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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Rep.Tom McClintock votes for mandatory DNA database for those arrested but not convicted of crimes
Post Date: 2010-05-22 05:52:55 by Artisan
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LA County Libertarian Examiner www.examiner.com/examiner...t-not-convicted-of-crimes Rep. Tom McClintock of California, who has sought for years to be portrayed as a defender of 'individual liberty and limited government', has once again shown his true colors via his roll call vote. The bill, H R 4614, titled Katie Sepich Enhanced DNA Collection Act of 2010, passed on May 18th at 7:10PM by a 357-32 margin, with 32 Republicans voting against it and 41 members of Congress, including Rep. Ron Paul, not voting. The gop.gov website states "The bill is named for Katie Sepich, a New Mexico graduate student who was murdered in 2003. Although her killer's DNA was found under ...
UPDATE: Y.C. woman killed by police pointed gun at officers trying to collect CENSUS info.
Post Date: 2010-05-22 04:17:21 by noone222
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A 67-year-old Yuba City woman was shot and killed by officers when she pointed a shotgun at them and refused to put it down, Yuba City police said Friday. Victoria Helen Roger-Vasselin was pronounced dead late Thursday at her home at 764 Mariner Loop in an affluent neighborhood on the city's far south side. An autopsy Friday showed she died of "multiple gunshot wounds," said Sutter County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Brenda Baker. A neighbor reported hearing five or six shots. Roger-Vasselin was the sister of the late Thomas E. Mathews, a Yuba County judge and district attorney. "They shot her dead," Roger-Vasselin's distraught son, Christian ...
Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Post Date: 2010-05-22 03:47:29 by noone222
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Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to require DNA samples, which could mean drawing blood with a needle, from adults "arrested for" certain serious crimes. Not one Democrat voted against the database measure, which would hand out about $75 million to states that agree to make such testing mandatory. "We should allow law enforcement to use all the technology available to them...to reduce expensive and unjust ...
Senate Passes Financial Overhaul Bill
Post Date: 2010-05-21 00:29:43 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved a far-reaching financial regulatory bill, putting Congress on the brink of approving a broad expansion of government oversight of the increasingly complex banking system and financial markets. The legislation is intended to prevent a repeat of the 2008 crisis, but also reshapes the role of numerous federal agencies and vastly empowers the Federal Reserve in an attempt to predict and contain future debacles. The vote was 59 to 39, with four Republicans joining the Democratic majority in favor of the bill. Two Democrats opposed the measure, saying it was still not tough enough. Democratic Congressional leaders and the Obama administration ...
Rand Paul explains himself, NRSC attacks Robert Byrd
Post Date: 2010-05-20 14:15:12 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Rand Paul explains himself, NRSC attacks Robert Byrd Bowing to the reality that this has become an ugly national story, Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul released a lengthy statement on his views about the Civil Rights Act. (He was performing surgery earlier today, unreachable by reporters.) "As I have said in previous statements, sections of the Civil Rights Act were debated on Constitutional grounds when the legislation was passed," says Paul. "Those issues have been settled by federal courts in the intervening years. My opponent's statement on MSNBC Wednesday that I favor repeal of the Civil Rights Act was irresponsible and knowingly false. I hope he will ...
New target of rights erosions: U.S. citizens
Post Date: 2010-05-20 06:13:04 by Ada
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A primary reason Bush and Cheney succeeded in their radical erosion of core liberties is because they focused their assault on non-citizens with foreign-sounding names, casting the appearance that none of what they were doing would ever affect the average American. There were several exceptions to that tactic -- the due-process-free imprisonment of Americans Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla, the abuse of the "material witness" statute to detain American Muslims, the eavesdropping on Americans' communications without warrants -- but the vast bulk of the abuses were aimed at non-citizens. That is now clearly changing. The most recent liberty-abridging, Terrorism-justified ...
Ahmed Abu Ali: Guilty of Being Muslim in America at the Wrong Time
Post Date: 2010-05-20 05:58:05 by Stephen Lendman
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Ahmed Abu Ali - Guilty of Being Muslim at the Wrong Time in America - by Stephen Lendman Writing on May 12 in Alternet.org, Mariam Abu Ali headlined, "My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction," saying: He "spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in a 7 x 12 cell," and overall has been treated horrifically "in a dungeon, over 20 meters beneath the ground." An April article by this writer explained what they're like - http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/harmful-effects-of-prolonged-isolated.html. Material from it is repeated below. Abu Ali wasn't charged or convicted for ...
Autistic Boy Charged With Making Terrorist Threats Over Stick-Figure Sketch
Post Date: 2010-05-19 15:32:27 by freepatriot32
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SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - A fourteen-year-old autistic boy is facing terrorist charges after a sketch he made in school. The sketch shows two stick-figures. One of them is labeled ‘Me’ and is shown shooting a gun at another with a teacher’s name above it. Karen Finn says that her son, 8th grader Shane Finn, doesn’t understand why he is in trouble. She says the boy is autistic and has the mental capacity of a 3rd grader. Officials at Ridgeview Charter School say the student will face a tribunal and is being charged with making terrorist threats. Finn says she plans to fight the charges.
People like Lp's robertpaulsen are why the U.S. is in the shape it is in today
Post Date: 2010-05-19 10:22:24 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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This thread concerns police entering the fenced backyard of a family's home and murdering their dog because they had a tip that someone they wanted to talk to was there. There was no warrant for this persons arrest, they just wanted to talk to him. It is my contention that robertpaulsen is an average American and represents the mindset of the average America. I say this because I speak to people like this, both young and old, on a daily basis. #8. To: Grapple (#7) "If the officers wanted to talk to the daughter then walk up to the front door not enter the back yard." According to the article, the police officers were looking for a guy who had "a history of running ...
On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States
Post Date: 2010-05-19 09:35:41 by Jethro Tull
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On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States Submitted by SB ---- ThanksDear family and friendsI am glad I am no longer a US Citizen or US Person but a Sovereign AmericanWhat you read here is absolutely alarming, and is also completely true. Prior to receiving this message this morning, the NRA called me and told me exactly the same story. Obama and Clinton are quite literally two of the rottenest sneaks on earth, and what they are doing is woefully wrong. What this does is take us one step away from the America we have always been, one step closer to a police state, and two steps away from our freedom. We ...
Constitution takes hit from Supreme Court
Post Date: 2010-05-19 06:40:52 by Ada
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Citing unapproved treaty is 'act of most fundamental reordering of legal system' The fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution possibly have been shoved one step closer to irrelevance by the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday cited an international treaty that has not been adopted in the U.S. as support for its opinion. The issue is raising alarms for those who have been fighting the trend toward adopting "international" standards for American jurisprudence rather than relying on a strict application of the Constitution. "It is bad enough for the Supreme Court to engage in judicial activism," said Michael Farris, of the Home School Legal Defense Association. ...
LEAKED RECORDING AT US/CANADA CROSSING [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-18 18:49:04 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Ignorant US border guards destroy tourism.
More Militarized Than the Military
Post Date: 2010-05-18 17:13:23 by freepatriot32
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A reader who asks his name not be used writes about the drug raid video from Columbia, Missouri: I am a US Army officer, currently serving in Afghanistan. My first thought on reading this story is this: Most American police SWAT teams probably have fewer restrictions on conducting forced entry raids than do US forces in Afghanistan. For our troops over here to conduct any kind of forced entry, day or night, they have to meet one of two conditions: have a bad guy (or guys) inside actively shooting at them; or obtain permission from a 2-star general, who must be convinced by available intelligence (evidence) that the person or persons they're after is present at the location, and that ...
Washington-Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Disaster
Post Date: 2010-05-18 05:52:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Washington - Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Disaster - by Stephen Lendman It's common practice in America. A government-Wall Street cabal caused the financial crisis and subsequent fallout. Now debated financial reform is a stealth scheme to let bankers self-regulate. Rogue Democrats rammed through health reform to ration care and enrich corporate providers. Defense, technology, and related firms profit hugely from permanent wars, and a regulatory-free Washington - energy industry alliance lies at the root of the Gulf disaster, by far America's greatest ever environmental calamity, worsening daily with no fail-safe, or perhaps any, way to stop it. It's too big even for ...
Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-05-17 16:16:59 by wudidiz
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to indefinitely keep some sex offenders behind bars after they have served their sentences, if officials determine those inmates may prove "sexually dangerous" in the future. "The federal government, as custodian of its prisoners, has the constitutional power to act in order to protect nearby (and other) communities from the danger such prisoners may pose," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the 7-2 majority. Click for Full Text!
Obama Administration Backs $23B Bill to Save Teacher Jobs
Post Date: 2010-05-15 22:54:19 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Obama administration came out Thursday in support of emergency education funding legislation that would provide $23 billion to preserve teacher jobs in the face of massive impending layoffs across the country. "We are gravely concerned that ongoing state and local budget challenges are threatening hundreds of thousands of teacher jobs for the upcoming school year, with estimates ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 education jobs at risk," Education Secretary Arne Duncan wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "Without swift action, millions of children will experience these budget cuts in one way or another ...
Imprisoning Children for Life
Post Date: 2010-05-15 05:54:34 by Stephen Lendman
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Imprisoning Children for Life - by Stephen Lendman The University of San Francisco School of Law Center for Law and Global Justice and the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Law Clinic, in association with the Berkeley-based Human Rights Advocates, work for global abolition of juvenile life without parole (LWOP) sentencing, calling it inappropriate for children and illegal. In November 2007, they published a report titled, "Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison," making their case, saying: -- children given LWOP are "condemned to die in prison;" -- dispensed in adult courts, they ignore the "less(er) culpability of juvenile offenders; their ineptness ...
Highlight of McCain's lies
Post Date: 2010-05-14 22:03:18 by James Deffenbach
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Sometimes I think McCain still believes we're living back in the 70's where no one had cameras or Tivos. To be honest this video is more about McCain's constant lying and flip flopping than amnesty. One thing is for sure, do NOT trust this man or the company he keeps. I am NOT for amnesty but I'm also NOT in favor of some biometric slave card issued by a corrupt government to illegals or citizens alike. The government has no right to coerce or force individuals to work and/or not work for someone or dictate how much their labor can be exchanged for. THAT my friend, is not freedom. John McCain's ultimate goal along with his masters has been to create a national ...
PRUDEN: The First Amendment under 'progressive' siege
Post Date: 2010-05-14 19:12:04 by Phant2000
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ANALYSIS/OPINION: Once upon a time we could count on lawyers and law school professors to defend the First Amendment, the most important 46 words in the Constitution. Those 46 words make everything else possible. Shut up the people and the government can shut down every other freedom. The genius of the Founding Fathers was their ability to write the Constitution in the plain English that everybody could understand. Lawyers, who can employ entire boring paragraphs to say "good morning" (many young women have dozed off while their lawyer swains were on their knees with a proposal of marriage) would inflict damage later. A good lawyer, or even a bad one, can put loopholes in any ...
Feds tell court they can decide what you eat - 'Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish'
Post Date: 2010-05-14 13:10:26 by Rotara
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Attorneys for the federal government have argued in a lawsuit pending in federal court in Iowa that individuals have no "fundamental right" to obtain what food they choose. The brief was filed April 26 in support of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ban on the interstate sale of raw milk. "There is no 'deeply rooted' historical tradition of unfettered access to foods of all kinds," states the document signed by U.S. Attorney Stephanie Rose, assistant Martha Fagg and Roger Gural, trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. "Plaintiffs' assertion of a ...
Kagan’s 'Hood: Liberal, Precocious, Very Jewish
Post Date: 2010-05-14 13:02:00 by Original_Intent
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The small apartment building at 320 West End Avenue occupies a choice spot on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: a quiet, tree-lined avenue just around the corner from the popular Fairway Market and a block from Riverside Park. The lobby, sparse but elegant, is guarded by a uniformed doorman who welcomes residents as they return home on a spring evening. Madame Justice?: Elena Kagan tours Capitol Hill, a world away from the 1970s Upper West Side. Decades ago, this building was the home of Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s solicitor general and now his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens. Now gentrified and upper-middle class, this ...
Joe Lieberman’s Fascist agenda to strip Americans of their Constitutional Rights
Post Date: 2010-05-14 10:10:38 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Senator Joe Lieberman is sponsoring a Bill with Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown called the "Terrorist Expatriation Act" that would strip terrorist suspects on their citizenship. The bill applies to any American that supports a foreign terrorist organization or any organization that is deemed a supporter of terrorism by an ally of the United States. The bill gives the State Department the power to determine who is a terrorist and strip away their citizenship. Lieberman introduced the Bill stating "The State Department will make an administrative determination… the State Department will now have the authority to revoke their citizenship… they will not enjoy the ...
Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:26:18 by Jethro Tull
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Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument By Greg Stohr and Kristin Jensen May 13 (Bloomberg) -- Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol. Kagan, whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court this week, made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man’s appeal. The man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes ...
What is the Law?
Post Date: 2010-05-13 08:31:01 by Eric Stratton
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What is the Law? Cal Thomas Thursday, May 13, 2010 We are told by no less than President Obama and supporters of his nominee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, that she "loves the law." I love my cat, but what does loving the law mean for the court, for the law and for the public? What is the law? Is it a game played by insiders who went to Harvard (or Yale) law schools and the intellectual equivalent of theological debates over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or is it something else, and if something else, what? The classical view of law is that it is meant to restrain lawbreakers. But in order to define a lawbreaker, one must have a standard for law so that ...
Congressional Budget Office estimates for health-care law now top $1 trillion
Post Date: 2010-05-12 18:57:42 by DeaconBenjamin
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President Obama's new health-care law could potentially add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending over the next 10 years, if Congress approves all the additional spending called for in the legislation, congressional budget referees said Tuesday. That would push the 10-year cost of the overhaul above $1 trillion -- an unofficial limit the Obama administration set early on. The Congressional Budget Office said the added spending includes $10 billion to $20 billion in administrative costs to federal agencies carrying out the law, as well as $34 billion for community health centers and $39 billion for Native American health care. The costs were not in earlier ...
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