Anti-Gun Statue @ the UN Building in New York City
You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it…
In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door
and lurches outside.
As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.
In your country, most guns were outlawed years before,
and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..
Yours was never registered.
Police arrive and inform you
that the second burglar has died.
They arrest you for First Degree Murder
and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry:
authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.
“What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.
“Only ten-to-twelve years,”
he replies, as if that’s nothing.
“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”
The next day, the shooting is the lead
story in the local newspaper.
Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.
Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them..
Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been arrested numerous times.
But the next day’s headline says it all:
“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”
The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..
As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
The national media picks it up,
then the international media.
The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably win.
The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and
that you’ve been critical of local police for their lack
of effort in apprehending the suspects.
After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.
The District Attorney uses this to allege
that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
A few months later, you go to trial.
The charges haven’t been reduced,
as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.
When you take the stand, your anger at
the injustice of it all works against you..
Prosecutors paint a picture of you
as a mean, vengeful man.
It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.
The judge sentences you to life in prison.
This case really happened.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.
In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term..
How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once great British Empire ?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and
established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..
Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and
mandated the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.
Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the street shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of “gun control”, demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland ,
Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.
For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearm’s
still owned by private citizens.
During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights,
the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened,
claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.
Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
“We cannot have people take the law into their own hands.”
All of Tony Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs
who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
had seen most of his collection
trashed or stolen by burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
citizens who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.
Being good British subjects,
most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn’t were visited by police
and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply.
Police later bragged that they’d taken
nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA ;
THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
“…It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds..”
–Samuel Adams
If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.
You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done.
And there are people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.
A massive robot that can carry a seated human pilot, and is armed with twin gatling guns, has gone on show in Japan.
Kuratas is described as the world’s first giant boarding robot, no doubt inspired by the “mechs” of Japanese anime and manga comic book culture which features human controllers inside a walking vehicle.
But Kuratas is different in that it offers two types of control system.
The robot can be piloted directly (Ala Avatar), or remotely by a user connected to a 3G device such as a laptop, tablet or smartphone (drone).
The firm that made the robot, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, even released a tongue-in-cheek video showing how to operate the robot.
It was unveiled to the world at the Wonder Festival in the Tokyo suburb of Chiba.
Kuratas, which is referred to as the Vaudeville project in a promotional video, has two humanoid arms and four wheeled legs – and twin six-barrelled gatling guns – which fire BB-sized pellets at the rate of 6,000 rounds per minute.
According to Suidobashi, the weapons are fired when the operator smiles – a system known as “the smile shot”.
Onlookers immediately likened the presence of the guns to the bipedal ED-209 from Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 movie Robocop.
The Enforcement Droid was being presented to a board meeting when it malfunctioned, fatally opening fire on a hapless young OCP executive called Mr Kinney.
There was no such mishap at the Wonder Festival, and the robot was even allowed out onto the streets of Tokyo, where it was seen being driven through the traffic powered by a diesel engine.
The device, which travels at just 7mph, can be set to move in a low or high position to enhance the pilot’s field of view.
It also features a Lohas launcher – which fires bottles of water – and Iron Crow hands and “feet”.
The robot is huge – measuring four metres in height and weighing four tonnes.
But it also comes with a suitably huge price tag, setting potential purchasers back $1m (637,000).
However, anyone wanting to buy one of the custom-built machines does have a choice of colours – including pink.
London 2012 Olympics: The Staging Ground for the Coming Police State?
July 27, 2012
By John W. Whitehead – The Rutherford Institute & Christian Science Monitor
“As London prepares to throw the world a $14 billion party, it seems fair to ask the question: What does it get out of the bargain?” asks the Christian Science Monitor in a recent story on the 2012 Summer Olympics. “Salt Lake got to show that its Mormon community was open to the world,” observes journalist Mark Sappenfield. “Turin got to show that it was not the Detroit of Europe. China got to give the world a glimpse of the superpower-to-be. And Vancouver got to show the world that Canadians are not, in fact, Americans.”
And what is London showing the world? Sappenfield suggests that London is showing off its new ultramodern and efficient infrastructure, but if the security for the 2012 Olympics is anything to go by, it would seem that London is really showing the world how easy it is to make the move to a police state without much opposition from the populace.
It’s what the Romans used to refer to as “bread and circuses”—the idea that the key to controlling the masses is by satiating their carnal appetites and entertaining them with mindless distraction. Thus, while the world loses itself in the pomp and circumstance of a thoroughly British Olympics, complete with Sir Paul McCartney rocking the opening ceremony, celebrity sightings galore and a fair share of athletic feats and inspirational victories to keep us glued to our TV sets, a more sinister drama will be unfolding.
Welcome to the 2012 Summer Olympics, the staging ground for the coming police state.
Under cover of the glitz and glamour of these time-honored Games, a chilling military operation is underway, masterminded by a merger of the corporate, military and security industrial complexes and staffed by more than 40,000 civilian police, British military and security personnel, as well as FBI, CIA, and TSA agents, and private security contractors. Appropriately enough, this year’s Olympic mascot, Wenlock—a strange, futuristic blob with an all-seeing eye to “record everything” in the games—is being sold in Olympic stores dressed in a policeman’s uniform. “As a metaphor for the London Olympics, it could hardly be more stark,” writes Stephen Graham for the Guardian. “For £10.25 you, too, can own the ultimate symbol of the Games: a member of by far the biggest and most expensive security operation in recent British history packaged as tourist commodity.”
In addition to the usual tourist sights such as Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and Big Ben, visitors to London may find themselves goggling at the military aircraft carrier floating in the Thames, the Typhoon fighter jets taking to the skies, ready to shoot down unauthorized aircraft, aerial drones hovering overhead to track residents and tourists, snipers perched in helicopters, an 18-km high, 11-mile long, 5,000-volt electric stun fence surrounding Olympic Park, and 55 dog teams patrolling the perimeter. Several locations throughout London will also feature surface-to-air missiles, including some residential areas in East London that will have them perched on top of apartment buildings. All these and more are supposedly part of the new security apparatus required to maintain security in an age of terror.
Roughly 13,000 private security guards provided by G4S, the world’s second largest private employer, will be patrolling the streets of London, under a $439 million contract with the British government. Due to some last minute trouble recruiting and training guards, 3,500 additional British military troops will be called in, making a total of 17,000 troops scheduled to police the Olympics.
More than 500 American federal agents, trained in the methods of security theater, will be on hand to assist Britain’s security forces. In fact, the CIA, State Department, and FBI have all been working closely with British authorities for well over a year in preparation for the Olympic games. TSA agents—infamous for stealing large sums of money from passengers’ luggage, patting down children and the elderly and handicapped, and, among other things, breaking diabetic passengers’ insulin pumps—will also be on loan to the British to assist with airport passenger screening during the Games, which will include fast-track fingerprinting for Olympic athletes.
There’s even a security patrol tasked with making sure that local businesses observe the government ban on symbols and words relating to the Olympics lest they cause economic harm to the “official” corporate sponsors, including Adidas, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, and BP. These purple-capped government officials are authorized to enter businesses to look for violations, and can impose fines up to 20,000 pounds ($31,000). Included on the banned list are such words as games, 2012, gold, silver, bronze, summer, sponsors, and London. As Slate reports, “So far a London café has been forced to remove five offending bagels from its windows, as has a butcher who had the temerity to do the same with sausage links. Spectators have been warned that to risk wearing a garment adorned with the Pepsi logo may result in being banished from game venues and that nobody but McDonald’s can sell French fries at any Olympic concession stand. An old lady got tagged for sewing the five rings onto a mini doll sweater.”
Unwilling to risk anything taking the shine off London’s Olympic games, government officials have also clamped down on protesters and journalists, two groups whose existence largely depends on their ability to exercise their free speech rights, as well as anyone voicing an opinion about the games publicly. The British police have even gone so far as to ban certain graffiti artists from “creating any graffiti (even sanctioned work) affiliated with the Olympics, traveling within a mile of any Olympic venue, associate with any individual also on bail or using any train, subway or other rail service for leisure purposes.”
And then there’s the surveillance. With one government-operated outdoor surveillance camera for every 14 citizens in the UK, Great Britain is already widely recognized as a surveillance society. However, in preparation for the Olympics, London has also been “wired up with a new range of scanners, biometric ID cards, number-plate and facial-recognition CCTV systems, disease tracking systems, new police control centres and checkpoints. These will intensify the sense of lockdown in a city which is already a byword across the world for remarkably intensive surveillance,” reports journalist Stephen Graham. Even neighborhoods beyond Olympic park have been embedded with biometric scanners and surveillance cameras with automatic facial and behavior recognition technologies.
Keep in mind, these surveillance tools will remain in place long after the Olympic torch moves on. As Graham points out:
Many such systems, deliberately installed to exploit unparalleled security budgets and relatively little scrutiny or protest, have been designed to linger long after the athletes and VIPs have left. Already, the Dorset police are proudly boasting that their new number-plate recognition cameras, built for sailing events, are allowing them to catch criminals more effectively.
In Athens, the $300m “super-panopticon” CCTV and information system built for the Games following intense US pressure remained after the event, along with the disused sports facilities. In fact, the system has been used by Greek police trying in vain to control the mass uprisings responding to the crash and savage austerity measures in the country.
Unfortunately for the people of London and beyond, the UK’s willingness to host the 2012 Summer Olympics has turned this exercise in solidarity, teamwork and nationalism into a $17 billion exercise in militarism, corporatism, surveillance and oppression. As
Graham concludes:
Looking at these various points together shows one thing: contemporary Olympics are society on steroids. They exaggerate wider trends. Far removed from their notional or founding ideals, these events dramatically embody changes in the wider world: fast-increasing inequality, growing corporate power, the rise of the homeland security complex, and the shift toward much more authoritarian styles of governance utterly obsessed by the global gaze and prestige of media spectacles.
Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 459 Audit the Fed passed the House 327 TO 98
By LadyDragon
MONTREAL–(LadyDragon.com)25/07/12–The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the bill H.R. 459 from the Republican Ron Paul from Texas 327-98.
The bill was suppose to vote on yesterday but was delayed until this afternoon.
At 2:51:20 P.M. -Considered as unfinished business. H.R. 459 — “To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States before the end of 2012, and for other purposes.”
2:59:03 P.M.- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 327 – 98 (Roll no. 513).
2:59:04 P.M.- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Click here to view the detail of the vote
This is great news for everyone except for people involve with the Fed.
“This bill would … jeopardize the Fed’s independence by subjecting its decisions on interest rates and monetary policy to GAO audit,” said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland. “I agree with Chairman Bernanke that congressional review of the Fed’s monetary policy decisions would be a ‘nightmare scenario,’ especially judging by the track record of this Congress when it comes to governing effectively.”
“It’s a mistake to eliminate the exemption for monetary policy and deliberations which would effectively, at least to some extent, create a political influence or a political dampening effect on the Federal Reserve’s policy decisions,” Bernanke told a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week.
“[Wall Street] will see it as political interference, not with the contracting procedures, not with the budget, not with how many cars they have, but with how they decide on interest rates. And the perception that the Congress is going to politicize the way in which interest rates are set will in itself have a destabilizing effect,” Frank said.
Noghtmare Scenario for them, certainly not for any of us.
“The Fed should not be permitted to operate in the dark without oversight by Congress and accountability to the people. The American people deserve no less than a full and complete audit,” said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat, in a statement on Tuesday.
“Ron Paul’s ‘Audit The Fed’ bill is a reminder of his tireless efforts to promote sound money and a more transparent Federal Reserve,” Romney posted on Twitter.
Paul’s book, was
In September 2009, Ron Paul published a book called End the Fed, and he continued his crusade against the federal bank into his second run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. (Paul first ran for president as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1988.)
This is a great win for Ron Paul the bill faces major obstacles in the sanate because Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and Nevada Democrat, has vowed not to put it to a vote.
LIVE: Audit The Fed: HR 459 – 271 Co-sponsors – Debate July 24, Vote July 25, 2012!
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Title: To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States before the end of 2012, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/26/2011)
Cosponsors: (271))
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2011 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
Congressional Switchboard Number: (202) 224-3121
Co-Sponsors (271)
Rep Coffman, Mike [CO-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Thompson, Glenn [PA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep McClintock, Tom [CA-4] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Chaffetz, Jason [UT-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Fortenberry, Jeff [NE-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] – 1/26/2011
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Posey, Bill [FL-15] – 1/26/2011
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Reed, Tom [NY-29] – 1/26/2011
Rep Broun, Paul C. [GA-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Woodall, Rob [GA-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] – 1/26/2011
Rep Lance, Leonard [NJ-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [WA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Smith, Adrian [NE-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Lamborn, Doug [CO-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] – 1/26/2011
Rep Rehberg, Denny [MT] – 1/26/2011
Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins [NC-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep McKeon, Howard P. “Buck” [CA-25] – 1/26/2011
Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] – 1/26/2011
Rep Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Schock, Aaron [IL-18] – 1/26/2011
Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] – 1/26/2011
Rep Ross, Dennis [FL-12] – 1/26/2011
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] – 1/26/2011
Rep Flores, Bill [TX-17] – 1/26/2011
Rep Graves, Tom [GA-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep McKinley, David B. [WV-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. [NJ-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] – 1/26/2011
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] – 1/26/2011
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Huizenga, Bill [MI-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Young, Don [AK] – 1/26/2011
Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] – 1/26/2011
Rep Petri, Thomas E. [WI-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] – 2/8/2011
Rep Canseco, Francisco “Quico” [TX-23] – 2/8/2011
Rep Rigell, E. Scott [VA-2] – 2/8/2011
Rep Nugent, Richard [FL-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Mulvaney, Mick [SC-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] – 2/8/2011
Rep Davis, Geoff [KY-4] – 2/8/2011
Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] – 2/8/2011
Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] – 2/8/2011
Rep Buchanan, Vern [FL-13] – 2/8/2011
Rep Amash, Justin [MI-3] – 2/8/2011
Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine [MO-9] – 2/8/2011
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-3] – 2/8/2011
Rep Schweikert, David [AZ-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Lankford, James [OK-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Fincher, Stephen Lee [TN-8] – 2/8/2011
Rep Walberg, Tim [MI-7] – 2/11/2011
Rep Adams, Sandy [FL-24] – 2/11/2011
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] – 2/11/2011
Rep Barletta, Lou [PA-11] – 2/15/2011
Rep Granger, Kay [TX-12] – 2/15/2011
Rep Mack, Connie [FL-14] – 2/15/2011
Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] – 2/15/2011
Rep Altmire, Jason [PA-4] – 2/16/2011
Rep Walsh, Joe [IL-8] – 2/17/2011
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] – 2/28/2011
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 2/28/2011
Rep Johnson, Timothy V. [IL-15] – 2/28/2011
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] – 3/1/2011
Rep Gibson, Christopher P. [NY-20] – 3/1/2011
Rep Latham, Tom [IA-4] – 3/2/2011
Rep Marino, Tom [PA-10] – 3/4/2011
Rep Terry, Lee [NE-2] – 3/4/2011
Rep Ribble, Reid J. [WI-8] – 3/10/2011
Rep Stutzman, Marlin A. [IN-3] – 3/10/2011
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] – 3/10/2011
Rep Schrader, Kurt [OR-5] – 3/10/2011
Rep Harris, Andy [MD-1] – 3/11/2011
Rep Crenshaw, Ander [FL-4] – 3/15/2011
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] – 3/15/2011
Rep Griffith, H. Morgan [VA-9] – 3/15/2011
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] – 3/17/2011
Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] – 3/17/2011
Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 3/17/2011
Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] – 3/17/2011
Rep Young, Todd C. [IN-9] – 3/29/2011
Rep Polis, Jared [CO-2] – 3/29/2011
Rep McIntyre, Mike [NC-7] – 3/29/2011
Rep Heck, Joseph J. [NV-3] – 3/29/2011
Rep Herrera Beutler, Jaime [WA-3] – 3/29/2011
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] – 3/29/2011
Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] – 3/29/2011
Rep Gowdy, Trey [SC-4] – 3/29/2011
Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY] – 3/29/2011
Rep Biggert, Judy [IL-13] – 3/29/2011
Rep Jenkins, Lynn [KS-2] – 3/30/2011
Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] – 3/30/2011
Rep Farenthold, Blake [TX-27] – 3/30/2011
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] – 3/31/2011
Rep Visclosky, Peter J. [IN-1] – 4/1/2011
Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] – 4/1/2011
Rep Tipton, Scott [CO-3] – 4/5/2011
Rep Schilling, Robert T. [IL-17] – 4/5/2011
Rep Kline, John [MN-2] – 4/5/2011
Rep Graves, Sam [MO-6] – 4/5/2011
Rep Griffin, Tim [AR-2] – 4/6/2011
Rep Bachmann, Michele [MN-6] – 4/6/2011
Rep Austria, Steve [OH-7] – 4/11/2011
Rep Shimkus, John [IL-19] – 4/12/2011
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] – 4/12/2011
Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [NJ-11] – 4/14/2011
Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] – 4/15/2011
Rep Duncan, Jeff [SC-3] – 4/15/2011
Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] – 4/15/2011
Rep Guinta, Frank C. [NH-1] – 4/15/2011
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] – 5/2/2011
Rep Gardner, Cory [CO-4] – 5/2/2011
Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6] – 5/3/2011
Rep Yarmuth, John A. [KY-3] – 5/3/2011
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 5/3/2011
Rep Runyan, Jon [NJ-3] – 5/3/2011
Rep Huelskamp, Tim [KS-1] – 5/3/2011
Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5] – 5/4/2011
Rep Labrador, Raul R. [ID-1] – 5/5/2011
Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3] – 5/10/2011
Rep Cole, Tom [OK-4] – 5/10/2011
Rep Rokita, Todd [IN-4] – 5/10/2011
Rep Benishek, Dan [MI-1] – 5/11/2011
Rep Kelly, Mike [PA-3] – 5/12/2011
Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] – 5/23/2011
Rep McCarthy, Kevin [CA-22] – 5/23/2011
Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [LA-7] – 5/23/2011
Rep Hurt, Robert [VA-5] – 5/23/2011
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] – 5/23/2011
Rep Turner, Michael R. [OH-3] – 5/23/2011
Rep Tiberi, Patrick J. [OH-12] – 5/25/2011
Rep Hultgren, Randy [IL-14] – 6/2/2011
Rep Kissell, Larry [NC-8] – 6/2/2011
Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] – 6/13/2011
Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] – 6/13/2011
Rep Welch, Peter [VT] – 6/22/2011
Rep Bonner, Jo [AL-1] – 6/22/2011
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] – 7/6/2011
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] – 7/6/2011
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] – 7/6/2011
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] – 7/21/2011
Rep Meehan, Patrick [PA-7] – 7/21/2011
Rep Pompeo, Mike [KS-4] – 7/25/2011
Rep Roskam, Peter J. [IL-6] – 7/29/2011
Rep Gosar, Paul A. [AZ-1] – 8/1/2011
Rep Yoder, Kevin [KS-3] – 8/5/2011
Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] – 8/5/2011
Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] – 9/7/2011
Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] – 9/7/2011
Rep Roe, David P. [TN-1] – 9/7/2011
Rep Duffy, Sean P. [WI-7] – 9/7/2011
Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] – 9/7/2011
Rep Scott, Austin [GA-8] – 9/7/2011
Rep Womack, Steve [AR-3] – 9/7/2011
Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] – 9/12/2011
Rep Guthrie, Brett [KY-2] – 9/12/2011
Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] – 9/12/2011
Rep Scott, Tim [SC-1] – 9/13/2011
Rep Hartzler, Vicky [MO-4] – 9/19/2011
Rep Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [PA-8] – 9/19/2011
Rep Noem, Kristi L. [SD] – 10/13/2011
Rep Barrow, John [GA-12] – 10/13/2011
Rep Scalise, Steve [LA-1] – 10/13/2011
Rep Loebsack, David [IA-2] – 10/24/2011
Rep West, Allen B. [FL-22] – 10/24/2011
Rep Grimm, Michael G. [NY-13] – 10/24/2011
Rep Lucas, Frank D. [OK-3] – 10/31/2011
Rep Green, Gene [TX-29] – 11/2/2011
Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] – 11/2/2011
Rep Cravaack, Chip [MN-8] – 11/29/2011
Rep Landry, Jeffrey M. [LA-3] – 11/29/2011
Rep Speier, Jackie [CA-12] – 11/30/2011
Rep Paulsen, Erik [MN-3] – 12/6/2011
Rep Amodei, Mark E. [NV-2] – 12/12/2011
Rep Bono Mack, Mary [CA-45] – 1/18/2012
Rep Berg, Rick [ND] – 1/18/2012
Rep Lewis, Jerry [CA-41] – 1/18/2012
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] – 2/3/2012
Rep Quayle, Benjamin [AZ-3] – 2/3/2012
Rep Schmidt, Jean [OH-2] – 2/7/2012
Rep Brooks, Mo [AL-5] – 2/7/2012
Rep Black, Diane [TN-6] – 2/7/2012
Rep Bishop, Rob [UT-1] – 2/14/2012
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] – 2/14/2012
Rep Crawford, Eric A. “Rick” [AR-1] – 2/15/2012
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [GA-2] – 2/15/2012
Rep Cassidy, Bill [LA-6] – 2/15/2012
Rep Pearce, Stevan [NM-2] – 2/15/2012
Rep Lipinski, Daniel [IL-3] – 2/27/2012
Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] – 2/27/2012
Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] – 3/8/2012
Rep Nunnelee, Alan [MS-1] – 3/8/2012
Rep Mica, John L. [FL-7] – 3/19/2012
Rep Gibbs, Bob [OH-18] – 3/19/2012
Rep Stivers, Steve [OH-15] – 3/26/2012
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 4/16/2012
Rep Bass, Charles F. [NH-2] – 3/28/2012
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 4/16/2012
Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] – 4/19/2012
Rep Kinzinger, Adam [IL-11] – 4/19/2012
Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] – 4/19/2012
Rep Hall, Ralph M. [TX-4] – 4/19/2012
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] – 4/26/2012
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] – 5/10/2012
Rep Webster, Daniel [FL-8] – 5/10/2012
Rep Johnson, Bill [OH-6] – 5/18/2012
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] – 5/30/2012
Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] – 5/30/2012
Rep Tonko, Paul [NY-21] – 5/30/2012
Rep Fleischmann, Charles J. “Chuck” [TN-3] – 6/5/2012
Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] – 6/5/2012
Rep Harper, Gregg [MS-3] – 6/5/2012
Rep Capito, Shelley Moore [WV-2] – 6/5/2012
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] – 6/5/2012
Rep Boswell, Leonard L. [IA-3] – 6/6/2012
Rep Dent, Charles W. [PA-15] – 6/6/2012
Rep Chandler, Ben [KY-6] – 6/6/2012
Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario [FL-21] – 6/7/2012
Rep Fleming, John [LA-4] – 6/7/2012
Rep Jordan, Jim [OH-4] – 6/7/2012
Rep DesJarlais, Scott [TN-4] – 6/12/2012
Rep Long, Billy [MO-7] – 6/12/2012
Rep Ellmers, Renee L. [NC-2] – 6/18/2012
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] – 6/18/2012
Rep Hunter, Duncan D. [CA-52] – 6/20/2012
Rep McHenry, Patrick T. [NC-10] – 6/20/2012
Rep Denham, Jeff [CA-19] – 6/21/2012
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] – 6/21/2012
Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1] – 6/21/2012
Rep Hanna, Richard L. [NY-24] – 6/21/2012
Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [FL-18] – 6/21/2012
Rep Hensarling, Jeb [TX-5] – 6/21/2012
Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] – 6/26/2012
Rep Aderholt, Robert B. [AL-4] – 6/26/2012
Rep Renacci, James B. [OH-16] – 6/26/2012
Rep Reyes, Silvestre [TX-16] – 6/26/2012
Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] – 6/27/2012
Rep Buerkle, Ann Marie [NY-25] – 6/27/2012
Rep Braley, Bruce L. [IA-1] – 6/27/2012
Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] – 6/27/2012
Rep Olson, Pete [TX-22] – 6/27/2012
Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] – 6/27/2012
Rep Clarke, Hansen [MI-13] – 7/9/2012
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] – 7/9/2012
Rep Bucshon, Larry [IN-8] – 7/9/2012
Rep Hastings, Doc [WA-4] – 7/9/2012
Rep Pingree, Chellie [ME-1] – 7/9/2012
Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] – 7/10/2012
Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] – 7/10/2012
Rep Hayworth, Nan A. S. [NY-19] – 7/11/2012
Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] – 7/13/2012
Rep Palazzo, Steven M. [MS-4] – 7/17/2012
Rep Owens, William L. [NY-23] – 7/18/2012
LIVE: Audit The Fed: HR 459 – 271 Co-sponsors – Debate July 24, Vote July 25, 2012!
Submitted by sunny on Sun, 07/22/2012 – 22:11
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Updated on July 23, 2012
Title: To require a full audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks by the Comptroller General of the United States before the end of 2012, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/26/2011)
Cosponsors: (271))
Latest Major Action: 2/8/2011 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
Congressional Switchboard Number: (202) 224-3121
Co-Sponsors (271)
Rep Coffman, Mike [CO-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Thompson, Glenn [PA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep McClintock, Tom [CA-4] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Chaffetz, Jason [UT-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Fortenberry, Jeff [NE-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] – 1/26/2011
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Posey, Bill [FL-15] – 1/26/2011
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Reed, Tom [NY-29] – 1/26/2011
Rep Broun, Paul C. [GA-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Woodall, Rob [GA-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] – 1/26/2011
Rep Lance, Leonard [NJ-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [WA-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Smith, Adrian [NE-3] – 1/26/2011
Rep Lamborn, Doug [CO-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] – 1/26/2011
Rep Rehberg, Denny [MT] – 1/26/2011
Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins [NC-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep McKeon, Howard P. “Buck” [CA-25] – 1/26/2011
Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] – 1/26/2011
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] – 1/26/2011
Rep Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Schock, Aaron [IL-18] – 1/26/2011
Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] – 1/26/2011
Rep Ross, Dennis [FL-12] – 1/26/2011
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] – 1/26/2011
Rep Flores, Bill [TX-17] – 1/26/2011
Rep Graves, Tom [GA-9] – 1/26/2011
Rep McKinley, David B. [WV-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. [NJ-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] – 1/26/2011
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] – 1/26/2011
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] – 1/26/2011
Rep Huizenga, Bill [MI-2] – 1/26/2011
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] – 1/26/2011
Rep Young, Don [AK] – 1/26/2011
Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] – 1/26/2011
Rep Petri, Thomas E. [WI-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] – 1/26/2011
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] – 2/8/2011
Rep Canseco, Francisco “Quico” [TX-23] – 2/8/2011
Rep Rigell, E. Scott [VA-2] – 2/8/2011
Rep Nugent, Richard [FL-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Mulvaney, Mick [SC-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] – 2/8/2011
Rep Davis, Geoff [KY-4] – 2/8/2011
Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] – 2/8/2011
Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] – 2/8/2011
Rep Buchanan, Vern [FL-13] – 2/8/2011
Rep Amash, Justin [MI-3] – 2/8/2011
Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine [MO-9] – 2/8/2011
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-3] – 2/8/2011
Rep Schweikert, David [AZ-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Lankford, James [OK-5] – 2/8/2011
Rep Fincher, Stephen Lee [TN-8] – 2/8/2011
Rep Walberg, Tim [MI-7] – 2/11/2011
Rep Adams, Sandy [FL-24] – 2/11/2011
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] – 2/11/2011
Rep Barletta, Lou [PA-11] – 2/15/2011
Rep Granger, Kay [TX-12] – 2/15/2011
Rep Mack, Connie [FL-14] – 2/15/2011
Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] – 2/15/2011
Rep Altmire, Jason [PA-4] – 2/16/2011
Rep Walsh, Joe [IL-8] – 2/17/2011
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] – 2/28/2011
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 2/28/2011
Rep Johnson, Timothy V. [IL-15] – 2/28/2011
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] – 3/1/2011
Rep Gibson, Christopher P. [NY-20] – 3/1/2011
Rep Latham, Tom [IA-4] – 3/2/2011
Rep Marino, Tom [PA-10] – 3/4/2011
Rep Terry, Lee [NE-2] – 3/4/2011
Rep Ribble, Reid J. [WI-8] – 3/10/2011
Rep Stutzman, Marlin A. [IN-3] – 3/10/2011
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] – 3/10/2011
Rep Schrader, Kurt [OR-5] – 3/10/2011
Rep Harris, Andy [MD-1] – 3/11/2011
Rep Crenshaw, Ander [FL-4] – 3/15/2011
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] – 3/15/2011
Rep Griffith, H. Morgan [VA-9] – 3/15/2011
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] – 3/17/2011
Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] – 3/17/2011
Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 3/17/2011
Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] – 3/17/2011
Rep Young, Todd C. [IN-9] – 3/29/2011
Rep Polis, Jared [CO-2] – 3/29/2011
Rep McIntyre, Mike [NC-7] – 3/29/2011
Rep Heck, Joseph J. [NV-3] – 3/29/2011
Rep Herrera Beutler, Jaime [WA-3] – 3/29/2011
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] – 3/29/2011
Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] – 3/29/2011
Rep Gowdy, Trey [SC-4] – 3/29/2011
Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY] – 3/29/2011
Rep Biggert, Judy [IL-13] – 3/29/2011
Rep Jenkins, Lynn [KS-2] – 3/30/2011
Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] – 3/30/2011
Rep Farenthold, Blake [TX-27] – 3/30/2011
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] – 3/31/2011
Rep Visclosky, Peter J. [IN-1] – 4/1/2011
Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] – 4/1/2011
Rep Tipton, Scott [CO-3] – 4/5/2011
Rep Schilling, Robert T. [IL-17] – 4/5/2011
Rep Kline, John [MN-2] – 4/5/2011
Rep Graves, Sam [MO-6] – 4/5/2011
Rep Griffin, Tim [AR-2] – 4/6/2011
Rep Bachmann, Michele [MN-6] – 4/6/2011
Rep Austria, Steve [OH-7] – 4/11/2011
Rep Shimkus, John [IL-19] – 4/12/2011
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] – 4/12/2011
Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [NJ-11] – 4/14/2011
Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] – 4/15/2011
Rep Duncan, Jeff [SC-3] – 4/15/2011
Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] – 4/15/2011
Rep Guinta, Frank C. [NH-1] – 4/15/2011
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] – 5/2/2011
Rep Gardner, Cory [CO-4] – 5/2/2011
Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6] – 5/3/2011
Rep Yarmuth, John A. [KY-3] – 5/3/2011
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 5/3/2011
Rep Runyan, Jon [NJ-3] – 5/3/2011
Rep Huelskamp, Tim [KS-1] – 5/3/2011
Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5] – 5/4/2011
Rep Labrador, Raul R. [ID-1] – 5/5/2011
Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3] – 5/10/2011
Rep Cole, Tom [OK-4] – 5/10/2011
Rep Rokita, Todd [IN-4] – 5/10/2011
Rep Benishek, Dan [MI-1] – 5/11/2011
Rep Kelly, Mike [PA-3] – 5/12/2011
Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] – 5/23/2011
Rep McCarthy, Kevin [CA-22] – 5/23/2011
Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [LA-7] – 5/23/2011
Rep Hurt, Robert [VA-5] – 5/23/2011
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] – 5/23/2011
Rep Turner, Michael R. [OH-3] – 5/23/2011
Rep Tiberi, Patrick J. [OH-12] – 5/25/2011
Rep Hultgren, Randy [IL-14] – 6/2/2011
Rep Kissell, Larry [NC-8] – 6/2/2011
Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] – 6/13/2011
Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] – 6/13/2011
Rep Welch, Peter [VT] – 6/22/2011
Rep Bonner, Jo [AL-1] – 6/22/2011
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] – 7/6/2011
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] – 7/6/2011
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] – 7/6/2011
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] – 7/21/2011
Rep Meehan, Patrick [PA-7] – 7/21/2011
Rep Pompeo, Mike [KS-4] – 7/25/2011
Rep Roskam, Peter J. [IL-6] – 7/29/2011
Rep Gosar, Paul A. [AZ-1] – 8/1/2011
Rep Yoder, Kevin [KS-3] – 8/5/2011
Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] – 8/5/2011
Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] – 9/7/2011
Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] – 9/7/2011
Rep Roe, David P. [TN-1] – 9/7/2011
Rep Duffy, Sean P. [WI-7] – 9/7/2011
Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] – 9/7/2011
Rep Scott, Austin [GA-8] – 9/7/2011
Rep Womack, Steve [AR-3] – 9/7/2011
Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] – 9/12/2011
Rep Guthrie, Brett [KY-2] – 9/12/2011
Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] – 9/12/2011
Rep Scott, Tim [SC-1] – 9/13/2011
Rep Hartzler, Vicky [MO-4] – 9/19/2011
Rep Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [PA-8] – 9/19/2011
Rep Noem, Kristi L. [SD] – 10/13/2011
Rep Barrow, John [GA-12] – 10/13/2011
Rep Scalise, Steve [LA-1] – 10/13/2011
Rep Loebsack, David [IA-2] – 10/24/2011
Rep West, Allen B. [FL-22] – 10/24/2011
Rep Grimm, Michael G. [NY-13] – 10/24/2011
Rep Lucas, Frank D. [OK-3] – 10/31/2011
Rep Green, Gene [TX-29] – 11/2/2011
Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] – 11/2/2011
Rep Cravaack, Chip [MN-8] – 11/29/2011
Rep Landry, Jeffrey M. [LA-3] – 11/29/2011
Rep Speier, Jackie [CA-12] – 11/30/2011
Rep Paulsen, Erik [MN-3] – 12/6/2011
Rep Amodei, Mark E. [NV-2] – 12/12/2011
Rep Bono Mack, Mary [CA-45] – 1/18/2012
Rep Berg, Rick [ND] – 1/18/2012
Rep Lewis, Jerry [CA-41] – 1/18/2012
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] – 2/3/2012
Rep Quayle, Benjamin [AZ-3] – 2/3/2012
Rep Schmidt, Jean [OH-2] – 2/7/2012
Rep Brooks, Mo [AL-5] – 2/7/2012
Rep Black, Diane [TN-6] – 2/7/2012
Rep Bishop, Rob [UT-1] – 2/14/2012
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] – 2/14/2012
Rep Crawford, Eric A. “Rick” [AR-1] – 2/15/2012
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [GA-2] – 2/15/2012
Rep Cassidy, Bill [LA-6] – 2/15/2012
Rep Pearce, Stevan [NM-2] – 2/15/2012
Rep Lipinski, Daniel [IL-3] – 2/27/2012
Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] – 2/27/2012
Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] – 3/8/2012
Rep Nunnelee, Alan [MS-1] – 3/8/2012
Rep Mica, John L. [FL-7] – 3/19/2012
Rep Gibbs, Bob [OH-18] – 3/19/2012
Rep Stivers, Steve [OH-15] – 3/26/2012
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 4/16/2012
Rep Bass, Charles F. [NH-2] – 3/28/2012
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 4/16/2012
Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] – 4/19/2012
Rep Kinzinger, Adam [IL-11] – 4/19/2012
Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] – 4/19/2012
Rep Hall, Ralph M. [TX-4] – 4/19/2012
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] – 4/26/2012
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] – 5/10/2012
Rep Webster, Daniel [FL-8] – 5/10/2012
Rep Johnson, Bill [OH-6] – 5/18/2012
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] – 5/30/2012
Rep Rogers, Harold [KY-5] – 5/30/2012
Rep Tonko, Paul [NY-21] – 5/30/2012
Rep Fleischmann, Charles J. “Chuck” [TN-3] – 6/5/2012
Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] – 6/5/2012
Rep Harper, Gregg [MS-3] – 6/5/2012
Rep Capito, Shelley Moore [WV-2] – 6/5/2012
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] – 6/5/2012
Rep Boswell, Leonard L. [IA-3] – 6/6/2012
Rep Dent, Charles W. [PA-15] – 6/6/2012
Rep Chandler, Ben [KY-6] – 6/6/2012
Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario [FL-21] – 6/7/2012
Rep Fleming, John [LA-4] – 6/7/2012
Rep Jordan, Jim [OH-4] – 6/7/2012
Rep DesJarlais, Scott [TN-4] – 6/12/2012
Rep Long, Billy [MO-7] – 6/12/2012
Rep Ellmers, Renee L. [NC-2] – 6/18/2012
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] – 6/18/2012
Rep Hunter, Duncan D. [CA-52] – 6/20/2012
Rep McHenry, Patrick T. [NC-10] – 6/20/2012
Rep Denham, Jeff [CA-19] – 6/21/2012
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] – 6/21/2012
Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1] – 6/21/2012
Rep Hanna, Richard L. [NY-24] – 6/21/2012
Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [FL-18] – 6/21/2012
Rep Hensarling, Jeb [TX-5] – 6/21/2012
Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] – 6/26/2012
Rep Aderholt, Robert B. [AL-4] – 6/26/2012
Rep Renacci, James B. [OH-16] – 6/26/2012
Rep Reyes, Silvestre [TX-16] – 6/26/2012
Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] – 6/27/2012
Rep Buerkle, Ann Marie [NY-25] – 6/27/2012
Rep Braley, Bruce L. [IA-1] – 6/27/2012
Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] – 6/27/2012
Rep Olson, Pete [TX-22] – 6/27/2012
Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] – 6/27/2012
Rep Clarke, Hansen [MI-13] – 7/9/2012
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] – 7/9/2012
Rep Bucshon, Larry [IN-8] – 7/9/2012
Rep Hastings, Doc [WA-4] – 7/9/2012
Rep Pingree, Chellie [ME-1] – 7/9/2012
Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] – 7/10/2012
Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] – 7/10/2012
Rep Hayworth, Nan A. S. [NY-19] – 7/11/2012
Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] – 7/13/2012
Rep Palazzo, Steven M. [MS-4] – 7/17/2012
Rep Owens, William L. [NY-23] – 7/18/2012
Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?:
Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese nationals who were exposed to Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced defoliants are still experiencing devastating health effects, and birth defects have brought the impact into a second generation. Yet the U.S. government has yet to make full amends, either in the U.S. or overseas.
To report this series, the Tribune interviewed nearly two dozen civilians and former soldiers in Vietnam as well as researching thousands of pages of documents and traveling to the homes of veterans in the U.S. Travel in Vietnam was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.”
DAVID KEISER HAS RESPONDED DIRECTLY TO ME VIA THIS BLOG POSTING ABOVE AS FOLLOWS:
David Kaiser commented on What IF He is RIGHT ???
Please remove this lying, fraudulent post at once. I never wrote it and do not agree with it. THAT FACT HAS BEEN AVAILABLE WIDELY FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS–see snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proportions.asp . Do a little research before posting things, please.
David Kaiser
THUS, THE SNOPES LINKS CREDITS THIS BLOG COMMENT BY “TPS” VIA PAT DOLLARD’S BLOG VIA PAMELA GELLER’S ATLAS SHRUGS BLOG DTED 13 NOVEMBER 2008.
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Dr. David Kaiser
History Repeats
What if he’s right?
If he is its almost to late!
I hope you find the time to read this with an open mind. It’s interesting. Please read it with the open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. It’s like the line below says, “what if he is right?”
Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong, but what if he’s right?
David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal .. He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser’s latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.
Dr. David Kaiser
History Unfolding :
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus..
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy… Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) – the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten…And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)
Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning..
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the “savior” was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative “losers” read it right now.
And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did – regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand – the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,
How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media – did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and …. . … change. And the people surely got what they voted for.
If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It’s all there in the history books.
So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.
Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..
I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.
David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States
By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed.
2013 Patriot 