I checked into muffled other blogs. Look pretty interesting.
Here’s the latest:
DOJ Employees Invited to Hear Radical Lawyer Edelman and Others Complain
A Department of Justice source has alerted the Muffled Oar that the Department of Justice will be holding a seminar of community organizing activists for Department employees with an agenda of uncertain relevance to the Department’s statutory mission. The invitation reads:
“The Civil Division and the DOJ ProBono Program will host a panel presentation titled ‘Closing the Justice Gap: the increased need for expanded access to justice in tough economic times.’ From 12:30 to 1:30 October 27 in the DOJ conference center media briefing rooms 7411 at the main justice building. Civil division Assistant Attorney General Tony West moderates a panel of prominent leaders in the public interest and pro bono community, including Peter Edelman, Chair of the DC Access to justice Commission; Maureen Syracuse, Director of the DC Bar Pro Bono Program and Chair of the DC Consortium of Legal Services Providers, and Eric Jackson, Vice Chair of the DC Bar Pro Bono Committee. The panel will discuss issues involving access to justice for low income Americans, how the current economic crisis has affected legal services nationally and in DC, and emerging new roles for pro bono attorneys. The event is open to all federal employees. For more information, contact Laura Klein. DOJ Pro Bono Manager at 202-353”
Federal employees will be attending the seminar and reporting back to the Muffled Oar all of the content of the seminar.
Peter Edelman is married to fringe activist and Saul Alinsky eulogist Marian Wright Edelman. Peter Edelman was Chair of the radical New World Foundation which purports to advocate for one world government and other radical causes. He was nominated for a federal court seat but could not obtain Senate confirmation because of his extremist views. He serves on the board of the Center for Community Change, which is designed to “establish community organizing groups across the country.” He works with the pro-illegal immigration group the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. He also serves on the board of the Center for Law and Social Policy, a group that seeks federal money for radical leftist causes.
Maureen Syracuse, a DC Bar employee, makes it clear where her biases lie: “The downturn hit our vulnerable neighbors unflinchingly. Many suddenly found themselves without housing, perhaps because a landlord had been foreclosed on and (illegally) ordered tenants to vacate. As layoffs swept across every sector, our clients scrambled for jobs while their living wage became a poverty wage. Without the health care once provided by an employer, families faced mountains of medical debt. Our clients had so much at stake, and the recession tipped their already delicate balance.” No doubt she was tempted to blame Bush - but even the DC Bar has limits.
Jackson is vice-chair of the Pro Bono Committee of the DC Bar. The DC Bar is a professional licensing organization for lawyers. The 2009 annual report, however, sounds like an auxiliary of the Obama administration. It states: “Challenges and Changes: Fiscal year 2008–2009 has been nothing short of historic and, for all its booms and busts, is best summed up in a single word: change. For the D.C. Bar, 90,000-plus members strong and counting, ‘change’ is a fitting description of the past year as it broke new ground and rallied for bold actions to anticipate future needs and challenges.” So what does this change amount to? “One of the concrete ways the Bar embraced change this year was by relocating its headquarters.”
Something else Syracuse, Edelman and Jackson have in common is that they are all big financial donors to Democrats – including President Obama. Syracuse gave money to failed Virginia Democrat Brian Moran, Jim Webb, John Kerry for President, Emily’s List, and her husband Michael gave Obama at least $1,450. Edelman gave Obama at least $2,300 and 21st Century Democrats $1,000, just in the last two years. Of course Jackson also is an Obama donor, giving $600 to Obama and $1,000 for a Minnesota Democrat for U.S. Senate in the last two years.
The Muffled Oar predicts that the Department is about to engage in behavior and actions which have a tenuous relationship to the statutory powers of the Department. But it will appeal to the community organizing base. Anti-landlord. Anti-lender. Anti-business. And ultimately, Anti-Rule of Law. The Muffled Oar will listen, watch and report.
Posted by Isaac Muzzey at 10:01 PM
I have been aghast at the amount of evil coming from the left, and now it is ensconced in our government to the point of no return.
They are sending our Military to die in a godforsaken hellhole far away from mother and country with no end in sight.
They are hamstringing legitmate Law Enforcement with idiot and BOGUS “civil rights” laws that flaunt their utter malevolence towards the Constitution.
They have taken over the courts, the banks, American industry, whole cities, local schoolboards, and our neighborhoods block by block.
They will proceed to take over your right to live or die.
When, for the sake of heaven, will the American People say enough is enough???
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTA1ZDYyYzVjNmNiYWZlNzgxNDc4MGUyOTY1MjJlNzM=&w=MQ==#
“...Moreover, one of the Civil Rights Division’s little-known secrets — one that should concern many Americans — is that SPL attorneys, to justify opening an invasive investigation, typically do little more than troll through newspaper articles or contact the local ACLU or NAACP chapter to find complaints...
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...More incredible still, the attorney assigned to the Maricopa County investigation, Je Yon Jung, is an active member and former national governing-board representative of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, a left-wing organization that believes all “undocumented” immigrants should be granted citizenship. Ms. Jung maxed out in contributions to President Obama’s campaign and recently applied for a judgeship in the District of Columbia — a position to which President Obama will appoint a candidate...