Having read the DHS Assessment paper on “Rightwing Extremism,” I found it to be breath-taking in scope and tenor. Anyone who criticizes the socialist agenda that the present administration and Congress or any of their apparatchiks adhere to is labeled a rightwing extremist and terrorist. This paper was put out to law enforcement for the purpose of enlisting police officer into the left-wing ideologists agenda.

However, the paper is blantantly unlawful. Like the government restraint on the press to publish what the government will do in the future or in secret, or both, has been condemned by the U.S. Supreme Court as a “prior restraint” of the press, this DHS paper creates the same atmosphere. Throughout this paper, the authors have alluded to rightwing extremism as a “potential” or a “possibility” when they have no proof that what they are so animated about will actually come true. So it is worst than “prior restraint” on the present truth; it is prior restraint on what may happen in the future.

The DHS paper also ‘taints the jury pool.’ When those who criticizes government activities may be arrested and tried in court as a potential “terrorist” (or a maker of “man-made disaster”), the right of being innocent until proven guilty is turned on its head to where this DHS paper makes us guilty and we have to prove our innocence. The government, having no proof that we are indeed terrorists, will try us as “conspirators” in thought, not deed. In effect, it taints the jury pool with a specious, illogical argument that if we criticizes government, we are de facto terrorists and are guilty from the beginning.

Getting the local law enforcement agencies and individual police officers to pursue an in depth investigation on critics of the government is not only wasteful of the time and energy of the local police forces, the government (DHS) wants the local law enforcement agencies to think like they do and not think on their own.

This DHS paper tries, among other things, to divide the nation politically by labeling conservatives as enemies of the state. I thought that the reasoning behind Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps was deemed immoral and illegal – I guess not.

I am steamed over the liberal media (what else is new?) portraying the Tea Parties around the country as just Republicans who voted against Obama and who are now voicing their hatred toward him. The liberal press does not want to discuss the real reasons for the Tea Parties.

Yes, the citizens of this nation are feed up with the present tax code and the IRS. When a citizens signs his or her tax return, that citizen exposes himself to civil or criminal charges from the IRS; yet the tax code is not understandable even to tax professional. Even the very elected officials that write the tax laws don’t understand them (e.g. Charles Rangel, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman–under investigation for tax fraud and Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, which controls the IRS, and who doesn’t know how to properly file his tax returns, and the list continues). The citizens need and deserve a simple tax method, such as a flat tax.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that going trillions of dollars in debt is going to raises taxes on everybody, individuals and corporations. The Tea Party protests are aimed at the Senators and Congressmen and the president who wrote into law 8500 earmarks totaling a trillion dollars when one includes interest on the debt. The irrationality of that act comes from either having a tin ear to their constituents, mush for brains, or a socialist agenda, or all three. We can’t recall or impeach Senators or Congressmen, and the Congress alone controls the impeachment of the president. So it’s either Congress paying attention to the Tea Party participants or suffering consequences, such as being voted out of office or other things. Congressmen, don’t let the liberal media talk you into underestimating the Tea Party participants.

We are smart enough to see through the liberal lies that Bush started this bad economic situation. We know that it was the housing market bubble burst that lead to unemployment. And the housing problem was manufactured by Jimmy Carter and his liberal Congress wanting to put poor people into mansions, followed by Bill Clinton’s executive decision to expand Carter’s program. Then came the day of reckoning when the ARMs raised the monthly payments of those poor and forced them out of their houses when they faced foreclosure. There were those who predicted this problem, including Bush, and tried to do something about it. But the likes of Barney Frank smiled and admonished those who thought Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae were about to go under. Everything was wonderful, as Barney would say, but we now know it wasn’t.

Security from enemies, foreign and domestic, is a requirement of the government to the citizens and is prominent in the Constitution, where protecting a field mouse in San Francisco is not. Congress has its priorities upside down. When we pay for gas to get around to our jobs and go out to buy things for our families, we are sending hundreds of billions of dollars to those who would like to see us dead. Alternate fuels are twenty years away, but the liberals will not let us drill locally to get off of foreign oil. The liberals would rather see us as a banana republic than as the leader of the world.

Protecting us against illegal immigration, piracy, terrorists, and on and on, has been a failure with our Congress and presidents, past and present. That needs to be changed.

I am steamed over the liberal media (what else is new?) portraying the Tea Parties around the country as just Republicans who voted against Obama and who are now voicing their hatred toward him. The liberal press does not want to discuss the real reasons for the Tea Parties.

Yes, the citizens of this nation are feed up with the present tax code and the IRS. When a citizens signs his or her tax return, that citizen exposes himself to civil or criminal charges from the IRS; yet the tax code is not understandable even to tax professional. Even the very elected officials that write the tax laws don’t understand them (e.g. Charles Rangel, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman–under investigation for tax fraud and Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, which controls the IRS, and who doesn’t know how to properly file his tax returns, and the list continues). The citizens need and deserve a simple tax method, such as a flat tax.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that going trillions of dollars in debt is going to raises taxes on everybody, individuals and corporations. The Tea Party protests are aimed at the Senators and Congressmen and the president who wrote into law 8500 earmarks totaling a trillion dollars when one includes interest on the debt. The irrationality of that act comes from either having a tin ear to their constituents, mush for brains, or a socialist agenda, or all three. We can’t recall or impeach Senators or Congressmen, and the Congress alone controls the impeachment of the president. So it’s either Congress paying attention to the Tea Party participants or suffering severe consequences, just as Obama threatened the bankers by saying that his administration is the only thing standing between them (the bankers) and a pitchfork. Congressmen, don’t let the liberal media talk you into underestimating the Tea Party participants.

We are smart enough to see through the liberal lies that Bush started this bad economic situation. We know that it was the housing market bubble burst that lead to unemployment. And the housing problem was manufactured by Jimmy Carter and his liberal Congress wanting to put poor people into mansions, followed by Bill Clinton’s executive decision to expand Carter’s program. Then came the day of reckoning when the ARMs raised the monthly payments of those poor and forced them out of their houses when they faced foreclosure. There were those who predicted this problem, including Bush, and tried to do something about it. But the likes of Barney Frank smiled and admonished those who thought Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae were about to go under. Everything was wonderful, as Barney would say, but we now know it wasn’t.

Security from enemies, foreign and domestic, is a requirement of the government to the citizens and is prominent in the Constitution, where protecting a field mouse in San Francisco is not. Congress has its priorities upside down. When we pay for gas to get around to our jobs and go out to buy things for our families, we are sending hundreds of billions of dollars to those who would like to see us dead. Alternate fuels are twenty years away, but the liberals will not let us drill locally to get off of foreign oil. The liberals would rather see us as a banana republic than as the leader of the world.

Protecting us against illegal immigration, piracy, terrorists, and on and on, has been a failure with our Congress and presidents, past and present. That needs to be changed.

It is not about Obama's abilities; it is about what Obama will do now that the lone pirate is in custody. According to the Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions that affected the positive law, any captured pirate that attacked American interests on the high-seas must be tried by a military court. The question is: Will Obama ignore this law and force the civilian courts to try this pirate as he wants to do with terrorists? If so, the president will be dissing the military one more time.

I am steamed over the liberal media (what else is new?) portraying the Tea Parties around the country as just Republicans who voted against Obama and who are now voicing their hatred toward him. The liberal press does not want to discuss the real reasons for the Tea Parties.

Yes, the citizens of this nation are feed up with the present tax code and the IRS. When a citizens signs his or her tax return, that citizen exposes himself to civil or criminal charges from the IRS; yet the tax code is not understandable even to tax professional. Even the very elected officials that write the tax laws don’t understand them (e.g. Charles Rangel, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman–under investigation for tax fraud and Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, which controls the IRS, and who doesn’t know how to properly file his tax returns, and the list continues). The citizens need and deserve a simple tax method, such as a flat tax.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that going trillions of dollars in debt is going to raises taxes on everybody, individuals and corporations. The Tea Party protests are aimed at the Senators and Congressmen and the president who wrote into law 8500 earmarks totaling a trillion dollars when one includes interest on the debt. The irrationality of that act comes from either having a tin ear to their constituents, mush for brains, or a socialist agenda, or all three. We can’t recall or impeach Senators or Congressmen, and the Congress alone controls the impeachment of the president. So it’s either Congress paying attention to the Tea Party participants or suffering severe consequences, just as Obama threatened the bankers by saying that his administration is the only thing standing between them (the bankers) and a pitchfork. Congressmen, don’t let the liberal media talk you into underestimating the Tea Party participants.

We are smart enough to see through the liberal lies that Bush started this bad economic situation. We know that it was the housing market bubble burst that lead to unemployment. And the housing problem was manufactured by Jimmy Carter and his liberal Congress wanting to put poor people into mansions, followed by Bill Clinton’s executive decision to expand Carter’s program. Then came the day of reckoning when the ARMs raised the monthly payments of those poor and forced them out of their houses when they faced foreclosure. There were those who predicted this problem, including Bush, and tried to do something about it. But the likes of Barney Frank smiled and admonished those who thought Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae were about to go under. Everything was wonderful, as Barney would say, but we now know it wasn’t.

Security from enemies, foreign and domestic, is a requirement of the government to the citizens and is prominent in the Constitution, where protecting a field mouse in San Francisco is not. Congress has its priorities upside down. When we pay for gas to get around to our jobs and go out to buy things for our families, we are sending hundreds of billions of dollars to those who would like to see us dead. Alternate fuels are twenty years away, but the liberals will not let us drill locally to get off of foreign oil. The liberals would rather see us as a banana republic than as the leader of the world.

Protecting us against illegal immigration, piracy, terrorists, and on and on, has been a failure with our Congress and presidents, past and present. That needs to be changed.

I am steamed over the liberal media (what else is new?) portraying the Tea Parties around the country as just Republicans who voted against Obama and who are now voicing their hatred toward him. The liberal press does not want to discuss the real reasons for the Tea Parties.

Yes, the citizens of this nation are feed up with the present tax code and the IRS. When a citizens signs his or her tax return, that citizen exposes himself to civil or criminal charges from the IRS; yet the tax code is not understandable even to tax professional. Even the very elected officials that write the tax laws don’t understand them (e.g. Charles Rangel, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman–under investigation for tax fraud and Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, which controls the IRS, and who doesn’t know how to properly file his tax returns, and the list continues). The citizens need and deserve a simple tax method, such as a flat tax.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that going trillions of dollars in debt is going to raises taxes on everybody, individuals and corporations. The Tea Party protests are aimed at the Senators and Congressmen and the president who wrote into law 8500 earmarks totaling a trillion dollars when one includes interest on the debt. The irrationality of that act comes from either having a tin ear to their constituents, mush for brains, or a socialist agenda, or all three. We can’t recall or impeach Senators or Congressmen, and the Congress alone controls the impeachment of the president. So it’s either Congress paying attention to the Tea Party participants or suffering severe consequences, just as Obama threatened the bankers by saying that his administration is the only thing standing between them (the bankers) and a pitchfork. Congressmen, don’t let the liberal media talk you into underestimating the Tea Party participants.

We are smart enough to see through the liberal lies that Bush started this bad economic situation. We know that it was the housing market bubble burst that lead to unemployment. And the housing problem was manufactured by Jimmy Carter and his liberal Congress wanting to put poor people into mansions, followed by Bill Clinton’s executive decision to expand Carter’s program. Then came the day of reckoning when the ARMs raised the monthly payments of those poor and forced them out of their houses when they faced foreclosure. There were those who predicted this problem, including Bush, and tried to do something about it. But the likes of Barney Frank smiled and admonished those who thought Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae were about to go under. Everything was wonderful, as Barney would say, but we now know it wasn’t.

Security from enemies, foreign and domestic, is a requirement of the government to the citizens and is prominent in the Constitution, where protecting a field mouse in San Francisco is not. Congress has its priorities upside down. When we pay for gas to get around to our jobs and go out to buy things for our families, we are sending hundreds of billions of dollars to those who would like to see us dead. Alternate fuels are twenty years away, but the liberals will not let us drill locally to get off of foreign oil. The liberals would rather see us as a banana republic than as the leader of the world.

Protecting us against illegal immigration, piracy, terrorists, and on and on, has been a failure with our Congress and presidents, past and present. That needs to be changed.

Now that the federal government has taken control of at least several banks, insurance companies, and GM, we want to see the directors' meeting minutes including closed session minutes. We have a right to see these minutes because of Obama's pledge to be transparent (yeah, right!) and because of the FIOA. There is nothing in those minutes that refer to national security. A publicly-controlled corporation (as opposed to just a public corporation) is subject to the FOIA.

And will Obama secretly expand the "On-Star" system to include transmitting conversations of the occupants without their knowledge? Will he secretly put tracking devices in GM cars just in case the On-Star system goes down? Can and will Obama secretly add things to GM cars that would adversely affect the privacy of the occupants? These are just the reason why the government should not own private sector companies.

Bowing to a peer is bad enough, but BHO's staff tried to cover it up. The cover-up is worse than the original protocol mistake. Just ask Nixon.

If you put a handlebar mustache on Geithner, he would look exactly like "SNIDELY WHIPLASH."

Now that the voting is almost over, it is obvious that the top five issues are fairly set.

The top issue is “Term Limits For All Elected Officials,” which garnered 9%. However, to limit the terms of U.S. Congressmen and Senators, a constitutional amendment to the U.S. Constitution will be required, which can be done two ways. The states can ratify an amendment or the states can vote to have a constitutional convention (concon). The U.S. Constitution has been amended over the years through a single amendment being ratified by the states. There has never been a constitutional convention held after the initial ratification. The problem with a concon is that elitists may very well gain control of the convention and change the Constitution for the worse.

Due to federalism, to have state representatives’ terms limited, the state constitutions will have to be changed on a state by state basis. Some states already have term limitations for their elected representatives.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the separate states cannot limit the terms of U.S. representatives. Further, the Congress and the president will not allow a law restricting the terms the representatives.
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The next issues could be combined together, in my estimation, because “Securing The Border” and “Fix Illegal Immigration” (at 7% and 8%, respectively) addresses the same basic idea of protecting the safety, economy, and laws of this nation.
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The “Fair Tax” issue comes in at 8%, but needs some clarification. Do the voters want a “flat tax” with the IR Code left intact but substantially reduced, or do they want a “national sales tax” with the IR Code completely abolished?
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“No Govt Healthcare, Public Housing is a Great Example” has received, so far, 7% of the vote. It is assumed that what is objected to is National Healthcare, such as what England and Canada have at this time.
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Assuming that the “Term Limits” issue is for another time, then the next issue “Let Failing Companies Fail, No More Bailouts” received 7 percent. This issue is more relevant and timely than term limits. The term limits issue has a lot going for it but will take extremely long to do even if the states will ultimately ratify that amendment. However, no more bailouts is an issue that must be looked at in the immediate future.