Freedom Alliance Responds to Allegations Against Sean Hannity
by Freedom AllianceDear Friends of Freedom Alliance:
This week, false and malicious allegations about Freedom Alliance were posted on the Internet and we want to address them with you. We don’t know the motivation for these vicious smears, but we will not allow them to go unanswered.
First, we want to thank you for your support and assure you that Freedom Alliance’s record of financial stewardship and programmatic achievements not only meets, but exceeds standards of program efficiency set by most charity evaluators. We are extraordinarily proud of our work at Freedom Alliance and stand by our efforts 100 percent.
False Accusations
1. The blog posting accuses our friend Sean Hannity of personally benefiting from Freedom Alliance. This is FALSE. Freedom Alliance has never provided planes, hotels, cars, limos, or anything else to Sean. Sean gets nothing from Freedom Alliance except our gratitude for his personal generosity and for all he has done to help the troops and our organization. We have never had to ask Sean for anything, he always generously offers his help before we have a chance to ask him. But to be clear Sean pays for all his own transportation, hotels, and all related expenses for himself and his family and friends and staff, which over the years has added up to tens of thousands of dollars. He does not use any Freedom Alliance Funds or Concert funds in any way, period.
2. Sean Hannity has contributed $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation, over $200,000 to the Freedom Alliance, and over tens of thousands of dollars to other military charities and individuals. We only make this information public because of the outrageous slander against him. Sean has no management or operational involvement in, or control over, Freedom Alliance. He has been a selfless patriot in his efforts to raise funds for the education of children of armed services personnel.
3. The blog posting accuses Freedom Alliance of spending less than 20% of money raised on program activities. This is FALSE. Listed below are the amounts that Freedom Alliance spent for each of the past three years and the categories on which they were spent. The figures are taken from our Federal Form 990 which is filed with the Internal Revenue Service and posted on our web site and audited by an independent auditor using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This financial record not only meets, but exceeds standards of program efficiency set by most charity evaluators.
4. In 2008, Freedom Alliance spent a total of $6,745,717. Of that:
• • •
79 percent ($5,317,970) was spent on Program Activities 14 percent ($945,950) was spent on Fundraising 7 percent ($481,797) was spent on Management
In 2007, Freedom Alliance spent a total of $7,461,350. Of that:
• 81.5 percent ($6,084,474) was spent on Program Activities • 13.5 percent ($1,011,501) was spent on Fundraising • 5 percent ($365,375) was spent on Management
In 2006, Freedom Alliance spent a total of $7,064,839. Of that:
• 77 percent ($5,434,538) was spent on Program Activities • 18.5 percent ($1,308,414) was spent on Fundraising • 4.5 percent ($321,887) was spent on Management
5. The blog posting accuses Freedom Alliance of spending money intended for student scholarships on other expenses. This is FALSE. Freedom Alliance has distributed $3.4 million in Scholarships and created a Scholarship Trust Fund with the additional money that we have raised for that program. That fund now contains $15 million, over $10 million of which has been raised by Hannity and the concerts. Our scholarship program is managed with the understanding that it will be needed for at least the next 20 years as there are children who will ultimately receive a scholarship who are now only a few years old. As indicated on our Federal Form 990, these funds are restricted and used only for future scholarships.
6. Our Scholarship Fund is one of four programs operated by Freedom Alliance. Supporters may donate to a specific program or for general operating purposes. In 2008, Freedom Alliance received $2.1 million in scholarship donations. The same year, we awarded $802,250 in scholarships and applied $1.3 million to our Scholarship Trust Fund. The funds donated by Sean Hannity directly — or through the proceeds of the Freedom Concerts — and the support of thousands of Americans are used for these purposes:
• Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund: Providing scholarships to those whose parents have been killed or severely injured in their service to our Country. There is now over $15 million in the scholarship fund for the students as they come of age.
• Support our Troops: Many events each year are planned and executed by our staff to show appreciation and provide special opportunities for those actively serving in the military.
• Leadership Academy: A program for high school students in which they are encouraged and trained to serve their country.
These programs would not be possible without the support of Mr. Hannity and many others.
We are proud of our work and numerous accomplishments. We are grateful to our supporters whose voluntary contributions make it possible and we thank you. While it is discouraging to have our record misrepresented in such a malicious way, our work is important and, with your support, it will continue.
Respectfully,
Thomas P. Kilgannon, President
Oliver L. North, Founder & Honorary Chairman
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Unfortunately, as things continue to deteriorate, and spiral out of control, these incidents will become more commonplace.
Dems = liars, cheats, crooks, racists,
Saul Aliensky – nuff said !!!
I wasn't gonna buy Sean's new book, but I am now. Maybe 2, and give 1 away.
Se you at the SRLC Sean!
Trust me…Sean Hannity KNOWS how to fight back!!!
All that this attack on an honorable organization will do is increase its support. The alinsky tactics that used to work so well will not prevail, now that the good people of this country have awakened to their filthy tricks.
Sunlight is still the best disinfectant.
This is just another example of what individuals will say and do to destroy an individual or a organization that do not agree with their way of thinking. This is just stupid!! This country is heading for the S***hole because of these "PEOPLE".
These tactics will not work anymore CL. To borrow a phrase:
If they hit us, we'll hit back twice as hard.
What do"program activities" consist of?
And I see you were paid $150,000 Mr. Kilgannon.
And just who was flown around via private jet at an expense of $60 thousand?
You're busted!
This is typical of what losers always do. They can’t and don’t win in the arena of ideas and debate, so they desperately have to resort to ad hominem attacks.
Hey Anon and all you other cockroaches, WHY DON’T YOU SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY INVESTIGATING THE FRAUD AND ABUSE IN MEDICARE AND MEDICAID, WHICH IS JUST A HARBINGER OF THINGS TO COME IF BO AND HIS MERRY BAND OF COMMUNIST THUGS SEIZE CONTROL OF HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blog? What blog? Who? It would help to identify the enemy even if you don't want to give them any PR. The internet is swamped by this kind of garbage. If FA didn't respond as per above, then 99.9% of the folks would never had any idea that this ever happened.
P.S. Are their any blogs of Pelosi praying to St. Joseph that the HC bill be passed? I thought that all SF butt-pirates were big on separation between C&S?
I’m not Hannity’s biggest fan as a talk radio host, but as a decent human being, he’s always seemed top-notch to me.
Sean, you are making a difference! They despise you to the core!!!
Keep up your great work.
("Anon", for instance, just wee-weed his pants)
I posted a link to this site on Media Matters. Of course the nuggets over there are sure to say it's all a big conservative scam to defend Sean.
To them facts don't matter, but slimey stories are worth their weight in gold.
The subversives are getting even more subversive. I didn't think that possible, but apparently I was wrong.
Sorry subversives, but I stand with Sean and the Freedom Alliance.
Go crawl back under your rock commie.
Article 05 – Factors of faction & insurrection
Quote One: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Quote Two: When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Quote Three: There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Three Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
For our fifth and final article for Chapter 1 of the Federalist 2.0, we will explore the impact of factions (groups
of people with similar interests) and their associated insurrections (negative actions on society) and the
relationship these factions have to the Union of the United States of America. Thus, among the numerous
advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than a
Union’s tendency and ability to break and control the violence of factions. Factions, the friend of popular
governments, never find themselves so much cultivated due to their character and fate, as they tend to
appear due to a government’s propensity to this dangerous vice which can unleash factions that do not
preserve liberty. We will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any efforts which, without violating the
principles to which one is attached, provides a proper cure to prevent the birth of oppressive factions. The
instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public governing councils by ill intended factions, have,
in truth, historically been the mortal disease under which popular governments everywhere have perished;
such that factions, that are adversaries to liberty, continue to identify these facts as their favorite and fruitful
topics from which they derive their most specious declamations to remain in power or grow their power over
time while increasing the chaos to continue their justification to exist. The valuable improvements made by
the American constitution on the popular governing models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be
too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable bias, to contend that the current Constitution has
effectually eliminated the danger on the side of unleashing factions of vice, as was wished and expected.
They don't need since they are the one's perpetrating and benefiting from the fraud.
The Wikipedia Entry States:
Political faction is a grouping of like-minded individuals, especially within a political organization, such as a political party, a trade union, or other group. There is no single, widely accepted definition of factions or factionalism, nor broad agreement as to whether factionalism is inherent in certain institutional structures. The individuals within a faction are united in a common goal or set of common goals for the organization they are a part of, not necessarily shared by all of that organization's members. They band together as a way of achieving these goals and advancing their agenda and position within the organization. A political faction could thus be described as a “party within a party.” However, political factions are not limited to political parties; they can and frequently do form within any group that has some sort of political aim or purpose. The Latin word factio denoted originally … of the chariot teams that were organized professionally by private companies in ancient Rome. These teams were not unlike gladiator schools, but the lethal nature of that entertainment meant few performers lasted long enough to build up similar crowd loyalty to the team, while the fighters rarely actually teamed up, but rather fought duels or beasts. In Byzantine Constantinople, two such chariot factions, blue and green, repeatedly made or broke the claims of candidates to the imperial throne.1
Dictionary.com Defines: Faction
1) a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like: a faction in favor of big business.
2) party strife and intrigue; dissension: an era of faction and treason. 2
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of
public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our government is too unstable, that the
public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, with their progressive advancements, and that
legislative measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor
party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority which has the power to implement
their brand of governance and justice. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints of growing
trouble have no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some
degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under
which we live have been erroneously charged on the general operation of our government; but it will be
found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes such
as the assignment of fault to the financial system or to the “rich” and greedy citizens; and, particularly, for the
prevailing and increasing distrust of the growing number of public works and engagements, and alarm for the
evaporation of private rights, for which these events are broadcast from one end of the continent to the other.
This distress must be chiefly, if not wholly, the effect of the unsteady and unjust spirit with which factious
individuals have infiltrated our public administrations, leading their factions, with the consequence of
governing with Reason and Vice instead of Reason and Virtue. This brings us to our first “Principle of Faction
and Insurrection”, “When the citizenship of a nation complain of a government that is unstable and
increasingly oppressive, the fault does not lie in the overall structure of the government [the economy or the
citizenry], but will usually be the fault of those whom are governing the citizenship, since they have an eye of
selfish intent on the behalf of their own factions, which will lead to decisions born from Reason and Vice
resulting in unstable and oppressive governing laws and regulations.”
A pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction . . . . There is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party . . . . Hence it is that such democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been a short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
–James Madison
By a faction, as we understand it, would mean a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a
minority of the whole, who are united, actuated and motivated by some common impulse of passion, or of
interest, adversed and misaligned to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests
of the community. Such that there are two methods of curing the mischief of faction: the one, by removing its
causes; the other, by controlling its effects. Where there are also two methods of removing the causes of
faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to a faction’s existence; the other, by giving to
every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests such that no faction can grow
power significantly enough to oppress another faction, group or individual. Thus we come to our second
“Principle of Faction and Insurrection”,”There are two methods in which to cure the existence of factions, the
first would be to remove its causes; the second would be to control its effects”. Then the third “Principle of
Faction and Insurrection” would be, “ “Historically there have been two consistently used methods for
removing the causes of factions, the first method is to destroy individual liberty, through the materialistic
elimination of the owner ship of property, in order to extinguish the mechanisms that allow factions to thrive
and the second method is to give to the citizenry a idealistic norm where there would be equal opinions,
passions and interests such that no faction would be able to grow separately from the idealized norm.”
…a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles…is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.
– Benjamin Franklin
It could never be more truly said that of the first remedy, that it is worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction
what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty,
which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air,
which is essential to animal life, because it gives to fire its destructive agency [with no air there can be no
fire]. The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man
continues to be fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the
connection exists between ones reason and ones self-love, ones opinions and ones passions, with a
person’s associated vices, will it have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to
which the latter will be attached to them. The diversity in the abilities and faculties of mankind, from which
the rights of property originate, is no less an unsurpassable obstacle to a desire for a uniformity of interests
of a society. The protection of these abilities and faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal abilities and faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different
degrees and kinds of property immediately result; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and
views of the respective property owners, follows a division of the society into different interests and parties.4
The fourth “Principle of Faction and Insurrection” would then be, ”The first object of government is the
protection of the diversity in abilities and faculties of mankind from which the rights of property originate, thus
eliminating the options to manage the effects of factions through restricting liberty or implementing legislation
to achieve uniformity of interests within the society.”
When we say, that all men are equal; we mean not to apply this equality to their virtues, their talents, their dispositions, or their acquirements. In all these respects, there is, and it is fit for the great purpose of society that there should be, great inequality among men.
– James Wilson
Ok Anon, since you haven't got the BA##S to tell us who you are, I must suspect everything you say. How about a "link" to your source? Either put up or shut up! Thomas P. Kilgannon, and Oliver L. North, should pursue legal action against those who have made these actuations and put them out of business. The constitution describes only two specific crimes, treason and slander. It’s too bad that there are only punitive penalties for slander, it should be a felony with prison time.
Time to pre-order – Give one to a friend !!! (or enemy)
http://www.hannity.com/pages/conservative-victory
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of mankind; and we see them everywhere brought
into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different
opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of
practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to
persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn,
divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed
to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of
mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous
and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent
conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution
of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in
society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed
interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow
up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide themselves into different classes, actuated by different
sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of
modern legislation, and involves the spirit of political parties, and their associated factions, in the necessary
and ordinary operations of the government. Such that the fifth “Principle of Faction and Insurrection” is then,
“Latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of mankind due to the fact that mankind has the ability and
capacity to obtain and hold varying amounts/types of property. The regulation of the various and interfering
individuals and groups, which can hold differing amounts/types of property, forms the principal task of
modern legislation and involves the integration of political parties, and their associated factions, in the
necessary and ordinary operations of the government without allowing one group or faction to harm or
oppress another group or faction.”
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it’.
– Thomas Jefferson
With respect to an individual’s responsibility to govern honestly, it is difficult to conceive how this honest
responsibility could be increased. Every consideration that can influence the human mind, such as honor,
oaths, reputations, conscience, the love of country, and family affections and attachments, afford security for
their fidelity and faithfulness. In short, as the Constitution has taken the utmost care to ensure that they shall
be persons of talents and integrity, we have reason to be persuaded that the treaties they make will be as
advantageous as, all circumstances considered, could be made; and so far as the governing individual’s fear
of punishment and disgrace can operate, that motive in which we could create to encourage and promote
good behavior is amply provided by the articles in the Constitution on the subject and the ability of the
governed to impeach the representatives of the government when they so desire.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.
– Benjamin Franklin
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely developed, investigated
and assessed with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just determination of a public measure’s real tendency to either advance or obstruct the general public good; and that this kind of spirit and effort is
more apt to be diminished than promoted, in those situations which most require an unusual exercise of such
scrutiny. To those who have been led by experience to have your attention in this direction, it will not appear
surprising that the creation of the Federalist 2.0 articles to recommend many important innovations in
administering the current Constitution, which may be viewed in so many lights and relations, and which
touches the springs of so many passions and interests, should find or excite dispositions which would be
unfriendly, both on one side and on the other, to have a fair discussion and accurate judgment of its merits to
proceed with such an effort. In some, it has been too evident from their own publications and political points
of view, that they have scanned the existing Constitution, not only with a predisposition to ignore it’s text, but
with a predetermination to condemn the intent of the document; as the language held by others betrays an
opposite predetermination or bias, which must render their opinions less able to support the question at the
moment. In placing, however, these different characters on a level playing field, with respect to also including
the weight of their opinions, we should wish not to second guess ourselves that there may be a material
difference in the purity of their intentions. Thus, we come to our sixth “Principle of Faction and Insurrection”,
“The second objective of a government, based on a democratic republic, is to provide for the effective path to
elect representatives who represent the citizenry while also providing methods to determine the efficacy of
public measures that are tempered to protect against the impact of the negative influences of factions; with
the ultimate power of the citizenry to remove, through impeachment, those representatives whom they elect.”
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
– James Madison
How about the People for the American Way? I love the choice of these organizations to appeal to the dumbed-down sheeple. "Freedom" is a 60's concept of abandonment of responsibility. This nation was founded on LIBERTY. Yet you embrace it because your only goal is to confuse and mislead people. I don't see you opposing the Patriot Act or the wars that are leading us in to economic enslavement (by foreigners, no less!).
It is then just to remark in favor of the position that the current challenges result from a governing body that is
more focused on the satisfaction of their faction’s needs than the need to guide a republic to the welfare of
all citizens, which for our situation could be universally admitted to be peculiarly critical, and to require the
governing class’s action to be absolutely necessary to do something for our own relief or for our own
representation of a faction’s interest, the predetermined patron of what has been actually done may have
taken their bias from the weight of these more noble considerations to govern with honesty and integrity, as
well as from considerations of a sinister nature. The predetermined adversary, on the other hand, could
have been governed by no excusable motive whatever. The intentions of the first may be upright, as they
may on the contrary be culpable. The views of the last cannot be upright, and must be culpable. But the truth
is that these papers are not addressed to persons falling under either of these characters. These words
reach out for the attention of those only, who add to a sincere zeal for the happiness of their country, a
temper favorable to a just estimate of the means of promoting a government guided by a strong and
benevolent character that would use Reason and Virtue in deciding the matters of the Union. The seventh
“Principle of Faction and Insurrection” then would be, “The government framework must support the
selection of individuals whom possess the character to do what is right for the general good of the Union,
while rejecting activities that will eventually support a faction’s needs at the expense of the Union.”
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
– Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention in the 1700s, a very important one must have been in
combining the requisite stability and energy in government, with the inviolable attention due to the
mechanisms of liberty and to the republican form required to keep it functioning. Energy in government is
essential to that security against external and internal danger, and to that prompt and salutary execution of
the laws which enter into the very definition of good government. Stability in government is essential to
national character and to the advantages required by it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the
minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society. An irregular and mutable legislation
is not more an evil in itself than it can be detestable to the people if it becomes regular and active in its
intent; and it may be pronounced with assurance that the people of this country, enlightened as they are with
regard to the nature, and interested, as the great body of them are, in the effects of good government, will
never be satisfied till some remedy be applied to the alterations and uncertainties which characterize the
State administrations. On comparing, however, these valuable ingredients with the vital principles of liberty,
we must understand at once the difficulty of mingling them together in their correct proportions. The genius
of republican liberty seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people, but those that are entrusted with this power should be kept independent from the people, by a short
duration of their appointments; and that even during this short period the trust should be placed not in a few,
but a large number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires that the hands in which power are lodged
should continue for a length of time without change. But is also true that a frequent change of men will result
from a frequent return of elections; and a frequent change of measures from a frequent change of men can
result in a constant that does not progress on the boundaries of liberty: where we realize that energy in
government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by only a single person.
Such that we come to the eighth most important “Principle of Faction and Insurrection” for the security of
liberty, “The third option for controlling faction’s negative effects would be to construct a political system that
would control factions by not allowing them to take hold in the first place. With the duration of political
positions short and the strength of political positions diluted among many individuals who must share in the
power and responsibility, no one individual or group can place an anchor of faction to the detriment of the
individual, group or Nation. With the primary premise of this function, to set to blowing ashes the flames of
passioned factions, to ensure that encroachments on liberties such as the freedom of religion and freedom to
obtain and hold property [and grow wealth] through open economic means are thrust into a labyrinth of
hurdles of checks and balances such that resulting legislation would result in no legislation or would
transform the legislation into something that ensures the smallest minority is heard and protected from
abusive controls.”5
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
– Ben Franklin
Weak. Call your organizer and schedule a remedial trolling class for yourself.
First, your Marxist friends can't point to your highly enlighted post if you don't put a name on it from their list of Approved Troll Names. *Do Not Use Anon* – was the first lesson the textbook. The list of Approved Troll Names was Appendix A, near the back of the textbook.
Second, and a major fail on your part, you did not solicit empathy from the audience by first agreeing with the post or any comments before laying out AT LEAST 3 DNC-Daily-Talking-Points. This is clearly laid out in step-by-step fashion in the Concern Troll chapter of the textbook.
Or, it could be that you are a recent signee into the Nationalist Organizer Club Junior Troll Association and you simply haven't received the Emanual – Axelrod operations manual yet. I'm sure it's in the mail, along with your ACORN and SEIU credentials – so you can play a Free Speech Supressing Thug at the next anti-Obama-anything rally. Length of time to receipt of these items directly depends on your distance from Chicago.
Principles of Faction and Insurrection
#1 – Unstable and Oppressive governments are managed by those with Reason and Vice
When the citizenship of a nation complain of a government that is unstable and increasingly oppressive, the
fault does not lie in the overall structure of the government [the economy or the citizenry], but will usually be
the fault of those whom are governing the citizenship, since they have an eye of selfish intent on the behalf
of their own factions, which will lead to decisions born from Reason and Vice resulting in unstable and
oppressive governing laws and regulations.
#2 – The Cure for Controlling Factions
There are two methods in which to cure the existence of factions, the first would be to remove its causes; the
second would be to control its effects.
#3 – The Method for Removing Factions
Historically there have been two consistently used methods for removing the causes of factions, the first
method is to destroy individual liberty, through the materialistic elimination of the owner ship of property, in
order to extinguish the mechanisms that allow factions to thrive and the second method is to give to the
citizenry a idealistic norm where there would be equal opinions, passions and interests such that no faction
would be able to grow separately from the idealized norm.
#4 – First Objective: Protect the diverse abilities and faculties which result in the creation of Property
The first object of government is the protection of the diversity in abilities and faculties of mankind from which
the rights of property originate, thus eliminating the options to manage the effects of factions through
restricting liberty or implementing legislation to achieve uniformity of interests within the society.
The bloggers must have confused Freedom Alliance with Acorn if they suggested fraudulent spending.
We now have completed the first chapter of the Federalist 2.0 and have discovered the primary principles
and objectives of the founding fathers, or for the most part the “requirements” of a Nation focused on
delivering Liberty and Freedom. These principles of Freewill, Political Power, Conflict & Justice, Reason &
Virtue and Faction & Insurrection are the basis of the United States Constitution created some 235 years
ago. We as the founding fathers at that time focused on the need to integrate the thirteen colonies in hopes
of protecting the fledgling nations. We had also hoped to establish internal governance that would guarantee
the liberties of those citizens that dwell under its flag. But that guarantee rested on the American people’s
ability to remain a society grounded in the base of Virtue. Through this first chapter it is now clear that the
current administration of the current manifestation of the Constitution has a focus on delivering results to the
needs of the associated factions instead of delivering moderated governance to the Nation as a whole. The
past 100 years of government lead big business initiatives and progressivism/statism efforts, all under the
battling philosophies of idealism and materialism; have generated a unique business model that ensures that
which is earned is given to those that have not earned while rewarding those who broker the exchange
[middlemen]. This business model, which primarily manifested from changes to the Constitution [e.g.
allowing direct popular elections of US Senators] as well as the character of the nation [general acceptance
that the government exists to take care of the citizenry], has enriched individuals and factions to the point
that they are able to manipulate the general population to ensure their re-election under the false concepts of
altruistic actions such as assisting the unfortunate or reversing the fortunes of the planet’s resources. The
slow progression of power has also grown over time as the Federal Government has taken over powers to
control the environment and the economy. This “sleight of hand” set of tricks have created a political class
that is entrenched within this dynamic and political cycle. Where the lock on the wealth of the nation will
finally be set with the passage of the legislative controls over health care and the control over industry with
the passage of the cap and trade legislation resulting in the flow of wealth from those that earn, through to
the political class where the political class skims a large portion off for themselves before administering the
rest to a labyrinth of “worthy programs”. The remaining chapters will focus on outlining the remaining
concepts we explored in the original Federalist Papers such that we can once again led a path back to a
Nation focused on Liberty and Freedom so that we do not hear the cry of the oppressed who will eventually
claim “…give me liberty or give me death!”
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
– Ayn Rand
What better way to get the Obamazombies to stop looking at the criminal behavior in D.C. over the weekend than by trashing a popular radio host who will not be able to refute these charges again until Monday. How convenient. The pathetic thing is, there are lefties all over the place THRILLED with this story and passing it around like a giant hookah filled with shredded Constitutions.
I'll take your response to mean you have no idea what "program activites" consist of.
But hey, it's only $5 million they spent. No chance of slipping anything under the radar there.
Right?
Anon
Is $150K too much? Who should determine his salary, the pay czar? Their expenses are clearly listed. Go back to rubbing Olberscums feet.
Here's the original link. It came from conservative blogger, Debbie Schlussel. She's definitely not a leftie. This has been blowing up all over the net the past few days.
Schussel's Hannity Blog
The bloggers name is Debbie Schlussel, and Media Matters is all too happy to repeat the garbage.
Of course their opening line is "I'm hesitant to take anything Debbie Schlussel says seriously, given her track record"
You can find it at: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003190002
Debbie is on her own little planet most of the time. She probably pissed Sean and or the Freedom Alliance won't let her play.
Ahem, it wasn't a Dem, it was a Conservative blogger, Debbie Schlussel.
The tax returns itemize the amounts actually spent on scholarships and given to wounded veterans. The amounts are pathetically low. The category "program expenses" means NOTHING!
Facts are facts … look at the IRS 990
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/wp-content/uploads...
2007 Revenue $10.7 million
"Program Expense" $7.4 million
Grants (ie. actually charity to vets and families) $895 thousand
895000/7400000 = 12.1%
This is a business which gives 12% of its profit to charity … plain and simple
Agreed. Which is why I'm flummoxed as to why its a CONSERVATIVE that is attacking Hannity on this.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hannitys...
Ahhhhh, people making money! AHHHHHHHH! Democrats go wild over that stuff.
Shit, if you have your own money, spend it however you damn well please.
How about Nancy Stretch Pelosi going around using jets for her family purposes?
God you are a dumb friggin troll.
Its not liberals … so honestly I'm not sure who to believe on this one (although I tend to lean toward believing Sean is not guilty of these charges … especially after this letter from Freedom Alliance).
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/6938/sean-hannitys...
Not the biggest Hannity fan (I personally find him to be a bit of a kiss-ass but I digress), it is always good to see lib arguments get smacked down.
What's with Schlussell? ANd how old is that picture of her on her website?
My apologies to Dems on the .. ah well… um… – hmmmm
The blog I looked at has dead links for reference, and I see no links to prove this sites counter argument as well. Can some evidence be presented to support your claims? Tax information, recipient statements, or bank information? Your word against theirs is not very compelling in either case.
I wonder if the same person that went over the Freedom Alliance Financials will take the time to do the same to the in play Bailouts, the Government take over of GM, the Healthcare Bill numbers etc…..
I will be watching HANNITY tonight.. with some popcorn for this report….AGAIN a lefty trying to SLUR or SALNDER a person they do not see EYE TO EYE with… use less FOOLS
Careful Andy , Hannibots are just as rabid as Obamabots. You will be destroyed for such heresy! This release has done nothing to contradict the IRS data Debbie used in her analysis. In fact she wanted to interview this Klingon fella and when he asked her what about and she told him, he refused. It is a sad day when RINOs like Hannity have so many apologists – and then they wonder why we can’t win elections.
Lying is the only tool the left has, the truth sets people free and that's the last thing they want.
In fact, I linked to all three tax reports and the links are live. I just checked them. Did you try clicking on the links?
Hey Anon
Taking a break from getting pounded up you tailpipe at the local mens room? Business a littel slow today huh?
Dont worry I hear that a democrat convention is headed your way and you should be able to earn a few more nickels this weekend.
Yes, I'm a "lefty". Hilarious. Try again.
oh man, this is too funny. the comments start out hostile to the allegations, and several even accuse the left of making them. then it comes out a right-wing blog made the allegations, and you can practically hear the heads exploding from the cognitive dissonance.
You guys know it was a conservative blog that published this story right?
And Debbie has responded to this response. She makes a legitimate point, how much you spent is an empty number unless it is accompanied by how much you brought in. The overarching problem with this type report is that it rests in the world of accountancy. If you do not understand the language and the intricate rules than a CPA can easily make your head spin. It should be as simple as, "We raised $X, spent $Y on admin leaving $X-$Y being spent on recipients. This is confirmed by this audit." I am sure, however, that it's more "complicated" than that.
Preach On Sister Schlussel! I would suggest getting a few more links up to the IRS data, because the ignorant Hannibots will just call you a leftie plant without doing any homework of their own.
you're probably a leftist moss, but the head explode thing made me LOL.
"WHY DON'T YOU SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY INVESTIGATING THE FRAUD AND ABUSE IN MEDICARE AND MEDICAID"
ObamaCare is getting to it. If the republicans would get out of the way. It's kinda, sorta, you know, THEIR JOB!
We know he's having an effect. Wht he's doing is working.
Thats right Debbie, your ONE OF THE MOST ANNOYING people on the air.. I forgot, thats right a ANNOYANCE…..I have and never will listen to you and yeah I can admit when I am wrong and will you when the facts are proven INCORRECT???? stop trolling…. and go write another BS blog…
So tell me, anon, how much did Plugs Biden donate of his private wealth to any charity, (outside of the CleanOffTheSpooge fromm YourChin Foundation)? In fact, RedAnon, go down the list of all your favorite CommiePals in Washington….Peloser?, Waxman?, Kerry? We'll even throw in DeadKennedy….you know, the Immoral Catholic that doesn't mind fetus' being 'blended' and whose church was actually debating whether this blowhard should receive a catholic burial. Commies only take, never give back and are the ones who call everyone else elitist. BTW, slap ter olelady for me….she deserves it.
Hannity is a great American and Liberalsim is a mental disease.
Savage rocks.
IF ONLY WE COULD FIND PEOPLE LIKE SEAN TO RUN FOR CONGRESS. HE IS A MAN OF GOOD CHARACTOR AND A GREAT AMERICAN. I SALUTE HIM.
This smells of George Soros and Move On.Org
How much does the head of the Red Cross make a year?? I seem to remember they got in trouble for using moeny donated for 9/11 relief for new buildings and new cars for the upper management. In 2006 Andy Stern's salary was $229,960. Yeah i know he is not part of a charity but seems like a lot for someone worried about the working man and concerned with what CEO's make. How much does the Seirra Club spend on mangement expenses??
The heads of Angel Food Ministries, a feed the poor group makes close to 400k a year. Is it right? No but before you sling mud on one guy or group you have to look at all the groups.
The SPECIFICS of the allegations trouble me, as do the GENERAL nature of the response. And I am not faulting Hannity.
What are Program Activities?
Is it true that double and triple amputees only receive a couple of hundred dollars? Is it true that only a couple of thousand per college student is given?
It is clear Schlussel doesn't like Hannity. It is also clear that the charity has given us a bunch of non-answers here.
Are you people all sheep, this organization is a sham plain and simple. Its all in black and white, their tax filings tell the story, a huge percentage goes to expenses and a miniscule amount to veterans and children. Notice how this org has a huge % going to program activities. Just wtf does that mean anyway. Is ferrying sean around in private jets, suvs and expensive hotels a program activity. Wake up.
We live in interesting times.
I need some more information.
Also, could we see the birth certificate while we're at it? Just sayin'
Did you ever see that movie Gamer?
There is a scene where this big fat ugly guy is controlling this hot chick.
He gets her into all these weird situations with men.
Thats ANON. sitting somewhere in the dark typing comments about how BAD Conservatives are.
Sitting there so smug and righteous telling people things they would rather not hear.
He does not notice who pathetic he is, he's to busy impressing him self with words.
Like he has this giant log in his eye like a mole or something and he is going around pointing out blemishes on everybody else without even noticing the mole covering his eye.
Maybe thats because he has never looked in a mirror.
Although you treated me like a scumbag in the past. If this is true then keep hammering. I have zero tolerance of those who malign and trash our troops. It would make me sick if true. Because North is a Marine and it makes these accusations worse.
If this is true I pray the Truth comes out this shouldn't be tolerated. You do bring some damning points. Not that you care but if you didn't have a history of thinking everyone sucks but you and your readers this would be on fire right now.
Mail to the White House!
Heads are exploding! Its got to be a left wing plot. Why does this surprise anyone, The guy has been busted lying more than any of the talkers. Profiting off dead and wounded soldiers…what a great American!
You're right for once…Right-wing bloggers are definitely subversive. Especially when you start feeding on yourselves like Schlussel is doing to Hannity.
Agreed. She may be a lot of things be sure as hell ain't no leftie.
tl&dr…
Leave the cut and paste alone…
You too so CONCERNED get lost.
Go find someone who can play with you…if you can.
Liberals are a minority and you are losing the battle…You Libs have opened up the eye of the giant.
He is beginning to awaken and when he does he will step on your small little heads.
Its called November and then you will have some real reasons to complain.
So WHAT if they spend the money who cares how they spend it at least they didn't steal it like you libs do.
Oh yeah, he would fit right in!
At first glance. But Schussel HATES those guys. This is already being spun so much but I want to hear more.
Schussel on Hannity
This shouldn't be a surprise. Most of America has gotten quite used to this behavior from the Right by now. What's the big deal. Is this supposed to be news?
But it didn't come from the left. It came from Debbie Schussel.
Schussel on Hannity
You mean like lying and accusing the Left of doing something a Right wing blog did? That kind of lying? Douche?
Hey Publius_Fed_2, you honestly expect readers of this blog to be intelligent enough to read and comprehend most of the rhetoric you posted here? Unless you toss in race baiting words like "ACORN" or "fisting", you might as well have posted your comments inside a hamster's cage.
I think we need to look at this closer.
Read Debbie Schussel's Blog. she is no Moveon or Soros patsy.
Where this all got started
It was from a conservative blogger !!
Program activities ?? This covers a wide range of overhead which could include transportation costs, I'd like to see an itemized list of exactly what these "Programs Activities " Include
Debbie is a credible conservative and she's smart. She takes on the jihadists better than most.
I have read what this lady has to say and I have looked at the tax forms. I see where this groups has listed the scholarship fund, which is great but……
What about the children in college now?
You said:
"That fund now contains $15 million, over $10 million of which has been raised…. Our scholarship program is managed with the understanding that it will be needed for at least the next 20 years as there are children who will ultimately receive a scholarship who are now only a few years old…."
Why so long? I am sure there were military kids who were in high school when this charity began and are now in college. Is this group paying for the schooling?
I don't know Hannity (I know of the personality but that as Tiger Woods has shown recently, public and personal persona's can be drastically different) and I don't know the people who run this group. I have heard their commercials and I have heard Hannity talk about them. I assumed that they were sponsoring kids now not holding on to donations for some arbitrary future. Has anyone taken the time to ask the soldiers who have received donations how much they were given?
Savage doesn't think much of Hannity either.
Debbie Schlussel has done amazing work for conservatism, particularly concerning creeping shari'a law.
She's no liberal.
Never…and I mean NEVER…believe anything that comes out of a libcommie blog (or mouth). Lying Libs are Losers.
The blogger is a conservative, Debbie Schussel.
And really a felony for slander? I thought conservatives are supposed to believe in less government intervention.
That "Leftie" is conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel, But I do agree all conservatives are useless fools, Who apparently eat their own now LMFAO HAHAHAHA !!!!!
I take anything Debbie Schlussel puts out not serious, given her track record. Maybe if you had a financial background I might bite. But, your great expose not withstanding, you don't know a damn thing about charities and how they are run. Given your weak ratings, I suspect that this is a wonderful way to artificially increase them. Must be advertising time – trying to impress your sponsors?
Aren't they just two different vehicles going the same direction?
It was a conservative blog. Debbie Schussel
Conservative argument in this case.
Hey Lemons.. if your re read my 2nd comment I said that.. and well eating there own…. how about all the BS that is going on with HEALTHCARE REFORM or as I call it OBLBLA care…. thats LAUGHABLE…. plus, I can like most LEFTIES can admit when there wrong…. there goes the slurs and slander from a LEFTY…. FUNNY!!! thats funny, becasue I can LABEL all of them FOOLS….. WOW, that does feel good.. using the same tatics that a lefty does… AHHHHHHH
Knee-jerk ideological responses from both sides, here. iow, both sides are demonizing and dehumanizing the other. Never a good thing, that.
The questions are: What are the facts and can they be independently verified?
Personally, I don't trust Hannity, but then again, I don't trust his ideological opponents, either. (Bombasts of any stripe simply cannot be trusted.)
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