President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council of Governors
Monday, 11 January 2010 19:07 Press Release Latest National News
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· Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—January 11, 2010. The President today signed an Executive Order establishing a Council of Governors to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect our Nation against all types of hazards. When appointed, the Council will be reviewing such matters as involving the National Guard of the various States; homeland defence; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defence, and civil support activities.
The bipartisan Council will be composed of Ten State Governors who will be selected by the President to serve two year terms. In selecting the Governors to the Council, the White House will solicit input from Governors and Governors’ associations. Once chosen, the Council will have no more than five members from the same party and represent the Nation as a whole.
Federal members of the Council include the Secretary of Defence, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, the Assistant Secretary of Defence for Homeland Defence and Americas’ Security Affairs, the U.S. Northern Command Commander, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
Don’t change the original headline
Yup, those dastardly right wingers dressed up like Black Panthers and disrupted that election site in “08.
And of course, the Obamaloon cabinet of felons chose not to prosecute.
Barf.
Libs can be so consummately stupid.
“I asked Roth to speculate on what could happen if the right continued its violent rhetoric and didn’t gain seats in November or 2012. He suggested looking back at the 1960s and 1970s, when left-wing activists were preaching their own disdain for government. As trust of government evaporated, the murder rate doubled.”
Murder rates have a lot more to do with general crime waves and economic conditions than politics.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason the numbers are down is some new method of counting. It works for them in unemployment (since Clinton changed it).
Why we should worry about political violence (when it is directed at the Left, but we will ignore any directed at the right).
Kenneth Gladney, New Orleans... the left is the only side being violent
I hate Obama and that means I want to go murder someone? Sorry, not buying it.
Lott pulled the stuffing out of this loon a while back ...
Just how far do you have to stretch to make a point before you look ridiculous?
The fact that the state may have voted R has little to do with how the urban area voted.
Data mining. "Find me a place where homicides went up and we will figure out how to relate that to Republicans."
No thanks. I don’t believe anything published in the L.A. Times.
TITLE: “Why we should worry about political violence”
Any FReeper worth their salt can look at the source and the title and then do the math. The whole article is a bunch of crap.
This guy, Roth, is an idiot and making up numbers in advance of supporting martial law. He’s also pimping his book, which probably sucks.
Who would enforce martial law? How will it be paid for? What states will oppose it?
Obama would do better to simply fix the elections than to declare martial law after the fact ~ and Iwouldn’t put it past him either.
Happy Tax Day!
I find it rather glaring that the statistics ignore exactly WHO is committing these crimes. It could very well be that Obama voters in these republican areas ARE the ones committing these crimes. My guess is that since this was not mentioned in the article, it is probably exactly what is going on.
LA Times,,,source .
Provda on the Pacific .
“Gregory Rodriguez” LA Times.
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Feh.
The drop in urban violence is due in large part, to the number of often-violent illegals who have - given the collapsing US economy gone home.
Because they cannot find work standing on the street next to Home Depot anymore.
Mr. Rodriguez.
He has tried to put together homicide data for the United States over the last couple hundred years from newspaper reports and coroner reports. From this he makes claims that murder rates were basically flat from 1914 to 1933 and that prohibition had no impact on murder rates.
I really wish that I could post a copy of the figure that Roth presented. The fact that murder rates seem to have risen in individual states after they adopted prohibition doesn't seem to matter, that murder rates fell dramatically as soon as prohibition ended to the month in 1933 doesn't matter.
The more amazing thing is how he got his data together. When someone asked him about the subjectiveness of determining what is murder, Roth responded that it is extremely subjective: 'Tell me what murder rate you want and I can get you that murder rate.'
In most fields you want to have some separation between those who put the data together and those who use it.:
The sun usually rises if the cock crows.