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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
(Jonathan Turley) Expert: Both parties cooperate to keep administration crimes secret
Post Date: 2007-11-28 18:35:21 by robin
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Expert: Both parties cooperate to keep administration crimes secret11/28/2007 @ 9:07 am Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane The Bush administration has made widespread use of the so-called state secrets privilege to dismiss lawsuits that seek to challenge its domestic wiretaps and other illegal activities. Now two veteran senators, Arlen Spector (R-PA) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA), are teaming up to craft legislation that would direct judges to evaluate the government's state secrets claims rather than accepting them uncritically. Keith Olbermann described this proposed legislation with a high degree of skepticism, saying sardonically, "The bill may end up as part of the ...
“Homegrown Terrorism” Bill Update (RON PAUL SUPPORTERS LEAD FIGHT AGAINST H.R. 1955, NOW IN SENATE)
Post Date: 2007-11-28 15:41:19 by aristeides
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“Homegrown Terrorism” Bill Update By Jessica Lee November 27, 2007 Left and Right grassroots activate to try to stop “Homegrown Terrorism” Bill in Senate and a look at how the legislation would target the Internet CALLS FOR ACTION AGAINST SENATE BILL Momentum is building to stop S. 1959 across the political spectrum, the U.S. Senate’s version of H.R. 1955, the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.” Various groups are utilizing the Internet to organize opposition to the bill by gaining support through the use of blogs, YouTube videos, mass emails and action alerts. Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron ...
Did Fed Lawyer Use Geeks-on-Call to Erase Gov't Computer Evidence? (SCOTT BLOCH)
Post Date: 2007-11-28 14:33:56 by aristeides
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Did Fed Lawyer Use Geeks-on-Call to Erase Gov't Computer Evidence? By Kim Zetter November 28, 2007 | 1:56:51 PM Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel who has been under investigation for retaliation against employees and failure to investigate whistleblower cases, is under suspicion for using Geeks-on-Call to erase all the files on his office computer last year as well as laptops belonging to two of his former deputies. Block claims that he had Geeks-on-Call delete all of his computer files and erase his hard drive because his computer had been seized by a virus. But he apparently bypassed his own agency's IT department when he brought in the outside geeks to do ...
ACLU Warns of Pending Intelligence Bill
Post Date: 2007-11-28 11:51:07 by Brian S
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Published: Nov. 28, 2007 at 8:53 AM WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union said it dislikes a U.S. Senate bill that would give immunity to communications firms for sharing private customer data. At issue is whether a new intelligence law will grant telecommunications companies immunity from prosecution retroactively to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, as well as future immunity for cooperating with federal intelligence agencies, USA Today reported. There are two versions of the bill awaiting the Senate's return next Monday. One measure grants past immunity and the other doesn't. ACLU Washington spokeswoman Liz Rose told the newspaper retroactive ...
Dragnet That Ensnares Good Samaritans, Too
Post Date: 2007-11-28 11:47:20 by aristeides
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Dragnet That Ensnares Good Samaritans, Too By JIM DWYER Published: November 28, 2007 At first, an epidemic of absent-mindedness seemed to have broken out. One purse was found just sitting on a display shelf in the shoe department at Macy’s. Another one turned up downstairs, in Macy’s Cellar. Yet another rested on a chair in a Midtown McDonald’s, left by a woman who had stepped into the restroom. In fact, all three items had been planted by police officers in plainclothes during the previous six weeks. And the three people who picked them up were arrested, and now face indictment on charges that could land them in state prison. Nine months ago, a similar police decoy ...
Judge won't be charged over gun she took to airport
Post Date: 2007-11-28 11:15:04 by gengis gandhi
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Judge won't be charged over gun she took to airport Darren A. Nichols / The Detroit News ANN ARBOR -- Charges will not be filed against a district court judge who was accused of taking a loaded gun to a Detroit Metropolitan Airport checkpoint this summer. Washtenaw County prosecutors decided not to charge Sylvia James, chief judge of Inkster's 22nd District Court, because investigators couldn't prove she intentionally took the handgun July 28. "There is insufficient proof to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ms. James knowingly possessed the handgun," Konrad Siller, first assistant prosecutor in Washtenaw County, wrote in his Nov. 13 memo to the Wayne County ...
ADL Battles Internet Free Speech
Post Date: 2007-11-28 04:02:52 by robin
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Canadian hate laws are now hitting their intended target: Christianity. On Oct. 26 a 21-year-old Canadian woman, Jessica Beaumont, was fined $1500 for posting online two Bible verses critical of homosexuality. She was also required to pay $3000 to professional complainer Richard Warman who brought charges against her. Her crime? She derisively called him "a Jew." Jessica posted these verses, which, of course, could be found on any Bible website: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." (Lev.18:22) "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will ...
CAFR Scam On American Taxpayers Continues!
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:47:03 by richard9151
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The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is local government's Annual Financial Report, which is the standard, starting as of 55 years ago. The true and more complete accounting of local governments. Local governments promote the 'Budget' each year but hold back disclosure of their actual annual financial report...which includes their aggregate net worth and total gross annual income. A PERSONAL EXAMPLE: If you have a budget to operate your house; Let's say your budget is $30,000 per year, of which you put $30,000 aside to cover your budget and this year you spend $40,000 that now means you have a $10,000 budget deficit. You also are telling everyone you are $275,0 ...
CAFR, GOVERNMENT, AND YOU
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:41:52 by richard9151
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Mr. Klatt's CAFR reviews for your state and distribute to all responsible parties within your state. Use his format to conduct your own CAFR reviews for 2005, and 2006. Do a Google search for CAFR "and" your local City, County, School District, State University, State Retirement Fund, etc., download their CAFR reports and do reviews for yourself. Mr. Klatt can no longer do it for you and it appears no one else from within government will do it for you either. They are much to busy spending and taking your money. Also to include you in the "loop" it appears to be a violation of their exclusive club rules... STATE CAFR Reviews - If all local governments CAFR reviews ...
The "Game" in Definition
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:20:24 by richard9151
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"GROSS" INCOME of government is now 1/3rd "TAX" income and 2/3rds NON-TAX income derived from: return on INVESTMENTS and money generated from government Enterprise projects. Any Company or in fact Country can be "made" or "broken" through the use of those government investment funds. China just cut off further new US "Government" investments, now several trillion dollars worth in China so that would not happen. China learned by seeing what happened to Mexico then Russia. A complete government and (taken over by government) syndicated news media blackout has existed for over 60 years and it started back in 1946. THIS IS FACT, NOT FICTION! ...
THE GOVERNMENT OWNS IT "ALL" BY INVESTMENT
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:14:39 by richard9151
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START HERE: E-News (the first step to take) CAFR1 NATIONAL ACTION REQUEST; http://cafr1.com/enews.html Communicate with your friends in the News Media or in Government. You could let them know that you and your friends want; a letter sent out to all registered voters starting with the city, then county, and then state exclusively recommending that every voter carefully review their local government CAFRs. (Very important!) Additionally, you could let them know that you have "Never: seen in your lifetime a News article" from the "syndicated" News Media or any Political party or elected official that presented a "Comprehensive" review with dollar balances ...
Poll: Public still favors Iraq pullout
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:10:23 by richard9151
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35 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The public increasingly believes the U.S. is making military progress in Iraq but still wants President Bush to remove American troops from the country as quickly as possible, a poll showed Tuesday. People are evenly split over how well the military effort in Iraq is going, with 48 percent saying it is going well and the same number saying it isn't, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. In February, shortly after Bush announced he would send additional troops to the country, only 30 percent said things were going well. Stark partisan divisions remain, though even growing numbers of Democrats cite gains. While 16 percent of Democrats ...
Feds Drop Subpoena For Names of People Who Buy Certain Books at Amazon. Judge Noted That Violates The Bill of Rights
Post Date: 2007-11-27 15:07:19 by Mind_Virus
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Feds Cancel Amazon Customer ID Request Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. The withdrawal came after a judge ruled the customers have a First Amendment right to keep their reading habits from the government. "The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America," U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wrote in a June ruling. "Well-founded or not, rumors of an Orwellian federal criminal investigation into the reading habits of Amazon's customers could frighten countless ...
The President We Were Warned About
Post Date: 2007-11-27 14:02:02 by Brian S
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George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about. He lied the nation into precisely the "foreign entanglements" that George Washington feared would destroy our experiment in representative government, and he has championed a spurious notion of security over individual liberty, thus eschewing the alarms of Thomas Jefferson as to the deprivation of the inalienable rights of free citizens. But most important, he has used the sledgehammer of war to obliterate the separation of powers that James Madison enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With the "war on terror," Bush has asserted the right of the ...
VIDEO: Henry Rollins TEEING OFF - Civil Liberties Under Attack
Post Date: 2007-11-27 12:54:46 by Mind_Virus
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Henry Rollins - Civil Liberties Under Attack Civil Liberties, the Internet, and Free Speech. Henry Rollins tells it like it is.
Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already Constructed
Post Date: 2007-11-27 07:56:08 by noone222
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On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country’s security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called “news informers” who needed to be combated in “a contest of wills.” In 2002 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be “enemy combatants.” A Defense Department document, entitled the “Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support,” has set out a military strategy against terrorism that envisions an “active, layered defense” both inside and outside U.S. territory. In the ...
Protecting American Freedoms in Wartime
Post Date: 2007-11-27 06:08:59 by Ada
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At last in the majority, the soundbite leadership of the congressional Democrats — Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid — obsess on troop withdrawals from Iraq, ignoring the decrease in violence there and the increase in hope. There are Democrats — among them Sens. Pat Leahy, Ron Wyden, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin and Russ Feingold — who are concerned with the diminishing Constitution, but they do not control the agenda. It is too late to follow the advice of John Adams: "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." There are now more than shoots. But in a nation that remains open to dissent against ...
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Post Date: 2007-11-27 06:02:57 by Ada
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There has been a long tradition of fear-mongering legislation in the United States directed against groups and individuals believed to threaten the established order. The first such measures were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress in 1798 during the administration of the second president of the United States John Adams. The Acts, consisting of four separate laws, made it more difficult to become a citizen, sought to control real or imagined foreign agents operating in the United States, and also gave the government broad powers to control "sedition." Sedition was defined as "resisting any law of the United States or any act of the President" punishable by a ...
Taser stopped Chicago teen's heart, 2 doctors here say
Post Date: 2007-11-26 21:00:31 by FormerLurker
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Taser stopped Chicago teen's heart, 2 doctors here sayChicago Sun-Times, Sep 4, 2005 by Dave Newbart A 14-year-old shocked by a Chicago Police stun gun has become the first Taser-linked cardiac arrest to be documented in a medical journal, two doctors from Children's Memorial Hospital say. The doctors, in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, say the electricity delivered from the Taser stun gun led the boy to suffer "ventricular fibrillation," in which the heart stops beating. In the boy's case, paramedics already on the scene immediately used a defibrillator to restart his heart. The doctors argue that police who deploy ...
Deputy Uses Taser On 12-Year-Old Girl Skipping School
Post Date: 2007-11-26 20:50:18 by FormerLurker
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Deputy Uses Taser On 12-Year-Old Girl Skipping SchoolPOSTED: 11:48 am EST November 15, 2004 Officer William Nelson discovered the girl was ditching school, drinking alcohol and smoking pot. When nelson tried to take her back to school, she ran from him and out into traffic.According to Nelson's police report, that's when he stunned her, saying it was for his and her safety."It felt like I couldn't breath, couldn't breath, they did mess up, they did mess up, obviously they did, because I'm underage and all I did was skip school, which is something everyone has done, and I know that for a fact," says Sylvana Gomez.This is the second time a Miami-Dade officer has ...
Police Use Taser on 6 Year-Old At School
Post Date: 2007-11-26 20:34:08 by FormerLurker
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Miami-Dade police shocked a 6-year-old boy with a 50,000-volt stun gun to keep him from hurting himself with a piece of glass he was waving around in a school office, officials confirmed Thursday. Police say they followed their Taser guidelines, the child wasn't injured by the shock and he might have hurt himself seriously if they hadn't shocked him. But the incident, which occurred Oct. 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary in Brownsville, has child advocates and experts shaking their heads in disbelief. ''It just sounds excessive to me to Taser gun a 6-year-old when everyone else around there were adults,'' said retired Broward County Juvenile Judge Frank Orlando, who ...
Police defend use of Taser on girl, 13
Post Date: 2007-11-26 19:25:40 by FormerLurker
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Rosie Vaughan said she feared her daughter, Llahsmin Lynn Kallead, 13, would run away or harm herself and hoped police could get her medical help after they were called to their Collins Road home because she and the girl were fighting. Instead, the girl was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car where she was shocked with a stun gun for refusing to follow orders. BOB SELF/The Times-Union Last modified Wed., March 02, 2005 - 01:23 AM Originally created Wednesday, March 2, 2005Police defend use of Taser on girl, 13State attorney cites "serious concerns" about incident, which is under investigation.By DANA TREEN The Times-Union Jacksonville police are defending the ...
Good-Bye to All That: America's Days of Reckoning (PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS)
Post Date: 2007-11-26 18:57:22 by aristeides
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Good-Bye to All That America's Days of Reckoning By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Pat Buchanan is too patriotic to come right out and say it, but the message of his new book, Day of Reckoning, is that America as we have known her is finished. Moreover, Naomi Wolf agrees with him. These two writers of different political persuasions arrive at America's demise from different directions. Buchanan explains how hubris, ideology, and greed have torn America apart. A neoconservative cabal with an alien agenda captured the Bush administration and committed American blood, energy, and money to aggression against Muslim countries in the Middle East, while permitting America's domestic borders to ...
'IF'
Post Date: 2007-11-26 18:48:47 by robin
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That two letter 'word' is at the center of "LIFE." And on it hangs the balance of whether or not the United States will survive as a Republic or even as a nation. Yet most Americans seem to remain blissfully unaware of what is happening to their country, every minute of every day-since 'the decider' appointed himself to run the world.Cheney-Bush says that the USA is currently "at war" and they are correct-except that the 'wars' they refer to are foreign: the real War is on the people of this country. Their war would be about 'hearts & minds' if the public was that engaged, but they are not. Hence the creeping militarization of American ...
Man Tasered by Police at Salad Bar
Post Date: 2007-11-26 17:21:44 by FormerLurker
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The incident at the Colorado Chuck E. Cheese restaurant began at 4:05 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to the restaurant on a report of a larceny in progress. Police talked to the restaurant manager who told them that a customer had refused to show proof that he had paid for food. The manager said the man was seen "loading" his plate at the salad bar. The officers confronted Danon Gale, 29, who was at the restaurant with his children, aged 3 and 7. Patrons said the popular kids pizza parlor was packed at the time. According to police, Gale was asked to step outside to discuss the incident. "According to witnesses [Gale] refused to cooperate with police and a struggle ...
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