(Real Clear Politics/CNBC) This is possibly the worst possible outcome from the Obama Administration’s point of view, as the scandals unfold involving the Internal Revenue Service and Dept of Justice.
While the Inspector General said that he didn’t see evidence of criminality, IRS Official Lois Lerner says that she will assert her 5th Amendment privilege against self incrimination at Wednesday’s House Oversight Hearing.
Related: DoJ Seized Records of FOX News James Rosen’s Parents
Dept of Justice Investigated FOX News Reporter in 2009 Leak Probe
(Washington Post) The Obama Administration’s Dept of Justice, secretly tracked the movements of FOX News Reporter James Rosen’s comings and goings at the State Dept through his key cards, traced phone calls and searched his emails.
Flashback–Remember the Obama Administration’s War on FOX News
Chinese Turn to White House for Help With Petitions –Image: Crienglish
(Shanghaiist) A young Chinese Woman in Chengdu, after creating a White House Petition on the 07 May calling for international attention to the hazards posed by 40 Billion Yuan, Petrochemical plant in Pengzhou was left severely shaken after being contacted by authorities and told to delete the petition as soon as possible.
Once posted, the White House doesn’t allow users to delete petitions–fearing China authorities, the Woman took to China’s social media site Weibo seeking help–China censors deleted the Weibo post two days later.
The Obama Administration has failed to comment on the situation or condemn the China Regime regarding their attempts to censor materials posted online in the United States which they deem objectionable.
On the 09 May, I wrote here that China Netizens have flocked to the White House site, seeking President Obama’s help to redress the grievances both serious and some absurd.
U.S. Dept of Justice Seizes AP Phone Records –WISN Radio/Twitter
(Politico) White House Press Secy Jay Carney said today that President Obama is a “strong defender” of the 1st Amendment and a “firm believer” that the press should not be blocked in its reporting, adding that the Dept of Justice (DoJ) must also be able to investigate criminal activity of itself.
How does that work?
The Washington Post reports in a sweeping and unusual move the DoJ secretly obtained two months of telephone records, cell phone records, home telephone numbers of AP Reporters and Journalists in what the AP’s President has called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into news gathering activities–seeking information beyond what could be justified by any specific probe, which potentially ‘reveals communications with ‘confidential sources’ that the govt has no conceivable right to know.’
How is it, that the Obama Administration puts a real value on the rule of law as U.S. Atty Gen Eric Holder has claimed or that the Obama Administration is a strong defender of a free press?
Related: Congress to Investigate Atty Gen Holder Over AP Search
What Would Happen in America Today?
(Zero Hedge) Seven days ago, an article in Forbes, looked at the convergence of 3-D printing together with the First & Second Amendments and ‘The Liberator” was presented, courtesy of its 25 yr old creator, online blueprint and assembly instructions, which ‘liberated’ anyone to be able to download and print a gun with no serial number–completely circumventing all regulators and gun control laws–well that was until the strong arm of the federal govt decided to step in and it didn’t take the Obama Administration long.
A week after the 3-D Gun Blueprints were posted, the State Dept has demanded that the 3-D blueprints be taken down, eerily familiar to what happened in fascist’s Nazi Germany, that took unacceptable publications ceremoniously out of circulation and burned them, seeking to censor what persons may read which the central government didn’t agree with.
Pray For China –Image: MB aka Mechel/Myspace
(SCMP) When Li Wenxi a Beijing bookstore worker traveled to Shanxi Province in December to help local Christians open a new book store in Taiyuan, he was threatened by local and state authorities.
“Don’t you dare bring Christian culture here,” subsequently raiding the new store and confiscating hundreds of books that Li brought with him from Beijing–a few days later Chinese authorities phoned Li and claimed that they would like to return his books–without realizing it was a trap, Li went to the local Police station, that was the last time Li’s wife has heard from him in 3 months.
Full article here from South China Morning Post
Related: “Strike Hard” Campaign by China Regime Exposed –Epoch Times
(Atlas Shrugs) Bangladesh Police, fired live rounds in fierce clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of Bloggers they’ve accused of blasphemy of Islam and the prophet Mohammed.
More here from News.com Australia
Ground Zero Cross Found at the World Trade Center
(ACLJ) An atheist group is pressing forward with a lawsuit to have the “Ground Zero Cross” removed from the national September 11 Museum. Their claim, the existence of the cross has brought on headaches, indigestion and even mental anguish.
The “Ground Zero Cross” was found amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center and still stands as a symbol of hope today–the cross is an important artifact of the story of September 11 and deserves to be protected.
Help to prevent atheists from tearing down the “Ground Zero Cross” at the Natl September 11 Memorial & Museum.
More here from The American Center for Law & Justice
Approved China Regime Map Doesn’t Show Independent Taiwan
(Global Times) China regime officials in Sichuan Province have issued new strict rules regulating the publication of online maps.
The new rules effective the 01 March, stipulate that fines will be imposed ranging from 2000 Yuan ($318 USD) to 3000 Yuan ($477 USD) on any map providers (even those not based in China–good luck with that) who publish online maps that haven’t been pre-approved by China censors.
(FOX News) “Chicks on the Right” a popular Conservative website may lose its Facebook community page after posting a critical message about Obama’s Press Secy Jay Carney, that allegedly violated the social networking site’s standards.
The controversy involves a posting on Chicks on the Right Fan Page that referred readers to a website posting entitled: “You Know What? Liberal Hypocrisy is Starting to Cause Me Actual Pain.”
Related: Chicks on the Right@Twitter
Rest here by Tood Starnes, FOX News
Cry Baby Mohammed –Amkon