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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Good Advice Against a Con Con
Post Date: 2010-04-06 09:56:03 by Eric Stratton
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Good Advice Against a Con Con Phyllis Schlafly Tuesday, April 06, 2010 Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution's Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in The Wall Street Journal. No longer do these voices claim a convention can be limited to consideration of a single amendment (e.g., a balanced budget amendment) -- grandstanding politicians are proposing a wide assortment of many amendments to produce big changes. Speaking to us from across the years, the father of the U.S. Constitution, James Madison, wrote this warning on Nov. 2, 1788, against calling another general constitutional ...
Investigation reveals numerous bogus claims on Obama resume
Post Date: 2010-04-06 06:53:05 by Ada
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In what is being called 'the biggest hustle in human history,' a special investigation has discovered numerous bogus claims on Barack Obama's resume, including the outright lie that he was a 'Constitutional scholar and professor.' The claim turns out to be false. As investigators delve further into the background of Barack Obama, a disturbing picture is emerging of a man who is not who he claims to be. The information the public has been told concerning Obama is turning out to be false--fabrications and inventions of a man and an unseen force behind him that had clear ulterior motives for seeking the highest office in the land. According to a special report issued by ...
Rise of Hungary's far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing echoes of the 1940s
Post Date: 2010-04-05 09:35:00 by Jethro Tull
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As the youthful leader of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party arrived for an election rally, his followers gave him a welcome that had disturbing echoes of Europe in the 1940s. Two ranks of Hungarian Guards, in paramilitary-style uniforms, snapped to attention as Gabor Vona marched past them. Party leaders saluted, and a red and white banner was raised - one that looked suspiciously similar to Hungary's old fascist emblem. The rally in a school hall in the normally sleepy town of Dunakeszi was packed with hundreds of supporters. They cheered as Mr Vona promised to rid Hungary of corruption and crack down on foreign interests. He spoke about stopping Roma, the country's ...
Attack on building is hate crime, N.Y. court rules
Post Date: 2010-04-03 22:07:50 by Dakmar
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A person can be guilty of a hate crime even if his victim is a building and not a person, a New York court found. The state's Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday that Mazin Assi's conviction under New York's hate crimes statute for throwing firebombs at a Bronx synagogue in 2000 was valid. Assi was convicted in 2003 of attempted arson and criminal mischief as hate crimes and sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. In an appeal, Assi claimed that his conviction under the hate crimes law should be reversed since he attacked property and not a person. "It is self-evident that, although the target of the defendant's criminal conduct was a building, the true victims were ...
Michelle Obama speaking at the LGBT Delegate (The World as it Should Be) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-03 14:43:41 by buckeroo
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Poster Comment:Barack has led by example, when we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in, Kenya. Probably a misquote.
What Sort of Depotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear
Post Date: 2010-04-03 11:16:48 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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I took the title from volume 2, section 4, chapter 6 of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. That chapter has been quoted many times in many places. But considering what has been happening legislatively of late (and not just in the last year-plus), it seems like a good time to revisit Tocqueville’s writing about democratic despotism. He notes that despotism in a constitutional republic would be different from what it was in the Roman empire. How so? “[I]t would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them.” Specifically: “Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure ...
China's Documentation of US Human Rights Abuses
Post Date: 2010-04-03 06:10:56 by Stephen Lendman
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China's Documentation of US Human Rights Abuses - by Stephen Lendman On March 11, the US State Department issued its "2009 Human Rights Report: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)," calling the People's Republic of China (PRC) "an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutionally is the paramount source of power," practicing: -- "cultural and religious repression;" -- harassment of human rights activists; -- harassment and disbarment of lawyers who defend them; -- control of free expression, the Internet, and access to it; -- extrajudicial killings; -- torture and coerced confessions of prisoners; -- use of ...
Cops bust into a woman’s home in Bakersfield, California without a warrant .. They repeatedly banged on doors and yelled “Open the door!” while other cops were climbing in through windows and breaking in through a back door. She repeatedly asked to see the warrant, which was never shown.
Post Date: 2010-04-02 18:50:47 by Mind_Virus
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Robert Gibbs endorses denial of civilian trials
Post Date: 2010-04-02 12:41:01 by Ada
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Virtually everyone I know who regularly works on civil liberties issues believes it's a fait accompli that Obama will reverse Eric Holder's decision and deny civilian trials to the 9/11 defendants, sending them instead to military commissions (just as George Bush did). Today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs provided the clearest on-the-record signal yet that this would happen, when he went on MSNBC and said that justice would be served by sending Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to "either a military commission or [to] a federal court." I've written extensively on the evils of the military commission system before, and especially the White House's cavalier view that ...
THE RESTORE AMERICA PLAN SERVES ALL 50 STATE GOVENERS. THEY MUST CONFORM OR BE REMOVED BY FRIDAY [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-04-02 10:25:45 by MING THE MERCILESS
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The Restore America Plan The Restore America Plan is a bold achievable strategy for behind-the-scenes peaceful reconstruction of the de jure institutions of government without controversy, violence or civil war. After consultation with high ranking members of the United States armed forces, the Plan is in the process of assembling the Guardians of the Free Republics and reinhabiting the De jure Grand Juries to: •Restore and reinhabit the de jure institutions of lawful government. •Terminate illicit corporations posing as legitimate governments, in particular the territorial jurisdiction United States Federal Corporation (corp. ref. 28 U.S.C. 3002) posing as the de jure United ...
Left-Wing Icon: America Is Still Headed Towards Fascism Under Obama
Post Date: 2010-04-02 10:13:56 by Horse
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When left-wing icon Naomi Wolf warned that America was heading towards fascism under George W. Bush, characterized by illegal surveillance, arbitrary detention of suspects, and paramilitary martial law, she was lauded, but when she continued to issue the same warning as a result of Obama’s failure to reverse any of those policies, many on the left abandoned support for her. However, as Wolf’s recent interview with leftist website Alternet makes plain, liberals may finally be starting to understand that both political parties in Washington are part of the problem, not the solution. Alternet writer Justine Sharrock seems to be struggling to come to terms with the fact that Naomi ...
Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt
Post Date: 2010-04-02 05:55:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt - by Stephen Lendman Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a constitutional bill of rights, states: "Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association." Article 7 assures "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person and the right not to be deprived thereof in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." ...
L. B. Bork Audio on Freeing Yourself from Your Voluntary Slavery
Post Date: 2010-04-02 04:38:49 by noone222
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www.blogtalkradio.com/wtp-texas
Poster Comment:It's time for those that understand something's wrong with the current governmental paradigm's ability to coerce them against their free will to participate in ungodly activities to listen and learn. We are living in a jurisdiction of "consent." We have been volunteered into a consentual bondage by our ignorant parents and grand-parents through the 14th Amendment.
The Fed in Hot Water
Post Date: 2010-04-01 23:52:26 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Fed has finally came clean. It now admits it bailed out Bear Stearns – taking on tens of billions of dollars of the bank’s bad loans – in order to smooth Bear Stearns’ takeover by JPMorgan Chase. The secret Fed bailout came months before Congress authorized the government to spend up to $700 billion of taxpayer dollars bailing out the banks, even months before Lehman Brothers collapsed. The Fed also took on billions of dollars worth of AIG securities, also before the official government-sanctioned bailout. The losses from those deals still total tens of billions, and taxpayers are ultimately on the hook. But the public never knew. There was no congressional ...
Speeding 'Cushion' May Dwindle Due to Recession [Not that speeding tickets aren't for realy safety reasons and are really for further government theft or anything, ... NAHHH!]
Post Date: 2010-04-01 12:00:09 by Eric Stratton
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Speeding 'Cushion' May Dwindle Due to Recession March 31, 2010 By Larry Copeland (Caption for pic) [The Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices, issued a report in 2005 stating that police in 42 states routinely let drivers exceed speed limits.] The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph "cushion" police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit. As cities and states scramble to fill budget gaps with revenue from traffic citations, "not only are the (speeding) tolerances much lower, but the frequency of a warning instead of a ticket is way down," says ...
Big Brother on Your Tail
Post Date: 2010-04-01 09:11:42 by Eric Stratton
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Big Brother on Your Tail Steve Chapman Thursday, April 01, 2010 Suppose I approached you with a request. I want you to carry a small gadget that will automatically transmit your location to the police, allowing them to track your every movement 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Chances are you would politely decline. Too late. You already accepted. That gadget, you see, is called a cell phone. For years, the cops may have been using it to keep close tabs on you without your knowledge, even if you have done nothing wrong. They don't have to get a search warrant -- which would limit them to situations where they can show some reason to think you're breaking the law. All they have ...
Army 'showdown' at eligibility corral (Where da birth cert Soetero) ?
Post Date: 2010-04-01 04:41:35 by noone222
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A top-ranking, highly decorated officer in the U.S. Army says he's now refusing all orders until President Barack Obama finally releases his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as commander in chief. "I feel I have no choice but the distasteful one of inviting my own court martial," said Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an active-duty flight surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey's pilots and air crew. "The Constitution matters. The truth matters." "For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my career and future, I am choosing to disobey what I ...
Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
Post Date: 2010-03-31 23:09:08 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush. In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been “subjected to unlawful surveillance,” the ...
Fed Releases Details on Bear Stearns, AIG Portfolios
Post Date: 2010-03-31 22:13:50 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Fed, through its New York regional bank, also identified securities acquired in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc. The central bank had agreed to take on the Bear Stearns assets, including mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate loans, to ease the investment bank’s sale to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The bailouts exposed taxpayers to potential losses on the $64.8 billion of assets, prompting Congress to propose stripping the Fed of some of its regulatory and bailout powers. As recently as March 17, New York Fed President William Dudley rebuffed a lawmaker’s request for the details, saying it would harm the central bank’s ability to ...
Prosecutor: 46 guns seized from Indiana man in militia plot .. Friends and family said he never expressed extreme anti-government views and that he often talked about his activities in Michigan, describing it as "playing army."
Post Date: 2010-03-31 18:21:45 by Mind_Virus
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Prosecutor: 46 guns seized from Ind. man in militia plot March 31, 2010 4:11 PM Federal agents seized 46 guns as well as military-survival equipment and thousands of rounds of ammunition last weekend at the home of a Hammond man described by prosecutors as an "insider" with a Michigan-based Christian militia group planning to kill police officers. Thomas Piatek, 46, was denied bond today and ordered sent to federal court in Detroit to face charges with eight other individuals from Michigan and Ohio that they were members of a fringe group called Hutaree that planned a war against the government. During Piatek's first court appearance on Monday, he had denied that he was ...
Bail 'Em Out?!?!?!
Post Date: 2010-03-31 15:17:00 by James Deffenbach
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"BAIL'EM OUT!!! ???? Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.. They failed and it closed. Now, we are trusting the economy of our country, our banking system, our auto industry and possibly our health plans to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whisky "What the Hell are we thinking"
The Militias' YouTube Strategy
Post Date: 2010-03-31 11:49:37 by buckeroo
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NEW YORK – The Christian militia group busted this week maintained a YouTube channel of frightening combat training clips. Wingnuts author John Avlon introduces seven bizarre videos of American militias preparing for combat. Plus, John Avlon on the roots of the armies of hate. Welcome to the Hatriots' home movies—YouTube clips indented as recruitment tools. It’s an inside look at the militia movement’s paramilitary drills, unfiltered and unedited. These seven clips show the militia movement as they want to be seen by their supporters—a collection of armed military exercises by men in fatigues backed by the sounds of heavy metal. There is plenty of target ...
How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FBI
Post Date: 2010-03-31 06:21:10 by Ada
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By Anthony Gregory on Mar 30, 2010 in Civil Liberties, Surveillance, The State, terrorism, weapons At the close of World War I, the federal government created the General Intelligence Division, an agency that eventually morphed into the modern FBI. One of GID’s main tasks was to compile a list of hundreds of thousands of radicals—socialists, anarchists, labor activists and antiwar agitators. Thousands were arrested for being suspected Communists. Hundreds of anarchists were deported to Bolshevik Russia, the silver lining being that left-anarchists like Emma Goldman discovered and wrote about the pure horror of Leninism and the fact that “proletarian dictatorship” was ...
The Disappearing Blood Stain [Perfect Example of What's Wrong w/ our "Justice" System]
Post Date: 2010-03-31 06:02:38 by Eric Stratton
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The Disappearing Blood Stain Jacob Sullum Wednesday, March 31, 2010 John Thompson spent 18 years in a Louisiana prison, 14 of them in a windowless, 6-by-9-foot death-row cell. According to a federal appeals court, "There were multiple mentally deranged prisoners near him who would yell and scream at all hours and throw human waste at the guards." Thompson, whose execution was scheduled half a dozen times, was a few weeks away from death by lethal injection when his life was saved by a bloody scrap of cloth. Although four prosecutors in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office were aware of this evidence, Thompson didn't learn about it until 14 years after his death ...
Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Depravity
Post Date: 2010-03-31 05:48:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Depravity - by Stephen Lendman On February 3, 2010, after a sham trial, the Department of Justice announced Siddiqui's conviction for "attempting to murder US nationals in Afghanistan and six additional charges." When sentenced on May 6, she faces up to 20 years for each attempted murder charge, possible life in prison on the firearms charge, and eight years on each assault charge. In March 2003, after visiting her family in Karachi, Pakistan, government Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents, in collaboration with Washington, abducted Siddiqui and her three children en route to the airport for a flight to Rawalpindi, handed them over ...
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