Category: Politics

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What conservative citizens can do: Obama, Pelosi, Democrat Party & now Sandra Fluke want churches to pay for birth control. What about Freedom of Religion? Why it’s time Issa asks the Congressional Black Caucus 3 questions!

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reproductive rights

First free government paid birth control pills.

Later, govt paid free treatment for ovarian cysts?

Sandra Fluke’s story: Law student Fluke has a student friend with an ovarian cyst who lost an ovary due to Georgetown University’s no birth control coverage. But what about coverage under parents’ medical policy until age 25?

And after free government paid birth control pills, what about free cervical caps, free IUD’s, free diaphragms, free treatment for sexually transmitted disease, free abortions and free after abortion care …

These women related birth control costs can sky rocket. And what about the cost of contraceptives for men? “It’s only fair…” will say Obama …

A woman, Sandra Fluke, knowingly chooses to go to a Catholic law school, Georgetown University. Ms. Fluke spends the next 3 years as a law student fighting Georgetown’s policies. Ms. Fluke researched Georgetown’s policies on contraceptives and knowingly choose to enroll.

Georgetown University does not pay for birth control contraceptives.

Recently, President Obama mandates free birth control pills for all women. Obama’s mandate requires Catholic churches, charities and religious institutions — and perhaps Georgetown University — to provide all forms of contraception at no cost to women. [Clearly all health premiums will increase as there is ‘no free lunch’.]

Congress held hearings as to whether President Obama violated the Constitutional right of religious freedom. Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke tried to testify before Darrell Issa’s congressional hearing.

California Republican Darrell Issa is the Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Ms. Fluke was denied the right to participate on the panel or to testify as an expert witness by Congressman Issa as she described herself a reproductive rights activist [what law classes has she taken in reproductive rights? What field studies? what basis for expertise?]. Fluke has no expertise regarding religion and she is not a priest, preacher or other religious leader.

Democrat Nancy Pelosi held a hearing Feb. 23, 2012. Pelosi called Sandra Fluke to testify. Ms. Fluke testified before Pelosi that government should pay her the $1,000 a year that Fluke and other Georgetown female law students have to pay for birth control pills.

Ms. Fluke testified that woman at Georgetown University Law School cannot afford the $1,000 a year which contraceptives cost. [Georgetown’s tuition is $40,000 and room and board costs $20,000. Checking around, birth control pills can be purchased for as little as $5 and about $50 a month through Planned Parenthood.]

Is all of this orchestrated by Obama’s reelection committee? Done so that more women are likely to vote for Obama in 2012?

Clearly, Obama and Pelosi and the Democratic Party are not concerned about reducing disease and sexually transmitted diseases.

It is well known that condoms and foam are the best methods to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. And it is also well known that birth control pills are related to blood clots in woman. So, to protect women’s health other methods such as cervical caps or diaphragms can be used by women and do not pose health risks.

What about men? The cost of birth control methods by men [vasectomies, condoms] is not mentioned by Obama, the Democrats or Nancy Pelosi. So, it appears that this is all about dangling a carrot before women.

Dangling the carrot of free birth control pills for women is all about the continuing saga that Obama, Pelosi and the Democrat Party want more control of people’s lives. Democrats like Pelosi and Obama want control over sexuality, reproduction and who has babies.

Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucus, criticizes Congressman Issa for not allowing Ms. Fluke to be on the panel — nor allow her to testify But law student Fluke has no known expertise in areas relevant to religious freedom. Law student Sandra Fluke had a story to share: a fellow student at Georgetown suffered an ovarian cyst which was not covered.

Republican Darrell Issa is Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Democrat Elijah Cummings from Maryland’s 7th district, is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

It’s time that Congressman Darrell Issa asks that Elijah Cummings answer the following questions:

1. Does the Congressional Black Caucus, of which you Cummings are a member, support the U.S. Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion?

2. Do you Congressman Cummings support legislation passed by former President Clinton and currently the law which protects religious freedom?

3. Answer yes or no Congressman Cummings, Congress has the authority and can and should question the constitutionality of President Obama’s recent mandate to require religious institutions –such as Georgetown University — to provide free contraceptives?

So, why not cut and paste the above three questions and send them along to Democrat Congressmen Cummings with a cc to California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa? It’s easy to do.


written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: Bill Clinton’s take on mass murder… [Nigeria & inequaliaty between rich and poor]

Nigeria
Nigeria

A week ago, Former U.S. President Bill Clinton ascribed the recent jihad violence in Nigeria to poverty.

Referring obliquely to the attacks that the jihadist group Boko Haram (Western education is Sin) carried out, Clinton connected the recent violence in Nigaria to the large disparity between the rich and the poor.

Clinton opined, “You can’t just have this level of inequality persist. That’s what’s fueling all this stuff.”

Then, four days later, the son of one of Nigeria’s richest men was sentenced to life in prison for an attempt to commit jihad mass murder in a jetliner.
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I know Clinton gets 50 to 100 thousand for speeches, but that doesn’t change Bin Laden and most leading Jihadists into paupers. jaj48@aol.com

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Firenze Sage: Roach coach disabled [food police win in CA]

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food police in CA win

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Food police in CA win.  Assemblyman Bill Monning, D-Carmel,  introduced legislation to restrict mobile food vending near school campuses. [This bill  id now law.]

The bill prohibits food and beverage vending within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary school campuses from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on any days schools are in session. It also requires local health agencies to notify mobile food vendors of this restriction.

“The mobile vending of unhealthful snacks like ice cream, chips and sugar-sweetened beverages near school campuses undermines efforts to provide students with the nutrition they need,” Monning said. “At a time when childhood obesity is at epidemic levels, we must ensure that our school environments foster student wellness.”

According to Monning, mobile vending near school campuses creates incentive for students to leave school grounds, which increases their exposure to off-campus hazards such as heavily trafficked streets.
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This is bogus on many grounds. Kids leave school at lunchtime anyway. The roach coach is at the curb which is closer than the store down the street. The union workers at the school cafeteria benefit while the non union workers are expelled from business.

1500 feet from any school will encompass most of many cities. And, finally, who appointed Monning as Chief cook? Legislative obesity is a problem so let’s regulate their food.

 

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Trojan Horse of Obama-Care: Individual Mandate cost not a fine or tax but ‘something else’ government will pay for?

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individual mandate penalties
flying
flying carrot machine

Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a flying, carrot dispensing machine?

free carrots
Obama's freebie carrots

Obama-Care’s individual mandate penalties –what you pay if you don’t buy government approved health coverage— are best described as a flying, freebie carrot dispensing machine. With pilot Obama at the controls.

Obama will turn the individual mandate penalties into carrots which he dispenses free to all whom Obama decides cannot afford.

So, remember the motto of the Scouts: Be Prepared! How? Know the history and know what Obama’s next step is likely to be.

History: Is it a fine? At first, the Obama administration defended the Obama-Care individual mandate as a “fine”. This argument is weak as the Supreme Court could reject this expansion of the Commerce Clause as without precedent and limitless. If not to act is an act ,what other acts can government demand? That is not a path the Supreme Court is likely to go.

Is it a tax? Currently Obama’s lawyers, now before the Supreme Court, defend the individual mandate as a “tax”. And much as people moan about taxes they are commonly viewed an inevitable as death.

But remember Obama’s campaign promise: no increase of taxes for the middle class making less than $250,000. So, Obama needs to call the individual mandate something else.

So Obama will frame the individual mandate as neither fish nor fowl – neither fine nor tax. Then Obama will mandate it as something given free to all whom he deems cannot afford it.

All good things are free according to Obama. Hence, the cost of Obama-Care must be free to those who Obama thinks can ill afford it: youth, those receiving unemployment benefits, Food Stamp recipients, those who pay no federal taxes.

Can’t you hear Obama’s speech:

FAIR
it's only fair

I, President Obama, mandate that the initial cost for health care is free to all who cannot afford it. This is only fair.

If you are a youth 18-25 and never had a job? It’s free….

If you lost your job and have not yet found another one? It’s free.

And for those who are on Food Stamps and can show that they are looking for a job? It’s free.

And if you already do not pay federal income tax, you should not be further burdened.

This is only fair …. [according to Obama]

How many times does the word ‘fair’ appear in The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?

Written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: Don’t sell your skis just yet … [Sierra snow 130 years]

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Snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has remained consistent for 130 years, with no evidence that anything has changed as a result of climate change, according to a study released Tuesday.

The analysis of snowfall data in the Sierra going back to 1878 found no more or less snow overall – a result that, on the surface, appears to contradict aspects of recent climate change models.

John Christy, the Alabama state climatologist who authored the study that said the amount of snow in the mountains has not decreased in the past 50 years, a period when greenhouse gases were supposed to have increased the effects of global warming.

The heaping piles of snow that fell in the Sierra last winter and the paltry amounts this year fall within the realm of normal weather variability, he concluded.

“The dramatic claims about snow disappearing in the Sierra just are not verified,” said Christy.

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Obviously a pawn of the oil companies or the rope tow companies or the mitten monopoly.
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Firenze Sage: Don’t gag, it’s just the school lunch program … [chicken nuggets]

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Janis Joplin freedom's just

A North Carolina mother is upset because her preschooler’s homemade turkey sandwich was deemed unhealthy by school officials. Her daughter ate three chicken nuggets instead. Huh?

Turns out the little girl attends a state school and her turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the Carolina Journal.

Even lunches brought from home must meet this requirement and if they don’t, the childcare provider must give the student additional food.

In the case of this little girl, her packed lunch was supplemented with the school lunch that included chicken nuggets—and she ended up eating only three chicken nuggets that day. What’s more, the preschooler returned home with a note telling her parents that they owed $1.25 to pay for school lunch.

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You see the progression here? No trans fat(whatever that is), no sugar, no meat, and no non organic. And a spy at every other table to snatch the goodies away.

“Freedom’s just ….”

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An apple a day… A Chicken McNugget a day… An illegal act by Obama each day … keeps the Public at bay!

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written by Aptos Psychologist
It’s time to confront President Obama’s illegal acts. And we can!

Remember that adage? ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’? Obama transmogrifies it into,

‘A Chicken McNugget a day keeps the the school food police away’. nutritional content?

Citing ‘nutritional concerns,’ South Carolina school authorities replaced a child’s homemade turkey and cheese sandwich with fried Chicken McNuggets from the school cafeteria.

But what’s in Chicken McNuggets? What percent protein? How much additives? Nobody knows.

Checking McDonald’s web site, there is no information listed as to percent of protein in a Chicken McNuggets. Further, there’s zip info as to percent of added water, sodium phosphates, sugar, wheat and other added ingredients.

So, you got to eat it — but you can’t know what’s in it that you are eating. Is that Obama-Care sense? Yes. There are no U.S. standards as to percent protein in a Chicken McNugget or how much X, Y or Z can be added.

As to other countries: Canada requires that the equivalent of a chicken McNuggets have no less than 12% meat protein when cooked. And, no more than .5% phosphate salts can be added to a Canadian McNuggets

With Obama’s new food standards for schools in place, children are required to eat food such as McNuggets which are of unknown, questionable nutritional value.

Looking at Obama’s actions and not his words, Obama’s motto can be phrased,

‘An illegal act a day keeps the ….. Republicans … Conservatives … Public at bay’.

Obama’s illegal acts include:

On Jan. 4, 2012, without the advise and consent of Congress (congress was in session), President Obama made 4 appointments. Those four appointments by Obama were illegal acts.

In violation of current law — the Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1993 — and the Bill of Rights, this last week Obama mandated that religious organizations provide contraceptives without regard to their religious beliefs and practices. Then Obama amended the mandate to require that private insurance companies provide contraceptives for free. Which means that the religious organizations must pay higher premiums.

One hundred years ago, the Girl Scouts of America was founded. And there will be much celebration of this organization rated 8th out of 100+ non-profit organizations.

be prepared!
be prepared!

Both the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts have the same motto:
Be prepared! And so must all Americans.

Be prepared. Expect that President Obama will commit more illegal acts.

And we must take appropriate, legal actions. One illegal act after another erodes our liberties and freedoms. The Democrat controlled Senate has not passed a budget in three years. That means that the Senate has not done its job.

So, write your congress and complain. Nag them!

Back to An Apple a Day that Keeps the Doctor Away:apple a day

Doctors need to be paid appropriately. And our MD doctors are lowly paid by the federal government.

In our area –Santa Cruz County and Monterey County, California — Democrat Sam Farr has failed for 20 years to get appropriate payment for “rural” doctors.

Yet Santa Cruz as a City is rated as one of the most attractive in the nation as artistic and beautiful. Which it is. And Sam Farr for the last three years fully supports Obama-Care. It’s time that California voters in Sana Cruz and Monterey look for better representation. And who might that be?

And what say you? Written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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Below is a listing of the contents for Chicken McNuggetts: Chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, modified food starch, salt, spices, wheat gluten, paprika, dextrose (sugar), yeast, garlic powder, rosemary, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono- and diglycerides, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), natural flavor (plant source) with extractives of paprika. Fried in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane, a silicone derivative[4] is added as an antifoaming agent.[5] McDonald’s ingredients can vary outside of the United States.
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An update on the Adam & Eve Story of Creation: Obama tells God ‘all good things are free’ including contraceptives for Women, Adam complains & God acts

And on the Seventh Day after resting a while, God heard Barack Obama talking from afar to his foot soldiers in the Trojan Horse:

All must comply
All must comply

Come forth! All must comply! Go faithful soldiers at night to all hospitals, charities and faiths. Enforce what my servant HHS Sebelius says …

Isaiah 40:31 Wings like eagles
Isaiah 40:31 Wings like eagles

And God told Obama, Come hither, Barack O, and speak to to Me of your new Rule while I rest on the Seventh Day.

Remember, Barack O, the words I spoke to Man: Go forth and multiply.

Do not bend My Words to your desires, Barack O. Now, what is this new Rule you’ve imposed?

And Barack O said, Lord, This is my new Obama-Care Rule:

All things good are free. And all Technology is free which prevents Woman from bearing Child as pregnancy might threaten Woman’s life. And, all Women have a Right to say ‘no children’ and still enjoy the pleasure of husband, lover, friend or acquaintance.

And now, Lord, I go to write this Law for your people to follow.

Adam, hiding behind the Tree of Life,

Bibical Tree of Life
Bibical Tree of LIfe

overheard the conversation between God and Barack O. With fear and trembling after Barack O left, Adam approached God and said: Oh Lord, you have given me Woman and I am no longer alone. But what if Woman does not wants Child — and I do? How can I protect Child? And what if Child is not of my seed as I have not touched Woman?

And God said, Adam as first Man, I gave you freedom to choose. As a guide you have Joseph who protected Mary with child when he had not yet touched her. And Man said, Yes Lord, I will protect if there is a growing child to protect.

But Lord, is it fair that Woman has a Right to say ‘no Child’ and pay zero for the Technology which prevents or kills Child in her womb — and I do not have similar Rights? Barack O’s new Rule gives all power to Woman and leaves Man and Child with no power.

And Adam continued: Lord, Barack O’s new Rule injures Man and all Men. As all Men are injured we seek protection. To what authority or what court can Man go to oppose Barack O’s new Mandate? Lord, can we sue for standing?

And God replied to Man, I will think on these things. And I will think about Child’s Rights and Man’s Rights. Woman’s Rights must not overcome the Rights of Man or Child.

There must be some balancing of powers, said God. If Man is akin to the executive. And if Woman with her husband oversees the Purse of Money …. Mmmmm. And Child does need some protections… And God said, I will consult my legal scholar sons, Scalia and Roberts.

And God said, Perhaps Man, if you are injured by Barack O’s new Rule, you can go to a Court of Law and sue for standing.

Sue for standing as injured party
Sue for standing as injured party

And Adam said, Oh Lord, please read Wealth of Nations written by my brother Adam Smith. And, just as you have given Man free choice to love and obey you, think about the use of Free Markets to freely regulate the cost of Technology that prevents or kills what is in Woman’s womb.

Adam continued, It’s better that both Man and Woman have free choice about whether to use and what kind of Technology to use. It’s not good that Woman has whatever served up free on a platter.

Then Adam continued, There are these plastic things Man can use.

Condoms prevent disease
Condoms prevent disease

They prevent sexually transmitted disease and AIDS. Lord, let the Free Markets decide the cost of contraceptive Technology for both Man and Woman.

And Lord, your son Barack O has already made many, many Rules that take away your people’s freedom to choose.

Oh, Lord God, What is called Obama-Care creates 159 new govt agencies and is indeed a labyrinth designed to control people. See what it looks like:

Obama-Care complexity
Obama-Care complexity

Oh, Lord, Barack O passed a Rule called the Individual Mandate that all adults must go to a certain place called an Exchange. And all must register. And all must buy a product just because they are alive.

And if they do not buy this product, called health insurance, they must pay a fine. The fine is fairly small, and many people will choose to pay the fine rather than buy the product. But over time there will be no free markets managing the price of this product.

Your son Barack O seeks to enslave your people. He wants your people dependent upon him for their rights.
rights from God

Instead of the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness coming coming from You, Lord to Man, Woman and Child, Barack O wants all rights to come from him as ruler. And over time your people will become more and more dependent upon Obama and rulers like him.

Lord, what are we to do? Can’t You just unleash Your Justice? and let Justice roll down from the Hills?

And Lord, I thought you rested on the Seventh Day. Are you sure that Rule about free Technology for Woman makes sense?

And God say to Adam: You are an argumentative son! Six days I have labored and I was resting before I called Barack O before me to hear about his new Rule to give Woman free Technology. Had I rested more …

That Barack O Rule is a mistake! I will send a Messenger god of thieves

to tell Barack O I do not want him to impose that Rule forcing companies to provide a product for free.

Nothing is free except that which is given freely. Perhaps Hermes, who the Greeks called the god of thieves, can knock some sense into Barack’s hard head!

As for the other Rules Barack O has passed, my people must wisely use the freedoms they have. They can and must petition their government

petition redress Obama-Care grievances
petition redress Obama-Care grievances

for redress of grievances. They have many tools to defend their freedoms. Use those tools wisely.

And I will listen to my people, to those who wait on the Lord. I will give them strength.

They who wait on the Lord shall rise up with the wings of eagles and run and not be faint.

Read again from my prophet Isaiah. He promised what I continue to do. [Isaiah 40:31]

And, Man, be careful. Barack O is a willful son who often follows his own path.

Now go, that I may rest for the remainder of the Seventh Day.

And Man did as God bid.

copyright 2012 by Cameron Jackson
An update on the Adam and Eve Story of Creation
DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Aptos Psychologist: How to slay the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care …

slay the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care
slay the Trojan Horse of Obama-Care

1) Tie the Trojan Horse down. That is what the various law suits are all about. And the Supreme Court – of which several members are Catholic – will weigh in.

If via the Commerce Clause the Obama government can require individuals to purchase something just because the person is alive — where is the stopping point? If you can be required to buy one thing what else will be required?

2) Watch the Trojan Beast day and night, all the time. Remember what Nancy Pelosi said, that we must pass Obama-Care “to know what is inside”. Well, we know what’s inside Obama-Care and 2 or 3 Americans do not want what is there.

David slew Goliath
David slew Goliath

3) Like David did to Goliath, take aim with your slingshot and with one stone aim accurately and hit the Trojan Beast in the forehead. And hit hard. D That ‘rock’ is your personal fury at a Beast — the Executive branch of our federal government — telling you what you have to buy just because you are alive.

4) Thousands of ‘rocks’ that strike where Goliath or the Trojan Horse is most vulnerable can slay it. Citizens who contact their congress persons time and time again (even if those congress persons appear lame, seem deaf and act dumb), who FAX, who e-mail and who phone. And it will take money, time, diligence and care in how we interact with those we disagree. We are not going to back down — and we can listen as we disagree.

5) With your kids and liberal/progressive friends play a ‘friendly’ game of Obama-Care Beast. It’s a cool game that you make up as you go along. Will you slay the Obama-Care Beast or will it slay you?

To play Obama-Care Beast, you probably have most of the materials already: 2 dice, a pack of cards, a package of small ‘stickies’ of various colors, two pads of paper with strong cardboard, various plastic caps from milk cartoons and some small figures or animals. Each player picks a animal or figure to represent the person.

Another post outlines how to play Obama-Care Beast – Slay or be Slayed. This post may be updated with specific directions how to play the game. To give you the general idea:

Think of a basic board game — a square of cardboard. Just use the cardboard from the backs of two 9 by 12 pads of paper. You must choose your persona: adult, child, man/boy or woman/girl, Akin to Monopoly, if you land on certain spots bad things happen to you — i.e., you did not buy Obama-Care so pay the fine, you are too old for a pacemaker so accept pain medication instead, your medical condition is very expensive and, as you are not employed, you have to wait at the end of the line for medical treatment.

Questions? There’s more to come on the ‘rules’of the game: Slay or be Slayed by Obama-Care. Contact DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: For sale cheap — Occupy DC movement

union pays protesters of CPAC
union pays protesters of CPAC

Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

One protester told The Daily Caller that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.

“I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. … They just told me ‘you wanna make sixty bucks? So c’mon,’” the protester said.

Other “Occupy CPAC” protesters were unwilling to speak on camera because they were unaware what they were protesting and what the CPAC event was about.

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The movable grievance gang moves on.
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