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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132504)	5/13/2012 10:39:12 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224707

'Gays' to YouTube: Don't let anyone see THIS! 'Activists didn't like the truth that was in the video' by Michael Carl Sunday, May 13, 2012 wnd.com The newest battleground over the California legislature’s decision to establish a day to honor homosexual activist and politician Harvey Milk is YouTube. SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson says YouTube recently pulled the video simply because homosexual activists complained. “Homosexual activists didn’t like the truth that was in the video; they complained to YouTube and YouTube’s committee yanked it,” Thomasson said. “They did the bidding of the homosexual activists and apparently don’t do their research and all of these are true facts.” Thomasson says his organization is working to get YouTube to reinstate the video. He says that in the meantime, SaveCalifornia.com is running the video on its website. It is linked here. Thomasson says his short video was produced with a mission in mind. “People around the world – they’re getting a one-sided and biased, incorrect picture of Harvey Milk. Harvey Milk is being called a hero and a role model. Actually, he was a sexual predator,” Thomasson said. Thomasson added that the 2008 movie about Milk was largely fictional. “It doesn’t show all of the young boyfriends Harvey Milk had. It made him look like he had only one steady, older boyfriend. It doesn’t talk about all of the boyfriends who went and killed themselves because they got AIDS and so forth,” Thomasson said. “The film was a positive portrayal of Harvey Milk that didn’t talk about his negative things,” Thomasson said. Pro-family Capitol Resource Institute spokeswoman Karen England, of Sacramento, Calif., agrees that most homosexual lobbying groups try to hide the truth about homosexuality. “Oh, absolutely, they’re trying to hide the truth, especially in the schools. They’re completely intolerant of anyone with a viewpoint that isn’t pro homosexual,” England said. “They don’t want the truth told about the lifestyle, about the unhealthiness of it. They continue to introduce bills that promote the lifestyle, especially Senate Bill 48 that forces schools to promote homosexual and transgendered figures and prohibits anyone talking about them in a way that affects them adversely,” England said. “Statistical health information would reflect on them adversely because there are adverse health effects,” England said. “The movement in California has been to silence those that oppose the homosexual, transgendered lifestyle and to elevate it.” Thomasson is asking California parents to take a stand against Harvey Milk Commemoration Day. “We’re calling on California parents to wake up and realize that their kids will be sexually indoctrinated if left in the government schools,” Thomasson said. “Harvey Milk gay day on or about May 22 will force children at participating schools into undefined and unlimited quote, ‘commemorative exercises’ honoring this very bad man.” He said: “He was a sexual predator of teens. He believed in sexual anarchy. He was a public liar and he denied any of the sexually transmitted diseases that would result from this behavior.” Thomasson said Milk was an adversary of Christianity. “He attacked religion. He was a very bad role model for children then and continues to be even in death,” Thomasson said. England said her group is watching the schools and asks parents to do the same. “We encourage parents who are in districts that celebrate Harvey Milk to find out what their schools are doing and either demand that their children be opted out of the events or to keep their children home from school that day,” England said. “We also suggest they withhold any funds that would be used to fund those activities on that day,” England said. England said there are plenty of reasons for parents to take these actions. “If their children are going to be held captive to a social agenda, and the schools hide that social agenda, then the parents need to be more responsible and keep their kids home,” England said. “We will continue to send out emails, and educating churches,” England said. “Just like for the Day of Silence, we gave them alternatives. We encouraged churches to have a Day of Service and they helped the kids go out and do service projects in the community.” Thomasson emphasized that Harvey Milk is not a good role model for children, and the programs are designed to condition children to think positively about Milk’s activities. “With Harvey Milk attacking marriage, family, morality, and God’s values, children as young as kindergarten will be taught to believe what Harvey Milk believed and what he stood for and even be taught to believe that what Harvey Milk did personally and publicly as something they might emulate,” Thomasson said. “Harvey Milk stood for Gay Pride Parades. He marched in them. And the law calls for children to recognize the life and contribution of Harvey Milk. Honoring what he stood for means that anything he stood for is what the kids are taught to stand for,” Thomasson said. “Potentially you can see Gay Pride Parades on campuses and mock gay weddings. You can see kids being taught that homosexuality is good and natural while it isn’t because there’s no ‘gay gene,’” Thomasson said. “Kids will not be taught about the sexually transmitted diseases that are spread by homosexuality.” Thomasson said there are other things parents can do. “So we’re calling on parents to visit SaveCalifornia.com and get informed and keep your child home from the government and get a taste of academic freedom and opt out of all eight of California’s homosexual indoctrination laws.” Thomasson said. England also believes parents should have the final say in the children’s education, even if it involves homeschooling. “This has been a fight in California every year. There have been attacks on parental rights and the ability of parents to privately make decisions about how they want to school their kids,” England said. “We’re encouraging homeschool families to get involved with HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association),” England said. Thomasson said there’s a serious trend towards homeschooling. “Homeschooling is growing in popularity. More people are homeschooling all the time. The curriculum is better than ever and there is a greater need than ever for parents to have 100 percent academic freedom to implement their God-given right and obligation to raise and educate their children,” Thomasson said.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132504)	5/13/2012 10:53:12 AM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224707

Florida investigation reveals 180,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote [iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redstate.com%2Fcalifornia_yankee%2F2012%2F05%2F12%2Fflorida-investigation-reveals-180000-non-citizens-may-be-registered-to-vote%2F&send=false&layout=box_count&width=48&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font&height=60" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; width: 48px; height: 60px;" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"][/iframe] [iframe allowtransparency="true" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html?count=vertical&via=cayankee&related=redstate:RedState.com&text=Florida%20investigation%20reveals%20180%2C000%20non-citizens%20may%20be%20registered%20to%20vote" style="width: 55px; height: 60px;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"][/iframe] Posted by Dan Spencer ( Diary) Saturday, May 12th at 3:44PM EDT Florida officials have discovered that 180,000 registered voters may be non-citizens. A CBS4/Miami Herald analysis of information supplied by Miami-Dade shows a large number of the potential non-citizens voters cast ballots in the past — including the 2000 election, when the presidency was decided by just over 500 votes. According to Deputy Supervisor of Elections Christina White, there are a “lot of non-citizens on our registration rolls.” Florida’s Division of Elections is checking the citizenship of voters by comparing drivers license records, which show whether a licensed driver is also a U.S. citizen. Non-citizens are able to become registered voters in Florida because if a non-citizen checks the box on the voter registration form that says they are a citizen they are registered to vote, because the form is signed under oath. Those registered who are identified as possible non-citizens are reported to the State Attorney’s office The States Attorney may charge anyone who unlawfully registered to vote with a felony. According to the Heritage Foundation’s Hans Von Spakovsky, Florida’s investigation is only looking at legal immigrants, not illegal aliens, who may have registered to vote even though they are not citizens. Von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Elections Commission, says that Florida is doing the right thing with this investigation, but is only scratching the surface. Florida can’t check for illegal aliens who registered to vote because the Federal government is not giving Florida access to Immigration and Naturalization Service records which would help identify illegals who have registered to vote. You can watch Bill Hemmer and Hans Von Spakovsky discuss Florida’s investigation of non-citizens illegally voting in the accompanying video here. Nearly four years after CNN reported on the scandalous ACORN voter fraud, and those fraudulent voter registrations were converted into fraudulent votes, we are still struggling to prevent voter fraud. Instead of working to prevent voter fraud, the Obama regime goes so far as to sue some states that require voters to show a photo ID in order to vote.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132504)	5/13/2012 2:57:16 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224707

kenny..So what do you think, will hussein obama celebrate homosexual day? will you? Harvey Milk Day Bill Number: SB 572 eqca.org This bill would require the governor proclaim May 22 each year as Harvey Milk Day. It would encourage public schools and educational institutions to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on that date.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (132504)	5/13/2012 3:26:51 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224707

(ed. note: Much of what Michael Bellefountaine wrote about his research into Jonestown – and the findings from his research – has been published on this website and in forthcoming works. One item we discovered on his computer a week after his death was the transcript of an interview (or perhaps Michael’s extended answers to written questions) regarding his interest in the Harvey Milk/George Moscone assassinations and his introduction to the Jonestown story. The notes are undated, and the identity of the interviewer is unknown. Because they provide insights into what drove one of the Temple’s most indefatigable researchers, we offer them here.) What do you remember most vividly about the 27 November 1978 death of Mayor Moscone? Where were you was and how did you learn about the facts? I was a teenager who lived in New England at the time of the murders, so I do not draw from personal memory or experience. I have, however, spent years studying the murders and the Jonestown events. I have also interviewed a number of Milk’s friends and political aides in trying to figure out what happened and why. The good side to this is that my research isn’t tainted with incorrect memories and personal emotions. I can still be detached. I think the thing to remember the most is that the city of San Francisco was reeling from the assassination of Leo Ryan and the Jonestown deaths. Ryan was a popular politician from San Mateo, and there were few people in the city who did not know generally about the Temple, if not someone who was actually in the Temple. When the murder of Ryan and his party was announced from Guyana, the press reported that only a couple hundred or so Temple people were dead. There were actually eyewitness reports which stated that hundreds of people were seen fleeing into the jungle around the community. This had a unique effect on San Francisco. Initially there was sadness and mourning around the assassination, but there was hope that hundreds, if not a thousand, people survived the suicides. This is ignored or forgotten today, but initially this hope lasted for days. Slowly every day or so, the death toll began to rise. Then it was the holiday of Thanksgiving, and people retreated to family and prayers. It was not until November 25 that the San Francisco Examiner printed the final death toll at around 910. People were just realizing the full effect of Jonestown when the Milk/Moscone murders happened. So, contrary to popular belief that the city had a week to digest the suicides and murders, this was not the case. The events (the Moscone - Milk murders and the realization of the extent of the Jonestown death toll) happened virtually at the same time. The hope that people of survivors was not only dashed, that hope was eradicated and mocked by the murders of Milk and Moscone. By the time that Milk and Moscone were murdered the city was in collective shock and grief. Regardless of what you felt about the Temple, the Temple members or Jim Jones, the photos coming out of Guyana were emotionally disturbing and touched almost everyone in the city. Had the murders of Milk and Moscone not followed the Jonestown massacre so closely they may have unfolded quite differently. But the two events happened almost simultaneously and therefore it is almost impossible to talk about one without talking about the other. What happened in the following days? There were two important things that were brought out by the Milk/Moscone murders. The first was the replacement of Moscone with Dianne Feinstein as Mayor of San Francisco. Feinstein was the president of the board of supervisors and next in line for mayor. She had been term limited out, which means she could not run for another term at the board. So she was finished politically. The death of Moscone catapulted her to the mayor’s office and eventually on a political career to her present position as a US Senator. Though both were Democrats, Moscone and Feinstein were very different politicians. Feinstein was tied to downtown big business in a big way. They got more mileage out of her than they would have from Moscone. This had a long term effect on the development of San Francisco, physically and politically. The second important thing was a mystique in the gay community that gay leaders would be shot and killed, and that gays were the targets of American society. This was not as true. Harvey Milk was not killed because he was gay as is the common thought. Indeed Dan White had hoped to also kill Willie Brown and Carol Ruth Silver, neither of whom are gay. If he had killed four people – three of whom are not gay – he is not a gay basher per se. Additionally, he killed Harvey and wanted to kill the others, I believe, because they were the ones who had forced him out of his seat. The board had been divided equally between progressives and business people, and Dan White’s departure and replacement by a progressive gave the progressives the votes they needed to push through their agenda. I think that Moscone would have been willing to give White his seat back, but he was pressured not to do so by the others who were open about wanting a progressive majority on the board. Soon after Harvey’s death, the gay community became adept at turning it into a gay murder. Not a murder of a politician who happened to be gay, but the murder of a gay man. In part this was due to the fact that Milk had left a tape saying he was going to be assassinated, and assumed it would be because he was gay. As the tape was played and replayed, the myth developed that White was a gay basher. I just don’t think that this was the case. Additionally the mystique was created that Milk was the first elected gay person and if gay people rise to public office, as gay people, they would be gunned down. Neither of these statements is true. Milk wasn’t the first elected gay person – a lesbian had been elected in Massachusetts, as was a gay man in Madison, Wisconsin – and neither of them had been targeted.