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New Jersey Starts Taking Out Its Trash?

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The state that gave us La Raza supporter Senator Robert Menendez found federal and IRS dragnets sweeping across the state this morning to arrest 30 people, among them Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano and Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, as well as several area rabbis and other community leaders and politicians, including Jersey City Council President Mariano Vega.

It appears to be a corruption-related investigation but Justice Department and FBI spokesmen would only say the corruption involved a “high-volume international money-laundering conspiracy.”  It is said to involve rabbis in the Syrian Jewish enclave in Brooklyn and Deal, New Jersey.  The probe is said to have started when money transfers drew the interests of the feds who followed the trail back to small-town Jersey corruption.

Officials say separate from the corruption probe, some of the suspects charged today were also connected to an illegal human organ-selling ring.   Investigators say some charged would take cash payments to help find organs for sick patients in need of transplants.  It’s unclear where the body parts might have come from or how many surgeries may have been done.  The FBI,  IRS and U.S. Attorney’s office all declined comment saying details will be given at the press conference.

You can bet the ties (and lies) that eventually come out of this will prove to be interesting.

The Unholy Trinity Taking Aim At Honduras

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Though the ADD media did little more than their usual hit & run on recent events in Honduras before glomming onto more important things like the death of Michael Jackson, Accuracy In Media has posted a detailed report that connects some rather chilling dots between the U.N., President Obama, and Hugo Chavez, and poses legitimate questions of their real intentions.

This also begs the question of Obama’s loyalty to the United States, for interference in the fate of Honduras appears to also be tied to affairs in Iran.

The United Nations on Thursday begins a debate over a new U.N. military doctrine called the “Responsibility to Protect,” which would authorize the world organization to be used as cover to intervene in the sovereign affairs of a nation state, supposedly to protect the people of a country against their own government. The first target could be anti-communist Honduras.

In an ominous development, blogger Jason Poblete, an astute observer of Latin American affairs with excellent sources, reports that “The Obama Administration is considering a United Nations Security Council Resolution against the constitutional government of Honduras.” If true, anticipated U.N. sanctions against Honduras could be followed by the world organization being used as cover for outside forces to invade Honduras and reinstate Zelaya.

Zelaya flew from Costa Rica, where he was deported, to U.N. headquarters in New York, where D’Escoto, who is also a Communist Catholic Priest from Nicaragua, greeted him as a comrade. Since the crisis began and the U.N. voted to have him reinstated, the Obama Administration has been trying to figure out a way to get him back into power. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias recently hosted some negotiations to try to resolve the dispute but they appear to be going nowhere.

The U.N. may be the logical next step, if Zelaya’s allies in the region don’t act precipitously on their own and intervene. Chavez has already threatened to invade Honduras to put Zelaya back in power.

On July 13, the State Department spokesman confirmed that Chavez had called Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon to “discuss the current situation in Honduras and the ongoing negotiations mediated by Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias.” The confirmation followed news of Chavez boasting about the telephone call on Venezuelan state TV.

This tends to confirm what former Marxist SDS radical Tom Hayden, leader of “Progressives for Obama,” has written about the Obama-Chavez relationship. Based on his own inside sources of information, Hayden said that he thinks Obama and Chavez are working together on Honduras and have an “understanding,” which he even describes as “collaboration.” The call Chavez made to Shannon suggests that Chavez is calling the shots.

Ultimately, according to a very detailed report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, this would benefit Iran, a terrorist state developing nuclear weapons which is developing a vast network throughout Latin America. A recent report from the organization examines the deep Iranian connections to Venezuela as well as Bolivia.

We here continue to stand by the people of Honduras and their upholding of their constitution.  It is humiliating that our President refuses to do the same.

It is also a dangerous walk on a very thin line.  Article III, section 3 of the United States Constitution states:  “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” 

…the Hayden article strongly suggests that the Obama policy is not the result of incompetence or inexperience but is deliberate in nature. 

Hayden, once a famous anti-Vietnam War protester in his own right and former official of the Marxist Students for a Democratic Society, claims that “something profoundly new began developing between Obama and Chavez at the hemispheric conference in April in Trinidad.

According to eyewitness sources, under the apparently blind eye of the global media, the two leaders had lengthy conversations. The media covered the friendly photo of the initial handshake between the two leaders, then made much ado about an apparently-impertinent Chavez handing Obama a book in Spanish by Eduardo Galleano. What has not been reported is that Obama, leaving his advisers behind, held lengthy private conversations with Chavez where only an interpreter was present.

In December 2007 his [Chavez’s] regime hosted a conference devoted to staging a communist revolution in the United States. The panel discussion on “United States: A possible revolution” was described as the central event at the third Venezuela International Book Fair.

According to an article in The Militant, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, the forum included presentations by “Mary-Alice Waters, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee and president of Pathfinder Press; Eva Golinger, a Venezuelan-American lawyer and author of The Chávez Code; Chris Carlson, a contributor to the venezuelanalysis.com website; and Tufara Waller, cultural program coordinator of the Highlander Center in Tennessee.”

Other panelists were identified as “Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States; former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill; August Nimtz, a University of Minnesota political science professor; William Blum, an author who has written a number of books opposing U.S. foreign policy; ex-Maryknoll priest Charles Hardy; and Dada Maheshvarananda, yoga instructor and founder of the Prout Institute.”  

The communist paper reported that, before there could be a revolution in the United States, Marxist forces would have to take control of Latin America. “Another idea frequently expressed by speakers from the floor and by a few panelists was that ‘change has to come from the South,'” referring to Latin America, the paper said.

The Transparency Of Promises

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Many of us saw through the rhetoric long before the November election.  Many are only now starting to see that the meaning of words is only important when it suits Barack Obama and his personal agenda. 

Wrangling votes for the “cap and trade” legislation in the House, Obama backed off a campaign promise to auction off all “allowances” – permits to release a set amount of greenhouse gases. Instead of selling them to raise money for other environmental initiatives, the White House allowed congressional Democratic leaders to trade them for votes, assigning allowances to the refinery-heavy district of, for instance, Texas Rep. Gene Green in exchange for his support.

Obama’s political operation has dispensed with its post-inauguration cocktails for Republicans – or more often, ignoring them outright — in favor of the old politics of engage, attack and cajole. Obama’s even engaging in a little Democrat-on-Democrat politics, as his ex-campaign arm is beaming TV ads into the home states of moderate fence-sitters on health care.

Wanting “health care reform” legislation shoved willy-nilly and unread through both the House and the Senate before the August recess, and

As unemployment rises and economic forecasts sour, the White House has delayed until August the release of its mid-year budget review, which is likely to include a revised projection of the 2009 deficit.

“Let’s be honest about what this is: an attempt to hide a record-breaking deficit as Democratic leaders break arms to rush through a government takeover of healthcare,” said John Boehner of Ohio, the top Republican in the House of Representatives.

“By burying this budget update until after Congress leaves town next month, the administration is not willing to own up to the consequences of this dangerous fiscal agenda,” he said.

The White House Office of Management and Budget called the delay normal for the first year of a new presidential term.

Normal?  Maybe.  But under the circumstances, it is simply another example of the dangerous recklessness and lack of transparency that has become the hallmark of this administration.  It’s even beginning to dawn on Obama’s close allies in Congress (though more probably because they fear for their own relection bids than because of any legitimate morals or principles or respect of law).

In a signing statement accompanying the $106 billion [war spending] bill, Obama said [in June] he wouldn’t allow the legislation to interfere with his authority as president to conduct foreign policy and negotiate with other governments.

Earlier in his six-month-old administration, Obama issued a similar statement regarding provisions in a $410 billion omnibus spending bill. He also included qualifying remarks when signing legislation that established commissions to govern public lands in New York, investigate the financial crisis and celebrate Ronald Reagan’s birthday.

Now Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee; Representative Nita Lowey and Representative Gregory Meeks, both of New York, who chair subcommittees on those panels, have taken exception to this Executive Branch overstepping of boundaries set by Congress within pieces of legislation and even put their “concerns” in writing:

“During the previous administration, all of us were critical of (Bush’s) assertion that he could pick and choose which aspects of congressional statutes he was required to enforce.  We were therefore chagrined to see you appear to express a similar attitude.”

Bummer, Reps.  Welcome to the world of your constituents.

A Truth About Tyranny

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A disturbing report is coming out of Jerusalem today.  Certainly Israel has every right to pay close attention to the goings-on in Iran and in this particular story one sees why.

A deliberately anonymous member of Iran’s paramilitary Basiji militia has spoken out about his role in the recent election protests.  But even more disturbing than his perspective of the abuses is his sharing earlier experiences with the group.  Experiences which, from his account, appear to have been commonplace.

In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution:  The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard – essentially raped by her “husband.”

When questioned about expressing regret for his participation in this heinous abuse, he said “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

“I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” the Basiji member said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”

As the golden sun melts in the cool, clear blue summer evening sky and the hush of evening at last begins to override today’s activities, it is easy to imagine that such things cannot happen here.  But there is a fine line between deliberately blind obsession and zealotry, and when that line is crossed by enough people it doesn’t take much for one of the few evils in this world – egotistical power mongers – to sweep away individual rights in favor of their tyrannistic agenda.

We in America think ourselves too “civilized”, perhaps, to find ourselves enslaved as are the Iranian people.  We are far too clever and far too sure of our Constitutional right to freedom to fall victim through such primitive means as force and bloodshed.  It is this smugness, this surety, however, that is our greatest danger for it stands to be our collective undoing.  It explains why someone with absolutely no legitimate experience, a background that is questionable at best, and decidedly immoral if not outright criminals for friends now sits in the Oval Office.  Deliberate blindness combined with ears eager to listen to soaring cadences but unwilling or unable to hear the words, the lies, became an obsession that has created real and imminent threats to our very – and very wonderful – way of life.  In the same way that the Basiji twist the laws of the Islamic Republic to suit the government’s needs, so, too, do we see such twists of American law as the Obama administration takes over car companies, funnels money to organizations like Goldman Sachs and ACORN, appoints a science “czar” who supports what basically amounts to eugenics, and pushes economically unsustainable ideas like cap & trade and health care (-less) reform.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  Often such reactions are unforeseen consequences.  As the government expands exponentially under the spurs and whips of the Obama administration, so constrict our individual freedoms, much as a noose tightens around the neck of the prisoner only moments from execution.  Once our most basic freedoms have been stripped from us by virtue of a majority zealotness,  the day when the government feels empowered and emboldened enough to use force against American citizens won’t be far behind.  And it will bring with it such horrors as are being documented today in Iran.

I find no coincidence in Barack Obama’s support of Ahmadinejad.  Nor anything the least acceptable in his cozying up to Chavez or in his continuing dismissal of the people of Honduras and their constitution.  As the truth of the literal and figurative cost of Obama’s big plans for “reform” become more and more clear and his popularity plummets inversely, his words become more and more mean and so we begin to see the cracks in the mask.  Behind it is a man who would be king but one who lacks even the most rudimentary understanding or legitimate sense of noblesse oblige.  Sacrifice is not a part of his nature, only the overwhelming need for control.

And all I can think is, “I hope he fails”.

Ham Reaches $1,265,800/lb

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Thanks to the Drudge Report, we can now see exactly how the stimulus money is helping our economy.  All that pork claimed by certain Congress critters was apparently necessary after all.

 

Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location LOS ANGELES
Contract Number AG3J14120297210 Project Location – State CA
Funding Amount $2,531,600 Project Location – Zip Code 90058-1800
Completion Date 2009-09-30 Congressional District CA-34

Recipient Information (Award)

Recipient Name CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC Recipient Address 3049 E VERNON AVE
Recipient City LOS ANGELES Recipient State CALIFORNIA
Recipient Zip Code 90058-1800 Congressional District CALIFORNIA-34

Description of Work/Service performed

HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB 

Award Overview

Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location LOS ANGELES
Contract Number AG3J14120297196 Project Location – State CA
Funding Amount $1,191,200 Project Location – Zip Code 90058-1800
Completion Date 2009-06-30 Congressional District CA-34
Recipient Information (Award)
Recipient Name CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC Recipient Address 3049 E VERNON AVE
Recipient City LOS ANGELES Recipient State CALIFORNIA
Recipient Zip Code 90058-1800 Congressional District CALIFORNIA-34
Description of Work/Service performed
2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED 

Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location CLEVELAND
Contract Number AGDPDVVDOC02503 Project Location – State OH
Funding Amount $1,562,568 Project Location – Zip Code 44101-3301
Completion Date 2009-08-31 Congressional District OH-11

Recipient Information (Award)

Recipient Name MICELI DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY Recipient Address 2721 E 90TH ST
Recipient City CLEVELAND Recipient State OHIO
Recipient Zip Code 44104-3301 Congressional District OHIO-11
Description of Work/Service performed
MOZZARELLA CHEESE

 
 
 
Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location PLAINVIEW
Contract Number AG3J14120297195 Project Location – State MN
Funding Amount $16,784,272 Project Location – Zip Code 55964-1059
Completion Date 2009-06-30 Congressional District MN-01
Recipient Information (Award)
Recipient Name LAKESIDE FOODS INC Recipient Address 808 HAMILTON ST
Recipient City MANITOWOC Recipient State WISCONSIN
Recipient Zip Code 54220-5326 Congressional District WISCONSIN-06
Description of Work/Service performed
CANNED PORK
 
 
 
Agency Name 57 Project Location DYESS AFB
Contract Number 0006 Project Location – State TX
Funding Amount $1,444,100 Project Location – Zip Code 79607-1581
Completion Date 2010-01-26 Congressional District TX-19
Recipient Information (Award)
Recipient Name AFCO TECHNOLOGIES, INC Recipient Address 1535 BRADY BLVD
Recipient City SAN ANTONIO Recipient State TEXAS
Recipient Zip Code 78237 Congressional District TEXAS-20
Description of Work/Service performed
REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112 
 
Agency Name Department of Veterans Affairs Project Location BROOKLYN
Contract Number VA243RA0565 Project Location – State NY
Funding Amount $351,807 Project Location – Zip Code 11209-1503
Completion Date 2010-03-25 Congressional District NY-08
Recipient Information (Award)
Recipient Name VETERANS CONTRACTING GROUP, INC. Recipient Address 526 FAYETTE AVE
Recipient City MAMARONECK Recipient State NEW YORK
Recipient Zip Code 10543-2212 Congressional District NEW YORK-18

Description of Work/Service performed

RECOVERY ACT-PROJECT 630A4-08-406, REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER
 
 
Agency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location NORWOOD YOUNG AMERICA
Contract Number AGDPDVVDOC02502 Project Location – State MN
Funding Amount $5,708,260 Project Location – Zip Code 55368-9525
Completion Date 2009-08-31 Congressional District MN-02
Recipient Information (Award)
Recipient Name BONGARDS’ CREAMERIES Recipient Address 13200 COUNTY RD 51
Recipient City NORWOOD Recipient State MINNESOTA
Recipient Zip Code 55368-9525 Congressional District MINNESOTA-02
Description of Work/Service performed
PROCESS CHEESE

 

Please note that the above details were copied directly from the recovery.gov website as they appeared as of the posting time of this piece.  If you go to an entry and the information has changed, well, all we can say is that perhaps it wasn’t the waiter’s dumbness that needed to be fixed.

Or it’s all about that “transparency”.

UPDATE from Jake Tapper’s blog.  Because you knew there was going to be an “Oops!” associated with this:

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack just issued a statement referring to the $100 million available to the states for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) through the stimulus bill. TEFAP, he said, “acquires food that is distributed to local organizations that assist the needy – including food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.”

Said Vilsack: “The Recovery Act funds referenced in press reports allowed states to purchase ham, cheese and dairy products for these food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries that provide assistance to people who otherwise do not have access to food. This program will help reduce hunger of those hardest hit by the current economic recession. The references to ‘2 pound frozen ham sliced’ are to the sizes of the packaging.  Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy “2 pounds of ham” are wrong. In fact, the contract in question purchased 760,000 pounds of ham for $1.191m, at a cost of approximately $1.50 per pound. In terms of the dairy purchase referenced, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) purchased 837,936 pounds of mozzarella cheese and 4,039,200 pounds of processed cheese.”

Vilsack said that the “principal purpose of these expenditures is to provide food to those hardest hit by these tough times” though they also offer “a modest economic benefit of benefiting Americans working at food retailers, manufacturers and transportation companies as well as the farmers and ranchers who produce our food supply.”

But here’s the bottom line as mandated by our Constitution:  While this is all nice and warm & fuzzy, people who aren’t in the “tough times” affected states are not responsible for the problems created by the governments of those “tough times” affected states.  If they wish to donate to an organization set up to help fund these types of charities, terrific and more power to them for Americans are nothing if not generous.  But if not, just like abortions, they should not be forced to pay for them with their tax dollars.

Obama Now Wants To Run Medicare

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It’s time for yet another Obama power grab.  The AP reported on Saturday that President Obama wants Congress to give him the power to “limit” the rising costs of Medicare.  A White House letter to top lawmakers on Friday proposed an “independent advisory board” who would look at Medicare reimbursement rates and make recommendations and said the move would be “a critical step forward” in controlling health care costs and providing better care.

Obama would have the power to approve the board’s recommendations, and Congress could “still vote to reject them altogether”.  But this would be an all-or-nothing vote; meaning that if there’s one bad apple, they would have to accept or reject the whole bushel.

State’s rights, varying costs of living across the country and all that good stuff currently set rates regionally.  Obama, the man who has no business experience, the man who has no financial experience except spending other people’s money, the man who thinks spending money on old people who are going to die anyway isn’t necessary, wants that to stop.

Perhaps he fears that his health care “reform” isn’t going to fly and this is a way to insinuate himself into our lives in a different way?  Regardless the reasons, it’s a wicked bad idea and should be promptly tossed into the circular file.

We don’t need no stinkin’ Medicare czar.  Especially when that czar is Barck Hussein Obama.

Quote Of The Day

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From the Congressional Record, House of Representatives – June 02, 2009

(Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

“Mr. Speaker, at the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama joked to the reporters in attendance: “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me.”

“Some jokes are true; and, unfortunately, this joke is on the American people.

“According to Investor’s Business Daily, journalists who gave campaign money to then-Senator Obama outnumbered those who contributed to Senator McCain by a 20-1 margin. The media gave money to him. They voted for him. Now they’re giving him a free pass.

“According to one analysis, network newscasts have portrayed the President as a deficit fighter five times more often than they have portrayed him as a big spender even though his budget will double the national debt in 5 years and will triple it in 10.

“Yes, the media voted for President Obama, but they should not allow their voting to influence their reporting.”

Cap & Traders Shanghaiing America

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Reuters reported on Friday that Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai that Americans should pay for China’s greenhouse polluting.

Yes, you read that right.  Americans and our consumption of Chinese-made goods is the reason China is such a big global warming bad guy.

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that.”

Ummm…ok, Gary.  Why don’t you explain to Americans just how that jives with the fact that China’s pollution is a result of their production of steel, cement, aluminium, paper and chemicals, most of which are consumed in China rather than exported?

In contrast, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come mainly from domestic consumption, such as fuels to heat and cool buildings and to power vehicles.  Only about 25 percent of U.S. emissions are caused by factories.

De Nile about global warming ain’t just a river in Egypt any more.  Apparently it’s now also a river in China down which Americans are being shanghaied.

Remind Me, Please, Who’s Running The Car Companies?

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The Obama administration broke laws when it interferred with Chrysler’s bankruptcy, and Obama’s “car czar” helped put together operational plans that promptly slammed the doors shut on 789 Chrysler dealerships.  You know, those places that are in (private) business to help the car companies sell their products?  The (private) businesses that make the car companies money?

Now the House has approved an amendment to the House Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill that blocks federal money for both Chrysler’s and GM’s reorganizations if they shut down dealerships.  There is similar, standalone legislation pending in the House as well (H.R.2796) that has pulled in 242 House sponsors in just a matter of weeks (including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who argued during Thursday’s floor debate that this was a way for dealers who had been left out of bankruptcy decisions to be heard.)

The Senate is taking a similar tack, with a bill proposed by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) coming out of the gate with significant support from 25 co-sponsors (S.1304), including 11 Republicans and 14 Democrats.  It has been sent to the Judiciary Committee, but Committee chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has yet to schedule a hearing and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said this week he isn’t inclined to allow a vote on any measure forcing the dealerships to stay open.

“We will not give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler until they come to terms with the hundreds of thousands of people out of work,” Representative Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) said during [House] floor debate on the bill.

“The decision to invest taxpayer dollars into these companies required all stakeholders to make difficult sacrifices, and it would set a dangerous precedent, potentially raising legal concerns, to intervene into a closed judicial bankruptcy proceeding on behalf of one particular group at this point,” the White House Office of Management and Budget said Wednesday.Perhaps the White House should have thought of these things before they made their decision to interfere with the private sector and “not run” the car companies (into the ground) in the first place?

Mr. Walpin Goes To Washington

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To the United States Court for the District of Columbia, to be exact.  It’s not making the mainstream media news, but Gerald Walpin, the U.S. Inspector General who was illegally strong-armed to resign by -ironically in any other world – the President’s Special Council for Ethics and Government Reform and when he refused found himself quickly fired from his position last month for insisting rules be followed during an AmeriCorps audit that found gross misuse of funds by Kevin Johnson, former NBA player and, wouldn’t you know it, one of President Obama’s close friends, has filed a lawsuit against the Corporation for National and Community Service (it oversees AmeriCorps).  The suit alleges the firing was “unlawful,” “politically driven,” “procedurally defective” and “a transparent and clumsily-conducted effort to circumvent the protections” given to inspectors general under the Inspectors General Reform Act of 2008.  The lawsuit also rightfully raises questions about age discrimination based on the flimsy “excuses” that finally dribbled out from the Orchid Office, as well as questions about whistleblower retaliation.

As has been documented, no one except Mr. Walpin followed the law where AmeriCorps or the Corporation for National and Community Service are concerned, so our hats are off to him for standing up for what’s right.  Tellingly, he isn’t seeking punative damages, only that the Court declare his firing was unlawful, reinstatement of his position, and that his attorney fees be paid.

Now unless there are critical facts of which we are yet unaware (the “personality conflicts” being bandied about by some in an attempt to discredit Mr. Walpin do not count when documenting how taxpayer monies are used), this case stands to bring transparency to the workings of the Obama administration.  The  kind of transparency that can finally begin to bring about the change America needs, not the change Obama and merry band of thieves want.