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Syringes and Sidearms: Police Add Venipuncture To Arsenal of Drunk Driving Tools
Post Date: 2009-09-13 20:58:49 by Brian S
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BOISE, Idaho - When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver's arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein. "I was looking at people's arms and hands, thinking, 'I could draw from that,'" Dowell said. It's all part of training he and a select cadre of officers in Idaho and Texas have received in recent months to draw blood from those suspected of drunken or drugged driving. The federal program's aim is to determine if blood draws by cops can be an effective tool against drunk drivers ...
Rotten Log
Post Date: 2009-09-12 20:14:22 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Ayn Rand's opus Atlas Shrugged opens with a beautiful metaphor prescient of modern America. Eddie Willers, one of its main characters. Eddie is an allegorical reference to the body politic of America, everyman. Eddie gazes at a massive oak tree, a pillar of strength, a living thing that has taken hundreds of years to pass from the improbable seed to the end stage denizen of a climax forest. On closer inspection Eddie realizes that the great tree has been hollowed out. Its strength has become an illusion; it still stands only because the vicissitudes of life have not seen fit to blow it over. So it is with America, the beacon of liberty, and the unlimited potential of Human Action to ...
Court dismisses Iraqi contractor torture case
Post Date: 2009-09-12 12:21:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against two U.S. defense contractors by Iraqi torture victims, saying the companies had immunity as government contractors. The lawsuit was filed in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi nationals who say they or their relatives had been tortured or mistreated while detained by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison. The plaintiffs sued CACI International Inc, which provided interrogators at Abu Ghraib, and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc's Titan unit, which provided interpreters to the U.S. military. By a 2-1 vote, the appellate panel found the two companies had government contractor immunity and the claims were ...
SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
Post Date: 2009-09-12 09:35:43 by Mind_Virus
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SONIC WEAPONS USED IN IRAQ POSITIONED AT CONGRESSIONAL TOWNHALL MEETINGS IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY A Joint Investigative Report by East County Magazine and Liberty One Radio By Miriam Raftery September 11, 2009 (San Diego) – “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous. These are used in Iraq to control insurgents. They can cause serious and lasting harm to humans…We want to know WHY our Sheriff Dept has this weapon,” Sal Magallanez of San Diego-based Liberty One Radio said in an e-mail sent to East County Magazine, prompting a joint investigation. The device was stationed by San Diego County Sheriff deputies at a recent town hall forum ...
Right-wing militias rising in popularity
Post Date: 2009-09-11 21:24:25 by Dakmar
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As one law enforcement official states in SPLC's report, "This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years. All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a matter of time before you see threats and violence." The term "right-wing militias" is a loaded one and tends, more often than not, to stir people's emotions and conjure images of crazed, brainwashed white men who rail against the corruption and imagined powers of socialism and so-called "big government." However, to define right-wing militias by individual perception would be to avoid certain truths that put their existence and importance throughout American history in ...
Lautenberg Proposes "Extraordinary Powers" Given To the U.S. AG To Limit Gun Sales
Post Date: 2009-09-11 14:19:24 by freepatriot32
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Obama and the White House are looking the other way as Lautenberg seeks to ban guns from 1,000,000 US citizens on a secret FBI terrorist watch list. Obama has deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted that he would not try to take away anyone's firearms. Now Obama's silence endorses Lautenberg's latest attempt at banning guns. Lautenberg has now introduced bill S. 1317 that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists. We must defeat this bill from giving extraordinary powers to limit gun sales to the Attorney General. Lautenberg To Reveal Names on Secret ...
12 Picked To Review Black Harvard Scholar's Arrest At His Home
Post Date: 2009-09-10 19:25:57 by Brian S
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(09-10) 15:45 PDT Cambridge, Mass. (AP) -- Twelve people from across the country have been chosen to serve on an independent panel to review the arrest of a black Harvard scholar at his home by a white police officer, Cambridge officials said Thursday. Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum, was tapped to lead a committee that will include Yale Law professor Tracey Meares, former FBI assistant director Louis Quijas and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. City leaders created the panel after the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. triggered a national debate over racial profiling. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley arrested Gates ...
Drug Control Becomes Speech Control
Post Date: 2009-09-10 16:25:11 by freepatriot32
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When the government accuses a doctor of running a "pill mill," prosecutors portray every aspect of his practice in a sinister light. Prescribing painkillers becomes drug trafficking, applying for insurance reimbursement becomes fraud, making bank deposits becomes money laundering and working with people at the office becomes conspiracy. When Siobhan Reynolds thinks a doctor has been unfairly targeted for such a prosecution, she tries to counter the official narrative by highlighting the patients he has helped and dramatizing the conflict between drug control and pain control. But now the government has turned its reinterpretive powers on Reynolds, portraying the pain treatment ...
Infamous “GARDEN PLOT” documents released via FOIA
Post Date: 2009-09-10 08:51:09 by PSUSA
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The DOD Civil Disturbance Plan, nicknamed “GARDEN PLOT”, was superseded after the events of September 11, 2000. The replacement to Garden Plot is Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 2502, also confusingly known as CONPLAN 3502, and is the responsibility of U. S. Northern Command. NEW US Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Plan “GARDEN PLOT” 10-September-1968 – [PDF 4.4 MB - 09-September-2009] NEW US Air Force Reserve Operations Plan Number 355-10 – Employment of USAF Resources in Civil Disturbances, Nickname: “GARDEN PLOT,” 15-November-1968 – [PDF 3.0 MB - 09-September-2009] NEW US Department of the Army Civil Disturbance Plan “GARDEN ...
The Gun-Grabbers are on the Move Again
Post Date: 2009-09-10 06:51:31 by Ada
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Every despotic regime in the last century favored gun control laws. Today, the gun-grabbers are on the Alan Carubamove again and are being led by the Obama regime. During last year’s campaign both Hillary Clinton and John McCain tore into Barack Obama for saying that residents of small-town America "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them out of bitterness over lost jobs.” Obama quickly retreated from that statement, but it revealed his real thinking and real feelings about people who own guns for any reason, as well as his contempt for people whose religious values are an important part of their lives. In both cases he was condemning ...
Report: Supreme Court on verge of overturning campaign finance laws
Post Date: 2009-09-09 18:42:25 by Ada
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McCain, Feingold: Roberts vote ‘could have serious consequences for our democracy’ The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that began with a film attacking Hillary Clinton, but could end up having far-reaching ramifications. The Associated Press notes that the Justices are effectively weighing “whether to allow corporations and labor unions to pay for political campaigns and end a century of legislative efforts to curb such spending.” NBC’s Pete Williams reported that five Justices indicated support for overturning prohibitions on the contributions of corporations and labor unions. The AP reports that “newly seated Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...
Mission Creepy: The Rise of the ‘Daddy State’
Post Date: 2009-09-08 19:53:35 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Will recession-induced budget cuts result in the National Guard being deputized as lawmen in Jefferson County, Ala.? While he may be bluffing for effect, Jefferson County Sheriff Randy Christian didn’t seem to be altogether unserious when he suggested that soldiers might be brought in to supplement policing gaps supposedly left by a $4 million budget cut in August. In fact, Gov. Bob Riley didn’t rule it out, either, probably for the same reason that the sheriff in Geneva County, Ala., didn’t think twice to call upon local U.S. military to help him out in the wake of a murder spree, or why the state of Colorado is now giving the National Guard a cut of federal asset ...
Cleared for Release, but Still at Gitmo
Post Date: 2009-09-08 19:43:51 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that inmates at Guantanamo Bay have a right to go to federal court to challenge their detention, detainees have filed more than 150 such lawsuits. Thirty-five of these cases have now been completed. And of these, federal judges have ruled that 29 prisoners are being unlawfully detained. The growing caseload of habeas corpus petitions has been seen as a contest between executive authority and judicial independence. While judges may find in favor of detainees and order them released – the usual remedy for habeas petitions – they are apparently powerless to enforce their rulings. As a result, 20 of the 29 prisoners ordered released are ...
Fines proposed for going without health insurance
Post Date: 2009-09-08 19:04:15 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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WASHINGTON – Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul. As Obama talked strategy with Democratic leaders at the White House, the one idea that most appeals to his party's liberal base lost ground in Congress. Prospects for a government-run plan to compete with private insurers sank as a leading moderate Democrat said he could no longer support the idea. The fast-moving developments put Obama in a box. As a candidate, he opposed fines to force individuals to buy health insurance, ...
Paragraph by Paragraph Critique of Obama's Brainwash Speech
Post Date: 2009-09-08 18:04:20 by ghostdogtxn
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Insulted in Restroom, Texas Judge Jails Court Attendee, 69, for Contempt
Post Date: 2009-09-08 17:07:53 by freepatriot32
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Angry about a Texas judge's ruling in a custody matter involving his granddaughter, Don Bandelman followed the jurist into a public restroom at the Caldwell County courthouse. Then the 69-year-old called District Judge Jack Robison a fool, reports the Austin American-Statesman. Bandelman says the judge told him to leave, and he did. But then Robison had his bailiffs arrest Bandelman on the sidewalk outside the courthouse, without any hearing, sentenced him to a 30-day jail term for contempt, the article continues. After two days in the lockup, Robison commuted his sentence to time served once Bandelman's wife hired a lawyer to file a habeas petition alleging illegal restraint and ...
Martial Law Alert Over Swine Flu
Post Date: 2009-09-07 06:06:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Martial Law Alert Over Swine Flu - by Stephen Lendman Fact check: -- no Swine Flu threat exists; -- reported H1N1 infections and deaths are uncorroborated; -- WHO predicting a global pandemic affecting "as many as two billion people....over the next two years" is falsified hype unless a diabolical depopulation scheme (by vaccines or other means) plans to create one; -- vaccines don't protect against diseases they're designed to prevent and often cause them; -- all vaccines contain harmful toxins, including mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), and squalene adjuvants that weaken and can destroy the human immune system, making it vulnerable to ...
Serve America Act (New law)
Post Date: 2009-09-05 15:27:24 by farmfriend
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H.R.1388Title: A bill entitled "The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an Act to reauthorize and reform the national service laws."Sponsor: Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] (introduced 3/9/2009) Cosponsors (37)Related Bills: H.RES.250, H.RES.296, S.277Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 111-13 [GPO: Text, PDF] House Reports: 111-37 SUMMARY AS OF: 4/21/2009--Public Law. (There are 4 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on March 26, 2009. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Serve America Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NCSA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) to ...
Appeals Court Rules Against Ashcroft In 9/11 Case
Post Date: 2009-09-05 00:44:59 by Brian S
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BOISE, Idaho — A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was "repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history." The court found that a man who was detained as a witness in a federal terrorism case can sue Ashcroft for allegedly violating his ...
What Would the United States Look Like Without the Federal Reserve?
Post Date: 2009-09-04 08:15:20 by DeaconBenjamin
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Since H.R. 1207 was introduced by Dr. Ron Paul in Congress this February, there has been a growing movement questions whether the Fed should continue to operate without more oversight and some question whether or not the Federal Reserve should continue to operate at all. Currenty, Paul’s “Audit the Fed” legislation has 282 co-sponsors and there are two similar pieces of legislation in the senate. If the legislation is passed, it will allow the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Federal Reserve’s balance sheets and their policy deliberations and monetary transactions. Currently Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, opposes the plan, saying it would ...
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video
Post Date: 2009-09-03 22:57:03 by buckeroo
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Congressman Tom Perriello won't answer the hard questions at the Town Hall meeting
Post Date: 2009-09-03 21:08:22 by Freedomsnotfree
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Debt Slave (Video)
Post Date: 2009-09-03 16:50:25 by abraxas
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The Coming FDIC Bailout--Another lesson that federal guarantees aren't free
Post Date: 2009-09-02 23:37:01 by DeaconBenjamin
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Americans are about to re-learn that bank deposit insurance isn't free, even as Washington is doing its best to delay the coming bailout. The banking system and the federal fisc would both be better off in the long run if the political class owned up to the reality. We're referring to the federal deposit insurance fund, which has been shrinking faster than reservoirs in the California drought. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported late last week that the fund that insures some $4.5 trillion in U.S. bank deposits fell to $10.4 billion at the end of June, as the list of failing banks continues to grow. The fund was $45.2 billion a year ago, when regulators told us all was ...
Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal
Post Date: 2009-09-02 21:27:19 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal Joseph Brean, National Post Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Section 13, Canada's much maligned human rights hate speech law, violates the Charter right to free expression because it carries the threat of punitive fines. The shocking decision by Tribunal member Athanasios Hadjis leaves several hate speech cases in limbo, and appears to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its controversial legal mandate to pursue hate on the Internet, which it has strenuously defended against complaints of censorship. It also marks the first major failure of Section 13(1) of ...
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