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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Calaveras County Safe Again (ATF at it Again!)
Post Date: 2005-04-29 09:20:59 by Refinersfire
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Calaveras County Safe Again By Jeff Knox (Manassas, VA, April 27) The people of Calaveras County – the remote central California mining region made famous by the gold rush of 1849 and the jumping frogs of Mark Twain – can breath easier now that Richard Wilmshurst has been brought to justice. Wilmshurst was convicted last month of illegal possession of a machinegun and illegal possession of “Assault Weapons” in California. The judge sentenced Wilmshurst to three years probation and ordered that he dispose of his “arsenal”. Wilmshurst, by the way, is a car dealer and land speculator with a law degree, a federal firearms import license, and a class 3 license. ...
Gun Control and Genocide
Post Date: 2005-04-28 22:59:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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Sunday, April 24th marked the 90th anniversary of the first genocide of the twentieth century: the Turkish government’s slaughter of over a million unarmed Armenians. The key word is "unarmed." The Turks got away with it under the cover of wartime. They suffered no greater postwar reprisals for this act of genocide than if they had not conducted mass murder of a peaceful people. Other governments soon took note of this fact. It seemed like such a convenient international precedent. Seventy-nine years after that genocide began, Hotel Rwanda opened for business. The Hutus also got away with it. Ironically, at least a decade before – I wish I could remember the date ...
What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?
Post Date: 2005-04-27 10:08:07 by Zipporah
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During the two and a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted hundreds of articles and links in our “Election 2004 Fraud” and “Electoral Integrity” pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about the issue, most recently just two weeks ago. On each occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me “I’m convinced that the elections are frauds,” then asking “Now what can I do about it?”Here is a partial answer. “Partial,” because if honest and verifiable elections are ever to return to the United States, it will be because this question will be asked relentlessly by an outraged ...
Media Blackout On Trilateral Meeting
Post Date: 2005-04-27 08:52:05 by gengis gandhi
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Media Blackout On Trilateral Meeting Secretive Commission Meets to Talk War, Trade By James P. Tucker Jr. American Free Press.com 4-24-5 Both Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reassured members of the Trilateral Commission, meeting in Washington April 15-18, that they anticipated no invasion of Iran. Rumsfeld further assured Trilateralists that Iraq "will not be another Vietnam" with "combat troops on patrol 10 years from now," Trilateral sources said. However, they stressed the qualification "combat patrol," indicating that troops may remain for logistical duties. Logistical duties can turn into combat with a single shot. ...
FILIBUSTER: GOA ANALYSIS
Post Date: 2005-04-26 23:56:33 by 1776
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Kill the Filibuster? Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Last year, the renewal of the semi-auto ban had 52 votes in the United States Senate -- a clear majority. President George Bush had agreed to sign it into law. And sponsors had the ability to tack it onto a huge must-pass money bill in the House. True, anti-gun zealots were a little skittish about proposing gun control on the eve of a presidential election. It also helped that GOA's grassroots were incredibly vocal during last year's fight over the semi-auto ban. Several times, GOA activists helped "educate" their Senators -- and most especially, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. But while grassroots gun owners fought and won ...
Florida Planning Son of Matrix
Post Date: 2005-04-26 18:24:16 by Zipporah
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Florida law officials are contemplating a sequel to the controversial Matrix database that may be even more comprehensive than the original. The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, contained billions of commercial and government records, and was intended to help police track down terrorists and kidnappers. But the system was shut down on April 15 when federal funds ran out. Considered overly invasive by many, the system's demise was celebrated by civil libertarians. Barry Steinhardt, former associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a press release it was a major victory in the "long and hard fight against the growing surveillance ...
Cities, newspapers argue over release of police photos
Post Date: 2005-04-26 13:42:11 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Cities, newspapers argue over release of police photos By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Statehouse Correspondent COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Attorneys for newspapers suing for photos of uniformed police officers told state Supreme Court justices Tuesday that recent changes to Ohio's open records law should not prevent the release of the photos. "A police officer's name and image is not private, it's not personal," said Fred Gittes, a lawyer representing The (Youngstown) Vindicator. "We don't have KGB police forces and secret forces here." At issue is a 2000 change to the law that exempts from disclosure any record identifying a person's occupation as a police officer, ...
Guns-in-bars bill vetoed
Post Date: 2005-04-26 13:14:41 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Guns-in-bars bill vetoed Napolitano sides with tourism industry rather than NRA Robbie Sherwood The Arizona Republic Apr. 26, 2005 12:00 AM Gov. Janet Napolitano said no on Monday to mixing guns and alcohol in Arizona nightspots. Napolitano rejected a bill that would have allowed patrons to carry loaded guns into bars, nightclubs and restaurants as long as the patrons didn't imbibe. She delivered that veto along with eight others, rejecting more bills in one day since the 16 budget measures she vetoed last month. The governor risks angering the National Rifle Association, which claims 100,000 members in Arizona and has lobbied for two years so gun owners could dine in restaurants that ...
Republican Leadership Seeks To Ensconce Judicial Tyranny
Post Date: 2005-04-26 13:03:16 by OKCSubmariner
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"Clearly, the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority and power to hold the judiciary accountable. Nowhere does the Constitution grant to the judiciary, or to any other branch of government, unrestricted, unlimited power. By stating that Congress has no right to retaliate against judicial abuse "no matter how they rule," Senator Frist is ceding tyrannical power to the judiciary, contrary to both the spirit and letter of the U.S. Constitution." Speaking to church groups around the country, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tried to rally support for President Bush's judicial nominees. In so doing, Frist promoted his intention to change Senate rules in order to ...
Some fear law would create national ID card
Post Date: 2005-04-26 08:59:02 by boonie rat
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Some fear law would create national ID card By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 26, 2005 WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to pass a law that would make sweeping changes to the nation's system for issuing driver's licenses by imposing stringent requirements on states to verify the authenticity of birth certificates, Social Security cards, legal residency visas, and bank and utility records used to obtain a license. House Republicans attached the bill to a must-pass supplemental spending package for troops in Iraq without first putting it through the usual legislative scrutiny of hearings and debate. Should it emerge intact from House-Senate negotiations over the spending package, it ...
Florida Planning Son of Matrix
Post Date: 2005-04-25 15:32:35 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Florida Planning Son of Matrix By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Apr. 25, 2005 PT Florida law officials are contemplating a sequel to the controversial Matrix database that may be even more comprehensive than the original. The Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, contained billions of commercial and government records, and was intended to help police track down terrorists and kidnappers. But the system was shut down on April 15 when federal funds ran out. Considered overly invasive by many, the system's demise was celebrated by civil libertarians. Barry Steinhardt, former associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a press release it was a major ...
Campaign coffers profit from 911, coke and courts-Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from Courthouse
Post Date: 2005-04-25 14:37:34 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Campaign coffers profit from 911, coke and courts FBI linguist won’t deny intelligence intercepts tied 911 drug money to U.S. election campaigns by Tom Flocco Washington -- April 25, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com -- Former FBI contract translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse so that a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel could discuss her case in private with Bush administration lawyers Click for Full Text!
TSA thwarts terrorist armed with a pink plastic purse and teddy bear
Post Date: 2005-04-25 12:35:04 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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TSA thwarts terrorist armed with a pink plastic purse and teddy bear John L. Smith Last week, I was ordered to stand aside at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix and watch as an intrepid member of the crack Transportation Security Administration frisked my 9-year-old daughter, Amelia. Amelia is a good reader and excels at math, but to my knowledge her third-grade curriculum hasn't included a single day of terrorist training. But, as they like to say around Washington these days, you can't be too careful. She complied with the security matron's requests, and from the sidelines I assured her everything would be OK, but inside I seethed. Forget for a moment that she was recovering from brain ...
American Mythology (a good one from a poster on CitizensoftheUsA yahoo group)
Post Date: 2005-04-25 12:09:37 by christine
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We immediately trust certain sources of information, because we were raised to believe that they’re "credible," and we do so without question. We immediately turn to our government for protection from all danger, because we believe it’s their purpose. These beliefs are so deeply ingrained in our culture, that expressing doubt about either’s validity will result in being ostracized by many members of our society. In other words, if you insist that the entire news industry is capable of collaborating to hide the truth, or try to tell someone that the U.S. government has murdered thousands of Americans, there’s a good chance they’ll think you’re crazy, ...
It's terror when we say so
Post Date: 2005-04-24 22:58:16 by Zipporah
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The Bush administration's iron-clad spin is that it is winning the "war on terror". Then comes a problem: the recently created (by a George W Bush executive order) National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) states there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985. So what does the State Department do? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice orders the "sanitation" of this year's version of "Patterns of Global Terrorism", a report regularly issued by the State Department. The NCTC was created on a recommendation by the 9-11 Commission. Now it has the responsibility of analyzing and integrating all US intelligence on terrorism. By law, Congress and ...
Warning on spread of state surveillance
Post Date: 2005-04-24 22:35:25 by Zipporah
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Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday. The aim is to monitor the movements and activities of entire populations in what campaigners call "an unprecedented project of social control". The warning came from the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, including the American Civil Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a UK-based bulletin which tracks developments in the EU. They point to the system whereby all visitors to the US are to be digitally photographed and fingerprinted. The EU has agreed that member states must fingerprint all passport ...
WACO AS METAPHOR:MASS MURDER AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Post Date: 2005-04-24 17:53:12 by Refinersfire
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On April 19, 1993, agents of the U.S. government assaulted the Branch Davidian "compound" at Waco, Texas – a religious community of Adventists under the leadership of David Koresh – killing 74 men, women, and children, including 12 children younger than five years of age. It was an act of state terrorism so blatant that our government and its media enablers have spent 12 years, several official reports, and a lot of time and energy lying about the circumstances surrounding the event and covering up the truth. The parallels with the Iraq war are all too obvious in that, first of all, the Waco attack was an act of U.S. state terrorism. Even more striking, however, is the ...
Sheeple Test
Post Date: 2005-04-24 15:53:09 by TaZ
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1> What was the stated purpose of gov't. according to the Founding Fathers? 2> What "rights" did the Bill of Rights establish? 2> Is the Declaration of Independence an amendable document? 3> Did Lincoln illegally start the Civil War & declare Martial Law without Congress, confiscate property & firearms, suspended habeas corpus, arrest/lock-up thousands of Northern citizens who spoke or wrote against his policies/actions, including elected officials & religious Ministers who refused to pray for him? 4> Did Lincoln oppose racial equality & giving blacks the right to vote, serve on juries or intermarry, while supporting the legal rights of ...
"The Nuclear Option" and the One Party State
Post Date: 2005-04-23 22:38:11 by justlurking
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America's wacky right wing party and political system doesn't get much worse than this. Tomorrow, the Republican United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) will appear on a national evangelical Christian television show that depicts Democrats as against religious believers. Frist's remarks will appear as part of a "Justice Sunday" telecast titled "The Filibuster Against People of Faith." "Justice Sunday" is set up by the Family Research Council, a Washington-D.C.-based right wing lobbying group that is helping lead a reactionary "Christian" campaign to impose right-wing political dominance over the federal judiciary. This weekend's ...
Buried Answers (autopsies)
Post Date: 2005-04-23 22:34:58 by crack monkey
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Buried Answers By DAVID DOBBS hen Dr. Alan Schiller's 87-year-old mother died in January, ''it took some convincing,'' Schiller says, to get his siblings to agree to an autopsy. ''They said: 'She had Alzheimer's. Let her rest.' But I told them: 'No, something seems funny to me. An autopsy is the only way to be sure.''' Schiller prevailed. A tanned, quick-minded, gregarious man in his 60's, he is naturally persuasive, and as chairman of pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he carries a certain authority regarding autopsies. The word ''autopsy,'' he reminded his siblings, means to ''see for oneself,'' and they should see what happened to their mother. Schiller's mother ...
The Silencing of Sibel Edmonds Court won't let public hear what FBI whistleblower has to say
Post Date: 2005-04-23 21:32:49 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The unsettling story of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds took another twist on Thursday, as the government continued its seemingly endless machinations to shut her up. The U.S. Court of Appeals here denied pleas to open the former FBI translator's First Amendment case to the public, a day after taking the extraordinary step of ordering a secret hearing. Edmonds was hired after 9-11 to help the woefully staffed FBI's translation department with documents and wiretaps in such languages as Farsi and Turkish. She soon cried foul, saying the agency's was far from acceptable and perhaps even dangerous to national security. She was fired in 2002. Ever since, the government has ...
Federal Order May Require Mandatory Psych Screening and Medication of School Children
Post Date: 2005-04-22 17:28:33 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Federal Order May Require Mandatory Psych Screening and Medication of School Children By E.F. Winslow 4-22-05 There is a new, invasive government program coming to your state that is so Orwellian that it is seems beyond all belief. It potentially involves the mandatory mental health screening of all children in the state, and could actually mean that minors would be prescribed behavior-modifying drugs in school against their parent?s wishes. And to make the parallel to Orwell complete, the program is called the ?New Freedom Commission on Mental Health?. The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was created in 2002 by Executive Order 13263, but the recommendations and implementation of ...
Sharon's 92 Percent Solution: How the Misperceptions Roll On
Post Date: 2005-04-22 10:44:14 by 1776
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Imagine my chagrin. While vacationing in beautiful Vancouver, I had my sun-and-mountain reverie interrupted on Tuesday by a New York Times article seeming to give the final word on Ariel Sharon’s plans -- blessed, of course, by George Bush -- for the disposition of Israel’s border with the West Bank and the Israeli settlements inside that territory. The article, by veteran diplomatic correspondent Steven Erlanger, discussed the “small furor” supposedly set off inside the Bush administration by Israel’s announced determination to build 3,500 new housing units in Maale Adumim, the largest of several Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and the fact that this new move ...
House Approves Broad Energy Bill
Post Date: 2005-04-21 17:36:36 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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House Approves Broad Energy Bill By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House approved a broad energy bill Thursday aimed at boosting domestic production, including provisions to allow oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge and to shield makers of a gasoline additive from water contamination lawsuits. The largely Republican crafted bill was approved 249-183 after two days in which the GOP majority turned back repeated attempts by Democrats to add measures they said would reduce energy use, including a proposal for higher automobile fuel economy requirements. The bill includes $12 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for energy companies, more than the Bush ...
U.S. Crackdown on Internal Resistance
Post Date: 2005-04-21 15:41:22 by Dude Lebowski
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Axis Power United States Begins New Crackdown on Internal Resistance, New Economic Laws Criminalize Escape, Allows for Confiscation of Property By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that interrogations conducted by United States SSB Military Forces of American Resistance Fighters, and who have recently been the victims of one of the ongoing series of mass arrests occurring in America as we’ve previously reported about in our article titled “10,000 Americans Detained as United States Mass Arrests Continue, American Congress Pushes for Laws to Label Political Dissidents as Mentally Insane", has led to the ...
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