Please sign and share...'We the People' have had ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Diane,

The use of government power to intimidate those who are doing things the government doesn’t like.

That’s a third world tactic, but it's happening right here in America.

This administration has perpetuated a culture of hardball politics and intimidation, and they have tried to grow the size and scope of government at every turn. This is unacceptable and should be chilling to every American--Republican, Democrat or Independent.

And now Americans are finding out that no one is safe from the overarching intrusive reach of the IRS. To think the IRS can be used for partisan and political gain is not just frightening but undermines the very core of our First Amendment rights.

So I’m asking you to take action with me. This dangerous overreach of government is a threat to each and every one of us. Become a Citizen Cosponsor of the “Taxpayer Nondiscrimination and Protection Act of 2013”, making it a criminal act for the IRS to abuse its power and violate our First Amendment rights.

We can't let anyone trample on our constitutional rights. As we push Congress for a full investigation to get to the bottom of who knew what and when, we need to make sure we prevent this from happening again. Become a Citizen Cosponsor today so we can send a very loud message to the IRS that targeting our citizens because of their political views is criminal behavior that won't be tolerated.

Thank you for making your voice heard.

Proud to Stand,
Marco

http://www.reclaimamericapac.com/landing/irs-scandal/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sp&utm_campaign=20130520_marco-rubio_email-sp&utm_content=body_text_citizen-cosponsor

Poll: Already Scant Support for Obamacare Erodes

By: Michael F. Cannon / Townhall Columnist

According to the latest Reason-Rupe poll:

The president’s health care law is losing public support… Only 32 percent of Americans say they liked the health care law when it was passed and still like it today. Seven percent liked the law when it was passed, but like it less now. Meanwhile, 45 percent disliked the health care law when it was passed and still dislike it. Four percent of Americans say they disliked the law when it passed, but like it more now.

These results are consistent with the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll, which has always reported a higher level of support for the law than other polls, yet whose latest results show support for Obamacare slipping to just 35 percent of adults.

Never Mind the IRS, You’d Better Be Nice to Kathleen Sebelius

ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board is everything its critics say and worse. It is a democracy-skirting, Congress-blocking, powers-unseparating, law-entrenching, tax-hiking, fund-appropriating, price-controlling, health-care-rationing, death-paneling, technocrat-thrilling, authoritarian, anti-constitutional super-legislature. Its very existence is testament to government incompetence. It stands as a milestone on the road to serfdom.

The Congressional Research Service has now confirmed what HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pretends not to know but what Diane Cohen and I explained here: 

[I]f President Obama fails to appoint any IPAB members, all these powers fall to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

That’s an awful lot of power to give any one person, particularly someone who has shown as much willingness to abuse her power as Sebelius has.

I would also like the Congressional Research Service to address a feature of IPAB that Cohen and I first exposed. According to the statute, we write:

Congress may only stop IPAB from issuing self-executing legislative proposals if three-fifths of all sworn members of Congress pass a joint resolution to dissolve IPAB during a short window in 2017. Even then, IPAB’s enabling statute dictates the terms of its own repeal, and it continues to grant IPAB the power to legislate for six months after Congress repeals it. If Congress fails to repeal IPAB through this process, then Congress can never again alter or reject IPAB’s proposals.

You read that right. For more, read our paper, especially Box 3 on page 9.

CRS, I’m interested to know what you think. Take a close look at the law and get back to me.

IRS and AP Scandals Cast a Big Chill on Free Speech

By: Michael Barone / Townhall Columnist

 

Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech.
There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days.

The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of office, cellular and home telephone records from multiple Associated Press reporters and editors to investigate an alleged breach of national security.

The AP story in question, on a foiled terrorist plot, had been withheld for days at the request of the CIA. It finally went out on the wire on a Monday, after the AP was told that administration spokesmen would officially announce it the next day.

That tends to undercut Attorney General Eric Holder's claim that the story was based on one of "the top two or three most serious leaks that I have ever seen" and "put the American people at risk, and that is not hyperbole."

I don't think enough facts are known to conclude that Holder was wrong. But it does seem likely that the AP material was less damaging to national security than some stories The New York Times ran despite pleas from the George W. Bush administration.

Those were not followed by the kind of intrusive investigation launched in this case. You might not know it from reading much of the press, but Obama's administration has been much more aggressive in investigating leaks than Bush's ever was.

Another chill came from the targeting of conservative organizations by Obama's Internal Revenue Service. IRS agents were selectively refusing to give tax-exempt status to organizations with "tea party" and "patriot" in their names.

Anti-abortion groups were asked to pledge that they would never picket Planned Parenthood clinics. Organizers were asked numerous personal questions, including what they said in their prayers. If that's not chilling, I don't know what is.

The acting director of the IRS was told about this activity in May 2012, and the chief counsel and deputy secretary of the Treasury Department were informed in June 2012.

Did they pass the information along to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner? Did he tell the president? Did the president ever ask?

The excuse given in some quarters is that in some cases IRS agents acted on their own or contrary to instructions. That may be plausible.

As my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy Carney has pointed out, personnel at the IRS are heavily Democratic. That's probably true of most domestic government agencies.

But that's a reason why a Democratic White House should be especially alert for evidence that civil servants are targeting political opponents for unfavorable treatment. Especially when, as here, there were plenty of reports in the press and the blogosphere indicating that it was going on.

But maybe this Democratic White House didn't want to know. Or didn't understand the need for vigilance. Maybe someone figured, hey, let's not have this come out before the election.

The chill threatens to get even colder. It turns out that Sarah Hall Ingram, who served as head of the IRS office handling tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012 -- when the targeting was going on -- is now head of the IRS division in charge of the IRS office policing Obamacare.

She's a career IRS lawyer, and it's not known whether she was aware of the targeting -- though it would be a little surprising if she wasn't.

She'll have a big job. The IRS is assigned a lot of work by the Obamacare law. It will impose penalties on Americans who can afford health insurance but choose not to buy it.

It will impose penalties on companies with more than 50 employees who work 30 hours a week and don't provide government-mandated policies.

It will give tax credits to non-affluent purchasers of health insurance on state exchanges. The IRS says it can also give tax credits to such people in states that have federally run exchanges, though many argue the law does not authorize that.

In other words, the IRS is going to possess and process a large amount of information not only on your income but on your health insurance and perhaps your health.

The IRS was given these tasks by the drafters of Obamacare because no other government agency had the capability to gain access to people's personal financial information. They may have thought that taxpayers would trust an agency that they had gotten used to dealing with.

That level of trust may not be as high as it was 10 days ago. Chilling effect, indeed.

Kerry urges Nigerian army "restraint" against jihad terrorists

From Jihad Watch / Posted by Robert Spencer

Boko Haram has murdered 2,000 Nigerians, torched churches, terrorized untold numbers of Infidels, and John Kerry urges the Nigerian army to treat it gently. They will not, however, return the favor. "John Kerry urges Nigeria army 'restraint,'" from the BBC, May 18 (thanks to Justin):

US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Nigerian army to show restraint and not violate human rights as it pursues an offensive against Islamist militants in the north-east. 

Mr. Kerry said there were "credible allegations" of "gross human rights violations" by the Nigerian military.

This week Nigeria launched its biggest offensive since the Boko Haram group began its insurgency in 2010.

A state of emergency is in force in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states.

"The United States condemns Boko Haram's campaign of terror in the strongest terms," Mr Kerry said in a statement.

"We urge Nigeria's security forces to apply disciplined use of force in all operations, protect civilians in any security response and respect human rights and the rule of law.''
Camps targeted.

More than 2,000 people have died in the violence since 2010, most of which is blamed on Boko Haram....

The IRS As A Cudgel

by Bob Livingston / Personal Liberty Digest

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The Internal Revenue Service was formed in 1913 following the adoption (it was never properly ratified) of the 16^th Amendment to fund the Federal Reserve and enrich the bankster elites by stealing and redistributing the wealth of American citizens.

The income tax is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated upon the American people. It was enacted even though the U.S. Supreme Court had only recently ruled in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. that certain taxes on direct income were unConstitutionally unapportioned direct taxes and violated Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution.

Not covered in Pollock is the fact that the income tax also violates the 5^th Amendment: No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty or property… nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax is the second plank of the Communist Manifesto. The central bank (aka the Federal Reserve) is the fifth plank. The United States has essentially adopted all 10 planks of Marxism. For its part, the Federal Reserve was formed during a wave of bipartisan progressive legislation passed during the early 1900s that transformed the American economy and society from one of roughly laissez-faire to one of centralized statism, as Murray Rothbard writes in A History of Money and Banking in the United States. The Fed was also fraudulently promoted, as those who were working behind the scenes to pass the legislation were acting in public as if they opposed it.

The U.S. government had functioned without an income tax for more than 100 years, except during the time of the War of Northern Aggression, when Abraham Lincoln passed an unConstitutional tax on income to fund his war machine.

During the run-up to the 16^th Amendment, President Woodrow Wilson promised Americans that only those earning more than $10,000 (about $100,000 in today’s dollars) per year would even pay taxes and the tax rate would never exceed 3 percent (now 36.9 percent). In the beginning, that was so; but within four years families were taxed on all income above $1,000 and the top rate had risen to 76 percent, demonstrating how the elected class lies without compunction.

The government began tax withholding in 1943. By withholding a portion of a worker’s paycheck, government is able steal the wealth of its citizens slowly over the course of a year, silently and with little outrage. This is vile treachery, even if the worker receives his money back when he files his “income taxes.” It means that for a year the government has had an interest-free loan on the backs of the citizenry. When the government returns that money, it is viewed as a benevolent master by the ignorant citizenry who assume the government is giving them some kind of gift, never realizing how poorly they have been used.

The income tax is not used to fund Federal government. I am not the first or only one to ever say this, but few understand it. As far as I can tell, it was first uttered publicly by a government functionary during the last year of World War II. Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1941-1946, said in a speech before the American Bar Association, “The necessity for a government to tax in order to maintain both its independence and its solvency is true for state and local governments, but it is not true for a national government.”

So why is there an income tax? It is to control and redistribute wealth and compile dossiers on all citizens. The Form 1040 is the “taxpayer’s” dossier.

When people refer to “taxpayers’ money,” they think that our taxes are “taxpayers’ money” and they are trying to tell the public that the government “wastes taxpayers’ money” and the people actually believe this nonsense.

Now to set this illusion in concrete, the IRS does reduce the numbers (money) in our checking accounts when we authorize them to do so via our Form 1040 tax return.

But no one ever asks where the numbers (money) go when deleted from our checking accounts.

These numbers (money) do not go to Washington as taxes to pay anything. They go into the cyberspace of the IRS computers.

The dollar is a myth. Oh, I know that we have green strips of paper in our pockets that we believe are dollars. The numbers on the green strips of paper are our “dollars.” So what we “spend” every day are the numbers or the symbols on our green strips of paper.

So what does the IRS do? It reduces our consumption by reducing the numbers in our checking accounts. It is a system of economic regulation to conceal the fraud that modern money is numbers created without limit by government/bankers.

What else does this Orwellian system do? It transfers wealth to the “money creators.” How does a government make war on its own people? Modern money is numbers or symbols in computers which can be created to infinity. Theft through fiat occurs when the volume of numbers (money) exceeds the production of goods and services. This is called inflation. So the government makes war on its own people by increasing the volume of money.

The government makes war on its own people in another way, as the latest IRS scandal reveals. The IRS has been used by past regimes as a cudgel to harass, annoy and even imprison and destroy political and personal opposition. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was notorious for this. President Richard Nixon was forced out of office, in part, because of his use of the IRS against his enemies. Article 2 Section 1 in the articles of impeachment against Nixon read:

He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.

Under the breaking IRS scandal, we learn that the illegal usurper currently occupying the White House, Obama the Obtuse, the undocumented worker, has likely instructed or had his minions instruct IRS offices to audit Obtuse Obama’s political opponents and harass Tea Party, gun rights, anti-abortion and other conservative organizations seeking tax exempt status — at least 500 such organizations at last count. There’s also mounting evidence that the IRS leaked the dossiers of Mitt Romney and his top supporters to the media and to Senator Harry Reid (and possibly others), who during the last Presidential campaign claimed to have damning evidence on Romney’s finances.

As the CEO of the American corporation, Obama is ultimately responsible for the actions of his underlings even if he didn’t directly order Sarah Hall Ingram, the head of the Orwellian-sounding “Determinations Unit,” to target conservative organizations for special scrutiny. He may have just used a wink and a nod, or it could be just the pervasive atmosphere of thuggishness emanating from
Obtuse Obama, who achieved his status through Chicago-style political bullying on steroids and political and ethical misfeasance and malfeasance and has operated his regime as a thugocracy.

It’s obvious the IRS has targeted conservative groups specifically as reports indicate an Obama relative’s sham charity received expedited treatment in dealing with the organization; and there are no complaints from liberal, leftist, statist, progressive organizations about their applications being held for years and unConstitutional demands for private information about associations, reading habits, prayer habits and contents, mailing lists and future political plans have been requested. There is also a growing list of “coincidental” audits beginning shortly after someone spoke out or wrote in opposition to Obtuse Obama policies, or in the case of several in the conservative media, after asking Obama tough questions directly. This occurred only with conservative groups.

Americans have long held a fear of the IRS, and rightfully so. In any dealings with the financial proctologists who act as the enforcement arm for the government extortion center, the citizen is considered guilty until he proves himself innocent. Responding to IRS requests for documentation is akin to dealing with Mafioso knee breakers. They are often government functionaries who exhibit signs of psychosis in their seeming delight at the consternation they cause a populace that is trying to decipher thousands of pages of codes and instructions that even IRS functionaries themselves cannot decipher.

Ingram, who oversaw the targeting of Obtuse Obama’s “enemies,” received tens of thousands of dollars of bonuses for her work. This indicates the Obtuse One held her work in high regard. Her efforts also got her bumped up to head of the IRS Affordable Care Act office where she is charged with implementing the Obama deathcare system.

This will give her access to the medical records of all Americans. The information found there could then be used in myriad nefarious ways against Obama’s opposition, as in to disparage and smear, deny certain rights, confiscate weapons and harm their business or employment prospects.

Chief Obtuse Obama operative and malefactor David Axelrod, in attempting to deflect blame away from his master, said Obama is not responsible for any of the scandals because government has grown too big to manage. Conservatives have been saying this for years. What better way to begin reducing government than by eliminating its extortion racket agency?

Regardless of whether this IRS scandal or any of the other scandals now percolating in the Washington, D.C., cesspool ever lands on Obtuse Obama’s head, one fact remains. The IRS, which serves only evil outcomes, must be dismantled to the last jot and tittle. The 16^th Amendment must be repealed. The IRS must never be allowed to administer the tragedy that is the Obamacare deathcare system.

Foreign vote-count firm expands U.S. reach

Touts ability to conveniently 'manage' electoral roll on Election Day  

By: Aaron Klein / WND

The foreign-headquartered company that recently purchased the leading U.S. electronic voting firm has just announced its technology will be deployed at more jurisdictions ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.

 

A SCYTL company news release boasted that its “electronic pollbook solution recently achieved a significant milestone by eclipsing the 100th implementation in the United States.”

“This number continues to grow with many jurisdictions planning to implement electronic pollbook technology ahead of the 2014 election cycle,” continued the release.

The electronic pollbook reportedly allows U.S. election officials and poll workers to manage the electoral roll on Election Day in an efficient and convenient manner.

SCYTL’s electronic pollbook solution will be utilized in small and large election jurisdictions throughout the nation, including in Washington, D.C.; Galveston County, Texas, along with 50 other Texas counties; Kane County, Ill.; and the city of Peoria, Ill.

“We are very excited that our superior platform and unique solution have earned the trust of more than 100 election jurisdictions who have successfully utilized our electronic pollbook in major elections,” said Marc Fratello, CEO of SOE Software.

“We also look forward to expanding our offering to other election jurisdictions across the United States,” added Fratello.

In January 2012, SCYTL, based in Barcelona, acquired 100 percent of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. The sale garnered national attention after it was spotlighted by the popular Drudge Report.

Soros ties

Last week, WND exposed how SCYTL recently acquired the software division of a non-profit election organization tied to George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

SCYTL said it is purchasing the software division of Gov2U, described as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting the use of technology in the fields of governance and democracy.

A SCYTL press release says: “Gov2U created its software division in 2004 and, since then, it has developed a wide array of innovative award-winning eDemocracy solutions that have been implemented in multiple countries across Europe, Africa and America at the local, regional and federal government levels.”

The Spain-based company says the “main purpose of these tools is to engage citizens in participatory processes through the use of online and offline platforms, bringing more transparency and legitimacy to decision-making processes.”

Gov4U is currently partnered with Soros’ Open Society to support and develop a group called the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness.

The group runs a website, OpeningParliament.org, which says it is a forum “intended to help connect the world’s civic organizations engaged in monitoring, supporting and opening up their countries’ parliaments and legislative institutions.”

Gov4U, meanwhile, has eight partners of its own listed on its website, including the Soros-funded and partnered National Democratic Institute, or NDI.

Aside from receiving financial support for Soros, NDI has co-hosted scores of events along with Soros’ Open Society. The two groups work closely together.

NDI and the Open Society, for example, worked together to push for electoral and legislative reform in Romania.

NDI boasts that with Open Society Institute funds it conducted a political leadership training series for Romanian activists to “bring tangible improvements to their communities.”

NDI describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization working to establish and strengthen political and civic organizations, safeguard elections and promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government.

NDI previously stated it was founded to draw on the traditions of the U.S. Democratic Party.
WND found that NDI is also listed as the only U.S.-associated organization of Socialists International, the world’s largest socialist umbrella group.

NDI was originally created by the federally funded National Endowment for Democracy, or NED, which itself founded joint NDI projects with the Open Society. Another NDI financial backer is the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.

U.S. elections, national security concerns

With the purchase of SOE Software, SCYTL increased its involvement in the U.S. elections process. SOE Software boasts a strong U.S. presence, providing results in more than 900 jurisdictions.

In 2009, SCYTL formally registered with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as the first Internet voting manufacturer in the U.S. under the EAC Voting System Testing and Certification Program.

Also that year, SCYTL entered into an agreement with another firm, Hart InterCivic, to jointly market its pollbook.

SCYTL’s ePollBook already has replaced the paper precinct roster in Washington, D.C.
In the 2012 presidential election, SCYTL was contracted by the states of New York, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Mississippi to provide the overseas ballots.

During the midterm elections in November 2010, SCYTL successfully carried out electoral modernization projects in 14 states. The company boasted that a “great variety” of SCYTL’s technologies were involved in the projects, including an online platform for the delivery of blank ballots to overseas voters, an Internet voting platform and epollbook software to manage the electoral roll at the polling stations.

The states that used SCYTL’s technologies during the midterms were New York, Texas, Washington, California, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Just prior to the midterm’s however, the new electronic voting system in Washington, D.C., was hacked.
 
As a program security trial, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics reportedly encouraged outside parties to find flaws in its new online balloting system. A group of University of Michigan students then hacked into the site and commanded it to play the school’s fight song upon casting a vote.

It’s not the first time SCYTL’s systems have been called into question.

Voter Action, an advocacy group that seeks elections integrity in the U.S., sent a lengthy complaint to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in April 2010 charging the integration of SCYTL systems “raises national security concerns.”

“Foreign governments may also seek to undermine the national security interests of the United States, either directly or through other organizations,” Voter Action charged.

The document notes that SCYTL was founded in 2001 as a spinoff from a research group at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, which was partially funded by the Spanish government’s Ministry of Science and Technology.

Along with Barcelona, SCYTL has offices in Washington, D.C., Singapore, Bratislava and Athens.
Project Vote noted that in 2008, the Florida Department of State commissioned a review of SCYTL’s remote voting software and concluded in part that:

• The system is vulnerable to attack from insiders.
• In a worst case scenario, the software could lead to 1) voters being unable to cast votes; 2) an election that does not accurately reflect the will of the voters; and 3) possible disclosure of confidential information, such as the votes cast by individual voters.
• The system may be subject to attacks that could compromise the integrity of the votes cast.

Voting through Google, Apple?

As WND reported in May 2012 the company announced the successful implementation of technology that allows ballots to be cast using Google and Apple smart phones and tablet computers.

SCYTL unveiled a platform that it says encrypts each individual ballot on a voter’s Google or Apple mobile device before the ballot is then transmitted to an electronic voting system.

Using this technology, “Scytl is now able to guarantee end-to-end security – from the voter to the final tally – not only for computer-based online voting but also for mobile voting,” stated a press release by the company.

“By leveraging its pioneering security technology with Google and Apple’s mobile device platforms, Scytl has become the premier election technology provider to offer an online voting system that guarantees the highest standards in terms of both voter privacy and ballot integrity both on personal computers and mobile devices,” said Gabriel Dos Santos, Scytl’s vice president of software engineering.

The U.S. currently does not utilize voting platforms using mobile devices. SCYTL sees such methods as the future of electronic voting.

Op-ed:
Israel...caught between the US v. Russia in Syria 

By: Diane Sori

While we’re all focused on the ‘Trifeta of Scandals’ as well we should be, lets NOT forget all that’s happening in the Middle East because to do so…to look away…might come back to haunt us in the end.

Just a few days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (how I wish that man was our president) said while meeting with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, “Today the Middle East is undergoing a period of tremendous and unprecedented instability”…. I follow closely, day and night, the rapidly changing situation around us. I follow closely the very real challenges that this rapidly changing situation poses for the security of Israel. I will travel to where ever needed; I will meet with whoever is needed and I’m doing whatever is needed to protect the security of the citizens of Israel, and I will continue to do so.”

This statement was in response to a recent interview in Argentina’s Clarin newspaper where Syrian President Bashar Assad said,“Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways…Firstly it gives them logistical support, and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them…For example, they attacked a radar station that is part of our anti-aircraft defenses, which can detect any plane coming from overseas, especially from Israel.”

NO they are NOT for the problem with Assad’s thinking is simply that Israel has NO interest in toppling Assad’s government as Israel has the sense to know that the rebels are being aided and funded by al-Qaeda…meaning Iran…the very country that has sworn to wipe them off the map. And in NO way would Netanyahu ever deal with or aid and abet the enemy…something Barack HUSSEIN Obama does on a daily basis.
 
And now Russia has once again entered into the mix…NOT that they ever really left…and in a show of outward support for Assad, Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, even after Netanyahu recently met with Russian President Putin to ask him not to arm Syria with those missiles, Putin did it anyway. These Yakhont missiles can reach a distance of over 180 miles (well into Israel) and are equipped with an advanced radar anti-ship missile system that would allow Assad to hold off a naval embargo or a no-fly zone placed on his country. Adding to this is that each missile has its own individual radar to help evade a ship’s defense system and they're mobile, making them difficult to target and take out.

Also to stir up the pot even more, Russia has sent a dozen warships to patrol waters near its Syrian naval base, hoping that sends a powerful message to the US and Israel NOT to get involved in Syria's affairs.

And Israel knows very well that the weapons Russia supplies to Assad could very well end up in the wrong hands, and be used against them by the very rebels Assad accuses Israel of aiding.

These developments led Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to tell Israel’s Army Radio that “These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that’s why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such arms,” adding that Israel had the right to defend itself.

And the US response to Putin sending those missiles to Syria was that it could embolden Assad’s forces and prolong the conflict. “It’s at the very least an unfortunate decision that will embolden the regime and prolong the suffering, so it’s ill-timed and very unfortunate,” said General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A response that is just talk…just words…just more Obama empty rhetoric.

Netanyhu’s response was more direct and to the point as he made it very clear that Israel will prevent advanced weapons from being sent from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Saying, “The Israeli government is acting in a responsible, determined and level-headed manner in order to guarantee the safety of the citizens of Israel,”…”in accordance with the policy we have set of preventing as much as possible the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. We will continue to guarantee Israel’s security interests,” he reiterated.

As we know he will.

But the simple fact that Assad just doesn’t get is that Israel has NO interest or intention in getting involved in Syria’s civil war and would only attack as a last resort, as in if Syria crossed Israel’s ‘red line’ regarding a weapons transfer to Hezzbolah. And this is why Israel recently bombed a weapons storage facility in Damascus, because their intelligence reports indicated the facility housed advanced missiles with the ability to hit Tel Aviv, and that they were ready to be transferred to Hezbollah. And while Assad said he would retaliate and issued a statement through Syrian information minister, Omran al-Zoubi, saying that his troops have the right to enter the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights whenever they wish in response to those air strikes, it does NOT appear to be happening as Israeli intelligence does NOT show Assad having moved any weapons or forces anywhere near the area.  And Assad might be hesitant to open yet another front against Israel with his army already stretched thin in his fight with the rebels.

So while on the surface al-Zoubi's statement appears as just a veiled threat to Israel to stay out of Syria’s conflict and nothing more, it’s important to remember that Assad has a history of operating through proxies, such as Hezbollah and other radical Syrian-based Palestinian factions, that could very well launch attacks on Israel from the Golan Heights.

But, and this is critical for both Russia and Assad to remember, Israel stands by its ‘red lines’ and this ups the game and makes Israel a force to be reckoned with for Israel will NOT go down like a sheep to the slaughter at the hands of Syria, Russia, or her assorted other enemies.

A US/Russian planned peace conference is scheduled for next month but will most likely amount to NOTHING, as the rebels insist on a promise that Assad will step down and Assad insisting he does NOT negotiate with terrorists, which is what he calls the rebels. So the fighting will continue and Israel will still be on the fringe of the fighting, waiting to be drawn into a war they really want NO part of.

And our muslim sympathizing, anti-Israel president Barack HUSSEIN Obama is seriously considering getting us involved in Syria’s civil war by arming the al-Qaeda supported rebels, and former National Security Adviser, retired Marine General James Jones agrees, showing just how far we’ve fallen under this administration...fallen so far that we would even consider arming a group with ties to al-Qaeda.

Nothing like going against Russia and stabbing Israel in the bank in one fell swoop but this is classic Obama and could very well come back to haunt him, for the ghosts of four Americans hang over both Benghazi and his already illegally done (in my opinion) gun running operation to Syria as well.

Could scandal number 4 be just around the corner…