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58
. Penny Starr, “Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy,’ ”
CNSNews.com
, August 1, 2010, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/arizona-sheriff-our-own-government-has-become-our-enemy.

59
. “Attacks on Border Patrol Agents ‘Relatively Stable’—at More Than 1,000 Per Year, Says DOJ,”
CNSNews.com
, September 28, 2011, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/attacks-border-patrol-agents-relatively-stable-more-1000-year-says-doj.

60
. Jerry Seper, “U.S. border agent jailed for improper arrest of suspected drug smuggler,”
Washington Times
, October 25, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/border-agent-jaile-arrest-teen-drug-smuggler/?page=1.

61
. Edwin Mora, “Union President Gives Congress Emails Backing Testimony: ICE Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals,”
CNSNews.com
, November 8, 2011, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnsnews.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2Funion-president-gives-congress-emails-backing-testimony-ice-ordered-agents-not-arrest&ei=wCTFTs PhLYfg0QGtpvzsDg&usg=AFQjCNExXCAS3GuUM Ey4E5dD6nfBevL87Q.

62
. Edwin Mora, “DOJ: ‘Mexican-Based Trafficking Organizations Control Access to the U.S.-Mexico Border,’ ”
CNSNews.com
, September 28, 2011, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/doj-mexican-based-trafficking-organizations-control-access-us-mexico-border.

63
. Jerry Seper, “Brutal Mexican drug gang crosses into U.S.,”
Washington Times
, April 19, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/19/violent-mexican-drug-gang-expands-into-us/.

64
. Bob Unruh, “Government calls buying ‘night flashlights,’ making ‘extreme religious statements’ indicators of terrorism,”
WorldNetDaily
, August 12, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=332925.

65
. “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” Department of Homeland Security, http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf.

Chapter 11. Crushing Obama’s Cadre Before They Crush Us

1
. Milton Mayer,
They Thought They Were Free
, Democratic Underground, January 11, 2005, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x97093.

2
. Nicholas Ballasy, “Obama says he’ll be taking ‘executive actions’ without Congress on ‘regular basis’ to ‘heal the economy,’ ”
The Daily Caller
, October 24, 2011, http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/24/obama-says-hell-be-taking-executive-actions-without-congress-on-regular-basis-to-heal-the-economy/.

Index

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Abbas, Mahmoud, 194

ABC, 150

ABC News, 32

Abdo, Naser, 170

ACLU.
See
American Civil Liberties Union

ACORN, 110

Adbusters, 109

Adecoagro, 229

Adler, Solomon, 131

Afghanistan, 9, 64, 146, 183

British troops in, 196, 197

death of SEALs in, 164–66, 239

AFL-CIO, 35, 110, 113, 134, 199

African-Americans, 106, 113

Agricultural Research Service, 123

Agriculture Department, U.S., 92

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 151, 160, 161, 176, 193, 199, 237, 262

Ahuja, Sanjiv, 167–68

Airline screening measures, 38, 56, 120, 132, 261

Akerson, Dan, 134

Alabama, 17, 255

Alaska coast, oil exploration on, 218, 221–22

Albright, Madeleine, 150, 195

Alexander, S. Craig, 124

Alinsky, Saul, 35, 115–20, 121, 150

Alliance to End Repression, 116

Allison, Herb, 36

Alter, Jonathan, 27

Alter, Karen, 207

Amanpour, Christiane, 46

Amerasia spy case, 131

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 22, 24, 118, 256

American Embassy (Paris), 239

American Federation of Government Employees, 132

American Jewish University, 103

American Petroleum Institute, 192

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, 41

Amos, John, 75

Anti-Semitism, 8, 36–37

of Obama, 39, 103, 104, 161, 162, 178, 186

in OWS movement, 103–5, 109, 195

Apollo Alliance, 72

Arab Spring, 5, 36, 109, 110, 146, 169, 175, 177, 193

Arab Winter, 5, 13, 36, 175, 199

Arbabsiar, Manssor, 237

Argentina, 158, 199

Argonaut Private Equity, 206

Arizona, 17, 31, 223, 238, 243, 255, 256

Armstrong, Louis, 130

Al-Assad, Bashar, 160, 161, 176, 201

Associated Press, 72

ATF. See Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives

Atlantic
magazine, 24

AT&T, 169

Australian National University, 151

Austria, 50

Automobile industry, 36

bailout of, 35, 209

energy policy and, 11

labor unions and, 27, 108, 188

Avila, Jaime, 246

Al-Awlaki, Anwar, 24–25, 111

Axelrod, David, 19, 98, 115, 116–17, 267

Axelrod, Myril, 116

Ayers, Bill, 102, 105

Babeu, Paul, 256

Baer, Greg, 109, 111

Bahrain, 199

Bailouts, 35, 82, 209.
See also
Stimulus plan; Troubled Assets Relief Program

Baker & McKenzie, 140

Al-Baluchi, Amar, 182

Bank of America, 67, 80, 82, 109, 111

Banks, 68

amount loaned to, 82

Dodd-Frank bill and, 88–90

economic crisis and, 14, 81–84

Feinberg’s desire for salary standards, 125–26

Glass-Steagall repeal and, 87–88, 92

OWS movement
vs.,
99, 100, 109, 111

Banon, Tristane, 139

BarackObama.com, 113

Barclays, 168

Bard College, 103

Barofsky, Neil, 89–90

Bastian, Walter, 189

Bauer, Jack, 58

Beacon Power Corporation, 211

Beck, Glenn, 48–49

Belgium, 50

Ben Ali, Zine El Abedine, 176

Ben-Eliezer, Binyamin, 200

Berger, Sandy, 156

Bernanke, Ben, 15, 90, 101, 235

Bhutan, 196

Biden, Joe, 27, 34, 211

Bierman, Ben, 207

Bilderberg Group, 85, 87, 89

Bill of Rights, 24

Bin al-Shib, Ramzi, 182

Bin Laden, Osama, 58, 62, 146, 162, 181–83, 239

Birth tourism, 254–55

Black, Conrad, 51

Black Panthers, 38.
See also
New Black Panther Party

Blagojevich, Rod, 141–42

Blair, Dennis, 127

Blair, Tony, 180

Blankfein, Lloyd, 73

Blankley, Tony, 47

The Blaze (website), 187

Bloomberg, Michael, 107

Bloom Energy, 212

Boehner, John, 57, 128

Bolton, Todd, 124

Bonds

European, 14–15, 85, 93–94

special-interest, 83

Treasury, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96

Border Patrol, U.S., 255–57.
See also
Terry, Brian

Border security, 17–18

BORTAC, 245, 246

Boston Herald,
33

Botswana, 29

BP, 133, 180, 181

Brazil, 147, 192–93, 199, 217, 228–30, 264

Breivik, Anders, 60–64

BrightSource Energy, 210

British Embassy (Tehran), 6

Brock, David, 50

Brooks, Rebekah, 52

Brown, Tina, 54

Browner, Carol, 36, 124–25, 133, 233

Brownstein, Norman, 169

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 151, 161

Buddhists, 62, 64

Buffett, Warren, 80–81, 99–100

Buffett Tax, 80–81

“A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam,” 200

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), 237, 242–50, 252.
See also
Project Fast and Furious

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, 234

Burke, Dennis, 253

Bush, George H. W., 146

Bush, George W., 34, 47, 57, 58, 117, 146, 160, 240, 241

campaign donors of, 142

energy policy of, 229

as a “fiscal socialist,” 264

national debt under, 71

Cabinet, 129–34

Obama’s management problem, 132–34

tax problems in, 127–28, 129–31

Cabinet Communications Director position, 133

Calderon, Felipe, 242

California, 10, 17, 212, 223