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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (116357)	10/26/2011 12:02:39 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224752

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

To: TimF who wrote (116357)	10/26/2011 12:10:27 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 224752

But what does Thomas Perez think of that? ..................................................................................... .......................................................................................................................... Public School District To Pay Muslim Teacher Over Mecca Trip 10/25/2011 judicialwatch.org A public school district in the U.S. must pay a Muslim teacher tens of thousands of dollars and establish a religious accommodation training program for refusing to let the instructor take three weeks off to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. The settlement marks the conclusion of the first lawsuit filed by Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of a pilot program designed to ensure “vigorous enforcement” of civil rights in the workplace. “Employees should not have to choose between practicing their religion and their jobs,” said Thomas Perez, the open borders advocate Obama appointed as Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. The math teacher (Safoorah Khan) sued the Berkeley Illinois district when her middle school denied the leave request because she was the only math lab instructor and her absence would come at a crucial time right before exams. To further back its case, the district pointed out that the union contract did not allow that sort of leave for any teacher. So Khan, who had worked at McArthur Middle School for barely a year, resigned and sued the district for religious discrimination. The DOJ’s bloated civil rights division quickly moved to help her. In a December lawsuit, the DOJ accuses the Berkeley School District of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to reasonably accommodate Khan’s religious practices. By denying Khan a “religious accommodation”, the district compelled Khan to choose between her job and her religious beliefs, the DOJ claimed. Feeling the wrath of the powerful and much wealthier federal government, the district agreed this month to pay Khan $75,000 for lost back pay, compensatory damages and attorney’s fees. It also caved into the DOJ’s demand of creating a new “religious accommodation policy” to “reasonably accommodate the religious beliefs, practices and/or observances of all employees and prospective employees.” The new program will also provide mandatory training on religious accommodation to all board of education members, supervisors, managers, administrators and human resources officials who participate in decisions on religious accommodation requests made by its employees and prospective employees. “We are pleased that Berkeley School District has agreed to implement a training program that puts into place an interactive process to ensure that each request for a religious accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis and granted if it poses no undue hardship on the school district,” Perez said. A former Maryland Labor Secretary, Perez has made a number of controversial moves at the DOJ to protect minorities, including illegal immigrants. In June he ordered Colorado to protect the interests of “language minority populations” by strengthening a Court Interpreter Oversight Committee that assures immigrants who don’t speak English get free translators. Before that he launched an initiative to eliminate written tests that discriminate against minorities in the workplace and sued a public college system for discrimination because it requires job applicants to furnish proof of residency before getting hired. Last year Perez lied to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to cover up that political leadership was behind the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. Judicial Watch obtained records that prove top political appointees were intimately involved in the decision to drop charges against the radical black revolutionary group for bullying voters with racial insults, profanity and weapons during the 2008 presidential election.

To: TimF who wrote (116357)	10/26/2011 1:46:40 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224752

Is DoJ proposal a reaction to Fast & Furious probes? Dave Workman Seattle Gun Rights Examiner October 26, 2011 http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/is-doj-proposal-a-reaction-to-fast-furious-probes A proposal by the Obama/Holder Justice Department to allow agency officials to lie about the existence of so-called “sensitive information” seems curiously timed as momentum builds for a full accounting by the Obama administration on Operation Fast and Furious. Fox News is reporting that: A longtime internal policy that allowed Justice Department officials to deny the existence of sensitive information could become the law of the land -- in effect a license to lie -- if a newly proposed rule becomes federal regulation in the coming weeks. It is no secret that news agencies have been getting their hands on sensitive documents relating to the Fast and Furious scandal outside of official channels, which is the only way such documents typically ever see the light of day. Sources on Capitol Hill have repeatedly insisted to this column that certain documents obtained by, for example, CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson or online investigative journalists like David Codrea, that have helped widen and deepen the probe "didn't come from us." Codrea advised this column that his initial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests struck pay dirt, but that the Justice Department “as a whole…was unresponsive and they are reviewing my appeal and taking way more than the legal time limit to do it.” Henceforth, FOIA requests could be essentially neutered by the proposed regulation. The proposed rule directs federal law enforcement agencies, after personnel have determined that documents are too delicate to be released, to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests "as if the excluded records did not exist." After months of stonewalling and obfuscation, and delivery of documents so heavily redacted as to render them useless, there is no doubt on Capitol Hill that the Justice Department is trying to cover-up the gun trafficking operation-gone-bad. Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars shared his concerns about the proposed regulations here. Affirming that politics makes strange bedfellows, like sentiments were offered to Fox News by Mike German, policy counsel for the ACLU: "It's shocking that you would twist what is supposed to be a statute – that's supposed to give people access to what the government is doing – in a way that would allow the government to actually mislead the American public.” The Obama administration sailed into office on a very thick carpet woven by media cheerleaders, with the promise to be “transparent.” Page after page of requested documents that were totally redacted, making them nothing more than large blocks of black ink on a white background, are not transparent. They are not even translucent. This proposed regulation by the Justice Department – the agency under Attorney General Eric Holder that spread its tentacles fast and furiously to cover the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ gun trafficking fiasco – might theoretically allow the department to claim the whole thing never happened, had it not already been uncovered. Advocates for open government are battling the proposal right now. If the proposal does become an “official regulation” sometime this fall, it will be too late to shield Fast and Furious. That cat is already well out of the bag. BREAKING: CBS News is reporting that a Mexican drug smuggling suspect now awaiting trial in Chicago is claiming he was promised immunity by the Drug Enforcement Agency. He is also claiming that U.S. government agents have actually provided aid to the Sinaloa drug cartel in exchange for help in fighting more dangerous cartels. Prosecutors say Vicente Zambada-Niebla oversaw drug running on a massive scale into the U.S. But now, from behind bars at a maximum security prison in Chicago, he's making his own explosive accusations -- that U.S. government agents have been aiding Mexico's infamous Sinaloa cartel -- even tipping off leaders on how to avoid capture.—CBS News The claim might be considered far-fetched, but for revelations in the Fast and Furious scandal weeks ago about the apparent existence of a third gun relating to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry that had been concealed by the FBI to protect the identity of a key informant in the cartels. This column discussed that revelation. Whether drug suspect Vicente Zambada-Niebla actually was guaranteed immunity is speculation at best, and CBS noted that such a guarantee would be unenforceable.