The Patriot Post Digest 10-24-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-24-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 24, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Obama’s newest way to screw veterans.
Baltimore’s infamous prosecutor is after the wrong kinds of “justice” reforms.
New York City attacks free enterprise again.
A roundup of the Clinton WikiLeaks revelations.
And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.” —Thomas Jefferson (1806)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Pentagon Reneges on Recruitment Bonuses1

America’s soldiers and veterans are getting worked over once again by the Obama administration. First we learned of the travesty of bureaucratic malpractice experienced by many veterans for years at the hands of the VA. Then there’s been all the social engineering and budget cuts. Now the Pentagon has ordered at least 9,700 California veterans and current soldiers to repay re-enlistment bonuses they received 10 years ago. At the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the California Army National Guard was under pressure to meet enlistment demands and offered bonuses to many soldiers that recent audits concluded were erroneously awarded. With threats of interest charges, wage garnishments and tax liens should soldiers refuse to pay, the Pentagon has so far pickpocketed these Patriots for $22 million.

Many soldiers say they feel betrayed. Former Army captain and Iraq veteran Christopher Van Meter, who was awarded a Purple Heart, said, “These bonuses were used to keep people in. People like me just got screwed.” Van Meter refinanced his home mortgage to pay back a total of $46,000 for a $25,000 re-enlistment bonus and $21,000 in student loan repayments the Pentagon says was given to him improperly. Some soldiers and veterans are attempting to fight repayment, but others have given up, saying the stress of looming financial uncertainty should they lose was too much.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promised an investigation, saying, “It is disgraceful that the men and women who answered their country’s call to duty following September 11 are now facing forced repayments of bonuses offered to them. Our military heroes should not shoulder the burden of military recruiters' faults from over a decade ago. They should not owe for what was promised during a difficult time in our country. Rather, we are the ones who owe a debt for the great sacrifices our heroes have made — some of whom unfortunately paid the ultimate sacrifice.”

One wonders if recovery of these bonuses is the Pentagon’s means for funding its new policy2 of providing for the “necessary” sex-change surgeries for transgendered soldiers.

Baltimore Moves to Strip Cops of Due Process3

When you can’t win4 a single one of the criminal cases against the six Baltimore police officers who were allegedly to blame for the death of criminal Freddie Gray, how should a prosecutor respond? That there was insufficient evidence to press charges — affirmed by the fact that none of the officers was found guilty — should have compelled Marilyn Mosby to either resign or be forced to step down. Or at the very least it should have persuaded her to re-evaluate the real underlying motives for why the cops were charged and publicly tried in the first place. But the result has been neither of those.

Mosby has had nearly three months since the remaining cases were dropped to do some soul searching. However, rather than responding in a dignified manner — in other words, admit it was wrong to press charges and pledge to do better — she’s doubling down on the “racist police” narrative by blaming the legal system and demanding reforms. Only the reforms would severely undermine our legal system and the rights of defendants.

The Baltimore Sun reports5, “Mosby proposed a slate of reforms Thursday for investigating and prosecuting police officers accused of misconduct, citing her failure to convict a single officer in the Freddie Gray case as her motivation. ‘Equality must be a felt reality’ in Baltimore, said Mosby, adding that her proposed reforms — including giving investigators in her office police powers and prosecutors the right to reject a criminal defendant’s request for a bench trial — would go a long way toward leveling the playing field between regular citizens and police officers accused of similar offenses [emphasis added].”

Simply stated, Mosby is launching an all-out assault on due process — in this case by attempting to regulate it by stripping an officer’s right to a bench trial — simply because she failed to get the results she wanted. She claims,  "Having learned the hard way through firsthand experience, when allegations of police misconduct arise, prosecutors are seen too often as protective of police and unlikely to prosecute cases of wrongdoing.“ Except police officers were charged — she did send six of them to trial, didn’t she? What she’s really perturbed by is that none of them ended up being found guilty, a conclusion she had reached prematurely.

Unions vs. Airbnb6

It’s not news that housing in New York City is expensive. The average New Yorker spends nearly two-thirds of their income on housing, in part because of the supply and demand, but in larger measure because of regulation. New York City has some of the highest construction costs in the nation, and an astounding 56% of new construction cost is due to taxes and regulations. Nearly 40% of Manhattan’s current buildings would not exist if they were built under the city’s regulation standards of today.

Thus, many NYC dwellers have taken advantage of short-term rental services like Airbnb to recoup some of their housing costs. The problem is that the unions don’t like it. The New York Hotel and Motel Trade Council, AFL-CIO, see the threat of revenue loss from these non-union start-up businesses, so they turned to their buddies in government. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has made a point to blame the high cost of housing not on the over-regulating and over-taxing city government but on Airbnb for setting up "illegal hotels,” which city officials claim is limiting the supply of affordable housing. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has lent his hand to fighting against Airbnb, as he recently signed yet another piece of legislation designed to further hinder its business by making it a crime to run advertisements for the “illegal” service of private short-term rentals. Democrats only like solutions to problems that further the growth of government power, even when those “solutions” are the reason for the problem in the first place.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Peggy Noonan: Imagine a Sane Donald Trump7
L. John Van Til: Lying, Serial Lying and the 2016 Presidential Race8
John Goodman: What Anita Hill and Bill Clinton Can Teach Us About Trump and Women9

For more, visit Right Opinion10.

TOP HEADLINES

Clinton Ally Aided FBI Official’s Wife11
A New Climategate Scandal?12
Socialist to Run UN for Next 5 Years13
DOJ Told Feds to ‘Stand Down’ on Pipeline Protests14

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report15.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The WikiLeaks Wrap-Up16

By Robin Smith

Months before WikiLeaks began the drip of emails currently being published from email accounts of various members of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff and Leftmedia enablers, a Rasmussen poll revealed most think the former secretary of state should be indicted criminally by the FBI. Back in July this year, when Director James Comey demonstrated he’s a “dirty cop” by abandoning all protocol17 in handling the Clinton bathroom closet server and the handling of classified government material, it was clearer than ever that powerful people like Clinton receive preferential treatment when they break the law.

So for those who still believe in justice and law enforcement, not just the arbitrary application of the law under this banana republic administration18, we provide a roundup of the latest Hillary evidence. Not only have the Obama Justice Department and FBI been politicized to protect certain anointed folks on the Left, but the existence of true journalism is now extinct with nothing more than a complicit, sold-out gaggle of communications mouth-pieces running behind their masters. Thus, it’s likely some of this information from the 17,000 leaked communications is truly “news” to you.

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First, Clinton not only took money from foreign interests that harbor terrorists and are often at cross-purposes with our nation, but Hillary’s campaign mobilized lobbyists as money bundlers who also work for Colombia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Libya, just to mention a few governments. Hillary’s team debated ending this practice and pursuing ethics in fundraising, but wondered “how much money we’re throwing away.” Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, won out, saying, “I’m ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks.”

Yeah, never let any worry about the appearance or the actual acts of illegality slow the flow of campaign cash. Hillary’s an equal opportunity broker to sell out America and our own interests.

Over the weekend, Mook was dismissive: “There’s never been any evidence of any pay-to-play [at the Clinton Foundation] at all.” Destroying evidence is not the same as there not being any.

Second, the team whose slogan is “I’m With Her” certainly learned quickly from their master. In May 2016 emails, a fake job posting for the Trump organization told interested applicants of the job requirements: no weight gain, open “public humiliation” if one does gain weight, a proficiency in lying about age and the willingness to evaluate co-workers' “hotness” for the “boss’s gratification.” The ad concludes with the warning that the boss, obviously Trump, “may greet you with a kiss on the lips or grope you under the meeting table.”

Remember, the fake job posting was referenced in emails five months before any of those allegations were made. Interesting choice of words, in light of the sudden parade19 of Trump accusers using much of the exact same disgusting language.

Other emails disclosed not only the advanced sharing of at least one question in a town hall meeting during this debate cycle by CNN-contracted pundit Donna Brazile directly to Hillary, but communications openly brag about the collusion with what we call the presstitutes. An email dating back to the original Hillary for President campaign in 2007 from MoveOn.org director Tom Mattzie to John Podesta reveals the Clinton cult was planting questions among these parrots of the media “testing expected attacks by Republicans” to gauge public opinion.

Of several other areas of revelation, two remain that should continue to cause any voter to abandon this stranger to the truth, Hillary Clinton.

On quite a few issues, Hillary is simply dishonest, at best. Emails leaked have included just a few nuggets showing that:

Madame Secretary believes Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding the Islamic State. That didn’t stop her accepting contributions.
Both Bill and Hill were “supporters” of the Defense of Marriage Act until it became for more politically beneficial to change course.
There’s an acknowledgement even among liberal economists that a $15/hour minimum wage “would result in job loss,” but Hillary supports it anyway because she needs Bernie Sanders' voters.
Hillary’s previous opposition to legalization of marijuana needs “a scrub” to match her much-needed audience of Millennials.

One final theme of WikiLeaks emails involves Barack Obama. Recently, the documents show that not only is Hillary a liar but so is Obama. Despite the outgoing president’s ridiculous declaration that he learned of Hillary’s private server and email only through news reports, he had been regularly in exchange with Hillary in her official capacity as secretary of state on her homebrew server. The U.S. president participated in misconduct with Hillary Clinton, period, and then he lied about it.

Back in 2008, the Clinton campaign organized meetings and lawyers due to the belief that “the Obama forces flooded the caucuses with ineligible voters.” Yes, these are the same despicable politicians hyperventilating at the possibility the Trump campaign might challenge their traditions of voter fraud regularly employed by Democrats.

But the emails involving Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race show exactly where much of the “oppositional research” originated that this president and the Democrats want to blame on the Republicans. Here’s a quick sampling:

Obama would personally negotiate with leaders of terrorist nations like Iran and North Korea without preconditions
Obama’s father was a Muslim and Obama grew up among Muslims in the world’s most populous Islamic country
Obama supports giving drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants
Obama described his former use of cocaine as using “a little blow.”

There’s surely more — it is the Clintons, after all. But no matter what comes out about her security lapses or corruption, Hillary Clinton is always going first lame the Russians and then lie about everything.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Big Brother IS Watching20 — Technology has provided government with unprecedented data for exploitation.
How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich Off Poor Haitians21

OPINION IN BRIEF

L. John Van Til: “Unfortunately, as everyone knows, the candidates lie so much that it is now difficult to know which of their statements are true and which are false. To be sure, this is a fact-checker’s nightmare. Of course, these conditions leave citizens in a difficult position as they vote. That both are persistent liars is obvious. Are voters only left with a choice between the type of liar they want to vote for? Perhaps. This election is surely best described as a disaster for American presidential politics. No matter which candidate wins, American citizens lose. There is, however, a lesson to be learned here. Looking ahead to future presidential elections, voters should be encouraged — no, urged to examine more closely — the moral fiber of potential candidates well in advance of the election season.”

SHORT CUTS

The Gipper: “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Non Compos Mentis: “I have always said that for all the good the Affordable Care Act is doing right now, for as big of a step forward as it was, it’s still just a first step. It’s like buying a starter home. It’s a lot better than not having a home. But over time, you hope you can make some improvements.” —Barack Obama (Except that the Bible warns us about the “foolish man who built his house on the sand” (Matthew 7:26).)

Busted: “Given the story yesterday about pay equity at the State Department, I wanted to flag something that came out of our research on pay equity at the [Clinton] Foundation. There are huge discrepancies, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they went here next.” —Clinton adviser Ian Mandel in a Feb. 2015 email

Friendly fire: “The mixing of speech fees, the Clinton Foundation and actions by the State Department which [Hillary Clinton] ran are all intertwined, and it’s corrupt. You can’t just say it’s unsavory, but there’s no formal investigation going on now, and there are outs that they have.” —Bob Woodward

Alphas Jackass: “I want [voters] to think about the damage they could do by being a legal terrorist on November 8th.” —Michael Moore

Late-night humor: “Hillary also had her moments [in the last debate]. Here’s what she said about her tax plans: ‘We are going to go where the money is.’ And she knows where the money is. It’s where she gives her speeches.” —Stephen Colbert

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
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