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Liberty Is An Absolute
Post Date: 2009-07-16 16:34:52 by X-15
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"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their powers; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." -- Thomas Jefferson (1816)1 Over the past week I've made two round trip flights by air, which means I have had the distinct pleasure of passing through airport security four times in seven days. It may be my imagination, but I believe that our friendly neighborhood TSA officers are getting more authoritarian. While the officer at the ...
Investors Working Group calls Fed "tarnished," demands risk monitor
Post Date: 2009-07-16 00:29:11 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the biggest U.S. investors and two former top securities regulators warned that a "tarnished" Federal Reserve should not be put in charge of preventing systemic risk in the financial system, a central plank of the administration's response to the credit crisis. The Investors' Working Group, representing some big money manager firms and led by former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairmen William Donaldson and Arthur Levitt, said on Wednesday the United States should instead create an independent body to serve as watchdog of risk management across the financial sector. The body proposed by the investors -- the Systemic Risk Oversight ...
G Edward Griffin on Freedom Watch
Post Date: 2009-07-15 19:57:49 by DeaconBenjamin
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Eight Republicans Help Confirm a Hard-Core Gun Banner
Post Date: 2009-07-15 16:15:29 by X-15
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-- And how to keep Senators from "spinning" their support for gun control "Too much work [was] left undone. After a few sleepless nights, I wrote for myself a list of issues on which I needed to do more in the years ahead. One of those issues was global regulation of small arms." -- Harold Hongju Koh (2001) Friday, June 26, 2009 Imagine that. The Senate confirmed this week, by a vote of 62-35, a gun banner who stays up at night thinking of ways to impose more gun control upon American citizens. Harold Koh is that gun grabber, and he was confirmed yesterday to be the Legal Adviser at the State Department. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans attempted to kill the ...
The Antifederalists Were Right
Post Date: 2009-07-15 06:44:36 by Ada
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September 27 marks the anniversary of the publication of the first of the Antifederalist Papers in 1789. The Antifederalists were opponents of ratifying the US Constitution. They feared that it would create an overbearing central government, while the Constitution's proponents promised that this would not happen. As the losers in that debate, they are largely overlooked today. But that does not mean they were wrong or that we are not indebted to them. In many ways, the group has been misnamed. Federalism refers to the system of decentralized government. This group defended states rights – the very essence of federalism – against the Federalists, who would have been more ...
El Paso City Council approves vehicle impounding ordinance
Post Date: 2009-07-14 22:39:42 by Jethro Tull
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El Paso City Council approves vehicle impounding ordinance By David Burge / El Paso Times 7/14/09 EL PASO - The City Council approved by a 6-2 vote Tuesday a more restrictive vehicle impounding ordinance. The measure approved will allow police to impound any vehicle stopped by police that does not have current liability insurance. That's a tougher stance than the original proposal, which would have allowed impounding an uninsured vehicle only if the driver was stopped for reckless driving, driving while intoxicated, racing or if the vehicle was involved in an accident. City representatives Eddie Holguin and Carl Robinson voted against the measure. The ordinance will have a 90-day ...
Murder Threats and the First Amendment (Atty Martin Garbus who has joined the Hal Turner defense team)
Post Date: 2009-07-14 21:23:19 by christine
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A very important First Amendment case, one that may soon reach the Supreme Court, is beginning its legal path. Here's how it started. On June 2, 2009, Hal Turner, a radio talk show host considered by civil rights organizations to be a white supremacist, wrote on his blog that three named Federal Appeals Court judges, who upheld a handgun ban, deserved to die. The addresses, phone numbers, and work place locations were given to the reader. "These judges deserve to die. . . ." "Observe the Constitution or die," he wrote. He never said he would kill the judges and never attempted to. When arrested, he had a shotgun, 3 handguns and 150 hollow point bullets. He claimed ...
Thought-police is here, Foreign Ministry’s plan to hire pro-Israel talkbackers
Post Date: 2009-07-14 12:03:29 by christine
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The Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan this week: Paying talkbackers to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. A total of NIS 600,000 (roughly $150,000) will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad. The Foreign Ministry intends to hire young people who speak at least one language and who study communication, political science, or law – or alternately, Israelis with military experience gained at units dealing with information analysis. Beyond the fact that these job requirements reveal a basic lack of understanding in respect to the dynamics of the online discourse – the project’s manager argued that “adults don’t ...
Obama orders review of alleged Afghan mass grave
Post Date: 2009-07-13 06:45:20 by Ada
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has ordered his national security team to investigate reports that U.S. allies were responsible for the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war during the opening days of the war in Afghanistan. Obama told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday that he doesn't know what how the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance behaved in November 2001, but he wants a full accounting before deciding how to move forward. "I think that, you know, there are responsibilities that all nations have even in war," Obama said during an interview at the end of a six-day trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana. "And if it appears that our conduct in ...
Veronza Bowers - Another Victim of America's Criminal Justice System
Post Date: 2009-07-13 05:56:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Veronza Bowers, Jr. - Another Victim of America's Criminal Justice System - by Stephen Lendman On September 15, 1973, Veronza Bowers, Jr. was arrested in Mill Valley, California and charged with robbery and possession of stolen property. After state charges were dropped for lack of probable cause to obtain a search warrant, the FBI arrested Bowers and charged him with the first-degree murder of National Park Service ranger Kenneth Patrick on August 5, 1973 at Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco. At trial, testimonies from two government informants, Alan Veale and Jonathan Shoher, proved crucial. Both were also charged with the killing. Yet there were no independent ...
Chips In Official IDs Raise Privacy Fears
Post Date: 2009-07-12 15:34:29 by PSUSA
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Chips In Official IDs Raise Privacy Fears Published on 07-12-2009 Email To Friend Print Version Source: AP Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker's gold. Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd ...
Headed to National Socialism
Post Date: 2009-07-12 13:31:03 by 2big2fail
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It was common on the left to intimate that George W. Bush was like Hitler, a remark that would drive the National Review crowd through the roof but which I didn't find entirely outrageous. Bush's main method of governance was to stir up fear of foreign enemies and instigate a kind of nationalist hysteria about the need for waging war and giving up liberty through security. Hitler is the most famous parallel here, but he is hardly the only one. Many statesmen in world history have used the same tactics, dating back to ancient times. Machiavelli wrote in his Art of War advice to the ruler: "To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than ...
Cops raping, molesting, murdering, assaulting, etc. etc. etc.
Post Date: 2009-07-11 08:49:41 by PSUSA
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Pig News XL Posted on 07/11/2009 by psusa | Edit Hall County GA deputy Michael D. Nix, accused of molesting a 3-year-old girl Nix GAINESVILLE – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested a veteran Hall County deputy on aggravated child molestation charges. Michael D. Nix, 42, a 20-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, is accused of molesting a 3-year-old girl that his wife had been baby-sitting in their Clermont home. The allegation was made Monday evening, reports said, and the GBI was immediately notified. Nix was placed on administrative leave. Harlan County KY Sheriff Deputy Roger Hall charged with conspiracy to commit murder and complicity to murder ...
Sotomayor Failed to Disclose to Senate Memo in Which She Argued Death Penalty Is 'Racist'
Post Date: 2009-07-09 10:42:34 by X-15
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The Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) says Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee a controversial document arguing that the death penalty is “racist” and a violation of the present “humanist” thinking of society. The 1981 memo, they say, should have been disclosed as required under Question 12 (b) of the questionnaire that the Supreme Court nominee turned in Thursday. Question 12(b) requires a nominee to “(s)upply four (4) copies of any reports, memoranda, or policy statements you prepared or contributed to the preparation of on behalf of any bar association, committee, conference, or organization of which you were or are a ...
Guns can provide a false sense of security
Post Date: 2009-07-09 07:03:50 by Disgusted
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While it's not clear why gun sales are up this year on Long Island, speculation includes fear of a rise in crime fueled by the bad economy. But if people are buying guns to protect themselves in their homes, the track record on gun-related suicides and homicides should provide reason for pause. Guns can be useful for home defense. But a gun at home increases the risk of suicide two- to 10-fold, depending on a person's age, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. It also triples the risk of homicide in the home, most of the cases of which are legally unjustified, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The upswing in gun sales was reported to Newsday by ...
Channeling the Soviet Union: How U.S. Federal Criminal Law Has Reincarnated Beria
Post Date: 2009-07-09 06:45:42 by Ada
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Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. By Harvey A. Silverglate, Encounter Books, 2009, 306 pages. For the past seven years, I have written a number of articles about the growing power of federal prosecutors who are able to apply vague statutes to behavior that historically has not been illegal. Along the way, I have earned a number of enemies and detractors, and even some of my friends have been incredulous, especially when I questioned the conviction of Ken Lay. One of my mentors in this legal and political journey has been the well-known and principled attorney, Harvey A. Silverglate, one of the founders of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education or The FIRE, ...
Cop Tazes female doing 70MPH in a 65MPH zone
Post Date: 2009-07-08 20:39:21 by Jethro Tull
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Holder Admits: No Equality Under Hate Bill - by Ted Pike
Post Date: 2009-07-08 15:05:41 by christine
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Hand-rolled tobacco should be taxed in the same way as manufactured cigarettes
Post Date: 2009-07-08 12:43:29 by IndieTX
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Hand-rolled cigarettes are as dangerous to health as manufactured cigarettes. There is even some evidence that they are more damaging to health, as they contain more tar and nicotine and smokers use less filters. Unless taxes, and thus prices, are brought into line, there is a real incentive for smokers to switch to hand-rolling cigarettes rather than cut down or quit (4). In all European countries except Ireland and the UK, hand-rolling tobacco is taxed at a lower level and in some cases at a much lower level than manufactured cigarettes. A major effort should be made to increase taxes on RYO tobacco to at least the same level as, or higher than those on manufactured cigarettes (4). ...
Acquitted Detainees Could Stay in Prison
Post Date: 2009-07-08 06:13:51 by Ada
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Innocent Detainees Will Be Released on a Case by Case Basis Top Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson informed the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Obama Administration might decide to continue imprisoning detainees indefinitely, even if they were charged with a crime, tried and acquitted. The new assertion of presidential authority is staggering. Previously the Bush Administration had held the detainees for years without trial, and claimed the right to hold them basically forever, which the Obama Administration endorsed. But trials were avoided for lack of evidence. President Obama had previously defended the release of detainees ordered to be let go by the courts by insisting there ...
Going for Gun Control’s 'Brass Ring'
Post Date: 2009-07-06 19:53:25 by X-15
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John Browning’s Model 1911 pistol, an engineering wonder for its day, still serves as a design platform for much modern pistolsmithing. Old examples, especially with military markings, are now highly valued on the collector market, where they can bring hundreds or even thousands of dollars each. Yet 16 years ago, early in the Clinton administration, the politicians declared our government would no longer sell into the civilian after-market pistols being retired from military armories. Instead, Guns & Ammo magazine reported in 1996 that since Bill Clinton took office in 1992 the government had resumed for the first time in 15 years the destruction by shredding of ...
Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a Global Pandemic
Post Date: 2009-07-06 05:52:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a Global Pandemic - by Stephen Lendman Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare program since at least the 1940s. In 1941, it began secret developmental efforts using controversial testing methods. During WW II, mustard gas was tested on about 4000 servicemen. Biological weapons research was also conducted. Human subjects were used as guinea pigs in various other experiments, and numerous illegal practices continued to the present, including secretly releasing toxic biological agents in US cities to test the effects of germ warfare. The Hague Convention ...
Homeland Insecurity
Post Date: 2009-07-05 03:53:18 by wudidiz
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Poster Comment:"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ~ Albert Einstein
31 Questions and Answers about the Internal Revenue Service
Post Date: 2009-07-05 02:04:36 by rack42
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31 Questions and Answers about the Internal Revenue Service
Poster Comment:I need to take a closer examination of the claims to form an opinion. I post this as it seems to provide case law to its arguements.
Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749 Not what the American people ordered – HR 2749, martial law and the enslavement of their farmers
Post Date: 2009-07-05 00:47:21 by Original_Intent
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Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749 Not what the American people ordered – HR 2749, martial law and the enslavement of their farmers By The Writers’ Collective Source: Food Freedom HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of one very original part – martial law. When it was a draft, it was Waxman’s bill. But once given a number, it became Dingel’s who already had a “food safety” bill, HR 759. So ...
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