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U.S. Dollar’s Demise ‘Only A Matter Of Time’

WorldNetDaily has a report on the mainstream media finally acknowledging the downfall of the U.S. dollar under the Obama Administration.

Media recognize Obama’s failure to support dollar

Report concludes: ‘Demise may be only a matter of time’

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Posted: May 15, 2009
12:41 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

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The nation’s media – finally – is recognizing and acknowledging what is happening to the U.S. dollar under the direction of President Barack Obama, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports.

In a clear sign the dollar collapse is so imminent that the mainstream media can no longer cover up the inept way the Obama administration has managed international economics, the New York Times finally published on Thursday an editorial declaring the end of the U.S. dollar is at hand.

“[The United States] is running huge budget and trade deficits, and is relying on the kindness of restless foreign creditors who are starting to feel uneasy about accumulating even more dollar assets,” New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini, commonly known on Wall Street as “Dr. Doom,” wrote in the New York Times editorial published on Tuesday, May 13. “The resulting demise of the dollar may be only a matter of time.”

Even more emphatically, the Telegraph in Great Britain picked up the story written by James Quinn, a Wall Street Journal correspondent.

Almost as if on cue, President Obama, in his town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, N.M., outside Albuquerque, on Thursday, May 14, 2009, declared that the current level of federal deficit spending was “unsustainable” and warned of skyrocketing interest rates if the U.S. government, of which he is the chief executive, continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries, according to a report published by Bloomberg.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama told the Rio Rancho audience. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

The only surprise here was that the Rio Rancho town hall meeting may have been the first time these realizations occurred to President Obama.

More likely, judging from the New York Times decision to publish the Roubini op-ed piece, the news was that the Obama administration was already at the point where the truth had to be confessed to the U.S. public, even though WND has been predicting these dire economic consequences for years and Red Alert has been sounding the warning since its inception last year.

As far back as 2006, WND asked the question whether the U.S. dollar was facing collapse.

WND has reported the true deficit of the federal government as measured by the U.S. Treasury according to generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP methods, was $5.1 trillion in 2008, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Bush administration on a cash basis, and the GAAP negative net worth of the U.S. exceeds $65.5 trillion, an amount that exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.

WND has also reported the U.S. Treasury is planning to raise $2.5 trillion in debt in 2009 and an additional $4 trillion in 2010 to provide financing for the projected Obama administration deficits.

The massive amount of U.S. Treasury debt financing is projected to increase the $10 trillion national debt at the end of the Bush administration by 65 percent in just the first two years of the Obama administration.

In his New York Times editorial, Roubini admitted China’s currency, the renminbi, is “far from ready to achieve reserve currency status.” Still, he suggested correctly, “If China and other countries were to diversify their reserve holdings away from the dollar – and they eventually will – the United States would suffer.”

In 2007, WND first reported China had made a major policy decision to hold a smaller percentage of their then-$1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollar assets.

Roubini suggested the possibility China could begin borrowing and lending internationally in its own currency.

“The renminbi, rather than the dollar, could eventually become a means of payment in trade and a unit of account in pricing imports and exports, as well as a store of value for wealth by international investors,” he wrote. “Americans would pay the price. We would have to shell out more for imported goods, and interest rates on both private and public debt would rise. The higher private cost of borrowing could lead to weaker consumption and investment, and slower growth.”

Yet, WND has been warning that globalist economists have an alternative for the dollar ready to implement.

Red Alert’s author, whose books “The Obama Nation” and “Unfit for Command” have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, noted that while bureaucrats in the Obama administration are convinced the politically correct vehicles for Detroit to manufacture are small, energy-efficient electric hybrids, the American car buyer might shrug shoulders in disdain when the 2010 Obamamobiles begin showing up on car lots for sale.

Obama Administration Not Coordinating With Israel

WorldNetDaily has confirmed that, unlike previous administrations, the Obama Administration is not coordinating any of their Middle East effors with Israel.

A source from Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, “Right now there is next to no communication coming to us from the White House.”

Has Obama cut off information to Israel?

Lack of communication ‘not normal practice’

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Posted: May 10, 2009
6:10 pm EasternBy Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Barack Obama

JERUSALEM – Unlike the Bush administration, the staff of President Obama is not coordinating its policy on Iran or the greater Middle East with Israel and has not been informing the Jewish state of its plans or recent diplomatic developments in area, according to sources in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.

The silence extends to U.S. talks with the Palestinians, the sources said.

“Our intention and our hope as we go to Washington is to establish close intimate cooperative relationships on these sensitive matters,” a top Netanyahu official told WND yesterday.

The official was speaking about Netanyahu’s May 18th visit to the White House.

According to other sources in the prime minister’s office, Israel has been obtaining the vast majority of its information regarding U.S. plans and advances for the Middle East from third parties, mostly European diplomats.

This is in stark contrast to Bush’s eight-year presidency, during which the White House and State Department routinely briefed Israeli counterparts on Middle East affairs to the extent that the majority of official U.S. and Israeli statements on various policy issues were heavily coordinated.

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A recent example of the Obama administration leaving Israel in the dark was information received by Jerusalem officials of a U.S. deadline of October for Iran to show progress in talks over their nuclear program. That deadline was apparently set by Obama’s Middle East envoy Dennis Ross.

The information of the deadline – first reported by Haaretz yesterday and confirmed by WND – was discovered in Jerusalem not via U.S. sources but from third party European diplomats who were briefed on the matter.

“Right now there is next to no communication coming to us from the White House,” said a source in Netanyahu’s office.

The source warned against interpreting the matter as evidencing an anti-Israel bias from the Obama administration.

“Look, there is a new administration in the U.S. and a new one here (in Israel),” the source said. “There hasn’t been so much time yet to establish channels.”

Still, the source noted the extent of the blackout on information from the U.S. was “not usual practice.”

A second source said the lack of communication between Israel and America extends to Israeli-Palestinian affairs. That source described a meeting last month between Netanyahu and another of Obama’s Middle East envoys, George Mitchell. The source said the meeting largely was a one-way street, with the prime minister sharing his intended approach to Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He said Mitchell outlined Obama’s overall strategy for the region, but did not update Netanyahu on any talks with the Palestinians or specifics of Obama’s intentions.

“Other than the Mitchell meeting, basically there wasn’t much other communication at all, period,” said the second source. “And we were not informed beforehand of policy statements that were made by Obama or his administration regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including statements Obama made after meeting Jordan’s King Abdullah (last month).”

Obama trumpets ‘anti-Israel’ Arab plan

WND’s source said one thing Mitchell did convey to Netanyahu was Obama’s alleged plan to help create a Palestinian state in hopes of normalizing relations between Israel and the Arab world in line with the “Arab Peace Initiative.” The source said Mitchell relayed that Obama’s Middle East strategy would be based on the concept of the “initiative” but with security guarantees for Israel.

Following scores of denials he would trumpet the plan, Obama in January hailed the Arab initiative, which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in exchange for extreme Israeli concessions.

In an interview with an Arab television network – his first formal interview as president – Obama stated:

“Well, here’s what I think is important. Look at the proposal that was put forth by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. … I might not agree with every aspect of the proposal, but it took great courage to put forward something that is as significant as that. I think that there are ideas across the region of how we might pursue peace. I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what’s happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Since then, Obama and his team have trumpeted the plan several more times, including during a meeting last month with Jordan’s Abdullah.

The Arab Initiative, originally proposed by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2002 and later adopted by the Arab League, states that Israel would receive “normal relations” with the Arab world in exchange for a full withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, which includes the Temple Mount.

The West Bank contains important Jewish biblical sites and borders central Israeli population centers, while the Golan Heights looks down on Israeli civilian zones and was twice used by Syria to mount ground invasions into the Jewish state.

The Arab plan also demands the imposition of a non-binding U.N. resolution that calls for so-called Palestinian refugees who wish to move inside Israel to be permitted to do so at the “earliest practicable date.”

Palestinians have long demanded the “right of return” for millions of “refugees,” a formula Israeli officials across the political spectrum warn is code for Israel’s destruction by flooding the Jewish state with millions of Arabs, thereby changing its demographics.

When Arab countries attacked the Jewish state after its creation in 1948, some 725,000 Arabs living within Israel’s borders fled or were expelled from the area that became Israel. Also at that time, about 820,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries or fled following rampant persecution.

While most Jewish refugees were absorbed by Israel and other countries, the majority of Palestinian Arabs have been maintained in 59 U.N.-run camps that do not seek to settle the Arabs elsewhere. There are currently about 4 million Arabs who claim Palestinian refugee status with the U.N., including children and grandchildren of the original fleeing Arabs, Arabs living full-time in Jordan and Arabs who long ago emigrated throughout the Middle East and to the West.

Michelle Obama And The UC Medical Center

Dr. Orly Taitz’s blog has a posting from BNET about the relationship between the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Obama’s.

But, I thought things were going to be so much different in Washington after he took office?

Michelle Obama

Some employees are simply irreplaceable | National Review | Feb 9, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/o8of4l

Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama, for example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority contracting.” In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000–nearly twice what her husband made as a U.S. senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S. senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one explanation: Roland Burris’s wife wasn’t interested

Alan Keyes Arrested

WorldNetDaily reports that Alan Keyes was arrested, along with 21 other pro-lifers, at the campus of Notre Dame for protesting Notre Dame’s invitation for the extremist and pro-abortion Barack Obama to speak at the University’s commencement.

Alan Keyes arrested at Notre Dame

Leading protesters ask others to follow, fill jails with pro-lifers

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Posted: May 08, 2009
7:00 pm EasternBy Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Alan Keyes being arrested

Former presidential candidate and WND columnist Alan Keyes was arrested this afternoon, along with 21 others, on charges of trespassing while he was protesting against Barack Obama’s abortion record at the University of Notre Dame.

As WND reported, University President John Jenkins prompted national outrage when he invited the pro-abortion president to speak at the university’s May 17 commencement. Despite at least 55 bishops publicly denouncing or questioning the university’s decision, Jenkins has refused to rescind the offer.

“I will step foot on the Notre Dame campus to lift up the standard that protects the life of the innocent children of this and every generation,” Keyes said in a statement prior to his arrest. “I will do it all day and every day from now until the Master comes if need be, though it means I shall be housed every day in the prison house of lies and injustice that Obama, Jenkins and their minions now mean to construct for those who will never be still and silent in the face of their mockery of God and justice, their celebration of evil.”

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who made headlines last week after he was arrested for pushing a stroller carrying a doll covered in fake blood on the Notre Dame campus, witnessed the arrest.

“Keyes and 21 people with strollers walked onto campus, praying,” Terry told WND. “The police grabbed them all and arrested them, but it was done very peacefully.”

Alan Keyes (center-left) amid protesters at Notre Dame

Nonetheless, Terry said, what’s happening at Notre Dame is infuriating.

“The outrage is that they were arrested by Notre Dame’s orders for defending babies; meanwhile Notre Dame is going to honor someone who kills babies,” Terry said, referring to Obama’s record on supporting abortion.

University spokesman Dennis Brown told the Chicago Breaking News Center that Keyes was given notice that university policy bans protests unless they are organized by student groups and approved in advance.

Brown further stated that university policy is to arrest anyone who refuses to leave campus after being notified.

“We’ve got a long established policy that only members of the university community can organize or lead a protest, and they have to be approved by our office of student affairs,” Brown said.

Sergeant Bill Redman of the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that those arrested were handcuffed and taken to the St. Joseph County Jail, held for trespassing on a $250 bond.

Prior to his arrest, Keyes had announced, “If this be trespass, then forgive us our trespasses and join us in trespassing until the South Bend jail is filled to overflowing with witnesses to truth; filled beyond capacity; filled until we break the most onerous shackles – the ones that bind the heart and mind to evil and our nation to the path of its destruction.”

Terry told WND that he believes Keyes and several of the 21 other protesters intend to remain in jail through the weekend. In fact, a witness from the jail told Terry that Keyes has been using his time behind bars to preach – for hours on end – to the inmates.

“Pro-life activism has been dying,” Terry said, “but this has given us a fresh line of defense to regroup.”

Now, Terry is urging others to follow Keyes’ example.

“We are asking people to come,” Terry said. “We want to have 50 or 100 people in jail next weekend, so that every time that the media discusses Obama speaking at Notre Dame, they talk about the fact that there are people in jail for protesting his appearance.”

Earlier, Terry told WND that he hoped the efforts would cause Obama to cancel his commencement appearance at the university.

“There would be no better witness to the world of the value of these babies – who Obama is even now slaughtering – than if there are hundreds of people sitting in jail,” Terry said.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, however, told reporters this afternoon that Obama had no plans to cancel the appearance or decline the honorary degree Notre Dame has offered him.

“We are honored to have received the invitation,” Gibbs said. “Notre Dame has a good history of robust, civic debate and the president looks forward to speaking to the graduating class.”

Terry is nonetheless continues to promote a website called StopObamaNotreDame.com so others may join the protests.

“My goal, and my challenge to everyone, is to create such a political mud pit here that Obama chooses to not walk through it in order to speak,” he said. “The only way that’s going to happen is by massive social tension on the ground. That’s why these arrests are going to be so critical.”

Bill Could Deny Guns To Pro-Lifers, Gun-Rights Activists, And Other ‘Extremists’

WorldNetDaily is reporting that bill H.R. 2159 introduced by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) would, if passed, make it illegal for “extremists” to own guns.

With the recent DHS memos, this could prevent pro-lifers, gun-rights activists, tax protesters, anti-Obama people, or pretty much anyone aligned as a Christian, Jew, or anyone that DHS thinks is an “extremist”, from owning a gun.

Next step? No guns allowed for right-wing ‘extremists’

Bill empowers attorney general to forbid firearms for those ’suspected dangerous’

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Posted: May 09, 2009
12:10 am EasternBy Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

A new gun law being considered in Congress, if aligned with Department of Homeland Security memos labeling everyday Americans as potential “threats,” could potentially deny firearms to pro-lifers, gun-rights advocates, tax protesters, animal rights activists, and a host of others – any already on the expansive DHS watch list for potential “extremism.”

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has sponsored H.R. 2159, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, which permits the attorney general to deny transfer of a firearm to any “known or suspected dangerous terrorist.” The bill requires only that the potential firearm transferee is “appropriately suspected” of preparing for a terrorist act and that the attorney general “has a reasonable belief” that the gun might be used in connection with terrorism.

Gun rights advocates, however, object to the bill’s language, arguing that it enables the federal government to suspend a person’s Second Amendment rights without any trial or legal proof and only upon suspicion of being “dangerous.”

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“[Rep. King] would deny citizens their civil liberties based on no due process,” objected Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “A ‘known terrorist?’ Look, if the guy has committed an act of terrorism, we shouldn’t have to worry about him being able to buy a gun; he should be in jail!”

Pratt further warned WND of the potential overlap of H.R. 2159 and a recent DHS memo that warned against potential violence from “right-wing extremists,” such as those concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of U.S. sovereignty.

“By those standards, I’m one of [DHS Secretary] Janet Napolitano’s terrorists,” Pratt said. “This bill would enable the attorney general to put all of the people who voted against Obama on no-gun lists, because according to the DHS, they’re all potential terrorists. Actually, we could rename this bill the Janet Napolitano Frenzied Fantasy Implementation Act of 2009.”

Pratt’s biggest concern, however, is the sidestepping of the Constitution and due process that the nebulous language of this bill could permit.

“Unbeknownst to us, some bureaucrat in the bowels of democracy can put your name on a list, and your Second Amendment rights are toast,” Pratt told WND. “This is such an anti-American bill, this is something King George III would have done.”

As WND reported, right-wing “extremists” aren’t the only Americans on the DHS watch list.

“Legalize the Constitution” bumper sticker

Two weeks before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penned its now notorious warning against “right-wing extremists” in the United States, it generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups as potential “threats.”

That memo, the “Domestic Extremism Lexicon” expanded the list from typical “right-wing” causes to include left-wing extremism, animal rights activists, black separatists, anarchists, Cuban independence advocates, environmental extremists, the anti-war movement and more. It even insisted some of these groups were prone to violence.

For example, the lexicon defined the “tax resistance movement” – also referred to in the report as the tax protest movement or the tax freedom movement – as “groups or individuals who vehemently believe taxes violate their constitutional rights. Among their beliefs are that wages are not income, that paying income taxes is voluntary, and that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allowed Congress to levy taxes on income, was not properly ratified.”

It further states that tax protesters “have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism in an attempt to advance their extremist goals.”

The DHS memos were meant for distribution to law enforcement officials around the country, prompting some to worry the definitions might be used to classify Americans who simply disagree with government policies as being dangerous.

As WND reported, the relative of a Louisiana driver claims her brother-in-law has already been unfairly targeted by police simply for having a supposedly subversive, “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper sticker on his car.

According to the relative, it happened this way: Her brother-in-law was driving home from work through Ball, La., which has a local reputation for enhancing its budget by ticketing speeders. He was pulled over by police officers who told him “he had a subversive survivalist bumper sticker on his car.”

“They proceeded to keep him there on the side of the road while they ran whatever they do to see if you have a record, keeping him standing by the side of the road for 30 minutes,” she told WND.

Finding no record and no reason to keep him, they warned him and eventually let him go, she said.

WND has withheld the driver’s name and the relative’s name at their request.

H.R. 2159 has six co-sponsors, from both parties, and has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

WND contacted Rep. King’s office for comment on the bill, but received no response.

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ADF To Defend Prop 8, DOMA In Court

The Alliance Defense Fund reports that they have been granted permission to intervene on behalf of ProtectMarriage.com to defend California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act against a lawsuit brought by two gay men claiming the acts violate the U.S. Constitution.

Court: ADF to defend Prop. 8, federal DOMA

ADF attorneys granted intervention on behalf of ProtectMarriage.com in defense of Calif. marriage amendment and federal DOMA
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal court entered an order granting Alliance Defense Fund attorneys a motion to intervene Thursday on behalf of ProtectMarriage.com in a lawsuit waged by two men against the United States and the state of California to eliminate California’s state constitutional amendment protecting marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ADF attorneys filed a motion to intervene last month to defend the intended definition of marriage in a suit alleging that the passage of both Proposition 8 and DOMA violates the U.S. Constitution.

“The people of California want marriage to remain as the union between one man and one woman; they made their voice clear last November at the polls,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum. “Yet this lawsuit begs the court to nullify the voices of more than 7 million California voters, as well as put an end to the federal law on marriage. We are pleased to be able to represent ProtectMarriage.com in defense of California’s constitutional marriage amendment and the federal DOMA. ”

In December 2008, two men filed a lawsuit claiming that the California marriage amendment, which voters decisively passed as Proposition 8 in last November’s election, violates the U.S. Constitution. The suit also argues that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, passed overwhelmingly by Congress and signed by former President Bill Clinton, is also unconstitutional. The men have asked the court to issue an overwhelmingly broad injunction “mandating the use of gender-neutral terms in all legislation affecting marriage.”

“ProtectMarriage.com, the official proponents and campaign committee of Proposition 8, says it is intervening in the lawsuit because otherwise California’s constitutional amendment would be left essentially undefended in light of the fact that the state attorney general has already argued that he thinks it should be invalidated,” said ADF-allied attorney Andrew Pugno of Folsom, who is directly working with ADF attorneys and allied attorney Sam Kim of Buena Park on the case.

• Order granting motion to intervene issued by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, Santa Ana in Smelt v. United States of America

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Cop Stops Driver For ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Bumper Sticker

WorldNetDaily reports that a driver in Ball, La., was pulled over by police for his “extremist” bumper sticker, a replica of the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag that was designed during the American Revolution by Christopher Gadsden.  This comes on the heels of the DHS report that has drawn outrage over labeling citizens with anti-abortion, anti-tax, anti-Obama, and conservative views as “extremists”.

Suspect detained over ‘extremist’ bumper sticker

‘Don’t Tread on Me’ puts driver in ‘watch’ category in DHS report

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Posted: May 07, 2009
10:45 pm EasternBy Bob Unruh
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A Louisiana driver was stopped and detained for having a “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper sticker on his vehicle and warned by a police officer about the “subversive” message it sent, according to the driver’s relative.

The situation developed in the small town of Ball, La., where a receptionist at the police department told WND she knew nothing about the traffic stop, during which the “suspect” was investigated for “extremist” activities, the relative said.

It followed by only a few weeks the release of a Department of Homeland Security report, “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”, which prompted outrage from legislators and a campaign calling for the resignation of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

The report, which cites individuals who sport certain bumper stickers on their vehicles as suspect, was delivered to tens of thousands of local law enforcement officers across the nation.

WND is withholding the driver’s name and the relative’s name at their request.

However, the situation was described on the American Vision blog.

According to the relative, it happened this way: Her brother-in-law was driving home from work through the town, which has a local reputation for enhancing its budget by ticketing speeders. He was pulled over by police officers who told him “he had a subversive survivalist bumper sticker on his car.”

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“They proceeded to keep him there on the side of the road while they ran whatever they do to see if you have a record, keeping him standing by the side of the road for 30 minutes,” she told WND.

Finding no record and no reason to keep him, they warned him and eventually let him go, she said.

The company that sells the bumper sticker is The Patriot Depot, where Chief Operating Officer Jay Taylor told WND the woman had told his staff about the situation while ordering more bumper stickers.

“It’s rather shocking,” he said. “We supposedly have freedom of speech in our country.

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“We joke around every now and then how our spouses will come to visit us in jail,” he continued, citing his products that say, “The Audacity of Nope,” “Taxed Enough Already,” “Born Free, Taxed to Death,” “Bring Home Our Troops: Send the Democrats” and “I’ll Keep my Guns and Money, You Keep the ‘Change’.”

“We hope people realize this is serious,” he said.

American Vision noted the “background check” that was done on the driver.

“Why? [He] had purchased and displayed a conservative ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ bumper sticker.”"

The commentator wrote, “The bumper sticker is based on the famous flag designed by American Revolution era general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. The yellow flag featured a coiled diamondback rattlesnake ready to strike, with the slogan ‘Don’t Tread on Me!’ underneath it. Benjamin Franklin helped make the rattlesnake a symbol of Americans’ reluctance to quarrel but vigilance and resolve in defense of their rights. By 1775 when Gadsden presented his flag to the commander-in-chief of the Navy, the rattlesnake was a symbol of the colonies and of their need to unite in defense of threats to their God-given and inherited rights. The flag and the bumper sticker symbolize American patriotism, the need to defend Americans’ rights, and resistance to tyranny’s threats to American liberty. Those threats included-and include-illegal taxation, profanation of Americans’ rights, and violation of the fundamental principles of American law.”

American Vision continued: “The notorious Department of Homeland Security memo, which was apparently based on the infamous Missouri State Police Report that described supporters of presidential candidates Bob Barr, Ron Paul, and Chuck Baldwin as ‘militia’-type potential extremists and potential terrorists, is not the first effort of leftist radicals to slander their political opponents as ‘extremists.’”

“‘Liberals’ and other leftists have been calling defenders of traditional American limited, constitutional government, free enterprise, and individual liberty ‘extremists’ since at least the 1964 election,” the Vision America statement said. “Small town police misled by phony left wing ‘reports’ are bad enough. Federal government agencies and their armed agents under the direction of leftist radicals are exponentially worse.”

WND reported earlier on the DHS report, which advised about the “extremism” that could be expected from returning veterans, those who support homeschooling and oppose abortion, post certain bumper stickers on their vehicles and other factors.

The DHS not only issued that report, but also an earlier memo defining dozens of groups, members of animal rights organizations, black separatists, tax protesters and others as “threats.”

That item, the “Domestic Extremism Lexicon” reportedly was rescinded almost immediately, but Benjamin Sarlin of The Daily Beast recently obtained and published online a copy of the unclassified memo, dated March 26, 2009.

It defines the “tax resistance movement” – also referred to in the report as the tax protest movement or the tax freedom movement – as “groups or individuals who vehemently believe taxes violate their constitutional rights. Among their beliefs are that wages are not income, that paying income taxes is voluntary, and that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allowed Congress to levy taxes on income, was not properly ratified.”

It states that tax protesters “have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism in an attempt to advance their extremist goals.”

Apparently, the DHS analyzes the “threat” level of Internet news websites like WorldNetDaily, for the lexicon defines “alternative media” as “a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.”

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