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Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [1]
October 2, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Brad Sherman [D-CA] asks:
"But why are we bailing out the Bank of China? Why are we bailing out the Saudi royal family?...
The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and by sustaining a panic atmosphere...
A few Members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted ``no.''
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Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KRXnYgu5I
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55lOhYw8Lxk
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFUa4SpPBU
Alex Jones interviews Brad Sherman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXhZMaY26w
Sherman's Blue Paper on the Bailout
http://bradsherman.house.gov/081001comprehensive_article.pdf
171 Heroes vs 263 Traitors
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-681
Paul Craig Roberts: It takes the trouble off the banks and puts it on the taxpayers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLbWau3rsag&NR=1
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I thank the Chair. I have got 30 minutes, and I will share some with the gentlelady from Ohio in just a second to describe the flaws with this bill. Believe it or not, 30 minutes is not long enough. But first I want to mention about the calls that are coming into our office.
The calls used to be from people around the country. Now Wall Street firms have their employees unplugging those headsets to call investors and instead calling Members of Congress. So now the calls coming in to at least my office have shifted from 20-1 against this bailout package for Wall Street, down to about 3-1 or 4-1 against this bailout.
I ask my colleagues not to be confused. Edit out some of those calls that are coming to you from folks who are being paid to make the call, and you will realize the country remains absolutely overwhelmingly opposed to this Wall Street bailout bill.
I thank again the gentleman from Ohio, and I will make a few more points.
We had a meeting of the Skeptics Caucus, which is now a bipartisan Skeptics Caucus, where we heard from Bill Isaac. Mr. Isaac was Chair of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), having first been appointed to that board by President Carter and then appointed by Reagan. You don't find very many people who have support on both sides of the aisle like that.
Bill Isaac led the FDIC in solving the 1981 crisis, which was probably worse than the crisis that we have now. He used the emergency powers of the FDIC. He was able to solve that credit crisis without significant cost to the taxpayer.
We ought to hear from Bill Isaac. And I look forward to us defeating this bill tomorrow so we can have hearings and all my colleagues, not just those who came to the Skeptics Caucus, can hear from Mr. Isaac and so many others, because the starting point is this testimony that we didn't hear before any hearing, because there have been no hearings on this bill, but rather a letter sent to Members of Congress by hundreds of eminent economists, including three Nobel Laureates. And they said, we ask Congress not to rush, to hold appropriate hearings, and to carefully consider the right course of action.
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The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and by sustaining a panic atmosphere.
That atmosphere is not justified. Many of us were told in private conversations, if we voted against this bill, that, on Monday, the sky would fall and that the market would drop 2,000 or 3,000 points the first day and another 2,000 the second day.
A few Members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted ``no.''
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Length: 576
Rating: 5.00 (107 ratings)
Tags: brad sherman congress threatened with martial law no bailout fascism usa election 2008 constitution liberty ron paul
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Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [2]
October 2, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Brad Sherman [D-CA] asks:
"But why are we bailing out the Bank of China? Why are we bailing out the Saudi royal family?...
The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and by sustaining a panic atmosphere...
A few Members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted ``no.''
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Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KRXnYgu5I
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55lOhYw8Lxk
Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No [3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFUa4SpPBU
Sherman's speech on the 1st proposal of the Bailout bill (September 29th 2008): Best on Bailout Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGv6qSwuPs
Alex Jones interviews Brad Sherman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXhZMaY26w
Sherman's Blue Paper on the Bailout
http://bradsherman.house.gov/081001comprehensive_article.pdf
171 Heroes vs 263 Traitors
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-681
Paul Craig Roberts: It takes the trouble off the banks and puts it on the taxpayers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLbWau3rsag&NR=1
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That's what I call fear mongering--unjustified, proven wrong.
We've got a week; we've got 2 weeks to write a good bill. The only way to pass a bad bill: Keep the panic pressure on.
Now, what has the Senate done to this bill? First, they've added pork to it in the hope that that would buy off some votes. Second, they've created a double hostage situation. Now, we already know that the first bill was a hostage situation. When Paulson announced this crisis, he basically sent a ransom note, and that ransom note read, ``We've got your 401(k), and you'll never see it alive again unless you send us $700 billion in unmarked bills.'' So we had one hostage situation.
There's the AMT patch, a necessary tax provision that Congress passes every year. Without this patch, the AMT tax, which is designed to fall only on the wealthy, will hit another 20 million American households. Everyone knows we have to pass this. We sent it to the Senate for them to pass. Instead of passing it, they created a hostage situation. They refused to pass it. They put it on this bill. So now we're being told, if you don't send $700 billion to Wall Street, we're going to tax 20 million American families in a way no one in Congress wants to do.
That's totally phony. If we vote down this bill, the Senate will pass the AMT patch bill that we sent them just like they do every year.
There has been some attempt to tell the American people that this bill isn't going to cost anything permanently because, in 2013, we're going to get the money back from the financial services industry. Nothing could be further from the truth. All the bill says is that the President has to send us a proposal to tax the financial services industry. Now, keep in mind, if the President has any good ideas in 2013, he'll send them to us or she'll send them to us. If the President is only sending us
revenue ideas because they have to send them and they don't want to send that proposal, well then, they're going to send it with a note, saying, ``I'm required to give you this proposal, but I think it's a bad idea.'' What do you think we're going to do with a Presidential proposal that is disparaged by the President?
Furthermore, it would be absolutely impossible and contrary to the intent of the bill, contrary to the logic of the bill and contrary to the statutory provisions of the bill to construct a tax that hit only those companies that got bailed out. Instead, the tax is going to hit the entire financial services industry, and a proposal like that is highly unlikely to pass the House. If it passed the House and if it got over to the Senate, 41 Senators could block it, and Wall Street could have enough
money to hire 4,100 lobbyists.
Now, why is it that we can't tax the individual companies that are bailed out on some sort of proportional basis?
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Length: 477
Rating: 4.90 (57 ratings)
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Rep. Brad Sherman Martial Law
Rep. Brad Sherman says Congress threatened with Martial Law if bill is not passed
Length: 49
Rating: 5.00 (1222 ratings)
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Sherman Tank
Colour footage of some Sherman tanks during World War 2
Length: 185
Rating: 4.70 (106 ratings)
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10 year old intellect, Dalton Sherman's keynote speech
Dalton Sherman of Dallas, TX as the keynote speaker at the Dallas Independent School District launch of the new school year. For more information, please visit http://www.dallasisd.org/.
Dallas fifth-grader Dalton Sherman earning fans, fame as a figure of speeches
12:28 AM CDT on Saturday, August 23, 2008
By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News
kunmuth@dallasnews.com
Thousands of Dallas teachers are talking about the little boy with the big voice who wowed them earlier this week at a big beginning-of-school pep rally at American Airlines Center.
Who is this kid?, they wondered.
At 10, Dalton Sherman is a speech-making pro. Since winning a big oratory competition in Dallas last January, hes performed at numerous churches and events all over Dallas. He even opened an event for famed poet Maya Angelou.
He has the it factor, said Dawn Blair, Daltons godmother. Like Tiger has it, Obama has it. You cant put your finger on it.
And since his Wednesday speech, which left many teachers cheering and others in tears, his family has been inundated by phone calls and e-mails.
A talkative kid, Dalton bounces up and down on a couch in his familys home talking about his craft. His parents call it his gift.
I try to shake and move when Im getting ready to go on, Dalton says, while demonstrating his movements. I walk out there and Im like here it comes—no turning back now. Then I just begin.
Dalton is a fifth-grader at Charles Rice Learning Center. His family lives down the street from Kimball High School in southern Dallas in a neat ranch house filled with photos. His brother Demosthenes, 13, is an aspiring astronaut and his sister, Deasure Crawford, 22, an accountant.
Dalton is an A student, plays basketball and is a blue belt in karate. His favorite books are The Magic Tree House series. He won his first oratory competition in the first grade. His family describes him as energetic and competitive. His motto is Im in it to win it.
Talking in front of 17,000 people at American Airlines Center was his biggest event yet. The applause motivated him, especially when he gestured and gave shout-outs to different neighborhoods, like Oak Cliff and Pleasant Grove, telling teachers to help children no matter where theyre from.
When I hear them cheering, its like, oh yeah, theyre feeling me, he said.
Then there came the end.
I felt drained. I kept shaking. Thats what happens after every speech, Dalton said.
His dad, Carlos, was impressed.
He rocked the house. Im super-proud, he said.
Dalton turns to his dad. You cried? he asked.
Yeah, I cried. Daddy cries too, Mr. Sherman said, hugging his son.
Daltons speech was directed toward teachers.
We need you, he told them. They played a big role in preparing him for his big performance. Both his oratory coach from school, Irene Redmond, a fourth-grade teacher, and mother Donna Sherman, a DISD fifth-grade teacher, coached him all summer in preparation for his performance. They focus on proper diction and pronunciation of words.
Ms. Redmond said she immediately recognized his big vocabulary when she began coaching him, and he worked hard in response.
He lives to please you, she said. He feels disappointed when he doesnt.
I hope that I touch a lot of people, Dalton added.
School district officials contacted the family last May about giving the convocation speech for teachers. Dallas ISD officials wrote it.
In June, he memorized the words. Then he practiced giving the speech up to three times a week at his familys church, Concord Missionary Baptist. His mother and Ms. Redmond stood in the balcony as he practiced his movements and the built-in pauses to punctuate the text.
Mrs. Sherman uses a worn book of her grandfathers, Natural Drills in Expression, published in 1909, to coach her son on pronunciation.
Demonstrating, she reads a sentence. Dalton repeats it— to dare, to do, to die. He loves the book.
Dalton wants to be a news anchor someday, but hes got even bigger plans.
Maybe after that, Ill try to be president, he says. I want to be the next Obama.
Length: 536
Rating: 4.70 (24 ratings)
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