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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: You Need to Know About Tom Perez: Likely Hillary VP Opposes First Amendment

Apr 26, 2016 2:42 pm By Robert Spencer

In PJ Media today I discuss the little-known man who has a chance to be President of the United States:

Tom-Perez

Could the next president of the United States be neither Clinton, Trump, Cruz, or Kasich … but Thomas Perez?It’s far more likely than you might think. Even before any candidate definitively secures either party’s presidential nomination, 2016 is looking more and more like 1912 all over again.

In that fateful year, Theodore Roosevelt — after four years of bored retirement — decided that he wanted to be president again. However, Roosevelt’s handpicked successor, William Howard Taft, refused to yield. Because of the split, even though the Democrats’ dour, arrogant Woodrow Wilson won fewer popular votes than perennial failed Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan did in 1908, Wilson won.

Roosevelt and Taft divided what would have been a comfortable winning tally for the Republicans. Today, the #NeverTrump and #OnlyTrump forces seem determined to replay that scenario.

Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, it could well be 1944 all over again.

That year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was virtually assured of victory over the strutting New York prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey. The real race was at the Democratic convention — for vice president. Everyone knew FDR was gravely ill, and that the vice presidential nominee would likely become president sometime before the 1948 election.

Sitting Vice President Henry Wallace was ultimately cast aside in favor of Harry Truman, largely because Democratic Party leaders were alarmed at the prospect of a Communist sympathizer like Wallace becoming president. (How times have changed, at least in that respect.)

Hillary Clinton is 68, and beset by a persistent cough that she has never adequately explained. According to Ed Klein, author of Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary, she also suffers from “blinding headaches, exhaustion, insomnia, and a tremor in her hands.”

If Hillary goes unindicted (as seems likely, given that the Justice Department has been hiring based solely on left-leaning ideology) for her mishandling of classified material on her private email server, the deep split in the Republican Party makes it likely that she will be the next president.

Unless her health prevents her from remaining in office.

Given her apparent health issues (and the fact that her rival for the nomination, Bernie Sanders, is 74 years old), the Democrats’ choice for vice president could be their most important since 1944.

If Clinton became unable to serve prior the election, the obvious move for the Democrats would be to promote her vice presidential nominee to the presidential slot — and it will not be Bernie. Hillary has not yet announced her choice, but one name that has been bruitedaboutformonths as one of her most likely running mates is Tom Perez, the secretary of Labor.

The notion that Perez, or whomever the Democratic vice presidential nominee turns out to be, could become president of the United States on January 20, 2017 — or sometime thereafter — is not just a remote possibility.

Americans who value freedom should find the prospects of a Clinton and a Perez presidency equally chilling. Clinton and Perez have a shared distaste for freedom of speech: Hillary’s implicit but unmistakable opposition has been abundantly documented, whereas Perez’s distaste for the First Amendment seems even starker. In July 2012, Perez — then the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, was asked by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ):

Will you tell us here today that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?

Perez could have simply answered yes, and maybe even cited the First Amendment. Instead, Perez refused to answer the question directly. Franks persisted, ultimately asking it four times.

Perez at one point responded that it was a “hard question.” He simply refused to affirm that the Obama Justice Department would not attempt to criminalize criticism of Islam.

As it turned out, the DOJ didn’t need to — due to Hillary Clinton’s advice. Clinton called for Americans to embrace “old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”

The mainstream media now marches in lockstep on this issue. Most Americans are too cowed to speak out against the advancing jihad and the accommodation of Sharia principles that are inimical to American freedoms, as they are afraid of being branded as “racists,” “bigots,” and “Islamophobes.” A Clinton-inspired culture of “peer pressure and shaming” is working beautifully to intimidate Americans. Many simply have adopted her values, now believing it’s morally unacceptable to oppose jihad terror and to speak honestly about its ideological wellsprings.

President Hillary Clinton — or President Thomas Perez — would only continue this trend, working to restrict the freedom of speech even further. Perhaps they would do away with their equivocating over the First Amendment and actually attempt to enshrine in law that disturbing yet increasingly popular slogan: “Hate speech is not free speech.”…

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  1. Fatts says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Of course, Perez would be a disaster. I thought another complete bastard might get her veep nod: Senator Cory Booker (D) NJ, a stooge of the Muslim Brotherhood.

    He’d fit right in with Hillary and her ilk.

    • jr says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 3:23 pm

      she wont choose booker

      • Dean says

        Apr 27, 2016 at 3:41 pm

        Right, Perez and Booker are perfect fits for the neo-Democrats. And with their Supreme Court appointees their assault on Constitutional rights would be opposed.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    Theodore Roosevelt had made a statement that is well worth repeating. What he stated was “There can be no fifty- fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 5:05 am

      The 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, put it well when he said, “The first amendment… was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.”

  3. jr says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 3:22 pm

    the world is in grave danger if hillary becomes president

    • Dean says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 3:45 pm

      I America goes down the world can go to hell, I don’t care and they would deserve it. Another 4 years of this administration may well finish us off, and that is all that I care about.

  4. Jerry says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    “Hate speech” laws would pave a smooth path for sharia enforcement and jihad aggression. But the problem with imprecise concepts like “hate” is they are subject to all manner of interpretation. Sadly in our new PC world the de facto arbiter of our right to free speech has become the hurt feelings of others. Facts and opinion are now suppressed for the right of others to gasp in horror any time they disagree. But there’s an obvious flaw in all this. Truth and facts will certainly be discriminated against if “free speech” is subservient to the infinite world of subjective interpretation and emotional reaction. Human nature knows too well the tendency of humans to hate or even kill the ideas and opinions of others if it makes them “feel bad.” History is full of examples where great truths were killed and tortured because others saw fit to put their hurt feelings above other’s right to free expression.

    In 2014 Ezra Levant received the Sappho Award for his battle against the Canadian authorities concerning free expression. At that ceremony he gave a speech, here’s a quote I love:

    “…Imagine if Section 13, that’s the Federal equivalent of the law under which I was charged, had been on the books, the suffragettes would have been prosecuted, Martin Luther King would have been prosecuted, gay activists would have been prosecuted, because what they did was likely to expose a person to hatred and contempt. Now I’m not saying that every offensive statement is noble and is progress, I’m not saying that. Probably 99 percent of offensive statements are junk, are not worth it. But in that dung heap there is the occasional diamond…”

    I don’t know, that just seemed so f*cking eloquent to me, so to the point. Here’s the entire speech, it’s worth watching.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9flxlWqxM&w=854&h=480%5D

    • Jerry says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 3:52 pm

      • linnte says

        Apr 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm

        Jerry, do you know what hear this was? I am so new to all this stuff, I have never heard of this man! He is awesome. I’d like to check on the results of Mark Steyns trial also. And this is the first I have heard of a Canadian Islamic “Congress”. WTH?

        • linnte says

          Apr 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm

          Year, not “hear” and thanks for this video!

        • Jerry says

          Apr 26, 2016 at 5:18 pm

          Jerry, do you know what year this was?

          Yes, it was a few years after the Revolutionary War. Kidding. I believe it was March of 2014, as the video itself states.

    • Kepha says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 5:17 pm

      Hate speech laws provide a smooth path for ANY dictator wannabe. For that very reason, any politician who promises to impeach, remove, and have publicly hanged any legislator who proposes them or judge who upholds them will have Uncle Kepha’s vote.

      As for Shrillary Shroooooo, I’m supporting Cruz for now, but if Male Vanity Hairdoooo wins the GOP nomination, I’ll hold my nose and vote for him. Shrillary Shrooooo herself is an enemy of the First Amendment, and it speaks ill of the American electorate that she could even be considered as POTUS.

      • KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

        Apr 27, 2016 at 12:10 pm

        Tell us about your chinese diet again; for the 1000th time. It’s been at least 20 minutes since you last yalloped about it somewhere.

  5. Ellie says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    Over 680,000 fundamentalist Muslims were brought into the US between 2010 and 2015. Most of them came here with the aid of the UN managed US Refugee Resettlement Program. No one ever reports publicly on the RRP. Few Americans even realize it exists until they show up with hundreds or even thousands of non English speaking fundamentalist Muslims from the most uncivilized areas of the middle east and Africa.

    • dsinc says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 12:00 pm

      Yep, and few Americans are aware that Christian and Jewish charities are earning big payments from the government for arranging the resettlement of Muslim migrants throughout America. It’s big business.

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Perez could have simply answered yes, and maybe even cited the First Amendment. Instead, Perez refused to answer the question directly. Franks persisted, ultimately asking it four times.

    Oh, he’s that guy. Name doesn’t ring me a bell, but I remember seeing that video years ago.

    • Laur says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 8:57 am

      If I recall correctly, Angemon, Perez was involved here in AZ within the DOJ – in re “Fast & Furious”. He was very prejudiced and extremely pro-La Raza.

  7. mustapha crap says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 4:14 pm

    Hilary Clinton should be dragged out and hanged from a streetlamp she is a total disgrace a traitorous bitch who would be a worse president than even the incumbent Barack Obama, and that’s saying something I thought I would be impossible to achieve.
    I really hope the Republicans can put aside their differences for the sake of the future of America if the rancid hag Clinton is elected into the White House then the western world as we know it is finished.

    I was surprised that Obama lasted as long as he has without some “Good ole boy” inducting him into the JFK re-enactment society with the aid of a .338 Lapua. I really hope that should America be unfortunate enough to have the rabid Shrew become president she will be removed extremely quickly and dumped to rot in the prison cell she should be languishing in for the remainder of her life

    • Ian H says

      Apr 27, 2016 at 12:05 am

      Your call to lynch Clinton and shoot the president is quite disgusting.

  8. marty says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    Actually, huma the jihadi, Hillary’s closest aide, may become the de facto president the next time her boss needs to go to the hospital. sharia law and institutionalized islamic misery are just around the corner.

    • billybob says

      Apr 26, 2016 at 5:35 pm

      Hillary Clinton’s Muslim Brotherhood Problem
      http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/03/29/hillary-clintons-muslim-brotherhood-problem/

      • Dennis says

        Apr 26, 2016 at 5:54 pm

        Do you see any of this bothering Killary supporters at her rallies? I sure don’t

  9. Custos Custodum says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
    He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

    Thank you for the warning, Mr. Spencer.

    Thomas Perez would be the wet dream of many of the communists (yes) after their “long march through the institutions.”

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 26, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    I personally hate a lot of things, like beheading, throwing gays off a tall building, pedophilia disguised as child marriage, polygamy, wife beating, the jizya, jihad-genocide, stoning a victim to death, pubic or private floggings, obscurantism defended by death threats and demanding that I not speak out against them.

  11. somehistory says

    Apr 27, 2016 at 12:50 am

    There have been countless dictators down through the ages of mankind. Many had their enemies killed for speaking; some killed even their family members.
    There are some despots in power during this generation. Most of them are aged and sickly.

    Where are the majority of those people today? All dead and gone. Their murderous ways did not give them long, happy and prosperous lives.Their history has not taught h clinton or t perez a thing. These two and b sanders also will keep sowing rotten and evil weeds until they also join the dictators of the past.

    On the other hand, those of us not *trusting in these weak and imperfect humans* can still hope for a better day coming. When islam is no more and all those supporting it have gone.

    (Revelation 21)

  12. SoCalMike says

    Apr 27, 2016 at 1:02 am

    We need to stop pretending we aren’t dealing with enemies.
    They are precisely that.

    The two things they are most focused on are shutting us up and seizing our weapons.
    Basically obliterating the 1st and 2nd Amendments.
    Scary thing is how many American slaves and zombies all brainwashed and conformed by mass media and academia are on board with this.

    Then they come for the money and gold but first they criminalize speech and the ability to legally defend yourself.
    That’s WHAT THEY’RE ALL ABOUT.
    Beyond mere maggots.

  13. Sancho Panza says

    Apr 27, 2016 at 7:05 am

    Guys, if you value your country you must make sure Hillary does not become POTUS. Distance lends perspective, and from where I am, I can see clearly that she means to take revenge. Revenge for what? Why, for the humiliation and degradation she suffered during the Monicagate years. Monica jokes all over the media, TV, the Jay leno Show… she must have suffered. Everything she’s done as the Secretary of State so far shows utter contempt for America. If she does become the Prez the first thing she will do will be to curtail your First Amendment rights. Goodbye freedom of the Press, goodbye America. Hello Huma Abedin, hello Muslim Brotherhood.

  14. aaron mrand says

    Apr 27, 2016 at 11:53 am

    oh dear now we have done it for sure….trump and hillary…could it be? Maybe trump could ask Hillary
    if she would consider being his veep…hey, she bent over for baaaarack….maybe she would for the
    DUCK……now that would be like the off-spring of Dr. Frankenstein in his castle in Transylvannia…
    Quick Egor…..throw the switch……it*s alive I tell you…it*s alive…….! Can you imagine the Duckenstein
    stomping down from the castle on the Hillary to wreck, burn and pillage…..”Just call me Your Majesty”…
    said the monster….yeah, yeah I know that I said that I would vote for Donald……BUT….I don’t have to
    LIKE IT!. I mean WHO would you rather have in there? The speedo brothers Pres. & VP…((whos on top
    is the Pres))..playing grab ass with each other? I can see it now Cruz and Kasich in speedos promoting
    suntan lotion on billboards as you head to Fla…..Or, maybe it could be the Hildabeast, cough..cough..cough..cough…*scuse me it is the allergies”…cough..Mr. ayatollah sir…, yes sir here is
    another 100 billion for your new estate in Ter…cough…han……cough…..we just love muzzies….cough
    Or maybe we could get Burnie Slanders….or some other Old Timer to croak at the helm …then we
    would have the Hildabeast anyway……oh well,,,,,I am gonna let all of the talking heads tell me what
    I should think and who I should vote for….you know like Rush or Glenn..or maybe Mike the barber….
    Say buddy, can you spare a dime?

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