Obama wants to federalize US election system

Obama’s last chance to wear his finest powder blue uniform.

And anyone with half a wheelhouse would think this is an excellent reason, why?

From the AP.org:

US MOVE TO SECURE ELECTION SYSTEMS MEETS CRITICISM

by Tami Abdollah

WASHINGTON (AP) — A last-minute decision by the Obama administration to designate election systems as critical infrastructure drew intense criticism from state and federal elections organizations on Monday.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the move Friday with 30 minutes’ notice to the National Association of Secretaries of State and U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent bipartisan federal agency that develops voluntary voting guidelines and certifies voting systems.

If you’re a Leftist, perchance this sounds like a wonderful idea whose time has come. Who wouldn’t want to federalize the election system, right?

Christy McCormick, a commissioner for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, said the decision potentially gives significant authority to numerous federal agencies. “We don’t know how this will work. This has not been thought out (and) the scope of what they’re speaking about is huge,” she said.

Huge in what fashion? What would be affected?

Election infrastructure that would fall under the designation as defined by DHS includes storage facilities, polling places and vote tabulation locations, plus technology involved in the process, such as voter registration databases, voting machines and other systems used to manage the election process and report and display results.

Centralizing a system that is pretty much decentralized?

The election process in the U.S. is highly decentralized, with voters casting ballots in 185,000 precincts spread over 9,000 jurisdictions during the 2016 presidential election. It is also subject to rigorous and elaborate rules that govern how and what equipment is used.

But wait. Isn’t it Mr Obama and Demorats and Leftists who are insisting that the Russians hacked the elections and, by doing so, manipulated the system and the American electorate into installing Donald Trump as president-elect?

And, if so, centralizing our elections would therefore make them eminently more hackable because, absent centralization, in order to be effective, outside agents and actors would have to hack each and every one of the 185,000 precincts in order to acquire the greatest influence.

A move to centralize the election system is the equivalent of handing over our national voter system to the most efficacious of digital villains. What part of this makes any sense whatsoever?

Further — wait — wasn’t it the federal government that hacked into the Georgia state system?

With the stroke of a pen and a phone call — customary tactics for a president who knows his mandates won’t occur otherwise — Obama has “designated” that election systems are “critical infrastructure” and therefore subject to an unabashed power grab.

Just as, with the stroke of a pen and a phone call, Mr Obama “designated” 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as “national monuments,” making it part of the largest federal land grab — over 260 million acres — in US history, all under Obama.

This is a huge, massive issue. With explosive potentialities. And it only lends credence to what many already suspected about the federal government under Obama and Leftists.

It is the job of the federal government to grow, to become expansive, invasive, expensive, intrusive. Government under Leftists wants to remove your freedoms and sell them back to you at wildly inflated rates and social costs.

Ask yourself: what is the benefit of a centralized election system in the digital era?

I think you have your answer.

Cui bono?

BZ

 

Amnesty to American murderers

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Islam -- Religion of PeaceYou read that title correctly.

Plus, the US is going to purposely provide amnesty to Syrian “refugees” — but it’s only going to be “temporary.”

When have you ever known any federal government program to be temporary?

From the WashingtonTimes.com:

DHS grants Syrians temporary amnesty

by Stephen Dinan

Homeland Security granted a new temporary amnesty Monday to more than 8,000 Syrians living in the U.S. right now, saying they can remain for up to 18 months longer no matter what their legal status.

Secretary Jeh Johnson issued “temporary protected status” to Syrians, saying that if they are in the U.S. as of Monday and continue to reside here permanently, they can apply for work permits and other documents to remain and live in the U.S. without fear of being ousted.

His order applies to some 5,800 Syrians who were granted status under a 2012 TPS program, and 2,500 new arrivals who don’t have a more permanent status here.

“Syria’s lengthy civil conflict has resulted in high levels of food insecurity, limited access to water and medical care, and massive destruction of Syria’s infrastructure. Attacks against civilians, the use of chemical weapons and irregular warfare tactics, as well as forced conscription and use of child soldiers have intensified the humanitarian crisis,” Mr. Johnson said in announcing the new program.

Those eligible for TPS include any Syrian illegal immigrants who have managed to sneak into or remain in the U.S. beyond their visa expirations over the past four years.

ISIS, of course, remains committed to inserting itself into Syrian “refugees” everywhere in order to inculcate itself into the local populations.  Their motives are not what one would call beneficial to the populations affected.

Perhaps the Obama Administration and good old Jeh (is that pronounced “je”?) Johnson might want to read a bit of their own Leftist American Media Maggot press — such as Newsweek — where it illustrates how and why ISIS infiltrates the Syrian “refugee” masses.

The additional truth you won’t read in the AMM is that a full third of Syrian “refugees” are ISIS sympathizers, and 13% support ISIS.

Also squashed by the AMM is the salient fact that, already in the United States, a majority of Muslims — 51% — favor Sharia Law over any other form of law to include state and federal.

51% of U.S. Muslims want Sharia; 60% of young Muslims more loyal to Islam than to U.S.

Let’s also read from the UKDailyMail.com:

Merkel on the ropes: Thousands of German protesters take to the streets saying she ‘Must Go’ and a key coalition ally withdraws support to open-door immigration policy after terror attacks

by James Dunn

  • Thousands to gather in towns and cities across Germany today at 3pm
  • They are calling for her resignation over open door immigration policy
  • Comes after four brutal attacks leaving nearly a dozen dead in one week
  • Three of the attackers were among 1.1million who entered as refugees 

Merkel’s premiership is hanging by a thread today as thousands gathered to call for her resignation while a key political ally dramatically withdrew his support over immigration policy. 

More than 5,000 protested in Berlin and thousands more throughout Germany over the ‘open-door’ policy that many have blamed for four brutal terrorist attacks that left 13 dead over the last month.

The Chancellor faced a fresh wave of fury after it emerged that two recent terror attacks and a third killing were carried out by men who entered the country as refugees.

The UK’s Brexit was, yes, a statement about economic rules and regulations, but it was also a statement made by the populace that they recognize they have lost control over their sovereignty, their dignity, their destiny, and their culture.  Those who voted for Brexit had had enough of Cameron, Merkel and their ilk, and drew the line at seeing their cities and towns turned from that of UK history and pride to that of Muslim sinkholes.  They were tired of their own culture held beneath that of Islam and the political fear that was concomitant.

Despite these figures and despite the fact that Europe is recoiling and reeling from mass importation of Muslims — and the Brexit — the US continues to learn nothing from recent history much less that of any greater length.

So what does this have to do with the title of my post?  After all, isn’t that just a bit cruel and over-the-top?

Not at all, ladies and gentlemen.  I submit that the US has a sufficient problem with the Muslims already extant; witness the recent events in Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, Chattanooga.  Go here for the rather lengthy list of Muslims killing citizens in the US.

It’s no wonder Germans are protesting the Muslim invasion — and make no mistake, it is in fact a Muslim invasion aided and abetted by Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, as she doubles down on stupid and dangerous.  From TheGuardian.com:

Angela Merkel defends Germany’s refugee policy after attacks

Angela Merkel has delivered a staunch defence of her open-door policy towards refugees, insisting she feels no guilt over a series of violent attacks in Germany and was right to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees to arrive last summer.

“A rejection of the humanitarian stance we took could have led to even worse consequences,” the German chancellor said, adding that the assailants “wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly reject this.”

You and a few others may reject the limitation of the purposeful importation of more and more Muslim “refugees” into your country there by dint of extension, all of Europe — but there are many who are tired of your willingness to let whatever guilt exists in your steaming brain, Angela Merkel,  There is already a move afoot to impeach Merkel.

What the title of my post means is this: these are the future murderers of American citizens on behalf of and in the name of Islam.

It’s clear Obama and Merkel have the same goals in mind — a flooding of their countries with Muslim immigrants — but for different reasons.  And it is only the Atlantic Ocean keeping Mr Obama from completely duplicating the efforts of Merkel here in the United States.  No matter, the outcomes will be identical.  They will both be responsible for the murder of their own sovereign citizens at the hands of Muslims.

I can only think of one word at this point: treasonous.

BZ

 

Obama: REFUSING to allow social media screening for K1 visa applicants

San Bernardino Couple Islam

From, of all places, ABCNews.com:

Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says

by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, James Gordon Meek & Josh Margolin

Fearing a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations” for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official.

“During that time period immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process,” John Cohen, a former acting under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis. Cohen is now a national security consultant for ABC News.

Four dead in Benghazi.  Fourteen dead in San Bernardino.  And that policy is SECRET.  I wonder why that might be?

And Obama along with his Leftist Cabal couldn’t care less.  Anyone (except them) can readily be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

There is NO Constitutional RIGHT to a visa of ANY KIND in the US.

Looking at the social media on Tashfeen Malik, I submit, may in fact have saved FOURTEEN people from being killed in San Bernardino.  All it would have taken are a few clicks into Google and entering brief information into some fields.

Tashfeen Malik “passed” three US background checks, yet embraced jihad on social media as documented by the UKDailyMail.com.

REVEALED: San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik openly supported violent jihad on social media yet still passed THREE background checks to gain entry into America

by Evan Bleier

 

  • Malik said she supported violent jihad and that she desired to take part in it

  • If officials found Malik’s messages, her visa likely would have been denied 

  • Screened by Homeland Security and State Department after entering US

  • Three national security and criminal background checks didn’t find posts

  • Malik and husband Syed Farook killed 14 people earlier this month after passing through customs in July 2014 and getting married the next month

This is not just a shame — considering the deaths of fourteen American citizens and twenty-two persons seriously injured — it is plotted and purposeful incompetence.  Information indicates that K1 visa applicants were not checked via social media.  It is not just abominable absurdity and purposeful incompetence.  It is from a Jeh Johnson memo.  It is the POLICY of the United States — because of a politically correct narrative embraced and promoted by Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama once AGAIN, as well as his administration — and Jeh Johnson — has AMERICAN Blood On HandsBLOOD on his HANDS.

NOT to check social media was POLICY.

Obama lies to Americans.

Americans DIE behind Mr Obama’s political correctness because he doesn’t wish to disturb, offend or inconvenience Muslim applicants.

ISIS USES SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RECRUITMENT.

Yet the US fails to — per its policy — and must NOT check social media to “vet” K1 visa applicants.

State Department records show that in 2014 the U.S. government issued nearly 10 million nonimmigrant visas, over 40,000 of which were K-1 fiancé visas like the one Malik used to enter the country.

And yet we think that Obama and this government has the slightest ability to “vet Syrians”?  Much less the actual inclination?

It’s not too terribly far from calls for torches and pitchforks, ladies and gentlemen.

Torches & Pitchforks SmallerBecause, trust me, more Americans can, must and will die due to Obama’s treasonous mission to diminish the power and position of the United States in the world.  Obama wills it.  Obamahu Akbar.

This is an abject abomination.

BZ

P.S.

Check out Powerline’s take on this.

Also check out Hot Air’s take as well.

 

Homeland Security Secretary: Illegals Have ‘Earned Right to be Citizens’

Gold Star For Doing NothingAnd to the obvious detriment of actual Americans?

Clearly the Demorats and a number of Republicans are nuts.

From CNSNews.com:

by Penny Starr

(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at the United States Conference of Mayors on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.”

“An earned path to citizenship for those currently present in this country is a matter of, in my view, homeland security to encourage people to come out from the shadows,” said Johnson, in what he remarked was one of his first public speeches since being confirmed as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief in December.

Really?

And just how have they earned that right?  By doing nothing in order to earn a gold star pasted to their foreheads?  By “showing up”?  Their mere presence is a reason for excellence?  Should we give T-ball holders to illegal Mexicans?  Should we create a program designed to enhance “esteem” in illegal Mexicans?

Should borders mean nothing?  Should law-breaking mean nothing?  Because, if so, I can’t wait.  I’d love to walk into a San Francisco Rolls-Royce dealer and take a new Phantom.  Not because I can pay for one, but because I simply want one and, after all, laws don’t mean anything and my wants and emotions trump logic and budget.  Don’t they?

Apparently so — to both Demorats and Old, Staid Country Club Republicans.

Here’s my challenge to DC and to Leftists and Progressives and Demorats and RINOs of the GOP:

Simply de-criminalize illegals of all shades and stripes.  Remove the word illegal and remove immigration laws from the books.  No more “detainees.”  Certainly, check vehicles and various modes of transportation for illegal contraband and goods, but allow the vertical bipeds to enter entirely unhindered.

You talk some smack.  Now walk the walk.  Put your vote where you ass-music is.

Remove the laws.  You don’t enforce them nor do you want to.  So remove them.

Let anyone and everyone into the country.

Ball’s in your court.

Go.

BZ