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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Totaliarian Tony
Post Date: 2008-06-16 06:51:36 by Ada
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This week’s Supreme Court decision, affirming that Guantanamo prisoners have habeas corpus access in domestic civil courts, raises vital questions on the judiciary’s role in checking executive power. The writ of habeas corpus, a process to scrutinize detentions, is an ancient issue, seven centuries old. Members of the 17th-century English Parliament resented the King’s circumvention of the writ’s reach by sending prisoners to remote lands. The Supreme Court has now sided with those who long ago opposed such dirty executive tricks. In late 2001, the administration set up the prison camp in Cuba. The idea was to have executive control but not be subject to U.S. judicial ...
Justice Isn't Justice if it Applies Only to your Friends
Post Date: 2008-06-16 05:56:22 by Ada
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On Thursday June 12, the Supreme Court restored habeas corpus to the accused persons detained by President Bush at Guantanamo. In doing so it set American laws again on the track of constitutional self-respect. But it also opened the grounds for a debate which is sure to be long and fierce, in which the American opponents of liberty, eager for the domestic regime that in 2002 seemed almost in their grasp, will spare no reproach against the Court and will speak openly of the "lack of realism" of the U.S. Constitution. Two previous decisions, and two bad remedies by a servile Republican Congress and its Democratic enablers, led to Thursday's decision. The Supreme Court in Rasul ...
Woman Jailed for Posing as Daughter's Mom and Coercing Her Into Abortion
Post Date: 2008-06-15 16:12:39 by Rotara
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ATLANTA, Georgia, June 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Georgia woman will now spend a year behind bars with the opportunity to contemplate the harm she did to a 16 year-old girl and her family by posing as the girl's mother and forcing her into an abortion with the aid of an abetting abortion clinic. Cindi Cook, 44, will spend a year in the DeKalb County prison, followed by a year of probation, for acting as an impostor and taking the victim, a minor, to the Northside Women's Clinic. Posing as the girl's mother, Cook paid for the abortion, because she didn't want the girl to give birth to her son's baby. Cook forged a note saying that she was the victim's mother, ...
Mainers petition at polls (Real ID)
Post Date: 2008-06-15 16:04:14 by Rotara
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Future voting is on the minds of a number of Mainers today, as volunteers for at least three statewide petition efforts will be at polls, seeking voter signatures on efforts to repeal Maine laws. Two of the efforts face a quick turnaround time — July 17 — to get more than 55,000 signatures just to be on the ballot for this coming November. The petitions seek to repeal the Real ID law passed last spring, and to repeal a law that will impose taxes on a variety of products to fund Dirigo Health. A third petition initiative will likely not go before voters until November 2009. It seeks to repeal the state's law protecting homosexuals from discrimination. Real ID Last spring, ...
President Obama Won’t Change NAFTA
Post Date: 2008-06-15 15:07:48 by Rotara
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Barack Obama has all but wrapped up the Democratic nomination, with only the formalities of the convention remaining. There is a good chance that he will become the next president of the United States. For all his talk of change, it appears that in areas of trade, economics, foreign and monetary policy, things for the most part will remain status quo. During the grueling nomination battle, both the Obama and Clinton camps were highly critical of NAFTA and accused the other of changing their position on the trade agreement. What is really worrisome is that you don’t hear Obama, or McCain for that matter, talking about preserving the constitution or protecting American sovereignty. The ...
mcCain: Habeas Corpus a Privilege not a Right
Post Date: 2008-06-15 14:34:56 by Rotara
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By now, it is widely known that the Supreme Court has weighed in on the debate over the rights of the prisoners at Gitmo. The court has stated that the detainees’ habeas corpus rights (the protection against an indefinite detention without charges and a trial) ought to be respected. Referring to the human beings who are still being detained at Guantanamo Bay, McCain stated, “These are people who are not citizens. They do not and never have been given the rights that citizens in this country have” (emphasis added).So our rights are given to us? Interesting.I might ask McCain at the out-set, since you apparently believe that only citizens have rights (presumably ...
Small town, bigot alert:: THE MILITARY HAVE ANOTHER MARTIAL LAW DRILL PLANNED, JUNE 19, W. VIRGINA
Post Date: 2008-06-15 10:22:33 by Jethro Tull
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The Rumor Mill News Reading Room THE MILITARY HAVE ANOTHER MARTIAL LAW DRILL PLANNED, JUNE 19, W. VIRGINA Posted By: Striderus Date: Saturday, 14 June 2008, 10:17 p.m. LOOKS LIKE THE MILITARY HAVE ANOTHER MARTIAL LAW DRILL PLANNED FOR NEXT WEEK IN AN AREA WHERE ALMOST EVERYONE LEGALLY OWNS A GUN. NEED YOUR HELP IN GETTING THE WORD OUT AS I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY IN WEST VIRGINIA. THANKS RM READER: A Homeland Security Training Exercise similar to the one held in Indianapolis is being conducted in Huntington, WV beginning on Thursday, June 19. I have heard of through an employee of a state agency that has a project in the vicinity. I find it slightly strange that there has been ...
McCain: Guantanamo Decision One Of the Worst Ever; [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-06-14 10:53:24 by Arator
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McCain: Guantanamo Decision One Of the Worst Ever June 13, 2008 03:51 PM John McCain heightened his rhetoric about the Boumediene v. Bush decision, which grants the Guantanamo detainees to question their confinement in civilian courts: "The Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," McCain said. The statement met with great approval by voters at the candidate's town hall meeting: The crowd of more than 1,000 supporters, packed into a gym at Burlington County College, exploded into applause at McCain's comments. The presumptive GOP nominee then read from Chief Justice John Roberts' ...
Police Shoot Woman In Head With Rubber Bullet Then Laugh About it
Post Date: 2008-06-13 21:00:50 by Artisan
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0
Poster Comment:This is from a 2006 CNN News Video: Attorney Elizabeth Ritter from Miami was shot twice with rubber bullets during a free trade protest, once in the back and once in the middle of her forehead. She is later laughed at by crowds of police who mock her. One officer refers to Miami protesters as 'scurrying cockroaches'. Ritter's sign ironically read 'FEAR TOTALITARIANISM'. In a BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE video released after the incident, Sgt. Michael Kallman, addressing a large crowd of police, jokes "the good news about being able to watch you guys live on TV is that lady with the red dress.." to ...
We Are Change Colorado Member Handcuffed, Ticketed for Handing Out Terrorstorm, Loose Change
Post Date: 2008-06-13 10:38:43 by christine
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This is my recollection, to the best of my ability to remember, of what exactly went on the 11th of June, as We Are Change Colorado did a street action and were handing out free DVD copies of Loose Change: Final Cut, 9/11: Mysteries, and Terrorstorm on the 16th st. mall in downtown Denver. Anyone who can help or would like to give counsel or represent me feel free to contact me (Rob) through our group email address: info@wearechangecolorado.org. Here’s the first video from the main camera (there will be more video and/or audio available soon as well). Sorry about the terrible audio but that’s what we have. We’ll be working to clean it up and get even more out of it soon. ...
Can children be taken from parents suspected of being racists?
Post Date: 2008-06-12 22:26:00 by Tauzero
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Can children be taken from parents suspected of being racists? By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press WINNIPEG - A case of two youngsters seized from a couple suspected of being racist has raised the question of how far parents can go in teaching their children what they think is right. "I think it's really a tough issue," Harvey Frankel, a professor of social work at the University of Manitoba, said Monday. "I'm not aware of the courts giving a whole lot of guidance here in (this) area of child welfare." A seven-year-old girl and a boy, 2, were recently taken by child welfare workers from a home in south Winnipeg after the girl showed up at school with ...
School defends drunken driving hoax (Kalifornia!!)
Post Date: 2008-06-12 22:15:33 by X-15
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OCEANSIDE, California (AP) -- On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. Classmates wept. Some became hysterical. A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax, a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving. As seniors prepare for graduation parties Friday, school officials in the largely prosperous San Diego, California, suburb are defending themselves against allegations that they went too far. At ...
War and the Common Good
Post Date: 2008-06-12 06:32:15 by Ada
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The following is based on a talk delivered on Saturday, June 7, 2008, at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference, Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties, in Reston, Virgina. We are used to hearing discussion of political issues boiled down to a conflict between the individual and the greater good. Nearly anyone's pet project for government can be sold as a way to promote the common, or general interest – a mission so compelling that the interests of mere individuals must be sacrificed. Before relating this to war, it is important to consider what it means to take the individual's side on such questions. It is not to be atomistic, to believe ...
Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S.
Post Date: 2008-06-11 22:36:55 by Jethro Tull
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia: A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article's tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States did not say every day without fear of legal reprisal. Things are different here. The magazine is on trial. Under Canadian law, there is a serious argument that the article contained hate speech and that its publisher, Maclean's magazine, the nation's leading newsweekly, should be forbidden from saying similar things, forced to publish a rebuttal and made to compensate Muslims for injuring their "dignity, ...
Countdown-Jonathan Turley discusses articles of impeachment
Post Date: 2008-06-11 22:13:57 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Connecticut "open carry" follies
Post Date: 2008-06-10 22:34:59 by rack42
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I can't find the article to the Pennsylvania "open carry" thread, but there is a "kinda-sorta" thing occuring in Connecticut. Man was arrested for "breach of peace" when someone was "frightened" that the man's belt holster was exposed at a resturaunt when he reached for his wallet. Local police were called. Police were shown his permit (permit is to allow one to carry; there is nothing that says that the firearm must be concealed). Police shuve the man against a wall, enlist his help in removing his firearm (it was one of those holsters that prevent someone from the rear to remove it). Then handcuff him. Taken to jail by the Glastonbury ...
AB 2062
Post Date: 2008-06-10 19:15:03 by Axenolith
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While the requirement for a permit to purchase more than 50 rounds of handgun ammunition per month was removed from this on the 8th of April, the remainder, which contains a ban on mail order ammunition, still sails through that pestilence infested craphole in Sacramento and thenceforth to Rino Boys desk...
TSA outlaws flights to those who refuse to show ID, allows those that "forgot" them
Post Date: 2008-06-10 08:20:55 by PSUSA
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ver since TSA's creation after 9/11, passengers willing to undergo a pat-down and hand-search have been able to fly without ID. This rarely discussed, and little used right was documented by the courts in Gilmore v. Gonzales. While mostly just a way to assert your rights, the technique often had the added benefit of allowing the traveler to skip to the front of the security line. With little warning, on Thursday, TSA announced a new change in policy. Passengers who refuse to show ID, citing the rights, will be refused entry to the boarding area. Passengers who claim to have lost or forgotten their ID will still be allowed to fly. This new rule seems to only apply to terrorists that ...
Housing bailout bill creates national fingerprint registry - Obama signs on
Post Date: 2008-06-10 08:15:33 by Jethro Tull
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The Senate housing bill approved by a committee this week was already drawing fire from fiscal conservatives and financially responsible homeowners opposed to bailing out housing speculators. Now it may be time to add privacy advocates to the chorus of voices urging President Bush to veto the bill, which could put taxpayers on the hook for billions of bailout dollars in new taxes or deficit spending. Buried in the text of the revised legislation, approved by the Senate Banking Committee by a 19-2 vote this week, is a plan to create a new national fingerprint registry. It covers just about everyone involved in the mortgage business, including lenders, "loan originators," and ...
Catholicism - A Hate Crime in Canada?
Post Date: 2008-06-10 00:19:59 by scrapper2
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“If one, because of one’s sincerely held moral beliefs, whether it be Jew, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, opposes the idea of same-sex marriage in Canada, is that considered ‘hate’?” The question was not rhetorical. Nor was it theoretical. Fr. Alphonse de Valk, a Basilian priest and pro-life activist known throughout Canada for his orthodoxy, is currently being investigated by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) — a quasi-judicial investigative body with the power of the Canadian government behind it. The CHRC is using section 13 of Canada’s Human Rights Act to investigate the priest. This is a section under which no defendant has ever won once the ...
Pentagon Told Guantanamo Interrogators To Trash Evidence
Post Date: 2008-06-09 09:51:05 by christine
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defense lawyer said Sunday. The lawyer for Toronto-born Omar Khadr, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, said the instructions were included in an operations manual shown to him by prosecutors and suggest the U.S. deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial. Kuebler said the apparent destruction of evidence prevents him from challenging the reliability of any alleged confessions. He said he will use the document to seek a dismissal of charges against ...
Obama Won't Win It All
Post Date: 2008-06-09 05:52:29 by Ada
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Barack Obama may have secured the Democratic nomination for president, but I don't think he will ever see the inside of the White House except as a visitor. He has two things going against him. He's African-American, and he's way too liberal for most Americans. Barring a gargantuan blunder by the Republican candidate, John McCain, those two factors will put Obama on the short end of the vote count. Race is a factor in America, though no one is going to admit to being prejudiced to a pollster or a journalist. Nevertheless, I believe there remains a substantial number of people who simply will not vote to put an African-American in the White House. Presidential races are won by ...
Legislating Tyranny
Post Date: 2008-06-07 10:22:09 by Ada
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The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the “war on terror.” The government assured us that the draconian measures apply only to “terrorists.” The word terrorist, however, was not defined. The government claimed the discretionary power to decide who is a terrorist without having to present evidence or charges in a court of law. Frankly, the Bush administration’s policy evades any notion of procedural due process of law. Administration assurances that harsh treatment is reserved only for terrorists is meaningless when the threshold ...
There's No Such Thing As "Goodminton" (an oldie but a goodie)
Post Date: 2008-06-07 00:36:05 by christine
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Election 2006 has come and gone, uprooting Bible-thumpers, born again warmongers, xenophobes, torturers, and homo-haters, replacing them with what will soon prove to be endless hordes of food fascists, tree huggers, Luddites, energy Nazis, anti-smokers, animal rights (but never human rights) crazies, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming hoaxers, Sandalistas, and gun-grabbing victim disarmament zombies. I realize that it needed to be done, but it's a lot like having a festering wound cleaned out by maggots. Somehow I don't really feel much better. It seems that Skull & Bones still wins, no matter what we do. I'm not sure what's worse, that the Democrats will ...
U.S. to reopen Canadian's torture case
Post Date: 2008-06-06 09:43:10 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Homeland Security's inspector general says new evidence suggests officials may have broken laws by sending Maher Arar to Syria. A top Department of Homeland Security investigator said Thursday that his office would reopen an inquiry into the case of a Canadian engineer who was sent secretly by the U.S. to his native Syria for interrogation because of suspected ties to Al Qaeda. Inspector General Richard L. Skinner, who spoke at a congressional hearing in Washington, said new evidence had emerged that U.S. officials may have broken laws related to torture in the case of Maher Arar. Canadian officials have said Arar was tortured while in custody for a year in Syria, where he says he ...
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