Rep. Alcee Hastings

Here is one of those times when the American Judicial system worked for the criminal. When Alcee Hasting was impeached and removed from the Federal Florida Southern District bench, to which he had been nominated by Jimmy Carter, for bribery, one would think it would be the last one would hear of this character. Not so fast!
His nomination went back to 1979 and he had been acquitted of the charges in 1983. But in 1985 he was hit again with 17 charges, all warranting impeachment: 16 bribery charges and 1 charge of criminal divulgement of sensitive information obtained via wiretapping. In 1988 the House voted for his impeachment and the Senate followed up with a guilty verdict on eight of the charges. In their decision, the Senate also allowed Hastings to be able to seek elected positions in the future. The decision was reached by a 12 member Senatorial panel, but Hastings was able to argue that because the decision had not been voted on by the whole Senate, it was not valid and he was subsequently cleared. A crooked judge not in jail thanks to legal technicalities; he had been proven guilty, but the system allowed him to walk.
But he did not go too far anyway, as he run for the House of Representatives and won, so he became an elected politician. Truthfully, only in America.

Why the hell am I telling you this crap about a crappy Representative from Florida? Simple: Mr. Alcee Hasting (D) Fl has been working hard on two House bills: HR 645 and HR2647.

In the first one, H.R. 645, Mr. Hastings is proposing the establishment of emergency centers located on military bases. These centers would be developed for the following reasons:

(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;

(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders;

(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and

(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Now I would like to bring your attention to reason #4: to meet the appropriate need as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Do you see anything wrong with this?
The proposal here is to establish areas where temporarily displaced people can be taken to recover from national disasters or emergencies. Good enough. But allowing the Sec. of HS to determine what other needs can these “centers” meet is a scary statement, especially when considering that according to Napolitano, the current Secretary, anyone who disagree with Obama could be consider a “right-wing-extremist”, it could mean that anyone who can be determined to be opposed to Obama’s policies of destruction could be deemed in need to be placed in one of these facilities.

In the second one, H.R. 2647, Mr. Hasting is proposing that the Attorney General has complete discretion on the definition and handling of those members of the population that can be considered dangerous for the state. So, in the current situation, AG Holder would have total latitude in labeling those opposed to the Obama agenda as potential terrorists, allowing the Sec. of HS to take these ‘terrorists’ and put them in one of those ‘emergency’ facilities.

For those who have endured this reading this far and still do not recognize the danger these pieces of legislature represent, I want to highlight it.
The first bill would allow the funding and construction of facilities that can be clearly called concentration camps. Moreover the utilization of these facilities would be decided exclusively by the Secretary of Homeland Security, which is an appointed position and decides at the whims of the President.
The second bill would give the Attorney General, which is also appointed and working at the whim of the President, the ability of defining anyone he/she pleases as an enemy of America.

If these two pieces of crappy law would be enacted today, we would have AG Holder give the New Black Panthers the ability to ‘patrol’ voting polls in intimidating fashion and with impunity, but it would designate Sheriff Joe Arpajo as an enemy of the country for applying the laws of a defeated America and place him in these ‘emergency’ facilities for training (read: rehabilitation).
Also Napolitano would have the power to ‘process’ every former Military through the ‘emergency’ facilities for training, right next to those who behaved in such a racist manner when joining the Tea Parties.

“This would never happen in America” is probably what many people will say, “the people would not stand for it”.
In the early 1930s some people in Germany thought on the same line. Many of the members of the Wehrmacht were soldiers who also did not think the insanity surrounding Adolf Hitler would go that far and that the German people would not stand for it. Well, history tells us otherwise.
Today we have thousands of corrupted individuals in ACORN who are doing the dirty deeds of Obama, while idolizing him as the new Messiah. We have an overwhelming number of black people who are so blinded by the color of Obama skin that they do not realize they are being enslaved all over again.

The war on poverty has been wagered since President Lindon Johnson started it in the 1960s and after 40+ years of ‘fighting’ this war, all that this effort has netted is a sense of entitlement on the part of those among us who are more prone to receive, expect or demand a handout from the government. The Liberal approach has also created a defiance of any sense of self respect and personal responsibility for one’s own actions.
The most injured victims of this misguided and ill-perceived governmental intrusion in the lives of Americans has been exactly those who were supposed to be benefiting from it, minorities, due in part to the political reality that elected officials tend to campaign mostly on what they promise to give the people for nothing, instead of promising that all who want to put in the work will have the chance of benefit from the fruits of their work. The only thing the government is going to hand out is the opportunity to work hard and keep most of their retribution.

Alcee Hastings is one of those who are bent on imposing a dictatorship on the people of the United States. The first step is to get rid of actual and potential opposition. And the Florida Democrat is working hard at it with these two pieces of excremental legislature, just more bad policies that Obama and the liberal Congress is bent on forcing on the American people.


And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”