WElcome home James Traficant

[toonertoo]

NOw here is a democrat I would vote for again, and again. I saw what he did for this community. I saw what he did for the people, personally. But he peeved the IRS, and anyone else who was wrong, and he got the big weeny & yrs in prison, now hes out. I hope he hasnt lost his spark. I feel he was treated unfairly for what they "proved" he did. If this guy was in Congress still which local polls show if he ran he would win 95 to 5, it would be entertaining if nothing else. He knew how to run a railroad, and we would not be getting railroaded, if he was still there.

 

[toonertoo]

We love you
We are glad you are home
and we need you now more than ever.

 

[toonertoo]

This is what OUR government can do. Be afraid .

Whether he was guilty or not so much, we need fighters like this on both sides and we have a bunch of losers. Lets now prosecute Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank for bringing down the housing market and causing all the economic collapse that followwed. This guy, My Jimbo, did nothing of that proportion.
And exactly as he said 7 yrs ago, we hate and distrust our government.

 

[diesel96]

I'm guessing you'd feel safer with this guy speaking to our school children than our current President...

 

[toonertoo]

I'm guessing you'd feel safer with this guy speaking to our school children than our current President...

Absolutely!

 

[wkmac]

His one minute speeches before the house were always barn burners with his ever so famous "Beam Me Up!" He was/is a democrat by party but his actions were one of true independent regardless of party. And with out further ado, I give you the infamous "One Minute Speeches of James Traficant!"

ACCIDENTAL HOSPITAL DEATHS ARE HIGHER THAN ACCIDENTAL GUN DEATHS
July 26, 2000
Mr. Speaker, accidental deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in America reached 120,000 per year. Meanwhile, gun deaths have dropped 35 percent. In fact, accidental gun deaths dropped to 1,500 last year.
Think about it. We have got hospitals slicing and dicing American people like Freddie Kruger, and Congress is passing more gun laws. Beam me up. There is something wrong in America when one is 80 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than Smith & Wesson. Think about it, 80 to 1. Maybe we need a gun in surgery.
I yield back the fact that the second amendment was not written to cover just duck hunters.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RULES AT SUPREME COURT
June 20, 2000
The Supreme Court says pornography is okay and it is okay to burn the flag, that Communists can work in our defense plants, that it is okay to teach witchcraft in our schools and that it is okay for our students to write papers about the devil.
But the Supreme Court says it is illegal to write papers about Jesus, it is illegal to pray in school, and now the Supreme Court says it is even illegal to pray before a football game.
Beam me up. I thought the founders intended to create a Supreme Court, not the Supreme Being. Think about that statement.
I yield back a Supreme Court that is so politically correct they are downright stupid, so stupid they could throw themselves at the ground and miss.

WHO IS LYING ABOUT WACO?
May 17, 2000
Mr. Speaker, who is lying about Waco? Scientist Carl Ghigliotti said the FBI lied, that they did fire automatic weapons into the burning building. But Vector Data Systems of England said the FBI did not lie. Two scientific groups totally disagree.
But something stinks. Vector gets hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the FBI. Carl Ghigliotti was just found dead. To boot, FBI audio tapes of the burning building are now lost. To boot, FBI autopsy reports confiscated of victims are now missing.
Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. This is not a Justice Department. This is a cover-up. We need an investigation. Congress should pass H.R. 4105 and put some oversight on what is developing into a police state in America.

CALLING FOR A FULL INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF CARL GHIGLIOTTI
May 9, 2000
Mr. Speaker, Carl Ghigliotti, the 42-year-old scientist who investigated the Waco massacre, whose body has been missing for 2 weeks, was found dead. Ghigliotti is the man who flat out said, `The FBI is lying about Waco. The FBI did fire automatic weapons into the burning building.'
Something is wrong here, Mr. Speaker. Records now show the FBI lodged an alleged or false child abuse charge against the Davidians. The FBI denied, then admitted, using tear gas. The FBI confiscated, then supposedly lost, vital autopsy evidence that would prove what happened in Waco.
Beam me up. We have developed a stone cold police state in America, believe me, from Waco, Ruby Ridge, to Miami, Florida. Every American knows it, no one is doing anything about it. There must be a full investigation into the death of Carl Ghigliotti.
I yield back the need to pass some oversight on this Justice Department and pass my bill, H.R. 4105.

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION HAS REINVENTED COMMUNISM
December 5, 2000
Mr. Speaker, America's trade deficit for September hit $35 billion for one month, $35 billion. America is heading for a $420 billion, 1-year trade deficit.
Unbelievable. If this continues, America will have a crash that will make 1929 look like a fender-bender.
What is even worse, China is now taking $100 billion of cash out of our economy, buying missiles, and pointing them at us.
Beam us up, all of us.
We must be stupid. Ronald Reagan almost destroyed Communism, and the Clinton administration has reinvented it, is now subsidizing it, and is now stabilizing it.
I yield back any common sense left and any patriotism left in this Congress.

PINK SLIPS TO AMERICAN WORKERS WHILE WASHINGTON BAILS OUT ASIA AND BRAZIL
October 14, 1998
Mr. Speaker, Merrill Lynch just cut 3,000 jobs. Ameritech cut 5,000 jobs. Raytheon cut 14,000 jobs. Motorola cut 15,000 jobs. AT&T cut 20,000 jobs. Boeing cut 30,000 jobs. Jobs lost. Jobs lost. And Japan, Russia, Brazil and Korea are
destroying our steel industry and getting away with it. Illegal trade, getting away with it.
Unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. While Washington is bailing out Asia and Brazil, American workers are getting the pink slips because of in fact illegal trade from people we are giving loans to.
Beam me up. We were not elected to the United Nations. We were elected to the Congress of the United States and Congress should take care of America first, before there is not a job left here.
I yield back the balance of any jobs left in this country.

And if you thought this was something new

BAILOUT FOR RICH FAT CATS ON WALL STREET
October 13, 1998
Mr. Speaker, check this out. A bunch of rich, fat cats on Wall Street, through their hedge fund, gambled $100 billion on the Russian ruble with borrowed American money.
We can figure it out, they lost big time and the Fed had to bail them out saying if they did not, there could possibly be a depression in America.
Unbelievable, is it not? Think about it. Bailout for Russia, bailout for Japan, bailout for Mexico, bailout for rich fat cats gambling with our money, and now we are talking about an $18 billion bailout for Brazil and Russia, who are dumping steel illegally in America destroying our economy.
Beam me up.
What is next? Foreign aid for China? I do not think Congress will wise up until Uncle Sam needs a bailout. I yield back whatever money is left.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE NOT ON TRIAL
September 17, 1998
Mr. Speaker, first there was the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Dan Burton), then the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Paul McHale), now our great chairman, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Henry Hyde).
Let us tell it like it is. The same White House that destroyed Billy Dale, the same White House that called Monica Lewinsky a liar, the same White House that abandoned Lonnie Guinier is on the attack.
It is time to ask, Congress: How many files of American citizens were illegally transferred from the FBI to the White House and who ordered it? Are you on the list? Are you on the list? Am I on that list?
Enough is enough. The gentleman from Indiana, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, and the gentleman from Illinois are not on trial. It is time for the House of Representatives to tell the White House that their `spin to win' could provoke `the move to remove.'
In America, the people govern. And America is a Nation of laws. I yield back the balance of my time in the soap opera in Washington, D.C.

JANET RENO SHOULD LEAD OR GET OUT OF THE WAY
September 9, 1998
Mr. Speaker, this Monica matter is serious, but it pales in comparison to the reports that the White House was bribed with Chinese money. Unbelievable.
I don't know if it's true, but I know one thing. Janet Reno has turned her back on both the American people and the Constitutuion.
Let's tell it like it is. Janet Reno should either lead or get out of the way. I say to my colleagues, Monica is a fly on her face. This Chinese money is a dragon eating her assets.
I say, Janet Reno has two decisions to make. One is to appoint an independent counsel to scrutinize and investigate this madness, or number two, Janet Reno should resign. I urge my colleagues to think about it.
I yield back the balance of any national security we may have left.

REGULATIONS COST THE TAXPAYERS BILLIONS
July 29, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the Lord's prayer is 66 words. The Gettysburg Address is 286 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,322 words. U.S. regulations on the sale of cabbage, that is right cabbage, is 27,000 words.
Now that is enough to give Hulk Hogan's dictionary a hernia. Check this out. Regulatory red tape in America costs taxpayers $400 billion every year, over $4,000 each year, every year, year in, year out, for every family. Beam me up. With regulations like this, it is no wonder American jobs keep moving overseas.
Mr. Speaker, I want to yield back all of the reg writing bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. that never stood in an unemployment line.

AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
July 22, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the World Bank makes loans to communists with American dollars. The World Trade Organization regularly rips us off. The United Nations sends American troops into war. That is right. We are not sending the Peace Corps here, folks.
If that is not enough to compromise your Viagra, the United Nations has created a world court with universal authority and jurisdiction. Unbelievable. What is next, a world tax? Beam me up.
I say the Constitution of the United States should not be surrendered to a bunch of international bureaucrats who regularly rule against us, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, I do not know about you, but I did not pledge an oath to the charter of the United Nations. I pledged an oath to the Constitution of the United States and I think the Congress of the United States should put its foot down before we become known as background music in some doctor's office. I yield back any courage we have left.

 

[wkmac]

BTW Tooner: I posted this yesterday (Thursday) morning so no use having 2 threads on the same subject. Go ahead and delete my thread and leave yours since you posted several more vids. of Traficant. I started to post those as well but just decided the one was a good opener. Thanks for posting the others and thanks for voting to send James to Washington. I didn't always agree but he always got in the face of Washington DC with just straight up ole "blue collar" common sense and I always admired that. I'd roll in delight even if I disagreed every time he'd utter those infamous words, "BEAM ME UP!" GOD I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!

Traficant was very outspoken against the IRS as the video above portrays and like former Idaho Congressman George Hansen who dare expose the IRS in Congress and to the public in his book, "To Harass Our People" and Ron Paul in resigning from the republican party in 1987' even spoke of Hansen in his resignation letter.

Under Reagan, the IRS has grown bigger, richer, more powerful, and more arrogant. In the words of the founders of our country, our government has "sent hither swarms" of tax gatherers "to harass our people and eat out their substance." His officers jailed the innocent George Hansen, with the President refusing to pardon a great American whose only crime was to defend the Constitution.
Reagan's new tax "reform" gives even more power to the IRS. Far from making taxes fairer or simpler, it deceitfully raises more revenue for the government to waste.​

Ultimately Hansen's innocense prevailed before the Supreme Court but at what cost to an innocent man who dare speak out to power and for the little guy? BTW: All you flat taxers and Fair Taxers owe a great debt to George as it was he in the early 80's who dare propose a flat tax and ending the whole filing and record keeping process of taxation in this country. George opened a door that forced a whole new way of discussion and now I see radio talk show hosts profitting from the sacrifice without once ever giving credit.

Ahead of you deleting the "Truth to Power" thread, I will pull over one link from it and it is from Wednesday's LRC blog celebrating Traficant's release.

Heroic James Traficant Freed!

Thanks again for posting the vids.

 

[wkmac]

Not to hijack the thread from Traficant but George Hansen helped introduce the term "Diesel Therapy" beyond the prison yard and to the larger general population who unknown to themselves are nothing more at best than trustees in the Prison State.

No one is safe and it's just a matter of when they want to scoop any of us up!

 

[toonertoo]

http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Traficant-Now-on-Probation/Anc4H4s4C0mgT5CT-3HDog.cspx

A party in Jims honor, I may go, if I do Ill let you know.
I am not sure if with his conviction he could hold any office, or if he would want to. But if he ran he would win. They broke the mold, hopefully not the man!

 

[wkmac]

Tooner,

I don't know what Jim has planned but he may be more effective (more vocal with less pressure to play the party political rules, not that it stopped him) out of office than when he was in. He has no reason now to not just blow the lid off the hypocracy and corruption that he saw day in and day out. I hope at some point like Hansen that he's vindicated by a higher court if for no other reason than to piss off the people that gloried in his fall!

 

[toonertoo]

http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/sep/07/same-old-jimbo/

 

[wkmac]

Hey Tooner

 

[toonertoo]

 

[wkmac]

God Bless you Tooner!

I would have posted this but it just looked to scary.

 

[toonertoo]

I will be there at Firestone Park!

 

[toonertoo]

Extremely disappointed by the interview on Greta.

 

[toonertoo]

But he bounces back at the Columbiana tea party, Im still looking for part 2

 

[wkmac]

Extremely disappointed by the interview on Greta.

He raised some interesting points with Greta, some very often not so tasteful a subject in our world. However, one only need go back to Dec. 2001' in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and look at FoxNews and 4 reports done by Carl Cameron. Is it possible Traficant may have some real substance to what he's saying or what he's not said yet!

Now nothing definitive is proven by this one way or the other and after these reports, FoxNews didn't visit the subject again. In fact, Fox News, Carl Cameron specifically and then ABC News in 2002' doing a similar but separate story on domestic Israeli operations were hit hard with strong pressure to put the cobash on the nosey media efforts. As revealed in a 2007' story from Counterpunch:

Choking off the press coverage

There was similar pressure brought against the media venues that ventured to report out the allegations of 9/11-related Israeli espionage. A former ABC News employee high up in the network newsroom told me that when ABC News ran its June 2002 exposé on the celebratory New Jersey Israelis, “Enormous pressure was brought to bear by pro-Israeli organizations” — and this pressure began months before the piece was even close to airing. The source said that ABC News colleagues wondered, “how they [the pro-Israel organizations] found out we were doing the story. Pro-Israeli people were calling the president of ABC News. Barbara Walters was getting bombarded by calls. The story was a hard sell but ABC News came through the management insulated [reporters] from the pressure.”
The experience of Carl Cameron, chief Washington correspondent at Fox News Channel and the first mainstream U.S. reporter to present the allegations of Israeli surveillance of the 9/11 hijackers, was perhaps more typical, both in its particulars and aftermath. The attack against Cameron and Fox News was spearheaded by a pro-Israel lobby group called the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), which operated in tandem with the two most highly visible powerhouse Israel lobbyists, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (itself currently embroiled in a spy scandal connected to the Defense Department and Israeli Embassy). “CAMERA peppered the [explitive] out of us,” Carl Cameron told me in 2002, referring to an e-mail bombardment that eventually crashed the Fox News.com servers. Cameron himself received 700 pages of almost identical e-mail messages from hundreds of citizens (though he suspected these were spam identities). CAMERA spokesman Alex Safian later told me that Cameron’s upbringing in Iran, where his father traveled as an archeologist, had rendered the reporter “very sympathetic to the Arab side.” Safian added, “I think Cameron, personally, has a thing about Israel” — coded language implying that Cameron was an anti-Semite. Cameron was outraged at the accusation. According to a source at Fox News Channel, the president of the ADL, Abraham Foxman, telephoned executives at Fox News’ parent, News Corp., to demand a sit-down in the wake of the Cameron reportage. The source said that Foxman told the News Corp. executives, “Look, you guys have generally been pretty fair to Israel. What are you doing putting this stuff out there? You’re killing us.” The Fox News source continued, “As good old boys will do over coffee in Manhattan, it was like, well, what can we do about this? Finally, Fox News said, ‘Stop the e-mailing. Stop slamming us. Stop being in our face, and we’ll stop being in your face — by way of taking our story down off the web. We will not retract it; we will not disavow it; we stand by it. But we will at least take it off the web.’ ” Following this meeting, within four days of the posting of Cameron’s series on Fox News.com, the transcripts disappeared, replaced by the message, “This story no longer exists.”

What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks?

By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM


Even the Sunday Herald in Scotland raised serious questions about our ally in the Middle East. And from Le Monde in Paris we have this:

After the attacks of September 11, very little detailed information had come out about the arrest of some sixty Israelis. Finally, from the 11th to the 14th of December 2001, the Fox News television channel aired an investigation in four parts into Israeli espionage in the United States, in the broadcast "Carl Cameron Investigates." The Israeli embassy in Washington immediately responded by stating that it did not contain "anything true." American Jewish organizations such JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), AIPAC (America-Israel Political Action Committee) and others, denounced the report as a "machination." Fox withdrew from its Internet site, one day and half after its posting, all the material related to this investigation.

Le Monde requested three times with Fox News to provide a tape of the broadcast. It was never done. On February 26, Fox told our correspondent in New York that sending it posed "a problem," without being specific. Le Monde, however took note of the whole script in this investigation. Carl Cameron evokes "a vast secret investigation held there" relating to "140 Israelis made to pass for students of the University of Jerusalem or Betzalel Academy of Arts [which have] unceasingly sought to come into contact with civil servants and, according to a document, targeted and penetrated military bases, dozens of buildings of the DEA, FBI, and others."

FoxNews may not fear democrats, liberals or the Obama adminstration but it sure seems they might fear others! But even the Jewish Daily "Forward" reported much of this story so it's important to discern between true honest citizens and rogue actors who are using power and the state for pure self interests. Even one of our local weekly papers was in the eye of the storm exposing this issue back in March 2002 and it was this paper's editor who leaked the info to Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com that began the cascade across the internet at the time.

As I said, what Traficant suggested may not be comfortable but I think we need to distinguish between a State appartus or some using such from it's general citizen population and more specific, it's general population of people and their customs and social, moral and religious ways. Like most societies with extreme elements within, even rogue actors among it's govt's, these elements are most often exceptions and not the rule when it comes to the non political connected general population.


A voice worthy of our friendship and support.

 

[toonertoo]

Part 2 Columbiana county tea party

 

[toonertoo]

Who can disagree?