CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS AND IDENTITY THEFT ...

One Citizen Speaking:  October 03, 2011

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS AND IDENTITY THEFT ...

The democrats warn about “identity theft” …

It appears that California democrats and their union allies attempted to stifle the participation of Californians in the initiative process by floating the idea that signing ballot initiatives at supermarkets and other venues might lead to identity theft.

Dan Walters, writing in the Sacramento Bee …

The Democrats' drive to disable the initiative system is indicated, too, by a strange radio ad that popped up recently, warning listeners that if they signed ballot measure petitions they'd run the risk of identity theft. The sponsor is a semi- secretive group called Californians Against Identity Theft that is apparently financed by construction unions worried about ballot measures that would ban project labor agreements. <Source>

Basically, the democrats and their union buddies claim that the information you hand over to that “unregistered” signature gatherer – your name, address and signature – can be used to perpetrate identity theft.

And then do the very same thing …

Dear Democratic Voter: Thank you for deciding to become a "Permanent Vote-By-Mail" voter. We appreciate that you took the time to speak with us on the phone recently. As you know, becoming a "Permanent Vote-By-Mail" voter gives you the flexibility to vote at home at your convenience, but still allows you the choice to just go to your local polling place to vote in any election. I've enclosed the official form from the County Registrar of Voters. Please fill it out completely, sign and date it, and drop it in a mailbox. Postage has been pre-paid, so no stamps are necessary. Research shows that voter participation increases as more voters like you sign up to have their ballots mailed to them while still maintaining the option to vote at the polls.  And as you know, we have critically important elections coming up next year, including the Presidential election. So much is at stake-including our economy and the availability of good jobs, and the quality of our schools. Please call us at 213-909-1879 if you have any questions. In the meantime, please visit our website www.cadem.org to learn about what the California Democratic Party is doing to elect effective leaders-and to learn how you can get involved. Sincerely, John Burton, Chairman California Democratic Party

Red Flag One: Will this alleged “official form” for “APPLICATION FOR PERMANENT VOTE BY MAIL STATUS”  be returned directly to the County Registrar of Voters?

Here is the “official” address …

Here is where it really is going …

As you plainly can see, your request is being sent directly to the democrat party headquarters in Los Angeles, where it can easily serve as the basis for a mailing list or – heaven forbid – the basis of “identify theft” and illegal vote tampering. Something not unknown to the democrat party.

Red Flag Two:  Information solicited by signature gatherers was fairly well-contained among only a few people; not so the very same information sent by postcard to the democrat party.

Here we see that the postcard is openly sent through the U.S. mail and exposed to a much larger group of random people.

Red Flag Three: Signature gatherers do not ask you for your date of birth or telephone number.

The petition must have room for the signature of each petition signer as well as his or herprinted name, residence address, and city or unincorporated community name. Signature spaces must be consecutively numbered commencing with the number 1 for each petition section. A minimum one-inch space shall be left at the top of each page and after each name for use by the county elections official. (Elections Code §§ 100, 9013.) <Source>

Red Flag Four: Most people will not fill-in an alternate address where the ballot may be sent.

Having an open field where some evil-doer can simply add an address to divert a ballot is an open invitation to chicanery.

Red Flag Five: It is against the law to use the information contained on an initiative petition for any other use.

I, __________, acknowledge that it is a misdemeanor under state law (Section 18650 of the Elections Code) to knowingly or willfully allow the signatures on an initiative petition to be used for any purpose other than qualification of the proposed measure for the ballot. I certify that I will not knowingly or willfully allow the signatures for this initiative to be used for any purpose other than qualification of the measure for the ballot. <Source>

There doesn’t appear to be any law preventing the democrat party from inserting themselves into an official voter  process  imaging this form or capturing your information.

Absentee (or permanent vote-by-mail) ballots are more prone to fraudulent manipulation that ballots cast at a polling place …

Voter Fraud Watch … California is the latest state warning of suspected absentee ballot fraud. In Bakersfield, Kern County election officials caution voters not to give their absentee ballots to a third party. Officials say they should be mailed in, returned to the Elections Department in person, or turned in at any polling place on Election Day. A Democratic voter says two young men, maybe teenagers, knocked on her door with what appeared to be a bagful of absentee ballots that hadn't been turned in yet and forcefully requested she turn hers over. <Source>

And we have all heard the stories about ballots mysteriously turning up at the post office or in other strange places – suspiciously providing the winning majority although the proportion of votes found does not match the proportion of votes cast by others in the same race.

Bottom line …

Once again, we have a demonstration of how the democrat party may be attempting to manipulate voters and elections.

Not only sowing fear among the population that their petition information can be stolen and misused – but turning around and putting these same voters at an even greater risk of identity theft. As this latest democrat scheme to capture your information is more prone to identity theft and misuse than a petition involving your legal right to use the initiative process to make your wishes known to the government. But since they are self-serving hypocrites, this doesn’t seem to bother them in the least.

I urge you to vote for constitutional conservatives who will right the ship of state and prevent America from sailing into the dangerous shoals of European-style democratic socialism.

The democrats are desperate as their politicians, policies and programs have failed or riddled with corruption, waste, fraud and abuse. They will do or say anything to gain or maintain political power.

Your vote is a precious thing and it is your duty to make sure that it isn’t compromised and stolen by any political party or politician.

-- steve

Reference Links …

Union Thuggery: Trying to subvert the power of the people

Who Is Scaring Californians Away From Signing Petitions For Ballot Initiatives?

California labor unions fight initiative signature drives - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee

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Shock Photos: BARACK OBAMA Marched With New Black Panthers at 2007 Selma Rally

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, October 3, 2011, 6:31 AM

 

 

Shock Photos!
New Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is seen speaking at the rally on the left. Then Obama speaks to the Selma crowd at the same rally.

Barack Obama marched with New Black Panthers at a rally in 2007.
Andrew Breitbart at Big Government reported:

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.

In addition, the new images raise questions about the possible motives of the Obama administration in its infamous decision to drop the prosecution of the Panthers for voter intimidation.

The images, presented below, also renew doubts about the transparency of the White House’s guest logs–in particular, whether Panther National Chief Malik Zulu Shabazz is the same “Malik Shabazz” listed among the Obama administration’s early visitors.

Tomorrow, J. Christian Adams, the Department of Justice whistleblower in the New Black Panther Party case, will release his new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery).

The book exposes Obama administration corruption far beyond the Panther dismissal, and reveals how the institutional Left has turned the power of the DOJ into an ideological weapon.

Adams’s book also describes, in detail, the Selma march at which then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy.

Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers’ “Minister of War,” Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47’s and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 – 8:29).

This was the same visit to Selma where Obama credited the 1965 marchers with empowering his black father and white mother to marry… Obama was born in 1961. He was off by 4 years. But, it made a good speech.
Here is his political speech inside the church.

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2012 is near: You may have seen some version of this, but it can’t be repeated too often.

You may have seen some version of this, but it can’t be repeated too often.

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'Catching Pigs' read and remember! 2012!

CATCHING PIGS

There was a chemistry professor in a large college

that had some exchange students in the class. One day

while the class was in the lab, the Prof noticed one

young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his

back and stretching as if his back hurt.


The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back.
He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor

and asked a strange question He asked:

"Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the

punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in

the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs

find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free

corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put

a fence down one side of the place where they are used
to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the

corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

They get used to that and start to eat again. You

continue until you have all four sides of the fence up

with a gate in the last side.

The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to

come through the gate to eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole

herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they

are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn . They are so used
to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the

woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly

what he sees happening in America .. The government

keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps

spreading the free corn out in the form of programs

such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned

income, , tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies,

dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP),

welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually

lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths:
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is
paying for it
2) and when you begin to think that having your government
provide for you and make your decisions is ok, realize that you’ve

also given up the freedom that goes with making your own choices.

If you see that all of this wonderful government

'help' is a problem confronting the future of

democracy in America, you might want to send this on

to your friends.

If you think the “free ride” is essential to your way of

life, then you will probably delete this email.

But God help you when the gate slams shut

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Majority of IEDs are traced to Pakistan

By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

Updated 12h 56m ago

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WASHINGTON – Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders.

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  The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

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The U.S. military is working to beef up security against IEDs.

From June through August, U.S. troops detected or were hit by 5,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the most for any three-month period since the war began in 2001.

Those bombs killed 63 troops and wounded 1,234,Defense Department records show.

• STORY: Pentagon expects IED hits to rise

• MORE: Afghan insurgents match surge with more IEDs

More than 80% of the IEDs are homemade explosives using calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer produced in Pakistan, said Navy Capt. Douglas Borrebach, deputy director for resources and requirements at the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization.

"The border is a sieve," Borrebach said. "You can do your checkpoints, but that's not going to help stem the supply."

The military is working with the State Department, other U.S. agencies and Pakistan's government to prevent fertilizer from reaching the insurgents' bomb factories.

Bomb casualties

U.S. troop casualties from improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan*:

* June through August; Source: U.S. Defense Department

The U.S. government increasingly has been blaming Pakistan for failing to corral insurgents. Two weeks ago, Adm. Michael Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Haqqani terror network linked to attacks in Afghanistan had ties to Pakistan's spy agency.

A Senate bill includes funds to train border guards and customs officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It also supports agricultural extension programs that encourage Pakistani farmers to use alternative fertilizers.

Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., met with top civilian and military leaders in Pakistan in August to urge them to stop the flow of bomb-making materials into Afghanistan. They promised to help, but did not reveal a sense of urgency, Casey told USA TODAY after the trip.

Choking off the source of fertilizer is critical, Borrebach said. "How do we work with Pakistan to be able to reduce the amount of calcium ammonium nitrate coming across the border?" he said. "That's the key to this."

Not necessarily, said Seth Jones, an expert on Afghanistan at the RAND Corp. who has advised the special operations forces there. "You could bang your head against a wall for eternity trying to keep ammonium nitrate from crossing the border," Jones said.

The Taliban and other insurgent groups operate out of a border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, over which the Pakistani government has little control.

Beefing up local security forces in Afghanistan, he said, shows more promise in defeating the IED problem. He pointed to areas of Kandahar province where homegrown security forces, assisted by the U.S. troops, had made life better for local citizens. They, in turn, rejected insurgents, sided with the security forces and pointed out bomb caches. The IED problems subsided, he said.

By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY