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This just in from the California MAGA underground: "You have probably all heard that ICE Agents are rounding up Illegal Aliens in the San Francisco Area tomorrow. RESIST groups are forming "Rapid Response" teams to warn people if ICE Agents are seen in the area. They will try to go to where ICE Agents are forming and interfere by doing stuff like puncturing their tires, etc. Check the link below. If you have a "Rapid Response" team in your area for Criminal Aliens then please take a minute and send them to Dairy Queen or some other place in your...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52311 Emergency Response Units Won’t Perform Law Enforcement, Official Says By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2008 – The Pentagon’s three new rapid-response task forces will assist civil authorities during possible terrorist attacks or natural disasters, but they won’t perform law-enforcement missions, a senior Defense Department official said here yesterday. Some people have surfaced concerns that active-duty soldiers, who make up the core of the first 4,700-member joint task force established in early October, could be used to perform police functions, which would be in violation of the...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2008 – Pentagon officials have established a new rapid-response joint task force and plan to create two more in coming years to bolster assistance to civil authorities following potential chemical, biological or nuclear attacks or natural disasters, a senior U.S. official said here yesterday. The new units will team with other federal agencies in support of local responders following chemical, biological or nuclear terror attacks on the homeland or during natural disasters, Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas’ security affairs, told American Forces Press Service and Pentagon Channel reporters. The establishment...

WASHINGTON – The president's top economic advisers are pledging to work with their counterparts around the world to restore confidence and stability to financial markets roiled by tight credit and worries about a global economic slowdown . The President's Working Group on Financial Markets said in a statement Monday it planned to quickly implement the expanded authorities granted to federal regulators by the $700 billion rescue package passed on Friday. The working group was formed after the 1987 stock market crash. The group, which includes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, said it planned to move...

/begin my translationMarine Veteran's Association to Organize Crack Unit to Guard General MacArthur's Statue   3,000 Marine vets held a rally at Freedom Park, vowing to guard the statue 16 Branches of Marine Veteran's Association to organize patrol squads... as well as a rapid response unit2005-09-16 10:28:53 A Marine vet at 'The Rally to Safeguard General MacArthur's Statue',Sept. 15, 2005(by Chung Sun-shik from dailian.co.kr) While the controversy continues over removing General MacArthur's statue, the Marine Veteran's Association decided to resolutely defend the statue starting from Sept 15, the 55th anniversary of Inchon Landing, which could escalate the tension between conservative organizations and radical...

Kerry: Swift Boat Vets for Bush Ad Fact Check - 'Medals' To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, 202-464-2800, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004 WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a release of Kerry-Edwards 2004: "Let's take this garbage off the air. Let's get on to address the future of the American people and all that rests on this country. All George Bush has to offer is fear and smear," said former Georgia Senator Max Cleland. FACT CHECK AD TITLE: "Medals" DATE: 8/30/04 PAID FOR BY: Bob Perry, Harlan Crow and Other Texas Friends of...

I'm starting a new site... Elephant Party - designed as an activist network of Republicans to spread the truth about the political issues of the day. I created the site because I realized that we need to counteract the liberal spin put on political issues by the left-wing newspapers, network news programs, and magazines. Here's what I hope to do with the site: First, I'm aggregating the best conservative "blurbs" from the Web. What are "blurbs"? Blurbs are political cartoons, pictures, animations, jokes, or short text write-ups that advance the Republican point of view on the political issues of the...

I'm starting a new site... Elephant Party - designed as an activist network of Republicans to spread the truth about the political issues of the day. I created the site because I realized that we need to counteract the liberal spin put on political issues by the left-wing newspapers, network news programs, and magazines. Here's what I hope to do with the site: First, I'm aggregating the best conservative "blurbs" from the Web. What are "blurbs"? Blurbs are political cartoons, pictures, animations, jokes, or short text write-ups that advance the Republican point of view on the political issues of the...

<p>Finally, a Rapid Response: Why didn't sex-abuse scandals stir Vatican action the way war has?</p> <p>The Vatican's monumental efforts, both diplomatic and pastoral, to avert war with Iraq have focused the attention of the Holy See and summoned its energies behind a cause like no crisis in living memory. Hardly a day goes by without Pope John Paul II denouncing the march to war, meeting personally with world leaders or dispatching high-level diplomats--such as Cardinal Pio Laghi, who came to Washington this week--to beseech the belligerents to stand down.</p>