OBAMA’S “POSSE”...THE SOCIALIST AGENDA:
Get to know “your” government……
The following thumbnails describe a very small sampling of the locust
horde of Leftist bureaucrats President Barack Hussein Obama has
deliberately chosen to help him grasp the helm of America's ship of state,
strip it from the American people, and steer it hard to port.
The Obama Administration is plainly subverting democracy in America,
wildly careening our previous 230-year history of democracy so dangerously
Leftward that after a mere nine months we are in terrible danger of
sinking.
In these thumbnails, three dominant themes of the Obama Administration
emerge - fanatically uncompromising anti-capitalism, dangerous and blatant
anti-Semitism, and the societal inculcation of dogmatic Leftist, Socialist
"faith" through indoctrination of American school children beginning with
the earliest ages - a practice instituted by Lenin in Communist Russia and
now pounding its way into the American academic mainstream through the
prolific efforts and influence of self-proclaimed Communist, Obama
friend, and likely "autobiography" ghost writer, William Ayers, as well as
Obama appointees like Charles Freeman and Kevin Jennings.
Make no mistake. These people are about Socialism, and they are about
power. Their power.
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A sampling of President Barack Hussein Obama's morally bankrupt White
House "Brain Trust"
1. Valerie Jarrett
2. Patrick Gaspard
3. Eric Holder
4. Cecelia Muñoz
5. Samantha Power(s)
6. Charles Freeman
7. Scott Gration
8. Rahm Emmanuel
9. Ezekiel Emmanuel
10. Cass Sunstein
11. Van Jones
12. Carol Browner
13. John Holdren
14. Kevin Jennings
15. Chai Feldblum
16. William Ayers
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1. Valerie Jarrett -- Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the
President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. Ms.
Jarrett, a product of two decades in rough-and-tumble "Chicago way"
politics, and a 17-year friend of the Obama's, is described as "the other
side of Barack Obama's brain." Born in Iran, Jarrett, who speaks Persian,
moved to the United States as a child. A product of an elite, private,
New England boarding school, she is a graduate of the University of
Michigan Law School.
Jarrett served in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington
(who, prior to his election, failed to file income tax returns for 19
years and during it maintained dubious Socialist ties) as well as in the
scandal-ridden, current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Her step-father,
Vernon Jarrett was associated with Frank Marshall Davis, the youthful
Barack Obama's mentor from age 10 until college - a Chicago Communist
Party (USA) member who moved to Hawaii from Chicago. Frank Marshal Davis
is now immortalized in President Barack Hussein Obama's "autobiography" as
"Uncle Frank" -- conveniently with no mention of his last name nor who he
was.
According to the Washington Post, Ms. Jarrett was for many years both
Michelle and Barack Obama's "tutor." Virtually every mainstream media
outlet has not only done an over-the-top puff piece on Valerie Jarrett (as
they repeatedly have with Mr. Obama and his wife), but all agree that
neither the President not Mrs. Obama makes a move without first consulting
Ms. Jarrett. Ms. Jarrett was personally responsible for bringing
self-described Communist Van Jones into the White House as President
Obama's environmental "Green Czar." [1]
2. Patrick Gaspard -- White House Political Director (this is the
position Karl Rove held in the Bush Administration). Prior to coming on
board as President Obama's right-hand man, Mr. Gaspard was a registered
federal lobbyist for the SEIU - the union members (thugs?) called-in by
the Administration to run interference (sometimes violent) between
Democrat members of Congress who support ObamaCare and their own
constituents. Prior to that, Gaspard worked for ACORN - the community
organizing front which Barack Obama worked for as a trainer, represented
as a lawyer, helped as a politician, and funneled money to as a
presidential candidate.
The President Obama is as much a product of ACORN as it is of him. He
worked closely with the "community organizing" group for many years,
represented them in court, and was a member of the board of Chicago's
Woods Fund at the time it funneled $200,000 to an ACORN affiliate. Mr.
Obama praised the organization extravagantly both during and after his
election, and his campaign "donated" over $800,000 to an offshoot group
controlled by ACORN (Citizens Services, Inc.) - to "get out the vote."
Gaspard worked directly for now-ACORN chief Bertha Lewis as her political
director for the main ACORN office which is located in New York. ACORN
is mired in long-standing as well as new and growing allegations of
fraud, voter-registration fraud, corruption, and massive embezzlement of
funds - ACORN operative organizations have received tens of millions of
dollars in federal grants.
ACORN pledged $35,000,000 for voter registration drives in the 2008
election cycle.
In 2004, Patrick Gaspard served as National Field Director for America
Coming Together (ACT), a group which was later fined $775,000 in civil
penalties by the federal government. ACT hired felons - some convicted of
sex offenses, assault and burglary - to conduct door-to-door voter
registration drives in Missouri and at least two other swing states, and
also employed felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in
Missouri, Florida, Ohio. [2]
3. Eric Holder -- Attorney General of the United States. A handpicked
Obama/Jarrett selection, who earlier this year referred to the United
States as "a nation of cowards" on race relations, Mr. Holder is a
shiningly despicable example of everything wrong when politics and
personal ambition dictate the parameters of American justice.
Prior to grasping the brass ring of the department where he'd toiled
during the Clinton Administration, Mr. Holder was responsible for these
widely-reported miscarriages of justice: (1) He streamlined the
Clinton Administration's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich by
steering Rich's representatives to a former White House counsel, then
helped lobby the President to pardon Rich ("an unrepentant fugitive wanted
on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges").
Holder did so for personal gain, later admitting he hoped this would help
him become Attorney General in a Gore administration. Mr. Holder
concealed the pardon negotiations from other prosecuting and investigative
agencies to prevent their opposition. Mr. Rich's wife was a generous
donor to both President Clinton's library as well as his legal-defense
fund.
(2) "In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of
Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton's commutation
of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators. These pardons - of terrorists
who even Holder has conceded had not expressed any remorse - were issued
in the months after al-Qaeda's 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.... The
commutations were nakedly political, obviously designed by Clinton to
assist his wife's impending Senate campaign by appealing to New York's
substantial Puerto Rican vote."
(3) Holder was also instrumental in the "stealth pardons" of
two Weather Underground terrorists, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (both
closely associated with President Obama's terrorist friends, Bill Ayers
and Bernadine Dohrn). Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long
sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. Again
Holder helped circumvent the pardon process and evade objections from
prosecutors regarding the terrorists' jail terms.
Just this summer, now-Attorney General Holder dismissed prosecution of an
obvious case (it was filmed) of voter intimidation by members of the New
Black Panthers, while also instigating prosecutorial investigations into
CIA interrogation techniques of terrorist combatants. Attorney General
Holder is a strong advocate for the release of the Islamofascist enemy
combatants currently held at Guantanamo Bay. [3]
4. Cecelia Muñoz -- White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Prior to being summoned to the White House by President Obama, Ms. Muñoz
was Senior Vice President of The National Council of La Raza. La Raza
(literally, "The Race") is the largest Hispanic lobbying organization in
America, and is committed not merely to a socialist agenda, but,
essentially, the return of California, if not larger portions of the
American West, to Hispanics. It lobbies heavily for completely open
borders with Mexico, as well as amnesty for all illegal aliens. In order
to carry out this agenda, the U.S. federal government awarded over $15.2
million in grants to the organization in 2005 alone.
La Raza is intimately involved with the "the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of
Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which
has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to
carve a racist nation out of the American West." Aztlan's goal is the
formation of a Chicano state. The closing two sentences of Atzlan's motto
are: La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada": "For The Race everything.
Outside The Race, nothing." Which ought to be as chilling as the idea of
the U.S. government funding these people.
President Obama's recent appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia
Sotomayor, has also long been deeply involved with La Raza - a fact which
all Democrat Senators ignored during her confirmation hearing.
5. Samantha Power -- Senior Director, Multilateral Affairs, National
Security Council. Ms. Power, a professor of public policy at Harvard [who
is married to President Obama's Leftist fringe academic Cass Sunstein, the
Administrator of the White House Office of Administration and Regulatory
Affairs] was only seemingly thrown under the Obama campaign bus for
referring to Hillary Clinton as "a monster" during the 2008 Democrat
primary. In 2009 President Obama, tapped her to occupy her senior White
House foreign policy position.
Ms. Power, a "fierce critic of Israel,... was indisputably Barack Obama's
closest foreign policy adviser during the campaign. They go back years."
Ms. Power is a notorious acolyte of appeasement-challenged,
Neville-Chamberlain-clone Zbigniew Brzezinski (former President Jimmy
Carter's National Security Adviser) who recently stated that the U.S.
should shoot down any Israeli planes which, out of self-preservation,
might fly through Iraqi air space to destroy Iran's developing nuclear
facilities. Ms. Power agrees with the Charles-Freeman-published
Walt-Mearsheimer-essay school of thought that America is run and being
destroyed by a cabal of Jews. Power promotes the policies of disgraced
anti-Semitic, Israeliphobic, pro-PLO, pro-Syria, Obama adviser Robert
Malley who advocated not merely talking with Hamas, but funding the
terrorist organization because he feels their policies and governance
mirror that of Israel. The Obama Administration cut visible ties with
Malley shortly after the election.
Power, who stridently criticized the invasion and "occupation" of Iraq,
repeatedly calling for the removal of American forces from that nation,
curiously advocates that America send armed military forces, "a mammoth
protection force" and an "external intervention", to impose a settlement
between Israel and the Palestinians. While giving the PLO, Fatah, Hamas
and other obviously terrorist Arab state organizations a pass, Ms. Power
views Israel, the only democratic and non-totalitarian, nation in the
Middle East, as guilty of war crimes. She favors slashing, if not
eliminating, United States aid to Israel - which is surrounded by several
hundred million Muslims who daily pray for its total annihilation - and,
apparently, giving the money to the Palestinians instead.
Ms. Power, and virtually all of her truth-through-force ilk ignore the
fact that on the day Israel gained independence it was immediately
attacked by the surrounding Arab neighbors who erroneously believed they
could destroy the nascent country in a matter of hours. "Palestinians"
(there is no such country, nor has there been since Biblical times) who
now form the "Palestinian problem" were not forced to leave Israel but
instead chose to do so because Israel became a Jewish state. Hundreds of
thousands of non-Jewish Arabs remained and now form a large core group of
Israeli citizenry. The approximately 750,000 "Palestinians" who left, now
number approximately 4,000,000. They constitute a "problem" because of
all the Arab countries only Jordan has allowed them to become a part of
its society. The other Arab countries bordering Israel keep the
"Palestinians" in enormous desert internment camps. And they have done so
to their Arab brethren for 60 years. Ms. Power and her comrades
exquisitely fail to note that Jews were forced to leave Arab countries and
relocate to the newly-formed Israeli state.
Like her pro-Arab "realist" co-religionists Charles Freeman, Robert
Malley, Zbigniew Brzezinsk, billionaire George Soros (an influential Obama
supporter), and others of their stripe, Powers opposes the "Israel
lobby." She, as they, adamantly rejects the participation of American
supporters of Israel, including Christians, in foreign policy discussions
of the Middle East.
For all Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's public visibility, it may not
be much of a conjecture that her job has been outsourced to the alpha
female who once referred to Mrs. Clinton as a "monster." [5]
6. Charles Freeman -- Nominated, but not confirmed, as Chairman of the
(United States) National Intelligence Council - which is responsible for
producing national intelligence estimates for the president and his
advisors. Mr. Freeman has a distinguished résumé of long service in both
the State and Defense Departments, however, his "distinctive political
views and affiliations" include: troubling financial ties to King
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia who funds the Middle East Policy
Council (formerly the American Arab Affairs Council) which Mr. Freeman
heads; organizational support for professors John J. Mearsheimer and
Stephen M. Walt's lengthy, controversial, and essentially anti-Jewish
essay, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"; his stated viewpoint
that "the primary reason America confronts a terrorism problem today is
"the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation";
praise for the terrorist organization, Hamas, as the only
"democratically-elected" government in the Middle East; and, bizarrely,
unabashedly siding with the Chinese government over the massacre at
Tiananmen Square in 1989 - Mr. Freeman criticized the Chinese government
for being "overly cautious."
Once Leftist liberal, New York Senator Chuck Schumer spoke against
Freeman's nomination, the gentleman withdrew - but not without "blaming
his own disgrace on a Jewish conspiracy."
During his Congressional investigation, Mr. Freeman was charged with
"[p]romoting public schools textbooks which the independent Textbook
League describe ‘a vehicle for disseminating disinformation, including a
multitude of false, distorted or utterly absurd claims that are presented
as historical facts. ...[with] three principal purposes: inducing teachers
to embrace Islamic religious beliefs; inducing teachers to embrace
political views that are favored by the...Middle East Policy Council
(formerly the American Arab Affairs Council)...; and impelling teachers to
disseminate those religious beliefs and political views in schools." [6]
7. Scott Gration -- President Obama's Special Envoy to the Sudan. His
diplomatic policy is, quite literally the following:
"We've got to think about giving out cookies," said Gration who was
appointed in March, "Kids, countries -- they react to gold stars, smiley
faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement."
As even that bastion of liberal blather the Washington Post noted, "U.S.
diplomacy has remained mostly in the hands of Obama's special envoy to
Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, who is pushing toward
normalized relations with the only country in the world led by a president
indicted on war-crimes charges."
While President Obama's handpicked "Special Envoy" was tempting genocidal
Muslim radicals with "cookies" and "gold stars," marauding bands of
guerrillas in the Sudan crucified seven Christians. [7]
8. Rahm ("dead fish") Emanuel -- White House Chief of Staff. Mr.
Emanuel is the notorious hardball political player from Chicago's North
Side which he represented in Congress prior to his current incarnation as
President Obama's political henchman and myrmidon. The ironically named
Mr. Emanuel ("God with us") is "relentlessly partisan," thereby quite
succinctly putting the lie to Mr. Obama's campaign claim to
"post-partisanship."
Nicknamed "Rhambo," President Obama's Chief of Staff - the highest ranking
office of the Executive Branch of the President of the United States - is
well-know for the following accomplishments:
(1) a casual conversation style addictively laced with the
most outrageous profanities and gutter language at any and all times;
(2) sending a 2½ foot-long dead and decomposing fish to
lobbyist Allen Secrest with whom he was angry;
(3) threatening then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair just
prior to a joint appearance with then-President Bill Clinton: "This is
important. Don't f--- it up.";
(4) at dinner the night after Bill Clinton was elected
President in 1992, "Rhambo" ranted about a long list of people who were
the subject of his ire. As he shouted each "enemy's" name, Mr. Emanuel
punctuated his rage by forcefully stabbing the dinner table and screaming,
"Dead!"
Outside of murdering a Congressional page, it is relatively difficult to
improve upon these glowing characteristics of mental stability and
leadership. [8]
Rahm Emanuel is Ezekiel Emanuel, "Dr. Death's," brother.
9. Ezekiel Emanuel -- President Obama's Special Advisor for Health
Policy to the Office of Management and Budget. Nicknamed in the press
“Dr. Death" after former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and former New York
Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey pointed out Dr. Emanuel's "healthcare"
role assisting the White House in the preparation and administration of
federal budget recommendations for guiding healthcare and healthcare
initiatives, Dr. Emanuel (again, application of the absurdly ironic name,
"God with us") is a "bioethicist." He is also hailed as President Obama's
"Rationer-in-Chief." Generally, Emanuel's idea of healthcare rationing is
to greatly restrict many treatments, medicines, and procedures to anyone
over 40 and more particularly to anyone over 65. Dr. Emanuel feels
similarly about the newly born until they have attained several years of
age at which time he begins to view them in Malthusian terms of potential
communitarian utility.
As Lt. Governor McCaughey noted, "In numerous writings, Dr. Emanuel
chastises physicians for thinking only about their own patient's needs."
This is the man who was personally tapped to guide ObamaCare health
initiatives - not only by President Obama and his Chief of Staff... but
also by "the other side of Barack's brain," Valerie Jarrett.
Mr. Emanuel is yet another in a tedious yet frighteningly long line of
unqueried, unquestioned, and unvetted Obama advisors and "czars" about
whom nothing can be known until pulled from beneath labyrinths of liberal camouflage by interested citizens, conservative Internet bloggers, and the
staffs of conservative talk shows. Mainstream media long ago forfeited
its credibility as well as its societal role as the fourth estate.
Dr. Emanuel is a member of the President's Federal Coordinating Council
for Comparative Effectiveness Research (curiously enough authorized under
the dazzling rushed-through and unread by a single Congressman, American
Recovery and Investment Act... "the Stimulus Bill") which, if allowed,
will make decisions about the validity, "relative strengths and weakness
of various medical interventions" as well as give clinicians...information
to make decisions that will improve the performance of the U.S. health
care system. Not improve medical care much less your medical care, but
the "system." It's called "rationing," and it will very likely result in
unnecessary and preventable early deaths. On a very large scale.
One final point. Due to the ambiguity of the relevant language in the
Stimulus Bill as well as in the various ObamaCare "reform" proposals,
there will not only be great latitude for interpretation of various laws'
meaning, but these interpretations will require being instituted,
oversight, and, of course, regulation. The necessity of regulation allows
President Obama's Administrator of the White House Office of
Administration and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein carte blanche to
regulate whatever he likes.
Mr. Emanuel is the brother of White House Chief of Staff, and former North
Side Chicago Congressman (5th District of Illinois) Rahm ("dead fish")
Emanuel. [9]
10. Cass Sunstein -- Administrator of the White House Office of
Administration and Regulatory Affairs. He is a Harvard Law School
professor and newly-minted husband of President Obama's Senior Director,
Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council, the Israel-phobic
Samantha Power (one of several husband-wife teams in the Obama White
House). Mr. Sunstein's belief structure could understandably be called
"Leftist kook" or "fringe" if not downright lunatic. Herewith:
In a 2007 speech at Harvard, Sunstein called for banning all hunting in
the United States. All. Everywhere.
He actually put in writing, in his 2004 book, Animals that, "Animals
should be permitted to bring [law] suit, with human beings as their
representatives...."
"[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in
entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture."
Mr. Sunstein, who openly argues for bringing socialism to the U.S. and
even lends support to communism, wrote, "The absence of a European-style
social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception
among the white majority that the relevant programs would
disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently
Hispanics)..."
"[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if
the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the
Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms."
Were Mr. Sunstein to succeed as President Obama's head regulator of all
things American, what might happen to those millions of hunting rifles and
shotguns he doesn't want gathering dust in your cabinet?
Mr. Sunstein is a reputed "1st Amendment scholar." Having attended law
school myself and actually practiced law for a quarter century rather than
retreat to the head-swelling-brain-shrinking environs of academia, I can
assure you that if he is, America is in very deep trouble. President
Obama has made clear his White House Masterregulator is intended to
regulate virtually every aspect of American's lives - including the
environment, healthcare, finance, and the economy - regardless of your
feelings about such matters much less your freedom and liberty. Sunstein
has argued in his prolific literary works (one bookstore tour de force was
a whopping 84 pages) that the Internet is anti-democratic because of the
way users can filter out information of their own choosing. He went on to
assert: [10]
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications,
is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government...
Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected
in freedom's name.
As WorldNetDaily noted:
"It's hard to imagine President Obama nominating a more dangerous
candidate for regulatory czar than Cass Sunstein....Not only is Sunstein
an animal-rights radical, but he also seems to have a serious problem with
our First Amendment rights. Sunstein has advocated everything from
regulating the content of personal e-mail communications, to forcing
nonprofit groups to publish information on their websites that is counter
to their beliefs and mission.... If it were up to Obama and Sunstein,
everything we read online - right down to our personal e-mail
communications - would have to be inspected and approved by the federal
government."
11. Van Jones -- President Obama's former White House Environmental
Adviser ("Green Jobs Czar"). Mr. Jones remains a self-defined Communist
community organizer from the San Francisco Bay area (Oakland,
California). He is also an Whites-hating racist with a criminal arrest
record, as well as a "9/11 Truther" true believer. The 9/11 Truther
organizations proselytize that former President George W. Bush and former
Vice President Richard Cheney either planned or knew about the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks conducted by 19 Islamofascist members of
Al-Qaeda who, aside from slamming a passenger jetliner into the Pentagon,
did the same in New York City totally destroying the Twin Towers and
killing almost 3,000 Americans.
When Mr. Jones, an ardent racist and Communist, was hired into the White
House by "the other half of Barack's brain," Ms. Valerie Jarrett, she
expressed overflowing praise in the press and in video-taped interviews
for Mr. Jones and his work, noting that "we have been watching him for a
long time. [11]
12. Carol M. Browner -- Director of the White House Office of Energy
and Climate Change Policy. Ms. Browner is a Socialist sycophant of Al
Gore's conclusion that the earth is going to evaporate tomorrow. A former
EPA director, Ms. Browner is married to Leftist lobbyist Thomas Downey and
remains an ardent Socialist activist. She is one of 14 leaders of
Socialist International's, "Commission for a Sustainable World Society,"
which calls for "global governance."
As Van Jones was an admitted Communist, Ms. Browner is an admitted and
very active Socialist. What more really need be said about her with
reference to President Obama who has been fully informed of her moral
relativity and anti-Americanism for years since she has hardly kept it
secret from either her associates, the public, nor the press. [12]
13. John Holdren -- Director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy. Other than Mr. Holdren's well known and oft repeated
morally relativistic denial of American exceptionalism, one and only one
thing need to be said here about President Obama's "Science" Czar - he is
Barack Obama's twin on the matter of abortion and has advocated compulsory
abortion. Here it is again: President Obama searched for, reached out,
and chose as his chief "science advisor" a plasma physicist who advocates
compulsory abortion.
As John Griffing wrote of Holdren in "Enough is Enough," for American
Thinker:
...for a true outrage, consider new Czar of Science, John P. Holdren, who,
in a stunning display of unabashed evil, has actively advocated
"compulsory abortion":
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be
regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws,
even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained
under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became
sufficiently severe to endanger the society.
If that doesn't send a chill down your spine, consider his words, "All the
children who are born, beyond what would be required to keep up the
population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room be
made for them by the death of grown persons." Let that sink in: an
American official supports forced abortion and the death of "grown
persons." We know what that looks like. It has been official policy for
years in Communist China.
President Obama quite literally has the single worst record of any elected
official on the question of abortion. While in the Illinois legislature
he single-handedly prevented that state's Born Alive Infant Protection Act
from leaving his committee much less being made into law. As a result,
for three more years until legislator Obama became U. S. Senator Obama,
Illinois hospitals and doctors were permitted to allow otherwise healthy
infants who survived an abortion to receive no medical attention
whatsoever until they died. They were simply, and quite literally,
"shelved." The evidence of Mr. Obama's actions and callous disregard for
the lives of infants is overwhelming. [13]
14. Kevin Jennings -- President Obama's Safe Schools Czar. Jennings is
a former schoolteacher who has very successfully advocated promoting
homosexuality in schools, written about his past drug abuse, unashamedly
and vituperatively expressed his utter contempt for religion, and detailed
an incident in which he did not report to authorities his knowledge that
an underage student told him he was having sex with older men - Jennings
instead counseled the boy to "use a condom. " In 1990, as a teacher in
Massachusetts, [Jennings] founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN), which now has over 40 chapters at schools nationwide. He
has also published six books on gay rights and education...."
In the past, Mr. Jennings has praised Harry Hay, the frequent and vocal
defender of NAMBLA - the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which
promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.
His organization, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, has
successfully prodded some schools into making October the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Month, as well as established November
28th as "Transgender Day of Remembrance."
None of this belongs in any school anywhere, any time, and the fact that
the Obama Administration chooses to support such people with such goals
and then put them in positions of great authority and power should make
even the most dyed-in-the-wool middle-class liberal Democrats cringe at
the depth of either their negligence, uncaring, or stupidity regarding the
real Barack Hussein Obama.
And I bet all the teachers in America didn't know this - according to Mr.
Jennings (at a New York University "Education Policy Breakfast):
"... you cannot be an effective teacher if you are not aware of how
[lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] biases can influence how you
interact with your students. Pure and simple."
To which Mr. Jennings added,
"It should be impossible to graduate from NYU or any other school of
education without coursework - required coursework - that address issues
of [LGBT] bias in the classroom and how it might influence your teaching.
[It] should be a graduation requirement."
In 1999, Mr. Jennings wrote the foreward for an elementary education
instruction book, Queering Elementary Education, the description of which
states that it examines "five broadly-defined areas in elementary
education: foundational issues; social and sexual development; curriculum;
the family; and gay/lesbian educators and their allies. It seeks to
provide scholarly insights, pedagogical strategies, and curricular
resources for use in schools. At the core of the book is the belief that
public school educators have the responsibility to affirm sexual
diversity..." In elementary school?
It is Jennings himself, Obama's "Safe-School Czar," who coined the term
"safe school" as a euphemism for "pro-homosexual" school. Children's
physical safety had nothing and has even less to do now with Mr. Jennings
educational background, "expertise," or agenda. "Jennings was obviously
chosen for this job because of the safe schools aspect... defining 'safe
schools' narrowly in terms of 'safe for homosexuality'," says Peter
Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council.
"Safe school" is hardly the only word commandeered by Jennings and the
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to support
propagandizing his model "safe school" into mainstream elementary
education. Others include, and parents should be alert to "seemingly
innocuous terms as ‘safe school,' ‘anti-bullying,' ‘safe space,'
‘hate-free, ‘tolerance,' ‘respect differences,' ‘be an ally,' ‘no name
calling day,' ‘be who you are,' ‘free to be fully me,' ‘day of silence,'
and so forth. If these terms are present [in school instructional
materials], they are [probably] defined by Jennings, not Webster, and the
accompanying curricular material will probably be objectionable.
Jennings' jargon and the mythical bullying epidemic even showed-up in the
recent Presidential address to school children."
The Obama Administration was certainly aware of these facts long before
the President and Ms. Jarrett selected Mr. Jennings, just as they selected
Van Jones, and all the other members of the Obama Administration discussed
here.
This is the type of colossal lack of judgment the President of The United
States has not merely chosen to surround himself with, but in fact
personally displays every day.
Feeling any "safer" about your kids? [14]
15. Chai Feldblum - Obama nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission who signed a manifest seeking, inter alia, to legalize polygamy
("to protect households in which there is more than one conjugal
partner"). See, online petition entitled Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New
Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships. Feldblum is an
outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law
professor. She is "co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she
described at [a] UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to
change ‘the American workplace and revolutionize social mores. This is a
war that needs to be fought,'' Feldblum asserted, "'and it's not a war
overseas where we are killing people in the name of liberating them." [15]
16. William Ayers -- Obama friend, neighbor, fellow board member,
"respected" national educator, virulently anti-American, and dramatically
unrepentant radical terrorist bomber. Mr. Ayers famously stated:
"I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c' Communist...Maybe I'm the last
Communist who is willing to admit it.... The ethics of Communism still
appeal to me."
Perhaps Mr. Ayers most notable statement was made to the New York Times
in a story released on September 11, 2001:
"I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do
enough,"
It has gradually come to light that Mr. Ayers, far from the casual
acquaintance President Obama made him out to be during the 2008 election,
is quite likely the real author of Mr. Obama's "autobiography," Dreams of
My Father. [16]
Mr. Ayers approach to education is as authoritarian as is his approach to
society as a whole - otherwise he would not have planted terrorist bombs
in an effort to compel his personal beliefs upon the rest of society. As
Sol Stern of City Journal wrote:
Ayers's influence on what is taught in the nation's public schools is
likely to grow in the future. Last month, he was elected vice president
for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research
Association (AERA), the nation's largest organization of education-school
professors and researchers. Ayers won the election handily, and there is
no doubt that his fellow education professors knew whom they were voting
for. In the short biographical statement distributed to prospective voters
beforehand, Ayers listed among his scholarly books Fugitive Days, an
unapologetic memoir about his ten years in the Weather Underground. The
book includes dramatic accounts of how he bombed the Pentagon and other
public buildings.
Ayers's politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still
boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and
imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as
Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois,
Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to
indoctrinate America's future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging
them to pass on the lessons to their public school students. [17]
The Ayers-Obama Socialist-conversion mission carried out with the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge's $100,000,000 was a total failure, producing zero
results in student learning, but succeeded in massive transfers of wealth
to Leftist, Socialist, and even the Communist causes of long-time Ayers
ally, Mike Klonsky, a former S.D. S. leader, college professor and
Director of the Small Schools Workshop. However, neither Mr. Ayers nor
President Obama have given up on their radical Leftist agenda. [18]
Ayers is married to unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bernadine
Dohrn who was once jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury
investigating other Weather Underground members' robbery of a Brinks
truck, in which a guard and two New York State Troopers were killed. Like
her husband, she remains involved and influential in school programs.
For Mr. Ayers, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Chu, and President Obama's
Secretary of Education, yet another Chicagoan, Arne Duncan - and far too
many others in the Obama Administration - education is solely about
pursuing then mandating the radicalization of children through
indoctrination in Leftist policies, "social justice" curricula, and
Socialism itself in public schools.
The Obama Administration is currently making thousands of federal
bureaucratic appointments.
Make no mistake. These people are about Socialism, and they are about
power. Their power.
