During the election cycle leading up to the 2010 General elections, Sharon Meroni, Executive Director of Defend the Vote (DTV), began researching how Illinois screens for the citizenship of candidates running for office. What she learned is that while both the US and Illinois Constitutions require candidates for office to be US Citizens, Illinois does not enforce the Constitutional mandates in their election laws.

From the Defend the Vote website:

What she and her colleagues has found will astound you. Some highlights:
–Presently, in Illinois, we do not challenge anyone’s eligibility who runs for office.
–Illinois (and many other states) does not and has never audited early voting–the fraud in this area is unbridled.
–Illinois has never reconciled the printed voting records with the reported voting records.
–We have never audited our software systems (Quinn just passed a law–in part based on Merconi’s recent investigation–requiring a 5% equipment test for Early Voting–which is 18% in IL) (this is a shameful amount to audit as we consider the rampant fraud in this area) and there still remains no required auditing of the actual vote.
–The 2010 Census demonstrated that IL has 14 counties with more adults registered to vote than are eligible to vote. DTV will be working with the election Law Center and the US Justice Foundation to compel Illinois to clean up its voter registration rolls.
–DTV conducted a surprise audit of security procedures at Chicago polling places. It was shown that 239 precincts were scored for compliance with mandated ballot security protocols. A full 90% of the polls failed in 1 or more of 11 key security procedures. Some 59% of the ballot boxes were not even sealed!
–Whereas many of our suburbs use election judges to run the early voting, Chicago uses employees. This is a huge difference as these employees have supervisors who are in charge of them and decide whether or not they keep their jobs and their $6K a year for running this part of all elections. On the documentation that is needed for approval to hold one of these positions, DTV found that 25% of those people did not identify their “right to work” status yet subsequently had their applications approved by Board Electors . Research showed that only 25% (100/400) of these employees were “legal.” One example given was of an application that showed a VISA that had expired in 2006.
–There is evidence to show that the software code for recording votes electronically can be easily tampered with:
Proprietary Software Code: You would think that the political parties would employ someone to check the software code that’s programmed to go into the electronic ballot machines; you know the ones that are never audited for accuracy counting… Surely political parties have exercised their rights to assure the code is accurate by having it reviewed…They must have…{but there was no} evidence of any political party or independent group checking the software code….This means that not only is Illinois not reconciling to make sure what they record as the vote is the same as what was cast on the paper copy, but there is no independent review process to make sure that software that’s recording and counting that vote—is accurate.

As with everything in this arena, no one has been minding the store for a very long time.

New for 2012, the VAP (Voter Audit Pollwatching Program) is being established to create a citizen-driven security assessment of ballot security. Results from these assessments will be used to score each election jurisdiction and Illinois as a whole to bring greater security to elections in Illinois. These results will be published statewide to give a snapshot of the ballot security procedures in Illinois. This is a first and a step in the right direction. Opportunities to be VAPers or Citizen Voter Auditors are on the DTV website.

If we do not secure the vote nationwide, we may as well hand it over to the left who has been on a decades long fraud mission to secure power and control of America. Taking back this power must happen locally. There is no systemic way to stop voter fraud. Defend the Vote works locally and is requesting local volunteers. 100% of the time, the ballot procedures were inadequate in Chicago. This organization is doing something about it! Volunteer! Donate!

Martin Luther King must have been spinning in his grave when Mr. Obama tried to use the Washington DC dedication for MLK’s memorial as a campaign feather. Again, our disingenuous leader spewed out another speech to further an agenda he has never acted upon.

From American Thinker:
When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist…..{yet}Obama has failed to enact the economic policies that would provide the necessary environment for blacks to fend for themselves independent of government — despite the fact that he presented himself during his campaign as someone who was inimitably skilled and uniquely well-positioned to do so.

What the left has as a carefully hidden secret is that they’ve systematically kept their big fat political thumb pushing down on the black population in this country. They’ve done it to increase their power by keeping the downtrodden-downtrodden and keeping the votes rolling in. Democrats NEED poor Blacks and Latinos–not the other way around. As Tito “The Builder” Munoz states: “I was born in Colombia, but I was made in the USA.”

Every Democrat loving American, should watch this video and realize who is taking advantage of them and who is not and wake up to the reality that the road to conservatism is the only way to save this country from the radical left and their destructive policies.

Frances Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) wrote a fascinating piece entitled: The Democratic Party Owes Blacks An Apology. She states:
As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. Clearly, then, it is the Democratic Party that owes black Americans an apology – not the Republican Party, nor the United States of America.

The time is long overdue for the Democratic Party to apologize for that party’s 150-year history of racism and cease hiding behind the curtain of Congress, issuing unwarranted apologies on behalf of America, while simultaneously using racial politics for partisan political gain. Only then can we finally end the racial divisiveness that has torn our nation asunder.

Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. King, states in an NBRA newsletter:

Slavery – Democrats fought to expand it, Republicans fought to ban it

Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865) – a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousands of blacks – in order to keep blacks in slavery because the Democrats had built their economic base on the backs of black slaves…..The anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: “Willing to fight for Uncle Sam” but not “for Uncle Sambo.” These anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln because he fought to free blacks from slavery and make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today.

Reconstruction – Democrats fought to end Reconstruction started by Republicans

Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans -black and white and drive Republicans out of the South.

Segregation – Democrats enacted the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960′s. Democrats wanted to keep blacks in virtual slavery and deny blacks the promised “40 acres and a mule.”

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a former “Exalted Cyclops” and “Keagle” (Recruiter) in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd remained a Democrat until he died in 2010. He was a prominent leader in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate.” The relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death.

Little known by many today is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

There is so much more to learn in this newsletter written by Dr. Alveda King. The Democrat left and its media stenographers have worked a good part of the last century to keep this information from our fellow Black Americans who voted enforce to elect a man directly opposed to the Dream Dr. King stood for. The time has come to enlighten all those who would continue the lie that is Barack Obama and his party. Dr. Martin Luther King was a deeply religious Christian man with deeply held conservative principles.He did not embrace socialism or the secular tenets of the Democrat party. Dr. King would be a Conservative Republican today and he would oppose everything Obama stands for.

OWS, on the other hand, is largely comprised of neutered, over-educated and useless losers, many of whom don’t even know why they’re demonstrating, except that it might wind up somehow providing them with free stuff. Those few “intellectuals” in the OWS crowd who have bothered to articulate some end results can generously be deemed an embarrassment, because their ideas consist largely of warmed over Marxist pap that’s gone out of vogue around the globe, except in places like Venezuela and North Korea…And the White House. (From Canada Free Press)

From interviews, however vapid, we learn that the young fleas would like no more than continuance of the same Obama handouts…and an Obama lifestyle free from responsibility or accountability.

It is true the Occupy Wall Street crowd has the media on their side as do all leftist agenda types.

Contemplate this: The Occupy Wall Street folks drew more broadcast network stories in the first nine days of coverage (with 24 stories) than the Tea Party drew in the first nine months(with 19 stories). The protests were like a stumbling little fawn trying to find its legs. They’d been in existence for about two weeks, and NBC was already suggesting the “potential” for what the Tea Party achieved in 2010 — a massive Democratic wave election in 2012. Journalists are either easily impressed or very energetic practitioners of wishful thinking. (From Townhall.com)

Reminds me of a song…”Wishin’ and hopin’ and plannin’ and dreamin’” but for Obama and the Democrat party, it is not to be. The Flea Party veneer is starting to crack. First of all, they are in the wrong place. It’s Washington DC that owns this debacle of a problem.

An Atlantic.com article shares 5 reasons why the OWS crowd will not work:
1.) Its goals are unclear: At this time, all the protest really appears to stand for is a general dislike of Wall Street. But what does that mean?
2.) Wallstreet doesn’t care: These protesters are not Wall Street’s customers. In many cases they aren’t even their customers’ customers.
3.) Protesters can’t sway Congress: The message of Occupy Wall Street isn’t likely to catch on and affect any change in more center-right regions like the Tea Party did.
4.) Their timing is off: There are times when Washington just needs to be practical. When unemployment is stuck above 9% is such a time.
5.) Banking is vitally needed by the US: Congress knows better than to risk the U.S. losing its competitive edge in such an important sector.

And recently, unions have gotten involved, hoping desperately that this movement will turn into a Liberal version of the Tea Party, so desperate are they for something, anything grassroots.

So media, unions, Hollywood, Democrats and old hippies all supporting the Humpty Dumpty of the Flea Party movement won’t save it from eventual self-destruction far in advance of the 2012 elections. Even Bloomberg has recently trounced on their plans to occupy until “change” (whatever that is) happens.
“The last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park,” a statement from Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said. “The situation is not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city.”
Protestors issued a statement Thursday stating plans to lock arms in defiance of the police and in defense of First Amendment rights. The demonstrators plan to resist and encourage protestors to join the coalition at 6 a.m. Friday morning.

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, OWS will topple the American capitalist system. Ah, but this seems to be yet more wishful thinking…with unclear goals and lack of realistic or substantive actions it would appear the Flea Party may exterminate itself.

We need to take note of Herman Cain–could it be the liberal radicals are getting a little nervous about him? Yes they’re just a little nervous–but it is noteworthy–MSNBC–whom Rush Limbaugh likes to call “PMS-NBC”–posted an article called, “Why Herman Cain is Angry” highlighting how upset he is in his “lack of support.” Another liberal Hollywood celebrity, Morgan Freeman, has come out in a story posted on several liberal news programs with the ragged and worn liberal byline of “Tea Party folks are racist” in spite of the fact that Cain–a consistent Tea Party candidate–is more black than Obama could ever be.

Now that can mean one of only two things–either the liberal media think he can’t win so they are promoting him hoping to split the vote or they think he CAN win and they are getting a wee bit scared he may grow more popular so they need to promote something with a negative ring to it. The RINO John Huntsman was a liberal favorite a few months ago and any self-respecting conservative understands Romney and Perry–the current frontrunners–as both being RINO candidates supporting either Romneycare or lack of crackdown on illegal immigrants. Any of these candidates may appear to be riding a moderate horse to pull in those desired but often phantom independents or special interest groups, but as far as a GOP candidate being a true conservative, Herman Cain is the poster child.

Cain is leaping forward and conservatives are taking note:

Jim Broussard, a Pennsylvania tea party leader, says: “He has charisma, charm, and can project a message to people that: ‘Hey, I worked my way up just like your average guy out there.’”

What Cain seems to lack is experience in foreign policy. This is something which definitely needs remedy, no doubt. Obama also lacks foreign policy expertise–did and still does. In fact, we can point to every flaw in every current GOP candidate and Obama has them all–Obamacare, border control and backdoor amnesty, foreign policy, the economy…the list goes on. Something he DOES have, however, that no one else running has, is consistent media coverup.

But on another note, Dick Morris ran an interview with Cain. In it, Cain showed that he understands far more about foreign affairs than his detractors give him credit for. That’s because Cain understands what his detractors do not: namely how foreign, energy, and domestic policies depend on—or sometimes interfere with—one another. (Mentioned in a Conservative News and Views article.)

In fact, Herman Cain has as much or more experience than most candidates running for office–most certainly the kind of experience the last several years have shown us America desperately needs:

Herman Cain (from Wikipedia)
• Former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. Within 14 months, Cain had taken Godfather’s Pizza from 911 stores down to 420 stores and reduced costs significantly. As a result of his efforts Godfather’s Pizza finally became profitable.
• Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.
• Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy.
• He serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.
• Cain worked for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst.
• In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of Vice President by the early 1980s.
• He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years.
• Later Cain became CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.
• Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader’s Digest, and AGCO, Inc.

Today’s news gives us Herman Cain as the leading straw poll winner in Florida winning far ahead of the other candidates with 37 percent of the vote and a third place win in the Michigan straw poll. From Conservative News and Views:
The previous three winners {of this same poll} have all won the Republican nomination for President. They were Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush (“the Elder”), and Bob Dole. Florida’s Republicans have not run a straw poll since….To win 37 percent of the vote against seven competitors is amazing in itself. It is doubly amazing because his two closest competitors had been the acknowledged front-runners. Cain might possibly have done better than this, by winning with fifty percent of the vote. Still, he outclassed the two strongest candidates {Romney and Perry} by a margin of better than two-and-a-half to one.

Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is unabashedly simple.

He also supports the Fairtax concept.

His positions are consistently conservative.

From DickMorris.com:

Now, as Perry fades and Romney rises, Herman Cain is on the cusp of front tier status in the Republican nominating contest. Cain has a grip on the Tea Party grassroots. No matter how diligently the establishment tries to ignore him, he keeps popping up, impelled by his charisma, oratory, issue positions, and broad based appeal.

Herman Cain is the one to watch in the GOP political race to the White House.

We were complacent: Happy in an America that provided us with more than any other country in the world. As children, when we said our prayers, we thanked God we were born in this country. We grew up with parents telling us, “Eat your supper, the children in Europe are starving!” As we grew up, we became accustomed to owning two or more cars, several TV’s, a cell phone, a nice home, etc. Our kids were involved in two sports; we went on vacations at least once a year. Like heart disease, liberalism is a slow and silent killer. Like a termite, it has slowly eaten through the fabric and foundation of our values, our liberty, and our country. To those of us who have awakened, we know that the far left liberal Barack Hussein Obama was a gift–an alarm clock that hasn’t stopped ringing since he was nominated over 4 years ago. And by many accounts, he was elected by fraudulent means, has ruled by fraudulent events and has many fraudulent plans to further change this country into a shadow of what it once was.

Henry Wallace, Roosevelt’s VP from 1941 to 1945, wrote that he had observed the beginning of a slide into Despotism and Socialism within the attitudes of Washington’s elite. According to Wallace, well-intended leaders with personal agendas would precipitate the loss of individual freedoms:

“So enlisted, men may rightfully feel they are serving a function as high as that of any minister of the Gospel. They will not be Socialists, Communists, or Fascists, but plain men trying to gain by democratic methods the professed objectives of the Communists, Socialists, and Fascists…”

Likewise, in 1944 Norman Mattoon Thomas espoused Wallace’s theory with his prophesy of the fall of American democracy—and the mechanism that would be used:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I need no longer run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.” (From The Corson Archives)

Many great civilizations have not made it much longer than about 200 years. These events have been predicted by history. From a piece by Loren Collins:
In a quotation attributed to the French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, the dangers of loose fiscal policy were stated as follows: