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Brownback Introduces Himself To New Hampshire Voters
By Dan Gorenstein on Sunday, March 18, 2007.
Republican Senator Sam Brownback introduced himself to voters on his first trip to the state as a presidential candidate.
New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has more.
The Kansas Senator told a crowd of fifty he's a full-scale conservative.
Brownback says he supports a flat tax, Social Security reform, reduced federal spending, and is pro-life and pro-family.
In trying to distinguish himself from other candidates, like Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Brownback says he's a bleeding-heart conservative:
"We have problems with poverty. We need to start addressing them. But one of the key parts has been the lack of family formation."
Brownback says he supports so-called marriage development accounts, that would leverage public and private dollars to help people with housing, transportation and education costs.
The candidate got a strong reaction from the audience when he pledged to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
For NHPR News, I'm Dan Gorenstein.
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Senator Brownback says that he is a "full-scale conservative" and a "bleeding heart conservative". He claims to be Pro Life and Pro Family. Nothing can be further from the truth!
This man is responsible for a radical, left wing, liberal bill titled the "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act" (or IMBRA). The Brownback-cosponsored bill is one of the most pathetic, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, ANTI FAMILY laws in the history of the United States. Senator Brownback said that he is lawyer. Apparently he forgot what the U.S. Constitution is when he studied law. He is unfit to ever be President.
Senator Brownback's draconian bill, which became law on March 6th, 2006, implies that ALL Americans (mostly Conservative American men) are violent sexual abusers and wife beaters unless proven innocent. I DISAGREE!!! IMBRA was discreetly attached to another bill, the 'Violence Against Women Act of 2005'. This law is better described as the 'International Romance Regulation Act', which is exactly what it is.
Under Senator Brownback's outrageous law, all Americans (mostly conservative American men), must submit a detailed criminal background report in order to communicate with a woman in a foreign country. How absurd! The form is likely to get lost in the mail, and she will have no incentive to respond and send back her approval (again by postal mail) without a photo or bio. This law applies for all forms of communication including: e-mail, telephone, postal mail, text messaging, and in-person meetings. Penalties are severe: $25,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison for saying 'Hello'!
In order to drum up support for his atrocious bill, Senator Brownback along with other proponents (radical feminist group Tahirih Justice Center) concocted the sinister-sounding label 'marriage broker'. What is a 'marriage broker'? It is nothing more than an introduction or penpal service. So now all-of-a-sudden according to the U.S. Government, a penpal service will now be known as a 'marriage broker'. For your information Senator Brownback, nobody is getting married, and nobody is being 'brokered' when two consenting heterosexual adults decide to communicate.
This law also has also scrutinized ALL international marriages no matter how the couples actually met. Most international marriages do not involve sinister-sounding 'marriage brokers', but because the government has no way of knowing how a couple actually met (it is none of their business anyways), they decided to crack-down on visa petitioners. Now any irrelevant DUI's, misdemeanors, fraudulent protection orders, and even arrests not leading to any conviction must be disclosed to your fiancee, which is a good way to become un-engaged. This is exactly what Senator Brownback and the feminists want. Their goal was to shut down introduction agencies and to keep American men away from foreign women. This law is a SCANDAL based on fraud, deception, cooked statistics, 'manufactured' hysteria and propaganda regarding abuse and trafficking of foreign women to support ulterior motives. In reality, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY CONVICTIONS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING INVOLVING AN AMERICAN-OWNED INTRODUCTION AGENCY. And THERE ARE NO DOCUMENTED CASES OF ABUSE OF FOREIGN WOMEN BY AMERICAN MEN PRIOR TO MARRIAGE.
On December 16th, 2005, Senator Brownback told his colleagues in the Senate that the "Tahirih Justice Center are frontline experts" and that customers of 'marriage brokers' (a false label) "need to clean up their act". No Senator Brownback, you "need to clean up your act". After he was elected, he took an oath to uphold the Constitution. But his draconian law violates the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.
Senator Brownback claims to be Pro Life, yet for this bill he teamed-up with radical left wing Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) who openly supports the murder of human fetuses. He claims to support traditional marriages, yet his asinine bill criminalizes communication and love letters by heterosexuals. He has partnered with a wacko feminist not-for-profit organization named after an Iranian martyr: the Tahirih Justice Center. Senator Brownback has alot of explaining to do.
Brownback is an embarrassment to the Republican Party and Full-Scale Conservatives. His connection with the Tahirih In-Justice Center needs to be investigated.
Hmm... President Brownback took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States when he began his term as a US Senator. Then he sponsors the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 a law that apparently violates our basic constitutional rights by requiring a background check on Americans (using dating sites)before they can communicate by e mail, phone or fax to a woman in a foreign country.
From the standpoint of a christian this law appears to be a gross violation of privacy rights that allows the government to infringe directly into our personal lives.
After doing some research on the matter I have determined that Senator Brownback has indeed embraced some very radical groups. One such group the Tahirih Justice Center recently received $700,000 in federal grant money spending greatly on paid lobbyists and "Public Advocacy" suspiciously not itemized in their annual report.
Apparently the Tahirtih Justice Center and other feminists manipulated Brownback who spouts the radical propoaganda... spreading their rumor mill hysteria that American men who marry foreign women are serial rapists abusers or involved in human trafficking.
The feminists and Brownback have never supplied any reliable scientific evidence that foreign women who marry foreign women (through dating sites) are abused to any notable degre. In fact the INS did a study in 1999 claiming that these "International marriages" were 7 times less likely to be involved with abuse than domestic abuse rates for the entire US populace.
The radical feminists who manipulated Brownback abhor American men who look overseas for a more traditional wife who understands the true value of marriage.
Take a look at this link written from a more moderate feminist point of view and compare this point of view with Brownback alignment with radicals and you'll understand what a whacko Senator Brownback really is!
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0111.html
Senator Brownback you've got some explaining to do since you violated an oath to defend the Constitution when you were elected Senator. You apear to be a hypocrite as indicated by the previous poster.