Coburn: Constituents link IRS audits to Mitt Romney donations

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/301529-coburn-oklahoma-constituents-suggesting-that-irs-audited-major-romney-donors

get ready for mr. toads wild ride.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

"What I would tell you, is our whistleblower side is lit up," Coburn said Thursday on the news channel. "And I got a phone call yesterday and one of the things I want to know is, everybody that contributed to Romney, I want to know what their audit rate was because the indications out of Oklahoma are right now is if you happened to be a conservative and wealthy and gave to Romney, you had an audit where you'd never gotten an audit before. 

 "And so there are a lot of questions that still have to be answered," Coburn said. "Maybe that's untrue but that's certainly the implication from people that are calling me from Oklahoma."

classic right wing smear with out substance ,here we go again they are making unfounded accusations coupled with "they don't know if it's true. i have no evidence, that's what the people think", if Romney had been targeted their was enough millions out there to pick up on it, they spent the whole campaign trying to fid some dirt, but missed this and opted to tell refuted lies over and over like they were true.

Who were the 4 U.S. citizens killed in drone strikes?

 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57585798/who-were-the-4-u.s-citizens-killed-in-drone-strikes/

those who have read my thoughts know i have respect for those who lose their lives and their survivors, and in the same sentence i'm saying i got nothing for Americans who plan death and destruction for other Americans, that said i don't pray for the souls of those who would end yours like i do for innocents and those fighting the good fight against those who would do us harm.

4 dead by drone strike or those innocents of the Benghazi 4 do not rise to the level of thousands bdead and mourning because of ignoring intel and lying to fake a retaliatory response on the wrong country for reasons not as stated going after those who tried to kill us, there is nothing that is more egregious than all those thousands impacted by right wing indifference and arrogance of their own decisions.

On Wednesday, the Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time that four Americans were killed in drone strikes since 2009as part of U.S. counterterrorism activities surrounding al Qaeda . Of the four, only one of them, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted, according to Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. The following are descriptions of the four men killed in drone operations. 

this is a baked up over cooked effort to create division among Americans and our President, stop and think what you know, what you see, what you hear bares no simiarity to what republicans are manufacturing because it's false and created in the heads of those who for the last 4 years have done just this nothing else just this, and you know it's true.

2014 is in your hands as is 2016 what you will do only you and the Good Lord know you will never hold the sole knowledge of your decisions there is always a witness you can't avoid.

'Primal Scream' for Reform: LA's 77 Percent Vote to Overturn 'Citizens United'

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174515/primal-scream-reform-las-77-percent-vote-overturn-citizens-united

where are those right wing, "the founding fathers meant"...?

America is experiencing a rare and dramatic moment of grassroots advocacy for fundamental reform of our elections.

Unfortunately, the political and media elites that define our discourse are doing their best to ignore it.

So it remains in America as it has ever been; Thomas Jefferson was indeed right when he suggested to George Mason that: “More attention should be paid to the general opinion.”

And the general opinion is that the money power, which has come to dominate our politics, must be checked and balanced.

cherry picking what rights and amendments you honor and dismiss is half cocked governing, you don't get to pick and chose what you will honor they took an oath for the whole ball of wax, not just what works for them and the rich that was backwards, the rich and then them if the rich say it's ok.

The Los Angeles Times, arguably the dominant media outlet in the community, actively opposed the measure, “Proposition C,” with editorials and signed opinion pieces ripping it as “a primal scream about the role of money in politics.”

The voters decided to scream. As loudly as they could.

Seventy-seven percent of them voted “yes”; just 23 percent voted “no.”

That’s a reasonably typical result—similar to the levels of support seen in Colorado and Montana when the those states weighed in on the issue last fall.

this should be a wake up call, it can be beaten we saw it in 2008 and again 2012, we can do this quadruple threat 2014 and 2016, just remember and believe "YES WE CAN".

Food Stamp Cuts Backed By Farm Subsidy Beneficiaries

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/food-stamp-cuts_n_3324418.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

me me me in congress, no surprise

WASHINGTON -- House Agriculture Committee Republicans who vocally supported billions in cuts to federal food assistance are big-time recipients of government help in the form of farm subsidies.

Reps. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) both cited the Bible last week to argue that while individual Christians have a responsibility to feed the poor, the federal government does not.

"We're all here on this committee making decisions about other people's money," Fincher said.

LaMalfa said that while it's nice for politicians to boast about how they've helped their constituents, "That's all someone else's money."

Yet both men's farms have received millions in federal assistance, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that advocates for more conservation and fewer subsidies. LaMalfa's family rice farm has received more than $5 million in commodity subsidiessince 1995, according to the group's analysis of data from the U.S. Agriculture Department. Fincher's farm has received more than $3 million in that time.

got it they want to deny constituents in order to keep their milking of the Gov't alive and lucradtive, are you seeing that hmmmm you been experiencing lately, or if this is your first time don't worry it's just an epiphany sudden realization that you have been hit by the right wing triple play, those you were told that were destroying the economy, obstruction of life giving sustanance, and still nothing for you in the package, tired yet?

Yet both men's farms have received millions in federal assistance, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit that advocates for more conservation and fewer subsidies. LaMalfa's family rice farm has received more than $5 million in commodity subsidies since 1995, according to the group's analysis of data from the U.S. Agriculture Department. Fincher's farm has received more than $3 million in that time.

Last year alone, Fincher's farm received $70,574 and LaMalfa's got $188,570.

Spokespeople for the congressmen did not respond to requests for comment, but both LaMalfa and Fincher have defended their right to receive subsidies in the past when challenged by conservatives during primary elections. LaMalfa told a California paper that the subsidy system is needed to keep struggling farmers "on life support."

Fincher has said his farm would have shut down without the subsidies, which he argued protect American farmers from more heavily subsidized foreign competition. "We would be all for not having government in our business," Fincher told the Washington Post in 2010, "but we need a fair system."

The federal government's complex system of farm subsidies is supposed to shield farmers from some of the uncertainties inherent to the industry, but critics like the Environmental Working Group say the safety net unfairly benefits the biggest farms at the expense of smaller ones. 

they see us as bottom of the page above the bottom line, they speak of their rights and gov't subsidies keeping them afloat, while you and yours float face down , down the river and over the falls but so far rich farmers got theirs and you well maybe a mention on 11pm news.

if they are killing us off by denying us what they get who they gonna sell their goods to Russia, Iran, Syria, China?

I Built This AK-47. It's Legal and Totally Untraceable.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/ak-47-semi-automatic-rifle-building-party

they are hell bent on arming as many as possible, and it ain't about gov't and defense of, 

it's about drawing down the numbers of progressive voters by those who are stupid enough to fall on the sword for agroup of people who will probably shoot him, for fear uif he was stupid enough to do it he/she is stupid enough to talk about it.

The wooden and steel parts I need to build my untraceable AK-47 fit within a slender, 15-by-12-inch cardboard box. I first lay eyes on them one Saturday morning in the garage of an eggshell-white industrial complex near Los Angeles. Foldout tables ring the edges of the room, surrounding two orange shop presses. The walls, dusty and stained, are lined with shelves of tools. I'm with a dozen other guys, some sipping coffee, others making introductions over the buzz of an air compressor. Most of us are strangers, but we share a common bond: We are just eight hours away from having our very own AK-47—one the government will never know about.

The AK-47, perhaps the world's best-known gun, is so easy to make and so hard to break that the Soviet-designed original has spawned countless variants, updated and modified versions churned out by factories all over the globe. Although US customs laws ban importing the weapons, parts kits—which include most original components of a Kalashnikov variant—are legal. So is reassembling them, as long as no more than 10 foreign-made components are used and they are mounted on a new receiver, the box-shaped central frame that holds the gun's key mechanics. There are no fussy irritations like, say, passing a background check to buy a kit. And because we're assembling the guns for our own "personal use," whatever that may entail, we're not required to stamp in serial numbers. These rifles are totally untraceable, and even under California's stringent assault weapons ban, that's perfectly within the law.

notice the title "i built this AK47, now tell me that wasn't a jab at Pres. and his "you didn't buil;t that" saying no matter what you do we will cling to our guns, didn't Pres. say that and they denied, decried and all tongue tied, looks like in defiance they are confirming his assessment.

Among those ready to get going at this "build party" (none of whom wanted their names used) are a father-son duo getting in some bonding time and a well-bellied sixtysomething with a white Fu Manchu who "loves" the click-ack! sound of a round being chambered. Assembling a Romanian variant is a builder wearing a camo jacket and a hat embroidered with an AR-15 rifle above the legend "Come and take it." His knuckle tattoos read "PRAY HARD."

We crowd in as our three hosts, all expert gun assemblers, hand out waivers with a list of questions: Are you a convicted felon? Ever been dishonorably discharged from the military? Addicted to drugs? Mentally unstable? The guy in camo looks up and, to much laughter, says, "So it's all 'No,' right?"

isn't that tantamount too creating a gun registry?  guess it's ok if they keep a list and clinging to their unread Bibles too. their list must be to weed out those not crazy enough to be in their army, and those willing to be a Kamikaze for the cause. being played so easily is the primary tool of induction to the right wing fringe.

GW Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on".   worst than AL QAEDA and it come from down home.America but patriots, by no means.

How Long Can House Republicans Go Before Turning On Each Other

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katenocera/how-long-can-house-republicans-go-before-turning-on-each-oth

unfair question, they already have.

WASHINGTON — The Republican Conference is experiencing something it hasn’t had in a long time: unity.

Speaker John Boehner has overseen one of the most bitter and divided conferences in recent memory. Conservatives have consistently, and openly, defied him, while moderates have publicly criticized the rightward lean of the GOP under his stewardship.

is that overseeing or overlooked by those he would lead?

But those divisions are, at least for now, taking a backseat to Republican unity, thanks to a series of ugly Obama administration scandals, a lack of crises needing immediate attention and shrewd scheduling decisions that have kept divisive issues off the floor.

“Yes, Todd Rokita has faith in leadership. We are best when we are bold, it’s a new day,” said Rep. Todd Rokita, referring to himself in the third person at a Heritage Foundation event. “And I don’t mean just because of the IRS scandal— what ever this environment is, it’s a new day it’s a new Congress.” 

more IMO sdds, new congress only in face no difference if not worst then the last no nothings.

the muddling along is because their is no universal consistency as to a plan, it's day by day hoping for another disaster to spin in to polyester republican speak.  you heard one say something and within hours another or others come out in a different window, lock step gone off cadence in.

“Yeah I think there’s a little spring in our step these days,” Rep. Richard Hudson told BuzzFeed. But Hudson acknowledged the reality that all the intra-party love that’s going on may be nothing more than scandal induced sugar high, and that once Boehner tries to force tough decisions on his conference, it could all fall apart.

“The real test will be the debt limit,” he said, adding, “we’ve got a while to go before then, things could change.”

Rep. Justin Amash, who often bucks his leadership and voted against Boehner for speaker, said he was more skeptical of Boehner’s ability to keep his promises. 

they are faking that inter party kumbaya moments, and the same venom they spit on Pres. is falling on their suits too.  which shows independent thinking of sorts that old established ones don't like and the disenetion of those of T-Party idiocy love they want to take over that party how can there not be an internal civil war?

any pep in their step comes from who ever spiked the drinks. "Yeah I think there's a little spring in our step these days," Rep. Richard Hudson told BuzzFeed. But Hudson acknowledged the reality that all the intra-party love that's going on may be nothing more than scandal induced sugar high, and that once Boehner tries to force tough decisions on his conference, it could all fall apart.

"The real test will be the debt limit," he said, adding, "we've got a while to go before then, things could change."

Rep. Justin Amash, who often bucks his leadership and voted against Boehner for speaker, said he was more skeptical of Boehner's ability to keep his promises. 

they are faking that inter party kumbaya moments, and the same venom they spit on Pres. is falling on their suits too.  which shows independent thinking of sorts that old established ones don't like and the disenetion of those of T-Party idiocy love they want to take over that party how can there not be an internal civil war?

any pep in their step comes from who ever spiked the drinks.  only time jobs were mentioned lately that they have been centered on them was in that BS after Obama speech that was it he said it once then back to the usual suspoects, Obama, Obama, Obama oh and Hillary and Benghazi, and IRS, but no jobs mentioned, so that tag in his hand in the pic featured just a prop. you can see the distresson his face, he can't keep up the deception much longer he's going to see the little men in white coats coming to his door.

New gay-rights battleground: Virginia

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/virginia-gay-rights-terry-mcauliffe-ew-jackson-91763.html?hp=t1

they must have read my post yesterday about Va.'s manifesto.  

http://nicksperusals.blogspot.com/2013/05/koch-brother-to-host-fundraiser-for-ken.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NicksPerusals+%28Nick%27s+perusals%29

because there war on women was close second to the other right wing governed states

Welcome to the gay rights battleground of Virginia.

Yes, you read that right. In the 2013 off-year elections, a state that once leaned solidly to the center-right has become the newest focal point in the national debate over same-sex relationships. 

A gubernatorial race already defined partly along culture-war lines has grown even more contentious since last weekend, when Virginia Republicans nominated as their lieutenant governor candidate a firebrand minister who has called gays “very sick people psychologically” and suggested a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia.

and that stance has not changed by that party bigotry is basic intollerance of another, so the influence has to come from the progressive candidate.

Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive coverage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-business-owners-resist-providing-employees-with-contraceptive-coverage/2013/05/22/e3556778-bf25-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?hpid=z1

wonder how many atheist and transgressors are claiming that status just to keep from incurring that expense which helps to insure employee heath and longevity.

CHICAGO — Religiously devout business owners are waging a broad rebellion against providing their employees with contraceptive coverage, bringing dozens of lawsuits that seem certain to land the issue before the Supreme Court.

The company owners say their religious beliefs take precedence over a new federal requirement, contained in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, that they give employees insurance that covers contraceptives. 

those that claim this exemption on the basis of devout religious conviction i would say are blasphemors and not as devout as claimed in religious beliefs.

http://www.openbible.info/topics/brothers_and_sisters_in_christ

The legal battle took an important step forward Wednesday when an appeals court here heard arguments in two cases brought by business owners who are Catholic. Another challenge is scheduled to be heard Thursday by an appeals court in Denver, and two other courts are set to hear similar cases over the next two weeks.

being catholic just enforces the rights sought by employees, 98% have or are using contraception, 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/07/1062505/-Sorry-GOP-Poll-of-Catholics-finds-majority-supports-birth-control-coverage

Cuccinelli Named Prosecutor To Probe McDonnell's Disclosure Forms

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cuccinelli-named-prosecutor-to-probe-mcdonnells-disclosure-forms

In an awkward turn of events, it was revealed Wednesday that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether Gov. Bob McDonnell, a fellow Republican and supporter of Cuccinelli's gubernatorial bid this year, violated state disclosure laws.

"I did what I have consistently tried to do as attorney general, which is to uphold the law impartially," Cuccinelli said in a statement, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I made a referral to Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Mike Herring in November 2012 to conduct an investigation into possible violations of financial disclosure provisions, as information came to my attention that triggered my requirement to look into the matter.

now we have special republicans investigating other republicans why does fox guarding the hen house come to mind?

it will be very interesting to see if there are any charges levelled against the gov. or will they continue on the road to deceive us.

another peculiar incident Koch Bros. are giving him a fundraiser, is this the rally round the other guy and oust the old one?

http://nicksperusals.blogspot.com/2013/05/koch-brother-to-host-fundraiser-for-ken.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NicksPerusals+%28Nick%27s+perusals%29

Anthony Weiner Avoided Nasty Tabloid Covers

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/anthony-weiner-tabloid-covers-mayor.php?ref=fpa

Anthony Weiner’s announcement of his long-rumored mayoral campaign sparked a media frenzy, but he managed to avoid seeing his face plastered on the front pages of the two tabloid newspapers that relentlessly lampooned him during the 2011 Twitter photo scandal that ended his congressional career. By launching his bid via a video posted on his website around midnight Wednesday Weiner prevented the New York Daily News and New York Post from featuring him and lewd puns on their covers, leaving staffers at the papers convinced it was a deliberate dodge. 

good move out foxing the FOX, don't despair they will still do their spin dance and tell their fact less story.
we need the fire Weiner exhibits his passion is that strong republicans can't talk him down or over talk he will get his point out.

short and sweet Appalachian guy lied and committed fornication and neglected his job and the right wing put him back him mostly to keep the seat war.

although it was tasteless what Wiener did but he did not betray public trust, never did he pledge not to send 8x10 glossies of his junk thorough the Internet, he never met with the recipient he never walked away from his job to fornicate, so what the fuss he need this guy fighting on our side don't be self righteous be for your parity.  i feel confident he can keep it on the down low, in his pants.

Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/oklahoma-senators-disaster-relief_n_3309234.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

right wing chickens are continually coming home to roost.

WASHINGTON -- As frantic rescue missions continued Monday in Oklahoma following thecatastrophic tornadoes that ripped through the state, it appeared increasingly likely that residents who lost homes and businesses would turn to the federal government for emergency disaster aid. That could put the state's two Republican senators in an awkward position.

Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn, both Republicans, are fiscal hawks who have repeatedly voted against funding disaster aid for other parts of the country. They also have opposed increased funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which administers federal disaster relief.

Late last year, Inhofe and Coburn both backed a plan to slash disaster relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy. In a December press release, Coburn complained that the Sandy Relief bill contained "wasteful spending," and identified a series of items he objected to, including "$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies." 

they are not caring about the voters they claim allegiance to, like cantor they need to screw another part of society in order to approve saving their own.

Coburn spokesman John Hart on Monday evening confirmed that the senator will seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget. "That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Hart said. "He supported offsets to the bill funding the OKC bombing recovery effort." Those offsets were achieved in 1995 by tapping federal funds that had not yet been appropriated.

In 2011, both senators opposed legislation that would have granted necessary funding for FEMA when the agency was set to run out of money. Sending the funds to FEMA would have been "unconscionable," Coburn said at the time.

they claim right to life and deny it in the next breath, those who voted for these persons, how you feel about yourself?  they really need to change the oath of office to pledge to deprive one half of the country in order to save a fraction of it, stinks of disdain for those they have to help with disaster but mixed because of the pleasure of cutting something for the rest of us.

Darrell Issa Withdraws Subpoena For Thomas Pickering After He Agrees To Private Meeting

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/darrell-issa-subpoena_n_3321620.html

WASHINGTON -- A House committee chairman has withdrawn a subpoena to compel a retired diplomat to answer questions in private about an independent investigation of last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh) says he acted after Thomas Pickering agreed to meet with the House Oversight and Committee Reform Committee behind closed doors.

Pickering and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen led the investigation into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomat mission. Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, were killed.

Pickering had offered to testify before Issa's committee in public. But Issa said a private meeting was needed first so the committee could understand how the investigation was conducted.

is there another motive for this "compromise"? is he afraid of more of his witch hunting will not reveal what he and his party has all but signed the warrant on the WH. and he has more egg to clean off his radically aggressive pursuit ofhis own truth?

why do the republicans keep wasting our money on unproven accusations of wrong doing?  they question with the voracity of TV and movie DA's we have the benefit of knowing the innocents of the accused yet they push forward like they stole something from their mothers.

if they just have to prosecute wrong doing start with the people in the mirror of their bathrooms.

Is This Big Tea Party Group Really an Innocent Victim of the IRS?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/tea-party-patriots-irs-complaint

Tea Party Patriots cofounder Jenny Beth Martin has been all over the airwaves since the IRS story broke, talking about how her group was among those whose applications for nonprofit status were unfairly targeted for extra scrutiny. She has called the IRS's actions a "disturbing, illegal, and outrageous abuse of government power." 

She told Fox News that Tea Party Patriots wants the agency repay it for expenses it incurred as a result of the "intrusive" questions it asked, including requests for "every single post on Facebook" and "every comment that any person who's a fan of ours on Facebook had ever made." 

On Friday, lawyers for her group sent a letter to the IRS alerting the agency to coming lawsuits over its "illegal" conduct.

But while the IRS has admitted to unfairly targeting some conservative groups, Tea Party Patriots, a national umbrella organization for the grassroots movement, may not have been one of them. As I reported last week, although IRS officials engaged in misconduct, they also may have had good reason in some cases to scrutinize groups whose financial and tax histories raised questions, including Tea Party Patriots. 

The group engaged in a type of creative accounting that the IRS said it specifically planned to crack down on, and TPP drew criticism from some of its own constituents for a lack of financial transparency. Moreover, the IRS received a formal complaint about TPP—when I filed one in 2011 after the group refused to provide me with a financial disclosure required by law.

another need for amendment, there should be a court ordered hold on those who are being investigated if enough reason is present to proceed, give them the innocent before proven guilty, but don't let them cry foul before their innocents is assured. 

not like those crying who practice that type of politics daily mostly against Pres. and this admin. who time and again come up innocent of the right wing assumption.

accusers who under oath say "i have no evidence", should not be allowed to put out the idea if they have no tangible proof, too many take the lie and run with it.  talk about spending we don't know the cost of those inquisitions but they do, and although they fail they do it again like 37 times for ACA, WHO'S SPENDING YOUR MONEY REALLY?

When I first started covering the tea party movement in mid-2009, TPP had quickly emerged as one of its biggest players. It began in February 2009 as a loosely organized group of activists, officially incorporating that June as a self-identified 501(c)4 tax-exempt organization. (Nonprofits can self-designate their status even before applying officially with the IRS.) The group got heavily involved in the 2010 midterm elections: In September 2010, TPP announced that it had been given a $1 million anonymous donation to "get out the vote" during the campaign, while another wealthy anonymous donor—whom I later identified as conservative Montana millionaire Raymon Thompson—lent the group's leaders his private jet. (See this video of Martin and TPP cofounder Mark Meckler jetting around the country to rally the tea party troops just ahead of the election.)

Despite evidence that lots of money was pouring into the organization, TPP had disclosed little about its internal finances; its own members began complaining about the jet, hotel, and travel costs its leaders were running up, and a lack of transparency. Rhode Island tea party activist Marina Peterson told me then that the large anonymous donation troubled her, especially because she had no idea what the national leaders were doing with it. "How do we know we want to take that money if we don't know who the person is?" she asked. "What if it was George Soros?"

you can't do things that are falsely exploiting the gov. and not mention it while accusing another of the same crime you are guilty of, like Clinton said " takes a lot a brass to accuse somebody of what you are doing".

the fact that they rigged it so their donors don't have to disclose shows me intent to deceive.  who is really trying to buy our gov't aside from the usual billionaires?

Activists Pressure Companies To Boycott Facebook Over Its Content Promoting Violence Against Women

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/22/2046491/facebook-violence-against-women-boycott/

A coalition of sexual violence prevention and women’s equality organizations are joining forces to pressure Facebook to take a stand against any messages that “trivialize or glorify” violence against women, which they say the company should recognize as gender-based hate speech. The activist groups — led by Women, Action & the Media, the Everyday Sexism Project, and author Soraya Chemaly — are asking Facebook to commit to removing this type of content from its platform. And until it does, they’re telling companies to pull their advertising from the site.

"we the people" are the number one reason we should amend, eradicate or just totally trash some of our rights that have been usurped continually through the centuries in order to appease what ever power is in charge, 1st and second are the most dangerous and inflammatory today there are others but noe that potentially have a more immediate affect on us.

those founding guys nobody knows what they had in mind, we do know all that created equal and freedom of speech is a bunch of bunk then and now.

what we need in the ranks of congress and senate are not old rich White guys who want to put a aspirin between women's legs for contraception, or the young Wite guys and token Blacks that just want you to have .......................  job, equal pay, relative pay, tax relief, safe food and water and air, we need the everyday guy who thinks in the creed of America "by and for the people", is a reality not a mind fart that never has come to fruition.

n an open letter to the organization, the groups point out that Facebook’s content moderators already police some images of women. In fact, images of mastectomies, breastfeeding mothers, and other non-sexualized depictions of women’s bodies are often removed from the site after being incorrectly labeled as pornographic. On the other hand, however, images and forums that make light of abusing and raping women are allowed to remain on the social media platform under the “humor” section of their content guidelines.

“It appears that Facebook considers violence against women to be less offensive than non-violent images of women’s bodies, and that the only acceptable representation of women’s nudity are those in which women appear as sex objects or the victims of abuse,” the groups’ open letter reads. “Your common practice of allowing this content by appending a [humor] disclaimer to said content literally treats violence targeting women as a joke.”

Facebook currently allows pages on its site called “Fly Kicking Sluts in the Uterus,” “Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs,” “This is why Indian girls are raped,” and “Punching your girlfriend in the face cuz you’re Chris Brown.” The social media site also permits pictures of battered women who are bleeding, bruised, tied up, or drugged alongside captions like “This bitch didn’t know when to shut up.” Women, Action & the Media has collected several additional graphic examples here (trigger warning). 

had enough of this right wing ideology in respect to women? they should be taken off the net but this is one of those thinks you have to pay and endure, a cost of your freedoms.

if ypou have the right to say what you want why have so many been killed or jailed for exercising that right were they the wrong Americans, did they not qualify for the big ride?

do we really have freedoms or are we under the impression we have them, go out and try and express one or two and if you don't get killed or jailed or just missing come back and tell us how you faired.