August 29 2009, Denver, Colorado  -  by EL MARCO

 The Obama administration has sent out Organizing for America – the successor organization of Obama for America, Obama’s campaign organization – to create a false media show of support for his unpopular Obamacare initiative. The coast to coast bus tour arrived in Denver Friday. What I found when I arrived was the media manipulation technique known as Astroturfing in high gear.

Shockingly, opponents to Obamacare were bullied, and a Potemkin village of consent manufactured, by White House strategists and Obama campaign propagandists. Although the White House denies the single payer goal, that seemed to be the main message at the rally in Denver, where everything was tightly controlled.

I arrived early at North High School for Friday’s Organizing for America rally in Denver. OFA community organizers were hard at work. 

Whatever happened to ” it’s my body it’s my choice”?  OR  ”The government can’t tell me what to do with my body!!”. Lady, you’ve come a long way from personal choice, to choice for “nobody”.

This organizer was instructing volunteers to hand out signs to anticipated crowds. United States Congressman Ed Perlmutter is scheduled to arrive on the Obamacare Express to push the administration’s health care agenda to his constituents.
Continue reading Organizing for America Bus Tour: Fabricating Consent

No speaker Pelosi, it’s your Democrats and Al Gore who are hooked on Nazi references.

 August 21 2009, Evergreen Colorado  -  by EL MARCO

This was the scene that greeted residents of Evergreen CO at their Post Office on Thursday afternoon. Lyndon LaRouche workers were handing out pamphlets, quoting verbatim, recent webcasts from their leader. Lyndon LaRouche, seven time candidate for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination, claims to be America’s number one inheritor of F.D.R’s legacy.

Born a Quaker he has been a prominent Marxist, then Maoist, and SDS faction leader. In the 1960s his SDS faction competed with William Ayers, SDS Weather Underground, to be the true vanguard to “bring down America” through revolution. LaRouche’s organization also spent years disrupting, and beating up U.S. communists who refused to see him as their true leader.

This LaRouche worker’s card says he is from Texas, but his accent didn’t betray his true origins to my Canadian ear. Midwest? Or Colorado? He and his co-worker travel from town to town raising funds for LaRouche. He told me that Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh are paid British agents working to undermine the American political system. That’s original and weird I thought. I learned later, he is 100% serious.

Before you dismiss LaRouche as a madman , just remember that Bill Ayers, Obama’s buddy, the Weather Underground terrorist leader, is now Vice President for Curriculum Studies of the powerful American Educational Research Association. Also a Democrat, Ayers sets the content and tone of what is taught to teachers and students. Ayers comes from the same ideological swamp as LaRouche. Those that the Democrats try to excuse as fringe, often pop up close to the center as the radicals force their party to the left. Don’t forget that Obama’s first political fundraiser was held in Bill Ayers Chicago home.

Continue reading Nazty Language and the Democrat Left

Denver Colorado, August 6 2009  -  by EL MARCO

This was the scene when I arrived at Stout Street Clinic in downtown Denver. Nancy Pelosi is to pay a visit to the clinic within the hour. About 200 people opposed to Obama’s healthcare agenda braved the mile high Denver sun and high temperatures to show their opposition. Their signs indicate that they are well aware that they have been vilified and targeted in an Oval Office astroturfing campaign designed to discredit their opposition. 

First let’s look at the messages and faces of these hardy dissenters. Take a close look so you can compare them to the community organizers who will soon enter the scene and harass them. These citizens have been described by the Democratic National Committee in an ad as “angry mobs organized by desperate Republicans and their well funded allies.” 

The Democrat party that funneled billions in the stimulus package to ACORN community organizers to organize, protest and agitate, this same party is now livid that private citizens attend townhall meetings. 

These protesters told me that they pay their own way and question what the government is attempting to do to their health care. 

“When asked by a reporter whether the protests at various town-hall meetings represented legitimate grassroots opposition or were manufactured “AstroTurf” stunts, Nancy Pelosi replied, ‘I think they’re AstroTurf. You be the judge. They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.’”  -  Jonah Goldberg

Commonly at the tea parties and anti-big government protests hammers and sickles are used to protest democrat policies. The Democrat Party doesn’t seem to have a problem with wall to wall hammers and sickles and has never complained publicly. Maybe they think it’s a compliment? I find that interesting and very telling.
Continue reading Nancy and the Astroturfers

This is the scene that enthralled a young photographer on his first expedition from Canada to New York City in 1975. In the center left foreground is the 21 story Flatiron Building. I already knew of it from the photographs of Edward Stieglitz from 1903. It was one the first skyscrapers ever built, and for years was famous (incorrectly) as the tallest building in the world. This photo was taken from the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, itself holding the world’s tallest record for 41 years until 1972. The most famous symbol of freedom in the world can be seen in the Harbor, background right. The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World is the full name given by the French to their gift, seen between the southern tip of Manhattan and New Jersey.

Each in its time inspired the world, with beauty, size and above all the message of hope that liberty, and man’s creativity thereby unleashed, might lift humankind out of poverty and raise it above tyranny. The World Trade Center (WTC) took its rightful place among them as a symbol of freedom of 1972.
Continue reading 9/11 – NEVER FORGET – NEVER GIVE IN

The Politics of Nihilism at the Denver Art Museum  -  by EL MARCO

 Driving through downtown Denver the other day I spotted a number of Denver Art Museum banners like the one above. I recognized this style of art. It appeared to be a major effort by the Museum and I wondered from which angle they were approaching the subject. The banners prompted me to recall my own experiences of the late 60’s and 1970’s.

Continue reading Selling Drugs and Revolution to Children in America

Did you come to Boulder, Colorado for a good education or a good party?  Have your folks paid the University of Colorado $38,000 a year for out of state tuition or $19,000 a year for in-state or illegal alien tuition?  Did your parents hope to give their little angel the opportunity to improve themselves for a happy successful future? Here’s a story about some of the extracurricular activities that can torch their dream and blow their little darling’s mind. 

Annually, on 4/20, at 4:20 p.m. there is a “Smoke Out” on CU Boulder campus. This year’s crowd was certainly over 10,000. This was the scene at 3:30 PM. Most attendees were already well on their way to a parallel universe, but the big bang was still 50 minutes in the future. 

 420 is a term for meeting to smoke marijuana. It started with a small clique in California who met after school to get stoned. Then as the legend goes, the dog ate their homework.  

Although the 420 marijuana protest at CU Boulder limits its advocacy to the legalization of cannabis, when asked the question, almost everyone I spoke to said they were in favor of legalizing all drugs. Ecstasy, LSD, Coke, Mushrooms, Mescaline, have been an integral part of campus drug culture for years and are inseparable from any conversation about marijuana legalization. The drugs listed are generally used in combination with Marijuana and obtained from the same sources. Meth, crack, heroin and a host of specialty concoctions are also available.

When I posed questions about drug use above and beyond pot smoking I got answers like an enthusiastic “Hell Ya” or “the works!!” from surprisingly innocent looking kids. The guy in the photo below surprised me by responding “anything I can get my hands on!!” when I asked him if his shirt referred to alcohol. 

 
Continue reading It’s 4:20. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

Today – Tax Day – many…ordinary, decent, Obama-fearing folk have gathered at Tea Party events in 500 locations across the US to protest against rising taxes and the ever increasing role of Big Government in their lives.       -James Delingpole   Telegraph, U.K. 

How has the Obama machine responded? Well, funnily enough, in a manner which would surely meet the approval of its Socialist counterparts on this side of the pond: by smearing the the opposition.

This smear takes the form of a nine-page memorandum recently released to police and sheriff departments across America called “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”. It was produced by the US’s Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Analysis office, to help police spot the tell-tale signs indicating potentially dangerous right wing extremism. They include:

WARD CHURCHILL, HITLER, AL-HUSSEINI, ARAFAT and the Terrorists of September 11 

As Ward Churchill’s lawsuit against the University of Colorado ends its second week, followers of Churchill gear up for a rally of support. El Marco takes a look at Churchill’s supporters, and at the followers of Adolf Eichmann who attacked America on 9/11. Yes, there is a huge, unreported, Adolf Eichmann connection to Islamic terror groups. 

“You don’t send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action.
You don’t send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action. Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker’s suit.

And why by the way did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? ”        - Ward Churchill   

Ward Churchill and his lawyer David Lane in July, 2007. Here he is on campus carrying plastic water pipes which he claimed represented an ancient American Indian tradition to do with parleys with enemies. Shortly after this photo was taken he was fired from his job as Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder, University of Colorado. 

Since 9/11 Prof. Ward Churchill became the darling of the American left with comments like this:

“As for those in the World Trade Center … Well, really, let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire — the ‘mighty engine of profit’ to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved — and they did so both willingly and knowingly… If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it.”

Churchill’s supporters in Denver created these posters (below) and published them on their website. Despite Churchill’s denials and backpedaling that he was referring only to capitalist pigs as ” Little Eichmanns”, his comrades/worshipers have not a single doubt about their hero’s intended meaning. These posters depict average Americans drinking coffee, reading the paper, and shopping as “Eichmanns”.

Continue reading • Americans Are Not “Little Eichmanns”

“Professor” Ward Churchill is suing The University of Colorado, accusing the school of violating his free speech rights. The jury trial began today in Denver. His argument is that he is being persecuted for his political beliefs. In 2007 the University of Colorado’s Governing Board found that he plagiarized, lied, falsified historical data and generally abused history, period.

Lonely Churchill supporter at 9:30 AM as the jury selection begins on the first day of trial in Denver. This ACLU board member from Colorado Springs asked “Where are the other supporters?” Well there were no others but this guy is a good specimen none the less.            Note ACLU T-shirt.

Churchill’s assertion that politics motivated their decision to fire him is like a man who is convicted of bludgeoning his mother, and comes back on appeal and says he’s being persecuted for hating her. In Wards case his Academic Misconduct is published on paper in black and white instead of black and blue.  

To understand a man’s actions or crimes, the law considers motives, but the University of Colorado (CU Boulder) did not look at his motives as a criminal court does. Ward is the one bringing up his politics as his defense, but he is only highlighting his motive for committing the academic “crimes” he was found guilty of. This is a good development, as it will clarify to the public what is in this man’s heart and what inspires him and other Marxist pseudo-academics.

 The irony of a man calling for the total destruction of the nation, appealing to it’s powerful courts to protect him from his academic peers is not lost on the average citizen.

Continue reading • Ward Churchill Trial in Denver – Education is the Motor Force of Revolution

Denver Feb. 17 2009  -  by El Marco

As Obama arrived at Denver International Airport, hundreds of citizens gathered on the steps of the Colorado State Capital to let their disagreement with Obama’s economic policies be known.

“FDR’s Treasury secretary and close friend, Henry Morganthau, conceded this fact to Congressional Democrats in May 1939: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an enormous debt to boot!”     – Thanks to Patrick 

Last week President Obama stated that ”economists from across the political spectrum agree” on the need for massive government spending to stimulate the economy. In fact, many economists disagree. Hundreds of them, including Nobel laureates and other prominent scholars, signed a statement that the Cato Institute placed in major newspapers across the United States. 

The grassroots crowd showed up as a result of hearing about it on talk radio and emails from friends. One group that organized the rally is Americans for Prosperity.

Continue reading • Colorado Says No To Obama’s Package of Pork