On Tuesday, across the state of Pennsylvania, unions and other Left-wing organizations will be boarding buses and heading to the state capitol in Harrisburg to engage in a mass rally to fight for economic and social justice and against budget cuts. The rally, is being organized by the Coalition for Labor Engagement and Accountable Revenues (CLEAR) which is comprised of government unions, such as AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), PSEA (part of the NEA), SEIU, as well as the AFL-CIO, IAFF, UFCW and others. The economic agenda of the rally organizing group CLEAR consists of raising taxes on consumers and retailers, internet shoppers and vendors, corporations and, of course, the wealthy. CLEAR is clear, they do not want any cuts in spending. Also in attendance will be a diverse group of other organizations, such as: Just Harvest , a community-organizing group that has been “sowing the seeds of economic justice since 1986″ Pittsburghers for Public Transit Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania In addition, there will be elementary schoolchildren bused in from all over the state. In Lancaster, PA, concerned parents contacted the local newspaper with their concerns , which caused one school to cancel the “field trip”: Plans to have Wickersham Elementary School students participate next week in a rally opposing cuts in the state education budget have been canceled in the wake of complaints from parents. The school Wednesday sent home a permission slip asking parents to allow their children in grades three to five to attend the Rally for a Responsible Budget in Harrisburg Tuesday. [snip] “ The fact that they’re taking kids and teachers out of school to attend this rally is just plain wrong ,” said Julie Zug, whose son is a fourth-grader at Wickersham. “I have no idea how many schools or districts in Pennsylvania are participating, but it sounds like an awful expense to prop up the teachers’ union. “ How many parents are unaware their kids are being used in this manner ?” The rally is being sponsored by the Coalition for Labor Engagement and Accountable Revenues, a group that includes the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and several other public-service unions that are planning to bus hundreds of members to Harrisburg. In a letter to parents accompanying the permission slip, James said the trip would provide an opportunity to “model the role of good citizenship, free expression, fairness and thoughtful deliberation.” “Please join us as we … travel to Harrisburg to let our voice be heard for a responsible budget for public education,” he urged parents in the letter. In addition to the permission slip, the school sent home a sample letter for parents to send to lawmakers opposing education funding cuts, as well as a sample script for parents to read when calling their legislators, according to parents. It’s unknown how many parents will be having their children be used as a government-union prop. What is also unknown, as referenced above, is the number of parents who may not know that their children are being used as government-union props next Tuesday. _________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 X-posted .
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Yesterday, as in states around the country, another union protest took place. This time, the public-sector union members crowded around and chanted in Annapolis, Maryland—a state that has no chance of reforming the monopoly that public-sector unions have on its government. In attendance were up to 15,000 union activists, according to an AFSCME spokesman who helped organize the protest. Among the speakers at the rally was AFL-CIO top boss Richard Trumka, who hit the highlights of his usual class-warfare stump speech : “Madison is just the beginning, this right here is only the beginning, you ain’t seen nothing yet,” said Trumka before an energized and cheering crowd. “Scapegoating teachers and public workers is bad policy and it’s flat a** wrong.” Trumka said the larger fight remains between the “haves” and the “have nots.” “When the rights of workers in one state can be stolen, all of us should feel a little less secure,” said Trumka. “This is about the corporate CEO agenda that equals more, more, more for them and less, less, less for us.” With labor battles sprouting up throughout the midwest, Trumka remained optimistic that the people will prevail. “Together, we’re a movement,” said Trumka. “We stand for our children and grandchildren, and tonight, you have been heard.” That Maryland is controlled by Democrats and that the budget cuts the protesters were protesting have been proposed by Democrats was apparently lost on the protesters, as well as Trumka. Especially as the keynote speaker of the evening was the very governor proposing the cuts: Democrat Governor Marty O’Malley. As noted by the Maryland Reporter : It was a bizarre finale to a rally that brought thousands of state workers and teachers to Annapolis to protest cuts in pensions, retirement benefits and pupil spending. The last speaker was none other than the man who had triggered the rally by proposing the cuts: Gov. Martin O’Malley. “I don’t like this budget either,” O’Malley said in a short speech. He was met by cheers, some grumbling, and the evening’s chant of “Keep the Promise.” He proclaimed his strong support for collective bargaining rights for public workers. “Our state is not like other states,” the governor said. “You will not find in Maryland the sort of Midwestern oppression that you find in Ohio and Wisconsin.” The mixed messages at the rally were a sign of the co-dependency between the public officials who rely on teachers and unions for their base of support and the public employee unions that rely on the governor for their funding. A “mixed message” is an understatement. With a governor bashing other states’ solutions to the mess public-sector unions and their political puppets have helped create by gaming the system, O’Malley’s pandering to the union crowd is nothing less than hilarious hypocrisy. _________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 Cross-posted on BigGovernment.com .
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On a rainy Sunday afternoon, several hundred protesters gathered in New York City to make their displeasure known with Long Island Republican Congressman Peter King’s impending hearings on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response” which are due to commence on Thursday. The most peculiar aspect of this rally was not the presence of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons nor was it the display of signs that read, “I am a Muslim, too.” Rather the most peculiar aspect of this rally was where it took place. After all, it was a mere ten months ago that Faisal Shahzad attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square and if not for an alert street vendor there might not have been a Times Square at which to hold the rally much less for Dick Clark to bring in a new year. While Shahzad was not born and raised in the United States (although he did become an American citizen in 2009) the man who inspired him to carry out the plot most surely was. In the absence of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki is arguably the most powerful voice al-Qaeda has to offer. The fact that Awlaki was born in this country and spent a good part of his early childhood and early adulthood here makes him invaluable to al-Qaeda and that much greater a danger to the United States. Consider what Awlaki said during an audio recording he made in March 2010: I could not reconcile between living in the U.S. and being a Muslim, and I eventually came to the conclusion that jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every other Muslim . So let us not forget that it was Awlaki’s literature that helped inspire the American born Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (formerly known as Carlos Leon Bledsoe) to carry out a drive-by shooting in front of a military recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas in June 2009. The shooting spree resulted in the death of Private William Long while wounding Private Quentin Ezeagwula. When authorities in Little Rock detained Muhammad he said, “It’s a war going on against Muslims, and that is why I did it.” So let us not forget that it was Awlaki’s e-mail correspondence with the American born Nidal Malik Hasan that helped spur him to shout “Allahu Akbar!!!” as he killed twelve of his fellow soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood in November 2009. And let us not forget it was Awlaki’s e-mail correspondence with the American born Abu Talhah al-Amrikee (formerly known as Zachary Chesser) that provided him with the inspiration in April 2010 to post an online message threatening South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone if an episode depicting the Prophet Mohammed was aired. Last month, Amrikee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his threats to Parker and Stone as well as for his support of the Somali terror organization, al-Shabaab. While no one lost their lives, the threat prompted Comedy Central to not only pull the two-part episode after its initial airing but also pull a nearly decade old episode which also depicted Mohammed. So let us also not forget that when cartoonist Molly Norris attempted to show solidarity with the South Park creators by organizing “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” it was Awlaki himself who called for Norris to be killed. The FBI advised Norris to change her name, give up her livelihood and go into hiding, which she did last September. Now one could make the case that Awlaki’s influence only reaches but the thinnest sliver of America’s Muslim community. But when that thin sliver is enough to result in a person having to change her identity, a television network having to jettison its programming — and results in the deaths of American soldiers on American soil — then we have a problem that warrants governmental attention. You would think American Muslims would be eager to denounce those who commit such acts in their name and would welcome such scrutiny. But alas the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) states that King’s hearings “on the alleged ‘radicalization’ of American Muslims” have “sent a shudder through our community.” In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Georgetown University professor John Esposito (a convert to Islam) all too predictably likened King and the hearings as ” a successor to Senator Joseph McCarthy and a new neo-McCarthyism.” Quite frankly, I don’t know what American Muslims are so afraid of. Representative King will have his hearings. Those hearings will likely result in a report with recommendations and those recommendations will be ignored by Congress, dismissed out of hand by the Obama Administration and be left to gather dust on the shelf. I suspect that by the time the dust is blown off King’s report it will be after someone has succeeded in turning Times Square into ash.
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They say the drone attacks have turned a seventh century Islamist shi&hole a peaceful Waziristan into a “hell for its people and caused mental disorders”… ( The News ) — In a rare show of strength, hundreds of tribesmen took to the streets in Miramshah on Friday and staged a big protest against the US drone attacks and alleged killing of innocent people in North Waziristan tribal region. The tribesmen kept all markets, shopping centres and public and private educational institutions closed to show their anger over the drone attacks. Interestingly, clerics and tribal militants were conspicuous by their absence in the first-ever anti-drone rally in North Waziristan. Tribal sources said it was a show of tribal solidarity in which the Utmanzai tribesmen from the Dawar and Wazir tribes expressed resentment over the frequent missile strikes by unmanned US aircraft. School and college students, traders, transporters and shopkeepers also participated in the protest rally. Tribal journalists, who normally avoid filming in the restive tribal region, were especially asked by the tribesmen to cover the rally and take pictures of the event. Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the US President Barack Obama, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, CIA chief Leon Panetta, and CIA station chief in Pakistan Jonathan Banks, the protesting tribesmen marched on various roads before reaching the Miramshah Bazaar for the rally. Speakers at the rally said the United States had turned a peaceful Waziristan into a hell for its people and caused mental disorders. They said Barack Obama, Leon Panetta and Jonathan Banks were equally responsible for the killing of innocent tribal people, including women and children. They asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the killings by the US spy planes in North Waziristan. The speakers said the United States should tell the world as to why it was frequently using lethal arms against the hapless people of North Waziristan. “The whole world knows that none of those involved in the 9/11 attacks on the US were Pakistanis or Waziristanis. Why are they mercilessly killing us?” asked one of the speakers and noted tribal elder, Malik Anwar Khan.
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Pakistani “Trible” Peoples Protest Drone Attacks
