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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Historical Analysis of the Meaning of the 14th Amendment's First Section
Post Date: 2011-03-01 11:33:43 by PatrickHenry
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“I propose, with the help of this Congress and of the American people, that hereafter there shall not be any disregard of that essential guarantee of your Constitution (Art. IV, Sec. II) in any State of the Union. And how? By simply adding an amendment to the Constitution to operate on all the States of this Union alike, giving to Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to secure to all persons—which includes every citizen of every State—their equal personal rights; and if the tribunals of South Carolina will not respect the rights of the citizens of Massachusetts under the Constitution of their common country, I desire to see the Federal judiciary clothed ...
Did the 14th Amendment do away with State Citizenship?
Post Date: 2011-03-01 11:16:43 by PatrickHenry
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"The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1868, creates or at least recognizes for the first time a citizenship of the United States, as distinct from that of the states." Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, p. 591 [1979]. The answer is absolutely not. In fact the leading and controlling case on State Citizenship and United States Citizenship is the Supreme Court case, The Slaughter-House Cases (16 Wallace 36: 21 L.Ed. 394 [1873]). In this case, the Supreme Court distinguishes between State Citizenship and United States Citizenship. "It is quite clear, then, that there is a citizenship of the United States and a citizenship of a ...
State Citizenship v 14th Slave/Serf Status
Post Date: 2011-03-01 11:13:32 by PatrickHenry
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State Citizenship is Citizenship under one of the freely associated compact states[1] with unalienable rights recognized, secured, and protected against state action by state Constitutions, said states under a republican form of government[2] under the laws of the United States of America, protected from federal intrusion and encroachment by the Constitution for the United States of America (1787). The Privileges and Immunities of state Citizens are recognized, secured, and protected by Article IV, Section 2.1, of the Constitution for the United States of America (1787). The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) conferred upon a numerous class of persons a distinct second class of federal citizenship ...
Obstructing and Delaying Aristide's Return
Post Date: 2011-03-01 05:37:01 by Stephen Lendman
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Obstructing and Delaying Aristide's Return - by Stephen Lendman He's lived in exile since US marines forcefully ousted him at gunpoint on February 29, 2004. Efforts to help him return followed, what he's wanted for eight years today, the anniversary of his abduction. On February 25, San Francisco's Bay View and other publications ran attorney Walter Riley's article titled, "Prominent anti-apartheid movement veterans call on South African government to assist Aristide in returning to Haiti now," saying: Noted figures wrote "South African President Jacob Zuma an open letter 'in hopes that (he'll) assist' former (President) Aristide and his ...
DNA "Genetic Patdown" Introduced to Airports by DHS
Post Date: 2011-02-28 14:15:12 by Original_Intent
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DNA "Genetic Patdown" Introduced to Airports by DHSNetBio -- Rapid DNA Analysis SolutionsNicholas West Activist Post A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer: a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing. This technology is being implemented under the cover of combating human trafficking, illegal immigration, and finding missing persons, but Richard Seldon of NetBio, creator of the scanners, clearly states that "DNA information has the potential to become part of the fabric of day-to-day life." In an interview with Katie Drummond who broke this story for The Daily, Seldon envisions additional applications in ...
Photographing cows or other farm scenery could land you in jail under Senate bill
Post Date: 2011-02-27 14:24:11 by freepatriot32
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Taking photographs from the roadside of a sunrise over hay bales near the Suwannee River, horses grazing near Ocala or sunset over citrus groves along the Indian River could land you in jail under a Senate bill filed Monday. SB 1246 by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, would make it a first-degree felony to photograph a farm without first obtaining written permission from the owner. A farm is defined as any land "cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production, the raising and breeding of domestic animals or the storage of a commodity." Media law experts say the ban would violate freedoms protected in the U. S. Constitution. But Wilton Simpson, a farmer who lives in Norman's ...
America's Total Surveillance Society
Post Date: 2011-02-27 05:15:46 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Total Surveillance Society - by Stephen Lendman In 2003, an ACLU report warned that "Big Brother" no longer is fiction, America having advanced to where total surveillance is now possible. Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program said: "Given the capabilities of today's technology, the only thing protecting us from a full-fledged surveillance society are the legal and political institutions we have inherited as Americans. Unfortunately, the September 11 attacks have led some to embrace the fallacy that weakening the Constitution will strengthen America." As a result, civil liberties fast eroded. In 2007, another ...
Arizona Loses To EPA on Farm Dust
Post Date: 2011-02-26 23:21:25 by farmfriend
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Arizona Loses To EPA on Farm Dust Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:08 AM According to a February Federal Register notice, EPA is taking final action to find that Arizona failed to make a State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittal…for the Maricopa County non-attainment area for particulate matter (farm dust). This dust standard is called PM-10. EPA claims the Maricopa area, which includes Phoenix, has a serious air quality standard violation. EPA's decisions in Arizona simply defy credulity and common sense. In my November 8, 2010, blog on the Arizona dust dispute, I cited the fact that Maricopa County's monitors demonstrated EPA's PM-10 dust standard was being met 99.73% ...
28th Amendment
Post Date: 2011-02-26 20:38:07 by Give Me Liberty
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I don't know how well this would actually work, but it sounds interesting. 28th Amendment The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. I'm asking each addressee to forward this Email to a minimum of twenty people on their Address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is ...
Why Democracy? [Choose Freedom, Not Democracy!]
Post Date: 2011-02-26 08:01:21 by Eric Stratton
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Why Democracy? by John TynerJohnnyedge Over the last month or so, people have been throwing off, or trying to throw off, the shackles of their oppressive governments. It started in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, then Yemen, Bahrain, and now Libya. In every instance, though, the protestors have been calling for democracy. I suppose that's understandable; the grass on democracy's side of the fence probably looks and probably is a lot greener than that on the dictatorial side. I'm probably underselling democracy with that statement. After all, democracy is often held out as the gold standard for (good) government. Winston Churchill endorsed it, saying, "democracy is the worst ...
Citizens - in 10 Minutes
Post Date: 2011-02-25 11:57:09 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Harvard's Thinks Big forum gave him 10 minutes to explain corruption. Please share.
Union Busting in America
Post Date: 2011-02-24 05:14:09 by Stephen Lendman
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Union Busting in America - by Stephen Lendman It dates from America's 19th century industrial expansion when workers moved away from farms to factories, mines, and other urban environments, with harsh working conditions, low pay, and other exploitive abuses. As a result, labor movements emerged, organizing workers to lobby for better rights and safer conditions, pitting them against corporate bosses yielding nothing without a fight. During unionism's formative years, workers were terrorized for organizing. In company-owned towns, they were thrown out of homes, beaten, shot, and hanged to leave management empowered. The 1892 Homestead Steel Works strike culminated in a violent ...
Mother of 3 Arrested for Taking Pictures of Tourist Attraction at Airport(with update)
Post Date: 2011-02-23 12:12:52 by freepatriot32
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This case is a frightening example of what can happen when a photographer encounters ignorant bullies with badges. According to the complaint filed in Federal Court, Nancy Genovese, a mother of three, was driving home on County Road 31 past Gabreski Airport in Suffolk County. Gabreski Airport displays a decorative helicopter shell by the roadway to the public, which is visible to all who pass by. Nancy Genovese stopped her car on the side of the road across the street from the airport in an area that is open and accessible to the public, and crossed over the road to the airport entryway that is also open and accessible to the public to take a picture of the helicopter display. While still ...
The United States Isn't a Country
Post Date: 2011-02-23 11:21:52 by angK
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The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation! by Lisa Guliani "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." — Preamble of the original "organic" Constitution "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...
ALGERIA LIFTS STATE OF EMERGENCY, AMERICA WAITS FOR HELL TO FREEZE OVER
Post Date: 2011-02-23 03:08:50 by angK
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Algeria Lifts State of Emergency By Maayana Miskin As protests continued to rage in Libya and Bahrain, the government of Algeria took steps Tuesday to appease the public, lifting a state of emergency imposed 19 years earlier. The order repealing the state of martial law will be published “imminently,” putting it into effect, government officials said. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika pledged to lift martial law three weeks ago as protesters filled the streets. Demonstrations were sparked by the successful ouster of long-time, repressive rulers in Tunisia and Egypt. The government declared a state of emergency in 1992 as Islamist militants’ waged war over the government's ...
Waging War on Chicago Workers
Post Date: 2011-02-22 05:10:02 by Stephen Lendman
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Waging War on Chicago Workers - by Stephen Lendman In Washington, Obama, Democrats and Republicans are doing it. In Wisconsin and other states, so are Governor Scott Walker, other governors, and mayors across America - planning major social benefits cuts and other ways to address budget shortfalls through layoffs, fewer services, and other draconian measures on the backs of working people, ones least able to afford them. At the same time, America's aristocracy is thriving, benefitting largely from tax cuts, other benefits, and bipartisan complicity to reward them by exemption from planned austerity when stimulus, job creation, and other populist measures are needed, including for ...
Pretending to Save Us from the TSA
Post Date: 2011-02-21 07:38:08 by Ada
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Look out, or the politicians hustling to rescue us from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its sexual assaults at the airport may run you over. Of course, these liars and hypocrites could simply abolish the TSA, either by introducing legislation to do so or, more easily, by refusing to re-authorize — and raise — its budget every year. That would guarantee that the agency never again molested a young woman, killed a missionary, or endangered an expectant mother and her baby. It could no longer violate the Constitution with its warrantless searches nor sic cops on us because of the “evidence” those fishing expeditions yield. The Feds would lose some of ...
Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
Post Date: 2011-02-19 09:57:02 by PatrickHenry
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A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States 11. The CIA's website defines a National Intelligence Estimate as “the most authoritative written judgment concerning a national security issue prepared by the Director of Central Intelligence.” These forecasts of “future developments” and “their implications for the United States” seldom are made public, but there are exceptions. One was the NIE of September 2002, “Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction,” which became notorious because virtually every word in it was false. Another, an April 2006 NIE entitled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United ...
Holder vs Humanitarian Law Project
Post Date: 2011-02-18 18:15:21 by abraxas
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Have you heard about this case?
Tea Party Crashes: The Most UnPatriotic Act by Susan Lindauer, 9/11 Whistelblower Indicted on the Patriot Act
Post Date: 2011-02-18 11:16:31 by christine
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I confess that since November I’ve been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against the entrenched Republican elite on Capitol Hill. Collapse was inevitable, however I admit to feeling bitterly surprised at how rapidly they have thrown in the towel. For the record, most of the Tea Party quit their principles of liberty on February 14, 2011—20 days into the new Congress—when Tea Party leaders abruptly abandoned their opposition to the Patriot Act and voted to extend intrusive domestic surveillance, wire tapping and warrantless searches of American citizens. In so doing, they exposed the fraud of their soaring campaign promises ...
House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order
Post Date: 2011-02-18 09:03:37 by Jethro Tull
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House Passes Amendment to Block Funds for Net Neutrality Order pfly/flickr FacebookTwitterDigg PrintE-mailComment .photo.right { display:none; } By Juliana Gruenwald Thursday, February 17, 2011 | 6:48 p.m. The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December. The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011. Walden and other critics of the ...
Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-02-18 05:06:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin - by Stephen Lendman It landed, but it's too soon to know where it's going or how committed workers are to stay the course and spread it to other US states. On February 16, however, former Senator Russ Feingold launched Progressives United.org (PU), an initiative he hopes will inspire "a new progressive movement" to hold elected officials accountable by challenging corporate influence in politics. It also opposes the Supreme Court's January 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, sanctioning unlimited corporate spending in elections (the one dollar = one vote ruling by America's supremely pro-business ...
House votes to overthrow 'czars'
Post Date: 2011-02-17 21:14:03 by farmfriend
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House votes to overthrow 'czars' By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 2/17/11 7:20 PM EST Updated: 2/17/11 8:43 PM EST The House voted Thursday to dethrone nine White House “czars.” Republicans successfully added an amendment to the continuing resolution that would leave President Barack Obama’s senior advisers on policy issues including health care, energy and others out of a job. The vote was 249-179. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) offered the amendment that blocks funding for various policy advisers to combat what he called “a very disturbing proliferation of czars” under Obama. “These unappointed, unaccountable people who are literally running a shadow ...
Stunner! Supremes to give eligibility case another look Read more: Stunner! Supremes to give eligibility case
Post Date: 2011-02-17 18:47:11 by Horse
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In a stunning move, the U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled another "conference" on a legal challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, but officials there are not answering questions about whether two justices given their jobs by Obama will participate. The court has confirmed that it has distributed a petition for rehearing in the case brought by attorney John Hemenway on behalf of retired Col. Gregory Hollister and it will be the subject of a conference on March 4. It was in January that the court denied, without comment, a request for a hearing on the arguments. But the attorney at the time had submitted a motion for Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena ...
99% of Republicans Vote Against The Constitution
Post Date: 2011-02-17 17:48:56 by Original_Intent
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PATRIOT ACT CLEARS ITS HOUSE SPEED-BUMP.... Last week, the House Republican leadership brought up the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, assuming it would quickly clear the chamber. It didn't go well -- a contingent of Republicans balked and the bill fell short of the two-thirds majority it needed at the time. Late yesterday, the House GOP had more success. The House on Monday voted to reauthorize and extend through Dec. 8 three ways in which Congress expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism powers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Last week, an effort to extend these provisions of the so-called Patriot Act and a related intelligence law ...
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