False Flags, Conspiracies, McCarthyism and the Trump Administration

Let me share with you a bit of history.
What Bolton is doing is called "McCarthyism"
http://www.ushistory.org/us/53a.asp
"McCarthy capitalized on national paranoia by proclaiming that communist spies were omnipresent and that he was America's only salvation."
Sound familiar?
“I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves,” Donald Trump said in his convention speech. “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”
Watch these videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAur_I077NA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1eA5bUzVjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9JFVoQQXuk
and may I direct you to REAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
March 9, 1954 was when Edward R. Murrow exposed Joseph McCarthy the bigoted racist hate monger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf6fhMlxjMk
McCarthy caused the death of many people by badgering them and smearing their reputations.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lillsie/McCarthyism/Victims.html
What Trump has done throughout his campaign is the same. Ask snide unrelated questions such as "Do you still beat your wife?" and then step back as the accused tries to prove their innocence. Now look at that sentence:
If you say "No" it indicates that you used to beat your wife.
If you say "Yes" it indicates that you still beat your wife.
EITHER WAY you are painted as a wife beater, without the ability to prove your innocence. BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PROVE INNOCENCE.
Examples of Trump's brand of McCarthyism:
“I don't know his father. I met him once. I think he's a lovely guy,” Trump said at a morning-after rally in Cleveland. “All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.”
http://www.politifact.com/…/pants-fire-claim-ted-cruz-neve…/
Trump's 74 question "Transition Questionnaire" for the Dept of Energy is interesting as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/…/climate-change-energy-department-d…
(Please note that Trump's lawyer, Roy Cohn, was McCarthy's aid during the Senate Hearings for Communism purging)
http://www.nytimes.com/…/politi…/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html…
THAT IS NOT HOW THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS. This is why we require that we PROVE GUILT NOT INNOCENCE.
John Bolton - the man Trump has tapped for the #2 spot in the State Department- implies that the CIA is lying, (but the FBI is doing their job well. Because e-mails) and implies that the Obama Administration "could be the ones responsible" (Because "we just don't know")
“It is not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the [Democratic National Committee] and the [Republican National Committee] was not a false flag operation,” he told Fox News’s Eric Shawn on Sunday.
When pressed about his use of the phrase “false flag” and whether he was accusing an entity in the U.S. of involvement, Bolton said, “We just don’t know.”
“But I believe that intelligence has been politicized in the Obama administration to a very significant degree.”"
http://thehill.com/…/309897-bolton-questions-if-russian-hac…
The GOP has acted in a craven cowardly manner. Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, In 1950, told the Senate she feared “national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear.” Speaking as a Republican, a woman, a United States Senator, and as an American, Smith charged that the Senate had been “debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity” and unable to tolerate “self-criticism and self-appraisal.” She worried “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular beliefs; The right to protest; The right of independent thought.”
We are waiting for a few good men and women to come to the aid of their Country.
Bolton is not one of them.
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Dreams and Memories, Memories and Dreams

November 28, 2011 at 5:25am ·

Last night I dreamed of Vince & Sam. This song sang in the background... I had forgotten my alarm clock, and as I went back to get fetch it, I turned the corner, and Vinnie was hurrying off to some destination or another.. When I flew into his arms crying, he held me at arm's length and said "What's the matter with you?" I told him I missed him. He said he was busy. I sat and cried. Then Sam came over, with his sly adorable grin, like "I have a secret" He motioned me over, and slipped a tab of LSD on his tongue and told me"I don't want the others to see it, they wouldn't understand" and then he smiled that beautific golden smile of his... I told him about seeing Vinnie and how sad I was, and how much I missed both of them.... Sam told me that Vinnie didn't know he was dead, so he was busy trying to learn the work he had put off while he was living... But that he, Sam, KNEW he was on the other side.. He told me not to be so sad, because he was always at my shoulder, always with me, and...and ... and ...

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So where do we go? Where do we go from here? The Exit Polls

There's a lot to be learned from this unless we just want to roll up into little sow bug balls and wait for the next round of misogynist, racist, homophobic, frightened isolationist Nationalist stomping and blow torch fiddling comes upon our necks....

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html



Because this is important. If we are going to find a more inclusive way, we need to address these issues.
I found this one pretty telling tho:
White-
37% Hillary
58% Trump
How do we get a handle on that ?
Really a serious confusion how my generation has gotten so crazy conservative.. Guess it's true, "We got ours so screw you" :'( I remember thinking that of my parents' and grandparents' generation. I thought we were enlightened. Apparently not-so-much :'( OUCH how arrogant of me : 
53% of 45 years and up were Trump supporters. :O
and rethink the whole education thang, that's just not holding true. ONLY in higher education (Postgraduate study) did Hillary reach the majority. It was pretty much half and half from everything below the post graduate level.

Really very interesting. Hey Younger Generation! Those is us who are actually enlightened are depending on y'all to drag us out of the gutter we just Voted ourselves into.

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Hate Trumps Love and Decency

Hate Trumps Love and Decency~



LANGUAGE ALERT ~
well, we did it. 'Murika says Hey the rest of you non-white non-Protestant Christian douche canoes, fuck off. We hate politics sooooooooo much, that we are willing to burning the Motherfucking Country to the ground.


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-consequences-trumps-victory-are-coming-focus?cid=sm_fb_maddow

So yeah, let's do this thing.
and to every single person who voted for Trump not because they believed in him but because they "hated the Clinton bitch"?
fuck you
and to every single person who voted for Trump not because they believed in his policies but because they just wanted to say Fuck you to politics?
fuck you
and to every single person who voted for a third party candidate "because no one else was exactly what I wanted and bernie didn't win"
fuck you

because you didn't just say fuck you to politics, you said fuck you to your neighbors and everyone else who isn't straight white male.

(and make sure you 3rd party Voters who DIDN'T vote FOR someone but AGAINST someone, please note how many states that went Trumped where Hillary lost EXACTLY by how much the 3rd party spoilers got)

 

So just because it'll be interesting to go back in four years and say : "See? I told you so"

Here are some facts about our new President:

LAWSUITS:

Donald Trump: Three decades 4,095 lawsuits

http://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/

Federal Lawsuits:

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/we-investigated-donald-trump-is-named-in-at-least-169-federal-lawsuits/

What Happens to Civil Lawsuits Filed Against President-Elect Trump?

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/11/09/431884.htm


Scandals:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-scandals/474726/Campaign Promises:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/here-are-76-of-donald-trumps-many-campaign-promises/


For my friends who woke up afraid in this regression of humanity, I'm with you. I pray we survive.

and THIS by the New Yorker:

An American Tragedy. Honest to God, they will be studying this defilement as an example of the worst kind for decades.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-donald-trump

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ALEC 2016 and the New Dark Child ACCE Democracy Under Attack

Our Representative Democracy is being held hostage and being sold off to a Shadowy Plutocracy. We need to take back our Representation, or we will lose the Democratic freedoms we say we enjoy. Considering that the Koch Brothers and ALEC have been shopping their Rubber Stamp Bills around again, I thought it may be pertinent to reprint an investigative article I wrote back in May 2014.

http://wolfdancercreek.blogspot.com/2016/03/alec-what-you-dont-know-will-damn-us-all.html

ALEC still pays for Legislators to "attend" their swanky political lobbying shindigs, including ex-Presidential candidates Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz (as of 2015's San Diego event on July 22nd at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel, where all the perks are included all on ALEC's dime. (the cheapest rooms go for $180.oo with no amenities not even WiFi and the Suites start at $509.oo)

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/hot-topics-at-alecs-2015-meeting-in-san-diego/

They didn't include the Federal Land Transfer push, because that, too, has now been sourced back to the Koch Brothers and ALEC.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/how-an-east-coast-think-tank-is-fueling-the-land-transfer-movement

http://westernpriorities.org/2015/09/02/cwp-statement-on-new-alec-land-grab-report/

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/11/1698221/state-efforts-to-reclaim-our-public-lands-traced-to-alec/

The San Diego Free Press did a nice piece on the 2015 event:

http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/07/the-alec-annual-meeting-in-san-diego-whos-coming-and-why/

and here are some more of their articles exposing this elite Plutocratic "Pay For Representation" scams:

http://sandiegofreepress.org/?s=ALEC

ALEC now has a new offshoot group focused on local government, the American City County Exchange (ACCE) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_City_County_Exchange so keep a CLOSE eye on your local Governance! Now more than ever it is time to step up to the plate and stand u for your rights.. Because the Plutocracy is already buying THEIR Representative Government.

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/07/12894/blowing-whistle-alecs-little-brother-acce

https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-alecs-little-brother-acce/

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_City_County_Exchange

And here are a couple of sites which show who still supports ie: gets paid by ALEC who also supposedly represent the People. See of YOUR Representative, City Council Member or Senator is on this list:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Politicians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council

Scroll down and see if YOUR Representative is on the List !

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ALEC- What You Don't Know Will Damn Us All

You Don’t Know ALEC

There’s a creepy organization that has been socially engineering our Country since 1973. It’s called ALEC http://www.alec.org/ , a relatively benign name for an Organization which operates in the shadows. ALEC works behind the scenes, and very intelligently, http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/What-Makes-Alec-Smart.html  they create their biggest influences starting on the local level, at the County Supervisors’ and Land Planning Commissions, and working their way up to State level.  Bill Moyers’ expose “The United States of ALEC”

http://billmoyers.com/episode/encore-united-states-of-alec/ quoted John Nichols as stating; “If you really want to influence the politics of this country you don’t just give money to presidential campaigns, you don’t just give money to congressional campaign committees. The smart players put their money in states.” According to their website http://www.alec.org/  its’ Board of Directors –every single one a Republican- are Congressmen and Senators. (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Politicians#Legislators_with_ALEC_Ties )  The ALEC Federal Forum (https://web.archive.org/web/20120530201512/http://www.commonblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2005-ALEC-Federal-Forum-.pdf ) outlines the mission statement of this Organization as “build[ing] a productive bipartisan working relationship among current and former ALEC members at all levels of government. “  [sic] “all based on the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, individual liberty, Pro-Growth and limited government.”

ALEC really got going during the Reagan Administration, in 1981. Originally called “Conservative Caucus of State Legislators", and created to counter the EPA and all regulations designed to protect the American people from the affects of industrial accidents and safety violations, they changed their name to American Legislative Exchange Council because Conservatives had discovered that the word “conservative” was viewed negatively by the American public. They are a federally-registered non-profit organization which acts as a bridge between Conservative Legislators willing to trade their Votes and political influence for funding –HEAVY funding backed by such Corporate powerhouses as the Koch brothers- and private Multi-National Corporations and big Business interests. According to NPR, ALEC is a kind of “Dating Service” between Multi-National Corporations and Legislators, with the added bonus of the ability to introduce cookie cutter Conservative Bill templates. For an audio http://www.npr.org/2013/12/10/249956329/how-alec-serves-as-a-dating-service-for-politicians-and-corporations

ALEC focuses on several issues which affect American life. Their primary task forces (http://www.alec.org/task-forces/) are:

§  Civil Justice (http://www.alec.org/task-forces/civil-justice/ )

§  Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development (http://www.alec.org/task-forces/commerce-insurance-and-economic-development/

§  Communications and Technology http://www.alec.org/task-forces/telecommunications-and-information-technology/

§  Education http://www.alec.org/task-forces/education/

§  Energy, Environment, and Agriculture  http://www.alec.org/task-forces/energy-environment-and-agriculture/

§  Health and Human Services http://www.alec.org/task-forces/health-and-human-services/

§  International Relations http://www.alec.org/task-forces/international-relations/

§  Justice Performance Project  http://www.alec.org/task-forces/justice-performance-project/

§  Tax and Fiscal Policy http://www.alec.org/task-forces/tax-and-fiscal-policy/

In April of 2012 their Public Safety and Elections Task Force; which focused on stricter Voter ID Laws, Narrowing Voter Accessibility, OutSourcing of Federal testing, and Stand Your Ground laws among other social issues; was eliminated. ALEC stated that “We are eliminating the ALEC Public Safety and Elections task force that dealt with non-economic issues, and reinvesting these resources in the task forces that focus on the economy. The remaining budgetary and economic issues will be reassigned," Frizzell said. “While we recognize there are other critical, non-economic issues that are vitally important to millions of Americans, we believe we must concentrate on initiatives that spur competitiveness and innovation and put more Americans back to work."  http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/222025-corporate-lobbying-group-alec-backs-down-on-social-issues-amid-protests  However, a brief look at the other nine Task Forces easily demonstrates how social issues continue to be a major focus with this Organization. http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8072485

Some of the Legislation which ALEC has advocated for, or opposed includes:

OPPOSED: In the 1980’s, ALEC actively lobbied the Reagan Administration to cease all US involvement in the Disinvestment of South Africa. http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/83ALECsa.pdf This Disinvestment was a series of sanctions designed to put pressure on that Country to end apartheid. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/shilling-profit-case-study-alecs-campaign-against-south-african-divestment  Since many of the Corporate sponsors of ALEC had controlling or significant interests in South African companies, they were adamantly opposed to any sanctions making business “less profitable” even if that meant human deaths and violations of human rights.

OPPOSED:  Civil Rights http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/civil-rights-act/ and Gay Rights. A 1985 ALEC Referendum states that “the Homosexual Movement” was a “lifestyle choice”, and leads to pedophilia. (http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/ALECminoritygroup.pdf ) ALEC Exposed has a fairly comprehensive list of the Civil Rights violating legislation Bill models which ALEC has attempted to push through http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_Civil_Rights_and_Our_Democracy

SUPPORTED:  Stand Your Ground http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0776/0776.html Financed heavily by the NRA, and indeed, written by them and then offered by ALEC as “model legislation” http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/nra-alec-stand-your-ground  the Stand Your Ground laws have spread to 23 other states besides Florida. Stand Your Ground Laws are often confused with the Castle Doctrine Law (http://cga.ct.gov/2012/rpt/2012-R-0172.htm  , but they differ in one important way:  Castle Doctrine ends at your door, with Stand Your Ground, unless you are a minority, you do not have the common law requirement to retreat if possible. 

OPPOSED: Anti-Gun Regulation, and all attempts to create a Federal Background Check system http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11908/backgrounder-history-nraalec-gun-agenda   or waiting periods http://alecexposed.org/w/images/3/37/7J10-Resolution_On_Firearms_Purchase_Waiting_Periods_Exposed.pdf The NRA drafted these anti-gun-regulatory Bills, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/27/former-nra-president-we-helped-draft-floridas-s/185254 and ALEC presented them as templates to their Representatives in Congress. Back in 2012, ALEC once again teamed up with the NRA to draft a model Bill making illegal gun show sales stings illegal. http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/pse_35-day_mailing_2011_annual_meeting%20new%20orleans.pdf#page=13

OPPOSED: Abortion accessibility (http://alecexposed.org/w/images/1/11/5B5-Parental_Consent_For_Abortion_Act_Exposed.pdf ) and Reproductive health care for Women (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11356/arizona%E2%80%99s-alec-leader-wants-your-boss-make-decisions-about-your-contraception-cov  ) including Bills aimed at the “Pre-Born” (http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/03/05/texas-alec-chair-files-preborn-pain-act-as-promised-by-rick-perry/ )  ALEC has been funding and supporting the Americans United for Life Organization, whose main purpose is to make abortions illegal, and to redefine a Zygote as a “Pre-Born Child With Constitutional Rights” http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/01/30/americans-united-lifes-efforts-eliminate-insurance-coverage-abortion-get-help-alec-members/

SUPPORTED: The Privatization of our Public School systems, http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Privatizing_Public_Education,_Higher_Ed_Policy,_and_Teachers and has actively Lobbied to dismantle public schools. A List of ALEC Bill models are listed in the Common Cause-supported Library Wiki ALEC Exposed http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_Americans%27_Rights_to_a_Public_Education
Via online schools, where students may never see other students nor an Educator, and the voucher or charter system, which funnels tax payer dollars to fund private for-profit schools –often with Religious foci – ALEC and ALEC-sponsored corporate lobbyists have been attempting to make a profit for a few on the backs of our children. In 2013 alone, there have been 139 ALEC Bills promoting a Private, For-Profit Education Model. http://www.publicschoolshakedown.org/ALEC-Education-Bills-2013 The research on the efficacy of the School Voucher Program is still on-going. However, there are some interesting points which have been uncovered. For example, recent studies have generally found no concise or clear academic advantage in student achievement for students attending private vouchers compared to their Public school counterparts. Voucher schools tend to be approx. 13 percentage points less integrated than Public Schools. Voucher schools tend to have less diversity, and students who remained in the voucher program through the duration of the study were much less likely to be African American or Latino than students within the public school system. Only 63% of current voucher users were minority students, compared with 82% to 89% of the public school comparison groups. Approx 70% of the Voucher schools are Religious in focus. The educational quality of teachers differs, as well. Nearly 51% of public school teachers have a master’s degree or higher, compared with only 18% of teachers in private voucher or charter schools. http://www.cep-dc.org/displayDocument.cfm?DocumentID=369 According to the National Education Policy Center http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-report-card-ALEC-2013 “Overall, ALEC’s Report Card is grounded less in research than in ideological tenets, as reflected in the high grades it assigns to states with unproven and even disproven market-based policies. The report’s purpose appears to be more about shifting control of education to private interests than in improving education.” The Virtual School Program has fared even poorer in quality. In Virginia’s Carroll County, the School Board voted to close down K12′s Virginia Virtual Academy after 4 years of operation due to financial and administrative issues plus the fact that the Virtual Academy fared worse than traditional schools on 20 out of 22 measures. The Virtual Academies & the Voucher School Programs have little oversight, and are not held to the same standards as the Public Schools. http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/05/charter-schools-gone-wild-study-finds-widespread-fraud-mismanagement-and-waste/ The Integrity in Education Project http://integrityineducation.org/charter-fraud/ recently published a report charging the Charter school systems of 15 out of 42 Charter-approved States of fraud, waste and abuse of over $100 million dollars in tax-payer funding.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/02/475270/alecs-top-five-anti-environment-model-laws/  

http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c9/ALEC_on_the_Environment_Final_PDF.pdf  Corporate Responsibility in clean-ups, long-term health risks to citizens, and litigation on behalf of injured parties is fiercely opposed, as it affects the all-important bottom dollar. To date, the Horizon Deepwater BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico http://www.restorethegulf.gov/ is STILL negatively affecting small businesses, tourism, and the health of citizens who live and work along the Gulf, not to mention the incredible loss of wildlife still occurring. The EPA estimates –as of 2002 http://www.epa.gov/oem/docs/oil/fss/fss04/etkin_04.pdf  – that over 8 million gallons of oil spillages occurs annually in the EPA-controlled inland waters. That does not include the off-shore spillages, which are controlled by the US Coast Guard. According to BOEM, (The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)  http://www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/Environmental_Stewardship/Environmental_Assessment/Oil_Spill_Modeling/AndersonMayesLabelle2012.pdf 227,374,392 gallons of oil and petroleum have spilled into our Oceans between 1964 through 2010 

denying US citizenship to American children born here if parents are undocumented; increase ability to detain immigrants for  ANY reason, even if there was no crime committed. http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/Mondays-with-ALEC-Immigration  and detaining immigrants for prison profits http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/public-policy-private-corporations-detaining-immigrants-profit

a List of ALEC model bills relating to Human Health 

(http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_Human_Health

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Health,_Pharmaceuticals,_and_Safety_Net_Programs

OPPOSED: Any Bills attempting to raise the minimum wage, (http://www.nelp.org/page/-/rtmw/uploads/NELP-ALEC-Wage-Suppression.pdf?nocdn=1?nocdn=1 ) or effect a “Liveable Wage”.

List here:  http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_to_Create_Tax_Loopholes_or_Affect_Budgets_Etc. 

http://quietmike.org/2014/04/14/knowing-enemy-american-legislative-exchange-council-alec/

For an update on Bill Moyers’ video, here’s the full episode

http://billmoyers.com/episode/encore-united-states-of-alec/

OPPOSED: Anti-Gun Regulation, and all attempts to create a Federal Background Check system http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11908/backgrounder-history-nraalec-gun-agenda   or waiting periods http://alecexposed.org/w/images/3/37/7J10-Resolution_On_Firearms_Purchase_Waiting_Periods_Exposed.pdf The NRA drafted these anti-gun-regulatory Bills, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/03/27/former-nra-president-we-helped-draft-floridas-s/185254 and ALEC presented them as templates to their Representatives in Congress. Back in 2012, ALEC once again teamed up with the NRA to draft a model Bill making illegal gun show sales stings illegal. http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/pse_35-day_mailing_2011_annual_meeting%20new%20orleans.pdf#page=13

OPPOSED: Abortion accessibility (http://alecexposed.org/w/images/1/11/5B5-Parental_Consent_For_Abortion_Act_Exposed.pdf ) and Reproductive health care for Women (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11356/arizona%E2%80%99s-alec-leader-wants-your-boss-make-decisions-about-your-contraception-cov  ) including Bills aimed at the “Pre-Born” (http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/03/05/texas-alec-chair-files-preborn-pain-act-as-promised-by-rick-perry/ )  ALEC has been funding and supporting the Americans United for Life Organization, whose main purpose is to make abortions illegal, and to redefine a Zygote as a “Pre-Born Child With Constitutional Rights” http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/01/30/americans-united-lifes-efforts-eliminate-insurance-coverage-abortion-get-help-alec-members/

OPPOSED: Equal Rights

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/08/16/12029/fact-sheet-the-wage-gap-for-women/ ALEC pretty much hit the ground running when it came to Equal Rights. They began lobbying against the ERA in 1974, just a short while after they were formed in 1973. http://respriv.org/tag/equal-rights-amendment/

SUPPORTED:   The Privatization of our Prison system. Including lobbying for mandatory minimum sentences even for small non-violent victimless crimes such as possession of drugs, and three-strikes sentencing requirements http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_related_to_Guns,_Prisons,_Crime,_and_Immigration and prison labor laws http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor ALEC influenced and presented two major sets of Laws significantly easing the Federal requirement which stated that Prisons could not enter into competition with outside Businesses. Those two Laws are:  Prison Industries Enhancement Certification Program or PIE as it is colloquially known as. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2010/mar/15/the-prison-industries-enhancement-certification-program-why-everyone-should-be-concerned/ and the Prison Industries Act http://mainstreetinsider.org/onepagers/112/S02E21%20summary%20-%20Prison%20Industries%20Act.pdf  According to the Law, prisoners must be paid prevailing wages, however, ALEC wrote in an end-around: “Diverts a portion of the money deducted from inmate pay to “private sector prison industries expansion accounts” that can be used to construct work facilities, recruit corporations to participate as private sector industries programs, and pay program management, implementation and oversight costs. As laid out in the 2004 version, this special fund receives the first $2 million of state deductions from inmate pay and half of any further amount.” Thus, inmates are usually paid approx. $1.oo per hour. VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTpnRLorw3I Nevada has recently passed Legislation demanding oversight and transparency of these “Prison Markets” in SB 478 http://legiscan.com/NV/research/SB478/2013  Some of the concerns ranged from their “training programs” on-site on bridges and other constructions affecting the safety of Citizens, as well as the actions of Silver State Industries, where the Direction of the Nevada Department of Corrections candidly admitted that the Department had not been following regulations, requirements or protocols, and that there was a significant monetary loss which has yet to be explained or recovered.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/11/1215508/-Labor-and-Business-Win-Prison-Industry-Battle

SUPPORTED: Stricter Voter ID Laws and diminishing availability to Vote.

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Democracy,_Voter_Rights,_and_Federal_Power  This visual map shows the States which have followed ALEC’s lead, and those who continue to resist corporate influence: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx and here is an alphabetized listing of every State’s required Voter ID requirements as of 2013. Thanks to State and Federal Courts throughout the land, these are being struck down as Unconstitutional, including the Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/us/politics/pennsylvania-voter-id-law-struck-down.html?_r=0  , Arkansas http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/24/arkansas-voter-id-law-struck-down-state-judge/ , Wisconsin http://time.com/81523/wisconsin-voter-id-law-struck-down-in-federal-court/ , Texas http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/texas-voter-id-law/index.html There are still States whose Voter ID laws have yet to be overturned. Here is a Video briefly outlining ALEC’s contribution to Voter disenfranchisement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPX8yUyz4VE

SUPPORTED: Union-busting Right-to-Work Laws Workers’ Rights list of model bills http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_Worker_and_Consumer_Rights_and_More 

SUPPORTED: NAFTA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/nafta-job-loss-trade-deficit-epi_n_859983.html  and Supports TTP http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/multinationals_peddle_the_myth_of_free_trade_on_the_hill.html   For an Organization whose stated purpose was strengthening the American Economy, the support of both NAFTA and the TPP only positively affects the Corporations involved, not the economy as a whole. OutSourcing of American manufacturing and service has decimated the US Jobs force.

OPPOSED: Safety Regulations and Licensing Laws http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/economic-civil-rights-act/  and Corporate Protection bills http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_the_Rights_of_Americans_Injured_or_Killed_by_Corporations  

SUPPORTED: The Citizens United Bill http://alecexposed.org/w/images/f/f2/7G4-Resolution_in_Support_of_the_Citizens_United_Decision_Exposed.pdf 

OPPOSED: The EPA and adamantly denies any negative ramifications of pollutants in the atmosphere, or climate change. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/other/55_benefits_of_co2_pamphlet.pdf  All Laws pertaining to clean air, clean water, and clean environment are considered to be tyranny on behalf of the Federal Government, because anything which regulates Corporations’ ability to extract, exploit, discard and pollute at will is considered by those Corporations as an affront to their Rights of Profit.  http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_Affecting_our_Water,_Air,_%26_Land and http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Environment,_Energy,_and_Agriculture

5 top anti-environment laws

OPPOSED: Regulations on humane animal care and agriculture http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Environment,_Energy,_and_Agriculture including passing legislation protecting people’s free choice, and State’s Rights to pass legislation supported by its’ citizens. ALEC has come out in favor of the continued use of antibiotics in livestock feed, http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/5/55/3A1-ALEC_Resolution_on_Animal_Antibiotic_Use_Exposed.pdf ; DNA-manipulated high-yield agricultural production by such Corporations as Monsanto, an ALEC Corporate sponsor http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/4/42/3A2-Biotechnology_Resolution_Exposed.pdf as well as against the Rights of citizens to protest GMOs as ALEC supports activity by state governments to safeguard against local governments regulating agriculture biotechnology. http://alecexposed.org/w/images/8/8b/3A3-Biotechnology_State_Uniformity_Resolution_Exposed.pdf  ALEC also has drafted the Ag Gag Laws, making it illegal to expose animal cruelty by Corporate Factory Farming http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/wp-content/Images/alec_animal_ecological_terrorism_bill.pdf under the guise of “Animal Terrorism Protection Laws”, these bills are so broad-brushed they include non-violent civil disobedience by environmental and animal rights activists as terrorism. http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/ag-gag-american-legislative-exchange-council/5947/ This notable inclusion in the Animal Ecological Terrorism Bill should frighten every advocate: that anyone entering “an animal or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means with the intent to commit criminal activities or defame the facility or its owner” is hereby considered an act of terror.

SUPPORTED: Tort reform to protect Corporations –in particular the long-term Health Care Industry- from lawsuits in criminal neglect and abuse cases, making it illegal to use state health investigation records in state civil suits and makes such records inadmissible in criminal cases. http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-state-law-conceals-records-of-abuse-neglect-in-nursing/article_9a5fede0-7871-11e2-bd9f-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true  

SUPPORTED: Anti-Immigration Laws, stating that “Illegal Aliens” are destroying America. ALEC-introduced Anti- Immigration Bills http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/12/10/3043381/alec-immigration-bills/  include such tasty tidbits as mandated local enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws and racial profiling; http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/sheriff-joe-arpaio-racial-profiling-costs-taxpayers-21m

OPPOSED: All renewable energy standards, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/documents/Electricity-Freedom-Act-121123.pdf   and SUPPORTS taxes on those who have installed alternative energy sources.  http://truth-out.org/news/item/23238-koch-brothers-alec-grover-norquist-target-solar-energy  

SUPPORTS: Fracking, offshore drilling of oil and natural gas; and nuclear energy http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-07-21/koch-exxon-mobil-among-corporations-helping-write-state-laws.html  The Koch Brothers have served as Corporate “Sponsor” Board Members of ALEC since 1995, and have controlling interests in such projects as the Keystone XP Pipeline http://ecowatch.com/2013/10/20/koch-brothers-100-billion-profit-keystone-xl-pipeline-built/ , where they stand to gain over $100 billion dollars if the pipeline is built; Koch Oil Sands Operating ULC’s Tar Sands holdings http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120510/koch-industries-brothers-tar-sands-bitumen-heavy-oil-flint-pipelines-refinery-alberta-canada in Canada where the refining of bitumen and its’ “PetKoch” (or “petroleum coke” ) storage systems –large 3 story piles of toxic coal ash- have negatively affected the health and environment of citizens in Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois. http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2013/10/14/first-it-was-detroit-now-petkoch-piling-up-in-chicago/  These massive piles of environmental hazards are then sent to China. As significant corporate sponsors of ALEC, it behooves the Organization to craft laws weakening regulations and storage requirements, while eradicating corporate responsibility to the Public.

OPPOSED: Health Care Reform ( http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/State_Leg_Guide_to_Repealing_ObamaCare.pdf ) and advocates prohibiting “health insurers from accepting federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act that trigger the employer mandate. Health insurers accepting subsidies shall have their license to issue new business suspended for all business on exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act.” (http://www.alec.org/model-legislation/health-care-freedom-act/ )

OPPOSED: Patient Rights, MediCare and Social Safety Nets

OPPOSED: paid sick leave bills, in Florida for example, it is actually forbidden for local governments to enact paid sick leave legislation. (http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-06/news/os-legislature-sick-time-fight-20130106_1_sick-time-delay-vote-measures  Apparently, “smaller local government” only applies if the “smaller local government” Votes as Corporate interests demand. http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/11079/flu-burger-alec-wants-sick-people-serving-you-food

SUPPORTED: Anti-Taxes (Unless you have invested in renewable energy) http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/417488/florida-gop-alec-forget/

Just in 2011, the staggering number of ALEC-crafted, sponsored and presented Bills just on legal reform ! http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7Bfb3c17e2-cdd1-4df6-92be-bd4429893665%7D/5-ALEC_CJ_tracking.PDF included 16 enacted Laws.  It’s even difficult to categorize which areas ALEC target, because in so many cases, they are linked as Riders to other unrelated Bills, or an integral part of a different series of Bills. So many of the ALEC Task Forces intertwine that sorting through them feels a great deal like a kitten getting lost in a yarn factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXUPDAMc_6o

It’s hard to fight an idea, rather than a specific named issue. In particular, it’s difficult for non-political citizens to understand the workings of a huge Corporate-driven system designed to wrest control away from the People. ALEC is a Hydra, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-how-conservative-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/    and for every head we cut off, another grows in its’ place. If we have any chance of taking back our Nation from Special Interests and powerful wealthy Multi-National Corporations, we must get up and participate in the Democratic process. ALEC states it is a bi-partisan Organization, but there are no Progressives involved, so just how fair and balanced can it be?

What can we do?

Join NELP http://www.nelp.org/

Join Colors of Change http://colorofchange.org/

Join Free to Vote http://www.freetovote.org/

Take Action. Join Common Cause

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?b=7743229&c=dkLNK1MQIwG

KNOW YOUR ENEMY

And while this may sound simple, hit them where they hurt the most: in the pocketbook. Contact the Corporations and Non-Profits still involved with ALEC http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations  and tell them how you feel about their involvement in Politics. Double check to see if you regularly purchase from any of these Companies or support them in any way, and BOYCOTT THEM.  Make sure to let the businesses know what your intent is; make it public. Post on their Social Networking pages. Use the Contact Us option on their website. Call them on the telephone. We must make our voices and our hearts known. This is probably one of the most effective ways to affect change, since ALEC is all about the “Free Market” and how Corporations can squeeze out more profits. Thanks to Common Cause http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8281551  and several other Progressive Watch Dog organizations,  ALEC’s Corporate members have been exposed to public scrutiny via a Freedom of Information Act request and an IRS Tax Whistleblower Act Complaint http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8060297   which put enough pressure on some of their sponsors to drive them away http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-03/alecs-secrets-revealed-corporations-flee . When Colors of Change http://colorofchange.org/campaign/alecvotingrights  discovered in these documents how many Voter ID Bills have been specifically crafted to deny poor and minority peoples from participating in the democratic Voting process, they contacted these Corporations with a single question: “Just how much do you value your minority customers?”

As you can tell, ALEC represents Multi-National Corporate Interests, and affords owners of Corporations and Share holders TWO Votes; a Vote as a Person, and a Vote at the behind-the-scenes table between Special Interests and Legislators. This is a bastardization of our Democratic process, and cannot continue to remain in effect. Economics is not, nor should it EVER be, the moral compass of our Nation. American citizens have a Right to do business, but business is NOT our Guiding Principles: FREEDOM FOR ALL EQUALLY is. How can we have individual liberty when we allow corporate interests to drive our Government? How can individual liberty compete with Voodoo Vulture Capitalism? How can an Organization claim to desire limited Government, yet insists upon social engineering and inflicting its’ morality upon all US Citizens regardless of their individual and constitutionally guaranteed 1^st Amendment Rights? How can Pro-Growth Bills which affect the very rich positively, and the Middle class and poor negatively, which as defined favors or advocates for the commercial development and/or exploitation of land –including Park lands and Public lands – and other natural resources, especially with minimal government restriction or regulation and with NO input from the Citizens of the US who have continuously supported protecting sensitive Park lands, wildernesses, and Public lands possibly be a fair use of those resources for all? In short, it cannot. ALEC’s claimed focus is diametrically opposed to the Constitutional tenets of a Free People. Let us take our Nation back, back to We the People. But in order to do that, we must get up and participate. We MUST Vote. ALEC is, and twice.

http://www.justice.org/cps/rde/xbcr/justice/ALEC_Report.pdf

READ THIS-all 9 of them
http://www.alec.org/task-forces/tax-and-fiscal-policy/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/alec-funding-crisis-big-donors-trayvon-martin

June 29, 2015 for my Blog and FB page

I am truly and deeply and broken heartedly shocked at the behavior of Political Moll. I wrote for them, and I will always be grateful for that opportunity.

They removed me as one of the writers without any ANY AT ALL interchange or communication, and that's OK< I understand that.

But I was about to go back and link my article to another post and I find this:

http://politicalmoll.com/alec-a-threat-to-american-democracy/

Note the author???

Here the Internet Archive from when the article was uploaded.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140529004849/http://politicalmoll.com/alec-a-threat-to-american-democracy

Note the author?

How is this at all ethical?