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Guest post for Dave Rivers:

Grassroots Democrats can’t be happy with the Democrat Party establishment who saddled them with a Presidential nominee who has a 30 year record of scandals and is now the subject of an active FBI investigation which could result in an indictment and conviction.

No one, not Democrats and not Republicans, wants our country in the position it is in, with the possibility of electing a President who will ultimately be shown to have committed perjury, violated the espionage act, or other major crimes.

And now we learn that it’s not just Hillary who is under FBI investigation but the Clinton Foundation is also under FBI investigation by at least four different FBI offices, for a variety of possible crimes.

Millions of Democrat primary voters rejected Hillary, perhaps concerned about her many scandals and apparent corruption, and voted for Bernie Sanders or other candidates. New Hampshire Democrats overwhelmingly preferred Bernie to Hillary, 60%-38%. Yet, the New Hampshire Democrat party establishment rejected the Democrat voters’ choice and cast their “super-delegate” votes for Hillary.

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When asked to identify her accomplishments, Hillary supporters usually respond with mumbling and/or blank stares…and appropriately so.

Frustrated by Hillary’s and Obama’s dismal records, supporters like Carol Stappi (see her 10/13/16 letter, laconiadailysun.com) lash out, making fact-free attacks on their political opponents and maligning critics as driven by hate, racism or sexism.

However, as we criticized Bush, conservatives criticize Obama’s and Hillary’s policies that hurt people: making people poorer, less free, and less safe. We fight for policies that benefit law-abiding Americans who are, or want to be self-supporting, and anyone wanting to live in peace and safety.

Stappi suggests that Trump “advocates sexual assault on women”, that is a lie. If it were true, she would provide a link to the video, she can’t.

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Barack Obama and his defenders incorrectly suggest a racial motive to questions about whether Barack Obama meets the Constitutional requirements to be President and about his religion.  Some suggest that such questions have never been raised about any other Presidential candidate and are only raised about Obama because he is black.  This lie has been repeated long enough.

Questions were raised about the births and Constitutional qualifications of the two previous Republican Presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain, and about Ted Cruz during this last primary.  The Constitutional requirements are critically important; they were the founders’ attempt to ensure that the President’s only loyalty is to our country and the American people.

The original “Obama birther” is Barack Obama himself.  For more than ten years, for his personal benefit, Obama let stand his publicist’s claim that he was born in Kenya.

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Does the US oppress black Americans? Colin Kaepernick says “Yes”. Is this just the attempt of a “has been” to get noticed or is he right?

Are our black President, Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, Mayors, Judges, Congressmen, Senators, billionaires, millionaires, and thousands of other black officials oppressed? Are college educated and other blacks with good jobs, and those living in nice neighborhoods with good, safe schools for their children oppressed?

However, many poor Americans, including many blacks, live in oppressive conditions; they live in poverty, in areas where jobs, especially good jobs, are scarce, in high crime neighborhoods with frequent shootings, and send their children to poor and dangerous schools. These conditions exist in many inner cities.

These cities are almost exclusively controlled by Democrat politicians.

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With the cool and confident demeanor exhibited by President Clinton, President Obama and other sociopaths, Hillary Clinton repeated the lie that President Obama was forced withdraw American forces from Iraq, despite the objections of American military leaders and State Department veterans, by the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) created by President Bush. This lie has been protected by the media and by the obscurity of the facts.

When President Obama took office, Iraq was stable. President Bush had negotiated a SOFA based on the assumptions that conditions in Iraq would remain stable or improve, that a significant (30,000 – 50,000) American force would remain, and that a strong American influence would help maintain stability in Iraq.

When it was negotiated, all parties expected to renegotiate the SOFA if conditions changed.And conditions changed.

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Does the US oppress black Americans?  Colin Kaepernick says “Yes”.  Is this just the attempt of a “has been” to get noticed or is he right?

Are our black President, Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, Mayors, Judges, Congressmen, Senators, billionaires, millionaires, and thousands of other black officials oppressed?  Are college educated and other blacks with good jobs, and those living in nice neighborhoods with good, safe schools for their children oppressed?  No.

However, many poor Americans, including many blacks, live in oppressive conditions; they live in poverty, in areas where jobs, especially good jobs, are scarce, in high crime neighborhoods with frequent shootings, and send their children to poor and dangerous schools.  These conditions exist in many inner cities.

These cities are almost exclusively controlled by Democrat politicians.

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It’s time for the Trump supporters to speak up, to write letters to the editor, to defend Trump and attack Hillary, Obama, the Democrat Party, and the harm that Democrat policies do to the American people.

Nearly every day there are one or more letters to the editor in local papers with ludicrous charges against Donald Trump.  Today he is called a “terrorist”, “a bigot”, eager “to press the nuclear button”, “a clear and present danger”, “a thief”, “as serious a terrorist as ISIS or al-Quaeda”, seeks “to destroy the Constitution”, and his supporters are bigoted and ignorant.  And this is just from a single letter apparently written by a Republican!  Letters from Democrats often show even less touch with reality.

In the Republican primary Trump got 35% of the vote, it’s time for those voters and other Trump supporters to speak up, to write letters, and show why these charges are ignorant and ridiculous. 

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The New Hampshire Democrat establishment went against the wishes of Democrat voters when they used their Super Delegate votes to give Hillary Clinton, despite losing by 22 percent, as many delegates as Bernie Sanders.  The Democrat Party establishments in other states also went against their voters’ wishes.

Now we see that Hillary Clinton installed her cronies in the, supposedly neutral, Democrat National Committee (DNC) to actively work for her and against her opponents.  In a fair election, Bernie Sanders may well have received the votes needed to become the Democrat Presidential Nominee.

President Obama’s team participated in this fraud against Democrat voters; they reviewed the lists of donors to be rewarded with prestigious appointments, no Sanders donors were included.

At the Convention, the DNC worked to silence Bernie’s supporters, limit their media coverage, and even exclude them. 

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One of the frauds attempted during the Democrat Convention is that Democrats want to reduce gun violence in America.  While I’m sure most Democrats consider themselves anti-violence, the party they support is the party of violence.  Democrat politicians and leaders, excuse, encourage, and use violence, successfully, to advance its political objectives.

While the sympathy displayed for the victims of gun violence and their families may have been sincere, the Democrat Party leadership willingly sacrifices people in their quest for power.  Democrat Party policies make America more violent, make law-abiding Americans more vulnerable to criminals and terrorists, and use violence to get support for, or at least acceptance of, their policies.

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The American Revolution wasn’t fought for plunder or conquest, but for the ideas that people can govern themselves and have inherent (by birth) rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  For these ideas wealthy, prominent Americans, prospering under British rule, pledged/risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor…and many endured hardships during the revolution they began.

The US Constitution defined a government that implemented those ideas, enabling self-government (through elected representatives) and protecting peoples’ inherent rights.

Some people have various criticisms of the Constitution, e.g., it allowed slavery, although it authorized Congress to abolish it after 1808, and it didn’t enable women to vote; but the Constitution provided an amendment process for providing fixes and addressing future needs.

In our first century, Americans became the wealthiest and freest people in the world; millions immigrated to pursue their American dreams.

Then things changed.

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Leftists (progressives, liberals, Democratic Socialists, or whatever they want to be called to hide their intentions), unrestricted as they are by facts, logic, history, or reality, often ascribe their own nasty characteristics to their opponents, e.g., that the TEA Party is Fascist.

The leftists would probably prefer to call the TEA Partiers Nazis, which were perhaps 100 times worse than Fascists, or Stalinists, which were even worse, but everyone knows that Nazis are Socialist and Stalinists were Communist and the leftists like socialism and communism.

The distinctions between Fascist, Socialist, Communist, Tsarist, Emperor, and other absolute (right-wing or left-wing) dictatorships are only interesting to philosophers and academics tired of debating how many angels can dance on the head of pin.  The distinctions are meaningless to the people whose freedoms, property, and lives are arbitrarily taken by government.

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The American Revolution wasn’t fought for plunder or conquest, but for the ideas that people can govern themselves and have inherent (by birth) rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  For these ideas, wealthy, prominent Americans, prospering under British rule, pledged/risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor … and many endured hardships during the revolution they began.

The US Constitution defined a government that implemented those ideas, enabling self-government (through elected representatives) and protecting peoples’ inherent rights.

Some people have various criticisms of the Constitution, e.g., it allowed slavery, although it authorized Congress to abolish it after 1808, and it didn’t enable women to vote; but the Constitution provided an amendment process for providing fixes and addressing future needs.

In our first century, Americans became the wealthiest and freest people in the world; millions immigrated to pursue their American dreams. Then things changed.  Professional politicians, who saw government as their path to wealth and power, replaced citizen legislators who served briefly then returned home.

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I was saddened by Ted Hill’s letter of March 18 in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com).  Mr. Hill seems to have been deceived by leftists about the threats to his children.  The threats to young people from things that families, friends, teachers, and acquaintances influence are 250 times greater than the threat from police and perhaps many thousand times greater than the threat to people who obey police commands (even if someone feels they are undeserved).  The fact is that the chance of police using harmful force against someone who is following their directions, as responsible parents teach their children, is essentially zero.

The top three killers, responsible for over 77% of black male deaths ages 15-24, are homicide, accidents, and suicide (http://goo.gl/GftYNg.).  Black males, 20-24, are three times more likely to die from HIV, the sixth most likely cause of death, than from legal intervention.  The top two killers (http://goo.gl/3nA0Dt), claiming 39-48% of black females ages 15 -24 are accidents and homicide, number 5 is suicide.

The main causes of death for all young people, 15-24, in 2013 (http://goo.gl/laC6gT) were 11,619 from accidents, 4878 from suicide, 4329 from homicide, 3796 from drugs, 149 from alcohol, and 109 from HIV.  These lethal results are influenced by family, friends, acquaintances, teachers, etc., not by police.     

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Whatever beneficent sounding name the Marxist leftists now want to be called (e.g., Liberals, Progressives, Democratic Socialists) to hide their real intentions, they are getting lots of people killed.  (And, I am not referring to the murders (Democide) of over 100 million un-tried and un-convicted citizens in the last century by the “utopian” governments the Marxists want for us, demonstrated by the Soviet Union, China (PRC), and Cuba.)

I refer to the Marxist leftists’ policies that jeopardize law-abiding people while increasing the danger from criminals and terrorists.

If being a “gun free zone” has prevented a single act of violence, the evidence would be repeated endlessly.  “Gun free zones” only provide safe spaces for criminals, terrorists, and crazy people to kill, rape, and/or rob defenseless people.

As demonstrated in Paris, Chicago, Brussels, and all over the world, terrorists, criminals, and even insane people can get the weapons they want; no gun laws will stop them.  Gun laws are only obeyed by law-abiding people.

Overly restrictive gun laws have cost many Americans, and others, their lives by making them defenseless in the face of danger.  Battered and threatened women are killed waiting for gun permit approvals; their restraining orders didn’t protect them.  The high cost of gun permits make many people defenseless victims in high crime areas.  And, since armed police were apparently absent, only armed civilians could have reduced the carnage in Paris or San Bernardino.  

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Big government gobbles increasing amounts of people’s money, freedoms, and opportunities which politicians use to enhance their power and wealth and to provide privileges to themselves (e.g., Obamacare exemption) and favored special interests (e.g., subsidies, regulations, tax loopholes).

Our nation’s founders knew that the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.  The Constitution they created, and approved by the people’s state representatives, authorized a small Federal government with strictly limited powers for the purpose of protecting people’s rights, property, and opportunities.

The benefit of this small, limited government was demonstrated during the first half of our nation’s existence.  We had a real citizen government; Congressmen typically served less than two terms.  During that short period of tremendous growth and change, the American people created the largest, freest, and wealthiest middle class in the world.

In the early 20^th Century politicians decided to ignore the Constitution so they could use government to “do good” (especially for themselves). 

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Today’s mailing from the National Republican Senatorial Campaign (NRSC) asked me to join them in sending congratulations for a Victory in the Iowa Caucus.

Were they congratulating the winner, Senator Ted Cruz, who got more votes than any Republican ever in an Iowa Republican caucus and exceeded the polling average expectations by 3.8%?  No!

Were they congratulating Senator Marco Rubio for this third place showing that exceeded expectations by 6.2%?  No.

Were they congratulating Senator Rand Paul for his campaign and showing?  No.

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James Veverka always presents compelling, although misleading and sometimes false, arguments in support of his radical leftwing policies which require Americans to give up our freedoms and prosperity.  And he offers his “evidence” with snarky comments about anyone who might disagree with him. 

Consider his October 22 letter in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com) about guns and gun control.    

We in New Hampshire should immediately know that Veverka’s claims are simply false.  If Veverka’s gun control claims were correct, with our hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of guns, open carry, and shall-issue concealed carry laws, then New Hampshire should be a war zone.  Yet New Hampshire (and Vermont with fewer gun restrictions) typically vies for the lowest murder rate in the nation, usually by a wide margin.  Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens do not create a crime problem.    

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