Gamaliel is actually a more dangerous group than its corrupt cousin ACORN for it actually embodies the dreaded union of church and state, and, if left unchecked, will emasculate individual liberty in the name of God and sacred community and will sacrifice religious freedom on the advocacy altar of social justice and the greater good.

Brietbart TV has recently unearthed a 2:00 minute video of a Gamaliel International Leadership Assembly “prayer meeting” held December 4, 2008, in Washington, DC, which has created a bit of a stir. 

In the video, people hurriedly enter a room while chanting, “Everybody in! Nobody out!” an apparent reference to universal health care. The group then gathers to offer a scripted prayer for “all of us who face health care without good health care insurance.”

In liturgical fashion, a woman leads a responsive reading, and the group purportedly responds at appropriate intervals “Hear our cry Obama” and “Deliver us Obama.” Whether the respondents clearly say “Obama” or “O God” is open to debate, but what is not debatable are the current and historical ties that Brother O has to the Gamaliel Foundation.

During the 1980s, Chicago served as the intellectual epicenter of Black Nationalism, Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, and Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns, and from 1985 to 1989, at the apex of black radical political thought, Brother O worked as a consultant, trainer, and leadership developer for the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, a group of community organizers trained in the political strategies and leftist principles of radical intellectual Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky’s organization was based in Chicago, and it trained a cadre of community organizers for such groups as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Gamaliel Foundation in the political strategies outlined in Rules for Radicals. To build left-wing political coalitions within inner city neighborhoods and black churches, Alinsky-style organizing specialized in ideological stealth, deception, and camouflage.

Like ACORN, the Gamaliel Foundation is a politically active organization with Marxist goals and differs only in its narrowly-focused outreach for infiltrating local church communities rather than entire neighborhoods. Once infiltrated, the Gamaliel Foundation hijacks the church leadership to combine a Marxist agenda with a smattering of Christian doctrine and push leftist political issues through methods of intimidation and agitation. Gamaliel organizers quietly share the same anti-American liberation theology brought to the limelight through the guttural discharges of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Gamaliel stands at the center of a well-coordinated, well-funded, and complex campaign to take back the debate and move Obamacare forward. Almost thirty denominations including mainstream Episcopal, Presbyterian USA, and United Methodist churches have joined Gamaliel and the Whitehouse to sell Obamacare through a nationwide TV ad with local clergy and lay leaders supporting reform, prayer rallies and in-district meetings, petition drives, and a call-in Webcast that featured Brother O and diverse faith leaders.

Alinsky created partnerships among faith-based community organizations as a means to seize power to realize his utopian dream of equality, justice, and peace. In Chicago, Brother O learned how to use power at the feet of some of the most radical socialists in America and to advance the Alinsky agenda into the highest levels in government. 

Now that America is in the throes of an Alinsky dream, Americans may wish to examine what the Reverend John C. Welch and Gamaliel acolytes say about the man into whose hands the governance of this nation has been placed: 

“He is Gamaliel.  He is African American.  He is one of us.  He is the 44th President of the United States of America!”

…Hackers break into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account.

WASHINGTON – Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska’s governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.

The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.

I do not believe the actions of the AP in this case are protected by the Shield Law. They are not protecting any sources, and one would think they would want to do the right thing.

I guess they’re choosing to do the left thing.

The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.

Really? So what? Yahoo email is free.

The practice was revealed months ago — prior to Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate — after political critics obtained internal e-mails documenting the practice by some aides. One person whose e-mail to Palin apparently was among those disclosed, Amy B. McCorkell, declined to discuss her correspondence. “I do not know anything about it,” McCorkell said. “I’m not giving you any comment.” Wired.com said McCorkell later confirmed that she did send the e-mail to Palin.

Another of the e-mails apparently revealed Wednesday was an exchange in July with Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell discussing a talk show host who had been critical of Parnell. Parnell declined to discuss the matter.

Where’s the proof that she profited in any way from these emails? More innuendo and unsubstantiated rumour.

I know that dirty tricks like this happen on both sides, but it seems to be the left who perpetrate this kind of nonsense more often. Once again, here we are focusing on Sarah Palin and not Obama, McCain, and the policies of each. It angers me greatly.

Now, of course, the Machiavellian side of me considers the possibility that this could be a Reichstagging by McCain/Palin’s own people, so I’ll withhold final judgment. Either way, it has to reflect poorly on Obama and his Obamaniac supporters.

Six years ago, Florida’s legislators tried to create numerous exemptions to the state’s Public Records laws. In response, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors (FSNE) organized three consecutive Sunshine Sundays, a public awareness initiative to promote open government.

FSNE estimates that some 300 exemptions to open government laws were defeated in the legislative sessions that followed its three Sunshine Sundays, because of the increased public and legislative awareness that resulted from the Sunshine Sunday reports and commentary.

The idea caught on nationwide. Today concludes a national Sunshine Week, sponsored by The American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, non-profits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know….

Though spearheaded by journalists, Sunshine Week is about the public’s right to know what its government is doing, and why. Sunshine Week seeks to enlighten and empower people to play an active role in their government at all levels, and to give them access to information that makes their lives better and their communities stronger.

Sunshine Week is a non-partisan initiative whose supporters are conservative, liberal and everything in between.

Like all movements political and intellectual, this one spawned a Washington, DC-based think tank or advocacy group by 2006 — the Sunlight Foundation. Their unique character includes emphasis on software tools for analysis and Internet technology for dissemination of information to the public. As reported by Wired:

The Sunlight Foundation, a D.C.-based group that uses information technology to educate the public about the political process, has been turning earmarks into art. The group has mapped federal disbursements by state and agency, creating spangled almost Miro-esque charts of where the money (er, pork) winds up….

More intriguing is the chart that maps to which states the money flows. Although California and Pennsylvania get the most total money from 2005 earmarks with $1.634 billion and $1.08 billion, respectively, Alaska is the per capita king with $1,053 dollars coming in from earmarks for each resident….

Why is this scrutiny needed? Here is the “poster child” case for this endeavor. Congressman David Wu (Oregon – 1st) is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation. From an article in The Oregonian:

Using congressional privilege, Rep. David Wu helped direct more than $2 million in defense contracts to a company in his district for T-shirts that Marines say they can no longer use in battle because they can melt, causing severe burns.

A report … also found the companies’ top executives contributed to Wu’s campaign account about the time the spending “earmarks” were written into the final Defense Department budget….

Congressman John Campbell’s Green Eyeshade Blog at Townhall provides more detail:

According to Captain Lynn Welling, the head surgeon of the 1st Marine Logistic Group, the polyester in these “melting shirts” adheres to the skin in intense heat, essentially creating a second skin which leads to horrific disfiguring burns.

Rep. Wu earmarked the contract into the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill. Due to the design flaw, the Marines shortly thereafter banned the use of polyester shirts for use in combat, or anywhere outside the protected “Green Zone” bases. However, because of Mr. Wu’s earmark the Marines were forced to buy 87,000 of the banned shirts.

More from the Oregonian:

Federal Election Commission records indicate that … Wu received campaign contributions — $8,850 — from the company’s three top executives.

His campaign received $6,100 in donations in a single day from executives of InSport and its owner, Vital Apparel. The day after the bill passed on Sept. 29, 2006, one executive gave Wu an additional $750. Two others followed with identical donations within three weeks….

Was there a connection?

“Absolutely not,” Wu told The Oregonian…

He said InSport came to him with an alternative to the cotton T-shirts troops normally wore under body armor. He tested one of the shirts himself. “Before I asked for the appropriation I said, ‘Can you smell me? I’ve been wearing the same shirt for three weeks.’ ”

Golly, yes, Congressman Wu. We can smell you from the ADMC editorial offices here in northern Virginia.