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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier
Post Date: 2010-01-03 14:46:35 by freepatriot32
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Is this the reaction concealed carry should bring from the police? Oleg Volk, A Human Right It's open season on gun carriers. A case out of the First Circuit has some painful lessons for gun carriers in Georgia. A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to carry, lawfully, a concealed weapon in public. The First Circuit Court of Appeals is the Court just below the United States Supreme Court in the New England states. The case stems from a lawyer who sued a police officer after he was detained for lawfully carrying a concealed weapon while in possession of a license to carry concealed. According to the ...
I suppose straddling the line between socialism and fascism counts as "bipartisan"
Post Date: 2010-01-03 11:36:18 by abraxas
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I suppose straddling the line between socialism and fascism counts as "bipartisan" The debate over health care has had me thinking about the question of where to draw the boundary between a a private firm intertwined with or heavily regulated by the government and an arm of the state that merely maintains the forms of the private sector. It's been frequently pointed out, correctly, that the obvious purpose of the "public option" is to serve as a Trojan horse for single payer. Even without the public option, though, the "reforms" that seem most likely to pass would effectively eliminate private insurance. The most frequently referenced issues, now that ...
A Blight Grows in Brooklyn
Post Date: 2010-01-03 08:47:50 by Eric Stratton
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A Blight Grows in Brooklyn George Will Sunday, January 03, 2010 BROOKLYN -- On Aug. 27, 1776, British forces routed George Washington's novice army in the Battle of Brooklyn, which was fought in fields and woods where today the battle of Prospect Heights is being fought. Americans' liberty is again under assault, but this time by overbearing American governments. The fight involves an especially egregious example of today's eminent domain racket. The issue is a form of government theft that the Supreme Court encouraged with its worst decision of the last decade -- one that probably will be radically revised in this one. The Atlantic Yards site, where 10 subway lines and one ...
How Rose parade policing subverted the Constitution "in the spirit of homeland security"
Post Date: 2010-01-02 18:28:41 by Artisan
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How Rose parade policing subverted the Constitution "in the spirit of homeland security" LA County Libertarian Examiner In response to the Dec. 31st article 'Rose Parade attendees surrender 4th Amendment rights in bizzare police squad program', herin lies the analysis of a review of Pasadena, CA Police Department's 'Parade Watch' program. The original review, which documents and endorses the methods used in establishing the Pasadena Police Department's Rose Parade Watch program in 2001, is posted on the website of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, which describes its' mission as 'to advance the concept and practice of problem-oriented ...
American Disappointment
Post Date: 2010-01-02 15:33:48 by statusquobuster
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American Disappointment Joel S. Hirschhorn My anger has morphed into sadness, heartbreak actually. As the decade of zeros ends I see nothing but a tragic, historic and deadening American Disappointment, a terrible replacement for a once noble American Dream. The Great Recession was merely one symptom of the nation’s slide into slime, a quicksand created by the two-party plutocracy. Free of delusion I have come to this sad reality: Once upon a time Americans could confidently believe that their nation was on the right track, getting better, offering most citizens a decent chance of living securely and proudly. Now, that view has been smashed by many years of undeniable evidence that ...
Big Brother is coming: NSA's $1.9 billion cyber spy center a power grab
Post Date: 2010-01-02 13:32:32 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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n this post-Sept. 11 world, plans by the National Security Agency to construct a colossal $1.9 billion information storage center at Camp Williams could be considered a power trip. But it's not the sort of power trip that keeps civil libertarians lying awake at night. No, this power grab is for the stuff of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla — the juice needed to keep acres of NSA supercomputers humming and a cyber eye peeled for the world's bad guys. Nearly a decade into the new millennium, America's spy agency is power gridlocked at its sprawling Fort Meade, Md., headquarters. The NSA, which devours electricity the same way teenage boys wolf down french fries at ...
Chicago cop tasered unconscious diabetic 11 times
Post Date: 2010-01-02 11:47:51 by abraxas
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Chicago cop tasered unconscious diabetic 11 times Police officers from two Chicago suburbs are being sued after one of them allegedly Tasered a man having a diabetic seizure because the diabetic involuntarily hit the officer while being taken to an ambulance. Prospero Lassi, a 40-year-old employee of Southwest Airlines, filed the lawsuit (PDF) with a federal court in Chicago last week, following an April 9, 2009, incident in which Lassi was taken to hospital following a violent diabetic seizure -- and being Tasered 11 times while unconscious. That day, Lassi's roommate found the man on the floor of his apartment having a seizure and foaming at the mouth, according to the statement ...
BREAKING! MADSEN EXPOSES FALSE FLAG DETROIT DELTA FLIGHT BOMBING!
Post Date: 2010-01-02 10:42:01 by gengis gandhi
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BREAKING! MADSEN EXPOSES FALSE FLAG DETROIT DELTA FLIGHT BOMBING! Note: there is no url included as this information is only available to paying members of the Wayne Madsen website. However because of the significance of this report a member has kindly sent this along to be circulated. Please pass this along to as many people as you can .... Leslie December 30-31, 2009 -- Intelligence sources: Plane incident a false flag involving trinity of CIA, Mossad, and RAW. publication date: Dec 30, 2009 Previous | Next December 30-31, 2009 -- Intelligence sources: Plane incident a false flag involving trinity of CIA, Mossad, and RAW. The Christmas Day attempt by the Nigerian son of a ...
Obama Executive Order Alters Your Legal Protections [aka Sieg, ... Heil!]
Post Date: 2010-01-02 08:54:21 by Eric Stratton
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Obama Executive Order Alters Your Legal Protections Floyd and Mary Beth Brown Friday, January 01, 2010 With the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named Interpol. A one-paragraph executive order may seem inconsequential to many, but this action has far reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty of America. Obama's secretive Executive Order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order recognized Interpol as an International Organization and ...
Unwritten Future
Post Date: 2010-01-01 12:52:54 by abraxas
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Part One
Stripping Freedoms, One Piece of Clothing at a Time
Post Date: 2010-01-01 11:52:27 by Eric Stratton
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Stripping Freedoms, One Piece of Clothing at a Time David Harsanyi Friday, January 01, 2010 A few years back, an aerospace executive quipped that every time he flew and was forced to remove his shoes, he was grateful Richard Reid was not known as the Underwear Bomber. Well, on Christmas Day, while the Underwear Bomber was comfortably nestled in his seat in the air, Transportation Security Administration agents across the nation were confronting thousands of potential security breaches at airline terminals. "I'm going to have to confiscate that tube of Crest," the agent informs you. "The packaging exceeds the 3-ounce limit on liquids." Surely, millions of ...
Obama: Brilliant or Bungling?
Post Date: 2010-01-01 11:33:58 by Eric Stratton
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Obama: Brilliant or Bungling? Janet M. LaRue Thursday, December 31, 2009 If saner minds rule the day, the “Flying Dutchman” will replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security. Jasper Schuring, a vigilant passenger on Northwest Flight 253, is the only part of our airline security “system” that “worked,” contrary to Napolitano. Schuringa saw the glow of fire in row 19, and assumed someone was trying to blow up the plane. “I just jumped over all of the seats” and “jumped to the suspect,” he told CNN. According to The Washington Post: Jasper Schuringa, an Amsterdam resident, lunged toward the fire in Row 19, jumping from one ...
No right to bear unlicensed machine guns, federal court says [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-31 17:57:53 by X-15
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Tennessee State Guard commander Richard Hamblen said it's his Second Amendment right as part of a militia to convert assault rifles into fully automatic weapons. The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. A former commander in the Tennessee State Guard has lost an appeal to overturn his conviction for trying to provide his soldiers with homemade machine guns for possible use in defending the state. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati threw the case out of court. “Whatever the individual right to keep and bear arms might entail, it does not authorize an unlicensed individual to possess unregistered machine guns for personal use,” said the three-judge ...
Trial Lawyers Win Added Clout From Democrats In Health Bill
Post Date: 2009-12-31 07:03:07 by Eric Stratton
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Trial Lawyers Win Added Clout From Democrats In Health Bill By Sean Higgins, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY December 21, 2009 The Senate health care bill includes a gift to trial lawyers: a five-year, $50 million program to encourage states to consult with them on "alternatives" to malpractice claims. Though presented as a reform, critics say the program will simply encourage states to create an additional option for lawyers and plaintiffs to pursue claims, without requiring them to give up anything in return. The provision is buried deep in the bill and drew little attention during the Senate debate. It demonstrates the clout of trial lawyers who, in addition, managed to keep ...
Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked'
Post Date: 2009-12-31 05:39:47 by Eric Stratton
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Ivana Trump Escorted Off Plane: Napolitano Declares 'The System Worked' Ann Coulter Wednesday, December 30, 2009 In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands. Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded. How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he ...
GATA sues Fed to disclose gold market intervention records
Post Date: 2009-12-30 20:09:30 by DeaconBenjamin
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GATA today brought suit against the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, seeking a court order for disclosure of the central bank's records of its surreptitious market intervention to suppress the monetary metal's price. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and targets Fed records involving gold swaps, exchanges of gold with foreign financial institutions. In a letter dated September 17 this year to GATA's law firm, William J. Olson P.C. of Vienna, Virginia, (www.lawandfreedom.com) Fed Board of Governors member Kevin M. Warsh acknowledged that the Fed has gold swap agreements with foreign banks but insisted that such documents remain secret: ...
Minnesota Judge: Governor 'crossed the line' on budget cuts, money ordered to be reinstated to food program
Post Date: 2009-12-30 20:06:20 by DeaconBenjamin
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A Minnesota judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Tim Pawlenty "crossed the line" when he cut billions from the state budget on his own, ordering his administration to restore money to a food program for the poor. The ruling from Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin only deals directly with a small slice of $2.7 billion in cuts the Republican governor announced this summer. But her accompanying explanation criticizes his strategy to slice the budget without input from the Legislature. Pawlenty was using an executive authority known as unallotment. Gearin wrote that Pawlenty "crossed the line between legitimate exercise of his authority to unallot and interference with ...
Treasury to dole out $3.8 billion more to GMAC
Post Date: 2009-12-30 17:12:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said on Wednesday it would provide GMAC Financial Services an additional $3.8 billion of government aid, raising the government's stake in the company to 56 percent from 35 percent. "These actions offer the best chance for GMAC to complete its overall restructuring plan and return to the private capital markets for its debt financing and capital needs in 2010," the Treasury Department said in a statement. GMAC had already received $12.5 billion of aid from the U.S. government since December 2008. The latest cash infusion brings total taxpayer aid to $16.3 billion.
Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster
Post Date: 2009-12-30 09:08:12 by Eric Stratton
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Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster John Stossel Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The filibuster is sure taking its lumps these days. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says "the Senate -- and, therefore, the U.S. government as a whole -- has become ominously dysfunctional". The Democrats won the White House and Congress last year and should have had no trouble passing the health care overhaul, yet "the need for 60 votes to cut off Senate debate and end a filibuster -- a requirement that appears nowhere in the Constitution, but is simply a self-imposed rule -- turned what should have been a straightforward piece of legislating into a nail-biter. And it gave a handful of ...
Unhealthy Arrogance
Post Date: 2009-12-30 08:58:58 by Eric Stratton
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Unhealthy Arrogance Thomas Sowell Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The only thing healthy about Congress' health insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most unhealthy about this legislation is the raw arrogance in the way it was conceived and passed. Supporters of government health insurance call its passage "historic." Past attempts to pass such legislation-- going back for decades-- failed repeatedly. But now both houses of Congress have passed government health care legislation and it is just a question of reconciling their respective bills and presenting President Obama with a political ...
Lawmaker wants to ban taxpayer-funded pensions for non-government employees
Post Date: 2009-12-29 19:32:08 by DeaconBenjamin
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Future hires of three private lobbying groups should be excluded from New Jersey’s taxpayer-funded pension system, a lawmaker said Monday. Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, D-Gloucester, said he will introduce legislation to alter a 1950s-era law that permits non-government employees to collect public retirement benefits. The pension fund has a $30 billion unfunded liability, and a state audit issued last week suggested that pension overseers reduce operating costs and apply the savings — potentially millions of dollars — to that liability. Moriarty’s proposal would cut off future employees of the privately run New Jersey School Boards Association, the state League of ...
Federal appellate court limits cops' use of Tasers
Post Date: 2009-12-29 09:45:10 by farmfriend
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Federal appellate court limits cops' use of Tasers By Hudson Sangree and Kim Minugh hsangree@sacbee.com Published: Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 8A A federal appeals court on Monday issued one of the most comprehensive rulings yet limiting police use of Tasers against low-level offenders who seem to pose little threat and may be mentally ill. In a case out of San Diego County, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals criticized an officer who, without warning, shot an emotionally troubled man with a Taser when he was unarmed, yards away, and neither fleeing nor advancing on the officer. Sold as a nonlethal alternative to guns, Tasers deliver an electrical jolt meant to ...
Is There a Constituency for Liberty in the U.S. Media?
Post Date: 2009-12-29 06:50:03 by Ada
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When I was a journalism student at the University of Tennessee 35 years ago, one thing we were told over and over again was that journalism served a "watchdog" role in keeping tabs on government. I had assumed (naïvely, of course) that the term "watchdog" meant serving as a counterforce against the predations of the state. Alas, what I have found that it really means is that modern journalists and their mainstream organs like the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Time and Newsweek, not to mention a gaggle of numerous smaller wannabe publications, are making sure that the state is using all of its powers and then some to push people into line. As a ...
Terror Wins Another One
Post Date: 2009-12-29 05:36:52 by Eric Stratton
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Terror Wins Another One Bill Murchison Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Here's what we can look for as the federal government implements new rules meant to thwart the likes of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, the would-be pants bomber: -- Sharp drop-offs in beverage sales as passengers find themselves barred from restrooms during the last 60 minutes of international flights. -- Airport check-in times longer than airplane flight times. -- An upsurge in employment for people turned on by the prospect of "patting down" strangers. -- A decrease in human dignity, across the board. Here 's what we likely can't look for: -- Federal acknowledgement that young Arabic or African men ...
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