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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
The Myth of a Middle Class
Post Date: 2010-07-27 07:26:04 by Eric Stratton
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The Myth of a Middle Class American Exceptionalism By William R. Mann Monday, July 26, 2010 “A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” - The Blue Fairy, Pinocchio, 1940 O.K. Pilgrims. Answer these questions by raising your hands out there: How many were taught that we were to be a Middle Class nation? How many believe that, despite this, there is a Low, Middle, and Upper Class in American Society? How many of you were taught that this is just the way it is in America? How many of you were taught that we should aspire to achieve that vaunted Middle Class life? If so, your immigrant ancestors were misled and you have been scammed. You ...
Comply Or Else!: Jack-Booted Thugs Terrorizing Law-Abiding Americans
Post Date: 2010-07-27 07:00:16 by Eric Stratton
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Comply Or Else! Jack-Booted Thugs Terrorizing Law-Abiding Americans By Ron Ewart Monday, July 26, 2010 imageYou can kiss 4th Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure goodbye. Those protections no longer exist. Your home is no longer your castle, it is the government’s domain to do as they will. Jack-booted thugs, and we do mean thugs, can come on your land, come into your home with guns drawn, search your home at will and make a shambles of it, take what they want, write you up for alleged violations, terrorize you and then walk off without a by-your-leave ..... all without the benefit of a warrant, signed by a judge for probable cause of a crime having been committed. ...
Raw-food raid highlights a hunger (No Raw Milk for Serfs)
Post Date: 2010-07-25 23:12:46 by abraxas
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Raw-food raid highlights a hunger By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times July 25, 2010 Some people balk at restrictions on selling unprocessed milk and other foods. 'How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?' one says. Regulators say the rules exist for safety and fairness. With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a ...
CBO: Public health option would save $68 billion through 2020
Post Date: 2010-07-22 16:03:58 by SonOfLiberty
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Creating a public option that all Americans could choose would save $68 billion through 2020, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. The analysis was included in a letter to Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), who along with Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is introducing a bill this week creating a public option in the state exchanges that start in 2014. The new CBO report scores lower savings than the public options discussed during the healthcare reform debate because they were tied to legislation that differs from the law that was enacted in March. The bill has more than 100 Democratic co-sponsors but faces strong opposition from the ...
Is Originalism Libertarian?
Post Date: 2010-07-22 14:08:55 by Ada
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When one hears Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan confessing "We are all originalists" during her Senate hearing, one might think that originalism is really in. But even if it is, what does it mean for libertarians? Ilya Shapiro recently suggested that originalism is "necessarily libertarian." Is it really so? And what is originalism anyway? Some think that it is about judges abandoning "judicial activism" and accepting the original, libertarian understanding of the Constitution, the meaning the Framers intended to be preserved. It is not that easy though, and if libertarians want to engage in what promises to be a revival of the revolutionary doctrine ...
Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression"
Post Date: 2010-07-22 05:52:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression" - by Stephen Lendman That's what Frank Donner called Chicago in his 1990 book, "Protectors of Privilege." As an ACLU attorney, he explained how city police and US intelligence agencies targeted alleged internal subversion, and while it operated "was the outstanding example of it its kind in the United States (in terms of) size, number, and range of targets or operational scope and diversity." He referred to "wide-open, no-holds-barred style surveillance" (and vigilantism), unmatched anywhere in the country - (institutionalized) guerrilla warfare against substantial sectors of the city's ...
Times Square Bomb Was Purposely Crappy
Post Date: 2010-07-21 12:47:34 by Jethro Tull
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One of the big mysteries in the Time Square bombing case has always been why a trained terrorist like Faisal Shahzad would build such a lousy bomb. Yesterday police revealed the answer: Shahzad was aware that the FBI monitors the purchase of supplies commonly used to make bombs, and he thought that by using inferior materials he could avoid detection. He was right, but the result was a bomb that failed to go off, the Wall Street Journal reports. Shahzad used non-explosive fertilizer, and comparatively weak M-88 fireworks, and the resulting bomb was a dud. Chalk it up as a win of sorts for the Bureau, because if he had used higher quality materials, the bomb would have killed thousands. ...
Sheriff's deputies' disdain for Constitution captured by their own recorded comments
Post Date: 2010-07-21 11:58:50 by James Deffenbach
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"I will supplement it (my report) and use very flowery language." SLO County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Murphy When San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Murphy responded to a “shots fired” call in April 2008, he decided en route that he was going to make an arrest. He did far more than that. Murphy and other deputies made an unwarranted entry into a home, and then into a locked gun safe. Murphy's uncensored, darkly disturbing observations and behavior following his Code-3 arrival at the rural home of longtime SLO County resident Matt Hart were picked up by Murphy's and other deputies’ own recorders. Those recordings provide a rare, ...
Growing Number of Prosecutions for Videotaping the Police
Post Date: 2010-07-20 10:09:01 by Jethro Tull
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That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes. Anthony Graber was arrested for posting a video of his traffic stop on YouTube.But it wasn't his daredevil stunt that has the 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard facing the possibility of 16 years in prison. For that, he was issued a speeding ticket. It was the video that Graber posted on YouTube one week later -- taken with his helmet camera -- of a plainclothes state trooper cutting him off and drawing a gun during the traffic stop near Baltimore. In ...
Snyder v. Phelps: Will Misguided Patriotism Destroy Free Speech?
Post Date: 2010-07-20 06:18:43 by Ada
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The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear the case of Snyder v. Phelps, a case that tests the limits of the First Amendment's protections for free speech. At issue in the case is whether members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which was established by Fred Phelps in 1955, have a First Amendment right to air their opposition to policies and laws condoning homosexuality by staging peaceful protests in public during military funerals. However, what this case is really about, and what few people are talking about, is the extent to which war values have seeped into American culture. The case arose after members of Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Maryland funeral of Matthew ...
Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government
Post Date: 2010-07-20 05:49:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government - by Stephen Lendman An April 2010 Pew Research Center (PRC) for the People & Press study and others report growing public anger, distrust, and hostility toward business and government because of a "perfect storm of conditions" - wrecked economies, fueling "epic discontent" toward responsible officials. PRC found nearly 80% of Americans don't trust government to do the right thing, the highest distrust level in half a century, this writer's April 28 article, titled "Growing Public Anger in America," discussing its findings, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010 ...
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
Post Date: 2010-07-19 13:09:33 by Jethro Tull
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America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of RevolutionBy Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic ...
Is Obama Care Illegal?
Post Date: 2010-07-19 06:30:19 by Ada
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The attorney generals in several states (including Florida where I live) are mounting a constitutional attack on Obama Care. The focus of that attack is the claim that the Commerce Clause in the Constitution cannot be stretched to mandate that individuals be required to purchase health insurance. Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution reads that "the Congress shall have power...to regulate commerce...among the several states") and appears to provide broad regulatory powers to the federal government. Yet many Republicans, libertarians, and Tea Party advocates hold that the Founders intended a "free enterprise" system here with only a very limited role for ...
Mt. Lebanon woman sues after police detain her during epileptic seizure
Post Date: 2010-07-18 15:20:16 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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When Jessica Yochum had an epileptic seizure at work in February, her co-workers at Houlihan's at the Galleria knew what was happening. They called 911 and told dispatchers the young woman was seizing. But when emergency responders from the Medical Rescue Team South Authority ambulance service and Mt. Lebanon police arrived, they did not follow what are considered by experts to be standard protocols for such an event. They handcuffed Ms. Yochum, 23, shackled her and restrained her head. All that, her attorney said, exacerbated the seizure. By the time they got her to St. Clair Hospital, she had inadvertently bitten one of the ambulance workers, and the police were accusing her of ...
Don’t Fear the Right - the rank-and-file are potential class allies
Post Date: 2010-07-18 13:29:09 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Don’t Fear the RightThey Are Potential Class Alliesby David Spero / July 15th, 2010 Wars and occupations keep coming. The police state expands without pause. Big capital takes all our money and destroys huge chunks of our environment. So why are liberal and progressive leaders telling us to fear grassroots conservatives? Wouldn’t it be better to fight the corporate police state that is doing these things to us? We regularly hear warnings about militias and tea parties, but for the most part, these people are not the enemy. Although Tea Party leadership has been largely taken over by Republicans of the Sarah Palin school, many of the rank-and-file are potential class allies. ...
Marie Mason: Victimized by Green Scare State Terrorism
Post Date: 2010-07-17 05:53:17 by Stephen Lendman
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Marie Mason: Victimized by Green Scare State Terrorism - by Stephen Lendman In May 2005, then FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, John Lewis, told a Senate panel that ecoterrorism is "one of today's most serious domestic terrorism threats," the 2001 USA Patriot Act creating the crime of "domestic terrorism," broadening the definition to apply to US citizens as well as aliens - henceforth, the Bureau dividing the crime into two categories, international and domestic, the latter changing dramatically in the past decade. Then FBI's Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, James Jarboe, said two organizations are principally responsible: the Earth ...
Darkness in America: Lynne Stewart's Resentencing
Post Date: 2010-07-16 11:31:47 by Stephen Lendman
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Darkness in America: Lynne Stewart's Resentencing - by Stephen Lendman Describing Lynne, one of this writer's previous articles said the following: She worked selfishly, tirelessly, and heroically for 30 years as a human rights champion, defending America's poor, underprivileged, and unwanted - people never afforded due process and judicial fairness without an advocate like her. She knew the risks, yet took them courageously until bogusly indicted on April 9, 2002 for: --"conspiring to defraud the United States; -- conspiring to provide and conceal material support to terrorist activity; -- providing and concealing material support to terrorist activity; and -- two ...
Barackracy, Part 2
Post Date: 2010-07-16 07:32:01 by Eric Stratton
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Barackracy, Part 2 By Mark Alexander · Thursday, July 15, 2010 Reversing Course and Restoring Liberty [Active html links at source] "The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings." --James Madison In Part 1 of this essay, "Breaking the Back of Free Enterprise1," I noted, "Barack Hussein Obama's macro agenda to accomplish the 'fundamental transformation of America2' is to break ...
Supreme Court in contempt of First Amendment
Post Date: 2010-07-15 06:00:31 by Ada
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I have read scores of Supreme Court decisions, but rarely has their been so broadly vague and amateurishly twisted a rationale as in Chief Justice John Roberts majority decision (Jan. 21) on "Holder, Attorney General, Et al. vs. Humanitarian Law Project." With only three justices dissenting, this dangerous judicial activism disables the free-speech anchor of the First Amendment. The chief dissenter, Justice Stephen Breyer, was so outraged by the ruling that he read it aloud from the bench. He first cited verbatim the Patriot Act statute that punishes "knowingly provid(ing) material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization," including "expert advice ...
Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet
Post Date: 2010-07-15 05:49:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet - by Stephen Lendman This article updates an earlier one titled "The Struggle for Net Neutrality," accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/11/struggle-for-net-neutrality.html First some background. As a candidate, Obama pledged support for "network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet." As president, he reneged across the board, including for Internet freedom and openness, Boston.com writer Joelle Tessler headlining, "FCC votes to reconsider broadband regulations," saying: Federal regulators are "wading into a bitter policy dispute that could be ...
Profiling On Steriods
Post Date: 2010-07-14 15:07:58 by X-15
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As a guest on a radio talkshow, I was asked for my view about SB 1070, the Arizona law featured in headlines across the nation. I said that I approved what the Arizonans had done because the federal government wasn’t doing its job and the people were simply demanding relief from the flood of illegal immigrants who had poured into their state. Talkshow co-host number one was aghast. Asked why, she swiftly offered, “It’s profiling!” Though I could have correctly countered that it isn’t profiling, I decided on this occasion to take a different tack. “So you don’t like profiling?” I said. “Not at all,” came the reply. “Then you must be ...
More "Fun with 911" ... [my title]
Post Date: 2010-07-13 16:16:07 by Eric Stratton
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Poster Comment:This is truly unbelievable, ... I don't even know what to say anymore to this shit. If the LE ranks think the the public likes them, they outta read through the comments on youtube and think again!
Signs of the Times
Post Date: 2010-07-13 08:32:07 by Eric Stratton
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Signs of the Times Thomas Sowell If you could spend vast amounts of other people's money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn't you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers' money just by using the magic words "stimulus" and "jobs." It doesn't matter politically that the stimulus is not actually stimulating and that the unemployment rate remains up near double-digit levels, despite all the spending and all the rhetoric about jobs. And of course nothing negative will ever matter to those who are part of the Obama cult, including many in the media. But, for the rest of us, there is a lot to think ...
Police Brutality in America
Post Date: 2010-07-13 05:53:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Police Brutality in America - by Stephen Lendman Across America, daily incidents occur, one of many the cold-blooded January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant - unarmed, offering no resistance, thrust face-down on the ground, shot in the back, and killed, videotaped on at least four cameras for irrefutable proof. USA Today said five bystanders taped it. His killer: Oakland, CA transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, tried for the killing, the jury told to consider four possible verdicts - innocent, second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter, jurors deciding the latter. The Legal Dictionary defines it as "The act of unlawfully killing another human being ...
10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased
Post Date: 2010-07-12 23:23:05 by Flintlock
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Saturday, July 10, 201010 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and DatabasedAre technological advances infringing on our right to privacy? Activist PostThe war on terror is a worldwide endeavor that has spurred massive investment into the global surveillance industry - which now seems to be becoming a war on "liberty and privacy." Given all of the new monitoring technology being implemented, the uproar over warrantless wiretaps now seems moot. High-tech, first-world countries are being tracked, traced, and databased, literally around every corner. Governments, aided by private companies, are gathering a mountain of information on average citizens ...
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