Barry In Charge: The "Blame America Tour '09" Continues

The intellectual Chavez thinks he's illuminating Barry by handing him a book on how America is an imperialist nation. Apparently, Hugo doesn't read that much, himself. If he did, he'd know that our new president has spent a lifetime learning how to blame America first.

I guess the chubby Chavez was too busy wrecking Venezuela's economy to have learned to read, though.

Have you heard the latest from the "oppressed" Latin American nations? They're complaining that their exports are down, and while we're all clinging to what dollars we have left, they are screaming "down with capitalism".

Brilliant, huh?

But what do you expect from a people who were too busy sacrificing and eating humans when those mean old Europeans arrived and tried to persuade them that evolving past such savagery was a good thing?

"The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" is the name of Hugo's prideful book that he handed to Barry today.

Open veins? How about opening your minds? When you're mired in class envy and thuggery you kind of overlook the more important problems in your society, like child slavery, guerrilla militias, and voodoo, just to name a few.

How about this, Hugo and Barry: we'll stop mentioning things like America's 200 years of keeping your South America safe via the Monroe Doctrine, if you you stop bringing up that our fruit companies came down and asked you all to work for a living like we do, ok?

You can read about Barry's pals Daniel Ortega, Hugo, and Raul here.

Cloward-Piven Strategy: The Lie He Tells To Take Away Our Guns (90% of Mexican guns came from the US)

Cloward-Piven Strategy

The lie he tells:




The truth:

EXCLUSIVE: You've heard this shocking "fact" before -- on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.

-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.

-- CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.

-- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: "It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors ... come from the United States."

-- William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that "there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States."

There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one:

It's just not true.

In fact, it's not even close. The fact is, only 17 percent of guns found at Mexican crime scenes have been traced to the U.S.

What's true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency's assistant director, "is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S."

But a large percentage of the guns recovered in Mexico do not get sent back to the U.S. for tracing, because it is obvious from their markings that they do not come from the U.S.

"Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number on it that would make it traceable, and the U.S. effort to trace weapons really only extends to weapons that have been in the U.S. market," Matt Allen, special agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told FOX News.

Video:Click here to watch more.

A Look at the Numbers

In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S.

But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.

In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:

-- The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.

-- Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.

- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.

-- Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.

-- The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.

-- Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America's cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.

'These Don't Come From El Paso'

Ed Head, a firearms instructor in Arizona who spent 24 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, recently displayed an array of weapons considered "assault rifles" that are similar to those recovered in Mexico, but are unavailable for sale in the U.S.

"These kinds of guns -- the auto versions of these guns -- they are not coming from El Paso," he said. "They are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don't get these guns from the U.S."

Some guns, he said, "are legitimately shipped to the government of Mexico, by Colt, for example, in the United States. They are approved by the U.S. government for use by the Mexican military service. The guns end up in Mexico that way -- the fully auto versions -- they are not smuggled in across the river."

Many of the fully automatic weapons that have been seized in Mexico cannot be found in the U.S., but they are not uncommon in the Third World.

The Mexican government said it has seized 2,239 grenades in the last two years -- but those grenades and the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are unavailable in U.S. gun shops. The ones used in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey in October and a TV station in January were made in South Korea. Almost 70 similar grenades were seized in February in the bottom of a truck entering Mexico from Guatemala.

"Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semi-automatic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California," according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Boatloads of Weapons

So why would the Mexican drug cartels, which last year grossed between $17 billion and $38 billion, bother buying single-shot rifles, and force thousands of unknown "straw" buyers in the U.S. through a government background check, when they can buy boatloads of fully automatic M-16s and assault rifles from China, Israel or South Africa?

Alberto Islas, a security consultant who advises the Mexican government, says the drug cartels are using the Guatemalan border to move black market weapons. Some are left over from the Central American wars the United States helped fight; others, like the grenades and launchers, are South Korean, Israeli and Spanish. Some were legally supplied to the Mexican government; others were sold by corrupt military officers or officials.

The exaggeration of United States "responsibility" for the lawlessness in Mexico extends even beyond the "90-percent" falsehood -- and some Second Amendment activists believe it's designed to promote more restrictive gun-control laws in the U.S.

In a remarkable claim, Auturo Sarukhan, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., said Mexico seizes 2,000 guns a day from the United States -- 730,000 a year. That's a far cry from the official statistic from the Mexican attorney general's office, which says Mexico seized 29,000 weapons in all of 2007 and 2008.

Chris Cox, spokesman for the National Rifle Association, blames the media and anti-gun politicians in the U.S. for misrepresenting where Mexican weapons come from.

"Reporter after politician after news anchor just disregards the truth on this," Cox said. "The numbers are intentionally used to weaken the Second Amendment."

"The predominant source of guns in Mexico is Central and South America. You also have Russian, Chinese and Israeli guns. It's estimated that over 100,000 soldiers deserted the army to work for the drug cartels, and that ignores all the police. How many of them took their weapons with them?"

But Tom Diaz, senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center, called the "90 percent" issue a red herring and said that it should not detract from the effort to stop gun trafficking into Mexico.

"Let's do what we can with what we know," he said. "We know that one hell of a lot of firearms come from the United States because our gun market is wide open." (source)

Napolitano Apologizes: Leftist Style

Typical of the Left, their courage lasts only as long as the Patchouli hasn't worn off.

After being forced to hold her nose and meet with the American Legion, DHS (Dept Homeland Security) Secy Janet Napolitano is backed into a corner, and then fakes sincerity with a mealy-mouthed "apology" that fools no one.

To the extent veterans read it as an accusation, an apology is owed. (source)

Given the withering light of day, and having to finally show bravery in a life that apparently isn't used to such things, this Leftist crybaby did what all too many of these bedwetters do: conjur up something that they had nothing close to actual experience in, but claim that said incident drove them to their phobic reaction (such as associating all veterans with Timothy McVeigh).

Hear this limosine liberal explain her rationale:

“I have to tell you, I was the United States Attorney for Arizona in the 90’s when Tim McVeigh bombed the Murrow building in Oklahoma City and unfortunately he was a vet — that’s where he got his training,” she said. “And so when I was told about the report, it rang true with me. This has happened in the past.” (source)

*sigh*

Why can't any liberal ever say what they mean, and mean what they say? It reveals their character when they repeatedly hide behind things that are obvious smokescreens. If Napolitano is SO stupid that she thinks the US Army teaches us infantry soldiers (which Timothy was, and so was I), to mix nitrogen fertilizer and gasoline in exact measurements in the back of a truck for remote detonation, she shouldn't be given the job, trust, or government clearance she has.

My guess is that of course she knows we're not trained for that kind of warfare, but that it sounds plausible for making the atrocious claim she did in her alarmist report only days earlier about "right-wing extremism". She is merely doing her administration's bidding of arousing civil unrest against what Barry considers to be his "enemies": Conservatives, veterans, and the GOP.

America needs to be afraid. Be very, very, afraid.

Barry In Charge: From One Socialist To Another, "I Think We Can Work Together" (The Chavez flirt)

Venezulan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez has found someone with whom he is a fellow traveler. Having clung to power long enough for America's democratic process to rid him of the odor of "Diablo", we see his flirtatious glee over meeting Barry.

How long will it be before Barry apologizes for everything we've done to South America, like over 200 years of protection for them through the Monroe Doctrine?

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: Our New Janet Reno

Remember how Bill Clinton hid behind the skirt of Janet Reno over the Waco tragedy, where Reno used her Justice Department to command the Armed Forces (not under the aegis of the Justice Department constitutionally) to kill 80 innocent men, women, and children?

We have seen the emergence of Barry's skirt from where he will hide after initiating militia rule.

Department Of Homeland Security Secy Napolitano released a dramatic report on Wednesday, coinciding with the nation-wide protests of gross spending policies by this administration, known as "Tea Parties", to paint Conservatives as extremists. What's even more startling is that she singled out Army veterans, of which I am a proud one, for special acknowledgement.

You can read the story here. You can read a pdf of the official report here.

When a protest by a Republican congressman was raised, Napolitano used the excuse of Timothy McVeigh to justify her treatment of veterans in the report. That she can't distinguish all veterans from one stray prior serviceman is very chilling.

Using her hysterical judgement, we should put under strict surveilance all Muslim veterans, as well, due to the mass murderer Sgt. Asam Akbar.

Texas Secession? When Does The Next Plane To Austin Leave?

Things are looking better and better for us patriots. We're starting to emerge from the background. This kind of Governor is exactly what we need more of.

But did he really call for secession? No. All he did was acknowledge our frustration with an out-of-control federal government that is strangling American economic well-being, and quickly growing like a cancer.

Simply put, this Governor gets it. Here's a story on just what Texas Governor Rick Perry said, which has panty-waist bedwetter Chris Matthews apoplectic.

Poor Chrissy. He's never felt the sting of real men in his life. Rough men. The types who sacrificed all for this country in battle. Matthews likes to tout that he was raised in a blue-collar neighborhood, thereby trying to convince us that he knows how the real Americans live.

Yeah right. This overgrown pansy was afforded a very expensive, elite education from his early years: La Salle high school graduate; Holy Cross College for his undergrad; UNC Chapel Hill for post grad.

Tuition figures for Chris Matthews' "blue collar" high school.
Tuition figures for Chris Matthews' "blue collar" first college.
Tuition figures for Chris Matthews' "blue collar" post grad college.

Watch the reaction that this ivy-league elitist has when discussing the furor that is driving real, rough men in Texas to consider taking matters into their own hands:

Mainstream Media: Apparent Experts On TeaBaggin', Anderson Cooper Et Al Carry Their Purses Proudly

No surprise here that Anderson knows a thing or two about having a mouthful of male genitalia:



Rachel, here, whom no one watches, seems perfectly unphased by the slang term, "teabagging", due to the fact that she is repulsed by male genitalia, anyway. Watch her smugness as she tries to belittle both the numbers and purpose of our protest across the nation. (after all, when her carpet-munching sisters and limp-wristed LGBT crowd gather to pelt the California churches over Prop 8 results, do the MSM children treat her people this way?):



Now watch as Rachel seems to be stumped for a typical smirk of superiority over the notion that someone called this nation-wide protest the "largest grass-roots demonstration" in American history. ("WOW!!...The largest???...The largest???") According to insiders, the last time she was this lost was when someone hid her toolbelt. Poor Rachel can't fathom that someone besides her bedwetting Leftists may garner attention for political activism.

She recovers quickly, though, at the prospect of flirting with her Air America bull dike guest, who is equally flustered at attempts to sound above it all and aghast that heterosexuals may take to the streets for once. Their smug commentary reveals why Air America is bankrupt and MSNBC has only 4 viewers:



Notice how the self-described veteran protester (from her college days, of course, which we all know is a time of great persecution and disenfranchisement) immediately paints the protest in DC as "flaccid", filled with "mildly racist" signs. Between her condescending snarks about how a real protest would have been held, she actually tried, as did the rest of the MSM, to under report the numbers that were there. By her math, there were only a "few hundred" at the DC protest. She mockingly laughed at the stage that the citizens provided for the rally, calling it an "umbrella on a picnic bench".

I guess this veteran college protester was thoroughly unimpressed with what us regular Americans look like up close. It was probably her first time rubbing shoulders with "the masses". Poor thing.

For the record, here's some shots of the "few hundred" from the DC tea Party yesterday:



Now watch this incredibly over-the-top example of the MSM trying to tickle each other's asses to make themselves laugh. After all, when the grown ups aren't watching, the kids will do practically anything for a laugh:

Beautiful Sunset At Historic Pineland, Florida

I have been trying to learn some videography skills, and this is part of that process. I added a terrific (abbreviated) speech from Ronald Reagan's campaign stump speech for Barry Goldwater in 1964. In it, you will hear the "rendezvous with destiny" line used for one of the, if not the, first times in Reagan's public history:

Cape Coral, Florida Tea Party

This rally was officially canceled days before it was to be held. The city council of Cape Coral became afraid of the type and amount of people that would show up when they discovered that the local Republican party headquarters sent out an e-mail blast to its members, asking them to show up.

This is the "canceled' event.

I apologize for the amateur video quality. I had no tripod, but wanted to tape our numbers there to show the amount of outrage and motivation, despite being told to "stay home". It gets better at 4:00 into it, with a couple of passionate speakers.

Ft Myers Tea Party

I wish the quality was better, but besides being windy that day, I had no tripod.