Rep. Rick Saccone, Pennsylvania Church Merged with State Legislator and Iraq War Torture Expert

I can guess why some Politicians want and need a National Day of Fast to Atone for their own sins, but please do not drag me into your personal hell foxhole comrade.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-04-22/news/0904210044_1_words-torture-techniques-water-boarding

Public officials, media outlets and members of the public who use the words torture and coercion interchangeably are making a huge mistake - one that could threaten our safety and security.

Formerly top-secret documents declassified recently by the Obama administration describe in detail 10 interrogation techniques, including the now-infamous water-boarding. This has led to the unfortunate branding of all coercive techniques as torture.
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We cannot apply absolutes to these ambiguous scenarios. We need reasonable guidelines that allow discretion for those risking their lives to gather the information needed to protect us.

 And finally: Shall we address water-boarding? It is critical to remember that contrary to the portrayal in some media, enhanced techniques were used principally on hardened terrorists who refused to cooperate through rapport building and other noncoercive methods.

 For example, intelligence officials believed Abu Zubaydah, a hardcore terrorist and planner of the 9/11 attacks, retained valuable insight into the inner workings of al-Qaida at the highest levels. He had successfully resisted all other methods of interrogation. However, it is almost impossible to train to resist water-boarding. Ultimately, he lasted 32 seconds. Given this context, I am confident most Americans would not object to using that technique.

 U.S. policy must authorize the use of certain interrogation methods that fall below the threshold of torture. We cannot allow our enemies to draw a moral equivalence between compelling a prisoner to kneel for 10 minutes and chopping off his fingers one by one. Our government must insist that making a terrorist uncomfortable should not be confused, or in any way equated, with torture.

 Richard Saccone, a retired counterintelligence agent, teaches international relations and political science at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., and is the author of "The Unseen War in Iraq: Insurgents in the Shadows."

http://www.amazon.com/Unseen-War-Iraq-Insurgents-Shadows/dp/1565911342

Customer Book Review:

Counterintelligence for the layperson. Richard Saccone's up close and personal vantage point in Iraq, especially Abu Ghraib gives the outsider a unique perspective that is missing from liberal and mass media reports of the Iraq war's counterintelligence challenges. It is a compendium of scenarios that reveals the depths of what we face in Iraq from Titan defense contractors' hiring of local interpreters to the undeniably soul-ess manner in which the enemy tortures and kills innocents in their quest for an untenable goal. Particularly compelling are his descriptions of the Abu G prison and how insufficiently trained and overworked government and military guards/Military Intelligence sometimes miss important clues on smuggling and intelligence gathering.

Mr. Saccone parts the veil on what happens inside Abu G. Reports from biased Red Cross evaluators to the rabid liberal international and U.S. media on how prisoner treatment are truly one-sided and do not paint an accurate picture of how the U.S. is the preferred administrator to the inmates. Although American leadership did allow Abu G excesses in the scandal, the prisoners are far more fearful of the harsh treatment and living conditions under Iraqi hands.

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Rick Saconne’s Smorgasbord of Corruption Exception Bills (Wink, Nod) for Pennsylvania State Legislators Among other things Religious

Pennsylvania Flag - A State in Great Distress

Got to offer incentives for a basically a part time job and attract the right kind of loser Lifers like Tea Party Hack Rick Saccone chasing those Koch bucks by the ton, under the cover of holier than thou, "fasting", ashes covered and sack cloth wearing Pennsylvania state legislators. LOL 

  

Just a small sampling of Rick “In Koch We Trust” Saccone’s sponsored Pennsylvania Assembly Smorgasbord of Bills and Resolution makes one wonder why don’t I move to Pennsylvania, pretend to be a sunshine Tea Party Patriot and cash in all the corruption available with first priority to GOP Tea ParteeRRs in the Pennsylvania Assembly. LOL

Christian Post Article conveniently scrubbed of Primary sponsor of HR17 National Fast Day Resolution Rick Saccone's name:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/pennsylvania-to-observe-national-fast-day-tuesday-94929/

HB424 – Mob Exceptions on Small Gambling Clubs Licensing BILL

HB1667 – Redefining Ethics for State Legislators and Exception for Gifts (Bribes) to Legislators BILL

HB1668 -  Pennsylvania Public Officials, ethnics redefined, Financial Disclosure Exceptions BILL

HB1669 – Big Gifts from Lobbyists to Legislators exceptions (Whores (girls,guys), Expensive Hotel Suites, Dinners, Drugs, Limousines, Private Jets, Overseas Trips etc.) BILL

HB1728 – “In Money We Trust” Public School Students Indoctrination BILL

(caution-sarcasm?) LOL (yeah right)

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Tea Party In Penna. Coup To Take Away Freedom of Beliefs – UberCatholic Tea Party Guido Rick Saccone Ready to Destroy 224 Year Old American Constitutional Right in Penna. Legislature

Allegiance to the Koch Brothers God of Money Printed on All American Money to be demanded of all children in Pennsylvania schools.

Sieg Heil -  holy name of Koch and Tea Party!

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/207230/pa-congressman-wants-to-scribble-in-god-we-trust-all-over-all-public-schools/

Rick Saccone (R-What else?) is ready to push forward legislation requiring all public schools in his state to display the words “In God We Trust” somewhere, in order to make non-religious students feel more awkward and unwelcome. 

 Saccone (which I think is Italian for a big bag or something—of what, I will let you decide), is no stranger to evangelizing from his congressional seat, which he has previously used to promote such important issues as declaring 2012 “The Year of The Bible” and trying to make Abraham Lincoln’s birthday be celebrated as a National Fast Day in which we all refuse to eat because Jesus is really great or something. Now he’s on this trip, because apparently he doesn’t have anything more important to do with his time.

Going Guido Guido Guido on You Tube:

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no matter what god you serve or if you serve no god it all

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in God We Trust is still our national motto and so we will honor the hundred

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and fiftieth anniversary

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a visible acknowledgement obeying God We Trust on our coins

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and subsequently our national motto i've introduced legislation

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requiring all public schools to display our national motto in God We Trust

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for our children to learn of and revere like our flag

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we should celebrate in this play our national motto we should teach our

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children the value of patriotism in history

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hope you also display our motto in every place public and private that you can

(in private – tattooed on our vaginas and penises too Rick???) lol

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Anti-Christian Conspiracies Everywhere - Sarah Palin

Palin, Sarah, former unfinished Governor of Alaska has thrown down the gauntlet for the next teabagger Glen Beck investigaton of yet another conspiracy against “Christian” America. In a speech given in Wisconsin, she rambled and hit the hot botton tea bag issues and threw in some nonsense about the creative design of the new dollar coins as something of an anti-Christian conspiracy.

I am beginning to see her and her tea baggers as nothing more than an aging Boomer Kindergarten class – or the GOP version of the Peter Pan syndrome – never wanting to grow up and deal with a real world like the rest of us.

Palin sees conspiracy in new dollar coins

She then got a standing ovation from most of the crowd, but a few had begun to leave before she even finished and within seconds of her concluding, scores more got up and put on their jackets as they walked away.

In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.” … (Palin)

The decision to put "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the edges of presidential dollar coins has received little attention from the press, but was reversed in 2007, before President Barack Obama took office. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) sponsored legislation to move the motto back to the front face of the coins.

"It is important that our national motto, 'In God We Trust,' is prominently displayed on all of our currency," Brownback said. "We should not relegate our heritage to the side."

I am not alarmed by anything Sarah Palin reads off the prompter or index cards in front of her. She is only as good as her handlers. She doesn’t write anything or think anything. She reads what is put in front of her. In the end the Schine Effect, where you are only as good as your handlers, will kick in.

In the mean time, with PAC money pouring in and Rupert giving her rich man’s welfare in the form of the book deal, she has to pay back favors and read what is put in front of her whether she understands it or not. Sarah Palin is earning her big bucks and enjoying her full fifteen minutes of fame.

What I find amazing is she is backtracking over issues already taken care of by the Coe family religious cult which was handled by a Coe family acolyte Sam Brownback as mentioned above.

This whole “In God We Trust” thing has, since it was adopted as the national motto in 1956, been an exclusive Coe family project. This all follows in line with the Coe Family Presidential Prayer breakfast starting in 1953 and later changed to National Prayer Breakfast in 1970. “In God We Trust” sounds harmless enough but it is within the exclusive handling copyright (Masonic?) realm of the Family.

Fellow Coe Family acolytes Sens. DeMint (SC) and Colburn (OK) made certain that the Coe family brand “In God We Trust” got carved in the new U.S. Capitol visitor’s center. I don’t think the Coe family handed Sarah this one to read out off the prompter. Careful Sarah on whose toes you might step on seeing conspiracies everywhere.

It is probably the last we will hear about this “anti-Christian” conspiracy from Sarah “Weather Girl” Palin.