By Larry Johnson
closeAuthor: Larry Johnson
Name: Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (752) on June 25, 2008 at 11:06 AM in Barack Obama, Delegates, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democratic party, Dems4McCain, Hillary Clinton, IOwnMyVote.com, Misogyny, PUMA, PUMAPac, Racism, Sexism, Women's Suffrage, WomenCount.Org, Womenforfairpolitics.com
Preamble
When you read the I Own My Vote Pledge, keep in mind that the demands it contains are not admissions of defeat, nor are they conditions precedent to your vote. Hillary’s campaign is only suspended, not ended. And only you can decide when your vote has been earned. Whether you are a PUMA activist, a WomenCountPAC donor, a Just Say No Deal blogger, a Clinton Democrat for McCain, a yellow dog Democrat for VoteBoth, or simply a Hillary Clinton supporter who feels like the Party leaders and their presumptive nominee are ignoring everything that you value, the most powerful statement you can make right now is that YOU OWN YOUR VOTE. Only in finding that common ground will we be counted, for only in that common ground will we be able to count ourselves.
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On Saturday, June 7, 2008, Hillary Clinton suspended her historic campaign for President. To her 18 million voters, it may have seemed like an end, but
I pledge to make it a beginning … a beginning of a movement to achieve the democratic and just country that Hillary has envisioned for America.
I stand together with Hillary Clinton’s 18 million voters to demand that Senator Obama and the Democratic Party:
- Bring us together by seating 100% of the Florida and Michigan delegations in Denver with 100% of their votes, allocated in accordance with the popular vote of each state.
- Bring us together by adopting policies on the Platform Committee that Hillary Clinton has championed.
- Bring us together through reform of the primary and caucus system to reflect the basic principle of one person/one vote.
- Bring us together through outspoken denunciation of all gender bias, racism and other forms of discrimination.
- Bring us together by fairly and respectfully including Hillary and her supporters at the Democratic National Convention in Denver by, among other things, placing her name in nomination for President, conducting a roll call vote, and providing her a prominent speaking role during prime time on August 26th, the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage.
I own my vote. It does not belong to any party. It does not belong to any candidate. It does not belong to any mob that would impose its will on me. Only I can decide how to use my vote, and I can decide based on any criteria I choose. Therefore I pledge not to give my vote to anyone who does not earn it.
Click here to sign the pledge: http://iownmyvote.com/
Pelosi………is very open minded……….her brains just fell out….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Mun0eiF1s
See what KIA thinks about Obama.
they used ‘his image’ in their commericial
Will not vote for Obama no matter what he promises or does.
Nader Says Obama Trying to Appeal to White Guilt
Asked if he thinks Obama is trying to “talk white,” Nader said, “of course….The number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law,” Nader said. “Haven’t heard a thing.”
Nader also says Obama wants to show he’s not “another politically threatening African-American politician. He wants to appeal to white guilt.
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
It is now being revealed that the birth certificate flaunted on Obama’s campaign website is a fake.
http://www.web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12939.htm
link is not working, any more info available?
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12939.htm
The link should not have a http://www. at the front.
Hopefully this works
we all wonder what Obama is hiding. My guess is that he is a bastard. I think in the time he was born if the mother and father were not married the child was given the mothers last name. Has anyone seen records of marriage or divorce between Obama’s parents? Because they are public records, They shouldn’t be hard to get as long as you know what state they were married/divorced in, unless someone had them sealed.
Also, I think I read he went by the name Barry Soetoro when he lived in Jakarta with his mother and step father. It would appear to me his family felt free to give him any name that was convenient at the time.
Sonia,
Good article. Thanks!
News Update
Obama To Receive Sacred Idol For Good Luck
http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM
Interesting article regarding nobama’s birth certificate from the Israeli Insider:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12939.htm
Is anyone else having a problem signing the plege? I tried numerous times yesterday on the first link and again today, and I get “Failed to deliver query”. Yesterday I sent an email to advise them I was unable to sign the pledge, and that was returned as UNDELIVERABLE.
HELP?…tried using Opera and IE and no luck.
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NEWS UPDATE
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**OBAMA TO RECEIVE SACRED IDOL**
I am not making this up. Obama is receiving an idol bc it has been reported he is an ardent follower of Lord Hanuman.
For More Info Go To:
http://www.obama-wire.com
Obama needs contributions. Is the idol made of solid gold?
PUMA
Obama needs more than contributions. Like an integrity transplant for instance?
Actually the Idol thingy makes perfect sense to me. Haven’t our elections become like American Idol? All that glitters is now all that matters.
PUMA!
Snakes in HILLARYVOICES…..
guest post by Linfar
Does anyone care about Hillary anymore?
A website whose reputation and business quadrupled when it backed Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is in the– Resurrect Hillary business now.
No that’s wrong. It is in the Screw Obama Anyway You Can business now.
A Hillary blogger has created her own website to promote Hillary’s candidacy–well, until the end of August anyway. But by then the website will be up and running. Front page positions are available Yoohooo.
And I have now been thrown off Hillarysvoice, a site owned by Alegre, the blogger mentioned above. Dissent is an idea to exploit, when you are the dissenter, otherwise banning those you disagree with is just fine.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
lmao Oh, how sad. Is she Desperately Seeking Attention? She posted that last week over on mydd.
Can we make a C grade average in english a requirement for posts? Please?
I see mangled grammar everywhere…
TaylorMarsh.com…is that a site about Benedict Arnold? or maybe Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus? Guess its a toss up.
It may be easy for people like Taylor Marsh and many others, to simply support anyone with a “D” after their name. Some of us, not so much. We require integrity and honesty and we don’t find it in this Democratic Party.
And while TM always said she would support the Democratic nominee she never said she would attack others who don’t turn their coats so easily.
Wasn’t so long ago we were all laughing at those dumb Republicans that would vote for any pinhead with an “R” after their name. Looks like for Taylor Marsh, Linfar and others, the joke is not only on them, it is them.
Looks to me like she is TROLLING for affection! She lost all credibility when she jumped on the Obamabamadingdong wagon! She is trying to stay relevant. But what she is not understanding is, Her hypocrisy cost her dearly!
Has everyone seen that Moveon.org ad for “i’m Voting Republican?”
Some creative individual needs to counter that with an “I’m Voting Democrat” version.
Here, to help you get started try a few of these:
some of these may seem offensive but they are no more offensive than the protrayals in the move on ad for why people are voting republican.
Good stuff!
Who is really behind the Iownmyvote.com site? Ownership is hidden behind Proxy Inc.
Kinda like the Obama sites being bought in 2004, huh?
…anyone not positive they were planning this all along, as soon as the young Senator got first Elected to the US Senate in 2005?
Larry, can you answer this one? I was wondering myself.
I googled this “I own my vote website” and came up with Clinton Democrats (clintondems.com) who say they own this site. However, it’s not the same link and page as Larry’s and the “pledge” is worded differently.
Go to:
http://clintondems.com/2008/06/together4us-falling-in-line-i-own-my-vote/
Yeah, who owns it? And what do they intend to do with the collected data?
If you’re going to flog this site, at least give some background.
If you clicked on the link, you would have seen where they clearly stated they will be presenting the pledges to the *DNC*, *Senator B O* and *McCain*.
So who owns it? Don’t be surprised if you’re being played.
By who?
Who’s ashamed of not voting for Obama?
McCain pwned again!
OK, you don’t like the secret Muslim born on Mars, but what’s Plan B? Obama is getting the Dem nomination whether you like it or not, so who’s your backup?
There is plenty of time between now and august for an asteroid to hit planet earth and put us all out of the Obama mean country hate and racebaiting misery.
Yeah, that’ll work.
Well if you can buy Obama’s obbullshit excuses denials distractions evasions and flip flops, you should have no problem believing in an asteroid sent by god.
pithy.
So…no Plan B? This is all about taking your ball and going home because someone else won?
Selected ,not elected
Selected by the same rules that HRC (and Ickes) played by.
Nope.
She didn’t take her name off the ballot.
Yup.
No this is all about not being willing to vote for someone we don’t believe is qualified. It isn’t about who lost.
That option has always been on the table. I’m not sure why you insist that anyone “owned” your vote in the first place, unless you need a strawman to immolate.
“…get over it.”
“…party unity.”
That’s why.
we already told you what the plan was idiot.
Plan A) Hillary
Plan B) McCain
“Plan Stupid) Obama” is not an option
Given that choice B is wildly inconsistent with choice A, it comes down to nothing more than spite.
Given that choice B is wildly inconsistent with choice A
That’s not true for moderate Independents like me. There are issues I disagreed with Hillary on and issues I disagree with McCain on. I weighed the pros and cons of each and made my choice thusly.
Obama isn’t an option for me, because I don’t trust him with national security, and I don’t believe he will keep his promises regarding the economy. Enough said.
Oh, and before you rip into me, just keep in mind that statistically it is moderate Independents like me who decide most of the presidential elections.
Same old talking points.
We don’t care how many of Hillary’s positions Bacrackhead Obullshit stole and said ME TOO to.
We know Bacrackhead won’t keep his word and will flip flop on just about every one of them.
With a democratic controlled house and Senate McCain will be unable to do much damage as you term damage.
With Bacrackhead Obullshit in office it would be a recipe for disaster.
I am not willing to sacrifice my country under the false threat of the rights of my vagina.
But a myopic messiahworshipping bafoon like you wouldnt understand that.
Its a shame really that you and your ilk of Obullshit supporters see the world as so black and white and Republicans = evil Democrats = good.
World is just not like that.
There is just as much rotten in the DNC as in the RNC.
Moreso this election cycle.
What you call spite i call common sense and the judgement to vote. something you clearly lack.
John McCain is the “backup” because, unless someone else enters the race and has time to get their name on the ballot in all 50 states, John McCain — if he is indeed the republican nominee — is the only person who can beat Obama. On the other hand, if the “natural born citizen” requirement is waived and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the republican nominee, then the “backup” gets cranked up a few notches! Anybody but Obama. That’s the deal. And it shouldn’t be too hard to understand. How many left of left “democrats” stomped their feet and screamed for months “Anybody but Hillary”? So they should understand the power of an “Anybody but ….” vote, right? Riiiight.
Here’s the difference: most people who screamed “anyone but Hillary” would have swallowed their disappointment and voted for her in the GE because they realize the stakes are to high to waste it on a “protest” vote.
Then there’s this place…
Nope.
Because they realize she’s qualified to hold the office.
You mean the same people who were screaming IF YOU DONT VOTE BACRACK YOU IS A RACIST!!!???
yeah i am sure they would have.
Listen, its clear you are channeling Donna Brazile.
But hey you already cannabolized a good chunk of your own party, its time you turn your attention to the republicans because we dont matter and you can win without us…so FUCK OFF!
I would have liked to believe you at one time, but the continuous outpouring of venom changed all that. It’s amazing. The “presumptive nominee” has the delegates, right? He will win/has already won, right? Every poll I’ve seen says that the losing candidate’s supporters have indeed come over to the winner’s fold, all but “a few.” Yet the venom keeps coming and instead of working in the national campaign to ensure their candidate gets elected, the venom spouters continue showing up on blogs like “this place.” Why waste your time? Unless you need to keep tabs on what we really know about the birth certificate … the shadowy associations … the source of the money … the real agenda. There can’t be any other reason why you’d be here, not when there’s so much “unifying” to be done, so many voters to reap in the fields, so many minds out there to convert.
“What you know”? You don’t “know” anything.
The Birth Certificate? Speculation on the part of people desperate to pin ANYthing on Obama, nothing more. Lack of evidence does NOT equal evidence.
Shadowy Associations? Who, Rezko? Even Hannity dropped that one - there is no “there” there.
Source of money? The filings are all there with FEC, by law. Go to opensecrets.org and have a look.
Under $200.00?
Of course not, but how “shadowy” is someone who donates less than $200? What kind of influence do you think that buys?
You bundle the money. Obama’s money funneled through law firms consists of lots of little contributions from families, friends, and other connections to lobbyists. Don’t you know about the “bundlers”? Don’t you know that’s why Obama’s “directive” to the DNC not to take lobby/pac money is such a farce? You’ve been hoodwinked.
A birth certificate is such a simple thing, really. Why has it become so complicated in the case of Barack Obama? Why produce a “certified copy” of your birth certificate that has no official seal from the state of Hawaii and that has so many obvious graphic design errors in it? And why get involved with people like Rezko and Auchi in the first place if you’re telling everyone you’re a “reformer”? Some of the hundreds of nagging questions that make one’s heart want to pledge to never, every vote for Barack Obama.
Mohamud Abdul and Hussein and Kalif sit in the celler of Bobo Obaba with a huge stack of unmarked bills from the middle east stuffing 3 50s 2 20s and a 5 into plain unmarked envelopes. Every few hundred thousand they run it upstairs to Johnny Bundler who then takes it over to the Obama Headquarters…
OMG LOOK DONATIONS FROM SMALL INDIVIDUAL DONORS BUNDLES AND UNACCOUNTED FOR!!!!
THIS IS BETTER THAN DEAD PEOPLE VOTING!!!
Larry,
I gotta be honest. 2 seconds after Hillary conceded, Obama volunteers were calling my house non-stop. With enough chutspah, I was able to make them stop. But, I’m not signing my name to anything political anymore in the fog-o-sphere.
I gave a little money to the Dems in 2004 and my mailbox wass clogged. I read one of your pleas (or Susan’s) and I gave a little dinero to Hillary and what do I get? Emails galore from Boxer, Reid, Pelosi, Obamastan, Kerry (the creep), Edwards, etc.
Sorry folks. I’ll lurk and comment, but the Dem party machine and its Kossacks have lost me forever.
I don’t want my name or email or phone number or address on anything that will let people know that I actually exercise my rights and vote!
thats odd.
I never gave my email address out to any political organization but Hillary’s presidential campaign.
I donated to hillary before and after she suspended.
I have yet to recieve a single email form the DNC or from Obamatopia.
I guess they don’t want My support because of my uiser name here…imagine that.
same deal here
i am pretty sure hillary’s team cross referenced to see if you appeared on the dnc email rolls before releasing. THey are not stupid.
Larry:
I added the graphics and the Link onto my site also. We need to get the word out to like minded sites and people. It is not to late to stop this aberration.
Reddragon62.blogspot.com
Obama: “I’m Going To Need” The Clintons”.
Duh.
But Larry this comment seals the no deal on McCain:
“I don’t know what would make a draft happen unless we were in an all-out World War III.”
He wants to bomb Iran which may cause Russia and China to protect their oil interests in Iran and start WWIII.
I think McTortured soul has not been treated for being tortured and wants to take on China again.
This Larry, is insane. I think you may want to rethink supporting WWIII.
ignore the troll.
Something does not sit right with me concerning this orgainzation. I feel that it is really backed by the Obama organization and just a front to gather the email addresses of his opponents. Why is the Black power/unity raised fist used? Don’t give them info on yourself.
Silly silly Wabbit!
They use that excuse at every opportunity. “McCain is a warmonger”. McCain wants to bomb Iran”, McCain want’s to start WWIII” McCain want’s to eat your children’.
Look, I am no supporter of McCain, but please try to come up with something original. The fear tactic is not working. Silly insults about his sanity do not further the discussion. But then again, when dealing with Obot’s, Nothing you say will further the discussion!
Gallup Poll McCain Obama TIED 45%
Signs Of HILLARY supporters not falling in line for OB.
Voter preferences had been fairly evenly divided for the past week, with Obama generally holding a slight advantage of two or three percentage points. This is the first time since Gallup’s May 31-June 4 rolling average that Obama does not have at least a slim advantage over McCain. Obama’s largest lead to date has been seven points. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108376/Gallup-Daily-Obama-McCain-Tied-45.aspx
THAT POLL IS CLEARLY BIASED!!
EVERYBODY KNOWS GALLUP IS RUN BY RACISTS!!
ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT BARRY JESUS MARIA SANTOS DOMINUS VERITAFIBULOUS POSSUMUS BAPTISMO NOMUSLIMO OBABA IS NOT AHEAD BY ATLEAST 15 POINTS!!!
ITS A LIE!!!
ITS A GREAT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY!!!
ITS THAT FING HILLARY CLINTON’S FAULT!!
YOU HATERS ARE ALWAYS USING BIASED POLLS FROM RACIST ORGANIZATIONS!!
I MEAN COME ON!! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT EVEN THE NAME GALLUP IS RACIST AND ANTI OBAMA!! GALLUP IS A VEILED REFERENCE TO THE HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS!!
IF THAT GALLUP ORGANIZATION WAS CREDIBLE THEY THEY WOULD HAVE OBAMA UP BY 25 POINTS IRREGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RESPONDENTS SAID!!!
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE TOO BUSY AT EVENTS AND RALLIES TO STAY HOME AND ANSWER THE PHONE FOR THESE BIASED POLLS!!
ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THEY ARE TIED!! EVEN DUKAKIS WAS UP 17 POINTS IN JUNE!!! ITS CLEAR THT THIS IS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, HE WHO MUST NOT BE MIDDLE NAMED!
I AM GOING TO REPORT THIS OBVIOUS LIE AND MANIPULATION OF POLL RESULTS BY A CLEARLY BIASED MEDIA THAT IS OUT TO GET OBAMA TO THE FBI AND THE DNC!!!
YOU PEOPLE BETTER WATCH OUT!!!
YOU ARE BEING WATCHED AND WE WILL KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH YOU ONCE BARRY IS EMPEROR!!!
I signed last night, Larry. Thanks for reposting.
I signed it. I’ll throw it on my blog with image hyperlink.
Obama might well be better then sliced bread but what is going to hurt him most is his foreign policy experience or lack of it. Obama is somewhere between, Rodney King’s, “Can’t we all just get along”, and Alfred E Neuman’s ” What, me worry?”. Folks we are in for a long hot summer.
**NEWS UPDATE**
Potential VP for Obama Does Business With Iran…
More Info At: http://WWW.OBAMA-WIRE.COM
Hillary’s campaign hasn’t given Obie MY phone number!
I signed the petition. How hard is it to stand up? No pain, no gain. duh.
Sorry, I don’t have time to answer the phone for barack’s Billionaires Club.
I’m out.
Back to the ‘pledge’:
If you have to start something with a preamble saying it’s not an admission of defeat and it’s not this and not that — such a preamble is ITSELF an admission that the ‘pledge’ is not ready for prime time. Is that preamble supposed to go to every SD and every MSM reporter who receives the ‘pledge’?
Whatever the ‘pledge’ is supposed to mean — WIRM — it’s eminently spinnable as defeat and surrender, as figleaves for both sides.
No Deal. PUMA.
i say write hillarys name in november. lets show the powers that be that we are not kidding. hillary is the one
I have not signed this because I also want it delivered to the RNC. I also am no longer a Democrat, Republican or Independent. I am Not-Declared. I don’t want to click on other and have them assume I am part of the Socialist, Communist, or any other party. I want them to know that I am no longer associated with any party and that now they all must work for my vote.
The http://www.iownmyvote.com is run by some very loyal Hillary supporters, some are Hillraisers….this is a petition that will help QUANTIFY her support to have her name placed into nomination at the convention!