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The Census and the Constitution
Post Date: 2010-03-05 10:19:10 by phantom patriot
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/40602...nsus-and-the-constitution
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Big Brother Wants to Know All About You: The American Community Survey
Post Date: 2010-03-05 09:19:27 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Over the past several years, I have been barraged with emails from Americans expressing their dismay over the American Community Survey, the latest census form to hit randomly selected households on a continuous basis. Unlike the traditional census, which collects data every ten years and is now underway, the American Community Survey is taken every year at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. And at 28 pages (with an additional 16-page instruction packet), it contains some of the most detailed and intrusive questions ever put forth in a census questionnaire. These concern matters that the government simply has no business knowing, including a person’s job, income, physical and ...
The Material Witness Charade
Post Date: 2010-03-05 06:09:49 by Ada
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Last September, a federal appeals court ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft could be personally sued for the unjustified incarceration of innocent people as “material witnesses” in the wake of 9/11. The case involved a former college football star — Lavoni T. Kidd — who converted to Islam, changed his name to Abdullah al-Kidd, and was seized at Dulles Airport as he was preparing to travel to Saudi Arabia to pursue Islamic studies. Even though the feds had no evidence that al-Kidd — an American citizen — had done anything wrong, they locked him away for weeks as a “material witness.” The Washington Post noted, He was detained for some ...
4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day; Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
Post Date: 2010-03-04 16:27:34 by X-15
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Cheye Calvo's July 2008 encounter with a Prince George's County, Maryland, SWAT team is now pretty well-known: After intercepting a package of marijuana at a delivery service warehouse, police completed the delivery, in disguise, to the address on the package. That address belonged to Calvo, who also happened to be the mayor of the small Prince George’s town of Berwyn Heights. When Calvo's mother-in-law brought the package in from the porch, the SWAT team pounced, forcing their way into Calvo's home. By the time the raid was over, Calvo and his mother-in-law had been handcuffed for hours, police realized they'd made a mistake, and Calvo's two black Labradors lay ...
Supreme Court Remains Divided Over Gun Control
Post Date: 2010-03-02 19:39:47 by Critter
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WASHINGTON — An unusually intense Supreme Court argument Tuesday showed that the justices remain bitterly divided about the meaning and scope of the Second Amendment. And it suggested that the five-justice majority in the 2008 decision that first identified an individual right to keep and bear arms was prepared to take another major step in subjecting gun control laws to constitutional scrutiny. The case the justices considered Tuesday was a sequel to the blockbuster 2008 decision, District of Columbia v. Heller. The Heller case placed limits on what the federal government could do to regulate guns, and the issue before the court now was whether the Second Amendment applies to state ...
Trial by Jury
Post Date: 2010-03-02 11:10:31 by James Deffenbach
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For more than six hundred years - that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such law. Unless such be the right and duty of jurors, it is plain that, instead of juries being a "palladium of ...
Who Poses the Greater Threat?
Post Date: 2010-03-02 07:34:28 by Eric Stratton
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Who Poses the Greater Threat? Walter E. Williams Tuesday, March 02, 2010 Bill Gates is the world's richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want him to attend? Can he deny you the right to braid hair in your home for a living? It turns out that a local politician, who might deny us the right to earn a living and dictates which school our kid attends, has far greater power over our lives than any rich person. Rich people can gain power over us, but to do so, they must get permission from our elected representatives at the federal, state or local levels. For example, I might wish to purchase sugar from a Caribbean ...
Doomed from the Start: The Myth of Limited Constitutional Government in America
Post Date: 2010-03-01 11:06:00 by christine
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After spending a lifetime in politics John C. Calhoun (U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, Secretary of War) wrote his brilliant treatise, A Disquisition on Government, which was published posthumously shortly after his death in 1850. In it Calhoun warned that it is an error to believe that a written constitution alone is “sufficient, of itself, without the aid of any organism except such as is necessary to separate its several departments, and render them independent of each other to counteract the tendency of the numerical majority to oppression and abuse of power” (p. 26). The separation of powers is fine as far as it goes, in other words, but it would never be a ...
Debate brewing over Supreme Court change to Miranda Rights
Post Date: 2010-02-28 12:23:03 by freepatriot32
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A drastic change to a well known U.S. law could give police across America a new tool in the fight against crime. A 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision revises a 30-year-old ruling on what's known as "Miranda Rights." Miranda Rights are intended to protect suspects arrested by police by barring interrogations from proceeding if the suspect asks for a lawyer. It stems from a 1966 Supreme Court ruling in Miranda v. Arizona that produced the new famous phrase that begins: "you have the right to remain silent" and ends with "you have the right to an attorney." We've all heard it on TV before in reality cop shows or police dramas. But, just what does it really ...
Fannie Mae reports $72 billion 2009 loss
Post Date: 2010-02-27 16:07:28 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Fannie Mae reported a $72 billion net loss for 2009 and said it has asked the U.S. Treasury for another $15.3 billion in operating funds. The additional $15.3 billion would bring Fannie Mae's total bailout tab to more than $76 billion. Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage financier, posted a $15.2 billion fourth-quarter loss, an improvement over a year ago when it reported a $25.2 billion loss. It's 2009 annual loss, however, surpassed its 2008 loss of $58.7 billion. Fannie Mae executives said unemployment and continued defaults from borrowers meant losses would continue through this year, though at lower levels, The Wall Street Journal ...
WikiLeaks / Cryptome / Microsofts Global Criminal Compliance Handbook
Post Date: 2010-02-26 08:15:38 by PSUSA
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Apparently, this is A Big Deal (although not all agree), the principle being, if The Richest Man On The Planet had nothing to hide, why did Microsoft, inter alia, kill Cryptome? Recently released documents, 24. Feb. 2010: Cryptome.org takedown: Global Criminal Compliance Handbook, 24 Feb 2010: Cryptome.org is a venerable New York based anti-secrecy site that has been publishing since 1999. On Feb 24, 2010, the site was forc[i]bly taken down following its publication [of] Microsoft’s “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook” [PDF], a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services. The guide provides a “menu” of information Microsoft collects ...
America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution
Post Date: 2010-02-26 05:47:17 by Stephen Lendman
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America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution - by Stephen Lendman On October 13, 1932, in laying the Supreme Court Building's cornerstone, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes said: "The Republic endures and this is the symbol of its faith." The words "Equal Justice Under Law" adorn its west facade. Facing east is the motto "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty." Since the Court's 1789 establishment, these words belie its decisions, arguments, and "supreme" allegiance to power, not "We the people." Since its founding, privilege always counted most in America. The prevailing fiction then and now is that constitutional checks and ...
Obama's Socialism
Post Date: 2010-02-26 02:17:22 by X-15
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Recently on "The O'Reilly Factor," Bill O'Reilly seemed very concerned about President Obama being described as a socialist by members of the right such as Rush Limbaugh. O'Reilly has often dodged calling the president a socialist, as if doing so would condemn Obama as a tyrannical dictator. It was discussed throughout the show with various guests, and O'Reilly frequently stated that yes, Obama is a far-left guy, but he didn't want to use the actual term "socialist." It would be too much. Here in Britain we look at the continuing battle as to whether Obama is a socialist or not as a rather odd American quibble. In Britain we have no problem defining ...
Obscure Law Could Cost Hillary Clinton Her Cabinet Post
Post Date: 2010-02-24 12:07:13 by abraxas
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Obscure Law Could Cost Hillary Clinton Her Cabinet Post Conspiracy theorists who started the birther lie are now targeting Clinton's eligibility for office, over an obscure provision in the Constitution. February 23, 2010 | Advertisement Ever since Barack Obama started running for the White House, he's been plagued by lawsuits from detractors who claim that he is not a natural-born citizen, and thus is ineligible to serve as president. Now the devoted conspiracy theorists of the so-called "eligibility movement" have a fresh target: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And there's a chance that the Supreme Court might hear their challenge. In January 2009, a longtime ...
'tube - The Census is getting personal
Post Date: 2010-02-22 16:27:41 by Jethro Tull
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Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Citizen Terrorists
Post Date: 2010-02-22 13:07:45 by abraxas
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Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Citizen Terrorists By Steve Clemons - February 10, 2010, 12:07PM At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists. The case of Las Cruces, New Mexico born al Qaeda commander Anwar al-Aulaqi, who has been a key organizer and recruiter for the terrorist organization in Yemen is the primary driver of this exploration of possibly modifying US law to allow "de-citizening." As the Washington Post's Dana Priest recently revealed, al-Alaqi was added recently to a short list of other ...
American Genocides: Is Haiti Next?
Post Date: 2010-02-22 05:52:28 by Stephen Lendman
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American Genocides: Is Haiti Next? - by Stephen Lendman Distinguished historian, scholar and activist Gabriel Kolko studied "the nature and purpose of (American) power (since) the 1870s," calling it "violen(t), racis(t), repressi(ve) at home and abroad (and) cultural(ly) mendaci(ous)." It's been the same since inception, historian Howard Zinn calling colonial America: "a class society from the beginning. America started off as a society of rich and poor, people with enormous grants of land and people with no land. And there were riots, there were bread riots in Boston, and riots and rebellions all over the colonies, of poor against rich, of tenants breaking ...
Homeland chief: Domestic extremism is top concern
Post Date: 2010-02-21 19:34:31 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON – Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday. The government is just starting to confront this reality and does not have a good handle on how to prevent someone from becoming a violent extremist, she said. In the last year, Napolitano said, she's witnessed a movement from international extremism to domestic extremism — cases in which Americans radicalized and decided to plot attacks against the country. "What really is it that draws a young person being raised in the United States to want to go and be at a camp in Yemen and then ...
Poem "The Sniper" posted 2007 Lands Louisville man behind bars in 2010; threat to Pres. Obama
Post Date: 2010-02-20 16:55:45 by freepatriot32
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Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - A poem has landed a Louisville man behind bars. It’s a poem Secret Service agents say was about assassinating President Barack Obama. Federal authorities say Johnny Logan Spencer junior posted it on a white supremacy website. The arrest came as a result of a complaint filed by a Secret Service agent this week. The document says that Spencer knowingly made a threat against the president which he communicated to others in other states. His attorney , Laura Wyrosdick, says that while what Spencer said in the poem in question was offensive, it's not illegal. The original version of the poem called "The Sniper" debuted on a white ...
Snipes Comments on Attack on IRS Building
Post Date: 2010-02-20 12:27:05 by Deasy
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Poster Comment:When people get a glimpse of the IRS's ferocity they start asking difficult questions.
Who's Afraid of 'Interposition'?
Post Date: 2010-02-20 10:09:01 by Ada
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Those who are mystified by the political concept called "interposition" can find a very compelling tutorial in a vignette from Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove. Led by former Texas Rangers Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call, the men of the Hat Creek Cattle Company left their village of Lonesome Dove, Texas to drive a herd of cattle to Montana. During a brief stop to replenish supplies and give their horses a rest, the cowboys encounter a small party of soldiers. Their commander, one Captain Weaver, approaches a Hat Creek Co. employee named Dish Boggett and explains that he seeks to "requisition" Boggett's horse, along with any others the soldiers find ...
Missing Bush? Why Republican Revisionism Wont Sell
Post Date: 2010-02-20 07:56:07 by Eric Stratton
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“Missing Bush?” Why Republican Revisionism Won’t Sell Howard Rich Friday, February 19, 2010 As America loudly repudiates the leftist agenda of President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of partisan GOP opportunists is busy promoting a theory of “Republican revisionism.” What does this theory hold? Namely, that the GOP wasn’t “all that bad” – and certainly not as bad as the socialist hordes who have ostensibly pushed America to the brink of financial ruin over the last year. In advancing this theory, the GOP is looking to recast itself as a party that can be trusted with your tax dollars – while simultaneously attempting ...
Choices
Post Date: 2010-02-19 06:38:50 by Ada
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"In brief, a part of these colonies now feel, and all of them are sure of feeling, as far as the vengeance of administration can inflict them, the complicated calamities of fire, sword and famine. We are reduced to the alternative of chusing (sic) an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice." ~ Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, July 1775 I usually don’t read too many antigun articles for the simple reason that rarely are they anything but illogical emotional ramblings. The commentary, "Haven’t we had enough?" is another such criticism but two items in this editorial struck me as ...
U.S. States Ignoring Their Rapidly Growing $1 Trillion Pension Hole Because They Know They'll Be Bailed Out
Post Date: 2010-02-18 23:00:35 by DeaconBenjamin
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Latest data from the Pew Center shows that state pension funds are short at least $1 trillion, and given that this latest data is already quite old (it's as of the first half of 2008), this pension shortfall number is likely to be far higher today. Because the analysis did not encompass the final six months of calendar year 2008 -- most states' fiscal year's end during the summer -- it does not include the market downturn that devastated many funds' investment portfolios. "The funding gap will likely increase when the more than 25 percent loss states took in calendar year 2008 is factored in," the report said. ... A pension fund is considered healthy if it ...
Dallas police relaunch "knock-and-talk" initiative
Post Date: 2010-02-18 15:37:15 by X-15
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The Dallas Police Department has selected six officers from all its seven divisions to do what the department calls "knock-and-talks." Basically, the officers get permission to search people's homes without a warrant. But knock-and-talks have historically been a problem for the department. In October 2005, officers arrested three men in one of the largest drug busts in the city's history. Police seized $2 million in drugs, 11 high-powered weapons and $200 in cash in a knock-and-talk operation. But police improperly searched the home, so a judge set the alleged drug dealers free. In another case, in January 2006, News 8 reported the case of Tim Sims. Dallas police ...
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