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The Christmas Spirit

Stacey is fond of citing Kermit the Frog as her authority for the true meaning of the Christmas spirit, when he sings:

I don't know if you believe in Christmas
Or if you have presents underneath a Christmas tree;
But is you believe in love,
That will be more than enough
For you to come and celebrate with me.

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Christmas is the time to come together,
A time to put all differences aside;
And I reach out my hand
To the family of Man
To share the joy I feel at Christmas time.

But here's the reality -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed by a vote of about 400 to 6 back in October a bill that calls for the formation of the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. The bill is over in the Senate now and may be coming up for a vote after the holidays.

The purpose of the proposed law is the formation of a committee that will:

Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or ‘lone wolf’ violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.

How? Hearings, subpoenas, testimony.

History, it seems, repeats itself. The following excerpt is taken from Public Law 601, 79th Congress, 1946:

The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in tile United States, (ii) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.

Kermit the Frog for President!

Posted by Bill at December 21, 2007 03:06 PM