Monday, March 18, 2013

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

TYRANTS USING CHILDREN AS POLITICAL PROPS IN HISTORY

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BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Mon Jan 16, 2013

I am taking this blog off-topic for once, but only slightly. Benghazi is in many ways very much about armed people protecting unarmed people from other armed people. So is this.

Depending on when you read this, Obama reportedly will or has used children as propaganda props to sell the idea of the first step of de-arming the citizens of the United States when he announces his intention to use executive orders to take away the most effective guns to fight a tyrannical government: assault weapons - because we "don't need them to go hunting". This would have been like our Founding Fathers taking away muskets and telling the people of their time that they could catch animals with traps and knives as an excuse for seeing to it that they could not fight back against the tyranny of a government gone wrong.

Politicians have always kissed babies to look loving and sensitive, that's nothing new. But at no time in the history of this nation has a President been so brazen and so manipulative as to use the image of children to soften resistance to people having their weapons taken away. Until now. 

But it has happened elsewhere. 

HITLER:









Once the people were disarmed, Hitler killed 5 million Jews.

STALIN:






 Once the people were disarmed, Stalin killed 20 - 40 million of his own Russian people.

CHAIRMAN MAO






Once the people were disarmed, Mao killed. Final death toll? Nobody knows.

Today Obama uses images of himself next to children to sell the idea that people will not need guns because he will love and protect them, and that guns hurt good people who love their country. This is exactly what Hitler, Stalin and Mao said before they murdered countless millions of their own people. As Obama gave a stand down order in Benghazi  assuring without a doubt that Stevens and the rest would be murdered, do not assume that Obama is not cut from the same cloth. And when 2 navy seals broke ranks and saved 30 survivors who were witnesses to the events in Benghazi, Obama ordered them whisked off, and after 4 months not even Congress has been told who or where they are, information that is usually given to Congress within 48 hours, according to GOP House Rep Jason Chaffetz. This elimination from the world, of witnesses, and apparently their families, is just exactly what people experienced under Hitler, and Communists Stalin and Mao - and don't assume the media back then told them any more than most of society is getting right now. If not for Fox News, Chaffetz would have had no venue to tell what he knows of this tale, and FOX is a shaky source for truth at best.







When this very disturbing video came out:





It was mocked for seeming like this:





Mocking it was the wrong response. It should have sent out alarms, but like the victims before us whose fate we may also share, we as a society are too frightened and angered by the emotional pain of disappointment when our expectations for a safe immediate environment are confronted by unpleasant reality - so most reject the reality to make the pain go away. The common-sense understanding that Nazism was a strict but benign necessary political construct is how the German people in the late 1930's reacted, certain that their enlightened society would ensure that such nightmares of which some were warning were no longer possible. It's the mistake that the Russians made when they were certain that such a loving man as Stalin, with his wide and charmingly, thickly moustachioed smile, could very obviously never be such a monster. It is the mistake the Chinese people made when they awakened one morning to discover that believing evil among their leaders was impossible was the only choice left allowed to them by the state. 

Those people not so long ago did not live in the stone age. The elites who espoused the tyrants and the media that self-censored itself to the accommodation of dictators were generally intelligent, very well-educated, versed in the classics, poetry, drama, followed style and fashion and regarded their technological age, decades well-into the industrial revolution, as far-removed from barbarism. They, too, mocked the town criers as crazy people and assured themselves that murderous Cesars could no longer be a realistic possibility to the common-sense citizen until the streets ran deep in their own blood.


In every way, now, Obama has been found to be following, point-by-point, the strategies used by and behavior exhibited by those evil, murderous tyrants: His election was marked by intimidation and fraud as the dead voted again by proxy though Obama operatives; Obama's sometimes rambling and unhinged speeches were marked by words like "revenge" - when he was already the President; he has demanded total media obedience, and when Fox News resisted, Obama and his operatives tried to convince America it was not a legitimate source of news information; he is bypassing the legislative process to rule by fiat, already in violation of Constitutional restraints and so far unchallenged by congress; he has ruined the US economy seemingly in pursuit of a communist political structure in America which demands that the capitalist economy be decimated before communism can be ushered in to replace it; he has reduced to rubble our space program and ordered us to now rely on communist Russia to handle everything from our communications satellites to space defense systems; ObamaCare is nothing more than the same socialized medicine used by those prior Tyrants to allow opposition members - or people in areas heavily populated by those known to be among the opposition - to die for need of help while those who support the party are allowed to thrive and vote again in larger proportionate numbers; Obama has politicized religion, and now in Obama's America Christians clinging to their Bibles and supposedly oppressing good people are Obama's stereotype equivalent to what Hitler's stereotypes of Jews were minus the demand for their extermination - for now - and what all religions were to Stalin; Obama lives like a prince with vacations and extravagant personal luxuries without conscience on the tax money of the people whose lives he ruined, as did Hitler and as did and do the Soviet/Russian leaders in the splendor of the palace-like Kremlin while tens of millions starved and froze to death, without work or sustenance; and political enemies - from alleged former homosexual lovers to Bill Clinton's best friend Bill Gwatney, whom it is rumored by those who should know was going to make an announcement that Obama was not eligible to be president - have been murdered.

And now our benign fearless leader, up to his neck in the worst possible political associations imaginable, from communist/terrorist Bill Ayres to "mentor" Communist Frank Marshal Davis, whose "poems" were virtually love letters to the murderous Soviet Red Army, surrounds himself with children and assures us for their sake that he will take away America's weapons because they are now unneeded in our modern and enlightened society because our loving and benign President will protect us from all who do - and say - bad things; just like Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

How do we know that Obama's intentions are for freedom and not tyranny, love and not hate, good and not evil? I use one benchmark: when our people in Benghazi called for help, he told his military specifically to not help them. This was not an unsuccessful attempt to save them. In my opinion it was deliberate murder, because his order was essentially an intentional death sentence for those people and everyone knows it, and instead of an explanation, he lied and told us his orders to the military were to help them. Everyone, including congress, has openly acknowledged that as a lie and other Benghazi lies from Obama, so if you are reading and don't already know all this, be apprised that what you are reading is not internet conspiracy theory. This is fact.

Also fact is the reality that the saved witnesses - unexpected survivors from the Benghazi attack in which Obama clearly made the conscious decision that Stevens and all the rest be killed - have vanished once taken away by the military on Obama's orders. Again congress does not know who they are though everyone agrees the survivors exist. Also fact. Also fact is that this is the kind of thing people experienced in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia and China. Will Obama go the full course and have their memories erased by any number of means which will also remove their identities? Or are they already dead, awaiting an announcement that their hospital had a "disaster"? - but they will be remembered in a somber ceremony by the man likely to have ordered their murder - just like Hitler, Stalin and Mao did. Until the unthinkable which has already occurred is rectified and these people are returned to society where they belong, any theory which follows the pattern set by Hitler, Stalin and Mao, is absolutely valid.


As the days proceed we will read online many useless things from fellow conservatives which have done not one thing for us in the last four years: "They will take my guns over my cold dead hands", "We will rise up", "There will be a revolution". Those remarks are the most dangerous things in the world for a Representative Republic, because they give people a way to vent their anger non-constructively and then go back about their daily lives, the emotional need satiated by pontificating passionately onto a screen, leaving the reality of their plight in the real world unaddressed, allowing evil to eat their country from within like a cancer via nothing less than a communist regime which has taken control, and with the power, in theory, to kill them.

There is only legal way Obama can be stopped, now, and it's a thin but actual hope: For the next two years the House of Representatives will be controlled by the Republicans. In that sliver of a window of opportunity, Benghazi must be investigated, prosecuted and Obama impeached. Obama's removal from office is a trickier matter, but having no clear way forward on removal does not mean we should wait for a master plan before proceeding with resolute action on investigation and prosecution immediately. The United States did not have a sure-fire master plan to beat the British when our Founding Fathers declared independence - they just did it and persevered as the circumstances evolved and what they did was truly dangerous.  Our presidents had no master plan on World war I and World War II; we just fought as best we could, tried to lead, and reacted as best as humanly possible when leading proved impossible. If we wait for a master plan we're finished as a nation because while we suffer from paralysis by analysis, Obama will complete whatever plan it is exactly that he has in mind, and whatever it is, like his other plans and often expressed thoughts, it won't be pretty.

Our primary stumbling block is a country-club, do-nothing GOP House (the minority in the Senate, ironically, has more will to fight)which has the legal power to do it all. The only way they will save this nation, these lazy and quite frankly often not very bright men who if smarter would have chosen more challenging and financially rewarding careers, is to have their easy, three-half-day-a-week work schedule threatened by an angry primary electorate. Already tea party groups are re-emerging from the shadows, but they will fail without you. Public humiliation and concern is what motivates those men because their way of maintaining their easy lifestyle is to convince the public that all is fine. Once the public rises up publicly and states publicly that things are not fine, they scramble. 

Your job is an astonishingly easy one compared to generations past. You don't even need to leave your home. Presumably you have a Twitter account or the chances are you would not even know about this website. Go to Twitter, search the following names: John Boehner, Ted Langford, Lindsey Graham, Peter King, Darrel Issa, Frank Wolf, Jason Chaffetz, (our argumentative Twitter pal, who I still like, Representative) Dana Rohrabacher, Trey Gowdy, John McCain, Kelly Ayote and any others you know. Go to the Twitter page of each. In the "reply" areas of posts/threads already started by them, tell them you want Benghazi investigated and prosecuted and don't be genteel about it, give 'em real hell. If you just post to them directly no one will see it unless they retweet you, and they won't do that. You need to and can put your angry demands, every day, as a reply to their posts and then they are stuck with it, in public, where the people who they need to vote them back into office will see the unflattering demands about Benghazi you write. We need all of you to make this work. Don't assume you will be lost in a crowd - there is no crowd without you. Tell them you want Subpoenas for the witnesses. Tell them you demand to know where the survivors are. And tell them you want it all now and feel no need to be polite. 4 Months of inaction is too long. And for God's sake don't be afraid of the hysterical paranoia from the left of black helicopters designed to frighten you into passive and quiet insecurity: I have been a non-stop thorn in the side of all that is Obama for four years and I am still here to tell you that time is now running out for you to take back America. 


Do it, while you still have an internet to enjoy, because if Obama continues the pattern he has set, following (in their case proven murderous) tyrants of the past, then the internet will soon be restricted to "education" for the children while you are allowed only one personal message a day to a relative, provided you can prove they are ill. Don't shrug off the possibility - the pattern of Obama is clear.

Do it: 

1. Log on to Twitter
2. At the top, Search for Senators and Reps
3. Comment for all to see so the congressmen knows he is being outed for laziness in public
4.Repeat until it becomes a daily habit and then addiction. Once Obama gets your guns, your life may depend on it.

A little prayer while you do it wouldn't hurt, either. I'll see you on Twitter as Frank M Davis Jr. We need to do this and we need to do this today. Starting "tomorrow" won't help. Ask the kids in those pictures with Hitler  Stalin and Mao - many of them died at their benign leader's hands because their parents waited too long to act.


This is an archived Memo from the parent blog, www.benghazi-truth.blogspot.com. Go there to read the latest

Tuesday, March 12, 2013


BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Monday Feb, 18 2013

HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY

BENGHAZI-TRUTH CELEBRATES PRESIDENT'S DAY BY APPRECIATING BARACK OBAMA, THE WORST PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES HAS EVER ENDURED, BY FAR


Let us look with unabashed candor at just exactly what it is we, as Tea party conservatives, managed to help inflict on ourselves by not being as politically activist in 2008 and 2012 as we were in 2010, and cite what Obama has done in 4 years. 

Yes, what we have in part done to ourselves, because we have sat too idle, to be blunt about it. While 20 million of us listened to Rush,  liberals were brainwashing the other 320 million who were not. While we watched FOX News as though they were a conservative outlet, they mocked the birth certificate issue, refused to the cover the very viable question of Obama's social security number, gave people like Sharpton a platform into television legitimacy and now ignore the alarming missing status of the 30 Benghazi witnesses - US civilians all. We attend rallies, talk online, call into talk shows and get together all and openly with each other when we should be shouting all day at congress, tweeting people outside right wing political groups, challenging the media in front of the world and calling FOX out for being exactly what it is, IMO: Mainstream Media Light, and sometime not-so-light.

So on President's Day, let's view Obama through the same prism that he told Hispanic democrats to view us: as the "Enemy". Here's a point-by-point re-assessment of Obama on President's Day.

1. He is clearly using a fake social security number since he was not living in the state it was issued - and has never lived in the state it was issued. His political activist/terrorist/communist pal Bill Ayres is on record as saying that using the identities of dead people is one way he established new identities for Weather Underground members who then went out and bombed public places.  Obama has a fake social security number.

2. He is hiding his records which would confirm or disprove what Sheriff Joe Arpaio - who has the 3rd largest constituency of any duly elected law enforcement official in the United States as well as 50 years of federal and state law enforcement experience - has concluded with his experts: Obama's birth certificate is a fake. 


3. Obama forced through Obamacare when 75% of American people polled made it clear they did not want it. This from a man who as a Chicago Senator promoted the idea of infanticide - killing - innocent babies who survived abortions. This is not internet craziness, there are videos of he, himself, making the case back in the day when he was open about his views.


4. Obama's ability to affect a confident swagger while blatantly lying through his teeth about his - non-existent by any normal standard - accomplishments is breathtaking. As time has worn on and he has grown more comfortable in his role, he has clearly lost the - frankly insulting -   "white man accent" he affected in 2008 and now sounds in tone and cadence much like an obnoxious drug dealer on a playground, lolling his head arrogantly while punctuating sentences with the word, "man". The professor is gone and the punk is back.


5. While the nation spirals into an historic great depression, Obama has taken more vacations than any President in memory, and this is a clear window into his lack of any ethics or conscience: these vacations for a President are incredibly expensive, running tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. Planning, security at every stop and with him, the operation of Air force One, his accommodation - even the food he eats needs to be bought and prepared carefully for security reasons - nothing is left to chance on an incredibly vast scale. In other words, he is living large and partying on the tax money of the people whose financial lives he's ruined, and he clearly feels its his ethical right since he has the power to do it.


6. He has basically gutted the space program we need to defend ourselves from sophisticated nations, and has - apparently intentionally with very bad motivation - put us at the mercy of Russia's space program. Yes, that's right - communist Russia, currently presided over by Putin, a warlord-minded ex-KGB officer; the same KGB who routinely interrogated hundreds of enemies of the state at any given time by strapping them to electric bed springs which were wired for electricity. That's not rumor; CNN and others reported such horrendous torture devices in the KGB Headquarters when the Soviet Union fell. That is the man to whom Obama has ensured we must go to protect ourselves from..... him.

7. Obama is making a seeming power-mad grab for the guns people own. We know why we have the right to bear arms - so we may protect ourselves and our families from our own Government should the government fall into a tyranny. There has not been one time in history when a leader took guns from the people and it turned out to be a good thing for the people. What happened, for example, is that they would up strapped to the electrified bed springs in the KGB headquarters.


8. Obama may be crazy. Literally. For real. Watch this for yourself. If you think he is acting normal in this collection of clips, then ask those who love you if you are acting normal.



9. Obama has seemingly made every move a President could make to ruin this nation financially. The most troubling thing, particularly, is that is how communism teaches to defeat a free, capitalist nation: ruin the capitalist economy and replace it with a communist model. Obama is 100% on-track and if he is not stopped he will likely see to it that he succeeds before the end of his term, because as disturbed as he clearly is, he seems to do nothing without a nefarious plan at the center of his motivation.


10. Obama seems to want the power to do something both chilling and incomprehensible to the American mind: he appears to want the power to arbitrarily determine who constitutes a "threat" ("to the State" as they said in the Soviet Union) with no due process whatsoever and use drones to kill those people within the boarders of the United States. Now, absorb that for a moment. Let it settle. Let it settle firmly. Obama apparently wants to be able to murder any citizen of the United States he simply does not like, and do so at will. If this comes to pass, we will have entered into our own moment where we will have become, IMO, a high-tech version of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. That's not an exaggeration. When a President gives himself the power to kill anyone he wants at will, we are Nazi Germany. Remember, the Russian and German people were not uneducated peasants. They were well-learned, versed in the classics, quoted the great philosophers in casual conversation and were sharp in the arts, fashion and higher learning. But they could not come to grips with the reality that Caesars still could exist in their wonderful countries, and millions of those same people payed for their self-assurance by dying horribly, their stiff, naked corpses piled high in concentration camps by the tens of thousands. If Obama gets the power he seeks, we only have his word that he will not behave like Hitler - there is no other governing agency that can stop him. If Obama gets that power, only Obama can stop Obama.

11. Finally, there is Benghazi. An Ambassador and three others are killed and the first thing Obama does is lie about the cause for two weeks, including to the United Nations Assembly. His talking points about the cause are, as Benghazi-Truth discovered manifestly - no doubt - lifted directly from the Libyan propaganda issued within hours after the deaths with a degree of detail impossible to be known to a government that did not even know who the killers were. It was a lie, known as a lie for other reasons also, acknowledged by mainstream media, and Obama repeated the Libyan lie,and that makes Obama and Libya appear to have acted in concert in the murders. Obama had every chance to save those murdered in Benghazi as we have detailed here. He chose not to, obviously. And the filmmaker who was blamed by Obama on false pretenses and whose life has been ruined is in jail for his "crime" where his life remains in mortal peril, and Obama does nothing to help him.

And now we call out on twitter for hours every day, "WHERE ARE THE BENGHAZI WITNESSES." Thank God we are making a little progress in eliciting Congressional response and public awareness. Most agree that if Obama broke any laws whatsoever in Benghazi, that his Presidency probably screeches to a fast and final halt. That makes the prosecution of Obama on Benghazi a bit more pressing than justice for the dead - it means perhaps literally the survival of many still alive. We have no idea what Obama is capable of if given unlimited power, but he seems to want to stretch his hand out and grab anything that he can which gives him power for its own sake, and that, IMO, makes the situation appear rather dangerous.

So if you see someone Tweeting a Senator, Rep, any public figure, regarding Benghazi  don't just "favorite" and "Retweet" it, find your voice and add your own comment, because it is in large numbers where we can be truly successful in turning the tide on Benghazi. The life you save may just be your own.


Happy President's Day.

KNOW THY ENEMY


BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Thursday/Friday, Jan 31/Feb 1, 2013

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Ancient bamboo copy of "The Art of War" at the University of California, Riverside

"KNOW THY ENEMY" is a famous quote attributed to an ancient Chinese military treatise by General Sun Tzu called "The Art of War". It states, fully, "Know thy self, know they enemies. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." In The Art of War, there are several chapters which even today are regarded as a pretty good template for winning a war. While those who physically murdered our people in Benghazi reside in other countries, those who are keeping us from knowing the truth live and operate right here in the United States. Obama once referred to Republicans to an Hispanic audience as "the enemy", while feigning, Satan-like, the accent of those to whom he was speaking to gain their trust. By Obama's own political precedent  then, we can refer to Obama as "the enemy" who is keeping us from knowing the truth, and keeping us without the facts he is, clearly deliberately. Therefore, it might be of some value to apply the tactics outlined in "The Art of War": to the legal and political strategies to find out what happened in Benghazi. 

First, we need to understand that we have two enemies: Obama, and the GOP House which seems determined to do nothing. This is not an assumption wrongly concluded: Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator John McCain, Senator Kelly Ayotte and other very high-ranking Senators are furious about the Administration's handling of Benghazi. Graham has vowed not to confirm any Obama appointment until the person presently in that point, if in anyone way knowledgeable about Benghazi, has testified before the Senate, and this includes Leon Panetta.

However, the House is a different matter. The degree to which they are not fulfilling their exclusive congressional oversight obligations is becoming a nightmare. Nowhere is this better illustrated than the following exchange from three nights ago between patriots, led by Kathy Amidon, and so-called ranking Republican House member Dana Rohrabacher, whose insensible defenses for not issuing subpoenas, rude and sarcastic demeanor and absolutely not credible claim - illustrated in these screenshots - that was not even aware of the Benghazi survivors until the time of this conversation - three days ago - is infuriating, clearly punctuated by untruth and makes him a clear example of someone who is an "enemy" (your first instinct may be to assume that this is not the real Representative Rohrabacher, but if you check that account, you will see it is followed by his daughter and at least one other rep, Jason Chaffetz, so this is the real deal):

Click on any of the images for a larger, easy-to-read version.


What we have here, absolutely incredibly, is this: a confirmed ranking Republican member of the US House of Representatives, the job of which is oversight and investigation, claiming - literally - to be unaware of the fact that Benghazi survivors even existed - not until Hillary testified months after everyone else was talking about the survivors, but - until after  when a video of Hillary confirming the fact, was made available to him by - pardon my french, but I must -  shoving it under his big fat face on Twitter at Two O'Clock in the frigging morning - a time of day, IMO, which  demonstrates that the Rep does not take his job seriously. That is what we're up against, and it's pathetic, infuriating, and screams "replace me in 2014", whether because of seeming unbelievably lazy oversight incompetence or apparent lies because for whatever he may not want Benghazi investigated while Senators of far greater prestige than he has are demanding it. For anyone anxious for  justice for the Benghazi slain and the release by Obama of the Benghazi witnesses who remain - where, nobody knows, not even congress - Rohrabacher is an 'enemy".

What would Sun Tzu say about this? Let's apply the themes of the chapters of his masterwork to the quest for attaining Benghazi-Truth:

Laying Plans/The Calculations explores the five fundamental factors (the Way, seasons, terrain, leadership and management) and seven elements that determine the outcomes of military engagements. By thinking, assessing and comparing these points, a commander can calculate his chances of victory. 

Way: motivate GOP House; Season: Now; Terrain: varied depending on Rep's political constituency leanings; Leadership: Find the Benghazi hawks and support them; management: motivate yourself into taking action on twitter to talk to the Reps as soon as you are finished reading this article.

Waging War/The Challenge explains how to understand the economy of warfare and how success requires winning decisive engagements quickly. This section advises that successful military campaigns require limiting the cost of competition and conflict.

Way: Convince the GOP House to act quickly and stress that our money is being wasted by their delays as surely as it will be spend investigating and prosecuting. More money, still, will be wasted by repeating these mistakes if we do not find out not just how they were caused, but who caused them, because those mistakes will continue until that Person is legally removed from his authority to make such murderous blunder - if it all wasn't intentional anyway - and that includes Obama.

Attack by Stratagem/The Plan of Attack defines the source of strength as unity, not size, and discusses the five factors that are needed to succeed in any war. In order of importance, these critical factors are: Attack, Strategy, Alliances, Army and Cities.

Way: Attack: convince the GOP House to prosecute Benghazi; Strategy: Tell them Tea Party candidates will be found NOW to challenge them in 2014 primaries if action is not taken immediately. There is no longer any reasonable excuse to delay.

Tactical Dispositions/Positioning explains the importance of defending existing positions until a commander is capable of advancing from those positions in safety. It teaches commanders the importance of recognizing strategic opportunities, and teaches not to create opportunities for the enemy.

Way: Never give an inch of ground in an argument, as Kathy demonstrated above. It's easier to get-long, harder to fight, easier to destroy, harder to create. They work for us. You are the boss. Give it to them straight: work or be fired, not give excuses and be re-hired. It's as simple as that.

Energy/Directing explains the use of creativity and timing in building an army's momentum.

Way: Get all your friends involved on Twitter, Direct message them and Group tweet to set up times to gather on the reply area of a GOP House member and have a discussion between yourselves. Talk of how the GOP needs to get to work on Benghazi, and name any great replacements from the tea Party that could be offered in in 2014 to replace them. Do it in public on twitter. In other words, scare the living shit out of them so they get off their asses and get to work.

Weak Points & Strong/Illusion and Reality explains how an army's opportunities come from the openings in the environment caused by the relative weakness of the enemy in a given area.


Way: This was demonstrated by Kathy who boxed in Rohrabacher by fairly exploring his own claim to not know that survivors existed by making him appear ignorant in front of his constituents, either by pointing out the true ignorance or by causing to backfire the lie of ignorance. Either way, it put the Rep into an untenable position which can now be fairly exploited forever.


Maneuvering/Engaging The Force explains the dangers of direct conflict and how to win those confrontations when they are forced upon the commander.

Way: There are few direct disadvantages in confrontation in this war, but if you are uneasy about it, get a friend or two to join you in  conversation in the response area of the Rep's latest post; talk about how poorly they are performing on Benghazi and agree with each other that a tea party alternative must be found quickly to replace that Rep. Doing so in public like that is good motivation for the rep to do his or her job of oversight and investigation.


Variation in Tactics/The Nine Variations focuses on the need for flexibility in an army's responses. It explains how to respond to shifting circumstances successfully.

Way; once again, Kathy showed how by throwing a video up when the Rep made the astonishing remark of being unaware of the survivors. Ask twitter friends for a video that makes your point if you feel stuck - we'll be at your side in moments.(I DM'd a video link to Kathy, for example)

Start talking to your twitter friends now, choosing a Rep or group of Reps, and start calling them out now. Re-election to their easy jobs on the backs of the people is all politicians have ever cared about. Threaten that and they will work. This is nothing new. Doing it on twitter may be.

See you on the battlefield.



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BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Monday Feb, 25 2013

"BOYCOTT FOX NEWS" is a term which to most of us would have been unthinkable five or six years ago. At that time while Fox ignored the birth certificate issue which seemed to still be a kind of lunatic fringe conspiracy theory - before Obama released a fake birth certificate and changed the landscape of that debate - Fox was doing the heavy lifting generally: Hannity was all over Reverend Wright, they made Sarah Palin front and center, they covered the 9-12 1.5 million-person march in DC later against Obamacare, O'Reilly was rightfully yelling at Barney Frank for destabilizing the United states economy via impossible demands on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack - though O'Reilly was making Al Sharpton legit (also unthinkable 5 years before that) and Shepard Smith was still pretending to not be a shill for the left.

All that has changed. Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio - with 50(!) years law enforcement experience - 30 in the Fed - and constituency of 5 million people determined with his investigators that Obama's birth certificate is a fake, Fox remains silent. Indeed, Arpaio used to be seen regularly on Fox, but no more. Obama's social security issue? Very compelling indeed - anyone can look up the law and see the numbers reported as being Obama's come from Connecticut, and his terrorist pal Bill Ayres has boasted of the Weather Underground using fake SS numbers to elevate members to power. Fox? Nothing.

But the issue of the missing Benghazi witnesses survivors, whose identities have not been released to the Congress for more than 5 months - when Reps like Chaffetz state they are usually apprised in 48 hours, is the last straw. No one can call Benghazi a conspiracy theory. We know the people were murdered - the first Ambassador murdered in 40 years. It's been a big deal. People sat in front of their TVs and watched Hillary look ridiculous reading testimony answers she prepared for months when she should have been recuperating from a concussion. A few strong senators are still determined on the Benghazi issue. Speaker John Boehner looks hopeless, his uncontrollable crying fits on national television, punctuated by spams and wretched facial anguish, appears to be suffering from clinical depression and may not even be in his right mind. And still, for all that, Fox News reports on a murder in Africa (!) day in and out and appears to now being deliberately cover for Obama on the issue of Banghazi.

For as much progress as we have made, my - and our -  concern is that over the weeks and months the media and Obama will simply wait us out until the issue simply vanishes from sedentary collapse. No situation, no matter what it is, can exist in an absolute perpetual steady state. It either grows or it dies. Therefore, we are taking the next step while this movement is still in its infancy and very much growing: we are calling for a 2-day boycott - and I mean a total viewer blackout - 100% - of Fox News on an soon/upcoming Friday and Saturday, and we think he can make a huge dent in their ratings. Their ratings are how they get their revenue. The lower the ratings, the less they can charge for advertising fees. A 30% drop, for example, in viewership over 2 days would send alarms throughout all of NewsCorp - especially since if we can do it once, we can do it again - or permanently  Indeed, some people, weened of Fox for 2 days, may like life better without it,m and then those people are gone for good. Fox will be aware of that possibility, too.

This boycott viewer blackout is not meant to maliciously  hurt their business. It is meant to send a message from audience to entertainment provider: FOX NEWS, WE'RE FED UP WITH BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED. REPORT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE OR WE WILL STOP WATCHING. PERIOD.

I will post links and screenshots to ratings converge online, so no one need guess the before and after effect and play in a daydream world, making up stories as so often happens in online grassroots activism. We will have the hard numbers here, before and after, so you know you will have immediate  no-fooling-around concrete skin in this game.



It's as simple as that. So far we have several Tea Party leaders, a couple of notables and a conservative California radio host who have all said "I'm in".

FOX mocked the "birthers" - who were right. Ignoreed the SS number. Threw Arpaio under the bus. Threw a couple of general guests from years past under the bus. They keep RINO Rove but let go Sarah Palin - who has more followers on twitter than any Fox host, including O'Reilly. Now they are making it clear they intend to cover Obama's rear end on the one issue that even some Congressmen are crying foul about: BENGHAZI  and specifically tracking down the only people who can tell us what happened: the witnesses, whom Obama seems to have somehow taken some kind of control for 5 months, since not one has dared - or been able - to speak out.

CHECK IN EVERY DAY OR SO, PLEASE. THIS FOX BOYCOTT IS COMING IN JUST A WEEK OR SO. LET'S TAKE BACK AMERICA ONE RINO CABLE NEWS CHANNEL AT A TIME.


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BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Monday Feb, 18 2013

HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY

BENGHAZI-TRUTH CELEBRATES PRESIDENT'S DAY BY APPRECIATING BARACK OBAMA, THE WORST PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES HAS EVER ENDURED, BY FAR


Let us look with unabashed candor at just exactly what it is we, as Tea party conservatives, managed to help inflict on ourselves by not being as politically activist in 2008 and 2012 as we were in 2010, and cite what Obama has done in 4 years. 

Yes, what we have in part done to ourselves, because we have sat too idle, to be blunt about it. While 20 million of us listened to Rush,  liberals were brainwashing the other 320 million who were not. While we watched FOX News as though they were a conservative outlet, they mocked the birth certificate issue, refused to the cover the very viable question of Obama's social security number, gave people like Sharpton a platform into television legitimacy and now ignore the alarming missing status of the 30 Benghazi witnesses - US civilians all. We attend rallies, talk online, call into talk shows and get together all and openly with each other when we should be shouting all day at congress, tweeting people outside right wing political groups, challenging the media in front of the world and calling FOX out for being exactly what it is, IMO: Mainstream Media Light, and sometime not-so-light.

So on President's Day, let's view Obama through the same prism that he told Hispanic democrats to view us: as the "Enemy". Here's a point-by-point re-assessment of Obama on President's Day.

1. He is clearly using a fake social security number since he was not living in the state it was issued - and has never lived in the state it was issued. His political activist/terrorist/communist pal Bill Ayres is on record as saying that using the identities of dead people is one way he established new identities for Weather Underground members who then went out and bombed public places.  Obama has a fake social security number.

2. He is hiding his records which would confirm or disprove what Sheriff Joe Arpaio - who has the 3rd largest constituency of any duly elected law enforcement official in the United States as well as 50 years of federal and state law enforcement experience - has concluded with his experts: Obama's birth certificate is a fake. 


3. Obama forced through Obamacare when 75% of American people polled made it clear they did not want it. This from a man who as a Chicago Senator promoted the idea of infanticide - killing - innocent babies who survived abortions. This is not internet craziness, there are videos of he, himself, making the case back in the day when he was open about his views.


4. Obama's ability to affect a confident swagger while blatantly lying through his teeth about his - non-existent by any normal standard - accomplishments is breathtaking. As time has worn on and he has grown more comfortable in his role, he has clearly lost the - frankly insulting -   "white man accent" he affected in 2008 and now sounds in tone and cadence much like an obnoxious drug dealer on a playground, lolling his head arrogantly while punctuating sentences with the word, "man". The professor is gone and the punk is back.


5. While the nation spirals into an historic great depression, Obama has taken more vacations than any President in memory, and this is a clear window into his lack of any ethics or conscience: these vacations for a President are incredibly expensive, running tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. Planning, security at every stop and with him, the operation of Air force One, his accommodation - even the food he eats needs to be bought and prepared carefully for security reasons - nothing is left to chance on an incredibly vast scale. In other words, he is living large and partying on the tax money of the people whose financial lives he's ruined, and he clearly feels its his ethical right since he has the power to do it.


6. He has basically gutted the space program we need to defend ourselves from sophisticated nations, and has - apparently intentionally with very bad motivation - put us at the mercy of Russia's space program. Yes, that's right - communist Russia, currently presided over by Putin, a warlord-minded ex-KGB officer; the same KGB who routinely interrogated hundreds of enemies of the state at any given time by strapping them to electric bed springs which were wired for electricity. That's not rumor; CNN and others reported such horrendous torture devices in the KGB Headquarters when the Soviet Union fell. That is the man to whom Obama has ensured we must go to protect ourselves from..... him.

7. Obama is making a seeming power-mad grab for the guns people own. We know why we have the right to bear arms - so we may protect ourselves and our families from our own Government should the government fall into a tyranny. There has not been one time in history when a leader took guns from the people and it turned out to be a good thing for the people. What happened, for example, is that they would up strapped to the electrified bed springs in the KGB headquarters.


8. Obama may be crazy. Literally. For real. Watch this for yourself. If you think he is acting normal in this collection of clips, then ask those who love you if you are acting normal.



9. Obama has seemingly made every move a President could make to ruin this nation financially. The most troubling thing, particularly, is that is how communism teaches to defeat a free, capitalist nation: ruin the capitalist economy and replace it with a communist model. Obama is 100% on-track and if he is not stopped he will likely see to it that he succeeds before the end of his term, because as disturbed as he clearly is, he seems to do nothing without a nefarious plan at the center of his motivation.


10. Obama seems to want the power to do something both chilling and incomprehensible to the American mind: he appears to want the power to arbitrarily determine who constitutes a "threat" ("to the State" as they said in the Soviet Union) with no due process whatsoever and use drones to kill those people within the boarders of the United States. Now, absorb that for a moment. Let it settle. Let it settle firmly. Obama apparently wants to be able to murder any citizen of the United States he simply does not like, and do so at will. If this comes to pass, we will have entered into our own moment where we will have become, IMO, a high-tech version of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. That's not an exaggeration. When a President gives himself the power to kill anyone he wants at will, we are Nazi Germany. Remember, the Russian and German people were not uneducated peasants. They were well-learned, versed in the classics, quoted the great philosophers in casual conversation and were sharp in the arts, fashion and higher learning. But they could not come to grips with the reality that Caesars still could exist in their wonderful countries, and millions of those same people payed for their self-assurance by dying horribly, their stiff, naked corpses piled high in concentration camps by the tens of thousands. If Obama gets the power he seeks, we only have his word that he will not behave like Hitler - there is no other governing agency that can stop him. If Obama gets that power, only Obama can stop Obama.

11. Finally, there is Benghazi. An Ambassador and three others are killed and the first thing Obama does is lie about the cause for two weeks, including to the United Nations Assembly. His talking points about the cause are, as Benghazi-Truth discovered manifestly - no doubt - lifted directly from the Libyan propaganda issued within hours after the deaths with a degree of detail impossible to be known to a government that did not even know who the killers were. It was a lie, known as a lie for other reasons also, acknowledged by mainstream media, and Obama repeated the Libyan lie,and that makes Obama and Libya appear to have acted in concert in the murders. Obama had every chance to save those murdered in Benghazi as we have detailed here. He chose not to, obviously. And the filmmaker who was blamed by Obama on false pretenses and whose life has been ruined is in jail for his "crime" where his life remains in mortal peril, and Obama does nothing to help him.

And now we call out on twitter for hours every day, "WHERE ARE THE BENGHAZI WITNESSES." Thank God we are making a little progress in eliciting Congressional response and public awareness. Most agree that if Obama broke any laws whatsoever in Benghazi, that his Presidency probably screeches to a fast and final halt. That makes the prosecution of Obama on Benghazi a bit more pressing than justice for the dead - it means perhaps literally the survival of many still alive. We have no idea what Obama is capable of if given unlimited power, but he seems to want to stretch his hand out and grab anything that he can which gives him power for its own sake, and that, IMO, makes the situation appear rather dangerous.

So if you see someone Tweeting a Senator, Rep, any public figure, regarding Benghazi  don't just "favorite" and "Retweet" it, find your voice and add your own comment, because it is in large numbers where we can be truly successful in turning the tide on Benghazi. The life you save may just be your own.


Happy President's Day.



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BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO

Filed for FRIDAY - SUNDAY Feb, 15 -17 2013

EDIT: BE SURE TO SEE SOMEWHAT SHOCKING EDIT, IN RED, BELOW, WITH BIG IMPLICATIONS

TELLING THE RIGHT WING MEDIA HOW TO DO ITS JOB in public is done on a regular basis casually online among conservatives, but it's time we stepped up the game and started making the activity a bit more formal and direct. Hannity, O'Reilly and the rest at FOX NEWS have created a pretty cute game: blaming "mainstream media" for faults of which they themselves are also guilty, while they themselves, with the highest ratings on cable, also absolutely qualify by any measure as "mainstream media". Repeat: Fox News is also Mainstream Media. Play-pretending to not be what they are while projecting their own failures on others has got to stop.

Here are 2 very recent examples of the media handling Benghazi, a right way and a wrong way, from February 14, 2013 - last night as of this writing.

The first one is HOW YOU DO IT RIGHT. It is the excellent Bret Baier on his nightly cablecast interviewing Benghazi hawk GOP Senator Lindsey Graham - Graham one of the few true heroes exposing the Benghazi outrage.

Baier asks Graham what needs to be asked: What about the survivors? Benghazi-Truth only gives this exchange a 70% approval rating because it discusses only procuring the now-hidden records of the FBI/CIA questioning of the witnesses the night of the killings, and not the more salient issue of demanding that the Obama administration release the names of the witnesses so Congress can call them to testify directly. But compared to other news outlets and Fox personalities, it's badly needed Manna From Heaven.


IMO here now is how it is not done. When some of us tweeted Greta Van Susteren, the 10:00 PM EST host of Fox News' "On The Record", she, in her brief responses, gets clearly snippy and asks us - the people - to basically set up an interview for her worth probably a million bucks. That instead of doing the kind of investigative journalism she has displayed on things such as the Van Der Sloot case. IMO, disgraceful responses (click each image for larger, easy-to-read images).




After this first exchange, Greta took what looks at first blush like a meaningful first step, but without mentioning this most important possible of political stories on her TV show, only the following Twitter post, she appears to be only throwing a bone to look busy so she no longer has to deal with the issue thereafter. In the new global town hall of Twitter, assuming your audience is stupid enough to not see this for what it is, is IMO not the way to do it. 


EDIT: TONIGHT, SAT, 2/16/2012: Tonight on Twitter we were attempting to persuade Judge Jeanine Pirro to report on the issue of the Benghazi Witnesses on TV, and at the end of tonight's TV telecast, she addressed us directly and said.... EXACTLY WHAT GRETA SAID, ABOVE, ESSENTIALLY VERBATIM: "If you know a Benghazi Survivor, have them contact me."

Until we can get the video (which you can presumably see on the Sunday night rerun on FOX), all I can offer are at this moment screenshots of the twitter exchanges where she twice, albeit cryptically, mentions the above-quoted remark,"If you know a Benghazi Survivor, have them contact me" although e devoe mentions her remark directly (highlighted in green) Click for larger version:

Now what is one to make of this? Coincidence is impossible of course - ridiculous - as asking the audience to do their (host's) research and set up their interviews is utterly unprecedented at this broadcast level. For both hosts to make this case two nights apart is IMO no possible coincidence. There seem to be only two possibilities for these two to give the same responses: they are either friends and Greta came to Pirro's "rescue" from the bad conservatives who are hounding them to do their most basic job to expose a catastrophic scandal by providing Pirro with the same terrible response she gave us on twitter, above, or FOX, Newscorp or a/some Fox News Exec(s) has(have) sent down the apparent company line on the Benghazi Witnesses: "You do our work for us & we'll do a segment on it on TV and reap the benefits. Maybe. No promises." Unbelievable. 

One thing is for sure: we are making a difference. We have had support and dust-ups on Twitter with Congressmen and celebrities. Now we are being bullshitted - almost by name - on National Television. Presumably if they do not edit it, you can see this moment around 9:50 - 10:00 PM EST on the Sunday Night rerun on 2/17/2013 of Justice With Jeanine Pirro on the FOX NEWS channel.


As always, I remain convinced, now, as do many others, that Obama wanted the people in Benghazi dead. With so many options to save them, it seems that the only way they could be dead today is if he wanted them dead. Here were just a few of Obama's options to save them:

1. Remove them from Benghazi when Britain realized the danger was so severe they pulled their people out.


2. Remove them from Benghazi when Stevens sent his first cable saying they could not survive an attack they felt was coming


3. Remove them from Benghazi when Stevens sent his second cable saying they could not survive an attack they felt was coming


4. Send them military protection when the first or second warning cable from Stevens came or when Britain got out.


5. Send them to the Annex and fortify the Annex with military when the first or second warning from Stevens came.


7. Send military immediately when attack first detected.


8. Immediately contact the Libyan Government to help by sending armed Libyan military to consulate and Annex (the fact that Obama did not contact Lybia until the next day, when all were dead, and Lybia did not contact him, knowing what was happening in their own country, suggests a possible - perhaps likely -  collusion between Obama and Lybia in the killings)

And now that we know there are 25-30 survivor witnesses, confirmed by Hillary Clinton in her congressional testimony, who have not been seen or heard from for 5 months after the military flew them out. Not one stepping forward to tell, not one requested by Obama to tell a story, Obama fighting Congress to keep their stories from being heard. For all we know Obama has had them all killed and is waiting for our interest to get distracted and go away from Benghazi. We have nothing to go on but a pop culture assumption that Obama must be too good for that because he's our President, and from Hitler & Stalin onward, we have seen what happens when "enlightened people" look away from the facts.


IMO, if left to people like Greta van Susteren and Judge Pirro, Obama will get his wish.

On Monday, President's Day, we want to get everyone who comes in once in a while and tweets with the crowd and make a huge crowd activity of it, Tweeting both GOP congress and Media.


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Here's another outstanding guest memo by BT's resident military expert, "Sergeant Major". Read this carefully: he makes some very important points no one else has made.


GUEST BENGHAZI-TRUTH DAILY MEMO
Filed for Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
NOTE: Unsurprisingly, this has been a particularly popular Daily Memo, so Benghazi-Truth will keep it as the top memo until Feb 15. THIS IS A MUST-READ.  

By Sergeant Major

Last week the Senate Armed Forces Committee conducted a hearing into the #BENGHAZI Massacre. Five major players emerged: Senators McCain, Ayotte and Graham who "questioned" Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chief of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey. The hearing followed other #BENGHAZI hearings in that alibis were in abundance and true facts rare as a Bible in Baghdad  One such fact did emerge-a big one-so stand by for that.

General Dempsey was an embarrassment. In an ill tailored uniform (sleeves too short revealing 3" of shirt cuff where regs allow for no more than a half inch), the General slouched in his chair, leaned on his elbows and answered questions with a subtle smirk on his face. His testimony began with "Yes", "No", and multiple "Yeahs" (!) instead of "Yes Sir or No Ma'am" as required by military courtesy. More to the point, his sometimes confused responses were a smorgasbord of the "not my fault", "have a lot on my plate", "you'll have to ask someone else" variety. No wonder his command failed at #BENGHAZI. To quote Patton as he reviewed his new troops in Tunisia, "They don't look like soldiers. They don't act like soldiers. How do you expect them to fight like soldiers?"

Secretary of Defense Panetta was a little better. Affecting an avuncular, even lugubrious style, Panetta was rarely shaken or goaded into intemperate ("What does it matter how they died!?") remarks. He has survived around Beltway Power in a variety of positions and knows how it works. He realizes that OBAMA is his boss and must do what he can to protect him but not at the expense of his own career. In other words, Panetta won't stab OBAMA in the back but he won't fall on his sword for him either. As such, it was Panetta that gave up the new factoid.

Of the three senators, McCain was least effective  though he did take General Dempsey to task for his "surreal" testimony. This upbraiding was deserved but not germane to what happened at #BENGHAZI. Senator Ayotte was a touch too wordy, but her questions stayed on target-what was done to defend #BENGHAZI-which elicited a patronizing, disrespectful response from the General. 

It was Senator Lindsey Graham that tore Panetta/Dempsey a new one. His rat-a-tat questions, interruptions of filibustering answers ("I'm Sorry to interrupt you, but I have only so much time") and stern tone kept Panetta/Dempseys' feet to the fire. Graham's questions extracted a scenario of a command in disarray and confusion with no one truly calling the shots. Graham: "Who was in charge that night?" Panetta, shrugging:"I guess we all were in charge that night." 

But the best salvo came at the end.

Graham: "Was there any soldier...of any kind...deployed from any base... anywhere... enroute to support #BENGHAZI?" 

The Secretary of Defense and the General fumbled for an answer until Panetta stammered, "No, because we couldn't get there in time." 

To which Graham barked, "How did you know 'in time'? You didn't know before it was over when it would end."

The Big Fact revealed by Panetta was that OBAMA was AWOL that night. According to the Secretary, he and the General had a 20-30 minute briefing with the President at 5;00 pm Washington time where OBAMA was apprised of the deteriorating situation in #BENGHAZI. The President was distracted, detached and offered little guidance except, "Do what you can." All night long OBAMA did not ONCE talk to them either to ask or answer questions involving the staus of the situation at #BENGHAZI. This is important. Without rehashing a previous blog on Chain of Command, suffice to say before ANY rescue force of ANY kind can militarily enter Libyan airspace or violate Libyan boundaries these forces would first receive Presidential authorization, referred to as "Cross Border Authority". If OBAMA wanted #BENGHAZI to burn and the Ambassador to die all he need to do was make himself incommunicado, thus hamstringing the rescue effort. "Not To Act Is To Act" And that's exactly what a sleeping OBAMA did.

Still, the question remains. According to reports, a "Stand Down" order was given that night of 9/11/12. Since Hillary, Panetta, Demsey deny they gave the order, and OBAMA was sleeping, SOMEONE on the White House staff played President that night and Stood Down the rescue.

WHO GAVE THE ORDER TO STANDDOWN AT #BENGHAZI?

EDITOR: Since Sergeant Major's Memo has been up for 2 days, I don't feel too disrespectful to reiterate what my own feeling his here so the reader knows where this blog stands on the issue generally; in the second to last paragraph, Sergeant Major notes that if Obama wanted to kill everyone in Benghazi, he needed do nothing more than turn his back and remain uncommunicative to questions and answers. It has become my own conviction that Obama did, indeed, want everyone in Benghazi dead. After all these months, only one scenario seems to hold together and fit:  For whatever reason, possibly to cover gun-running, an operation Rand Paul believes was likely, IMO Obama, probably in concert with the Libyan Government whose propaganda about the killing being caused by a mob incensed by an anti-Muslim video was clearly the lead for Obama's own lie on the cause of the killings, decided that all in Benghazi must die. This seems extremely likely as Obama had many opportunities before and during Sept 11, 2012 to send reinforcements or get the people out and he very clearly intentionally did neither.  With so many options to help them, it seems clear that the only way those people could be dead today is if Obama wanted them dead. What would have gone wrong, then, is the two ex-SEALS breaking ranks and saving 25-30 unwanted witnesses, and that too holds, since Obama is steadfastly refusing to give up any information to Congress about the identity or location of the witnesses after 5 months, information usually offered to Congress within 48 hours of similar events. None of the witnesses have stepped forward, nor their families, and this is of course fraught with alarming, Nazi-esque implications of unconstitutional holding or worse. As melodramatic and truly unprecedented that may sound for a situation in the United States of America, that is how the facts shake out. The people of this country are not stupid. We need to hear the witnesses and we need to hear them now.