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Totalitarian Means to Totalitarian Ends

Posted on | November 1, 2013 | 41 Comments

David Harsanyi:

You can’t keep your insurance if you like it under Obamacare because you’re too ignorant to understand what’s good for you.
That’s the argument we’ve been hearing from a lot of folks on the left; an argument that pivots from “common good” to soft authoritarianism.

Doug at Daily Gator:

Obamacare is about coercion not choice . . . It was forced on Americans even though a majority opposed it. . . . Obamacare is about crushing the choice we have in health care.

The failure to understand what’s going on is disturbing. It is as if no one in the media ever read Atlas Shrugged or The Road to Serfdom.

What’s happening is an “end justify the means” argument that is, as usual with such argument, fundamentally flawed. If the end you seek to achieve is genuinely beneficial, you should be able to persuade people to achieve it via honest, peaceful and lawful means.

The very fact that people resort to dishonest, coercive or unlawful means to achieve an end should cause us to question whether the end they seek to achieve is actually beneficial, or whether there is some ulterior motive — a hidden agenda — to their policy.

The minute you say “ulterior motive” or “hidden agenda,” it sounds like you’re proposing a paranoid conspiracy theory, which isn’t what I mean at all. Rather, I believe the basic motive of Democrat support for ObamaCare was not a matter of policy, but politics. The arguments made for it were dishonest because they were motivated by politics, rather than by actual concern about health care.

When people are willing to lie persistently and routinely to achieve their objectives, you can be sure their objectives are not good.

Some people hate freedom. Some people hate America.

We call these people “Democrats.” Don’t vote for them, ever.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

Texas Appeals Court: It’s OK to Talk Dirty to Kids, Because … Shakespeare!

Posted on | November 1, 2013 | 40 Comments

Apparently, the Court sees no distinction between Shakespeare, a Miley Cyrus video and obscene text messages:

Talking dirty to minors, just like Miley Cyrus “twerking” on MTV or Janet Jackson having a “wardrobe malfunction” during prime time, is constitutionally protected free speech, the highest criminal court in Texas ruled Wednesday.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals struck down a section of a 2005 law that banned adults from sexually explicit online communication with children.
That means soliciting a person under the age of 17 for sex remains illegal, but talking dirty with a child is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

(In other words, perverts can send anything they want to minors, as long as they avoid a narrow definition of “solicitation.”)

Judge Cathy Cochran, who penned the ruling, said the law “may protect children from suspected sexual predators before they ever express any intent to commit illegal sexual acts, but it prohibits the dissemination of a vast array of constitutionally protected speech and materials.”
The opinion centered on a Harris County case in which a 53-year-old man was accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to a teenager with an intent to arouse or gratify his sexual desire.

(And we all know that protecting this stuff is exactly what the authors of the First Amendment had in mind, right?)

“It’s unclear whether the messages are serious or whether he was joking around,” said attorney Grant Scheiner, who represented the man. “Nevertheless, he got charged with a crime.”
Because the court tossed out the law, the charges against the man have been dismissed.

(Perverts who like talking dirty to teenagers are all moving to Texas now. Anthony Weiner could not be reached for comment.)

The court’s ruling said the 2005 law makes illegal a “whole cornucopia of titillating talk or dirty talk” but would also outlaw online discussions of other sexually explicit content including famous works like “Lolita” “50 Shades of Grey” “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” and Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida.”

This absurd false equivalence — comparing a pervert’s text messages to works of literature — is indicative of how a devotion to intellectual abstraction has corrupted the legal community. The intent of the legislature was both clear and legitimate: To protect minors from the corrupting influence of perverse adults.

As with any other law, police, prosecutors and trial courts all have discretion in regard to enforcement of such a law. At each step of the way, from the moment potentially illegal communications are brought to the attention of law enforcement until a trial jury renders a verdict, officials and citizens are empowered to exercise their own common-sense judgment about whether the communications violate the law, and whether the person sending these messages acted with criminal intent. Sure, the defense attorney says his client was just “joking around” and, not having seen the messages at issue, let’s stipulate that the content was ambiguous. But doesn’t the fact that someone (the teen or the teen’s parents) complained to the cops indicate that whatever this 53-year-old creep said to this kid was something the average Texas citizen wouldn’t want someone saying to a kid?

This is not literature. This is not a novel, a play, a movie or a TV show. These are private messages between an adult and a teenager. Does the Texas court mean to prohibit the exercise of common sense?

Legal beagles among our readers can examine the court’s decision in Ex Parte John Christopher Lo and explain, in common-sense terms, why the court ruled unanimously to strike down the law.

The court seems to be making an argument that other laws, presumably constitutional, could be applied against genuinely harmful communications with minors, and that the specific law the court is striking down has some particularly erroneous provision.

Please discuss this in the comments.

 

Category: Constitution, Crime, Sex, Texas

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 11.01.13

Posted on | November 1, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Fifth Circuit Stays Lower Court Decision; Allows Texas To Enforce Abortion Law

Governor Perry congratulates bill author Rep. Laubenberg at the bill signing July 18

Big victory for AG Greg Abbott, pro-life movement

Internal Notes Show Only Six People Signed Up For Obamacare On First Day
CMS “war room” notes released by House investigators

Amid NSA Spying Revelations, Tech Leaders Call For New Restrictions On Agency
Facebook, AOL, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple sign letter to Senate



POLITICS
Colorado Voters Deciding On Pot Taxation

Weed on display at a Denver dispensary

25% for schools and enforcement, or 8% like beer?

Book: Obama Advisers Considered Replacing Joe Biden With Hillary

Sen. Udall Votes Against Intel Reforms, Wants More Substance


FAA Finally Greenlights Gadgets On Planes

Obama: “Shop Around” If You Lose Health Care Plan

Hagel Blasts States On Same-Sex Military Benefits

14% Cut In Food Stamps Begins Today

The Gettysburg Offense: Obama To Snub Historic Battlefield On 150th Anniversary



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Oil Off Slightly In Asian Trade From Weak US Demand, Additional Libya Supply: NYMEX $96.34, Brent $108.87
Manufacturing Strengthens From PRC to ROK
Time Warner Cable Loses Subscribers, Open To Deals
Fannie Mae Sues Banks Over Alleged LIBOR Manipulation
Treasury Loosens Rules For Health Savings Accounts
Wall Street Ends Session Lower But Posts Gains For October
Google, Samsung, Others Sued By Holder Of Nortel Patents
Google Mum On Mysterious Floating Barge Project
Apple Confirms iPhone 5S Battery Problems
Ubisoft Follows EA’s Lead, Axes Online Passes
Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted For Obamacare Tech Surge



SPORTS
Scenes From A World Series Celebration

The Red Sox celebrate after winning Game Six

“This is a great city to cover baseball in because of you.”

Dolphins Edge Bengals 22-20 With OT Safety

Rose, Bulls Slip By Knicks

Bruins Edge Ducks 3-2 In Shootout


Chris Paul Scores 42 As Clippers Top Warriors

Sabres Blanked By Rangers

Former Pro Safety Goes On Massive Anti-NFL Twitter Rant

Coyotes Top Predators In Shootout

It’s Official: Matt Williams Is New Nationals Manager



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Katy Perry “Wants a Normal Relationship” With John Mayer

Not looking to be the music world’s Brangelina

“I’m going to go on dates and movies and dinners and when I do it’s not because I’m trying to garner any kind of publicity, it’s because it’s something that is just an inevitable byproduct of this life.”

David Arquette Drunk-Dials Howard Stern, Talks About Courtney Cox

Ellen DeGeneres Gets Scary For Halloween: Dresses As Half-Naked Nicki Minaj

Kanye West Cancels Concerts Due To Truck Crash

Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson Meet again, Five Months After Split

Ashton Kutcher Not Paying Alimony To Demi

Heidi Klum Completely Unrecognizable As Old Lady

L.A. Probation Department Not Impressed With Chris Brown’s Rehab

Tina Fey/Ellie Kemper Comedy Gets Series Order From NBC

Cult 80s Slasher “Sleepaway Camp” Eyed For Franchise Reboot

Mick Jagger – Gimme Shelter From Katy Perry’s Lies, I Never Hit On Her

Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Developing Drama For CW

Disney CEO’s Firm 2015 Deadline Leaves “Star Wars VII” Crew Scrambling



FOREIGNERS
Israeli Air Force Hits Syrian base; Inspectors Seal Chemical Weapons
Five IDF Soldiers Wounded, Four Hamas Gunmen Killed In Gaza Tunnel Fight
German Lawmaker Says Snowden Willing to Testify In Merkel Snooping
Furious Jakarta Hauls In Aussie Ambassador Over Spying Claims
Russia Sees Syrian Peace Talks By End Of Year
Japanese, Russian Defense Chiefs to Meet On Security Coordination
Nations Fail To Agree On Antarctic Marine Reserve
Pumpkins “Stuffed With Cocaine” Seized At Montreal Airport



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: The “Ongoing Investigation”
Stephen Crowder: Obama’s Halloween
Dead Republican Party: Newspeak Translations For Conservatives
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Another Liberal Stooge Loses His Insurance Thanks To #ObamaCare
Proof Positive: Oh Say! Can You See?
Doug Powers: Megyn Kelly vs. Rep. Frank Pallone On Obamacare – If You Like Your Obfuscation, You Can Keep It
Twitchy: “The Definition Of Hate” – Sally Kohn Suggests Ted Cruz Is A White Supremacist
American Power: #Obamacare’s Ugly Authoritarian Problem
American Thinker: Stick A Fork In Obama
The Necropolitan Sentinel: Obamacare Watch – The Israeli Health System
Don Surber: Halloween Scoreboard
Jammie Wearing Fools: Judicial Watch – Obama Henchwoman Lois Lerner Illegally Gave Taxpayer Info To FEC
Pat Dollard: Top Hospitals Opt Out Of Obamacare
Protein Wisdom: Debunking The Debunkers – Yes, Obamacare Rate Shock Is Real
Shot In The Dark: Grounds For Panic
The Jawa Report: Ministry Of Boobies, Spooky Edition
The Lonely Conservative: Pelosi Says Getting Your Insurance Canceled Is For Your Own Good
Megan McArdle: Everyone Wants To Go To Export Heaven


Deadline to submit links for this weekend’s FMJRA is midnight tonight.
DO IT.


Category: Live at Five

Why Did Neal Rauhauser Lie?

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 33 Comments

Because the previous post strung out to 1,500 words — highlighting Neal Rauhauser’s role in the harassment of Mike Stack — I neglected to ask an important question about Rauhauser’s June 2, 2011, “Stranded Wind” post at Daily Kos: Why did Neal tell this lie?

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

You see that this is 18 words of pure, deliberate falsehood.

Neal Rauhauser tells lies like that habitually and routinely. This is just one randomly selected lie among thousands, but look at it again:

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

What could possibly be Rauhauser’s motive for telling that lie? I mean, we now know conclusively that Weiner was never “stalked,” “set up,” and “smeared,” right? Anthony Weiner was guilty, guilty, guilty.

Neal Rauhauser knew this, too. He is not stupid. He knew very well that Weiner sent the Tweets that Weiner was accused of sending.

There was no “set up.” There was no “smear.”

Neal just lied and made that up, but look at the second half of his lie:

. . . this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

“Coordinated”? By whom did Rauhauser say this was “coordinated“?

We see a steady flow of similar crimes – illegal taping, attempts to tap a Senator’s phone, now intrusion into a Congressman’s social media profiles, and the one thing in common? Andrew Breitbart, who is operating a continuing criminal enterprise as defined by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act aka RICO.
And now this gang, this conservative media mafia, has done a hit on a U.S. Congressman, and it’s one carefully timed to protect corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from scrutiny, and the timing of the delivery was flawless.

This is obviously false, and obviously Neal Rauhauser knew it was false. The “timing” of when Anthony Weiner tweeted that photo of his bulging crotch was entirely up to Anthony Weiner, and so Neal Rauhauser’s deliberate falsehood is preposterous. Yet there it is:

“Andrew Breitbart . . . is operating a continuing criminal
enterprise . . . [which] has done a hit on a U.S. Congressman
. . . carefully timed to protect corrupt Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.”

This is a lie, and the question is: Why?

No one has ever backed Neal Rauhauser into a corner and demanded that he answer for all the lies he told about WeinerGate, I have focused here on exactly one of those lies, for a reason: It was in that June 2, 2011, post that Rauhauser threatened Mike Stack.

Three weeks later, Mike Stack was SWATted.

A week after that, Patrick “Patterico” Frey was SWATted.

What do Mike Stack and Patrick Frey have in common?

Neal Rauhauser hates their guts.

Somebody needs to ask Neal Rauhauser a few questions.

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

It’s Halloween: Does the FBI Know Where Kimberlin Associate Neal Rauhauser Is?

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 60 Comments

“Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.”
— Neal Rauhauser (“Stranded Wind”), Daily Kos, June 2, 2011

“We’re getting in position to drive part of the narrative for the Occupiers. . . .
“3. Next steps with this will include some of the following
“a. other Velvet Revolution activities — American Crossroads seems most likely to draw their eye . . .
“Keep in mind I work with the guy who triggered the investigation into Clarence Thomas over the Citizens United payoff . . .”
— Neal Rauhauser, e-mail to Occupy Boston organizers, Sept. 30, 2011

“Kimberlin has been targeting Patterico since October 2010, and it was evidently Rauhauser’s anti-Patterico blogging that brought him into Kimberlin’s orbit so that, by October 2011, Rauhauser seemed to be describing Kimberlin as his client. . . .
“Another coincidence: What do ‘SWATting’ victims Patterico and Mike Stack have in common, other than the fact that, as Patterico himself notes, Rauhauser hates their guts?
“Is Rauhauser being paid by Brett Kimberlin — with proceeds from tax-exempt non-profits — to pursue these vendettas?”
— Robert Stacy McCain, June 4, 2012

Anyone familiar with my coverage of The Kimberlin Files knows that it was former Democrat campaign consultant Neal Rauhauser’s involvement with Brett Kimberlin that first drew my attention to this story in May 2012. And anyone familiar with the federal RICO lawsuit Kimberlin v. Universe, et al., knows that The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant’s central claim is that he was the target of a racketeering conspiracy (!) involving everybody from Michelle Malkin to Glenn Beck to Simon & Schuster (!) to falsely accuse him of complicity in the “SWATting” hoaxes against Patrick Frey and others.

Yet there are some curious omissions from Kimberlin’s lawsuit. The perjuring bomber never mentions his role in VelvetRevolution.us, the 501(c)4 activist group he co-founded which, along with his 501(c)3 Justice Through Music Project, shares the Bethesda, Maryland, address where Kimberlin lives in his mother’s basement. Furthermore, Kimberlin’s lawsuits do not mention either Neal Rauhauser or the June 2011 SWATting of Mike Stack. Why is this?

My fellow RICO defendant Patrick Frey, June 3, 2012:

Many people have asked: if all this is about Brett Kimberlin, where does Mike Stack fit in? Why was he swatted? . . .
Rauhauser had several sites with a countdown clock to February 6, including one called “Kookpocalyse” and other sites linked to his name. . . .
The Kookpocalypse site included a video of a simulated beheading . . .
There were train maps with Aaron Walker’s hometown of Manassas, Virginia and Seth Allen’s hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Given Rauhauser’s past comments (as “Iowa Boy”) talking about the need for Republicans to be killed for the greater good, together with the simulated beheading video and the countdown clock, Rauhauser’s ominous web site created valid cause for concern. . . .
Rauhauser had a deep animus towards Stack. And he claimed that Stack was “harassing” certain people, including Brett Kimberlin. Moreover, he connected that to Weinergate. Rauhauser states in the document that one of the reasons Stack allegedly harassed Kimberlin and himself was that “Rauhauser wrote extensively about Stack, Frey, Bloom, and their fabrications regarding former Congressman Anthony Weiner.”
So you can see that from reading Rauhauser’s paranoid rant that, in Neal Rauhauser’s mind, there is a connection between me and Mike Stack (the two swatting victims from 2011), our alleged fabrications about Anthony Weiner, and our alleged harassment of Brett Kimberlin.
Remember that Rauhauser is Kimberlin’s associate and was present at the recent hearing where Aaron Walker was arrested.

Go read the whole thing. Who could forget Neal Rauhauser’s February 2012 “Kookpocalypse” threat which, in the end, proved to be the publication of Rauhauser’s notorious conspiracy theory, “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?” That document was part of a package of information Rauhauser sent to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. In it, Rauhauser claimed that he, Kimberlin and others were the targets of a criminal conspiracy involving Mike Stack, Seth Allen, Aaron Walker, Sean Tompkins, Patrick Frey, Patrick Read, Mandy Nagy, Thomas Ryan, Aaron Barr and others.

Keep in mind, now, that this “Kookpocalypse” scare was Feb. 6, 2012, more than three months before I got onto the Kimberlin story.

Rauhauser sent to the FBI, and published online, a completely baseless series of criminal accusations against his enemies list, claiming a “conspiracy” involving at least 10 people, some of whom did not even know each other. Yet now we have Kimberlin suing people — claiming conspiracy as well as defamation — while ignoring the deliberate defamation published by his associate Rauhauser?

But again, Patterico’s question: “Many people have asked: if all this is about Brett Kimberlin, where does Mike Stack fit in? Why was he swatted?” This is crucial to understanding why Kimberlin v. Universe, et al., says nothing about Rauhauser or Velvet Revolution. To discuss either would be to raise the question of why, in June 2011, Rauhauser was using his Daily Kos “Stranded Wind” account to promote Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution’s petition to impeach Clarence Thomas?

It would also raise the question of why, in September 2011, Rauhauser was representing himself as an agent of Velvet Revolution in e-mails to organizers of Occupy Boston?

In other words, from mid-2011 onward, Rauhauser appears to have been acting on behalf of Kimberlin and Velvet Revolution, and so if Rauhauser were suspected in the SWATtings of Stack and Patterico, then the question of Kimberlin’s culpability for Rauhauser’s actions would constitute an entirely reasonable suspicion. But guess what else Rauhauser alleged in June 2011?

These are the particulars of the latest event, but look at the big picture. We see a steady flow of similar crimes – illegal taping, attempts to tap a Senator’s phone, now intrusion into a Congressman’s social media profiles, and the one thing in common? Andrew Breitbart, who is operating a continuing criminal enterprise as defined by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act aka RICO.

Oh, Breitbart was “operating a continuing criminal enterprise” under RICO, the same thing Brett Kimberlin alleges in his lawsuit? Do you think it’s just a coincidence that Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser are promoting these very similar conspiracy theories? And do you think that it’s also just a coincidence, that in that same Daily Kos diary, Rauhauser invoked “Anonymous” to threaten Mike Stack?

So it was a short process from getting contacted by this anonymous person with a hushmail account until I had this guy’s full name, his home address, his date of birth, and a collection of phone numbers. I wrapped it nice and neat and forwarded it to the FBI. . . .
And one final thing … the person or persons behind the hushmail account that knew so much about Mike Stack? They’ve asked me to include a few words and an image in this diary.

We are Anonymous.We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us. . . .

Plain and simple, people, I write things up in an orderly fashion, I address them to someone with an @ic.fbi.gov address, and I hit send.

Isn’t that weird? On June 2, 2011, Neal Rauhauser basically “doxed” Mike Stack at Daily Kos and quoted the Anonymous creed.

Three weeks later, Stack got SWATted.

The whole time, Neal Rauhauser was boasting about the frequency of his contacts with the FBI. And it’s probably just a coincidence that the FBI has been unable to solve the SWATtings of Stack, or Patterico, or Aaron Walker or Erick Erickson, or some other people who have been SWATted, but haven’t gone public about it.

Some people have told me they suspect Neal Rauhauser is being “protected” by the FBI. They have actually named two FBI agents they suspect are involved in protecting Rauhauser. Frankly, these suspicions strike me as somewhat paranoid, but if you were someone who (a) had been endlessly harassed by Neal Rauhauser and also (b) had been SWATted, wouldn’t it make you paranoid if (c) FBI agents professed themselves hopelessly incompetent to solve these SWATtings even while (d) Rauhauser was bragging about his FBI contacts?

So it’s Halloween, and Neal Rauhauser is still at large.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 





 

 

Category: Crime, The Kimberlin Files

The Old ‘Ongoing Investigation’ Trick Is Being Used to Hide Benghazi Truth

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 39 Comments

The Lonely Conservative:

The cover up continues. The State Department and the DOJ are blocking Congress from having access to survivors of the Benghazi attack. They blame it on the ongoing investigation.

This is a very familiar method of truth-suppression in D.C.: “I can’t comment because of the ongoing investigation.” Understand that when the federal government is investigating the federal government, denying information to Congress is a de facto cover-up.

Meanwhile, Rowan Scarborough of The Washington Times reports:

Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military’s elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration’s original story about the Benghazi tragedy. . . .
[S]ources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators — mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members — were in Tripoli the night of the attack, on a counterterrorism mission that involved capturing weapons and wanted terrorists from the streets and helping train Libyan forces.
When word of the Benghazi attack surfaced, two members of that military unit volunteered to be dispatched along with five private security contractors on a hastily arranged flight from Tripoli to rescue Americans in danger, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the special operations forces’ existence inside Libya was secret.
The two special operations forces arrived in time to engage in the final, ferocious firefight between the terrorists and Americans holed up in the CIA annex near the ill-fated diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the sources added.
The two special operators were awarded medals for valor for helping repel a complex attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, another American diplomat and two former Navy SEALs, but spared many more potential casualties.

So here we have Green Berets getting medals for their bravery in a battle that the administration refuses to tell Congress anything about, because “ongoing investigation.” Next we’ll be told that Obama can’t say anything about Benghazi, because “national security.”

Remember the administration repeatedly claimed that Benghazi was a “spontaneous demonstration” inspired by a YouTube video.

They’re Democrats. Their first instinct is always to lie.

Now? “Phony scandal!” And whatever happened to Nakoula?

 

Category: Barack Obama, Libya, Military

IRS Leaker ID’d; Confidential Information Given to 2007 Harvard Graduate UPDATE: Gay ‘Diversity’ Program

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 48 Comments

Eliana Johnson of National Review reports that congressional investigators have identified the Internal Revenue Service employee who leaked confidential information about donors to the National Organization for Marriage. Federal rules forbid the leaker’s name being made public, but we know to whom the information was leaked:

[A]n IRS agent working in the Exempt Organizations Division — the same division that, until May, was under the direction of Lois Lerner, who retired under duress last month — leaked NOM’s Schedule B to Matthew Meisel, a former employee of Bain & Company, the management consultancy where former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney worked in the 1970s and 1980s and where he served as interim CEO in the early 1990s. Between his stints there, Romney founded the private-equity firm Bain Capital in 1984. After he obtained NOM’s donor list from the IRS employee, the committee says, Meisel then turned it over to the Human Rights Campaign. Neither Meisel nor the Human Rights Campaign returned calls seeking comment. . . .
The emergence of Meisel, a 2007 graduate of Harvard University, and his connection to Romney’s firm may shed light on the motivation behind the leak, which was used to hammer Romney for supporting California’s Proposition 8.
[NOM chairman John Eastman] wants the Department of Justice to prosecute both the unnamed IRS leaker and Meisel, the recipient of the leaked documents. “This should be a relatively simple matter,” he says.

It also should be “a relatively simple matter” for a congressional committee to subpoena Meisel and officials of the Human Rights Campaign to testify at a hearing, and to subpoena Lerner for her testimony as well. Let them all plead the Fifth, if they want, but hold the hearing and let the American public see what has happened here.

UPDATE: How did this happen? In a word, “diversity.” From a December 2008 article in the Harvard Crimson:

On a Monday night in September, about two dozen Harvard students gathered at the Harvard Square hot spot Red Line, to be wined and dined by recruiters from the consulting firms Bain and Co. and the Bridgespan Group. . . .
This event hosted by Bain and Bridgespan was just one in a series of efforts from a variety of firms across the country to target LGBT students interested in a future in finance. . . .
“Questions run the gamut, everything from what are your hours like to can I bring my boyfriend out with colleagues? About significant others and everything in between,” says Matthew S. Meisel ’07, an associate consultant from Bain and Co. . . .
About Bain and Co.’s larger diversity goals, Meisel says, “Bain is really looking for a diverse set of people and diversity means a lot of things of course, but as our clients change and as our clients’ needs change, one of the important things is that our team members come from diverse backgrounds.”

Score another win for Cultural Marxism.

UPDATE II: More on gay “diversity” from the Yale Herald, Nov. 5, 2010:

Matthew Meisel, a senior associate consultant at Bain who graduated from Harvard in 2007 and is a member of BGLAD [Bain Gay and Lesbian Association for Diversity], highlighted diversity in the workplace as an asset to the collaborative nature of consulting.
“If you get six identical people in a room together and ask them to solve a really difficult problem, you’re not going to get a very good answer,” he said. “But if you have people from diverse academic and personal backgrounds, you get more creative answers.” . . .
[C]andidates who want more information about specific companies should look to metrics such as the Corporate Equality Index published annually by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights organization in the U.S. According to Matthew Meisel, Bain was the first major consulting firm to receive a perfect score of 100 and has received that score for five years running.

So, it seems, Matthew Meisel was a sort of poster boy/P.R. spokesman for this corporate “diversity” program at Bain.

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Gays, Taxes

A Petty Criminal

Posted on | October 31, 2013 | 20 Comments

Bryan Sweatt of South Carolina:

Sweatt has a lengthy arrest record that dates back nearly a decade, according to state police records. Most of his charges were related to property crimes, such as burglary or forgery, although he was arrested once on aggravated assault charges.

How many times have I pointed out that those who perpetrate headline-making atrocities are often petty criminals who escalated?

6 people shot dead in SC domestic dispute

Some people never learn: Criminals are dangerous.

 

Category: Crime
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