Muth's Truths


Muth's Truths
March 11, 2007

DEMOCRATS IN CHARGE: IS IT SAFE?
Did you know that all Members of Congress automatically get TOP SECRET
clearance when they are sworn into Congress -- with no background check?
Even more scary, did you know that any Member who ascends to a security
sensitive committee in Congress, as either the Chairman or Ranking Member
(they are from the opposite Parties), gets what is called SCI clearance
which is an even higher clearance than TOP SECRET?
This new Democrat-majority Congress is headed by some of the most radical
liberals to ever hold Leadership positions. And I believe their agenda on
national defense could greatly damage our national security and put us and
our families in harm's way -- either intentionally or unintentionally. So I
think we have a right to have them checked out.
For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) actually wants to put Rep.
William J. Jefferson (D-La.) on the Homeland Security Committee. This is
the man authorities recently discovered had socked away $90,000 in cold hard
cash, literally, in his freezer at home. Does hiding ninety large in
unmarked bills in a freezer set off any alarms bells in YOUR mind?
And then there's Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) - who has been a member of the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as the Subcommittee on
Terrorism and Homeland Security. Hastings, you may recall, was convicted
and impeached as a federal judge in 1989 for leaking wiretaps, lying under
oath and bribery.
Anyone who works at the White House has to have a background check. Why not
these Members?

What's more, sometimes it is not just the Member who is the problem. Often
it may be a staff member who has a dangerous political agenda. Maybe they
don't hand the information directly to our enemies, but instead damage us
through leaks to the news media about our intelligence plans or our next
military moves. Bin Laden and his buddies just sit back and laugh. They
don't need lots of operatives in America when all they have to do is watch
our media and read our papers on the Internet.
And the terrorists also understand something that apparently some Members of
Congress don't.that this drip, drip, drip of security leaks undermines us
with our friends, as well as contributes to the decline of public support
for our Global War on Terrorism.
As the leadership in Congress has changed and brought in some characters we
shouldn't be very comfortable with -- we need to take a hard look at how
things are being handled now. We need to tighten up every security loophole
on Capitol Hill before more damage is done. What does that mean? At a very
minimum we should:
1.) Check to make sure that the Capitol Hill orientation includes coverage
of the process for handling security information and what TOP SECRET
clearances actually mean.

2.) Make sure every office has a safe and the staff is trained on how to
handle sensitive information when it comes into the office.
3.) Require background checks be done on any Member of the House or the
Senate -- and their staff -- who would have access to classified or security
sensitive information.
This should, at the very least, include all Members (and staff) who Chair or
are Ranking Members on security sensitive Committees on Capitol Hill. This
should also include all members of the House and Senate Leadership and their
staffs.
If these background checks had been done on Congressman Mark Foley,
Congressman Gerry Studds, Senator Bob Packwood and others who committed
sexual indiscretions -- those offenses may have been uncovered early and
dealt with as a security problem. Congressmen with those kinds of secrets to
hide are vulnerable to blackmail and other pressures which actually could
pose a security risk. We need to be protected from their character flaws.
As you might imagine, there are many on Capitol Hill (especially the
Democrats) who will scream to high heaven and work to block such reforms.
But remember, every staff person who joins the Executive Branch or works at
the White House has to have a background check, so why shouldn't Congress
and their staffs who are handling security information have to do the same?
Our very lives could depend on it.

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Ray Keller
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Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other
terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ...the
unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or
state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the
hands of the people.

-Tench Coxe, 20 Feb 1788

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and
strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a
woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound


Every man, woman, and responsible child has a natural,
fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and
Constitutional right (within the limits of the Non-Aggression
Principle) to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any
weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machinegun, anything
-- anytime, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission.
,
The Atlanta Declaration
-- L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.com/

In truth, one who believes it wrong to arm himself against criminal
violence shows contempt of God's gift of life (or, in modern parlance,
does not properly value himself), does not live up to his responsibilities
to his family and community, and proclaims himself mentally and morally
deficient, because he does not trust himself to behave responsibly. In
truth, a state that deprives its law-abiding citizens of the means
to effectively defend themselves is not civilized but barbarous,
becoming an accomplice of murderers, rapists, and thugs and revealing
its totalitarian nature by its tacit admission that the disorganized,
random havoc created by criminals is far less a threat than are men and
women who believe themselves free and independent, and act accordingly.
- Jeffrey Snyder, "Nation of Cowards"


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