Posted on 02/21/2006 8:45:22 PM PST by OnRightOnLeftCoast
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, is once again attempting to do an end run to the right of any and all potential Republican opponents she might face for the presidency in 2008. Of course, when you are vying to be the first female president, it never hurts to appear as tough as possible on national security issues, either.
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This begs the question: if it is good at the ports, why not at the airports?
Answer: This company isn't doing security at the ports.
Why aren't people who are upset about the ports upset about that?
Good question!
I do not trust any dem in matters of national security and keeping America safe.
So, I'm assuming she was against the ChiComs buying the ports on the West Coast, right?
Nor are they doing security at the ports.
The ports have terminals owned or operated by foreign companies, and foreign-owned ships sail into those terminals. Security is provided by the DHS.
Airports have terminals owned or operated by foreign companies, and foreign-owned airplanes "dock" at these terminals, where they are unloaded by the foreign company workers, who go through the same security clearance procedure as the workers at the docks.
In other words, they are very similar.
And have the same REAL problem -- not the ownership in the U.S., where we have good control over the workers, but the ownership and operation at the ports and airports of origin, where we have very LITTLE control.
If the paranoid are truly correct, we should be pushing for U.S. ownership of all foreign ports and airports where goods and people are sent to the U.S.
EVERY Day!!! Ask her about the 900 FBI files, Vince Foster's death, Travel Gate, algorejr and the Buddist Nuns, chicom dollar$, Ron Brown etc. Never let a chance to ask her pass. Pour it on!
I honestly do not think a liberal woman can win the presidency. Screech, screech is not a good campaign slogan. Hillary is not her husband. Hillary is just another ugly feminist.
"Hillary Clinton appears to be so confident of her invincibility in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination that she is courting the middle while ignoring the Left."
Indeed. The Democratic Party is no longer democratic in structure, but quasi-communistic. Quite simply, no one has the nerve to oppose Hillary.
For some time I have been running the same tag line. I was notified by an FR post, recedntly, that "Hillary wants to kill all the freepers." Since the post was addressed to me, I took it a bit personally.
Here is the old tag I have been running:
"Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv"
I have decided this is, perhaps, a little harsh on the old gal. Not saying I won't go back to it, but I am suspending the old tag for now.
Sorry,
Hillary
The Davidson described below is the founder of the National Taxpayer's Union. Although he is a conservative, he supported Clinton in 1992.
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Don't forget her union goon squad hired muscle that beat up dissents at Hillary appearances.
That seems to be today's position. Of course, for the right amount of grease to one of Bill's foundations and .......?
Maybe they lack a good source for tires. :-)
"Don't forget her union goon squad hired muscle that beat up dissents at Hillary appearances."
Never heard of it. Tell me more (with reference if possible).
DON ADAMS UPDATE: Urgent Help Needed on Appeal (2/25/2004)
The case he and his sister Teri are waging against the Teamsters, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, and Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham is in imminent danger of failing for lack of funds.The case he and his sister Teri are waging against the Teamsters, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, and Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham is in imminent danger of failing for lack of funds.
[snip]
REMEDIAL SECTION:
Who-what-where:
There was I time on FreeRepublic when I didn't have to introduce the topic of Don Adams. Other than Whitewater, it was FreeRepublic's first cause celebre.
In as few words as I can bear to muster, this is what happened. On October 2, 1998, Don and his sister Teri were beaten by members of the Teamsters Union for the crime of protesting against Clinton in Philadelphia.
(I myself had been attacked by the same mob earlier in the day, and I witnessed the Adams incident. I reported the events on FreeRepublic. One famous result was that it prompted Jim Robinson to call for a march on Washington, DC, which drew around 4000 people on October 31, 1998, to demand Clinton's impeachment.)
The DA filed no charges, so Don and Teri Adams pursued private criminal complaints against two of the Teamsters (Kevin McNulty and Marc Nardone), along with Teamster Local 115 boss Johnny Morris. In response, the Teamsters filed charges against Don Adams. McNulty and Nardone copped a plea and got probation. Morris walked. Don Adams was subjected to the indignity of a trial, and was acquitted in July, 1999. Meanwhile, three other Teamsters were identified from video: Charlie Davis, Mark Hopkins, and Norma Bottomer. Don and Teri Adams filed another private criminal complaint, to which the defendants copped pleas and received probation.
In November of 1999, IBT President James Hoffa ordered that Teamsters Local 115 be placed into trusteeship, and that Johnny Morris be stripped of his powers, partly as a result of the Adams beating incident. Morris contested this bitterly until the end of his life.
The civil phase has been lurching along slowly since the end of the criminal phase.
Why you should care:
It is the business of Freepers to exercise our rights under the First Amendment. When we talk back to power, we have an expectation of being secure in our persons, in our property, and in our liberty. If Don and Teri Adams lose, none of these expectations are valid. It will mean that the men in power can silence us at will, without serious consequences. Five foot-soldiers of the totalitarians have received probation. That's something. But unfortunately Don and Teri have been made to pay a long series of terrible prices over the last five years, and much more lies ahead. I expect it to get worse for them before it gets better.
Would YOU be up to it?
LINKS:
The Don Adams Page is now defunct, but a version of it remains cached on archive.org (Warning: slow to load).
Civil Case:
- My Affadavit For The Don Adams Civil Case
- My Subpoena From Teamsters Local 115 (Don Adams Case)
- Rendell Threatens to Walk During Deposition
Johnny Morris criminal case:
- Court KOs Activist in Fight with Morris [DON ADAMS UPDATE]
- DON ADAMS PRESS RELEASE: Criminal Complaint Against Teamster Leader John Morris Dropped
Davis, Hopkins, Bottomer criminal case:
- Teamster Trio To Be Sentenced Today For Beating Clinton Protesters
- Teamsters Sentenced to Probation in Adams Beating Case
- 3 Teamsters are Sentenced for Roughing Up Protester
McNulty and Nardone criminal case:
Hillary 'GOON SQUAD' Victim Goes Public (December 2002)
The incident took place at New York City's Israeli Day parade at the height of Mrs. Clinton's 2000 campaign for the Senate, where, by all accounts, the then-first lady was roundly booed by the crowd as she stoically marched from block to block.A member of the Web site FreeRepublic.com, dressed for the occasion as the devil, joined the crowd to add his voice to the protest. He recounted the episode:
"To suppress opposing views in the crowd, the Clinton campaign had people on both sides of the street walking the route with Hillary-but behind the barriers. They were carrying professionally printed pro-Clinton signs."
"Before she passed," he recalled, "they shoved me back and got in front of me, holding their signs in front of mine. However, my signs had a 3-foot handle and I raised them up."
At that point, recounts the FreeRepublic protester, "I was poked in the eye by a finger inserted to the eyehole in my mask."
In his recently released book, On the Road with Hillary, Mr. Halley details his eight-year stint as Mrs. Clinton's advance man, where one of the most important jobs was stifling protests like those staged by FreeRepublic, using physical intimidation when he deemed it necessary.
"Less genteel souls," Halley explaned, sometimes referred to his protest busters as "goon squads"-although he preferred the term "etiquette squads."
"I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested," he boasts in the book.
Every now and then, Halley siad, even he would have to throw a punch or two.
During a trip to Moscow while Mrs. Clinton was first lady, the advance man recalled:
"A photographer blocked my way and, trying to get a picture of Hillary in her limo, pushed me. I hit him square in the face so hard I thought I'd broken my hand. His nose exploded in an eruption of blood and I was able to shove him out of the way and jump into the lead car."
When it came to his protest busters, Halley says he "never advocated physical confrontation and always insisted that the etiquette squad stay within the boundaries of the law."
But in the next breath he confessed, "Sadly, but inevitably, things sometimes got a little frisky, but my recruits knew how to handle themselves....I had heard rumors that they had been very adamant about defending themselves when set upon by protesters."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=goonsquad
There are other relevant search terms.
I recall one exchange quoted between a defendant and the judge who asked if given the record of violence among the men he got to provide "security", if he did not have advance knowledge or suspicion that they might violently confront dissenters.
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