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Nebraska Democrat Stands By Work Defending Nazi War Criminal

Democratic Senate Candidate Domina shared his ‘gift’ with ‘most wanted’ Nazi John ‘Ivan’ Kalymon



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BY: Adam Kredo
October 9, 2014 2:38 pm

Democratic Nebraska Senate candidate Dave Domina, in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, stood by his work defending a former Nazi police officer stripped of his U.S. citizenship.
Domina, who is trailing Republican Ben Sasse, said he did not balk when John Kalymon hired him in 2006 to fight the U.S. government, which was seeking to deport the former German-occupation police officer for lying about his past.
“Mr. Kalymon lived an honorable life in the U.S.,” Domina said in an interview Wednesday.
Domina touts his work defending Kalymon, citing it on his law firm’s website.
“I am a person without biases against other people and in this instance, my own beloved grandchildren are Jewish people and their mother is a student of Jewish history and a professor of it,” said Domina, who is not Jewish. “I am a firm believer in the legal process and I believe that lawyers with gifts in that profession should share their gifts, and that’s what I did.”
The case began in 2006 when the U.S. government charged the octogenarian Chrysler engineer, now deceased, with lying on the immigration forms that allowed him to come to this country from his native Ukraine some 60 years earlier.
Kalymon’s real name was Ivan, the government said, accusing the Detroit resident of covering up his membership in the Nazi-backed Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP), participating in pogroms against Jews, and of killing at least one in the woods nearby the Jewish ghetto in L’Viv.
Kalymon “repeatedly shot at Jews who tried to escape during roundups,” according to the government records recounted in a 2006 Detroit Free Press report on the deportation proceedings. “Kalymon killed one Jew and wounded another.”
The UAP, which Kalymon admitted to being a member of, was documented to be complicit in Nazi crimes.
“During the first week of the German occupation of the Ukraine, members of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police took part in pogroms against the Jews,” according to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum. “Later, they escorted Jews to their forced labor sites and guarded the ghettos.”
Kalymon was ultimately stripped of his U.S. citizenship and ordered to be “removed from the United States because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed member of the” UAP, the Department of Justice announced in 2011.
“Ivan Kalymon was part and parcel of the Nazi machinery of persecution that ended the lives of more than 100,000 men, women, and children in L’viv,” Eli Rosenbaum, director of human rights enforcement strategy and policy for the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section (HRSP), said in a statement at the time.
Domina, who helmed Kalymon’s defense, told the Free Beacon that while the Ukrainian immigrant had concealed his true identity while applying for U.S. citizenship, the evidence presented against him was unreliable.
“The evidence consisted of these historical documents, and the evidence about the genuineness of his signature on the critical document was contested, and the efforts proving or disproving the authenticity of proving the signature as his, which he denied, was inconclusive,” Domina said.
However, “the court made a judgment and that withstood,” Domina said. “I’m not at all inclined to quibble with the court’s judgment. [Kalymon] denied his involvement and the court found against him.”
Asked if he has any qualms about defending a man accused of Nazi war crimes, Domina stood by his work.
“It has not been an issue. I’ve raised it and disclosed it when appropriate,” he said.
“I was involved on a professional level and did my best professionally for a person who, decades after these events, needed help,” Domina said. “I performed a professional service. … It was a service I rendered without making a judgment on a person.”
Kalymon died in Detroit earlier this year while under deportation order, according to the AP, which noted that German authorities also had filed an arrest warrant for the former Nazi as a result of his war crimes.
Domina told the Free Beacon that he should not be criticized for defending Kalymon.
His critics “have a very weak understanding of the responsibilities of a lawyer to provide professional services with objectivity,” he said.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/nebraska-democrat-stands-by-work-defending-nazi-war-criminal/

This is madness. At times like these, I really start to wonder whether liberalism is a suicidal cult bent on destroying America from the inside out.

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Yes in deed we do need to wonder and also question everyone of our politicians who is running in our districts...Clean house from the top down and the bottom up!!!!

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Published on Oct 9, 2014
Will Washington’s political establishment always be dominated by Democrats and Republicans?

Well, a former business consultant and clean-energy entrepreneur running for the U.S. Senate is giving the political establishment a case of the jitters.

Indeed, Greg Orman’s independent bid against incumbent Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is seen by some as an upset in the making.

The Democratic candidate dropped out. That gives Orman more room to try and unseat the Republican incumbent.

As writer Matt Bai noted today on Yahoo News: “[Orman] seems to have opened up a surprising lead in the race . . . . [He] is the only Senate candidate in the country who keeps getting more popular, rather than less.”

Bai added: “If both parties aren't paying close attention to what's happening in stolid Kansas right now, they ought to be.”

Orman reportedly ran for the Senate briefly back in 2008 but dropped out. A onetime college
Republican and short-lived Democratic politician, his central pitch is that both parties are more interested in political games than problem-solving and that Washington is a “mess.”

But a key point that Bai overlooked is that, in 2008, incumbents were not as unpopular as they are now. So with current officeholders seen as a big part of the problem, and with Congress receiving its lowest-ever approval ratings, the time for independent victories may be now.

Don’t forget, the ground has already been laid. Ex-wrestler Jesse Ventura ran for governor of Minnesota as an independent against two of the state's biggest political stars and won.

Yet, on the eve of that election, the Minneapolis Star Tribune cautioned voters that it was time to stop having fun and to think about electing a real governor. Ventura still won easily.

And the Emporia Gazette in Kansas warned readers just last week that they should forget about Orman and reelect the guy with seniority and influence.

These editorial positions are shining examples of large media organs toeing the two-party line, regardless of how much those parties have stomped on the Constitution.

Besides Orman’s independent Senate bit, we’ve reported on other interesting electoral trends. That includes Vermont activist Dennis Morrisseau and his campaign to simply vote out all 435 incumbents in the House.

Morrisseau recommends voting for the Democratic challenger if the incumbent is a
Republican—and for the Republican challenger if the current officeholder is a Democrat.

The idea is to break up internal alliances or “buddy systems” within Congress and show Congress that the people have the ultimate power to clean the slate in Washington.

Morrisseau is not against alternative political parties, but he feels that voters first must issue a wake-call to Washington through his approach, before other parties can gain a solid foothold.

WHDT has also reported on the organization “Free and Equal” and its successful efforts to nationally-televise debates for minor-party candidates. That way, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party and several others can have a voice that has long been silenced by the mainstream media.

Meanwhile, there’s preliminary news that noted vote-fraud reformer Jim Condit is running as a Constitution Party candidate versus House Speaker John Boehner in Ohio. We’ll keep an eye on that one as it unfolds.

To be sure, it’ll be interesting to see how Orman’s independent effort turns out in Kansas. If he wins, perhaps it will signal the “beginning of the end” for the two-party system that's strangling our government in Washington.




Clean our house from the top down and the bottom up, vote them out like our lives depend on it...oh ahhhh, well guess what, it does!!!!

October 09, 2014, 02:58 pm

South Dakota Independent: I'd be a 'friend of Obama' in the Senate



By Alexandra Jaffe

An underfunded independent from South Dakota has turned the Senate race there upside-down, giving Democrats a renewed hope of holding the seat — or at least preventing a Republican pickup.

But while former Sen. Larry Pressler, who served nearly a quarter century in Congress as a Republican, won't say who he'd caucus with, he told The Hill Wednesday that, if elected, he'd be a "friend of Obama" in the Senate."I don't regret those votes, 'cause on that day, that's how I felt," he said of voting for Obama twice, a detail used by Republicans as evidence Pressler is now a closet Democrat.

He said the first time around, he supported Obama's budget plan, which was similar to the "Clinton-Gingrich balanced-budget plan," which Pressler says he sees as a model for the nation. And the second time, Pressler said he supported the president because he spoke out on the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder, something Pressler himself is afflicted with from his combat experience in the Vietnam War.
In addition to his votes with the president, Pressler says he publicly apologized when the South Dakota Republican Party adopted a plank in its platform calling for the impeachment of the president over the Affordable Care Act, among other things, a law that he says South Dakota "needs."

"I disagree with Obama on many many things. I am not an Obama supporter, so to speak, but I am on the Affordable Care Act," he said.
But he still had criticism for the president.

"I think Barack Obama has struggled with [the presidency]," he said. "He's done some very good things, but he's done a lot of things that I don't agree with, especially in the area of the deficit."
His anti-deficit, pro-balanced-budget and pro-ObamaCare positions have made Pressler both a difficult candidate to pigeonhole and the potential spoiler for Republicans in the South Dakota Senate race.

A poll out this week showed him surging in the race — despite only having raised about $107,000 through the second quarter of the year, and having spent even less — narrowing Republican Mike Rounds' lead to just three points. He's more competitive in the four-way race than Democrat Rick Weiland, and in a head-to-head matchup with Rounds, Pressler leads him by 15 points.

At issue for Rounds is the scandal surrounding the state’s visas-for-investments program, which Democrats believe was misused and mismanaged by the Republican during his time as governor. He’s denied any wrongdoing, but polling indicates voters still want better answers from him.

Pressler compared the issue to the scandal that ultimately prompted President Nixon’s resignation.
“It may be like Watergate ... in that the actual things that are done wrong are fairly small, but the suppression of an investigation — everything has been pushed back beyond the election. And I think the public feels that they don’t know and Governor Rounds has not told us, so there is a great question mark about that,” he said.

Rounds's unexpected weakness in such a deep-red state prompted national Democrats on Wednesday to pledge $1 million to defeat him. But their investment could ultimately have the effect of electing Pressler over their party's own candidate — and yet Pressler stubbornly refuses to say who he'll caucus with.

He told The Hill not to assume he'll caucus with the majority party. Rather, he plans to caucus "with whichever party will give me votes on certain issues."

Pressler named increasing the Social Security cost-of-living-adjustment, closing "obsolete overseas bases" and raising the gas tax as examples. He also said he supports the immigration reform proposal introduced under and supported by President George W. Bush, which would've established legal status and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently residing in the U.S., and described what he referred to as the "Pressler Containment Policy" on national security — insisting while we need to "protect ourselves," the U.S. should not act as a global police force and "we need to get out of this continuous war that we're in."

"I've seen us waste our blood and treasure in Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan, and now we're doing the same with [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria]," said Pressler.

And he also said he was in favor of raising revenues by eliminating certain tax deductions and raising taxes on the wealthy, to ensure America can "meet [its] responsibilities.”

"We're a big, rich country and we don't need to gouge Social Security, we don't need to gouge education, we don't need to close the EPA. We have to meet our responsibilities here at home," he said.

While many of his positions will give Republicans ammunition to paint him as a liberal Democrat, Pressler says he doesn't believe he's changed since he was a Republican.

"I'm the same as I always was. I think my party has moved far to the right," he said.
In any case, Pressler, who’s pledged only to serve one term if elected, believes that his ability to hold out on his party allegiance may be the best reason South Dakotans have to vote for him.

He imagined a Senate, next year, with four independents — Angus King of Maine, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, himself and Greg Orman, the independent running neck and neck with Pat Roberts (R) in Kansas — who could make the core of a 20-senator "centrist caucus" that could end partisan disputes and get things done.

"I feel I could be a very powerful voice for South Dakota because we will probably have a very closely divided Senate, and I think that the independents will have a great deal of power," he said.

Orman has suggested he may change parties depending on which would be better for Kansas, but Pressler cautioned against that.

"I mean it's like a suitor. You can't be too fickle," he said. "An independent can also overplay his or her hand."

Despite his strong showing in the polls, Pressler has few resources to get out his message and fight back against what he believes are the inevitable attacks that will come. He admits he'll likely be his own biggest contributor, and is taking out a $100,000 bank loan and contributing another $100,00 of his own money to his campaign. He currently has just one paid staffer, but plans to add two part-time staffers for the final month.

But the lack of funds, he says, is a small price to pay for his ideological freedom.

"Both Governor Rounds and Mr. Weiland are good guys, but either one of them is going to go back into Congress cloaked in special interest money, and in the bondage of one caucus or the other," he said.


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...-in-the-senate

But while former Sen. Larry Pressler, who served nearly a quarter century in Congress as a Republican, won't say who he'd caucus with, he told The Hill Wednesday that, if elected, he'd be a "friend of Obama" in the Senate."I don't regret those votes, 'cause on that day, that's how I felt," he said of voting for Obama twice, a detail used by Republicans as evidence Pressler is now a closet Democrat.

Well that should work well for this moron!!!!! This also tells his constituents just what he thinks of them all!!!!! To me he is putting himself up for sale!!!! Vote them all out "Clean our House", from the top down, and the bottom up!!!!

House of Cards doesn't even come close to the real thing.




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Clean our House from the top down and the bottom up!! A new broom sweeps clean!!

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