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Anyone interested in the security of our nation should spend twenty-two minutes watching this You Tube presentation. It’s excellent. Inadvertent leaks of sources and methods are bad. They are vile and beneath contempt when for political purposes. The Administration’s leaks could have had no non-political purpose.

This You Tube video entitled Dishonorable Disclosures takes twenty-two minutes to watch, not counting loading time. As noted on Power Line yesterday,

It is dynamite: the production values are excellent, and the message is overpowering. The video is 22 minutes long, but trust me: it is riveting, and goes fast. You should watch the whole thing, to appreciate how dishonorable the Obama administration is when it comes to national security.

It should be watched to its conclusion. It will probably load more quickly if the “You Tube” icon at the bottom of the frame is clicked, rather than the white triangle at the center of the embedded version presented here.

President Obama has neither worn a military uniform nor had any personal acquaintance with military intelligence gathering. He has no first hand knowledge of what our troops or intelligence operatives do or the prices they pay for doing it. I have no idea what he may have been thinking beyond personal political gain. Had he consulted any non-political advisor knowledgeable as to military intelligence and the national security implications of what he was about to do — about how difficult it is to get sources and how necessary it is to conceal their identities — even he might not have proceeded as he did. As it was, he apparently felt an overwhelming need to be portrayed as the strong leader he is not. In consequence, the Pakistani physician who revealed the location of Osama bin Laden is now rotting in a Pakistani jail for a term of more than three decades. Recruiting intelligence sources willing to take risks of such betrayal by the Commander in Chief or those working directly for him, in addition to the normal risks inherent in telling our intelligence people what they need to know, will be far more difficult than before. Our own operatives and their families have also been put in danger.

Has President Obama no decency? Think for a moment of Kipling’s poem Tommy.

I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,
The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”
The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,
But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls!
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”;
But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide,
The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide,
O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide.

Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?”
But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll.

We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints;
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”,
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.

You talk o’ better food for us, an’ schools, an’ fires, an’ all:
We’ll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don’t mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow’s Uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!

In the situation he has created, would President Obama agree with this suggestion: “Please to walk in front, sir” when we next go into battle? Into a situation such as the killing of Osama bin Laden? I doubt it.

There is hardly any excuse for such behavior by an Army private. For the Commander in Chief to engage in it for any purpose is inexcusable. For him to do it for his own political advantage is vile and beneath contempt.

UPDATE, August 17th:

Here’s the Team Obama response of August 16th to the Dishonorable Disclosures video. It was brought to my attention by an e-mail from the Obama Truth Team over the signature of war hero Senator John Kerry. At the top of the piece this statement appears:

When you’re faced with someone who misrepresents the truth, you can find all the facts you need right here—along with ways to share the message with whoever needs to hear it.”

It’s comforting to learn that all necessary truth and wisdom can be found in one place, the Barack Obama Truth Team website, and that there is therefore no reason to look beyond it.

The Truth Team piece has two links, both to a great bastion of fascinating objective reporting, Mother Jones. According to the article at the first link, the video originators used military logos without authorization. According to the article at the second link some of the video supporters, conservative miscreants, have opined that Islamists are dangerous. Both Mother Jones articles attack the originators of the video but don’t deal with its substance in any meaningful way. I won’t analyze them further here but instead suggest that anyone interested read them.

The piece at the Obama Truth Team site restates some of the Mother Jones charges but provides no useful information about the matters raised in the video beyond characterizing it as rife with partisan, Swift Boat style falsehoods.

Here’s the text of the Kerry letter:

Friend –

It’s easy to look at the attacks, smears, and lies being told about President Obama and his record and say, “Come on, that’s ridiculous. No one could possibly believe that.”

Trust me: You and I learned the hard way eight years ago this August that in the new world we’re living in — one with 24-hour news cycles, the internet, blogs, the echo chamber, and now the new Citizens United-fueled Republican money machine — even completely baseless attacks can stick if people don’t call them out quickly enough. No matter how self-evidently false the attacks are, or how disreputable the people telling them may be, there’s no attack that can’t take hold.

Seeing the new outrageous attacks made against President Obama from a shadowy Republican-allied veterans group called OPSEC, which take issue with the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, remind me all too well of the notorious “Swift Boat” attacks I faced in the 2004 campaign. I honor and appreciate the service of my fellow veterans, but a false attack is a false attack — no matter who’s making it.

It’s not enough to wish them away or dismiss them because they come in part from “birthers” who still won’t concede that President Obama was born here in the United States.

No, we need to get moving now — before it’s too late.

Take a look at this blog post that fact-checks these most recent smears, and be sure to share it with others:

Throughout this campaign, Mitt Romney and his allies have shown that if the truth isn’t favorable to them, they have no problem claiming the opposite — and the reality is that President Obama has a foreign policy record that is among the strongest in recent memory.

In 2008, then-Senator Obama said he’d end the war in Iraq in a responsible way and refocus on taking out Al Qaeda’s leaders.

You and I know he’s followed through in a big way on both those promises.

In contrast, the Republicans have a candidate with absolutely no foreign policy experience, who thinks Russia is our “number one geopolitical foe” and who is advised by people who think — and have repeatedly said — the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are countries that still exist. Romney’s two major foreign policy speeches never even mentioned Al Qaeda once, and he’s prone to stumbles when he steps onto the foreign policy stage. (He can’t even manage to visit London without causing an international incident!)

Faced with all this, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Romney and his allies are resorting to the same national security smear tactics I faced in 2004. We have to take it seriously. Forward this email to your friends, and encourage them to join us on the Truth Team today:

Thanks for fighting back — forewarned is forearmed!

John

Senator John Kerry
Massachusetts (Emphasis added.)

The Truth Team “fact checks” the video? It probably did the best it could with what it had by “playing the man, not the ball.”

First published at Dan Miller’s Blog.

Martin vs. Zimmerman: Black Power or Justice Gone Haywire?

By Dr. Phil Taverna

The liberal media has gone wild on this one, it must be spring break. And it is a tragedy for both families but we seem to be missing a few key elements to the problem.

We had a community plague with robberies. And we had a bunch of racists who want to blow this way out of proportion.

And most importantly when anyone dies, it is a tragedy. But in most cases, something stupid or a sequence of stupidity needs to precede needless death. And it really shouldn’t matter if the dead victim is white, black or the color of a rainbow. And for the live victim if we truly live in a free and fair society it should not matter what color or religion he wears as a coat.

Problem number one was the number of robberies. Does this neighborhood need to be protected? If they had such an exorbitant number of robberies, why didn’t the State, Feds and locals place more police in this neighborhood? They are going to say because of the Obama economy and the Democrats plot to destroy the real estate values in Florida, they had to make cuts. That doesn’t sound right to me, but that is life or death sometimes.

Now once this community decided to defend themselves with a neighborhood watch group, well crap could happen. And in this case, it did. Wouldn’t it be better if they put a sign up that stated that this neighborhood has a neighborhood watch system. Each and every homeowner is licensed to have a firearm, and if you enter any of these homes in the community to do harm, you will probably be shot, enter at your own peril! That would have probably solved the problem without Martin having to pay the ultimate price.

The other problem is the attitude of many Black folks. They use words like slavery, profiling, racism and hate. And of course they use it for political purposes and gain and to gain trillions of dollars in aid. And if the White folks are stupid enough to give the money to Blacks then why not keep acting the same way.

But the problem is what does this do to the people growing up as Blacks. You have heard remarks made by Lady Obama and Barack and these folks have never seen a day of prejudice, they learned how to play the system and they played it to the hilt.

I remember when I was about Martin’s age; my father told me a story. My dad’s folks both came from Corleone. And he had an Italian gal probably American born like him on the back of his motorcycle. And he told her he was Sicilian; she jumped off the back of the motorcycle while it was still going. And he actually had a few prospective customers slam the door in his face or kick him out of their house because he was Sicilian. I don’t know why my father told me these stories. I am a pretty optimistic person and never kept this type of prejudice in my heart. But I am sure somewhere along the line, I was probably prejudiced because I had an Italian sounding name, even though I was 50 % Polish and 100% 2nd generation legal American.

But imagine what it must be like to be born Black and to hear this crap each and every day. So every time that something does not go your way you automatically get angry and think it is because you are Black. The teacher gives you a poor grade… It’s because you are Black. The person in the store refuses to take something back… It’s because you are Black.

Could you imagine living like that? If Martin was raised that way, he might have thought that Zimmerman was questioning him because he was Black.  Martin was probably filled with rage because he thought Zimmerman was 100% white. But the real reason he was being questioned was because he was a stranger in a neighborhood that has been bombarded by robberies. And Zimmerman was hired so to speak to watch the neighborhood. It was his duty to ask Martin what he was doing in his neighborhood.

And it is reasonable to conclude that Martin being Black and raised Black was offended. It ended up with Martin allegedly being on top of Zimmerman causing injuries to his head. I have seen photos of Martin and he appears that he could easily weigh 180 pounds. But let’s say he was only 160. In the movies Bruce Willis can flick a guy off him with his pinkie. But in real life when someone that size and strength is sitting on you smashing your head; you are probably not going to get him off you with or without your pinkie. And Zimmerman defended his life by allegedly shooting Martin.

I am sure if Zimmerman could do this over he may have shot him in the leg as he approached him assuming that Martin did not sneak up behind him. But I do not fault Martin, I fault all the Blacks and liberals like Obama that have fed Martin all this Black propaganda since child birth. It was the bearers of this propaganda that took Martin’s life, not a bullet that came from the gun.

I personally can imagine the rage that can fill a person that hears this crap day in and day out. And the Black Panthers should be arrested again for their threats that they made on camera. And Spike Lee another champion of Black rights should be arrested as well. These are the people that hate white folks and continue to breed hate among the Blacks.

America just can’t do much more for the Blacks. They have just about bankrupted the country. People don’t hate Obama because he is Black. They hate or despise him because he is a bloomin liberal and he has no clue how to fix the economy. When he uses words like tolerant and activism, he has clearly captured the gold medal title as the worse president we have ever had. And have you ever heard once, just once an apology as to why and what he screwed up. Now that’s a real leader. But it is always someone else’s fault for Obama. It won’t be long before the press blames Obama’s poor poll numbers on racists.

Obama lives in his own make-believe world. And unfortunately because of this racial rhetoric Martin and others like him have to pay the price. It would be a great day in America when the so called minorities stop looking for handouts and start living the real capitalistic dream, not the make-believe failing socialistic dreams of folks like Obama.

And maybe then a child like Martin will act like a real citizen and not like someone profiled. Everyone has a right to protect their person and their neighborhood. We used to have a constitution that allowed that.

It wasn’t too long ago that there was a national election held in Florida. The State said President Bush won. It was clear and obvious. After the liberals caused the spending of millions of dollars, it still came out that President Bush won.

This Martin case was investigated for 5 hours by the authorities and it was found to be no wrong doing. The liberals again want to spend millions and in the end will come to the original conclusion.

The fault lies dear Brutus on the liberals and the Blacks that keep spewing this rhetoric that is hurting their people. I promise you that if you grow up and come down to our level, that the American Sun will shine brighter and more prosperous then ever. Try it, you just might like it!

One final thought, some folks think it is ok to charge Zimmerman and let justice run its course. It has always been constitutionally believed, that you were innocent until proven guilty. That means the prosecutor has to have some kind of credible evidence and that she can win the case in good faith. It is not just a matter of the defendant spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to be part of a legal experiment.

It would be great if we could turn the clocks back and set up a camera crew to film the tragedy. But if you end up on top of someone beating their head to the ground, there is always a risk that something can go horribly wrong. Just because Martin was only 17 does not exonerate his actions and the tragedy. Sometimes you are the windshield and sometimes you are the bug!

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