What's the difference between grassroots protests and paid astroturfing? Steven Crowder Goes Undercover

What's the difference between grassroots protests and paid astroturfing? PJTV's Steven Crowder goes undercover to learn directly from the moonbat activists who drive public policy:
Ahh the liberal moonbats "grassroots" what a farce

Uniformed Thug: This Ain't America No More

Here's a preview of life under Obama's planned massive civilian defense corps. Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. of the Fairfax County Public Schools–trained School Security Officer team is not a fan of the wildly popular Obama as socialist joker poster, so he tells a patriot outside Dem Rep Jim Moran's town hall in Reston, Virginia last Tuesday that he has to put down his sign or be charged with trespassing on public school property.

How would this be trespassing, when hundreds of others were there protesting, both for and against government seizure of the healthcare industry? The officer explains:

If I told you once to take it down and you put it back up, then I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with.

This sums up Hopey Change succinctly:

Patriot: This used to be America.
Officer Cheeks: It ain't no more, OK?
Maybe it isn't America anymore. But it will be again once we take back our country from Big Government and the thugs who support it.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

First Amendment rights? Yeah right!! Not according to Hussein Obama!

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."
Read the rest HERE

Dem Rep & Communist: "Opponents Want to Destroy President Who Looks Like Me... Fidel Castro Was One of Brightest Leaders I Have Ever Met"

LA Representative and Communist Diane Watson (D-CA) racebaits and praises Fidel Castro and the Cuban health care system at an Obamacare debate.

The people of California must be very proud to have such an esteemed Marxist representing them in Congress.
KABC reported:

Breitbart
"They are spreading fear and they're trying to see that the first president who looks like me -- fails."

What an absolute disgrace.

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Organizing for America Recruits Snitches Castro-Style

I know we are headed in this direction faster than a frozen turd down a snot covered slide. I just wish the left would wake-up and open their eyes.. The libs that have the slightest bit of sense are coming around slowly and the center/moderates are voicing their disgust and the polls show it.

This transaction below will be part of our everyday lives in a year if these fruit-loops in the white house continue achieving their warped agenda.

A Moonbattery reader has become pen pals with Jeremy Bird, the skeevy Obamunist apparatchik who was profiled Monday for his astroturfing activities.

Not content to report her own thought crimes at Comrade Obama's snitch site, Heather M went undercover and volunteered to become an online brownshirt in the cause of healthcare nazification. Soon she received the following email from the DNC's Organizing for America:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Jeremy Bird*
>>
Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Subject: Reminder: Please report your contacts

Friend — Thank you for talking to your neighbors about health care. The conversations you are having are important in the debate about reforming our health care system. We noticed that you haven't reported what you learned while talking to your neighbors. There are only three days left before your list will be returned and given to someone else, and we want to ensure we receive the results of all of your hard work. To report back to us, just go to your Neighbor to Neighbor dashboard and click "Report Contacts." Then, just click on each person to let us know what they said. If you have any questions, you can reach us at 1-866-495-2004. Thank you for all of your hard work. Your help is essential if we are going to get real health care reform passed by the end of the year.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bird
Deputy Director
Organizing for America

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

Unfortunately, Obama et al. get no points for creativity. Recruiting snitches to report on what their neighbors say in private conversations is a favorite technique of the communist regime repressing Cuba.

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Are Obama suicide panels real?

Watch this and you be the judge.

Moonbat Janeane Garofalo

A cherished liberal belief has been confirmed by the enlightened philosopher Janeane Garofalo — resistance to encroaching socialist tyranny is racist:


However, her views on dissent have evolved a little since leftists took control of the government:



A big hand for Ms. Garofalo. She may be a repulsive skank and nutty as a squirrel, but every time she opens her obnoxious maw, countermoonbats feel a little more motivated.

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obama Praising Racist Hatemonger rev. wright

Lest anyone forget where Dear Leader is coming from intellectually, here he is praising his inspiration and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright:



A little footage of this "wonderful man," who "represents the best of what the black church has to offer":

Black Panther Who Threatened Voters In Philly Is a Credentialed Dem Poll Watcher

Poll watchers...

King Samir Shabazz (L) and Jerry Jackson (R), both of Philadelphia pose for their photo above. Jerry Jackson is a certified democratic poll worker.

One of the Black Panthers who intimidated voters on election day is a certified democratic poll watcher.
No wonder Eric Holder dropped the case.
John Fund reported at The Wall Street Journal:

When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that's already illegal under existing law.

There was outrage over the decision among Congressional Republicans, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—especially after it was learned one of the defendants who walked was Jerry Jackson, a member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party last Election Day.

In case you forgot...
Here's the certified democratic poll watcher in action:

He's already been reinstated as a poll watcher.
More from DANEgerus:

"Mr. Jackson's MySpace page still lists one of his main 'general interests' as 'Killing Crakkkas.' Four days after the Justice Department dropped the complaint against Mr. Jackson, he again was named an official election poll watcher for the Democratic primary in Philadelphia's municipal election. How convenient."/blockquote>
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Pocomoke City Councilman 'Cane' gets a PBJ

That's right, Pocomoke City Councilman Honiss Cane gets a PBJ for speeding 91 in a 65, He received a $264.50 fine and $25.50 court cost and PBJ.

From the Md case search website below:

DISTRICT COURT OF MARYLAND

Case Information
Go Back

Court System:	DISTRICT COURT FOR WICOMICO COUNTY (SALISBURY) - TRAFFIC SYSTEM
Citation Number:	000000FR55506Case Status:PROBATION CASE

Violation Date:	05/06/2009	Violation Time:	05:50 AM
Violation County:	WICOMICO COUNTY (SALISBURY)
District Code:	02	Location Code:	03

AgencyName:BARRACK E (SALISBURY)

Officer Name:MYERS,

Officer ID:4923

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Defendant Information

Defendant Name:CANE, HONISS WEBSTER

Address:103 4TH ST

City:

POCOMOKEState:MDZip Code:21851

Race:BLACK,AFRICAN AMERICAN

Sex:MHeight:505Weight:170

DOB:01/1932

Drivers License: C500313870082Issuing State: MD

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Charge Information

Charge:	Article:TASec:21Sub-Sec:801.1Para:Code:
Description:	DRIVING VEH. ON HWY. AT SPEED EXCEEDING LIMIT

Speed Limit:

65

Recorded Speed:

091

Location Stopped:

RT13 BYPASS N/B AT ST LUKES RD

Contributed to Accident?:

NO

Personal Injury?:

NO

Fine:

290

Vehicle Tag:

166M966

State:

MD

Vehicle Description:

00TOYT

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Disposition Information

Plea:	GUILTY
Disposition:	PROBATION BEFORE JUDGEMENT
Disposition Date:	08/20/2009

Speed Limit:	65	Convicted Speed:	091
Contributed To Accident:	NO	Personal Injury?:	NO

Sentence Date:

08/20/2009

Sentence Time:

Yrs:00Mos:00Days:000

Suspended Time:

Yrs:00Mos:00Days:000

Costs: Fine:	264.5	CourtCost:	25.5	CICF:	0
Suspended: Fine:	0	CourtCost:	0	CICF Cost:	0

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Event History Information

Event	Date	Comment
PPTR	2009-06-02	080609;0130P;02;052209;E;ADM OFFICE CLOSED COURT ;B
KEYP	2009-08-20	TRIAL KEYPOINT 14:21:04 REEL 999999
SCHG	2009-08-20	D225;A TO T

Way to set an example Honiss, you mean you don't have any power outside of Pocomoke?

Where was the MSM when protesters held signs to kill Bush?

Media Didn't Care About Protest Signs Threatening Bush

In recent weeks, the media have focused a lot of attention on anti-Obama signs showing up at town hall meetings and Tea Parties from coast to coast.

Without a doubt, some of them cross the line of decency.

However, the press's outrage is quite different than what happened when protesters carried offensive signs threatening former President George W. Bush.

To refresh the memory of the conveniently amnesiac news media, Zombietime dug up a number of posters from demonstrations past which didn't garner the press's ire like those harped on in recent weeks (readers are warned to proceed with caution, h/t Walt Gilbert):

A protester with a sign saying “Kill Bush” and advocating that the White House be bombed, at the March 18, 2007 anti-war rally in San Francisco.
(Source: zombietime.)

“Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush” says this sign from a November 20, 2003 protest.
(Source: Innovative Minds.)

“Bush is the disease, Death is the cure,” says this protester at an anti-war rally in San Francisco.
(Source: People’s Cube.)

“I’m here to kill Bush (shoot me)” reads this protest sign (location unknown).
(Source: I found this image several years ago in an online report about an anti-war protest, but I unfortunately failed to note down where or when the protest happened, and the Web site that originally hosted the report is now defunct.)

Remember the guy in our first picture? Here he is again, with another explicit death threat against the president, this time calling for “Death to…Bush” at the October 27, 2007 anti-war rally in San Francisco.
(Source: zombietime.)

Bush being beheaded by a guillotine, at an Obama campaign rally, Denver, October 26, 2008.
(Source: Looking at the Left.)

An effigy of Bush being killed, at the April 10, 2004 anti-war rally in San Francisco.
(Source: zombietime.)

Bush being burned in effigy, at a November 3, 2004 post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco.
(Source: zombietime.)

Bush being lynched by an American flag at a rally in New York on September 19, 2006.
(Source: Fred Askew Photography.)

That is just a sampling. Readers and media members are urged to view more of Zombietime's pictures to remember what was considered an acceptable demonstration of free speech less than eight months ago.

Press members are highly encouraged to ask themselves, "What's changed, and why?"

obama, change, "new jobs"? OH NO!!

Liberal Moonbats gone wild, Astroturfing Tools Versus Grassroots Patriots

Ahh yes, even if theses videos had only sound it would be sooo simple to distinguish between the liberal 'moonbats' and those that have at least 1/2 of a brain cell. Moonbats gone wild.

Although the liberal, obama run media, continually spouts that the opposition of the health care (obamacare) bill that no one has taken the time to read are "astroturfers" it's very clear to anyone that pays even the slightest attention that the "astroturfers" are clearly the liberal moonbats that have been organized through emails etc. and even paid to attend these protest. How can the POTUS legally pay people to protest to push his agenda?

A study in contrasts outside Senator Dianne Feinstein's LA office last Friday:

Part II

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La Raza Activists Provoke & Attack Rep. Gene Green Town Hall Attendees--- Bring In Mariachi Band & Mexican Flags (Video)

America; Look and listen, Is this the America YOU want?

La Raza members provoked and attacked town hall attendees at Rep. Gene Green's town hall meeting on Tuesday in Houston.

It probably didn't help their cause that the pro-Obamacare La Raza activists brought in their own Mariachi Band to the meeting.
Not a good move:

Via Freedom's Lighthouse

From the video:

A member of the group La Raza argues with and attacks one of the attendees of Gene Green's Townhall meeting on Tuesday, August 18. He became violent and Houston Police took him to jail. The LaRaza members continued to confront us over the course of the night... we remained calm and stayed away but they kept it up! The night ended with a Mariachi band... we couldn't believe it!! This is what's going on in Texas, folks... and it could happen to America!! They admit they're "taking over America" and that they want to "kick us out".... Is this really what you want?????

Honestly, is it really a smart move for the La Raza folks to celebrate Obamacare with Mariachi Bands and Mexican flags?

UPDATE: The Lone Star Times has a very different take on the evening.

WTH?... Obama Ignores National Day of Prayer But Sends Out 5 Minute Ramadan Blessing(?)

HotAirPundit posted Obama's Ramadan wishes today...
It's five minutes long:

He's a liar and a fake;
It's even translated into several languages.
From the White House blog:

President Obama extends his best wishes to Muslims around the world during Ramadan. (public domain)

Sous-titrage disponible en français.
Имеются русские субтитры
Özürlüler için altyazılı
Teks tersedia dalam bahasa Indonesia
Kapsyen tertutup terdapat di dalam Bahasa Melayu

Now, do you remember how Obama observed the National Day of Prayer?
He distanced himself from it.
The Washington Times reported:

President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning.

All Mr. Obama will do for the National Day of Prayer, which is Thursday, is sign a proclamation honoring the day, which originated in 1952 when Congress set aside the first Thursday in May for the observance.

For the past eight years, President George W. Bush invited selected Christian and Jewish leaders to the White House East Room, where he typically would give a short speech and several leaders offered prayers...

Hmmm...

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MSNBC Demonstrates Difference Between Spinning and Lying

There's a line between slanting the news and ham-fistedly distorting it. The shameless hard left propagandists at NBC have left this line far behind them. Listen to them shriek about how racist it is for Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights while protesting Obama's bid to seize control of the healthcare industry:


A sample of the Contessa Sewer's ravings:

Here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns…

Erm, Ok lets take a look at the "white racist" that's carrying the wepons that MSNBC mentions....
Notice the the MSNBC crew would only show the weapons and not the person carrying them so they could promote their racial agenda.


Sooooo... it's only crazy white people?

But your average glassy-eyed, Kool-Aid–guzzling, Obama-worshiping, MSNBC-watching moonbat fool not only doesn't know he's being blatantly lied to, he doesn't care.
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Obama Reinstates "Death Book" For US Veterans of War

President Bush suspended the veteran's "death books" last year.
Unfortunately, Barack Obama reinstated the practice for veterans.

Is it really worth it?

The book asks veterans to decide whether their own life would be "not worth living" under certain guilt inducing scenarios.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care.

Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." (pdf) It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."

Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.

"Your Life, Your Choices" presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political "push poll." For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be "not worth living."

The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to "shake the blues." There is a section which provocatively asks, "Have you ever heard anyone say, 'If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug'?" There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as "I can no longer contribute to my family's well being," "I am a severe financial burden on my family" and that the vet's situation "causes severe emotional burden for my family."

Page 21 of the book asks: "What makes my life worth living?"



But, don't worry seniors... You have nothing to worry about with Obamacare.
Skip the surgery. Take a pain pill instead.


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Witch Hunt-- Dems Demand Insurance Company Records... Continue Attacks On Private Sector ...Update: Proof Dems Want Single Payer System

This video is proof positive that the democrats are shooting for a single payer system:


Congressional Witch Hunt--
Democrats have requested records from several insurance companies. Congressional leaders want to demonize insurance company executives in order to convince the American public that the government needs to control health care.
FOX News reported:

Democrats on a House committee are seeking detailed financial records from dozens of large insurance companies, officials disclosed Tuesday, part of an investigation into "executive compensation and other business practices" in an industry opposed to President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care.

The request included records relating to compensation of highly paid employees, documents relating to companies' premium income and claims payments, and information on expenses stemming from any event held outside company facilities in the past 2 1/2 years.

The requests were made in letters signed by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who guided a portion of health care legislation through the House Energy and Commerce Committee last month as chairman, and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who heads the Energy and Commerce investigations and oversight subcommittee.

They wrote that the committee was "examining executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry." The Associated Press obtained a copy.

The requests were issued at a time when Obama's health care proposal is under intense attack from Republicans and other critics, including the health insurance industry. Much of the opposition focuses on proposals for the government to sell insurance in competition with private carriers.

Maybe they should look into SEIU executives' compensation, etc., at the same time. In fact, that of ALL union execs.

And, while they're at it, they could take a look at ACORN, too.

Like that would ever happen.

The US Constitution is now considered "Hate Speech" by the liberal left.

PHOENIX (AP) — A man carrying a copy of the US Constitution was arrested while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech to veterans on Monday.

Although Arizona law currently allows citizens to openly carry a Constitution for purposes of self-defense against tyrants and despots, such laws are usurped in the presence of the President.

“A venue is considered a federal site when the Secret Service is protecting the president and federal law applies on a federal site,” said Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan.

Because the Constitution contains language “limiting” the powers of President - and was also written by slave-owners who considered blacks to be “three-fifths” of a person and not eligible for the office of the Presidency - the document is not protected as “free speech”. Instead, it’s covered under federal hate speech laws if one is brought within 1000 feet of President Obama.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the incident was being taken “very seriously” and that the FBI was considering further action.

“The US Constitution is a violent and revolutionary document, directly responsible for at least two wars in this nation,” said Gibbs. “Insurrectionist chatter like that may require us to consider charges of treason. We’re currently investigating the possibility, which will take some time, since no one in this administration has ever actually examined the document in question.”

“Free speech is not an absolute,” explained FBI spokesman John Miller. “You can’t yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater. Waving a Constitution around is essentially yelling ‘freedom!’ at a crowded Obama rally. We consider this sort of offensive language a direct threat to civil order in general and the President in particular, and it will not be tolerated.”

BTW; as believable as this is, it's fake

ACORN May Impose Lifestyle Regulations Under ObamaCare

Could you imagine a nightmare dystopia where corrupt ACORN troglodytes would be charged with monitoring your lifestyle and dietary habits on behalf of an all-powerful federal Leviathan that officially owns your very body? The statist goblins that wrote the ObamaCare bill sure can. From Fox Nation:

The health care reform bill approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) would provide federal grants to state and local governments and a "national network of community-based organizations" to "promote healthy living and reduce disparities" and to monitor people's weight, eating, exercise habits and other individual behaviors that affect health at the community level. The language instituting the program, entitled "Community Transformation Grants," is on pages 382-387 of the bill as posted on the committee's Web site.

Here's the bill. From page 386:

TYPES OF MEASURES. — In carrying out subparagraph (A), the eligible entity shall, with respect to residents in the community, measure —
(i) decreases in weight;
(ii) increases in proper nutrition;
(iii) increases in physical activity;
(iv) decreases in tobacco use prevalence;
(v) other factors using community specific data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey; and
(vi) other factors as determined by the Secretary.

The appallingly corrupt and powerful Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), best known for receiving the largest bribes from Fannie and Freddie before they crashed, confirms that ACORN could be the "eligible entity" that makes sure you are taking good care of the government's property by exercising properly, eating right, and so forth.

If our radical left rulers are able to impose ObamaCare, they will know there is no limit to how far they can go in indulging their totalitarian impulses.

Coming to your house to tell you how to live.

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