Lee Dunn's List: FAKE CONSERVATIVES

• CREDIBILITY   IN SCARY TIMES
• By   Lynn Stuter
    December 29, 2009
    NewsWithViews.com
• Ronald   Reagan once quipped, "trust but verify"—an axiom that   serves us well.
• Increasingly,   since Also Known As (AKA) Obama was given the blessing of Congress to   occupy the White House and act in the capacity of "president"
• (even though evidence indicates he is not a natural-born citizen as required   by Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, United States Constitution);
• as more   and more Americans have come to the realization that the "different   kind of politician" they voted for is a Marxist with the intent of   enslaving them and turning the United States into a police state;
• commentaries   have found validity on the e-waves that are anything but.
• The tendency   is to look on anything put out about AKA with an eye that it certainly   is possible in light of his Marxist agenda.
• Possible,   maybe, but whether it is true is what we need to consider and act on.
• At the   latter end of September, stories were flying around the internet about   a detention facility in Hardin, Montana, how (sic) "AKA's goons had   taken over the town as a police state model that would be spread across   the United States."
• The stories were flying fast and hard, each one,   it seemed, trying to outdo the last in the "police state" department.
• People   were lapping it up. The ripples of anger across the surface of the growing   discontent were palpable.
• According   to one of the e-mails flying around the internet, put out by a supposedly   Christian   "intercessor," but for which no one seemed to accept responsibility   and on which no author was noted, the following claims were made:
• AKA had signed a law privatizing all the police forces in the United States;
    2. The Hardin city council had disbanded the Sheriff's   Office
    3. A dozen "blacked out" Mercedes SUVs had   rolled into town with the Hardin City colors and logos "painted"   on them
    4. A heavy duty gate was being constructed at the "entrance   to Hardin"
    5. The head of the government operation was a man who   spoke with a thick Russian accent and his website "logo" was   Russian
    6. The security force would be made up, primarily, of   foreign nationals
    7. This new "police force"
    a. was stopping people without cause
    b. would be conducting forced H1N1 vaccinations; any   who refused would be imprisoned
    c. had told a local gun shop they had the serial numbers   off all the guns in his shop, guns he owned, and that the people in the   town owned.
• It took   a lot of time and a great deal of research to separate the fact from the   fiction, sensationalism and hype.
• And when the truth was separated from   the rest, the story came out a whole lot differently.
• The   truth was that a man, known as "Captain" Michael [Hilton] with   a long criminal record of fraud of varying types, who had spent six years   in a California prison, whose base of operations was in California, was   attempting to lease a detention facility that the people of Hardin had   been conned into building two years prior by a Texas-based   group known for this;
• that the detention facility had since sat empty;   that the bonds on the facility were in default; that officials in Hardin,   Montana had jumped at the opportunity to lease the facility without thoroughly   checking the background of the individual seeking to lease the facility.
• There had been several black Mercedes brought to town by Hilton with magnetic   logos attached to them, said logos subsequently ordered removed by Hardin   officials.
• While Michael Hilton was supposedly a naturalized American   citizen, while he spoke with an accent, his country of origin was not   Russia but either Montenegro or Serbia;
• the crest (the "logo")   on his website   was of Serbian royalty.
• That crest, as it originally appeared, has now   been altered as has several other aspects of the website, including the   insinuation that American Private Police Force, Hilton's company, was   connected to Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.
• What   made me question the validity of this e-mail, initially, was the claim   that AKA had signed a law privatizing all the police forces in the U.S.   and the claim that the Hardin city council had disbanded the Sheriff's   Office.
• That the number of the bill AKA supposedly signed was not provided   gave rise to the question of the validity of this claim.
• Likewise, that   the Hardin city council has no authority to disband the Sheriff's Office,   a county agency over which the Hardin city council has no authority, was   reason to question the validity of this claim.
• When   the truth of Michael Hilton's extensive criminal record came to light,   when he refused to disclose who was backing his operation, when pressure   was applied by the Montana Attorney General's office, Michael Hilton quietly   left town.
• The   problem was that, in the meantime, the wild stories circulating the internet   showed up on websites otherwise considered credible.
• When I requested   of Steve Quayle that he either remove   the above e-mail from his website or post my rebuttal to the e-mail,   he did neither.
• The e-mail still exists on his website today.
• It also   exists on the Cutting   Edge website, as does the referenced e-mail   below (this link may change).
• More   recently, another e-mail has been circulating the internet in which it   is claimed that (sic) AKA has given INTERPOL   (International Criminal Police Organization) policing powers within the   United States via Executive Order.
• The e-mails are flying fast and furious   regarding this claimed "police state" move by AKA.
• Digressing   for a moment, background information on INTERPOL is pertinent.
• INTERPOL,   "Created in 1923, … facilitates cross-border police co-operation,   and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose   mission is to prevent or combat international crime …
• Each INTERPOL   member country maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by national   law enforcement officers.
• The NCB is the designated contact point for   the General Secretariat, regional offices and other member countries requiring   assistance with overseas investigations and the location and apprehension   of fugitives."
• The NCB in the United States   is located within the Justice   Department.
• The   United States is a member country of INTERPOL.
• Returning   to the e-mail in question, spreading with lightning speed across the e-waves:   the truth regarding this e-mail is something entirely different.
• AKA   has issued an executive order   13524 amending executive order   12425, written and signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
• It pertains   to the International   Organizations Immunities Act which addresses diplomatic immunity afforded   foreign entities.
• President Reagan, with stated exceptions, gave INTERPOL   diplomatic immunity in the United States.
• In 1995, President Bill Clinton   issued executive order 12971 amending Reagan's executive order   12425.
• AKA's executive order 13524 further amends Reagan's original   executive order and has the effect of completely removing all exceptions   to the diplomatic immunity afforded INTERPOL.
• The   International Organizations Immunities Act addresses diplomatic immunity;   it does not give any foreign entity, such as INTERPOL, police powers or   legal powers within the United States.
• Yet   that is what is being claimed in e-mails flying about the internet and   appearing on what are otherwise considered credible websites.
• An article   appearing at Rense.com   was backtracked to a website with no apparent name other than Marion's   Blog; "Marion" being Marion Valentine, a "disabled   Navy Cryptologist" out of Laurel, Mississippi.
• Whether the article,   posted on his blog, was written and posted by him, is not clear.
• While   the article presents the various Executive Orders involved and the pertinent   sections of the International Organizations Immunities Act accurately,   it then provides the following summation:
• "INTERPOL,   an international law enforcement agency, has just been granted complete   and utter 'diplomatic immunity' within the borders of the United States,   courtesy of Obama. They are not subject to any Constitutional limitations   within the United States. Good luck filing for discovery, documents,   witnesses or subpoenas against a police force that is operating outside   of the Constitution in your own country! You can't sue them. Their records   can't be searched. They are not subject to FOIA requests. You probably   won't even know the name of the agent prosecuting you if INTERPOL comes   to visit. And they don't have to tell you either."
• In a word, "NO."
• Is this   true? Is this accurate?
• INTERPOL is not an   international law enforcement agency.
• As stated above, INTERPOL   facilitates cross-border police co-operation regarding criminal   acts that are international in scope.
• For instance, INTERPOL would have   been contacted when the Nigerian national, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,   tried to blow up Northwest/Delta flight 253 on approach to the Detroit,   Michigan airport.
• INTERPOL would facilitate the exchange of information   between foreign law enforcement agencies with information on Abdulmutallab   and U.S. law enforcement agencies seeking that information;
• INTERPOL is   not a law enforcement agency in and of itself; it has no police enforcement   power in any of its member countries.
• It is   true that INTERPOL has been granted complete and utter diplomatic immunity   within the borders of the United States.
• However, diplomatic immunity   does not equate to giving INTERPOL police powers over American citizens;
• diplomatic immunity is only granted if INTERPOL is in good standing and   abides by United States law concerning diplomats residing on American   soil.
• If diplomatic immunity is rescinded, due to offenses against the   United States or its citizens, the offending party has a choice to either   leave the United States immediately or be arrested and prosecuted under   American law.
• Diplomatic status can be revoked for any number of reasons   including acts of war, spying, or criminal acts committed under American   law.
• Over the years, diplomatic status has be revoked a number of times   for diplomats in this country, resulting in their immediate expulsion   from this country.
• The   claim that "They are not subject to any Constitutional limitations   within the United States"; that they can operate "outside of   the Constitution" and American law is utterly false.
• If an INTERPOL   agent showed up at your door, he/she would be risking expulsion or prosecution   for breach of diplomatic immunity.
• As I   stated above, this article is unsigned with no author apparent, just like   the e-mail that started the whole buzz about Hardin, Montana.
• Who is writing   and who is putting out these disinformation e-mails, and why they are   doing it, is something we need to be asking ourselves.
• One thing is very   apparent, these people are not on our side.
• It would appear their motive   is to muddy the waters regarding the eligibility issue and draw attention   away from what is really happening with AKA and his Marxist minions.

  • In regards to Steve Quayle and his website the "Q Files"; he seems to have "fled" the scene; gone underground or at the least blended into the background and from my view, rather abruptly. I have my suspicions and have had due to some things Quayle has posted in the past on his site. Though I cannot prove it, I have come of late to speculate if Quayle may be a disinfo agent or a nut.
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• We have a man in the Oval Office intent   on burning the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the ground, intent on   turning our nation into a police state with third-world status.
• These   are scary times, that is true.
• But   knowledge is power.
• We need   to stay focused on the truth and not let the truth be obscured or sidelined   by disinformation.
• There   isn't one of us who hasn't been suckered at some point by one of these   wild stories; this is true. It is our obligation, however, to expose them   when we find they aren't true.
• Trust   but verify!
• © 2009 Lynn M. Stuter - All Rights   Reserved

• Activist and researcher, Stuter   has spent the last fifteen years researching systems theory and systems   philosophy with a particular emphasis on education as it pertains to achieving   the sustainable global environment. She home schooled two daughters. She   has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining   to systems governance, the sustainable global environment and education   reform. She networks nationwide with other researchers and a growing body   of citizens concerned with the transformation of our nation from a Constitutional   Republic to a participatory democracy. She has traveled the United States   and lived overseas.

   

  Web site: www.learn-usa.com  

   

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• Why does Fox News promote terror-tied, FBI-shunned group?
• Bankrolled by same wealthy Saudi prince, CAIR now regular guest on cable leader
• Posted: January 11, 2010
  9:52 pm Eastern
  
• © 2010 WorldNetDaily
• Long a reliably patriotic media source in the war on terror, Fox News may now be among news outlets who have fallen under the spell of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' propaganda machine.
• "We own the media," CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper privately brags, according to a source currently working inside the aggressive Islamist lobby group.
• Fox News host Bill O'Reilly last week invited the TV-savvy Hooper on his show to debate passenger profiling, the second guest appearance by the CAIR spokesman in a month.
• 
   CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper, right, on the Fox News "O'Reilly Factor" show with host Bill O'Reilly last week
• At the end of the segment, O'Reilly thanked Hooper and called him a "stand-up guy," sending shockwaves through the conservative blogosphere.
• CAIR is no ordinary guest.
• The government has blacklisted it as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator, and the group remains under criminal suspicion by the FBI, which has cut off outreach ties to it.
• Congress and the IRS also are investigating CAIR, which has had no fewer than 15 executives and board members convicted or implicated in terror probes, including its founding chairman.
• In addition, CAIR's very existence as a legitimate corporation has been challenged in a lawsuit in federal court.
• 
   FBI agents arresting CAIR founding director Ghassan Elashi in 2002
• Given CAIR's proven ties to terrorism – which O'Reilly failed to mention – why would Fox offer the group's top executives a virtually uncritical forum on prime-time cable TV? Saudi Arabian money may be a factor.
• It turns out that the same billionaire Saudi prince who owns a major stake in Fox's parent company also bankrolls Washington-based CAIR.
• And sensitive State Department records reveal Hooper – despite his repeated public denials – has personally solicited cash from the prince and other members of the ruling Saudi royal family during recent trips to the kingdom.
• The common financial bond between Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and Fox, and between bin Talal and CAIR, raises questions not only about Fox News's independence, but about the truthfulness of CAIR's top spokesman.
• Hooper repeatedly has denied that CAIR receives foreign support, insisting it's a "grass-roots" nonprofit organization.
• In CAIR press releases, Hooper has stated unequivocally: "We do not support directly or indirectly or receive support from any overseas group or government."
• However, smoking-gun video footage obtained during a recent six-month covert investigation of CAIR puts the lie to Hooper's claims.
• In a private conversation with undercover researcher Chris Gaubatz, who was posing at the time as a CAIR intern, Hooper boasted that he personally can "bring (in) a half million of overseas money" a year, adding: "If some guy's got a lot of extra money in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), I don't mind taking it."
• Hooper made the remarks Aug. 30, 2008, during the Islamic Society of North America's 2008 annual convention in Columbus, Ohio.
• A State Department cable citing Hooper by name, moreover, directly contradicts Hooper's denials about foreign support, according to the blockbuster book "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," which exposes the secret inner workings of CAIR, among other radical Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America.
• The sensitive but unclassified communiqué was written by U.S. Embassy staff in Saudi Arabia, who in June 2006 reported the following after meeting with a CAIR delegation:
• "One admitted reason for the group's current visit to the KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) was to solicit $50 million in governmental and non-governmental contributions."
• "(Saudi) King Abdullah knows CAIR very well," the cable added.
• Among other things, CAIR said the money would be used to "counter negative stereotypes about Muslims in the U.S." media, a phenomenon described by CAIR as "Islamophobia."
• The core delegation, according to the cable, consisted of Hooper, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad and then-CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed. Besides Riyadh, the trio also visited Mecca and Jeddah.
• Just three months after the trip, Hooper denied soliciting Saudi government funds.
• "To my knowledge, we don't take money from the government of Saudi Arabia," he said in a September 2006 appearance on MSNBC's Tucker Carlson show.
• At a meeting held that year at the Saudi headquarters of the kingdom-run World Assembly of Muslim Youth – whose U.S. branch was formerly run by Osama bin Laden's nephew – CAIR announced the launch of a massive PR campaign and warned potential donors that the U.S. was trying to curtail the political activity of Muslims.
• Awad, with Hooper at his side, said CAIR needed a well-funded endowment to change American opinion.
• He proposed spending $10 million annually for five years on the media campaign.
• "We are planning to meet Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal for his financial support to our project," Awad told the Arab press. "He has been generous in the past."
• He also presented a $10 million relief check to then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani – or at least he tried. Giuliani rejected the gift after bin Talal blamed America's "pro-Israel" policies in the Middle East for the attacks.
• Indeed, the Saudi prince donated at least $500,000 to CAIR after 9/11.
• Prince Bin Talal's voting stake
• Bin Talal, a member of the Saudi ruling family, owns a 5.5 percent voting stake in Fox News' parent News Corp., run by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
• The prince has said he is willing to increase his share in Fox's parent to fend off hostile takeover bids by rivals.
• Murdoch, in turn, has invested in bin Talal's Saudi-based enterprises.
• It is not immediately clear if bin Talal has influenced Fox's decision to book CAIR. But there is strong evidence that bin Talal has directly influenced Fox News content in the past.
• As WND reported, during violent street protests involving Muslim immigrants in France in 2005, the Saudi prince persuaded Murdoch to change a screen banner that identified the unrest as "Muslim riots."
• "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch (and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty," bin Talal said. "Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from 'Muslim riots' to 'civil riots.' "
• 
   Prince al-Walid bin Talal
• Fox News has acknowledged it changed the banner after receiving complaints from unnamed Muslims abroad. It has not denied bin Talal's influence in its internal operations.
• Bin Talal isn't the only member of the ruling Saudi elite bankrolling CAIR.
• Bank wire records published exclusively in "Muslim Mafia" show another Saudi royal family member has pumped six-figure sums into CAIR coffers.
• In 2007, for example, Saudi Prince Abdullah bin Mosa'ad transferred $112,000 directly into CAIR's bank account at Citibank.
• The Saudi bank transfers further undermine the official line peddled by Hooper, who has a reputation for dissembling.
• Longtime CAIR critic Andrew Whitehead, for one, calls him "CAIR's liar-for-hire,"
• CAIR sued Whitehead for defamation and lost.
• "The record shows CAIR habitually engages in deception," said terror expert Steven Emerson, executive director of the "Investigative Project on Terrorism" and author of "Jihad Inc."
• In 2003, for example, CAIR accused WND of "demonizing Muslims" for citing a Bay Area newspaper's report that CAIR's then-chairman, Omar Ahmad, told a gathering of Muslims that Islam was in America to dominate and that the Quran would one day rule over America.
• Despite CAIR's dubious reputation, Fox has recently given Hooper and other top CAIR leaders an unchallenged platform to persuade the American public to back off passenger profiling and other measures to counter an ominous upswing in terrorism.
• Since the Fort Hood terrorist attack by a Muslim Army officer, CAIR's leaders have been invited on Fox at least four times, even though there are several other Muslim groups considered genuinely moderate who could speak for the Muslim community, such as the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
• "The issue," Emerson said, "is whether CAIR is an honest and reliable broker for American Muslims."
• Hooper was invited on "The O'Reilly Factor" twice to shoot down profiling following the attempted airline attack by a Muslim would-be suicide bomber who concealed explosives in his underwear.
• In both appearances, Hooper – looking less fundamentalist without his trademark kufi skull cap – was given a full segment unopposed and unanswered by other guests.
• In the wake of the Fort Hood attack, CAIR chief Awad was invited on Fox, and in an interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, Awad denied Islam had anything to do with the deadly massacre – even though it was known at the time that the shooter was Muslim and had yelled "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire. Awad also got a full segment unopposed.
• Free spin on Fox
• Most recently, CAIR's chief lobbyist Corey Saylor appeared on Fox New during an interview with anchor Bill Hemmer.
• Fox did not balance Saylor with an opposing guest to challenge the CAIR spokesman during his full segment, in which he contended young Muslim men are no more "security threats" than 85-year-old grandmothers.
• Washington recently added Saudi Arabia – CAIR's patron – to a list of 14 mostly Muslim nations whose travelers will undergo extra airport security screening.
• Saylor slammed the new Obama administration policy as "across-the-board profiling" and complained "Muslims will pay the price for this one."
• At no time during any of the four appearances by CAIR leaders did Fox bring up the fact that the FBI has cut off ties to CAIR or that the Justice Department has blacklisted the group as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator – information critical to the public's understanding of CAIR's possible bias in delinking terrorism from Islam and arguing against Islamic terrorist profiling.
• 
   CAIR's Corey Saylor on the Fox News show "America's Newsroom" with co-anchor Bill Hemmer
• Curiously, even O'Reilly of "no-spin zone" fame failed to so much as hint at the many controversies surrounding CAIR in his introduction of Hooper.

• O'Reilly also let Hooper get away with a glaring falsehood during his most recent appearance.  

  Hooper maintained CAIR does not share al-Qaida's "talking point" that America and the West are "at war with Islam." Yet after the Iraq war, CAIR's chairman declared: "The United States is at war with Islam itself."  
• Detractors say the misleading statement is yet another example of CAIR's deceptive tactics, which should give the media pause before booking CAIR representatives as the official voice of Muslim Americans.
• Investigative journalist Paul Sperry, co-author of "Muslim Mafia," says giving CAIR's leaders a media platform is "like giving Hamas and the terrorist enemy a platform."
• He notes that while CAIR may bill itself as a "civil-rights advocacy group," the FBI says that far from being a benign nonprofit, it's an American front group for Hamas terrorists and the radical Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of both Hamas and al-Qaida.
• The bureau last year cut off formal ties to CAIR's national office in Washington and all 30 of its branch offices across the country.
• CAIR at the time blamed its ban on the "right-wing" Bush administration and confidently predicted that a Democrat administration would restore relations. Yet fully a year into the Obama administration, CAIR remains frozen out of any formal outreach with the FBI.
• At the same time, the Justice Department has blacklisted CAIR as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in the largest terror finance case in U.S. history, against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation. The trial ended in convictions on all 108 counts.
• Prosecutors have also connected CAIR directly to the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement that seeks to institutionalize Saudi-style Shariah law in America and the West through immigration, coercion and political infiltration.
• "From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists," assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg stated in a court filing.
• He adds that the Saudis and CAIR's other Arab patrons pay him well for it – more than $95,000 a year in total compensation, IRS records show.
• Who is 'Dougie' Hooper?
• He also commands a six-figure annual budget for conducting opposition research against CAIR's enemies – which internal documents revealed in "Muslim Mafia" include, ironically, Fox's O'Reilly and other "right-wing" media personalities.
• A Canadian immigrant, the 53-year-old Hooper was known as "Dougie" before he converted to Islam.
• His birth name is Cary Douglas Hooper, according to government records.
• He became a member of the Cairo Foreign Press Association while working for periodicals in the Egyptian capital, the global headquarters of the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
• Hooper also worked for local TV stations in Minnesota, where he once let it slip out that he favored Islamic rule in America.
• 
  Ibrahim Hooper
• "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper said in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
• "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
• "This is Hooper's real agenda," Sperry said, "make no mistake."
• In an October interview with CNN, Hooper denied charges of Middle Eastern influence-peddling: "We have no ties of any kind to any foreign group in any form."
• However, CAIR is on record promising to do the bidding of its Arab backers.

• In 2006, shortly after a company owned by the United Arab Emirates lost a controversial bid to take over control of several major U.S. ports, Awad, Hooper and other CAIR officials traveled to the UAE to meet with its rulers.  

  It was agreed that the UAE would set up an endowment in the U.S. run by CAIR to fund an "education" program to change negative perceptions about Islam that the UAE believes contributed to the public outcry that derailed its multibillion-dollar ports deal.   
• The endowment caught the attention of the U.S. government, which issued another sensitive State Department cable regarding the unusual deal.
• It noted UAE Minister of Finance Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum endorsed a proposal to build a $24 million property in the U.S. to serve as an endowment for CAIR to launch its $50 million image-building campaign through 2011.
• "The endowment will serve as a source of income," Awad told the Arab press at the time, "and will further allow us to reinvigorate our media campaign projecting Islam and its principles of tolerance."
• CAIR is working out details of its endowment with the Dubai-based Al-Maktoum Foundation, founded and controlled by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
• The anti-Israeli charity has held telethons to support families of Palestinian suicide bombers and other so-called "martyrs."
• After 9/11, the Al-Maktoum Foundation took a nearly $1 million stake in CAIR's headquarters property, just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, as first reported by Sperry in his 2005 book, "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington."
• Sperry said. "Of all people, Fox should know better than to give the enemy voice. There are other legitimately moderate Muslim voices out there who can better speak for the broader Muslim community, and they aren't hard to find. Why Fox keeps going back to CAIR really makes one wonder about the influence Saudi money is having at Fox."

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