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Santorum: Obama leading Christians to the ‘guillotine’

By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned on Wednesday that President Barack Obama and other liberals are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine.

During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”

“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained.

“As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”

He continued: “They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”

Santorum admitted that the U.S. was “a long way from that,” but if Obama had his way then “we are headed down that road,” citing the Obama administration’s decision to require nearly all private health insurance policies to cover family planning, including female contraceptives.

“Now is the time for America to rise up and say enough!” the GOP hopeful exclaimed.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/

Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Feb. 7, 2012

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Chris Rock: I’d gladly pay more in taxes

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, February 2, 2012 15:20 EST

Comedian Chris Rock told The Associated Press this week that he would gladly pay more in taxes if it meant more Americans have jobs.

Speaking to reporters at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Rock commented that he was “gonna lose the money,” suggesting that he would rather see his tax dollars being used by the government to support jobs than having his children’s teacher ask him for a loan.

“I look at it this way: I can pay higher taxes and people can have jobs, or I can pay lower taxes and have my kids’ teacher asking me for a loan because she’s gonna lose her house, which is true,” he said. “Stuff like that happens. So, I’m gonna lose the money no matter what.”

Rock, an Emmy and Grammy award winner who’s written films and starred in several of his own HBO specials, reportedly has a net worth of over $70 million.

He’s only the latest in a string of wealthy individuals, like billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, to come out in favor of higher taxes on America’s wealthy. Because of their immense wealth, Rock, Buffett, Gates and other rich Americans would fall under a plan proposed by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies that would raise the tax rate on millionaires to 30 percent.

The top 400 earners in America paid an average effective tax rate of just 18.2 percent in 2008. Approximately 94,500 millionaires pay a lower effective tax rate than millions of families earning less than $100,000, according to the Congressional Research Service (PDF). Tax rates on the highest earners are at historic lows thanks to a massive tax break for the wealthy passed during the Bush administration, which if revoked could close the country’s budget deficit.

Facing a $15 trillion national debt, President Obama has called the need for more government revenues a moral imperative, and even quoted scripture to his Republican rivals, who accuse the president of engaging in “class warfare” for his efforts to make tax rates for the rich and poor more equitable.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/02/chris-rock-id-gladly-pay-more-in-taxes/

This video was published by The Associated Press on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.

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Attorney General Eric Holder told the European Parliament in September 2011 that he would try to close Guantanamo by Election Day 2012 or at least by the end of the year. How he would do so was not specified, but ten suggestions appear below.
First, however, it is useful to recall that when the Afghan War began, General Tommy Franks ordered compliance with the Geneva Conventions on October 17, 2001. On November 13 he was countermanded by an executive order in the form of a military order from President George W. Bush regarding prisoners who were then being collected, though no specific mention was made of the Geneva Conventions. When the first prisoners arrived at the Naval Base on January 11, 2002, the commanding general, Brigadier General Rick Baccus, ordered compliance with the Geneva Conventions. His order was then rescinded on February 7 by another executive order signed by George W. Bush making specific reference to the inapplicability of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 but not the 1929 Geneva Convention.
Despite Baccus’s initial attempt at compliance, the world viewed blindfolded, bound prisoners on their knees wearing orange jumpsuits together behind barbed wire. The photo, which has flashed across screens many times, already suggested six Geneva Convention violations:
inhuman treatment (Article 3 of both the 1929 and 1949 treaties)
humiliating and degrading treatment (Article 3 of both the 1929 and 1949 treaties)
cruel treatment (Article 3 of the 1949 treaty; Article 46 of the 1929 treaty)
close confinement (Article 21 of the 1949 treaty; Article 9 of the 1929 treaty)
public display of prisoners (Article 13 of the 1949 treaty; Article 2 of the 1929 treaty)
deprivation of personal property (Article 18 of the 1949 treaty; Article 6 of the 1929 treaty)
It was not the stalag of Hogan’s Heroes!
According to Human Rights First, some 779 prisoners have been housed at Guantánamo over the years. Today, there are 174. Of the 605 no longer at Gitmo, most were sent home or to countries that received them as refugees. Eight have died at Gitmo, 4 of whom were considered suicides, though some may in fact have been murdered. One, who pled guilty, is back home in Australia. Another, who was convicted, was sent back to Yemen.
Three others, who have been prosecuted, remain as prisoners at Gitmo, making the facility a penitentiary, contrary to Article 56 of the Geneva Convention of 1929 and Article 22 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949.
Today, the following categories of prisoners remain:
3 confessed or convicted prisoners who may never be released
5 temporary detainees (Uighurs from China who await resettlement)
84 conditional detainees (30 Yemenis, who want to go home, are held due to instability there but are otherwise cleared for release)
46 dangerous prisoners who will not be prosecuted because of “tainted” evidence
36 prosecutable prisoners, some for civilian offenses.
I envision ten options:
Resettlement in the United States. Seventeen dissidents from Western China, the Uighurs held at Gitmo, could easily be accommodated with their brethren in Virginia. They were wrongly imprisoned, as they have no animosity toward the United States and instead oppose repression of Uighurs inside China. Yet in 2009 President Obama refused to accept a court order for their release to the Mainland United States, deferring to Congressional opposition.
Transfer to foreign countries. Congress currently allows transfer of prisoners cleared for release to settle abroad, provided that the Secretaries of Defense and State stipulate that the host countries meet specific strategic requirements.
Transfer to the UN refugee authority. Part of Guantánamo now serves as a refugee camp. The 89 prisoners already approved for transfer are technically “refugees,” since they reside neither in their home country nor in a country that will accept them as residents, and they hope to leave soon. The Geneva-based UN High Commissioner for Refugees could be asked to handle those already cleared for release. If sent to Geneva, Congressional strategic requirements could easily be met. Existing UN refugee camps, however, may offer inferior accommodations.
Join the International Criminal Court. If the United States joins the International Criminal Court (ICC), those with prosecutable offenses might be sent to The Hague for trial.

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