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Aside from Kendall Coffey being a United States legal analyst and a recurrent guest on numerous television news network programs, he has also provided financial support to political candidates and their Democratic campaigns.

In the first quarter of 2004, Kendall Coffey made a lot of endowment amounting $2,500 to the Democratic Convention. He provided John Kerry, a senior Democrat in Washington and a junior United States senator, and his campaign with $2,000. Kendall Coffey donated $1,000 to Bob Graham, a former governor of Florida and a current US senator. He also gave $1,000 to Joe Lieberman, a junior US senator from Connecticut. Furthermore, he contributed $500 to Dick Gephardt, a former politician of the Democratic Party.

In the first quarter of 2007, Kendall Coffey contributed $1,000 for Christine Jennings who ran for Congress. At the same time, he gave $2,000 to the Democratic Executive Committee of Florida. In the second quarter of 2007, Kendall Coffey contributed $4,600 to Hillary Clinton. He also supported Ron Klein who ran for Congress by endowing $1,000 in the second quarter of 2007. In the fourth quarter, Kendall Coffey bestowed $1,000 supporting Tim Mahoney for Florida.

Lastly, Kendall Coffey endowed $1,000 in support of Ron Klein who, again, ran for Congress in 2008.

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Censoring Adults in order to protect Children is wrong & hurts both children & this great nation!
Censoring Adults to protect Children is wrong!Censoring the Internet in order to protect your children - hurts me! It violates my rights to censor me in order protect your children. Computers are not baby sitters or parents & the internet is an ADULT Environment - the same as going out into Society!

“You wouldn’t let your child go out & play in Society, would you? And you surely wouldn’t drop your child off at a public park or down town in the city, would you?”

So, please do your parental job rather than violating the rights of all Americans!

“You can put your hand over your child’s ears & mouth - but not mine!” Censoring Adults to protect children is wrong because it is unconstitutional & it is bad for Society. Only fully informed adults can make informed decisions & ignorance is dangerous in many ways.

For example, some were surprised when terrorists crashed planes into the trade towers! I wasn’t because there has been an evolution & escalation of terrorism since our CIA put the Shaw into power in Iran decades ago! Before that - We Americans were well liked! The first jihad or holy way (as far as I can tell) was issued against America & American Citizens anywhere & everywhere by the Iotola Homani in Iran!

-There have also been numerous reports of terrorists wanting to hijack planes & use them as weapons. -There were the bombings at US Embassies & Marine Barracks as well as the first trade tower bombing! -There were numerous jihads (holy wars) declared against America!

I have been keeping up with the news daily & this was evident to me. But I don’t just rely on the usual corporate owned & censored news organizations but many different sources of media.

I watch cable cannels from the Discovery channel to the History Channel & I listen to all sides of the arguments by listening to Fox, CNN, C-Span & Book TV and others as well as World Net Daily on the internet.

I consider all sources & understand that they are all spinning the news in one way or another because they all have their agendas. I’m not a Christian for example, but I watch the Christian channel news to see what they think so that I understand all sides. The only way that I can decide the truth is to listen to all sides & consider all of the evidence.

So, 911 wasn’t a surprise to me nor was it a surprise that the federal government let the airlines spend only about 1% on security in light of the known terrorist history, plans, & threats! The head of security at the towers was a former federal official who had been stone walled by Washington while investigating terrorism in the Middle East according to a program that I watched on PBS.

It was however a surprise to me that the Commander of a Ship sailed right up into a known terrorist port! Then I was surprised to find that the Commander did this with less than 100% Security as if asking for the terrorists to take a free shot! A small rubber dingy sailed right up to them & took a free shot! Not only should the Ship not have sailed up into a know terrorist port, alone, at less than 100% security but it must have failed or disobeyed some type of safety or military regulations because this is unnecessarily putting our brave men & women in the Navy in harms way!

The question should be - “Did the order to sail up into a known terrorist port come from Washington?” and if so, “Did it say to use less than 100% Security?” In my opinion, this is one more example of the aristocrats or Nobles in Washington (career politician “federalists”) - using our service personnel as expendable pawns to deceive the American People into supporting them in order to achieve their political goals or personal desires! (Like attacking Iraq to get revenge for your family after Sadam tried to assassinate you father!)

I’m not saying that the federal government knew that an attack was imminent on the trade center towers but it wouldn’t be the first time in history that a leader allowed something to happen in order to motivate his people to get behind him so that he can do his will! The federal government was certainly guilty of negligence just for letting the airline industry buy them off & spend 1% on security!

My suggestion to my fellow American People is “Don’t be a funny monkey or a lemming- decide for yourself based on logic, reasoning, & common sense.” Just the facts not the emotions provoked by deceptive & manipulative men who desire to deceive the people into supporting them as they do their will.

And that brings me to the main point of “Censoring Adults being bad for Society”. Censoring adults helps to keep people from talking about politically incorrect issues & helps the status quo to censor us all from the necessary information to decide for ourselves what the truth really is! This keeps us all in the dark as if we have our heads in a hole until we wake up one day to find planes crashing into our buildings in immense surprise & horror felt across our great nation!

“When there is Open Debate - The truth can come out!” “Censorship is bad for America!” Adults should not censor the free speech of other adults - not even to protect their children from free speech! Censoring adults is far worse for your children in the future as you continue to burn the Constitution & keep the truth from flowing freely, thus preventing the informing of Americans & resulting in an ignorant & un-free nation for your children to live in! “Less freedom does not protect children!”

Censorship fuels & empowers that which the censors try to stop! For example, Two-Live Crew, Marilyn Manson, & Eminem are all fueled by the very censors who try to shut them up! Remember 2LiveCrew? They were made famous by the do-gooders who tried to embarrass them out of business but instead gave publicity to a group that had little publicity & this publicity enabled 2livecrew to reach the people who would like & buy their albums! And those people did buy their albums! The rest is history! The obvious answer is not always the correct one and fore every action there can be unintended consequences of that action!

Every time the censors, mostly “do-gooders on a religious crusade” in my opinion, try to deny the 4th Amendment Right to Marilyn Manson or Eminem - these artists then get inspired & come out with another major album that sells millions! Can’t people see that censoring other adults is wrong “Constitutionally” & results in far worse? It’s counter productive & self defeating!

Besides, who made these people “God” anyway? Doesn’t the Bible say “Judge not lets YE BE JUDGED?” What makes them think that “THEY” can decide for all of us what we will say or even listen to? Well, censoring others is judging them! “Censor not lets YE be Censored!”

To censor others is to play “God”. One day what you send out may just come back to you! Do wrong, thinking that the end justifies the means, is still wrong doing & will yield negative results in the end!

The Government’s job is to Preserve Life, Liberty, Property & the Pursuit of Happiness! - Not to control the actions of its citizens. No, that would be Communism! So when you go to the government to try to censor something that you don’t like - You are doing wrong & what you are doing, misguided or not, is not in the best interest of Society or “the children”. Again, “Freedom” is in the best interest of the children!

“CENSOR CHILDREN - NOT ADUTS!” Only the fully informed can make informed decisions! T-shirt available at the link below. Link: http://www.cafeshops.com/censorchildren

Political Correctness is CENSORSHIP! It is un-American for one American to tell another to be quiet because they are saying something that is not acceptable or politically correct to society. The Majority does not rule in this Republic - Individual Rights like freedom of expression DO rule in this country. The Constitution “IS” the Supreme Law of “this” land!

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Karen had just herded the kids into the back seat of that elephant sized black Lexus SUV they have when I caught her on her cell.

As usual, she had the Waylon Jennings pumped up to drown out the sound of little Georgie Joe and Condi Sue screaming in the back. Waylon was singing:

She’s a good hearted woman

In love with a good timing man.

She loves him in spite of

The wicked things that she don’t understand

She clicked in with “This is Karen” and I just couldn’t help myself. I had to yell.

Really let her have it.

“I can’t believe you did this to me! Karen, I just can’t believe it! It’s just. . . .you said I could have it! You said that the LINE was mine! You said it would be a throw away and that there was no way the Chief would ever use it. You said he’d just laugh and say, “Nice try Soccer Mom—but that doggie ain’t got no tail!”

For the love of . . . Oh Karen, . . . I don’t know. . . .for the love of Boy Genius himself: no one will buy the tag line “global struggle against violent extremism!”

You can’t just re-brand the whole war and expect people will swallow that! Think of Classic Coke Karen! Think of Euro Disney . . .Karen think of THE EDSEL!”

And Karen, you promised ME the line. You said I could I could have it! Now every first year MBA student is gonna be blogging and whining and buzzing on their cell phones that we’re off message, saying things like ‘Hey, Bushie Crew—where’s the beef?’—We got nothing now Karen. And worse yet: I got no way to come up with a power point deck to describe what it is I been DOING out here acting like I was looking for a job.

Karen, this just might even blow my cover! What if people find out that this whole time—I’ve been embedded in the ranks of the middle class un-employed, gathering the TRUTH about unemployment. Fighting the terrorists by being unemployed. Standing up for freedom by being unemployed.

“Roger, it sounds like—Georgie Joe! You get your hands off of your sister’s neck right now! Don’t you see how she starts turning blue when you choke her like that!—oh sorry. What were we talking about Roger?”

“We were talking about how I needed the global struggle tag line! How I needed a tag line for my mission. Didn’t matter which one. But I had to have a tag line. Karen: this could all land on HIS desk! And you KNOW how he hates it when stuff is on his desk!”

“Oklet me think a minute.”

That’s the thing about Karen. She can think in the middle of a hurricane. I’ve seen it a million times. We’d all be in meetings. Rummy off in the corner asking himself questions and then supplying the answers. That little guy who always walks a few steps behind him writing it all down. Rummy would be mumbling things like, “What is a war? It’s a struggle. And isn’t life a struggle? So aren’t we ALL struggling?”

Cheney in that surgical mask he wears to the really top secret meetings. Leaning over that scary stainless steel sink of his with the scalpel and the dead cats. That whisper voice he uses when he’s really concentrating. Hissing, “I’ll find the stem cells. I’ll do the research. I am the DOCTOR. The chief on the phone to a baseball player or his Mom. Condi thumbing through a leather catalog, Karl pacing up and down in the front of the room, clapping his hands and saying, “People! I need your attention here people! We are protecting freedom here people!

And there is Karen at the middle of it all. Humming along to the rhythm of her fingers on the keys of that laptop. Humming a show tune. Karen adores Steven Sondheim. She LOVES send in the clowns:

“Isn’t it rich?

Isn’t it queer

Loosing my timing,

This late in my career?

And then like she’s some sort of sorcerer or something, Karen stops typing and blurts out a tag line of pure genius. I think it might have been Karen who came up with, “Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should.” Sure, I know she doesn’t look that old.

But Karen has been around . . . . Well, let’s just say that she has always been with us.

She turns down the Waylon Jennings in her mini-van. Says, “Ok. Hang on Roger. Karl’s on the video feed monitor here in my van. Let me punch him up and see what he’s got. Maybe he can help us with this.”

“Karen my dear?” I hear the sound of Karl’s voice.

“Karl, let me switch on the cone of silence. My kids are in the back and I have Roger on the other line.”

“Ah Roger. But of course. Unemployment. How it too can protect freedom! Just got the Intel that we won’t be seeing you in the ranks of the unemployed much longer old man? We’ll talk later about how you plan on helping our true friends by NOT being unemployed.. And I think I might have a new assignment for you. “Library Visits from Your Neighborhood Special Agent? That Means Freedom. Karen, we’ll need you for the spin there. Don’t quite have all the bugs out . . . . .”

“Karl,” Karen cut in, ” Roger has some concerns about “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.” He wanted the line. A bit of a snafu. He thought no would buy it so he could use it for the Unemployment Means Freedom campaign.

“Acchh—so many campaigns, so little time!” Karl laughed in that way he has,” Well, I have news for you both. Early numbers tell us that we have a fish on the line my friends. 23% tested positive that “global struggle” actually had a MEANING! I told the Chief.

“What did he say?” Karen asked

“He said he had brush to clear, and some doggies had strayed from the herd,

“Oh that’s right. We’re in Crawford this month.”

“So, Roger, I’m sorry but that tag line has been taken. We’re going with it. And I think we’ll shut off “Unemployment Means Freedom.” Even with Karen driving our message: I was never sure how we’d shape that one as a way to help our friends. And the Library Visits? Well, that is coming as soon as we take care of the whole Supreme Court project.” Maybe we can use you for that Roger.”

“Hang on you two, I’ve got Novak on the other line. . . .”

“Karen,” I said, if I get a new assignment, can you help with the spin? I mean if we’re really going to go monitor the libraries now, we’ll need to. . . . “

But just then I heard the click and the line went dead. Lost the cell connection.

And again —I was alone.

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Roger Wright can be found on the blog CHURCH FOOD CHICAGO.

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