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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Secret law: Is this America?
Post Date: 2008-05-18 13:02:20 by bush_is_a_moonie
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On April 30, the Senate’s subcommittee on the Constitution held a vitally important hearing on “Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government,” chaired by Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis. At issue, ignored by the presidential contenders, is a profound change in the very core of our laws. Said witness Steven Aftergood, secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists: Growing use of secret law “is implicated in fundamental political controversies over domestic surveillance, torture and many other issues directly affecting the lives and interests of Americans. … Secret law excludes the public from the deliberative process, promotes arbitrary ...
[George Bush's] One World Government RFID 666
Post Date: 2008-05-18 12:39:27 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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One World Government RFID 666 part 1 One World Government RFID 666 part 2 One World Government RFID 666 part 3 One World Government RFID 666 part 4 Proof of One World Government Conspiracy
Attention All Americans: This is NOT a Test, We Are Experiencing a True Crisis
Post Date: 2008-05-16 10:24:30 by ghostdogtxn
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How You Can Become A “Gun Felon”
Post Date: 2008-05-16 09:41:16 by PSUSA
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“If you pull the trigger once and it fires more than one round, no matter what the cause it’s a machine gun.” At 2:15 PM on January 8 of this year, the Milwaukee jury in the trial of United States vs. David R. Olofson convened. Forty minutes later they emerged, returning a unanimous verdict against the veteran and National Guardsman: “Guilty.” Olofson, you see, had loaned one of his rifles, and it malfunctioned at a range, firing off short bursts before jamming. This was called to the attention of local authorities who seized the rifle, an Olympic Arms AR-15. They in turn called BATFE, who decided to make a federal case out of it, charging Olofson with illegally ...
A Few Good Soldiers
Post Date: 2008-05-16 06:39:44 by Ada
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More members of the military turn against the terror trials. Legal commentators have argued for years about whether there might ever be legitimate trials for the so-called "enemy combatants" we're holding at Guantanamo Bay. Some say no. Others, like our friend Ben Wittes, argue that the evidence is inconclusive. They want to see what the Guantanamo military commissions produce before pronouncing them a failure. We may never get there. Key actors are declining to play their part in a piece of theater designed to produce all convictions all the time. These refusals, affecting two trials this week, suggest that the whole apparatus—seven years and counting in the ...
RUTGERS CLINIC SUES PRESIDENT BUSH OVER IRAQ WAR
Post Date: 2008-05-15 23:02:33 by rack42
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Read the formal complaint: PDF. NEWARK, May 13 - The Rutgers/Newark Constitutional Litigation Clinic filed suit today in the Federal District Court in Newark against President Bush over the War in Iraq. The Complaint seeks a Declaratory Judgment that the President’s decision to launch a preemptive war against a sovereign nation in 2003 violated Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which assigns to Congress the power to Declare War. According to Professor Frank Askin, founding director of the Clinic and attorney for the Plaintiffs in New Jersey Peace Action v. George W. Bush, six law students worked with him through much of the academic year studying the issues and ...
California's top court legalizes gay marriage
Post Date: 2008-05-15 20:05:12 by noone222
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony. Same-sex couples could tie the knot in as little as a month. But the window could close soon after - religious and social conservatives are pressing to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that would undo the Supreme Court ruling and ban gay marriage. "Essentially, this boils down to love. We love each other. We now have equal rights under the law," declared a jubilant ...
Outcry over Sheriff's Department search methods. -Unflippingbelievable!!!
Post Date: 2008-05-15 08:46:37 by PSUSA
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ALBANY -- Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city's main terminal downtown. Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have been enough to pique the interest of undercover sheriff's investigators scanning the crowd with their eyes. They cornered Clement and began peppering him with questions. He was quickly handcuffed and falsely arrested. He was taken to a station to be strip-searched and then to a hospital, where doctors forcibly sedated him with a cocktail of powerful drugs, including one that clouded his memory of the incident. A camera was inserted in his rectum, he was forced to vomit and his blood and urine ...
Virginia's Example Inspires the World
Post Date: 2008-05-15 06:32:30 by Ada
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Today is the 232nd anniversary of the inauguration of the American Revolution. It was on May 15, 1776 that Virginia’s ruling revolutionary May Convention adopted the resolutions that Virginians understood, according to young James Madison, as launching the ship of independence. The first of the Virginians’ resolutions called for the adoption of a declaration of rights. The committee appointed to draft that declaration, chaired by George Mason of Gunston Hall, soon reported a document establishing the Lockean foundation of Virginia’s assertion of home rule. All men are born free and equal, it said, and when they enter into a state of society, they cannot be deprived of their ...
It is definitely fascism when it happens to you (WAYNE MADSEN)
Post Date: 2008-05-14 16:03:17 by aristeides
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It is definitely fascism when it happens to you By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer May 14, 2008, 00:20 Email this article Printer friendly page WMR -- In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's world of an "Israelized" America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats its own Arab citizens and Palestinians. Sunday, this editor and his colleague faced the Chertoffian menace at Washington's Reagan National Airport while ...
Anti-war veterans group banned from Bremerton WA parade
Post Date: 2008-05-14 14:23:26 by PSUSA
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BREMERTON, Wash. - They're expecting good weather and big crowds in Bremerton this weekend for the annual Armed Forces Day Parade. This year organizers expect two dozen bands, 165 entries and nearly 6,000 people on parade. If the weather heats up, it could draw 40,000 spectators But one veterans group says they're not invited. The North Olympic Peninsula Veterans for Peace say they're being kept out of the parade this year because of their anti-war stance. The anti-war group marched last year. This year the Chamber of Commerce sent them a rejection letter. David Jenkins, who served four years in the Navy, says they have no interest in causing problems on parade day. ...
Sect mother of newborn not a minor, Texas concedes
Post Date: 2008-05-13 20:39:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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SAN ANTONIO - Texas child welfare officials conceded Tuesday that a newborn's mother, held in foster care as a minor after being removed from a polygamous sect's ranch, is an adult. A Child Protective Services attorney told state District Judge Barbara Walther that the mother of a boy born April 29 is not a minor, as CPS had claimed as justification for holding her. The woman had been held along with more than 400 children taken last month from a west Texas ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. State officials say the children were endangered by underage and polygamous spiritual marriages. "We were presented with credible evidence that ...
TSA Tells Students They're A Security Threat
Post Date: 2008-05-13 18:20:22 by PSUSA
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WASHINGTON — A German graduate student in oceanography at M.I.T. applied to the Transportation Security Administration for a new ID card allowing him to work around ships and docks. What the student, Wilken-Jon von Appen, received in return was a letter that not only turned him down but added an ominous warning from John M. Busch, a security administration official: “I have determined that you pose a security threat.” Similar letters have gone to 5,000 applicants across the country who have at least initially been turned down for a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, an ID card meant to guard against acts of terrorism, agency officials said Monday. The ...
Data Mining Your Life
Post Date: 2008-05-13 14:21:13 by PSUSA
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May/13/2008 Few Americans pay attention to the Bush administration’s effort to better monitor terrorist communications. In short, federal authorities want to indirectly void the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which requires a warrant signed by a judge before they can search a person’s home and other personal information. This seems harmless to most law abiding citizens, so why is this opposed by many in the U.S. Congress? The answer is that most people have skeletons in their closet, as New York Governor Eliot Spitzer recently demonstrated. Congressmen know that the U.S. government wants to learn every detail about everyone’s private life through the growth of ...
States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
Post Date: 2008-05-12 19:39:24 by Horse
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The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn't really unclaimed and then use the money -- your money -- to balance their budgets. Unclaimed property consists of things like forgotten apartment security deposits, uncashed dividend checks and safe-deposit boxes abandoned when an elderly relative dies. Banks and other businesses are required to turn that property over to the state for safekeeping. The problem is that the states return less than a quarter of unclaimed property to the ...
Next president might be gentler on pot clubs (OBAMA SUPPORTS STATES' RIGHTS ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA)
Post Date: 2008-05-12 17:28:37 by aristeides
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Next president might be gentler on pot clubs Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, May 12, 2008 (05-11) 19:26 PDT -- Ever since California voters became the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, the state has faced unyielding opposition from the federal government, which insists it has the power to prohibit a drug it considers useless and dangerous. That could all change with the next presidential election. As the candidates prepare for a May 20 primary in Oregon, one of 12 states with a California-style law, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has become an increasingly firm advocate of ending federal intervention and letting states make their own rules when it ...
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Post Date: 2008-05-12 15:46:27 by ghostdogtxn
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yankee doodle dandy
Post Date: 2008-05-12 00:01:12 by Old Friend
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Daughter fails math test, dad goes to prison
Post Date: 2008-05-11 23:01:16 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Daughter fails math test, dad goes to prison Pop gets 6-month jail sentence for contributing to delinquency Posted: May 11, 2008 Brittany Gegner (courtesy WCPO-TV) A northern Kentucky man is in jail today – serving a 180-day sentence – because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn't get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required. Brittany Gegner, the daughter, says if anyone should be jailed, it should be her. "It's like I should, if anybody should be punished for this," Brittany told WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. "I would way rather me go to jail than my dad." Even Brian Gegner's ex-wife agrees the ...
STATES TO HOMELAND SECURITY ON REAL ID: NO THANKS
Post Date: 2008-05-11 10:09:25 by christine
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Today—May 11, 2008—is not just Mother’s Day but REAL ID D-Day, so to speak: the day citizens of states not granted extensions to comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005 would find themselves unable to board planes, enter federal buildings, etc. By the end of last year, seven states had passed laws prohibiting implementation of REAL ID in their state: Maine, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington, New Hampshire, and Georgia. That number became eight on April 9 of this year when Idaho joined up. Ten states had laws that were passed in one house but not the other. Eight more states had introduced such laws. Twelve had passed nonbinding resolutions denouncing REAL ID. ...
Liberty versus Socialism
Post Date: 2008-05-10 05:01:31 by christine
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A fortnight ago, I wrote about Mississippi Legislature House Bill 282 that would have imposed fines or revoked licenses of food establishments that served obese people. Fortunately, the measure died in committee. State Rep. Ted Mayhall, one of the bill's sponsors, justified it by saying that he wanted to bring attention to the fact that "Obesity makes people more susceptible to diabetes, which puts a further strain on the state's financially-challenged Medicaid program." His sentiments were expressed by quite a few readers who didn't necessarily support such a measure but opined that if a particular behavior or lifestyle imposed costs on others through ...
BLOOMBERG OUTRAGE: ASKS JUDGE TO BAN 2ND AMENDMENT REFERENCES!
Post Date: 2008-05-10 02:46:10 by FOH
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NEWS RELEASE Second Amendment Foundation12500 NE Tenth Place • Bellevue, WA 98005 (425) 454-7012 • FAX (425) 451-3959 • www.saf.org BLOOMBERG OUTRAGE: ASKS JUDGE TO BAN 2ND AMENDMENT REFERENCES! For Immediate Release: 5/9/2008 BELLEVUE, WA – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has moved from outrage to atrocity by asking anti-gun activist federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during a civil lawsuit trial beginning May 27 against Georgia gun dealer Jay Wallace, proprietor at Adventure Outdoors.The New York Sun reported that Bloomberg’s attorneys made the request. Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said ...
The Jeffersonians Were Right After All
Post Date: 2008-05-09 09:48:22 by ghostdogtxn
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SPP Moves Forward Under Different Name (North American Community/Union/Zone)
Post Date: 2008-05-09 00:30:02 by FOH
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The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico met in New Orleans on April 21-22 for the fourth round of annual talks formerly known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership. However, the session carried the label North American Leaders’ Summit. The likely reason for not calling it a Security and Prosperity Summit has to be widespread opposition to the SPP generated by THE NEW AMERICAN, its parent organization the John Birch Society, and like-minded activists. Increasing numbers of Americans — as well as a growing number of opponents in Canada — are rightly concerned that the SPP is actually a major step toward the creation of a North American Union. On the first ...
"The NSA monitors every word that's transmitted in the western hemisphere."
Post Date: 2008-05-08 16:16:34 by aristeides
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“...Because of course youknow that the phone lines at the UN are all bugged?” “Are they?” I was still trying to absorb everything. “Oh, completely. The National Security Agency monitors every word that’s transmitted in the western hemisphere. Every syllable you utter on a phone, every email you ever send, every credit card transaction you ever make – it’s all recorded and stored. The only problem is sorthing through it. At the UN, we’re briefed that the easiest way to get round the eavesdropping is to use disposable mobile phones, try to avoid mentioning specifics, anc change our numbers as often as possible – that way we can at least keep ...
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