Wake made her way across the Pyrenees into Spain and returned to Britain where she joined the Special Operations Executive, a clandestine body formed by Churchill to train agents in guerrilla warfare against the Nazis and to bolster local resistance groups in occupied France.

On the night of 29 April 1944, Wake was parachuted into the Auvergne region where she co-ordinated a 7,000-strong resistance group and headed successful attacks on German forces in the area.

Wake believed the most useful of her wartime exploits was the time she cycled 500km over 71 hours, passing through several German checkpoints, to replace vital codes her wireless operator had been forced to destroy in a Gestapo raid. Without the codes there could be no fresh orders or drops of weapons and supplies.

"I got there and they said: 'How are you?' I cried. I couldn't stand up, I couldn't sit down. I couldn't do anything. I just cried," she said.

After the war, Britain awarded Wake the George medal, the United States gave her the Medal of Freedom and France honoured her with the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre – three times – and the Légion d'Honneur. In 1957, Wake married John Melvin Forward, a former RAF fighter pilot.

She returned several times to live in Australia, making unsuccessful attempts to get elected to parliament, but had an uneasy relationship with the country of her childhood, feeling unrecognised and underappreciated. This led her to refuse decorations from the Australian government; with characteristic bluntness, she said they could "stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts". In February 2004, she relented and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Wake found post-war life uneventful. "It's all been so exciting … and then it all fizzled out. I had a very happy war," she said. FitzSimons told Australian radio: "She was a woman who was always a hair-trigger from being in a rage … and that rage within her was wonderful during the war, [but] it could be problematic when the war was over. She was a force of nature."

Her husband died in 1997 and Wake settled for a final time in London. She died on Sunday after being taken to hospital with a chest infection.

References: 

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt).

Development on Inglourious Basterds began in 1998, when Tarantino wrote the script for the film. Tarantino struggled with the ending and chose to hold off filming and moved on to direct the two-part film Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007 (as part of the double feature Grindhouse), Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. The film went into production in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany and France with a production budget of $70 million. Inglourious Basterds premiered on May 20, 2009 at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It was widely released in theaters in the United States and Europe in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Studios.

Charlotte Gray is a 1999 book by Sebastian Faulks and completes his loose trilogy of books about France with an account of the adventures of a young Scotswoman who becomes involved with the French resistance during the Second World War. It is set in Vichy France during World War II. The story is thought to be based on the exploits of Nancy Wake, codenamed the white mouse, a member of the resistance in war time France and Pearl Cornioley, a British secret service agent.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

A film based on the book was produced in 2001. It stars Cate Blanchett and is directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Here are some good examples of the "Whispers of Wormwood:"  

Wormwood in the Bible

Although the word wormwood appears several times in the Old Testament, translated from the Hebrew term ???? (la'anah), e.g., Deuteronomy 29:18 and Jeremiah 9:15, its only clear reference as a named entity occurs in the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation: "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon a third of the rivers, and upon the springs of water; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and a third of the waters became Bitter; and many people had died of the waters, because they were made bitter." (Revelation 8:10, 11 - KJB).

Interpretations of Revelation 8:10

References

1. ^ Lewis, James R., Oliver, Evelyn Dorothy (1996), Angels A to Z, Entry: Wormwood, p. 417, Visible Ink Press
2. ^ Henry, Matthew, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation): Revelation Chap. VIII, Public domain, Library of Congress call no: BS490.H4, at Christian Classics Ethereal Library
3. ^ Rand, W. W. (1859), A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: for general use in the study of the scriptures; with engravings, maps, and tables, Entry: WORM WOOD at archive.org

As our economy stands on the brink, with the national debt crisis raising the possibility that our grandchildren will inherit a bankrupt country that looks more like Greece than America, you have to wonder. What is Barack Obama thinking?

How can the President have let things come to this pass? Did he know that the trillions spent on a national health care disaster and a government takeover of key industries would make things so much worse? Why, in the face of disastrous unemployment, inflation and the prospect of default, does he stick to the same old leftwing playbook of higher taxes and class warfare? Is the President trying to strain the American economy to the breaking point?

If you think this last question is improbable it is only because you haven't read the plan of two Marxist Professors from the 1960's who hatched the plan to "stress the system" so that a leftwing government can take more control over our lives and make America a place we will no longer recognize as home. These two professors, Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward (whose work Obama learned about as a young "community organizer in Chicago) envisioned an activism that would flood the housing market with bad loans, overwhelm the electoral system with the names of dead and fictitious voters, and give a toxic shock to the health care industry by adding millions of people to the rolls with their bills to be paid for by the taxpayer. They wanted all this to happen so that America would be forced to embrace socialist solutions.

Does this strategy sound familiar? Early in the Obama administration, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel let the cat out of the bag when he said that "we shouldn't let a good crisis go to waste." The more profound the crisis, the more necessary to "radically transform America," as the President promised he would do on election eve 2008.

Piven and Cloward may not be household names, but their plan is playing a role in the financial chaos overtaking America today. That is why the Freedom Center must get the groundbreaking new pamphlet Breaking the System: Obama's Strategy for Change into the hands of as many Americans as possible at this critical moment when our country's economic future is being decided.

America stands on the economic brink. We must act immediately to keep the U.S. from becoming a third world country weighed down permanently by socialist solutions that grow government and crush individual initiative and personal freedom. I hope you will join me in this vital campaign. Please give generously to our effort to wake America up before it is too late.

Sincerely,

The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975. As the leader of the Communist Party, Saloth Sar was the designated leader of the new regime. He took the name "brother number one" and declared his nom de guerre Pol Pot. This has generally supposed to have been derived from Politique potentielle, the French equivalent of a phrase supposedly coined for him by the Chinese leadership. An alternative version of the origin of Pol Pot's name is from Philip Short, who states that Saloth Sar announced that he was adopting the name in July 1970 and suspects that it is derived from pol: “the Pols were royal slaves, an aboriginal people”, and that “Pot” was simply a “euphonic monosyllable” that he liked.^[13]

A new constitution was adopted on January 5, 1976, officially altering the country's name to "Democratic Kampuchea". The newly established Representative Assembly held its first plenary meeting on April 11-13, electing a new government with Pol Pot as prime minister. His predecessor, Khieu Samphan was instead given the position of head of state as President of the State Presidium. Prince Sihanouk was given no role in the government and was placed under detention.

Immediately after the fall of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge began to implement their concept of Year Zero and ordered the complete evacuation of Phnom Penh and all other recently captured major towns and cities. Those leaving were told that the evacuation was due to the threat of severe American bombing and it would last for no more than a few days.

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge had been evacuating captured urban areas for many years, but the evacuation of Phnom Penh was unique in scale. The first operations to evacuate urban areas occurred in 1968 in the Ratanakiri area and were aimed at moving people deeper into Khmer Rouge territory to better control them. From 1971-1973, the motivation changed. Pol Pot and the other senior leaders were frustrated that urban Cambodians were retaining old habits of trade and business. When all other methods had failed, evacuation to the countryside was adopted to solve the problem.

In 1976, people were reclassified as full-rights (base) people, candidates and depositees - so called because they included most of the new people who had been deposited from the cities into the communes. Depositees were marked for destruction. Their rations were reduced to two bowls of rice soup, or "p'baw" per day. This led to widespread starvation. "New people" were allegedly given no place in the elections taking place on March 20, 1976, despite the fact the constitution was said to have established universal suffrage for all Cambodians over age 18.

The Khmer Rouge leadership boasted over the state-controlled radio that only one or two million people were needed to build the new agrarian communist utopia. As for the others, as their proverb put it, "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss."^[14]

Hundreds of thousands of the new people, and later the depositees, were taken out in shackles to dig their own mass graves. Then the Khmer Rouge soldiers beat them to death with iron bars and hoes or buried them alive. A Khmer Rouge extermination prison directive ordered, "Bullets are not to be wasted." These mass graves are often referred to as The Killing Fields.

The Khmer Rouge also classified by religion and ethnic group. They banned all religion and dispersed minority groups, forbidding them to speak their languages or to practice their customs. They especially targeted Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christians, Western-educated intellectuals, educated people in general, people who had contact with Western countries or with Vietnam, disabled people, and the ethnic Chinese, Laotians and Vietnamese. Some were put in the S-21 camp for interrogation involving torture in cases where a confession was useful to the government. Many others were summarily executed. Confessions forced at S-21 were extracted from prisoners through such methods as raising prisoners by their arms tied behind and dislocating shoulders, removing toenails with pliers, suffocating a prisoner repeatedly, and skinning a person while alive.^[15]

According to François Ponchaud's book Cambodia: Year Zero, "Ever since 1972 the guerrilla fighters had been sending all the inhabitants of the villages and towns they occupied into the forest to live and often burning their homes, so that they would have nothing to come back to." The Khmer Rouge refused offers of humanitarian aid, a decision which proved to be a humanitarian catastrophe: millions died of starvation and brutal government-inflicted overwork in the countryside. To the Khmer Rouge, outside aid went against their principle of national self-reliance.

Property became collective, and education was dispensed at communal schools. Children were raised on a communal basis. Even meals were prepared and eaten communally. Pol Pot's regime was extremely paranoid. Political dissent and opposition were not permitted. People were treated as opponents based on their appearance or background. Torture was widespread. In some instances, throats were slit as prisoners were tied to metal bed frames.

Thousands of politicians and bureaucrats accused of association with previous governments were executed. Phnom Penh was turned into a ghost city, while people in the countryside were dying of starvation or illnesses or simply killed.

Category:  News & Politics

A small group of brainy math whizzes are emerging as the unlikely group who nearly brought down the finance industry. As WSJ's Scott Patterson reports, a group called "The Quants" developed complex systems to trade securities such as mortgage derivatives, which were at the heart of the crisis.

The Minds Behind the Meltdown

How a swashbuckling breed of mathematicians and computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street

By SCOTT PATTERSON

On Thursday, President Barack Obama proposed new rules to curb a number of Wall Street's risky—and highly profitable—trading activities. One target: The secretive trading operations within banks that use large doses of leverage, or borrowed money, to make huge bets on the market. Wall Street says the regulations are unnecessary, and since the financial crisis struck, most banks have cut back on these trading outfits. But when the downturn first hit in the summer of 2007, several of them were among the first to suffer, and collectively they lost billions over a matter of days.

Trader Racks Up a Second Epic Gain

$5 Billion Profit for John Paulson

By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN

Hedge-fund manager John Paulson personally netted more than $5 billion in profits in 2010—likely the largest one-year haul in investing history, trumping the nearly $4 billion he made with his "short" bets against subprime mortgages in 2007.

Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".^[1] The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States' professed commitment to the proposition that "all men are created equal"^[2] by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states. As written it applied only to state governments, but it has since been interpreted to apply to the Federal Government of the United States as well.

Carolene Products and the various levels of Equal Protection scrutiny

[P]rejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial inquiry.^[4]

Thus were born the "more searching" levels of scrutiny—"strict" and "intermediate"—with which the Court would examine legislation directed at racial minorities and women respectively. Although the Court first articulated a "strict scrutiny" standard for laws based on race-based distinctions in Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) and Korematsu v. United States (1944), the Court did not apply strict scrutiny, by that name, until the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia. Intermediate scrutiny did not command the approbation of a majority of the Court until the 1976 case of Craig v. Boren.

The Supreme Court has defined these levels of scrutiny in the following way:

• Strict scrutiny (if the law categorizes on the basis of race or national origin or infringes a fundamental right): the law is unconstitutional unless it is "narrowly tailored" to serve a "compelling" government interest. In addition, there cannot be a "less restrictive" alternative available to achieve that compelling interest.
• Intermediate scrutiny (if the law categorizes on the basis of sex): the law is unconstitutional unless it is "substantially related" to an "important" government interest.^[5]
• Rational-basis test (if the law categorizes on some other basis): the law is constitutional so long as it is "reasonably related" to a "legitimate" government interest.

Although in 1985 the court in City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. held mentally retarded persons were deemed to be subject to a "rational basis" test, in invalidating seemingly rational zoning laws and land use restrictions, many assert that the court introduced an "enhanced" rational basis test that required the state to show more than a facially valid law and instead to balance the community's needs against the needs of the disabled.^[6]

There is, arguably, a fourth level of scrutiny for equal protection cases. In United States v. Virginia Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the Court, eschewed the traditional language of intermediate scrutiny for sex-based discrimination and instead borrowed from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's opinion for the Court in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan in demanding that litigants articulate an "exceedingly persuasive" argument to justify this kind of discrimination. Whether this was simply a restatement of the doctrine of intermediate scrutiny or whether it created a new level of scrutiny between the intermediate and strict standards is unclear.

References

Civility? What civility? From dueling pistols at dawn to Rush Limbaugh at noon EST, America'a history is rich with civility. In fact, nothing says civility like bombing the Pentagon, then 40 years later telling the mainstream news media (MSM) you wish you had done more (William Ayers), then helping the President get elected so he can carry on your progressive agenda. 

Anyone with a computer and knowledge on how to use Google could have found this on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The left wing liberals, or progressives or whatever label they prefer these days, have a rich history of civility, as Rush Limbaugh highlighted on his radio show recently.   

Here are some great examples:

Weatherman, also known as Weathermen and later Weather Underground Organization, was an American militant organization that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots from 1969 through the 1970s.

Following is a list of the organization's various activities and incidents.

1969

• June 18-22 – Students for a Democratic Society SDS National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Publication of "Weatherman" founding statement. Members seize control of SDS National Office.^[1][2]

• July – Members Bernardine Dohrn, Eleanor Raskin,^[3] Dianne Donghi,^[4] Peter Clapp, David Millstone and Diana Oughton^[5] travel to Cuba and meet representatives of the North Vietnamese and Cuban governments.

• August – Weatherman member Linda Sue Evans travels to North Vietnam. Weatherman activists meet in Cleveland, Ohio, in preparation for "Days of Rage" protests scheduled for October, 1969 in Chicago.

• September 3 – Female members participate in a "jailbreak" at South Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they run through the school shouting anti-war slogans and distributing literature promoting the “National Action.” The term "Pittsburgh 26" refers to the 26 women arrested in connection with this incident.^[2]

• September 24 – A group of members confront Chicago Police during a demonstration supporting the "National Action," and protesting the commencement of the Chicago Eight trial stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention.^[6]

• October 5 – The Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago is bombed; Weathermen later claim credit for the bombing in their book, Prairie Fire.^[6]

• October 8-11 – The "Days of Rage" riots occur in Chicago, damaging a large amount of property. 287 Weatherman members are arrested, some become fugitives when they fail to appear for trial in connection with their arrests.^[2][6]

• November 8th - Sniper attack on Cambridge Police Station. Two shots were fired. Two Weathermen, James Kilpatrick and James Reaves, were indicted and then subsequently released when a witness recanted his testimony.^[7]

• November-December – Karen Ashley and Phoebe Hirsch were among the few Weatherman members to join the first contingent of the Venceremos Brigade (VB) that departs for Cuba to harvest sugar cane.

• December 6 – Bombing of several Chicago police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO claims responsibility in Prairie Fire, stating it is a protest of the fatal police shooting of Illinois Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on December 4, 1969.

• December 27-30 – Weathermen hold a "War Council" in Flint, Michigan, where plans are finalized to change into an underground organization that will commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called "Weather Underground Organization" (WUO).^[2][8]

1970

• January - Silas and Judith Bissell placed a home-made bomb under the steps of the R.O.T.C. building. The bomb was made from an electric blasting cap, an alarm clock, a battery and a plastic bag filled with gasoline and explosives.^[9]

• February – The WUO closes the SDS National Office in Chicago, concluding the major campus-based organization of the 1960s. The first contingent of the VB returns from Cuba and the second contingent departs. By mid-February the bulk of the leading WUO members go underground.

• February 16: A bomb is detonated at the Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen (one seriously). No organization claims credit for either bombing. (See San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing.)

• On February 21, the house of Judge Murtagh, who presides over the Panther 21 trial, is fire-bombed by a WUO cell in New York City.^[2][10] The same night, molotov cocktails were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn.^[11]

• March – Warrants are issued for several WUO members, who become federal fugitives when they fail to appear for trial in Chicago.

• March 6 – WUO members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins are killed in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion,^[2][8] when a nailbomb they were constructing detonates. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

• March 30 – Chicago police discover a WUO "bomb factory" on Chicago’s north side.

• April 1 - Based on a tip Chicago Police find 59 sticks of dynamite, ammunition, and nitro glyerine in an apartment traced to WUO members.^[12] The discover of the WUO weapons cache ends WUO activity in this city.

• April 2 - A federal grand jury in Chicago returns a number of indictments charging WUO members with violation of federal anti-riot laws.^[8] Also, a number of additional federal warrants charging "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution" are returned in Chicago based on the failure of WUO members to appear for trial in local cases. (The Anti-riot Law charges were later dropped in January, 1974.)

• April 15 – The FBI arrests WUO members Linda Sue Evans and Dianne Donghi in New York^[8] with the help of WUO infiltrator, Larry Grathwohl.^[2]

• May 10 – The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C. is bombed.^[13]

• May 21 – The WUO releases its "Declaration of a State of War" communique^[13][14] under Bernardine Dohrn's name.

• June 6 – In a letter, the WUO claims credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, although no explosion has occurred. Months later, workmen locate an unexploded bomb.^{[citation needed]}

• June 9 - The New York City Police headquarters is bombed by Jane Alpert and accomplices. Weathermen state this is in response to "police repression."^[13][14] The bomb made with ten sticks of dynamite exploded in the NYC Police Headquarters. The explosion was preceded by a warning about six minutes prior to the detonation and subsequently by a WUO claim of responsibility.^[15]

• July 23 – A federal grand jury in Detroit, Michigan, returns indictments against thirteen WUO members and former WUO members charging violations of various explosives and firearms laws.^[13][14] (These indictments were later dropped in October, 1973.)

• July 25 - The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.^[13] [NYT, 7/27/70] On the same day, a branch of the Bank of America is bombed in New York.^[14]

• July 28 - Bank of America HQ in NYC is bombed around 3:50 AM. WUO claims responsibility.^[16]

• September 15 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary escape from the California Men's Colony prison.^[17]

• October 8 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. WUO states this is in retaliation for the killings of Jonathan Jackson,^[18] William Christmas, and James McClain^{[nb 1]}

• October 10 - A Queens traffic-court building is bombed. WUO claims this is to express support for the New York prison riots. [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]

• October 11 - A Courthouse in Long Island City, NY is bombed. An estimated 8 to 10 sticks of dynamite are used. A warning was given around 10 min. prior to the 1:23 AM blast by the WUO.^[20]

• October 12 - Around October 12 eight bomb explosions occur, Five in Rochester New York, Two in NYC, and One in Orlando FL. Despite WUO bomb warnings three persons are injured.^[21]

• October 14 - The Harvard Center for International Affairs is bombed by The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather (later renamed the Women's Brigade of the Weather Underground).^[18] WUO claims this is to protest the war in Vietnam. [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30] The bombing was in reaction to Angela Davis' arrest and was the first action undertaken by an all-women's unit of WUO.^[17][18]

• October - Bernardine Dohrn, Katherine Ann Power, and Susan Edith Saxe were put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List^[22]

• December – Fugitive WUO member Caroline Tanker, who fled the country for Cuba, is arrested by the FBI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• December 5th - Five Weatherman are captured for trying to bomb First National City Bank of NY and other buildings on the anniversary of the death of Fred Hampton. These individuals subsequently plead guilty.^[23]

• December 11th - Vivian Bogart and Patricia Mclean from the WUO are arrested after throwing an incendiary bomb at the Royal National Bank in NYC around 1:30 AM.^[24]

• December 16 - Fugitive WUO member Judith Alice Clark is arrested on the Days of Rage indictments by the FBI in New York.^[18]

1971

• March 1 - The United States Capitol is bombed. WUO states this is to protest the invasion of Laos. President Richard M. Nixon denounces the bombing as a "shocking act of violence that will outrage all Americans." [NYT, 3/2/71]

• April – FBI agents discover what is dubbed "Pine Street Bomb Factory", an abandoned apartment utilized by WUO in San Francisco, California.

• August 30 - Bombings of the Office of California Prisonsin Sacramento and San Francisco, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of George Jackson. [LAT, 8/29/71]^[25][26]

• September 17 - The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, New York is bombed, as per WUO to protest the killing of 29 inmates at Attica State Penitentiary. [NYT, 9/18/71]^[27]

• October 15 - The bombing of William Bundy's office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]

1972

• May 19 - Bombing of The Pentagon, "in retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi." The date was chosen for it being Ho Chi Minh's birthday. [NYT, 5/19/72]^[27]

1973

• May 18 - The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police.^{[28][note 1]}

• September 19 – A WUO member is arrested by the FBI in New York. Released on bond, this member again submerges into the underground.

• September 28 - The ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy are bombed. WUO states this is in response to ITT's alleged role in the Chilean coup earlier that month. [NYT, 9/28/73]

• Around October, 1973 the Government requested dropping charges against most of the WUO members. The requests cited a recent decision by the Supreme Court that barred electronic surveillance without a court order. This decision could hamper prosecution of the WUO cases. In addition, the government did not want to reveal foreign intelligence secrets that the court has ordered disclosed.^[29]

1974

• March 6 - Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco. WUO states this is to protest alleged sterilization of poor women. In the accompanying communiqué, the Women’s Brigade argues for "the need for women to take control of daycare, healthcare, birth control and other aspects of women's daily lives."

• May 31 - The Office of the California Attorney General is bombed. WUO states this is in response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

• June 17 - Gulf Oil's Pittsburgh headquarters is bombed. WUO states this is to protest the company's actions in Angola, Vietnam, and elsewhere.

• July – The WUO releases the book Prairie Fire, in which they indicate the need for a unified Communist Party. They encourage the creation of study groups to discuss their ideology, and continue to stress the need for violent acts. The book also admits WUO responsibility of several actions from previous years. The Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) arises from the teachings in this book and is organized by many former WUO members.

• September 11 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation). WUO states this is in retribution for Anaconda’s alleged involvement in the Chilean coup the previous year.^[30]

1975

• January 29 - Bombing of the State Department; WUO states this is in response to escalation in Vietnam. (AP. "State Department Rattled by Blast," The Daily Times-News, January 29, 1975, p. 1)^[31]

• January 23 - Offices of Dept. of Defense in Oakland are bombed. In a statement released to the press, Weather expressed solidarity with the Vietnamese still fighting against the Thieu regime in Vietnam. ^[32]

• Spring - WUO publishes "Politics in Command," which is its new political-military strategy. It furthers the line of building a legal, above-ground organization and begins to minimize the armed struggle role.^[31]

• March – The WUO releases its first edition of a new magazine entitled Osawatomie.^[33]

• June 16 - Weathermen bomb a Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York, WUO states this is in solidarity with striking Puerto Rican cement workers.^[31][33]

• July - More than a thousand women attend the Socialist Feminist Conference at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH in which WUO supporters attempt to play a major role.^[31]

• July 11-13 – The Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) holds its first national convention during which time they go through the formality of creating a new organization.^[33]

• September – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation; WUO states this is in retribution for Kennecott's alleged involvement in the Chilean coup two years prior.^[33][34]

1976

• 1976-1981 the Weather Underground slowly disbands, many members turning themselves in after taking advantage of the Federal Government dropping most charges in 1973 (illegal wiretaps and intelligence sources & methods issues) and of President Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for draft dodgers.

1977

• February - The first issue of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee's magazine, Breakthrough, is published.^[35]

• Spring - The John Brown Book Club compiles articles critical of the old WUO leadership and subsequent split in a pamphlet entitled: The Split of the Weather Underground Organization: Struggling against White and Male Supremacy.^[35]

• November - Five WUO members are arrested on conspiracy to bomb California State Senator, John Brigg's offices. It is later revealed that the Revolutionary Committee and PFOC had been infiltrated, and the arrests were the results of the infiltration. From this point on, some authors argue that the Weather Underground Organization ceases to exist.^[35]

1980

• July - Former WUO member, Cathy Wilkerson surfaces in New York City and is charged with possession of explosives arising from the 1970 townhouse explosion. She is sentenced to 3 years in prison.^[36]

• December 3 - Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers turn themselves in. Charges against Ayers are dropped in 1973 (illegal wire taps & foreign intelligence sources and methods). Dohrn is placed on probation. It was discovered that the FBI had discussed a plan to kidnap her nephew, amongst other controversial schemes.^[37]

1981

• October 20 - Brinks robbery in which WUO members Kathy Boudin, Sam Brown, Judy Clark and David Gilbert and the Black Liberation Army stole over $1.6 million from a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, near Nyack, New York on October 20, 1981. The robbers were stopped by police later that day and engaged them in a shootout, killing two police officers and one Brinks guard^[37] as well as wounding several others.

1987

References

Bibliography

• Albert, Michael. "Discussion on Radical Strategy, Sabotage, and the Weathermen." Retrieved from http://www.spunk.org/texts/misc/sp000209.txt

http://melcward.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/17/our_unconstitutional_government.thtml

I can now claim I had a Constitutional fetish before it was cool to come out of the closet and before the New York Times came up with such a ridiculous metaphor for those who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. 

Apparently, some people in our federal government took the oath to support and defend the Constitution with reservation of thought and complete contempt for the document’s principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  These people need to be exposed and forced out of public service.  If they didn’t sign up to serve the public and not themselves, they have no business in public life. 

“Service before self” should be the motto for every single freshman legislator and they should remind all those who’ve made politics a career that it should be theirs also. 

On the Death Panels, I hate to echo Rush Limbaugh and say “I told you so,” but I did. Great minds do indeed think alike.  

Wednesday, January 5, 2010

Liberals: Conservatives Have a "Fetish" for Constitution Democrats display contempt for our nation's founding.   Dems Push Health Care Deficit Lie, Falsely Claim That Repealing It Will Cost the Government Money Who do they think they're kidding about this boondoggle? "I wonder how many people in the media and how many Democrats know that our nation's first official Thanksgiving was to give thanks for the new Constitution. Not the Indians and turkey and popcorn or  gravy.  It was to give thanks for the new Constitution -- and now it's a 'fetish' to revere it." -Rush See, Sarah Palin Told You So: Obama Death Panels are Back (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen) » The New York Times Exposes It: Obama Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning  "Everybody knows these death panels were in Obamacare in the first place.  It's rationing!  It's the only way this can be done. Obama would rather spend money on people who are gonna vote for Democrats a lot longer than senior citizens are gonna vote for anybody because they're gonna die." -Rush Professor Cornel West is Depressed About "Milquetoast" Obama He says the first black president "surcame" to big business. (He's a professor. He knows what it means.)

America is fast becoming a “Kleptocracy,” or a government by thieves and influential government employees exploiting their posts for personal gain (i.e. embezzlement, fraud, bribery, etc.), so it came as no surpise when Sen. Harry Reid claimed he made so much money while on what he called a “fixed income.” 

Reid's thin resume, riches, and shady land deals.

» AP Exclusive: Reid Got $1M in Land Sale

» LVRJ: Reid Has Made $42 Million Since Being Elected

SpreadIt.Org goes on to state, “The bill was introduced by Charles Rangel, who is currently under an ethics investigation, and the bill currently has no co-sponsor, suggesting that perhaps there is not very much support for the bill in the government. Similar bills have gone through the house before. Rahm Emanuel previously talked about a similar plan, but his plan only required three months of service for individuals between the ages of 18 and 25. While the bill has received increased coverage, it is very unlikely that it will ever be passed in its current form.” 

While the bill would require people serve two years of mandatory service to the government, it’s unclear what things each person would be required to do, but most think the jobs would relate to national defense and homeland security.  Some argue the act violates the constitution and the foundation upon which the country was built. 

Some think the chances of the bill passing are slim and it only makes for an interesting debate.  The problem with that line of thinking is it disregards what a lame duck congress might do if Republicans win big in November. H.R. 5741 would undoubtedly be fast tracked by Democrats before they leave office so President Obama would get his wish for a civil defense force under his command. 

According to Now The End Begins (http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/obama/universal-national-service-act-hr-5741.htm), the first part of the plan was enacted in a little known section of the ObamaCare bill.

Here’s a portion of what Now the End Begins recently published on their website:

H. R. 3590-496 (Page 496) SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.

Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-

"(1) IN GENERAL.-There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.

"(2) REQUIREMENT.-All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

"(3) APPOINTMENT.-Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Some attribute the term “fifth column” with a remark General Francisco Franco made as he was marching on Madrid with four columns of troops, and a “fifth column” of sympathizers within the city ready to help. In actuality, the term originated in a 1936 radio address by General Emilio Mola, an insurgent during the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War.  He broadcast a message that the four columns of his forces outside the city of Madrid would be supported by a "fifth column" of his supporters inside the city.  

The term has become widely associated with people willing to cooperate with an aggressor against their own country. During the early stages of the World War II it was used in Britain as justification for the mass internment of German nationals residing within the United Kingdom to the Isle of Man.  Around the same time, using the same justification, the United States government interned Japanese citizens.  

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the internment of people of Japanese ancestry by signing Executive Order 9066. The order authorized local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded."  This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington.  The Supreme Court even went as far as to uphold the constitutionality of the exclusion orders in 1944, while noting that the provisions that singled out people of Japanese ancestry were a separate issue outside the scope of the proceedings. 

In an featured editorial in Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) entitled, “Jihad's 5th Column” (11/06/2009), the paper notes the following:

“In the wake of the worst domestic military-base massacre in U.S. history, this is an outrage to say the least. And the PC blinders explain how Fort Hood commanders could have failed so horrifically in protecting their force from the internal threat there.”

“Instead, brass are actively recruiting Muslim soldiers — whose ranks have swelled to more than 15,000 — and catering to their faith by erecting mosques even at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va. More, they're hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.”

Earlier this year, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly said, "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," referring to the country he swore an oath to serve and protect from domestic enemies like himself. According to IBD, he’s not alone in his thinking:

• Navy Signalman Hassan Abujihaad last year was convicted of tipping off al-Qaida to battle group movements in the Persian Gulf, including disclosing classified documents detailing the group's vulnerability to terror attack.

• Army reservist Jeffrey Battle in 2003 pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the U.S., confessing he enlisted "to receive military training to use against America."

• Army reservist Semi Osman in 2002 was arrested for providing material support to al-Qaida and pleaded guilty to weapons charges after agreeing to testify against other terror suspects.

• Marine Abdul Raheem al-Arshad Ali trained at a suspected al-Qaida camp and was charged with selling a semi-automatic handgun to Osman.

• Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed trained Green Berets at Fort Bragg's elite special warfare school before stealing military secrets for al-Qaida and helping plan bombings at three U.S. embassies in 1998.

• Army Spec. Ryan Anderson in 2004 was convicted of leaking military intelligence to al-Qaida terrorists, including sensitive information about the vulnerabilities of armored Humvees.

• Army sniper John Muhammad was put on death row after fatally shooting 10 in the nation's capital a year after 9/11.

Much has changed in our national character since World War II. Our former backbone and courage to stand against tyranny has withered into jelly, while the rest of the world moves closer and closer to mushrooms clouds appearing over major metropolitan cities all over the planet.  

When the United States entered World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered German saboteurs to wreak havoc on our country.  In June 1942, eight agents were recruited and divided into two teams. On June 12, 1942, U-Boat U-202 landed a team with explosives and plans at East Hampton, Long Island, New York.  Their mission was to destroy power plants at Niagara Falls and three ALCOA factories in Illinois, Tennessee and New York. However, the team leader decided to turn himself in to the FBI, providing them with a complete account of the planned mission, which led to the arrest of the complete team.

On June 17, 1942, U-Boat U-584 landed at Ponte Vedra Beach with a team tasked with laying mines in the Pennsylvania Railroad in Newark NJ., canals in both St. Louis and Cincinnati, and New York City's water supply lines. The team made their way to Cincinnati, Ohio and split up, with two going to Chicago, Illinois and the others to New York. However, the Dasch confession led to the arrest of all of the men by July 10. All eight were tried and convicted by the Military Commission.  Six were sentenced to death. President Roosevelt approved the sentences.  The constitutionality of the military commissions was upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin and the six were executed by electrocution. 

Thanks to political correctness and an unwillingness among many of our civilian leaders to do whatever it takes to protect America’s sovereignty, defending ourselves against the “Jihadist’s Fifth Column” residing within our own military is no longer possible. Call it our Achilles heel if you want. Instead of putting these committed jihadists in internment camps, or executing them for treason as would have been done during World War II, we coddle and appease them with special treatment like catering to their faith and “hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.”

As the ever eloquent Reverend Wright likes to proclaim, these are America’s political correctness chickens coming home to roost. 

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Every year for the past 15 years, Rep. John Shadegg has been trying to get a bill enacted that would simply require legislators to cite the constitutional authority for any legislation proposed (the Enumerated Powers Act, HR450).  Even though HR450 has 52 co-sponsors, it will never get to a floor vote because the Democrats will not allow it.  

"Each report of a committee on a public bill or public joint resolution shall contain the following: A statement citing the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the law proposed by the bill or joint resolution."

Rules of procedure in the House of Representatives are routinely ignored.  Requiring every bill or resolution cite the constitutional authority for the proposed legislation would grind the sausage making of legislation to a halt.  

Here’s just some of the corruption Nancy continues to reward by her failure to take action:  

Charles Rangel has failed to report his income from rental property in the Dominican Republic; has used rent-controlled housing facilities for campaign activities to avoid more than $7,000 in rental payments, and much, much more.

John Murtha provides a treasure trove of investigations into all sorts of abuse of power. Murtha's earmark list contains big rewards for the same companies that appear on his contributions list.

Maxine Waters completely ignores the conflict of interest rules by using her influence to set up meetings between the Treasury Department and her friends at OneUnited Bank -- which, incidentally, wound up with $12.1 million in bailout funds.

Mr. Lamb goes on to state, “Corruption is not limited to Democrats, by any means; they just seem to be better at getting away with it.”

President Obama promised to clean up the corruption in his administration, and then proceeded to appoint people who had failed to pay their taxes, or were caught up in some kind of investigation. Remember his rigid Executive Order outlining a high bar of ethics his appointees would have to meet?  Well he then proceeded to ignore this high bar and waive the requirements for several appointees.

“It is pure corruption to deliberately give the appearance of high ethical standards, and then completely refuse to apply those standards” says Mr. Lamb. Some people call it “organized crime,” falling under the purview of the RICO Act.  

Congressmen, who arrogantly refuse to answer questions, want to increase taxes, blindly spend uncountable billions, take over health care, energy and the rest of the market place, are having targets placed on their backs by individuals and organizations all across this land. Mr. Lamb states, “What's needed is a tidal wave to wash over Washington to clean out every politician -- regardless of party affiliation -- who seeks personal power over constitutional compliance or personal profit over public accountability.”