FBI: OBAMA’S TRUSTED ADVISOR JARRETT RELATED TO COMMUNISTS INSIDE FAMILY AND DIRECTLY ALSO

OBAMA'S FATHER IS FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

FBI: OBAMA’S TRUSTED ADVISOR JARRETT RELATED TO COMMUNISTS

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by KIT DANIELS

Jarrett's father in particular was a high-level communist in Chicago

                                 

President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is related to hardcore communists who were investigated by the government, according to the FBI.

Jarrett’s father, geneticist Dr. James Bowman, had extensive ties to communist groups and was even in contact with a Soviet agent during the Cold War.

“Bowman was also a member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and Medical Students,” Judicial Watch reported, which obtained FBI files on Jarrett’s family. “According to Bowman’s government file the Association of Internes and Medical Students is an organization that ‘has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line’ and engages in un-American activities.”

“Bowman was born in Washington D.C. and had deep ties to Chicago, Ill., where he often collaborated with fellow communists.”

Interestingly, those communists later influenced Obama early in his career as a community organizer and lawyer in Chicago.

                                          

“Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was also another big-time Chicago communist, according to separate FBI files obtained by Judicial Watch as part of a probe into the Jarrett family’s communist ties,” Judicial Watch continued. “For a period of time Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).”

“His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would ‘disseminate the Communist Party line among…the middle class.’”

Given Obama’s ties to Marxist ideology which was cultivated in Chicago, it’s no surprise then why Chicago lawyer and native Valerie Jarrett is the president’s highly trusted confidant.

“Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file,” Judicial Watch added.

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SOVIET-ERA COMMUNISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE WHITE HOUSE 

SEE: http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=11380; REPUBLISHED ARTICLE BELOW:

SEE: 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/;

EXCERPTS:

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the dad, maternal grandpa and father-in-law of President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government.

It’s been well documented that Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago lawyer and longtime Obama confidant, is a liberal extremist who wields tremendous power in the White House. Faithful to her roots, she still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Communist Party member with an extensive FBI file.

JW has exposed Valerie Jarrett’s many transgressions over the years, including her role in covering up a scandalous gun-running operation carried out by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Last fall JW obtained public records that show Jarrett was a key player in the effort to cover up that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious, a disastrous experiment in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which have been used in an unknown number of crimes, including the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

In 2008 JW got documents linking Valerie Jarrett, who also served as co-chairman of Obama’s presidential transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin “Tony” Rezko. According to the documents obtained from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago slum projects operated by Rezko.

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Valerie Jarrett’s Communist Ties 

Confirmed by Judicial Watch

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On Monday, Judicial Watch (JW), a conservative government watchdog group, released its findings that President Obama’s closest advisor, Valerie Jarrett, has had close ties to Communists for decades. Thanks to files released to JW by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Jarrett’s father, grandfather, and father-in-law all “had extensive ties to Communist associations and individuals.”

Jarrett’s father, Dr. James Bowman, worked closely with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who fled the country after being charged with espionage. Bowman was also a member of the pro-communist group the Association of Interns and Medical Students, which, according to the FBI, “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.”

Jarrett’s maternal grandfather, Robert Taylor, also had close ties to Stern while her father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was a major communist sympathizer in Chicago, according to the FBI’s files. For a period of time, Vernon Jarrett was on the FBI’s Security Index as a potential communist saboteur who was to be arrested immediately in the event of a conflict with the Soviet Union. Vernon Jarrett was assigned by the party the responsibility for writing anti-American propaganda for a Communist Party front in Chicago that would “disseminate the Communist Party line among [Chicago’s] middle class.”

Those files also show her family’s close ties to Obama’s mentor, Communist Frank Marshall Davis, on whom the FBI also had extensive files.

Valerie Jarrett, officially President Obama’s senior advisor and assistant for public engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, runs a staff of 35 people who have been developing policy for the White House ever since Obama's election in 2008.

Jarrett's influence with Obama is remarkable. As Dr. Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College and a long-time investigator of communist activities in the United States, put it, "Valerie Jarrett is President Obama’s single most important and influential adviser. No one else in the White House, or the entire administration, is as close to Obama. She has been described as everything from his 'right-hand woman' to like a sister and even a mother to Obama."

The New York Times says Jarrett is Obama’s “closest friend in the White House”, his “envoy,” his “emissary,” his “all-purpose ambassador,” and the “ultimate Obama insider.” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank says Jarrett’s connection with Obama is “deep and personal” and that she is “the real center of Obama’s inner circle.”

Much about Valerie Jarrett’s communist background was left unsaid by Judicial Watch. Jarrett’s mother, for example, was a co-founder of a propaganda ministry to young children called the Erikson Institute. The institute is currently funded with grants from left-wing foundations such as the Joyce Foundation and the Woods Fund of Chicago. The institute’s board has been populated by hard-core leftists and communists such as Tom Ayers (the father of lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers, another Obama insider), and Bill Ayers’ wife, revolutionary terrorist Bernardine Dohrn.

Also left unsaid by JW was that Jarrett’s grandfather, Robert Taylor, was involved with various communist front groups such as American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, along with Frank Marshall Davis.

Vernon Jarrett’s communist background was also far more extensive than that revealed by JW and its FBI files. Vernon was the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the pro-communist Chicago Defender, where he wrote columns praising the communist poet Langston Hughes and hard-left Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Vernon also served as a leader in the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy, the youth wing of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

In summing up the remarkable confluence of communist influence in Valerie Jarrett’s family background, professor Kengor wrote, "Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, worked with the relatives of Valerie Jarrett … in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s…. So imagine where we are today: Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis’ political godson, and Valerie Jarrett, daughter-in-law to Vernon Jarrett and granddaughter of Robert Taylor … are the two dominant figures in the White House."

To say that Jarrett has "influence" in the Obama administration vastly understates her importance. According to a November 2014 article in New Republic, “Jarrett holds a key vote on Cabinet picks … and has an outsized say on ambassadorships and judgeships.… She has placed friends and former employees in important positions across the administration.”

By her own admission, Jarrett holds massive sway over the Obamas: “We have a kind of mind meld. Chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do … I kind of know what makes them who they are.”

One of those chosen by Jarrett was the self-identified communist revolutionary, Van Jones, who wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near his position as green jobs czar in March 2009 without her influence. In fact, Jones “did not [even] go through the traditional vetting process,” said a White House official. But once Jones was in, Jarrett gushed over the new revolutionary joining the team: "We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching for him … for as long as he’s been active."

He lasted only until September 2009 when his blatant revolutionary background came to light, which Jones said was the result of “a vicious smear campaign against me.” Jones is now exercising his skills as a senior fellow at the leftist Center for American Progress as well as a senior advisor at Green for All. He is also serving as a “distinguished” fellow at Princeton University and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Jarrett’s influence over Obama extended to his overzealous remarks following the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Lewis Gates. She persuaded him to withdraw those remarks, as they were rightfully perceived to be disrespectful to local police.

Her influence also extends to foreign affairs. Author Richard Miniter, writing in Leading From Behind, noted that Jarrett repeatedly urged Obama not to kill Osama bin Laden, resulting in the president cancelling that mission three separate times.

She also used her influence to benefit her friends and benefactors. She actively promoted Solyndra, the California-based solar-panel company, in which George Kaiser, one of her wealthiest Chicago connections, just happened to have a 35-percent share. On Jarrett’s advice, Obama visited and publicly extolled the wonders of the company in 2010 even while its finances were unravelling. In September 2011 the company declared bankruptcy, leaving the U.S. taxpayers holding the bag for $535 million in government-backed loans.

Her view of the proper role of government was on display in an interview in September 2011 when she said,

We have to give people a livelihood so they can provide for their families…. [President Obama’s] is a moral vision … based deeply in values and taking care of 'the least of these.' And making sure that we are creating a country that’s a country for everybody, not just for the very, very wealthy. We are working hard to lift people out of poverty and give them a better life, a footing, and that’s what government is supposed to do.

She’s also vicious and vindictive. In unedited comments from one of Jarrett’s staffers, Jarrett exclaimed in November 2012: "After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded; the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay."

She is also, according to author and journalist Ed Klein, the driving force to keep Hillary from taking the White House in 2016. It was Jarrett who leaked the information about Hillary’s e-mails to the press, doing so “through people outside the administration, so the story couldn’t be traced back to her or the White House.” In addition, wrote Klein:

At Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation. Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been going on at the State Department. I’m told that the email scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to come.... With Obama’s approval, Valerie has been holding secret meetings with Martin O’Malley and Elizabeth Warren. She’s promised O’Malley and Warren the full support of the White house if they will challenge Hillary for the presidential nomination.

Apparently, there’s more than one Communist in the White House, and the most influential one may not even be the president. 

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 SEE: https://tripled5.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/obama-and-valerie-jarrett/;

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"Valerie Jarrett has been one of Barack Obama’s closest advisers in the Oval Office and it’s no secret her family history is checkered with adherents to Communism, but a new report from Judicial Watch, the Washington watchdog group, reveals the FBI even investigated several of her relatives.

Top presidential adviser Valerie Jarret is well known for being a far-left liberal, but FBI files obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch show she comes from a family even further left than most Democrats would want to admit.

For example, files obtained by Judicial Watch and posted online show that her father, James Bowman, was in 1950 in communication with a “paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who fled to Prague after getting charged with espionage.”
The files also reveal, JW reported, “Bowman was … a member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and Medical Students.”

Another document in the files was a note from J. Edgar Hoover to FBI officials in Denver instructing them to investigate “James Edward Bowman” for his connections to other suspects.
“It is incumbent upon you to resolve the question which prompted CSC to refer instant case. It is also necessary to determine the degree of association between the applicant and any individual on whom the CSC has furnished derogatory information,” the  said.

apparently was in connect with Bowman’s possible involvement with the “European Recovery Program and was dated 1955.
The document shows that Jarrett’s grandfather, Robert Taylor, was thought also to have been “in contact with Stern on a number of occasions.”

apparently was in connect with Bowman’s possible involvement with the “European Recovery Program and was dated 1955.
The document shows that Jarrett’s grandfather, Robert Taylor, was thought also to have been “in contact with Stern on a number of occasions.

Bowman moved to Iran to work after his release from the Army Medical Corps in 1955.
The report explained, “According to Bowman’s government file the Association of Internes and Medical Students is an organization that ‘has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line’ and engages in un-American activities. Bowman was born in Washington, D.C., and had deep ties to Chicago, where he often collaborated with fellow Communists.”
“JW also obtained documents on Bowman from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) showing that the FBI was brought in to investigate him for his membership in a group that ‘follows the communist party line.’ The Jarrett family Communist ties also include a business partnership between Jarrett’s maternal grandpa, Robert Rochon Taylor, and Stern, the Soviet agent associated with her dad.”
Then, the files reveal, Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, “was also another big-time Chicago Communist.”

The files were obtained by Judicial Watch as part of its probe “into the Jarrett family’s Communist ties,” the group reported.
“For a period of time Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would ‘disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class,’” the report said.

Judicial Watch called Valerie Jarrett, “a liberal extremist who wields tremendous power in the White House. Faithful to her roots, she still has connections to many Communist and extremist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Jarrett and her family also had strong ties to Frank Marshal Davis, a big Obama mentor and Community Party member with an extensive FBI file.”

She previously has been exposed for her role in the Department of Justice gun-running scandal called “Fast and Furious,” and also when she was, according to JW, a “key player in the effort to cover up that “Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about the Fast and Furious.”

Under that program, the government let guns be smuggled illegally to drug cartels in Mexico. The purported goal was to trace the guns and their use, but the government simply lost track of them.

“In 2008 JW got documents linking Valerie Jarrett, who also served as co-chairman of Obama’s presidential transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko,” JW reported.

WND reported two years ago that a New York Times profile of Valerie Jarrett, “glossed over her family’s radical history.”

The profile, from September 2012, received another round of media attention when BuzzFeed.com reported the White House tried to defend Jarrett behind the scenes by circulating glowing talking points about her to other administration officials who were candidates to be interviewed for the Times piece.

The resulting piece essentially ignored much of her family’s history. For example, regarding Jarrett’s mother, the Times said only that “her mother had a Chicago street named after her for her work in early childhood education.”

But WND was first to report, Jarrett’s mother, Barbara Taylor Bowman, founded an education initiative alongside the family of unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers’ that was funded by Ayers, Obama and ultimately the 2009 “stimulus” legislation.

The Chicago school, the Erikson Institute, focuses on training people who work in early childhood development.

WND also reported earlier Valerie Jarrett in 1987 got her start in politics, working for Washington as deputy corporation counsel for finance and development. She was deputy chief of staff for Mayor Richard Daley, during which time she hired Michelle Robinson, then engaged to Obama.

WND reported just recently that Obama critics have suspected that the president’s “tilt toward Iran” in negotiations over that rogue nation’s nuclear program is because of the influence of Valeria Jarrett, who was born there.

Retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, former deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush, spotlighted Jarrett’s influence in a Fox News interview in February.

“There are many who are now saying that [Jarrett] is really the architect of this non-treaty with the Iranians,” he said, “which ultimately will result in the Iranians having a nuclear program, and America having to accept a nuclear-armed Iran.”

Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, noted in a 2011 National Review article Jarrett was born and raised in Iran for the first five years of her life.

“In explaining how she first grew close to Obama, Jarrett says they traded stories of their youthful travels,” he wrote.

Kurtz said Jarrett has affirmed that she and Obama “reject traditional American exceptionalism.”"

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ORWELL'S OBAMA HAS COME TRUE

TEXAS GOVERNOR WANTS GOLD BACK FROM NEW YORK FEDERAL RESERVE~PLANS TO BUILD A TEXAS DEPOSITORY FOR 5,600 BARS WORTH UP TO $1 BILLION

TEXAS GOVERNOR WANTS GOLD BACK 

FROM NEW YORK FEDERAL RESERVE

REPEAT OF GERMANY 1923?

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/theres-a-pile-of-gold-in-manhattan-texas-wants-it-back/;

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REPUBLISHED FROM: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-19/there-s-a-pile-of-gold-in-manhattan-texas-wants-it-back-

THERE’S A PILE OF GOLD IN MANHATTAN. TEXAS WANTS IT BACK.

“We want to show off our strength and resilience,” said lawmaker who sponsored the repatriation bill


Texas wants its gold back from the Yankees, wherever they’re keeping it.

Governor Greg Abbott signed a law last week to build a depository for its 5,600 bars of the precious metal and, as he said in a statement, “repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York.”

The gold, it turns out, isn’t at the New York Fed -- it’s in a rented vault in midtown Manhattan -- and is worth about $650 million. Regardless, Texas aims to bring it home.



“We want to show off our strength and resilience,” said Giovanni Capriglione, the Republican lawmaker who sponsored the repatriation bill. “This is to be able to say, ‘Hey, listen, Texas is unique, it’s stable, it’s strong and we can show that by letting other states and individuals know that, yes, Texas has a billion dollars worth of gold. Does your state have a billion dollars worth of gold?’”

Informed that the value is about $350 million short of that, Capriglione said he was no less proud.

The gold in question isn’t the property of the state itself but of the University of Texas Investment Management Co., which oversees the second-largest academic endowment in the country.

That isn’t likely to diminish what Philip Diehl, a former director of the U.S. Mint, called “a wonderful marketing opportunity” for the state, where the electorate leans right.

For the governor and lawmakers, repatriation “makes a lot of political sense,” said Diehl, president of U.S. Money Reserve, an Austin company that sells gold. “It’s a very reasonable response to their constituents.”

Texas Trove

Bruce Zimmerman, chief executive officer of the endowment fund, said it would be pleased to have a Texas safe for its ingots so long as the state doesn’t charge more than what the fund’s paying to lease the New York vault space, which is less than $1 million a year.

There are details to be worked out. For one, where to put the depository, a task given to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. One possible candidate is behind a bullet-proof door in the basement of a Travis County office building, where a long-gone bank used to store safe-deposit boxes.

“When you’re talking about gold, people’s eyes light up,” said comptroller spokesman Chris Bryan. “But when you’re talking about what you need to do to house that gold, from a logistics standpoint it’s very complicated and one that we don’t have a whole lot of experience with.”

No state does; Texas would be the first to have its own gold reserves storage unit.

‘It’s Weird’

It might also be the only one to own physical gold, according to Diehl, the former mint director. The endowment fund began buying it in 2008 as a hedge against what Zimmerman said was excess monetization by central banks.

There was little opposition to repatriation voiced during legislative debate.

“We’re not changing our currency, right?” Democratic Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa asked. He was assured the greenback would still be legal tender, and voted yes.

Kirk Watson was one of four Democrats in the Senate to go the other way. Why? “Cause it’s weird,” he said.

The Senate voted 27-to-4, and the House 140-to-4.

Abbott, the Republican governor, declined to be interviewed. Neither he nor Capriglione are known as gold bugs, the detractors of central banks and governments that issue money without promising to exchange the cash for gold or silver.

The two did come up the ranks in Texas with support from the Tea Party, which has a gold-themed monetary policy. And the law does set up a framework for a system under which Texans could ultimately execute financial transactions backed by gold in the depository, including buying a house or paying taxes.

Wal-Mart Tunnels

But Capriglione, who represents suburban Fort Worth, said it “isn’t some back-door way to create a Texas dollar or Texas currency.” He said getting the gold back to the Lone Star State was about security.

“Whenever you look at these economic collapses, it’s always based on consumer confidence,” he said. “It does make people feel more secure to have the gold here. It just does.”

Texas has a distrust of the federal government that befits a state that was once a country. Former Governor Rick Perry activated its National Guard last year to secure the Mexican border, saying Washington was doing a lousy job. Abbott directed state forces to monitor a U.S. military training exercise called Operation Jade Helm 15 that will take place this summer in Texas and other states. Conspiracy theorists contend it’s a scheme to round up political dissidents, impose martial law or both, claiming tunnels under Wal-Mart stores are somehow involved.

Now, in addition to keeping invaders at bay, the state will have to get ready to guard against a gold heist.

“There’s absolutely no reason to believe the state of Texas cannot protect gold as effectively as any of the other large commercial vaults around the country,” said Diehl, the former mint director. “After all, we have the Texas Rangers.”

NARCISSIST "PASTOR IN CHIEF" OBAMA ANGERED ABOUT GUNS~HAS ALL THE PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS OF YOUR LOCAL CHURCH PASTOR WHO GETS EVERYTHING HE WANTS AT YOUR EXPENSE

I WILL EXACT PUNISHMENT

OBAMA: "I AM KING" 

(AND I WILL PUT AN END TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT)

"President Is “Angry,” 

Wants “Shift” in Attitude Toward Guns"

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Political commentators on the Left noted a significant change in how President Obama is making his case for more gun control. The change has been perceptible to Brett Logiurato at Business Insider, Sam Stein at Huffington Post, and Adam Chandler at the Atlantic.  

Just hours after the horrific massacre in Charleston, President Obama expressed his sorrow:

To say that our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and their community doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel.

He said that the FBI was considering the massacre a “hate crime” and then turned the blame away from the alleged killer and toward the weapon he used:

We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun….

It’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively.

Logiurato noted the change immediately, that the president took the opportunity, even before any of the victims' funerals were held, to blame guns and Americans’ continuing favorable attitude toward them for the massacre. Obama said the same thing while addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday:

We need a change in attitudes among everybody — lawful gun owners, those who are unfamiliar with guns. We have to have a conversation about it and fix this….

No reforms can guarantee the elimination of violence. But [if his proposed reforms had been passed] we might still have some more Americans with us. We might have stopped one shooter. Some families might still be whole. You all might have to attend fewer funerals.

Sam Stein at the Huffington Post noted about Obama's Thursday speech in Charleston, “Obama now seems emotionally worn down and at times overtly angry” while “bemoaning how the political system has completely failed to respond to gun violence.”

But it was Adam Chandler, a writer for the Atlantic magazine, who noticed the sharpest contrast from previous comments from the president:

In displaying anger, President Obama deviated from a precedent set in over six years of delivering speeches about mass shootings and gun violence. This time, there was the same rhetorical display of uncertainties, but with an entirely different conclusion: “Once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

The fact that none of the gun restrictions Obama wants to impose on America would have prevented the massacre doesn’t matter. Background checks on private transactions, bans on assault rifles, limits on magazine size — none of these would have kept Dylann Roof from committing murder. He received the gun he allegedly used in the assault as a gift from his father, an exception granted under the laws of South Carolina.

After reviewing all of the president’s anti-gun proposals, Matt Vespa noted in an article at Townhall.com that “nothing that the president had proposed in his renewed gun control push after the Newtown shooting in December 2012 would have stopped 21-year-old Dylann Roof from unleashing this horrific torrent of violence,” adding

Had the Democratic laundry list of 2013 been implemented in its entirety, what happened this morning would have gone down in exactly the same way.

Is this shift that is obvious even to supporters of the president and his policies evidence about something concerning? Patrick Caddell, a Democrat political operative who worked for Democratic presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976, Gary Hart in 1984, Joe Biden in 1988, and Jerry Brown in 1992, raised eyebrows late last year when speaking about the president in an interview with Sean Hannity:

Caddell: I just want to say … this man is a raving narcissist. He has absolutely…

Hannity: This is your president, Pat! You’re saying he’s a raging narcissist?

Caddell: He’s a raging narcissist who has no grip on reality. What he’s been doing … is that I’m king and I can rule like a king.

Writing in the second person, the Mayo Clinic summed up its definition of “narcissistic personality disorder”:

If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior.

You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don’t receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) lists its own criteria for the disorder including:

Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;

Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it;

Exaggerating your achievements and talents;

Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people;

Requiring constant admiration;

Having a sense of entitlement;

Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations;

Taking advantage of others to get what you want; and

Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner.

Is it possible that the president’s detachment from the real world (i.e., that more gun controls wouldn’t haven’t prevented the Charleston massacre) or his frustration with Congress for not passing his anti-gun agenda shows more than just disappointment?

Is this a rarely seen side of the president that presages an even more aggressive attack on the Second Amendment? Quite possibly
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POLICE OR MILITARY OR BOTH?

Obama Won’t Demilitarize Police

White House claims of de-escalation are merely misdirection.

BY PHILIP GIRALDI

SEE: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obama-wont-demilitarize-police/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Spying has sometimes been described as the realm of smoke and mirrors, but the expression might equally be applied to politics in Washington. President Obama appeared to be aligning himself with the critics of the growing militarization of police forces in the United States when he spoke in Camden, New Jersey on May 18. He declared that his administration would henceforth limit the types of surplus military equipment given to police departments as part of a program referred to as “1033.” The program, which has transferred material worth $18 billion, takes its name from and is funded through section 1033 of the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act.   

Equipping the police with military weapons began even earlier, however, with the 1990 defense spending bill, when a surge in the activity of violent drug gangs left the police outgunned and lacking the resources to purchase items like body armor, night-vision goggles, and automatic weapons to match those used by their adversaries. The program inevitably grew post-9/11 and was justified as an appropriate anti-terrorist measure under the aegis of the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. To respond to the new security environment, the transfers began to incorporate heavier equipment, including armored vehicles.

The heavily armed police on display during the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri prompted Obama to establish in January a working group—headed by the attorney general and secretary of defense—seeking to find a middle ground between legitimate police needs and the widespread perception that law enforcement has become an occupying army. It focused on procurement, training, inventory control, and potential civil-rights violations. The group’s 50-page report, “Recommendations Pursuant to Executive Order 13688 Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition,” was released to coincide with Obama’s Camden visit. The White House declared that it had taken major steps to demilitarize the police, and the media largely endorsed that narrative.

But was that what really happened? 

Certain weapons systems and peripherals have been placed on a list of prohibited items, including tracked armored vehicles, firearms and ammunition of .50 caliber or higher, grenade launchers, military-specification equipped and armed vehicles, bayonets, and camouflage uniforms. As police forces, with very rare exceptions, do not have any of the equipment that is now banned, the list is basically irrelevant. The curious inclusion of camouflage uniforms was intended to distinguish policemen from soldiers.

The group also recommended that access to other weapons be more strictly controlled. Airplanes, helicopters, armored vehicles on wheels, drones, riot gear, battering rams, special-purpose firearms, and command vehicles are all acceptable as long as the police department fills out the forms required to validate the transfer and makes sure its personnel are properly trained to handle the equipment. Any police force can acquire the surplus gear, with the sole exception of those providing security for public school systems.

So the widely ballyhooed first step in the demilitarization of police follows the pattern of misdirection that has become characteristic of the Obama administration. Equipment that no one uses or even desires has been banned, while everything else is still available, as long as one is willing to do the required paperwork and endure the approval process.