Completely outside the MSM, a lot of people have been talking about this video of the militant Obama youth group. These average people, along with local media outlets, have been trying to figure out what happened. A radio station in Kansas City has interviewed the Director of the Urban Community Leadership Academy, Joyce McGautha. In this interview, she explained that she was fully aware of the group in question, she was aware that the video was being made, but the only thing she’s upset about is that the video was released. So in other words, she’s just angry that they got caught.
In addition to this, she also clarified that it was a teacher who formed this group and trained these children on school grounds. Worst of all, that particular teacher is still employed by the school.
She also states repeatedly that she doesn’t want to discuss the word “militant”, and she doesn’t think that them wearing fatigues, marching, and chanting is “militant”. So in other words, she’s also in denial.

Click here to listen to the interview.

She was aware, she knew the teacher was carrying on these activities, that teacher is still employed, she doesn’t see anything wrong with what these children have been encouraged to do, but she’s angry that it was released for the public to see. The only reason she’s concerned is because oops, someone found out that they were indoctrinating children and that it might have been in violation of the law.
With all of this, I can’t help but wonder, what else is going on in that school that we aren’t seeing?

That said, in the interview, Ms. McGautha further clarified that the school is actually managed and overseen by the University of Central Missouri. Ms. McGuatha is the director, who answers to the Board of Directors, which then answers to the University of Central Missouri. So please continue to contact the University of Central Missouri at the following address, to make sure they know that their school has been violating the law and indoctrinating junior high students in a militant fashion.
Ann Pearce
Associate to the President
660-543-4203
Administration Building 206
apearce@ucmo.edu

It sincerely disturbs me that the leadership of this school can’t even begin to fathom why what their employees have done is so reprehensible. It so greatly upsets me that the adults in this situation don’t even understand their own legal, ethical, and moral responsibilities with regard to the children in their care. This school needs to be either shut down or completely restructured, along with extensive efforts to right the wrongs that have been taught to these children. The damage has been done, it’s time to clean up the mess.

Update: It appears that the teacher in question was suspended yesterday, but according to a statement released by the school, he was only suspended for violating school policy in releasing the video to the public. Honestly, that’s the last thing any of us should be concerned about in this situation.
Oh, and also, according to the Huffington Posts’ campaign contribution database, McGautha donated $375 to Obama’s campaign. Can’t say that’s a huge surprise, though. (Sorry for linking to the HuffPo! They’re about as extreme as you can get.)

So I thought that the video of the militant teenagers praising Obama was the scariest thing I’d seen from this election. Nope, I just found one that’s even worse – an interview with Percy Sutton, lawyer to Malcom X, talking about how he first found out about Barack Obama. You have to see it for yourself.

I’m not one of those people who believes that Obama’s Muslim. But honestly, I have no clue what to believe anymore. Why? Because here we are, presented with a man – Percy Sutton – telling us that he was introduced to Barack Obama by Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour.
Who’s Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour? Just like the video said, not only is he an adviser to one of the wealthiest men on Earth, Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia, but he’s also a racist, hateful, fear-mongering proponent of Muslims and blacks rising up to do violent physical harm to whites and infidels (i.e. us). Hmm.
Oh, and let’s not forget, he was also a mentor to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, founders of the Black Panthers.

I can’t help but ask myself, why was Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour even aware of Barack Obama to begin with? Why would he be raising money for this young man, who hadn’t even accomplished anything yet? Why would he be asking his friends for favors to benefit this young man? Why? Does Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour do this for every young man or woman who applies to Harvard? I doubt it. So what was it about Barack Obama that drew Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour to him? Doesn’t that kind of make you wonder?
And what exactly did Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour say to Percy Sutton about Obama that convinced Mr. Sutton to write a letter of reference to Harvard on Obama’s behalf? Does Mr. Sutton write similar letters for every African American who applies to Harvard? Somehow I don’t think so. What was it about Obama that convinced Mr. Sutton to write that letter?
Don’t these questions deserve answers before we give Barack Obama the most powerful office on the planet?

And furthermore, why isn’t this all over the news right now? If this were about McCain, wouldn’t you be hearing about this from the mainstream media, and not from a random video on YouTube?

Another interesting tidbit that we can learn from this video is that this is in direct contradiction with several statements Obama has made during the campaign. He’s said extensively that he paid his Harvard tuition exclusively throught student loans. If that’s true, why was al-Mansour raising money for him? And just as importantly, where did that money come from?

There’s so much more to this story, and thankfully, at least one news outlet decided to write an article about this video. Click here to read it. They have lots of interesting information about Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, as well as some enlightening statements from him about how he wouldn’t further clarify his associations with Obama because, quote, “I was determined I was never going to be in that situation. Bloggers are saying this is the new Rev. Wright ‘in drag!’ and he is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright. So any statement that I made would only further this activity which is not in the interest of Barack.”
Why would anything you have to say further that? Because we should be concerned about what you’d have to say? Because the truth behind your connections to Barack Obama would be concerning and detrimental to his campaign? If we weren’t right in being concerned about this, if you had something to say to assuage these concerns, wouldn’t you come out and say it? Hmm, thanks for that – keeping things purposefully vague just to keep Obama’s campaign going. That sounds real honorable and it makes me feel oh so much better!

For the record, I do think this is worse than Reverend Wright, because it only further compounds the concern that Obama has an ever-lengthening list of radical ties that stretch back much farther than any of us even realize. And yet we’re expected to give him the most powerful office in the world?

I’ve discovered some interesting things about the video that I posted earlier, the one with the troop of African American teenagers marching militantly while chanting, “Alpha! Omega! Alpha! Omega!” about Obama. Guess what?
That took place in a public charter school. Those boys are students of that school. That school receives federal funding. Your taxes paid for those children to wear fatigues, develop their own new Obama salute, militantly worship Barack Obama, and spread propaganda about him.

Ask yourself, if these were white teenagers chanting and marching in military garb about McCain, what do you think the backlash would be like?

The school is apparently also sponsored by the University of Central Missouri, a state university. That means they receive government funding too, and some of that government funding is then being funneled back into the Urban Community Leadership Academy, which is training its teenagers to march for a political candidate and refer to him as a god.

Again. If this were a video of white teenage males chanting about McCain, do you think you’d be hearing about this on a new, tiny, barely noticed blog? Or would CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, all the big news boys, be shouting this from the rooftops at the top of their voices for all the world to hear?

We need to get this out and we need to get this out now. Send the video to your friends, because if the media won’t share this news story, then we’ll have to do it for them. This school has violated so many laws that it’s absolutely sick and Obama’s benefiting from it.

Here’s contact information for the school, just in case you were wondering:
The Urban Community Leadership Academy
1524 Paseo Blvd
Kansas City, Missouri
64108
816-483-8035

And here’s a website about them from the University of Central Missouri.
Oh, and here’s contact information for the staff of UCM’s President Aaron Podolefsky, whom I’m sure would love to know about what this school is doing with their gracious funding:
Ann Pearce
Associate to the President
660-543-4203
Administration Building 206
apearce@ucmo.edu

I’m off to send this video to a few news agencies that I’m sure will be completely fair, balanced, and nonpartisan in their response. I’m sure they’ll do their duty and report this gross abuse of federal laws and taxpayer dollars.
Well, we can hope, right?

Update, Oct 4, 8:19PM: I’ve found a graph that illustrates the school’s sources of funding for 2006, thanks to schoolmatters.com. Take a look for yourself, because these are your taxes at work.

This is what I was talking about. Is this what you want for your children?

Yes, at the beginning, they’re chanting, “ALPHA! OMEGA! ALPHA! OMEGA!” They’re calling Obama a God. They are worshiping him as militants. And this was recorded at a school in Kansas City, Missouri – The Urban Community Leadership Academy. A school. It was originally uploaded to YouTube by the school itself.
That is one of the scariest things I have ever seen in my life.

This is no joke, this is serious. When people talk about Cult of Personality, this is what they’re talking about – the outright, militant worship of a politician, one who is vying for the most powerful position in the world.
Here’s yet another example of what we mean by Cult of Personality:

Compare that to this video from North Korea, where young women of the Korean People’s Army hero worship Kim Jong-il, referring to themselves as “Dear Leader’s Beautiful Flowers.” This is Cult of Personality and this is where it leads.

Tell me, is this what you want your country to be? Is this how you want your children trained? This is Obama, these are his closest supporters, these are the people who know him best. Is this who you want to vote for?

This is just about the scariest thing I’ve ever heard come out of Obama’s mouth, “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded [as the military].”
Does that rub anyone else the wrong way? If it doesn’t, perhaps some context about the setting in which he said that would help to illuminate exactly why such an idea is so frightening. He has spoken about this civilian national security force at events for a non-profit group he helped create, which his wife now runs: Public Allies. It’s a training program for young Americans, in which they are extolled to shun “money culture”, where – in Obama’s own words – “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” It gets worse. According to individuals who have gone through training from Public Allies, they’re taught that America is nothing but a hotbed of racism, oppression, sexism, homophobia, and greedy, money-grubbing white supremacists.
That’s Obama’s model for his proposed Civilian National Security Force.

The Investor’s Business Daily has a brilliant article about this issue, both Obama’s statements during the campaign, as well as the truth about Public Allies. In my opinion, it’s an absolute must read for every single voter. The parallels in history are just too serious, too concerning, and too frightening to ignore.

Michelle’s Boot Camp for Radicals
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Election ‘08: Democrats’ reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies.

Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, “Universal Voluntary Public Service.”

Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they’ll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of “social change.”

The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn’t seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year “community leadership” positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They’ll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.

In exchange, they’ll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about “social change” through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul “The Red” Alinsky.

“Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities,” Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for “justice” and “equality” in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. “I get to practice being an activist,” and get paid for it, gushed Cincinnati recruit Amy Vincent.

Public Allies promotes “diversity and inclusion,” a program paper says. More than 70% of its recruits are “people of color.” When they’re not protesting, they’re staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare.

Public Allies brags that more than 80% of graduates have continued working in nonprofit or government jobs. It’s training the “next generation of nonprofit leaders” — future “social entrepreneurs.”

The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. “Don’t go into corporate America,” Michelle has exhorted youth. “Work for the community. Be social workers.” Shun the “money culture,” Barack added. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”

“If you commit to serving your community,” he pledged in his Denver acceptance speech, “we will make sure you can afford a college education.” So, go through government to go to college, and then go back into government.

Many of today’s youth find the pitch attractive. “I may spend the rest of my life trying to create social movement,” said Brian Coovert of the Cincinnati chapter. “There is always going to be work to do. Until we have a perfect country, I’ll have a job.”

Not all the recruits appreciate the PC indoctrination. “It was too touchy-feely,” said Nelly Nieblas, 29, of the 2005 Los Angeles class. “It’s a lot of talk about race, a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, talk about -isms and phobias.”

One of those -isms is “heterosexism,” which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of “capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege.”

The government now funds about half of Public Allies’ expenses through Clinton’s AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military, he said.

The gall of it: The Obamas want to create a boot camp for radicals who hate the military — and stick American taxpayers with the bill.

Obviously, I was not around during World War II. I was born in the lavish comfort of the 1980s. But both of my Grandmothers are still alive today. Their husbands, both of my Grandfathers, served in the military during the war. There are not enough words to describe my fear that in my Grandmothers’ own lifetime, we could see a return to the same sort of radical control of youth at the hand of any political leader. But worst of all, it would be a return in our own country, the country my Grandfathers fought to defend from such horrific extremism and maniacal control. Here, in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. Not only that, but we are easily the most generous nation on the planet, as we give more humanitarian aid – both federally and privately – than any other nation. Sure, we aren’t perfect, sure we have our problems. But our people are better than this! All Americans don’t deserve to be written off as racist, sexist, homophobic, white supremacists! We are one of the most gracious, most tolerant, most accepting people on the face of this Earth. How could a presidential candidate get away with saying otherwise? Not only does it baffle me, but it greatly disturbs me. It doesn’t take a PhD in history to recognize the parallels between what we’re seeing now and what has come before. But it kills me that more people simply aren’t aware of it.
It was never truer than it it is today, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Here we are facing an election with a candidate whose taxes are reminiscent of Herbert Hoover, whose economic policies are almost word-for-word like those of Jimmy Carter, and now this? A civilian national security force, based upon a radical training camp for youth? Seriously? For the sake of my Grandfathers, I sincerely hope I am not alone in refusing to stay quiet. I will not watch this happen to our own country.
Think I’m going overboard? Then investigate it for yourself. Don’t let this discussion end here. If you think I’ve gone too far, then do your own research and challenge me. Don’t just turn away, because what if I’m right?

For quite a while now I’ve been compiling interesting videos on YouTube, separating them into separate playlists dedicated to various categories relevant to the campaign. I’ll be posting these playlists to the video directory of this site soon, but I thought I’d give you a sneak peek now by offering you a new playlist – a selection of the best of the best! For the discerning voter, I’ve pulled together the videos I think are most important into one easy-to-watch must see list. Watch these and you’ll be well on your way to understanding several major issues of Obama’s campaign.
As always, don’t believe me flat out, but here’s some food for thought and fuel to get your research started!

The NObama YouTube Must See Videos

For a complete listing of the videos and what they mean, click “more”!

Like most interested voters, I watched the presidential debate Friday night with great interest. One moment surprised me, however, as the debate seemed to turn into a game of ‘me too, me too!’ over – of all things – bracelets.
When John McCain was asked about the war in Iraq, he mentioned a bracelet that was given to him by the mother of a soldier who was lost in Iraq. He spoke about how much this meant to him, how he wore this soldier’s bracelet every day, and it reminded him how important it was that he ensure this soldier’s death would not be in vain.
In response to McCain, Obama said, “I’ve got a bracelet too.” After a bit of fumbling and a moment to look down at the name inscribed on the bracelet, Obama said that it was given to him by the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, another soldier who tragically lost his life in Iraq. Obama claimed that Mrs. Jopek had given him the bracelet saying, “Can you please make sure that no other mother is goin’ through what I’m goin’ through?”
Here’s the exchange:

(Sorry it’s from Fox News, I know some of you won’t like that. I didn’t record the debate so I couldn’t upload my own copy, I was stuck with whatever was available on YouTube. Regardless, there aren’t any talking heads to skew it, so it shouldn’t matter.)

While both candidates of course have the right to wear whatever bracelets they wish, unfortunately Mr. Obama has completely mischaracterized Mrs. Jopek’s intentions. Not only that, but he has utterly disregarded repeated requests by the family that he not wear the bracelet or use it for political purposes.

According to Mr. Brian Jopek, ex-husband of Ryan Jopek’s mother, Tracy, “she just wanted Mr. Obama to know Ryan’s name.” He went on to say, “she wasn’t looking to turn it into a big media event” and “just wanted it to be something between Barack Obama and herself.”
As far back as March of this year, Mr. Jopek was asked about Obama’s use of their son’s name, and how he and his wife felt about it. In talking with a local Wisconsin radio show, Mr. Jopek mentioned that he had been surprised to see Obama wearing the bracelet and mentioning Ryan’s name repeatedly while on the campaign trail, despite his wife personally requesting that Obama not use the bracelet politically, both when she first gave him the bracelet and again afterward when he continued to mention her son.
(You can listen to that radio show here, it’s at about ten minutes into the program.)
During that interview, Mr. Jopek stated that his ex-wife has shied away from responding to any questioning about Obama’s use of their sons name, “Because she is a Barack Obama supporter and she didn’t want to do anything to sabotage his campaign.”

Since Obama has again gone against the wishes of the Jopek family, this time mentioning their son on the largest national stage possible, Mrs. Jopek is again being hounded by reporters despite her wish to stay out of the limelight. She confirmed to the AP that she asked Obama not to mention their son, but again, her wish not to upset Obama’s campaign came forward. She said that she was “satisfied” with the way in which her son was mentioned, and refused to say anything negative about her chosen candidate.

Personally, I find this absolutely appalling. It’s disgusting to me that Obama has taken advantage of the good will of his own supporter – a grieving mother who has lost her son in a time of war – by mischaracterizing her intentions in giving the gift of a bracelet representing the memory of her lost son, and repeatedly denying her request that he not turn her son into campaign rhetoric for political gain. This is beyond low, and yet again, is being mostly ignored by the main stream media.

NewsBusters.org has a good article about this situation, available here. As far as I can tell, NewsBusters seems to be fairly even – they attack inaccuracies in both campaigns evenly, as well as bias in either direction amongst the main stream media.

I like to refer to myself as an ‘Old School Feminist’, meaning I subscribe to the feminism of the 1940s. Historically, feminists of this era and the era of the Suffragettes held to the belief that women and men should both have the same opportunities in life – that anything a man could do, a woman could do just as well, if given the same opportunity to thrive.
That may sound like the modern 1960s-era feminism to you, but it differs in one major way: it didn’t attempt to raise women up by beating men down. Rather than just tipping the scales of inequality and malice in the opposite direction, Old School Feminism sought to teach men the error of their ways, encourage them to acknowledge and respect women, and ask for their help to change the system to recognize the equal rights of everyone, regardless of gender, race, or creed. It wasn’t “Dog eat dog”, it wasn’t “me first, you second”, it was about real tolerance.

Read more after the jump!