures of the United States, Canada, and that paradise to our south whose most notable exports are drugs and people - Mexico. A borderless continental super-state devoted to the lowest possible wages and maximized profits through the free flow of goods, services and people. Target date? 2010.

Essential actions for implementation? Amnesty - again - and the melding of the Mexican and American Social Security systems.

It is easy to imagine the looks of skepticism on the faces of the readers hearing this for the first time. It seems that the blueprint for the “integration of North America” detailed in the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report “Building a North American Community,” promulgated in countless think tanks and taught and promoted in many universities - including Emory - has failed to qualify as news to the huge majority of the mainstream media.

*A coming Mexican customs office in Kansas City?

* Predictions from financial analysts that the struggling dollar could be replaced with the “Amero” as a common continental currency?

* A proposed Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment to lay the groundwork for North American business law - and a March 2005 announcement of a trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership? No news here?

Far too many reporters, editors and radio talk show hosts either haven’t done their homework or are willing to meekly sidestep the terrible truth in fear of being labeled “conspiracy nuts” are complicit in the “un-reporting” of what most Americans would regard as the story of the century.

You’ll read more on this fantastic scheme here in the future, but for now, I think U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-East Cobb) has reflected the opinion of most Americans on this whole enchilada in his statement to this column on the possibility of a North American Union:

“The United States for over 220 years has enjoyed the freedoms and responsibilities of an independent nation. We have served as a beacon to the world of the glories of a democratic republic. To allow our country to participate in a rumored ‘North American Union’ would take away our sovereignty and place an undue burden on the citizens of America.

“It would be a terrible mistake for the U.S. government to engage in any proposal that would diminish our independence or lessen our strength. I wholeheartedly oppose any such effort.”

Thank you, Senator Isakson. What do you think, dear reader?"

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How do we fix this situation?
Since the American people cannot file suit against the federal government for not enforcing the laws they make to keep citizens under their thumbs, yet reward illegal activity with jobs, assistance and now credit cards, how do we retaliate?

I do not think voting is the answer. I am sick of these plastic, over educated, over monied people who claim they want to govern the people, when out of the the side of their mouth they are promising the people who paid their way another thing all together.
Every citizen should be able to vote, but politics should not be preached in churches and it should not be part of business.

Our government has become a monster that is devouring the citizenry of this nation with its greed, indifference and over zealous political correctness. I saw a bumper sticker that said, "I love my country, but I fear my government." I would say that about sums it up perfectly.

I wonder if there are enough Americans who aren't completely complacent and self absorbed to actually change the situation. I talk about this issue to everyone I know and their common response is well there is nothing we can do. With that attitude we are sunk.
I am pretty sure if that had been the opinion of Russians during WW2, we would all be driving VWs and speaking German. On the other hand, we can continue to find out that B Spears shaved her head and Bragelina adopted another third world orphan or Madonna envisions herself to be the next Gandhi.

Some music for the soul today

Opening volley

Not sure this is going to go anywhere but I have gotten to the point that I have things I need to vent on. If for no other reason than to "hear" my own voice.

Things that I may ramble about are going to be varied from politics to FUs at work to just kicking against the pricks, and we ALL know how many pricks there are to kick in life.
I also plan to post either links to or embedded Karaoke clips from me on SingSnap.com.

Going to start by posting this one. It's my rendition of Hurt. I heard the Nine Inch Nails version first before Johnny Cash did his and I really liked his so much better. It had a heartfelt truth to it so that I am offering this up as an homage.

Comments and critiques are welcome just don't get abusive.