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It's A Fee

The State of Colorado is raising fees for camping at state parks and recreation areas.  Costs for camping, boat registration and other services will increase in 2010.  However, they are quick to point out that this is not a tax increase; it's only a fee increase.

Government types tell us that taxes are paid by everyone, while fees are paid only by those who use the service.  Grandpa Jim Riesburg even went to far as to declare that state gas "taxes" are not taxes.  They are fees, because they are paid only by those of us who use gasoline! 

Politicians like fees.  Many state agencies can raise them without the legislature voting on them.  The people we elect are supposed to manage these areas, but they can blame increases on entrenched bureaucrats and say that technically they don't support the increase.  So the price we pay goes up, while they fail to manage the state properly and hold the line on fees.

This happens at the city level, too.  Many local cities have managers (such as Roy Otto).  They are under the jurisdiction of the city council, but tend to operate autonomously.  So during the election cycle the mayor and council will tell us they don't have much authority, because of the entrenched system.  However, they have all the authority.  And when fee increases come along they may not have voted for them.  But they quietly endorse them, or else bureaucrats who raise them would not be employed.

It's a cat and mouse game that politicians don't want you do know about.  They don't want you to see these "fees" as a tax.  Then you would be angry and hold them accountable for how they manage city managers and state agencies.  Then they would be jobless (and more of us would probably have jobs!).  Remember this next time you talk with a politician.  When they say fee, they are trying to distance themselves from responsibility.  They are trying to tell you that it doesn't apply to everyone.  And they are trying to tell you that you are an idiot and don't understand the system.  However, you do understand what goes on in your wallet.  Remind them early and often of that fact.

Profiling Works

The undie bomber is now famous for what he nearly did.  He nearly killed more than 200 passengers with an act of terror during the Christmas season, but was thwarted in his attempt.  The government didn't stop him, but ordinary citizens did.  Why?  Because they were more alert than the politically correct, socialist machine that panders to all.

Atlantic Monthly recently published an article blaming the current economic climate on Christians!  It specifically attempted to connect the so-called "prosperity message" with the economic crash.  Meanwhile, the Ft. Hood massacre has not been labeled as a terrorist attack (no terror, no terrorist).  And people are still hesitant to say that muslims have perpetrated nearly all of the attacks on America in the past 10 years.  Why?

The answer is simple.  America is hesitant to stereotype and profile people.  We like our fellow man and don't want the sad mistakes learned from Japanese interment camps to be reapplied to this generation.  However, we are very myopic when it comes to religious profiling.  The muslims do not police their own religion.  Most "non-radical" muslims endorse the actions of the extremists.  Extreme actions are taught in mosques around the U.S., including here in Greeley.  Do we put a stop to this?  No!

It's time to begin religious profiling.  Profiling identifies a group of patterns and problems and isolates them.  Instead of blaming Christians, why not put the blame where it belongs?  Let's watch where we need to be watching.  Greeley Report thinks if the Israelis were put in charge of security they could handle it.  They've been doing it for years.

Why Did The Chicken...

Why did the chicken cross the road?  To escape Tom "bullcorn" Norton's new taxes.  Businesses will probably follow the chicken, not Norton.

Chicken Tax Extortion

An astute Greeley Report reader pointed out the fact that the tax and fee increases are about to begin.  During the past week, when debating the allowing of chickens on individual properties in the city of Greeley, a great deal of the discussion led by Mayor Norton dealt with how to tax them, or impose fees to allow their being there.  They discussed whether this should be a one-time fee, or an annual fee.  Norton leaned toward forcing you to pay for the "right" every single year!

It may seem like it's your property, but the city thinks it belongs to them.  And you can't do what you want to, to feed your family.  If you change anything at all, they think they have a right to charge you for it.  Call it a tax, fee, license or regulation, they are looking for ways to control your property and take your money.

Greeley Report warned you that Norton loves to get into your wallets.  He's no chicken when it comes to taxing your hens.  Watch every statement he makes.  A great number of them will relate to how to obtain your money and take your liberties.  And he calls himself a Republican!  What a liar.  The fox is now guarding the henhouse.

The Liberal Protection Agency

What hypocrites!  The Lib Trib continues to posture on selective issues instead of applying common sense across the board.  For example, when it comes to Nunn and regulations for mining Uranium they want things to be out in the open.  Everything should be public (including those nasty little back-room meetings bureaucrats like to hold).  Nothing is wrong with this.

However, when it comes to making School District 6's checkbook public as Brett Reese proposed, the Lib Trib falls strangely silent.  The city of Greeley can do it.  And the Trib can call for Uranium miners to do it.  But District 6 somehow has protected status.  Is it because it is "too hard?"  Or does the Lib Trib have an agenda?  Do they hate Reese to the point they obscure the truth?  If so, they have ceased to be effective journalists.

Once again we see the selective application of principles demonstrates left-leaning bias.  It also protects other left-leaning people!  Just look at the Trib and it's stories.  Reporting in large scale on a left-leaning priest who demonstrates against war.  Hating uranium mining.  Reporting all the soft, fuzzy human interest stories.  But ignoring how District 6 and others are trying to maintain the good-old boys (and girls) network that has strangled Greeley for years.  That's why others are stepping forward to report on these issues.  We don't make this up!  All we do is share what the Trib avoids.

Be sure to contact District 6 and demand they fully disclose everything for the past 2 years.  No wonder teachers and the public don't trust them.  Then call the Trib and cancel your subscription.  They don't deserve your money, any more than Ranelle Lang does.  Equal means equal.  If we wanted selective enforcement and application of principles we could have found biased people by the scores.  What we want is fairness in all areas of life.  And that includes our schools and media.

Let The Games Begin

The Colorado Division of Housing reported on Monday that new foreclosure filings are up in the Greeley area and Weld County.  This means that there will be fewer property taxes generated to pay for city expenses, fees, schools and other items.  Every government agency will be forced to tighten it's belt.  Obama's little incentive baiting efforts using cars and houses to lure people into the game don't seem to be working.

Some are attempting to move the problems without releasing the money.  For example, grandpa Jim Riesburg featured Ari Zavaras at his townhall meeting on saturday.  Zavaras is director for the Colorado Department of Corrections.  He explained to the crowd how releasing various prisoners early made sense.  However, he was contradicted by Sheriff Cooke and Commissioner Shawn Conway, who stated that the problems come back early, thereby saving the state money.  However, when these criminals are rearrested (as 50 percent of them are), it costs more in county taxes to prosecute them for their fresh offenses.  It looks good on paper, but it doesn't work because the state is unilaterally trying to solve a problem without consulting anyone else.

We will see more of this occur in 2010.  There will be battles between state and federal entities, counties and cities, school districts, and even various taxation zones.  Everyone wants to preserve what they have.  But the time has come to cut back.  Government priorities must be limited to protecting the citizens, providing basic education (not sports and all of the fluffy nonsense, but paying teachers and buying curriculum), and all of the frills and nonessential personel must be fair game when considering cuts.  Every administrator in every city, district and operating group should receive a pay cut.  You have.  I have.  Why not them?

If property values and tax revenues are declining, the government must not do things as usual.  It's time to cut.  Let the games begin.

Better Things To Do?

Over the course of the past 3 months local photographer Jerry Long has endeavored to contact Representative Betsey Markey (D) and Senator Bennett (D) regarding illegal immigration issues.  He has been completely rebuffed or ignored.

In November Long provided a CD of a powerpoint presentation to Bennett's staffer, showing the existing laws that the Federal government was not enforcing.  Then in December he followed up with a question.  "Has the presentation been viewed by Senator Bennett?"  Her answer?  "No, he has not."  When questioned further, Bennett's staffer responded, "He has more important things to do, like work on health care in Washington, than to watch your powerpoint."

According to the U.S. Constitution providing for border security is one of the few things the Federal government is supposed to provide.  Health care isn't even on the list.  However, Bennett, Markey, Udall and others are completely ignoring their Constitutional duties, to do whatever they want.  Illegals take American jobs.  We pay for their schooling, and are well aware of their gang activities.  Last year Colorado spent $33 million to incarcerate convicted illegals in our prisons.  But Bennett has more important things to do?

Now dead dog Markey and the House of Representatives are proposing amnesty for the lawbreakers. They do not listen!  Go to their meetings.  Remember their crimes against our nation.  Understand that they want to tax you, steal your freedoms, and give the rights of citizens to illegal aliens.  And vote them out.  The efforts of local patriots such as Jerry Long will pay off at the ballot box.  Let's remind them of the fact that their "better things to do," begins and ends with upholding the U.S. Constitution for a change.

What About The Laws They Aren't Enforcing Now?

The Lib Trib published a cluster of articles dealing with illegal immigration over the weekend that were nothing but ludicrous.  They covered the "vigil" that bemonaned the immigration raids on the Swift plant.  They talked with liberal Democrat Betsey Markey about how all employers need to use a Federal tracking database.  And today they weighed in with an editorial that basically says all illegals in the country deserve amnesty unless they are criminals.  I'm sure they thought they were fair and balanced in their reporting.

Here is what they did not report.  They did not mention the so-called "coyotes" and human traffickers that rape women and destroy lives, leading people across the border.  They did not address the fear in the illegal community that is latent because they do not have legal status.  They did not discuss the fact that every illegal is a criminal because he or she has stolen and falsely used the identity of a U.S. citizen.  And they didn't ask Representative Markey why she and others are not immediately enforcing the current laws on the books.  They are the Federal leaders we elected, and have the power to do this.  Instead, they are merely talking, posturing, and endorsing these so-called bipartisan panels that are usually comprised of invited parties that are nothing more than liberals from both parties.  If the Trib were truly a journalistic enterprise they would have asked these questions.  Instead, they are merely hiding under the journalistic umbrella, hoping to shape your thoughts and beliefs.

Nobody is representing the conservative point of view in mainstream media.  Especially the Lib Trib!  Unemployment is high, and yet illegals are working jobs that citizens should have.  Identities are being stolen, and those who want to stop the crimes (e.g., Ken Buck and John Cooke) are muzzled and sued.  The border still leaks like a sieve.  But nobody challenges these issues.  Instead, candlelight vigils bemoaning lawbreakers are covered.

WAKE UP!  Call Markey and demand current laws are enforced by her votes, speeches and power.  Call the Trib and drop your subscription (their readers are steadily dropping anyway).  And call both the Republican and Democratic parties and tell them you will not support liberal, whiny candidates any more.  Turn up the heat.  The battle of ideas is being read by you.  You can tell these people where you stand and shape the course of government during the next 2-4 years.

Training For Nothing

Gov. Ritter is announcing a new jobs training push in the next few days for the state of Colorado.  It's too bad he has killed the local job market so that those who are already trained are out of work!  There were plenty of oil and gas jobs in this region before his liberal, human-hating friends in the environmental movement got him to kill them.  There were technology jobs in Northern Colorado that he ignored and wouldn't help with tax incentives or other ideas.

Then there was Vestas.  It was a pet project of Ritter's, but he forgot that when you kill one part of the economy (e.g., oil and gas), you also hinder other sectors of energy production.  While socialistic policies try to control and manipulate markets, they usually respond better to less regulation and taxation than anything the government can offer.  Today Vestas, the green company, isn't producing enough gold, so they are in the red.  And they are "retooling" for three months in hopes of getting into the black.

Ritter unionized the state jobs, and in a time of job and hiring freezes managed to hire more than 1,000 people in state government.  These people produce nothing.  They provide services, but actually produce no real product.  Furthermore, every dime of their wages and benefits come out of your wallet.  So Ritter's jobs focus has put a greater burden on the state.

In the meantime, Ritter is training people for nonexistent jobs.  And he's doing nothing about the illegal alien population that weighs down the construction, landscaping, and service sectors, taking jobs that could be offered to legal American citizens.  He's a farce, folks.  Let's dump him at the earliest possible minute, hopefully by putting a true conservative into office and not a McCain look-alike like Scott McInnis.

We Warned You

Greeley Report warned you.  Last week the story broke about CSU's deliberations to curtail legal concealed carry on school campus.  Well, they did it.  Legal citizens can no longer carry firearms on campus, and the 2nd Amendment went down without a shot.  Criminals will still carry firearms in these terrorist opportunity zones, but legal citizens cannot.

The liberals tried to tell us there was no problem.  The local sheriff would not support the measure, nor would the students.  But it didn't matter, did it.  It's done.  Furthermore, the ruling applies to CSU's southern campus in Pueblo, too.  The college joins the socialists in the area such as UNC and AIMs in restricting constitutional liberties.

What did you do, to push for freedom?  What do you plan to do now?  Someday, they plan to come for your rights, too.

Why Change What Works?

It's amazing!  Colorado State University has used the state policy on handguns successfully for the past couple of years.  This means that anyone who has a state concealed carry permit, or can legally carry openly on the campus can carry their firearms on campus.  During that time nobody has been injured by a firearm while on campus.  However now, CSU officials are considering banning guns entirely from campus.  This creates a terrorist opportunity zone, where lawbreakers can carry guns at will, but law abiding citizens are banned from carrying their own firearms.

Greeley Report supports citizens carrying firearms freely, in all locations.  Period.  Restrictive carry laws in businesses, state and national parks, and other government entities (including colleges) create terrorist opportunity zones.  Furthermore, they restrict your second amendment rights.  And finally, they taint the social atmosphere by causing the average citizen to be irrationally fearful of firearms when they do see them.  Today, CSU is considering banning legal citizens from carrying firearms simply because of fear and liberals who despise free men carrying guns.  When they take that liberty, ask yourself why they want to do it.  Then ask yourself which liberty they will take next.  Will they remove liberties from your son or daughter?  If so, when will they come for yours?

Whole Lot Of Shaking

Greeley Report has learned that District 6 schools policies and processes are as closed as their overall financial budget has been.  District 6 has begun to divulge some of their financial numbers on-line after pressure was brought by Amy Oliver and Brett Reese during the 3A push for more money.

Now District 6 is also under increasing pressure to open their boards and committees in various areas to the public.  The District has been filled with insiders, while parents and interested community leaders have been accepted by invitation only.  Consequently, key decisions have been made in back rooms with no input from the community.  These practices are currently being investigated.  Stay tuned to Greeley Report in coming weeks as more is revealed in this area.

Stop Strangling Business

Isn't it interesting how two congressional leaders are touring Northern Colorado to talk with various businesses and make plans for the 2010 state legislative cycle?  They are planning to enact various laws, to change the way Colorado does business.  But they are also worried about business pulling out of Colorado and making their lives tougher as they take more taxes from us.  It's a very astute observation.

Recently the lib Trib observed the fact that Leprino is the last major business to come to Greeley.  They lamented that fact.  However, they failed to note that it is the restrictive atmosphere in Greeley that is also in danger of pushing out existing businesses that are already in the city.  You see, cities and states face competition from other municipalities.  If things are tough in Greeley, businesses will relocate.  If Colorado is too rigid, Nebraska will invite a business to cross the line with various incentives.  What then is the solution?

The solution is precisely what conservatives have advocated for years.  Less taxation, less restriction.  Furthermore, this should not be considered on a case-by-case basis.  Laws need to be repealed, so that the business atmosphere is attractive to existing business.  This will also attract fresh business.  It will also minimize other issues that we face.  You can lament the demise of 3A all day long (which is probably not a significant problem in the long run).  But the complete climate in Northern Colorado has to become pro-business; not just the school system.  When Northern Colorado starts to cut back on regulation at the state and local level, the job situation will turn around.  When taxation declines, it will help.  And when innovation and good management affects every area, including city government, the school system, and the state, we will see the current environment change for the better.  The jobs are out there.  Government should lift it's hand and eliminate the roadblocks it has created.  It has worked before; it will work now.

Where's The Crisis?

Today is "black Friday," the shopping day after Thanksgiving.  So, where is Obama?  Pelosi?  Harry Reid?  Gov. Ritter?  Why they are taking the day off.  Apparently some of the crises they have foisted on us this year weren't actually crises at all.  Today unemployment is higher than it was when Obama took office.  Ritter still has 1,000 people on the state payroll that were not there a year ago.  But they can take the day off.  It seems that they create crises when they want them, and try to make us do what they want.  But they can shop with the best of us, too.

Enjoy your day of shopping today.  Thousands need the work.

Obama Hates Your Guns

There is a story flying under the radar, reported by services such as Reuters (click here for their article), that has huge implications for American freedom.  Obama has reversed the Bush administration policy regarding American cooperation with international treaties.  If the language of the treaty demands we honor another nation's laws, we will now comply.  Bush had stood against this.

Reuters states that Obama may use this to restrict firearms sales and ownership in the United States.  He hates your freedom and your firearms.  Read the article.  It's not a hoax.  And ask yourself why the major news networks and the newspapers aren't reporting this.

One Sided Forum

The League of Women Voters held a forum on illegal immigration Thursday night, and it was as one-sided as their political views.  Forum members consisted of three Hispanic, left-leaning members, who were all supporting the allowance of more illegals into the country with merely a slap on the wrist.  Not one of them wanted to enforce the current laws on the books.

Absent from the debate were panelists such as law enforcement personnel who deal with crimes illegals commit on a daily basis.  Also absent were victims of identity theft (because every illegal alien is a lawbreaker and a thief), whites and other races.  If this forum had been represented by whites only, it would been labeled as racist.  We have been told that the Immigration issues are not merely a Hispanic issue.  However, that was the only representation on the panel, which leads us to believe otherwise.  The bias in the room was clearly evident.

Forums and panels such as these are used by the league of wimpy vipers to attempt to sway public opinion.  Religious groups often weigh in with the "we are all God's children debate," and one of the frequent comments you will hear is the fact that our nation is comprised of immigrants.  While this is true, we are still a nation of laws.  We cannot let everyone who wants a better life to simply migrate here, nor can we continue to let our borders remain a sieve for crime, drugs and lawless people from many nations.  Those who migrate here must commit to obey laws, obtain proper paperwork (so that a U.S. citizen will not suffer through the illegal theft of his or her identity), and support and uphold the Constitution.  As for those who are already here, we should send them home.  Americans need the jobs, and we can rely on the actions of three U.S. Presidents before us.  It worked before; it can work now.

Will They Take Your Job?

Thanks to a Greeley Report reader for this information.

Take a look at this link for a startling article.  Despite the fact that jobs are being lost by U.S. citizens at rates that approach the Great Depression, a number of groups want to bring in more immigrants to the nation.  We have a huge illegal immigrant problem that artificially suppresses wages and takes jobs from the legal sector.  Millions of illegals are working.  Are you?  Now groups want to bring in more?  It's time to take a stand.  Read the article, and act.  If your religious or civic group is involved, be sure to contact them and challenge their viewpoint.

Click here to read the article.

Dirty Money In Northern Colorado

What do Senator Udall, Betsey Markey, Defenders of Wildlife and the McWhinney Group (Developers of Centerra) have in common?  They all share a common desire to take control of Northern Colorado with liberal money.  Now their true colors are showing.

McWhinney was supposed to put up a bond to guarantee the roads, sewer, etc., as Centerra was developed.  They didn't.  But they managed to fund nearly every liberal Democrat in the 2008 political cycle.  Now they have defaulted on a $116 million loan on Centerra.  They still owe $113 million!

Defenders of Wildlife attacked Marilyn Musgrave repeatedly and supported Betsey Markey and Mark Udall.  Of course they love Udall's Sierra Club lawyer wife, and they love animals more than people.  This is exemplified in the forum they are holding soon in Denver to moan and groan over the "vanishing habitat" for wolves, lynx and other animals they deem to be more valuable than you.

Of course Markey and Udall won't be giving any money back from these groups.  You won't hear Markey complain about the lack of ethics from her campaign supporter.  It's business as usual for them.  The Lib Trib won't follow the dirty money trails either.  You have to rely on Greeley Report for that.  There will be more dirty politics in days to come, and you can hear it here first.  Then you can choose where to shop and where you avoid.  Make your shopping dollars count toward conservative causes; not the liberals.

Here We Go Again

Greeley Report noted an article in the Lib Trib that fits their pattern of reporting to perfection.  It features Bob Tointon and his work with a group of select people to help reform the Colorado state constitution.  Apparently they think it's broken.  If it is, what seems to be the problem?  They want to "address the knot of fiscal amendments that restrain the Legislature's ability to increase revenue..."  In other words they want to eliminate barriers that protect you and me from government thievery.  The Legislature always wants more, more, more.  They want to make sure the government gets more, and that it comes from your wallet.

This is the primary problem with these panels.  Tom-Tom Norton sat on the District 6 Blue Ribbon panel with other business leaders.  However, very few of these leaders live on fixed incomes, or have salaries at or below poverty level.  Of course they think everyone can afford to pay more taxes; especially you.  Government cozies up to them, invites them to sit on these panels, and together they develop fresh bills to "reform and streamline" the way they do business.  However, many times you and I are the victims of their efforts, and we all end up paying more, instead of demanding that the government operate more efficiently.

Colorado added hundreds of jobs to the state payroll this year, despite a hiring freeze.  They always want more.  Now this panel of stinking RINO's and DIABLO's are gathering to steal more money.  From you.  Read between the lines.  And call Tointon and tell him if he really wants to be effective, he needs to apply solid business practices to the government in staff and financial cutbacks.  The state Constitution is working effectively.  It's protecting we the people from the tyranny of greedy bureaucrats.

Bennett Meeting Well Attended

Congressman Michael Bennett sent a staff member to Greeley last night to conduct a local town hall meeting and "explain" some of his actions to the locals.  What the staffer encountered however was a group that wanted the staffer to listen to their point of view.  They had issues with Bennett's views regarding socialized health care, illegal immigration, cap and trade, and poor treatment of veterans.  The surprisingly well-attended forum was not covered by the Lib Trib, nor was the unwillingness of the Bennett group to listen and adapt to constituent concerns.

It seemed that those attending had heard about the forum through various grassroots groups such as Amy Oliver's talk show and the local 9.12 group.  Although they were not an organized, cohesive group, they did seem to express uniform concern over Bennet's lack of performance on various issues.  In the end the Staffer closed up shop and departed, presumably to tell her boss how offended she was by the outcry at the local level.

He Wants To Raise Your Taxes

Did you see it?  Yesterday.  In an article in the Lib Trib regarding Anadarco and drilling permits.  There was a comment by Weld County commissioner David Long that was simple and to the point.  He said, "if oil and gas revenues don't come in, then residential taxes are going to have to increase.  It's as simple as that."

We are about to experience another wave of Governor Ritter's problems.  When he changed the rules, adding 170+ pages to the oil and gas industry to placate his little enviro-friends, it hammered the drilling industry in Weld County.  But due to the permit processes and drilling cycles it has taken this long to catch up to the new drilling process.  Now, Weld County will experience that end of the wave, too.

But Commissioner Long seems to have the same problem as Gov. Ritter.  They both think government should be maintained at current levels by drawing money from our checkbooks.  Ritter robs Long, and Long robs us.  We get angry at Republicans and Democrats instead of saying no to the entire process.  Instead of this endless extortion, it's time to tell government officials on both sides of the aisle to cut back, stop spending, and eliminate taxes, services, whatever it takes.  It's as simple as that.  Times have changed, and government must change with them.

More Overspending Uncovered

Thanks to the efforts of a Greeley Report reader, more wasteful spending within District 6 continues to be uncovered.  This was passed on to District 6 school board member-elect Brett Reese. Greeley Report has agreed to publish this information on their behalf.  Here are the facts.

• School District 6 has not purchased one $2,000 desk.  They have purchased several in recent years.
  
• The main floor desk in the administration building cost $20,000 (with four zeros)!
  
• The receptionist desk in Human Resources cost $8,000.

Why didn't the Lib Trib's investigative reporters cover this?  Why are we being told that they cannot buy textbooks, and yet they have money for extravagant purchases like these?  These are the issues that deserve to see the light of day.  Be sure to call District 6 or the local school board and demand a thorough audit that will be published.

If This Is Peace....

We are told that Islam is the religion of peace.  However, the news tells a different story.

• November, 2009 - A Muslim soldier leaps onto a table and kills 12 fellow soldiers, wounding 30 others.
  
• October, 2009 - A Muslim imam is killed in Detroit, in a shootout with the FBI.
• June, 2009 - An Army recruiter is killed in Little Rock, Arkansas by a Muslim.
  
• Fall, 2004 - A group known as the Virginia Jihad Network is broken up while planning a huge assault against Americans.
  
• October, 2009 - Suspect Zazi, his father, and a New York cleric are taken into custody and charged with planning acts of terror against America.
• November, 2009 - A woman is murdered in Ft. Morgan, Colorado and an African Muslim living in Greeley is arrested and charged with the crime.
  
• February, 2007 - Sulejman Talovic opens fire in a Salt Lake City, Utah mall.  He even kills people execution style.  He is a devout Muslim.
  
• July, 2006 - One Jew is killed and 5 others wounded inside a Seattle Jewish Center.  A Muslim forced his way inside by holding a gun to the head of a Jewish teenager.
• November, 2008 - Twenty Muslim men go outside of North Phoenix, Arizona.  They spend their time there shooting targets and practicing.  Two are sons of a noted Imam in the city.
  
• 2002 - The beltway sniper is arrested in the Washington, D.C. area.  He is a Muslim.

Muslims are involved in every major conflict around the world.  Africa, Indonesia, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe.  There is one common thread; the theme of Islam.  Tell them to pack their bags and get out.  It's time we start speaking up before there is a Ft. Hood-style situation right here.

The Descent Of The USSA

Greeley Report thanks a regular reader for the following article that graphically illustrates our decline into slavery.

"This year I decided to begin carrying my firearm regularly.  Society isn't getting any better, and after a couple of close calls with crime it was the prudent thing to do.  Besides, it was easy.  Right?  After all, the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

First, I discovered it wasn't as easy as it sounded.  I'm a U.S. citizen with no criminal history, clean as a whistle.  However, my friends began to question my motives as well as the Constitution!  They didn't think this is what the founders intended.  They opined that guns were for hunting, police and the military.  Civilians should leave that stuff to the "professionals."  They didn't like my discussions about how professionals often draw chalk lines around civilians, and they really became inflamed when I pointed out the original intent of the second amendment; that being the necessity of citizens to protect themselves from tyranny.  When I mentioned the fact that my right to carry a firearm was not granted by government, but was an unalienable, natural right, their heads about blew off!

I also discovered there is a list of places where my firearm and freedom is disallowed.  Colleges, hospitals, schools, various businesses.  I was a clean-cut citizen.  Safe, law-abiding, allegedly free and responsible.  Law-breakers carry weapons into these places.   Law-abiding citizens cannot.

Then there was the problem with my clothing.  Yes, clothing.  I found out I can carry a firearm in plain sight without a problem.  However, if my sweatshirt covers it, I am a lawbreaker.  Now, I need a government "permit."  And of course the "permit" has regulations, approvals of government, and money.

You see, the government requires you to take a class that is approved by them.  It costs $100 or more.  In the class they teach you that if you ever do have to shoot someone, you may well be presumed guilty unless proven innocent.  Then you must fill out an application for a concealed carry permit.  This costs another $152.  (So far I have spent $252, and I still can't wear my sweatshirt or a jacket over my gun.)  The application packet has all of the gun laws in legalese, which you must study before you apply.  Then you go through the questions.  I noted that some aliens from outside the country may apply to carry concealed as well as me.  I was being treated like them!  I am a U.S. citizen, under the U.S. Constitution.  But I was put on the same level as an alien by state and local government.

Finally I was able to submit my permit application to the local sheriff.  He had to approve my rights, too.  I would undergo a background check with state and federal authorities.  I was sent to the local jail to be fingerprinted.  I had to submit a valid photo id.  All of this would be attached to my permanent record, just so I could pull my sweatshirt over my sidearm so that liberal-minded freaks would not worry.  If all went well, and the government bureaucracy deemed me worthy, and if the local sheriff approved of me, I might receive my permit within....10-12 weeks.

The United States had no gun laws for centuries.  It was common to carry firearms openly or hidden; it didn't matter.  Historic records state that Miles Standish and others carried their muskets to church in Plymouth, MA, in 1621.  Nobody minded.  Today our constitutional rights are watered down, and we have allowed it to happen.  The enemy is not outside the U.S., but within our laws, fees, and bureacracy.  The next time you talk with an elected official, whether it's a sheriff, council member, or legislator, ask them what they will do to eliminate a bunch of laws so we can breathe free again.  Their response will tell you if they are truly for freedom, or just another socialist waiting to enslave the masses with further regulation.

That Is So Bully

Sam has been watching a Federal "Bully" Bill that may affect you.  It is H.R. 2262.  This bill, sponsored by liberal democrats, removes another degree of authority from school districts the local level and puts it in the hands of your "benevolent" dictators and Obama czars in D.C.

The bill sounds like a good idea.  Stop school bullies!  However, within the list of bullies are those who use various phrases including those against sexual perverts.  The homosexuals are using this to push their agenda.  In teaching children to not bully others, they also want to indoctrinate your children and grandchildren toward their perversions at the earliest possible age.  Elementary school!  Preschool!  They don't care, as long as they can enforce their morality on your children.  The bill includes no funds to enforce it, and it may be used to attach things to your child or grandchild that may be harmful to their education down the road.

One example of what may occur would be this.  When your 4th grade grandchild is playing with his friends and says "you're so gay," that could be construed as hate speech and bullying according to this bill.  This "bully" would then be labeled and taught what a homosexually perverted lifestyle is all about to help clear up his "hating and bullying" tendencies.  It is unclear whether this label would then be attached to the child, to follow him throughout his life, and at what level these labels would remain (local, state or federal files).  Would the "bully" tag keep people out of colleges?  Would it be used to suppress training opportunities?  It would definitely be used to crush free speech at the youngest levels.  This would teach children that speaking out freely and independently is a "bad thing."  In short, the bully bill helps the government create a group of "sheeple" that will not rebel against big brother.

Sam is including a link to the full text of the "bully bill."  Read it for yourself (click here for the link), and call your congressional leaders.  The last thing we need right now is more control in D.C. over our local schools.  Keep school decisions at the local level!  We don't need unfunded mandates either.  We need to fight the bullies all right; the ones in D.C.  We need to take their bill and tell them to shove it.  But they might not like that, because it may appear too strong....and bullying.